Chapter Seventy-Two: Cautious Steven, Grumpy James
However, even if you are handsome, you can't eat it.
Since Spielberg's storyboard didn't even have such a thing as a velociraptor in it, it was naturally impossible for Roland to foolishly ask how Triceratops, a representative of the Late Cretaceous herbivorous dinosaurs, was replaced by a velociraptor dinosaur.
After asking about the shooting method of the triceratops, Roland wrote down the name Stan Winston in his heart.
When he returned, he pestered Cameron and asked him to take him to Stan Winston's studio, wanting to see up close what Spielberg's model looked like.
After all, Stan Winston is a guy that Cameron is familiar with.
This person is not only a master of visual effects, a master of model effects of Industrial Light & Magic, but also one of the three founders of the digital field.
It is precisely because Roland knows that Winston will be fooled out of ILM by Cameron, so he thought of going Cameron's path, if the other party is a diehard of ILM, then it would be more effective to find Spielberg.
At the same time that Roland set his goal, Spielberg's side also completed all the work.
Seeing that the time for returning to the group was approaching, after the two sides knew each other's intentions, they returned to Los Angeles together.
Because this time it was Spielberg's private jet, Roland, who came to the airport again, did not encounter the previous siege situation, and at the time of separation, Garnetty, who had become a 'best friend' with Catherine, greeted his daughter and said goodbye to them one by one amicably, as for - Spielberg and Roland?
The two of them, but they were a beat slower than everyone else.
Not only that, when getting off the plane, Spielberg also cautiously instructed Roland:
"Don't tell James anything related to Jurassic Park."
"Although he can't just leave Terminator 2 alone and come to me directly, but-"
"In a short period of time, "Jurassic Park" will not be able to start."
The cautious gaze under the lenses was clearly captured by Roland.
The trucker's rogue kung fu of never letting go of something has always been something Roland wants to learn.
"Okay director, I won't talk nonsense."
Roland nodded and said, "Then we'll see you when we film "Captain Hook"?" ”
Spielberg laughed with satisfaction from his neat answer, although Zemeckis was a guy he was very optimistic about, and he also loved the house and Wu, and was willing to take more care of that student's students, and even teach techniques, but--this did not mean that he liked things like long-tongued women and project secrets, and it was okay for his own people to ask as much as they wanted, but if anyone was not strict in his mouth and bragged and leaked indiscriminately, then he would be really unhappy.
Although Cameron is also his friend, it is still much worse than the relationship of inheritance.
He can safely hand over the camera to Lucas and let him help with the shooting, or he can accept the proposal of Big Brother Francis, revise the script, and even hand over the project to his fellow gangsters, but - he doesn't want guys other than his own to interfere with his creation.
Since Roland is so upright, he naturally won't be as worried as Ba Po.
"No problem, you know where the crew is, just come over when the time comes."
"We'll be on in February, and at that time, James' side shouldn't have been sealed yet."
"But it doesn't matter, I've seen his schedule, and during the period of time at the end, he also filmed in-studio dramas, if you want to come over, just ask Sony's staff to take you over with the factory battery car."
"It doesn't matter if you miss it, Robert also learned from watching videos back then."
Okay -
If Spielberg and Roland had mentioned Zemeckis three days ago, he might not have known how to reply, but now, after getting acquainted, he certainly knows what kind of answer is the safest, "I just watched director Zemeckis filming on the set of Universal, and he also answered some of my questions, as for systematic teaching, I have never heard it." ”
"It doesn't matter, if you're interested, learn slowly."
Spielberg didn't care about Roland's words, just like everyone in the circle saw the clues.
That kind of skill imprint can't be made in a moment and a half, and it can't be washed away with three or two strokes.
didn't dwell too much on this kind of topic, before parting, Spielberg also threw out the last question, "Oh yes, since it's a cameo, then our signing contract is only a salary of one dollar, I haven't thought about your picture for the time being, I'll talk about it when you come......"
"No problem, Director." Roland didn't hesitate and answered directly, "It's all up to you." ”
To be honest, signing a contract really doesn't matter to Roland.
It doesn't matter if there is a shot or not.
Now he is not interested in any movie role, but the whole process from scratch.
From Robert Zemeckis at the beginning, to Chris Columbus later, and then to James Cameron......
The filming experience of getting along with every director is his greatest wealth.
