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◎ Chinese famous soul chariot/evil spirit knight/ghost knight/evil spirit police/ghost face knight
◎ Ghost Rider
◎ Year 2007
The United States.
◎ Category action/fantasy/horror
Language English
◎ There are no subtitles in the screen.
◎IMDB score is 5.5/10 (19,676 votes).
◎IMDB link /title/tt0259324
◎ Film length 1 14 Min
◎ Directed Mark Steven Johnson Mark Steven Johnson.
◎ starring Peter Fonda Peter Fonda ..... Mephistopheles
Nicolas Cage Nicolas cage ... Johnny blaze/ghost rider
Eva mendes Eva Mendes ..... Roxanne Simpson
Ryan Johnson ..... Waiter
Arthur Angel ..... Officer Edwards
Kirstie Hutton ..... Amy Page
David Roberts ..... Captain Dolan
Joel tobeck Joel Tobeck ..... Redneck
Duncan Young ..... Skinhead
Peter Callan ..... Station Master
Donal Logue ..... Mack
Wes bentley wesbentley ... blackheart.
Richard Ian Cox ..... Helicopter Pilot
Jessica Napier ..... Broken Spoke Waitress
Brett Cullen ..... Barton Blaze
Bruce Hughes ..... Penance Stare Pharmacist
Sam elliott Sam Elliott ..... Caretaker
Brett Swain ..... Guard
Matt Norman ..... Team Blaze #4
Matthew Wilkinson ..... Abigor
Marty Fields ..... Surveillance Guard
Raquel Alessi ..... Young Roxanne Simpson
Charlie Garber ..... Officer Mackie
Laurence Breuls ..... Gressil
Daniel Frederiksen ..... Wallow
Marcus Jones ..... Blaze Team #3
Matt Long ..... Young Johnny Blaze
Ling Hsueh Tang ..... News Reporter
Jason Raftopoulos ..... Forensics Inspector
Tony Ghosthawk ..... Team Blaze # 1
Hugh Sexton ..... Team Blaze # 1
Lawrence Cameron Steele ..... X Games Announcer
Eddie Baroo ..... Motorcycle Gang Member
Gibson Nolte ..... Stuart
Jonathan Oldham ..... Motorcycle Cop
Rebel Wilson ..... Girl in Alley
Peter Barry ..... The Mugger
Rita Kalnejais ..... Penance Stare Mugger? s Girlfriend
Jacob Vanderpuije ..... Innocent Young Man
Fabio Robles ..... Priest
Troy Planet ..... Impound Worker
Victor Scalise ..... Window Cleaner (as Vittorio Scalise)
Estefanie Sousa ..... Street Person
◎ Jane
Plot:
When Spider-Man, a sunny boy, develops in the direction of split personality, Batman, a handsome boy who has always been humorous, suddenly becomes preoccupied. Looking back on the painful childhood, everything indicates that an environment troubled by tragedy can better show the personality charm of the heroes. However, compared with ghost knights, their pain can hardly be called pain. What is more painful than selling your soul to the devil and being followed by evil spirits every night? Besides, from the burning skull to the cool Harley-Davidson motorcycle, many elements of this warrior are suitable for film display.
However, the unfavorable factors are also obvious, and the repeated postponement of the schedule is often an ominous sign; Director mark steven johnson is also very worrying. You know, most movies adapted from comics have two levels of fate, either a great success or a plummeting, and there are few intermediate States.
So for Ghost Rider, we are looking forward to it, but we are really afraid of being hurt.
