Dominating Hollywood: Starting with Scarlett

Chapter 253: Lucy Begins Filming

Victor wrote many articles on his social network specifically attacking Tang De's "Lucy".

The perspective of the article is based on the script.

For example, Tang De has abandoned artistry and has become a slave to commercialism. He gave up discussing deeper humanistic meanings in the film and instead filled the script with low-level fun. This kind of words is bound to be despised by the audience.

Tang De took a look and closed the webpage: "How ridiculous."

"Do we need to hack the website?" Yufei asked.

"No need." Tang De said with a smile: "This kind of clown is rare, let him be famous for a while. But you can secretly check those who have visited his website and agreed to it, and see who they are. Maybe the person behind the scenes is among them."

The Internet is still in its early stages of development, and users have not yet realized the importance of hiding their identities. Now, everyone is like running naked on the Internet, and a lot of information can be found with just a simple search.

"Understood." Yufei nodded in agreement.

After that, Tang De held several meetings in the company.

This is the consequence of the lack of senior management. Tang De has to attend every meeting and cannot leave.

Sometimes a whole day is wasted in meetings.

But now that the Eye of Norton has embarked on the right track, there are fewer things that need to keep Tang De busy.

And so another week passed.

Miramax and Victor are still accusing Tang De, and the spectators are divided into two camps.

One group believed that Tang De had released all the evidence, and that it was obvious that Victor was making trouble on his own and wanted to blackmail the Eye of Norton for compensation.

The other group believes that Tang De’s identity as the tyrant of the studio has been confirmed. He is a guy with a sharp tongue, so what Victor said must be true.

But no matter which faction they are from, they don't think this will affect Tang De's movies. After the interview, the reporter found that no matter whether Victor wants to sue Tang De or even if Tang De loses the case, they will not give up watching Tang De's movies.

Amidst such public opinion, Tang De's new movie "Lucy" finally started filming.

"Is this dress sexy..." In a luxury hotel in Seoul, Scarlett, who came from Los Angeles, met Tang De in the suite after changing her clothes.

Tang De looked at her leopard print clothes and praised: "It's really nice, it suits you very well."

The Scarlett in front of me has changed her hair to fluffy short golden hair and is wearing leopard print, looking wild.

"Really?" Scarlett walked up to him, her tender white fingers sliding from his forehead to his chin, then she bent down, revealing her infinite beauty to Tang De.

Tang De whistled.

"Knock knock." There was a sudden knock on the door.

Scarlett immediately left Tang De, and the next second the assistant director and makeup artist walked in.

"The cameras and lights are ready downstairs, Director."

"Ok." Tang De walked out of the room. The hotel had now been booked by them to shoot the first scene.

However, just when Tang De walked downstairs, he saw an acquaintance watching outside the scene.

"Quentin!" Tang De was a little surprised and came to Quentin Valentino who was wearing a cowboy hat: "Why are you here?"

"Haha, Tang, I just finished filming Inglourious Basterds and am traveling here now. I didn't expect to run into your crew."

Quentin was also carrying two bags filled with instant noodles and kimchi.

Seeing Tang De looking at the specialty he bought, Quentin complained: "There's not much else here, just a lot of instant noodles, and I have to say the taste is pretty good."

"But eating instant noodles every day is not nutritious." Tang De pulled Quentin into the crew: "But I can provide you with boxed lunches, Quentin, you can't run away, this scene has a lot of bloody scenes, which is perfect for you to perform."

"Oh, Tang, you really know how to order people around." Quentin handed the things in his hand to the stage manager and greeted Scarlett with a smile: "Hi, beautiful."

"Hi, Director Quentin."

After some greetings, the crew returned to their positions.

"So, Don, how much plasma do you plan to show?" Quentin picked up the script and took a look. He felt that this scene was not difficult.

This scene is the first scene of the whole film. The protagonist Lucy was coaxed by her bastard boyfriend to deliver a password box. As a result, her boyfriend died outside the hotel, and she herself was taken to the villain by several strong bodyguards.

"Why, do you want to kill a few more people?" Tang De replied.

"Haha, of course, I also want to paint the entire hall," Quentin joked.

