Charlize Theron returned to Los Angeles, and Cheng Xiaoyu contacted a CAA manager through Justin Bieber's manager, and Charlize Theron went back to sign the contract. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Cheng Xiaoyu came directly to McAbee Beach in Monterey, it has been more than a month since the last time he came, although he often observes the situation here through video, he is still shocked by the scene in front of him.

In just over three months, this deserted rocky beach has been built as a small city-sized photo stage, including a complete infrastructure and multiple studios.

Yi Yunfei and Peter Lamont, who have lost a lot of weight, accompanied Cheng Xiaoyu to visit the construction progress of the entire set.

Peter Lamont is a tall, black-haired white man, rarely in his forties and still shaved his beard to work in film, he is the golden sign that Cheng Xiaoyu finally invited from "Universal".

The two of them have seen each other many times, especially on the Internet, after shaking hands, the group of people wearing safety helmets on this huge construction site, everywhere busy workers, there are forklifts, trucks and workers wearing yellow safety helmets and oil-stained overalls walking past them.

The roar and cacophony of machines echoed here, with thousands of workers and hundreds of motor vehicles working at the same time.

Peter Lamont proudly pointed to a huge cube and said, "Mr. Cheng, we have created two huge water tanks through blasting, one that can hold 64 million liters of water, and it contains a realistic reconstruction model of the Titanic. This model can be rotated 270 degrees. ”

Then he pointed to another smaller one and said, "This one has a capacity of 22 million liters, and it has a luxurious interior decoration for the first class." Although the model in the large tank was made to scale, some compromises had to be made. For example, the lifeboat and chimney were reduced by a tenth. Part of the deck facilities was omitted, as was one foredeck........ The lifeboat deck and the main deck are both movie stages, and the rest of the deck is made of steel, with devices that allow the model to tilt when filming the sinking scene. ”

Cheng Xiaoyu and Peter Lamont sat on the elevator to observe the entire huge prop installation.

Next to the huge tank at the moment there is a 50-meter-high crane that can walk on a 120-meter-long track. The crane was used not only as a construction tool for model building, but also for lighting and photography during filming.

In Cheng Xiaoyu's memory, these beautiful and magnificent props were dismantled immediately after the filming of the relevant shots were completed, and they were exchanged for money to supplement the shooting funds, which is a huge waste in Cheng Xiaoyu's opinion.

But helplessly, Cameron was so poor at that time, according to the consumption level at that time, he was able to spend only 250 million to make this movie, which was really amazing, but Cheng Xiaoyu had no concerns about this.

Konstantin's 200 million investment actually does not ask for dividends, his request is just to legalize this part of the income, and these accounts will also be settled overseas at that time, and will not be carried out in the United States.

Then I went into several studios with green screens, all of which were individually cut out scenes, such as the bow of the ship and some interior scenes, all of which were carefully carved and highly restored sets.

In the end, they came to the "Titanic", which had been formed and was only waiting to be painted, where a Southampton port was almost rebuilt, Yi Yunfei looked at the magnificent ship and sighed: "This is making a movie, this is simply burning money!"

Although he sees it every day, Yi Yunfei still sighs for money and human power.

Cheng Xiaoyu felt even more shocked, and the excitement in his heart was even more indescribable, as if he had gone back in time.

This is a large ship exactly the same size as the original Titanic, and unlike the one Cameron repaired, Cameron actually only repaired half of the one facing the camera, and the size is slightly smaller, because a little smaller can save millions of dollars.

But Cheng Xiaoyu is a complete replica, not only built the entire ship, but in the future it will not be brutally demolished, but converted into a hotel, welcoming tourists from all over the world to pay tribute to and remember this great movie and the love lost in the movie.

Cheng Xiaoyu couldn't wait to go up and see this ship that belonged to him.

Yi Yunfei called the Chinese engineer in charge of the construction of the ship, and a group of people boarded the big ship that was about to set sail under the leadership of the construction engineer, the interior of the hull was still being decorated, and those luxurious homes and lamps were on the way to be transported, which was full of messy circuits, various brackets waiting to be welded, as well as gypsum boards and wooden boards.

The Chinese engineer took Cheng Xiaoyu and they visited a model house that had been renovated, luxurious and extravagant, completely reproducing the European style of that era.

