Made in Hollywood

Jennifer Love Hewitt took drugs before shooting? Although Duke is a workaholic, he is not really crazy, and the other party is expressing his attitude to him as a director.

However, Jennifer Love Hewitt's efforts are indeed worthy of recognition. Her outstanding performance has not only been recognized by Duke, but also by the entire crew.

In front of the camera lens, Jennifer Love Hewitt’s daughter is in conflict with the police father played by Liam Neeson.

"Do you think about taking care of me now?"

In the room, she stood crookedly, seeming to be using this method to vent her dissatisfaction with her father, "Aren't you only working in your eyes? Lapid, huh... they are your family, right? The justice police? You can't even keep my mother..."

Having said this, she suddenly glanced at Liam Neeson angrily, turned around and walked towards the room, when a necklace with a cross was thrown behind her.

Liam Neeson watched her daughter's back disappear, but didn't know how to communicate with her, nor did she know that her daughter had started taking drugs.

The door slammed shut.

"Great!"

Duke seldom uttered words of approval, "Jen︽, Ni, Liam, well done, very good!"

The filming continued with the passage of time. Duke discovered that Jennifer Love Hewitt’s plasticity is much better than Kate Beckinsale, but it’s really difficult for a youth idol to transform, let alone an idol singer. She was the one who made her debut, even if Britney Spears wanted to leave the path of youth idols, she hit her head and broke her blood.

Jennifer Love Hewitt was talented and willing to work hard, but Duke remembered it clearly that she fell very quickly. It can only be said that sometimes opportunities are really very important in Hollywood.

Maybe she meets a suitable character similar to that of Juno to Alan Peggy, and she will soar into the sky, but if she doesn't meet it, she may sink.

Of course, if this film is successful, she may not change her path.

Time enters the end of November. Duke began to lead the crew on location in Wellington. This film didn't require much location shots. For the real big panoramic shots, he had asked Anna Prinz to go back to Los Angeles to shoot.

It is difficult to distinguish a city by relying on a close-up lens without a logo in the city, but the panoramic lens is clear at a glance.

Although the film fits the plot of the North Hollywood shooting case at most not more than 50%, Duke will not make such a low-level mistake by turning the panorama of Los Angeles into Wellington.

The shooting time on the streets of Wellington was not long, just over a week. The crew returned to the studio, the most important thing to prepare for shooting was the final climax scene, the crazy gun battle.

The open-air studio not far from the west of the main studio has been set and modeled by the set and props team to look like the Los Angeles branch of the Bank of America, as well as part of Laurel Valley Boulevard, and refurbished abandoned cars. . They were also dragged to the place where they should appear, if only looking at the close-up view. It was like the morning when the bank robbery happened.

This is a big scene involving nearly a hundred policemen, hundreds of members of the public, dozens of reporters and cameramen, and hundreds of vehicles of all kinds. In which more than 1,500 bullets were fired by both the police and the robbers and 14 people were injured. Two people died, which is one of the craziest bank robberies in Los Angeles and even the history of the United States.

However, for Duke, who has been in charge of the realistic war scenes in "Saving Private Ryan," such big scenes are not difficult.

In fact, the overall shooting of the film is not difficult. The most difficult thing is the post-editing, how he cut the finished shots into the right three-line narrative.

If it weren't for the need to hone three-line narrative techniques, this film would have no meaning to Duke.

The shooting of the entire shootout scene was cut into countless small pieces by Duke, and then carried out separately, and finally connected together by editing. This is the easiest and most time-saving way of shooting. The investment in the film itself is limited, even Warner Bros. Out of confidence in Duke, an additional investment of 2 million US dollars was later added, so that the production cost of the entire film reached 10 million US dollars. However, for Duke such as this, the investment of 50 million US dollars or more, and also made a world-shattering scene. For the director, if you don't plan ahead, the crew will almost certainly overspend.

Although the shooting took more than a month, which was much faster than the original plan, Duke still wanted to end the shooting as soon as possible, because he is now undergoing a complete torture.

While filming, Duke must ask about the preparations for "The Lord of the Rings" throughout.

Unlike when filming "The Matrix", the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy only stayed in the planning and paper design preparations. Now the preliminary preparations of "The Lord of the Rings" have entered a critical stage of full implementation, even if you don’t need to be responsible for any specific items. The work, which is only the final review of props, sets, actors, makeup, special effects, costumes and location, is an extremely tedious task.