This is the first time that the comic book of the same name owned by Marvel, an American comic studio, has appeared on the big screen. 1973, the comic version of Ghost Rider was created by Gary Friedrich and Mike Broger, with Johnny Brazer as the protagonist. In the 1990s, Marvel published a set of Ghost Rider with Don Kench as the protagonist. Frankly speaking, although the Brazer version of the story is classic, the plot is not as wonderful as the later Don Kench version, so in order to make the film more compact and romantic, the director Mark Steven Johnson made limited adjustments to the original, combining "classic" and "wonderful" into one:
In order to save his father's life, young Johnny Brazer made a deal with Morpheus, the demon king of hell, at the price of his own soul, but a week later, his father lost his life in a motorcycle stunt. As an adult, Brazer also became a motorcycle stunt driver, and met his teenage girlfriend, Roxer, by chance one night. At this time, Roxer has become an ambitious journalist. Mephistopher promised to release Brazer's soul, on condition that Brazer must serve him at night, acting as a "ghost knight"-an avenger with supernatural power. The task is to punish those demons who oppose Mephistopher according to his instructions, including the black devil, the most disobedient, ambitious and cunning of Mephistopher's countless sons. For hundreds of years, he has been trying to replace his father. For the sake of the throne, the Dark Heart kept recruiting and trying to lure Brazer to join his camp. Brazer resolutely opposed his fate, used the curse and power imposed on himself to protect the innocent, punish the wicked and avenge the victims' murders.
Behind the scenes:
An untrustworthy director
Mark steven johnson, the director and screenwriter, has been a die-hard fans of Marvel comics since he was a child. He has been preparing for "Brave Man" for five years, but the finished product still makes people feel depressed and lacks the simple and exciting effect that a comic film should have. Perhaps it is because he pursues the real feeling too much and pays too much attention to the spirit to be expressed in comics, but ignores the CG part that should have played an important role in the comic adaptation film. In contrast, Stephen Norrington, the original British director of Ghost Rider, may be more suitable. Norrington not only participated in the production of sci-fi special effects in many films, but also directed his first film, death machine, which achieved incredible special effects and unlimited imagination with a streamlined budget. Although the plot of his Hollywood work "Oscar Pistorius" is fragile, the imaginative, dazzling martial arts design and dazzling special effects still make our eyes eat ice cream. It was only because of the fiasco of the League of Special Gentlemen that Norrington lost his position as a director.
In fact, the first thing Johnson wanted to shoot was Ghost Rider, but it was only because of copyright issues that he first shot Brave Man. Therefore, we can only pray that Johnson, who has already had experience, can use his previous experience and lessons this time, so as not to waste the investment of1.200 million dollars.
Worried CG
Brazer drives two different motorcycles in the film, among which the inferno motorcycle transformed into a ghost knight is modified by a Harley, which is nearly four meters long and can reach 150 kilometers per hour. In the film, the ghost knight drives the hell motorcycle and rushes to the wall of the skyscraper, leaving a piece of broken glass behind him. In order to fully show the heroic spirit of the motorcycle, it is necessary for Cage and his stunt body double to perform hard, and the special effects artists to polish it.
The fire-breathing skull is the most visually impactful picture, and it is also the place where director Johnson needs to focus on it. When shooting, Johnson put a green stocking with more than ten light bulbs on Cage's head-this is part of the motion capture system. With these light bulbs, special effects artists can locate the key parts of Cage's head. Capturing facial muscle movements is only the first step, and then, it is to make the skull also act. The visual effects team specially designed a set of performance means to express ideas with the flame on the knight-when trapped by love, the flame is blue and flashing; When angry, the flame turns red and leaps, which seems to ignite the surrounding air.
With image, there must be sound. Johnson's idea is that after Brazer becomes a ghost knight, his voice will change as his body becomes a skeleton, and he will call like a real ghost in hell. So the sound engineers took Cage's original sound as the basis and simulated a strange tone with an audio compressor. In order to be more realistic, Brazer specially sent a sound recorder to the zoo to take the roar of lions and tigers, then lit a flame in a thick steel pipe, and then mixed the roar of beasts, the roar of motors, the sound of Cage and other sounds. After processing, the "Sound of Hell" was completed.
But mark steven johnson, after all, is not experienced enough in CG, and his kung fu has been achieved, but the effect-judging from the released trailer, some special effects are still a bit worrying.
