screenwriter mystery

Chapter 65 Finishing Party 【Please recommend for collection】

"cut!"

The filming scene of "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 2" was accompanied by director Wen Ziren's last call.

The whole movie finally finished shooting the last scene.

"Okay, all the shooting, this is the end!"

Sitting in front of the monitor of the camera, watching the picture on the small screen, Wen Ziren let out a long sigh of relief, and then raised his voice to make an announcement.

"Long live!"

Hearing the news of the film's finalization, the entire crew cheered excitedly.

The crew whistled and clapped their hands to celebrate the completion of filming.

Among all Hollywood film genres, horror films are the type of films with the shortest shooting cycle. Compared with action-adventure films and sci-fi fantasy films, which often require various preparations and more than half of the production time for post-production special effects, horror films have always been Known for its small cost and fast shooting cycle.

Especially for "Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2", which does not have too many special effects shots, it took no more than half a year from the official project approval to the completion of shooting.Leaving aside issues such as crew formation, funding and actors in the early stage, the time actually used for filming was less than three months.

At that time, although compared to other types of movies, the shooting of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2" was fast.

However, the continuous shooting experience of several months in a row still greatly drained the inner passion and physical strength of the crew.

After completing the finalization, the film of the movie will be sealed and sent to the world, and the equipment will be put into storage.

That night, the entire crew changed into suits and dresses to attend the carnival party that is essential after a Hollywood movie wraps up.

To be honest, Zhao Yuan was not very keen on the so-called parties in Hollywood, especially since he had just attended the carnival party of the crew of "Modern Family" in New York not long ago.However, as the screenwriter of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2", one of the cores of the whole movie, even if he is not interested in the party where the Hollywood demons dance, he must participate in this social activity.

As a low-cost horror film crew with a low cost, the nightclub venue for the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2" party is not too big.

Of course, it is more than enough to accommodate the entire crew of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2".

Universal's producers booked a nightclub for the crew to party all night, to vent their accumulated emotions during this period, and to work better in the future.

On such a party, alcohol is always an indispensable existence. Everyone holds the wine glasses in their hands and keeps colliding, shouting happily or madly at each other. For the vast majority of people participating in this party, this It's their last day on the show.

After today, many of them may not have the chance to meet again.

Zhao Yuan was sitting at one end of the party, also holding a wine glass in his hand.

Feel the extravagant atmosphere of Hollywood that fills the entire nightclub and the drunken gold fans.

It's a pity that with his current physique, it's hard to get him drunk with pure alcohol.

This made Zhao Yuan extraordinarily sober even though he was at the party.

"Alan, so you are here..."

Holding the wine glass in his hand, Wen Ziren spotted Zhao Yuan who was sitting on the side, stepped forward to touch him, and said with a bit of drunkenness in his blurred eyes.

"cheers!"

"cheers."

After touching Wen Ziren in front of him, Zhao Yuan raised his hand and poured the red wine in the glass into his mouth, feeling the cold feeling across his throat, and then asked Wen Ziren.

"Next, what are your plans, director?"

"Although the filming is finished, I still need to watch the post-editing."

The completion of the film means the end of work for most of the crew, including the screenwriter Zhao Yuan.

However, this is not the case for James Wan as the director. After a short break, he will soon enter the intense post-production work. He will work with the editors at Universal Studios to edit the shots of "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 2". It can be said that , there is still more than a month of busy time waiting for him.

Although, there are many crews in Hollywood who will exclude the director from the editing work.

However, "Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2" is obviously not on this list.

The reason why Universal is willing to make concessions and agree to let Wen Ziren join the editing work is also entirely due to the box office performance of the previous film "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and Wen Ziren's outstanding performance in several consecutive blockbuster horror films. Performance, as confidence.

Otherwise, it would be almost impossible for a rookie director who had no achievements to rely on in the past to persuade the producer to get the right to edit the movie.

Of course, this is not without exceptions.

For example, "The Blair Witch", the "pseudo-documentary" shooting method, caused the entire film to have no room for the editor to play.

"It's you, Alan, do you have any new script ideas after "Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2?"

After briefly explaining his own situation, Wen Ziren changed the topic, and then turned the topic to Zhao Yuan in front of him.

""Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2" is over, and I have to rush to Los Angeles to join the crew of "Modern Family". Concerns have been expressed about this."

Different from the filming of movies, in the process of filming TV dramas.

The screenwriter is the soul of a play and controls the quality of the whole play.

Because of the production mode of playing while shooting, many plots often require the presence of the screenwriter and the director to determine the direction of the shooting.

Under such a model, the rights of screenwriters in the play are astonishing.

Even, once the screenwriter is angered, even the lead actor cannot escape the fate of being replaced.

A famous example of this is that Charlie Sheen, the leading actor in the American TV series "Two and a Half Men", offended the crew. In the end, the screenwriter directly wrote it to death in the play, and designed that he was hit by the oncoming subway because he fell into the platform. The method of death without bones drove him out of the crew.

Among them, although Charlie Sheen himself deserved his crime and died many times, we can also get a glimpse of the screenwriter's great influence on a play.

"It looks like we're going to be very busy for the next few days."

Hearing Zhao Yuan's answer, Wen Ziren in front of him raised the wine glass in his hand, and said with a drunken face.

"To Hollywood!"

His gaze swept across the wine glass in Wen Ziren's hand.

Zhao Yuan also took a glass of wine from the waiter's tray and responded with a smile.

"To Hollywood."

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