Chapter 274: Making a movie to support the election of New York mayor
"This time, you have to sit in the same position and make the same body posture as last time, because this is related to the visual effects of the ghost's upper body. Ubi, don't make any improvisations... Our technology can't support yours yet.
Improvisation…”
"Okay, okay, how did I sit when I finished the last article? Like this, or like this?" Whoopi Goldberg wore a golden gaudy costume and sat on a bed of antique furniture.
room where the main scene of her second act is performed.
After contacting Sam, he was so noisy by him singing a very unpleasant "Henry VIII" that he couldn't help but went to see Molly. The psychic Odme suddenly really gained the psychic ability inherited from her family. Now.
Her small room was filled with clients who came to see her as a psychic, and a room full of ghosts waiting to communicate with their families.
In the next scene, a black ghost named Orlando wants to communicate with his living wife, and his wife just wants to ask where the deceased wife's life insurance policy is. Next to her is an estate lawyer she hooked up with.
"Okay, let's start...Action!"
After Van Fleet carefully measured the position of Whoopi Goldberg's hands and feet, Ronald began the visual effects shooting.
The lens was very carefully restored to its original position, and the camera operator from Industrial Light and Magic repeated the movement trajectory of the last shot on a special track machine.
Only with two identical shooting scenes and the same camera movement can the shots taken several times be repeatedly exposed to one sample using Industrial Light & Magic's film printing machine.
"Cut!" Ronald looked at Odme and rolled her eyes, as if she had fallen asleep. His acting skills were very good.
"Substitution, everything must remain unchanged..."
Ronald gave an order, and the first assistant director began to loudly urge everyone to restore everything quickly. The black man playing Orlando jumped towards the chair where Whoopi Goldberg was sitting just now, and then steadily
He sat down in her seat and made a similar posture to Odme's just now.
"Cut!"
Ronald waved, and then everyone was busy again, returning to their original state again.
"Otisa, is that you? I can't see where you are..."
Whoopi Goldberg's acting skills are outstanding, and his accent can be easily transformed into the characteristics of a middle-aged black man. His movements and expressions make him look like he is really the actor who plays Orlando.
"Orlando? Is that you?" The actor who played his wife had short red hair and became excited.
"Yes, yes, this is Ortisa, she is right here." The estate lawyer who came with her wife next to her became excited. They came to the psychic because they wanted to ask where the life insurance policy that Orlando bought was gone.
Yeah, that's a lot of money.
Whoopi Goldberg's facial muscles changed rapidly, and his eyes widened.
Ronald beside him couldn't help but marvel. With such a close-up of her face, although everyone could tell that she was a woman, the expression on her face really looked like a man's.
Maybe this scene will get her nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress... Ronald was thinking behind the camera that the supporting actors in the movies he directed were all very outstanding, and four or five of them were nominated.
Whoopi Goldberg is now Ghost Orlando. Her eyes are getting wider and wider, and suddenly she seems to see the other person's face clearly. She is shocked and asks, "Otisa, what did you do to your hair?"
"Ah, Orlando, do you like it? I specially asked a hairstylist to cut it. It's called the Autumn Dawn Hairstyle..."
"Cut!"
After Ronald stopped, Demi Moore, who was watching their filming next to her, couldn't hold it in anymore, "Hahahaha, you did it on purpose, Ronald."
"What's the purpose? I don't understand what you're talking about?" Ronald deliberately suppressed his laughter.
"Hahahaha..." Patrick Schwytz, who knew the inside story, also burst out laughing. This was a reappearance of Ronald's surprised look when he saw Demi Moore cut off her long hair privately before filming started.
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"Pfft, hahaha, I can't do it anymore..." Demi Moore also burst into laughter, squatting on the ground and rubbing her belly constantly."
Shooting requires some small adjustments, especially ghost films and romance films, which require repeated shooting of one shot for a long time, and accurate emotional outbursts in high-pressure environments. The accumulated pressure and resentment of everyone are not affected.
Small.
Such timely pranks and jokes help relieve everyone's stress.
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After that, everyone got used to the visual effects shooting process, which was nothing more than shooting a scene twice. After shooting the scene where the ghost possessed Odmei, we shot Whoopi Goldberg sitting on a chair stretching with a painful expression, and the actors in Orlando.
Shot of jumping up from the chair and rolling out.
Later, in the special effects workshop, using the advanced computer PhotoShop, the mask function was used to overlap the two parts of the image, and with the outline light, the special effects of the ghost getting on the body and being bounced away from the psychic medium Odmee were achieved.
After adapting to these novel special effects shooting, the shooting progress became very fast again. Ronald was able to get home from get off work on time every day and have dinner with Diane.
After four weeks, the scenes at Paramount Studios were completed very well. The entire crew moved to New York and began filming indoor scenes with street scenes and several outdoor scenes.
