Vol 2 Chapter 764: Pregnancy tactics

Looking at her frowning daughter, Shelly sat on a wicker chair next to her and asked suspiciously, "My dear, what are you worried about?"
Natalie Portman shook her head slightly, "It's nothing, Mom."
Shelly asked tentatively, "Is it next year's Oscar?"
After hesitating, Natalie nodded slowly. Seeing this situation, Shelly couldn't help but patted her hand comfortingly, "Frank Pearson, Cheryl Boone Isaacs and Harvey Wayne. Stan is full of praise for your performance, and they have said implicitly that they will support you."
She laughed, "My dear, don't forget who you are and what you have done before. With proper PR, your hope is the best."
If it were half a month ago, Natalie Portman would think these words make sense, but at the moment she shook her head, "Mom, they will support me, because I am a Jewish, or the most Jewish Representative and self-approved actress, if there is also a Jewish actress who performs as much as my performance in "Black Swan", and there is a stronger force behind it, you think I will definitely win ?"
"But, my dear, is there such an actress in Hollywood?" Xie Li couldn't think of anyone born in the same age who could compare with her daughter. In addition, "You are recognized as the best acting in the new generation. , The image is also the best. If the college wants to launch a representative of a new generation of actresses, no one is more suitable than you."
"With a good image and excellent acting skills, can I get an Oscar?" Natalie couldn't help asking, "Mom, do you really think so?"
Shelly suddenly felt dumb, just as she thought Natalie should have a high probability of getting the best actress next year, the role and acting skills are not the decisive factor at all.
However, she still didn't worry too much. "The Jewish forces in Hollywood will support you."
"No!" Natalie Portman said very positively, "Some people will definitely support others."
She looked at her mother and said very seriously,
Scarlett Johansson’s new film is being shot, and it is aimed at Oscar! Don’t forget, she is also Jewish. And the driving force behind her is Duke Rosenber. Grid and the entire Warner Group!"
"This..." Shelly heard this news for the first time, opening her mouth not knowing what to say.
If there is only one Scarlett Johansson, she wouldn't care at all, but the person behind her can't be ignored by anyone, even if the other party's style has never been very popular in the college.
And she will not ignore that Duke Rosenberg himself is an extremely important member of the Hollywood Jewish Club, as well as Scarlett Johansson’s godmother, and many powerful Hollywood players such as Spielberg. Among Jewish descent. There are also inextricably linked.
She looked at her daughter, her steadfast gaze turned into worry.
"I want to increase my chances of winning," Natalie Portman clenched her fist and said forcefully, "We need to do more!"
Need to do more? what should I do? Shelly was unexpected.
"Mom, I want a child." Natalie suddenly said something irrelevant. "I want a child with Benjamin."
"What?" Shelly was very surprised. "Nate, what are you thinking? To have children at this time. You are ruining your career!"
"No, I must!" Natalie seems to have made up her mind, "This is promoting my career!"
Shelly didn't understand what Natalie meant, but looked at Natalie in surprise. She knew that her daughter was dating the French dancer.
After all, the opposite is her own mother, and Natalie Portman doesn't need to cover up too much. She continued, "Mom, as far as I know, Benjamin is still dating her ex-girlfriend..."
Speaking of it, she grabbed this love. Natalie will not admit that she belongs to a third party.
"According to my observation, Benjamin likes children very much..." She said seriously, "If there is a child, there will be no problems between us."
"But your career..."
Shelly was interrupted by Natalie Portman's wave before she finished speaking, and she said, "This is also good for my career."
Looking down at the glass of juice on the table, as if seeing her own future, Natalie Portman’s gaze became more and more determined,
As long as I can get pregnant as soon as possible, during the awards season, the pictures of my pregnancy will be Being able to appear in the major media, most people in this society are sympathetic and inclined to pregnant women. This will definitely affect the voting choices for a series of awards!"
Xie Li was speechless, but she had to admit that what her daughter said was very reasonable. If an ordinary woman had a dispute with a pregnant woman, almost 90% of them would stand on the side of the pregnant woman.
This is the reality of society, and my daughter will undoubtedly take advantage of this reality.
Natalie Portman is also convinced that if she can move around with her pregnant belly during the awards season, she will definitely be the most powerful contender for the best actress in various awards!
After careful consideration, Shelly still said, "Better say hello to Martin."
