eurekapd Chapter 228
Chapter 228
Jade's director team has always been the largest among Hollywood directors. In addition to the assistant director and assistant director, there are also various action directors, special effects directors, role directors and other professional directors to assist him in his work.In fact, Jed's filming work is largely just to grasp the progress of the plot and the tone of the style.
Therefore, Jed's later director work has also been criticized. Many directors believe that Jed has lost his qualifications as an independent director, and his films should be classified as collective directors.However, the Directors Guild of America still stood up to speak for Jed at a critical moment. The Directors Guild believed that the fundamental job of a director is to control the rhythm of the plot and the tone of the style. As long as these two tasks are still independently controlled by a certain director, then this This work is still classified as the director's independent work.After all, the work of other directors is recreated under the control of this director, and it is not considered the original work of the director.However, because of Jed's innovative and large-team directing work, Jed was able to shoot two movies and a TV series in Los Angeles and the UK at the same time.
Last year, because "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" was not released as scheduled, the third season of the British drama "Harry Potter" was also announced to be suspended for one season. The WE TV network had to urgently dispatch a comedy about the geeks in science and technology to make up the schedule, but the response was not satisfactory.Just after WE TV Network announced that the comedy was cut in half, Jade bought the right to adapt the script from the original screenwriter.Although the show is still a little immature now, Jade has seen the embryonic form of another big hit comedy.After Jed bought out the right to adapt the script, he rewrote the outline and handed it over to the screenwriting department of Galaxy Entertainment for filling. The new polytechnic otaku comedy was renamed "The Big Bang Theory".
The Harry Potter crew has been working with Jed for two years, so Jed is not worried about the filming progress of movies and TV series.Judging from the current feedback work, the finished product of "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" is quite satisfactory.But the filming progress of "The Day After Tomorrow" is not so ideal.The prop group built the scene of the Metropolitan Library in New York in Studio Zero, and also used the scaled-down props to build the real scene of the entire New York.Don’t underestimate this scaled-down version of the New York model, which is nearly 100% realistic. The cost of one set of models cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and Jed made two sets at a time.Because one set was for flooding New York and the other was for snowing New York, it was necessary to use two sets of props.
Jade sat in the director's chair, watching the progress of the shoot through the cameraman's lens.Jed refused to observe the actors directly, but chose to observe the actors' acting skills and the construction of the scene from the photographer's perspective.
"Because the audience finally sees the shots from the cameraman's point of view, I must be the first audience of this movie." Jed once said when accepting the "Hollywood Reporter", "If the picture reaches the If I don't meet my request, my first thought is to change the angle of the lens or change other filters. Only when we can't meet the requirements anyway, we will find a way to adjust the scene and actors. Because the photographer is the record The actor and the scene are the performers, and we shouldn't interrupt the performance to fit our record, it just makes the shot look awkward."
When Jed sits there, the entire crew will become silent. Except for the lines between the actors, the original huge studio plan is only the sound of the machine running, because the oppressive feeling Jed brings to everyone is really Too strong.Jed is not only a successful director, but a very famous director in Hollywood. His one sentence almost determines the life and death of an actor.In addition, he is also a successful entertainment tycoon, media giant and technology upstart. His huge wealth makes him one of the celebrities that every American celebrity most wants to befriend.
For ordinary people, his Google Player and Apple's iPod have changed the habit of listening to music among young people around the world, and Walkmans can no longer be sold for a while.Tapes and CDs became as unpopular as vinyl records overnight, while digital music is all the rage.Although some apologists are cursing that digital music is too cold, these words can't stop the popularity of Google Play and iPod. Even Microsoft has launched Zune to carve up the market, but it failed miserably.
The "The Day After Tomorrow" of this era has been adapted by Jed into a combined version of a sci-fi disaster film and an adventure film. When the Film Association counts American movies, it is customary to use three words to define a movie. "Nature is "science fiction", "disaster" and "adventure".Since these three words are to be displayed, the scene of the movie must not be small at all. Jed has already contacted NASA to rent several sets of satellite images of the earth to create a global snow disaster scene.The most important plot of the movie is that the father keeps his promise and goes to the snow-sieged New York to save his son. Jed will not let this father go lightly like "The Day After Tomorrow" in another time and space.Jed decides to let the father gather a team, including the father who is also a trapped student. They may not be in harmony at ordinary times, but they are united in order to rescue their son.Of course, since it is a combination of a disaster film and an adventure film, sacrifice is inevitable, so Jed prepared a lot of sensational scenes to earn tears.Since this is a commercial movie, Jed intends to do it to the end.
