Chapter 233: Scandal Hype
No matter what others think, Alex and Brigitte's relationship is getting closer and closer, and at the end of the day, they have become a pair and are inseparable. The two live together, like newlyweds, you and I are nong, which makes many people look sideways.
Regarding the relationship between the two of them, many people dare not say anything, after all, Alex is their boss, and even if he has any thoughts in his heart, he will not show it.
As for Hepburn's old friend, she persuaded Alex at the beginning, but when she saw that the two were already like glue, she couldn't say anything more.
No matter how others misunderstand Brigit, Alex is the one who understands her best, maybe others think she is a big-chested and unscrupulous woman, but the real Brigitte is very smart, and she has a set of means to treat people and things.
Usually when she has free time, Brigitte will hold a book and sit quietly by herself to read. She reads a wide variety of books, including philosophy, biographies, and romance novels.
"Brigit, aren't you going to play with them?"
Once, during the free time of filming, everyone in the crew gathered together for a barbecue for fun. Alex was surprised to find Brigitte alone in the room reading, and almost thought something had happened, so that Brigitte didn't seem to fit in.
"No, I don't really like crowded places!" Brigitte's answer was very unusual, and it didn't feel like the usual social maniac, but more like a nerd.
"For what? Don't you usually like to talk to them? ”
"No, it's just work. Now that I rarely have time to rest, who will deal with them! ”
After listening to Brigitte's words, Alex already had some clarity in his heart. Ever since Brigitte made it clear that she wanted to be with Alex, the other men in the crew didn't dare to come over and continue to pester, especially in this environment.
Perhaps sensing what Alex was thinking, Brigitte put the book aside in her hand, looked at him and explained, "I know what those men are thinking about when they see me, and of course not all of them are like that, like when I'm with you. I know what you think of me in your heart! ”
Hear something like that. Alex's face felt a little red, and he said, "Actually, I've thought about some bad things, but men are like this, you don't have to go to the net!" ”
Brigitte shook her head. Her eyes darkened and she said, "It's hard for me to get rid of my reputation as a wolf. This is the worst and most enduring injustice of my life! ”
Yes. When people look at Brigitte, it's very unfair!
This is a true portrayal of Brigitte's life. Young Brigitte? After Bardot's overnight fame, her life was disrupted by success. Newspapers and magazines hyped up all kinds of slander about her. It made her fall into the trap of fame and unable to extricate herself.
Whether it's a man or a woman, when people talk about Brigit, they associate her with sex.
After the success of "God Created Women", her name was also attributed to Marilyn? Monroe class, she and Roger? Vadim's marriage has also become a short-lived raw material for the press. Before she could take control of her own life, she became "public property".
However, Brigitte is smarter than Monroe, she knows how to constantly learn to improve her self-cultivation, and at the same time actively participates in social politics. As a smart woman, the first thing she has to do is find a solid arm to lean on. No matter what kind of purpose it was, she approached Alex intentionally or unintentionally, and at first there may have been some utilitarian purposes, but now she has really liked him.
The weather in Nevada is sweltering, especially in the summer, when the sun is hot and scorching. They were only able to shoot outdoors for a few hours in the morning and evening, otherwise the heat would not only cause heat stroke, but also burn the equipment.
Even so, with Alex's effective scheduling, the first part of the "Planet of the Apes" series was quickly completed, and they are now filming the second part.
This second movie is called "Lost Planet of the Apes", and the original version tells the story of the rescue team sent by the earth, and the result also experienced what happened to Taylor, the protagonist of the first part, and then the second protagonist found Nova (female primitive) to find Taylor together, and met the mother orangutan and the only remaining humans on the earth in the future.
These humans have been mutated by exposure to nuclear radiation, and although their brains are highly developed, their appearance has become ugly monsters. In particular, they also worship an atomic bomb and regard it as a god. The culmination in a nuclear bomb explosion ends the movie.
Alex adapted the storyline of the film, believing that going through what happened to Taylor again was simply unnecessary and unnecessary.
So he removed the protagonist of the second part of the original version, and continued to use Taylor as the protagonist.
He and Brigitte are the main characters in the second part, and through the experiences of the two of them on Earth after the apocalypse, they show the relics of the great civilization of mankind.
In this film, one can see the crumbling city buildings, abandoned transportation hubs, and various buildings from a distance. The flooding of the New York subway system will begin to erode the city's foundations. Moreover, as various cities fall apart, the crisscrossing asphalt roads will give way to a real jungle.
Most of the infrastructure built by humans will begin to collapse almost immediately. Without human maintenance, New York's subway system would be flooded in a matter of days, bridges would be badly rusted, and skyscrapers would collapse.