"I will." Natalie nodded, "We also need him and William Morris to cooperate with PR."
The next day, William Morris' Martin Miller got relevant news. He had to admire that Natalie Portman's mind was definitely the top few female stars in the circle.
As time entered mid-August, after intense preparations, "Gravity" entered the filming stage. Duke kicked off the filming at the Warner Studios in Burbank.
At the beginning of the filming, Duke used a specially made device-a light box.
"Scara..." Standing in front of the light box, Duke asked loudly, "How do you feel?"
Because of the test shooting before, Scarlett did not rush to feel too uncomfortable, and made an "ok" gesture to Duke.
"Watch the picture on the led screen!"
I also reminded that when Duke returned to his director’s seat, the starting shots were not too difficult. It was just a close-up of Scarlett’s eyes. In the close-up shots, both her eyes and the reflection on the helmet must be done. Careful scrutiny to avoid piercing.
"Gravity" has a lot of close-up shots. If you don't do a good job in the reflection of the eyes, many shots will be worn out. The crew is not the first team to consider this.
In 2004, the special effects team of Industrial Light and Magic where Tim Weber worked had this idea when making commercials-designing a room with LED screens on the front, back, left and right, and playing the corresponding In this way, you can directly obtain the reflective image in your eyes.
This idea was extended and eventually became the two major pieces of hardware for the visual effects of "Gravity"-one is a full-LED screen camera "light box", and the other is a large LED screen to solve the problem of light reflection.
Duke’s shooting here is that Scarlett looks at the light and shadow of the simulated universe in the LED screen, and the camera captures the image reflected in the human eye.
In order to take this close-up shot, Scarlett Johansson had to stand in front of a huge led screen, watching the light and shadow that simulate the universe in the picture, and relying on the camera in front of the led screen to capture the light and shadow reflected in her eyes.
The eye area is small, and the accuracy of the picture is not high, so the low-pixel LED screen can still guarantee the picture quality, and this kind of picture and light effect collection is not only used in the reflection of the eyeball, but also in other specular reflections. Places, such as the aerospace helmets worn by Scarlett and George Clooney.
In the earliest filming, the difficulty was not the performance of the actors, but the lighting. Because of the lighting problems, this shot took nearly one morning and found the best plan only before lunch.
"Even if I close my eyes, there are still light bulbs inside."
At lunch, Scarlett also complained to Duke in a timely manner. Duke only patted her hand comfortingly. The film has just started shooting and all aspects need adjustment.
Lighting is only representative of a series of issues.
The lighting design of the space environment includes three main light sources, the distant hard sunlight, the soft light reflected by the earth, and the occasional reflected light from the moon.
This setting does not look like the real outer space, nor does it look like the inside of a space station. In space, people face pitch black, and they can only see part of the sun, part of the earth, and occasionally the moon.
But if it were to be shot and produced in this way, there would not be much room for the audience to watch the film close to a hundred minutes in the setting, so Duke decided to constantly change the lighting.
Therefore, the lighting engineer of the crew needs to continuously process the attributes of the light according to Duke's requirements. Is the light hard or soft, and what is the reflectivity? What is the color?
These seemingly small details can create many different environments.
However, they are also lucky, because the spacecraft are moving very fast, and they will experience several days and nights within 24 hours.
In fact, the lighting effects in the shooting follow the movement of the camera and the character to have a very rich and dramatic change, and a sunset appears every 90 minutes above the equator.
In the afternoon shooting, there was another shot showing the heroine played by Scarlett finally turning into the dark starry sky. There was almost no light, only the faint light from the inside of the helmet.
Duke also designed an accurate global trajectory for the character throughout the development of the plot. For example, in the first scene shot the next day, Scarlett’s heroine is over the African desert, and the sun enters the field of view, so the color of the earth It will be warm, and the reflected light on her face will be warm.
After a few simple scenes were filmed, the crew gradually found a sense, and Duke also began to put the choreographed weightless scenes on the agenda.
The weightless scenes finalized specific combinations, and these combinations are necessary because the actors in the light box are constantly spinning during the filming.
For example, Duke starts with George Clooney’s face, and then has to move the camera to Scarlett. She rotates at different speeds, the camera revolves around her to shoot, and then pulls back to George Clooney, because if Go straight back to George Clooney, his feet will be photographed next. (To be continued.)
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