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In the next few days, Lance and the others split into two groups. Lance and Donald began to contact the terrorist forces in the City of God, while Percy, Albert and Hayden stayed in the hotel to recruit actors.

Unexpectedly, Lance's negotiations went very smoothly, but the recruitment of actors encountered obstacles.

Thanks to Donald's good bedding, the big bosses welcomed Lance's arrival. Since these big bosses are generally not well educated, their impression of Hollywood has always remained at the stage of the big screen movie, so The negotiation progressed smoothly. In less than three days, Lance met with the four parties, paid homage to the top of the mountain, obtained permission to shoot, and obtained their verbal commitment to **** them.

But on the other hand, the recruitment of actors was far from meeting expectations. They had already distributed small advertisements in the slums, saying that there was a short-term job opportunity here, but after three days, only less than a hundred people came to sign up. , which was unexpected.

Therefore, Lance and others had to go to the streets near the slums to find suitable non-professional actors in person, and then directly persuade them to join this short-term project.

In order to prevent these non-professional actors from being affected by the "film shooting" so as to affect the authenticity of the film shooting, Lance and others did not inform them that this was for a film casting, but only said that it was a short-term job Chance. Even so, the casting process went much smoother after taking to the streets.

For the children in the slums, as long as they can make money, they are willing to do any job. Many children don’t even have the heart to ask about the content and nature of the job. He just nodded in agreement. Only a very small number of children nodded in agreement after confirming that it was not drug trafficking, smuggling, or abduction.

Almost no rejections.

Only then did they realize that the reason why the previous small ads were not effective was that most people were illiterate.

In less than three days, they found a total of more than 400 children, between the ages of twelve and nineteen, and then began to let them accept auditions and some simple physical training, all of which were videotaped and record. Afterwards, 200 suitable candidates were selected from among them, and divided into eight groups according to differences in age and personality, and received a two-week professional actor training course.

In a blink of an eye, they had already stayed in Rio de Janeiro for more than three weeks, and the remaining five members of the crew also came to meet one after another, and began to prepare intensively for the upcoming filming. Today is the time to formally select the actors in the play. They need to select the 110 most outstanding candidates from the 200 candidates.

Although Lance hopes to maintain the "non-professional" nature of these non-professional actors, improvisation on the spot will add a lot of color to the reality of the movie. However, for film shooting, there are still basic requirements.

As an actor, you not only need to understand the basic shooting rules of movies, such as how to not be awkward or jerky in the camera lens, such as how to learn to move naturally during the shooting track; at the same time, you need to be able to To meet the needs of the director, show a certain performance ability.

Therefore, they had to further screen this group of children.

At this time, all the children also knew that they had the opportunity to become actors and earn more money, which made everyone excited, and all of them were eager to prove their abilities immediately.

Lance finished his work and came back from the outside. The selection of actors for the few adult roles in the movie has also been successfully completed. Unlike child actors, Lance is more inclined to have certain acting experience but unknown actors, but due to The Brazilian Screen Actors Union couldn't help at all, so it took a little longer than expected, and finally, with Donald's help, the casting was done.

When we got back to the hotel, the audition was only a third of the way through. In the courtyard of the hotel, the children were bustling together, chatting nervously, with impetuous smiles, impetuous voices, and impetuous movements colliding in the air , showing their true inner emotions.

Lance finds such a scene very interesting, because this small space is full of uncertainties. He doesn't know how participating in "City of God" will affect the future of these children, and it may not bring any. Change, after filming, they still continue their life in the slums; maybe someone will become a film actor or even an international superstar because of this - this is a typical Hollywood script line.

But what Lance is more curious about is whether someone will come into contact with a brand new world because of this movie, have their own independent thoughts, and open up a life of their own? Maybe it's not becoming an actor, just chasing your own dreams, leaving the city of God, becoming one of the thousands of ordinary residents in Rio de Janeiro, doing an ordinary job, nothing special, just leaving that city City of God.

