I’m in Hollywood - Chapter 426
[Chapter four hundred and twenty third mind]
During the shooting in the morning, it was nothing. With the arrival of lunch time, the atmosphere of the “Tornado” crew in the suburban fields became a bit strange. Most people talked and did things lightly. Making too much noise will attract the attention of the ‘crusade’. Although everyone seems to be doing their own thing on the surface, their eyes unconsciously look towards Virginia.
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“Tornado” has been filmed for three weeks, and even the dullest staff know about Eric’s relationship with the heroine Joanna at this time.
And Virginia, who also had an ambiguous relationship with Eric, suddenly came to visit the class, and everyone was very curious about what would happen next.
However, what is disappointing is that the imagined confrontation between the two women did not happen, and the two women did not even touch each other. After Joanna took a bath, she talked with Eric in a low voice, and then talked to a few others. The main actors of the film went to lunch together, and Eric had Virginia’s assistant Shanny be greeted, picked up two lunches by himself, and got into a trailer with Virginia.
After the trailer door was closed, Virginia finally didn’t have to hide it anymore, and it was an emotional kiss when she threw herself into Eric’s arms. After a long time, the two separated, and Eric let go of the soft mature woman in his arms. Laughing
: “I’m hungry, let’s eat first.”
Virginia knew that it was not the time to be obsessed, so she sat down at the dining table with Eric, but still couldn’t help sitting side by side with Eric. , not across from him.
Eric inserted the straw into a box of juice and handed it to Virginia, and said, “How does it feel to be filming in Ireland?”
Virginia immediately showed a small complaint and said, “It’s very cold, I knew I would have I almost froze to death for not accepting this movie. Kapoor said that this movie might get me an Oscar nomination. He advised me to take it and only paid 3 million.”
Eric remembered something and said: “Speaking of this, Paramount also specially sent the script to me for me to read.”
Virginia immediately asked: “What do you think, is it possible to get a nomination?”
Eric recalled the script carefully.
Basically, it tells the story of a man who has been out for many years after his business went bankrupt.
Returning to her old home in Northern Ireland, she meets the story of a young single mother.
The theme of the movie is very thematic, about family.
About family and attitude towards life and so on.
As long as this type of film can be made a little warmer, even if it fails to win an award, the box office is still very guaranteed.
“The theme of the movie is too warm, and Oscar still prefers something deeper, so there is little hope of winning the award.
However, the nomination is still very promising.
By the way, how much does this movie cost?
Virginia said: ”
About 15 million. The male protagonist is not very famous, so his salary is not very high, but his acting skills are very good. I am often beaten by him, so embarrassing.”
”
Eric remembers that the hero in the script is a middle-aged man in his thirties. Although Virginia’s acting skills can’t reach the level of a queen, it is absolutely impossible to be easily suppressed by others. The lesser-known actor, which made him feel a little curious, asked: “What’s the name of the actor?
”
“Kevin Spacey.”
”
Oh…who?”
”
“Kevin Spacey.”
Virginia repeated it, seeing Eric’s face, she wondered: “You know him?”
”
Eric said: “Yeah, I heard this name occasionally, I remember he played a small role in Harrison Ford and Melanie Griffith’s “Working Girl” two years ago.
After speaking these words, the
two of them stopped talking about this topic. Eric just started to think that since Kevin Spacey is still unknown, maybe Kapoor can find a way to sign him. However, he realized I have nothing to do with the agency now, so I gave up the idea.
“Hey, Eric,” Virginia took a few sips of juice, hesitated and said, “I… Should I go and talk to you?” Did she say hi?
Eric knew that Virginia was talking about Joanna, and smiled: ”
Forget it now, let’s go back to Punk City after work today, let’s have dinner together.
”
You mean, the three of us, have dinner together?”
”
“Or I’ll dodge, the two of you will communicate individually, but you have to make sure not to fight.”
