Chapter 60: The Finale
Li Ping'an didn't want to let the public and the media know that he and Audrey Hepburn were filming too early, because he didn't want to be disturbed by the outside world during filming, so the filming was carried out very secretly, and all the staff of "Ghost Love" were required to keep it strictly confidential.
But there are many people, there is no impermeable wall in the world, especially those extras, there must be people who are willing to sell this news to relevant entertainment reporters.
"Tom and Jerry, stop staring at Ms. Hepburn, and move these clay pots over and put them away. Xu Anhua, as Li Ping'an's assistant and assistant director, commanded the staff to hurry up the set.
"Okay, that's it. "The two prop masters got busy.
It's no wonder that the male staff is like this, the main thing is that Audrey Hepburn is dressed too charmingly now. She was wearing a pair of panties on the lower half of her body at this time, and a long men's shirt on the top, the hem of the shirt covered her hips, looming as if she was wearing nothing underneath.
Li Ping'an was wearing a pair of jeans, wearing nothing on his upper body, revealing his strong muscles.
As a Western-themed romance film, "People and Ghosts Are Not Loved" is naturally indispensable for intimate and lingering shots, and from time to time a hot kiss and hug is not counted, the scene where the hero and heroine make pottery together is filmed immediately, and the two have to kiss for two or three minutes.
Audrey Hepburn smiled affectionately at Li Ping'an, just now the two filmed a bed scene in another room, although it was just a hug and caress, but it still made Hepburn, who had regained his youth and fell in love, a little embarrassed and shy.
In fact, Hepburn had never made such a large-scale film before.
Li Ping'an walked to the center of the room and put a record into the record player, which was the "U" that Li Ping'an had personally sung and recorded two days ago
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Ed Melody appears several times in the film, and every time the music sounds, it further sublimates the feelings of the hero and heroine.
On the other side, a Chinese potter was explaining the basics of pottery to Hepburn, and he quickly pulled out the adobe of a clay pot with porcelain clay, and then gave up his place.
"All personnel, start burying their positions!" Xu Anhua began to command loudly, under normal circumstances, Li Ping'an has handed over the directing power to the fledgling Xu Anhua, Li Ping'an hopes that Xu Anhua can grow up as soon as possible. In Hollywood, it is difficult for Chinese actors to get ahead, after all, skin color is a hurdle that cannot be overcome, but the directors and other staff behind the scenes, as long as they are given the opportunity and are talented, they can stand firm, Li Ping'an wants to cultivate his own Chinese team.
Audrey Hepburn sat in front of the pottery turntable, scooped water on the soil with her hands, and then stretched out her fingers to carefully pull the blank, looking like a professional potter.
With Audrey's movements, a soulful singing voice came from the record player:
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God speed you
love to me, God give me your love
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"Wait fo
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I am waiting for me and I am about to go home
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God speed you
love to me, God give me your love
To me - Your love for me
Sam, played by Li Ping'an, walked out of the bedroom, "What are you doing?"
Hepburn's Meili glanced back at him, still holding the pottery embryo with her hands, "I can't sleep." β
"I must have fallen asleep. Li Ping'an yawned, "What time is it?"
"Two o'clock in the morning. β
Li Ping'an sat down behind He and reached out to pinch her waist. Hepburn couldn't bear the itch, and pushed his hand away with a smile, Li Ping'an reached out to get the pottery embryo again, and turned a molded pottery embryo into a lump of mud.
"Oh no, I hope it's not your work. Li Ping'an smiled softly.
"Not anymore. Hepburn looked at Li Ping'an affectionately.
"I can help you. Li Ping'an stepped forward, and the camera began to focus on the two people.
Hepburn took Li Ping'an's hand, the two hugged each other and interlocked their fingers, and soon kissed.
When filming movies and television, the general kiss shots are misplaced, and even if it is a wet kiss, the man and woman only make a wet kiss with their lips.
If the actor dares to put his tongue into the woman's mouth, this is against the principle, and the actress can directly slap her face and leave. Of course, there are also some perverted directors who, in order to be realistic, order the actors to do a full set, or some male actors take the opportunity to eat the tofu of the new actress by relying on their own coffee position.
Li Ping'an and Hepburn are bathing in love, naturally kissing each other, everything is so natural.
Li Ping'an kissed and hugged Hepburn, and Hepburn naturally hooked his neck and crossed his legs around his waist.
In the unrestrained melody, three cameras move around the two men to shoot.
Li Ping'an hugged Audrey Hepburn while kissing and walked to the bedroom, and the camera behind followed up in time, and another camera in the bedroom also started shooting.
Li Ping'an put Audrey on the bed with Audrey pressing Hepburn, and the two seemed to be a little forgetful, still lingering passionately.
"Ka!" Xu Anhua suddenly called out to stop. Li Ping'an and Audrey Hepburn came to their senses at this time, and the two hurriedly separated, Audrey Hepburn's face turned red, and she reached out and pinched Li Ping'an's waist covertly.
