Seven Hundred and Thirty-Three-Transition
Hollywood Drawing Los Angeles 1990733 - Transition "The fireworks team is already preparing on the set outside London. Wayne, you'd better speed up your work in Italy. There are too many things waiting for you to deal with. Moreover, for the release time Come on..."
Wayne leaned against the bedside with his mobile phone, listening to Bruce Rosenblum's chatter on the other end of the phone. He reached for the cigarettes on the bedside table with one hand, took one out and held it in his mouth, then reached for the lighter with difficulty again.
The always white and slender arm appeared in front of him, picked up the lighter and clicked it, lit it and placed it in front of his cigarette.
Glancing at Monica Bellucci, who was still in a dazed state, Wayne moved the cigarette in his mouth slightly forward, took a hard sip, and at the same time nodded to the naked woman and muttered:
"Thank you, God, you're so beautiful Monica."
"Ha~" Monica Bellucci covered her mouth with one hand and yawned. "You are welcome."
"Hey, Wayne, thank you? I was talking to you...uh..." Bruce Rosenblum's confused voice came from the phone, and then he seemed to think of something, He stopped mid-sentence for a moment. "Aha, by calling you so early, am I disturbing your nature?"
"F**k, let's continue talking about business." With difficulty, his eyes left Monica Bellucci's upper body. Wayne squinted his eyes and stared at the sunlight coming in from the window. Dazzling, dazzling, refreshing.
"Bruce, the pyrotechnics team at Warner Bros., um..." After pondering for a moment, he continued: "What I need is to restore the battlefield scenes of World War II as much as possible, so in "Wonder Woman", There will never be any exaggerated explosion effects just for the sake of visual impact. I will ask John to communicate with them again."
On the phone, Bruce Rosenblum replied cheerfully: "Of course, Warner Bros. will give the pyrotechnics team enough support."
Until now, Wayne has not had his own pyrotechnics team on his team. This is related to the type of movies he has shot before, which basically involve small-scale explosion scenes, all using pyrotechnics teams from Warner Bros.
You know, although the primary purpose of explosives used in filming is for visual effects, they are, after all, extremely dangerous items and occupations.
Therefore, even if he did not have a professional pyrotechnician or pyrotechnics team, Wayne was not willing to just recruit a group of people to form one. This thing is so professional that if you don't play it well, it will cause a big accident. In addition, there are not many explosion scenes in his films, so he simply always uses the professional team within Warner Bros.
Precisely in the film "Wonder Woman", there are a lot of shots of World War II battlefield scenes. Not surprisingly, Warner Bros.'s pyrotechnics team has rushed to the Warner Studios outside London to prepare.
Due to Wayne's requirement to restore the real World War II battlefield as much as possible, this requires the pyrotechnics team to conduct continuous experiments to find more suitable blasting effects and explosive ratios, which will inevitably require the strong support of Warner Brothers.
"Warner Bros.'s branch in the UK has thoroughly coordinated with the London City Government to support the crew's filming and has signed a contract."
Bruce Rosenblum continued to communicate with Wayne about the filming arrangements over the phone. “The two most important points are all taken care of. When you take the crew to experience London, the World War II weaponry and equipment required for filming will be loaned from the London Military Museum, including the tanks you specified.
And most importantly, the London City Government has already contacted you. When you need it, the UK will send a force of about 600 people to assist you with relevant shooting and framing work..."
Listening to the arrangements coming over the phone, Wayne stared at the sunlight coming through the curtains and nodded with satisfaction.
In fact, neither the military nor the old World War II weapons and equipment, or even the imitable World War II era blasting methods, are the protagonists of this movie.
This "Wonder Woman" has only one protagonist, and that is Diana Prince. Considering Wayne's current global popularity and the attention Warner Bros. attaches to him, when he proposed that he wanted to restore the truth as much as possible, he still got the final decision. Good cooperation.
Even though Warner Bros. knew very well that these preparations, which cost a lot of manpower and material resources, as well as related favors, were just backgrounds in some films, no one dared to ignore his requests.
"Wayne, the British government provided a lot of conveniences to the crew, including the police force helping to clear the scene and close the streets when it was necessary to shoot city scenes."
Listening to Bruce Rosenblum's words on the phone, Wayne began to feel a little hesitant. Wayne knew that the local municipal government was definitely not providing these convenient services unconditionally.
He didn't mind at all. Exchange of equal value was the norm, so he directly faced the phone receiver and asked: "Tell me, what do they want the crew to do?"
"The city government and the British representatives have two requirements." Seeing that Wayne was not unhappy, Bruce Rosenblum continued: "First, all the low-level handymen, assistants, and various related temporary workers on the crew , all must be hired locally.”
Holding up the mobile phone and nodding silently, Wayne was not surprised.
