"Look at this green, the coldest time is in the past spring. It was the right decision to shoot at this time, Peter." Alex looked at the plains under the hills with his pergola in hand, and asked Peter Jackson beside him. said.
"Yes, yes, I know. So let's start now, from Act 1073 to Act 1082, how is the leased helicopter? I need to dispatch from the air." Peter flipped through the plan in his hand slightly irritably.
"It's in place, it's on standby, you can go to the sky at any time." Alex glanced around. The protagonists, the crew and a large number of extras made the scene look quite spectacular.
"Very good," Peter nodded and put the documents in his hand to the assistant next to him, "Then let the helicopter prepare, I'm going to start shooting from shot 231 of scene 1079."
"Okay… wait," Alex came back to his senses, "scene 231 in act 1079? Angela hasn't come back to report yet."
"Stupid, back shot, fill shot, montage editing, what else is there to do?" Peter raised his eyebrows with his hands behind his back and looked at Alex. Although his face was expressionless, the annoyance and helplessness in his eyes could be seen at a glance.
"Well, there should be no problem." Alex wisely chose to shut up.
"That's it." Peter grinned. He finally couldn't hold back: "If the effect is good, the next shots can be shot like this, I don't think Angela should object."
Just then, a crisp and playful voice came from behind: "Do you really think so, Peter?"
Peter, who was about to go to the periphery, immediately paused, and after a few seconds, he turned his head sharply, and shot his electric gaze into the crowd. As always, Angela, who was wearing jeans, a plaid shirt, and a vest, came out with a hat on, her green eyes curved with ridicule and playfulness.
"Welcome back, dear Miss Genius, what a privilege," Peter said, almost gnashing his teeth. After he finished speaking, he was stunned, and rolled his eyes with a pat on his forehead. This sentence really became a mantra.
However, Angela didn't take the opportunity to play anything, and walked to him in two steps and spread her hands with a smile: "Since I said that I will report back in three days, I will definitely do it, unless there is an accident."
Having said that, her sneering expression was obvious: Or do you think there is something unexpected about me delaying the time of my return? Peter rolled his eyes angrily, and asked in a concerned manner, "Why didn't you tell the crew to pick you up?"
"You guys are obviously busy shooting, so it's better for me to come by myself. You know the jet lag hasn't been reversed yet." Angela yawned loudly as she said that, as if to say "the jet lag is not reversed". Footnotes.
"I rushed to the crew as soon as I gave up the adjustment. Well, I should really admire your spirit of sacrifice." Peter rolled his eyes again, damn it, why are he rolling his eyes so much today.
"It's good that you know." Angela waved her hand carelessly, then folded her arms and looked at Peter with interest: "However, I just heard that you seem to want to use the stand-in to play Legolas, so I can Are you going back to rest?"
"Don't even think about it! Go to the make-up artist and costumer immediately, and I'll see you put on your make-up and your costume and stand by in half an hour!" Peter didn't bother to talk to her, and said directly in a commanding tone.
Angela smiled and shrugged, turned to look around and determined the location of the makeup artist, then turned and left.
"Angie is back, you should be relieved, right?" Alex teased beside him.
Peter glared at him: "The plan has changed, starting with shot 55 in Act 1075, tell them to go immediately!"
"OK, OK, I'll go." Alex laughed, raised his hands, and quickly slipped away.
rest assured? Come on, Peter scratched his head, still a little annoyed but at least not as unhappy as before. In short, Angela's return to the team on time saved him from having to work hard to get a stand-in. This method can only solve a temporary problem. Besides, Angela has always acted very well, if it hadn't slipped away every once in a while...
"Once the angle is selected, I will inform you to start," Peter, who walked to the side of the helicopter, shouted to the assistant in a loud wind blowing from the propeller, "all personnel must go to the designated position within five minutes after the start. superior!"
After the assistant nodded and left, he jumped up to greet the driver to prepare for the sky, and the most spectacular war scene in "The Lord of the Rings" began. Of course, the real shot doesn't look as good as it looks on the screen, with hundreds of people running from here to there wielding what look like metal but are actually plastic weapons, and there's no fighting at all. The feeling of, more often people feel that they are acting in a stage play.
This depends on post-production, CG special effects, and montage techniques. For this kind of film, the director must have enough pictures in his head for reference, and at the same time, he must connect with the pictures in the camera. So you can't make a movie without a good imagination, and the most important thing Peter lacks is imagination.
"I want you to imagine how you would look when thousands of undead army rushed out from behind them." Peter shouted while standing among the extras, waving his hands, "It's fear! Facing inhumans of fear!"
At this moment, he was dressed as strangely as these extras. The originally lush beard became thicker, and there were a few long braids on his head. The most interesting thing was that there was a headless hair in the center of his chest. arrow.
"Understood, Mr. Director, we are already very scared, especially when you die by my side." The big extra who played the pirate leader said with a smile.
"Very well, if I am not satisfied again, you will die by their side." Peter said jokingly, turning around and waving to the two men and one woman standing outside the ship model: "You just I don't need to say more."
"Don't worry, I can't wait to shoot you again, Peter." Angela dressed as Legolas replied lazily, causing laughter all around.
Peter Jackson twitched the corners of his mouth: "If you hate me so much, why don't we come over a few more times?"
"I'll be happy." Angela smiled and gave a chest salute. That heroic and naughty appearance immediately attracted more uproar, and many people even clamored to shoot a few more arrows at a time to shoot the director into a thorn.
In the face of these turbulent guys, Peter adopted an attitude of ignorance and waved his hand to announce the start of filming. It wasn't until the break at the end of the scene that Peter, who was taking off his makeup, asked Alex half-complaining and half-strangely, "Am I so unpopular?"
