The plane landed slowly in Santa Rosalia, Mexico. After reaching the designated position, the hatch was opened. Angela, accompanied by Sparrow and Pu Guanshui, set foot on the land of Mexico.
When she got off the gangway, the car sent by the crew was already parked nearby, and there were two people who came to pick her up, one was the driver and the other was James' assistant, Matthew White, who had met several times in James' studio before. .
"Welcome, Miss Angela!" Matthew smiled and extended his hand to the girl.
"Nice to meet you, Mr. Matthew." Angela shook hands with him, her hair was tied back in a ponytail, and the right side of her face was left again, looking very beautiful.
"To be honest, it's the first time I've been to Mexico. It doesn't look much different from a city in California." Angela put up a pergola and looked around. The degree of greenery was still very good, and she could feel the refreshing sea breeze. It's very different from the desert and cactus you see on TV.
"That's because this is the peninsula of Southern California, and the climate is very similar to that of California, with little rain and little temperature difference between the four seasons, so it has a similar feeling. If you pass through the bay from Santa Rosalia and enter the interior of Mexico, you will have a similar feeling. It's different." Matthew said as he opened the door for her.
After the three people got into the car one by one, the car drove out of the airport and headed for Rosarito in the north. The journey on the road took about an hour, and it was about 3 pm when we arrived in the town, although the weather was not as good as it was. It's sunny as usual, but it has a different flavor, especially when you come to the beach, the three-dimensional effect formed by the sun shining through the clouds is really beautiful.
The crew of "Titanic" occupied about 40 acres of land on the beach in Rosarito to build the filming location, and the 1:1 scale Titanic parked in the sea - or stranded on the beach can be seen in the distance No. That huge model.
"The fact that we only had the right half complete, so we had to shoot with the opposite text props, then flip the film left and right, and all the props had to be done front and back," Matthew opened the door for the girl. "It saves money, and if it were a complete 1-to-1 copy of the Titanic, Fox would be crazy."
"I can fully imagine Mr. James privately accusing the Fox board of being a miser." Angela said teasingly, the place where he got off the bus was completely copied as the location of the Southampton Pier, and there are only some jobs at present. The personnel here, in addition to maintaining the set up, also have to stop those curious tourists who want to find out. Although these people have caused a lot of trouble, it is relatively easy to recruit extras. .
"Please come this way, I'm shooting in the boat recently." Under the leadership of Matthew, Angela and his party came to the model boat. I have to say that James's handwriting is very big. In front of the 1:1 model boat, he completely You can imagine how huge the Titanic was back then. The girl still remembers how small the fishing boat was when it set sail in the waves lined up by the Titanic at the very beginning of the movie. Unfortunately, it represented that the ship with the highest level of industrial civilization at that time was buried in the sea on its first voyage. I don't know whether to be sad or sarcastic.
Follow the gangway to the first class cabin. The scenes, reproduced entirely in the lavish, classical-style decor of the time, have everyone's tongue pounding—if you turn a blind eye to the framing.
As expected of a money-burning director, the girl murmured in her stomach as she walked. It took about a few minutes to arrive at the first-class banquet hall, and James' loud voice could be heard outside the door: "The shooting angle is wrong, understand! Don't make me repeat it again! Don't make this mistake again!"
There are probably dozens of actors, extras, and main actors in the banquet hall, plus there are nearly a hundred staff. In addition to Leonardo, who played Jack, and Rachel, who played Ruth, Angela recognized several "old faces" in the main cast. For example, the one who played Thomas, the chief designer of the Titanic, and Ruth's mother, and the fat lady who dug into the gold mine and was mocked by Ruth's mother as a nouveau riche. The girl had forgotten their names, but still remembered their appearances fairly clearly. But what surprised her was that the actor who played Carl was not the one she remembered, but someone she didn't know. It's really amazing, all the actors are all dressed up at this time, the men are wearing suits and bow ties, the women are wearing beautiful evening dresses, the surrounding tables are filled with all kinds of delicious food, brightly lit. The banquet hall looks gorgeous and extravagant. Apparently in the filming of the scene where Carl entertains Jack.