There are also things that will be preserved, such as some common plastic products that may remain undamaged for millions of years, and will not disintegrate until microorganisms have evolved enough to break them down. The bronze statue can still maintain its original form after tens of millions of years, and has become the most preserved relics of human civilization on the earth. Radio and television signals emitted by humans will forever float through the universe.
In Alex's setting, the apes have a limited population and can only occupy a small area. Much of the Earth's land has been kept in pristine condition, partly because of the residual radioactive effects of the war. On the other hand, it is because these lands are back in the hands of nature.
Without humans, North America could soon become a habitat for giant deer, and the continent would be covered by vast forests again. Eventually, larger herbivores will evolve there. Correspondingly, larger carnivores will also appear. In Hawaii, cattle and pigs will become masters of this area due to the lack of carnivores.
In order to show the face of these future earths, the work of the special effects team was very urgent, and many scenes had to be built and the panorama was modeled. Medium shots and close-ups require such ruin-like buildings.
Alex's second film. The storyline is very simple, and most of the shots are showing this post-human post-apocalyptic landscape of the earth. Among them, you can see the city logo that everyone is familiar with. For example, New York Square, Lincoln Memorial, Golden Gate Bridge, etc.
To give them a boost. That is, the ape-man society sent a pursuit force. The rulers of these orangutans believe that Alex and Brigitte are a threat to their survival.
"We must nip danger in the bud, and if this pair of men and women multiply, it will bring destruction to us apes!"
"At the very least, keep these people in our hands. Can't let it go! ”
"That's right, for the sake of the orangutans, we have to catch them!"
The "visionary" orangutan experts kept calling, so the ruler listened to this argument and sent a team, and as for the mother orangutan, played by Hepburn, she was also recruited into the team because she was most familiar with the two humans.
In addition, the runaway hero and heroine learn from a prehistoric document that the United States built a huge spaceship "Ark 2" before the demise of humanity. The ship was not used for various reasons, and was still stored in a secret base, and it is estimated that it can still be used.
In order to escape the pursuers, and at the same time to return to modern human society, Alex and Brigitte went to pursue the spaceship.
Eventually, they found Ark 2, and the pursuers had sealed off the base. In order to escape and fly into space, they control the spacecraft to launch a missile that blows up a passage.
After flying into the air, the pursuers also found the base's defenses, and they tried to control the human missiles to shoot the ship down. Unexpectedly, the nuclear bomb doomsday system was triggered by mistake, countless missiles took off into the sky, and the earth once again experienced a missile wash.
Seeing mushrooms rising all over the earth in the universe, the hero and heroine who escaped escaped passed through the wormhole and returned to the past, and when they landed the spaceship on the earth, they found that the earth was actually in the age of dinosaurs. They became Adam and Eve, the first human beings!
In this film, in addition to the large number of actors that need to be used in Ape City, the other scenes are basically more than a dozen actors, and there may even be only two actors, Alex and Brigitte.
The biggest workload is the special effects team, who not only has to make up the characters who play the apes, but also build various special effects sets.
With DreamWorks sparing no expense, these sets were quickly tinkered with by special effects artists. The film was shot very smoothly, and there were almost no problems, and even if there were, it was encountered by the special effects team.
Originally, Alex planned to shoot the first three films of this series by himself, but then he thought that it was enough to shoot the first two, and the third part would be handed over to Morris and others to shoot.
In fact, strictly speaking, the two movies "Planet of the Apes" and "The Lost Planet of the Apes" belong to the same film, but they are divided into two parts.
"Alright! We've finished shooting these two movies today. The next thing is to edit, and if there are other movies to be made in the crew, it will be up to Morris to arrange it! ”
After filming the movie, Alex said to the crew, who had to shoot the next three films in addition to the two films he made.
Morris planned to take charge of the battle himself, and Alex couldn't dissuade the other party, after all, this series of movies is the largest investment in DreamWorks in recent years, and if it can be saved, it will be saved, even if it is better to put it in the warehouse after filming than to regather people to continue filming later.
Hepburn finally breathed a sigh of relief, to be honest, she had done her best in this movie, and playing a female ape-man who looked like an orangutan was the best performance in her life. Sometimes. In her dreams, she dreams that she has become a female orangutan, jumping up and down a tree.
This situation just shows that she is too deep into the play, but the improvement of her acting skills is also very obvious, and those who know about it can't help but be surprised when they see Hepburn's excellent performance. At the same time, they also very much want to see how shocked the expression on people's faces is when they know that this "female orangutan" character is played by the princess-like Hepburn.
After the crew disbanded, the media outside immediately flocked to it like sharks smelling blood. was soon excited by a message: "Alex has a girlfriend, and that person is the French star Brigitte!" ”
The news is truly earth-shattering. All the time. Alex has never had an affair with any other woman. Especially since he faded out of the film and television industry a few years ago, it is even more difficult for people to find any changes in Alex in terms of feelings.
