When "The Legend of the New White Lady" was broadcast on more than ten local stations in mainland China at the same time, Wang Zijun had already spent the sixth month of filming "Titanic" in the studio in California.

Without the help of advanced computer technology, Wang Zijun's filming was too difficult.

According to the original plan, the footage could be completed in early October, and then it took nearly two months to finalize, just in time for Christmas.

But now it's almost November, and Wang Zijun is still running around in the studio all day.

"Click! Very good. Lifeguards, pull them up. Doctor, check their vital signs and report any abnormalities immediately! After filming another set of scenes, Wang Zijun was happy at the same time, and did not immediately arrange the next scene, but was directing the ambulance personnel of the crew.

These were the last few scenes, and the passengers on the ship fell into the icy waters one by one, their faces blue and their lips black and purple.

At Wang Zijun's shouting, the lifeguards rowed a dinghy to pull the actors up from the water, and then immediately attached warm water bags to all parts of their bodies, and the doctors also neatly examined their bodies.

The water in the pool was really cold and abnormal, so that when the actors spoke, they could exhale the white fog to show the low temperature in the sea at that time.

In fact, Cameron did the same thing at the beginning, but he only shot it for less than a day. Because the water temperature is too low, a shooting can only last 15 minutes, and no matter how long the time is, the actor will be frozen into shock.

In the end, Cameron switched to letting the actors shoot in warm water, and in post-production, he used computer special effects to add exhaled white air to the actors' mouths.

But Wang Zi can't do it, so he can only honestly shoot with ice water. The same actor shoots in ice water for 15 minutes, and then has to rest for at least an hour to recover, and then continues filming when he is rested, which greatly delays the filming progress.

"Monica, thank you for your hard work!" Wang Zijun walked over and twisted a hot towel with his own hands to help Monica apply it to her forehead.

Monica was curled up in her coat at this time, and there were seven or eight hot water bottles covered in her clothes, and her teeth were still shivering with cold. Her face was so cold that she could shoot directly without makeup.

"Thank you...... Thank you! Monica's facial muscles stiffened and smiled at Wang Zijun.

"Oh, Mr. Zachary, you're so favoritous!" Next to Johnny. Depp joked.

Wang Zijun said with a smile: "John, it seems that you are very energetic, and you are still in the mood to laugh." Perhaps, next time you will be immersed in ice water for a longer time? ”

"No, no," Johnny. Depp's face changed, "That damn cold water, I'll never swim in cold water again in my life." ”

"Haha, our John finally has time to be scared." It was Nicholas who came with the laughter. Cage. This buddy has been in the crew, and has played more than a dozen inconspicuous tricks and a passenger with a few lines, and by the way, he is still working in the crew to earn some extra money.

Wang Zijun is already very familiar with him, see Nicholas. Cage came over and said, "By the way, Cage, Cameron is going to start filming "Terminator 3", I can recommend a character to you." Appeared for more than five minutes, although he is not an important role, but he also needs a little acting skills, and you can contact him if you want to go. ”

"Yes, I like this character very much." Nicholas. Cage said happily.

Wang Zijun saw his unfeigned expression of joy, and his heart was speechless for a while. This guy's uncle is Coppola, the great director of "The Godfather", who didn't go back to Coppola for help, but he was happy because Wang Zijun gave him a small role, and he didn't know whether to say that he had ambition or that he lacked chords in his head.

A few people were sitting together laughing and waiting for Johnny. Depp and Monica continued filming after regaining their body temperature and energy. On the other side of the studio, Tsui Hark put down the recording stick and chatted with the crew everywhere. The purpose is naturally to take the opportunity to understand various details and specific elements of the work, so as to accumulate experience for his own filming of "The Swordsman of Xinshu Mountain".

It didn't take long for Guan Zhilin to come over with a thermos bucket, walk up to Wang Zijun and say, "Brother-in-law, this is the soup my mother boiled, I'll bring you some by the way." ”

"This ...... Great work. "Even if Wang Zijun is a fool, he understands Guan Zhilin's thoughts, but it is really difficult to refuse when people take more than half an hour to deliver soup by car.

Johnny. Depp and Nicholas. Cage looked at Wang Zijun and Guan Zhilin with ambiguous eyes, Wang Zijun's romantic reputation was widely spread, they naturally knew about it, and now it seems that it is true.

Monica didn't think much of it, she was Italian, and in her country, as long as there were capable men, nine and a half out of ten had "qingren".

"Come on, come on, everyone eat a little!" Wang Zijun didn't want Guan Zhilin to misunderstand, so he gave the soup one by one to the actor who came out of the ice water just now to warm up, and he only tasted it symbolically.

Guan Zhilin was a little annoyed, but there was no other way.

