"Guys, take your place...... ACTION！”

On the streets of San Francisco, under the bright summer sun, the video message "(500)-Days-of-Summer, FLAMES, DATE: 2005-8-12, DIRECTOR: YOUNG-ANGERAMAN: HARRY-GEORGE" and the scene information "SCENE:1, CUT:1;TAKE:1,ROLL:1-1" and detailed timecode on the electronic slate appear to shine, along with the "Da! The sound of the board and the director's shouting, "500 Days with Shamo" officially started filming!

August 5-11 has passed, the new film "Justice Vanguard" continued the decline of the weekend to end the first week of screening, 3785 theaters only 29.76 million box office, far from expectations, but now Warner Bros. is in a jubilant mood, with Magic Young, whether it is "Time to War" or "Justice Striker" will become "Firefly", no matter which box office poison Jessica Biel or Jessica Simpson will become Jessica Alba! You must know that the latter has had an average global box office of more than $500 million since 99 with 6 starring films.

This week is a good proof of the "magic halo", the big poison John Wu and Halle Berry Salted Fish turned over! "League of Assassins" was crowned the weekly champion after the weekend winner, with an average of $17,745 per theater in 3,105 theaters, and a total of 55.1 million North American box office, giving the Flames another summer crown.

Flame Movies released three movies this summer, all of which are blessed with the title of North American weekly champion, and "Firefly" is even more crazy about four!

With Wonder Young's injury, the Interstellar Cowboys continued their miraculous performance in the eighth week, taking advantage of the box office trend of -17%, with an average of $4,962 per theater in 2,650 theaters, and a crazy $13.15 million in total box office! The total box office in North America rose to 628.97 million, and after adjusting for inflation, it rose one place in the North American box office film history, surpassing "Ben Hur" (1959) to 13th place with a narrow margin accurate to 1,000 units, and approaching "The Empire Strikes Back" at 12th place (1980), the difference between the two was just over a million dollars.

In terms of overseas markets, excluding the Japanese box office, it failed to maintain the driving force of "Wang Yang is dying", and the box office trend returned to normal and fell by 65.3%, only collecting 10.6698 million, but the large box office warehouse in Japan continued to explode, "Firefly" collected another 35.69 million US dollars (4.016 billion yen) this week, with a slight box office trend of -27.69%, and the total box office in Japan rose to 85.05 million (9.569 billion yen)!

1,656.63 million at the global box office! That's the glorious result of "Firefly's 56 days on Earth"! It will continue to expand this box office number in the coming weeks and months.

This summer is still coming to an end, and this week there are four new films in the North American film market to join the final wave of offensive, including "Four Brothers", "Master Key", "Han Zhi Dancing Man 2", and "The Big Sneak Attack".

"ACTION!" Another SUMMER has just begun, the CUT on the clapperboard has gone from 1 to 2 to 3 and then to 36, the shooting work is going well on the morning of the first day of shooting, Wang Yang is injured and the ultra-fast operation does not seem to have any impact, of course, there has naturally been an NG situation in the process, it is now almost lunchtime, the highest record of TAKE is 7 times, if it is the bad boy version of Wang Yang who is hosting the set, some people have already been scolded to the point that the body is incomplete and traumatic.

"Hmm!Hmm!Hmm!Harry, fat man—where did he die?Remember to zoom when the camera is taken, Tom's eyes are the feeling that the whole world is only Shamo, you see?", "Shallow depth of field, push, push, I want a big close-up!", "CUT!NG, Natalie!", "Young, don't shout so loudly, pay attention to your head......"

Now the set is a fast and joyous atmosphere, like the main characters of "The Big Bang Theory" have arrived, they are the crew member and pistachio and pregnant Jessica, and the director has been disgraced by Juno, Dasama Natalie, the good old man Joseph Gordon Levitt is in charge of the funny, the crazy director with the forearm suspender, headband and ball cap, a big fat cinematographer with the ball, and a production assistant who will be stared at if he runs all over the venue...... Fortunately, the morning is not to shoot the scene after Tom's lovelorn, otherwise this is really not a suitable working atmosphere, Nancy Lino is holding a large stack of documents and pen and paper, standing next to Wang Yang and waiting for orders, this time she is not the assistant director of the other shooting teams in the crew of "500 Days with Shamo", but as the first assistant director, for her who has just graduated with a bachelor's degree, it is a great opportunity and qualifications, she looked at Wang Yang who raised the director's viewfinder with her left hand, and her heart was full of momentum.