In general, there are mainly a few scenes. The first is the scene where Sam and Molly move into the apartment and hang a sculpture from the window, allowing the audience to understand the character traits of Sam, Molly, and the villain Carl.
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Second, Sam and Molly went to see a play on Broadway. On their way home, the two were grappling with major issues in their relationship. When Sam didn't say "I love you" and Molly felt insecure, a robber came over.
Rob them, and in order to protect Molly, Sam is stabbed to death.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Third, after Sam turned into a ghost, Molly did not believe that the words relayed by the psychic Odmei he had found were true. By chance, I saw it on the subway one day
When she saw a ghost could move beer, she pestered him to teach her. Finally, she used the unpleasant "Henry VIII" episode again to coerce Odmee to find Molly again, and used her mind to move the lucky coin in front of Molly's eyes, allowing her to
Li believes that her ghost still has something to say to her.
"Have a nice weekend, Ronald."
"Have a nice weekend, see you in New York on Monday..."
Several celebrities went home for the weekend. Ronald said goodbye to Diane in a hurry and flew directly to New York on the evening flight. He still had a lot of preparation work to do. He first had to make sure that the location in New York met the requirements.
"Oh, is this a one-to-one replica of the home of the installation artist Michel Oka Donner?" A beautiful blonde and blue-eyed girl took Ronald's arm and asked.
"Yes, exactly the same..."
Ronald took out a lot of photos and, accompanied by art director Polly Platt and art director Jane Muskie, who came in advance, slowly inspected the set. As expected, thanks to the efforts of the top Hollywood professional team
At work, all the sets are exactly the same as the interior decoration in the studio.
Outside is the lower Manhattan neighborhood near Broadway, and not far away is the scene of the outdoor dance scene in "Famous", the first New York movie that Ronald participated in.
"As long as you pass the inspection, I have to go back to spend time with my children. Jane is also going to meet her husband Tony..." Polly said nothing to Ronald. After she and Ronald explained the matter, she took Ronald
Nader reached the corner of the room.
"Don't make Diane sad..."
Polly Platt knew that the person who was accompanying Ronald now was his female companion in New York, Helen Slater. Because she had been abandoned by the famous director Bogdanovich, she was very sensitive to this kind of thing.
, not like a Hollywood person.
"Hey... I won't..." Ronald knew that this matter could not be completely in line with the world's perspective.
"Don't make Helen sad either...don't let them be like me..." Polly Platt gave Ronald a look of pride, then said goodbye to him and left.
Previously, because of her husband Bogdanovich's transference, she fell in love with Sybil Shepard, the all-round Hollywood heroine. Polly Platt once had a stressful day when she could not find a job and raised her daughter alone.
When she was crying at home, it was Roger Coleman who reached out to help her and gave her a position, and she was able to overcome the difficulty.
She has always admired Ronald, the spiritual successor of Roger Corman, and she will definitely not be as indifferent to the women around her as Bogdanovich.
"What are you and Polly talking about?" Helen came over and took Ronald's arm again. The two hadn't seen each other for a while. In the first few days of getting together, they seemed to stick together like honey mixed with oil.
"She said she wanted me to spend more time with you..." Ronald said with a smile.
Helen Slater and Patrick Dempsey co-star in a comedy about college boys and girls, and Nora Ephron's directorial debut has been filmed. Ephron even called and asked him to come over to watch the samples and provide some tips on editing techniques.
Ronald refused them all. He didn't want to see Helen acting as a couple with other handsome guys on the screen... no matter it was a project he invested in...
"Where are we going at night?" Helen didn't care about this, she just wanted to be with her lover. Anyway, it was not pleasant for the two of them to discuss acting skills, so no one mentioned those performances at all.
“Who are you going to vote for in this year’s mayoral election?”
"Does this matter?" Helen was surprised, "I don't want to vote for anyone."
"It's okay if you're not a die-hard Dinkins fan. We had dinner with another candidate Rudy tonight. I'm going to ask him to help me shoot some exterior scenes in the subway for my movie."
"Hmm? What's for dinner?"
"Japanese cuisine, recommended by Oga-san from Sony."
"That's more like it. I forgive you for being with the leader of the Xiang Party. You know my mother is a die-hard Donkey Party..."
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"Mr. Rudy, thank you for taking the time to meet with me during your busy campaign..." Ronald and Helen greeted Rudy at the steps of the luxurious Japanese restaurant.
"Hello, Ronald, this is our honor. People in our discipline department all like your movies. Unlike those who make movies that are incomprehensible, this movie is very related to the security of New York.
, of course we have to support it.”
Rudy and Ronald shook hands vigorously, and they all took off their shoes together and entered the tatami-covered room.
"I hope you won't be biased against me, Miss Helen Slater." After greeting Helen, Rudy took the initiative to mention his campaign affairs.
