Raising Dragons in Hollywood

Standing in front of the mirror admiring his handsome appearance, Mikey is full of confidence in Sammy's 'choose himself'.

But in fact, when his friend Rosie, the crew, and even the Kerry brothers thought 'Mike is okay', Sammy was always hesitant.

"What are you dissatisfied with?" Rossi was a little impatient.

After all, the protagonist can’t make a decision for a long time, and the crew can’t make progress on many things, so the shooting will be postponed, and the postponement will often lead to a series of domino-like changes in the plan. The cost of time and money spent in this process is immeasurable.

As a result, Sami gave an unbelievable answer: "It takes a lot of weight to play the leading role."

He said worriedly: "Mike is still young, and a sudden weight loss will affect his development."

Excuseme?

Rosie, who didn't know the identity of Baby Maiqilong, wanted to grab Sami and shake him desperately, sobering up this guy who has lost his mind after falling in love: "Wake up, what are you kidding? That guy is comparable to You are taller, stronger, and more muscular than you, yet you still have the time to worry about his development? With him like that, how can he develop? A giant?"

Sammy's face was puffed up, but he couldn't explain it, and he was very confused.

But after Mikey, they auditioned a lot of people.However, those who have better acting skills than Mai Qi are not as good as him; those who are slightly more photogenic have no better acting skills than Mai Qi; it is hard to find someone who is both good on camera and good at acting, but lacks understanding and understanding of the script. Most importantly, the overall aura is not right either.

The aura is a very mysterious thing.

But sometimes, the right actor can make the movie more exciting, on the contrary, the inappropriate actor will make the role out of place.

And this time the protagonist's aura may be a bit like Sami, a sense of alienation from the world.

He seems to be wandering away forever, people look at him, and sometimes feel that he is playing tricks, just a little kid who doesn't understand anything; What kind of weird work is going on.

Mikey has a good handle on this.

In other words, when he was performing, because he didn't know how to express it, he imitated the human beings he was most familiar with and loved the most.

In a way, this is also a mistake.

He obviously didn't know anything about it, yet his acting score was not bad.

Privately, though, Rossi chalked up the situation to an actor's interpretation of the script.

Because "he hangs out with Sammy every day, he is very familiar with Sammy's thoughts and ideas, and the main creator of this script is Sammy", so this result is not surprising, after all, when it comes to The familiarity of the script, apart from Sammy and Hughes, may be him. "

Anyway, Mikey got the role.

But he didn't know that Sami actually objected, and blushing, he quietly took Sami's hand, with a look of falling in love and losing his mind, patted his chest, and promised loudly: "Sami, don't worry, I will It will definitely be a good shot next time."

Sammy nodded guiltily, feeling a little stressed for some reason.

In order to compensate his own Charmander, he hired a lot of chefs, nutritionists and fitness trainers to help Mikey lose weight without hurting his body.It's just that it is not known whether these elites in the human world can successfully use their strengths when dealing with dragons.

On the other side, after the protagonist was determined, other actors began to take their positions one after another.

Based on the initial idea of ​​'calling Qi brothers to make a movie', Sammy and Rossi extended invitations to many old friends.

Some old friends responded to the invitation, such as Nali, the actress who worked with Sammy in both "Snakes" and "The Exorcist", and she is currently making a cop movie, in which she plays a hot female detective, But after learning that Sammy was shooting a new film, I was very happy to ask Sammy to reserve a role for her, and come over when she finished filming the hot female police detective;

There are also some old friends who don’t have much time. Sami originally wanted to find Bellman, the protagonist of "The Exorcist", to play the second male lead, but after Bellman played such an interesting and unique role as the exorcist, he was rejected by another He was selected for a big-production fantasy film, and he was asked to play the leading role at a high price. Because the contract was signed and the schedule couldn't be moved, Sammy had to be rejected.

There is no need to list cases like this one by one.

It's just that because of Behrman's refusal, there was no suitable candidate for the second male role.

Sammy then proposed Mick Lee.

Firstly, after working together once, we have a basic sense of trust with each other. When shooting, we will have a tacit understanding of many things, and we don’t need to re-run and explain our intentions and ideas; secondly, in "Speaking to the World" In "Hello", Mick Lee, who plays the guitarist, and Mai Qilong, who plays the lead singer, have a strong sense of CP. I don't know if the guitarist and the lead singer are born with a halo of love and hatred, or the two actors have a unique relationship. The chemical reaction caused by it, but in a film with homosexual elements, the CP feeling is still very important.

