Producer [American Entertainment]

The phone call from the Office of the Naval Department of the Ministry of National Defense, the person who is calling can only be Sabatino, and he is the only one who has this relationship background in this family. Even the famous old Bernstein is unlikely to have a relationship with him. The army churns together.Uh, of course, it can’t be so absolute. Some forces secretly supported by the United States in the Middle East have a lot of connections with the old Burns in terms of arms, but at that time, they would never be recognized secretly, and they would never be recognized on the surface. The consciousness of taking the blame at the critical moment.

In old Bernstein's "business", this part was what William disliked the most, but old Berns had already boarded the ship, and he didn't say that he could get on safely if he wanted to.

Sabatino is much safer, because he is a serious businessman, and many highly professional paper media groups have almost gotten wind of it.

but&……

"I always thought you were jointly developing black technology with the army." William looked surprised. When did Sabatino switch from the army to the navy?And it was opened directly from the Pentagon's Department of Defense, which feels very fashionable.

Sabatino shook his head, but he just denied William's guess, and he didn't know everything like before.

The military that cooperates with Microsoft is indeed affiliated to the Ministry of National Defense, but it is a very special subordinate department.It neither belongs to the three armed forces, nor cooperates with them. It only cooperates with the most elite part, and it also involves the multi-party deployment of the Academy of Sciences and NASA.As for the specific work, it can only be said that it is really related to national defense, but the object of defense is a little... weird, it is better for William not to know, lest he be too curious for a while.

Facing Sabatino, William made a zipper movement on his lips, indicating that the topic has come to an end, and he still understands what to ask and what not to ask.

"As long as you and I promise that you and grandpa are very quiet, it's OK."

"I promise." Sabatino holds the advantage of rebirth, and the reason why he must participate in this secret project is because he knows that this secret project is important enough to cover all the black history of old Bernstein.

Sabatino nodded confidently to William again, he will correct all the wrong paths in his previous life in this life!

Strengthening one's own skills, and no longer letting the old Bernstein go to jail when the black X party fell in the 90s, this is what Sabatino wrote at the top of the list of "things you must do when you are born again".

——The number one priority is to protect William. Sabatino decided not to talk about this point, just do it.

In fact, Sabatino is currently working on more than one project with the government and the military. Someone assassinating him and his family is almost an open enemy of the government and the military. Even Bernstein, who was in his prime, dared not do this Don't give face.

At the end of October, just before Halloween, after five months of filming, MiG and other members of the production team finally returned to the United States with the entire crew.

Several old American entertainers who cameo have already returned to China in batches before. Their roles are actually not too many. What they are asking for is a publicity stunt.

The entire filming of the family was actually more than a month later than originally expected.

Because in the middle of shooting, at the end of August, Audrey.Hepburn's mother, Baroness Ella, died.Audrey was heartbroken, and Miguel decided to give Audrey a long period of recovery and adjustment. After Audrey basically came out of grief, the filming resumed.

At that time, Audrey was very dedicated and wanted to continue working, but MiG insisted not to start work.

After all, Baroness Ella played a big role in promoting Audrey to play the role of the family. Now that she has passed away, Miguel said that if they still insist on Audrey, who is a daughter, to put away the sad performance Movies, then they are too insignificant, and one cannot be so ungrateful.

MGM also wanted to have a happy ending with Audrey, so they didn't dare to push the crew too much.

The most important thing is that most of the money consumed by the crew was paid by William and his cousin.As long as William is willing, who cares?The filming started early again, and there was a long time before their agreed release time, so MGM was naturally not in a hurry.

Well, it's not like the crew stopped working completely, they just didn't shoot Audrey's part, and they finally adjusted the shooting plan.First focus on the scene where "Maggie" suffers and flees to the United States with "Carl" after "Anna" dies to cover them.This was originally the part that was going to be filmed after returning to the United States at the end.

This is the end of the part about memories in the entire memory film, and it is the most important part of the entire film.

In the original storyboard drawing, the shot would end with Maggie and Carl boarding a ship with young Elizabeth, preparing to leave for America as a family.

In order to fully restore the history, Miguel deliberately took the relevant actors and crew members to the port where the three old Bernstein boarded the ship.Many local extras were hired to restore that period of panic and suffering as much as possible.And it extended and added a lot of shots that were not on the storyboard.

When "Karl" handed the ticket to the ticket inspector, the ticket inspector asked in accented English: "Three middle-class tickets, are these your wife and daughter?"

"Carl" turned his head, glanced at "Maggie" and the youngest daughter "Liz" who were tightly hugging each other, and nodded solemnly: "Yes, they are all my most important family members."

"God bless, all three of your family escaped." Someone next to him spoke.

"Yes, God bless." "Carl" smiled bitterly, the pain and vicissitudes in his eyes that others could not understand.The same ticket, different boarding personnel, this is only a secret buried in the hearts of their "family of three".

