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Ebert thought for a while, but couldn't help turning his eyes to the scattered papers on the desk: "Yes, there are indeed some problems, but I should be able to solve them myself."

"Okay." Gary Rose nodded in agreement, "Anyway, rest early Ebert, your ideas can be exchanged with me, Jeff or Chris, and the collision of your ideas should generate more inspiration. "

Gary Rose then handed Ebert a tightly sealed bag: "The most famous food nearby, try it?"

Ebert accepted it with a smile: "Gary, you still want me." He is now the actor who receives the most care from Gary Rose in the crew. Whenever he has free time, Gary Rose will stop to give Ebert a lecture , discuss each other's understanding of the script, and even in life, this not-so-young director has given Ebert countless cares.The director's attitude has always been the weather vane of the crew. Although Ebert suffered a lot because of this movie, he had a smooth life in the crew, even more relaxed than when he was filming "White Night".

On this day, when it was time to shoot the scene where Reid was riding "Sea Biscuit" to participate in the competition, Reid was conspired by the jockey of another horse "Warrior" on the horse, causing "Sea Biscuit" to lose the race. He had to confess to Tom that he was blind in one eye.

Sitting on "Sea Biscuit" as usual, gently stroking the smooth fur of the brown pony, Ebert whistled lightly, and when Gary Rose gave an order, he devoted himself to the shooting .

In fact, this horse is just one of the "Sea Biscuit". In order to make "Sea Biscuit" more in line with the image of the great horse race in history, the film selected several horses that look similar to "Sea Biscuit" to participate in the filming. After the filming is over, the original image of "Sea Biscuit" will be restored through special effects synthesis. Not only "Sea Biscuit", but "Warrior" will also be presented on the screen in this way. It is a tall horse in history, but In fact, it is as tall as a real "sea biscuit".

Ebert stepped on the horse, and when the password gun was fired, he rode "Sea Biscuit" and galloped forward. "Sea Biscuit" was still behind at first, but soon it took the lead and surpassed all the riders on the field. The racehorse rushed to the front.It has a strong figure, and it doesn't look like it was thin and irascible at all. The moment Ebert rode it and galloped, he inevitably felt an ancient hero, until——

According to the setting of the movie script, in this scene, "Warlord" must beat "Sea Biscuit", but it is also the moment when Rhett Pollard was plotted against and "Warlord" surpassed "Sea Biscuit". For a moment, an accident happened.

Everything was caught off guard, and the moment Gary Rose and other staff reacted, a figure fell off the horse and rolled onto the sand-splashed runway.

"It's Albert!"

After the figure fell down, it lay still. If you look carefully, you can still see the red blood stains on the runway.

broken!Gary Rose and deputy director Dan Bradley looked at each other, and they both saw a serious look in each other's eyes.Gary Rose waved his hand to announce the suspension of the filming. The actors who played the jockeys quickly tried their best to control the frightened racing horses, and the staff responsible for training the horses rushed forward to help calm the horses. David Brown, the doctor in charge, stepped forward to check Ebert's injury the moment Ebert fell.

"How's the injury?"

"Slight fractures and bruises. Fortunately, they are not serious." David Brown glanced across the runway, a trace of deep gratitude flashed in his eyes, "Fortunately, the direction in which Ebert fell coincided with the course of the racehorse. On the contrary, otherwise, once stepped on by a horse..."

Even though Gary Ross was very concerned about the progress of the filming, he couldn't help but patted his chest at this moment and let out a long breath.Compared with possible serious accidents, a minor fracture is already a blessing in misfortune.

David Brown's estimated recovery date for "The Pentium Era" is about half a month. Hearing this number, Gary Rose frowned slightly, but quickly said decisively: "Let's shoot other people first. The part of the scene, put Ebert's part in the end, and it will be fine when the time comes."

What he was more worried about was whether Ebert would develop a sense of fear of riding a horse because of this. If such a thing really happened, then the future shooting would be a big problem.

After David Brown gave Ebert a simple treatment, Ebert was taken to the nearest hospital.The moment he fell off the horse, he was in so much pain that his eyes were staring at him. The pain in his arm made him dare not move his body at all, and he didn't even have the strength to speak.He still remembered the moment when the sky seemed to be dark, and the horse was galloping wildly. At the beginning, he could control the direction of the horse, but later—he couldn't remember how he fell.

