Perhaps because he had too much free time, the assistant director arranged for them to practice horse riding.
There are many horse riding scenes in "The Mask of Zorro". These also require action design.
Because Antonio Banderas requested to do the whole process himself without a stunt double, they had to give him a good demonstration.
A set of actions was confirmed that day, and the assistant director took them to find a horse trainer.
Rowan was assigned a familiar horse.
He took the reins and, following the trainer's instructions, reached out and stroked the horse.
After touching it, Rowan suddenly loosened his hand.
Rowan stared at the horse in a daze. The horse trainer next to him wondered, "What's wrong?"
"...nothing."
Rowan shook his head, his movements suddenly becoming bolder. The horse trainer was startled and was about to remind Rowan to be careful not to anger the horse.
Then he saw the horse squinting its eyes in pleasure at being touched, rubbing against Rowan's palm.
Rowan pinched the horse's nose, but the horse did not resist and acted like a dog licking it's master.
The horse trainer looked down. It was confirmed that it was a docile mare.
So that's it... What the hell! Do you also look at appearance when choosing a rider these days?!
This world is too realistic! Well, the horse trainer actually knew that he had met a master.
He didn't bother to say anything "If you want to ride, just ride it you rself."
Rowan nodded and climbed onto his horse. Riding the horse, Rowan could feel the horse's excitement.
The spiritual connection between them became closer. Rowan thought to himself, "Yes, Spawn does have the ability to communicate with animals, I didn't expect it to come with a bonus."
It's very mild, and there's no real communication or domination involved. It's animal affinity at best, but that's not bad.
After all, it's for free. With the ability to buy one get one free, what else do you want!
Because he was so happy, Rowan rode a little far without realizing it.
Just as he was about to go back, Rowan suddenly saw several action directors looking at Antonio Banderas furiously.
He had good eyesight and could see the action directors gritting their teeth, as if they were trying to plot against Antonio Banderas.
Rowan didn't say anything an d rode away as if he hadn't seen anything.
.....
At night.
Several action directors were drinking.
"Son of a bitch Antonio Banderdas!"
As they drank more and more, one of them put his glass down heavily, making a loud bang.
The others looked around quickly and said in a low voice, "Keep your voice down!"
"What are you afraid of! I'm not the only one scolding him!"
The man didn't take it seriously: "That bastard Cranky Bob is going too far! Is it fun to torture us over and over again like this?!"
Another person shook his head "Now that director Martin Campbell is ill and not incharge, he, the leading actor, is the second in command. What can we do?"
"We are all human beings. We will all get sick and injured. How can there be any difference?! Anyway, I can't stand his tone anymore. I have to teach him a lesson even if I have to resign!"
"What are you going to do?"
"Have you ever heard the story about a horseshoe that lost a country?"
Everyone nodded.
King Charles charged into battle, spurring his soldiers on to engage the enemy.
Before he had gone halfway, a horseshoe fell off, the horse fell to the ground, and Charles was also thrown to the ground.
His soldiers thought the king was dead, their morale collapsed and they turned to retreat, and the enemy army surrounded them.
Because of this one horse and this one horseshoe, King Charles's country was overthrown.
That person "If we attack the horse, the guy won't be in any serious trouble, but he will definitely not feel good!"
The others recalled the ugly face of Party A, that is Antonio Banderdas and their hesitation disappeared. They nodded and decided to cover for him.
The man was happy "Keep drinking!"
Thinking of revenge, the group drank happily.
After they fell down drunk, a tall figure turned and left in the shadows outside the wall.
Rowan wasn't eavesdropping. Having nothing to do in the evening, he took a 'stroll' around the area.
The crew has security patrols, but stealth... and noiseless walking are Spawn's best skills, and the security guards can't find Rowan at all.
'Since I was already here, I might as well eavesdrop a little.' that's what Rowan thought
As a result, he heard this kind of thing.
Rowan was moved but not surprised. It's not uncommon in Hollywood for staff to cause trouble out of resentment.
Some even replaced the imitation guns with real ones.
There was also the mass poisoning incident on the set of Titanic.
"Titanic" is also a problem between A and B.
In addition to being a real person, Cameron is also a pressure person..As long as any staff member fails to achieve the effect he wants or does not do something well enough, he will start to insult and put pressure on them.
Unable to bear the heavy burden, some staff members poisoned the crew, resulting in more than 50 actors and staff members being sent to the hospital for treatment.
The filming of Titanic took three years, and the director caused the mental exhaustion...
No matter how strong your professional ethics are, people will not be able to stand being treated like grandchildren or slaves.
This is not the 19th century. The foreman can easily squeeze the crops with the whip, a "cotton/sugarcane production-increasing magic weapon".
Rowan didn't want to remind Antonio Banderas..It's not that I want to see him get into trouble or that I have any bad intentions, it's just that I can't explain it clearly and our relationship isn't that serious.
Rowan didn't want to get involved in this mess.
He has nothing to do with these action directors, but there is no guarantee that he will not be implicated.
After thinking about it, Rowan came up with an idea.
He asked for leave from the assistant director and flew back to Los Angeles overnight.
'I can't afford to offend you, but I can afford to hide from you!' he thought while sitting on the plane. 'I'll come back and get the salary when there's news here.'
Back in Los Angeles, Rowan was not idle either.
Mary had no work arranged. But his book that was published last month has become a best-seller with over 100,000 sales in 3 weeks. Causing a problem for him as many companies wanted the rights for his book. So he let May handle them there was no way e was going to sell it so fast when it's just been 3 weeks.
But what he wasn't expecting was Mary to call him about one of the company that wanted to buy the rights. It turned out to be DreamWorks and Jeffrey Ketzenberg personally came to meet Mary.
"Why did he come to meet you personally? Isn't he one of the big three of DreamWorks why not leave it to one of his employees." Rowan asked
"He is a close friend of my father" Mary replied and Rowan was immediately impressed by Mary's background.
"Was he the one that you called for getting me that interview" Rowan asked to which Mary immediately shook her head
"No, I just called his secretary and ask him to get you an interview for something like this he doesn't need to get involved."
"Can he help me get a supporting role in the movie." Rowan asked
"Most of the cast has already been set there is no way he can do it, if it was a full DreamWorks project than he might be able to insert you but in this you will at most get 2-3 lines. I don't think the rights of your book are so low." Mary stated
"No! No I am not going to give him the rights to my book just cause a role. If he wants the rights than my minimum requirement would be 2 million dollars + 5% worldwide box office + 7% peripheral sales."
"What!? There is no way anyone will agree to these conditions." Mary's tone had a hint of disbelief in it.
"They will if they know that it's a 4 part book series. You know IP is important and by book will give it to them moreover it's not like this is the only book series I will write, I have few more in mind that will be as good as this one." Rowan stated
"A 4 part book series and you have more than this book, have you written anything else. " Mary asked
"I will send it you later, anyway we are moving away from the subject. What I just told you, make sure that Jeffrey Ketzenberg finds out about this I am pretty sure he doesn't want it to get in the hands of Pixar at least for this he will take my demands seriously."