Legendary Hollywood Producer - Chapter 179

“What’s wrong with the crew?” Roman asked. After a few small chats, I finally got the topic.

Last time I filmed with Paramount Pictures, there was nothing wrong with it. I didn’t expect that it would happen if I cooperated with Warner.

“The shooting team…”

After Rami’s words, Roman gradually understood the problem.

There are more than one hundred people in the entire “Batman: The Mystery of Shadows” crew.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.

The crew’s daily eating and drinking is a big trouble, not to mention the complicated filming work.

Although Christopher Nolan also gathered a group of filming backbones, it was nothing to put it in the huge behind-the-scenes production team.

Even if Lamy and others deal with various chores for them, they will not settle the crew so well.

This does not give rise to a lot of contradictions.

When the first scene was filmed on the first day, it was clearly agreed to start work at two o’clock in the afternoon.

But it was after 3 pm that the filming started reluctantly, because the behind-the-scenes team of Warner worked hard.

What power cord is not long enough, the light is unstable, the camera lens is not enough…

As a production assistant, Lamy heard the topic that obviously delayed the shooting schedule.

Moreover, after Nolan intervened, the external troubles were not resolved immediately, instead everyone shied away from each other’s responsibility for the delay.

You blame the lighting team, and I blame the set team. In short, the poor shooting is the fault of others.

Later, the accident was ruled out under Director Nolan’s own eyes.

In fact, generally speaking, the work pressure of the crew is high. After a long period of contact between various staff members, it is easy to cause conflicts, but that is also a situation that only occurs after long-term high pressure.

Just like this, there are a lot of things that don’t go smoothly, which is really rare.

Roman also understands that the key to the fact that these **** can happen is that the filming team behind the scenes feels that Director Nolan is not strong enough, so it’s nothing more than him.

He is a good shooter, but he is a little confused about this kind of intrigue.

“It’s enough to expel those stingers, don’t you deal with it like this?” Roman asked with some confusion after hearing it.

He gave Lamy such a right and appointed him as the production manager. Do I need to call him to tell him about this and let him come to deal with it? He couldn’t figure it out a bit.

Rami smiled bitterly: “I think too, but I don’t agree with it over there.”

He verbally pointed at another man with real power-Warner’s supervising army and the financial director of the crew, Byrne.

Although Warner has delegated the power of shooting and daily management to Roman, the most critical aspect of financial review is still in charge of their people.

In other words, the crew can mobilize funds, but Warner must know the strict flow of this money. It is also to prevent the crew from messing around and embezzling funds from happening. In the final analysis, Warner is an insurance for this filming.

“Also, they are all here as a team, so how can you get rid of the boss?” Rami said again.

It turned out that when setting up the crew, Warner only managed the main persons in charge of each department, and the rest of the staff was provided by themselves.

This model is very common in Hollywood, and the teams behind the shooting are composed of small groups, which eventually become a large crew.

In the simplest terms, Roman promised to give director Nolan a few shooting positions to his acquaintances as the best example.

Everyone has been in this industry for so long, and human relations always have to be taken care of. As long as the major premise is not violated, the crew is also called for filming in this way.

But the worst is here. Most of those people are Warner’s direct team, knowing each other, and they really don’t need to look at Director Nolan’s face to act, so they often show him off.

After all, for them, making movies is to make money. As long as they can complete the task within the specified time and make their lives more comfortable, why not do it.

“Then suppress it.” Roman said in a deep voice.

Since you can’t open the house and rebuild it, then support the people around Director Nolan in the upper ranks.

That’s what he thinks.

Sure enough, Lamy also understood what Roman meant. He nodded and said, “This is a good idea, do you want to tell Warner?”

“Why do you say that I am the chief producer, and we are responsible for the shooting and production work, so let’s just do it like this.”

When Roman finished speaking, he ran to find the financial review of the crew. Since it has to be changed, the salary must also change accordingly.

……

On the second day, “Batman: The Mystery of the Shadow” continued filming.

The scene was quiet, which was scared.

Overnight, the heads of all departments were changed. It was not Nolan who knew him well, or someone he had approved since the filming took the position.

And there was Roman standing behind Nolan staring at the scene, no one dared to make trouble.

They are all human beings, knowing who can provoke and who can’t.

“The lights are OK!”

“The recording is fine.”

“The camera is in place.”

“3, 2, 1, action!”

The team had a good attitude and acted quickly. After shooting a scene, they cleaned up, re-set, and installed the lights in one go.

Looks weaker than before, not much better.

In addition to filming, Roman also greeted the finances.

In the past, they always criticized director Nolan’s insistence on real shooting.

After all, in some scenes, the use of increasingly mature cg technology can also achieve the agreed shooting effect, or even better.

But without exception, the proposal will always be rejected.

Now I have greeted them and let them let Nolan try his favorite shooting style, as long as he doesn’t overspend too much, just shoot like that. After all, the movie’s budget is quite sufficient. The funds provided by Warner and Manhai Entertainment are definitely not small.

Besides, I don’t like real shooting. Is that still the so-called “real shooting crazy” Christopher Nolan? It’s hard to imagine.

After all the minor contradictions were suppressed, the operation of the crew was more able to proceed according to the director’s wishes.

On the whole, Christopher Nolan is quite comfortable to be able to shoot according to his ideas, except for not relying solely on his own strength to subdue the crew.

He has suffered a lot more difficulties, as long as he can continue to shoot, he generally wouldn’t say anything.

In terms of personality, he is not destined to be a tyrant on set. He prefers detailed explanations and thorough explanations so that the entire crew can achieve a harmonious filming.

At night, the crew finally ended the day of filming. Roman invited him to have a drink with the starring actor Christian Bell, and Nolan agreed…