Chapter 377 Very Hot

? Eric parked the car and walked to the set of "Terror Point" where the cordon was drawn up.

This is a community called Fox Mountain in the southwest of Culver City. Of course, this Fox has nothing to do with Fox Film Company. If you have to care about it, it can only be attributed to the weak naming talent of Westerners.

The staff on the set recognized Eric at a glance, greeted him warmly, and opened the cordon to let Eric enter.

There was a temporarily blocked street ahead. Before he approached the shooting scene, Eric could smell the pungent smell of burning gasoline, bypassing a trailer where the props were assembled, and Eric saw a family on the street. Outside the gas station, several vehicles were still smoking, and several staff members were busy with fire extinguishers.

Glancing around the scene, Eric quickly found Catherine Bigelow's figure. The woman's typical dress was so recognizable.

At this time, Catherine Bigelow was talking to the two male protagonists Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze with a tablet in hand, waving a few times from time to time.

According to the script, this scene should be that Utah discovers the identity of the bank robbers of Bowtie and others, squatting outside a bank that Bowtie stepped on, and finally evolved into a chase scene.

An assistant director of the crew saw Eric appear and ran over and asked, "Mr. Williams, do you need me to call Ms. Bigelow?".

Eric shook his head: "No, how is the shooting progress?"

"Not bad. Seven shots are done today. Next up is the scene where Utah is chasing Bowtie," the assistant director explained.

Eric said with satisfaction: "Find me a place to rest, I'll come and have a look, don't disturb her work."

"No problem, please come here," the assistant director led Eric to a specially created rest area, which seemed to be prepared for actors.

A middle-aged man with silver hair was sitting on a chair drinking water, and when he saw Eric appeared, he stood up: "Mr. Williams. Hello."

"Gary, just call me Eric. The scene just now was very tiring, right?" Eric smiled and shook hands with the other party.

The silver-haired middle-aged man named Gary Busey plays Utah's boss Angelo Pappas in this film. Eric has seen many Gary Busey movies in his previous life. Speaking of which, Gary Busey is the same as Virginia's brother Michael Madsen. In the parallel world, both of them are the kind of people who have acted in a few times. ten hollywood films,

But the presence of the actor has always been extremely weak.

"Okay, I've finished my morning part. Keanu and Pat will be very tired next time. They have a long chase scene to shoot. It may not be finished all day today," Gary Boo said. Sai said with a smile, took out a bottle of water from the box next to it and handed it to Eric.

Eric took it, pulled a folding chair and sat beside Gary Busey, chatting casually with him.

As Katherine Bigelow shouted in the set, another shot started.

Only then did Eric realize that the place where the two big men were sitting was facing the director's monitor more than ten meters away. After filming began, the woman stood behind the monitor with her shoulders folded, gazing at Keanu's Utah fighting with a masked Patrick Swayze.

On the other hand, Eric and Gary Busey stopped chatting at the same time, and stared at the back of the woman more than ten meters away with great enjoyment. Some people often say that one white hides a hundred ugliness, but in fact, a tall person can hide a hundred ugliness. Of course, Catherine Bigelow is not only not ugly, but also very beautiful, not to mention the height of 1.82 meters.

After a while, Gary Busey turned his head and noticed that Eric's eyes, like his own, were focused on Catherine Bigelow who was not far away. , isn't it?".

Eric and Gary Busey glanced at each other, and the two big men showed a slight wretched smile at the same time.

"Yeah, it's hot."

Gary Busey seemed to have found a bosom friend, and said bluntly: "It's really cheap, that bastard Cameron."

"Ha, this..."

Gary Busey turned to Catherine Bigelow not far away again, the scene of Utah and Bowtie fighting didn't pass, and the woman walked over and discussed with the two male protagonists: "Eric, actually, Kate and I know each other. It's been over ten years."

"Wow, I really don't know this," Eric looked at Gary Busey in surprise.

Gary Busey said with a bit of memory: "It should be 1977. I can't remember the exact time. I was still doing plays on Broadway at that time, and I only took a few movies occasionally. I remember one day, I A friend of mine introduced me to Kate and said she wanted to shoot a short film and was looking for a male lead. I still remember the first time I met Kate in a coffee shop in Manhattan's SoHo, when she Wearing a black turtleneck sweater, black jeans, and loose brown hair, she looks very shy, with the intellectual atmosphere unique to the young art women in Soho. She is not sociable, and now she sees strangers Even blushing. The first time I saw her, I fell in love with her like many men around her."

"And then?" Eric asked with interest.

"Later, I participated in her short film, which seems to be called "The Fighter", which tells the story of two men dueling, and I became good friends with her. Over the years, our friends have entered middle age. However, her appearance and figure have hardly changed, which makes many of her female friends crazy with jealousy."

Eric asked ambiguous: "Is it just a good friend?".

Gary Busey shrugged: "I got married very early, otherwise I would have pursued her, but it must be very difficult, she is a very independent woman. She is very talented. And she has very strong self-control. She is a feminist at heart. She was single for many years, and our friends thought she would stay single, but three years ago, she suddenly married Cameron."

"What a heartbreaking result," Eric quipped.

Gary Busey laughed a few times and nodded honestly: "Of course, watching the goddess in my heart marry another man. How could it not be heartbroken."