You know, when the crew arrives at the set outside London and meets the team there, there will probably be at least close to 300 people. And this does not include the handymen and temporary workers who need to be hired temporarily, as well as the extras that need to be hired locally, and the troops provided by the British government.
To ensure the livelihood of so many people, just three meals a day can provide countless benefits to the local area. There are also those staff who need to be hired locally. I don’t know how many jobs can be created virtually.
"The second point is that they don't want to show "bad" scenes of Britain in your film. You know, they need to let movie fans around the world see their gentlemanly side. As for the rest, then... ..”
"Okay, I understand, this is not a realistic World War II film, don't worry." Wayne smiled knowingly. He had already thought that the realistic scenes in "Saving Private Ryan" made many sensitive people aware of the film's How huge is the influence?
Especially when a film is marketed around the world, many countries cannot accept it, let alone deliberately smearing it, even if it truly restores the historical and ecological scenes of the year.
As for the Empire on which the sun never sets, everyone knows what the so-called gentlemanly spirit is all about. Hidden under that gentleman's face are valuable qualities such as plunder, colonization, weakness, bullying, and fear of the strong. At this point, all that is left of the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets is the "gentleman" character derived from the ancient tradition.
"So, you don't have enough time." At the end of the conversation, Bruce Rosenblum finally warned: "It's best to speed up your actions. "Superman" still has the opportunity to choose a release date. "Wonder Woman" has not had this kind of flexible choice since the day the project was established."
"I understand. I will speed up my work in Italy. Let's do this for now. If anything happens, you can call me at any time."
Just before Wayne was about to hang up the phone, he seemed to suddenly think of something and joked into the phone again: "Bruce, I hope you can call the work number in Nina's hand next time. In that case, I will be very grateful to you and to me." Respect for private life.”
"Aha, ok, you continue to enjoy."
After hanging up the phone, Wayne threw the phone on the bedside table, leaned on the bedside with a cigarette in his mouth and began to think.
Bruce Rosenblum is right to remind him that he really doesn't have enough time at all. Not to mention the "Superman" that is still waiting for us, even the "Wonder Woman" that is currently being filmed will be quite challenging to complete before May next year.
Yes, other films still have the opportunity to choose their release time, but "Wonder Woman" does not. Because of past years, fans have become accustomed to seeing the DC superhero movies produced by Greenberg at the beginning of the summer season.
He cannot easily break the brand effect established over many years and the viewing habits of movie fans.
Therefore, when the film "Wonder Woman" was first proposed, Warner Bros. had already announced the release date. Mid-May is the traditional release date for Wayne's works.
As a director and film with the most brand effect under Warner Bros., no one will tolerate unexpected delays or delays, including Wayne himself.
"Honey, do you want me to accompany you?"
After seeing Wayne answer the phone and glance at the time, he immediately lifted the quilt and got out of bed and walked towards the bathroom. Monica Bellucci tilted her head and asked in a low voice.
"No, taking a shower with you will definitely delay today's work. God, you don't know how beautiful you are." Wayne shook his head with a smile, opened the bathroom door and walked in. After a while, the sound of bathing came from inside.
For Monica Bellucci, she was not dazzled by the man's compliments at all, especially after glancing at Angelina Jolie who was still sleeping.
This man can only talk about it, but in fact only two women understand that the more beautiful and sexy they are in front of him, the more they will be treated roughly.
But it's all your own choice. At least choosing this young, handsome, reputable man is better than accompanying those old perverts with big bellies, and you may not get anything in return.
"Help wake up our "Wonder Woman" and tell her that if she is late, I will ask her to apologize to the entire team of 200 staff in person."
In less than ten minutes, Wayne wiped his hair and walked out of the bathroom. Throwing away the towel on her head, she picked up the Siku prepared by Nina and put it on her body. She didn't care about Angelina Jolie who was still sleeping. She just pointed at Monica Bellew before going out. strange.
"A heartless man, isn't he?"
Covering her mouth and letting out a big yawn, Angelina Jolie reluctantly lifted the quilt and walked towards the bathroom under the gaze of another woman. Obviously, she didn't want to get any response from the Italian woman.
Looking at this hot American girl, Monica Bellucci's eyes slowly narrowed. Thinking of the craziness last night, she still clearly remembered how playful and open-minded this woman was.
"First Evolution"
Especially on the opponent's back, the traces of bruises and beatings were very obvious. But she didn't look down on the other person at all, and she didn't have any feelings of contempt at all. She knew better than anyone else that there was no difference between herself and this woman here.
And relatively speaking, this woman is more ruthless than herself, and she is more eager to pursue her goals.
Another day of boring and piecemeal filming began. It only took the entire crew just over a week, but the passion among the staff had gradually faded away. But this also means that everyone switched from vacation status to work status in the shortest possible time.
