Hollywood Secret Garden

Chapter 207 Rosarito's Set

The plane landed slowly in Santa Rosalia, Mexico. After reaching the designated location, the hatch was opened, and Angela, accompanied by Sparrow and Pu Guanshui, set foot on the land of Mexico.

After getting off the gangway, the car sent by the crew had already parked nearby. There were two people who came to pick her up. One was the driver and the other was James' assistant named Matthew White. He had met several times in James' studio before. .

"Welcome, Miss Angela!" Matthew held out his hand to the girl with a smile.

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Matthew." Angela shook hands with him. Her hair was tied into a ponytail and hung on the back of her head, and there was another strand on her right cheek. She looked very beautiful.

"To be honest, this is the first time I've come to Mexico. It doesn't look much different from the cities in California." Angela set up a pergola and looked around. The greenery is still very good, and you can feel the refreshing sea breeze. It is very different from the deserts and cacti seen on TV.

"That's because this is the peninsula of Southern California. The climate is very similar to that of California. There is little rain and the temperature difference between the four seasons is not big, so it feels similar. If you cross the bay from Santa Rosalia and enter the interior of Mexico, it will be It's different." Matthew said as he opened the car door for her.

After the three people got on the car one by one, the car drove out of the airport and headed north to Rosarito. The journey on the road took about an hour. It was already around 3 pm when we arrived in the town, although the weather was not as good as It is usually sunny, but it has a different taste, especially when you come to the beach, the three-dimensional effect of the sun shining through the clouds is really beautiful.

The "Titanic" crew occupied about 40 acres of land on the beach in Rosarito to build a shooting location, and you can see the 1:1 scale Titan parked in the sea in the distance—or stranded on the beach. The gigantic model of the Nickelodeon.

"In fact, only the right half of us was completely finished, so we had to use the opposite text props to shoot, and then reverse the film left and right, and all the props had to be front and back," Matthew opened the car door for the girl. "This can save costs. If the Titanic is really copied 1:1, Fox will definitely go crazy."

"I can completely imagine Mr. James accusing Fox's board of directors of being a miser in private." Angela said teasingly, the place where she got off the bus was completely replicated as the location of the Southampton Dock, and there are only some jobs at present. The personnel here, in addition to maintaining the set up, have to stop those curious tourists who want to find out. Although these people have caused a lot of trouble, it is relatively easy to recruit extras .

"Please go this way. I'm shooting in the boat recently." Under the leadership of Matthew, Angela and his party came to the model ship. I have to say that James has a lot of handwriting. You can imagine how huge the Titanic was back then.The girl still remembers how insignificant the fishing boat was when it set sail in the waves of the Titanic at the beginning of the movie. Unfortunately, this ship, which represented the highest level of industrial civilization at that time, died in the sea on its first voyage.I don't know whether to be sad or sarcastic.

Follow the gangway to the first class cabin.The scenes, which were reproduced exactly in the luxurious and classical decoration of the time, make everyone tongue-smacking - if you ignore the places that are only framed.

As expected of a money-burning director, the girl slandered in her stomach as she walked.It took about a few minutes to arrive at the first-class banquet hall, and James' loud voice could be heard outside the door: "The shooting angle is wrong, do you understand! Don't make me repeat it again! Don't make this mistake again!"

There are probably dozens of actors, extras, and main actors in the banquet hall, and there are almost a hundred people including the staff.In addition to Leonardo who played Jack and Rachel who played Ruth, Angela also recognized several "old faces" in the main cast.For example, the one who played Thomas, the chief designer of the Titanic, and Ruth's mother, and the fat lady who dug a gold mine and was ridiculed by Ruth's mother as an upstart.The girl has forgotten their names, but she still remembers their appearance relatively clearly.But to her surprise, the actor who played Carl was not the one she remembered, but someone she didn't know at all.It's really amazing, all the actors are all dressed up at this time, the men are wearing suits and bow ties, the women are wearing beautiful evening dresses, the surrounding tables are full of all kinds of delicacies, and the brightly lit The banquet hall looks gorgeous and extravagant.Apparently it was filming the scene where Carl entertained Jack.