"Mom, I'm cold." "Liz", who had no choice but to mature early, snuggled into the arms of "Maggie", and with a clear and clear child's voice, woke up "Carl" who was stuck in memory, so that he could not be seen by others. Too many clues.

The sober "Carl" pushed the "wife" and said: "Hurry up and get on the boat when it's cold, everything will be fine when you arrive in the United States."

"Everything will be fine." The crew member said confidently.

The huge cruise ship roared its whistle, and under the setting sun, everyone sat on a neutral ship and headed to the new continent that was only seen in textbooks in the past, full of hope.

Originally, in MiG's script, he would also film "Maggie" giving birth, and the cruel fact that she died in a hail of bullets to protect her two daughters.

But in the end, due to the sudden death of Audrey's mother, Miguel modified the script on the spur of the moment after some mental struggles, ending the part about memories in a hopeful place.So they had the budget, extended the port scene, and rented the real port to shoot instead of shooting in the studio and post-production.It makes the overall feeling more vivid and natural. From the lens, it seems that you can taste the faint smell of the sea in the wind, which is the taste of freedom.

MiG's willful persistence was naturally accomplished with William's strong support.

After MiG returned to China, William specially took Luciferd and Marshmallow to Los Angeles to meet him.Wendy also found time to participate in this party.

Wendy was already very busy in the later stage of "The Wonderful Detective". It was scheduled to be released on December 12th, which was the earliest Christmas time. Everyone was very optimistic about the movie's box office.Today, with almost a month left, all that is left of the film is the step-by-step publicity and various previews. Wendy finally has time to come out and connect with each other.

The meeting place of the three was set at the "log cabin" in Pasadena.

Pasadena is one of the satellite counties of Los Angeles, and the "cabin" is Sabatino's personal property, where "The Man From Earth" was born.

Now, MiG is going to borrow the main building of the "log cabin" full of history to complete the shooting of the beginning and end of his movie.

In order to accommodate MiG, and also for the convenience of shooting, the three simply decided to hold their party here.After William finished filming during the day, the night belonged to the three of them, a child and a cat.

William's daytime shoot?

Yes, William's daytime shoot.

do you remember?Before Miguel managed to convince William, he agreed to make a guest appearance in "Because We Are a Family" and play himself in the movie.

Apart from the impromptu scene in Berlin, most of William's scenes are on the "cabin" side.

It was already night when Wendy arrived.Not long after the crew had finished work, she happened to be in time for dinner.Now Wendy also has her own car, the Volvo 760, also known as "Swedish Meatball", was a very popular and practical family car in the 80s when family station wagons became popular.It's just not suitable for ladies, God knows what she likes in it.

When the Volvo was parked at the door, the fashionable Wendy got out of the car, filtered her sunglasses through her freshly dyed curly red hair, looked up at the main building, and said to MiG and William who came to greet her: "I'm standing here I can't help but think of Neil and his old partner saying, 'The cabin, huh?'”

"Having been to Lesumbra Castle, you will have no doubts about the definition of 'chalet'." William shrugged.

Lucifer in William's arms also imitated his cousin, and "shrugged" his shoulders very hard, although it was more like shaking his whole body, his small appearance was so cute.

"Hey~ Baby Vader~ Can you talk?"

"It's early." Vader is only eight months old now. At this age, little girls can usually utter simple words similar to mom and dad. Little boys... most of them are still in the stage of gibberish, saying speaking an alien language that only they understand.

Luciferd is very unfamiliar with MiG and Wendy, but after Wendy and MiG spoke, he still showed a little more cheerfulness to save face, so as to express his appreciation for the two things he often heard on the phone. The familiarity of this voice.

"Let my sister hug me, okay?" Wendy has been trying to tease Luciferd.

Women are probably naturally gentler than men when they treat soft creatures. At least before Wendy arrived, MiG didn't express much desire to get close to Luciferd.MiG must also like Luciferd, from the various gifts he specially bought for Luciferd in Germany, it is enough to see his intentions, he just, just...just doesn’t like and The child is close.

Wendy was actively teasing Luciferd, who was reluctant to be hugged by her, and said with emotion: "I really don't know how MiG, who doesn't like to get close to others, can get along with the orphans in the church."

"Looks good." William said to the point.

The world of looking at faces is so cruel.

Even Lucifer couldn't be immune, Wendy wanted to hug him so much, this brat dismissed him, but he had a soft spot for MiG's monstrous face.However, the beauty is cold and cold, and belongs to the group that will never have children in this life. Miguel just gave Luciferd a meaningful hug, and then quickly let go of him. He didn't even kiss him, and he kept his distance from him, completely ignoring him. The longing in the little guy's eyes.

William looked at the intricate "love triangle" between the three of them, and instead of helping, he just laughed beside him, which was really fun.

MiG's avoidance, and Wendy's can't ask for it.

