Chapter 77: Girls, Man Up

Scarlett Johansson's "accidental" joining the movie fans were overjoyed, this is probably the only recent Hollywood by the fans to vote for the leading lady, this "people's hearts" to follow the practice, so that the audience is full of expectations for the film Baseball Girl" is full of anticipation. In Movie Weekly's latest count, the film was voted the most anticipated movie in recent memory.

The explanation given by the media is: "Beauty + Handsome Boys + Baseball = Hot". To the regret of the students of Moss Middle School, the director of the movie, Kenny Ortega, didn't place the filming location here this time. The principal, Matthew, was very enthusiastic to make this happen. Two consecutive wonderful youth campus movies were set in the school, which brought a certain degree of impact on the teaching order, but at the same time greatly enhanced the popularity of Moss Middle School. Especially many overseas students, it is because of the "Song and Dance Youth" and "Cinderella's Glass Phone", they choose to study in this school, which is a considerable amount of revenue.

But Kenny Ortega has his own ideas, partly because although the sport of baseball is very popular in Moss High School, the school's baseball field is built in a very average way, which can satisfy the needs of the students, but it is not enough to meet the requirements of the theater crew for the scenes.

On the other hand, Moss Middle School can use the interior of the location, in the "Song and Dance" and "Cinderella's Glass Phone" two movies have almost shown, all the films are piled up to put here, the audience will certainly have a problem. The next sequel to "Follies" will of course still put the location here for continuity, and Kenny Ortega always has to leave some wiggle room for his later movies.

Based on this consideration, Kenny Ortega put the film's location in his more familiar Salt Lake City, Utah, last year as the director of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, Kenny Ortega stayed there for a long period of time, during the period of time was also invited by a local high school, to give a speech about the Winter Olympics.

After the speech, Kenny Ortega was kindly invited by the school authorities to visit their campus. It must be said that the principal of this high school is very far-sighted, although before this Kenny Ortega only made a school-related "Song and Dance Youth", but successfully made Florida's Moss High School from an obscure small role in the transformation, became a prestigious high school. Of course in this Lin Mingyang played no small role, but to convince the most promising new star in Hollywood to transfer to Salt Lake City, it is not that other high schools have not tried, but all of them ended in failure.

The breakthrough can only be placed on the director, the principal is convinced that Kenny Ortega will have a new work, and in the test, he also heard Kenny Ortega has such an idea, so he is not to take Kenny Ortega wandering around, basically is to choose the school is very representative of the facilities of the most complete building for the big director to let the school is very representative of the facilities. The university basically chose the very representative and most complete buildings for the big director to visit, including a new baseball stadium that they had just invested in that could hold 5,000 people to watch the game at the same time.

When choosing a location, Kenny Ortega was the first to think of the high school, and he called the other side to inform them of his intentions, which was naturally welcomed, and the two sides hit it off right away, with Kenny Ortega immediately taking the crew to Salt Lake City.

"Salt Lake City East High School?" Lin Ming Yang looked at the campus in front of him, how it looked familiar, and when he saw that iconic entrance to the school's main building, he finally confirmed his suspicions. Without his presence, this was where the movie Song and Dance Youth was really set. It seemed that Kenny Ortega really had a fondness for this place, and the changed history actually resurfaced in such a way that Lin Ming Yang had to lament the ingenuity of it.

"What, you know about this school?" Kenny Ortega, who was walking and chatting with the principal, noticed Lin Mingyang's strange appearance.

"I seem to remember that Moss High School and Salt Lake City East High School played an exchange game during some interstate basketball event." Lin Mingyang casually made up a claim that the other party wouldn't check anyway.

"There was?" Lin Mingyang had left out the principal of that Salt Lake City East High School, so when Kenny Ortega asked the other party for confirmation, he was sweating nervously in his heart.

"It seems like there is such a thing!" That principal took out a tissue and wiped the beads of sweat seeping out of his forehead, he really couldn't remember such an exchange in his mind, but Lin Mingyang's look of conviction made him a little hesitant. He felt that it was probably because he hadn't paid too much attention to it after a while that he had forgotten about it, but a young man's memory was always better than his own, so he chose to go along with Lin Mingyang's "lie".

"So I didn't choose the wrong place, it looks like this is all God's arrangement!" Kenny Ortega didn't go any further, which made Lin Ming Yang feel thankful that he should really thank the omnipresent God, followed by an evil thought in his heart, in the future, whenever he encounters something that can't be explained, he should simply put it all on the shoulders of this omnipotent God.

I don't know whether God recognized his idea, anyway, "retribution" immediately came, after returning to the set, Scarlett Johansson is angry, the reason for her anger is Lin Mingyang designed those movie promotional posters.

"I can dress up as a man in a movie, but not as a tomboy in reality as well!" Scarlett Johansson exasperatedly pointed at the posters that Lin Ming Yang had come up with, and after processing the posters she had indeed turned into a tomboy. Seemingly intent on spoofing Lin Ming Yang also added a small beard for Scarlett Johansson on a photo of the two of them together, and if it was accompanied by a small round hat, it would be a showy version of Chaplin.

"And look at your promo line, 'Girls, MAN up!' , I don't want to be treated as an alternative by the Hollywood media!" Scarlett Johansson, who has always had a sweet image, naturally couldn't stand this kind of publicity, and even Kenny Ortega, who has always acted as a "good old boy" in the cast, also felt that Lin Mingyang's arrangement was a bit "excessive! The same is true for Kenny Ortega, who feels that Lin Mingyang's arrangement is a bit "excessive".

