Chapter 18: The Beginning of a Director's Career

On January 6, 1977, Wang Jie rushed to Alabama with only his bodyguard, Matthew Clark, and the old butler Jim had to deal with the treasures and antiques he had brought back. After arriving at the filming site, Wang Jie met Spielberg first, and repeatedly promised to only learn from the side and never add any trouble to the crew.

During filming in Alabama, Wang Jie accompanied the film crew not only suffered from hurricane weather, but also suffered from Steven Spielberg's roar and command like other employees. Fortunately, Wang Jie's "Thirteen Taibao Heng Lian" Meat Refining Realm has entered the late stage, and his energy and physical strength are far better than those of ordinary adult men, so he persevered.

Spielberg also sincerely admired this big boy for persevering, and Wang Jie was born in a famous Jewish family after all, so he took good care of him, and he also taught Wang Jie about his problems in directing. In fact, Wang Jie is also a little proficient in film shooting, in order to assassinate the great director Mill Abbott in the last life, he stayed in the crew of "Interstellar Time and Space" for eleven months, during which almost all the work behind the scenes of the movie was done, and finally killed Mill Abbott in the editing room. However, in the previous life, technology was more advanced, there was almost no live shooting, and the director's workload was greatly reduced.

The filmings of "Contact of the Third Kind" included Warner Bros. Studios 15 and 16, the Devil's Tower National Monument, an abandoned World War II hangar, and a railroad warehouse, which was six times the size of the world's largest soundstage at the time.

The visual effects of "The Third Kind of Contact" were undertaken by Industrial Light & Magic, and Douglas Trumb, who served as the VFX supervisor, tried to explore motion control photography in the film, because the film was an anamorphic widescreen film, so in order to better adapt to 35mm film, the film crew chose to use 70mm film to shoot VFX pictures. Because CGI technology, a new technology in the 70s, was too expensive, Wang Jie did not adopt it when he proposed it.

Wang Jie followed the crew for more than a month before leaving on February 11, the day of the Chinese New Year, and he wanted to lead his family to Xiangjiang to spend the Chinese New Year like last year.

On Thursday, February 17, the weather was fine, Wang Jie's villa in the mid-mountain area of Xiangjiang had already been lit up and lively, and the ten girls who had jumped up and raised their heads had long since lost their strangeness and curiosity from last year, and had already dressed up and prepared for Chinese New Year's Eve.

Wang Jie met with Mecca, Huang Baiming, Shi Tian, Cheng Long, Shi Nansheng, and Le Yiling from DreamWorks in the guest room of the side hall.

Shi Nansheng and Le Yiling first reported the company's total income and various expenditures in the previous year, and then Mecca, Huang Baiming, Shi Tian, and Cheng Long talked about the films they were responsible for in the past few months and the relevant situation of their subordinate departments.

After all the questions were generally discussed, Wang Jie said: "After the Spring Festival, I want to try to make a movie, this time the producer will be handed over to Le Yiling, I need a few more outstanding actors, I will give you a copy of the role requirements later, you go to Jiayi TV to help me see if there is a suitable one, help me sign it." โ€

Le Yiling nodded in agreement, and Wang Jie continued: "Shi Tian, your economic company signed two people over, don't be afraid to spend money, one is Lin Qingxia from Bay Island, and the other is Zhang Guorong from Li's TV station." When you go to Bay Island, find another one named Hu Huizhong and sign her as well. โ€

Cheng Long raised his head suddenly when he heard Lin Qingxia's name, Wang Jie glared at him angrily, and warned: "Cheng Long, when Lin Qingxia comes, don't harass her anymore, your marriage is not on her." โ€

Others couldn't help but smile, Cheng Long is well-known in the company for being lustful, but fortunately, he takes movies very seriously, and the recently released "Drunken Fist" has made Cheng Long popular all over Xiangjiang.

Wang Jie's next movie is called "Sword Rain", that's right, it is the work of Wu Baige, which was complained about by countless people in later generations, Wang Jie is going to practice with Xiangjiang movies first, and it won't cost much anyway. Although "Rain of Swords" is a bit rotten in later generations, it is still relatively advanced and amazing when it comes to the present.

Everyone has a very happy Spring Festival this year, except for Wang Jie himself, it has been more than seven years since he came to this era, but Wang Jie always feels a little out of place, he is like a spectator of the world, understanding all the development contexts but not producing surprises that make the tide, so directing some film and television works is the beginning of his attempt to integrate into this world.

Entering March, Wang Jie has also set up the crew, and the main staff behind the scenes are all from Jiayi TV, since the establishment of DreamWorks, it has been very close to Jiayi TV, and several films made by DreamWorks in the past are basically used in front of and behind the scenes of Jiayi, who has made Jiayi work in the past year.

Wang Jie is looking for Zeng Jing's actor of course Lin Qingxia, to be honest, the reason why Lin Qingxia wants to accept DreamWorks' invitation to come to Hong Kong to develop, in addition to escaping emotional problems, there are also transformation considerations, DreamWorks has been selling in Hong Kong, RB, South Korea, Bay Island and Southeast Asia for more than a year, it can be said that it is out of the limelight, plus the background is strong, when Shi Tian found Lin Qingxia, she only hesitated for a moment and agreed, as for Hu Huizhong, who came with her, immediately agreed as soon as he heard that it was DreamWorks invited, after all, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Bay Island's movies are beginning to declineใ€‚ The role of drizzle was given to Guan Zhilin, this is the relationship between Guan Shan and Le Yiling, after all, they have worked together, Wang Jie agreed after thinking about it, and asked Shi Tian to sign her agency contract. Lu Zhu is looking for Wu Weiguo, the master of Jiayi, Zheng Yuling, the actor of Kongtong Qingjian, Ye Feiqing directly gave Hu Huizhong, Lei Bin found Zhong Zhengtao, who is still singing, to play, Tian Qingtong found Mi Xue, the color actor gave the rope to Zeng Zhiwei, who had just signed into DreamWorks, and Li Guishou directly used Shi Tian, anyway, there were not a few scenes. As for the villain Wheel King, Wang Jie repeatedly considered finding the old drama bone Zeng Jiang, Zhang Renfeng directly used Dong Wei to play it, and Dong Wei also served as the action director, Jiang Asheng was played by Zhang Guorong, Wang Jie also designated Zhang Guorong to sing the theme song "Sword Rain Floating Life", which made Zhang Guorong, who loves music, happy. Cai Po simply let Le Yiling make a cameo. The idiot abbot Wang Jie gave Mecca a some spoof, it just so happened that he was bald, as long as he painted some old clothes.

On March 5, 1977, "Rain of Swords" officially started filming at Tiu Keng Ling DreamWorks Studios, at this time, after nearly a year of construction, the studio has already built a large number of ancient buildings, at the beginning of the year, Wang Jie asked the housekeeper Lao Jim to purchase 60 hectares of land in the immediate vicinity, in order to further expand the scale of the studio.