In July, Baja California is stuffy and humid. Mosquitoes are everywhere in the wild. Wearing makeup to film is a torture.
Martin was well prepared and bought multiple three-piece sets before coming.
At the makeup trailer, Bruce slapped his face, and the mosquito was shattered to pieces.
Martin moved closer to him again, and there were almost no mosquitoes flying over to bite him: "Old Bu, look at the stench on your body, mosquitoes are here to bite you."
Bruce countered: "You pervert, your blood and flesh stink, even mosquitoes don't want to bite you."
Martin went back to get his bag, took out a set of wind oil essence, toilet water and cooling oil, and handed it to Lao Bu: "The first one is applied on the eyelids, the second one drinks half the bottle, and the third one is applied on Brother You. Not only will the mosquitoes hide, Holding you, it can also make you fly into the sky."
"Are you sure?" Bruce unscrewed the Fengyoujing and smelled it, feeling something was wrong.
Martin wanted to see the effect: "Also, you can use essential oil and cooling oil instead of Vaseline. Next time you go to see Kardashian, give it a try."
Bruce poured a little out and applied it on the back of his hand. It felt refreshing and refreshing, and said, "Vanessa Xiao is interested in you. Would you like to try it first?"
"I've tried it countless times." Martin went to the gas station in front of him to prepare for shooting.
Bruce muttered a few words, put on the wind oil essence, sprayed the toilet water, and put the cooling oil in his pocket. When he returns to Los Angeles, he will try to find gold.
Martin came to the set to familiarize himself with Vanessa's moves.
The two have rehearsed several times and their cooperation is pretty good.
This is a shabby old gas station, a must-have scene in American road horror movies.
Martin wears simple jeans, sneakers and a T-shirt, coupled with neat short hair, he is very stylish.
It doesn't fit in with the shabby gas station.
Ajia came over and said, "The look is great. You don't belong here, so you are very resistant to this trip, but in order to take care of your wife's face, you have to force yourself to laugh."
Martin nodded: "Most of the time, I tolerate my father-in-law and let him nag, like a good old man."
"Actually, you're not, you're a pervert!" Ajia directed a Hollywood movie for the first time. She did many things herself and shouted loudly: "Every department is getting ready. Shooting will start in two minutes."
As the scene notes were recorded, filming officially began.
Martin followed the steps and went to refuel the RV. His father-in-law, Bob, came over to talk to him. A small verbal conflict broke out between the two of them. Most of all, the stubborn old southern man accused his son-in-law of not cooperating.
At the same time, the children cried, the dogs barked, and the chickens and dogs jumped.
Ajia pursued perfection and took three shots of the first scene before she was approved.
Originally, the next scene was to film Martin visiting the baby, but the baby actor suddenly had diarrhea and cried so much that he had to temporarily change the scene to a dog scene.
Beauty and the Beast have not yet adjusted their condition, and Ajia calls out the jam over and over again. All the actors involved in the scene, including Martin, can only accompany them in the process.
The child and animal actors are more troublesome than the actresses on the set.
Are uncontrollable factors.
After finally calming down the dog, when we started shooting, the beast suddenly rushed out of the RV door and barked at a pile of rocks.
Daniel hurried over to comfort him, but the beast still whined in warning.
Martin followed the crowd and went over to take a look.
Bruce rushed out and blocked Martin: "Be careful, there is a rattlesnake."
Sure enough, in the pile of rocks, there was an earth-yellow rattlesnake more than one meter long, coiled up, spitting out snake messages, and its tail kept tapping the ground.
Facing this highly venomous snake, Daniel slowly pulled the beast back.
Dalot, the security chief hired by Craven, was well prepared. He came over with long iron pliers, clamped the rattlesnake's head and neck, and dragged it away.
Ajia thought about it and asked, "Where is the doctor on the set?"
"Here." Someone raised his hand.
Ajia asked: "Have you prepared the poisonous snake serum?"
The doctor has worked with many film crews and is fully prepared: "For film crews coming to Mexico to film, all kinds of common venomous snake serums are necessary."
Shooting quickly returned to normal.
I don’t know if it was because the rattlesnakes were cleared away, but for the rest of the filming, the baby actors stopped making trouble, Beauty and the Beast gradually entered the state, and the crew began to operate efficiently.
Most shots can be passed in three or four shots.
The gas station scene was filmed for three consecutive days, and the crew moved to nearby scenic spots for filming.
This is a valley with exposed bedrock, retaining relatively primitive wind-eroded landform features. The rugged roads and rugged rocks and sand mounds make it look particularly desolate.
There is also a natural stone pit nearby that can be used as a cemetery for deformed people to abandon their cars and other items.
Local Mexican officials were stationed on the set to supervise the crew not to damage the environment, and all garbage must be collected after filming.
As for the passing gang members randomly setting fire to abandoned cars, he turned a blind eye.
Hollywood crews follow rules, but gang members don't. If an official messes with a trafficker, he will soon be dead on the street.