During the more than six months of filming "Titanic", Guan Zhilin returned to Hong Kong and Taiwan for filming, and the remaining three months lived in the United States. Nominally, he is in the United States to accompany his parents, but in fact, more often than not, he comes to the crew to hook up with Wang Zijun.

Guan Zhilin is a very impatient woman, and even she herself doesn't understand why she seduces Wang Zijun so persistently. Perhaps, it was because Wang Zijun ignored her, which aroused her rebellious heart; Or perhaps, just because Wang Zijun is handsome and rich enough, better than other men she has seen.

Wang Zijun didn't understand what Guan Zhilin's mentality was, so he chased after him unabashedly, and he didn't mind that he was a person with a wife at all. But thinking about Guan Zhilin in another time and space, she was relieved again, which man she hooked up with was not a married man?

But thinking about it like this, Wang Zijun had a kind of respect for Guan Zhilin.

"It's almost time, everyone is ready to shoot the next scene." Wang Zijun stood up, clapped his hands and said loudly.

"Humph!" Guan Zhilin saw that Wang Zijun deliberately avoided her, and was so angry that she stomped her feet. She inquired about her godsister Zhao Yazhi side-by-side, and knew that Wang Zijun liked traditional and gentle women, so she came to deliver soup, but she didn't expect to meet a cold face.

Johnny. Depp and Monica sat in a dinghy and came to the center of the shooting pool, took a hard breath, and then took off their warm coats and entered the cold water that was almost close to freezing, and the breath of the two immediately formed a white mist in the air.

Filming took place in a stop-and-shoot period, and the computer technology processing of the film, because of the hurry, was already carried out at the same time. After Wang Zijun finished directing during the day, he often went to the industrial light and magic at night to star, and he was so tired that he wanted to sleep when he walked.

Teresa Teng, who was auditing at the University of Southern California, couldn't see Wang Zijun for ten days and half a month, so she could only go to the crew to visit the class on weekends.

It wasn't until November that the filming that lasted for more than half a year finally ended.

After the finale, Wang Zijun still couldn't be idle, personally "composed" songs and soundtracks for the movie, and was busy with the post-production of "Titanic".

Wang Zijun's "Titanic" took much longer to shoot than that in parallel space, but the post-production time was much shorter than that of the one that required a lot of film special effects.

By mid-December, "Titanic" was basically completed.

Including Johnny. Depp, Monica and other original personnel, as well as Bruce Lee, Frank and other company leaders were all pulled by Wang Zijun to the screening room to watch the film.

A blockbuster film that shocked the world more than a decade later is being screened at this moment, and although the graphics are somewhat lacking, the shock is still indescribable, exactly the same as when people first watched "Star Wars" a few years ago.

After watching it, both Frank and Bruce Lee applauded vigorously, and they finally had a little confidence that the film would pay for itself.

The actual investment of 130 million US dollars, plus the tens of millions invested in "The Pianist at Sea", the cost of this film is really close to 200 million US dollars.

As a great director, Wang Zijun took more than 10% of the director's box office dividends alone, which was the result of Wang Zijun's automatic reduction in remuneration. Excluding the share of the theater chain, in the end, when it comes to Dragon and Tiger Film Company, the company can only reach about 30% of the box office.

Faced with this situation, neither Bruce Lee nor Frank are actually willing to shoot this movie, because the box office return is too low. With such a lot of human and financial resources, it is better to make a few movies with an investment of several millions.

But Wang Zijun insisted on filming, although Bruce Lee was dissatisfied, he didn't want to fall out with Wang Zijun, so Bruce Lee suggested finding several film companies to invest in co-production.

With Wang Zijun behind his back, Frank really contacted several Hollywood giants, but as soon as he heard that with an investment of nearly 200 million, no company was willing to be the wronged leader, even Wang Zijun, a director with box office guarantees, could not shoot.

Just when Bruce Lee and Frank wanted to persuade Wang Zijun to give up, Wang Zijun directly proposed that he would read his own capital and invest in it, and the company didn't want to mix it up, as long as it provided some personnel and equipment.

Having said that, Bruce Lee was a little embarrassed. In the end, after discussing for a long time, Dragon and Tiger Film Company invested 20 million US dollars, and Wang Zijun came out with all the rest of the money (the props in "The Pianist at Sea" were also counted).

As for the final box office share, Wang Zijun took the director's share of 13%, the producer's share of 25%, and the rest was Dragon and Tiger Film Company.

In this way, the division of the theater chain is divided, and Dragon Tiger Film Company can only get a pitiful little bit of leftovers.

The next day, Wang Zijun held a test screening in the company, inviting the heads of major theaters in North America to give them a reassurance, so as to strive for more screens and longer release time.

(To be continued)