Chapter 18: Who is the other angel?
Rookie director Harry said after getting the script that he would study it for a while, but fortunately, he is already a senior this year, and he doesn't need to take any professional classes, and this movie is enough to be used as a graduation work, so the "Angel" crew doesn't need to be in a hurry to form it.
And it's useless for Harry to be anxious, he can't find any suitable actor to play "Gary" in the film.
So Lucy left the United States and traveled to the distant Himalayas to find the most suitable person on the planet.
"Why do you think I'm going to go to a movie with you?" The Ancient One Mage has been irritated lately, one is that the harassment of the Goddess of Death has made her uneasy, but so far she has not found a candidate who can take her place.
But in general, the Ancient One Mage was still very calm, unlike those of her disciples.
"You actually want the great Ancient One Mage to act? This is simply a provocation! Mordo was a black man, but unlike his fellow citizens, this black man was quite old-fashioned, even to the point of rigidity.
"Didn't you mages say that too? You're not an ancient, and you use wifi, so what about acting in a movie? Lucy spread out his hands and continued to try to persuade the Ancient One.
"You know, I've been busy lately." The Ancient One gave Lucy a subtle warning, she didn't plan to let her apprentices know that they were about to die, these magicians may have mastered supernatural powers, but few of them could match the state of mind.
In the past, they had the Ancient One Mage as their strongest backing, and they were fearless, but once they lost the Ancient One Mage, no one knew what the consequences would be.
"It's because you're so busy, so you need to relax!" Unlike the Ancient One, Lucy was able to directly see what mortal souls looked like, and the Ancient One also needed to rely on a magical network to find heirs, but Lucy was able to directly see a person's potential.
It's really not good, Lucy also plans to take the position of the Supreme Mage first, and the other party will not object, after all, on the current earth, except for Lucy, no one can fight against Dormammu, the Dark Lord.
"Shut up!" Although he didn't know why the Supreme Mage would let this young man enter Kama Taj, Mordo really couldn't stand the other party's wild words.
"Mordo." The Ancient One mage stopped Mordu, she didn't want to see her disciple fight a Seraph.
Although Lucy is only a mortal now, the Ancient One does not believe that Lucy will really seal his power.
"So, since it's a movie, do you have a script now?" Ancient One's answer surprised her disciples, although Ancient One had never traveled before, but he had always been incognito, and at this time, the Supreme Master actually had the intention of showing up?
"Of course, I'm the screenwriter of this movie." Lucy pulls out the script and takes it from his portable subspace.
Seeing this hand, the rest of the mages were slightly shocked, they didn't notice any fluctuations in mana, which meant that Lucy was either a much stronger mage than them, or he was using a power unknown to them.
Either way, it's not good news.
"Oh, interesting story." The ancient one roughly flipped over. "But there's nothing brilliant about it."
"It's just human nature, this kind of story has been filmed up a long time ago, right?" Indeed, there is a precedent for the so-called movies that expose human nature, and no matter which aspect of human nature it is, it is nothing new.
Harry Daniel's uncle, the great director Ray Allen, also has the same opinion.
Harry is the only junior in the family, and Ray Allen himself lost his fertility in his early years due to an accident on the set, so he has always regarded this nephew as his own son, and he has been the best for Harry since he was a child, and Harry will choose to take the road of directing, which is not unrelated to the fact that Ray Allen often took him to the set to play when Harry was young.
But Ray Allen was very much in favor of Harry making the film.
What's so bad about old stories?
Why do the so-called "routines" and "bridge sections" exist? Isn't it because people like it? Because people like it, people are constantly making repetitive things, whether it's novels or movies, and as long as people's preferences don't change, these things will reappear in front of everyone's eyes over and over again.
But people also have a characteristic, called liking the new and hating the old, and then the popular element, if you read it today, it will be this tomorrow, and if you see it the day after tomorrow, it will not be so popular.
As long as you grasp everyone's boredom with "routines", find an element that everyone likes to see, but has not appeared much recently, and then make it into a movie. Then you have a good chance of success.
And this time there is something different.
"The brilliance won't be the story itself." Lucy shook his finger. "It's going to be you and me."
Yes, dare to ask which crew can invite a real angel to act in a movie with a Supreme Mage?
Although the movie requires acting, not the real reaction of people, Lucy believes that no one will be able to perform his aura, and no one will be able to have the mentality of the ancient one.
has guarded the earth for hundreds of years, this state of mind of the ancient mage, what actor can perform through what kind of "experience life"?