"You know, I did not run in the name of the Elephant Party, but I am more consistent with some of the Elephant Party's political views than the Donkey Party, such as ensuring the safety of Manhattan. This year, with our strong crackdown, the crime rate finally dropped.
If people with policies like Dinkins come into power, I'm afraid we'll see a repeat of the Central Park runner's case."
This brings us to what Helen is most concerned about. Although she agrees with the Donkey Party on other matters, the law and order in Manhattan has recently deteriorated to the point where even the wealthy areas are beginning to panic.
Although the verdict of the Central Park Five case has been announced, the mayoral candidate of the Donkey Party has made a big fuss about it, claiming that it was a conspiracy against black and Latino people of color.
It is not wrong to say that what he said is completely unreasonable. The five people who committed violent attacks in Central Park were all black and Latino. But the solution to the problem is obviously not to introduce more black people near Central Park in Manhattan.
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Dinkins’ so-called kaleidoscope policy is to introduce many public housing projects in Manhattan, where property taxes are expensive, so that the cultures of various ethnic groups can blend with each other. He believes that this is the best way to achieve racial reconciliation and public security issues.
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Everything else was bearable, but Helen and Ronald experienced being violently attacked in Central Park. The black child almost stabbed her lover.
I can support anything, but this is absolutely not acceptable. Helen and Rudy chatted about politics for a while, not to mention his idea of governing Hollywood with strict laws and protecting the poor and middle class from being exploited by rogue tycoons on Wall Street.
, it is still in line with the values of a traditional donkey party.
"Mr. Rudy, you convinced me, I think you won my vote. It makes sense that you don't run as an Elephant Party. Although I really like your strategy of improving public security, pursuing fairness, and severely punishing bugs, but if
Asking me to put a check mark on the ballot for a person whose name is followed by the letter R (Elephant Party) is still a bit of a mental disorder."
"You're absolutely right, Miss Slater, my campaign consultant told me the same thing."
Rudy was very patient with Helen and discussed many political issues with her.
Of course, this is all for Ronald's sake, otherwise he would have no interest in talking so much to a second-rate Hollywood actor.
The plot of Ronald's movie is very much in line with Rudy's campaign philosophy. Poor urban security, even near the iconic Broadway, can lead to street robberies, and eventually the actor is stabbed to death.
The NYPD is dedicated to its duties, but because there are too many vicious cases, they do not have the resources to investigate and solve them.
In the end, the bad guys were punished. Karl, who had done bad things, exploited legal loopholes in Wall Street banks, and laundered money, was also asked to transfer the stolen money to the nuns in the church and donated it to women and children in disadvantaged groups.
These plots are very consistent with Rudy's campaign demands, safety, fairness, and a golden age of New York!
Ronald's film shooting is a perfect match for his campaign support. Just post a few news that Ronald's new film was shot with the cooperation of the NYPD, and then post a few more news to talk about the plot of the movie.
To be honest, who is a female fan of Patrick Schwytz who would like to see her idol die? Which male fan of Demi Moore would not be heartbroken when he sees the unconscionable banker Carl trying to snatch her away?
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A film shoot with its own media coverage theme can easily arouse topics that are beneficial to his election. How will Dinkins cope with it then?
Because of this busy schedule, the donation from Ronald's friend Douglas Jr., and their influence on Staten Island, Rudy readily agreed to all of Ronald's filming requests.
The NYPD specially isolated a block near Broadway for him to film the scene of Sam's assassination, and sent real NYPD officers to participate in the filming to maintain order.
He also proposed to lend Ronald the NYPD's Manhattan South District office to allow him to film on location.
He also handles applications for filming in the subway. After a line festival in Manhattan ends, the platform can be lent to them for one night of filming.
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"I didn't expect the Xiang Party people were not so unreasonable. I thought they were all like those evangelicals..."
After dinner, Helen had a good impression of Rudy, who paid Ronald. This man was a top student and had also been the deputy attorney general. He was different from the Elephant Party politicians in her impression who watched evangelical TV stations every day.
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Even though New York is the center of the universe, there are evangelical pastors and Elephant Party politicians who oppose the theory of evolution in schools, and there are many who demand that creationism be taught in the same way. Helen, a child who grew up in a liberal family, cannot stand it.
Turn on the TV, and there are many missionary TV stations located in black areas such as the Bronx and Brooklyn, all of which demand creationism to be taught in public high schools.
"It's so scary..." Helen tuned into a well-known evangelical TV station, "Trinity Television Network (TBN)", where the pastor Paul Crouch preached creationism.
"Fortunately, our children will not go to this kind of high school." Ronald thought to himself that his children would definitely go to a private high school.
"Our child? Hee hee, it will take a while, I am at the peak of my career now..." Helen thought Ronald was specifically referring to "our child".