American Fame and Fortune Chapter 766

Chapter 766 Robbery Prevention Drill

 After drinking, Martin exchanged personal contact information with Scarlett Johansson and then returned to the hotel.

Just as promised when contacted, Blake Lively moved directly into Martin's suite.

Jeremy Renner, who lived on the same floor, saw the door to the opposite room closed. He slandered him and returned to the room alone. He felt that what Martin said about picking up girls was very reasonable. He went back to talk to the Canadian model. Maybe it will end the single status.

 Martin is having an affair with an actress on the set again, which is not even news on the set of "The City".

Although the crew will gossip privately, everyone takes it for granted.

In the next few days, the crew will be filming scenes related to supporting actresses, including many large-scale scenes between Martin and Blake Lively.

 After a relaxing weekend, Villeneuve put the final shootout scene on the shooting schedule.

This climax scene is undoubtedly the top priority of the entire film. Before the official shooting started, Villeneuve made a series of preparations.

 The first thing is guns.

Like most Hollywood crews, real guns were used during filming. In view of what happened before, the crew established a four-tier security system.

　　The door of the conference room was opened from the outside, and Graham King walked in accompanied by a woman wearing a red dress and black sky-high boots.

Scenes from other films appeared in the film, involving copyright issues. Martin asked Villeneuve: "Have you obtained the authorization?"

 The prop master, the safety guy, Bruce and the actors themselves.

The Boston Red Sox and Fenway Park logos will feature in the final film.

In this robbery scene, the robbery team headed by the male protagonist McCree will have a fierce exchange of fire with the FBI and the Boston police. Both sides will use automatic weapons, and the gunfight style is mainly realistic.

This woman is about thirty years old, tall, with delicate and beautiful makeup. She has big brown and black waves, diamond earrings in her ears, a Cartier women's watch on her hand, and a wedding ring on her ring finger, which interprets what a pigeon egg is.

Villeneuve said: “The authorization for both films has been obtained.”

 Martin confirmed: “Has it been negotiated at Fenway Park?”

“Starting tomorrow and until the next working day, the crew can shoot anywhere within Fenway Park.” Villeneuve roughly said: “The entire area of ​​Fenway Park will be open to the crew free of charge.”

In addition to sponsoring the filming of the film, Fenway Group will also open the stadium to the film crew for free for filming.

 Then watch and analyze clips from classic gunfight movies selected by Villeneuve, and finally understand the background of the robbery.

  Martin replied: “Documentary of the North Hollywood bank robbery.”

After watching the classic video clip, Villeneuve made a phone call to confirm that he was here and let's get to the main topic today: “Last week, you all received the latest script for this scene. According to the latest news from the Boston Red Sox and Fenway Park, According to the situation, we made corresponding adjustments to this scene to make it more realistic.”

Jeremy Renner gets it.

Villeneuve said to Martin and Jeremy Renner: "You will also watch this and "44 Minutes" before taking action."

Graham introduced: "Linda is the person in charge of external publicity of Fenway Group and the wife of John Henry."

She looked past the others and landed directly on Martin. She walked over quickly and said, "Hello Martin, I'm Linda Henry."

Jeremy Renner asked: "'Emergency 44'?"

 Especially the gunfight part.

 Martin nodded slightly. Before the crew started filming, Graham had reached an agreement with John Henry about cooperation.

 The former mainly gathered actors, props and camera crews to watch the bank robbery clip from "The Wire".

The crew is working with Fenway Group, and Martin certainly knows who John Henry is, the owner of Fenway Group, which owns the Boston Red Sox.

The delicate and beautiful woman in red in front of her is the boss lady of Fenway Group.

 Martin shook hands with Linda Henry: "Nice to meet you."

Linda is responsible for the company's publicity business. She has gotten to know Martin and knows that her husband's assets may not be as much as Martin's. She said with a smile: "I hope that through this movie, we can establish a good cooperation channel and we can work together in the future."

Martin said politely: "Thanks to Fenway Group for its support to the crew."

 After saying the polite words, he got down to the topic: "I didn't expect that Mrs. Henry came to introduce the relevant situation in person."

Linda's smile was as bright as the red dress on her body: "I am now in charge of Fenway Group's publicity business. This is my job."

The two chatted for a while, and Graham King introduced director Villeneuve, supporting actor Jeremy Renner and others to Linda Henry.

 After Linda's formulaic response, she asked her assistant to connect the notebook she brought to the projector and explain the background of the scene in person.

 In the last scene, the hero's four-person team robs not a bank, but Fenway Park.

