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Films, especially those with relatively high investment, are a large-scale battle that requires careful planning, and the most tiring in the entire preliminary preparation are undoubtedly three positions - producer, director and screenwriter.

The script has already been finalized, and it will not be changed at will without special circumstances, and in the previous two months, Duke has also made enough plans for the director, but he will still not be easy before the film starts, and the director must be involved in many matters.

Although there is a special person in charge of renting equipment and props, Duke also has to look at it roughly, and if it does not meet his needs, it must be replaced, and taking the production, photography, and art direction to the scene together is also one of the basic tasks of the director in the preliminary preparation.

Photographers need to figure out how the camera works in a real-life environment; He, the director, felt that there was a gap between the venue and the scene in his mind, so he had to communicate with the set designer and art director to see how to transform it to be closer to the desired scene. After selecting the venue, the producer will discuss the rental with the venue, and discuss the time, cost, precautions, etc.

The personnel and venues were determined, and Duke corrected the script again according to the actual situation, and formulated the storyboard artwork into different scripts according to the plan - how many shots need to be filmed in each scene, which camera positions to try, and which program of the actors' emotions should be developed or controlled at this time......

In addition to the storyboard script, Duke also wrote a schedule, according to the location and the actors to coordinate the time, the plot that takes place in the same location must be integrated at the same time, he must be a director to think clearly, if he makes the low-level mistake of hedging the costumes of the actors in different scenes in the same venue, it is an amateur laughing stock.

In addition to these, Duke also had to take a few assistant directors to make a scene schedule, and the first assistant director, Corne, would make vague remarks against him from time to time, and the whole job was stumbling, and Duke was under tremendous pressure, and on several occasions he almost couldn't help but get angry.

Fortunately, Duke knows very well that he is filming and making a film, not to engage in personnel struggles, and he is distracted by these small things, and in the end it must be himself who loses more than he gains.

It took more effort than expected to get the schedule done, and Duke thought about another thing, he really needed a smart assistant who knew the film business, and if he had such an assistant, he could basically get rid of all these complicated tasks and focus more on filmmaking.

It's a pity that he doesn't even have the money to pay off his credit card for the time being, so where can he afford to hire an assistant.

In short, compared with the crews in the previous life, the preparatory work of Hollywood movies is more complicated and detailed, and it also takes more time, and it takes time for the actors to set makeup and study the roles, Robin Grande's prediction of the start of production in mid-September naturally came to naught, and the preparation period of "Life and Death" was delayed for two full weeks, and it was not until October that the preliminary preparations came to an end.

On October 3, 1991, Duke, who had begun to suffer from insomnia after being tormented by heavy work and stress, was reborn and refreshed, because "Life and Death" finally started shooting in the studio of Universal Studios!

There was no press conference, no flashing lights, and no complicated ceremonies, and the crew quietly started filming.

“Cut！”

Just a dozen seconds into the first test shoot, Duke shouted to stop, stood up from behind the director's camera, walked back and forth several times between the props and sets arranged in the elevator room on the ground floor of the building, and finally stood in the middle of the shooting set.

Dennis Hopper, who played the villain, and another extra, were put aside.

Some scenes are no problem with the naked eye, but when filmed with a camera, the smallest problems will be infinitely magnified, although there has been continuous communication for more than two months, but Duke and various departments of the crew are cooperating for the first time, and they definitely need to run in.

"The lights are a little darker, and I need a more metallic gray feel."

After thinking about it for a few minutes in combination with the footage he had just shot, Duke found that there were problems with the scene and camera position he had envisioned, and tried to adjust, "The camera position of camera number two is moved to the left thirty degrees, you only need to capture Dennis's back, and the costume is ......"

The costumer immediately raised his hand next to him.

Walking up to Dennis Hopper, Duke pointed to his somewhat worn overalls and said, "Change to the one that's grayer." ”

Then, Duke turned his head and said to the extras who played the security guard, "You come with me." ”

Duke walked to the elevator door, turned to look at the extras who came with him, pointed to the place where he came, and said, "Your surprised expression just now is too heavy, pay attention to restraint, you have to walk along the outside of Dennis." ”

Seeing the other party's solemn nod, Duke observed the camera position again, and then returned to the director's camera.

"Except for being younger, you still look a lot like a director."

Hearing these monotonous nasal words, Duke turned his head to look at Sofia Coppola, who was standing next to him holding the field watch, but said nothing.

