by Josh Rottenberg

Pacific Rim is about big things： big robots， big monsters， big earthshaking battles[战役]. So it seems fitting that the film—the first major summer blockbuster[大片] from Guillermo del Toro（Hellboy， Pans Labyrinth）—comes out of the ruins of his biggest disappointment. At first， del Toro planned only to co-write and produce Pacific Rim because hed be directing his dream project， an adaptation[改编] of H.P. Lovecrafts At the Mountains of Madness. But Universal pulled the plug[终止业务] on that film， and only days later del Toro took the helm[掌管] of Pacific Rim.

Pacific Rim features[刻画] clashes[冲突] between huge， human-piloted robots called Jaegers[贼鸥] and massive creatures called Kaiju （Japanese for “giant monsters”）， but dont be fooled by its Transformers-meets-Godzilla appearances. At its heart， del Toro insists， the film has all the unique qualities his fans would want： “We do crazy stuff nobody has ever done.... I always feared that with big budgets[预算] came big constraints[约束]， and this has been the opposite. Ive kind of been ruined for life. In a good way， we trust.

憾似乎再合适不过了。德尔·托罗原本只打算参与《环太平洋》的剧本创作以及担任制片人，因为他正准备执导《疯狂之山》——这部改编自H. P. 洛夫克拉夫特同名小说的电影是德尔·托罗梦寐以求的项目。但是环球影业突然叫停了《疯狂之山》，几天之后，德尔·托罗接掌了《环太平洋》的帅印。

在《环太平洋》里，人类驾驶着被称为“贼鸥”的巨型机甲战士，与巨型生物“Kaiju”（日语意为“大怪兽”）展开搏斗。不过，可别让这个“变形金刚大战哥斯拉”的幌子把你给骗了哦。德尔·托罗强调，这部电影的核心依然是其粉丝所期待的各种稀奇古怪的元素：“我们做了许多从来没有人做过的疯狂的事情……我一直担心高预算会带来很多限制，而这次恰恰相反。我这辈子算是堕落了。”我们相信，这种“堕落”并不是什么坏事。

Sneak Peeks of Pacific Rim 《环太平洋》抢“鲜”看

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Theres more than just giant robots and massive monsters in Pacific Rim： Director Guillermo del Toro has also mixed in plenty of it with human drama and character stories. Del Toro tells us whats in store for monster-movie fans， beginning with the setting[电影的场景]： The film starts about 15 years after the gigantic[庞大的] Kaiju first emerged[显现，浮现] from the Pacific Ocean and mankind built robotic Jaegers to battle them. Were not doing all that well， either， del Toro says. “They are evolving， they are becoming bigger， stronger and smarter， and its a very tough war.”

《环太平洋》并不只有巨型机甲战士和庞大的怪兽——导演吉尔莫·德尔·托罗还在电影中加入了人类的戏份，剧中人都有自己的故事。德尔·托罗告诉我们，怪兽电影迷的盼头从故事背景便开始了：距离巨大的Kaiju第一次出现在太平洋已经15年了，人类制造出名为“贼鸥”的机器人与之战斗。德尔·托罗还说，我们的情况并不妙：“它们在不断进化，它们的体型越发庞大和强壮，还越来越聪明了，这是一场艰巨的战争。”

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Del Toro is making sure the camera sees the true impact[冲击] of the Kaiju attacks， even among fearful pedestrians[行人]. “Were trying very， very hard to make the fight scenes in the movie very visceral[出自内心的]， very much like you are there，” he says.

德尔·托罗要确保摄像机能捕捉到怪兽袭击那真实的冲击力，甚至包括惊恐的行人。