Matthew walked over and whispered a few words beside James. He listened and nodded, looked at Angela in the direction Matthew pointed, and made a few gestures to the girl, probably saying: Now the filming is about to happen, We'll talk about that later.

Angela nodded, and sat down in a hidden place to watch them shoot.She wanted to go over and say hello to Rachel, but in the end she just forgot.She has complicated feelings about Rachel, resistance, attraction, jealousy, curiosity, wanting to know, etc., maybe it's because Kate never answered her question?

"Okay, gentlemen and ladies, take your places!" The assistant director shouted loudly at this time, and the actor immediately returned to the place where he should be staying, followed the scene recorder and took the small wooden board and tapped lightly: "Scene 43 56 Curtain, start filming!"

Soon, the actors entered their respective roles. At the banquet, Ruth's mother asked Jack questions sarcastically, and Jack answered wittyly, which aroused the resonance of others, which made Ruth more fond of him. Have a good impression.

Everyone performed well. Rachel interpreted Ruth's implicit curiosity, liking and appreciation for Jack very well. I believe that as a newcomer, she can do this, and she may have suffered a lot. James is not The kind of guy who can get by with the camera.

Angela took a peek at the studio tyrant. He was sitting on the director's chair, looking at the monitor and at the center of the set from time to time. There was a smile on the corner of his mouth, as if he was satisfied. However, before the girl could look away, he suddenly frowned. Wrinkled, and shouted loudly: "Cut!"

Everyone stopped suddenly and looked at the director in unison, and frowned when they saw James.Knowing that someone was going to be unlucky, James stood up without saying a word with a gloomy face, walked quickly to the edge of the dining table, picked up a fork, looked carefully, and then picked up a knife.After looking at several tableware in a row, he finally turned around: "Alan!"

"What's the matter, sir?" A short figure came out of the crowd immediately, and came to James' side with doubts, confusion and even more nervousness.

"How can this happen?! Why are there no Titanic letters engraved on the handles of all the tableware?!" James looked at his prop master sternly, "According to the information that has been checked, all the tableware on the luxury liner will be The name of the ship is engraved, why not here?!"

Allen's lips trembled, and he seemed to want to justify, but in the end he nodded and admitted his mistake: "I think we overlooked this. Mr. Cameron, I'm sorry."

James covered his mouth and stared coldly at the prop master for a few minutes, and finally waved his hand: "This part of the shooting is invalid. Contact the manufacturer to re-make the tableware, and re-shoot after the new tableware arrives!"

Everyone didn't gnaw, and immediately did what James said, but some people couldn't sit still.

"Wait! James! Wait!" A guy in a suit and check collar yelled, parting the crowd and walking into the set, his face full of anxiety, "You can't do this! Damn it! Do you know how much it costs?! You I asked to order it from a manufacturer who made tableware for Titanic, and I had to go to the UK, and I made two sets, plus shipping costs. It would cost hundreds of thousands! Add these..."

He pointed to the exquisite food on the dining table, a little annoyed: "At that time, all the food will have to be remade, which will cost tens of thousands, or even more than ten nights, because there are no letters engraved on the handle of the tableware, all will be wasted Nearly a million dollars spent, this is really hell!"

"Okay, Mr. Bruce, please don't judge my work!" James looked at him coldly, "All you have to do is report my progress to Fox, that's all!"

"But I also have to report your financial situation to the company!" Bruce finally couldn't help shouting, "The last clothing incident! The last spiral staircase incident! And the last time...you have already You have done this more than once, James! If you continue like this, no matter how much money you have, you will not be able to squander it!"

But James Cameron ignored him at all, and waved to the assistant director: "Igor, let everyone rest for 15 minutes, and then transfer the venue to the third-class cabin, and we will go there to shoot!"

"No, no, no! It's not finished shooting here! The part of the schedule that should be filmed has not been finished! You can't leave here!" Bruce yelled, but no one paid attention to him. Both the staff and the actors began to go out in an orderly manner. go.

"Damn! Damn!" Fox's representative yelled several times, holding his head, and then looked at James pleadingly, "Please! James! Please think about it! The audience will care whether the tableware in the movie is engraved with the Titanic letters?!"

"But I care." James glanced at the other party calmly, "If you want to make a perfect movie, you have to care!" He patted his shoulder and walked out.

