"The Departed" was launched, and several of the leading actors were actor-level acting skills, so they entered the state very quickly.

The story of the script was arranged in Boston.

In order to make the script more in line with the details of the American police system, Zhang Tan also hired Agent Thomas B. Duffy, who has worked in the Boston Police Department for 30 years, as a technical consultant. During his tenure, Thomas specialized in investigating organized crime, having been involved in the conviction of South Boston's most notorious gangster, Whitey Bulger.

Originally, the crew also wanted to shoot in Boston, but New York City gave a 15% preferential tax, so most of the footage was moved to New York.

New York is a city that Zhang Tan is very familiar with.

"This Killer Is Not Too Cold" was filmed here, and Zhang Tan also went to the New York University Film School and had a warm exchange with the students of the directing department.

Also had dinner with the mayor of New York.

The New York City government is 12 points of support for Zhang Tan's crew to come to shoot the movie.

Zhang Tan was able to devote himself to the crew.

It is very worry-free to have a group of actors with excellent acting skills in the crew, and there is no need to spend much lip and tongue to guide the actors three or four times, how to act. He just needs to set a standard, and Nicholson, Leonardo, Matt Damon and others will deduce it themselves.

"Tan, there's a game between the Lakers and the Knicks at night, will you go together?" After a day's play, Nicholson invited Zhang Tan.

“OK。” In addition to liking football, Zhang Tan also likes basketball, and watches NBA games a lot.

They were accompanied by Leonardo and Matt Damon, both of whom are fans and regularly watch the NBA. As for Nicholson, it's even crazier, Lakers fans for more than thirty years.

"I usually watch Lakers games in Staples in Los Angeles." When they arrived at the game site, several people went directly to the first row of the court under the leadership of the assistant.

This row has a name called "Hollywood Seats", and Hollywood stars often sit in the first row on the sidelines. The NBA is actually a show, and the Hollywood seat is a seat specially reserved for stars and celebrities, and ordinary people can't buy seats here even if they have money. The Hollywood seat is used by Hollywood stars to show off and then expand the popularity of the NBA.

Although many celebrities and celebrities don't come to see it often, they will buy season tickets and give them to friends when they don't come.

The appearance of three actors, a top director, and four people instantly murdered the lights of Madison Square Garden, which had not yet opened.

The live broadcast camera instantly focused on the four people, and the large screen in the center of the stadium immediately showed the images of the four people.

In an uproar, the audience in the noisy stadium also saw four people, shouting various slogans and greetings.

The commentators, who were chatting in the live broadcast room, quickly shifted the topic to Zhang Tan and others: "Oh, look at who the fans and viewers are today, Lakers' fans Nicholson, Xiao Lizi and Matt, who is the one sitting between them?" ”

"Oh, Smith, you're too outdated, that is Hollywood's hot director Tan, who is Chinese like Yao. Have you seen "The Matrix", if not, have you seen the new Batman, the one played by Christian, that is what he filmed. ”

"I know, I can name every actor, but I don't pay much attention to the director."

"Looks like they're old Jack Clara to cheer on the Lakers."

"yes, it's rare to see Nicholson come to Madison Square Garden, I thought he'd be in his seat like Spike Lee of the Knicks."

Spike Lee is a director, actor, screenwriter and Oscar winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Madison Square Garden, the home of the Knicks, has a seat dedicated to Spike Lee, and almost every home court, Spike Lee sits there to watch a game. It was a place where two seats were on the bench, and Spike Lee could stand up and spray the referee with impunity.

You can also listen to the head coach lay out tactics and even interject.

Similar to Spike Lee is Nicholson, who also has an exclusive seat at Staples, the home court of the Lakers, and can also spray referees and listen to tactics.

However, in recent years, Nicholson has become a little less fanatical about the Lakers.

"The Lakers without Kobe Bryant are like a bunch of ****." When the Lakers fell behind in the score, Nicholson complained to Zhang Tan in dissatisfaction.

In addition to being a brain-dead fan of the Lakers, Nicholson is also Kobe Bryant's super Komi, and after Kobe retired last year, Nicholson even plans to sell his Lakers season tickets.

"It's kind of a bit." Zhang Tan whispered.

He is also half a Lakers fan, there is no way, who calls the Lakers' home stadium in Los Angeles, the Hollywood location, Zhang Tan basically watches NBA games in Los Angeles in his free time, and unconsciously treats the Lakers as his home team.

Of course, Zhang Tan has never been a fan of anything.

In this game, the Los Angeles Lakers lost to the New York Knicks 89-102, ushering in a two-game losing streak in the regular season.

After the game, a reporter stopped Zhang Tan and the four people who were about to leave and asked what they thought of the game.

Nicholson expressed his displeasure and threatened that head coach Luke Wharton should step down, and that neither Leonardo nor Matt were Lakers fans, but echoed that tonight was not good enough.

Zhang Tan also briefly said that the Lakers were not resolute enough and so on.

There doesn't seem to be any sense of regret, so to put it mildly, in fact, Zhang Tan can only be regarded as 0.25 Lakers fans.

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An NBA game is just life outside of filming.

The filming progress of the crew is advancing rapidly, and it will soon be Christmas, and after Christmas, it is not far from the Chinese New Year, and it is not far from the finale.

Zhang Tan raised the pace a little, and ended the filming of "The Departed" before the Chinese New Year.

Then he returned to China for a leisure year, and set off on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year to shoot "Infernal Affairs" in Xiangxiang.

The crew of "Infernal Affairs" has been prepared for a long time, and the actors, staff, props, and scenes all continue, just waiting for Zhang Tan to come to the crew to command.

In the past two years, there has been a lot of trouble between Xiangxiang and the mainland.

But this has nothing to do with Zhang Tan, his movie "The Matrix" series also swept the Xiangxiang box office and entered the film history record of the Xiangxiang box office. There are no fewer fans here than in other places, so after getting off the plane, I saw the person who picked up the plane and almost surrounded the exit.

Zhang Tan, who was wearing a windbreaker and a peaked cap, was surrounded by bodyguards and assistants, trying to quickly squeeze through the crowd.

I was a little annoyed in my heart, and my itinerary was revealed by someone I don't know.

In the past few years, Zhang Tan has been pretending to be tired, and Zhang Tan hopes to keep a low profile in private, but he often encounters this situation and is surrounded by fans.

I couldn't squeeze through, so I had to stand still and answer the questions of the reporters who frantically squeezed in front.

"Director Tan, this time I returned to China to direct a new Chinese film ......" (to be continued.) )