Chapter 410 Pregnant Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci
After Link arrived in France, a personal matter interrupted the filming before he even started - Sophie Marceau was pregnant.
When traveling in Italy, Sophie Marceau and Monica were the most positive about having children.
Every time dandelion seeds fly, they will take in as many as possible, and often use pillows to support their buttocks when sleeping to increase the probability of catching them.
By early October, Monica's period had not come, and she found out she was pregnant using an early pregnancy test. Link called to ask Sophie if there was any movement in her stomach.
Sophie smiled and said no, and urged him to come to France to film as soon as possible.
After Link arrived, Sophie went to the Paris airport to pick him up. As soon as they met, she threw herself into his arms and excitedly told him that she was pregnant. She also said that it would be more meaningful to tell him in person.
Link had never been a father before, but he was very happy when he heard the news. He hugged Sophie and kissed her until Sophie was afraid that the child would push him away.
In order to show his importance to the child, he personally took care of Sophie's food, clothing, housing, transportation and security. He spent three days to arrange everything before he said goodbye to Sophie and returned to the crew to film.
"Saving Private Ryan" tells the story of the late World War II. On June 6, 1944, the British and American Allied Forces began a full-scale landing in the Normandy region of France, trying to take the German headquarters Berlin directly from the west. Before the landing operation of the ground forces, some troops were airdropped to the inland areas of France far away from Normandy, trying to destroy the German deployment in the area and then assemble with the landing troops.
Private James Ryan was in this unit, which was also the front line of attacking the German positions, and the casualty rate was extremely high.
James Ryan is a SGT Sergeant in Company H, 3rd Battalion, 501st Parachute Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army, and the youngest of four brothers.
Not long ago, his three elder brothers died in battles in various places.
After receiving the news, the general of the US combat command decided to send a special team to rescue Ryan safely from the war zone in order to prevent Ryan's mother from suffering the pain of losing her son again.
Captain John Miller received orders from his superiors to lead the team to carry out this difficult mission.
Captain Miller and his troops had just experienced a fierce battle in the Omaha Beach Landing, suffering heavy casualties.
In order to complete the mission, Captain Miller selected seven outstanding soldiers from his troops. While other troops were resting in place, Captain Miller led his team into the enemy-occupied area and began looking for James Ryan.
After entering the front line, Miller's team faced many difficulties and problems, including insufficient manpower and equipment, unfamiliarity with the language and terrain, and sometimes encountering enemy forces.
On the way forward, the team members fell one after another, and the members began to doubt the rationality of this mission and whether it was reasonable to exchange eight lives for one.
Although the members had doubts, they still resolutely carried out their superiors' orders and continued to search for Ryan's trace in the battlefield full of artillery fire.
After going through many difficulties, the team finally found soldier Ryan on a battlefield where a firefight was taking place.
However, Ryan, who had a strong will and sense of responsibility, was unwilling to leave the battlefield.
At this time, a large number of enemies were approaching from the front and the war broke out.
Ryan and Miller's team also threw themselves into the battle without hesitation.
After the battle, Ryan was lucky to survive.
Six soldiers from Miller's team were killed in this mission, including Captain Miller.
This is the plot synopsis of Saving Private Ryan.
This is a war movie, and the subject matter is not very new. There are hundreds of movies with similar themes after the end of World War II. If "Saving Private Ryan" wants to stand out among war movies, it must have what others do not have and what others have.
The way to achieve this level is "realism" - using real soldiers to shoot, creating the most realistic battlefield, real artillery fire, etc., while ensuring the safety of the crew members, doing everything possible to make the battle scenes more realistic.
In order to increase the realism of the film, before filming, the main actors of the crew received more than two months of military training and learned skills from the Marines.
For the actors' costumes and props, costume designer Jonah Johnston redesigned and made 3,000 sets of realistic military uniforms. For this purpose, the crew also found a company that made military boots for the US military during World War II and asked them to re-produce 2,000 pairs of military boots in the style of World War II and make them look old.
In terms of firearms, prop master Simon Atherton spent more than two months collecting and custom-making more than 2,000 weapons for filming. Each weapon was carefully maintained and specially designed before use, and its appearance was no different from that of weapons during World War II.
As for the actors, except for a few leading actors, most of the extras on the set are active-duty soldiers, mainly from the US and British Marine Corps and the Irish Defense Division, with more than 2,500 people.
In terms of shooting methods, Link and the cameramen did not follow the script. After the crew started shooting, he and the cameramen used handheld cameras to track the landing soldiers on the battlefield and shoot at close range, similar to the shooting method of a documentary.
Due to his extremely strict requirements on the camera, the filming progress was extremely slow. On average, one scene took three days to shoot. The first 25 minutes of the Normandy Landing scene took the crew more than a month to shoot.
This is also the slowest-progressing film directed by Link.
Although the shooting progress was relatively slow, the quality of the shots was very good. The film art director Thomas E. Sanders and Marine Major Evans Carlson said that these shots were no different from the actual battlefield and were equally bloody and cruel.
