[American Entertainment] Born to be passionate

"So you literally call the Wachowskis sisters the first time you meet them, man, I can imagine that, it's hilarious."

Alicia, dressed like a girl next door, sat on the couch in Edmond's house eating cornflakes and taunting her owner mercilessly.It is the beginning of March now, Edmundo has just experienced his 3rd birthday, and his plane will leave for Hong Kong in 23 hours, and this time the whole crew will be traveling with him.

As the director's best friend, Alicia gets the rather enviable treatment before her departure.Mikkelsen also had the opportunity to wait on the comfortable sofa of the manor, but he declined the invitation on the grounds that he did not want others to suspect that he had some insider operations.

"It's so confusing, don't you think so, Eddie. If my good friend chooses me for a movie, I'd like the whole world to know." Alicia said with a little disdain.

Edmondo has no opinion on this, he just provided a better choice, as for the final decision, he is not something he should consider.

"By the way, Eddie, are you really going to help the Wachowskis sign with DreamWorks? I know they approached Warner with a script called "Carnivorous Animals", which is said to be very shocking. " Alicia changed her posture and asked, "My friends and I feel that what these brothers think is different from normal people, and they have no works yet, so you just agree to invest in their scripts, right? It’s not appropriate, of course I’m just saying that.”

"Obviously not, they came up with the script of "The Matrix" and asked for an investment of 500 million. Even if I agree with the rest of the DreamWorks, they will not agree." Edmondo sat on the armrest of the sofa, crossing his legs to himself Looking at the storyboards he created before, he replied, "They also understand, so they came with another script very sincerely, which is equivalent to an unfinished work, which means—"If If we can direct this small-budget movie well, will it prove our strength', the answer is yes, so I agreed."

Alicia shrugged, saying that she only knew a little about it, and that Edmondo had to decide.He put down the glass basin containing corn flakes, patted the crumbs on his pants, and then rolled his eyes, thinking of something again.

"That's right, Eddie! Let me meet you and Leonardo's 'child' that went viral last month." The blonde girl emphasized the pronunciation of 'child' as if on purpose, and then rushed to Ai Demondo blinked. "For God's sake, I have the right to be his godmother."

Edmondo gave her a disgusted look, then he smirked and made a dissatisfied nasal voice: "Just because of your rude teasing, you will lose this right forever, dear, I will not let you see my son Yes, you will spoil him."

Alicia cast a surprised look at him: "Yeah - I don't know when you are willing to call him your son?"

"He, not it, pay attention to your words." Edmundo said with a serious expression, "George will be sad if he hears it, and I will play with him then."

"I thought Leonardo hated the name George."

"Yes, he hates it, but I like it." Edmundo said proudly, raising his head.When he finished speaking, Michele, the assistant who had disappeared for a long time, came out from behind. After saying hello, he was going to pick up Edmundo's luggage. Before he could do that, Edmundo stopped him, "Put it there and don't move it. I'll do it myself."

This sounded a little blunt, Michelle didn't know what she did wrong, so she took two steps back and looked over with questioning eyes, Alicia also noticed something was wrong, she raised an eyebrow on one side of the sofa. Watching the show on the other side.

"Your plane is about to leave. I think going to the airport is the best choice now, sir." Michelle said respectfully, "I just want to help you with your luggage, nothing else."

Edmundo hooked the luggage back to him with his feet, and he was stingy with giving Michelle a look. In fact, after confirming that the white-haired guy and the financial advisor in front of him were characters in the Bible story, he didn't care about them at all. Good impression.

"I know, but I'll take care of the luggage myself." Edmundo replied without even thanking him, "Go and drive, Alicia and I will go out in 5 minutes, and by then, I want to see you leave the car Stop safely at the door, understand?"

Michelle responded, saluted him, and turned to drive.Alicia was curious, but before the chatty girl could ask, Edmondo interrupted her.

"Don't ask anything, just take your things and we'll go." He jumped off the sofa and ticked his fingers at her, "We'll talk about it when we get on the plane."

……

It's just an excuse to talk about it after getting on the plane. After all the crew of their crew got on the plane, Alicia had already put this matter behind her. She teased that no one came to see him off this time. Demondo's favorite River and his son's other dad were also absent.

Edmondo returned her two middle fingers and said nothing.

No one came to see him off, of course it’s not that they don’t want to come, but that no one has time to come. March is the busiest time in Hollywood. Many people are busy voting, signing up and participating in various award ceremonies, and more, they are busy filming .Like Leonardo, he took another classic adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet", and returned to Mexico after leaving George with his mother; and Rui Fan is the same, but he took on a bigger project, Ed In Mundo's mind, "LA Confidential" is the best police film in Hollywood in the 3s.

1996 was a busy year for all.

More than ten hours later, Edmundo and his crew arrived in Hong Kong, and his leading actor Leslie Cheung came to pick him up just like last time.He seemed to have lost a lot of weight, and his eyes were much brighter, with the sharpness of an eagle.He lost at least 3 pounds after not seeing each other for nearly 20 months, which made him closer to the image of Edmondo.

