rising director

"Those who misunderstood me, one day you will look up to me and spread your wings!"

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Bang!

In the studio, the prop master is nervously building the set.Set up a room of horrors.Wan Xiaohu kept arranging what kind of scene.How to design. "Chain Saw" is a movie with a small scene, the main scene is an old toilet, and there are not many bloody scenes. Compared with the subsequent sequels, it is better than the plot and human nature.

After writing the script in three days, Andrew Brown also contacted a professional team of crew members.In Hollywood, there is never a shortage of filmmakers.It took five days to lay out the basic scenes, and the next day, the selection of actors began.

"The director and the actors have basically been contacted. These are their materials. The exam will start in the afternoon."

The requirements for the actors in this film are not very high, but perhaps because of his love for "Chain Saw", Wan Xiaohu still ordered two slightly famous actors from the original version to audition.

The famous jigsaw is naturally Tobin Bell, an actor who often plays villains.One of the leading actors, Dr. Gordon, naturally invited Cary Elwes, an actor who has been in the showbiz for many years but has never become popular.The other actors are all unknown actors.

However, Wan Xiaohu, Dr. Gordon's wife, plans to hire a well-known and good-looking actor to support her.

To be honest, originally Wan Xiaohu planned to come up with an unspoken rule or something, and find a few high-profile foreign girls to start a fire.

But unfortunately, this idea is not very realistic.

The selection of actors in Hollywood consists of three aspects.On one side is a working group formed by investors, producers and directors. The working group will list the needs of all actors in a table based on the script.The second party is the agency that professionally selects actors. They usually work in Hollywood script network brokerage companies, get the work group's form, and then go to the actors' union to select actors.The third party is the Actors Union. The Actors Union is responsible for gathering interested actors according to the requirements of the form and conducting sketch exams.

These three parties all have veto power. Even if the crew and actors agree in private, but the management agency and actors' union disagree, the contract cannot be signed.

Take Tobin Bell and Cary Elwes identified by Wan Xiaohu as an example. First, Wan Xiaohu had to say hello to the Screen Actors Union before he could get a positive answer from the Screen Actors Union.Otherwise, private contact will be considered as insider trading, and then sued to the labor union.

In Hollywood, in order to protect their own rights and interests, filmmakers have set up their own labor unions by category.Including the Producers Union, the Directors Union, the Actors Union, the Cinematographers Union, and the Editors Union. More than 95% of film industry workers have joined it.

Each actor has to pay a membership fee of 1500 US dollars per year, and the actor union provides insurance for actors, provides job opportunities, and protects various rights and interests of actors.

When selecting actors for interviews, if any actors find that the examiner has private transactions with certain actors, they can complain to the actor union. The actor union is a very powerful organization and can immediately send lawyers to contact the relevant directors and producers. The film company is suing.

If the evidence is true, no matter the director or anyone else, he will be ruined directly.

Therefore, there are not many beautiful actors in Hollywood, which ensures that casting is truly measured by acting skills.

Of course, the above are only applicable to ordinary actors who are attached to the actors' union, and some actors who have not joined the union are not listed here.As for big-name stars, they often only need to go through one procedure. Whether they choose someone or not, the actors' union can't stop them.

Knowing the rules, Wan Xiaohu can only regret not having the opportunity to unspoken rules.

After receiving the information, he flipped through it casually, and suddenly a piece of actor's information came into Wan Xiaohu's eyes.The actor was the leading lady, Dr. Gordon's wife.

And her name is...

0212【Discover beauty】

Jessica Alba appeared on the actor application form of "Saw". Wan Xiaohu saw the actor's photo at first sight, with slightly thick lips, which conformed to the aesthetics of Chinese people.Looking at the information again, he was born in 1981 and starred in "Black Swan at the End of the World". He has been in the showbiz since he was 12 years old.

"Dizzy, isn't this my goddess, Sister Ba!" Wan Xiaohu scratched his hair, very surprised.

Men have some goddesses, and Wan Xiaohu is naturally indispensable. Korean actresses Jun Ji-hyun and Song Hye Kyo, Hong Kong's Brigitte Lin, Hollywood's Jessica Alba and Scarlett Johansson are all his goddesses.Now when I first see the goddess joining my movie, I can imagine the surprise.

"No need to say, my goddess is here, and the heroine is you!" Wan Xiaohu made up his mind that no matter what he did, he would recruit Jessica into the crew.

With excitement, Wan Xiaohu tried his best to suppress his work and finished his work. After lunch, he hurriedly took people to the quiz site.

