Eric parked the car and walked to the set of "Shock Point" which had a cordon.n∈

This is a community called Fox Mountain located southwest of Culver City. Of course, this Fox has nothing to do with Fox Films. If you have to worry about it, you can only blame the weak naming talent of Westerners.

The staff on the set recognized Eric at a glance, greeted him enthusiastically, opened the cordon and let Eric walk in.

In front of it is a temporarily blocked street intersection. Before approaching the shooting site, Eric could smell the pungent smoky smell of gasoline burning. Bypassing a trailer for the drama assembled props, Eric saw that outside a gas station on the street, several cars were still smoking, and several staff members were busy holding fire extinguishers.

After glanced around the scene, Eric quickly found Catherine Bigelow's figure, the woman's typical outfit was so easy to recognize.

A white baseball cap, a close-fitting white long-sleeved T-shirt with a black short-sleeved T-shirt on the outside, a simple washing jeans on the lower body, and a shoulder bag tied around the waist, looking extremely capable.

At this time, Catherine Bigelow was holding a script in his hand and talking to the two male protagonists Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swiz, and waved his hands and gestured a few times from time to time.

According to the script, this scene should be when Utah discovered the identity of a bank robber of Bowty and others, and squatted outside a bank where Bowty stepped on, and finally evolved into a chase scene.

A deputy director of the crew saw Eric appear and ran over and asked, "Mr. Williams, do you need me to call Ms. Bigelow?"

Eric shook his head: "No, how is the shooting progress?"

"It's not bad. I've completed seven shots today. Next is the scene where Utah chases Bautty." The assistant director explained.

Eric said with satisfaction: "Let me find a place to rest, and I'll come and take a look and won't bother her to work."

"No problem, please come here," the deputy director led Eric to a specially opened rest area. It seemed that this place should be prepared for the actors.

A middle-aged man with silver hair was sitting on a chair drinking water. When he saw Eric appear, he stood up and said, "Hello Mr. Williams."

"Gary, just call me Eric. The scene just now should be very tiring, right?" Eric smiled and shook hands with the other party.

The middle-aged man with silver hair is named Gary Busse. In this movie, he played the role of Utah's boss Angelo Papas Eric, who has watched many movies in which Gary Busse participated in in his previous life. Speaking of which, Gary Busse is like Virginia's brother Michael Madson. In the parallel world, both of them are actors who have participated in dozens of Hollywood films but have always had an extremely weak presence.

"It's okay, my morning scene has been completed. Keanu and Pat will be very tired next time. They have a long chase scene to shoot. Maybe they may not be finished all day today," Gary Busse said with a smile, taking out a bottle of water from the box next to him and handing it to Eric.

Eric took it, pulled a folding chair and sat next to Gary Busse, and started chatting with the other party casually.

As Catherine Bigelow's shouts rang out in the shooting scene, another shot began.

Eric then realized that the two big men were sitting in front of the director's monitor more than ten meters away. Catherine Bigelow still didn't notice Eric at this time. He returned to the back of the monitor and ordered the filming to start. After the woman held her shoulders and stood behind the monitor, staring at the scene where Keanu played Utah and the masked Patrick Swiz fought.

Eric and Gary Busse stopped chatting at the same time, staring at the back of a woman more than ten meters away with great pleasure. Some people often say that one can cover up a hundred ugly things with white, but in fact, one can cover a hundred ugly things with a height. Of course, Catherine Bigelow is not only not ugly, but also very beautiful, not to mention that he is 1.82 meters tall.

After a while, Gary Busse turned his head and noticed that Eric's eyes were like himself, focusing on Catherine Bigrow not far away. The middle-aged man grinned and showed his big teeth, and smiled, "It's very hot, isn't it?"

Eric and Gary Busse looked at each other, and the two big men showed a little slutty smile at the same time.

"Yes, it's very hot."

Gary Busse seemed to have found a soulmate and said bluntly: "It's really cheap that bastard Cameron."

"Ha, this..."

Gary Busse turned to Catherine Bigelow not far away, and the scene of Utah fighting with Bautty failed. The woman walked over and discussed with the two male protagonists: "Eric, in fact, I have known Kate for more than ten years."

"Wow, I really don't know this," Eric looked at Gary Busse in surprise.

Gary Busse said with a little memory: "That should be 1977. I can't remember the specific time. I was still performing dramas on Broadway at that time, and I occasionally took on a few movies. I remember one day, a friend of mine introduced me to Kate and said she wanted to shoot a short film and was looking for the male lead. I still remember the first time I saw Kate in a cafe in Soho, Manhattan. At that time, she was wearing a black turtleneck sweater, black jeans, and her brown hair was shy. She had the intellectual atmosphere of a young artist in Soho. She was not good at socializing and still blushed when she saw strangers. At the first time when I saw her, I fell in love with her like many men around her."

"What happened later?" Eric asked with interest.

"Later, I participated in her short film, which seemed to be called "The Fate Fighter", which tells the story of two men's duels, and she and I became good friends. Over the years, our friends have all entered middle age, but her appearance and figure have almost no changes, which has made many of her female friends crazy jealously."

Eric asked ambiguously: "Are you just a good friend?"