What is known is that Alex invented this and studied that. I only know that he has been staying in the research institute all along. Few journalists have been able to reach him. If it weren't for the fact that there were one or two records released during the period. It is estimated that people nowadays have long forgotten that there is such a number one person.
Stars in the film and television industry are more eye-catching than scientists, after all, the first thing people see when they turn on the TV is all kinds of entertainment news, as for scientific inventions. Maybe there will be reports on the evening news, and it will not be mainly about scientists, but about the impact of science and technology developed by a certain group on human beings, and so on.
For example, people may know a lot about some singers and celebrities, but they don't know enough about some Nobel Prize winners and even academician-level scientists, and they can't even remember or recognize their names.
Alex's popularity has indeed declined in recent years, and although his influence is increasing, it is only in the upper class that people will pay attention to him. This is just a small part of the population, and for ordinary people at the bottom, he seems to have faded out of people's sight.
However, as soon as this gossip news appeared, it immediately attracted everyone's attention, especially the gossip girlfriend who has acted in movies such as "God Created Women" and "Girl in Bikini" that tempted men's primitive impulses.
In these films, Brigitte challenges traditional women with a new image, attracts the attention of all men, and causes all traditional women to resent, and is seen as a morally corrupt woman.
On the contrary, Alex has been on the radar for so many years, and his image has always been a representative of a man who is extremely sunny and healthy. Not only has there been no scandal, but there is nothing to disappoint the public, Alex has always been an angel in the hearts of women.
But now this angel is in love with a woman who has been denounced by the Vatican as a devil, what a contrast, what a shock. So when the news first came out, many people called it fake news, which was really unbelievable.
At this time, Alex no longer needs to rely on the media to hype, he has the ability to refuse interviews with news media reporters, and will not suffer any harm and loss. Those mainstream media reporters couldn't find him for an interview, and even the gossip heroine Brigitte seemed to have disappeared all at once.
Whenever a DreamWorks press spokesperson appeared in front of a reporter, he was always chased and asked, "Did Alex and Brigitte really get together?" What is their relationship and where are they now! ”
To such questions, the spokesperson always said: "No comment!" "Let's get all the questions back.
At this time, the general public was also skeptical of the news, and most of them did not believe that Alex and Brigitte would become boyfriend and girlfriend, they thought that this was some reporters chasing after the wind, or that the crew of "Planet of the Apes" was deliberately hyping up the news in order to attract more people's attention.
But there are more and more related news, and some reporters took photos of Alex and Brigitte holding hands on the street, although it was blurry, but it looked like the two of them. Some reporters also learned from a crew member that Brigitte seduced Alex, who had never been in love, during the filming.
"That woman can get any man into bed, yes, there's no doubt about it!" The staff member, who did not want to be named, said: "She is so sexy, she wears so little during filming, and the two often bump into each other, even the stone man has already been stirred up by fire!" ”
"So you mean that Brigitte took the initiative to seduce Alex?" The reporter hurriedly asked.
"As long as you are not blind, you can see it! I heard that Hepburn wanted to stop it, but it didn't work, alas! The employee shook his head repeatedly, not knowing what he was sorry for.
As soon as this news came out, it almost confirmed the authenticity of this scandal. Sales of the newspaper skyrocketed that day, and not only that, but for a long time, the newspaper sold surprisingly well whenever there was news about Alex and Brigitte.
This tabloid company saw such a good opportunity, so it hurriedly wrote a special feature and made a detailed review of Alex and Brigitte's past. The more this happened, the more it made those fans feel unjust, and they now realized that Brigitte had been married before, and she was several years older than Alex.
"How can such a woman be worthy of Alex, no, we must protest to the Carpenter Brothers and Sisters Fan Association and let Brigitte, a fool, leave our Alex!"
Brain-dead fans will exist in any era, and more and more people have begun to write to Alex, asking him to think twice and not be in such a hurry to find a girlfriend. Even if you want to find it, you can't find such a lewd woman. There are also crazy fans who write articles in the newspaper scolding Brigitte, calling her a bitch from France who dares to seduce our Alex!
Soon the French were not satisfied, and they thought that Brigitte's follow-up to Alex was a loss for France.
"We don't need American little white faces, and our girls don't need Yankees to discipline them!" So the French responded.
Fortunately, there is no such thing as the Internet in this era, otherwise it will really cause a whirlwind of public opinion and make the relationship between the two countries worse than worse.
All in all, before the release of "Planet of the Apes" this time, it has already become famous all over the world because of a scandal news. Everyone knows that it was during the filming of this film that Alex and Brigitte really did a fake show, not only became a couple on the screen, but also came together in reality. (To be continued......)