This is not a paper review, but a review that needs to be personally inspected. Otherwise, it is discovered that the props and location are not in compliance with the requirements when it comes to shooting...

If he left the preliminary preparations of "The Lord of the Rings" completely to others, this situation will inevitably happen.

Duke is not alone in the torment, as well as his director of photography John Schwarzman and art director Hannah Serena. When inspecting the scenes and props, they are an impossible profession for the director. .

If this situation continues for too long, Duke believes that the team's nerves will be broken. After all, humans are not machines. Even if his director can bear the fatigue and pressure of simultaneously preparing or shooting movies in succession, others may not be able to.

Fortunately, this realistic shootout was not difficult for Duke and the entire team.

Jason Statham and Gerald Butler, who played the two gangsters, were going to endure hardships. Larry Phillips and Emile Matasalinu were almost armed to the teeth when they robbed the Bank of America. At least two layers of Kevlar materials are wrapped up and down, and the load of a single person even exceeds that of the SEALs. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are two bloated humanoid monsters.

Although Jason Statham and Gerald Butler don’t have to carry such a terrifying weight, they will definitely be filled to match the shape of the bandits. Wellington is now in summer, even if the wrapper is breathable. Layers of materials with excellent performance feel absolutely uncomfortable.

The only good thing is that summer in Wellington is not too hot. If it is shot on the streets of Southern California in summer, it will be wonderful.

Even so, every hour or so of shooting, Duke would stop and let Jason Statham and Gerald Butler take off the thick equipment and let them breathe. Although this would slow down the shooting speed, once the actors If something goes wrong, more time will be wasted.

In the three days since shooting the shootout, noise has inevitably become the theme of the set, and many cars have been turned into hornet's nests.

Taking advantage of the break, Duke called Liam Neeson over.

"I made a mistake?" he asked when he came over.

"No, you did a good job." Duke looked at his suit. "Next scene, Liam, pay attention. Rescuing the wounded is always ahead of everything."

Liam Neeson nodded clearly, "I understand."

Except for the last shootout, Duke's script can be said to have largely separated from this event, but the shootout is not just a shootout, it must show the glory of human nature, and the glory will inevitably be placed on the Los Angeles police.

On the surface, the two gangsters fought nearly a hundred policemen with little power to fight back. It seems that the Los Angeles police have lost their face. Afterwards, they must be the focus of public and media criticism.

The fact is not the case. The Los Angeles police later received unanimous praise. Not to mention the huge firepower gap between the two sides, the loss of many police officers who were injured because of covering ordinary citizens was enough to cover up some disgraceful aspects.

At the end of the film development, the Los Angeles police, who is not partial to the justice side, should defend the criminals who are shooting wildly at everyone?

Some directors can indeed do this, but with Duke's current status and status as a director, absolutely not.

Therefore, in the last shootout, l.a.p.d. must be tenacious, brave, persistent, heroes who defeated firepower with willpower, and they will also enjoy the treatment of all Hollywood-style heroes at the end of the film.

Gunshots, broken glass, panicking screams, and wailing of pain became the sounds that frequently sounded almost every day during the next week on the set. Accompanying these sounds, the number of remaining shots decreased rapidly. , The shooting of this film is coming to an end.

On December 18, as the special police team led by Don Chandler surrounded Jason Statham and shot him down, the crew finally ushered in the sound of Duke announcing that the filming was over.

It only took a little more than a month and a half for Duke to complete the shooting of the new film, which was much faster than planned, but how could he and the director of photography John Schwarzman’s exhaustion on their faces couldn’t be covered. A holiday It is a must choice.

But Duke can’t leave New Zealand for the time being. Even if he’s resting, he still has to stay in Wellington. The crew will be closed on the camera party. He will also attend, but he is exhausted physically and mentally. He is just attending. There is enough space for him to rest quietly on a large beach leased.

Asked Anna Prinz to send the film that was shot today to the bank vault. Duke left the set, walked back to his office, and talked with Tina Fey, who was back in Los Angeles again, and she brought it to negotiate with Google. And "The Matrix" downgrades from the global market and other information. (To be continued...)

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