"The most urgent thing now is to find a suitable actor to replace her!"

In front of the beautiful Rivendell set, the filming of the crew has just come to an end, and while the break is taking advantage of the break, Duke will Charles? Luo Wen and several other crew leaders came over, "Swordsmanship is easy to say, we can use stand-ins throughout the whole process, the key is that the actor's temperament must fit the setting of the characters in the novel." ”

He turned to look at the production manager, "Charles, the contract is over." ”

"I'm talking to her agent." Charles? Rowan's ability to do things can be trusted.

Duke rubbed his forehead, this is also something that can't be helped, not to mention such a huge crew of "The Lord of the Rings", even if it is a small crew in the independent film industry, accidents will happen from time to time during filming.

"Duke ......"

Talking about Anna, who came back from the location? Prinz, the actor who quit is related to the scene she is about to be responsible for filming, "I made a new selection from the actors who participated in the audition. ”

"That's all there is to it." Duke nodded, "Anna, you're in charge of this. ”

Actually, it's not complicated, Anna? Prinz is about to film a scene about Princess Iowen of Lohan, and the Australian actor Miranda who plays her? Otto was also ready to join the crew, who knew that just a few days ago, the other party suffered a car accident in Australia, and there were several fractures in his leg and hand bones, and he had to quit the crew.

The people around him gradually dispersed, and they kept talking to Tina? Faye and Kate? Nancy with Blanchett standing on the perimeter? Josephson walked over.

"Duke." She whispered, "Can I recommend someone to choose?" ”

"Say it." Duke turned his head and watched the crew on the set busily set up the meeting room for King Rönd in Rivendell, "You've signed a new actor." ”

"It's not." Nancy shook her head, "The one you've worked with before. ”

"Oh?"

Retracting his gaze, Duke looked at her. "Who is it?"

"Kate? Beckinsale, "

In that regard, Nancy? Josephson is definitely a qualified agent who always strives for every possible opportunity for his clients, "I think Eowwen is a good fit for her." ”

"Nancy, although the character is generally more vase-oriented." Duke didn't even think about it. "But some scenes are still very important, and I don't want to use a poker-faced actor." ”

Last time we worked together, Kate? Beckinsale's poor acting skills left an extremely bad impression on Duke.

Iowen does have a preference for vases, but there is a difference between the vase role and the vase role in Hollywood films, and she is still suitable for the kind of vampire without any expression or a pure vase role with low acting requirements.

See Duke vs. Kate? Beckinsale's acting skills were extremely impressed, and Nancy didn't say anything anymore, after all, Duke's words carried weight. is much heavier than the future of the little actor under his name.

This suddenly vacant character has a lot of weight in the film, and not long after Nancy left, while Duke was not busy, Kate? Blanchett also walked over.

"Do you also have an actor candidate to recommend?" Duke asked, seeing her tall figure.

Blanchett smiled lightly, "Remember seeing Ella at my house?" Fischer, Duke? ”

"She?" Duke frowned and thought for a moment. Remembering who it was, he nodded at Blanche. "Kate, leave her contact details with Tina and get her ready to come to Wellington for the audition."

"Thank you." Blanchett leaned into Duke's ear, "My Lord Sauron. ”

Duke replied with a business-like attitude, "I can only give her a chance to audition, and I can't make any other guarantees." ”

Speaking of which. He was slightly curious, "What is her relationship with you?" ”

Most of the time, Hollywood actresses, there will be such kindness and love there.

"Ella is a cousin of mine." Blanchett explained.

After a brief conversation, Duke returned to work. Most of the representatives of the various races who participated in the meeting of King Elon had finished their makeup and waited in the rest area, and the layout of the venue was nearing the end.

After a round around the filming location, Duke returned to the monitor, looked at the leaves piled up on the field, and called the head of the props team.

"Bill, have your men go up to the lift platform and scatter fallen leaves."

The head of the props team was just about to leave when Duke slapped him on the arm again and admonished, "Six people! ”

The meeting with Elon King, though long, was cut into a lot of short shots, in which the hobbit had to switch back and forth between actor and stand-in, when Ian? McClain and Elijah? When Wood appears in close-up shots at the same time, the crew still has to raise Ian? Where McLean stood, to highlight the difference between nine feet and four feet.