"That's a lot of bleeding." Tang De smiled, and the actor who played Lucy's boyfriend also echoed: "Then wouldn't I be a human plasma bag?"

"Sometimes beauty follows the logic of reality." Quentin explained, and then shared his thoughts with the props team.

Tang De is also in charge of the installation of the 3D camera. If you want to shoot a 3D movie, you can't use an ordinary camera, you must use professional equipment.

And two cameras need to be located on a special gimbal and maintained at a certain distance to create parallax, so that the 3D effect is obvious when the audience watches the movie.

All the scene movement techniques used in ordinary movie shooting can be applied to 3D movies, but the difficulty of camera movement has increased a lot. After all, maintaining the coordination of two cameras requires a lot from the photographer.

So on the scene, Tang De specially found the photographer of Avatar from Cameron and let him control the filming of the film.

After Quentin was ready, Tang De announced that the filming would begin.

Outside the hotel, Lucy had a conversation with her asshole boyfriend. Her boyfriend wanted Lucy to help him deliver a password box, but Lucy disagreed.

This bastard actually handcuffed the password box to Lucy's hands.

Lucy had no choice but to enter the hotel.

But just as she was anxiously waiting for the contact person to take the box away, an accident happened.

Her boyfriend was shot to death, and the bright red blood splattered on the glass, forming a gorgeous pattern.

The contact person did not show up, but instead sent a few bodyguards to take Lucy away forcefully.

Behind them, a gunfight was about to break out and blood could be seen spurting out.

"Click!" Tang De stopped filming.

"How is it?" Quentin looked back with him.

"We need to create a special effect where a bullet shatters the glass and passes by Lucy." Tang De pointed at the screen and said to the props and special effects team, "So your bullet marks should be bigger."

"clear."

"Why do this?" Quentin was a little confused.

"Because we are shooting a 3D movie," Tang De explained, "at the beginning of the film, I need to make the audience feel the charm of 3D movies immediately. For example, bullets, blades or stones are shot at them. The pressure of this weapon can effectively increase the audience's sense of substitution."

"I see." Now that "Avatar" has not yet been released, many filmmakers have very limited understanding of 3D movies.

Quentin thought for a moment and said, "That sounds good, but I probably won't choose this approach when I shoot."

"So you're a fundamentalist."

"Haha, not really, it's just because I'm used to flat movies, and the investment in 3D movies is too high." Quentin is very self-aware, and the movies he shoots are never the type that explode at the box office. So the investment must be spent on the right things, such as giving it to actors and scenes.

"Okay, let's do it again!" The crew quickly got everything done and repeated the shot.

Tang De liked this one very much and passed it directly.

After the transition, they came into the room.

Here, Choi Min-sik, who plays the villain Mr. Zhang, is enjoying himself in a suit and tie with a glass of wine.

He clinked his glasses in front of the sculptures in the room, then danced a little. When he turned around and found that Don De and Scarlett were looking at him, he couldn't help laughing.

"You look like you're enjoying it." Tang De doesn't speak Korean, so he has an interpreter with him all the time.

In fact, there are three translators in the entire crew, in addition to the Korean translator, there are also French translators and Italian translators.

Because the crew members come from different regions, there are French people who can't speak English, and Americans who can't understand French.

This is mainly because this is a 3D movie, which involves many technical issues, so Tang De spent a long time looking for suitable crew members.

"Yes." Choi Min-sik nodded: "I like this room, it is very artistic and fits the style of a villain."

Unlike the perverted murderer portrayed in the movies, Choi Min-sik seems to be quite kind and likes to joke in his daily life.

A few people chatted for a while, and then the actor Rob Sally, who played the villain, walked out of the room with slightly heavy steps.

Because his body is now equipped with various cyber prostheses.

I saw that his eyes were covered with gray contact lenses, his right arm was a metallic color of red and silver, and his palm had turned into a mechanical hand that could pop out sharp claws.

At the same time, half of the body has a silver-gray metallic texture, and the legs below the knees have hollow mechanical prosthetic feet.

The whole person looks very mechanical and very cool.

"Wow!" Everyone couldn't help but exclaimed when seeing this scene.

