There was nothing wrong with the shooting in the morning. With the arrival of lunch time, the atmosphere of the crew of "Tornado" in the outskirts of the field became a little strange. If you make too much noise, it will attract a crowd of 'crusades'. Although everyone is doing their own thing on the surface, their eyes unconsciously glance at Virginia.
"Tornado" has been filmed for three weeks, and even the slow-witted staff members know the relationship between Eric and the heroine Joanna at this time. And Virginia, who also has an ambiguous relationship with Eric, suddenly came to visit the class, and everyone was very curious about what would happen next.
However, what is disappointing is that the imaginary confrontation between the two women did not happen, and the two women did not even touch each other. After taking a bath, Joanna had a soft chat with Eric, and then talked with a few The main actors of the movie went to lunch together. Eric asked for Virginia's assistant Shanny, picked up two lunches by himself, and took Virginia into a trailer.
After the trailer door was closed, Virginia finally didn't have to hide anymore, she threw herself into Eric's arms and kissed passionately. After a long time, the two separated, and Eric let go of the soft mature 丨 female body in his arms, Smiling: "Hungry, let's eat first※9."
Knowing that now is not the time to be obsessed, Virginia sat down at the dining table with Eric, but she still couldn't help but sit side by side with Eric, not across from him.
Eric inserted a straw into a box of juice and handed it to Virginia, saying, "How was it like filming in Ireland?"
Virginia immediately showed a slight complaining look, and said: "It's very cold. If I had known, I would not have accepted this movie. I almost froze to death. Kapoor said that this movie might get me nominated for an Oscar. He persuaded me Afterwards, only 3 million yuan was paid."
Eric remembered something and said, "Speaking of this, Paramount even sent the script to me for me to read."
Virginia immediately asked: "Then what do you think, is it possible to get nominated?"
Eric carefully recalled the script, which basically told the story of a man who went bankrupt after years of wandering abroad, returned to his hometown in Northern Ireland to live in seclusion, and met a young single mother. The theme of the movie is very thematic. About family, about kinship and attitude towards life and so on. As long as this type of movie can be made heart-warming, even if it doesn't win an award, the box office is still very guaranteed.
"The theme of the film is too tender. Oscar still prefers more profound things, so the hope of winning the award is not high, but the nomination is still very promising. By the way, how much is the cost of this film?"
Virginia said: "About 15 million. The leading actor is not very famous, so his salary is not very high. But his acting skills are very good, and I am often suppressed by him. It's so embarrassing."
Eric remembered that the leading actor in the script was a middle-aged man in his thirties. Although Virginia's acting skills could not reach the level of a movie queen, it was absolutely impossible for her to be easily overwhelmed by others, not to mention she was a bad actor. An actor who is too famous, which made him feel a little curious, and asked, "What's the name of the actor?"
"Kevin Spacey."
"Oh... who?"
"Kevin Spacey," Virginia repeated, seeing Eric's expression, she asked puzzledly, "You know him?"
Eric said: "Yeah, I heard this name occasionally. I remember that he played a small role in Harrison Ford and Melanie Griffith's "Working Girl" two years ago."
After speaking these words, the two of them did not continue this topic. Eric just started to think that since Kevin Spacey is still unknown, maybe Kapoor can find a way to sign him. However, he realized that he had nothing to do with the brokerage company now, so he gave up this idea.
"Hey, Eric," Virginia took a few sips of juice, hesitated and said, "I... Shall I say hello to her?"
Eric knew that Virginia was talking about Joanna, and said with a smile: "Forget it now, let's go back to Punk City after work is over today, and we will have dinner together."
"You mean, the three of us, together, have dinner?"
"How about I avoid it, and you two can communicate alone, but you have to promise not to fight."
Virginia laughed and said, "Oh, don't even think about it, you will be even more proud when we women fight for you, let alone us... we are not little girls anymore."
After a simple lunch, the crew quickly started intense filming work. Although Oklahoma is not sunny like Los Angeles for more than 300 days a year, northern Oklahoma is still sunny most of the time in early summer. It is sunny, and it is not easy to encounter a cloudy weather.
Although Virginia didn't leave, she couldn't help much, so she had to stay bored in the trailer with her assistant. In the afternoon, the set was still as noisy as before, and it was still the scene where the male and female protagonists encountered a tornado together in the ditch.
It is impossible for Eric to copy such a large-scale special effects movie indiscriminately according to the pictures in his memory, and many scenes are brand new. Therefore, Eric must accumulate enough shooting materials. Although the first tornado scene is not the largest scene in the movie, if it is re-shot because the shooting materials cannot be used, it is not just a matter of funds. It will involve post-production special effects.
Although he couldn't completely replicate the "Tornado" in his mind, and even modified many places in the script, Eric still had full confidence in the movie. After all, the main highlight of "Tornado" is the realistic hurricane special effects in the movie, and although the script has been revised, the tight rhythm of the movie has not changed.
Eric has made a detailed analysis of the original movie. Except for the foreshadowing of the opening and the climax of the fifth-level hurricane at the end, the rhythm of the middle part is basically five to ten minutes between literary drama and special effects. Let the audience feel boring because the literary drama is too long, and will not experience aesthetic fatigue due to too many special effects scenes.
The whistling roar of Boeing engines tossed for another afternoon, approaching four o'clock in the afternoon. The scene is finally over. One hour left. It is also impossible for the crew to go to other scenes. So I started to pack up the equipment in an orderly manner and prepare to return to Punk City.
Eric pushed open the trailer door and saw Virginia leaning on the small bed boredly, holding a meteorology book specially prepared by the crew in her hand, with an earphone plugged into her ear. The assistant named Shanny saw Eric appear, stood up and said hello, and left the trailer with great interest.
