Chapter 163

The old road is full of cracks. There are weeds on both sides of the road. There is a rusty sign in the weeds. It is a military base two miles away!

The notice board is located in the south of the road, and the opposite position in the north is a row of garbage cans. It seems that no one has cleaned the garbage cans for a long time. Not only the inside is full of garbage, but also there is no color on the outside, showing a kind of disgusting gray black, lying quietly on the grass side of the road.

This is a basically abandoned highway. In the past, we couldn't even see a human shadow, let alone vehicles.

Today, however, there are a lot of people here. Five or six large trailer trucks and more than a dozen business vehicles are parked on the grass nearby. Dozens of people are busy around. Some are setting up cameras, some are checking the light, some are arranging the site, and some are doing the final inspection on several green military vehicles.

Murphy stood in the shadow behind a trailer, listened to the information gathered by various departments, and looked at Jessica chastan standing nearby.

"Relax," he could see that heavily makeup Jessica chastan was a little nervous, "just like when you're on stage."

Jessica chastan nodded and laughed.

Paul Wilson came up. "Departments are ready."

"Well, I see." Murphy picked up a bottle of water from a nearby high chair, unscrewed it, took a big drink, turned to the back of a camera, picked up the loudspeaker, and yelled, "start shooting in five minutes!"

The crew entered the final preparation before shooting.

Jessica chastan went to the garbage can. Under the command of Paul Wilson, she got familiar with the position again. Several military vehicles also drove nearby. An actor from CAA, wearing a colonel's uniform, stood on the front one.

In this production group, except for the past Robert Downey Jr. and James Franco, who has gradually become famous, there are no relatively high-profile actors, and they will not find actors who are paid more than ten million dollars as they used to. Just for the film payment, Murphy will save too much money than the former one.

There is also film aging, deliberately blurred aging, also need money.

Murphy has also given up this practice. A film must adapt to the development of society. Deliberate vagueness can really stimulate nostalgia of a few people, but it will drive more audiences out of the cinema. How many people enter the cinema to see vague and noisy films?

He didn't know exactly what the box office of the film was, but he vaguely remembered that the sales of video tapes were far better than the box office.

It has to be said that in the past, the film's treatment of the screen effect did not meet the needs of the cinema projection market, and was more suitable for home video audience.

So, Murphy asked Philip Raschel to use a slightly yellowish style of photography, but rejected those who deliberately do the old.

In the final analysis, he is not Robert Rodriguez. He has no special feelings for the type of film "g day and house". If we shoot in the style of Robert Rodriguez and invite some famous actors, the $8 million will not be enough.

He remembers that "planet of terror" was originally released with "evidence of death" by Quentin Tarantino, and the cost and box office were calculated according to the sum of the two, but the result did not appear 1 + 1amp; gt; 2, or even 1 + 1 = 2.

There is no doubt that Quentin Tarantino's fame and achievements are far greater than that of Robert Rodriguez. However, in this film, which is collectively known as "prison", Quentin Tarantino has lagged behind, and "evidence of death" has been criticized, becoming one of Quentin's few failed works.

The cooperation between the two geniuses has come to an end.

Of course, "planet of terror" is not a place that has not been criticized, especially when it is shown in cinemas, some things must be restrained, especially where it is too disgusting.

Just like the movie, bloody and disgusting can't be equated. The former can resonate with a large number of audiences, while the latter can make most people feel sick.

It's not long since 9 / 11. If the film is to be shown on a large scale in the cinema, it must be in line with the current social environment. Murphy appropriately reduced the scale of the film, especially gave up some disgusting content about the lower body organs of the human body. Instead, it added weight to absurdity and black humor.

In his idea, this is a ridiculous black film in which beautiful women and handsome men fight together to kill zombies.

When all departments of the crew are ready, Jessica chastan and the other actors are in place. Murphy nods to Chang Ji, who puts the Chang Ji card in front of the camera.

"Planet of terror, outfield, scene one, act one, now on!"

At the scene, two cameras were used to shoot at a 45 degree angle. Murphy and the director of photography, Philip Raschel, each operated one camera. Due to the good light conditions at the scene, no light distribution was used.