Matthew walked over and whispered a few words beside James. He listened and nodded, looking at Angela in the direction Matthew pointed, and made a few gestures to the girl, probably saying: Shooting is going to happen now, Let's talk later.
Angela nodded, went to a hidden spot and sat down to watch them shoot. She had wanted to go over and say hello to Rachel, but in the end it was over. Her feelings about Rachel are very complicated, she is not clear about resisting, attracting, jealous, curious, wanting to know, etc. Maybe it is because Kate has never answered her question
"Okay, gentlemen and ladies, take your place!" The assistant director shouted loudly at this time, and the actor immediately returned to the place where he should be staying, followed the scene and took the small wooden board and tapped lightly: "The 43rd scene 56 Curtain, start filming!"
Soon, the actors entered their respective roles. At the banquet, Ruth's mother asked Jack a question sarcastically, and Jack answered tactfully and resonated with others, which made Ruth more interested in him. have a good feeling.
Everyone did a good job. Rachel interprets Ruth's implicit curiosity, love and appreciation for Jack very well. I believe that as a newcomer, she can do this, and she may have suffered a lot. James is not The kind of guy who can get past the camera.
Angela took a peek at the tyrant on the set. He was sitting in the director's chair. From time to time, he looked at the monitor and at the center of the set. A smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, as if he was satisfied. However, before the girl looked away, he suddenly raised his eyebrows. Wrinkled up, followed by shouting: "Cut!"
Everyone suddenly stopped and looked at the director in unison, and saw James frowning. Knowing that someone was going to be unlucky, James stood up without a word with a gloomy face, walked quickly to the edge of the dining table, picked up a fork, looked at it carefully, and then picked up a knife. After looking at the tableware for several times in a row, he finally turned around: "Ellen!"
"What's the matter, sir?" A short figure emerged from the crowd immediately, and came to James' side with doubts, confusion and more tension.
"How could this happen?! Why are the handles on all tableware not engraved with the letters of Titanic?!" James looked at his props master sternly, "According to the information that has been checked, all tableware on luxury liner will be The name of the ship is engraved, why isn't it here?!"
Allen's lips trembled. He seemed to want to defend himself, but in the end he nodded and admitted his mistake: "I think we ignored it. Mr. Cameron, I'm sorry."
James covered his mouth and looked at the prop artist coldly for a few minutes, and finally waved his hand: "This part of the shooting is invalid. Contact the manufacturer to remake the tableware, and wait for the new tableware to be delivered before reshooting!"
Everyone didn't gnaw, and immediately did what James said, but some people couldn't sit still.
"Wait! James! Wait!" a guy in a suit with a check collar shouted and walked into the set as he separated from the crowd, his face full of anxiety, "You can't do this! Damn it! Do you know how much it costs?! You Ask for it to be ordered from the manufacturer that made the cutlery for the Titanic, and it will go to the UK, and it will be two sets, plus shipping costs. It will cost hundreds of thousands! Plus these…”
He pointed to the exquisite food on the dining table, a little exasperated: "At that time, all the food will have to be re-made, which will cost tens of thousands, or even ten nights, just because there are no letters on the tableware handles, it will be wasted. Nearly a million dollars, this is hell!"
"Okay, Mr. Bruce, please don't point fingers at my work!" James looked at each other coldly, "All you have to do is report my progress to Fox, that's all!"
"But I also have to report your financial situation to the company!" Bruce finally couldn't help shouting, "Last clothing incident! Last time the spiral staircase incident! And the last time... You have more than Do it once, James! If you go on like this, you won't have enough money to spend!"
But James Cameron ignored the other party at all and waved to the assistant director: "Igor, let everyone rest for 15 minutes, then transfer the venue to the third-class cabin, and we will go there and shoot!"
"No no no! Filming isn't over here! The part of the schedule isn't over yet! Can't leave here!" Bruce yelled, but no one paid him any attention, both the staff and the actors began to go out in an orderly manner go.
"Damn! Damn!" Fox's representative shouted several times, holding his head, and then looked at James pleadingly, "Please! James! Please think about it! Audiences will care if the cutlery in the movie is engraved with the Titanic. letters?!"
"But I care." James glanced at each other calmly, "If you want to make a perfect movie, you have to care!" He patted him on the shoulder and walked out.
