Chapter 143: Moving forward

"Robert, why can't you listen to me?" Wang Yang stopped loudly, looking at Donny in the ruins in front of him, and couldn't help feeling helpless.

Donnie on the other side was sitting on the ground with his cell phone naked. He was wearing a makeup artist's handwriting, shoulders, chest and other places, showing a hard shell like an insect. Listening to Wang Yang's words, he shrugged with a look of "I don't agree".

More than a month has passed since the filming of "The Ninth District" started filming, and the crew is still in Vancouver. During this period, the work has basically been carried out in the studio, and several indoor scenes such as "Mnu Headquarters Office", "Hospital", and "Home". Most of these scenes are not special effects shots, but the shots of Wiggs and Christopher Forsen entering and leaving at the Mnu Headquarters are enough for animators to draw.

Some of these special effects shots need to use a very small on-site explosion effect. With the professional help of the stunts, Wang Yang successfully completed the warm-up and tried to shoot the explosion scene. However, the shooting work was not 100% smooth. When the design encountered reality, many storyboard shots needed to be re-corrected on the spot, shooting techniques, etc. Another thing is that he and Donnie had many disputes.

It is not a matter of acting skills. Every actor who can join this crew can be competent for his role. It is because of some of the shaping problems of Wiggs. In any scene, the two have some disagreements. There is actually no right or wrong here, but they have different understandings of the role. For example, now, the content of this shot is about Wiggs calling his wife, but his wife did not trust him, and he felt extremely painful.

"Director, believe me! I can fully understand the pain of Wiggs now." Donnie said, standing up, pointing at himself, and saying calmly: "Because I have experienced it, everyone knows why, it's really bad, regret, loneliness..." He shook his head, and everyone around the crew didn't speak silently.

"The problem is here." Wang Yang frowned and said to everyone, "Stay a break first", then walked over and pulled Donnie aside, saying, "Robert, you often confused yourself with Wiggs. Some emotions are common in some places." This is one of the important reasons why he chose Donnie to play the male lead. It turns out that Donnie also performed at the Oscar-level level.

As he said, he tore up another piece of fake skin from Donnie's body and shook, "Did you see it? Some places are different. You are taking drugs and he is deformed, one is voluntary, the other is forced." Donnie interrupted him with a pout, and said, "I am not taking drugs voluntarily, but when you stick that thing, there will be a devil in your body, forcing you to do that..."

"Okay, don't touch him again anyway!" Wang Yang also interrupted him, returned to the topic just now, and explained: "The difference between the two is that there is an "unwillingness" in the middle. You are abandoned by Sarah and your wife. You all know that you deserve it, so you have regrets." Donnie seemed to be chewing gum and twitched his mouth, saying: "Do I have it?"

Wang Yang ignored his interruption and continued, "But Wiggs was abandoned, he would not think he deserved it! Robert, the difference is too big!" He patted Donny on the shoulder and said his request again: "Let Wiggs be a little angry, either angry with his wife, or be confused, angry, unwilling to accept... You should make him look pitiful! He is struggling, instead of crying expressionlessly."

"Um..." Donnie also frowned, thought for a while, shook his head, and said, "Yang, I didn't say he didn't struggle, but his first reaction was definitely not! When you put all your hopes on your wife, thinking that the whole world would abandon you, she would not, but she immediately abandoned you! He sighed long, as if he was back to being abandoned, and said, "Wigers should have had no reaction. He was depressed and desperate, and he wanted to die... This was a very serious blow."

Wang Yang looked at him silently, thinking about how to resolve it. The dispute between the director and the starring actor is a normal thing on the set, but before filming "The Ghost Record" and "Singing and Dance" without an actor had a dispute with him; when "When Happiness Comes Knocking", Will Smith can be said to be a true performance, and occasionally disagreement is easy to discuss and resolve; Natalie in "Juno" can be regarded as the perfect interpretation that makes him most worry-free; and Donnie, who is actually very stubborn and hard, is not easy to be persuaded.

He thought for a while, and had an idea in his mind, and said, "Brother, what's there to argue about? Both plans are ready to be filmed." Donnie laughed, with a look of "I see through you" and said, "I guess you will definitely use the one you want during editing, right?" Wang Yang rolled his eyes without comment. Donnie spread his hands and said, "Yang, it's not that I don't want to act as you said, it's that I can't act! I can't get into that plan, how do you let me act?"

"Robert, are you acting?" Wang Yang took a deep breath, and anger rushed out inexplicably. Donnie suddenly became serious and said, "No, even if you kill me," Wang Yang frowned and said, "You can't say this sentence randomly." Donnie also realized something was wrong and apologized: "I'm sorry."

