Chapter 027: Cabin in the Woods

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"You've now been promoted to heroine!"

Since being promoted by new director Charlotte Booth, Charlize Theron has been in a mess for several days. Although she instinctively focuses when shooting, as soon as Charlotte shouts "Cut!", a sense of unreality arises.

- I'm really the heroine!? I'm not dreaming again, am I?

Time time again, Charlize asked herself, but she never got an answer.

However, perhaps the answer is obvious -

Not to mention the camera that often revolves around himself during the shooting, the jealous eyes of Erica and Vivian, two girls who were originally supporting actresses like herself, are enough to explain the problem. Although it is different from Charlize's past ballet lessons, when the dancers liked to put pushpins in the shoes of the newly promoted heroine, the two girls still expressed their "welcome" to the new heroine of the crew in their own way.

"These two little bitches who like to tell the truth!"

Thinking of the rumors circulating about himself in the crew, Charlize hated the originator of the rumors so much that his teeth itched-

Obviously, just being promoted from an ordinary supporting actress to the heroine by the new director is enough for those who are jealous to think about it, not to mention that there are still people who are playing right and wrong? In just a few days, Charlize has several new nicknames such as "blonde slut" and "hairy boy's mare" - the so-called "hairy boy" naturally refers to the new director Charlotte, who can achieve the position of director in his thirties, and is naturally the object of envy of many people. However, in comparison, Charlotte is in a much better position than Charlize.

As a director, Charlotte's real power is naturally on the one hand - in the face of unconvinced actors, he is just an NG accentuated shoot that can be rectified - on the other hand, Charlotte's level of integrity is really high. When Erica and Vivien start to incite hostility towards Charlize, they also piggyback on Charlotte, who promoted her, but after the latter arranges for them to live in a cannibal house, the two long-tongued women are immediately much more honest.

- The cannibal house is the home of the cannibalistic mutants in the movie. It's not a makeshift set like many of the houses in the movies, but a complete wooden house. When the crew selected the location, in order to save costs, they deliberately chose this place with a hut in the woods, which also made the cannibal house the only physical building near the location.

Like many crews on location, the crew, which was officially named "Fatal Bend" by director Charlotte after adapting the script, also used tents and RVs as night accommodations. However, considering that the crew is not rich in funds and there are no stars in the cast, there are basically more tents and fewer RVs. In this case, the cannibal house, which was originally just an ordinary house, became hot.

The cabin was originally a makeshift house built by the Bianers Valley rangers to give hunters and patrolling rangers a place to stay. It's definitely not comfortable to live in, but if you compare it to a regular field tent, it's really the difference between a presidential suite and a motel. Therefore, in line with the principle of making full use of resources, when not filming at night, the members of the crew will also use this place as a residence.

Of course, considering that ladies are preferred, those who live in cannibal houses at night are women with relatively weak physical fitness. Among them, the actresses of the crew account for the main part.

For the first two nights, Charlize lived with another female makeup artist, Annika - although she was not famous, Charlize was now the heroine after all, and she always had to receive some preferential treatment, and when rumors about her and Charlotte began to circulate, Mr. Director was kind enough to say that for the sake of justice, the best cannibal house was planned to be inhabited by female members of the crew in turn, and now it was time for Erica and Vivian to live in the two supporting actresses.

When he heard this, Charlize only felt that Charlotte was weakly backing down, and this kind of pretended fairness did not have the effect of quelling the rumors at all, but might make the provocateurs even worse. At that time, she was very disappointed in the man who had always made her a little curious, but after only one night, this feeling was completely reversed-

"Did you sleep well last night?"

The next morning, while gloating over the frightened bloodless faces of Erica and Vivian, it took a great deal of effort for Charlize not to laugh out loud.

In fact, it is very simple to say -

As a rookie director, in order to avoid some surprises, Charlotte chose to shoot completely in the order of the script. This method, compared with the conventional scene-based shooting, both the director and the actors, are easier to control, although it may make the shooting progress slower, but the revised script, the scenes are not very many, and they are concentrated in this very cheap rent location, so the impact is actually not big. However, it was this way of shooting in the order of the script that killed Erica and Vivien.

