Chatty Hollywood

"It seems that nothing happened tonight, did I really guess wrong?"

At two o'clock in the middle of the night, I went around the crew's campsite again. Charlotte was sitting on a nearby hillside, gnawing beef jerky that was as hard as a rock in her mouth, but she was still thinking about it——

From the first scene scouting, Charlotte knew that the location they chose to shoot, Vians Valley, was a bit ghostly. And when the former director Allen McElroy and the heroine Elisa Kunis disappeared here, and the local police station heard the news that many people were missing in the vicinity two years ago, he became more aware of one thing——

"There is probably a ghost in this ghost place!"

This is not only a logical inference, but also to a certain extent, it is also the delight of a person who has studied spells for a long time but rarely has the opportunity to practice them. In fact, if a ghost is found here, Charlotte is ready to capture it and use it for the crew to make a movie—after all, what could be better than having a real ghost in your hands when making a horror movie or a ghost movie? What's more convenient? Aside from saving a lot of special effects costs, in terms of creating a scary atmosphere, the role that real ghosts can play is far beyond that of pure art sets.

In fact, during filming these days, Charlotte did use a lot of spells secretly. Deliberately using spells to increase the horror of the cannibal house, to scare the two supporting actresses who made trouble for him, not to mention, the spells also helped him a lot in terms of pure scene layout——

Not to mention anything else, let’s just talk about the opening paragraph, the shot of two pure-play rock climbers, a man and a woman, being killed by an ogre on the edge of a cliff. The background of the film should be used to prevent the audience from being drowsy and losing curiosity by the long and bland foreshadowing shots behind.

To be honest, this beginning is not scary, at least in the eyes of Charlotte, who has watched a lot of horror movies and is used to American novelty hunting and bloodshed, it is really a bit unrealistic—after all, the death of the male rock climber is not represented by the camera at all. , only gave the audience the result of a dead body thrown from the cliff; as for the female rock climber, she was caught and dragged away by the flying chain at the last moment when she saw the car. The feeling of knocking you all of a sudden is just average.

And when Charlotte shot the beginning himself, he buried a dead rooster under the rock-climbing cliff in advance, so as to cast a spell to gather the faint ghost spirit in the nearby forest. As a result, when shooting, only the cliff The surrounding fog and the intermittent strange insect chirping in the mountains made the hair on the backs of all the crew members participating in the filming stand on end.

The images shot are also very good, the faint fog is quite a bit like "Silent Hill", and Charlotte even designed a few shots that move relative to the camera with photographer Edison - although this When the 3D era has not yet come, this kind of shot is more suitable for highlighting the three-dimensional effect, and the shot that shoots straight into the eyes of the audience like a rocket does not have the sense of reality that people can't help but want to avoid in later generations, but if it is shot well, it is still full of impact.

In fact, when the photographer Edison later looked at the captured images, he was surprised by the effects of these shots—at the beginning, the danger of the cliff was shown from the perspective of a female character who was climbing, and the effect of rendering the atmosphere was far better than The general perspective, and the shot of the male dragon who climbed to the top of the cliff first, was caught and killed by the mutant ogre, and the body was thrown directly from above, in order to simulate the perspective of the female dragon who is still hanging on the cliff. The method of falling directly towards the camera lens is used to shoot, and the resulting image is like the corpse of a male actor falling from the screen directly towards the viewer's face, which is a very impactful out-of-screen effect.

In order to shoot this scene, the unlucky male actor was pulled up and down several times by a group of people in the props team from a high place using a steel wire - this is to shoot the dead body of the male actor and the woman hanging on the cliff. The picture of interlacing of dragons.

It’s okay to use a dummy for the long shot, but for the close shot, Charlotte hopes to get a close-up of the face of the man who still has a frightened expression after death, so the actor has to do it himself.

"Good job, Brandon! Keep it up, you'll have a future!"

After the filming, Charlotte specially encouraged this gentleman who was almost unable to straighten up because of the hanging by Wia. When she first saw his name, Charlotte was somewhat surprised——Brandon Fisher, this is the second famous Hollywood person Charlotte knew after Charlize, but at this time she was unknown. movie star. The "Mummy" series that this gentleman later starred in can be regarded as well-known among the thrilling and horror movies. Of course, at this time, he is still a hard-working man, even a rookie director like Charlotte can yell at him.

"Thanks!"

Fisher smiled heartily, but then his waist, which still couldn't straighten up, changed his smile,

"But I think, after this time, I'd better use a gun when I make action movies in the future! It's hard to be proud of Asia Pacific!"

