Chapter 123 Sullivan and Ball’s Adventures on the Set (Part 2)
After catching the two men, floor manager and producer Charles Rowan reported.
"Two people were secretly filming and we caught them. This is a camera."
The venue manager briefly told the story. They were two curious movie fans who loved movies and came to secretly take photos.
Charles Rowan took the camera and looked at it, then handed it to little Gilbert, and said to the scene attendant: "Just hand it over to the police station. Just do whatever you want?"
"Wait a minute," little Gilbert called the field manager.
He looked at the camera in his hand. It was a Panasonic NV-S250EN camera.
Although the size and weight seem to be quite bulky in the eyes of a newcomer like him, in this day and age, it can be regarded as a good portable camera.
I have to say that the quality of Xiaoli products nowadays is really good, unlike later, when only the spirit of craftsmanship remained.
This camera also has a video playback function. Little Gilbert turned his head and looked at the content captured inside. It was the scene where the Hummer collided with the water tanker. There was nothing special about it.
Without spoiling too much, little Gilbert asked the stewards again: "How old are they? Are they adults?"
The field manager replied: "They are students from nearby St. Mary's High School, and they are all underage."
Little Gilbert discussed with Charles Rowan: "I think, let's forget it, delete the content, and don't worry about it."
"This can't be done. After all, the filming of the crew is confidential. They have the behavior of commercial espionage." Charles Rowan disagreed.
"What stupid employer would hire two stupid high school students as industrial spies to film this kind of content?"
Little Gilbert joked, and then said his plan: "Let's be friendly and let the two young people go. They will also be used for publicity in the future."
"You mean, hyping this up?"
"Bingo," Little Gilbert snapped his fingers and continued to improve his idea: "We can even arrange for these two to make cameos in the movie, and invite them to attend the premiere."
Charles Rowan had long been accustomed to little Gilbert's strange ideas. After listening to little Gilbert's words, he thought they were pretty good and nodded in agreement.
"Well, I'll go communicate with these two enthusiastic fans." Charles Rowan went to talk to Sullivan Ball in person.
"Give the camera back to them and be friendly." Little Gilbert handed the camera to Charles Rowan and said with a smile.
Charles Rowan rolled his eyes: "I'm very friendly..."
After saying that, he took the camera and the field manager to see the two high school students.
Sullivan and Ball sat in a room, uneasy and worried about their fate.
"What should I do? Sullivan." Ball looked even more panicked: "If the school knew about it, would they let me drop out of school? If my mother knew about this, she would be very sad."
"Shut up, Ball, I'm thinking of a way!" Sullivan looked around the room, observing the vents, thinking about how to knock down the guard at the door and escape.
These are common scenes in movies, and he has seen the protagonists do this.
If little Gilbert knew what Sullivan was thinking, he would probably laugh and tell this innocent child that the movie was all made up.
There are people who can do this in reality, but they are far from ordinary people's lives.
Before Sullivan could think of a way, two people came into the room.
The fat man in the lead looked at the two of them, put Sullivan's camera on the table, looked at the uneasy looks of the two high school students, and smiled softly.
"I'm producer Charles Rowan, could you introduce yourselves?"
Although Charles Rowan was smiling, in the eyes of Sullivan and Ball, the smile was more terrifying than the stinky face he was wearing.
The two men's bodies trembled involuntarily, and then they leaned together, looking very scared.
Charles Rowan looked strange. He was already smiling kindly, but why did the two high school students look more scared.
He added: "Don't be afraid, I'm not a bad person. The production manager told me, you are students of St. Mary's High School, right?
Coincidentally, I also studied at St. Mary's High School during my high school years, but Not St. Mary’s High School in San Francisco.”
It would have been okay if they didn't say this, but after saying this, the two of them thought that Charles Rowan was going to tell the school what they had done, and then they became even more frightened and couldn't speak.
Seeing that he could not communicate, Charles Rowan had to go out first.
When he got out, he asked the grounds manager, "Do I look scary?"
The floor manager told the truth: "Honestly, you are the second scariest person on the set."
"Then who's number one?"
"director……"
Charles Rowan was speechless. Is he so terrible that he can be compared with little Gilbert?
Failed to complete the mission of communication, Charles Rowan had to go back to Little Gilbert and tell the story of the communication.
Little Gilbert laughed loudly after hearing this: "It seems that you are not very good at communicating with young men."
Charles Rowan looked at little Gilbert and asked, "Isn't it nice for me to communicate with you? I don't see you afraid of me!"
"That's because I'm different from others." Little Gilbert turned his head and called Sophia over: "Sofia, go and communicate with those two high school students."
Sophia knew what happened and happily took over the task.
Sullivan and Ball didn't wait long. The fat producer disappeared and a kind-faced big sister appeared instead.