"Lucy......" Ancient One Mage paused, "If I can't find that person, will you help me?" โ
Master Gu Yi is not a traverser, and she doesn't know where her successor is at this time, so she is willing to go out of the mountain to act in this movie, and there is also a meaning that Lucy owes a favor.
"Of course." Lucy nodded, even if the ancient mage didn't let him owe this favor, Lucy would help the earth to pass this hurdle, although his feelings with humans were very complicated, but it was impossible for him to see the earth in crisis and not take action.
"Okay." Gu Yi smiled, she agreed, perhaps, in the last stage of her life, she could once again leave "protecting the earth" and do something else, it would also be a pleasure.
When Lucy takes the Ancient One to Harry, he finds that the rookie director is drawing a storyboard.
"Harry, why am I all in the back in these storyboards?" Lucy asked.
"I was going to shoot this film from a third-person perspective similar to the first person." Harry explained.
"With a slight elevation angle, take a close-up shot from behind you, and the audience will feel like they are behind you and you are taking you to visit the city." What Harry didn't say was that it would be a bit more brutal, as it was more akin to a documentary.
Of course, this is a feature film after all, and there are a lot of panoramic shots and Lucy's front, and Harry will bring the audience back to God's perspective and think about the problems that the city raises at the right time.
Assembling a crew is a very difficult thing for most novice directors.
Although Hollywood implements a producer-centric system, most directors do not have much power, but as newcomers, more directors can only invest themselves and act as producers, so that the work of coordinating the entire crew is put on the director.
And the newcomer, where does the authority come from? Although everyone has basic professionalism, if you want to be a tyrant on the set like James Cameron, it is probably impossible.
But fortunately, Harry Daniel is not a pure rookie director, he can borrow his uncle's team.
Not to mention, Harry grew up on his uncle's set since he was a child, he has met several big stars, and many old people in the crew are acquaintances of Harry, so everyone is willing to give Ray Allen face, and they are also willing to support Harry's career.
This kind of feeling that my family has just grown up is global and regardless of region.
If Harry's identity helped him stabilize the crew, then the role of Lucy and the Ancient One was to stimulate the entire crew.
Because at the beginning, the "Lucy" in the movie didn't need to show his identity as an angel, so Lucy was just like an ordinary person, being a pure newcomer, adhering to the idea of asking more and learning more, but the "Gary" played by the ancient one was different, and the ancient one mage himself was not a professional actor and would not restrain his momentum, so after she joined the group, Lucy found that everyone had less time to joke!
"Little Harry, where did you get such an actor?" The cinematographer is undoubtedly the second most powerful person in the crew after the director, and as a veteran cinematographer who watched Harry grow up, John's status sometimes surpasses Harry's.
This is not just talking, in the handling of many scenes, Harry and John have a disagreement, if the director is Ray Allen, then John will not have half a sentence, but in front of Harry, John will have an argument.
It's not a struggle for power, it's that as an elder, John wants to help Harry grow up faster, don't you say, there are a lot of shots that are handled according to John's opinion.
But it is such a "big guy" on the set, who is also cautious when facing the ancient one, according to Lucy's words, "I have made you a Buddha statue." "Naturally, there is a feeling of less confidence.
"I don't know, this is the actor Lucy found." Even John was like this, and Harry was even more unbearable, even speaking softly when explaining the camera.
"Speaking of Brother Lucy, he is also very powerful, little Harry, you don't see it, in the entire crew, Brother Lucy dares to chat with that Miss Gu Yi, I went to ask the makeup team, and even the makeup artist has never talked to Miss Gu Yi!" John himself too, every time he wanted to talk to Miss Gu Yi, he had the illusion that "the heavens will descend on the people", and then he lost the desire to chat.
Therefore, during the two months of filming, the ancient one mage relied on his aura to shock the whole crew, until the last scene.
Lucy is walking on a stretch of road, and according to the plot, this is when he is going to show his angelic nature.
This is the final shot, Lucy has also become friends with those actors in the past two months, especially Neil's little friend who plays two roles, his role as the dragon and phoenix sibling killer is very amazing, and Lucy is also Neil's favorite person in this crew.
After all, Lucy is handsome.
Everyone was watching Lucy's performance, and after this scene ended, they also agreed to have a meal together, which was also Lucy's proposal, which fully demonstrated the habits of the Chinese.
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First the back, but very strangely, everyone suddenly felt that there was something different about Lucie's back.
Then Lucy turned his head, and those eyes, the cold and holy, and at the same time compassionate, struck directly at everyone's heart.
Including the Ancient One.
"Is this you? Lucifer ......"