"Hey, is Steven filming? I'll just wait here." Ronald found an excuse and came to the studio on the pretext that he wanted to see Spielberg's use of green screens to shoot special effects.
After his divorce, Spielberg is now living with actress Kate Capshaw. After an expensive divorce alimony lawsuit, Spielberg is now more cautious about marriage.
Of course, although they are not married, it does not mean that he and Capshaw gave birth to a daughter last year, and now Capshaw is pregnant again.
Essentially, Spielberg was also a nerd (Nerd) when he was a teenager. He became a film director purely out of interest. Now he enjoys the company of his girlfriend and likes children. Spielberg's current movies
, try to complete shooting in Los Angeles studios as much as possible.
He would rather spend more money to set up scenes in a shed, but also go back from get off work on time every night to spend time with his family, which is very similar to Ronald.
"Oh, Ronald. I'll accompany you in. Green screen shooting is more demanding. We watched from a distance outside the cordon for a while. After he finished shooting, I went to tell him to take a rest. The shooting these days is really killing me.
Got him..."
Kathleen Kennedy, formerly Spielberg's secretary and now the general manager of Amblin Pictures, personally accompanied Ronald into the shadow studio.
Green screen shooting is a somewhat historical method. The prototype of this technology existed as early as the 1930s. However, at that time, most blue screens were used, because this color is the farthest from human skin color and is not easy to make mistakes.
of confusion.
But with the invention of new movie cameras and film, they are more sensitive to capturing green. So now green screens are mainly used for special effects.
Ronald looked at the green background from a distance. Julia Roberts was wearing tattered shorts and shorts, with some bright sequins sprinkled on her head, two wings on her back, and a wire tied to her body.
, she plays an elf named Tinker Bell.
"You are too old now with a mentality, too old Julia, imagine yourself a little younger. Tinkerbell is an elf with the mentality of a young little girl..."
Spielberg was obviously very dissatisfied with the shooting. He loudly told Julia Roberts, who had just been dropped from the air, what effects he wanted.
"Well..." Julia Roberts pouted. It was very uncomfortable when hanging the wire. It was pressed tightly against her ribs. Not only was it uncomfortable, but she also always had to worry about whether she would hit some set.
Ronald frowned.
After Spielberg became famous, most of the actors he collaborated with were very talented actors. Even the child actors in ET were the most intelligent ones selected from thousands of young actors...
Since then, he has been working with the top actors in the industry, such as the two male protagonists Dustin Hoffman and Robin Williams in "Captain Hook", as well as the supporting actress Maggie Smith.
He is the kind of actor who can express the effect he wants and can perform it...
But Julia Roberts isn't...
Julia Roberts basically can't act. She is like Grace Kelly back then. As long as her close-up appears on the screen, the audience will be fascinated. The face of that beauty who is several meters tall seems to be saying to herself
With beautiful love words.
Especially the pair of sparkling eyes. When facing them, the audience will feel that they are taken to another space, a space only for themselves and Julia Roberts. The two are talking about endless love with their eyes...
Moreover, Julia Roberts herself has a shy side on the screen, which makes this feeling even more real. Regardless of men or women, their hearts will beat when they see such a face.
But this kind of true beauty can only be expressed when Julia Roberts becomes herself. This is also an important reason why all her boyfriends were actors who played lovers with her in movies and TV series.
She doesn't know how to act at all. She plays all the roles in her own right. Or in other words, Julia Roberts is the role itself. The actor is also happy to play opposite such a stunning actress and talk to her about love behind the camera.
, is also a kind of fun.
But this green screen shoot…
Different from other shootings, it is difficult to get an actor to act opposite you. When filming Tinkerbell hanging in mid-air, shaking her wings and talking, it is difficult to get Robin Williams, the actor who plays Peter Pan, to also hang up and talk.
She plays opposite...
So Julia Roberts, basically performing to the air this time.
This can easily explain the reason for the low quality of her acting. Acting without physical objects requires skills...
"I think we'd better..." Ronald turned to Kathleen Kennedy, wanting to call a timeout and tell Spielberg his observation. When Ronald was making low-budget exploitation films, those actors could only say
His acting skills are average, but he is really experienced in how to train these actors.
"Hush, Ronald, we are seriously behind schedule. We only need this little special effects scene and we have to rush..." Kathleen Kennedy was Spielberg's assistant, so for her, Spiel
Berg's words are the truth. Steven has told us that the most important thing now is to seize time.