Now we cannot joke about "killing" at will, not because of the fierce Afghan war, but because a bloody crime occurred in the film industry not long ago. Because the long-accumulated conflict broke out, the producer of the "Fire Dancer" crew, Nathan Powell, brutally killed director Jawell Vassel. This incident shocked the entire Hollywood, and no one wanted such a thing to happen again, so the quarrel between producers and directors, directors and actors has temporarily restrained.

"I think I was influenced by Wiggs' emotions." Donnie shrugged helplessly and sighed: "I was in "The Passion of Zero" back then, and after I finished acting, I became even more addicted to drugs. Damn it! "

Wang Yang couldn't help but nodded when he heard this. He had been a little "too deeply involved in the show" recently and had a much bigger temper. Thinking of this, the inexplicable anger disappeared. He gradually calmed down and thought to himself: "Do I have some selfishness? Robert also has his own reason. Wiggs was sad and desperate, and then unwilling to accept..."

He thought for a while and suddenly said in confusion: "Why do we have to convince each other? This question is not an opposing one, can't it be integrated together? I think the answer is OK!" Donnie blinked his eyes and asked, "How to integrate?"

"Well, you hold your phone tightly first and cry in a low voice, very desperate and pitiful. But then, you smashed your phone out hard." Wang Yang looked at his appearance, designed the picture, and said, "You started to scold, start crying, struggled in pain, and kept going crazy!" Donny nodded repeatedly, looking full of interest, and said, "It sounds good, we all want, try it!"

Wang Yang smiled and walked back to the crew with Donnie, saying, "Buy, next time we will continue to follow this idea. Let's think about the possibility of fusion first, don't make arguing all day!" Donnie laughed and praised, "man, I'm very happy to see that you are not the kind of autocratic director who is a dictatorial, nor are you an explosive barrel! What a good young man, love-you!" Wang Yang raised his middle finger at him and said, "fuck-you!"

Soon, a satisfied "cut! It's past, the next shot!"

When the blue sky in Vancouver was replaced with the beautiful scenery of dusk, the crew also finished the day's work, but Wang Yang's work was not over. After returning to the hotel for dinner, he began to accept today's shooting results and asked the relevant assistants to send the satisfactory special effects shots to the image engine tomorrow. After that, he discussed tomorrow's shots with Vale Fest and others; it was too late to return to the room and was very tired.

After taking a hot shower, Wang Yang came to the desk in his nightgown, turned on the computer and updated a log, and uploaded a work photo on the set. Of course, this photo was the type of person who would not reveal anything, but just a photo with the crew.

After 911, blogger suddenly attracted people's attention. Everyone could easily build their own personal website and share information with friends and strangers... This feature made it very popular in the 911 incident. Coupled with excellent publicity and beautiful layout after redesign, the number of registered users continued to rise. Now it has exceeded 3 million users, and more and more people have become bloggers.

The first viral marketing website of "Mysterious Guest", "The Ninth District", was launched as early as mid-October. The website's reward goal is that 50,000 people around the world each publish a blogger log mentioning "The Ninth District". As long as the goal is reached, the website will expose a batch of "very important pictures that unravel the content of the movie". Now only a few hundred articles are enough for 50,000, and I believe it will be achieved in less than a few days.

After Wang Yang updated his blog, he browsed his friends' situation. Jessica's did not update, and the latest article was still "The Sweetheart" was completed a few days ago!" During this period, he went back to Los Angeles to supervise the production for one day more than a week. His more work was to review the storyboards Anne Fletcher was preparing to shoot next week and give some advice.

Now that "Sweetheart" has finished its shooting stage, it has begun to move into post-production. When Anne Fletcher and Margaret Goodstead, who is an editor, have finished the first cut version, he will also review and supervise the production.

"I'm so unlucky today!" Looking at Natalie's updated log for the evening, Wang Yang couldn't help laughing. According to her, she suddenly fell down on the road to school in the morning, and she was unlucky to sprain her left foot. As a result, this was not over. When she went back to the dormitory to go up the stairs at night, she was sprained her right foot for some reason because she was considering her left foot and almost rolled down the stairs...

"Is this true or false?" Wang Yang smiled to himself. If this log was updated by Jessica, he would believe it 100%; but Natalie actually... He smiled and sent a greeting text to "Walk carefully." He opened Tom Willing's latest log and read: "Happy! In January next year, Jamie and I will hold a wedding..."

After reading the blog, he read the current news for a while and then went to bed to officially end the day.

