Little Doug and Donna laughed happily at the wedding. Their relatives and friends, seeing the big Hollywood stars coming to support Donna, felt that the couple had a bright future and a lot of friends.
Although the newlyweds are both well-traveled New Yorkers, one is a rich man from Staten Island and the other is an employee of an investment company on Long Island. Their relatives and friends are not as accustomed to Hollywood stars as the gold-collar workers on Wall Street.
For a time, their wedding became the most fashionable topic among friends.
Because Donna's father died young, Aunt Karen's current husband played the role of her father, holding her hand and taking her to the wedding venue, and then handed her over to little Douglas. Aunt Karen was very excited and laughed beside her.
While wiping tears.
The newlyweds were blessed by everyone, and then jumped into a sports car and happily went on their honeymoon. Ronald, Diane, and little Roger stayed in the countryside of Staten Island for a few days, completely relaxing and preparing for the upcoming "
Preparing for the "Forrest Gump" project.
During this period, Ronald didn't think about anything related to "Forrest Gump" at all. He deliberately maintained a state of hunger for movies and mainly enjoyed the warmth of family. After arriving at the filming location, he was able to inspire an unprecedented feeling.
Hungry and highly sensitive to all the details of shooting.
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After resting for a few days, Ronald came to Blufton, Beaufort County, South Carolina, to personally inspect the progress.
"This house looks like an old plantation owner, but because Forrest Gump's mother has supported the family business for many years, she doesn't have much money to repair it, so it feels a bit dilapidated..."
Ronald stood under a big tree far away from the house, looking at the house being built by the set crew from a distance. This is a professional team under Paramount. The most powerful thing about them is that they can build the house according to your requirements.
Various scenes are aged, and they always look right on the surface.
But once you enter, you will realize that it is completely shoddy and incomparable with the real house, and it is completely uninhabitable after the filming.
On the one hand, this is because the film shooting is always in a hurry, which is completely different from the idea of building a good house that can be passed down to future generations. On the other hand, it is also because of the needs of filming.
For example, Forrest Gump's mother had to take out several rooms in her old house as a hotel because she was a widow. The guest room where Elvis Presley once lived had to be photographed through the door.
The camera looked in, so it was originally a narrow passage outside the door, so space had to be left to put the camera.
Therefore, the site opposite the house was not built according to a real house, but had an extra empty space for no reason.
"Jenny's home should make people feel disgusted and not want to go in. It is the territory of the devil..."
Ronald then visited Jenny's home, which was not far from Forrest's house and next to the cornfield. This was a typical low-cost house built with new construction methods after World War II. Here was Jenny's father's cruel treatment of the two sisters.
The scene of the bad behavior was also the place where Jenny resisted her father and released the brakes of the tractor, causing it to hit and kill his father.
It's a very obvious metaphor for a place like the Deep South, a sparsely populated place with few neighbors for a mile, where the sins within families are rarely exposed as they are in big cities on the East and West coasts.
Therefore, Jenny's subsequent pursuit of freedom and control of her own destiny was also to escape the bad luck of her childhood.
Therefore, Ronald hopes to make this house very uncomfortable, like a dark doorway, dirty, as if it will open a big mouth at any time and release the devil inside to devour the innocent children.
Childhood look.
"This is your Vietnam..."
Polly Platt took him on a tour of various scenes while eating the baked cookies Ronald brought.
"God, this really feels like Vietnam to me..."
Ronald used the director's viewfinder that had been used for ten years to look at the trees and bunkers below on the green. This abandoned golf course has now been planted with more than a dozen palm trees. Or at least a few palm trees.
They fell into place.
As for whether these palm trees can still survive after the filming is completed, it is not within the scope of consideration. Anyway, there will be a napalm bombing like the beginning of "Apocalypse Now" to completely destroy this "sinful" world.
A common golf course was blown up to satisfy the course owner’s wish to demolish it.
"Isn't this really great? When you put your camera here, opposite is the trail where Forrest Gump went back and forth to rescue Babu several times. Each time he rescued a comrade, until he finally found Babu, but he didn't
Can save Babu’s life.”
Polly Platt obviously watched a lot of Vietnam War movies. There are not many scenes describing the battlefield in Forrest Gump, but they are all very condensed. The main focus is to make the ordinary audience feel the cruelty of the battlefield, and also let the real knowledgeable people feel the cruelty of the battlefield.
The veteran audience felt that what they filmed was very real.