After a day of filming, Jed naturally took John back to the love nest of the ice hockey road.In order to prevent reporters from discovering his secret abode, Jed even purchased a Volkswagen sedan that is loved by the American middle class and financial practitioners to get in and out of the hockey lane.Compared with the mansion in Beverly Hills, the villa on Marbury Beach and the holiday castle in Palm Beach, this simple and low-key two-story small apartment villa on Hockey Lane makes Jed and John feel like home.Before getting to know John, Jed’s favorite style was neutral tones of black, white and gray, but after getting to know John, who is of Italian descent, the decoration of the room became much more enthusiastic, and red and yellow became the main colors of the room decoration. The occasional green is also to set off the vitality in the room.
Except for Jade's insistence on the quality of the bed and sofa, the rest of the decoration is based on Jade's decision to choose some middle-class styles.In Jed's words, "Actually, I only planned to be a middle-class person with a simple apartment."
The room is full of photos of Jed and John, including photos of the two attending formal banquets, and photos of the two on vacation, but more of them are some of the daily life and work of Jed and John.Of course, these photos were provided by Shannetti and other friends.John has a simple photo wall above the speakers in front of the sofa, and a photo of Jed, John and friends on the fireplace.John smiled and said, "If there are a few more pictures of the children, this home will be more like a home. By the way, we should consider getting a dog. Do you think the German Shepherd is more interesting, or the Golden Retriever is more docile? Or Huskies? "
"Forget about huskies, those strange creatures are not acceptable to people on earth." Thinking of the second-rate huskies, Jed immediately refused. "The golden retriever is too docile. A dog that can be tricked away by touching its head is an insult to one's origin. It should be a German shepherd. It has good energy and is very loyal to its owner."
"Then German Shepherd." John nodded, "There is a pet store near here, we can take the time to choose a milk dog."
"You still have to raise it by yourself?" Jed was a little disappointed immediately, "Isn't it better to just buy a big dog? Why do you have to have a milk dog?"
"Dogs are like people, they will have feelings when they are raised from a young age." John replied, "Last time you said you wanted to adopt a family child, did you have a suitable partner? Don't send that kind of teenage child. To be precise, don’t think about it if you are over three years old.”
"Gay adoption is still very troublesome." Jed consulted a lawyer, but no lawyer can guarantee that it will be done.Although there are many places to evade the law, the legal loopholes left in the end are enough to cause headaches. "Do you want to find a surrogate mother?"
"Do you have a good method?" John asked back, "Surrogate pregnancy is also a gray area in American law."
"Sir Elton John from England seems to be trying to find a suitable surrogate mother through the United States, but it's not good to ask him directly about this matter, otherwise I will have to testify when legal disputes are involved." Jed rubbed Forehead, "It's best not to talk too much about the current details of surrogacy between the two of us, otherwise we will not have the protection of 'husband and wife confidentiality privilege' when we are questioned by the court." Jed shrugged, "The Federation will not recognize it for a day, The so-called same-sex marriage is as ridiculous as a piece of paper."
John didn't say anything, even if he and Jed won the lawsuit to force the California government to recognize same-sex marriage as legal in California, but there is still a "Defense of Marriage Act" in the federal law, which is tantamount to betting on the federal government's recognition of same-sex marriage as legal the gate.Without federal recognition, conjugal confidentiality privileges, conjugal tax privileges, and the like would have nothing to do with same-sex marriage.Even if Jed makes persistent efforts to win the lawsuit against the federal government after winning the California government, the U.S. Constitution still has a "Full Confidence Clause." States have some ways to delay or decline this clause, so that "same-sex marriage" cannot be realized in every state.
"Forget it, let's discuss raising dogs." John changed the subject.
For the next half month, Jed supervised in Los Angeles, and then flew to London to continue watching Harry Potter movies and TV series.But unexpectedly, John did not accompany him. There was an unconfirmed report that John, the CEO of Sherman Group, was visiting mainland China in a private capacity.But a Sherman Entertainment Group spokesman declined to answer questions, citing that John was on vacation.
As the summer holidays approach, Jed's work pressure is also increasing.He not only has to ensure that the third "Harry Potter" film inherits the excellent reputation of the first two films, but also has to ensure that his "The Day After Tomorrow" will not become a joke of film critics.As May was drawing to a close, Galaxy Pictures released the first promotional videos of "The Day After Tomorrow" and "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" through YouTube, a video-sharing site owned by Google.It immediately ignited a storm of early-stage reports on the summer film schedule of American movies, and all the media turned their attention to the annual lucrative schedule.