Cheng Xiaoyu's final location for filming was the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles, and there was originally a candidate location for an apartment building in South Basadena, Los Angeles. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

But in the end, he decided to choose the Cecil Hotel, because the hotel is very famous in Los Angeles, the hotel has been the scene of numerous homicides, since 1962, a woman jumped from the Cecil Hotel to suicide, and stoned a passerby who was passing by.

The murder of this hotel continued, and then there was another rape and murder of a woman in a hotel room, and the case has not been solved to this day.

Not only that, but there have been two perverted serial murderers who have made Cecil.Hotel their long-term residence. They are known as 'Midnight Stalkers' with the name Rihard. Ramirez, the other is called Jack.Unterweger.

In the 80s, the midnight demon Ramirez lived in the hotel for several months, during which he killed 14 people. In the 90s, the Austrian killer Unterweger lived here for more than a month, killing several prostitutes.

In February 2013, the mysterious disappearance of Lan Keer, a Chinese girl here, shocked the world, and finally her body was found in the top water tank, and all the guests of this hotel drank the corpse water for more than a week..... The FBI has not given a clear account of this case so far.

If you want to talk about the hotel with the most unjust souls, the place with the heaviest evil spirit, this hotel is definitely on the list.

After renting two floors of the hotel, Cheng Xiaoyu's DV movie officially started filming the next day, and his rewritten story "Midnight Bell: The Ghost Shadow" will start with the reporter actor wanting to shoot a documentary about the hotel.

This can be a very reasonable solution to why the male protagonist has been resisting the camera, and it can also perfectly interpret the "pseudo-documentary", because he has watched a lot of "pseudo-documentary", and Cheng Xiaoyu's shooting techniques can be greatly improved.

When Charlize Theron arrived at this notorious hotel, she was still a little upset because she was still a little embarrassed by the last oolong and came to the designated 12B floor.

There is basically no thirteenth floor in American hotels, either skip the 12th floor directly to the 14th floor, or 12A and 12B, in addition to taboo 13 this number, Friday is also described as Black Friday in the West, if the number thirteen meets Black Friday, it means a disaster for Westerners.

On this day, Westerners will not fly or do business as usual, and the global business losses will amount to $800 million to $900 million on the day the two meet, and in the United States, this fear dominates tens of millions of people, just as the Chinese taboo the number four.

Cheng Xiaoyu rented the twelfth and fourteenth floors, in fact, the thirteenth and fourteenth floors, which gathered the two most unlucky floors in China and the West.

Thinking of the legend of this hotel, Charlize Theron grabbed the bag in his hand, Charlize Theron had also heard of the murder that happened in this hotel in the past three years, and after recalling this incident, she suddenly felt a chill in her back, and she couldn't help but call Cheng Xiaoyu's phone and wanted to ask him in which room.

At this time, the lights on the entire floor suddenly went out, and there was a faint ringing of the telephone in the quiet corridor, and then the sensor light in the corridor seemed to sense something, followed by very small footsteps, and stopped at the door of room 12B14.

But Charlize Theron just stood and didn't move at all, and this strange scene frightened Charlize Theron's hair to stand on end, making her want to turn around and run away, when she was gently patted on the shoulder.

Charlize Theron screamed, picked up the bag in his hand and smashed it back, fortunately, Cheng Xiaoyu, who was standing behind Charlize Theron, was prepared, took a large step back, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to make a stop gesture and said: "Miss Charllotz, calm down! I'm Cheng Xiaoyu!"

Charlize Theron was still waving the bag in his hand frantically with his eyes closed, as soon as he heard Cheng Xiaoyu's voice, he immediately opened his eyes, and saw Cheng Xiaoyu's somewhat embarrassed smile, just now he was like a madman, and immediately felt that all his strength was drained, and he leaned against the corner of the wall weakly, and then said angrily: "Director Cheng! This joke is not funny at all!"

After saying that, Charlize Theron regretted it a little, and felt that he should not treat his hopes of becoming an actor with such an attitude.

Cheng Xiaoyu smiled and said, "I'm sorry, Miss Charlize, I also did this to deepen your experience, not only you, but all the actors who entered the group were scared..... I just hope that you can remember this feeling when you act, and I think you will have to bear this test. ”

At this time, Charlize Theron also saw a group of people behind Cheng Xiaoyu who were holding back a smile, and a tall white young man said loudly: "Hey, Miss Charlize, you behaved much better than me just now, and you have the courage to hit someone, and I was directly frightened by the boss and collapsed to the ground....."

The actor who spoke was chosen by David for Cheng Xiaoyu, Chris Evans of the "Xichu Cinema Division", tall, not handsome in the traditional sense, but very manly, a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, "Xichu" was the first job he found to cope with the rent.

I thought I wouldn't be able to do it for long, but what he didn't expect was that he had worked from last year to this year, and his salary had risen three times, plus the year-end bonus last year, and he saved a lot of money last year.

Last year, the classmates who came with him to apply for the job, finally chose to go to another company, but the life was tight, far from his comfortable life, yesterday the company's internal email, for the boss to recruit a starring role, the whole company was boiling, many people found David Gill to ask for an audition.

Chris Evans didn't study art and never thought of being an actor, but all the male employees of the "Cinema Division" signed up, saying that they were responding to the call of the BOSS, so Chris Evans also signed up, but he didn't expect to be selected.

Charlize Theron thought that his crazy appearance just now might disgust Cheng Xiaoyu, so he quickly corrected his attitude and explained a little anxiously: "Mr. Cheng, I just ..... Is.... Frightened, I'm not.... Deliberate ....."