"Well, am I right? Is there a great shot here?" Seeing that Ronald didn't speak, Polly Plat turned to ask the director of photography Don Burgess on the other side.
"Of course, we can use a deep focus lens to shoot this scene. As for the special effects shot of the explosion, we can use real explosives, or we can use post-processing methods to synthesize the explosion into the foreground scene of A-Gump rescuing the wounded..."
Before Don Burgess came, he went to Ronald's special effects team to take a look, and happened to see some production manuals for the special effects shots of "Mortal Kombat". Computer special effects can be separated from real shots. After the filming is completed,
I was deeply impressed by the method of re-making, so he also wanted to try it...
"Ronald, what's wrong with you?" Polly Platt finally realized something was wrong. Ronald was standing on the green, looking a little abnormal. His hands seemed to be shaking, and the director's viewfinder he was holding was also shaking.
He didn't let it go, as if he was trying to hide his excitement... Was the director sobbing?
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Polly Platt’s ex-husband is the famous director Bogdanovich. She knows the fragility of artists. So she is very protective of Ronald. After discovering
, quickly pushed away the director of photography, Burgess. He took Ronald’s hand and helped him sit down on the grass aside to rest.
"This is really what happened to my father and uncle back then..." After Ronald calmed down, he talked lightly about what happened to his parents back then. Like Barb, his uncle also recovered from his injuries after being rescued.
Unfortunately, he died.
The cruelty of war is beyond the imagination of viewers who watch some war-themed films in peacetime. Many film and television dramas, in order to highlight the heroism of the protagonist, deliberately reduce the cruelty of the battlefield, and then let the protagonist transform into an inhumane figure.
The impossible superman.
Especially large-scale land wars, this is the area America least wants to get involved in. Both the air force and navy can bully the enemy with advanced weapons, but in land wars, everyone is a big soldier wearing military boots, and they come with a bombardment.
, whether they are the children of farmers in Mississippi or the farmers farming on the Mekong River, they cannot resist the power of artillery shells with their flesh and blood.
"Oh, Ronald..." Polly Platt finally understood Ronald's thoughts. He only started shooting such Vietnam War themes in the 1990s. A big reason may be that the family history makes young people
Ronald could not face such a scene in the 1980s.
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"Hi, Director Ronald..."
After a few days, the various houses, sets, and preparations for the scene were all carried out rapidly. Tom Hanks also came to the scene together with the actor Michael who played the role of Little Forrest Gump.
This place is the main filming location for Little Forrest Gump. He has many scenes shot here. Hanks has been hanging out with Little Mike in the past few days, imitating his speaking tone and posture, and he is becoming more and more like him.
"Tom, you're here...", Ronald smiled and pulled him to the location of the trailer, "This is yours, next to Robin Wright's..."
As the male and female protagonists, their trailer must be the longest, widest, and largest. And as the male protagonist, Tom Hanks' trailer is more than a foot longer than Robin Wright, who has fewer roles.
The studio is such a hierarchical place, and no matter how good-tempered the actor is, he is still not exempt from vulgarity. Because this is not only related to his own treatment, but also to whether the agent can help him get corresponding treatment, and also to the crew.
Does the producer "respect" the actor's position?
After all, Hanks has an additional identity as an investor, and this movie is completely supported by his acting skills, which runs throughout the entire drama.
"Tom, I have something to give you..."
Ronald took Tom Hanks to his hotel room and showed him his uncle's ID tag that his aunt had given him.
"This is the identity tag of my uncle who died on the battlefield in Vietnam. I hope you can bring it with you when filming. This is a bit of my personal selfishness. My aunt is my benefactor. Without her, I would not have been able to go to high school.
graduate.
She has been waiting for me to shoot a Vietnam War-themed movie, and my father and uncle also experienced something similar to Forrest Gump and Babu..."
As soon as Ronald said this, Tom Hanks was also very moved. He solemnly took the ID tag and put it around his neck and tried it.
Then he began to ask Ronald about various details about his father's life in Vietnam, saying that it would help him understand the mental state of Forrest Gump and Babu.
But Ronald didn't actually know much about it. He could answer some questions, but he couldn't answer some, so he had to call Aunt Karen to ask.
After several interviews, Aunt Karen also felt that telling Tom Hanks some of the true things she heard and saw back then was very important to truly record and reflect the history of these Vietnam War veterans.
After baking a batch of cookies, I flew to South Carolina with my husband and brought many files compiled by the Staten Island Veterans Association’s mobile phones over the years to Tom Hanks for reference.