"Action!"
Spielberg ordered another shot to start, and Ronald had to shut up.
This time it was even worse. Julia Roberts was obviously nervous after being told by Spielberg. When she became nervous, she performed even worse, and even Spielberg's body language became much stiffer.
Ronald could see the problem even from a distance. Just as he was about to step forward, Spielberg couldn't help but start spraying.
"Cut, Cut! Julia, what are you doing? You are like an old woman, an old woman... You have to act younger, Tinker Bell is a young woman who has not grown up..."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Um..." Ronald looked at Spielberg, the great director, and seemed to be confused. Why did he offend all the actresses?
taboo?
"ah……"
Sure enough, Julia Roberts was so stimulated by these words that the old woman was shaking all over, her eyes were red, and as soon as she got off the wire, she yelled, "Then what do you want me to do? How to do it?"
During this period, the gossip media was pursuing her fiercely, and many comments were quite offensive to her. In particular, they dug up all of her love history and told the story of "the most beautiful female star in Hollywood and three male actors..."
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"Play younger, don't act like an old woman..." Spielberg adjusted his glasses. He couldn't understand how such a spiritual actress in "Pretty Woman" could be so clumsy when playing Tinker Bell.
?
Julia Roberts couldn't bear it anymore. She was shaking with anger, "You are all targeting me..."
Ronald saw this and hurriedly stepped forward to soothe his cheeks. Both of them were under great pressure, and they lacked someone who could communicate. He also felt strange that Kathleen Kennedy was supposed to take on this role...
"Is there anyone here?" Ronald spoke first to indicate that he had arrived at the scene... When a big director is filming, ordinary people are not allowed to break into the work site.
"Ah, you are all targeting me..."
Julia Roberts was so angry that she took her shoes off her feet and threw them on Spielberg's head...
"Be careful..." Ronald exclaimed, what happened?
"Ah..." Spielberg was also frightened. Is he trying to hit the director?
"Ah..." Julia Roberts was startled by Ronald's loud shout, her movements deformed, and the shoe she threw deviated from the intended direction and flew towards Ronald.
"Oh……"
Fortunately, Ronald moved nimbly and ducked his head cleverly to avoid the shoe, which was regarded as a hidden weapon.
He rushed forward and hugged Julia Roberts, who kept shouting in his arms, "You are all targeting me..."
Seeing that things were difficult to handle, Ronald turned back to Spielberg and said, "That's it for today? I don't think I can take any quality shots. I'll take Julia to have a rest first. I think she's hanging on."
The tightrope was used for too long, and hysteria developed due to poor breathing..."
"Huh? Okay..." Spielberg suddenly heard this professional medical vocabulary, and he really thought it was some kind of disease. He quickly nodded and said to Ronald, go quickly, be careful of something going wrong. In this studio
No doctor, you have experience..."
In fact, Spielberg is insensitive to women's psychology. Even Ronald could see it, and he was still treating it as a technical issue in the performance.
Ronald nodded to him, "I have something to ask you later, so I'll take her out first..." Then he half-coaxed and half-coaxed Julia Roberts to go out.
"Hey, Katherine, what's wrong with you?" Spielberg covered his head when he saw Katherine Kennedy coming from behind...
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"Let me go..." Julia Roberts walked outside the studio, took a breath of fresh air, and as soon as the sun shined on her, she returned to normal.
"I know you are under a lot of pressure right now, but you have to find a way to relieve it. Otherwise, you will become as hysterical as Sean Young, and your future in Hollywood will be gone..."
"Oh, I don't know what to do..." Julia Roberts is also a person who knows what's good and what's good, and the blow just now was too impulsive.
"Do you have any family members you can talk to? Friends? Your brother?" Ronald felt that it was best to be accompanied by family and friends at this time to relieve his depression.
"Hmm..." Julia Roberts shook her head. Her relationship with her brother Eric was very bad...
"Hey, you and I can go home later and I'll call Diane..."
Diane worked with her in "Steel Magnolias" and is considered one of her few friends.
Ronald went back to talk to Spielberg. Kathleen Kennedy was still there complaining about Roberts' shoes, furious...
"If it weren't for too late, we would have to fire her... It would be best to severely reduce her scenes..."
"It doesn't have to be like this. I heard Ronald say that it is a disease..."
"What disease?"