Bruce stayed in place for a long time before he called out like a wolf: "I will! I will report everything that happened today! Everything that happened will be reported to the board of directors! I swear!"
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Angela has seen what is called being arbitrary and what is called a tyrant on the set, but... This is so fucking handsome! It would be awesome if I could do this when I was a director, but...
"Don't worry, it'll be alright, it was already agreed when we were shooting, everything on the set is up to Mr. James, it's written into the contract, unless 20th Century Fox wants the 200 million It's a waste of investment." Matthew explained the girl's worries.
"Wow, the investment has been increased to 200 million?" Although she knew that this has not yet reached the upper limit, Angela still couldn't help but sigh with a little emotion: "As expected of a great director, you can easily get investment. "
"Of course," Matthew said with pride, "Although James said nothing on the set, his requirements for the film were very perfect, you know, we did a wreck of the Titanic on the set to supplement some shots. James went into the water several times to personally direct the filming, for which he also contracted pneumonia, but he still insisted on filming because he wanted to make a perfect movie! Based on these, it is not an exaggeration for Fox to invest an additional 100 million yuan For Bruce, I think the boss should be advised to let Fox replace!"
Angela looked at the assistant dumbly. Obviously, James who picked up the guide tube is not just annoying. There are also people who adore him crazily. To be honest, if there are no people who are as fanatical as him, it is really hard to say how "Titanic" will end, right? , If it is correct, at least Fox has to make an additional investment of 50 million. Do you want to find a way to intervene? This is a steady money-making business.
In between thoughts. They were already on the first-class ground deck, and James was pacing and circling the clearing with his head down, a cigar in his mouth. But it didn't ignite, as if thinking about something.
"Hi, James." Angela greeted.
"Hey, genius Angela," James replied with a smile, not the same as before.
The girl rolled her eyes: "Can't you not say that word?"
"Okay, Angie," Tyrant smiled, "I hope my invitation didn't bother you."
"It's nothing. Tomorrow is the weekend anyway, I just need to go back on Sunday night or Monday morning." Angela said, making a gesture to Sparrow, who immediately took out a document from his briefcase. to the girl.
"So soon? You still don't know what I need you to do." James was slightly surprised.
"How could I not know, I'm not a fool." Angela said and handed the document in her hand to the other party.
"This is?" James wondered.
"What you want, isn't that why you called me here?" the girl said with a smile.
"Really?" Mr. Tyrant took it suspiciously and looked over it. Soon his doubts turned into surprise, and then he waved his hand slightly, and hummed intermittently.
"I think this is more suitable for your judgment." Angela's voice sounded again. James looked up, and the other party was waving at him with a sample instrument, a bit like a piccolo, but clearly played vertically.
"It's an Irish whistle," the girl explained, "it was supposed to be a Scottish bagpipe to play the main melody, but it was a little bigger, so I used this instead, and the sound of the whistle was more like the bagpipe than the other instruments. "
James did not make a sound and made a gesture of invitation. Angela smiled, put the whistle to her mouth, and blew softly, the whimpering flute sounded soft and ethereal.
In this moving music, the director suddenly felt that old Ruth was sitting in front of him, looking at him with a smile, telling the story of traveling through time and space. With the beautiful flute sound, the pictures that have been shot and the pictures that have not been shot turned, like a movie, and the flute sound became more and more high-pitched, just like the Titanic worked hard, but still Hit the iceberg and had to sink into the sea, and the hard-fought lovers had to live and die in the end.
The performance was finally over, and the surroundings were silent. After a long time, the sound of popping sounded, and then there were more and more such sounds everywhere. The staff on the deck and the corridor, and the extras who were disembarking all applauded. Come on, there are plenty of whistles.
"I have to admit, this song is perfect, and it fits very well with the movie I imagined." James, who came back to his senses, couldn't help but sigh.
"Thank you for the compliment." Angela secretly called out a fluke. She only knew a little about such a rare instrument like a whistle. If it wasn't for the fact that she had practiced many times at home before coming, "My Heart Will Go On" would have been perfect. , the performance just now will definitely not have that effect.
"This is the theme song I wrote." The girl said without blushing and panting.