Cheng Xiaoyu smiled: "It's okay, it's okay..... Actually, the last time you invited me and coffee, I was already mentally prepared to be beaten by you....."

Hearing Cheng Xiaoyu tease her, Charlize Theron's fair face immediately turned a little red, and Charlize Theron, who looked a little cold, showed a shy expression, but she was fascinated by the people around her.

She didn't dress professionally as usual today, but wore a red and white striped crop top with a black leather jacket over it, and black jeans to strangle a pair of round long legs that were extraordinarily seductive, exuding deadly temptation, but looking wild and untamable.

Cheng Xiaoyu was not seduced by Charlize and Theron like other men, he clapped his hands and said: "Now that everyone is here, let's go to the suite at the back, I will send you the script, if there is anything you don't understand, you can ask me..... Since most of the film's footage will be filmed in this hotel, we will shoot it exactly according to the storyline. ”

Entering the suite, Charlize Theron found that the whole crew was pitiful, she did the math, but there were nine people, and the double digits did not arrive, this situation made Charlize Theron frown, and began to doubt whether her decision was correct, but now she had no choice but to continue the mistake.

There is not only Charlize Theron, except for Wang Ou, who is the photographer, who is blindly confident in Cheng Xiaoyu, everyone else looks at each other, and they also come in to find that all the staff are just a few of them.

After all, Cheng Xiaoyu is known for being "fast", the two movies only took three months to shoot, and it is not impossible to finish a movie in a week, but there are still so few staff, it really makes people think that this director is not playing tickets on a whim this time, which is not in line with everyone's expectations.

The atmosphere in the suite fell silent for a moment, and everyone seemed a little weak.

Cheng Xiaoyu sent the printed script to everyone, and the first page also attached the shooting plan, and when he sent the script to Charlize Theron, he was keenly aware of the disappointment in Charlize Theron's eyes.

He quietly finished sending the script, looked around at the nine people sitting around him, and found that all of them had some doubts, so he waved the remaining script in his hand and said: "Don't underestimate what we are doing, 'DV movies', I think everyone has seen them on the Internet, but they have not yet been able to be screened on the big screen in theaters..... However, this one is certainly not!"

Cheng Xiaoyu sat on the armrest of the sofa chair and asked, "Who knows the advantages and disadvantages of 'DV movies'?"

No one spoke up, and apparently everyone knew very little about "DV movies", after all, this is not even a non-mainstream at the moment, it is a very marginal thing.

Charlize Theron has done some homework on "DV movies" these days, and she hesitated for a moment and said: "The advantage is that the sense of substitution is very strong? If you can watch it, it will be quite interesting! The key is the creation of suspense and the process of solving puzzles! The disadvantage is that the pace is a bit slow!"

Cheng Xiaoyu smiled at Charlize Theron and said, "That's right! It seems that Miss Charlize has done her homework!" and then Cheng Xiaoyu asked, "Who else knows about 'DV movies'?"

Josh Mark, the scene reporter, said: "I think the most fatal flaw of DV movies is that the camera is too shaky, and I usually can't stand it after watching it for more than ten minutes!

Cheng Xiaoyu nodded and said, "This is indeed a big problem!" Then he stood up and said like a professor: "The biggest advantage of DV movies is that they are very 'realistic', but to follow the hand-held shooting method means to sacrifice the privileges that you have as a movie. Many of the dramatic elements that are necessary in ordinary films, such as the ups and downs of the plot, the delicate and regular scenery, the tricky composition and angles, the tight editing rhythm, the fine art set, etc., are all tied hand and foot in the 'DV movie', and the hand-held film has to let the real man single-handedly stir the audience's nerves. What's worse is that DV movies are often trying to get close to the truth, while trying to get close to the truth, it is difficult to achieve the function of film freehand, or most directors have abandoned this point at all. They often simply present a 'realistic' image, only seeking to achieve the effect of exchanging reality for excitement, with no connotation and lack of expression. ”

Charlize Theron felt that Cheng Xiaoyu was very handsome when she explained her views on "DV movies", she watched "DV movies" for two days and didn't feel much, but after Xiaoyu said this, she immediately felt a sense of empowerment, and suddenly Charlize Theron felt that Cheng Xiaoyu's success definitely did not come from luck.

Looking at Cheng Xiaoyu's handsome face, she was full of confidence in this director who was younger than her.

Cheng Xiaoyu didn't notice the change in Charlize Theron's expression, but continued very confidently: "But..... I have the power to turn decay into magic..... Trust me, you're going to have a 'very good' shooting experience this time...... Without further ado, we'll see you in a week, but during filming, we are not allowed to publish film-related appearances in any form, and we are not allowed to expose ourselves to my crew in advance...... Now everyone cooperate with my work and turn the second page of the script, which is a non-disclosure agreement...... Sign your name and give it to me!"

"After signing your name, it's the moment when everyone witnesses the miracle!"

With so many "jewels" in his memory, Cheng Xiaoyu certainly has the confidence to raise the "DV movie" to a new level, and he will adopt the filming technique of "District 9" to complete this "one-week bet".

Although "District 9" is also a "camouflage film", it is disguised as a news feature film, which is not only edited and processed, but more importantly, it has an ideographic function, and at the same time does not lose its authenticity.

Cheng Xiaoyu wants to use this "DV movie" to tell everyone that what others can't do, he can do it, and in a week, he can make a high-quality, high-box office movie!