Legendary Hollywood Producer - Chapter 154

The next day, the crew started up.

As an excellent producer, Roman knows how to maintain the authority of a director. He actively reduces his sense of presence on the set. Unless there is a major problem in the shooting, he will easily not express his opinions.

When it comes to filming, director Christopher McCauley is the most professional of all.

His task is to ensure the basic operation of the crew and not to cause trouble for the main creative team who is shooting the scene.

Check the daily financial expenditures and supervise the collaboration of various departments. Of course, he will also review the footage taken by Christopher McCauley.

Although the producer is not a director, he still has to have a general idea of ​​the scenes shot every day.

However, after the shooting started, the process was not smooth.

From scene control to camera position, a bunch of problems appeared…

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Christopher McCauley felt terrible. He felt that his authority in the crew was almost zero. Had Roman, as a producer, stood by him and helped him maintain his prestige when shooting on set, He felt that this movie was actually directed and acted by Tom Cruise.

No matter what happens in the filming, the Paramount assistant director next to him always asks Tom Cruise’s opinion the first time. Is there still me as a director in his eyes? Christopher McCauley’s good mood after taking the shoot has all disappeared in the past few days, but instead turned into anger.

He thinks he is an outsider at all, and the entire crew is an acquaintance formed by Paramount Pictures, he is the only one who is not.

From camera crew to set crew, from makeup to art, everyone is deliberately ignoring his existence.

“Cut!” This scene had just been tested for more than ten seconds, and director Christopher McCauley called to stop again.

He stood up from behind the director’s camera, walked back and forth several times between the props and sets arranged as the house of the agent “Ethan Hunt”, and finally stood in the middle of the shooting location.

Tom Cruise and the actors who were playing the show stopped their performances and stepped aside.

“What happened?” the deputy director asked again. This kind of scene has appeared many times, and he always speaks and asks before the director has explained the problem.

Tom Cruise on the side was also a little puzzled, and walked to the assistant director to ask.

“What’s the matter, Corris?”

“I don’t know what he is thinking, I saw the footage just now, there is nothing wrong with it, it is very suitable.” Deputy director Koris questioned. He has a good relationship with Tom Cruise, and both of the films in the “Mission Impossible” series are also his assistant directors.

Tom Cruise obviously believed in Corris’s judgment. He walked to the side of director Christopher McCauley and said, “Mr. Christopher, we haven’t taken a shot this morning. It’s been repeated several times, and the setting has been adjusted back and forth, everyone is very tired.”

“The lens is not suitable.” He bluntly explained the reason for the suspension of filming. Christopher McCauley found the lighting engineer in charge of the filming and told him: “The lights are getting darker, I need a kind of wind and rain. A sense of urgency.”

After thinking about the scenes just taken, he said to the camera crew: “Camera No. 2 moves 15 degrees to the right and is responsible for capturing the door of the house.”

The adjustment was quickly completed. At the director’s sign, the deputy director Kris yelled “start”!

“Arrogant, paranoid, bad-tempered…” Seeing director Christopher McCauley back behind the director’s camera, associate director Kris couldn’t help cursing softly at his back.

Then, he ran to the camera crew and complained to the acquaintances of the crew: “That guy is messing up like this, this movie must be destroyed in his hands.”

“Isn’t it? A problem with the camera position, I adjusted it back and forth 4 times, as well as the scenery and lighting. The whole morning passed like this.”

“…”

The crew is composed of one individual, and everyone’s thoughts and interests will collide, leading to disputes. Most of the crew are old friends who have worked for many years, and they are very familiar with each other. How can director Christopher McCauley maintain its authority alone? Don’t expect someone in this Vanity Fair to obey your strength absolutely. That is the most naive and stupid idea.

If it were not for the legal constraints brought about by that contract, the position of director Christopher McCauley in the crew would only be less valued.

This is a circle full of snobs and lies. Who is the core of the movie “Mission Impossible”? As a member of the crew, would they be unclear? What they did was just chasing Tom Cruise. In their view, the new director was just a filming machine like Wu Yusen. Is it necessary to please him? If you have that time, it is better to promote the relationship with the lead actor, and maybe you will get a rise in the status of the crew.

“What happened just now?” Roman, who was dealing with financial issues, asked Lamy. He also found out that the crew had suspended filming.

Lamy also serves as a production manager in this crew, which is a legitimate right promotion for Roman. He also needs familiar hands to help him deal with some problems.

“The director is not satisfied with the shot, adjusted and retaken.” Lamy is completely repeating what happened just now. “The actors and the staff in the department seem to be a bit dissatisfied with this. If it weren’t for the existence of professionalism, maybe Contradictions are about to break out. Christopher McCauley, the director, is not in a good mood. I think he seems to be holding back his anger and working.”

In Hollywood, no one and everything will be smooth, especially in the crew. Where there are people, there are disputes.

Under the cover of all kinds of inner abacus, it is difficult to have the possibility of harmony, unless the person in charge of the set can suppress everyone in the crew.

Just like the great director James Cameron who has been awarded the title of “Set Tyrant”, he rules the crew with an absolute high-handed policy and a hot temper. He scolds if he doesn’t agree, and fires if he makes a big mistake. Maybe this will be awe-inspired and maintained. The authority of being a director.

But it’s impossible to think about it. The crew of “Mission: Impossible” is not the same as there. Director Christopher McCauley does not have the film scores that James Cameron can get, let alone very good. The straight waist rod applied high pressure.

What’s more, the core character of the film series is the starring Tom Cruise, whose authority is the greatest on the set.

As the director, Christopher McCauley can only endure all this in silence.