"It should be similar to the feeling of being thrown out while sitting on the back seat of a motorcycle." Ebert felt that his imagination was quite rich, and he was able to do it when his arm was wiped with a big hole, bleeding out and fractured. Thinking of this, and then he knew that he was being carried on a stretcher to the hospital, and he was only thinking that Gary might be grey-haired now.

Ebert guessed right, Gary Rose really wanted to rip off his beard at the moment-of course not only because of worry, but also because of anger.

Before the filming started, the crew of "The Age of Pentium" already knew that there might be many dangers in the horse racing scene, so the crew not only invited the best horse trainers and award-winning jockeys, but also hired the most professional doctors to provide care for each Actors purchased expensive personal insurance, roughly calculated, the production crew spent almost $5 million on security.

But there is still a problem with security!

When Gary Rose and several professionals stayed in the meeting room to check the surveillance carefully, a local police officer in charge of criminal investigation pointed to the surveillance camera and asked: "There seems to be something wrong with the left and right sides of his body." Balance, zoom in on that picture a bit...yes, this is right here, did you notice something falling off?"

In a very blurred corner of the surveillance camera, it seemed that something had really fallen, but if you didn't look carefully, you would think it was dust raised by horseshoes.

Gary Rose's face turned red in an instant, he almost couldn't help knocking on the door and walked out of the conference room, seeing a group of prop masters moving things, he couldn't help frowning even deeper.

"Where's Leslie?" Gary Rose yelled loudly. The others had already witnessed Ebert's fall from the horse today, and they couldn't help shrinking when they saw the angry face of Gary Rose, a director who always appeared in the image of a good old man. Head to Leslie Pope, who was in charge of sets and props.

Leslie Pope will be here soon.He was in a very disturbed mood. As the person in charge of the props, he knew very well that if Gary Ross saw the surveillance and learned the reason for the horse's fall, then one reason was that the horse was frightened, and the other reason was that the props were out of order. problem.

Sure enough, Gary Rose's first sentence was: "Who's in charge of checking the saddle?"

Then the truth came out.The prop master who was in charge of checking the saddles of the racehorses drank two glasses of wine the night before. He woke up in a daze and didn't check carefully. There was a part of the saddle that was too worn but he ignored it.

With a gloomy face, Gary Rose personally inspected the saddle installed on the "Sea Biscuit" that Ebert was riding today. Sure enough, the worn part had fallen off during the galloping of the horse. If not, Ebert Nor does he lose control of the horse.Fortunately, Ebert's falling horse did not cause substantial damage to the horse. The slightly frightened horse has calmed down after being calmed down. However, the crew does not plan to use the batch of horses that appeared today for filming during this period. Anyway, I bought more than 50 horses in total, and it is no problem to rotate them several times.

But Gary Rose's anger will not be easily appeased.He thought the importance of Ebert was made very clear on the first day of filming. He is the leading actor in the film, he is also the actor with the most dangerous scenes, and he is the actor with the highest insurance premium!

Now, Ebert is absent!It was only because of the prop master's mistake!

Gary Rose fired the prop master who made a mistake without hesitation. Even Leslie Pope, the general manager, was not spared, and was directly reported by Gary Rose to Catherine Kennedy and was removed from his post.In addition, he also demanded compensation from the prop master in the name of the production crew. Although it was only a drop in the bucket compared to the insurance compensation, it was definitely a lot of money for the prop master.

The insurance premium was paid by the insurance company, and Gary Rose didn't feel worried at all. The only thing that worried him was Ebert.

He knew very well that Ebert had no responsibility in this matter, on the contrary, he was the victim, and he completed all the performance tasks meticulously, but Gary Rose would inevitably feel annoyed.

This film has a total investment of 8000 million US dollars, and the shooting period is 4 months. If the cost of personnel salaries and props is included, the crew will consume an average of 67 US dollars per day.If they are lucky, everyone will be happy if Ebert can still complete the filming according to the original schedule after recovery. unsolved puzzle.

There is a great possibility that the shooting will be postponed, but will Universal be willing to invest more in a feature film?

Thinking of this, Gary Rose couldn't help but sighed deeply. He gently pulled his beard, only to find that black and white beards were actually stained on his fingers, and the director couldn't help frowning even more.

He doesn't need to think about other things, he just hopes that Ebert can recover soon.