Four Hundred and Seventy-Seven-It’s Snowing

Compared to the outside world's disturbing reports about Wayne, the crew is relatively quiet inside. Since the conversation with Jeff Robinoff ended, the crew has not been affected by much public opinion at all. The busy filming work is all the time. It consumes everyone's energy.

"There are some special people outside the set!"

A Nicolas Cage scene ended. After hearing Wayne shouting and announcing a break for lunch, Nina followed him to the trailer and reported in a low voice.

"Are those fans still hanging around outside? Just let them be."

Waving his hands helplessly, Wayne opened the car door and walked onto the trailer. After sitting down, he watched the assistant lady keep placing food on the table.

"No, not your admirers."

Handing Wayne a pair of chopsticks, Nina looked at several special Chinese dishes and shrugged. They mainly eat Chinese food these days, and Naomi Watts has refused to eat together. For the Australian actress, eating it once in a while feels refreshing, but eating it every day is obviously unbearable.

"What?" Dry-fried beef river and a few Cantonese snacks, he nodded with satisfaction. These are his favorites. After all, the best Chinese food here is the authentic Chinese food without changing the recipe. Always a Cantonese chef.

"It's members of the animal rights group who are asking for supervisors to be placed on the set, and Charles is dealing with that."

While eating with Wayne, Nina said casually: "I don't know where those people got the news. Anyway, they heard that there are dogs in the crew, oh, they are called animal actors, right? They are negotiating with Charles. "

"Environmental protection organizations are involved in the explosion scene, and now animal protection organizations are involved. Are these private non-profit organizations so idle?"

After hearing this, Wayne shook his head helplessly. In a large production crew of hundreds of people, the low-level temporary workers change almost every day, so there is basically no need to expect confidentiality. Fortunately, there are very few scenes about animals. Otherwise, he doubts that he will have to face some kind of dog-loving association later. Organizations, those people are more difficult to deal with.

Nina raised her eyebrows exaggeratedly and stopped paying attention to her boss's complaints. She has been in this circle for more than a day or two, and she is very aware of the disgusting aspects of it.

No matter where the Hollywood crew goes to shoot scenes, they are not afraid of local official institutions. However, when facing private non-profit organizations, producers and directors often feel helpless. These organizations are usually more difficult to deal with than government agencies. Almost every large film crew has stories of being made trouble by these organizations.

Moreover, North American civil organizations are often more perverted and far more difficult to deal with than similar organizations in other Western countries.

Originally, Nina thought that this matter would be the same as last time, destined to be solved by Charles Rowan. She just regarded it as a conversation piece before and after meals during the lunch break. However, the matter turned out to be more troublesome than she imagined. In the afternoon After starting work again, she saw for the first time how difficult these people were.

Due to the needs of the plot, a trained big dog actor will appear next to the gangsters. The two so-called supervisors who followed Charles Rowan have been silently observing the crew's attitude towards the animal actors, and stopped midway No comments were made.

But when it was the turn of the animal actors to come on stage for filming, the two people seemed to suddenly become energetic, and then something unexpected happened.

"Wayne, I'm afraid we have to do some other shots first?"

Charles Rowan looked extremely ugly. After a scene was stopped, he walked to the director's seat and looked at Wayne.

"What!?"

"It's time for the animal actors to work." The producer said helplessly, raised a hand covertly, pointed at the two people surrounding the big dog, and shook his head slightly.

As we all know, animals and children have always been the most unstable factors in the crew. Children are relatively fine and can adjust through encouragement and other methods. But no matter how obedient the animal actors are in training, they will still have various discomforts when faced with many strangers and camera equipment surrounding them.

The same goes for this dog. It was just a simple shot. The main task of the big dog was to serve as a good background. However, after several consecutive shots, it failed to achieve an effect that satisfied Wayne. But he was actually not in a hurry. When it came to scenes involving animal actors, he had already been prepared for it a dozen times.

However, members of the animal protection organization suddenly became angry, disrupting his work plan.

"F**K!"

With a "pop" sound, Wayne threw the thick notebook to the ground angrily. If today's shooting plan is disrupted, it will mean that we will have to delay another day tomorrow to continue shooting animal-related scenes. Putting aside the disrupted shooting plan, the monetary loss incurred is not a small number.

"hey-hey."

