Every time you get to know a director or actor in depth, no matter whether he is American or British, the possibility of his birth from a family above the middle class is higher than 75%.
Doug liman (director of "Chaos Walking" released today, also director of "Bourne ultimatum" and "Mr. and Mrs. Smith"), untidy, his hair always seems to have not been cut for several months, whether on the set or at a formal occasion.
Even among directors who don’t pay attention to appearance, he is the most rustic. However, he is the son of Arthur Riemann, a famous American lawyer.
How good is his dad?
Arthur used to be a Warner Bros. film lawyer, and he was the chief lawyer of the US Senate in the Iran-contra incident.
When he was a teenager, Doug boarded Steven Spielberg’s private jet and got a close look at one of the greatest American directors. This experience also contributed to his dream of entering the film industry.
Arthur riemann
Doug’s first big-screen debut [The Swindler], with a total production cost of $200,000, was settled by his father from a client.
Just when you think Doug will become the rich second generation who depends on his father, [Swindler] gets back 35 times the cost.
One of the main characters in the film is the director of [Iron Man] and [Lion King] (the real lion version) and the well-known iron man driver Hapi-jon favreau (left).
Since then, he has never used his father’s money for filming. But dad’s money can be used in other places.
For example, in 2000, Doug bought a penthouse in Tribeca, Manhattan, new york, with an area of nearly 350 square meters and a value of $2.8 million.
Be under siege
After the small success of [Swindler], Doug shot [Dog Man and Woman] who was finally shortlisted for Sundance Film Festival at a cost of more than 6 million yuan while the iron was hot.
This film is compared with quentin tarantino’s [Pulp Fiction] by many people, because both of them are multi-angle non-linear crime movies with black comedy style.
The famous film critic roger ebert mentioned [dog men and women] and said:
"Although the film did take place in Quentin’s territory, there is no doubt that it is a very entertaining and brilliant black comedy."
Two successful independent works in succession have successfully attracted the attention of Hollywood. Doug was able to work with Universal Pictures.[bourne ultimatum].
But before that, there is an episode.
Doug is a die-hard fan of Robert Ludlum, the author of the original book, and he learned that the film adaptation right of the original book is about to expire.
He decided to go to Robert’s residence near Montana National Glacier Park in person.
Doug had just become a pilot at that time. His first flight was from Los Angeles to Montana, and he encountered many problems on the way. The National Guard once thought that he had crashed.
Fortunately, Robert was very grateful for this bold visit. He not only sold him the right to edit, but also agreed to be a producer in the film.
With a budget of $55 million, Bourne ultimatum is Doug’s first big production within the Hollywood system.
He followed "A top killer remembers nothing but killing people."This concept to tell this story, there is no such thing as a big scene, jason bourne is not ostentatious, and always solves his opponent in the most labor-saving and effective way.
Bourne started with no high-tech weapons, only books and oil pens around him.
Bourne threw himself into a car chase, never going on a rampage. Look at the map and find a good route before starting the engine. It is this style that attracts Matt Damon, which is eager for transformation.
Unfortunately, Universal believed that the film lacked big scenes, intervened strongly and made a lot of modifications to the script.
This made the filming of the film into chaos, and Damon once threatened to quit the film because of the unrecognizable script. And Doug’s shooting method makes Universal and the whole crew on the verge of collapse.
Because of the previous two low-budget films, Doug has developed the style of finding feelings while shooting. His scenes, props, camera positions and angles, including the actors’ performances, will change many times in one day.
This is extremely rare for many crew members who are used to step by step and follow the script.
The shooting plan set yesterday has suddenly been overturned and started all over again today, which must be hard for anyone to accept. Plus Doug and Damon temporarily persuaded Universal to shoot according to the original script. It is to let the shooting schedule be changed again and again, and put it off again and again.
As a result, the budget of [Bourne ultimatum] was overspent by 8 million US dollars, the schedule was postponed twice, and negative news kept coming.
However, after the film was released, it was well received at the box office, which redefined the spy thriller action film. Even the action style of the 007 series [007: casino royale] also referred to the action style of this film.
However, many head-on confrontations with global executives made Doug lose the opportunity to direct the subsequent series, and he only retained the title of executive producer.
Against paparazzi
Doug read it for the first time on the set of Bourne ultimatum.[Mr and Mrs Smith]The script. At that time, Brad Pitt personally selected him, hoping that he could direct this film.
But Doug didn’t agree. He didn’t agree until he finished filming [Bourne ultimatum] and met Pete in person.
At that time, the heroine of the film wasNicole KidmanUnfortunately, she quit the project because of the schedule conflict of [Copy Wife].
[Copy Wife]
Without Nicole, Pete quit. Doug, who is reuniting with his family, received a phone call saying that the project was ruined.
Friends comforted him and said, "It’s normal to work with a big star like Pete."
In fact, this is not the first time Doug has dealt with Pete, who was once the male candidate for "The Spy Shadow", but in the end Pete chose to play the same type of "Spy Game".
[spy game]
In 2003, the project went around Hollywood and returned to Doug. At this time, Pete decided to return to the project and wanted to choose gwyneth paltrow, who was shot by the producer (because she was Pete’s predecessor). I took a fancy to Cate Blanchett, but it’s a pity that she went to shoot [aviator].
