Chapter Thirty-Four: Filming and Shooting
James? Cameron planned a six- to eight-month shoot for "Terminator 2," and as the future savior of the film, Ryan had to follow the crew around California with almost every scene.
Among them, both John? Santa Monica Mall, where Connor met the two Terminators, and San Fernando's Highway Flood Control Drain.
In addition, at the Psychiatric Therapy Center at the Lakeview Cinema in Los Angeles, I have experienced first-hand the treatment of people with mental illness.
Originally, Cameron didn't have this paragraph in his original script, but in Linda? At Hamilton's insistence, he and William Schell Jr. revised the script, and the woman did show a surprising side.
Yes, although Linda? Hamilton doesn't actually look as stout as in the movies, but she also develops a lot of muscles, and Ryan has heard her say that in order to shoot the role, she hired a former IDF lieutenant colonel to train her, and during the thirteen weeks of training, she trained six days a week, for three hours a day, not only lost 12 pounds of fat, but also made the whole person look much stronger.
It's really not easy to be a good actor! That's Ryan's only emotion.
Of course, there were quite a lot of troubles during the filming, but as a minor, Ryan was the focus of the crew, and most of the troubles happened to others.
For example, during the filming of the chase scene of the flood control canal, there were several Arnold very chic spinning gun movements, but during the filming, there was a serious accident, when he was spinning the shotgun, his finger was hung on the trigger, almost cutting off the whole finger, so the indestructible T800 had to go to the hospital for maintenance.
Also, in this chase scene, the truck prepared by the crew was a cut above the road bridge, which made Cameron angry.
"Haven't you ever done a field trip? I'm sorry? Sorry, can you turn back time? Two hours, I'll only give you two hours, if you can't solve it, all the people in the props team will get out! ”
Ryan only remembered that the script was different from the movies in his previous life after hearing his angry voice, and his eyes rolled and he leaned over, "Jim, can Weishenme change the script?" For example, how about Robert crashing his car into a bridge and cutting off the part of the truck that stands tall? This shows the ruthless side of the T1000 and adds to the impact of the lens. ”
"Good idea." Cameron slapped his palm hard, "Ryan, I should have asked you to write the script together!" ”
Working with you? Looking at the tyrant who went to the prop group, Ryan pouted, unless I'm crazy!
"Ryan, do you always have so many ideas?" Robert? Patrick, the polar opposite of the T1000 he plays, is a very kind and laughing person in life.
"Hey, Mr. T1000, you're not going to do it now, are you? T800 maintenance is gone, you can't take advantage of people's danger. Ryan simply joked with him.
Speaking of which, Robert? Patrick was very lucky to be on the set, and Cameron was originally going to find Billy? Idol came to play the role, and the other party agreed, but the big hand of the god of fate seemed to control the sky related to the boy, just a few days before the start, the hapless rocker had a car accident, he seemed to be possessed by T1000, riding a motorcycle and a truck crashed, it is estimated that he will be in bed for at least a few months.
There are many action scenes in the filming, bumps and bumps are inevitable, the crew also found an action coach for Ryan before the start of filming, but the other party only gave him two safety lessons, in his words to Cameron, "Ryan is very flexible, like an ape, the action in the movie is not difficult for him at all, I think the only thing he has to learn is how to protect himself during filming." ”
"Jim, I've been exercising for at least an hour a day since I was five years old. After returning to Los Angeles from London, Nicole and I both had professional fitness instructors, so you don't have to worry about it at all. ”
Ryan only told half the truth, his flexible skills, of course, have a lot to do with long-term perseverance in training, but the experience of the previous life is more important, for the orphans on the other side of the ocean, they are not flexible, just wait to starve and be bullied, jumping up and down, stealing chickens and dogs, and fighting on the streets, all of which are just trivial.
Besides, he is not starring in action dramas and kung fu movies, and he can handle it with his skills.
Despite James? Cameron has pointed out the talent of burning money, but he is not as crazy as he was later, and when it is time to save, he will definitely not waste it.
In order to save the cost of hiring extras, many roles were cameos by people from various departments in the crew, such as himself, who played John? Connor's adoptive father, but the image is really miserable.
