Chapter 130: Chapter 130 - The Story of the Black Bug
"In the movie There's Always a Proud Sun, I acted in a passionate scene with Tobey Maguire, taking off my clothes is really not very difficult for me, to express the true feelings of that scene is what I want to do the most, all I'm waiting for is the opportunity." Charlize Theron looked straight at Lin Ming Yang without avoiding or flashing her gaze, and said word for word:
"I don't want to be a vase anymore, and I don't want people to recall the movie Blood Diamond later on, and when they talk about me, they'll only say 'she's the pretty female reporter who co-starred with Felix Lin' or 'she's the female reporter that helped Denzel Washington reporter,' and those are not what I want."
These words of fellowship allowed Lin Ming Yang to finally figure out Charlize Theron's concerns, and then he began to prescribe the right medicine: "As the screenwriter of the movie, I feel it is necessary to explain clearly to you that the female reporter in the story is an important role, and even plays a spiritual mentor to the male lead to a certain extent. To play this role well, a pretty face alone is not enough, it also needs excellent acting skills to go along with it."
Lin Ming Yang paused, organizing the wording in his mind rapidly, and then said, "And as the male lead of the film, I expressed a lot of pressure. You are an Oscar winner and Denzel Washington is a veteran Oscar winner, in front of you guys, I'm the unheard of minor character. I should be the one who is worried about being robbed of the camera!"
Lin Ming Yang's witty language with the exaggerated expression on his face instantly amused Charlize Theron, "If you're just a small role, then there are several other actors in Hollywood who can be called stars, compared to us, all you're missing now is just an Oscar trophy."
"Unfortunately, none of the Oscar judges are fans of mine right now!"
Putting away his joking expression, Lin Ming Yang looked at Charlize Theron very seriously, "Are you able to give me an answer now?"
Charlize Theron covered her mouth and let out a giggle, her silver bell-like voice causing Lin Ming Yang to freeze.
"Actually, I didn't intend to reject you in the first place!"
Lin Ming Yang was now completely confused, looking at the other party's expression, it didn't seem like he was teasing himself. The corner of his mouth grinned a bit as he asked with a bitter smile, "Then you still looked like you were going to reject me in the beginning, causing me to worry for nothing."
"Who let you guys come without informing me in advance, this is only a small punishment!" Charlize Theron pouted triumphantly, "And if I had said yes at the beginning, would you still be such a constant author chatting with me?"
"Just to chat?"
Not hearing the "unkind" element in Lin Ming Yang's words, Charlize Theron nodded seriously, "It's really fun to chat with you!"
"In addition to chatting, we can actually do something else, for example, I've always treasured a poster of your early days of fame in my bedroom."
"Really?" Charlize Theron was first taken aback, and when she realized that Lin Ming Yang was looking at her with a bad smile on his face, she realized that she had been duped. Lin Mingyang had actually made such an ambiguous joke, and the natural thing that greeted her was Charlize Theron's wickedly angry look.
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Lin Mingyang successfully "abducted" Charlize Theron, and Denzel Washington was also convinced by the director Edward, agreed to join the film.
Such a luxurious cast, enough to make the whole Hollywood look sideways, the movie "blood diamond" has not yet started shooting, the influence has reached an unprecedented point, the diamond moguls see this film suggests the interests of the diamond industry and the hidden relationship between the war in Africa, but can not sit still, the joint name of the opposition, demonstrations, it is very tossed a lot.
These protests had little impact on the preparations for the film, but director Edward did joke that Charlize Theron had taken the role, and it was expected that no diamond jeweler would dare to invite her to be an endorsement in the future. In the film's opening conference, Charlize Theron herself also "complained", since the announcement of the film, she dared not wear diamond jewelry on the street. Of course, Charlize Theron also admitted that most of her endorsements are focused on perfume and high-end clothing, and this movie will not affect the products she endorses.
After the opening conference, the cast and crew headed to Africa and began intense filming. In order not to affect his studies, Lin Mingyang, after discussing with his professors in his classes, they all agreed that he could watch the teaching videos online and then submit his assignments via e-mail. Inspired by this, Reed proposed to join forces with famous colleges and universities across the U.S. to launch open class videos from each college on YouTube to attract clicks.
Mark Zuckerberg is also in favor of this idea, because in this way, students who do not want to go to class but want to get credit can access the content of the class through the Internet, and then complete the assignments assigned by the professor. And students from different colleges and universities can access the content of the lectures of famous teachers from these famous colleges and universities online, which is also a kind of rational use of public education resources.
YouTube has reached a cooperation agreement with Facebook after its establishment, and any video on YouTube can be easily reposted on Facebook with one click.Facebook shares its user resources with YouTube, while YouTube provides additional functions for Facebook users to expand.
Reed was busy dealing with those officials from the National Joint Commission on Colleges and Universities, and the crew Lin Mingyang was with also ran into a lot of trouble.
The movie was set in the civil war in Sierra Leone, but Sierra Leone, located on the west coast of Africa's equator, didn't have the infrastructure to accommodate the crew, so they needed to find an alternative location. In the end, the crew found an ideal location near Port Edward in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, where the dense rainforest terrain would provide the backdrop for the script's three main sets: the diamond mine, the refugee camps and Benjamin's school.
