Huayu: I'm reborn, but you still force me to be a scumbag?

Chapter 143 Back from Hollywood

The days of filming Joker were the most painful time for Chen Nuo in his film career.

This is true both physically and psychologically.

The filming lasted for three months on and off, and he re-applied makeup and changed into the same clothes every two weeks.

He keeps to himself every day and hardly interacts with anyone in the crew.

Michael White pestered him for a few days and left the crew after the filming was completed.

In the entire crew, except for the busy Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan who occasionally came to the set, Bale would only talk to him when he was filming opposite Batman Christian Bale.

But he remained mostly silent.

However, Bell had no objection to this.

In fact, at this point, among the hundreds of staff members in the entire Batman 2 crew, no one had any opinion about Mr. Chen, who played the Joker.

Even when I gave him water, he never said thank you.

When you pass by each other on the set, if you say halo to him, he will definitely not say nice to meet you.

No one has ever gotten a good look from Mr. Chen, including director Christopher Nolan.

Logically speaking, in such a large crew, your unruly behavior should have caused dissatisfaction long ago.

But after he put on makeup every day for three months and never took off his costume, all these dissatisfactions turned into understanding.

After all, such examples do exist, and legends of drama maniacs are common in Hollywood.

So after joining the team, everyone reached a consensus that when encountering such a person, please be as tolerant as possible of his weird words and deeds.

Because after working on one crew, when we meet these people in the next crew, they often add some kind of title before their names.

It's scary, and really hard to deal with.

The same goes for MR Chen.

From the first day, whenever the crew was filming his scenes, everything went smoothly.

What is still fresh in the minds of the entire crew is an explosion scene that took place not long ago.

That was an abandoned building that the producer found. According to the demolition plan, the building was originally going to be blown up. Now it was just the right time for Nolan, the real-life shooting fanatic, to have a chance to blow up the real scene.

In the movie, it was the Joker who blew up a hospital.

In front of the camera, Nolan actually used explosives to raze this hospital-like building to the ground.

In that scene, the Joker stands in front of a hospital that is about to be blown up, presses a remote control, then jumps into an ambulance and drives away. The hospital explodes right behind him.

Many people in the crew knew that according to the shooting plan, this scene should have been completed in two sets of shots.

The first shot is a medium shot of the clown pressing the remote control in front of the hospital and then jumping into the car.

The second shot switches to a long shot, the hospital explodes, and the car drives away.

There are two advantages to doing it in two sets of shots.

First of all, it can greatly ensure the safety of the actors. Because after the first shot is completed, the actors can leave. The second shot only requires the driver to drive.

Secondly, there is only one chance for this explosion and it cannot be repeated. If the Joker messes up, it will be over.

But if the shots are separated, it doesn’t matter if the clown makes NGs.

This was the arrangement, but on the day of actual shooting, Nolan suddenly changed his mind.

When everyone looked at each other, not knowing whether to persuade him, he pulled MR Chen aside and talked for a while, then came back and said stubbornly: "One shot to the end."

One shot to the end! ?

Everyone knows that if you shoot a large-scale explosion scene like this in one take, the visual effect will be very strong.

Change the first medium shot to the Joker pressing the remote, jumping into the car, and the car driving away, while the hospital in the background explodes.

Instead of the hospital exploding when the shot switched to a long shot as previously stated.

The former will give the audience a strong visual impact, making them feel as if they are truly in the scene.

However, isn’t Mr. Chen afraid?

If the explosion had been one or two seconds earlier, he might have been killed. Even if he got into the car, his life might have been in danger. What if a flying rock pierced the fuel tank of the vehicle?

Furthermore, if an actor is afraid that his life is in danger, can he still act well?

All the crew members were filled with doubts.

It was in this skeptical state of mind that the filming of this scene began.

Chen Nuo was standing on a road. Not far behind him was a square hospital. He was holding a rectangular remote control.

He held it like a naughty child holding a mischievous toy.

He clicked it with a bit of amusement, then looked back at the hospital and found that there was no movement, so he got a bit angry and pressed it several more times with his fingers.

