Chapter 168: It's a little ridiculous
Once again, Murphy saw the difficulty of film distribution, and the previous extremely naïve idea of pulling some people to set up a distribution department and then distribute his own film, which could not only sell in North America, but also sweep the overseas market, was becoming more and more fading, and if this idea was really implemented, Stanton Studios was likely to go bankrupt.
Even a company of Miramax's level has certain limitations in terms of participating in overseas film festivals and overseas distribution.
Fortunately, Murphy doesn't need to be too concerned about these things, he is the director of the film after all, not the producer and investor, and many links related to distribution are just a participant, not a decision-maker, and more energy is still focused on the filming of the film.
As agreed, the next day, Quentin Tarantino came to the warehouse set again, replacing Murphy in charge of the guide tube for a day, he is not Robert Rodriguez who is full of bad taste, sometimes the scale of his mouth is very large, but he pays great attention to the control of the shooting.
A director who does not take the mainstream route can do Quentin Tarantino's future Cheng dù, and actually knows how to control the scale reasonably.
For the footage shot on this day, Murphy intends to condense the final cut into about three to five minutes.
Quentin Tarantino's cameo work lasted only one day, and then Murphy took back the crew's guide tube and continued to work intensively on filming.
The time has entered the middle of February 2002, and it is necessary to hurry up to complete all the production by the end of April.
In the center of the rotisserie bedroom set up on the set of the warehouse, there is a huge red heart-shaped waterbed, and two cameras are set up opposite the end of the bed.
The next thing to be filmed is a scene of the heroine's ****, and the crew needs to clear the scene.
Of course, this is not what Murphy asked, but the terms of the director's contract signed by Jessica Chastain with the crew.
When filming ****, in addition to the director, cameraman and a few necessary types of work, the crew must clear the scene for filming.
This article ∵dǐng∵diǎn∵小∵says,.2←3.o$s_(); It is also written in the record of the Actors Association.
Hollywood has developed to the present, and all kinds of rules can be described as extremely mature, especially the actor's contract, from the specific salary to the part that is exposed when taking off clothes, there will be specific regulations.
Jessica Chastain and Robert Downey Jr. walked in one after another, the two glanced at each other, Robert Downey Jr. has been in Hollywood for many years, and his face is very normal, Jessica Chastain has a somewhat embarrassed face when he shoots this kind of shot for the first time.
Murphy didn't care about this, and after the two actors were in place, he said directly, "Start shooting!" ”
The right leg is wrapped around the green screen, Jessica Chastain is lying on the edge of the waterbed, and Robert Downey Jr. takes off his own top, then unbuttons his pants and goes to undress Jessica Chastain again.
Robert Downey Jr. is fully into character, and Jessica Chastain has only a bust left on the upper body.
Her expression was stiff, and her whole person was like a wooden man, she was already out of the play, but Murphy didn't shout to stop, most actresses basically need a process of adaptation, and it will be much better if they come a few more times.
He completely saw it as a rehearsal.
Soon, Jessica Chastain was stripped naked, and her originally white face was already white without a trace of blood, but she had enough professionalism to at least not break down or yell like some actresses who filmed this kind of scene for the first time.
Jessica Chastain was very nervous, she felt like she was almost out of breath, she knew that she was out of play, and she must be as bad as she wanted, and what she wanted to hear most now was that the director shouted to stop, and then quickly picked up the blanket next to her and covered her body.
"Stop!" Finally, a heavenly voice sounded.
As soon as Robert Downey Jr. dodged away, Jessica Chastain pulled the blanket over her body, and her breathing became extremely rapid due to nervousness.
Murphy looked at him and said, "Jesse, you're tightening like a broken rubber band right now, you need to relax!" ”
Hearing this purely work-like voice, Jessica Chastain shook her trembling right hand and asked Murphy, "Is there any smoke?" ”
"Which of you has a cigarette?" Murphy is not a smoker.
David Robbie took out a cigarette and threw it along with the lighter, and Jessica Chastain next, stuffed the cigarette butt into her mouth, raised the lighter with her right hand and wanted to diǎn smoke, but the trembling hand didn't listen to the call, and it didn't diǎn several times in a row.
Robert Downey Jr. walked up to her and said in a gentlemanly manner, "Do you need me to help you?" ”
Jessica Chastain glanced up at Robert Downey Jr., who was still not dressed and was wearing a pair of weirdly shaped safety shorts underneath, just standing in front of him......