Although this kind of behavior of helping lovers find a CP made Sami feel more complicated.

But as a dedicated director, he still did it seriously.

It's just that Mick Lee is very famous, has an arrogant personality, and has always been difficult to deal with.

Come to think of it, he wanted to steal the show and make trouble when he played the male supporting role before, but this time it involves sensitive subjects, borderline romances, and I don't know if he is willing to act.

In order to show importance, even though he is not good at communication, Sammy personally called and invited Mick Lee to have dinner together.

What's funny is that he just said vaguely: "Well... I want to talk to you about movies, you know? Well, I'm preparing to make a movie recently called "Love You Will Kill You" , or "Sharpening the Knife Huo Huo to True Love", in fact, I haven't decided what to call it, but the script has been completed to a high degree, and the crew has also been built. In short, the story should be very interesting. I don't know if you are interested in acting... ..."

"I'm willing! I'm willing!" Mick Lee didn't listen to him at all, and yelled excitedly there.

He was so unreserved and exaggerated that many people around him turned their heads to look at them in amazement, probably thinking that they had strayed into a marriage proposal scene?

Fortunately, Mick Lee regained his composure after being a little excited.

He smiled very reservedly: "I am honored to be the protagonist of your movie."

Sammy was embarrassed for a moment.

He told the other party with difficulty: "You are not the protagonist, Mai Qi is, and you are still the male supporting role."

The originally happy expression on Mick Lee's face cracked little by little.

In the movie "Say Hello to the World", he was caught off guard and violently suppressed by Michelon and Sami, who played rogue together. Convinced, I want to compete again with real skills.

So, when Sammy came to invite him, he said yes.

It's just that I didn't expect it, I thought I would turn over to be the master this time, and finally played the leading role, but it turned out to be a supporting role.

Sammy thought about it, and felt that the twisted melon was not sweet.

He said considerately: "You can go back on your word."

Mick Lee was not reconciled.

He finally gritted his teeth: "I don't regret it, I must compete with him (referring to Mikey) this time."

Sami was stunned: "You can't beat him."

Mick Lee was speechless for two seconds: "What are you thinking? I mean acting."

Acting?

If it really compares to acting skills, in fact, neither Mai Qi nor Mick Lee may take advantage of it.

Because Rosie and the Kerry brothers didn't know what they said, the actors hired by the crew this time have more or less backgrounds.

Let’s just talk about the couple who played guest roles as the parents of the leading actor, they are veteran actors who have been in Hollywood for more than 20 years. There is no way to get distracted. Their accents, body movements, and words are all just right to attract the audience. This is the real actor.In addition, the acting skills of many small supporting actors are not bad. The whole crew is not as patchwork and impoverished as it was back then. On the contrary, it can be called a gathering of masters.

"Why did you take it so seriously this time?" Sammy couldn't help asking Rossi.

Rossi asked back, "Are we ever not serious?"

Sammy squinted his eyes, guessing that Rosie wanted to play for real this time, because the attempt from the bottom of his heart to make a good movie was too obvious.

But the strength of the crew is not a bad thing. After thinking about it, he didn't think there was anything wrong with it, so he put the matter aside and didn't think about it anymore.

So, before the Kerry brothers made money and connections, Rosie was busy solving all the chores.

Everything is moving forward in an orderly manner, and the speed of progress is far beyond Sammy's imagination.

About two weeks later, the film officially started shooting.

Before the official shooting started, and the shooting plan had not been fully finalized, Sami took good care of his own underage dragon, and secretly opened the back door for him: "On the first day of shooting, I can pick a simple plot for you to shoot, so that you Fight for it. Now, you go through the script, pick a simple one and tell me."

Mai Qi pretended to be embarrassed, and said softly on purpose: "It's not suitable, we can shoot whatever we want, and we can do it according to the plan."

Sami didn't know that his words were duplicity, so he really tried to persuade him: "It's okay, don't bother, just change the order, it's not your problem, I asked you to choose."

Mikel was very happy.

While thinking 'Sammy really likes me', he flipped through the script naturally: "Then let's shoot this scene."

Sammy agreed without looking at it.

however……

How can dragons and humans think the same way?

The first shot was actually:

The protagonist takes a knife and disembowels a mouse in his bedroom.

While the crew worked diligently, they couldn't help but wonder: "Who wrote the shooting plan? Is it so fresh? Challenge the difficulty right from the start?"

Sammy went crazy: "Didn't I tell you to pick an easy one?"

Mikey was stunned: "Isn't it easy to kill a mouse?"