"I've always said that the streetscape of San Francisco is beautiful......"

Through the viewfinder, Wang Yang's world in front of him is very cinematic, an antique tram in the distance slowly drove by, he suddenly remembered that he hadn't taken the tram for a long time, that period of time with "Shamo", they would often take the tram to come and go, the more antique and dilapidated the tram, the better, obviously the seat is not so comfortable, the environment is not so fresh, but he and "Shamo" like it very much...... Maybe she likes romance too, even if she says "boring, do more serious things", yes, at least some romance, maybe.

When filming the scene of Tom and Shamo riding the tram, will you find the feeling at that time? Putting down the viewfinder, Wang Yang looked at the fisherman's hat girl who was the first AD, Nancy handed him the pencil with a tacit understanding, and stopped in front of him with the drawing paper, Wang Yang grabbed the pen into a fist with the five fingers of his left hand, and asked with a smile: "Nancy, how do you feel?"

"It feels good. Nan looked at the staff walking around, the actors auditioning in the performance area, and the camera team next to him, and said with a smile: "The biggest difference is that the viewfinder is not in my hand." In fact, this is not the first time she has joined the film crew, she worked as an assistant director in "Juno" five years ago, and later worked as an assistant in films such as "Chainsaw".

"Here you go. Wang Yang put the pencil on his left ear, removed the viewfinder tied around his neck and handed it to her. Nancy snorted, took it directly and pointed it in front of her, and said with a smile while looking at the beautiful scenery: "It's not much different, it's just that there are more things, more tensions, more things and more changes, and the adaptability and control are very big." You've been a producer and director since you were 18 years old, and you've been making "Juno" at 20. ”

"It's a journey that I've been amazed by all of my own time, thank you all. Wang Yang couldn't help but think of the day when the filming of "Youth Singing and Dancing Youth" started, he was so excited and nervous, the director's work of the filming itself is not much different from school work, but the crew's various production affairs, departmental disputes, personnel incidents and other aspects are headaches, he patted Nancy on the shoulder: "Take your time, you have to behave well this time, and next time you lead the team to shoot." ”

Nancy's major is directing, and she can't work as an assistant for too long, because one of the most important tasks of the first assistant director is to co-ordinate, design the shooting schedule and specific arrangements, as for visual performance, composition design, those are just hands. If you are busy with these overall arrangements for a long time, the aura will gradually be lost, and the storyboard composition and montage rhythm will not improve, and you will become a gold medal AD, so it is better to look for directing opportunities such as music music videos and commercials, but if you are not familiar with the actual set rhythm and do not even have a clue about calculating the scene and shot time, it is not good.

"Thank you. Nancy smiled, knowing that he intended to cultivate herself, and she was grateful, she handed the viewfinder back to him, and seeing that there was no one left and right, she couldn't help but ask without hesitation: "Amazing Young, why are you so good to me?"

"I'm optimistic about you. Wang Yang shrugged his shoulders without thinking, looking at her heroic face, perhaps because he liked one of her personality traits very much, the kind of stubbornness she had with "Shamo" and Anne. The figure of this girl carrying a film projector in Park City really touched him, and she worked so hard, he smiled: "I am very optimistic about you! Think about it, when the first or first female best director of the Oscars accept the award, she will cry and say, 'Thank you Wang Yang, thank you Wang Yang', haha, cool!"

"Amazing Young, I'm afraid I'll disappoint you, if I get the Oscar, why should I cry?" Nancy smiled and pursed the corners of her mouth, but she would not forget the memory of the Sundance Film Festival that year, she munched bread in the tent, and suddenly cried, but now it is different, she thanked seriously: "I really want to say, thank you, I will work hard, and then shoot "The Story of Agen and Banana", I will win the Oscar!"

Hearing Agen and Banana, Wang Yang immediately raised his head and laughed, he finally left some "school motto" at USC, didn't he? He smiled: "Just call it "Forrest-Gun"! A short title will increase the chances of winning the award. Haha, yes! "500 Days with Sammo" doesn't have a chance. The two laughed a few times, and Wang Yang said solemnly: "I don't have anything to do here, you go to Harry's side to have a look, that fat man is now a master, you need to cultivate your own photographic sense, there are many skills, a lot of experience that the school does not have, you know? ”

At the beginning, he was running around every day to learn, but fortunately, Valley Pfister was good-natured and willing to teach him, and more importantly, he recognized his identity as a director and producer, so he grew up so fast.

