"What's so happy?"

Taking Natalie into her makeup trailer, Ryan pushed the chair over and pressed her on it, "Let me see, even my eyes are smiling."

"Is it so obvious?" Natalie turned her head and looked into the mirror.

"The face is normal, and others and you can't tell it."

Pulling over another chair, Ryan sat opposite Natalie, lowered her head and touched her forehead, "Don't forget, Nat, I know you the most."

"Okay, I admit it." While Ryan's head had not been retracted, Natalie pushed him hard. After a slight sound, the two guys couldn't help but cover their foreheads at the same time. Natalie laughed, "I'm really happy, very, very happy."

"Let me guess." Ryan snapped his fingers, "127 Hours are selling well? Isn't that right?"

He scratched his head intentionally, "The movie has been offline for a long time, and North America only has a box office of more than 30 million US dollars, ah..."

"I thought of it." Ryan patted his forehead and leaned into Natalie's ear, "Nat, you're not pregnant and want to be a mother?"

"Ryan!" Natalie glared at her eyes, her two rows of snow-white teeth kept grinding, and she was stunning to bite him hard, "Don't tell me you can't guess."

"Okay, okay."

Raising his hands, Ryan quickly stayed away from Natalie. He didn't want to be bitten fiercely. "The 78th Oscar nominee luncheon should have ended yesterday. Nat, how many nominations have we received?"

"Not many, only five."

Despite that, Natalie smiled extremely brightly, "Best Picture, Best Editing, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Original Song."

"Oh, congratulations, my dear." Ryan understood how to act now, reached out and hugged Natalie, and kissed her hard on the forehead, "My best director lady."

"Just a nomination."

Hearing Natalie's whisper, Ryan pinched her tall nose, "Now I'm accumulating my qualifications, I always have a chance to get it."

It is much harder for female directors to get the same treatment as male directors in Hollywood than for male actors. Directors are definitely a male-dominated industry. Even though new feminism is rising now, the price they pay for is probably far from being able to win the Oscar for Best Director Xiao Jinren when they are nominated for the first time.

Next to the opportunity, Ryan's script for "Black Swan" is almost completed. After Natalie finished filming "The Hunger Games 2", she can hand it over to her hands. This kind of cool theme is more popular with the Oscars than "127 Hours".

"Let's go, Nat."

It's less than ten o'clock in the morning, Ryan pulled Natalie out of the makeup trailer, "I'll take you to visit the Hoover Dam and take a look at the shooting."

"Is there an explosion scene here?" Natalie walked towards the dam where the crew was located, "I really want to see Michael blow up the Hoover Dam."

"The federal government is going crazy."

Walking to the dam guardrail not far from the crew, Ryan looked down and quickly retracted his gaze, "The script contains some plots of Red Spider attacking the dam power plant, but it can only be generated with the help of computer cgi."

"Is that a Bumblebee model?" Natalie asked, pointing to the front.

"That's right."

There was filming the scene where Bumblebee was caught in the dam, Ryan stood beside Natalie, "That was a model of the same proportion, and there was a Bumblebee Camaro sports car built by Chevrolet for the crew. Including these two, there were only six of the same configurations in the world. Dear, if you are interested, I can leave one for you."

"You're going to collect the other one?" Natalie asked.

"Alison has already booked it." Ryan gave her a look of your understanding. "You know, she has loved collecting these unique movie props since she was a child."

"I've seen her collection." Natalie was obviously not interested in the car. "Alison's collection of movie souvenirs will definitely surprise everyone."

There is no moisture in this statement. Taylor's collection is not only the movie's limited edition dolls and souvenirs, but also many of them are original props of the film, such as Hermione's wand in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", and the Nasir Sword, which Ryan killed all the things in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.

Ryan's scene ended yesterday, and the two of them had no intention of passing. They just watched the crew filming from afar, especially Natalie, who spent a lot of time focusing on Michael Bey and watching him direct the dispatch.

"There are always a group of directors in Hollywood." She said, looking at Michael Bay from a distance, "never liked by Oscars."

"This is normal. No one can make his video like everyone." Ryan simply gave a few examples, "Stephen Somos, Roland Emmerich, they have never been favored by Oscars."