Virginia laughed and said, “Oh, don’t even think about it, you are even more proud of us when women fight for you, not to mention we… we are not little girls anymore.
”
”
After eating a simple lunch, the crew quickly started the intense filming work. Although Oklahoma is not as sunny as Los Angeles for more than 300 days a year, most of the time in northern Oklahoma in early summer is still the same. It is sunny, and it is not easy to encounter a cloudy weather.
And although Virginia didn’t leave, she couldn’t help much, and had to stay bored in the trailer with her assistant.
In the afternoon, the studio was still as noisy as before, and it was the scene where the hero and heroine in the ditch encountered a tornado together.
For such a large-scale special effect movie, Eric could not copy the pictures in his memory without distinction, and many scenes were completely new.
Therefore, Eric must accumulate enough filming materials. Although the first tornado scene is not the biggest scene in the movie, if the filming material is unavailable and reshooting, it is not just a matter of funds, but also a problem of funds. It will involve the post-production of special effects.
Although it is impossible to completely copy the “Tornado” in his mind, and even the script has been revised in many places, but Eric is still full of confidence in this film.
After all, the main attraction of “Tornado” is the realistic hurricane special effects in the movie, and although the script has been revised, the tight rhythm of the movie has not changed.
Eric has made a detailed analysis of the original film. Except for the opening foreshadowing and the climax of the Category 5 hurricane at the end, the rhythm of the middle part is basically a five- to ten-minute interval between literary dramas and special effects. Let the audience feel boring because the literary drama is too long, and there will be no aesthetic fatigue because of too many special effects scenes.
The roar of the Boeing engine roared for another afternoon, and when it was approaching four o’clock in the afternoon, the scene finally ended.
In the remaining one hour, the crew could not go to other scenes.
So began to pack up the equipment in an orderly manner, ready to return to Punk City.
Eric pushed open the trailer door and saw Virginia leaning on the cot boredly, holding a meteorology book specially prepared by the crew in her hand, and a headset in her ear.
An assistant named Shani sees Eric appear.
Stand up and say hello.
Leaving the trailer with a lot of fun.
“It’s finally over?” Virginia asked as she took off her headphones and sat up.
“Well, you can go back to Punk City soon. Let’s go, take my car, this car will not go back to Punk City, the driver will drive directly to the next filming location.”
Virginia followed Eric out of the trailer, and for a while A cool breeze blows.
Virginia looked up at the more gloomy sky, suppressed her little expectation and said, “It won’t rain, right?”
Eric looked at the low-hanging cloud and said, “The weather forecast says that it may be at night. There is light rain, and tomorrow may be cloudy.”
Virginia followed Eric two steps, and felt a cool breeze get into her collar, and said, “I just read that book that said Oklahoma In the tornado corridor, look at the weather like this. There won’t be tornadoes, right?”
“Tornadoes are not a fun thing, you just need to expect a little rain, and that’s fine.”
Eric casually poked his little boy Thought, Virginia blushed slightly, it was no trivial matter to stop filming.
There are hundreds of people in the crew.
Just doing nothing, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars every day, even if Eric is rich, it is impossible to play like this. In order to let Eric spend more time with her, she is looking forward to rainy days. There are indeed prodigal girls. suspicion.
“I just…I didn’t expect rain,” Virginia glanced at Eric with a guilty conscience, and made a weak distinction.
During dinner, Jeffrey also rushed back from another set, saw Virginia coming, just said hello, and gave up the plan to use dinner time to talk about something with Eric.
For dinner, Eric didn’t take the two girls out to eat, but chose the small restaurant inside the hotel that the crew had contracted.
Punk City is just a small town with more than 20,000 people, and the massive presence of the crew here has attracted the attention of too many people.
Although a large number of reporters attracted by the crew in the early days of filming have been scattered, occasionally three or two kittens will appear here, trying to dig out the news, if Eric takes the two girls to the streets , will definitely be in the headlines tomorrow.
