American fame and fortune

New York, known as the world's largest open-air studio, was the first city to be destroyed by Hollywood movies.

The crew chose to shoot here instead of going to Boston for on-site shooting, because New York promised a high tax rebate.

In the face of huge commercial interests, even a director of Martin Scorsese's level still has to compromise.

In the studio located on the border of Brooklyn and Queens, the crew began filming.

In the phone booth set up on the outer wall of the studio, Martin held the phone and spoke lines quickly.

The sound engineer squatted outside, fixed the recording microphone, and lowered his body as low as possible.

Director of Photography Michael controls the camera and slides slowly along the rails surrounding the phone booth to shoot.

"Cut!" Director Scorsese yelled to stop.

Martin put down the phone and turned around.

With a wireless headset hanging around his neck, Scorsese strode over and said directly: "The tone is wrong, the emotion is okay, but I think you can do better."

This is Martin's first scene, he has not yet fully entered the state, and said: "May I try again?"

Scorsese reminded: "Pay attention to the relationship between Colin and Frank. Colin has been instilled by Frank with his set of values ​​since he was 12 years old. Frank is equivalent to his father in a sense, and he is still very strict. .”

Martin listened carefully and showed a professional attitude of 12 points.

Scorsese added: "Colin during this period already wanted to get rid of Frank, but he still lacked enough courage and practical action."

Martin nodded again and again: "I understand."

The camera resets and filming begins again.

Martin returned to the telephone booth, picked up the phone and dialed, and performed this one-man show.

His tone was sincere, without any hesitation, but his expression was a little helpless and bored, fed up with the repeated persecution from the opposite side.

"Stop! Good job!" Scorsese encouraged Martin loudly: "Mobilize all emotions and states, you can break through the limit, let's do it again!"

Returning to the gangster movies he is good at, this great director has high requirements for every link, especially the performance of actors.

Amid Scorsese's praise, the shot was shot three more times, and Martin performed better each time.

When the director finally shouted to pass, Martin even took a few breaths.

Although the role of the double-faced man is familiar, it is not easy to actually interpret it in the camera.

Scorsese came up to him and said directly: "The first time I worked with Robert De Niro on Mean Streets, he wasn't as good as you."

Regardless of whether this is encouraging or true, Martin is quite confident at the moment: "Director, you will find that choosing me is definitely not a mistake, but one of the most correct decisions you made in this film."

Scorsese nodded: "I'm waiting to see your performance." He waved his hands: "Go and take a five-minute break before shooting the next one."

Martin did not leave the set, and came to the next set to get familiar with the positions and lines.

These all fell into the eyes of Scorsese. Although he didn't say anything, he felt that it was right to choose Martin.

On the beach not far from here, Daniel, the project executive of Warner Bros., and the crew producer Graham King are sitting under a sun umbrella drinking coffee together.

The latter added sugar to the coffee cup and asked, "I heard the schedule is set?"

Daniel said: "In September next year, it will premiere in North America during the Toronto Film Festival." He took a sip of coffee: "The investment in the film is high, and the box office is under great pressure to return. We need to think of ways to promote it."

Graham said: "Leonardo Gasscoses has enough appeal, even if the box office cannot return the money, the subsequent DVD and TV copyright market is enough for us to easily profit."

Daniel said: "No one will doubt their appeal."

Graham added: "Jack is old, but there are still a large number of old audiences supporting him, and Matt Damon is not bad."

Daniel reminded: "Don't forget, there is Martin Davis."

"Look at me, I almost forgot about this newcomer." Graham asked, "I remember he has been working with Warner Bros. How about it?"

Daniel simply said: "The best result is the eye in the mountains. After the Burbank Middle School incident, there was a round of re-screening, and the final box office in North America was 115 million US dollars. The overseas screenings basically ended, and the global box office was 207 million US dollars."

Even a veteran producer like Graham looked sideways at such box office figures: "It's a blockbuster!"

Daniel smiled: "North American DVDs have sold 50 million US dollars. Martin is the absolute leading actor. He and the film have achieved each other. The popularity of the film has continued to the summer of another film, the original Warner's North American box office expectation. It is about 40 million US dollars, and now the North American box office has accumulated 72 million US dollars, and most of the extra is due to Martin."

Graham said: "He turned out to be a treasure boy."

"Who said it wasn't?" Daniel said, "Martin's new film "Wanted" has just finished a rough cut. Do you know our internal estimate?"

Graham was surprised: "It's hard to see the quality of the film in rough cuts."