"But he is the darling of Hollywood production companies." Natalie added.

“Business is the foundation of Hollywood.”

The two turned to the guardrail and looked at the scenery in the distance. Ryan continued, "Hollywood prefers directors like them than Sam Mendes, the Coen brothers, Roman Polansky."

"Nate..." Ryan suddenly said, "If I use Transformers to help Michael win an Oscar nomination for Best Director, what do you think?"

"Do you think this is a possibility?" Natalie knew that Ryan was joking and shrugged playfully. "He is one of the directors Oscars disliked."

"How can I know if I don't try it?" Ryan's tone seemed to be still joking.

Although the Oscars are also full of a strong business atmosphere and will be affected by a series of factors such as public relations, the type of the film is still very important in key awards such as the four major awards.

In other words, Oscars will always release a "noble" and "cold and gorgeous" attitude to show their authority and uniqueness.

Even now, the Oscar jury still chooses some "special" films as candidates for awards such as Best Picture and Best Director. Many of these films will leave the mainstream commercial market and are often yelled by ordinary audiences that are strange and unpopular.

Ryan still remembers that before a certain Oscar in his previous life, the films that may have been nominated were extremely remote. Many media have issued ridicule and suggested that Paramount apply for the best film for "Transformers 3: The Moon Black Time", Michael Bay, and Ellen Kruger apply for the best screenwriter, because compared with those films that may have been nominated, "Transformers 3" is not only more famous, but even the content is not inferior.

This move has attracted a lot of hot discussions from ordinary movie fans, and Michael Bay, who joked that "I just like explosions", is indeed more qualified to win awards than those rare movies.

Of course, Michael Bay is loved by ordinary audiences, so he naturally does not attract the cold and noble eyes.

Even with Ryan's current status, after the film was released, the film was really declared for Best Picture and Best Director for Transformers, and this movie is still infinitely far away from the Oscars.

Fortunately, there are some directors who don’t need to admit that Michael Bay’s status in Hollywood may not be as good as James Cameron or Stephen Spielberg, but like George Lucas, he can basically crush 99% of the directors of art films.

After all, this is Hollywood, which focuses on business first.

"Nat." Ryan turned to look at Natalie, "Are you interested in directing a commercial film in the future?"

"Commercial film?" Natalie frowned and thought, "Can you know the subject matter and type?"

"For example, a magical production."

Hearing Ryan's words, Natalie said directly, "With my current ability, it may be difficult to control such a movie."

"Future!" Ryan specifically emphasized the word.

"Then wait until you take out the script," Natalie didn't fall for him, and then said deliberately, "I will make your magic script into a romance film!"

The two looked at each other and laughed at the same time.

Time is getting closer to the end of February. After the crew finished the scenes of the Hoover Dam, they once again switched to Los Angeles and continued to shoot the final battle. Smoke, explosions and crashes once again became the subject of shooting. Ryan ran around with a source of fire and sometimes even ran around in a burst of explosive cables.

On this street full of garbage and props, Ryan successfully ended his role.

Although he is the male lead, strictly speaking, he does not have many roles. Compared with the supporting actor Josh Duhamel, it is not much more important. It can be said that everyone is also giving a group of Transformers a soy sauce.

Similarly, Ryan was also very satisfied with Michael Bay's shooting. Although he used an imax3d camera during the period, his shooting budget showed no signs of overspending, especially the crew's shooting time was strictly controlled within the plan, leaving enough time for post-production.

Although Industrial Light and Magic had already started the CGI production of Transformers and replaced them into the shots, it also took a lot of time and effort.

In short, without overspending, Michael Bay is about to successfully complete the filming of the film. The explosion Bay is flawed and has his own strengths. The things he is good at are extremely popular in the market. Otherwise, he would not be so valued by major Hollywood production companies in the past or present.

For Ryan, the work of "Transformers" has come to an end for the time being. He has turned more energy to the upcoming 78th Academy Awards. In various companies under Walt Disney, few films were shortlisted for several key awards. Since the Oscar nomination list was announced, Disney has basically given up public relations for most awards.
Chapter completed!