The sparks of thought and inspiration that flicker in each director are more important than any money.
Many people say that knowledge is wealth, and this sentence is the biggest scam.
What ninety-eight-five-two-one-one, it is better to demolish ten suites, and it is enshrined as the truth.
However, there is such a thing as film creation, whether it will or not, it is different.
The level of skill is even more able to make judgments.
Even if your artistic cells are not enough, after a long period of technical cultivation, the most common thing is that Lang Howard has a steady painting style; If you can get a little bit of inspiration, to the level of Robert Zemeckis, it's also very possible; If he finds his own path and carries it forward, Tim Burton's box office status is far away; If you suddenly open your mind and can perfectly integrate technology and movies, then James Cameron's figure is in front of you; As for the various styles, switch at will -
Ahem, ahem.
This, it depends on whether the artistic cells in your body are thick or not.
If a year ago, Roland needed start-up capital to try to make himself a pig on the cusp.
Now that the start-up capital is available and the target project is available, when the second senior brother is a thing, he can put it aside first.
Anyway, it's still early, and these things are not in a hurry.
Because of this, in the case of money and hard waist, for Roland, who wants to do this business, the real shooting experience of those bigwigs is quite important.
And with the end of the holiday, Roland also re-entered the crew of "Terminator 2".
Since it was a New Year's Eve vacation, he naturally brought a lot of gifts to the crew members.
The smiles on the faces of those guys made Roland happy when they were distributed.
Regardless of whether the emotions revealed by the other party are real, anyway, when standing at the door of the crew to deliver things, Roland feels that he is no different from Brother Pony who stands at the door of the Goose Factory building every year and gives out red envelopes!
Isn't what he gave is equivalent to a New Year's red envelope!
It feels so good to be worth 100 billion!
However, when the truck driver joined the group, he could clearly feel that the other party's interest was not high.
Not only that, but while this guy took the gift, he glared at Roland.
"Roland Allen?"
"What are you doing standing here?"
"Go in, go in!"
"It's time to put on makeup, it's time to read books, it's time to prepare, don't stand here stupidly!"
"We paid you to let you come to film! It's not for you to send gifts here! ”
The sudden irritable words made Roland confused.
No...... Did you take the wrong medicine?
I kindly gave you a New Year's gift, not only did not say a word of thanks, but opened my mouth to scold people?
What does that mean?
The point is, it doesn't matter if you can't see it, you are the boss of the entire crew, but you have already taken the gifts out of the bag, and then scolded them???
It's shameless, isn't it?
If Roland's irascible words at the first meeting made Roland look confused, then the other party's thunderous hair on the set after that really made him unable to understand it.
Robert Patrick, who plays T-1000, is just laughing, but with his helpless laughter, the truck driver jumps into a rage and gives the other party a rain of saliva.
This situation made Roland very puzzled.
He even wondered if the truck driver had suffered a life-saving blow in the past two weeks.
And just when he was puzzled, Schwarzenegger, who was useless and was sprayed by Cameron before, helped him solve his doubts.
Sighing, rubbing his face with his hands helplessly, Schwarzenegger said: "I heard-"
"Quarrelsome—"
"Probably—"
"I want a divorce—"
A few simple words made Roland guess the cause and effect, if nothing else, the quarrel in the mouth of the future governor was naturally Cameron and his wife, that is, the only female director in future history to win the Oscar for Best Director.
And the story between them is really inexplicable.
There is a saying that it is difficult for a clean official to decide family affairs, after Cameron and Bigelow divorced, they have been walking towards a high place, first filming "True Lies", and then "Titanic", compared with him, Bigelow's life trajectory is simply falling into a trough.
But ten years later, Cameron, who came with "Avatar" and broke his own record, was defeated by his ex-wife's "Bomb Disposal Unit".
The incompleteness in this kind of surprise is really embarrassing.
Such a reincarnation made the gossip between the two of them explode in an instant.
Back then, when they divorced, was Cameron first in love with Linda Hamilton, the heroine of the "Terminator" series?
Or will Bigelow and Tom Sizemore, who will star in "The Line of Fire," "Saving Private Ryan," "Black Hawk Down," "Pearl Harbor," and "Enemy of the Nation," be the first to win?
Who knows about this kind of thing!
The gossip that exposes people's sore spots, Roland doesn't want to know.
