Fury Sea Battle: Polar Expedition

In 1812, France was in the era of the Napoleonic Campaign, and the French warships frequently launched wars. Jack Aubery, known as the "Lucky Captain", is the new captain of the British Army, and the young and vigorous Jack has always been tough, leading the crew to withstand the test of sea storms along the way, and beating French and Spanish warships more times along the way. On his way to Brazil, Jack was heavily damaged by a fierce attack from a large Spanish gunboat. Jack also faces infighting over the power struggle caused by stephen, a military doctor who disagrees. In order to gain the opportunity to win the war, Jack made a very risky decision, no longer dodging the pursuit, but defending the attack, crossing the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, to track down the heavy enemy ships, and fight with the other side to the death.

Behind the scenes:

The film integrates character portrayal and environmental fabrication, and is a masterpiece of sea thrillers.

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　　Arriving at the set of the filmIng Of Fury, which depicts the epic of 19th-century naval warfare, director Peter Will is directing the filming of a chaotic scene with fierce fighting on deck and a terrible operation in the under-deck cabin, maturin, the ship's accompanying doctor played by Paul Betney. The British warship Miracle was tossing and turning in the rough sea, filled with Smoke, packed with French and British sailors who were fighting and fighting, and the number of wounded sent to the cabin was increasing. It's a very complicated scene, and Will is clearly a little dissatisfied with what's in front of him. Something is wrong? He inspected the filming scene packed with equipment and actors, and finally set his sights on the 5-foot-6-high ceiling built according to the original description.

　　"It looked like it was in Alien," Betteny recalled. Will lifted a bucket of artificial plasma as he watched, and put his hand into the bucket, smearing blood on the ceiling. "There are places where it's not so real, so there's always someone who can see the flaws, but whether you notice it or not in the movie, his attention to detail is really unmatched."

　　Some details do have flaws, but Will can be sure that even professionals will find them difficult to spot. When he organized the massive chaotic scenes, his excessive attention to detail and the rigor of the plot almost continued from the artistically charged Australian films Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Last Wave, which were filmed more than 30 years ago. In Raging Seas, the story is set during the Napoleonic Wars of 1805, when Russell Crowe and Paul Betteny (who played supporting roles in "A Beautiful Mind") played the British captain Jack O'Brie and the ship's doctor Stephen Mathurin, respectively, the legendary characters in writer Patrick Obrian's 20 nautical series of novels. In a battle with a French frigate, Jack's Miracle was dealt an almost fatal blow in the thick fog. Thus, Captain Jack embarks on a retaliatory pursuit, and a catastrophic bloody conflict inevitably takes place...

　　"It's a film about conquest," said John Kerry, Will's assistant screenwriter, who was tasked with extracting the chapters from the original Book of The Waka, "Peter's life experience is like Captain Jack in the story, and a successful captain like him could have accepted an appointment to go anywhere else, but he firmly led his men to the poles to open up a strange sea." ”

　　Co-financed by Fox, Miramax and Universal, "Raging Seas" reimagined the simple but incendiary life of the British Navy. The film required hundreds of sailors, scholars, sculptors, casters, shipbuilders, actors and technicians from four continents (including some of the "survivors" from Perfect Storm). During the five-and-a-half-month shoot, most of the time was spent at the Fox shooting base near Rosarito, Mexico, using the 50-foot-high, 20-gallon water tank that Cameron had built at a huge expense during the filming of titanic. The Marvel was modeled after a $1.5 million replica of the French Revolution battleship Using rose, which was purchased by the crew, and then transported to Mexico via the Panama Canal. During the two weeks of sea shooting, the Rose was also used for filming and was renovated, and every morning she departed from the port of Unsenada. As exciting as the voyage was, the experience soon came to a halt. "I haven't seen so many people vomiting since the Healing Band concert in the late '80s." Betteny said expressionlessly.