After filming the war scenes, Link and the crew moved to Thurm Park in England for filming.
"Link, you've been busy on the set for over a month. Do you want to take a few days off before joining the crew for filming?"
In London, in the hotel where the crew was staying, Jennifer Connelly had just taken a shower and was sitting on the sofa next to him with her long wet curly hair loose. Her calves were white and round, and her toes were moist pink.
"We can't stop! We've been shooting for more than a month, and the actors are getting into the role and are in very good shape. If we hurry up and shoot now, we can save a lot of time and money."
Link flipped through the director's script and wrote and drew as he answered.
“Workaholic!”
Jennifer kissed him, rested her forehead on his shoulder, put her palms on his chest, and said in a gentle voice, "Monica, Lina, and Michelle are all pregnant now. I want to get pregnant too."
Link put down his pen and gently combed her fluffy and fragrant hair. "Monica and the others are in a hurry to have children because they are old and not very ambitious. But you are still young and have a lot of work to do. How could you think of having a baby so early?"
Jennifer Connelly was born in 1970 and is 26 years old this year. She is one of the younger ones in the girlfriend group.
In recent years, she has been taken care of by Link and her agency, playing the leading role in at least two movies every year. She is a quasi-first-line actress in Hollywood, with a salary of more than 5 million US dollars.
Jennifer Connelly rested her chin on his shoulder and said with her delicate cheeks puffed out, "Monica and Lina were very excited after they got pregnant. They showed off to us every day by touching their bellies that hadn't even bulged out. I don't know how proud they were. I also want to have children, as many as possible, so that they will envy me."
Link smiled softly and held her in his arms, "Okay, if you want to have children, we can have them. It doesn't matter how many children we have."
"OK!"
Jennifer Connelly hugged him happily, tilted her face up and kissed him, not caring that her bathrobe was about to slip to the ground.
“We’re back!”
Before they could mess around on the sofa, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Yu Feihong, Kate Beckinsale and Julie Delpy came back from shopping with dinner for everyone.
After the crew moved to the UK, Catherine came to visit the set with Jennifer.
Yu Feihong served as assistant director in the crew.
Kate Beckinsale is a newcomer. She came to Hollywood in 1994 and was selected by Link to play the leading female role in the crew of "Zheng Chenggong" during the audition.
Later, after frequent contact, she fell into his arms.
Kate is 23 years old and from London, England. She is also a beautiful British woman. She later played the leading role in the movie "Pearl Harbor" and became famous all over the world for her beautiful appearance and temperament.
However, her appearance and performance in "Zheng Chenggong" are good. After the movie is released, her fame will be further enhanced.
Julie Delpy is an old acquaintance. She played the leading role in "Before Sunrise" and is good friends with Sophie Marceau and Emmanuelle Béart.
When Link was filming in France, Sophie was unable to accompany him because of her pregnancy. She was also worried that Emmanuelle Béart alone could not satisfy him, so she introduced her good friend Julie Delpy to him.
I don’t know what Julie Delpy was thinking, but she actually agreed to help. Later, she got addicted and followed me from France to the UK.
"How was your stroll outside?"
Link and Jennifer stood up to greet them and check on the food they had bought.
The reason they went out to buy food themselves was that Julie Delpy complained that British food was terrible, far worse than French food, and there was no food that could be called gourmet.
Catherine and Kate Beckinsale were very dissatisfied with her words and named more than a dozen delicacies on the spot, such as Cornish pasties, fish and chips, haggis soup, beef Wellington, etc.
Julie Delpy countered that those were variations of French and Italian cuisine and were definitely not native British cuisine.
Catherine and Kate continued to refute, and in order to prove that they were not bragging, they dragged Julie and Yu Feihong out to buy food.
"Very good. We bought eight kinds of delicious food and I guarantee you will be satisfied with the food later."
Catherine Zeta-Jones laughed.
Julie Delpy put the food on the table, turned around and smiled, "Link, there is a delicacy we ordered especially for you, remember to finish it later and don't waste it."
While she was speaking, Yu Feihong, Katherine and Kate Beckinsale covered their mouths and laughed.
"Dark cuisine?"
"No! This delicacy has a very beautiful name, called Looking Up at the Stars. It tells a story about fish and the sky. It is very beautiful and touching. After hearing Kate's introduction, we unanimously decided to bring it back for you to taste."
Julie Delpy said in a lively voice.
"Well, thank you for your kindness, I'd love to taste it."
Link pulled Jennifer into the restaurant, kissed Yu Feihong and the other three on the face, then sat down and began to taste British food.
He and Jennifer also saw the dish with the beautiful name "Look Up at the Stars". There were six fish heads on a scone, facing up to the sky, some with their mouths open and their eyes hollow, looking miserable in death. It was indeed a dark dish.
Jennifer screamed in fright when she saw it for the first time, and quickly turned her head away, asking Link to take the dish away quickly.
The prank was a success! Catherine, Julie and the other two laughed happily.
(End of this chapter)
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