But Daniel shook his head and said: "As long as the quality of the film is not particularly bad, with Martin's momentum, plus Angelina Jolie, it is not difficult to exceed 100 million in North America."

"Warner Bros. have so much faith in him?" asked Graham.

Daniel said the key point: "Not only is he excellent in acting, but he always has unexpected actions in publicity and marketing. The unconventional marketing of the Wax Museum and Geshan Youyan was originally conceived by him, and the jeans are the Burbank Middle School incident. The direct beneficiary of Martin, I believe in Martin's ability to make things happen, and he has proved it three times in a row."

He drank the cold coffee in a sip: "I think that in the promotion and marketing of this film, Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson are all behind, and Martin is listed behind Leonardo among the actors."

Graham said: "Damon's charisma..."

Daniel reminded: "He has too few roles."

The two seemed to be chatting, but reached an agreement on the idea of ​​publicity and marketing.

The filming went on until 11:30, and the crew temporarily stopped work and went to the dining car to pick up lunch.

Martin has his own rest trailer, where he and Bruce have lunch.

Bruce said while eating: "I just inquired that Matt Damon will come to New York next week." He remembered an important thing: "Mene is also coming next week. He spent a lot of time on Allen. It is basically certain that Meryl Streep is the only person who has been in and out of Jack Nicholson for decades."

Martin had a toothache: "Oscar queen."

Bruce's words are not on the same channel as Martin: "I remember that Meryl was married a long time ago. From time to time, she would show off her good wife and mother. She played so flamboyantly in private. Now I very much agree with your words. Marriage is definitely for Hollywood men." nightmare."

Martin pondered for a while and said, "As far as I know, Meryl Streep and Harvey Weinstein have an unusual relationship."

Bruce stopped chatting about those useless things: "It's no surprise that Sophia and Harvey had conflicts. With Harvey's ability, it's not difficult to find out that you have a relationship with Sophia."

Martin added: "I turned down Weinstein's invitation, and he wanted to use that invitation to mess up my audition for this film, probably because of Damon."

"Congratulations, no, it should be congratulations to us." Bruce's awareness is quite high: "There are enemies everywhere."

Martin didn't care, he pinched out five centimeters with two fingers, and after thinking about it, he narrowed it down to one centimeter: "There are only a few opportunities, and if we don't fight or grab them, can they fall on us? Why don't we go back to Atlanta and become gigolos."

Bruce reminded this rotten person who was good at making trouble: "There is no hatred, let's establish a good relationship as soon as possible."

Martin nodded: "Leonardo, old Jack, and me play the most important roles in the crew." He picked up an apple and tossed it in his hand: "Leonardo will join the shooting in the afternoon, I want to ask Ask him, where is the promised Victoria's Secret Angel?"

Bruce is very curious, but also to learn: "Have you thought about a party theme?"

Martin couldn't help laughing: "I can easily find a hundred of them."

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Leonardo and Jack Nicholson appeared on the set successively.

The three took turns to shoot.

Compared with Martin and the gifted old actor Nicholson, who had adjusted his form in the morning, Leonardo had the most NGs.

The fame and status of an actor actually has little to do with how good his acting skills are.

During the filming break, Nicholson found Scorsese, pointed to Martin and said, "This kid is talented, only a step behind me."

Scorsese didn't save face for the old man at all: "You are not such a good acting skill at his age."

At the resting place on the other side, Martin approached Leonardo: "Leo, we've been in New York for two days. Where's the Victoria's Secret Angel you're talking about?"

Leonardo said: "It will take some time for the news of me to come to New York to spread." He is quite conceited: "If there is no accident, someone will call this afternoon."

He asked Martin: "Have you got the theme?"

Martin nodded and asked, "Yacht or villa?"

Leonardo said: "Yacht, let's go to the sea, so we can avoid those boring paparazzi and entertainment reporters."

While the two were talking, Jack Nicholson came over: "Did you forget something?"

Leonardo asked Martin: "Your opinion?"

"As long as there are enough beauties, I don't mind bringing this old bastard with me." Martin said according to the other party's performance during the last contact, "Old Jack, you must listen to me when it comes to setting the theme of the party."

Nicholson smiled evilly: "We have played all the tricks we can play, and I will see what new tricks you can play."

The assistant came over at this moment and said to Leonardo, "Miss Naomi is on the phone, asking you to have dinner with me tonight."

Leonardo said: "Let her ask a few more people to come out together, just say that I want to go there with Martin Davis, the great hero of the United States."

Nicholson got anxious and poked Leonardo's arm.

The latter added: "And an old bastard named Jack Nicholson."