As she walked slowly along the road, Jessica could not move forward with her short boots, and the one that protruded from her waist was her short leather jacket Scenery.One of the main selling points of such a low-cost, sexy and hot heroine is that in the North American film market, although zombie films are a small category, there are also many related films. Why should the audience buy this film?

Zombies are similar, so we have to think about how to kill them and who will kill them.

Sexy hot strippers kill zombies, of course, not the same as tough men, but also more attractive.

Murphy's camera lens is mainly aimed at Jessica chastan, while Philip Raschel uses panoramic lens to capture Jessica chastan and the road beside her.

Several military vehicles suddenly burst into the camera without any deceleration, whistling past Jessica chastan. Jessica chastan seems to have been brought by the vehicle. She tilts and falls on the garbage can on the side of the road. The garbage can is immediately overturned and some miscellaneous objects bury her underneath.

A recording assistant sent down the recording microphone with a pole.

Jessica chastan, lying on the ground, uttered a series of curses. When Murphy heard them, she frowned and called to stop, "cut!"

The busy crew stopped working immediately, and everyone looked at Murphy. Since the director called to stop, it means that someone must have made a mistake.

"Jesse!" Murphy sat behind the camera and yelled to Jessica chastan in the trash. "You're a nightclub stripper now, not a top student at Juilliard college. Do you know how strippers curse? It's not as quiet as you are! "

He gave a general request, "be vulgar!"

With that, Murphy yelled, "rearrange the set and come back in ten minutes!"

Throwing away the rotten vegetable leaves hanging on her body, Jessica chastan got up from the ground, rubbed her knee, and quickly walked towards the makeup Trailer. Time was limited, and she had to make up.

As she walked along, she turned her head and looked at Murphy, who was sitting behind the camera giving orders. The once penniless gangster director had become the controller of the nearly ten million dollar cast, and she skillfully and orderly conducted the cast operation, and the past green almost disappeared.

His growth rate is amazing, as if he was born to adapt to this industry.

Back in the make-up trailer, Jessica chastan, at the request of the costume designer, changed into the same dress, but the costume seemed smaller, and felt that the gully in front of her chest was deeper, and the skin under her skirt was more.

Thinking of the setting of the role and looking at her extremely gaudy look in the mirror, Jessica chastan always feels sad. Is this the film career she is pursuing?

No one paid attention to her, and no one communicated with her. Everyone here, like every part of the assembly line, worked closely and busily to complete their own part of the work.

The shooting soon resumed, and after another repetition, the first shot of planet terrors was announced to be completed.

The crew cleaned up the set as quickly as possible. Before the sun turned to the south, they rushed to the bridge not far ahead. On the river bank opposite the bridge, Helena espora's team had built a wooden barbecue shop. The barbecue shop was mainly set and model. Of course, they couldn't get into it to shoot. Murphy was just the conductor to shoot some panoramic shots, The scenes in the barbecue shop will be filmed when they are returned to the warehouse in Venice.

Helena espora takes people to finish the finishing work. Robert Downey Jr. and Kerry Mulligan, who arrived early in the morning, enter the make-up trailer and start to make up. An old truck is driven to the wasteland next to the barbecue by the props group.

When the layout of the venue was almost finished, Murphy went to the women's make-up Trailer. Kerry Mulligan had finished her make-up and was sitting in front of the mirror in a daze. Jack Watson's female assistant had a good look. Seeing Murphy come in, she whispered and walked out of the make-up Trailer.

Kerry Mulligan sat still, her eyes looking at Murphy through the mirror.

"Hi," Murphy said, walking behind her, "what do you think?"

Kerry Mulligan just looked at him through the mirror and, like this time, said nothing.

Murphy frowned. "Honey..."

"I don't want to talk to you!" Kerry Mulligan finally turned her head, her face gloomy. "I don't want to hear you! I can see that you, like Julian firos and my parents, talk about thinking for me, but actually don't think about my feelings at all! "

There was a bang at the door and someone outside reminded me, "director, the preparations are ready. It's time to start shooting." (to be continued). )