Hollywood Secret Garden

Chapter 514 The filming of "Lord of the Rings" is finally over

"Look at this piece of green, the coldest time is passing and spring is coming. It is a right decision to choose this time to shoot, Peter." Alex set up a pergola and looked at the hills and plains, and said to Peter Jackson beside him Said.

"Yes, yes, I know. So let's start now, from Act 1073 to Act 1082, how about the leased helicopter? I need to dispatch from the air." Peter flipped through the plan in his hand a little irritably.

"It's in place and on standby. You can go to the sky at any time." Alex scanned the surroundings. The protagonists, crew members and a large number of extras made the scene look quite spectacular.

"Very good," Peter nodded, and handed the documents in his hand to the assistant beside him, "Then let the helicopter prepare. I'm going to start shooting from scene 1079, scene 231."

"Okay... wait," Alex came back to his senses, "Scene 1079 in Act 231? Angela hasn't come back yet to report."

"Stand-in, back shot, make-up, montage editing, what's the problem?" Peter raised his eyebrows and looked at Alex with his hands behind his back. Although there was no expression on his face, 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 couldn't hold back in the end: "If the effect is good, the next shots can be shot like this, I think Angela should not object."

At this moment, a clear and playful voice came from behind: "You really think so, Peter?"

Peter, who was about to go to the outside, paused immediately, and turned around a few seconds later, shooting his lightning-like gaze into the crowd.As always, Angela, who was wearing jeans, a plaid shirt, and a vest, came out wearing a hat, her emerald green eyes were curved with ridicule and playfulness.

"Welcome back, dear Miss Genius, it's an honor," said Peter, almost gritting his teeth.After he finished speaking, he was stunned, and rolled his eyes with a slap on the forehead. This sentence really became a mantra.

However, Angela didn't take the opportunity to do anything, walked up to him in two steps and spread out her hands with a smile: "Since I said I will report back in three days, I will definitely do it, unless something unexpected happens."

Having said that, her teasing expression is obvious: Or do you want me to delay my return due to some accident?Peter rolled his eyes angrily, looked around and asked, "Why didn't you notify the crew to pick someone up?"

"You guys are obviously busy with filming, so it's better for me to come here by myself, you must know that the jet lag is not reversed yet." Angela yawned loudly as she spoke, as if doing something for the phrase "the jet lag is not reversed". footnote.

"Give up the time to adjust and rush to the crew as soon as possible. Well, I really should admire your sacrifice." Peter rolled his eyes again. Hell, why are you always rolling your eyes 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 a double to play Legolas, so I can Back to rest?"

"Don't even think about it! Go to the makeup artist and costume artist immediately, half an hour later I will see you put on makeup and costumes and stand by!" Peter said directly in an orderly tone without being too lazy to talk to her.

Angela shrugged with a smile, turned around and looked around to confirm the location of the makeup artist, then turned and left.

"Angie is back, you should be relieved, right?" Alex joked beside him.

Peter glared at him: "The plan has changed, starting with shot 1075 in Act 55, tell them to go immediately!"

"OK, OK, I'll go right away." Alex laughed and raised his hands, then slipped away quickly.

rest assured?Forget it, Peter scratched his head, although he was still a little annoyed, at least he wasn't as unhappy as before.In short, Angela's return to the team on time saved him from trying to get a substitute. This method can only solve the temporary problem.Besides, Angela has always acted very well, if she hadn't slipped away every now and then...

"After the angle is selected, I will inform you to start," Peter, who walked to the side of the helicopter, shouted to his assistant in the wind blowing from the propeller, "All personnel must go to the established position within 5 minutes after the start superior!"

After the assistant nodded and left, he jumped up to greet the driver to prepare to go to the sky, and the most spectacular battle scene in "Lord of the Rings" kicked off.Of course, the shooting in reality is not as good-looking as the one on the screen. There are only a few hundred people running from here to there waving weapons that look like metal but are actually plastic, and there is no fighting at all. 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 be connected with the pictures in the camera.So you can't make a movie without an excellent imagination, and what Peter lacks most is imagination.

"I want you to imagine what your expressions should be when thousands of undead army rush out from behind them." Peter stood among the extras and waved his hands and shouted, "It's fear! Facing inhuman creatures fear!"

At this moment, he is dressed in the same weird way as these extras. His already lush beard has become thicker, and there are a few long braids on his head. arrows.

"Understood, Mr. Director, we are already very scared, especially when you died beside me." The big extra who played the role of the pirate leader said with a playful smile.

"Very good, if I am still dissatisfied, you will die by their side." Peter also jokingly said something, then turned and waved to the two men and a woman standing outside the model ship: "You just I don't need to say more."

"Don't worry, I can't wait to shoot you again, Peter." Angela, who was dressed as Legolas, replied lazily, causing laughter from all around.

Peter Jackson twitched the corner of his mouth: "If you hate me so much, why don't we come here a few more times?"

"I'm so happy." Angela smiled and made a chest salute.That heroic and mischievous appearance immediately attracted more clamor, and many people even clamored to shoot a few more arrows at a time to make the director look cunning.

Facing the raging crowd, Peter ignored them and waved his hand to announce the start of filming.It wasn't until the break at the end of the camera that Peter, who was removing his makeup, half-complained and half-strangely asked Alex: "Am I so unpopular?"

"I thought you knew." Alex raised his eyebrows in surprise, "Well, I can't say you're unpopular, but you know, you've been in a state of anxiety for a long time, so it's inevitable... ..."