Then, as if he was tired of playing with this thing, he threw the remote control behind him and got into the back of the ambulance.

The moment the ambulance started to leave, the square hospital behind it made a loud bang.

The detonators and explosives originally placed by the blasting team began to explode, and the window glass on the fifth and sixth floors was shattered into powder at the same time.

Black smoke gushed out of the windows along with red-yellow flames, and the entire building collapsed on the spot, accompanied by thick smoke and dust.

A loud roar passed by, the smoke dissipated, and only a pile of shapeless ruins remained.

The entire crew cheered as if it was a festival.

Nolan stood in front of the monitor and never sat down. At this time, he also joined everyone in clapping and cheering.

Not only because such a huge explosion scene was completed in one take without any problems, but also because Chen Nuo perfectly portrayed the Joker's attitude of disregarding human life under such enormous pressure.

If you simply despise other people's lives, you are called a murderer and will only make people disgusted and hate you.

If one does not even take his own life seriously, then every part of his body will be filled with frost and he will feel a fear from the bottom of his heart.

Afterwards, when the crew was cleaning up the scene, they found that just one second after the ambulance drove away, the flying debris from the explosion had hit the road where the ambulance had been, turning it into a bumpy mess.

In other words, if Chen Nuo had stopped the car for one second at night, or the driver had started the car one second late, something tragic might have happened.

After this incident, the entire crew became more tolerant of this Chinese boy who never took off his makeup.

It's not just about tolerance, but a fundamental change in attitude.

That day, Chen Nuo finished filming and left.

Jonathan Nolan stayed on to watch a courtroom scene involving Harvey Dent, the two-faced character in the show.

Because this is a key plot scene.

At this time, Harvey Dent had not yet had half of his face burned off by the Joker's fire, and later he turned evil under the Joker's instigation.

He is now the newly elected district attorney, high-spirited and impartial.

During this courtroom scene, the gangster witness in court suddenly pulled a gun from his pocket, pointed it at his head, and pulled the trigger.

But the gun misfired, and Harvey Dent quickly grabbed the gun and unloaded it.

Then he walked up to his girlfriend, Rachel Dawes, a prosecutor, and said, "Carbon fiber construction, .28 caliber, made in China. If you want to kill an American civil servant, you should buy an American one."

Originally, when Jonathan Nolan wrote this line, he was just thinking of writing a witty remark, but when he heard it on the spot, he couldn't help but have doubts in his heart.

Then he walked over to his brother Christopher Nolan and said, "Chris, I want to change a line here..."

When Christopher Nolan heard what line he wanted to change, he immediately laughed and said, "Jonathan, is it because of Chen?"

Jonathan Nolan said, "Of course not..." and suddenly laughed, "Okay, I admit, yes. After witnessing his performance in the past few months, I think this sentence seems a bit rude. At least, I don't want to offend his motherland in this way. Even if it's just a joke."

Christopher Nolan, a strict and traditional person, had no objection to changing the lines on the spot. He nodded in agreement and said, "What do you want to change?"

Jonathan Nolan said: "How about changing the country, RUSSIA?"

Christopher Nolan laughed and said, "I knew it was this. Okay, perfect."

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2006 12 Month 2 Day.

Janice Man got up very early today.

After filming the Iron Triangle scene last month, she seemed to have lost interest in everything.

I don’t go out shopping. I stay at home all day, staring blankly.

His parents refused to listen to his advice, and later they were too lazy to persuade him anymore. Anyway, everyone in the family knew what was going on.

After she got up today, she was in a particularly good mood. Her younger sister Janice Man couldn't help but ask, "Sister, is your son coming to Hong Kong?"

Wen Yongshan smiled so much that his eyes narrowed into slits: "Yeah, how did you know?"

Janice Man giggled and said, "Of course I know, you were laughing the whole time. Isn't Brother Nuo filming in Hollywood? Has he finished filming?"

Wen Yongshan stood up and took a last look in the mirror. He felt that the girl in the mirror was full of energy and spirit, which she had not seen in several months. "Yes, the filming is finished. I will arrive in Hong Kong at 10: today. Okay, I will go to pick him up."

(End of this chapter)