Li Ping'an was also a little embarrassed, so he had to start looking at the footage he had just taken to divert his attention.
After a week of filming, the crew has moved to Sydney to continue filming, and the news of Audrey Hepburn's return has finally leaked out.
At first, it was just a tabloid in Los Angeles that reported the news, and it didn't attract everyone's attention, and they thought it was fake news fabricated out of thin air. But the next day, the Los Angeles Times, one of the three major newspapers in the United States owned by Li Ping'an, actually published stills of "People and Ghosts Are Not Gone" on the front page of the entertainment section, which immediately detonated Hollywood public opinion.
All major Hollywood media outlets sent reporters to Sydney, and the sensation caused by the World Dancing King and Eternal Angel actually co-produced a movie completely overshadowed any news.
Li Ping'an didn't mind too much about this, the news would spread sooner or later, so Li Ping'an instructed the "Los Angeles Times" to publish the news of the shooting. As for whether these reporters will affect the filming, the more than 100 Blackwater International security guards around the crew are not given for nothing.
Now an ordinary crew member of "Ghost Love", after being known to be involved in the filming, he will be stopped by reporters who come to hear the news, wanting to find out some details.
If it was just a big-name Hollywood director who invited Audrey Hepburn to film, maybe the media reporters would just come over to join in the fun, after all, Hepburn has been out of film for many years, but the actor who can't stand it is Li Ping'an, the world dance king who is in full swing.
Li Ping'an found Lu Yanying to play the role of a female psychic, who will be mixed in the major horror and supernatural films in Xiangjiang in the future, which can be called the childhood shadow of his friends. As for the original version of Whoopi Goldberg, he is only in his twenties now, not to mention how his acting skills are now, but he doesn't know where Li Ping'an lives.
Inviting Lu Yanying and Li Ping'an is a certain risk, after all, the original Whoopi Goldberg is too classic. After the start of filming, Li Ping'an found that his worries were a little redundant, although Lu Yanying did not perform Whoopi Goldberg's slightly funny character, but her solid skills made the psychic perform another slightly weird style, no less than the original version.
The filming is gradually coming to an end, and here, there are more and more places that need to be used for special effects, and various wall penetrations and lighting effects lenses have slowed down the progress of the whole film, and George Lucas also rushed to Sydney to direct the special effects production.
According to the methods of industrial light and magic special effects artists, the same shot can be shot two or three times to convey that meaning, but the special effects that come out of this are very rubbish. A two-second action through the wall, if you want to achieve a realistic and smooth effect, at least seven or eight times to repeatedly compare and shoot, and sometimes even more than ten, dozens, hundreds of thousands of times, and then use the film of these lenses to edit and stitch through the method of optical printing, to achieve the effect of being fake and real, after all, computer technology is not developed now, and this stupid method can only be used. As a result, whether it is an ordinary staff member, a director, or an actor, the workload has been greatly increased. Fortunately, there are not too many such shots, otherwise at the current rate, it would have to be shot at least until the end of the year. Even so, it will take at least half a year to finish filming this drama.
Fortunately, after these special effects shots are shot, they can be used for basic post-production immediately, which greatly shortens the post-production time.
In the era when computer technology was not developed, playing special effects was really not something that ordinary people could do. "Ghost Love" still has only a few special effects shots, like "Star Wars", which is still in theaters, and it took two years to shoot in the early and late stages. Even with computers, special effects movies are also things that burn money and time, and later Cameron filmed "Avatar", which took nearly ten years from planning to completion.
Li Ping'an and George Lucas brought several special effects artists, photographers and other staff members of Industrial Light & Magic to the Sydney subway station, and the most troublesome special effects of the whole play are here, requiring Li Ping'an to penetrate and exit from the rushing subway. Now all he can do is jump around on the empty railway, and then jump on the wall inside the subway, and then he doesn't need to come in person, he can let Xu Anhua take the camera crew, and the special effects artist can use the made Li Ping'an's stand-in model to put on clothes and hit the stationary subway, and then shoot the picture of the subway running, and finally use three different lenses to put together through special methods.
It was a huge amount of work, less than ten seconds of footage, and it took at least two or three months to complete the final shot, but fortunately he didn't have to do it himself, and he could do it in parallel with other shoots.
The last scene to be filmed is a plot in which the male protagonist communicates with the female protagonist through the body of a psychic. Of course, it is still Li Ping'an who is displayed in front of the audience.
In the end of this scene, Li Ping'an and Audrey Hepburn did not have a single line, and expressed their emotions entirely through their eyes, expressions and body movements, which required a lot of requirements for the actors. After filming repeatedly for nearly two hours, when Xu Anhua shouted "click", Li Ping'an and Audrey Hepburn, who were staring together affectionately, finally separated, and all the crew cheered, "Ghost Love" was finally completed, and the rest was post-production, George Lucas said that it could be released before Christmas.
On the same day, Li Ping'an and Audrey Hepburn returned to Xiangjiang, because Lin Fengjiao was about to give birth.