American Fame and Fortune Chapter 287

Chapter 287 Super fast hand speed

 The Brooklyn Studio District suddenly became quiet and harmonious, and the three crews all restrained their respective members not to mess around here.

 The studio area is too dangerous!

 Rumors inevitably arise, such as that Martin Davis is difficult to deal with, and they spread from the set of "I'm Not There".

 Martin doesn't care and concentrates on shooting every day.

Hollywood is a world filled with rumors.

 Due to the postponement of the Central Park location scene, the crew remained at the studio for filming.

 The literary and dramatic parts have come to an end, with director Danny Boyle temporarily giving up the director's reins and assistant director and action director Chad Starski taking charge of filming the action scenes.

 Martin has collaborated with him on Wanted, and they have a great chemistry with him in the action scenes.

 Chad's intentions and ideas can be understood by Martin as long as he speaks them, and he completes them extremely well.

 In the set, which was decorated like a penthouse in the Upper East Side, Martin took off his suit jacket and threw it to the assistant next to him. The stylist came over to make an emergency touch-up.

Chad called Lewis, the stuntman who will play Martin's opponent, to talk about the scene together: "In this scene, Martin gradually recovered after drinking blood mixed with smart drugs, but the opponent has a gun in his hand, so you have to use unconventional methods. Deal with him!"

He then said to Lewis: "Come over to check the situation, lean over to check Martin's condition, and then a conflict breaks out, please cooperate."

Lewis had already rehearsed the move and responded: "No problem."

 Bruce entered the set at this time and gave Lewis the prop revolver, and at the same time gave Martin the soft needle in a sealed package.

 Chad asked: "Is it okay? Do you want to practice it first?"

 Martin tore open the packaging bag and said, "No, I have practiced specifically."

 At night, I played a game with Aniston in a similar way. Playing between men and women is interesting.

This of course does not involve messy things. The main reason is that Aniston is highly aware and proactively cooperates with Martin to practice key action scenes.

After the stylist finished touching up his makeup, Martin lay next to a pool of blood on the ground, with red blood stains smeared on his mouth to pretend to be a dead person.

 Chad returned to the director's seat, observed the set through the director's monitor, and shouted: "Every department is ready, three minutes to shoot!"

 Soon, the script was recorded and filming began.

Lewis entered the spacious living room of the apartment holding a revolver. When he saw his accomplice and Martin lying in a pool of blood, he immediately came over to check the situation.

He stretched out his hand to turn Martin's body, and Martin turned around, opened his mouth and spit out the needle.

The soft needle hit Lewis in the face, and Lewis let out a scream.

Martin followed the preset routine, reached out and knocked off Lewis's gun, raised his foot to kick him out, then stood up and used a Bruce Lee-style side kick.

Lewis fell backwards and hit the preset prop cabinet, breaking the cabinet door and unable to get up.

 Martin followed closely and hit Lewis in the face with a punch like an inch punch.

Lewis cooperated very well, swinging his head back and to one side.

Martin gasped for air, came to the pool of blood, picked up the revolver that fell on the ground, and checked the bullets.

His hands naturally drooped and fell on both sides of his thighs, staring at the entrance of the passage, like a western cowboy about to duel.

According to Boyle and Chad's vision, a montage of the old cowboy shooting a revolver in "Unforgiven" will be inserted here.

  The crew has obtained the authorization to use the relevant films.

"Stop!" Chad felt good, but lacked confidence. As before, he asked the director Boyle on the other side: "Is it okay?"

 Boyle nodded: "Very good!"

Chad then shouted: "This one has passed!" He reminded again: "Martin, Lewis, don't move, action group two enters the scene!"

 Several male actors had already received their guns from Bruce and immediately followed the rehearsal route and entered the shooting location.

Chad added: "Martin, pay attention to your shooting posture. It is not the one you are used to, but a Western cowboy-style revolver shooting."

 Martin nodded: "Understood, revolver rapid fire!"

 With Chad's order, filming started again.

Amidst the sound of dense footsteps, Martin did a trick with the revolver like a Western cowboy. He held the revolver with one hand and pressed the hammer with the other before the first person came out.

 Five armed enemies appeared in view.

 Martin pulled the trigger, and a round of rapid fire came!

His hand speed is astonishingly fast. He has been digging tunnels continuously in the past two years and has developed super fast hand speed without the need for special effects!

 This point is said to be good by everyone who has experienced it!

Anne Hathaway, Angelina Jolie, Blake Lively and Jennifer Aniston can all prove it!

 Six gunshots were fired, five enemies fell to the ground, and a decorative glass panel shattered.

 Chad was quite excited and shouted: "Well done! Martin, you are great!"

Martin threw the revolver to Bruce and said, "It's no big deal." He could use this kind of hand speed in a dark and humid environment, let alone a dry and unimpeded situation.