"I heard that you admire the director is Woody Allen?" Lin Mingyang didn't rush to defend himself, "He once said that if you're not constantly frustrated, it shows that what you're doing isn't very groundbreaking."

"Is this relevant to the topic we're discussing?" Scarlett Johansson grunted in dissatisfaction.

"Of course, I don't think you've gotten to know your characters very well, or even read Shakespeare's original plays carefully. Twelfth Night is an intelligent comedy, not a confused farce in which a woman dresses as a man. Ovilla, the heroine in the original play, is a woman of intelligence, so your performance in the play is not only to amuse the audience, but also to make people feel something from your 'hijinks', thus revealing the theme of this movie, that girls can be heroes on the baseball field just like boys. "

Scarlett Johansson gagged her small mouth, still a little unconvinced in her heart, but it was obvious that she was listening carefully to what Lin Mingyang was saying.

"In this play, the love story between the male and female protagonists is just a comedy gimmick, in a sense, this movie has only one protagonist, and that's the one you play, Ovilla. She dresses up as a woman to join the baseball team, not to fall in love with Duke, the handsome pitcher, but to realize her dream, to prove herself. The love affair with Duke is nothing more than a cozy interlude, a beautiful accident, in her pursuit of her dream."

This time, not only Scarlett Johansson was thinking seriously, even Kenny Ortega who was standing aside "watching the fun" also fell into deep thought, Lin Mingyang's deep analysis of the plot, inspired him a lot.

"I have always been very disgusted with the masculinization of women's dress, because it erases the most beautiful differences between the sexes, and this set of posters was designed only to match the film's publicity. A different Scarlett Johansson appears on the posters just to better get the attention of movie fans. The slogan 'Girls, MAN Up' is not meant to be a call for girls to all dress up as a tomboy, but rather to encourage them to mentally move closer to the boys, and not to always put themselves in a position where they are vulnerable, passive, and want to be protected. And all of this is achieved based on your accurate grasp and understanding of the character. Doesn't Mr. Woody Allen's words tell you that if you refuse to change because you are afraid of frustration, then your place in the movie will always be a vase, and if anything different, it will be a prettier vase at best."

Lin Mingyang's final explanation not only calmed Scarlett Johansson down to accept the promotional posters, but also gave her a deeper understanding of her character. But being "taught a lesson" by a guy a year younger than herself, Scarlett Johansson's proud heart was still a little hard to accept, and in order to prove her ability, she "went against" Lin Ming Yang in every aspect of her next performance. In order to prove her own ability, she was always "against" Lin Ming Yang in the next performance, and the unconquerable strength was expressed in the theater and outside the theater.

Facts proved that "never mess with women, especially beautiful women!" This sentence is incredibly correct, if the previous shooting Scarlett Johansson is still only through the "show off" to prove themselves, then a later shooting finally let Lin Mingyang ate the bitter end.

There is an interesting scene in the plot, after a fierce game, the members of the baseball team in the bathroom to take a shower, Scarlett Johansson's Ovilla wriggling refused to go in with the group, and then Lin Mingyang's Duke dragged her hard into the bathroom. During the shower, Duke discovers that Ovila has wrapped her body tightly in a strange towel, and curiously, he prepares to remove the "tomboy" cover-up, and then the two of them stage a hilarious farce in the bathroom.

When filming the scene, Lin Mingyang needed to go topless and wore only a pair of pants underneath. In "Pirates of the Caribbean", Lin Mingyang even wore a shoulder, naked on camera for the first time. Everyone present admitted that the muscles on Lin Ming Yang's body were indeed very shapely, not the kind of bulging big guy, but very well-proportioned close to his body, the overall presentation of a very masculine and full of power lines. Kenny Ortega could even imagine that when this set of shots appeared on the screen, there was no telling how many girls in the movie theater would let out a scream.

Scarlett Johansson this time to "take off", but compared to Lin Mingyang this large-scale "sacrifice", her chest below the parts are tightly wrapped in a special bath towel. Although the mouth of the people around the appreciation of Lin Mingyang's muscles show disdain, but when shooting she still secretly glanced at two eyes, not to mention that this nasty guy is really worth showing off the capital.

"On your marks!" The director barked out an order, and then the camera board closed in front of the camera with a "click", the shooting officially began, Lin Ming Yang smiled wryly at Scarlett Johansson, and then said his first line.

"Bastian (Ovila's brother's name, she's an impostor in the show), don't dawdle, take off that ridiculous towel you're wearing and show me a man's dick!"

Scarlett Johansson always felt that Lin Ming Yang must be playing something bad in his mind, thinking of his bad smile just now, she felt that she had guessed the other party's mischief, even though she was still wearing her underwear underneath, but if the towel was ripped off by Lin Ming Yang "accidentally", then she would definitely become the laughing stock of everyone! She was still wearing her underwear, but if the towel was ripped off by Lin Ming Yang "accidentally", she would definitely become the laughing stock of everyone. Thinking of this, she suddenly tightly covered the towel on her chest, exactly the same reaction as in the episode when Ovira heard Duke say this.

Looking at the camera images coming from the camera, Kenny Ortega nodded his head with satisfaction, what he only saw was only on the surface, if he were to be informed of what was going on in the minds of these two in front of the camera, I guess he wouldn't have been able to sit so peacefully in his chair.