"You like to eat food here, understand the culture here, and speak the language here." Naomi Watts leaned into his arms, stretched out his white fingers, gently stroked the stubble on his chin, and asked curiously:

"But why don't you contact the people in the circle here?"

This is indeed quite strange. She and Nina are very puzzled by this question. Since they came here, many people in the circle have invited him, but he has not contacted anyone, and they have let Tim Burton communicate with them all.

Moreover, because Wayne likes the culture here, he has never gone out to visit once after coming. Those oriental actors wanted to get close to him were all stopped by Zach Schneider.

"No." Wayne's eyes were confused, and he shook his head and said, "I like everything here, but it doesn't mean that he wants to contact the people in the circle here. It's not very meaningful. We don't have many shots to shoot, and we'll leave here soon."

In fact, during the first day of filming, he recognized several people, and among the people watching, there were also a few familiar faces. Not only the crew members were curious about this place, but the local actors were also curious about Hollywood.

Moreover, he was not completely unable to understand Cantonese, and even heard those actors call him "Ghost Man" more than once. In fact, only the director, the entire crew, had never had contact with those people, and the shooting requirements were conveyed through Zach Schneider.

Wayne understood in his heart that he was not the same as before. Everything here had no meaning to him, and it was enough to feel that everything was real.

"Go to sleep, Nami, I'll get up early to work tomorrow." As he said that, he turned off the bedside lamp and hugged Naomi Watts and closed his eyes together.

Due to the average shooting speed of action scenes, Wayne sat behind the director's monitor and spent most of his time watching silently with a cigarette in his mouth. The action director directed Christian Bale and others.

After a simple prison scene, the crew began to shoot master-apprentice training scenes. This is where Bruce Wayne's skills come from. Anyone who wants to have a body that is stronger than ordinary people must undergo training far more than superman.

The fighting skills Christian Bale possesses are certainly no exception. The shots of Liam Neeson teaching him must be clearly displayed, which is an important element in explaining the origin of Batman.

The action scenes are shot intermittently, and these shots cannot progress quickly under the command of action directing. Most of the shots are short, from a few seconds to ten seconds. This is also considered to be Wayne specifically requested. When editing short shots in the post-production, it is conducive to creating a sharp feeling of action scenes.

Everyone knows this when handing over professional matters to professionals, so when directing the action, even if he is the director, he will watch silently without saying a word.

For most of the day, the crew slowly finished the short action scenes, and the literary scene between the master and the apprentice will be filmed. Some dialogues about the concept between Christian Bale and Liam Neeson.

Before the filming, Wayne specially called the master and apprentice who were sweating all over the body.

"The scene that starts here is also the beginning of your conflict of ideas."

Seeing both of them listening carefully, Wayne said to Liam Neeson: "You are Bruce Wayne's soul tutor. You teach him to control his fear, but your fundamental purpose is not to pull him back to the right path, but to attract him to his own path."

Liam Neeson nodded and said, "I have practiced and pondered carefully. My character helps Batman drive away fear, points him the way, and hopes that he will stay by my side and “save” the world with a common idea.

Henry Duca’s evil is not emitted from the bottom of his heart, but comes from the idea that already exists in his mind.”

Liam Neeson pointed to his head and said his understanding of the characters.

"No problem, that's it."

Wayne smiled and snapped his fingers. The soul master and apprentice finally became opponents. Everything was caused by different ideas. Then he turned his head to the protagonist and said:

"You have a complicated relationship with Henry Duca and agree with some of his views, but you cannot agree with the idea of ​​destruction in his philosophy, nor can you agree with the way of acting in the Shadow Warriors Alliance."

"I understand." Christian Bale nodded. Even though the film had not started, his face remained in a state of deep grudges and revenge.

The shooting was ready soon. After recording the crisp sound of the board, Liam Neeson, who was standing in the shadow, said:

"The greatest fear in your heart comes from darkness."

Facing Christian Bale with a nervous expression, Liam Neeson continued: "But darkness has never been our enemy. Darkness is our best friend. It can provide us with the best cover!"

Wayne stared at the changes in expressions of the two people on the monitor. Now it seems that the young Christian Bale is performing better and has entered the state of the leading actor.

"You have to overcome fear!" Liam Neeson said: "The best way is to be a part of fear."