There is no smell of gunpowder between the two women, at least on the surface they get along very happily. Virginia and Joanna know very well that they are only lovers of Eric. Because of the age difference, the possibility of marrying this little man is Zero, there is nothing to contend with.
Although Virginia’s tone is occasionally a little cautious, Joanna’s character is like water, plain and indisputable, and it is impossible for Virginia to provoke something.
This situation made Eric very satisfied. After eating a meal for more than an hour, at seven o’clock in the evening, looking at the two women who were still chatting happily, Eric stood up and said, “Go ahead and talk, I’m going to see today’s shooting material, and discuss with Stan about the special effects by the way, and try to be back at ten o’clock.” When
Eric left, Virginia and Joanna, who were chatting, fell silent. , while holding up the coffee in front of her, the atmosphere continued awkwardly for a moment, and Virginia laughed: “Finally, you don’t have to accommodate that little bastard anymore.”
Joanna also smiled, and the two women had just been very tacit understanding. To maintain that harmonious attitude, I just don’t want Eric to be too distracted.
“He is very tired these days. He rarely rests before twelve o’clock. He gets up on time at six o’clock every day,” Joanna said, as if explaining something, but soon realized that she seemed to be saying this a bit ambiguous.丨 It’s as if she has been living in the same room with Eric.
“That… I live next door to him,” Joanna finally couldn’t help but defend.
There is a huge warehouse in the south of the hotel where Eric lives. It used to store corn, but now it has been transformed into a huge studio, which houses various movie equipment and more than ten computers. Although it was night, the working group in the digital field dedicated to the special effects of “Tornado” was still busy at this time.
Eric, Stan Winston and several other special effects engineers are discussing the special effects processing plan for the material in the past few days. Although the hardware facilities are sufficient to meet the special effects of “Tornado”, it involves a large number of cg scenes in the movie. This is the first time, everyone needs to explore slowly, and occasionally need to develop special solutions for certain scenarios.
“Large-scale destruction scenes will definitely be a very important branch in the field of computer special effects in the future. Although this small program can meet the needs of this movie, it is still too limited. Stan, you can ask someone to prepare a detailed plan, and I will let me The San Francisco side specializes in developing similar application software.”
Stan Winston nodded, and the two pointed at a completely gray scene on the computer screen without any rendering before Stan Winston said : “Leave the rest to us, Eric, maybe you should go back to rest.”
“Huh?” Eric uttered a puzzled syllable, looked at his watch, it was only half past nine, and he noticed Stan Stan. The ambiguous look on Winston’s face suddenly made him a little embarrassed.
Stan Winston patted Eric on the shoulder and blinked his eyes unscrupulously: “If necessary, maybe we can start work later tomorrow, and no one will say anything.”
“Forget it .
Well, it’s all right,” Eric explained, looking at the mocking eyes that everyone showed after hearing Stan’s words, he no longer insisted on staying here, said a few more words, and quickly left the studio.
Back at the hotel and walked into the room, UU read www.sonicmtl.com and saw Virginia, who had changed into pajamas, leaning on the sofa in the living room to watch TV boredly. Eric had handed the room card to the girl before, So it’s not surprising.
Instead, Virginia sat up and asked curiously, “Isn’t it ten o’clock?”
“I was driven back,” Eric said with a shrug.
Thinking of a possibility, Virginia smiled shyly: “That… it doesn’t matter, I will not affect my work.”
“Of course not,” Eric took off his coat and walked to the bathroom Go and said, “I’ll take a shower first.”
Virginia turned off the TV, got up and turned off the ceiling light in the door, leaving only a dim wall lamp, and the atmosphere in the room became blurred .
Eric took a shower in a hurry, and saw the changes in the living room after coming out. He thought Virginia went to the bedroom and was about to go there, but heard a cat-like voice from the sofa, and a charming little face appeared from the sofa. The back of the sofa chair came out, looking at Eric with eyes like water, Eric smiled slightly and jumped up without hesitation.
(To be continued.
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