Word: crews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...location in a handsome old villa in Wujiang City, 10 miles from Suzhou in eastern China, Chen Kaige is shooting Temptress Moon. The film crew, a tight team of 20 or so artisans, is being entertained by the Chinese actress Gong Li and Hong Kong heartthrob Leslie Cheung, both of whom starred in Chen's 1993 hit, Farewell My Concubine. Gong Li picks up a TV remote and pretends it's a telephone ("Wei? Wei?"--"Hello?"), then playfully runs it under a prop man's arm as if she were a beautician with an electric shaver...
Cheung swaps airy gossip with visitors but promptly falls into his silky, sulky character when Chen calls him to shoot. Even the finicky director agrees it is perfect the first time. "One-take Leslie!" the crew exclaims, as Cheung bows...
...Kong to Hollywood in 1992. During a break in filming Broken Arrow, which stars John Travolta and Christian Slater and is to be 20th Century Fox's Christmas release, Woo casts his eye over the hundreds of technicians and ponders the contrasts in moviemaking between Asia and America. "The crew is four or five times as big here," he says. "There are many more special-effects experts. The shooting takes much longer. And the catering! In Hong Kong we have only a lunch box for meal breaks. Here we have turkey, seafood, steaks--everything...
...fine coffee in well-appointed lofts. But it is preferable to watching the Road Rules ensemble tackle such messy chores as emptying the RV's latrine at a dump station. In The Real World, living groups are overloaded with preternaturally cute aspiring actors, models and musicians. The Road Rules crew is more ordinary -- five average-looking college-age men and women with no discernible show-biz goals -- but also less captivating. Kit, an energetic Georgia party girl, is the most appealing of the quintet, but none has a personality that overwhelms...
...location nightmare of Universal Pictures' adventure movie has been assiduously chronicled: how the Waterworld shoot in Hawaii was threatened by crew injuries and tsunami warnings; how a huge set sank toward the end of shooting; how the budget ballooned from $100 million to what now may be twice that; how the star, Kevin Costner, and the director, Kevin Reynolds, fought over various aspects of the film until Reynolds stormed out during the editing. Things can go wrong in movies; it's part of the gamble. On Waterworld, everything went wrong...