"I thought you knew." Alex raised his eyebrows in surprise, "Well, can't say it's unpopular, but you know, you've been in a state of anxiety for a long time, so it's inevitable... "
Peter touched his chin and finally sighed dissatisfiedly: "Although I don't want to put the blame on one person, I still have to say that if Angela hadn't been so difficult to serve, the situation would never have gotten so bad."
"Yeah, she's so evil, she made our great director Peter so irritable," Alex began to tease again, "Fortunately she came back on time this time, and the approachable and majestic Peter also came back with it."
"Alex!" Peter rolled his eyes. "How many times is this? I don't know when you became so humorous."
"Okay, okay, no kidding." Alex laughed and raised his legs and walked away, but he turned his head before two steps: "You know, Peter, the feeling you give me is that you are a good lady to Miss Genius. Love it and hate it."
This guy... Peter shook his head helplessly. Love it or hate it? Well, he admits that's true. Needless to say hate, no matter which director comes and wants to leave, the actors who have to coordinate with the crew will have a headache and hate it; as for love, so far the entire crew has witnessed her winning the fifth consecutive time To the Grammy single, nominated for the second consecutive Oscar for best director, became the youngest Palme d'Or winner and director
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Well, none of this has anything to do with the "Lord of the Rings" movie I'm working on, so it's mainly because her image is really in line with Legolas' look and she interprets the Elf Prince well. Not to mention the demeanor that the character should be, most of the actions are basically performed by herself. A few days ago, she went back to Queenstown to film the scene of climbing on the back of the mammoth in front of the blue screen. Woolen cloth. Therefore, it is absolutely inappropriate to say that she is not professional.
Moreover, he had been having a headache for a long time with those two soundtracks. Angela herself privately told others that she wrote it casually, well, if you can write it casually to achieve this level, then she should really be asked to compose the soundtrack for "The Lord of the Rings". Although Peter thought about such thoughts, he was quickly thrown aside. Come to think of it, it took her nearly a year to compose the three theme songs alone. If she was in charge of the soundtrack and dragged on like the acting, well, Bob Shayle would tolerate it. will kill him.
Peter shook his still fluffy head to drive these thoughts out. Let's hurry up and finish the footage of Legolas first. Angela is directing the later stages of her new film on a satellite phone every night, and who knows if she'll ask for bits and pieces to shoot another day and leave early. As for the soundtrack, Howard Ken has already agreed to be the soundtrack engineer, so let him think about it and have a headache.
The next filming is because Peter put all his thoughts on it, and Angela is also very cooperative, plus the state of the main actors such as Vigo, Elijah, Sir Ian, etc. are also quite good, the progress can be described as a thousand miles. So in the end the battle of the Nopeland Plains ended up taking just over two weeks to complete.
Then there are bits and pieces of the Fellowship of the Ring, Isengard, Rohan, Gondor, Rivendell, and so on. It can be said that in the past few days, the crew has roughly browsed the story of "The Lord of the Rings", but the most shot is Legolas.
Although most people did not express dissatisfaction or anything, they all knew why. Besides, Angela has asked the crew to cooperate because she is busy. She has always gotten along well with everyone, and her popularity is very good.
Only Peter occasionally grumbles: "We're in Tuweizer today, we're going to Matama tomorrow, and we'll be back in Queenstown in two days. We'll have to go back to Tuweizer after you've finished filming, which is very efficient. Really high."
Angela would shake her fingers to remind him leisurely: "Pay attention to your demeanor, Mr. Peter, we have an agreement."
At this time, Peter would keep his mouth shut, and over time it would be allowed to develop. But in the last scene, when Aragorn was crowned king in the White City and married Arwen, and when he knelt down to pay tribute to the four hobbits, he still couldn't help wailing a few words, "This is for sealing the mirror." Kind of, everyone in the crew who already knew he was going to say a few words from time to time laughed at it.
Finally, with Peter's "OK" jumping out of his mouth, the coronation scene is complete. There was jubilation on the set, because the director had already said that when Angela left, he would have a farewell party and take a few days off.
"It looks like I can leave with confidence. Is that right, Peter?" Angela, who had taken off her makeup, came to Peter and patted his arm with a smile.
Peter originally wanted to make a few sarcastic words to get back on the scene, but after seeing the other party's bright eyes, he just sighed: "Do you know how much Legolas' role I have cut? I'm really unwilling."
Angela was silent for a moment, then smiled and patted Peter's arm again: "I'm sorry, Peter."
"God, is there something wrong with my hearing? Miss genius apologizes to me again?" Peter quickly broke away from his previous emotions and raised his eyebrows deliberately.
And Angela didn't answer, just smiled: "You are an excellent director, Peter, very good, the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy will prove this."
After speaking, she nodded and turned to leave, leaving Peter stunned for quite a while.
At this time, Elijah found him and said shyly, "Peter, can you do me a favor?"
"Go ahead, as long as I can help." Peter nodded.
"The filming of the Fellowship of the Ring has been completed. We decided to go to a tattoo parlor to get a tattoo of the nine characters in Elvish language on our wrist, but Angela said that he is not used to tattooing things on his body..." Ilya said and spread out hands.
"So you want me to help try to convince her, right?" Peter laughed. "Okay, I'll try, but don't expect too much, it's not easy to change what she decides."
She is uncontrollable, smart and talented. No man would choose such a woman as his wife, even the king of soft rice. Peter, who walked to the door of the lounge, couldn't help laughing when he thought of this, but fortunately he quickly stopped and opened the door of the lounge: "Angie, they asked me to come..."
Peter's mouth was wide open, because Angela was sitting on the table at the moment, leaning back and supporting her hands. In front of her stood a woman leaning forward, her hands on the table also staring at her. This woman and Angela are so close together, they look very ambiguous!