After sighing lightly, he shrugged his shoulders and said, "Don't discuss this kind of thing, just don't know." ”
"Huh?" Schwarzenegger snorted lightly, not meaning to refute.
Because Cameron's temper is really not good now, Roland, who was entangled by his side before, also fell silent.
Touching someone's mold when they're angry, isn't this a brain disease?
Not only that, but the idea of hoping that Cameron could match up and tie up with Stan Weston, the master of mold special effects, was also put away by Roland.
Anyway, I have to contact Spielberg next, and "Jurassic Park" will not be able to shoot for a while, so there is no need to worry about this matter at all.
In this state, the crew went to an abandoned factory, where they finished filming the fight scene between the T-800 and T-1000 at the end of the film.
And when filming this segment, Roland also discovered that in later generations, the actress who filmed with 140 barrels of mineral water was really 'wronged'.
In "Terminator 2", is the final scene of molten steel in the steel mill a special effect?
It's not—
Roland watched the prop master pour buckets of milk into the sink.
In the end, the T-800 self-destructed was not produced in post-production of special effects, the set designer just filled the sink with water, and then directly shot an approximate light through the headlights hidden at the bottom......
Not only that, but there is also a reason why the governor looked up when he fell into the molten steel before he self-destructed.
Is it the love and responsibility of robots?
Nope-
It's that the light in the water is so strong that if you look down, you'll be blind!
Such a situation really makes Roland want to vomit.
But—
Seeing Cameron's unhappy face, he still held back.
Even the cancer of the crew like Roland has stopped, and the atmosphere of "Terminator 2" during the filming sprint is even more dull.
Under the pressure of the truck driver, everyone became unusually silent.
However, even if Roland is surrounded by black clouds, there is still good news like the dawn.
After entering January, "Home Alone" was hit by new films and the decline became larger, but even so, it still swept away nearly 260 million box office from North America, if it is postponed for one to two months, it will not be a problem to exceed 300 million.
With the simultaneous release of many countries and regions, the global box office has also reached 400 million, and the prize money brought by the box office also appeared on Roland's account on time.
As for the sequel?
What had been tested twice by Fox before, suddenly there was no news.
And this, in fact, is also very simple -
Chris Columbus's new film "Men Get Married" will be released in '91;
Joe Pesci's "The Landlord from Hell" and "JFK" will also be available this year;
Daniel Stern's "City Hillbilly" has even been finalized;
Not only that, John Hughes, who has been out of touch since filming, is also filming his new movie "Street Pretty Girl......
To put it mildly, although "Home Alone" was a big hit, no one from the producer to the actors was worried about the sequel, and everyone left Fox aside and waited for the final box office figures to arrive.
However, this is also normal.
Wait for the price to sell!
Everyone hopes that their worth can rise as much as the box office.
Moreover, "Home Alone" is not a special effects blockbuster in the future, if the main creative team is abandoned, Fox will not want to play at all, in the face of this situation, whoever can't hold his breath first will fall into passivity.
If it were in the past, investors like Fox might have contacted all parties a long time ago and wanted to break through each other.
But the problem is that now there are five people in the main creative team, which is ironclad.
Roland and Chris Columbus, Joe Percy, and Daniel Stern are in the same boat, as for John Hughes......
I forgot to mention it.
Chris Columbus has finished filming "The Marriage of a Man", and the producer in charge of the lead is John Hughes.
In this way, in the case of a group of five, Roland is of course happy.
He wished that everyone was on the same mind and hung on Fox!
You know, the negotiation time in his mind was after the filming of "Captain Hook"!
If nothing else, at least, let him follow Spielberg and finish a movie first, right?
In addition to this pleasant thing, a sudden invitation also surprised him.
As he followed the trucker's request, he held his breath and endured the exposure from the bottom of the water, and watched the future governor fall into the boiling molten steel, his eyes moist (stimulated by the light!). When he wanted to cry, the agent he hadn't seen for a long time suddenly came and personally handed him an envelope.
After Roland opened it and took a look, he realized what the gilded invitation meant.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association hopes that Roland Allen will be able to attend the 48th Annual American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards at the Hollywood Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles on January 19, 91.
Because—
Along with Gerald Depardieu ("Green Card Love"), Johnny Depp ("Edward Scissorhands"), Richard Gere ("Pretty Woman"), and Patrick Swayze ("Ghost Love"), he was included in the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical Comedy.