Chapter 210 "Brokeback Mountain"
If you want Lehman to evaluate it, the most difficult thing to do is to prepare for the preliminary preparations.
It's too difficult and troublesome to do that.
But if it is not done well, the subsequent shooting will not go as smoothly.
It is equivalent to laying the foundation firmly before building a house, so that subsequent work can provide a guarantee.
After working hard at Fisherka Castle for about a week, I finally decided on the camera imaging style of the movie.
The rest of the scenes, making props, buying appropriate crew costumes, and so on, as well as Ryan and Thomas staring at them.
Now Lehman is freed and is ready to choose the actors.
Isn’t the filming going to start soon? It’s not a big deal if the actors are not available.
After talking about a few phone calls with Heath Ledger, he couldn't explain clearly. He didn't know when the schedule would be free. Ask him, he said that the filming was almost done and there was only the ending, but when it would be over, he couldn't explain clearly. Leman planned to go directly to him.
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Back to the B&B, I simply packed my luggage, took the bus and took the train, and rushed all the way to the airport.
The ticket had been booked by Europa Film staff. This time, he set out alone. Eva originally wanted to come, but he refused.
It was running around, the itinerary was so busy and it was so troublesome, so it was better to stay on the set.
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It was rainy in summer. It suddenly rained in Wyoming, USA at noon. There was no sign of dark clouds in the sky, and it was "sunny and rainy".
On the straight road, in a Mercedes-Benz driving smoothly, Lehman witnessed the rain.
He arrived at Los Angeles International Airport yesterday afternoon, and then found a hotel there for one night. The next morning, he took a vehicle arranged by Paramount Pictures to come here.
Brokeback Mountain is filmed on a ranch in Wyoming.
By the way, this movie is also a very common novel adaptation.
The original work is a collection of short stories written by Anne Prox, who has won the Pulitzer Prize.
There are 11 of them, and all the novels are set in Wyoming. The themes are roughly about the hard life of those farmers in the wild, harsh, violent and impermanent natural environment.
Before this article was intentionally introduced to the big screen, it won the 1998 European-Henry Short Story Award and the National Magazine Award, so it is not lacking in fame.
It was then naturally adapted into a script suitable for filming by writers Larry McMurtry and Diana Osana.
A story is a good story, but Hollywood is not short of good stories.
The natural attributes of this script indicate that not many film companies will be interested. After many twists and turns, many directors such as Gus Van Sant and Joel Smeche have refused to take over this low-cost film one after another. In the end, producer James Shams spent $3 million to take over the script and was attracted by director Lee Sang.
I think it’s quite embarrassing to see the current situation of this great director.
A 2003 film called Hulk almost killed his previous achievements.
The shooting cost is US$137 million, not considered promotional.
The release result was only 245.36 million US dollars (global box office), which directly caused the producer Global to lose about 70 million US dollars, and indirectly failed to kill Global's superhero launch plan.
You should know that only the copyright of Marvel movies on Universal players is "The Hulk" and is still famous and has excellent commercial adaptation value.
Who doesn’t jealous of the emergence of "Spider-Man" with such market results and such fan appeal?
Not to mention Universal, Twentieth Century Fox's "X-Men", "Fantastic Four", and New Line Film's "Blade Warrior" all took advantage of this craze to speed up their creative plans and put them on the market one after another.
Needless to say, the former is quite impressive in each movie. Although "Blade Warrior" has a poor response, it can make a little profit, but only popular comic characters like Warner and Hulk have been screwed up.
You said, can Li Zang be irresponsible?
The reason why I took over such a low-cost work is probably because of this helplessness. After all, Hollywood has always been realistic.
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The shooting location was on the ranch. After the car drove to the foot of the mountain, the road behind was difficult, so he didn't force it to go up. Lehman found a hotel, put down his luggage and clothes with him, and prepared to hike up the mountain.
Actually, it is not far away. This mountain is not very high. It is more like a big slope than a mountain.
It was about 15 minutes away, and when you were almost at the top, you could already see the crew of "Brokeback Mountain".
The surroundings are full of green grass, and there are many cattle and sheep eating grass, which looks like a place suitable for grazing.
Several built tents were placed there, and the staff around seemed to have nothing to do and were quite leisurely.
When I approached, I saw Heath Ledger sitting on a chair, wearing a cowboy hat, dressed like a rancher.
The one next to it is...
Oh, by the way, is Michelle Williams? One of the heroines in this work.
Seeing that they were chatting hotly, they probably got better.
"Hi, Heath Ledger."
He greeted.
"Lyman." Heath Ledger turned around and saw that Lyman, who was about to come and ask him about his address, had arrived.
"I haven't seen each other for a long time. How are you doing recently? What are you talking about just now? I've been here for so long, but you haven't noticed it." Lehman quipped.
Both of them are very familiar with each other, and even if they haven't met each other during this period, they are not unfamiliar.
"Nothing, oh, let me introduce it. This is Michelle Williams."
Michelle raised her head slightly and looked at it. She was quite curious about Lehman, but the most curious thing now is that she felt good about her while filming. Why does Heath Ledger look very familiar with him with that?
He was a French director famous in Hollywood.
Such a relationship doesn't look like a simple cooperative relationship no matter how you look at it.
"Hello, director Lehman. Everyone likes to call me Michelle, you can also call me that."
"Yeah, hello, Michelle." Lehman waved his hand and said politely.
"Where is the director? Where has Li Peng gone?" he asked curiously. When he came to the crew, he had to say hello to the host. Besides, he himself really admired this literary director, and many of his works he had watched several times in his previous life.
"The director has something to do, he's out."
Sure enough, when he came here, he felt that there was no more shooting here.
"How is it? Are you okay?"
"It's not very good. I could have completed the final shooting yesterday, but because of the way the scene was handled, the director was not very satisfied, so he has been delayed until now."
Chapter completed!