But at this meeting, he first expressed his confusion about Edmondo's decision.

"I thought I was just bringing a small number of people to shoot the scene for composite shooting, but I didn't expect you to bring the whole crew." Leslie Cheung patted Edmondo on the shoulder and said, "I was ready to eat hamburger potatoes for two months. You gave me a big surprise, Eddie."

Edmondo looked him in the eyes with a smile and said: "Reality shooting is much easier than compositing, and you're right, it's too difficult to live on hamburgers, fries and pizza. I must Bring my team members to taste some real food."

While talking, Mikkelsen walked down with Cate Blanchett, grabbing his messy hair, and Shemer Moore followed. They all looked like they had just woken up.Edmondo stopped them and introduced them to each other.

"Meet your crew, Leslie - this is Max Mikkelsen, your future engineer and strategist, this is Shemer Moore, your future arsenal and assistant, and Kate Brown Lanchet, she is your fiancée, the one who harmed you, and the final boss."

Edmondo let them shake hands, and then said to them in a prank tone: "You better get familiar with it quickly, because when the scene is arranged, the first thing we will shoot is the scene of the team battle. If you If you can’t cooperate well, then I can only learn from Hitchcock and handcuff you together.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Alicia ran off the plane with a face full of horror holding her backpack.

"Who is going to be handcuffed together?" She said, staggering two steps, and then almost rolled to the feet of Edmondo and the others. After getting up a little awkwardly, Alicia shook her hair and looked at Edmondo, "Seriously Yes, who is going to be handcuffed?"

The few people in the circle fell silent, and finally burst into astonishing laughter under the leadership of Edmondo.

Thanks to Alicia, they became acquainted on the first day they met.

……

Except for the Kowloon Walled City, the construction of the scene actually started in mid-January, so when Edmondo arrived, it took only 1 days to complete all the finishing work. After a few days of rehearsal for the protagonists, they The filming officially started.

The filming of the literary drama is very fast, and basically the number of shootings for each scene does not exceed 6 times. According to this progress, they can complete the task at least 5 days ahead of schedule, if there is no adjustment to the fighting part.

Just a week after they started filming, Jackie Chan finished overseas filming and returned to Hong Kong. He heard that Edmondo had moved the crew here so he came to visit. After watching their action scenes, the elder brother was very generous. Several people gave Edmundo martial arts instruction, of course, Edmundo readily accepted.

His protagonist Yun Qi is set to be a descendant of the Dongfang family, so his action design should have a different style from others.

But because of this, Edmundo had to change his original design of a very Hollywood-style storyboard (the action clips use quite a lot of montage, and then quickly edit them together to form a feeling of a lot of action and fast speed. , in fact, it is a cleverness used to cover up the lack of action)

Therefore, as the actor of Yun Qi, Leslie Cheung lived a life of "dire water", and even hanging wires in the air became a precious rest time.

"Really, it's better not to see him (Jackie Chan). He's going to take revenge on me because I like to tease him." Putting on a bitter face, he drank a big sip of water with a straw, and then complained, "You saw that when we had dinner that night, he smiled like that, obviously with bad intentions."

"Well, at least my movie action scenes are better, I have to thank him." Edmondo shrugged and said, "And he's the only one who won't go crazy if he loses to me at mahjong, all in all, I like him."

Leslie Cheung gave him a look of 'you traitor', then spat out the straw viciously, he turned his head to signal the martial arts instructor from the family class to come over, and they discussed for a while what to do with their hands and feet in the next scene.

"According to the design, your mechanical arm is broken in the next shot, and you have to shake it counterclockwise. Of course, you don't want to break your arm."

"so?"

"Yes--after you swing your wrists to your chest, there is a special effect point, when you pull out your heart from your own chest and aim it at the enemy--I hope you will pose like this when the time comes , do it with me, so—”

"Like—like this? But my neck is not right, it's easy to shake, can you change it?"

Edmondo listened to the Cantonese dialogue between the martial arts instructor and Leslie Cheung, and opened the storyboard he had modified in his hand, looking back and forth between him and the paper.

He has a hunch that this part will become an important plus point for the movie.

at this time--

"Mr. Moreira! Someone is looking for you at the door. It's a tall black-haired foreigner. Oh, I'm sorry."

A temporary worker from Hong Kong said loudly with an accent. Edmondo waved to him to show that he was not offended, and then walked out the door after instructing his assistant.

"Hey! Why are you here!"

After seeing a familiar face, Edmundo ran towards him at a faster speed, then jumped on the other person and hugged his neck and turned around.

"They all said I worked too hard last year, so I gave myself a vacation, and then I thought, why not go to all the fun, Hong Kong would be a good place, so I came." Keanu - Reeves turned to answer, and then he tightened Edmondo's arm hanging around his neck, "Are you satisfied with what you see?"

Edmondo kissed him lightly on the corner of the mouth.

"Couldn't be more satisfied."