"cut!" Wayne stopped shooting. "Everyone rested for five minutes, reset, and continued shooting after five minutes!"

After saying that, he walked to Liam Neeson and reminded: "There is no problem with the emotions in the lines. Expressions, pay attention to your expressions. Liam. You have been suppressed by Christian in this scene, especially the use of eyes."

"Okay, I'll adjust it." Liam Neeson nodded and sat down alone in the corner. The makeup artist also took advantage of the rest and started to make up for him.

This situation is normal, and the director doesn't need to talk about the drama for him. Both protagonists are clear about the director's requirements. Wayne can only tell Liam Neeson the effect he needs, and then he needs to use the skills of professional actors to slowly adjust it himself.

Compared to the action scenes, the literary scenes performed quite smoothly. After two shots, this long shot easily got the shot Wayne wanted.

After another day, Wayne returned to the hotel and took a shower. After changing his clothes, he just walked into the living room. Naomi Watts came up and hugged his arm, raised his head and said with a smile: "How about we go out for a drink?"

"Bar?" Wayne asked.

"Yes." The Australian girl nodded and pointed at the people in the house. "Everyone goes together. Since you got here, you have been hiding in the house every day, and we go out for a drink together."

"Ok, I have no objection."

The shooting was going smoothly. If you continue at this pace, you may not be able to stay here for long, so it would be nice to go to the bar here.

After changing clothes, several ladies left the hotel under the leadership of Sandy Yang and came to a bar not far away. The area near the hotel is good and the bar looks relatively high-end.

Unlike Wayne imagined, the bar here does not have harsh music or crazy dancing crowds. There is only one band singing on the stage, and the environment is quite quiet.

"Hi Wayne, Hi Nami."

The beer was just brought up, and Liam Neeson walked over and raised the bottle at everyone with a smile. "I didn't expect you to find this here too."

"Do whatever you want, Liam."

Wayne pointed to the spot beside him, raised the bottle and touched him, and took a big sip of the cool and refreshing beer. "Come here by yourself?"

"That's right." Liam Neeson nodded, looking at the ease after work, raised his beer and took a sip. "After the shooting every day, I would come and have a drink by myself. The bartender here is good in English, and I like the environment too.

By the way, today I was on the phone with the agent and heard that the box office of "The Joker Returns" in North America has approached $300 million, and the global box office has exceeded $600 million. Congratulations!"

Wayne was not surprised to hear the news. Jimmy had already told him, but he knew that the end of "The Joker's Return" was coming, and now there are only a few hundred films left, and there is basically no hope of exceeding $300 million.

Putting down the bottle of wine in his hand, he waved to Naomi Watts. The Australian girl rolled her eyes, took out a cigarette from her handbag and handed it to him.

"You're so kind, Liam."

"No, Wayne." Liam Neeson smiled and shook his head with a smile. "You have created a box office miracle in this field of horror films!"

He is sincere in these feelings. "The Joker Returns" has a box office of US$290 million in North America and a global box office of approximately US$610 million. These two terrifying box office figures have made people see another possibility of horror movies.

Everyone knows that horror movies are good at making big fame with small things, but before Wayne Greenberg's "The Joker's Return", no one dared to imagine that pure horror movies can be sold like this.

This has also caused many small-cost horror film projects in small Hollywood companies this year to try their best to imitate this movie.

"How old are you this year? You're only 25 years old even after the end of the year, Wayne." Liam Neeson observed the young and overly young director and sighed: "But you have created terrifying box office achievements."

The 1991 debut film "Happy Death Day" had a global box office of 120 million US dollars, and the 1992 "Escape from the Deadly Town" had a global box office of 250 million. After the tempering of these two movies, the world-sweeping "The Joker" appeared.

The emergence of this comic-adapted film is destined to be recorded in film history. Not to mention the huge social response caused by the film, the box office alone is a miracle, the world's first masterpiece with a net worth of over one billion US dollars.

In addition, "The Joker's Return", which has not yet been released this year, has achieved a box office of more than 600 million yuan worldwide, allowing Liam Neeson to look at the young face beside him in a daze through the bar lights.

He has never left the top ten of the annual box office list in North America since the director's movie, which is simply terrifying.

The only director in Hollywood who can do this is Wayne Greenberg now.

Liam Neeson was very sober. When he saw him entering the bar, his purpose was to show goodwill to him.
Chapter completed!