Eight hundred and seventeenth chapter to Las Vegas
Chen Kangjie himself does not know whether others want to play open conspiracy or conspiracy. If he does not want his fate to be manipulated by others, he must make some preparations. Everything is ready and cannot be passive at that time. If others play conspiracy, he will play conspiracy. If others play open conspiracy, he will play open conspiracy. Everything is a reciprocity, and soldiers will block the generals, and water will cover the earth. This is in line with Chen Kangjie's character.
After leaving the White House, the first thing Chen Kangjie did was to contact Bob secretly and explain something to him, asking him to help find three of the top detective investigation companies in the United States.
"You don't need to come forward to this matter, just ask for it, I will do the specific matters by myself." Bob is the one who knows the situation in the United States best among trustworthy people, but this matter is extraordinary, so he can only do it himself, which is not convenient to entrust it to others.
"Mr. Jie, are you going to investigate whom?" Bob became curious when he heard about this task.
"You don't have to worry about this. You must find someone with good confidentiality and resources. It's not necessarily good that you have a reputation. I believe you know what to do," Chen Kangjie emphasized again.
In the next few days, Chen Kangjie was busy filming at the White House and the Lincoln Memorial. The White House part was not that difficult because of the cooperation of Stilwell and KLD. Later, it was possible to pass the historical fragments of John Kennedy and some visual technology processing.
The filming at the entrance of the Lincoln Memorial Hall was extremely difficult to organize due to the mobilization of 10,000 extras, especially to keep the order of the shooting site. Dozens of crew members took loudspeakers to explain and work on ideological work to the extras in different areas.
These extras are local residents and some tourists. The ability to mobilize them to come is due to the appeal of Chen Kangjie and Tom Hanks and the organizational ability of Miramax. In order to express their gratitude, each person will receive a reward of one hundred dollars and a movie ticket after the release of the movie.
The National Park Service approved shooting area is from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument, with the middle area including both sides of the reflecting pool.
Before shooting, Chen Kangjie first looked at the white marble sitting statue of Lincoln, 8.5 meters high in the center of the memorial hall. Four lines of large characters were engraved on the wall behind the statue: In this templates in the hearts of the people, who were **ed the Union theme of Abraham Lincoln forever (Lincoln will last forever and remain in the hearts of the people).
After Chen Kangjie presented flowers and bowed, a staff member introduced the situation of the memorial hall to Chen Kangjie, including the history and process of construction. 36 white marble circular gallery columns surrounded the memorial hall, symbolizing the 36 states that Lincoln had when he was president. Each column had the names of these states engraved on the lintel of each column, and the walls were decorated with murals that reflected the liberation of slaves, the civil war between the north and the south, and symbolizing justice and immortality, fraternity and charity.
"The Gettysburg Address is carved on the wall on the right." Chen Kangjie stood in front of a dense English wall and asked the staff.
"Yes, on November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War, Lincoln delivered a speech at the unveiling ceremony of Gettysburg National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, mourning the soldiers who died in the five and a half months of the Battle of Gettysburg. Lincoln's speech was meticulous and meticulous, and later became one of the greatest speeches in American history."
"Fourscore and seven years sago's fathers brought forth forth in this continent, anewn, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all menare created," Chen Kangjie silently recited.
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"Mr. Jie, you seem to be very interested in American things." Xiong Ziqiang whispered beside Chen Kangjie when he walked out of the Lincoln Memorial Hall.
"Brother Qiang, I am not interested in American things, but I am interested in all meaningful and valuable things. This is not because I am fascinated by foreign countries. We can be proud and proud of our culture and traditions, but don't really think that we are extraordinary. If the United States can become the world's largest power, there must be its inner necessity. What are those inner things? Some of them are the thoughts contained in it). Chen Kangjie pointed back with his thumb and continued to walk, "Confucius is a great man, Han Feizi is a great man, and the chairman is also a great man. The gentleman we visited just now is also a great man. There are many things worth learning and learning from them."
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The most important thing about this scene is two places. One is Forrest Gump's speech, and his speech was destroyed by someone in the middle of the speech, and the connecting line of the speaker was pulled out. The other is that he and Jenny opened the crowd and jumped into the reflection pool to meet. For Chen Kangjie, he prefers the latter part. This is a rare and full expression of his love for Forrest Gump. In such a sacred place, in full view of the public, after several years of precipitation, his love for Jenny reached a critical point of bursting, and he could move forward bravely regardless of everything.
In order to shoot this shot well, it took a total of two days and eighteen hours, and seven times back and forth. Three times it was caused by the lack of cooperation between the extras, and three times it was because Chen Kangjie was not satisfied with Tom Hanks and Robin White's movements. The movement range was either too large or too small, or the emotions were wrong, and he didn't pass the test until the last time.
This was filmed by Chen Kangjie. If it were another director, it would be very good to be able to take it down in twenty-eight hours.
At the beginning, Chen Kangjie stood up to guide him, but as long as he stood up, the scene would not work normally. The extras would definitely crowd forward in large numbers, and the people in front would surround him, wanting to have close contact with him, but the scene was completely disrupted. Fortunately, his bodyguards and the security personnel on the scene were quite effective, otherwise he would have been torn apart five pieces, but he escaped after experiencing a very embarrassing experience. This has to be thanked to the extras for the large proportion of middle-aged people. If teenagers account for a large proportion, then those people are not so rational. They will do anything regardless of whether they work on the spot or not.
When he arrived at the back, Chen Kangjie didn't dare to come out and sat in the command car behind to watch and coordinate the command. If there was anything that needed to be adjusted and paid attention, he would tell Jedica and then Jedica would convey and explain it after he told Jedica.
The reason why Chen Kangjie's filming was so fast was not only because he knew every detail of the plot, but also because he had a strong logistics support team. With the strong support from Miramax Company from top to bottom, Chen Kangjie's crew had at least twice as many logistics personnel than other similar crews. These people were always able to prepare what he needed before Chen Kangjie was about to shoot. The small team led by Chief Settings Cindy had 23 people, and the funds were relatively sufficient. Chen Kangjie, who served as the producer, had always adopted a full trust attitude in spending small money. Even if he had to check the accounts, Li Li helped him complete it.
After completing the work in Washington, the crew moved to Southern Ganesha, Arizona and Utah for filming, mainly the places where Forrest Gump traveled all over the United States. Of course, in this process, Forrest Gump stepped on shit and accidentally created the popular slogan "ITHAPPENS" (this happens often), which was later used as the slogan "shithappens" (dog shit is nothing), and he also invented the smiling face pattern on the T-shirt.
Chen Kangjie checked the information and found that the person who really invented the pattern was Harvey Ball, a freelance designer in Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1963, he designed the pattern at the request of State Mutual Assurance Company. It was mainly used to boost the morale of the company's employees. After completing the design, Harvey Ball was rewarded $45.
What’s interesting is that for this pattern, neither the insurance company nor the designer Harvey Ball did not apply for a trademark registration, and there was no scene in the original novel where Forrest Gump traveled all over the United States, so Chen Kangjie himself planned to apply for the registration of this trademark with a smiley face pattern with eyes. The specific matter will be sent by Feiyang Entertainment Company after the movie is finished.
Chen Kangjie did not take pictures of the scene before Forrest Gump's run, but left it to Jeddica and Roforman to complete it. Chen Kangjie only personally took pictures of Forrest Gump's journey to the United States in Monument Valley.
While the crew was busy working, Chen Kangjie was in Las Vegas, southern Nevada, and moved into the intersection of the Las Vegas Strip and Tropical Road, among the top villas of the MGM Grand Hotel, which opened in 1993.
Chapter completed!