The preparatory team, which was first stationed in the area, selected a valley and in order to construct realistic scenes, the crew had to bring in some endemic plants from Sierra Leone to decorate the set. However, South Africa's environmental oversight is very strict, and the types of plants introduced were rigorously scrutinized by officials from the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Lands, and those that might have an impact on the local environment were excluded from the list.
Every day, they sent someone to supervise the crew to properly handle local plants. Those local plants that needed to be removed had to be transplanted correctly and carefully maintained, and after the crew finished filming, they had to be moved back to their original locations to restore the original natural look.
In addition to the harsh environmental supervision and the grueling conditions of wilderness survival, the weather was the biggest headache for the crew. In the director Edward so many years, this film is his third prayers for God's favor, but his luck is a little back, the crew just felt, the local encountered the largest rainfall ever recorded, a continuous week of heavy rainfall doused everyone's hopes, all we can do is wait and adapt, and director Edward and the cameraman often have to redesign the lens.
In order to adapt to the identity of the role of the diamond dealer in the film, Lin Mingyang in the film must be able to speak fluent South African English, fortunately, there is a ready-made teacher in the cast and crew, growing up Charlize Theron took the initiative to take up this heavy responsibility. Don't look at the teacher looks beautiful, but in the education method is a bit "big", is to let Lin Mingyang constantly imitation, and then and her conversation. Some times she will also be lazy to desert, randomly find a South African native to and Lin Mingyang gibberish nonsense a pass, but in the shade of the tent to listen to the song cool.
Charlize Theron is not a good teacher, but Lin Mingyang is a very talented good student, he soon mastered the pronunciation of South African English know-how, a mouth of painstakingly practiced South African accent so that Charlize Theron is difficult to distinguish between true and false.
Because most of the scenes of the movie are to be shot in the field, so the whole crew are stationed in the valley, this is Lin Mingyang from the movie since the first time to live in a tent, and is located in the southern hemisphere of South Africa at this time is in the hot summer, but also in the rainy season, in order to be able to prevent the rain, the tent selection is that kind of very heavy material. If it is a sunny day, the hot sun shine, the temperature inside can reach more than 40 degrees, if not the crew every day from the outside to bring a large number of ice, distributed to each tent used to cool down, it is estimated that such temperatures, the night, who do not want to sleep a good night's sleep.
In addition to the hot temperatures that brought a lot of trouble to the rest of the crew members, the biggest trouble was the mosquitoes. Every morning, when everyone got together, the first thing they had to do was to describe the size of the bedbugs they had seen the night before. Although the crew sprayed a large amount of insect repellent on the periphery of the premises, which could keep out snakes, lizards or creepy crawlies in the rainforest, the mosquitoes flying in the sky couldn't be stopped.
Because of the presence of those huge, toxic mosquitoes in the tropical jungle, Lin Mingyang's idea of gathering everyone to sit around and drink cold beer at night became a bubble, and as soon as everyone wrapped up work, they hid in their own tents and basically didn't come out much at night. In addition to surfing the Internet to see the course video, Lin Mingyang in the evening boredom can only play games.
Because of the continuous rainfall, the crew's campsite was chosen on two mountain passes on higher ground, where Lin Ming Yang, Charlize Theron and members of the crew's lighting, props, and logistics teams lived together. Everyone else was living in a tent with two people, he and Charlize Theron were able to enjoy a little privilege because they were the main stars of the movie, they all had their own separate tents.
Despite the fact that the tent held a paint bucket filled with giant ice cubes, and Lin Ming Yang was only wearing a tank top beach pants, the beads of sweat on his body were even exaggerated by the speed at which the ice cubes melted. In the past, when he used a laptop, he basically didn't like to put a dustproof film on the keyboard, but now the beads of sweat on his hands were as wet as if he had just washed his hands, no matter how many times he wiped them. If he didn't use that thing, I guess the motherboard of the computer would turn into a water board before the game was even halfway through.
Tonight the director Edward called all the crew for a meeting, and this camp was left with only Lin Ming Yang and Charlize Theron, whose tents were right next to each other, but at this time of the night, the two basically didn't hang out much. Lin Ming Yang was fighting his way through the game to kill the final BOSS, when he suddenly heard a sharp cry coming from the tent next door, and it sounded like Charlize Theron's voice.
Too late to think carefully, Lin Ming Yang hurriedly put down his computer, wearing slippers and rushed into the other side of the tent, before he could see the situation inside clearly, a blurred figure with a gust of fragrant wind pounced into his arms.
"This is my tent, what are you running in for?" Charlize Theron shyly grabbed a piece of clothing from the bed, finally wrapping all the spring light of her upper body, but those long and sexy legs were still shaking in front of Lin Ming Yang.
Lin Ming Yang swallowed hard and said with a helpless face, "What are you doing screaming in your own tent for nothing, I thought you were in some kind of danger!"
Charlize Theron blushed, as if indeed she had cried out for help first before Lin Ming Yang barged in. But her body was exposed to Lin Mingyang's "wolf-like" eyes, Charlize Theron always felt a bit disadvantaged. The performance in front of the camera is one thing, the private life is another.
Lin Mingyang, who was not happy with his efforts, also made a fool of himself, see Charlize Theron bored there did not say anything, he was about to turn around and leave, but the other party suddenly called him.
Turning his head with joy, what greeted Lin Ming Yang was not the lustful happiness he imagined flying, Charlize Theron carefully wrapped her clothes, pointing to the simple closet beside the folding bed.
"There's a black bug in there, will you help me get it?"
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