Behind the scenes production of soldiers

In David Webb Peoples's future world, people are chosen to do their jobs when they are born, and those soldiers who serve the country are turned into inhuman and emotional killing machines. However, with the rapid development of science and technology, future soldiers will face the doom of being eliminated and destroyed. Producer Jerry Weintraub said: "Just like today's constantly updated weapons, the future soldiers in the film can't escape the fate of being replaced by new recruits, and this replacement means being abandoned. Military leaders ignore their inherent human characteristics, so the film has moral implications." 1993, Weintraub saw a play called Soldiers, and was deeply attracted. He immediately bought the script from producer david geffen. David Webb Peoples finished the script of Soldier as early as 199 1, and the famous script that created the classic sci-fi film blade runner and the Oscar-winning film Unforgettable was also his works in the same period. Soldiers are integrating all the elements of these two scripts. According to the producers, there are not many directors who have the ability to control this film, and paul anderson is the first choice. Weintraub said: "Paul's vision for this film not only meets my expectations, but also fully extends and develops it. He is good at this kind of film and can create a dazzling and magnificent image. " At the first meeting with Warner, Anderson was asked who should play the hero Todd. His first reaction was Kurt Russell, which coincided with the producer's idea. Anderson said: "We think Kurt is the best person to play Todd because he is a first-class actor with both acting and physical fitness, which is very important for this film. His role has to go through the evolution process from the initial near-machine state to the near-nervous breakdown and finally to the perfect adult, during which he can't express his feelings. " Although Russell wants to complete some stunts in the film by himself, the real challenge in this film lies in the performance with few lines, which is not difficult for actors and directors. Russell said: "I firmly believe that as long as there is true feelings, they will be revealed in the performance, and the audience will naturally understand the inner feelings of the characters." In the film, Todd is abandoned on a garbage planet, and the surface of the planet is covered with all kinds of non-degradable garbage, such as airplane parts, trains, satellite antennas, mechanical garbage and so on. It is here that Todd found his long-lost humanity and launched a life-and-death duel with Kane who came to destroy the whole planet. David L Snyder, the artistic director responsible for creating the landscape of the garbage planet, said: "The garbage planet must look huge and have a warm and friendly feeling, which is the key to the design work. This reminds me of the paradise corner of 1960. In the film, a family who was shipwrecked on a desert island, while taking advantage of the island's convenient conditions to resist pirates, had to work together in Qi Xin to survive in Qi Xin. Soldiers are exactly the same, except that old airplane parts and discarded satellite antennas have replaced palm leaves and coconuts. " The crew began to build the main scene 65 days before the film started shooting. In order to finish it on time, the film crew had to work day and night every day. The four-story outpost in the film was built in Warner Bros. Film Studio 16 Studio, which is one of the largest outdoor scenes ever. Snyder also thought of reusing props from previous Warner Bros. movies, including the F- 1 17 stealth bomber in Extreme Crisis, the wheelchair in Feilong, the spinning car in blade runner, and the vehicles in Angry Tiger and Dragon. The giant armored vehicle named "Crawler" in the film is not a model special effect, but a genuine prop car. Director Anderson recalled: "As the future armored personnel carriers, these two' tracks' are the largest prop vehicles. We have two choices: either make a model; Or build it. We finally chose the latter because the actors can interact with them and the audience will feel the sense of reality from the heavy body. " "Crawler" adopts the chassis, transmission system and suspension system of Caterpillar 777 mining transport vehicle, and the body is made of wood, glass fiber and metal. Besides a main gun, the crawler is equipped with two guns. 50 caliber Browning heavy machine gun and 10000 watt Nightsun searchlight, the latter often appears on police helicopters. The individual equipment in the film is equally powerful. Jared Chandler, an ordnance engineer, said, "We used a rapid-fire machine gun equipped on a military helicopter. For portability, we shortened the barrel, adjusted the shooting system and installed a machine gun strap, but even so, it still weighs about 90 pounds. This machine gun has a firing rate of 60 rounds per second and its firepower range is enough to cover a target the size of a football field in one minute. "