Finally, after making a fuss for a while, William took over the little cousin, poked his full forehead, and asked him: "Do you think you are called 'cheap', eh? You don’t want it for you, You want what is not given to you."

"Hmph!" Luciferd finally uttered a particle of tone that was used in the right place.

The next day, the family crew officially started filming, and they spent all day yesterday on the set and filming.

Wearing his own haute couture suit (this crew is really stingy, they don’t even prepare costumes for the actors), put Luciferd and cotton candy on the carpet in the hall, facing Monet for Portraits of his great-grandmother and his grandmother, mother and daughter.

Monet suffered from severe cataracts in his later years. Everything he painted was like looking at flowers through a fog, such as his most classic series of water lilies. However, it is precisely this kind of looking at flowers through fog that has reached a whole new level of art.

The portraits of Anna's great-grandmother and her daughter are probably the clearest works of Monet in his later years, although... it is not really clear.

But that indistinct haze, under the smudge of the sun, reveals an indescribable warmth and family affection.

In MiG's shot, there is only William's slender waist bent down, with a tight grip.Luciferd was wearing a very beautiful baby outfit, and he and Marshmallow, who was wearing a bow tie of the same color as his clothes, had always been out of the country with a straight face. It marks a lifetime of black history.

Lucifer had already adapted to the cameras yesterday, and he wasn't afraid of those black shots at all.In fact, he was not afraid during the audition yesterday, because William usually took home videos of him and Marshmallow at home.

William coaxed Luciferd with a toy: "Come here, come here~"

Luciferd sat firmly opposite, with a domineering look of "I won't go there".Well, it’s been eight months, not only hasn’t he learned to speak, Luciferd can’t even walk and crawl, so William and Sabatino have been avoiding hearing a possibility-this melon is a bit stupid.

Fortunately, in MiG's movie, Luciferd doesn't need to be able to walk, it just needs him to be cute in front of the camera. The focus is on the huge oil painting that is taller than a person on the wall of the stairs on the first and a half floors behind him.

On-site staff are reading the narration, which will be re-recorded by William during post-production.

For the content of the movie "Because We Are Family", Miguel uses a flashback mode, first filming William and his cousin, then entering the storyline, and finally filming William again.The time and space of William and Maggie's grandmother are interspersed in the middle.

Originally, in MiG's vision, the narrator of the flashback narration should be in the form of the old Bernstein telling William, but obviously, the old Bernstein will not participate.

So in the end, the storyteller can only be replaced by William, and the audience can only be replaced by the ignorant Luciferd.

Thankfully, the Lesembla family and Luciferd, who is such a coaxing member, can appear on the scene, otherwise Miguel can only try to develop William's ability to perform a one-man show, which must be a disaster.

Lighting, recording, and camera are all in place, and the person in charge of playing the board was replaced by Wendy. With MiG saying "action", Wendy played the board, and the filming started, and the camera slowly moved forward.

William always only has a back view that attracts people's imagination, and occasionally those slender and white hands will appear randomly in and out of the shot.

The narrator reads:

"'what country are you from?'

This should be an easy question.

But it is always difficult for me to give an accurate answer.

because……

I came to America from England alone when I was 18 years old.

But my mother came to England from America 20 years ago.

My mother always said that my grandmother had fled Germany to America during World War II.

My great-grandmother moved from France to Germany after World War I.

Tell me, what country am I from?Probably all of them. "

On the screen, seeing that Lucifer couldn't be coaxed, William had no choice but to step forward, picked up the round baby, and teased him: "You are so old, you still can't walk, How disappointed Maggie's and Anna's great-grandmothers must be."

While William was talking, the camera had slowly focused on the huge oil painting.

"Look, they are all looking at you." William said.

The narration continues:

"The graceful and luxurious lady in this oil painting painted by Monet himself is my great-grandmother, Marianne. If you are a little familiar with France, you will know that the bronze statues represented by the name 'Marianne' are all over France City Hall or the gate of the courthouse, because that symbolizes the 'victory of the republic'."

But the irony is that Anna's great-grandmother with such a name is actually a descendant of aristocrats.

Anna grew up in a rigid and conservative family of descendants of nobles. She didn't like it at all, and felt that the old house was gloomy and indifferent.She also disliked being called her by the more formal and dignified full name, always referring to herself as Anna, because she felt that the shorter name would be more intimate.

“The little blond girl in the tutu in the portrait is Margaret, my grandmother Maggie, and she also likes short names.

"This portrait and a dressing box are all my grandmother Maggie's property was smuggled from Germany to the United States during World War II. The dressing box became my grandfather's first pot of gold, and this portrait became ours. The only thing that still honors Maggie's grandmother. No one knows how she did it."

William didn't know where MiG's other narration lines came from, but he was very familiar with the last line, which was Sabatino's introduction back then.As Miguel said, his earliest inspiration for shooting came from this portrait of Monet.