"Open the door! Open the city gate!" As the sound of quiet trumpet sounded, after rushing to the city to see clearly the team coming, a man wearing a chain mail shouted loudly.

After the gate of Holy Helmet Valley opened, teams of elves wearing cloaks and longbows walked in neatly and vigorously. Although they didn't say a word from beginning to end, only the sound of footsteps, the calmness made the soldiers who looked around who seemed uneasy slowly calm down.

"How is this possible?" King Hiyoudon, who received the news, hurried over and was stunned when he saw the long queue.

A handsome elf in armor and a crimson cloak bowed slightly to the king: "Rivendale's King Aaron asked me to tell me that the elves and humans had formed an alliance. A long time ago, we fought side by side, living and dying together..."

His words were firm and powerful, his eyes were particularly bright, with an indomitable momentum. At the same time, Aragon, who heard the sound of the horn, ran out with Leglas and Jinli.

"...Today, I will fulfill the covenant again." The elf's eyes couldn't help but look at Aragon.

"Good luck, Hardir." Aragon seemed a little excited. When he was about to shake hands with Hardir, he simply hugged him, "It's great that you can come."

The elf was a little surprised, but then he smiled and patted the other person's back, not caring about his movements that seemed a bit rude in the eyes of the elf.

Then, Hardir patted Leglas on the shoulders again, then looked at King Hieudon again: "It's an honor to fight side by side with humanity again."

"Cut!" A voice sounded at this time, and then more than ten seconds later, a noisy and breathable sound rang around. The formation that had been neatly formed before also became loose, and people started talking in groups of three or three.

"Very good, today's shooting ends here!" After five or six minutes, Jackson's voice rang through the speaker.

Then, cheers sounded in the crowd, and more people began to find a place to rest. Then the lights went out, and the wide curtains built were pulled down. The sky outside was still dim, which was completely different from the night scene presented in front of the camera when filming before. This is the magic of the movie.

"Please wait, Mr. Tang." said the makeup artist who was removing makeup for Davis, who played Jin Li, as Sean sat in the simple dressing room.

"No problem." Sean nodded. Davis was really hard. He said before that it took several hours to put on makeup alone. After wearing these things in one day, the skin would fall off.

"I still took off the contact lenses as before." He then said this, then opened the small box of the contact lenses and opened his eyelids with his fingers in front of the mirror.

His eyesight is actually very good, otherwise no one would say that his eyes are like deep under the lake, so the contact lenses he wears are actually contact lenses that change the color of his pupils. According to the novel "Lord of the Rings", Hardir has long golden hair and a pair of dark blue eyes.

Although his pupils are very dark, unless they are closely observed, they cannot see the difference from other eyes. But Jackson doesn't think so. He has strict requirements on details. Even if a flag has problems, he has to reshoot it. How can he tolerate the eye color of important characters? So when filming started last year, Sean was asked to wear contact lenses.

"Hey, Orlando, why do you look a little exhausted?" Sean teased with a smile after Bloom came over and sat down, waiting for the makeup artist to take off his makeup.

"Of course, we have been shooting in this ghost place for almost a month, and we will continue to shoot for another month. Maybe we will go back to the reshoot camera in the future... When I think of this, I feel cold." Bloom sighed.

As early as a month ago, the scenes of the Battle of Helmet Valley began to be filmed. Even at the beginning of the year, Jackson asked people to build an outdoor site. The outdoor site of Helmet Valley is a deserted quarry in the suburbs of Wellington. It is full of rocks and uninhabited, giving people a desolate and quaint feeling. In addition, there is a tall and wide stone wall, which is suitable for shooting close-ups.

Of course, the vision can only rely on models. The special effects studio has made 64 models of different sizes for this. Jackson also planned to rent the Wellington stadium and then gather a group of fans to shout, so as to synthesize various roars in the Battle of Helmet Valley. What should I say? He and Xinyi are willing to spend money on this, but they are not worth a penny on the pay.

Back to the topic, even if you are protected in that environment, you will get scratches or something if you are not careful. It is common for stains all over your body. You have to change your clothes when shooting one or two shots. The crew has prepared more than ten sets of the same costumes for the main actors. In this case, anyone who comes will complain, let alone Bloom, who has been filming for almost a month.