　　A longtime obsessed with O'Brien's writings and a collector of artifacts from the story of that period, Will persuaded several of his staff to spend four days shopping on the Australian coast while piloting a replica of the 18th-century Captain Cook,Endearo during the filming. Since then, everything has focused on how to create a film that will be accessible to most audiences, from the smoky battles and terrifying stormy scenes to the thrilling violin and cello duo of Captain Jack and Mathurin, to the travels to the Galapagos Islands. "Peter wanted 'Raging Seas' to be the best film of the time – and he did." Production director William Sandler said. Betteny says it's an awe-inspiring action movie.

　　Throughout the filming, Will was everywhere, examining the authenticity of every detail, from the color of the smoke from the artillery to every rope buckle played by the actors in the background. "While most directors returned to their seats to watch the monitors or talk to the actors, Will was still gathering his sword and scouring around." Stunt director Doug Coleman said. "He sometimes wears a costume and wants to be able to sense what's going to happen in various ways."

　　In order to keep the actors in the middle of the play, Will asked them to cover the mirrors outside the scene with cloth, try not to watch TV, and spend their free time writing letters, playing instruments, and painting. Before many scenes were filmed, he had cast members learn about the lives of seafarers, and then played them a variety of music, depending on the scenes of Dink Freud or american percussion or chorus. "The sense of rhythm and the movie downloading music is very important for Peter, and when you enter a particular scene, you know that he is thinking with music."

　　This fusion of music and reality culminated in the filming of a funeral scene attended by all the crew, captain Jack appeared in front of everyone to express his grief to the entire crew, and then the scene of all the seafarers burying their comrades at sea. It just so happened that shortly before filming, Crowe got the news that his friend Richard Harris, who had been working with him on Gladiator, had died! When everyone was ready, Will played a mournful and mysterious piece of music (one of the film crew said it sounded like it came from a church), and Crowe stepped into the frame and began his speech to mourn the dead, which was so touching that the cast and crew present were moved.

　　Needless to say, Crowe is very serious about the role of Captain Jack, "Russell Crowe plays the captain very realistically, he really studies the life of the character he plays." Producer Ducan Henderson said. On the eve of the start of the two weeks of sea training, Crowe organized a cocktail party to entertain the actors. The training includes artillery drills, sailing practice, rifle and fencing training. At the beginning of the training, Crowe, as captain, adopted an old Royal Navy training method provided by Will: he gave each person three shirts, the color marked the rank of the sailors on board (blue for officers, white for seafarers, and red for new sailors), and he gave cloth pieces and needles with names on the home page of each Taobao network, requiring them to sew the pieces of cloth into the shirts by the early morning of the next morning. It was a really good idea, and the actors got into shape right away. But there is one person except, and that is Betteni. Not only did he dare not participate in the training, but he also did not pay attention to the captain's orders at all, because he played Maturin. "I am a rebel, a man of his own accord. When Crowe ordered me, I tended to walk away. And Crow had to come over and express his satisfaction with my unruliness, because Mathurin was such a character. ”

　　Crowe sometimes hosted banquets for his "officers", and sometimes held shipbuilding knowledge contests and rugby matches to cultivate feelings among the actors. Such competitions are often entertained by Mexican street bands. There were many musicians among the cast, and Crowe transformed an abandoned mobile home into a rehearsal room, where the actors began their musical lives. Bettney's guitar, Crowe's drum kit, beer plus music, a moment of crazy casualness.

　　Filming was interspersed between the Marvel and The Exclan, including some continuous footage, while Crow had to run back and forth between the two boats. "His ability is really impressive, after setting up the scene, there needs to be rehearsal, and he is always ready to cooperate with you." Stunt director Coleman said. "Russell Crowe knows not only what he needs to do, but also what everyone around him is doing. He was a perfectionist. ”

　　With the film emperor Crowe and the four-time Oscar-nominated Peter Will, "The Furious Sea" has not yet been released, and it has become the best film selection for the Oscars that film critics are optimistic about, and we hope that this nautical epic can really become another breakthrough in film history.