Peter rubbed 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 wasn't so difficult to serve, the situation would definitely not have become so bad."

"Yeah, she's so evil that she made our great director Peter so irritable," Alex began to tease again, "Fortunately, she came back on time this time, and Peter, who is approachable and dignified, also Followed back."

"Alex!" Peter rolled his eyes, "How many times is this the first time? I don't know when you became so humorous."

"Okay, okay, I'm not kidding anymore." Alex laughed and walked away, but turned his head before two steps: "You know, Peter, you give me the feeling that you are very kind to Miss Genius Love it and hate it."

This guy... Peter shook his head helplessly.Love it or hate it?Well, he admitted it was indeed true.Needless to say hate, any director will have a headache and hate this kind of actors who come and go when they want to come and go, and the crew has to cooperate with adjustments; as for love, so far the entire crew has witnessed her fifth consecutive award. Grammy single, nominated Oscar for Best Director for the second time in a row, became the youngest Palme d'Or winner and directed

The sixth movie...

Well, these have nothing to do with the "Lord of the Rings" movie I am working on, so the main reason is that her image does fit Legolas very well and interprets the elf prince very well.Needless to say, the demeanor of the character, most of the actions are basically performed by her in person. A few days ago, I went back to Queenstown to shoot the scene of climbing on the back of a mammoth in front of the blue screen. Woolen cloth.So it is absolutely inappropriate to say that she is not professional.

Moreover, he has had a headache for a long time with those two soundtracks. If he gives up, he is not willing to use them, but if he wants to use them, he doesn't know where to use them.Angela herself once told others in private that she wrote it casually, well, if casual writing can be of this level, then she should really be asked to compose the soundtrack for "Lord of the Rings".Although Peter thought about it, he was quickly thrown aside.Think about it, it took her nearly a year to create the three theme songs alone. If she is asked to be in charge of the soundtrack and then procrastinate like acting, well, no matter how much Bob Scheer can tolerate it will kill him.

Peter shook his still fluffy head to drive out these thoughts, let's hurry up and finish the shot of Legolas first.Angela spends her nights on a satellite phone directing the final stages of her new film, and God knows if she'll ask for odd shots to be shot another day and leave early.As for the soundtrack, Howard Ken has agreed to be the soundtrack engineer, so let him consider and have a headache.

For the next filming, because Peter put all his thoughts on it, and Angela also cooperated very well, and the main actors such as Vigo, Elijah, and Sir Ian were also in excellent condition, and the progress can be described as rapid progress.So in the end, the Battle of Noperan Plain took only a little more than two weeks to complete.

Then there are some fragmented shots, there are those of the Fellowship of the Ring, those of Isengard, those of Rohan, those of Gondor, those of 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 still the shots of Legolas.

Although most people didn't express dissatisfaction or anything like this, they all knew the reason.Besides, Angela asked the crew to cooperate because she was busy, not once or twice, and she has always gotten along well with everyone, and her popularity is very good.

Only Peter occasionally grumbled: "We are in Tuweize today, we will go to Matamata tomorrow, and we will return to Queenstown in two days. After you finish filming and leave, we have to go back to Tuweize. Really high."

And Angela would shake her fingers and remind him leisurely: "Pay attention to your demeanor, Mr. Peter, we have already agreed."

At this time, Peter would shut his mouth and let it develop over time.But in the last scene, when Aragorn was crowned king in White City, married Arwen, and knelt down to pay homage to the four hobbits, he still couldn't help but wailed a few words, "This is for the mirror". Like, everyone in the crew who already knew that he had to say a few words from time to time laughed at it.

Finally, as Peter's "OK" jumped out of his mouth, the coronation scene was considered complete.There was joy on the set, because the director had already said that he would hold a farewell party when Angela left and take a rest for a few days.

"It looks like I can leave with peace of mind. Is that right, Peter?" Angela, who had removed her make-up, came to Peter and patted his arm with a smile.

Peter originally wanted to make some sarcasm to get back the scene, but after seeing the other party's bright eyes, he just sighed: "Do you know how much Legolas' role I cut? I'm really not reconciled."

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, apologize to me again?" Peter quickly broke away from his previous emotions and raised his eyebrows on purpose.

And Angela didn't answer, just smiled: "You are an excellent director, Peter, very good, and the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy will prove it."

After she finished speaking, she nodded and turned to leave, leaving Peter stunned for a long while.

At this moment, Elijah found him and said shyly, "Peter, can I do you a favor?"

"Speak, as long as I can help." Peter nodded.

"The filming of the Fellowship of the Ring team is over, and we decided to go to a tattoo parlor to get a tattoo of the Nine in Elvish language on our wrists, but Angela said that I'm not used to getting tattoos on my body..." Ilya said and spread it out hands.

"So you want me to help try to convince her again, right?" Peter laughed, "Okay, I'll try, but don't expect too much, it's not easy to change what she has decided."

She can't be controlled, and she is smart and talented. No man would choose this kind of woman as his wife, even if she is a soft rice king.Peter, who walked to the door of the lounge, couldn't help laughing when he thought of this. Fortunately, he quickly stopped and opened the door of the lounge: "Angie, they asked me to come over..."

Peter's mouth was wide open, because at this moment Angela was sitting on the table, leaning back and supporting herself with her hands.And in front of her stood a woman leaning forward, her hands also on the table, staring at her.This woman and Angela are so closely attached, it seems extremely ambiguous!