Damn PG- 13
In mark steven johnson's original lens, there was a shocking and shocking scene: the fiery fire of hell exploded violently from Cage's chest, and the fiery flame burned down the cervical vertebra to the head, which scalded Cage's exposed skin until the whole body was burnt ... Finally, Cage's face was completely burned through, leaving only a flaming skeleton. However, this unremarkable skull was in trouble in rating, and officials of the American Film Association were on pins and needles about such a tragic burning scene, pointing out that the film went beyond the rules of Hollywood commercial films-burning scenes in which flames were in direct contact with the skin were not allowed. In order to get the rating of PG- 13, Johnson had to compromise. He deleted all the horrible burning scenes, leaving only a blazing Cage head. However, it can be expected that after the film is released, a director's cut version will definitely be released when the DVD is released. At that time, none of the scenes that Johnson reluctantly deleted will appear.
Cage, perhaps the only comfort.
/kloc-When he was 0/9 years old, nicolas coppola changed his surname to Cage to commemorate his favorite cartoon character, Luck Cage, an invulnerable black mercenary. The skull tattoo on his arm and the naming of his newborn son "Kael" (the original name of Superman) ... All kinds of signs show that Nicolas Cage has a strong "superhero complex" inside. At the beginning of the casting of Ghost Rider, Cage not only showed off his tattoos, but also frequently showed off five ghost-faced Harleys from his private collection in order to convince the producers who were undecided between himself and Johnny Depp. The most attractive thing about Ghost Knight is his anger. The contradiction of this role, the process of struggling to find his own way ... This dark and inner struggle story is Cage's favorite.
Cage said that the "Ghost Knight" he played borrowed the method of combining comedy and horror elements from "American Werewolf in London", which made the characters have some special details: "He especially likes to eat jelly beans. He loves reading, but at the same time he looks like a cowboy ... and he is a fan of karen carpenters. I think such a big bad guy probably needs to relax himself with the music of jelly beans and carpenter. "
For Cage, the addition of a large number of special effects didn't hinder his performance. He even said that playing Johnny Brazer seemed to be playing himself. When he put on leather clothes and boots, everyone exclaimed as if he saw the "knight" reappearing.
Trivia:
Nicolas Cage has a tattoo of "Ghost Knight", but in order to play Johnny Brazer, he can only cover it with makeup.
Out of respect and love for the original comic book, Jon Voight once volunteered to appear in the film, but he was not listed in the cast list.
When shooting in Melbourne, a large number of onlookers gathered on the bridge next to it. During the four-day shooting cycle, more and more people gathered, resulting in traffic chaos.
Part of the script of the film was written by Nicolas Cage.
Wonderful dialogue:
Caretaker: The story goes he'll be normal during the day, but at night, in the presence of evil, the Rider takes over.
Caretaker: This is a story. During the day, he looks just like a normal person, but at night, his body is taken over by evil and he becomes a "ghost knight".
Johnny Blaze: I'm the only one who can walk in both worlds. I'm Ghost Rider.
Johnny Brazer: I am the only living person who can put his foot in hell, because I am a "ghost knight".
Mack: You should be taking a dirt nap after that ragdoll today.
Johnny Blaze: I got lucky.
Mack: Luck don't cover it JB. You got an angel looking after you.
Johnny Blaze: Maybe it's something else.
Mark: It's really a tiring day. You should take a nap.
Johnny Brazer: Then I'm so lucky.
Mark: Luck is not enough to describe it, Johnny Brazer. You have an angel watching over you.
Johnny Brazer: Maybe it wasn't an angel.
Caretaker: You are alright?
Johnny Blaze: Yeah, I'm good. I feel like my skull is on fire, but I'm good.
Watchman: Are you all right?
Johnny Brazer: Yeah, I'm fine. Although I feel my head is on fire, I'm really fine.
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