The action scene in the apartment ends here, with Chad shouting, "We're done."

There will be a break at noon. The crew will not return to the hotel and will eat in the dining car.

 The actors from the "I'm Not There" crew next door automatically avoided Martin when they saw him from a distance, as if they were encountering the devil.

 Martin carried the dinner plate onto the trailer, and when Bruce sat behind him, he asked, "Old Boo, am I so scary?"

Bruce not only had bright eyes on the set, but also had extremely sharp ears. He whispered: "Don't you know that there are widespread rumors on the set? They say you are difficult to deal with and that you are a big devil. Whoever you target will be unlucky."

Martin has heard it before, but this is the first time he heard it later: "Big devil? What the hell? I am the leader of the divine religion, okay!"

“I inquired carefully, and the first thing that came out was from Cate Blanchett's mouth.” Bruce knew a lot: “She is an important member of the Australian gang, and she is very disliked by you.”

 Martin ate a mouthful of vegetables and then a mouthful of meat: "Doesn't she know that the big devil eats meat?"

When Bruce heard this, he immediately became interested: "What? Are you going to mess with her?" He liked messing with people the most: "How to do it? Do you have a plan?"

"Stop! Stop!" Martin was puzzled: "Old Bu, use your **** brain. When have good people like us ever taken the initiative to mess with others? We are all in self-defense!"

He emphasized: "The mouth is on other people. No matter what, how can you control other people's mouths to speak? As long as she doesn't speak in front of me, let her go."

 Bruce turned his head and saw Blanchett and Bell in the distance through the dining car window.

He got close to some people in the next group. Bale had a good relationship with Heath Ledger and had great opinions on Martin.

 But you can't just kill the person if you have an opinion or say bad things behind his back.

 After eating, the two went back to the trailer to rest.

 Martin asked Bruce: "Is there any news about Harvey Weinstein in the News of the World or the Sun?"

"No." Bruce gave him the two most recent newspapers: "Harvey is not an ordinary person. It is estimated that the News of the World will not move until he has captured tangible evidence."

The Sun and its weekend edition of the News of the World are renowned for their accuracy when it comes to gossip, scandals and celebrity revelations.

The news team Martin met in Washington would rather risk making news than write random essays.

 Harvey is also a big fish.

  In the afternoon, the crew continued to shoot the action scenes, which were entirely Martin-based shootout scenes.

Long-term practice with guns made Martin master these scenes with ease.

Robert De Niro also appeared in the studio and officially joined the filming.

As one of the four major actors in the 1970s and 1980s, the old man, like Jack Nicholson, has a bad temper, but he is a completely different type of person than usual during filming, and he is relatively dedicated.

Robert De Niro has not been very picky about scripts when making films in recent years. It has something to do with his family. As an Italian who values ​​family, the old man currently has six children and plans to have a seventh.

 Raising children is expensive.

 Martin and he belong to the same WMA, and Robert De Niro's agent Ali acts as a lubricant, so they get along pretty well with the crew.

 In addition to life, we also talk about some common friends.

 Martin specifically mentioned the two friends: "I heard Leo say that you introduced him to director Scorsese?"

Robert De Niro nodded: "I'm that bastard's dad!"

Martin's eyes widened in shock. Could there be some indescribable secret in it? Shocking gossip?

"Don't think wildly." Robert De Niro obviously guessed Martin's thoughts: "In the early 1990s, when we were filming "Life of Boys", I personally selected Leonardo from 400 candidates and let him star. My rebellious stepson."

 This was the first time Martin learned about it and asked: "Was he so dazzling back then? 1 out of 400?"

Robert De Niro: "Just a silly boy, I chose him because he is Italian!"

This is not surprising to Martin at all. Ethnicity and nationality are the most obvious industry markers in Hollywood.

De Niro added: "Later I recommended him to Scorsese. He was pretty good and kept improving." Then, he looked at Martin and asked: "Listen to Scorsese, are you here?" On the set of The Departed, did you blow up that bastard?"

Hearing this, everyone including Aniston and Bruce looked at Martin in surprise, unable to hide the shock in their eyes, as if they didn't expect you to be such a person!

“It was Leonardo who was exposed during the performance!” Martin quickly corrected him. He didn't care about names like Big Devil and Difficult, but saying that he exposed Leonardo could ruin someone's innocence.

He is quite confident in this aspect: "Director Scorsese said that my interpretation of the character completely surpassed Leonardo."

Aniston came over and kissed Martin in front of everyone, complaining to De Niro: "You scared me."

De Niro laughed: "No wonder you have such a good relationship with Leo." He changed his tone: "That **** doesn't look like an Italian. He is irresponsible, doesn't get married, and doesn't value family. He's a traitor!"

 Martin agreed: "He is definitely a traitor and I will make him look good if I get the chance."

 (End of this chapter)

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