Bruce stayed in place for a long while before he yelled like a wolf: "I will! I will report everything that happened today! Everything that happened to the board of directors verbatim! I swear!"

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Angela has seen what it means to be arbitrary and what is called a tyrant on the set, but... this is so fucking handsome!It would be great to be able to do this when I was a director, but...

"Don't worry, nothing will happen. It was already agreed during the filming. Everything on the set is up to Mr. James. This is written into the contract, unless 20th Century Fox wants the 2 million The investment is in vain.” Matthew explained the girl’s worries in this way.

"Wow, the investment has been increased to 2 million?" Although she knew that the upper limit had not been reached, Angela still couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "As expected of a great director, you can easily get the investment. "

"Of course," Matthew said with a look of pride, "Although James is one-sided on the set, his requirements for the film are very perfect. Do you know that we once made a wreck of the Titanic on the set to supplement some shots? .James went into the water several times to personally direct the filming, and he got pneumonia because of this, but he still insisted on filming, because he wanted to make a perfect film! Based on these, it is not an exaggeration for Fox to invest another 1 million ! For Bruce, I think the owner should be advised to let Fox replace him!"

Angela looked at the assistant dumbfounded.Obviously, James who picked up the guide tube is not just annoying, there are also people who worship him crazily. To be honest, if there are no people who are as fanatical as him, it is really hard to say what will happen in the end of "Titanic", right , if it is correct, at least Fox will invest an additional 5000 million yuan, do you want to find a way to get involved?This is a business that makes money without losing money.

Between random thoughts.They had arrived on the deck of the first-class cabin, and James was walking around in the open space with his head down, a cigar in his mouth.But it didn't ignite, and seemed to be thinking about something.

"Hi, James." Angela greeted.

"Hi, the genius Angela," James responded with a smile, looking up, not at all the same as before.

The girl rolled her eyes: "Can't you not say that word?"

"Well, Angie," "Tyrant" smiled, "I hope my invitation didn't bother you."

"It's nothing. Anyway, tomorrow is the weekend, I just need to go back on Sunday night or Monday morning." Angela said, gestured to Sparrow, who immediately took out a document from his briefcase Handed over to the girl.

"So fast? You don't know what I need you to do." James was slightly surprised.

"How could I not know, I'm not an idiot." Angela said and handed the document in front of the other party.

"This is?" James didn't know why.

"What you want, isn't that why you called me to come over?" The girl said with a smile.

"Really?" Mr. Tyrant took it half-believingly and flipped through it. Soon his doubts turned into surprise, then he waved his hands slightly and hummed intermittently.

"I think this is more suitable for your judgment." Angela's voice sounded again.James looked up, and the other party was waving at him with an instrument, a bit like a piccolo, but obviously played vertically.

"It's an Irish whistle," the girl explained, "actually the Scottish bagpipes were supposed to play the main melody, but that thing was a little bigger, so I used this instead, and the sound of the whistle is more in tune with the bagpipes than the other instruments. "

James didn't make a sound, and made a gesture of invitation.Angela smiled, put the whistle to her mouth, and blew softly. The sobbing flute sounded, soft and ethereal.

In the sound of this moving music, the director suddenly felt that old Ruth was sitting in front of him, looking at him with a smile, telling the story of time and space.With the melodious sound of the flute, the pictures that have been shot and the pictures that have not been shot are turned around, playing in the head like a movie. They hit an iceberg and had to sink into the sea, and the desperate lovers also had to be separated from each other by life and death.

Finally, the performance was over, and the surroundings were silent. After a long time, there was a crackling sound, and then more and more such sounds were heard everywhere. The staff on the deck and corridors, and the extras who were disembarking applauded one after another. Come on, and a lot of whistles.

"I have to admit that this song is perfect, and it fits very well with the movie I imagined." James, who came back to his senses, couldn't help but sigh.

"Thank you for the compliment." Angela secretly called a fluke. At most, she only knew a little about such an uncommon instrument like a whistle. If it wasn't for practicing it at home many times before coming here, if it wasn't for "My Heart Will Eternal", it would have been perfect , the performance just now will definitely not have that effect.

"This is the theme song I wrote." The girl said without blushing and out of breath.