"Okay!" Nancy nodded and walked over, Wang Yang continued to change a few directions to check the framing effect, and suddenly heard a gentle voice behind him: "HEY, dear, do you want to drink water?" He went back to look, only to see Jessica smiling with a bottle of mineral water, her eyes had a unique maternal look during pregnancy, blended with love, so that she could kill people with her eyes.

"Thank you then...... Wife. Wang Yang took the water bottle and drank the water, remembering that on the set of "Youth Singing and Dancing Youth", he still called her girlfriend, and now they are about to welcome their first child. Jessica, who finished handing the water, looked around, her eyes were like radar scans, and suddenly glared in one direction: "Joshua is lazy again!"

WANG YANG SMILED AND SAID TO HIMSELF "HAT-A-PRETTY-GIRL", JESSICA ALSO HAS A STUBBORNNESS, BUT SHE DOES NOT HAVE THE SLIGHTEST SHADOW OF "SHAMO", SHE IS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT TYPE, WHICH MAKES HIM FEEL VERY MUCH AND REALLY WANTS TO LOVE HER...... Very safe type, without the slightest distance, without the slightest care, without the slightest fight, she is cool, but not cool at all. In fact, men also need security, but often they don't understand women's security, especially in their youth.

"Actually, she's not that cool, she's not that personal, you know?"

In the performance area on the set, Wang Yang once again talked about the character's mentality, and Natalie, Joseph Gordon and Levitt all nodded their heads on the text of the script, "Actually, she is not that cool", "Actually, she is not as cool as you think", "In fact, you don't understand her heart" These are the most important mentalities of Tom and Shamo, and they are also the most important things that the two need to grasp, not only to grasp themselves, but also to grasp the love state between each other, and to grasp the distance between the two hearts.

The text story in the whole script is full of mentality and mentality changes, which must be what "500 Days with Shamo" looks like, Tom and Shamo from meeting, acquaintance, love, passion, sudden change, breakup, chance encounter, disillusionment, pain, cheer up, reunion and heart-to-heart, let go, the two have their own mentality and behavior at each stage, which leads to the dialogue and events of these mentality and changes, in general, the reasons for the impact.

"Well, she's not cool......" Natalie glanced up at Wang Yang and continued to listen to his infectious voice, he must have been very clear about "Shamo".

Strictly speaking, Tom and Shamo'......s relationship can't be considered boyfriend and girlfriend, because Shamo has been saying "I don't want us to be so serious, I don't want to be sure of any relationship" from the beginning, as if to say that I just want to have fun casually, don't put pressure on me, I'm in love with you, it's naturally OK! In fact, Shamo had been willing for a long time, since she told Tom something she would never tell anyone else. In this relationship, Shamo is not shallow in investing in this relationship than Tom, and she is even more nervous than him and attaches more importance to this relationship. After the two quarreled, in the middle of the night, Shamo, who did not wait for the phone call, took the initiative to go to Tom's residence to reconcile with him, if she was really so cool and despised the relationship, would she be?

Shamo had been waiting for Tom to say, "Would you like to be my girlfriend!?" and waited for him to say, "Would you like to marry me!?"

But she couldn't wait, when she watched "The Graduate" in the cinema, Shamo was moved to tears, but Tom said that it was just a movie, how could he not understand that what she wanted was courage! A Benjamin who dared to rush into the church to snatch the marriage and take the bride away and fly away! Could it be that Tom suddenly proposed when they were "in love", and Shamo would not agree? No, she would agree, maybe not so excited on the surface, but she would be very, very happy.

Shamo is a woman with a tough appearance and a literary heart, she is both a cool girl and a sensual girl, she is not only a so-called girl who does not believe in fate and marriage and love, but also a girl who can flash marriage and pregnancy.

"You know? She's actually a girl. Wang Yang said, looking at Natalie who was in a trance, and the voice of "Shamo" faintly sounded in his ears: "I'm not as cool as you think, I've never been! Do you understand? When you went to USC, I was angry, I was sad, but I waited for you, an hour, a day, a week, a month, I waited for your call, what did you give me? I cried for months! Goodbye! Yang. ”

(To be continued)