Since Ronald made money, Aunt Karen's life has not been a problem. Her own shares and investments, after selling the leg warmer factory, are enough to support her carefree life.
So she donates money to the local veterans association and veterans hospital every year to make the lives of the numerous local veterans better.
These people also respected Aunt Karen. After she became the director of the Veterans Association, she also set up a small library in the town of Toteville, which collected many veterans of World War II, the Vietnam War, and even the recent Gulf War.
, donated information.
Among them, the ones from the Vietnam War were the most common... Ronald saw these materials and was very grateful to his aunt for her thoughtfulness. He and Tom Hanks read many first-hand memories of veterans, and they received various medals and retirement records.
The text gives a better understanding of their mentality on the battlefield.
Aunt Karen was also very happy and decided to stay in South Carolina for a few more days until she saw her favorite actor, Tom Hanks, filming a scene wearing her late husband's ID tag before leaving the set.
"Don't you think that many veterans' descriptions of their experiences on the Vietnam battlefield, and their descriptions of injuries or awards, are very similar..."
On this day, Ronald found Tom Hanks to share with him his experience in reading these veteran materials.
"Yeah, they... how should I put it, they were unprepared for the war..." Hanks was also deeply impressed by this. Many people wrote that the Viet Cong's artillery fire and rifle design all happened suddenly.
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In the tropical jungle environment of Vietnam, many times you can't see where the enemy is. Suddenly on the march, you are greeted warmly by AK47s and mortars. When you take off your own weapons, you start to fight back.
, the enemy seemed to be invisible and disappeared, and he didn't know whether he was shooting at them, so he could only aim at the general direction and scare them.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The more common method is to call the artillery and aircraft in the rear through the phone, and ask them to drop bombs at the enemy's approximate position and explode them randomly.
To this end, Ronald also found a screenwriter and asked him to revise the plot of the Vietnam War. After using continuous long shots to reflect the dry season and rainy season in Vietnam, a plot suddenly occurred where Forrest Gump's company was attacked by concentrated fire.
In this way, the general audience can be shocked, and at the same time, professionals such as veterans can sympathize with what they experienced in Vietnam.
If ordinary audiences and industry insiders can appreciate it equally, the Vietnam War scenes in this movie will be considered a great success.
After staying for a few more days, Robin Wright also came to the filming set. Robin Wright had just given birth to her second child with Sean Penn two weeks ago, and ran to the set regardless of her recovery.
As usual, Ronald took her to see the hotel where she lived and the trailer where she rested. He also arranged for a nurse to provide her with special care one week before the filming started.
"Ah, you don't have to worry about me, I was already prepared before I came..." Robin Wright still has a deep maternal look on his face that biological evolution can only imagine, but for the sake of the movie and the role of Jenny,
She really took the risk, left the child with the nanny and relatives, and came to the scene resolutely.
"It's better to rest more. I will arrange some lighter scenes before..."
Ronald was not blindly partial to her. As an adult, Jenny's main roles were in hippies, anti-war, going to college, and even working as a waitress after returning to normal. In the town of Green Bay, Alabama, she also
It's just some scenes with Forrest Gump that run through the whole scene.
"Anyway, you don't have to worry, I won't have any problem completing the scene..."
Ronald looked at Robin Wright and admired her very much. This white woman really has a very good physical condition. Not long after giving birth, her whole figure actually recovered, and her remaining maternal qualities are also very good.
able to interpret Jenny's unique temperament.
"Ronald..."
The next day, another plane flew in, and a white woman arrived in a luxury car at the South Carolina set.
"What the hell is she here for?" Ronald saw that it was the CEO of Paramount, and Shirley Lansing was also here, and he suddenly felt strange.
"You don't have to worry about me. This is a habit I brought with me when I was an independent producer. When I start filming, I always want to be with my companions..." As she said that, Shirley Lansing raised her sunglasses.
, together with her little assistant, began to inspect the crew.
"Fxck...you bitch, you actually came to check on my first day of shooting..."
Ronald has also been a producer many times and has rich experience. He understands it immediately, and he often does this, even on the first day of shooting to see if the director is competent.
But he only did this for directors who were making movies for the first time. For example, Wes Anderson and Cameron Crowe became directors for the first time... Ronald made all the movies that were box office successes.
Director, when will it be Shirley Lansing's turn to test his talents?
Ronald was furious and decided to give this old woman who didn't know how to appreciate others a shocking education.
I'm not one of those lousy directors you produce. You should respect me the same way Sheinberg respects Spielberg...