How can the scene of the real blood spatter and the actor's reaction be beyond the reach of CGI?
[Humanistic Night] is full of blood.
In the nightclub, the boss smashed the bottle of wine and filled the mouth of the guests, and the glass ball was pierced with blood. At the pork stall, the living person was hung upside down naked and wrapped in plastic wrap, and was slaughtered by the butcher holding a chainsaw, splashing blood on his face.
In the door of the room, the gang chased and killed the traitor and orphan, gathered a few people in vicious fights, and swarmed with murderous aura.
Someone slashed their necks with a knife, bloody foam flew all over the sky, and a layer of blinding gauze was laid out in chaos. Someone asked Teppanzi to chop up his brains, and his bones and muscles were broken and bloody, and it looked bright red from a distance.
Blood, blood, blood.
[Human Night] It’s like having a feast of flesh and blood. The table is full of blood and blood, with broken arms and broken legs, like a goddess scattered flowers everywhere, knots in the stomach without moving the chopsticks, moving the chopsticks Uneasy eating.
But where does the blood in this movie come from, the human body or the internal organs of animals? Or is it really, as the fans say, the ketchup that the director has been hoarding for years?
In 1897, a theater popped up on a street in Paris, called "The Big Puppet ", with a total of 293 seats in it, and it was very small.
It doesn't matter. The audience is not here to appreciate any elegant stage play, but to experience the horror and excitement.
Horror drama is a masterpiece of the big puppets.
The most famous ones are "The Duchess of Malfi", "The White Devil" and "Illusion Laboratory". The blood is splashed in one water and the limbs fly wildly. There are three acts with a strange peak and five acts with a climax.
The audience was full of strange things followed by strange things, bloody and then bloody, and the audience was overwhelmed and unable to stop.
Of course not real blood.
In the stage performances at that time, if they encountered this kind of plot, they would usually throw a red handkerchief out, and Quan would be bleeding.
The Big Puppet Theater felt a little perfunctory, so it invested a sum of money to buy a kind of bug called "Cochineal".
Arthropods, Homoptera, are native to Mexico and Central America, and are habitually parasitic on cactus plants. Because its body contains a lot of carmine acid and carmine, it is also named " cochineal ".
Earlier, ancient Egypt and Greece used this insect as a dye, and medieval painters also used it as a paint for painting.
But because of the age and the color is not light fast, there are very few pictures left. However, in the Spanish manuscript records, this red is equal to Alizarin red, and it was once replaced by it.
But what about Alizarin Red?
In the movie [Night Banquet], after Zhang Ziyi played Wan, she shed tears in her arms before she died, saying "It's as red as people's burning desire", it is Alizarin Red. If you want to come to the cochineal body, it is probably the same color.
It is quite cumbersome to use it as fake blood.
The cochineal needs to be boiled, and the residue on the body is selected, leaving the red substance to make soup. When it cools and condenses, it becomes pseudo-plasma.
In [ Dang Tong Fa Di Di ] in 1916, a soldier was opened by the enemy, blood gurgled out, and his belly was full, which was the effect of the cochineal.
The same was true for [Nosferatu] in 1922 and [Dracula] in 1931 , but with a smaller amount, it was only used to accidentally make a cut with a finger and show it to a vampire, and it was eaten and wiped in an instant. Net plot.
But such a method is not worth it.
Not to mention the cumbersome production process, the cost is not low, and to achieve the ultimate color in black and white movies is superfluous, and it is not harmless. There is no need to be obsessed with the vividness of plasma colors.
What's more, in order to brighten the actor's complexion, the post-production staff at the time would put a red filter on the film. If the plasma is also red, the two reds collide, after processing, it will inevitably be distorted even if it is red.
So Hollywood came up with a rut, using chocolate syrup instead of plasma, which simplified the production process at once, saving time and effort.
[Night of the Living Dead] in 1968 is a representative of this aspect.
It is said that a small town accidentally released some kind of rays, causing the dead bodies to come back to life, crawling out of the tombs, slaughtering the living, and setting off a bloody storm.
Chocolate syrup drips on the walls, floors, and people everywhere, but no matter the color or the consistency, it looks like blood, and it forms a strong contrast with the light background, complementing each other, and the effect is really real.
It's not the first one to use it this way.
As early as 1960, when Hitchcock filmed [Scary] , in the bathroom murder scene of the famous movie history, chocolate syrup was used to make fake blood.
In the dead of night, the moon was dark and the wind was high. The beautiful lady was taking a bath in the bathroom.
The squeeze bottle was just born at that time-it was the kind of plastic bottle used to squeeze ketchup commonly found at roadside stalls. Hitchcock filled it with chocolate syrup and squeezed it to create a dripping effect .
Extraordinarily real. The writer Stephen Rebello lamented in his "Return to the Horror", "It is quite revolutionary."
But one person in the audience disagreed.
In the process of watching [Scary], he looked like an old prostitute with a stupid expression, just hoping to end it soon, and he didn't feel the smell of orgasm at all.
This person is Herschel Gordon Lewis. He was a college teacher earlier. He made some commercials and talked about small movies in his spare time to explain himself. He always felt that the violent scenes in [The Horror] were deliberately omitted, which is really insufficient.
