~： Five hundred and eighty-seven - The survival of the crew's little characters.

The preparatory work for "The Flash" in the studio of Warner Bros. is proceeding step by step, whether it is the special effects production of Industrial Light and Magic, the training of the protagonist James Franco, or the prop production of the prop team. all went fairly smoothly.

Despite these jobs, Wayne has to watch it carefully for many times every day, but he hasn't picked out any major problems. After several years of training, some people left and some people came, but the core behind-the-scenes team leaders around him still maintained a rare stability in the circle, which also made this group of people unknowingly grow into Hollywood Top team.

There are some people in the behind-the-scenes team, such as Steve Wilson, the lighting supervisor in important positions, and Mia Craig, who has been leading the set crew in obscurity.

Or the director of camera Robert, the head of the props team, Weeks Hart, the assistant casting director Schwartz-Bob, the black senior sister Julia who is in charge of editing, and even the assistant director Gilmour. After the preparation of a new project, the contract signed with Warner Bros. has received the highest salary in the circle.

Not only the top behind-the-scenes salaries in the circle, but some of them, along with Wayne, won enviable honors and recognition at the Oscars. Top salary and honor. All means good career development, which is also the main reason why Wayne's core team behind the scenes are all good players, but no one leaves.

Even from the second film "Escape from the Dead", there are still some handymen at the bottom of the crew who have followed until now. These low-level helpers are inconspicuous, but they can do it to a certain extent. The above shows that the core team behind the scenes is stable and brings a lot of work convenience to the director.

"What happened?"

After carefully inspecting the preparatory work, Wayne returned to his office, just sat down, opened the work notebook and continued to draw the "Flash" storytelling draft, and found a rare thing. The assistant lady, who has always been stern and stern, now has a trace of anger on her not pretty face.

You know, as his personal life assistant, financial controller, and work housekeeper, Nina has a very special status, whether in the crew or at home.

There is no need to deliberately inquire about it. Some information has been reported by gossip tabloids countless times. As Wayne's closest life and work partner, her salary has also been hyped by the entertainment media. Talking about it with Pat Kingsley speaks volumes about her importance.

All kinds of information show that this woman has a very special status. From top to bottom, almost everyone in the crew maintains considerable respect for her, because everyone knows that this woman can fully represent Wei in most places except work. kindness.

Coupled with the fact that this woman is easily overlooked because of her appearance, she has a taciturn and unremarkable personality, and almost no one can anger her. This is what makes Wayne feel strange. Even a fool should know, don't go there Chase this woman who only flips through fashion magazines in the corner.

"It's Lillian."

Seeing the man stop her work, the assistant pouted, obviously with a hint of emotion on her face.

"Which Lillian?" Wayne asked casually after hearing the name from the assistant, but this time he slapped himself on the forehead without waiting for the other party's explanation, put away the work notebook, his face The expressions on it are no longer random. "The Lillian who brought everyone coffee?"

"yep." Nina nodded.

Strictly speaking, this black woman in her forties called Lillian actually belongs to his behind-the-scenes team, but her job is rather special. Every time the crew starts a new project, she will always appear at the bottom of the cast and team members. Assistant, like her humble job, has never caught the attention of their bigwigs over the years.

It's not because of Lillian's skin color that Wayne remembers it, but because of her work ethic. As a black woman from a ghetto, she is barely literate, and her appearance does not conform to mainstream aesthetics. She is completely a black aunt, and she is only responsible for simple tasks such as coffee delivery.

When this woman was still on the same crew as his small workshop, Luke Simmons, the coordinator of the crew, was hired to save money, but he has been following it until now. Everyone has already adapted to it. Whenever there is a new project , the low-level employee will appear by his side, serving tea, pouring water and doing chores.

The reason why Wayne appreciates her work attitude is because on the first day she joined the group, Luke Simmons told her that it would be good to only be in charge of the director and actors, but this woman was going through a movie. After the filming work, I found that the hardest in the crew were not the bright and bright actors and the most powerful directors and producers, because they all had their own exclusive life assistants, and the hardest ones were often those who worked hard in obscurity. Workers behind the scenes.