"You feel cold because you have a cold, it has nothing to do with the movie." Sean continued to tease.

"We are different from you, Sean, we all have to stay on this crew for a long time, instead of leaving in a month." Although Bloom replied in a joking tone, he also had a little sarcasm in his words.

After laughing twice, Sean said nothing, and waited patiently for the makeup artist to come and remove his makeup for him. Then he went to the locker room to change into a normal uniform, greeted Jackson, who was still busy for a while, and got into the crew's car and returned to Wellington.

There is one advantage in filming on the quarry, that is, it is very close to the city. Although it is in the suburbs, it only takes dozens of minutes to enter the city. Although the shooting here is quite tense, unless necessary, for example, the lighting team cannot produce the morning light that the director wants for a while, and needs to collect natural morning light. At this time, Jackson will ask everyone to stay in the quarry for one night, and under normal circumstances, they will return to the hotel in the city.

This made Sean like it very much. New Zealand's population was still a little less. In December last year, he spent the night with the crew, and felt that the whole world was quiet, with only them being the only one left. Although this feeling has also been felt in the United States, such as going out for camping with a few friends, it is not as strong as here.

Although the United States is also sparsely populated, and often the streets will be very calm when the city is at night, there are many lively places, especially the big coastal cities, which are often considered to be cities that never sleep. In addition to Auckland, other cities in New Zealand are at best considered second-tier cities in the United States. Even Wellington, the capital, feels very quiet in the middle of the night.

This is true for big cities, not to mention those ordinary towns. Although there are many such towns in the inland areas of the United States, Sean has never been to it after all. It was New Zealand that gave him this experience first, so he is relatively willing to stay in crowded places here.

Besides, the conditions in the city are better than those in the wild, at least there are no bars in the camp.

"Do you want to try it? This is not America." Sean raised his cup and smiled at Elia Wood.

"Let's forget it." Wood hesitated.

"Okay, Elia, it's no big deal to try it. I heard you've been to a gay bar with Mr. McKellen. Is there any problem with drinking some wine?" Sean stuffed the cup into his hand.

"No problem, it's just... I've never eaten whiskey." Wood said with a shaking head.

"You have to taste it even if you haven't eaten it. If you are worried that it's not good or it's stimulating in the past, then take it in small sips." Sean was tempted by the side.

At his urging, Wood finally brought the cup to his mouth, took a sip, then coughed repeatedly, and Sean pounded his back a few times with a laugh. After drinking this little wine, Wood finally said more, which was completely different from the coldness he had when he first met.

"When the news came, many people were shocked, and they all said how it was possible. The 19-year-old Oscar nominee for Best Actor is too exaggerated. But the news was quickly confirmed, so the people who questioned it before shut up. Of course, I was no longer there. Although I was surprised, I knew..." After a few words, Wood began to talk about Sean's nomination, and talked endlessly under the influence of alcohol.

Although Sean rubbed his forehead with a headache, he sighed in his heart. As expected, it was indeed the case.

Four months later, when he returned to the crew of "Lord of the Rings", he found that the atmosphere here became a little different. When he left before, even though Bloom didn't deal with him much, it was not obvious, and the others could basically get along. But now after he came, although they all greeted him, their attitude was not as close as before.

This is probably the price of becoming famous too quickly. Before that, Sean was just an unknown little actor. Although he played the leading role in the Oscar-directed work, no one could tell what would happen in the future before the movie was released, so they easily accepted him. Now, the movie has a big box office and a good reputation. It is nominated for the Golden Globes and an Oscar nomination, and it has suddenly become the most dazzling new actor at the beginning of the millennium, leaving them behind.

This is often the case. When a group of people’s relationship is pretty good, but not intimate, one of them should be the bottom in this circle, but suddenly becomes the most prominent person because of his own efforts, then he will gradually be excluded. What’s more, Sean is not on the crew for about four months, even if he wants to make some remedies, and this period is enough to ferment any bad topic.

So, Bloom would use that kind of words to fight back to his jokes, so when he accidentally met Wood who was out in another place after returning to Wellington, the latter just simply said hello to him. It's a hello. If Sean hadn't dragged Wood to the bar for a drink, he would have probably been like this in the future.
Chapter completed!