The two laughed a few times and looked at Catherine Bigelow at the shooting site again. At this time, the woman was negotiating with the lighting engineer of the crew again, and she made gestures from time to time. The lighting engineer seemed to have different opinions and danced. Arguing with women.

Seeing this scene, Gary Busey said with emotion: "In Hollywood, it's really hard for a woman to be a director. If I quit it long ago, it would be hard for her to persist for so long and not give up."

Eric has no intention of stepping forward to help. He believed that with Catherine Bigelow's strong character, he would not want to interfere. Looking at the dispute between the woman and the lighting engineer, Eric nodded and said, "It's true, as a director, in addition to personal professionalism, not only does it require strong control, but even physical strength is very demanding. . High-intensity work is difficult for most women to bear, so whether it is Hollywood or other film circles, female directors are not very productive."

The two chatted casually, and more than an hour later, near noon, the crew also temporarily stopped work and began to rest and eat lunch.

Catherine Bigelow was finally notified that Eric was coming to the crew.

"Hi, Eric, why are you here?" Katherine Bigelow came over enthusiastically, hugged Eric, and asked.

Eric greeted the two male protagonists with Katherine Bigelow one by one, and then replied, "I passed by and just came over to take a look."

Catherine stretched out her finger in disbelief and drew a large circle in the air: "You mean, you went from Malibu to Burbank and 'passed' here?"

Eric rolled his eyes, pointed to the west, and said, "Who told you that I went to Burbank, the Firefly team is doing a field trip in the Playa Vista area about three kilometers to the west, and Firefly plans to build there. The studio base, I came out of the group."

Catherine Bigelow nodded and looked to the west, and asked, "Don't you need to be there?".

"Professional things are of course left to professional people to do. I can't help too much in the presence of me, just look at the results they give in the end."

Gary Busey interjected at this time: "Eric, Catherine, lunch is ready, let's chat while eating."

The place where the crew ate was in a large-scale restaurant not far away. This can be seen from the difference between the crew and the crew on the other side of the ocean. When Eric participated in the filming of some movies in his previous life, most of the time he ate lunch at the logistics department. After a bento, just find a place to make do with it.

This kind of meal method also means increased expenses for the crew, but these small details are all written into the contract in detail under the supervision of various unions in Hollywood. As long as you want to make a good movie in Hollywood, you have to compromise with the union.

Of course, there are also people who can specifically sign ancillary contracts that change these rules.

However, this requires sufficient strength and confidence. There are very few people in Hollywood who can do this. As far as Eric knows, Spielberg is even one, and he can even ask the actor to sign a contract that waives the union salary standard, giving the actor extremely high Low pay, but in order to be able to cooperate with Spielberg, most actors often choose to compromise.

With Eric's current strength in Hollywood, he also has the confidence to break the rules, but he has not yet encountered the need to do so.

After picking up some lunches, Eric and Catherine Bigelow chose a table to sit down. They may feel that the director and the producer have something to discuss. Several of the leading actors present were not very lively. Although Gary Busey He wanted to come over, but was pulled to their table by Patrick Swayze.

"Little guy, I thought you wouldn't come to the set again," Catherine Bigelow immediately changed her name to something that made Eric extremely depressed.

"Isn't it a very reasonable thing for me to be here as a producer?".

"Of course, but when it was time for you to show up, you went to New York for more than a whole month, and when you came back, the movie started." Catherine complained.

"That's because I have very important things to do. Don't worry, I will come to the crew often in the next period of time."

Catherine Bigelow was obviously out of a certain circle, so she didn't ask Eric how much money Eric made like other people. The woman didn't even ask what he did in New York, she just said: "Is it Don't you need to prepare your own movie?".

Eric swallowed the food in his mouth, wiped his mouth and said, "I decided to take it slow, and I have to give other film companies a way to survive."

"It's really... an outrageous statement," Kathryn Bigelow laughed, but thinking of the results of Eric's previous films, the woman suddenly found that Eric's exaggerated words seemed to make sense. According to the box office forecasting agency announced According to statistics, the summer movie "Ghosts of Love" is the only film so far this year that may break $200 million at the box office.

"By the way, don't you plan to direct "Home Alone" again this year?".

Eric shook his head and said: "I have completely handed over this project to others, and I will not intervene in the future. At most, I will only hold the title of a producer."

"I've seen the second part, and it's quite interesting."

"Thank you for your recognition," Eric said.

"However, I found that your previous films were too lacking in connotation. I felt that making a film should convey something to the audience, which is also the purpose of my choice to be a director. I originally studied painting, but someone told me later. , movies can more easily convey their ideas to others, unlike paintings, which require a certain amount of accumulation to understand the meaning."

Eric shook his head: "Catherine, I don't agree with what you said, my films have been conveying all kinds of information to the audience, but these things are more subtle, and I think this is the correct way to convey it.

Audiences often only see what they want to see, just like a thousand readers have a thousand Hamlets in their eyes, they will only accept the "Hamlet" in their own concept. So, if you want to convey your point of view to the audience, you have to resonate with them so that you don't have to say it so they can understand what you're trying to convey from your film. Otherwise, even clever preaching will often only have the opposite effect. It's like the movie "Thriller Point" you're shooting right now. I've read the script several times. Do you know what I saw in your script? ". (To be continued...)