Hollywood Road

The dilapidated road is full of cracks, weeds grow on both sides of the road, and a rusty notice board stands in the weeds - a military base two miles away!

The notice board is located on the south side of the road, and opposite to the north side is a row of trash cans. It seems that no one has cleaned the trash cans for a long time. Black, lying quietly on the side of the grass on the side of the road. Eight \u003e One Middle School ≥ Text ≥ ≤ ≤ \u003c ≤

This is a road that has been basically abandoned. In the past, not to mention vehicles, not even a single person could be seen.

But today there is a lot of people here, five or six large trailer trucks and more than a dozen commercial vehicles are parked on the nearby grassland, dozens of people are busy around, some are setting up cameras, some are checking the light, some are arranging the venue, and Someone is doing final checks on several green army vehicles.

Murphy stood in the shadow behind a trailer, listened to the information gathered by various departments, and glanced at Jessica Chastain who was standing beside her.

"Relax," he could see the heavily made-up Jessica Chastain tensing up, "just like when you're on stage."

Jessica Chastain nodded and smiled.

Paul Wilson came over, "The departments are ready."

"Well, I see." Murphy picked up a bottle of water on the high chair next to him, unscrewed it and took a big sip, then turned around and walked behind a camera, picked up a loudspeaker, and shouted, "Five minutes Then start filming!"

The crew entered the final preparations before shooting.

Jessica Chastain walked to the trash can, and under the direction of Paul Wilson, she familiarized herself with the position again. Several military vehicles also drove nearby. An actor from CAA was wearing a school uniform, standing On top of the front one.

In this crew, apart from Robert Downey Jr. in the past and James Franco, who is gradually becoming famous, there are no relatively well-known actors, let alone actors with a salary of over tens of millions of dollars as before. As far as the salary is concerned, Murphy will save too much money compared to the previous one.

There is also old film, deliberately blurred and old, which also requires money.

Murphy also gave up this approach. A film must adapt to the development of society. Deliberate blurring can indeed arouse the nostalgia of some people, but it will drive more audiences out of the theater. Fuzzy and noisy videos?

He doesn't know exactly how much the box office of this movie is.

But I vaguely remember that the sales of video tapes were far better than the box office.

It has to be said that the handling of the screen effects of this film did not meet the needs of the theater screening market, and was more suitable for home video viewers.

Therefore, Murphy asked Philip Lascher to use a slightly yellowish photography style, but rejected those deliberately old-fashioned.

After all, he is not Robert Rodriguez after all, and he has no special feelings for "grindhouse" films. If he shoots in Robert Rodriguez's style and invites some well-known actors, this 8oo Ten thousand dollars is definitely not enough.

He remembered that "Planet Terror" was bundled with Quentin Tarantino's "Death Proof" and the cost and box office were calculated based on the sum of the two, but the result did not appear 1+1\u0026amp;amp; gt;2, not even 1+1=2.

There is no doubt that Quentin Tarantino's fame and achievements are far greater than those of Robert Rodriguez, but Quentin Tarantino has lagged behind in this film collectively called "Grinding Chamber". Legs, "Death Proof" has been criticized and has become one of Quentin's few failed works.

The cooperation between the two geniuses came to an end.

Of course, "Planet Terror" is not without criticism, especially when it is released in theaters, some things must be restrained, especially the places that are too disgusting.

Just like "Chain Saw", blood and nausea cannot be equated. The former can resonate with quite a few audiences, but the latter will make most people feel sick.

It’s not long after 9/11. If this film is to be released in theaters on a large scale, it must conform to the current social and environmental situation. Murphy appropriately lowered the scale of the film, especially giving up some disgusting content about the lower body organs of the human body. Put more weight on the absurd and black humor.

In his vision, this is an absurd noir movie in which beautiful women and handsome men go to battle to kill zombies.

All departments of the crew were ready, Jessica Chastain and other actors were also in place, Murphy nodded to the director, and the director put the board in front of the camera lens.

"Planet Terror, outfield scene, first scene, first act, start now!"

The scene adopted the method of cross-shooting with two cameras at a 45-degree angle. Murphy and the director of photography Philip Lascher each operated a camera. Due to the good light conditions on the scene, no lighting was used.