Charles Rowan had already guessed this result, and he quickly took two steps forward. He patted the other person's shoulder and said in a hurry: "Listen, they are just a group of insignificant people, and they are not worthy of you communicating with them."

"Shit! Gilmore!"

Wayne cursed under his breath, raised his hand to look at the time, and called the assistant director over. "I would like to inform everyone that we will finish the work early today and we will continue shooting tomorrow."

In order to avoid trouble, in the next few days, the dog became the best-paid actor in the crew. Filming can never be smooth sailing, but people can work overtime, but dogs must not work for one more minute, otherwise the two A supervisor would stand up and babble, making Charles Rowan very annoyed, but he couldn't just ignore them, otherwise more entanglements would follow.

Sometimes the weird thinking of these people really makes Wayne angry. Facing the behind-the-scenes employees and actors who work overtime on the set, the two caring people from the animal protection organization simply turn a blind eye and say that they are just the same. It would be better to say that they gave all their love to the dog. The only good news is that there were not many scenes with the dog. After a few days, the two caring supervisors also left the crew along with the animal actors.

"In the future, for all shots involving animals, we will use special effects models."

This was Wayne's special instruction to Gilmore after he finished filming the dog scene with a cold face.

Time slowly came to the end of October, and the crew was busy and working step by step, completely ignoring all the news from the outside world and the rapidly changing weather. When the sparse snowflakes fell from the sky, everyone suddenly realized that the Big Apple City had officially entered the cold winter.

The crew members who were unaware of the situation were all wrapped in thick down jackets. Even the equipment used for filming was no exception. Cameras, lights and radios were also treated to prevent cold and frost.

"New York is like this, boss, I thought you would get used to it."

The sudden change in the weather made Wayne feel seriously uncomfortable. Nina watched him wrapped in a down jacket, clumsily checking the shooting preparations one by one, and teased him beside her.

"It's not the coldest time yet. Usually the winter in New York lasts from the end of October to May next year. Over a period of time, the temperature will drop directly to about minus 20 degrees."

Wayne frowned slightly when he heard the assistant lady's reminder. Fortunately, they, the behind-the-scenes workers, can take personal measures to keep warm at all times, but as the weather gets cooler, the main actors are destined to suffer.

Even for shots shot indoors, the current temperature may not be much warmer than outdoors. You must know that the costumes and props were not designed to keep warm at the beginning.

"Schwartz."

Thinking of this, Wayne immediately walked towards the assistant director in charge of the crew's logistics. "Be sure to keep the actors warm, and prepare down jackets and hot water bottles."

"No problem, boss."

Schwartz nodded. Since the weather started to change, he had made relevant preparations in advance. Not only had he prepared thermal supplies, but he had even assigned an additional intern assistant to each of the main actors.

Everyone can work hiding in thick cold-proof down jackets, but the main actors cannot. For example, in the scene that is about to start filming, Christian Bale and Charlie Sheen, the moment they take off their coats, they The two men were seen shivering on the monitor.

Batman's pure black armor can't provide any warmth at all, let alone Charlie Sheen in a light suit. Wayne is now particularly fortunate that the scenes these days have been shot indoors. If they were shot outdoors, it would be difficult to guarantee whether the actors would have a fever or get sick.

Shaking his head, he wore bulky clothes, walked quickly in front of the camera crew, and looked at the director of photography, Robert. "Is everything okay?"

"No problem, don't worry."

Roberto Carlos clenched his fist with one hand and hit his chest twice.

Whenever this kind of test of shooting equipment occurs, Wayne is worried about unexpected problems. In such a cold environment, especially for film and film cameras, it is a very risky test, and low temperature will have a negative impact on imaging. How much quality is affected will only be known after shooting.

Although all departments said that there was no problem and the filming could start at any time, he was still very uneasy and walked around again to confirm.

"Chris, Charlie, how are you feeling?"

Come to the two actors. "One final preparation, the shooting will officially start in five minutes."

"ok."

"No problem." Charlie Sheen, wearing a thin suit, smiled even though he was stamping his feet from the cold, and joked: "Chris and I have rehearsed in advance, Wayne, if you want us to feel better, then It’s best to just shout it once.”

"Hey, the quality of the shoot depends on both of you."

Wayne waved his hand and walked towards his director's seat. "If you want to suffer less, then give me your best performance."