"It's not bad today!"

Charlotte has no sympathy for the future mummy hunter,

"We took the shot of you falling from the cliff. The actual shooting process was very slow. The props team used the wire to lower you down to the camera bit by bit. To really achieve the impactful fall on the camera For the effect, you have to go through editing and accelerated playback in the later stage. If you use Wia like Hong Kong people make martial arts movies, you will really be thrown out all at once.”

"Fortunately, we are not making martial arts films."

Thinking of the feeling of falling that he would face if he was really thrown from the cliff all at once, Fisher couldn't help turning blue,

"However, I always feel that Chinese martial arts films are very unreal, and have a feeling of watching science fiction films."

"It's not real!"

Charlotte is also speechless for guys in Europe and the United States who always like to regard martial arts as science fiction.

"Do you think that all Chinese people are Bruce Lee and know kung fu?"

"Is not it?"

"..."

——It seems that it is quite normal for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" to win the best at the Saturn Awards for science fiction and horror movies.

Thinking of the conversation that day, Charlotte couldn't help laughing.

In fact, he himself has no feeling for martial arts films. Although he can still watch them, he is not very keen. Especially after he learned spells from the old ghost and learned some history hidden behind the history——

"Do you think that after learning the spell, you can ride like a thousand horses and smash a big stone in your chest? Do you remember the spell I taught you? It is mainly based on deceit and deceit, and there are not many opportunities to actually do it. Even if you practice to a certain level Finally, it is indeed very powerful, and it is different from your imagination of jumping several floors high and reaching out to knock down a large area of ​​martial arts!! Spells require brains. If you really practice it like that, you can compete with the streets What's the difference between those who sell art and sell Daliwan!?"

——The old ghost has a very deep contempt for the point of view of purely using magic as force. After being taught by him for a few years, Charlotte was also led to have a similar view.

"However, even if I want to use it as force, there is no way!"

Not to mention that it is impossible to use spiritual power to practice in the doomed age before traveling. Even if you travel to the 1990s when you can practice now, according to the current speed of progress, you want to practice magic to a degree that is better than conventional force. , is not an easy task—after all, no matter how good your martial arts are, you are afraid of kitchen knives, and the land of America is still a fertile land where you can hold guns at will—of course, if you really want to catch ghosts and drop them like you did when you helped Charlize Demon, spells are indeed the best choice, but there must be ghosts to catch!

Charlotte has been patrolling the campsite every night for the past few days. The superficial reason is naturally to avoid accidents. This makes the crew members admire the carefulness of the director. But what about the real purpose of catching ghosts and subduing demons? But I didn't even see a ghost hair!

"Heroes are useless!"

Charlotte sighed secretly, wondering if she had made a mistake in her previous judgment,

"Supposedly not! The concentration of ghost gas near here obviously exceeds the standard of normal virgin forests, even higher than many ancient battlefield ruins I have visited before, and the abnormally high number of missing people nearby also shows that there must be There is a problem! Speaking of it, this feeling is a bit like the scene in the Southwest Hundred Thousand Mountains described by the old ghost, could it be..."

Charlotte was thinking about it, but suddenly heard a "click". The sound is very soft, but it is not difficult to hear it in this silent night.

"It seems to be the sound of a branch being snapped or stepped on."

Although she immediately turned her head in the direction of the sound, Charlotte didn't pay much attention to it. This kind of thing happened from time to time in the past few nights. People have three urgencies. When camping in this kind of mountain forest, if you want convenience at night, you can only go out and go far. It is normal to step on dead branches and broken trees. things. In fact, if he meets a woman, he has to move away quickly, lest the other party think he has some bad intentions.

"really……"

Charlotte's eyes are pretty good. Although it's hard to see her appearance in the middle of the night, she can still see the two figures in the distance, with obvious feminine curves. He was about to avoid it, but suddenly realized——

"Isn't the direction they came from the cannibal house?"

The cannibal house is the only fixed house nearby. Although the decoration is extremely simple, there are still toilets. Although the production crew made the inside dirty and scary for the convenience of filming, compared to the convenience of running all the way in the middle of the night, Charlotte felt that Charlize and the others living inside might be more willing Endure the horror of that prop.

——After all, if it is not in the movie, many props in horror movies are actually not very scary.

"Could it be..."

Charlotte subconsciously opened her recently cultivated yin and yang eyes, only to find that near those two figures, there were two other ghost figures that looked extremely pale in the night.