Wrapped in a coat, Jessica Chastain walked slowly along the north side of the road. She wore four-foot high-heeled leather boots and a short, low-cut, tight-fitting shirt of a similar color. The capital on the chest is highlighted, and a section of snow-white waist is exposed. Below the slender waist is a leather skirt that cannot be any shorter. As the legs move, one can vaguely see the scenery in it.

Such a low-budget production, the sexy and hot heroine is one of the main selling points. In the North American film market, although zombie films are a small category, there are many related films. Why do audiences buy this film?

Zombies are much the same, so we have to figure out how to kill them and who kills them.

Sexy strippers killing zombies are of course different from tough men killing zombies, and they are more interesting.

Murphy's camera lens was mainly focused on Jessica Chastain, and Philip Lascher used a panoramic shot to capture both Jessica Chastain and the road next to her.

Several military vehicles approached from far away, and suddenly broke into the camera without any reduction, whistling past Jessica Chastain, Jessica Chastain seemed to be brought by the vehicle, her body tilted, and she just fell on the ground. On the trash can on the side of the road, the trash can was overturned immediately, and some sundries buried her under it.

A recording assistant sent the recording microphone down with a stick just right.

Jessica Chastain, who was lying on the ground, cursed for a while. When Murphy heard it, he frowned and shouted, "netbsp; The busy production team stopped immediately, and everyone looked at Murphy. The director yelled to stop, which meant that someone must have made a mistake.

"Jessie!" Murphy yelled at Jessica Chastain, sitting behind the camera, "you're a nightclub stripper now, not a top student at Juilliard, you know strippers Why are you swearing? Not as soft-spoken as you!"

He made a general request, "Be vulgar!"

After finishing speaking, Murphy shouted loudly, "Rearrange the set and start over in ten minutes!"

Throwing away the rotten vegetable leaves hanging on her body, Jessica Chastain got up from the ground, rubbed her sore knee from the fall, and hurried to the makeup trailer. Time was limited, and she still had to touch up her makeup.

As she was walking, she turned her head and glanced at Murphy who was sitting behind the camera giving orders. The former penniless director had become the master of a production team with an investment of nearly ten million dollars, and he was skilled and orderly. Directing the production crew to run, the youthfulness of the past almost completely disappeared.

The speed of his growth is amazing, as if he was born to adapt to this industry.

Back in the make-up trailer, Jessica Chastain changed into the same costume at the request of the costume designer, but the costume seems to be smaller, and the gully squeezed out of the chest feels deeper, and the skin exposed under the leather skirt Also more.

Jessica Chastain always felt a little sad when thinking about the setting of this role and looking at her gaudy dress in the mirror. Could this be the film career she pursued?

No one paid attention to her, and no one communicated with her. All the people here, like every component on the assembly line, were working closely and busy to complete their own part of the work.

Filming quickly restarted, and after another iteration, the first shot of Planet Terror was declared complete.

The crew finished packing up the set as quickly as possible, and before the sun turned to the south, they rushed to the bridge not far ahead. On the river bank opposite the bridge, Helena Espora's team had built a wooden It is a barbecue restaurant with a custom-made structure. The barbecue restaurant is mainly based on sets and models. Of course, it is impossible to enter it for shooting. Murphy just directs people to shoot some panoramic shots. The scenes in the barbecue restaurant will be shot after returning to the warehouse in Venice.

Helena Espora led people to do the final finishing. Robert Downey Jr. and Carey Mulligan, who rushed over early in the morning, entered the make-up trailer and began to make up. An old truck was driven by the props team to the side of the barbecue shop. on the wasteland.

When the venue was almost set up, Murphy went to the women's makeup trailer. Carey Mulligan had finished her makeup and was sitting in front of the mirror in a daze. Jack Watson's female assistant was very winking and saw Murphy coming in. , said softly and walked out of the makeup trailer.

Carey Mulligan sat still, her eyes looking at Murphy through the mirror.

"Hi," Murphy walked behind her and greeted, "What are you thinking?"

Carey Mulligan just looked at him through the mirror, like all this time, without saying a word.

Murphy frowned, "Honey..."

"I don't want to talk to you!" Carey Mulligan finally turned his head, the baby's face was gloomy, "I don't want to listen to you either! I've seen it for a while, you and Julian Fellowes, and Like my parents, they said they thought about me, but actually they didn't think about my feelings at all!"

There was a knock on the door, and someone outside reminded, "Director, the preparations are ready, and it's time to start shooting." (To be continued.)