"But it doesn't seem to be the same as the one on the score." James flipped through the document in his hand and looked at Angela.
"Of course it's not the same, that's what I'm going to say, I just played the recital, you know, almost all movie soundtracks have a key melody, and the key melody of "Titanic" is this theme song, from Here I can write songs suitable for various scenes." Angela said confidently.
James watched her for a while, then nodded and then shook his head: "I admit that this theme song is very suitable for the movie. But you know, it doesn't mean that you can make the soundtrack I want perfectly."
"So you brought me here, didn't you?" The girl was not discouraged. "I think you must have made this decision after watching my performance at Mr. Perlman's concert on satellite TV, right?"
The director touched his beard, and neither admitted nor denied it. After looking at his watch, he said: "The rest time is almost over, I have to go to the third-class cabin to continue shooting, if you want If so, I can ask Matthew to arrange for you to stay in the hotel we rented in the town, and later I will have someone bring you a few master tapes from the previous shoot, so you can take a look.”
The last sentence completely exposed his intentions, and Angela smiled slightly: "I promise, you will not regret letting me score the music. If possible, I want to go to the third-class cabin with you to watch your filming."
"Of course." James nodded.
When they came to the third-class cabin, some extras who were just celebrities and gentlemen had already changed their clothes and became third-class passengers, talking together in twos and threes.
James did not gather people to prepare for shooting at the first time, but pulled the assistant director, lighting engineer, photographer and others aside to discuss something.
Angela didn't bother him. After hesitating for a while, she walked over to Rachel in the corner. She had curly hair and a low-cut corset with black lace trims. Her Feng Yun figure looked very tasteful. What Leonardo said, the other party changed into a white shirt and a suspender, and the big back was also combed back. Really handsome, a typical little white face. In her previous life, she had thought maliciously that if he needed to, he would just go to Thailand, and he didn't need to go to South Korea.
But it seems that Rachel's face is not very good, is it because of what Leonardo is holding? Is that... a lizard? ! Angela suddenly stopped, feeling a little nervous. When she was thinking about whether to wait and say hello, Rachel had noticed her.
She couldn't believe it at first, and blinked. After confirming that he read it correctly, he showed a surprised look, and immediately walked up to Angela, wanting to hug her but hesitating: "Angela, is that you?"
"Hi, Rachel." Since she was recognized, there was nothing to hide. The girl stepped forward and hugged each other generously, "How are you?"
"I didn't expect to see you here. How did you come here?" Rachel asked happily.
"You forgot. I'm the screenwriter of "Titanic"." Angela smiled.
"Excuse me, is that Miss Angela Mason?" A voice came from behind Rachel. Of course, the old handsome Leonardo.
"Hello, Mr. DiCaprio."
"Just call me Leonardo or Leon."
"Okay, Leon, you can call me Angela too." The girl smiled and shook hands with him, then frowned at the lizard on his other hand.
"Don't worry, it's called Kaka, it's a pet lizard, it doesn't bite." Leonardo explained.
"I know, but I've never been very interested in this kind of pet, or I'm a little afraid of her." Angela explained, and then changed the subject: "I think you and Rachel have a good relationship, you two talk a lot. come?"
"Lion is a very smart guy. The role he played in the past is very different from the role this time, but he can still enter the role very quickly." Rachel said by the side that she still didn't know how to play, if she said progress The fastest, or Rachel. "Leonardo shook his hand and smiled.
They have already started touting each other up? Angela glanced at Rachel covertly, don't forget you and Kate!
She deliberately asked, "By the way, has the scene of painting in the bedroom been filmed?"
As soon as these words came out, the two people in front of them were slightly embarrassed.
"Yes, it's been filmed." Rachel recovered first.
"Really? Then can I take a look at that famous painting?" The girl bit the word "famous" very hard, which embarrassed the two of them again. This time Leonardo recovered first: "I think it should be possible, I'll ask Ellen."
As he said that, he ran away in a hurry, and then soon came back with a picture album.
"Thank you." Angela took it with a smile. It seemed that there seemed to be nothing between them. She opened the picture book. Rachel's posture in the picture was not much different from Winslet's, but...
"The painting is very accurate and detailed, but..." Angela raised her head, raised the picture album, and said, "It's bad!"