Gary Busse shrugged: "I got married very early, otherwise I would have pursued her, but it would have been very difficult. She is a very independent woman. She is very talented and has a strong ability to control herself. She is a feminist inside. In the following years, she has been single. We friends all thought she would be single all the time. Unexpectedly, three years ago, she suddenly married Cameron."

"What a heartbreaking result," Eric teased.

Gary Busse laughed a few times, nodded honestly and said, "Of course, watching the goddess in her heart marry another man. How could she not be heartbroken?"

The two laughed a few times and looked at Catherine Bigelow again at the shooting scene. The woman was negotiating with the crew's lighting engineer again and making gestures from time to time. The lighting engineer seemed to have different opinions and argued with the woman with dancing hands and feet.

Seeing this scene, Gary Busse sighed: "In Hollywood, it is really difficult for a woman to be a director. If I had stopped doing it for a long time, it was difficult for her to persist for so long and never give up."

Eric didn't mean to come forward to help. He believed that with Catherine Bigelow's strong personality, he would not want to intervene. Looking at the woman's argument with the lighting maker, Eric nodded and said, "It's true. As a director, in addition to his personal professionalism, he not only requires strong control, but also requires high physical strength. High-intensity work is difficult for most women, so female directors will not be too productive in Hollywood or other film circles."

The two chatted casually, and more than an hour passed. As noon approached, the crew temporarily suspended work and started to rest and have lunch.

Catherine Bigelow finally got the notice and knew that Eric was coming to the crew.

"Hi, Eric, why are you here?" Catherine Bigelow walked over enthusiastically, hugged Eric and asked.

Eric greeted the two male protagonists who were following Catherine Bigelow one by one before answering: "I passed by and just came over to take a look."

Catherine stretched out her finger and drew a big circle in the air: "You mean, you went from Malibu to Burbank, 'passed' here?"

Eric rolled his eyes, pointed to the west and said, "Who told you that I was going to Burbank? Firefly's team is conducting a field trip to the Preya Vista area about three kilometers west. Firefly plans to build a studio base there, and I'm out of the group."

Catherine Bigelow nodded and looked west and asked, "Don't you be there?"

"Of course, professional matters are left to professionals. I can't help much, even if I'm here, I just need to look at the results they gave in the end."

Gary Busse interrupted at this time: "Eric, Catherine, lunch is ready, let's have a meal and chat."

The crew's dining place is not far away in a large restaurant. This shows the difference between it and the crew on the other side of the ocean. When Eric participated in some movies in his previous life, he spent most of his lunch in the logistics department and found a place to make do.

Such a dining method means that the crew's expenses will increase, but these small details are written into the contract under the supervision of various Hollywood unions. As long as you want to make a good movie in Hollywood, you have to compromise with the union.

Of course, there are also people who can sign affiliate contracts specifically to change these rules.

However, this requires sufficient strength and confidence. There are very few people in Hollywood who can do this. As far as Eric knows, even if Spielberg is one, he can even ask the actors to sign a contract to give up the union salary standard and give the actors an extremely low pay. However, in order to be able to work with Spielberg, most actors often choose to compromise.

With Eric's current strength in Hollywood, he also has the confidence to break the rules, but he has not yet encountered a time when he needs to do so.

After picking up some lunch, Eric and Catherine Bigelow chose a table to sit down. They might think that the director and the producer had something to discuss, but the several leading actors present did not come and were very lively. Although Gary Busse wanted to come over, he was pulled to their table by Patrick Swiz.

"Little guy, I thought you wouldn't come to the set again," No one was nearby, and Catherine Bigelow immediately changed the name that made Eric extremely depressed.

“As a producer, isn’t it a very reasonable thing for me to be here?”

"Of course, but when it's time for you, you ran to New York for more than a month, and when you came back, the movie was on." Catherine said with complaints.

"That's because I have something important to do, don't worry, I will come to the crew often for the next period of time."

Catherine Bigelow obviously had a certain circle, so he didn't ask Eric how much money he made like others, and the woman didn't even ask what he went to New York to do, just saying, "Don't you need to prepare your own movie?"

Eric swallowed the food in his mouth, wiped his mouth and said, "I decided to go slowly. I have to give other film companies a way out."

"It's really... shameless," Catherine Bigelow laughed, but thinking of Eric's previous films, the woman suddenly realized that Eric's exaggerated words seemed to make sense. According to data released by box office forecasting agencies, the summer "The Love of Man and Ghost" is the only movie that may exceed $200 million this year so far.

"By the way, are you not going to guide "Home Imposses" again this year?"

Eric shook his head and said, "I have completely handed over this project to others. I will never interfere in the future. At most, I will only have the title of producer."

"I've seen the second one, it's quite interesting."

"Thank you for your approval," Eric said.

"But I found that the movies you had before were too lacking in meaning. I think that when making movies, you should convey something to the audience, which is also the purpose of my choice to be a director. I originally learned to draw, but later someone told me that movies can convey their ideas to others more easily, unlike paintings, which require a certain amount of accumulation to understand the meaning."

Eric shook his head: "Catherine, I don't agree with you. My movies have been conveying all kinds of messages to the audience, but these things are more subtle, and I think this is the right way to convey them.
Chapter completed!