"Is it finally over?" Virginia asked, taking off the earphones and sitting up.
"Well. I can go back to Punk City soon, let's go, take my car, this car will not go back to Punk City, the driver will drive directly to the next filming location."
Virginia followed Eric out of the trailer, and a gust of cool wind blew in. Virginia looked up at the more gloomy sky, and suppressed the small expectation in her heart and said, "It won't rain, will it?"
Eric glanced at the low-hanging clouds and said, "The weather forecast says there may be light rain at night, and it may still be cloudy tomorrow."
Virginia followed Eric two steps. Feeling a gust of cool wind into his collar again, he said, "I just read that book that says Oklahoma is in the tornado corridor. Looking at the weather like this, there won't be a tornado, right?"
"A tornado is not a fun thing. You just hope for some rain, so let's forget about this thing."
Seeing Eric casually punctured her small thoughts, Virginia blushed slightly, and it was no small matter that the movie stopped. There are hundreds of people in the production crew, who just do nothing and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars every day. Even if Eric is rich, it is impossible to play like this. In order to let Eric spend more time with her, she is looking forward to rainy days. There is indeed a suspicion of a prodigal bitch.
"I just... didn't look forward to rain," Virginia glanced at Eric with a guilty conscience, and made a weak distinction.
During dinner, Jeffrey also rushed back from another set location. When he saw Virginia coming, he just said hello and gave up his plan to use the dinner time to talk to Eric.
For dinner, Eric didn't take the two girls out to eat, but chose the small restaurant inside the hotel for the film crew to book.
Punk City is just a small town with more than 20,000 people, and the crew's massive presence here has attracted too many people's attention. Although a large group of reporters attracted by the crew at the beginning of the filming has dispersed, occasionally there will still be three or two kittens here, trying to dig out the news. If Eric takes the two girls to the street , will definitely hit the headlines tomorrow.
There is no sense of gunpowder between the two women. At least on the surface, they get along very happily. Virginia and Joanna are very clear that they are only Eric's lovers. Because of the age gap, the possibility of marrying this little man is very small. Zero, there is nothing to dispute. Although Virginia's tone was occasionally a little cautious, Joanna's character was like water, flat and indisputable, and it was impossible for Virginia to provoke anything.
This situation made Eric very satisfied. After eating a meal for more than an hour, at around seven o'clock in the evening, looking at the two girls who were still chatting happily, Eric stood up and said, "You guys continue to chat, I'm going to look at today's shooting material, discuss with Stan about the special effects by the way, and try to come back by ten o'clock."
When Eric left, Virginia and Joanna, who were chatting, quieted down at the same time. At the same time, they picked up the coffee in front of them. The atmosphere lasted for a moment, and Virginia laughed: "Finally no more Give in to that little bastard."
Joanna also smiled. The two women had been tacitly maintaining that kind of harmonious posture just now, but they didn't want Eric to give up too much.
"He's very tired these days, he rarely rests before twelve o'clock, and gets up on time at six o'clock every day," Joanna said, as if explaining something, but soon realized that what she said seemed a little vague丨Ambiguous, as if she has been living in the same room with Eric.
"That... I live next door to him," Joanna finally couldn't help but argue.
There is a huge warehouse on the south side of the hotel where Eric lives. It used to store corn, but now it has been transformed into a huge studio. There are various film equipment and more than ten computers in it. Although it was night, the working group in the digital field responsible for the special effects of "Tornado" was still busy at this time.
Eric, Stan Winston and several other special effects artists are discussing the special effects processing plan for the materials of these days. Although the hardware facilities are sufficient for the special effects of "Tornado", such a movie involving a large number of CG scenes This is the first time, everyone needs to explore slowly, and occasionally need to develop special solutions for certain scenarios.
"Large-scale destruction scenes will definitely be a very important branch of the field of computer special effects in the future. Although this small program can satisfy this movie, its limitations are still too large. Stan, you can ask someone to prepare a detailed plan, and I will let you San Francisco specializes in developing similar applications.”
Stan Winston nodded, and the two pointed at an all-gray scene without any rendering on the computer screen, and then Stan Winston said: "Leave the rest to us, Eric, maybe you should go back and rest."
"Ah?" Eric uttered a puzzled syllable, looked at his watch, it was only half past nine, noticed the ambiguous look on Stan Winston's face, and felt a little embarrassed.
Stan Winston patted Eric on the shoulder, and blinked unscrupulously: "If necessary, maybe we can start work later tomorrow, and everyone won't say anything."
"Forget it, it will be done long ago," Eric confessed, seeing the teasing eyes of everyone after hearing Stan's words, he no longer insisted on staying here, said a few more words, and quickly left the studio .
When I returned to the hotel and entered the room, I saw Virginia, who had already changed into pajamas, leaning on the sofa in the living room watching TV boredly. Eric had already handed over the room card to the girl before, so it was not surprising. But Virginia sat up and asked curiously, "Didn't it say ten o'clock?"
"I was driven back," Eric said with a shrug.
Virginia thought of some possibility, and smiled a little shyly: "That... it's okay, will I affect your work."
"Of course not," Eric took off his coat, walked to the bathroom, and said, "I'll take a shower first."
Virginia turned off the TV, got up and turned off the overhead light in the door, leaving only a dim wall lamp, and the atmosphere in the room became blurred.
Eric took a shower in a hurry, and when he came out, he saw the changes in the living room. He thought Virginia had gone to the bedroom and was about to pass, but he heard the girl's cat-like voice coming from the sofa, and a charming little face came from the sofa. The back of the sofa leaned out, and his watery eyes looked at Eric, Eric smiled slightly, and jumped on it without hesitation. (To be continued..)
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