"Jim, any child, as long as he has an adoptive father like you, will definitely become a rebellious boy." Ryan deliberately provoked a thorn, "Look at it, Mr. Big Director, the whole crew you hurt has been with you thirteen times, and you should pay overtime out of your own pocket." ”
"Come on, Ryan, you're just not happy with me being your adoptive father." Cameron waved his hand and sat back in the director's chair.
During the filming of the T1000 and T800 in the Santa Moca Commercial Plaza, something even more amazing happened, a Japanese friend of Cameron's flew from Tokyo to Los Angeles by plane, without asking for any pay, in order to make a cameo in the film.
Is he John? Connor first encountered T800 when he was shot and killed by T1000 in the hallway.
In late December, when the filming of location in California was almost completed, a large number of reporters and paparazzi once again poured around the crew.
James? Cameron has a pretty good habit, his crew will always start shooting quietly, and the same is true for "Terminator 2", but with the exposure of the amount of investment, it has caused a heated discussion in the media, but after chasing and intercepting for a period of time and not digging up any exclusive news, the crew gradually quieted down.
Although there are still two or three kittens coming out from time to time, in the past two months, the crew has lived a relatively peaceful life and has not been harassed too much. Every once in a while, Hurd releases some shooting situations.
There are too many reporters coming this time, and the disturbing chaos has seriously affected the filming of the crew. Cameron was furious, and after reprimanding the crew's spokesman, he quickly figured out the situation.
"Ryan! What about Ryan? ”
"It's like resting in a trailer." Someone answered.
"Go get him out." Cameron gasped.
As the filming deepened, Ryan's grasp of the role became more and more in place, and the filming was a lot easier, and even the script of "Terminator 2" was thrown aside by him.
"What? Jim looking for me? I remember not having my lens in the morning. Seeing the assistant who came in a hurry, Ryan had no choice but to put away the sketch and go to the shooting location.
As soon as he got out of the trailer, he heard a chaotic sound, like a vegetable market in the early morning, no, it should be 100,000 green-headed flies flapping their wings at the same time.
He was already familiar with this kind of voice, who else would there be besides reporters and paparazzi.
"What's going on? There were a lot of reporters. Ryan muttered and walked over to the set.
"Ryan? Jenkins, you're too embarrassed to ask me what's going on! Seeing Cameron, who was a little hot, the boy felt inexplicable, "Did something happen?" Jim, who would dare to provoke you to such a fire? It can't be Linda, right? ”
"Those reporters and paparazzi are all here to find you!"
"Looking for me? What are you looking for me for? Ryan scratched his head, saying that his participation in "Terminator 2" had already been poked out by the media, even if they wanted to hype, the topic would have long passed, and now what are you doing interviewing yourself?
"You ask me, and I ask you."
In Cameron's opinion, this boy is indeed extremely smart, except for the first few days, and his performance in the later filming is impossible to find any fault, but he can always make people angry when he is angry.
All right! He was a little dissatisfied, those reporters came to his set to ask about the news of another movie, and everyone would be angry, right?
"Ryan, haven't you read the newspaper lately?" The assistant assigned to him by the crew came over at this time.
"No, I run with the crew all day long, either shooting, or writing and drawing, where is the time to read the newspaper, besides, I don't want my eyes to be abused, those tabloids are about to write me as a monster."
"Just today, the North American box office statistics for the four weeks of the release of "Home Alone" came out, do you know how many?"
"Hey, hurry up, don't sell it, okay?" Ryan gradually understood.
"That's more than 150 million dollars!"
"150 million, not a lot." Ryan scratched his head, he had experienced so many blockbuster baptisms in his previous life, so he naturally didn't think that this number was anything remarkable.
The people around him all rolled their eyes, and they had the urge to pull him out and beat him, and finally an assistant director couldn't help it, stood up and said, "Ryan, I think you know very well that this movie plus publicity is only an investment of 18 million US dollars, and it has only been released for four weeks now, and many critics are very optimistic about this movie, thinking that it can be compared with "The Sixth Sense" at the box office. ”
"Little ghost, if nothing else, the top two of this year's North American box office list are occupied by you." Cameron sighed, although the other party is not in the same business as him, but he has the feeling that the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, if he knows Chinese.
This is originally a thing in Jihua, right? Ryan shrugged, not because of their strong influence.
While it's not necessarily a good thing for all child stars to leave an impression on their childhood, for Ryan, there are a hundred ways he can easily transition after the age of sixteen.