So I quit my job, took out 24,000 dollars in savings, and spent four days filming a [Blood Sacrament] .
Color films, if you use the kind of chocolate syrup that only serves black and white films, you can be sure to expose them. So Lewis added some natural red pigments to it, which made him famous for a while.
It is a pity that the viscosity and texture of this fake blood are unsatisfactory, and it is very easy to air dry, after which it will condense into small beads and have a short lifespan.
As a result, John Tynegate, a retired pharmacist in the United Kingdom, matched a fake blood that is the most authentic so far.
The recipe is 2 cups of golden syrup, 1 cup of warm water, 10 spoons of corn starch, 10 spoons of red food coloring, a few drops of blue and yellow food coloring . Its fresh and coagulated viscous texture is almost the same as that of human blood.
Tynegate is named after Kensington Gore Street in London, called " Kensington Blood ", and it has become the mainstream of the blood of props in the film industry in the 1970s.
In [Martin] in 1978, the hostess committed suicide by slashing her wrists while lying in the bathtub. She dyed a tank full of red, using this kind of blood.
[The Shining] in 1980, the classic shot of blood surging from behind the elevator door, also used Kensington blood.
In 1972, Dick Smith decided to improve on this basis.
At that time, as a special effects make-up artist, he was putting on old-age makeup for Marlon Brando in [The Godfather]. There was a rain of bullets and flesh and blood on the set, and his ears and eyes were tainted, but he always felt that the fake blood still owed a bit of heat.
Where do you owe it?
He replaced the base with 2 cups of white corn syrup, added 1 cup of warm water, 1 spoon of yellow food coloring, 1 spoon of red food coloring, 1 spoon of zinc oxide, and bought some Kodak anti-spot stain remover from a photography supply store. .
Corn syrup is to increase the opacity, the pigment can make the color more real, and methyl paraben is added to inhibit the growth of bacteria.
As for Kodak stain remover, it is a water stain remover for washing photos, which can make the liquid soak through the fabric and flow more naturally and realistically. But it is very toxic , even a little splash in the mouth is enough to kill.
Therefore, in [The Exorcist] the following year , the director replaced the Kodak stain remover with cream, after all, he had to touch the actor's mouth.
In 1976, the [taxi driver] was replaced with plant creamer.
But because the color is too real, the American Film Institute classifies it as an X-level. The director Jizhong Shengzhi slightly adjusted the formula so that it became a brown color between red and yellow, and was eventually rated as R.
This plasma was later called corn syrup blood. Although it was not as good as Kensington's status, it was very flexible and could be adjusted according to different needs.
For example, the air is dry and humid, the light is dark, and which part of the actor's plot is set in which blood vessel is injured, all are different.
In 2013's [Ghost Play] , peanut butter was added to the original formula to make the fake blood look more viscous and stick to the "wound" of the actor. But if you are allergic to peanut butter, you can also change it to hazelnut butter.
In 1981, the [Ghost Playing Man] added coffee creamer and blue food coloring. A head sprayed 10,000 liters, which can fill two double-door refrigerators. It was almost drowning and was regarded by later generations. Hall-level Cult film.
[Kill Bill] in 2003 was even more ruthless.
It was also corn syrup and blood. The Japanese killer played by Liu Yuling stepped on the dining table with both feet and swiped the knife horizontally, seemingly unharmed. In an instant, the opponent's head rolled down, blood splashing, like a waterfall.
Accompanied by a kind of "rusting" sound, the sound of the people was very cold.
I remember in [带子雄狼], the villain samurai had his neck cut by a single cut and fell in the desert. Before he died, he heard his neck crying, "Like a winter wind whistling."
[Kill Bill] is the same taste right now.
When the blood splattered, it seemed as if there was a strong wind blowing over the ears, and in a short time, only the sky and the earth collapsed, and Yue shaking the mountain collapsed before lowering his head to see that he had been split in half.
It is a pity that almost all the bloody scenes in movies are synthesized by computers, such as [Zodiac] and [Expendables 2]. But how can the scene of blood splattering and the actor's reaction be beyond the reach of CGI?
Fortunately, plasma tablets will always have its place.
It's like [A night of addiction] .
At the railing, the two women fought each other. One woman had her finger cut in the middle, and she frowned at the moment.
The thrilling scene of finger-cutting, for her, is a simple two-stroke line drawing, like a frightening wind, passing by in an instant. On the contrary, it brought out the fierceness of the fight and the swiftness of the bloody wind all over the sky.
Seeing this scene, the other party was indifferent on the face, but was in a mess at the bottom of his heart, and hurriedly asked the woman with severed fingers to seize the opportunity and pierced the throat with a knife.
I think of Wang Jiawei’s [Dong Xie Xi Du], the blind warrior played by Tony Leung was cut in the neck with a knife. Before he died, he looked up at the sky and murmured:
I used to hear people say that if the knife is fast, blood spurts out of the wound like the sound of wind, which sounds very nice.
Oh, the wind whimpers at the moment.
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Author/six aunts
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