Every vehicle on the crew has the American flag hanging on it. As long as they hire a local security company and pay the security fee, traffickers rarely harass the Hollywood crew.
During the break, several people chatted, and Craven mentioned one thing: "I heard that a politician in Mexico who is very tough on traffickers is preparing to run for election, and their policies may change."
Martin said: "It's useless, as long as Mexico and the United States are next to each other, the problem will not be solved."
Bruce knew more: "The American market is too big and the profits are too huge. Everyone is jealous. Not only gang forces, but also more forces are involved, such as the American officialdom."
Ajia asked: “Can’t the Mexican authorities deal with the traffickers?”
Craven each threw a can of beer: "Just wait, the one who takes the stage will take a seat and may declare war on the dealers."
Martin had a vague impression that the Mexican authorities had lost the trafficker war.
Bruce answered: "Traffickers alone are not scary. Behind them are the CIA, DEA, or other forces in Washington. The Mexican authorities cannot deal with them."
Martin asked: "I heard that the CIA is the largest trafficker in Latin America?"
Craven laughed: "It's a well-known fact that you are too behind on information. There are definitely a lot of big shots in Washington involved in this."
Bruce said: "I heard from several retired friends that Washington will soon become the largest trafficker in Central Asia."
Ajia suddenly came up with an idea: "Is it okay to make a horror film with the CIA as the background, telling how they tortured and killed opponents?"
Craven said: "As long as you don't hack the IRS, you can do anything else. It doesn't matter. The CIA doesn't care."
The prop master passed by, holding several pink water bottles in his hands.
Ajia was very curious: "I heard that you made this thing. Martin, what did you think at the time?"
Martin pointed to the words on the kettle and said seriously: "I believe that no matter who you are, you can make your own decisions about your life!"
Others nodded in agreement.
Ajia glanced at her watch: "It's almost time, get ready to shoot."
Martin got up and went to find the makeup artist.
When Ajia returned to the set, the three actresses were already sitting at the small table in front of the RV, with a kettle in front of each of them.
When the filming started, they picked up pink water bottles and drank water.
In the next scene, perverted men invaded the RV. Vanessa used a pink water bottle to beat the perverted men, and smashed one perverted man into a pig's head.
Eventually she was shot to death by a perverted man.
Filming soon moves to a car graveyard.
In front of the slide track laid by the camera, Martin wore a sun hat and looked at dozens of rusted and scrapped cars in amazement. He opened the nearest car door and took out a teddy bear full of mud.
On the other side, the actor who plays the perverted murderer prepares to appear, and then there is a fight scene with Martin.
Bruce came to the props team and looked carefully at the props, knives and guns.
The prop master asked: "Are you worried about me?"
Bruce was not Martin, so he didn't care about these words and said: "The crew used all real guns, and I must ensure the safety of my employer."
The prop master knew that Martin was one of the three most powerful people on the crew, so he took the initiative to take the gun and let Bruce check them one by one.
Bruce opened the revolver cylinder, made sure there were no bullets inside, and asked, "Why not use a prop gun?"
The prop master said: "In the United States and Mexico, real guns are easier to make than props and the cost is lower."
Bruce couldn't help but said: "Fake guns are harder to get than real guns. We are living in shit."
The prop master shrugged: "Just get used to it."
The character actor then came over to collect weapons, a revolver and a prop knife.
Bruce watched with his own eyes as the prop master handed the weapons he had inspected to the special actors, and then followed the special actors to the car cemetery.
When the action scene was shot, the shots were broken down one by one, and the shooting was extremely fragmentary.
Often an action is a shot.
In this scene, the male protagonist is attacked by a freak in a car cemetery and is knocked into a pit. After being injured, he kills the freak.
Those scenes where there was danger in falling to the bottom of a pit were naturally filmed with stunt doubles.
There is also a scene where the actor smashes the glass of an abandoned car, all of which use body doubles.
Even in some difficult action scenes, Martin required the use of stunt doubles unless he showed up.
Throw all the weight-bearing parts to others.
However, Martin is a good person. When he returned to the hotel where he was staying at night, he took the initiative to treat several stunt doubles to a drink.
He also asked Bruce to purchase some small gifts that would be given to the stuntmen when they finished their work and left the set.
Those with high pay, like Reeves giving away motorcycles, while Martin's pay is limited.
After more than half a month of outdoor shooting, the crew ended all outdoor scenes and moved back to the studio area near the hotel for filming.
It is also a studio converted from a factory. The set designer built a maze-like cave and a valley town for the final battle between the male protagonist and the deformed man.
The other actors in the crew completed their scenes and returned to the United States, leaving only Martin and a group of stuntmen filming the action scenes.
At the same time, the crew of "Summer of Jeans" next door also came to Cabo San Lucas.
The two crews are in sharp contrast, one is almost exclusively men, the other is full of young and beautiful actresses.
Two updates today, in progress.
(End of chapter)
