Chapter 134 Location - London!(1/2)
I turned it in everyone's hands, and everyone looked excited after reading it. After reading it, she held the script and said tremblingly to me: "Boss, when will this movie start filming?"
"Yes, hurry up and take a photo. Boss, I'm almost sick!" The fat man pinched his hands.
"How familiar are you with the new machine?" I asked.
The fat man, Stenberg and others looked at each other, and then told me that during this period they were not only familiar with the use of this new machine, but also even disassembled the machine and installed it and then disassembled it. In addition, a Western Electric Company sent an engineer, so I feel that there is no problem getting started so far.
"Boss, I can knock out a hammer with you now! Make a movie!" The fat man squeezed his little eyes and said to me.
"Do you have any problems with the script?" I pointed to the script placed on the table.
"There is basically no problem." Griffith spoke on behalf of everyone.
"If there is a problem, there is a problem. If there is no problem, there is nothing. What does it mean to be basically no problem?!" I said angrily.
Griffith scratched his head: "Boss, I think the script is just a first draft, and it also needs to be modified into the script. Some details in it can be solved well when the shooting is done, but there is one problem I think we can't ignore."
"Just say it, don't worry me." This guy learned to nag with Gise.
Griffith sucked a cigar and said slowly: "Boss, the movie you wrote is based on Scotland as the place where the story takes place. It mentions the scenery of Scotland many times, the highlands, and the large grass under the wind. These scenes, let alone the city of Los Angeles, are there not even the whole west?! What is there in the west? There are a lot of sandy land in the Gobi Desert. Where do you ask us to find such a scenery? Should we go to the UK to shoot this movie?"
Griffith's words made everyone's expressions suddenly become serious.
This is a big problem. If you can't find such a scene in the United States, you can't shoot that kind of smell and the audience will feel fake after watching it. However, it will cost a lot to move the crew to the UK. Not only do you have to move out of various procedures, but you have to eat, drink, defecate, and sleep, as well as extras, etc. The cost will definitely double. I'm only 200 yuan on hand now, and it's definitely not enough to go to the UK to shoot.
what to do?
I was only concerned about writing scripts, but I didn't think about such an important thing.
Everyone frowned, looking at me and I look at you, no one has a good solution.
My heart suddenly became dark. Could it be that a living person was suffocated to death by urine?!
"I don't believe that there is no such place in America except Britain! Gans, Stenberg, from today on, this task will be handed over to you both. No matter what method you use, you must find a place similar to the scenic climate in the United States or surrounding countries, and you must complete the task within two weeks!"
Stenberg said to me with a sad face, "Boss, what if I can't find it?"
I chuckled: "If you can't find it, don't think about making a movie if you can't find it."
From this day on, the careful employees of DreamWorks will find two very interesting things. One is that their boss, who is me, is leisurely revising the script on the balcony on the second floor where he is carrying a cup of tea. The other is that those idle and furious leaders suddenly jump up one by one.
Although I handed over the mission to Gans and Stenborough, the others, Griffith, Dunar, Stiller, Bara, and even Garbo and James, were dispatched. Everyone was using their connections to find such a place, and Stenborough was almost wrong about this.
The two words he said to me deeply impressed me.
The first sentence is: "God Maria, America is so big, why is it so difficult to find a place to shoot? It's rare to be the same as God created humans!"
The second sentence is: "The so-called boss is a person who rides on your head and shits, and you have to say that his butt looks good!"
The previous sentence is a direct complaint to God, and was taught a lesson by Griffith, a devout Christian.
The next sentence was said to me. I did not touch his finger, but instead punished him to write this sentence a hundred times and post it on the canteen bulletin board.
After a busy day, just as everyone was almost despair, Griffith ran into the office excitedly with a photo.
"Boss, there is hope!" Griffith shouted while running.
Several people in the office surrounded him.
“This photo is interesting!”
"Yes! Griffith, who is this woman? She is pretty. I didn't expect you, the old man, to be quite gorgeous."
Stenberg and Dunar pointed at the photo and teased Griffith with malicious intentions.
Griffith wanted to screw these guys together and throw them down from the window, roaring: "Who has the time to show you women! Look at the scenery in that photo!"
Stenberg and Dunar suddenly realized and quickly lowered their heads and went to see the photos carefully.
"Boss, don't say it, this scenery is really similar to what you said about Scotland!" Stenberg slapped his thigh, shocking Dunar on the side.
"Let me see!" After hearing this, I stood up from the chair.
I have been waiting these days. If I can't find such a place, no matter how good the script is, it will be useless. All my efforts will be vain. Just when everyone was about to give up, I suddenly said that there is such a place that no one can do.
I took the photo and saw that there was a beautiful blonde girl above. She was very sexy and seductive, and sad. Even Steinberg, who had a certain resistance to women, was attracted by her at first sight. Behind her was a continuous flat highland. The tall grass rippled like water waves under the strong wind. There were valleys, beautiful rivers and forests in the distance.
All the scenery is so similar to what I imagined Scotland.
"Griffith, where is this place?!" I said excitedly.
Everyone focused their eyes on Griffith's mouth.
But Griffith's words made everyone want to take out his bones and light matches.
"London." Griffith took a sip of cigarette smugly and spit out a big and round smoke ring at me.
After spraying, he felt that the situation around him was a little abnormal. He opened his eyes wide and found that everyone was staring at him with extreme hatred.
"David! Are you trying to piss me off to death? Going back to London! If we could go to the ghost island hanging outside Europe, we would go directly to Scotland!" My lungs were almost pissed.
Stenberg stretched out his finger and cursed at Griffith: "You old guy teach this to be honest and that to be honest all day long. I see that you are the most dishonest in the entire DreamWorks!"