Among the crowd, Lance saw a thin boy, leaning on the pillars of the courtyard, quietly hiding behind, quietly and indifferently watching all the living beings in the courtyard. Some people have big dreams of getting rich, some people think that they should buy a pair of sneakers after they get paid, and some people want to show off this rare job to their friends... But that boy didn't join , did not move, just stood there quietly, a little timid, a little curious, a little longing, and a little alienated.

It was the boy who was in the refuge house that day in the City of God.

Lance quietly walked behind the boy and sat down on the stone railing beside him, "So, you're here?"

The boy turned his head abruptly, as if frightened. After seeing that it was Lance, he didn't relax completely. He just leaned his back against the colonnade and looked at Lance warily.

Lance didn't mind the boy's reaction, but turned his head to look at the courtyard, "Why don't you join them? You are all about the same age and live in the same environment... Isn't the topic they are discussing now not your passion? "The boy didn't answer, but just shook his head, "Or is it that your personality is not used to talking with others?" The boy shook his head again, which made Lance laugh.

"Aren't you excited? Maybe you can become an actor. At least, shooting this movie can make you a lot of money." Lance didn't mind, and continued to speak, the content of the words was asking the other party, but More is talking to himself. The boy shook his head again, but Lance didn't know what he was denying, "It seems that you are really not interested."

Lance's smile narrowed, and then he didn't continue to speak, just quietly looking at the children in the courtyard who were still restless.

He thought of his childhood, in the dark world, as if he could never see the future. He never told anyone that his former foster family was also his "City of God", and he was just a small existence in that besieged city, struggling in life. Looking at the children in front of him, Lance seemed to see himself in childhood. Fortunately, he caught the last hope and escaped.

Adapting and filming "City of God", Lance has selfish intentions, but he doesn't intend to tell anyone this secret.

"Cameraman." The child said suddenly, the simple and honest voice pulled Lance out of his memory, and turned his head to look over.

Lance didn't hear clearly the first time, so he had to raise his eyebrows and asked in doubt, "What?"

The child pressed his lips tightly, and after a while, he said, "I want to be a reporter." After a pause, "I'm not interested in actors."

"Why?" Lance cast a curious look.

The child shrugged, then shook his head again, and said hesitantly, "I don't know...because the pictures in the newspaper look cool." After speaking, the child seemed to feel that his answer was too bad, and seemed Feeling that his dream was too small, he lowered his head in embarrassment, lifting the pillar once and for all.

"What's your name?" Lance's voice rang again, the child raised his head and looked at Lance in confusion, which forced Lance to repeat his question again, and the child came back to his senses. Replied, "Alexandre-Rodrigues."

"Alexander, I think the role of Pao in the movie is very suitable for you~www.wuxiax.com~ You can try hard to see, maybe, this will become an opportunity." Lance's words made Alexander confused, completely listening I don't understand, but Lance didn't mind, and chuckled, "At least, you can get a good salary."

After speaking, Lance stood up, turned and left. But within two steps, Lance stopped and turned around, "Also, don't forget that dream." This time, Lance left without any pause, leaving only Alexander with a face of understanding Standing in place without understanding.

For him, this world is too complicated and too difficult to understand.

The casting of actors was completed before the sun set, and the crew successfully completed the task of casting and selected 110 non-professional actors. However, this is just the beginning.

In the next two months, Lance took part in the battle himself, and resumed his previous career—an acting teacher, to provide basic performance training for these children. During the training process, all the children were divided into three groups, living in different collective dormitories, cultivating the close interaction between them, refining the most authentic and lifelike black street language and fighting experience, allowing them to truly integrate into the To life in the City of God.

It was a long and arduous job, but Lance was completely calm and unhurried. Even the news that Diorama Pictures successfully reached a cooperation agreement with Focus Pictures to jointly shoot "Lost in Translation" didn't make him lose his feet, he just devoted himself to the work of acting training.

In a blink of an eye, Lance has been living in Rio de Janeiro for more than three months, and "City of God" is finally officially launched today~www.wuxiax.com~ Welcome readers to visit and read, the latest, fastest and hottest serial The works are all in ~www.wuxiax.com~Mobile phone users please go to read.