In the end, the woman fell into Angelina Jolie’s hands. Many people say that [Smith] is the casting of the century, but Julie is not the first choice at all.
This film will always be associated with Pete, Julie and Jennifer Aniston. After all, the whole thing happened during the filming and the make-up.
Doug revealed on many occasions that it was a crazy shooting experience.
In order to take photos of Pete and Julie in private, the paparazzi almost surrounded the crew, and they even tried to monitor the crew’s walkie-talkie.
A large number of paparazzi surrounded the location, and even if the crew came up with various ways to deal with it, there were still many paparazzi in the camera.
In the end, the film had to remove the paparazzi and the obstacles blocking the paparazzi’s sight at a price of $1,000 per frame.
Part of the responsibility for this budget overrun is really not on Doug. Of course, the film was overspent in the end. In one scene, Doug had to pay his own money to transform his mother’s garage into a studio. After filming, he lost one.grenadeBlow up the garage.
This behavior is very rich second generation.
There is already a spark between the two protagonists. Doug mainly wants to release the elements of action and comedy, which is not difficult for him.
The action route he chose for the film is just the opposite of [Bourne ultimatum]. How to shoot it in a cool way, how to make a 180-degree U-turn in the car chase and how to shoot the tires of the rear car, and how to play rocket launchers and fly knives are indispensable.
On the contrary, Doug learned a lot of compromises and concessions by talking to two big bosses who each received $20 million. Of course, he still dared to talk to the two when it came to whether the film was good or not. Just as the majesty of the director, I accidentally lost it.
Because in the process of telling Julie and Pete about sex scenes, Doug revealed that his ex-girlfriend called himself."Bunny Bunny"From then on, Julie will only use the word "Bunny Bunny" when addressing him.
Global zipper
With the blessing of [bourne ultimatum] and [Smith], Doug’s courage and ambition are getting bigger and bigger, so there is [teleporter], an action film about teleportation.
The film was shot in 20 cities in 14 countries, a large part of which was shot on location, including the Colosseum in Rome, Italy, the pyramids in Cairo, Egypt and the main streets in Tokyo, Japan.
The shooting needs of these three locations were rejected at first.
Doug and his team worked hard to get permission.
For example, the shooting of the Colosseum, because the crew can’t interfere with tourists, and Doug wants to shoot scenes during the day, so the crew should use only 45 minutes from dawn to visitors’ admission every day and 45 minutes from the closing of the venue to dark to complete these scenes within the limited three days.
Doug, who has always been undisciplined in some organizations, has shown excellent concentration and successfully achieved the "impossible task".
In addition, at that time, a large number of instant transfer special effects of the film also put forward high requirements for shooting.
The scenes of the Colosseum are divided into three different types, and they are filmed in order to give the special effects team enough production space in the later stage. However, Doug still insists that as long as it can be shot in real life, it will be shot in real life.
Jamie Bell’s character throws a scene of a London bus at Samuel Jackson, which was really shot with Weiya. Of course, it was not Samuel who hit the bus, but a body double.
In addition, Doug also admitted in the follow-up interview that [Smith] and [Mind] are his least deceptive films.
The so-called "cheating" means that his actors didn’t have to step on the spot in the previous films, and he emphasized the naturalness of shooting. Many times, he would carry the camera on his shoulder and use his hand to deal with some performance defects.
But since [Smith], he has chosen to get rid of this habit and walk completely according to tradition. On the one hand, it is convenient for special effects, on the other hand, it is better to train two new actors.
Take care of Tom
If measured by Hollywood standards,[Edge of Tomorrow]It’s a loss-making product. But in Doug’s eyes, this is his proudest work.
Interestingly, the film critics and the audience who have seen this film also agree with this statement.
This film is probably the one in which Doug has fought the least in cooperation with large-scale factories. The biggest disagreement comes from the title of the film.
Both Warner Pictures and Doug agree that the original title "Killing Cycle" is not appropriate. The former doesn’t want to "kill", and the latter thinks that this name can’t reflect the sense of humor in the film.
As a result, Doug chose [Live Die Repeat] and Warner chose [Edge of Tomorrow]. Everyone must know who won in the end.
In this film, Doug continues to insist that CG is absolutely not needed for real shooting, so the mecha worn by the actors directly made Emily Blunt cry.
In fact, when Doug was shooting, he also regretted this choice a little. Because the mecha was too heavy, every scene needed a lot of Weiya and ropes to cooperate in order to shoot smoothly.
But later, Doug was very glad that the film was finally presented in this form, because its realism was incomparable to CG.
Tom Cruise took a fancy to Doug’s talent through this film.
Doug also saw Tom’s unusual dedication and hard work. He watched Tom’s stunt performance in this film, and even said that the latter was absolutely top-notch if he was a stuntman.
The two subsequently cooperated [Made in America]. Not only that, [Edge of Tomorrow 2] is also being developed step by step.
[Made in America]
But the most amazing thing is that Tom cruise is going to make a movie in space soon, and it is doug liman who will fight with him. This time, the two played too much, and the results are likely to explode.
So forget the bad [chaotic walking], after all, the director is going to fly.
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