On deck, Peter Lamont said, "The ship will be almost finished with paint next month, and the interior will be finished..... after a pause, and then he joked: "Fortunately, you didn't ask for two reciprocating steam engines......

For Peter Lamont, this is also a life experience worth writing about, and no matter what the film is, these "props" are irrefutable epics, they reproduce the greatest artifacts of the era, the milestones of nautical technology, even the people of Hanand Wolf Shipyard and White Star Shipping came to see it and exclaimed in amazement.

Cheng Xiaoyu stood on the wide deck as large as a football field, and he was also in high spirits, at this moment he was like seeing the real ship hanging on the deck of the White Star Cruise Line in April 1912, although this achievement came from memory, it was also impeccable, you must know that he paid countless money and energy for this, just copying those memories of the paintings consumed a lot of patience.

At this moment, the ship is three-dimensional in front of his eyes, he is speechless with the warm and humid sea breeze, when he is neon, he is thinking about making this movie, he has been imagining what it will be like for him to walk on the deck of the ship, and suddenly, he is already standing on it, and the feeling cannot be described.

At this time, he wanted to stand on the bow of the ship like Jack and shout, "I am the king of the world." ”

But he just nodded with satisfaction to Yi Yunfei and Peter Lamont and said, "I am very satisfied with the progress and quality of the project, and I will be stationed with the crew next month..... Then we made history together......"

Yi Yunfei said with a wry smile: "Such a crazy money, if you are not satisfied, I will simply hang yourself..... Half of the 600 million has now been spent, and there is still a lot of work to be done, the interior decoration of the hull, the remuneration of the actors, the sky-high cost of clothing, and the publicity fee..... Add to this the cost of shooting in 3D and IMAX...... I'm afraid that 600 million will not be enough by then!"

Cheng Xiaoyu smiled and said, "Save a little, it should be about ....."

Yi Yunfei hesitated for a moment and asked in a low Chinese: "Yu Shao, can you get back to your roots?" To be honest, I'm a little frightened, although I can't afford to lose it, but I always feel that my hard work has been wasted.....

Cheng Xiaoyu leaned on the railing facing the side of the Pacific Ocean and looked into the distance and said: "Who knows this!" But I think that when doing something, don't think about the return first, but think about my efforts and gains first..... The word reward is more philistine, which naturally refers to the material, while the harvest also includes the spiritual ..... It's a film that I'm very serious about and I have to make, so I don't care what the return is, and if there's any hope, if it gets me an Oscar podium....."

Yi Yunfei gave a thumbs up and said: "After all, it is engaged in art, and the spiritual realm of laymen like us is different, no wonder Yu Shao can make movies, I can only be a supervisor, but you say so, I am very confident." ”

Although Peter Lamont could not understand Chinese, he still vaguely understood the word "Oscar", and he asked with great interest: "Director Cheng, do you plan to use this movie to hit the Oscar?"

Cheng Xiaoyu did not shy away from his ambitions, nodded and said, "Yes, I plan to give it a try." ”

Peter Lamont straightened his wind-blown cap and said happily, "Then next year will be interesting.... You know what? The script you wrote "The Shawshank Redemption" is also about to enter the casting, and the plan is to release it next year, according to director Staven himself, this time he is very confident of winning the award, and he also teased Clint Eastwood, telling him to let "Black Swan" avoid his schedule, and it is better to compete for the Oscar the year after...... Haha! Next year looks like it's going to be an Oscar year!"

Cheng Xiaoyu said very modestly: "I can't compare with the two seniors, and I'm satisfied to be nominated...... As for winning the award, I haven't thought about it yet. But in fact, Cheng Xiaoyu is aiming for the award.

Peter Lamont didn't take Cheng Xiaoyu's words seriously, in his opinion, it was difficult for Cheng Xiaoyu to be nominated, the Oscars have always disliked commercial blockbusters, and disaster film special effects films rarely can win awards or be nominated, he smiled comfortingly and said: "Operate it, maybe there is a chance to ......"

Cheng Xiaoyu didn't speak, standing on this huge ship and looking in the direction of Huaxia...... He is going to sail to the shore of heaven in this ship.

(A lot of people complained about the scum of my profile, so I changed it again.... I have to admit that Qingshan is really a bit incompetent to write a profile!)