94. Shooting

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The day's shooting is over.

Rowan was still looking gloomy when the female assistant handed him the phone.

He simply washed his hands and face, then picked up his phone and answered it. It was Mary: "How was the filming?"

Rowan said in a relaxed tone: "It's a war movie, it's a bit tiring, but you know my body, it's easy."

Actually, he felt a little tired at first.

He has extraordinary recovery ability and can hold on, but he just feels that the contrast with his past is too stark.

Among all the movies he has filmed before, The Mask of Zorro was the most labor-in tensive one, but it's still not as intense as Saving Private Ryan.

After completing several copies of "Saving Private Ryan" in a row, Rowan no longer thought it was a big deal.

Compared to the real battlefield, filming is nothing.

Speaking of which, he found the "Saving Private Ryan" copy interesting at first, but later he felt it was just so-so.

The degree of freedom is too low.

The main reason is that he is a supporting role and there is very little room for him to perform.

When we cleared the level, at best he just served as a translator, so that the rescue team didn't have an extra translator who was a drag. In the final decisive battle, the command was cut off, and everyone survived. In the end, the spoils gave him the sniper ability.

Rowan was not satisfied with this change and started to ignore discipline in the second round.

He tried many things like stealing planes and engaging in air combat, stealth spy warfare, and even tried to assassinate a man with a mustache, but unfortunately failed.

Rowan plans to try playing the Axis faction when he gets the chance.

Though he dosen't know if there will be such an opportunity.

"Rowan?"

Professor Peter's voice brought Rowan back to his senses: "Sorry I was distracted."

Peter said with concern: "Remember to rest."

"Don't worry, just get some sleep."

Rowan held his phone in one hand and took the energy bar handed to him by Emma the female assistant with the other hand and started eating. His voice was a little vague:

"Travelers should not always sit on the top of the first mountain they climbed to rest."

"Even if I'm driving a broken tricycle, as long as I'm still moving forward and there's a little breeze occasionally, isn't that happiness?"

Peter laughed and his tone returned to normal: "I've polished the script for American Pie for you."

Rowan stopped talking nonsense and said, "Thank you!"

After coming up with the idea for "American Pie", Rowan also tried to write his own, but than he thought it could be better and wanted someone to polish the script. Writing a novel and a script is different from one another.

He didn't have the time to do it right away, and he didn't have a movie with a screenwriter as the protagonist that he could use to cheat in the dream copy.

Originally he wanted to find a ghostwriter, but professor Peter took over the job.

Peter than seemed to remember something: "My friend's friend Jerome Bixby has a good idea about a man who claims to have experienced 14,000 years."

"That sounds interesting."

Rowan asked: "Is this Jerome Bixby trying to sell a script?"

Peter shook his head "I heard that Jerome Bixby is very ill and doesn't have enough energy to cre ate this idea. If you are interested, let's meet in person when you return to Los Angeles."

"Okay. Does this story have a name?"

"This man is from Earth."

"Interesting story. I also saw a good new book in Ireland, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. It's a fantasy novel, a little less literary, but very interesting. I'll bring it back to you when I get back."

After talking for nearly half an hour, Rowan hung up the phone.

Turning around, he saw Tom Hanks' old face with an uncle's smile on it: "Girlfriend?"

"No my Professor from college."

"Professor?Is he asking you to return to college and get back to your studies."

"No he is the professor that introduced me to movies"

"Oh, so is he getting cursed at by other professors for misleading you into Hollywood." Tom Hanks asked

"I don't know about that he doesn't tell if it happens or not but he still helps me whenever I ask for it." Rowan stated

"That's nice, it's always good to have people who can help you whenever you need."

Tom Hanks spoke with deep emotion.

At first, Rowan was about the same age as his son and needed help.

Later, after getting to know each other for a long time, he found that Rowan was working hard on filming all day long, and he liked him more and more, so their relationship improved.

Even if there was no opportunity for a big robbery, he believed that with Rowan's abilities, he would be able to make it in the end.

"Yeah, it is. Anyway this s last scene and we will get some time off right?" Rowan asked

"Yes, why do you ask?"

"Well I need to meet someone, they live here so I can take some time to meet them." Rowan stated to which Tom Hanks nodded his head in understanding and decided to focus on the set as this is the last scene.

Often going behind the scenes, Rowan knew that set designer Tom Sanders and other staff had created a devastated, ruined French countryside and a small bridge at an abandoned English air force base in Hatfield.

This will be the location where the climax of the entire film takes place.

The preliminary preparations have been going on for several months and now is the final stage.

Riwan watched the preparation process, which involved first making a three-dimensional model of the town, then using a chisel to chip away at the model until it was riddled with holes, and then scaling up the damaged model to make the actual building.

Later, we would use the drawings of the two-dimensional model to design hidden passages and hiding places, and build them exactly as they were in the real scene, so that we could shoot the battle scenes inside the house and on the street from different angles in these hidden places.

"Come to think of it, if you hadn't been so busy, Sanders would have wanted to drag you to the set."

Tom Hanks was curious: "I don't know how you know so much."

Rowan was involved in many details of this design.

Originally, set designer Tom Saunders disagreed.

But he was soon shocked to discover that Rowan was even more meticulous than the consultant.

According to the scene he described, the details should be more realistic and the overall effect should be better.

Rowan explained vaguely, thinking that if you had completed a few weeks of the game, you would also be so detailed.

Spielberg's project is extraordinary. It had a great influence even in the preparation stage, and the battlefield details are extrem ely realistic.

In comparison, "Face/Off" released in 2,621 theaters for more than a month has now crossed the box office of 180 million US dollars in America. As of now, the Overseas box office has exceeded 200 million, but it has barely reached this level.

Stealing technology is impossible, and Rowan's supporting role though important didn't give himmmuch after getting the two skills, Sean Trice's fighting and Disguise. Though he was a little confused by the second one as in the movie they directly tore one face and pasted it on another but what he got is true disguise skills which include making a realistic face mask of anyone Rowan wants to make.

It's so good that he can even imitate the voice of the person he is imitating which may come in handy in the future.

Mary, who hadn't contacted for a while, called and asked, "How's the shooting progress?"

"About 60%."

Rowan than continued "According to the shooting s chedule, we can finish it by the end of August."

Mary was a little surprised: "So fast?"

Rowan exclaimed: "This is probably what a super famous director is like."

Ignoring the time for pre-production, the shooting schedule for such a large-scale war film was only two months.

June 27, 1997 - August 27, 1997.

A lot of horror movies don't go that fast.

Spielberg is extremely efficient, and he is worthy of being a famous Jewish director who deeply understands that "time is money".

"Do you have any plans after filming?"