Chương 41: Chapter 41: A Discussion

Three more today, one at 3pm and one at 9pm, asking for recommendations!

"Here it is."

Three vans, a slightly worn minibus and a black used Ford sedan pulled up in front of a stand-alone house in the northern basin of the San Fernando Valley, and Murphy got out of the Ford, exclaiming, "Hurry up and unload the trucks, we're staying here today."

Makeup artist Jack Watson, lighting technician John Douglas, props technician Mia Sucre, set designer Sunny Clegg, and three interns, including Paul Wilson, now had new identities - loaders and unloaders.

Murphy just rented three cars and had no intention of hiring any more loaders, let alone the rest of the cast and crew. After greeting them, he took off his jacket and threw it onto the driver's seat of the Ford, and was the first to walk to the back of the van that was loaded with the camera equipment, opened the back box door, and took the lead in jumping on.

The director led by example, and the others didn't dare to slow down, these people are at the bottom of Hollywood, it is clear that the multi-tasking has always been a characteristic of small crews.

James Franco, of course, had no interest in helping, and getting out of the mid-bus, unconsciously went to the rear door of the Ford sedan and followed it, but the windows were closed, and Bill Rossis inside seemed to be explaining something to Carey Mulligan.

"Murphy has hired a professional tutor for you, someone I recommended ..."

As if he didn't see Carey Mulligan's expression, Bill Rossis said formulaically, "She'll be in place by tomorrow at the latest, you have to keep up with more than four hours of study every day, and she'll be accompanying you instead of me for the next few days."

Carey Mulligan's displeasure was written all over her face, "Can we not have a tutor?"

From the moment she entered the set, she was like a bird out of its cage, free and happy, and the filming felt great, this was the life she wanted.

Study? Homemaker? Living by the book? Working hard for college? She'd really had enough of all that!

Bill Rossis glanced at Carey Mulligan again and didn't say anything more, instead opening the door and getting out of the car, glancing first at James Franco, who was standing on the other side of the car, and then looking off into the distance.

A bowl of blue water could be seen at the end of the line of sight, the clear water of the lake coupled with the blue sky bringing a rare sense of comfort; the weather here was so much better than the dry downtown Los Angeles.

"Hey, Murph."

He withdrew his gaze toward the van and asked Murphy, who was carrying a couple of trays of film toward the houses, "Anything I can help you with?"

"Thanks, we can manage." Murphy emptied a hand and waved it his way, "Just take care of Carey."

Carrying the film, Murphy walked into the rented house, crossed the entrance hall and entered the living room, Jessica Chastain stood on the left side of the living room, and was directing the crowd to put the various goods that had been brought in, into the two rooms that acted as a temporary storage room, the real estate agent named Wayne that he had met before stood next to him, and constantly reminded the crew to pay careful attention, so as not to damage the exquisite decorations in the house.

Although most of this independent house was still the same as it was when Murphy came here last time, the scenes used for filming such as the living room and the kitchen, for example, had completely changed colors, and long before the official start of the filming, he himself, together with the set designer, Sunny Clegg, and others, had visited this side of the house several times, and had also formulated the style of the background of the set.

Sonny Clayton had been busy over here for a full week with two interns from USC, and with the cooperation of the professional team that Wayne had found, the living room and several other rooms used for filming had been replaced with brand new wallpaper, as well as the sofas as well as table and chair jackets, which had also been changed to the colors that Murphy wanted.

To put it simply, the scene here has to meet the needs of Haley and Jeff's two rivalry scenes, to be commensurate with the colors of their costumes, so the overall colors are dominated by grey and red.

A good story is the root of a movie, but the importance of visual stimulation, not to mention people like Murphy who have had a professional learning experience, even ordinary movie fans know it well.

After unloading the equipment and goods that were brought in, and sending that real estate agent away, Murphy let Jessica Chastain first take the others to the upstairs in order to pick their respective rooms, in order to save money considerations, for a long period of time in the future, the entire cast and crew would have to live here.

The house was not particularly large, it was impossible to do a room for each person, except for Murphy and the male and female protagonists James Franco and Carey Mulligan, the others could only live in group homes.

There is also the issue of food, with the end of the shooting of the cafe, the old Lynch's free supply also came to an end, and now Murphy can only dig into the crew's pockets to take care of this piece of expenditure, for him now, a dozen or so people at least a month of food and drink counted as a big number.

However, the cast does not have any actors who can be called star level, catering does not need much high grade, Murphy formulated is to burgers and pizza these relatively cheap food based on the meal Pou.

Since it was already afternoon when he came here, it didn't take long for the sun to fall below the horizon, after eating a pizza delivered by a fast food restaurant, Murphy went back upstairs to his own room, and continued to review the previously formulated shooting plan, after a period of time shooting in the café, he had a clearer understanding of himself, and also knew that he still overestimated his own ability, and envisioned that it shouldn't be a very difficult shooting plan, and that just the lighting a The lighting alone was not a difficult part of the shooting plan, but the problems with the lighting alone made it difficult for the crew for a long time.

Sitting in front of a desk, Murphy reviewed the plan one by one, the future will certainly encounter a lot of unforeseen difficulties...

A soft knock sounded on the door and James Franco's voice came from outside, "Are you in there, Murph?"

"Jim ...," Murphy closed the planner and turned off the desk lamp, "Come in."

The door to the room was pushed open from the outside and James Franco, carrying a bottle of wine in his left hand and two glasses in his right, stepped in and looked around before sitting down in the small sofa opposite the door to the room, placing the wine and glasses on the coffee table next to him, "Still working? Have a drink and relax."

Murphy put away the plans, walked over there, sat down on the couch on the other side of the coffee table, and without ceremony, took the bottle and opened it right up, pouring a glass each for himself and James Franco, lifting the glass and gesturing over there, and taking a gentle sip, "Very nice whiskey."

"I brought this specially from home." James Franco touched Murphy's glass, and the small half of the glass was drunk in one go, a look of enjoyment on his face, "Good Chivas Regal Scotch."

Drinking the wine in the cup, Murphy put down the glass and turned to look at James Franco, "It is indeed good wine ..."

Whether it was good wine or not he couldn't drink it at all, but James Franco came over, definitely not looking for him to drink.

James Franco poured another glass for Murphy, and Murphy saw the face with a gangly smile and asked directly, "Looking for me for something?"

"A little." James Franco paused, seeming to consider the wording for a moment before saying, "Murph, for some reason, Carey Mulligan has always been a little hostile towards me. I'm going to be shooting a lot of scenes opposite her, and it's going to interfere with the work. You get along well with her, and I'd like to know how you do it."

He made a point of adding, "If I get along with her better, the shoots will go a lot smoother."