"Ahem, you may not have hung with a wire. When hanging, the chest was squeezed, the breathing capacity was insufficient, the oxygen intake and blood oxygen content continued to be low, and the diaphragm was squeezed, all of which would cause sympathetic nerve damage.
Abnormality, and a poisoning symptom caused by excessive carbon dioxide content in the blood..."
Ronald quickly made up a bunch of reasons.
"Really?" Kathleen Kennedy clearly didn't believe it.
"I don't understand very well, but the dragon and tiger martial arts masters in Xiangjiang can't hang the wire for too long. Many people also worship gods to seek protection from the gods. There will be no hysterical attacks on the set. Of course, it may also be
A superstition..."
"You make sense. Is Julia feeling better?"
"I'm still very emotional. I guess we won't be able to shoot today." Ronald told Spielberg some of his observations about Julia Roberts' acting problems.
"Well, that's an interesting idea, I'll try it tomorrow..."
Seeing Spielberg say this and fully accepting Ronald's explanation (in fact, it would be more troublesome not to accept it, it is better to believe it), Kathleen Kennedy had nothing to say, so she had to throw the shoe aside bitterly.
"For your green screen keying, did you use matte paintings and travel shots to overlap, or did you use a computer?" Seeing that Spielberg no longer troubled Julia, Ronald's technological curiosity also aroused.
He and Spielberg started talking while pointing at the green screen.
"Industrial Light and Magic is actually experimenting with both. The traditional method is not precise enough in some places, so I tried to use a computer graphics workstation to supplement it... I heard what computer software did you use in Die Hard 2?"
"Photoshop...but that software is more suitable for still images, just like the traditional large painting version. If you want to replace the green screen with images shot in real scenes, I'm afraid their efficiency is not very high. If you want, I
Let them contact you and give it a try..."
"Okay, one more choice..."
"How is the final effect of your green screen? When I used it, the keyed part and the background were always a little inconsistent..." Ronald thought of the shortcomings of the Coca-Cola advertisement...
"Industrial Light and Magic has software specifically designed to address this problem. You can ask Lucas about it. However, it is a very time-consuming special effect, but the visual effect is really good..."
"Ronald..." The driver and bodyguard outside came in to take a look at the situation and saw this scene of two directors who are technology enthusiasts exchanging their special effects production experiences with passion.
"Ah, it's time for me to go... Who's still out there? I'll call you tomorrow..." Ronald saw this and said goodbye...
"Ah..." Kathleen Kennedy gave Spielberg a look.
"Oh, by the way, just in time, Ronald, I have something to ask you..."
Spielberg pulled Ronald aside and asked, "How did you sign your agency contract with CAA?"
"Ha...don't you want to give them a fixed share?" When Ronald heard Spielberg take the initiative to ask, he thought it was just right.
"Actually, a director like you is a coveted contract for them. We all know the reason...90% of their clients are actors, but screenwriters and directors receive the best treatment..."
Spielberg nodded, thinking that it was Ronald who knew me.
"I can't say anything bad about Ovitz, but there are two things you can pay attention to. First, not every client of theirs is a profit share. Sean Connery was their first star before, so the treatment was even for me.
Nothing compares to...
Second... CAA is actually a partnership company, and many people are dissatisfied with his way of operating the company as a joint-stock company..."
Ovitz either threatened or bought most of the company's shares into his own name. But brokerage companies are naturally like lawyers and accountants, relying on people. They hold the shares in their hands and run them as a joint-stock system.
, and does not give young people the status of partners. In fact, young agents have opinions on this matter, but when Ovitz is strong, he can bring them greater benefits, so he just keeps it secret.
"I understand, thank you..." Spielberg talked about movies and business, and his IQ advantage was immediately restored.
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"Julia, oh, I didn't expect you to come. We haven't seen each other for a long time..." Diane saw Julia Roberts and happily came forward to hug her. "Do you want to meet the baby?"
"Diane, Julia is very tired. She was hanging the wire on the set and she has some psychological problems..." Ronald quickly came up to explain.
"Oh, then do you want to relax? I have a jacuzzi and a cinema here. There is a yoga room over there, and you can also play games. There are samples sent by a Japanese company..." Diane happily introduced her home.
equipment.
But Julia Roberts is still a little uncomfortable... As soon as she calms down, she thinks of the pain of being exposed by gossip reporters.
"Ha, I thought about it. There is an ancient game here, which comes from the Chinese. Do you want to play it? It's called Mahjong. Ronald, Wang Ma, three are missing..."