And then there's the work of scattering fallen leaves, which Duke advised.

At this meeting, the leaves of Rivendell were constantly falling to signal the expansion of the forces of evil, which meant that the six crew members had to throw leaves on the cranes that went up to different locations on the set.

Don't look at this as just inconspicuous work, the crew began to prepare a long time ago.

The leaves that were thrown down were collected by the crew in the autumn bag by bag, but the leaves that broke away from the trees quickly turned yellow, and they didn't look like fresh fallen leaves, so the props crew re-dyed each leaf, and then there were a lot of fallen leaves used in this scene.

Shooting a movie is never an easy task, and it is not at all a job that can be done with a good script or director.

A meeting, Duke filmed for two whole days, and then moved to another studio to continue filming the previous scenes of Roslorian, some shots can not be shot in the field, must be selected in a studio with better environmental conditions, with props and blue screen in the shape of shì can be better completed.

Most of the trees in the Golden Forest are realized by the crew in the form of props and sets, and often after a short shooting, these carefully crafted props and sets will be like James? Like the Titanic model ship that Cameron spent a lot of money to build, it can only be turned into garbage and disposed of as waste.

At such times, the props team and the people in the art direction department will always be reluctant, after all, there is too much effort in them.

From this aspect, it can also be seen that the time spent on the preparation of the vast majority of films is often several times or even more than ten times more than the time spent on shooting.

It's not too obvious now, and in the past few years, 100 million US dollars will become the basic starting point of mainstream commercial films, and films will rely more on special effects if they want to sell well, and the production cycle of Hollywood films will also be extended.

Most directors will even be stuck in this process, and the big investment also determines that the production company will not take the production process as a child's play, except for the top directors, other directors must follow the Hollywood assembly line model.

Even, like James? Cameron and Steven? Top directors such as Spiel Geber are examples of continuous success under the standard Hollywood model.

To put it bluntly, if it weren't for cheating, Duke wouldn't have made a movie at a rate that basically maintained one a year.

And this speed is almost at his limit, even if he can bear some things, the rest of the crew can't.

Don't forget, cinema is always a product of teamwork, not a job that a director can do alone.

Although there are occasional emergencies, the filming schedule has always been firmly under Duke's control, and in the last few days he has been filming Roslorian scenes in the studio, and after each day's shooting, he has to review Anna in another studio? Shots finished by Prinz.

Zack? Schneider officially left the crew to prepare for the last two parts of "The Matrix", Anna? Naturally, Prinz took over the position of first assistant director, working with Duke to share the heavy lifting of the filming.

There are just too many shots to shoot in the trilogy, and Duke is also with John? Schwartzman discussed letting him lead a film crew alone, but the increasingly fat director of photography had no intention of becoming a director independently, but just wanted to be the top director of photography in Hollywood.

"We've worked together for years, Duke." He said to Duke, "I know how much effort and energy you have put into getting to where you are today, how much pressure you have endured, the profession of directing is too scary for me, and the busy work and the pressure everywhere will crush me." ”

This kind of thing can't be forced, and Duke couldn't find a second suitable candidate for a while, so the crew had to continue filming in two.

The scene in the studio took a little more than a week to shoot, and the set was about to be dismantled.

Before the demolition, Bill, the head of the props team, stood here and filmed a commemorative tidbit for the recording.

"It took us eight months to build the props, but it took no more than eight days to shoot, and after the shooting, these beautiful trees and forests will disappear, but for generations of audiences, it will always be in the movie." ”

It can only be said that this is the film system.

Many large-scale investment film production processes are often also projects that generate a lot of garbage.

Subsequently, Duke participated in another interview for the role of Iowen, but took Anna into account? Prinz's opinion, after all, most of Eowwen's scenes will be filmed by her.

The two are relatively unanimous in their opinions, there are not too many differences, and among the three actors who participated in the second audition, Kate was chosen? Blanchett's recommended Ella? Fischer, and informed the other party to come to the crew to report.

With the completion of the role of Queen Galadriel, Kate? Blanchett also became the first official cast to say goodbye to the crew, and Duke gave her the Elven Queen's tiara and white costume as a commemorative gift, as originally agreed.

However, he specially asked people to prepare two sets of the queen's costumes. (To be continued......)

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