She said to the two of them in a pleasant manner: "Director Gilbert has decided not to pursue your responsibilities, and he will not tell the crew."
Sullivan and Ball, who were worried, were stunned and couldn't believe their ears. Sullivan asked, "Really?"
"Of course it's true, little Director Gilbert said it himself." Sofia handed the two of them coffee and food to comfort them.
Then Sofia added: "Not only that, Director Gilbert Little did not delete the content in your camera and allowed you to return to school and show it to your classmates."
"Wow," Sullivan and Ball looked at each other, both seeing the shock in the other's eyes.
"Is this true? The crew really won't hold us accountable?" Sullivan asked.
"Of course it's true," Sophia's smile almost made Sullivan and Ball faint. They thought this big sister was so beautiful.
Then Sofia changed the subject and said, "But Director Gilbert also has a request. He invites you two to guest star in the movie and attend the premiere of the movie next summer."
"This..." Is this a request? For loyal movie fans, this is simply a huge benefit, okay?
So Sullivan and Ball quickly nodded and agreed: "Don't worry, we will definitely cooperate."
"Yes, even playing a corpse is fine."
Looking at Sullivan and Ball, who had turned from panic to excitement, Sofia smiled and said, "Okay, let's get ready after eating, and we'll shoot in the afternoon.
After filming, we will arrange a car to take you home. "
"Hmm," Sullivan and Ball devoured the burgers in their hands quickly.
Sofia came back and reported the situation to little Gilbert: "It's done, little Gilbert, by the way, do you really want two young boys to star in the movie?"
Little Gilbert stretched out his hand, and Charles Rowan took out ten dollars from his wallet and gave it to Little Gilbert.
"You bet behind my back?"
"Yes," little Gilbert said, "Charles said you can't do it, because he can't do it either, but I think you can, which shows my trust in you."
Sofia glared at little Gilbert fiercely and repeated her question.
"Of course, why not?" Little Gilbert explained: "Let them play their true colors, high school students, in the afternoon play."
"Okay," Sophia shrugged: "You are the director, you decide."
When the set was getting ready in the afternoon, little Gilbert met Sullivan and Ball.
The two saw little Gilbert for the first time, and they came up excitedly to ask for autographs, and also asked Charles Rowan to take photos of them and take a group photo together.
Charles Rowan complained: In the eyes of these two boys, am I scarier than little Gilbert?
I can’t figure it out, I really can’t figure it out.
The scene is an explosion scene, in which John Mason's Hummer crashes into a streetcar, causing the streetcar to come off the tracks and cause a series of explosions in the street.
The scene was quite astonishing, and it also tested little Gilbert's scheduling ability.
Sullivan and Ball guest star as two high school students riding a trolley, while the trolley driver is Gilbert Sr., Gilbert Jr.'s father.
There are close-ups of Sullivan and Ball on the tram, but they are not captured in the jumping part, and they are also included in the subsequent scene where the tram explodes.
Filming soon began, with the camera giving a close-up of Sullivan and Ball, then moving to the old Gilbert's face.
"Welcome to my tram, how are you all?"
With just this one scene, Sullivan and Ball had their first Hollywood movie shock.
After the shooting of this scene, Sullivan and Ball were still very excited: "This looks very simple. Being an actor is not difficult either!"
But when they saw the stuntmen on the tram jumping off the tram and rolling on the ground, a stuntman dressed as an old lady still walked forward when the Hummer drove over, and became stupid again.
"Man, it seems that being an actor is not that simple." Ball said this sentence like a dementia.
But the facts told the two young high school students that their thinking was still too simple.
What followed was an explosion that completely shocked Sullivan and Ball.
Under the precise arrangements of the crew, the prop tram that came off the track hit the vehicles on the roadside according to the predetermined route, and also hit a yellow Ferrari-shaped car.
Explosives deployed at the scene were detonated, and flames shot into the sky.
There are two young high school students in this scene. There is no need for any acting component at all. It only needs to record their truest reactions. It is a very good shot.
"Bauer, this is so scary. Are all the explosion scenes in movies shot this way?"
Ball was equally dumbfounded: "It's amazing. It's worthy of being directed by Little Gilbert. I'm starting to look forward to seeing this movie in theaters."
After the filming, Sophia came over and asked the two high school students: "How did it feel like filming?"
After the initial fright, Sullivan and Ball were very excited: "That's so cool, sister Sofia, do you make movies like this every day?"
"Uh," Sofia originally thought the two children were frightened, but unexpectedly they became excited.
After comforting the two excited high school students, Sophia arranged a car to take them home.
After returning home, Sullivan and Ball gushed to their families about their magical experience on the set, and planned to go to school to share it with their classmates.
This magical experience can be talked about for a long time, and it is enough for them to become famous figures in St. Mary's High School.
(End of chapter)