"David, stop playing! It will be dead!" Dunar covered his chest and seemed to have a heart attack.
Griffith looked at us, was stunned for a moment, and laughed: "You are wrong. The place I mentioned is not in the UK."
"Take it down! David, in this world, except for the broken island, there is a place called London?!" Stenberg looked heartbroken.
Griffith pointed to the map hanging on the wall with a smile, and pointed at it on it.
We all gathered around and saw on the map. Sure enough, there was a place called London!
This city called London is not the capital of Britain, but in Canada.
The eastern part of the United States, close to Chicago, is known as the Great Lakes region. Lake Huron, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario enclose a small peninsula, which is the heart of the entire Canada. Its northeast is the capital Taihua. There are two famous cities in Canada, Toronto and Hamilton on the peninsula. There is a city called London in the southwest of Hamilton.
"Boss, I didn't lie to you. The reason why this place is called London is because its terrain and natural environment is very similar to that of London on the broken island. So some early immigrants were homesick and gave it this name. Surrounded by three large lakes, the climate here is similar to that of British Island. The abundant rainfall makes grass grow on the high ground, valleys, plains, and cross-border streams. By the way, there are also large areas of undestroyed primeval forests. Even if you catch a man from Scotland and blindfold him, and take off your eye mask in this place, he will definitely think that he is still on the land of his hometown!" Griffith pointed at the map, becoming more and more proud.
"David, you have made great contributions! This place is not far from us. It saves costs and can achieve the effect of filming in the UK. You can also do a trip. It's not bad!" I patted Griffith on the shoulder and praised it.
The old guy did help me a lot this time.
"David, how could you find such a ghost place?" Stenberg asked curiously.
"Yes, how did you find out?" I also want to know.
Griffith smiled: "Don't you all know Pizzer? He told me this place."
"Pizer!? How could he know this place?!" In my impression, Pizer is a typical westerner, the kind of person who is unwilling to leave his own land for a step forward in his life. How could he go to Canada?
Griffith sighed: "It's a long story. When I was filming "The Party and the Gentlemen", he was my photographer. In order to film the scene, the crew looked for places. He was sent to Canada by me, but I didn't find a scene that suits our movie. Unexpectedly, after so many years, this guy actually came in handy."
"The Party and the Party's Fighting for Different" is an eternal pain in Griffith's heart, so whenever he mentions it, the old guy immediately sighs.
"David, tell Pizzer that I will treat him to dinner when I have time!" I quickly changed the topic.
"The boss should invite this meal. Not only David, but our legs have run away in the past few days!" A stone in Stenberg's heart fell to the ground, and he was in high spirits.
"Boss, go to the Imperial Hotel or a Roman holiday?" Griffith smiled.
I nodded heavily: "These two places are very good." The eyes of a group of guys suddenly became hot, but my words below made everyone else faint-"But, in order to save money, it's better to have Fuyuanzhai!"
That night, to celebrate the success of the filming, I took them to Fuyuanzhai. Although the group of people were dissatisfied with my stinginess, some food was better than nothing.
After sitting down, Boss Chen delivered the menu, and these guys tried their best to order the dishes.
In addition to Pizzer, there were more than a dozen people. I originally thought that twenty dishes could be used to be eaten, but I didn’t know that these guys were not tired. The kid Stenberg ordered eight in one breath.
"Stenberg, you ordered so much, can you finish eating it?" I said with a heartache.
"Boss, you are too ungenius. Since you are treating me, what orders are the guests' business. If you can't finish eating, you will feel good if you can't finish eating!" Steinberg ignored me at all.
After that, it was not big, and a large round table was filled.
"Do you have any wine?" Stenborough asked Boss Chen.
Although alcohol is prohibited everywhere now, this wine is flooding. Not to mention other places, there is no decent hotel in Hollywood that does not hide privately. This is thanks to those private wine dealers, who come and go in the wind and rain. Every night at the Los Angeles Pier, there will be ships smuggling smuggled smuggling smuggling smuggling smuggling smuggling smuggling smuggling smuggling smuggling every night. It is said that my second brother is inside.
"If you want to make money, sell private wine!" Now it has become a slogan for getting rich.
When we later generations heard the prohibition of alcohol, they thought that the cups in the dining table of every American household were filled with clear water, but they did not know that at this time, even pastors were often drunk.
Some things are like this. The more you ban it, the more arrogant it becomes. One day you can't help it, but the world will be peaceful and everything will be as usual.
After serving all the meal, Boss Chen brought a few more bottles of red wine, and we started eating crazily.
"Pizer, I'll give you a drink! Thanks to your help this time, otherwise we would be miserable." I smiled.
Pizzer shook his head like a wave drum: "Mr. Corleon is too polite. Everything David's business is mine. He asks me for help, how can I remain indifferent?"
Pizzer told me that the place has a good scenery and is especially suitable for filming. I felt a little regretful when I didn’t shoot it there. This time I fulfilled a wish that I had been a long time ago.
"Pizer, ask you a question. If you want to find extras, is it easy to find?" I asked Pizer.
In this movie, most of the scenes are war, so naturally there are many extras. It is not like Harvey Street, where they catch a lot of things and they are so cooperative that they are not even willing to collect money. If they can't find a suitable extra, there is no way to shoot this scene.
Pizzer nodded: "When I went there, the place was not very big. It would be fine if I could find one or two thousand people. After so many years, it would be even less difficult. In addition, the people there were very enthusiastic and simple. I heard that I might have to make movies there, and I rushed to help me. Although they have never acted in movies, if you guide them properly, don't worry about extras."
"That's good, that's good." I felt happy.
"Mr. Corleon, how are you doing now?" Pizzer asked.
"It's okay to prepare. The script has been written and modified. The filming location has been finalized. Next is casting." I smiled.
To be continued...