The reason why Wayne was confident that he could complete such a huge and complex project in just over half a year was because of this mature behind-the-scenes team. The source of his confidence is this group of teams that skip the running-in state and directly enter a tacit working state.
The big action scene on the beach is coming to an end. Thanks to the hard work of the action stunt team, the large-scale, multi-person war scene has ended. Now there are only a few action scenes of the male and female protagonists left.
However, when filming these scenes, everyone discovered a situation. The action supervisor who temporarily directed the filming could not move the two male and female protagonists!
At first no one noticed anything special. After all, in this crew, in addition to the number one power beast Wayne, the male and female protagonists are also among the top important figures. Even to a certain extent, Angelina Jolie and Matt Damon are more important than several assistant directors.
This is the most common situation in Hollywood. In order to reflect their status in the crew and to reflect the harsh class in the Hollywood crew, it is normal for the male and female protagonists to look at people with white eyes.
But when the morning was about to pass, not even a complete shot was taken, which was very abnormal. So slowly, the staff also discovered that there was no other reason. It was simply that in the eyes of the male and female protagonists, the action supervisor, as the temporary commander, had no right to command them unscrupulously.
"Dear Ms. Julie, Mr. Damon, can you also share with me what happened to you that made you so happy that you needed to laugh!"
Originally, when this happened, the producer should have stepped in to control the scene. But when Nina reported the situation to Wayne, who was making shooting plans in the director's trailer, he appeared directly on the scene.
With his cold and robot-like face, his emotionless questions, and the way Wayne stood next to the action director, everyone immediately shrank, including the male and female protagonists who were smiling just now.
"Eon, answer me, Ms. Julie."
Wayne unceremoniously stretched out a finger and tapped Angelina Jolie's forehead directly. This action was actually quite insulting, but no one, including Angelina Jolie herself, dared to refute it at this time.
"Answer me, you and the newly rescued Steve were hiding behind the rocks and watching your tribe fight for you, and watching your tribe fight with outsiders. Why were you able to laugh!?"
Looking at the man's fingers so close and his face without any emotion at all, Angelina Jolie said in a nagging voice: "Sorry, Wayne."
"Sorry, Director Greenberg..." Matt Damon shrugged and whispered together.
"Gentlemen and ladies, I think you have mistaken the person to whom you should apologize!" With that said, Wayne took two steps back, leaving the somewhat bewildered action director where he was.
Angelina Jolie and Matt Damon looked at each other, and they both understood the meaning in each other's eyes. In fact, they had no idea that when the crew was about to complete their scene on the beach, Wayne would step out and help control the scene.
"Sorry, Thompson."
"Sorry, Thompson."
Without any hesitation, the two of them nodded to the action supervisor in front of them and expressed their apologies.
"Continue shooting. We will rush to the next location the day after tomorrow at the latest." Seeing the action supervisor take over their apology, Wayne waved his hand and said to the surrounding staff.
As he finished speaking, the scene seemed to suddenly come alive. All the staff lowered their heads and made preparations for shooting.
No one thought that the male and female protagonists had lost face when they bowed to the action supervisor, because including the two star actors who had just apologized, they knew in their hearts that this was Wayne's crew, this was Wayne's territory, and Wayne was the one in the crew. The only tyrant who doesn't have to abide by the rules, no one is willing to challenge his authority easily.
Even John Gray, who is a producer, still can't do it, unless someone wants to be kicked out, and then there is a high probability that they will never find a job.
"Boss, you know better than anyone else that doing this doesn't make much sense at all."
After returning to the trailer, Nina saw Wayne rubbing his forehead, opening the director's notebook again and starting to write and draw, and said softly: "They are the male and female protagonists, and they are the most important beings in this crew. , even if you ask them to apologize, it won't change this fact."
"It can make the shooting go smoothly for at least two days!"
This is a common phenomenon in Hollywood, and Wayne is certainly aware of it. Not to mention Angelina Jolie and Matt Damon, even within their own behind-the-scenes team, the hierarchy is still very clear. Just like when Wayne is away, the camera supervisor is the undisputed heart of the team.
My importance and power are greater than yours, so I will naturally look down on you, unless one day you surpass me in importance and power. This is Chi Luoluo's law of the jungle.
After two weeks of continuous filming, the beach finally returned to quiet, leaving only the slightest trace of trampling by horses and staff.
The huge motorcade of the film crew was on the road again, heading towards the next location, Castello di Monte in Puglia, southeastern Italy. Along with the crew, in addition to Monica Bellucci who was sitting in the director's car, there was also a young actor named Amanda Seyfried who had just arrived from North America.
The young actor arrived very timely. In Wayne's shooting plan, a large number of childhood scenes of Diana Prince will be shot at the Monte Castle. The scene where Diana Prince obtains the Excalibur and other items before leaving Paradise Island will also be shot in this castle.