The adjustment was quickly completed, and at Duke's signal, an assistant director shouted 'Start'!

Throwing away all the distractions, Duke focused on the camera footage, where the security guard quickly walked up to Dennis's side to check his repair order, and the camera fell on his right hand, which was hidden behind the repair order......

"What is this?"

Duke immediately frowned and shouted directly, "Stop!" ”

He strode up to Dennis Hopper and took the repair order, a white piece of paper full of gimbled letters, perhaps even God couldn't read what was written.

"Props!" Duke's voice was not loud, but it was unusually loud, "I want a fake repair order, not this!" ”

He motioned to the head of the props team to write the piece of paper, and the other party hurriedly ran over, and without waiting for him to explain anything, Duke said directly, "You have ten minutes to solve it!" ”

Duke's words were not emotionally tinged and were completely businesslike.

This team is not his team now, and it will not be his team in the future, there is only a working relationship between them, and whoever makes a mistake in their work will be responsible for it.

Sitting in his seat, Duke rubbed his forehead, the first time he called to stop could be said to be a problem of his inexperience, this time it was the props team because of carelessness......

"Need a drink?"

The temporary assistant assigned to him by the crew suddenly said, "Coffee or black tea?" ”

"Not at the moment." Duke shook his head and looked to the side curiously, "Sophia, why did you want to join the crew?" ”

"I need to make money, a sum of money that will allow me to live in Europe for a while."

Sofia Coppola didn't mean to hide it, and said directly, "After the filming of "Alien 3" ended, I called Uncle Lucas, so I came here, don't forget that I worked as a temporary assistant for David Fincher, which is also a bit of seniority. ”

"You're going to Europe?" Duke thought about it, but he was blank, he only knew some of Sofia Coppola's experiences after 2000.

"My mother helped me contact Karl Lagerfeld."

The young girl had a yearning look on her face, "Chanel will have several internships next year, and Karl Lagerfeld has promised to reserve one for me." ”

From Sofia Coppola, it can be seen that Chanel's attraction to women, perhaps her trip to Europe, is also related to the performance of being abused by film critics in "The Godfather 3".

Duke certainly wouldn't bring up the subject, he wouldn't expose a woman's scars in front of her.

Filming soon restarted, and in less than ten minutes, the props team produced another repair order, regardless of whether these people questioned Duke or not, professionalism is still there, taking money to do things is the most basic principle of Hollywood, if they can't even do this, these people will not have the current qualifications and status.

However, the shooting was still not smooth, from the set to the camera position, many times it was constantly adjusted, the crew needed to run in on the one hand, Duke's lack of experience was on the other hand, it took a full two and a half hours for Duke to finish shooting the first shot since the start of filming.

Although Duke has worked hard for a very long time in this life and has some experience in his previous life, he is not an omnipotent genius, he makes mistakes, makes mistakes, and needs to adjust the rhythm of himself and the whole crew.

These take time.

Duke had to run in with the various types of work on the crew, and he also had to run in with the actors, and the long hours of filming in the morning made the older Dennis Hober tired enough, and he also made some small complaints through his assistant.

Dennis Hopper's assistant gave me a few words.

During the break, Sofia Coppola conveyed to Duke in time, "He said that Mr. Hopper has been too busy with work recently and his health is not very good, and he hopes that the following shots used to run in the crew will be on other actors." ”

"I made the mistake of being inexperienced again."

Muttering softly, Duke waved his hand at the curious Sophia Coppola, signaling that he understood.

This is a very simple question, but it was ignored by Duke, he is a rookie director, and if he uses some famous actors to run in the crew, the other party will inevitably be dissatisfied.

Hollywood is full of actors with all kinds of quirks, if it is a super director, all the problems in filming are not a problem, if it is a director like him, you must be cautious in many aspects, an old actor like Dennis Hopper is quite subtle, and it is not impossible to throw him a face when he encounters that kind of stinky temper and a little famous.

The crew under the shroud of Vanity Fair will never get along, unless the person in charge of the set can make everyone in the crew unable to hold their heads up.

What his goal is, Duke knows very well, in order to achieve this goal, he can not only fight against people, but also make necessary compromises, and even ignore some discordant voices, and now he does not have the ability and qualifications to fully control the crew.

Subsequently, Duke changed the filming plan, moved more extras to the front, started filming for a whole week, and did not shoot several main actors' scenes, after more than a week of collisions and contradictions, the crew's operation began to run smoothly.