Among the more than 100 people who were running for the election, it didn't take a few seconds for Wan Xiaohu to see the slim Jessica Alba in the crowd.

"Sister Ba, Sister Ba, you are still so beautiful!" Wan Xiaohu touched his chin with emotion.

The audition went very smoothly, and no matter how formal the casting is, it is necessary to respect the choice of the crew, so Tobin Bell and Cary Elwes signed with "Saw" smoothly.Then it came to Jessica's audition. At this time, Jessica's acting skills were no better than the others.

But so what, Wan Xiaohu greeted the director team a long time ago, and unanimously chose Jessica, and then the actors' union and the selection agency naturally agreed face-to-face.Thus, Jessica Alba became the heroine of the chainsaw.Saying it is a heroine is just a little part of the show.

In the evening, all fifteen actors arrived and went to the crew together.

Let them visit the crew first, read the script by the way, and wait until after eight o'clock.Wan Xiaohu appeared in a handsome suit.I clapped my hands to attract everyone's attention, and said in fairly fluent English: "Hi everyone, audition this afternoon, you already know that I am the director of "Saw". It's a pleasure to work with you."

His eyes glanced around, there were black and white actors among these actors, and finally, his eyes fixed on Jessica.No matter how you look at it, Sister Barbara is the best looking.

"You can call me ger, I don't know if you know who I am and where I come from." Wan Xiaohu smiled slightly, consciously being personable, "I am a director from China, and my movie "Butterfly Effect" was once released in the United States. It's been shown, you know?"

"I've seen it." Cary Elwes raised his hand. "I know you, ger, when "The Butterfly Effect" was released in the United States. I watched it. It was a very wonderful science fiction film. For the first time, I felt that such a high-level film could be made outside of Hollywood. There is also a I have also watched "Infernal Affairs", which is very exciting, but it is a pity that it was not released in the United States, and I saw it when I was visiting Thailand."

"I've also watched "The Butterfly Effect". It's just that I didn't know who made it before. I didn't expect it to be ger, ger, you are awesome!" A black actor gave a thumbs up.

"I've seen it too."

"I've seen it."

"I've seen it." Even Jessica Alba raised her hand.

"Thank you." Wan Xiaohu smiled, no matter how many people made up for it after receiving an audition request.Now that I have seen it, it will be easy to handle, "Since everyone has seen "Butterfly Effect", I don't have much to say. Although "Saw" is a low-cost film, I have the confidence to make it into a movie. A blockbuster classic movie, this requires everyone to work hard with me!"

"Director, don't worry, we are all professional actors!"

"That's good, this is my first time to come to Hollywood to make a movie, there is no publicity, the investment of the crew is limited, and I still have a movie to shoot in China, so there is not much time left for "Chain Saw" , 20 days, I hope to finish filming within 20 days!"

"So, from tomorrow onwards, you can pack up your things, you can live in the hotel rented by the crew, you can shoot irregularly during the day and night, you can work eight hours, and you will get double wages for overtime. Everyone, work hard. After the film is released, I will give you Pack red envelopes."

The power of red envelopes is enormous, regardless of whether it is the United States or China.

None of the actors is a big name. Jessica Alba is a little famous, and she only starred in a sci-fi TV series "Black Swan at the End of the World", and has nothing to do on the big screen.And this year, Sister Ba has bid farewell to TV series and is going to concentrate on making movies. Even though she is a child star, she still has no good opportunities.

This is why she is willing to star in a low-budget horror film.

Wan Xiaohu really wanted to communicate more with Sister Ba.

But time waits for no one.

As soon as he entered the shooting state, Wan Xiaohu became a workaholic, and he could not stop for 20 hours a day.

There is no rehearsal, just the performance.

There are no difficult shots, the most rare one is a rotating shot around an actress, which needs to arrange the track of the camera trolley, and the rest are close-up shots.There are no big scenes, and there are not too many bloody shots. It simply doesn't look like everything a classic movie should have.

Wan Xiaohu used to worry that he would not be able to make a horror movie, but now he feels very comfortable shooting it, especially as the first step in the series, "Chain Saw" is not very bloody and scary. It focuses on the layout of the heart. Let Wan Xiaohu feel that the more he shoots, the more tasteful he is.

Time flies, the shooting of the film is like a gust of wind, it comes quickly and ends quickly.

Ten days later, without feeling tired, the movie reached the last scene.

3 days to revise the script, 5 days to set up the scene, 1 day to select the actors, 19 days to shoot the movie, and the 28th day at 3:[-] pm, the last shot ends and the champagne wine is opened.

In less than a month, the filming of "Chain Saw" was finished.

Surprisingly fast.