The laser pointer in Linda's hand pointed at Fenway Park on the projection screen and said: "Fenway Park has always been the home court with the largest average number of spectators in the league. From May 15, 2003 to the present, it has been continuously full. Record."

Jeremy Renner couldn't help but mutter to Martin: "The Boston Celtics don't have attendance like this either."

 Martin did not know much about the four major sports leagues in the United States, so he did not answer the call. Linda continued: "Every Red Sox game day, Fenway Park will welcome 40,000 enthusiastic consumers. They will treat the game day as a boxing day and spend unstintingly on on-site ticket purchase and catering services. "

Villeneuve added: "This robbery scene is to rob Fenway Park of cash income."

 Martin asked deliberately: "Linda, aren't you worried that the release of the movie will lead to copycat crimes?"

"We were worried about being robbed, so we chose to cooperate with the crew." Linda said with a smile: "After 9/11, the Washington authorities took the lead and invited Hollywood directors, screenwriters and producers to gather together and use their brains to think of some terrorist attacks. The American plan is to prevent it in advance.”

 Martin heard about this and nodded slightly: "It is said that some people's ideas later became the plot of the movie."

Linda added: "The scene you filmed was also a test of our security measures. John and I were quite shocked when we saw the robbery plot of pretending to be police officers in the script. If there were really robbers doing this, the success would probably be quite high." high."

The script was rewritten based on the actual operation of Fenway Park, and she said directly: "In addition to weekly game days at Fenway Park, the surrounding stores also have income, and all the cash will be collected into the vault every day and sorted by the vault staff. , escorted to the bank every Monday, with an average weekly income of more than 3.5 million US dollars in the past few years.”

Villeneuve added: "The amount of the robbery in the film is set at US$3.5 million."

  Martin knows that this figure does not take into account ticket packages, advertising sponsorships, TV broadcasts, etc.: "The team's income is amazing."

Linda said with a smile: “It's a pity that not enough people come to the stadium outside of match days.”

 Martin asked: “There should be tourists, right?”

“There are some tourists, but Fenway Park is not popular enough.” Linda looked at Martin: “I hope we can cooperate in depth in the future.”

She doesn't hide the purpose of the collaboration: “John and I want Fenway Park to become a landmark like the Golden Gate Bridge, the Hollywood Hills, the Washington Monument and the Statue of Liberty, which Hollywood movies are most willing to destroy.”

I have to say that Fenway Group is indeed very thoughtful in business operations.

If it really reaches this level in a Hollywood movie, there will be an endless stream of overseas tourists alone, not to mention tourists from North America.

  The ins and outs of the funds for the robbery are clearly explained, which also facilitates the performance of the protagonist team.

This preparatory meeting ended soon.

 The next morning, the crew went to Fenway Park to shoot the final robbery scene.

 From the robbery to the gunfight, all the scenes in this scene will be shot in and around Fenway Park.

The crew mobilized dozens of vehicles and gathered in the parking lot area on the street side of the stadium.

Many of them are police cars temporarily provided by BPD.

Police officers who are not on duty can also come and act as extras after get off work if they are interested.

Fenway Park was first built in the 1920s and 1930s. It may have been relatively empty at the time, but now it has become a more prosperous business district.

  The prop trailer was opened, and a large number of firearms were taken out. Several prop masters prepared blank ammunition according to the requirements of the crew.

Director Villeneuve was worried and came over to check it in person.

 Two safety officers wore recorders at all times and supervised the entire process.

After the firearms were prepared, Bruce came over to inspect them personally and distributed the firearms to each actor.

 Martin received a modified automatic rifle from Bruce.

 Different from the previous two times, this time we used AR series firearms.

 Martin and Jeremy Rene put on body armor and full BPD police uniforms as required for the filming.

As the crew cleared the scene, Villeneuve gave an order, and crackling gunshots rang out.

 Martin fired repeatedly at the outside through the window of the underground parking lot. The gunfire emitted from the muzzle was clearly captured by the camera next to him.

This shot was taken for less than ten seconds before Villeneuve shouted stop.

 Then, the four people gathered together and exchanged shots with the FBI team in the underground garage.

 Two accomplices who were making soy sauce, the younger one was quickly shot to death at the request of the director.

Villeneuve kept adjusting, and the shootout scene was shot intermittently. A ten-second shot could take dozens of minutes of footage.

The scenes here were filmed for four full days, and were not completed until the day before the next Boston Red Sox game day.

  Actors such as Jeremy Renner and Blake Lively ended their respective roles and left the crew.

 Martin, the absolute protagonist, will have to stick with it for a while longer.

 At the beginning of a new week, an old friend of producer Graham suddenly came to visit the team and became very interested in Martin.

 (End of this chapter)

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