Two days later, the 50,000 blogger "The Ninth District" log was completed. Amid the happy cheers of fans, the "Mysterious Guest" website immediately responded and released more than a dozen pictures. The fans were excited and surprised to find that all of these pictures were ugly and distinctive 3D monsters, or... aliens!

"The Ninth District" is actually a science fiction movie, and it has these aliens! So what kind of science fiction type is it? Does the story take place on Earth or other planets?

"Break through" the first viral marketing website, which excited the fans and fans. Every participant felt a sense of accomplishment when looking at the pictures of those aliens; it also increased their interest, whether it was for "The Ninth District" or its promotional activities. But facing the second round of viral marketing website launched by Flame Movie, they knew that the challenge had just begun.

The direct continuation of the "Mysterious Visitor" website is the "Alien Research Center" website. The bounty of this website is to unravel some information and characteristics of this alien race, including their names, temperaments, etc. This information is also equivalent to revealing the roles played by aliens in the movie; and there are more pictures!

However, the difficulty of this reward target has suddenly increased. Participants are required to dress up as aliens in their minds. They can wear an alternative clothes, wear Christmas hats, or just smear their faces green and blue, then take a photo at a local attraction and upload it to the website. As long as the participants around the world reach more than 15 countries or regions, the number of people reaches 1 million, the goal is achieved!

As long as the pictures are uploaded, no matter where you are on Earth, you will get an internal document "Top Secret Archives" of the "United Nations Secret Research Aliens", which also contains some information about alien races; there are also some phenomena related to aliens, such as the crop circle and other alien-related phenomena, and the Roswell incident, etc.!

"This is a huge challenge!" The Fire Movie played this slogan that made the fans even more excited, and also reminded them to call their friends and family to act together: "Work together to create a miracle!"

At the same time, there is also a blogger created by aliens. Now there is only a mysterious log on it: "Hello, Earthlings, I want to tell you some secrets..." If you want aliens to update his blogger, you must play several puzzle games on another viral marketing website "Alien's Secrets" and another game activity that extends to reality.

The Fire Movie has hidden more than 60 English letters in arrangement order in some universities and high schools in major cities across the United States. The content of the letter combination is the biggest secret of aliens and will also be a major clue of the content of "The Ninth District"! So follow the clues provided on the website to find out, the hiding place of each letter is different, and it may be in a book in the library or in the toilet tank in the bathroom...

The distribution departments of many film companies have always been paying attention to the promotion of Fire Movies and Wang Yang, which is "produced 100 million yuan" and "fighting against the market". Now they are very surprised to see these new viral marketing! The power of viral marketing has long been proven. If you play well, the effect will be better than broadcasting trailers during the Super Wrist. However, they usually play tricks, so the current common promotional methods are still hard advertising, TV shows, and some activities.

But now "The Ninth District" has completely opened the viral marketing hand to the Internet and reached into reality. One million people took photos and searched for letters on campuses across the United States... Crazy! The question is whether anyone will participate? Will such publicity be effective? Film companies are waiting and watching, and some companies are waiting to see the flame movies and fantastic jokes, such as "The Ninth District" can't even recover the cost.

The situation of "The Ninth District" is really a science fiction movie, and it has attracted the attention of the media. Cult + Science Fiction, what kind of thing it will be made to get the Oscar nomination? Unbelievable! Yahoo Movie's comments bluntly said: "Miracle Young can always bring surprises and miracles, but this time, the Oscar chocolate is not in the box at all."

Time passed day by day, and in a blink of an eye, the Thanksgiving holiday came. As the shooting of the studio and several indoor scenes in Vancouver were completed, the crew of "The Ninth District" also announced the temporary disbandment and gathered for South Africa after Thanksgiving.

On the streets of Beverly Hills, the shops on both sides are full of Thanksgiving and Christmas decorations and atmosphere. Wang Yang and Jessica walked towards the cinema with a smile on their faces, preparing to watch a movie. Today is the third anniversary of their love life. On this happy day, both of them feel particularly sweet.

Wang Yang looked at her and thought that he would be separated from her for another month in a few days. He couldn't help but smile and said, "I'm going to Africa soon." Jessica nodded, but her brows frowned slightly, and said, "Yang, actually I don't want you very much..." She stopped immediately, turned to look at him, and smiled, "Nothing, nothing! You didn't hear me just now, right?"

"Jesse." Wang Yang smiled and hugged her, comforting her, as he walked, he comforted her: "I really don't need to worry. You know that the bodyguards hired by our crew almost have more than employees, and..." He waved his fist and smiled, "Don't forget that I know how to kung fu!" Jessica nodded with a smile, comforting him: "I'm not worried, I just don't want you to go."
Chapter completed!