Early the next morning, Ronald took Brooke with him and slipped out of London to play. He asked someone in the London office of CAA to borrow a car, tried hard to adapt to the right-hand steering wheel and accelerator, and drove to the outskirts of London.
Brooke combed her hair up, which was completely different from her usual hairstyle in America. She also wore huge sunglasses and sat in the passenger seat.
Although she was known to many media outlets yesterday with Prince Andrew, to the ordinary people in Britain, she is not a well-known idol, and only some young people know her.
This is the weakness of models. Compared with movie stars, the popularity they accumulate through magazine covers is obviously not as profound as watching a story in front of the screen in a movie theater.
Ronald vaguely remembered the road here, and drove along with his memory, and actually drove to the Pinewood Studio. This was a place he was familiar with, especially the largest studio, which used to be the main filming location for "Supergirl".
Now that you are here, why not take a stroll here.
Ronald made up his mind, parked the car, and walked along the path with Brooke. There was a comfortable hotel in front of him, and the waffles there were good.
"You seem to be familiar with this place?" Brooke asked.
"This is Pinewood Studios, the largest filming base in Britain and even Europe. In front of it is the studio where 'Superman' and 'Star Wars' were filmed." Ronald pointed to the largest studio.
"Oh", Brooke looked at it. Now her interest in film shooting is no more than wanting to get a Princeton diploma. Although she has also dreamed of pursuing an acting career in the future, the reviews and box office of the recent two movies were average, so
She doubted her talent a little.
The two were walking among the pine forests. The Pine Forest Studio lives up to its name. It was originally a large pine forest, and now there are many woods between the studios. There are grasslands between the woods, and some outdoor scenes that require grass can be filmed here.
There are also some ancient castles in the distance, which are castles passed down from older times. Because of its convenient location, this is an ideal location for Shakespeare's plays and Jane Austen's plays, and many costume crews film here.
Ronald held Brooke's hand, and the two walked on the grass. The grass was a little moist in the morning, and under the sunlight, it made people breathe and smell the smell of green grass, which was very pleasant.
Holding hands and walking together. The fresh air coming from the grassland and pine forest made Ronald's spirit and body seem to start to recharge.
The two walked up a gentle slope. Looking from a distance, they saw a group of people filming a movie in front of them.
"Ah, the clothes they wear are so quaint, they seem to be from a costume film." Brooke Shields is very knowledgeable about clothing, and she couldn't help but say it.
"Let's go and have a look." Ronald walked slowly along the trail, passed through a pine forest, and arrived at the filming location.
When I took a closer look, I saw that the clothes worn by the crew were very simple. They were not the style of princes and nobles in Shakespeare's plays, nor were they the handsome men and beauties of Jane Austen. Instead, they were dressed like American Midwestern peasant women.
If you look carefully, you can see that she is not a peasant woman, but a teenage girl wearing an old-fashioned skirt, carrying a lunch box in one hand and holding a hen in the other.
"What kind of British drama is this?" Ronald searched his mind but couldn't think of anything.
However, others were filming, so it was hard for me to interrupt. Fortunately, what was being filmed was a medium shot, and Ronald and Brooke appeared in the distance, which did not affect the crew's filming.
The hen cackled, and a metal monster came next to it. It looked like an upside-down spittoon, with metal eyes and a beard on it, and a large winding key on its back.
"Mr. tik-tok, we still need to defeat those wheel people."
"Bumping..." The big spittoon began to stomp on the ground with both feet, walking on the ground slightly strangely. Ronald guessed that there was someone walking in this iron suit, just like the R2D2 robot in Star Wars.
"Cut!" came a shout, and a middle-aged man with an unshaven beard and a tired face used an electric horn to stop filming.
Ronald felt that the voice sounded familiar, so he pulled Brooke forward two steps.
Sure enough, this director is Walter Mersey, Ronald’s mentor in editing techniques. His new film was shot on the Pinewood Studios?
"Walter!" Ronald waved to him happily, and walked down the high slope with Brooke.
Walter Mersey was worrying about the unsatisfactory progress of the shooting, when he suddenly heard someone calling him, looked over, and saw a flash of sunlight reflecting off the lenses of his glasses.
"who is it?"
"It's me, Ronald. I'm sorry to disturb you." Ronald saw that the atmosphere was not right, and immediately slowed down and apologized proactively.
"Oh, Ronald. Nice to see you here." Walter shouted to the crew, "Ten minutes off."
A small man got out of the big spittoon named "tik-tok". He was in an inverted position, with his legs curled up and placed on the bottom of the inverted spittoon, and he was holding the "tik-tok" with both hands.
-tok" two legs so that you can achieve that stupid walking posture.
"Who is that? Is that girl with him Brooke Shields?" he asked the little girl holding the hen next to him.
"I don't know you." The girl sighed and handed the hen to the assistant. "The filming of this scene was so slow. This chicken stinks to death."
"How's it going? I didn't expect you to be filming here, and you happened to be walking next to it." Ronald was very excited. What Walter Mersey filmed here must be "Return to Oz" that he wrote and directed?
That little girl should be Dorothy.
Walter Mersey smiled bitterly, "If you had come a few days later, maybe I wouldn't be here." He handed a cup of coffee to Ronald.
