Hollywood Starts with Animation

"Attention all units!"

"One mirror, one shot!"

"start!"

With Zu Ke's order, the employees of the entire "Boom Drummer" crew immediately started.

Lighting, photography, etc., were aimed at the actors on the field immediately.

At night, in a dimly lit music practice room, future Academy Award winner Damien Chazelle plays Andrew Neiman, the 19-year-old first-year college hero.

At the moment, Andrew is practicing jazz drums alone.

Born into a single-parent family, he aimed at legendary musician Charlie Parker and wanted to be a top jazz drummer.

bang bang bang~

The sound of drums being struck is endless.

At this time, Fletcher, known as the "Devil Mentor" in the school's regular orchestra, suddenly came in.

Seeing this, Andrew couldn't help but stop.

"What's your name?" The bald Fletcher asked in a flat tone.

"Andrew, Andrew Neiman!"

The bald Fletcher continued to ask, "What grade?"

"Freshman."

Bald Fletcher: "Do you know who I am?"

"Yes, sir!"

Bald Fletcher asked, "So, you know I'm looking for musicians?"

"Yes, sir."

For the bald Fletcher, known as the devil's mentor, and Andrew, who is obsessed with pursuing his music dream, how can he not know?

Undoubtedly, Andrew very much wanted to join Fletcher's orchestra.

"So, how do you stop?" Fletcher said lightly.

Andrew understands,

Immediately pick up the drumsticks and play the drum kit that I am best at - "Whipsh" again.

In fact, the name of the movie "Boom Drummer" is actually the biggest easter egg in the whole movie.

The English name of "Boom Drummer" is "Whipsh", and Whipsh means "whip rope; the tip of the whip; whipping", and in the film, the song that the protagonist Andrew keeps practicing is also "Whipsh".

"Fortunately, I have seen this movie more than once in my life, and even now, I still remember a lot of drum beats clearly, and with the help of the legendary Bob Dylan, I finally restored Whipsh, no, even It's even better." Zucker thought to himself as he watched the performance on the field.

In the original time and space, the drum music "Whipsh" was created by the director... well, Damien Chazelle, who is now playing the male lead.

Damien Chazelle, the future scholar who graduated from Harvard University, is not a vain name.

Bang~bang~bang!

The music of the drum set resounded constantly in the ears.

Zucker watched their performance attentively.

"Did I tell you to play (drums) again?" Fletcher said.

"Sorry, I thought you meant why I didn't fight?" Andrew was a little nervous.

"You're sitting there like a doll monkey, what do you mean? Show me your basic skills." Fletcher's poisonous tongue attribute was triggered, and he took off his jacket by the way.

Hearing this, Andrew couldn't sit still, and was a little excited at the moment.

"Double Rock."

"Double, I want double, double up!"

"Hurry up! Hurry up~ hurry up..."

Andrew was like a puppet, completely obeying the instructions of Fletcher, the devil's mentor, and beating the drum with high fighting spirit.

But!

After a drum set, Andrew looked up.... Fletcher is no longer in the music practice room!

he left!

Suddenly, Andrew was very discouraged.

He was very, eager, eager to join the Fletcher Orchestra!

boom~~~

At this moment, the door of the music practice room was pushed open again, and Fletcher came in again. At this moment, Andrew's heart rekindled hope.

"Oops, I forgot to take my coat."

Fletcher came and disappeared suddenly, leaving the hero Andrew here to feel sorry for himself.

"Crack...!"

Zucker called to stop.

"Simmons, you really deserve to be an old actor. You don't have to talk about it in seconds, and you have a good grasp of the rhythm and facial expressions." Zucker praised.

Hearing this, Simmons said with a smile: "Thank you Mr. Wald for your compliment, although I have not played any significant role in my acting career, I have participated in the shooting of more than 50 movies, okay? , I admit, almost all supporting roles with limited lines."

Simmons cherished the opportunity to perform.

In the movie "Spider-Man", Simmons played the boss of the newspaper where Spider-Man Peter Parker works. Although there are still not many scenes, he made this role one of the highlights.

No, in the future "Spider-Man" series, he has won the role of newspaper boss.

"Damien, your performance is completely useless. The male protagonist Andrew will show nervousness when facing the devil's mentor Fletcher, but what about you? You are really nervous! And it's outside the role. Really nervous." Zucker criticized.

"Sorry, Mr. Wald, I'll be fine!" Damien promised loudly.

He didn't make excuses because it was his first time in a movie, but accepted it very comfortably.

Zucker nodded secretly: "It's not unreasonable for him to be the winner of the Oscar for Best Director in the future."

First try, failed!

It's nothing, how many shots can there be? Most of the good Hollywood movies are hard-earned with failed auditions again and again.

Of course, even if the performance was a success, Zucker would shoot a few more.

Don't you see the great director James Cameron, in order to keep improving, as long as it is a scene, no matter the result is good or bad, at least 5 scenes are shot.

In his words: "If you don't force them, they won't know the energy contained in them!"

Zucker agreed.

......

Shooting continues.

Andrew got his wish, and he finally joined Fletcher's band.

But on the first day, Andrew deeply felt the strictness of the devil mentor, no, it should be strict!

All rhythms and intonation must be exactly the same. No matter how fast the rhythm was, Fletcher could hear the slightest difference. Anything wrong and you'll be kicked straight out of the band.

Even though Fletcher was demanding, Andrew practiced desperately to get his mentor's approval.

Fletcher said: "Charlie Parker at the time was forced out by his teacher who took a cymbal and smashed him on the head."

Soon, Andrew felt the "love" from his mentor, Fletcher.

"Shit!"

"I told you about Charlie Parker, how he became legendary musician Charlie Parker? Joe Jones smashed a cymbal on his head!"

"like this!!!"

Boom~~~~

Because of a bad beat, Fletcher threw the chair directly at Andrew and beat the beat with his face.

The expression is extremely fierce!

The male protagonist Andrew was directly frightened!

Unwilling, Andrew went home and practiced until he bleeded and couldn't pick up the drumsticks.

"Extreme and paranoid are the common features of many artists."

Andrew's extremeness and paranoia also brought him opportunities. During the assessment performance, he was ordered to replace the core drummer who had to read the score to play.

Also because of this opportunity, Andrew passed the assessment and took over the position of the core drummer.

......

One night, Andrew ran into Fletcher in a bar.

Fletcher uttered a sentence that awakened Andrew: "There are no two words in English that are more harmful than the word "good"."

Only extremes and paranoia can reach the highest peak!

......

15 days passed in a blink of an eye.

The film "Boom Drummer" has completed all filming stages.

Compared with the original time and space, director Damien Chazelle personally shot the 19-day shooting cycle, which is a few days shorter. It's not that Zucker is better than him, but because the configuration of Zucker's crew is much stronger than Damien's grass team.

After all, Zucker is the boss of Wald Pictures, the whole crew is up and down, who doesn't revolve around Zucker?

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