"But it doesn't seem to be the same as the score." James flipped through the documents in his hand and looked at Angela.

"Of course it's different. That's what I'm going to say. What I just blew was the instrumental piece. You know, almost all movie soundtracks have a keynote melody, and the keynote melody of "Titanic" is the theme song, from Here I can write songs suitable for various scenes." Angela said confidently.

James looked at her for a while, nodded and then shook his head: "I admit that this theme song is very suitable for the movie. But you know, this does not mean that you can perfectly make the soundtrack I want."

"So you asked me to come, didn't you?" The girl was not discouraged, "I think you must have watched my performance at Mr. Perlman's concert on satellite TV before making this decision, right?"

Mr. Director stroked his growing beard, neither admitted nor denied, and then said after looking at his watch: "The rest time is almost over, I have to go to the third class to continue filming, if you want If so, I can ask Matthew to arrange for you to stay in the hotel we rented in the town, and I will ask someone to bring you the master tapes of the previous shooting later, so you can take a look."

The last sentence completely exposed his intentions, Angela smiled slightly: "I promise, you won't regret letting me play the soundtrack. If possible, I would like to go with you to the third-class cabin to watch your filming."

"Of course." James nodded.

When they came to the third-class cabin, some extras who were celebrities and gentlemen just now had changed into third-class passengers, talking together in twos and threes.

James didn't call people together to prepare for the shooting at the first time, but pulled the assistant director, lighting engineer, photographer and others aside to discuss something.

Angela didn't bother him. After hesitating for a while, she walked over to Rachel in the corner. She had her hair tied up and was wearing a black lace-trimmed low-cut corset. Leonardo said something, the other party changed into a white shirt and suspenders, and combed back his hair.He is really handsome, a typical boy with a handsome face.In her previous life, she had thought maliciously that if he needed it, he could just go to Thailand instead of going to Korea.

But it seems that Rachel's complexion is not very good, is it because of the things in Leonardo's hand?Is that... a lizard? !Angela stopped in her tracks immediately, feeling a little nervous in her heart. When she was thinking whether to wait to say hello, Rachel had already noticed her.

She couldn't believe it at first, and blinked her eyes.After confirming that he read it correctly, he showed a look of surprise, and immediately walked in front of Angela, wanting to hug her but hesitated: "Angela, is that you?"

"Hi, Rachel." Now that she was recognized, there was nothing to hide. The girl stepped forward to give her a hug, "How are you?"

"I really didn't expect to see you here. How did you come here?" Rachel asked happily.

"You forgot. I'm the screenwriter of "Titanic." Angela smiled slightly.

"Excuse me, is this Miss Angela Mason?" A voice came from behind Rachel.Naturally, the old handsome Leonardo.

"Hello, Mr. DiCaprio."

"Just call me Leonardo or Leon."

"Well, Leon, you can also call me Angela." The girl smiled and shook hands with the other party, then frowned at the lizard on his other hand.

"Don't worry, it's called Kaka, it's a pet lizard, it doesn't bite people." Leonardo explained.

"I know, but I've never been very interested in this kind of pet, or I'm a little afraid of her." Angela explained, and then changed the subject: "I see that you and Rachel have a good relationship, you two talk to each other very well." come?"

"Leon is a very smart guy. The roles he played before are very different from this time, but he can still quickly enter the role." The fastest one is Rachel. "Leonardo shook his hand and laughed.

They've all started flattering each other?Angela glanced at Rachel secretly, don't forget you still have Kate!

She deliberately asked: "By the way, has the scene of painting in the bedroom been filmed?"

As soon as these words came out, the two people in front of them were a little embarrassed.

"Yes, it's already been filmed." Rachel recovered first.

"Really? Then can I have a look at that famous painting?" The girl bit the word "famous" hard, which embarrassed the two people in front of her again. This time Leonardo recovered first: "I think it should be ok, I'll ask Alan."

As he said that, he ran away in a hurry, and then came back quickly with a picture album.

"Thank you." Angela took it with a smile. It seemed that there was nothing between them. She opened the album, and the pose of Rachel in the painting was not much different from that of Winslet, but...

"The painting is very accurate and detailed, but..." Angela raised her head, held up the picture album and shook it, and said like a sentence: "It sucks!"