"What's wrong? What happened?" Ronald was surprised.
Gu Qi
"It's nothing, I'll tell you later. You coming to see me is the only good news in the five weeks since the filming started." Walter looked at Ronald and was very pleased that his apprentice had become successful.
"Is this Brooke Shields?" He saw the tall girl holding hands with Ronald, and realized that she was an American idol.
"Yes, it's me, nice to meet you, Mr. Mersey." Brooke Shields took off her sunglasses and said hello to him.
"Oh oh..." Everyone exclaimed, it turned out to be Brooke Shields.
Brooke quickly pulled her hand back, fearing that the news would get out.
"You are all professionals here, right?" Ronald looked around. It was best not to let the news of his coming with Brooke appear in the newspapers.
"It doesn't matter, I may be fired soon, and they will be dispersed to other crews. Even if reporters come in two days, the person involved will not be found." Walter Mersey still had some remaining sense of humor, and he asked
He sat down on the chair with his name written on it and told Ronald what happened during the filming.
It turns out that Disney's performance has declined in recent years, and the power of Ron Miller, the son-in-law of founder Walt Disney, in the company has been greatly reduced by the gang of old officials headed by his nephew Roy Disney.
Ron Miller's originally green-lighted project "Return to Oz" was also relegated to another volume. In addition, Walter Mersey encountered difficulties during filming. After five weeks of filming, the schedule was already more than two weeks behind schedule. Disney
Discussions have begun on whether to end the project.
In order to kill the chicken to show the monkey, Disney's top management has fired two important candidates, Walter Mersey's first assistant director and director of photography respectively. If Mersey does not speed up the progress and continues to delay, the next person to be fired will be
He did.
"Why?" Ronald looked at the young actors in the venue and was a little confused. Although animals and children are two of the three most difficult subjects to shoot in movies, the actor who played Dorothy what Ronald just saw was
The young actors performed quite well.
Even if her shooting time is restricted by the union, she won't be half behind schedule in five weeks.
"Come and see", Walter Mersey urgently needed someone to talk to, and he took out a sketchbook, "This is my movie sketch. In this movie, in addition to the little girl, there are robots, hens, and mechanical hens.
There is also stop-motion animation, our actors are acting against imaginary things and often make mistakes."
"Oh," Ronald understood. Walter Mersey's debut film was too ambitious. It looked like a stunt blockbuster from the beginning. By the end, except for Dorothy, who appeared in almost every scene, the others
Most of the characters require post-production special effects.
Even George Lucas only dared to make two robots when filming Star Wars, and one was humanoid.
"Disney had doubts about this movie, and I might be fired at any time." Walt was a little frustrated.
Ronald also sighed. Only the director can take on this kind of thing. Halfway through the filming, no one can directly help. He can only encourage the director and let him persevere.
Just as he was about to give Mozy some encouragement, a group of people came over.
The leader is a big man in a suit and leather shoes, and next to him is a secretary-looking person.
"Walter, it's time for us to talk."
"Okay, Gary." Walter Mersey recognized him as the executive producer of the film and knew that the expected ending was coming. He looked next to him and saw that none of the crew members were willing to approach him. Everyone had guessed this.
The ending of the conversation.
Walter sighed, put the electric horn into Ronald's hand, and walked into the trailer parked next to him with Gary.
Ronald opened his mouth wide, couldn't he? He actually happened to meet the moment when Walter Mersey was fired.
"Is he okay?" Brooke looked at Ronald and asked.
"The most he can do is get fired. I can just have a chat with him to save him from being too sad." Ronald replied. This movie was Walter Mersey's hard work that he had been preparing for several years, so he was fired. It is estimated that this movie
It will also die young. For a movie like this that uses a lot of special effects, it will be difficult to find someone to take over.
"He is so pitiful." After listening to Ronald's story about Mersey's preparations for the movie, Brooke also felt that this was too cruel to him.
"There's no way. Once the movie shoot goes over budget, the money is like water. There aren't that many Orion Pictures companies that can fully support Coppola's spending." Ronald also felt very regretful.
"Am I not suitable to be a director?"
In the evening, Walter Mersey, who was indeed fired, drank a lot with Ronald in the bar.
"No, I think the problem mainly lies in underestimating the shooting time of the stunts." Ronald replied, "I haven't seen the samples, but I think the performance level of the child actor you chose is already top-notch."
"Fairuza Balk," Mersey replied, "I took a long time to find her. She is very suitable for the role of Dorothy, even more suitable than the original Judy Garland.
Dorothy is just a little girl of twelve or thirteen years old."
"Is there no room for redemption?" Brooke interjected, watching the two of them drinking whiskey.
"No, I was able to convince Disney to give the green light because of George's influence." Walter Mersey gradually began to whisper as he spoke, and finally leaned on the table. He was a little drunk.
Ronald sent Walter Mersey back to his room.
He pondered Mersey's last words, "George exerted influence." Could it be his college friend George Lucas?
Ronald touched his chin, as if Walter Mersey once told him that at that time, George Lucas and him were competing for the opportunity to be Coppola's assistant. The two agreed that the one who won would meet him in the future.
At the critical moment, it's up to the one who loses.
Returning to his temporary room, Ronald called the front desk, "I want an international call, to... Los Angeles, America."