During the two days when Charlize used the cannibal house, the crew filmed the beginning, and at that time, all the shots were walking around on a dirt road in the mountains, and the cannibal house was not used as a shooting scene, so the layout inside was exactly what it was before.

By the time Erica and Vivian moved in, the filming of the movie had already passed the beginning and entered the part related to the cannibal house. As a result, there are more things like human skin books, bottles full of dead people's teeth, knives used to dismember corpses, knives that have not yet been cleaned, etc., and the whole furnishings have become dirty and eerie - of course, these are the props and sets needed for the filming, all fake. But even if you know it's fake, if you want to sleep peacefully in this terrifying atmosphere, the degree of nerve strength required can't be described as a simple big one.

The two supporting actresses who didn't realize this naturally had a very exciting night, and the screams that rang out from time to time in the middle of the night sounded so sour to Charlize that she had to come to stimulate the two of them the next morning, wanting to relive that beautiful feeling.

Erica and Vivien refused to sit still, and after a little recovery from a night of panic and insomnia, the two of them asked Charlotte to allow them to pack up "those scary props", however, this time Mr. Director did not hesitate to say NO:

"Now that the part of the cannibal house has been filmed, the layout inside is the result of the hard work of many staff, in order to make it easy to use and save labor costs, you can't move around until the end of the shooting!

Mr. Director shrugged his shoulders, looking like he had seen through all the ghosts, snakes, and gods,

"If you're really scared, just move out honestly!"

"This ......"

Although I was scared and screamed in the middle of the night, I already lost a big face in the crew, but if I moved out the next day, wouldn't it be equivalent to completely admitting it? Although she has made quite a lot of achievements in terms of short-term and long-term performance, the two supporting actresses are also young girls in the end, and they still have a bit of momentum, and they don't want to admit defeat easily. So, to die to save face and suffer alive, the next night, in the cannibal house, "Scream 2" continued to be staged......

"If you're scared, move out early! The ghost screamed for two nights, not only yourself, but everyone's rest was also affected, who will bear the loss caused to the filming progress?"

On the morning of the third day, while watching the two girls who were scared like quails move, Mr. Director mended the knife.

"The cannibal house is still for Charlize and the others to live in. However, as punishment, I may compress your role appropriately!"

Being compressed by the director is an effective threat and punishment for most actors. After all, not everyone is Anthony Hopkinson, who can almost overwhelm Jodie Foster, who is dangling in front of the camera the whole time, in just 21 minutes. Most people act, and if they want to be brilliant, they still need more shots and lines - from this point of view, it is really normal for Woody Allen's chatter style to be favored by the Oscars.

If there are more lines, there will naturally be more opportunities to perform, and it will be much easier to perform brilliantly. And only by performing well, will there be more fame and income - this is true even for those vase actors. It's just that for them, it's more about their figure and face than their acting skills. However, this also requires more shots. You don't see that in "Transformers" 1 and 2, the camera has to rotate on Megan Fox's bumpy carcass whenever he has the opportunity, and that's the reason.

Therefore, being threatened by Charlotte to compress the scene, Erica and Vivien were naturally furious. However, in view of the fact that their frightened cries had disturbed many people's sleep during the previous two nights, they had to swallow their anger now.

And taking the opportunity to clean up these two long-tongued women, Charlotte's authority in the hearts of actors and some grassroots staff can be regarded as completely established. Charlize naturally applauded this, but she was more worried about the cannibal house, after all, she had also seen the current layout inside, although there was no large number of sets left by the couples who came to the hut when she first checked in, but many of the newly put props were indeed terrifying even in the eyes of Charlize who had seen the real ghost of Alexis.

"You can go and live in peace! It's not that scary. ”

Charlotte didn't pay much attention to this, but just winked at Charlize mysteriously.

So, Charlize had to move into the cannibal house again with some trepidation. In fact, as Charlotte said, even if surrounded by these terrifying props, whether it is Charlize or the makeup artist named Anika, they can still sleep normally, even if it is not a good night's sleep, it is still relatively easy not to have nightmares.

"Erica was scared before, it couldn't be that Charlotte did something with some strange spells, right?"

That night, half-asleep, Charlize suddenly thought of this possibility. However, before she could think about it, Annika, a makeup artist who slept not far from her, sat up with a "whew".

"He's calling me!"