Chapter 16

Henry ended the filming of the B-movie and calmly switched to the production team of Under Siege.

Speaking of which, on the first day he arrived at the gathering place, he saw military personnel issuing confidentiality agreements to all team members, including in front of and behind the scenes, and asking for signatures.

Of course, the main personnel of the production team such as protagonists, supporting actors, directors, producers, etc., were not present. With higher status, they naturally had another treatment.

For some crews with a strong sense of confidentiality, especially big productions, it is a common behavior to let actors and behind-the-scenes personnel sign such an agreement.

But today's copy... is too thick.

You know that the average education level of Hollywood actors is low, and there are many people with reading disabilities. Asking them to understand the content of such a thick confidentiality agreement without a lawyer's accompaniment is really too difficult for them.

Some newcomers who were obviously just entering the industry, including Henry, helplessly and seriously flipped through it.

However, those old birds who had been in the industry for a long time just flipped through it casually, then flipped to the last page and signed their big names.

A newcomer who was obviously familiar with those old birds asked in surprise: "Brother, you don't finish reading the content, aren't you afraid of problems later?"

The old bird, holding a cigarette, said in a daze: "Where do you need to be so troublesome. The confidentiality content of the movie is just that. We won't get the script, so the clauses about not leaking the plot to the outside world have nothing to do with us.

"That is, don't take photos of the studio, and don't leak to reporters casually. Mainly because our filming content looks related to the Navy, so there is an extra military confidentiality agreement.

"But it doesn't escape not carrying unauthorized photography equipment, and when in military areas, you can only act within the control range. And that is to listen to the military's orders, don't run around and look around.

"These things will be announced by someone before entering the military area. At that time, listen to what people say, and we will do what we do, where do we need to look at this pile of things now."

The old bird impatiently shook the signed confidentiality agreement in his hand, took the initiative to step forward, and handed it to the military personnel. He added: "Brother, I just want to ask one sentence, is there a place to smoke after going?"

That naval personnel was also not too serious, he said casually: "At that time, the controller on the ship will tell you where the smoking area is. Don't throw cigarette butts around, causing trouble for the brothers to clean up."

"That's good, brother, I have no problem."

With the old bird taking the lead, others naturally followed the crowd, and didn't look at the content of the confidentiality agreement in detail, directly flipping to the signature place and signing their big names.

Henry couldn't help but not follow the crowd, but he used his super ability to finish reading the content of the agreement at a glance. The time spent was not much more than others.

Based on the US legal knowledge he learned from the library, the content of this confidentiality agreement was quite satisfactory, and there was no part that dug a hole to harm people. So he also signed the name "Henry Brown".

By the way, because it was close to the tax filing deadline of April 15, Henry went to read the relevant tax laws himself and filled out the tax return himself.

This is not a difficult thing for his super brain. Now the difference between Henry and lawyers and accountants is just that there is no relevant academic degree and license.

This is the US regulation, you can't take the exam without relevant academic degree. At least you have to go to correspondence university to obtain equivalent academic degree. Otherwise, Henry would also mix some kind of master's license for himself.

After handling the confidentiality agreement part, the assistant director came to take over. He issued the materials and said: "The filming plan is roughly written in the materials in your hands.

"More importantly, we will have a period of filming at the San Diego Naval Base. At that time, everyone will stay in a hotel in San Diego, which is responsible by the production team.

"Those who have part-time jobs or odd jobs elsewhere at night, remember to tell your boss that you have to ask for leave during this period and cannot arrange work.

"I don't care if you run back and forth between Los Angeles and San Diego. But if you delay the filming progress, you have to be prepared to breach the contract and pay for it.

"The filming work in the naval base is not something we can extend if we want to. If something goes wrong and the movie is messed up, you won't be able to pay for it in a lifetime. Understand this here?"

"Yes, sir." A few obedient newcomers answered in twos and threes.

On the first day of work, of course, it wouldn't be directly pulled to the San Diego Naval Base for filming. Everyone stayed at the Warner Bros. studio to change clothes and set makeup.

The most troublesome, of course, is the protagonist group. They won't have only one set of costumes in the movie, and even the same costume will have several sets prepared. The tone of the whole movie develops under the director's control from this time.

In contrast, the costumes of the extra actors are simpler.

Don't look at everyone as a background role, although there is no story line for each in the script, and even a character biography of a sentence may not be written.

But how many people are used in what scene, and what kind of background these people are, are clearly written in the script in Hollywood.

Based on the simplest positive and negative confrontation elements of this action film, it is inevitable that some people play the positive characters waiting for the protagonist to save, and some play the villains confronting the protagonist.

Most production teams will use extra actors separately, and will not let a specific person wear positive costumes in one scene, following the protagonist like a little follower; and then change into villain costumes in the next scene, fighting with the protagonist.

Because some extremely bored black fans will really play the movie frame by frame, thereby finding the Easter eggs buried by the director's ingenuity, or the flaws accidentally left behind.

And the latter is usually more topical than the former, and the person who is picked out for problems will naturally be stared at on the pillar of shame. It becomes a joke for a long time, and it is even difficult to get rid of it for a lifetime.

Will there be a production team rich enough to change a batch of people in one scene? Can't say no.

But using makeup, changing hairstyles, and wearing different costumes is actually not very distinguishable in a non-focused state.

As long as it is not the kind of obvious contradictory problem, using a batch of extra actors fixedly is actually more beneficial to the production team under the constraints of the contract.

After all, they are actors who have auditioned, if they change a batch after filming one scene, how big will the workload increase.

Henry was unexpectedly assigned a submarine soldier's costume. This belongs to the villain camp in the movie, and there is an opportunity to have a fight scene with the protagonist, so most of them are handled by people from several action teams, and there are not many retail investors like Henry.

However, when receiving the clothes from the prop master, Henry was thunderstruck by a sympathetic look from the other party. As if someone would open a door in the next second and ask if his ass was washed clean.

Fortunately, that kind of thing didn't happen. The Kryptonian hidden in Hollywood smoothly became a member of the Under Siege production team.