Seeing the appearance of Robert Downey Jr., Jessica Chastain's nervousness and fear suddenly disappeared, and for some reason, she just wanted to laugh, and then she let out a nervous giggle.
Robert Downey Jr. had no idea what was going on and looked at Jessica Chastain in surprise, Jessica Chastain was just laughing there, he had to turn his head and look at Murphy, who was discussing something with Philip Raschel and didn't notice it at all.
Probably noticing the surprised attitude of Rot Downey Jr., Jessica Chastain held her waist and said breathlessly, "You...... What do you look like now...... See...... Looks...... It's kind of ridiculous. ”
Hearing this, Robert Downey Jr. looked down, somewhat embarrassed, but didn't care too much, it's good to shoot this kind of film, many European literary and artistic film heroes and heroines often walk around naked on the set.
Compared to the nudity and cyan scale of those films, this film is nothing at all.
"I'm sorry, Donnie." Jessica Chastain finally took control of her feelings, "I...... Nothing else. ”
In front of beautiful women, Robert Downey Jr. always seems like a humble gentleman, "It's okay, Jesse. If only you could relax. ”
Once Jessica Chastain relaxed, there was no difficulty in this scene, and after filming twice, Murphy called Tong Guò, and he specially marked the film, and someone would be responsible for keeping it to prevent it from circulating.
This is the stipulations of the contract between the two parties, and Hollywood's rules and regulations in this regard have always been strict, and once it spreads, even Miramax will encounter a lot of trouble.
In Hollywood, whether it is an actress or a male actor, **** is commonplace, and the actors' union has clear rules on this.
Sometimes there are such **** or bed scenes in movies, and the actors' union and the producer union have corresponding contract terms for this special scene before, during and after the filming is completed, so as to protect the interests of the producer and the actors.
The actors' union has a relevant agreement in this regard, requiring the relevant actors or stand-ins to sign a "Disclaimer of Nudity" before performing these scenes, which is not only a prior statement by an actor that he or she voluntarily appears in nudity and bed scenes, but also must include a description of nudity or physical contact with Cheng dù, ensuring that filming will be carried out within the scope of the actor's acceptance in accordance with the agreement reached by both parties during the subsequent filming process.
Of course, if the actors regret after signing the statement, they are also allowed to withdraw their statement, and the producer will directly send a stand-in to play, and even the stand-in cannot be on casually without the consent of the actor.
Due to the particularity of nude substitutions or bed scenes, in order to avoid being used by others and spreading to adversely affect the actors, the actors' union has strictly regulated the procedures for these scenes during filming.
The scenes are not to be disclosed to any of the parties except the main cast and crew, and stills of these scenes are not to be taken by anyone without the prior written permission of the actors.
Sometimes, in order to prevent the producer from using the performance clips of nude or bed scenes elsewhere, experienced actors' agents will use prohibitive clauses during negotiations to dispel the idea that producers may not use these clips outside of the feature film, even if they are used in the feature film, which also requires the actor to have the right to review the appearance of ** during the dailies.
In short, this will never be as imagined from the outside, the director or others can take advantage of the opportunity to shoot this kind of scene and engage in some messy actions.
Of course, no director will be brain-dead to such a point.
Murphy concentrated all the large-scale cyan scenes in these two days, except for Jessica Chastain, who just came out of the ivory tower, the other actresses who participated in the film have been in Hollywood for a long time, this kind of scene is just commonplace, the shooting lasted for two days, and finally came to an end.
Later, Murphy and the crew left Venice and went to a small abandoned airport between Los Angeles and Long Beach to shoot the last remaining final battle scenes.
There are a lot of gunfights and explosions here, and it is also the most expensive scene in the film, but compared to the past slamming and calculating, the representative of the guarantor, Kim Kleiman, did not trouble Murphy anymore, but kept his mouth shut and just watched the filming go on.
The reason is very simple, when the shooting went on so far, Murphy not only did not exceed the planned budget, but saved some funds, although these funds were only tens of thousands of dollars, but Kim Kleiman also understood that Murphy is a very frugal director.
Explosions, fires, gunshots, beauties, zombies...... These were all essential elements of filming, and after another week of fighting, when everyone's ears were buzzing with the sound of explosions, the filming of "Planet of Terror" finally came to an end. (To be continued.) )