Therefore, this woman prepares more coffee, towels and other things every day, not only to deliver these inconspicuous but indispensable life care to the actors and directors at the right time, but also when those behind-the-scenes staff are working hard , also sent these, and have persisted for so many years.

This is also the reason why this woman will be recruited by the crew at the same time as soon as the project enters the preparatory stage. She is illiterate and can't learn much, but everyone appreciates this low-level assistant and is willing to take care of this little guy who is struggling in the circle.

"Patrick Dempsey who plays the owner of the S.T.A.R lab."

Wayne listened to the little emotional complaint from the assistant. The actor Patrick Dempsey was determined by him after his own audition, and he has also joined the group to participate in the preparations. Basically, as soon as Nina opened his mouth, he knew what was going on. The status and class in the Hollywood crew were very clear. It was nothing more than that some bad things happened and the assistant lady saw it.

"He actually asked Lillian to buy it six or seven times because the crew's coffee was unpalatable! F**k, he even swears at her in the end, accusing her of dereliction of duty. If it wasn't for Gilmore who stopped me, I would Gotta throw coffee on his disgusting handsome face! Shit."

Similar scenes are very common in Hollywood crews. As we all know, these actors are all sensitive personalities. In order to reflect their status in the crew and other reasons, it is not uncommon to toss an assistant, because chairs, water glasses, etc. Even the makeup position and other issues are big names, and it is more common to get angry.

"You inform Gilmour now."

"Katha", Wayne lit a cigarette, waved to the angry assistant lady, and pointed to the phone on the table. "Just say what I said, let Patrick Dempsey and Lillian officially apologize, ok?"

Without any hesitation, Nina picked up the desk phone and dialed the assistant director Gilmour's mobile phone.

Looking at the assistant who relayed his words, Wayne shook his head with a smile, opened the work notebook again, picked up the pencil, and continued with his own script.

This matter is actually very simple. If the assistant miss said it personally, even if he saw the whole thing happen with his own eyes, there is a high probability that he would not intervene. The Hollywood crew is like this, everything is aligned with interests, and Patrick Dempsey, one of the main characters, obviously can bring more value than a low-level life assistant on the crew.

Besides, as long as he thinks about it, there are countless jobs waiting for him to be busy, and it is impossible to care about these crap, so he does not pay attention to the follow-up of this matter.

"Boss, coffee."

Half a day passed in a flash. When Wayne raised his head again and put down the pencil in his hand, the sun outside the window was far away from the center of the sky. He took a sip of the coffee that the assistant had put down. He raised his wrist and glanced at the time, and found the distance. It's been a while since get off work.

"From Lillian, she asked me to thank you for her."

Seeing that her boss had drunk coffee, Nina shrugged and raised her eyebrows playfully, looking at him.

Waving his hand, Wayne reluctantly twitched the corner of his mouth twice and smiled, knowing that the future star gentleman seemed to be directly bowing his head. "Anything else? Pack up and go home from get off work."

"Hmm, yes."

There was a smile on the face of the assistant lady. Obviously, the work to be reported next is a good thing In the afternoon, uh, when you were concentrating on the drafts, Colin Howard called. The call, says Warner Bros., has put the follow-up revenue from The Departed and The Matrix, as well as a portion of The Dark Knight's box office cut and the final portion of the base pay, into Greenberg. Grid Studio's account. "

Making money is naturally the happiest thing. Not only did the assistant have a smile on her face, but also on Wayne's face when he heard the news.

"The follow-up revenue of the film "The Departed" is very good because of the Oscar effect. The rental and sales of videotapes for the first film of "The Matrix" and the sales of peripheral items have always been very good, especially the videotape industry. The second film of "The Matrix" The hit movie also drives the revenue in this area..."

Nina is aware of her boss's work style, and instead of reciting those annoying financial statements, she directly mentions the income figures of the two films.

The reason why Miss Assistant talked about these two films separately is that they are fundamentally different from the DC series directed by Wayne, which involves the later share of the full copyright, including the income from the rental and sale of large video tapes, and the TV broadcast. Revenue from rights trading, revenue from the sale of peripheral items, global product licensing revenue for films, and more.