Choi Min-sik and Scarlett also came to Rob Surrey and asked, "How do you feel now?"

"I feel great," Rob Surrey replied in a muffled voice, imitating a robot accent.

"You don't need that kind of accent when filming," Tang De reminded him.

"Understood, director."

Rob Sari nodded vigorously. He was very grateful to Tang De for giving him, an unknown stuntman, this opportunity. He could imagine how many exclamations this cool mechanical prosthesis would receive after he appeared on the screen.

That would be the high point of his acting career.

In fact, Rob Sally is not a famous actor, and he has no so-called highlights in Hollywood.

Before starring in "Lucy", he was an unknown person, at most an unknown dwarf.

Because of his height, he has been playing some special villain roles before.

That is, the kind of minor supporting role who doesn't have a word to say in the movie, is killed as soon as he appears, or says a few stupid words to make the audience laugh.

Although he was able to make a living by relying on these roles, he always had the dream of becoming famous, so he never gave up and worked on his acting skills every day.

Because of this, his acting skills in terms of ferocity have always been good.

When "Lucy" announced the recruitment of short actors, he thought that it would be the same as before, just a small role that died as soon as it appeared or made people laugh.

He had never expected that after being chosen, he would find that his role would have such importance and be an important villain with a half-hour length.

This undoubtedly made him very excited. For this role, he turned down other work and experimented with the props team in the studio for a long time in advance.

So now he walks with great vigor on his mechanical prosthetic foot, and there is no sign of awkwardness at all.

Tang De was very satisfied with the effect, because only by making movements as smooth as his own body could he express the difference between cyber prosthesis and mechanical prosthesis.

And after filming started, Rob Sally did not disappoint him.

He flexibly used the flick of his finger to force Scarlett, and every movement was no different from that of a normal person. He even used his cybernetic body to do some clever little movements, such as holding a wine glass or opening a bottle of wine.

It feels like he was born this way, with no limb incoordination at all.

Therefore, after the filming, Tang De clapped for him, which was rare.

"Very good, Rob."

"Great!" The members of the props team were also very excited. They felt proud to see the props they made showing off their charm on the actors.

"Thank you, thank you everyone." Rob Sari bowed excitedly to express his gratitude.

Scarlett across from him said, "You don't have to do this, Rob, you deserve it."

"Yeah." Rob Sari nodded vigorously, feeling that this should be the happiest moment in his life.

Oh no...the happiest moment should be when the movie is released and gets recognition from the audience.

Thinking about how his family would see his handsome moves and fierce lines on the screen, his body couldn't help but tremble.

"Come on, let's continue shooting." After encouraging Rob Sari, Tang De continued shooting.

Quentin watched and admired Tang De's brilliant ideas.

The setting of this cybernetics is really interesting. It looks both trendy and practical. Quentin has no doubt that the cyberpunk theme will become popular again after this movie is broadcast.

If he was not uninterested in science fiction, he would have wanted to kidnap these props team members and make some cyberprosthetics for himself.

While the "Lucy" crew was filming in full swing in Seoul, Chris Hemsworth, who was far away in California, was looking at the script and studying it carefully.

The Star Trek in which he starred was recently released and did quite well.

But it has little to do with him because he is just a supporting role, not the leading actor.

So Chris Hemsworth was very excited when he received the invitation from Donald and agreed without hesitation.

"What are you looking at? Why are you so excited?" Just at this moment, my girlfriend came out of the bathroom, wearing a white bathrobe, looking extremely charming.

But Chris Hemsworth didn't even look up, he just replied: "I'm reading Don's script."

“Let’s look at the script tomorrow…” His girlfriend came to him, bit her lip, and tried to sit on his lap.

Chris Hemsworth pushed her away and said, "This is Don, the billion-dollar Don. I have to put my heart and soul into it. This role is very challenging to be honest."

"Then what should I do?" The girlfriend felt aggrieved. She finally got to see her boyfriend but was pushed away. She felt like she was just looking at a dog with her seductive eyes.

"Wait until tomorrow." Chris Hemsworth answered without hesitation.

He is not interested in other things now and just wants to think about the role carefully. Women will only affect the speed at which he can get into the role!

(End of this chapter)