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- The sun rose at 5:30 in the morning in Philadelphia in June, and the tlb crew started work at 7:30 in the morning. But before that, the crew had already set off from the Courtyard Hotel to go to Valley High School, where today's filming was, to make preparations.
A scene to be filmed later comes from Chapter 6 of the original work. Susie went to school that day. She sneaked in through the back door of the school because she was late. She was stopped by Lei who was absent from class at the stage of the auditorium, and then she crawled under his instigation. We got on the stage stand and skipped class together.
After a conversation between young men and women, just as Ray was about to kiss Susie, Ruth opened the door next to the stage and walked out. The principal, Mr. Peter Ford, and the art teacher, Miss Lane, followed her and scolded her because she drew in art class. He made a painting of a naked woman, which had a bad influence on other students.
At this time, Ruth was a pitiful failure. She started sobbing after the principal left. The worst part was that Ray and Susie got off the stage stand and were about to leave. They all heard and saw it. Ruth was not surprised by Ray's truancy. He still had good grades. She just wanted to make sure that the other person was Susie. The probability of Susie's truancy was "as small as the smartest girl in the class being yelled at by the discipline staff." She asked: "Susie Shamoun?"
According to the original book, Ruth at this time was a "quiet rebel", an invisible person that no one noticed in school, but quite rebellious; Ray was a "Martian eight hundred times smarter than everyone else", and absenteeism was commonplace. The most well-behaved person who wanted to be cool the most was Susie, and it was she who got into trouble.
When Ye Wei adapted the script, he decided to use this scene completely before the framework was finalized.
Peter Jack thought that Ray and Ruth's appearance could be incorporated into other scenes, such as Susie's family outing and Susie and Ray's hallway kissing scene.
Ye Wei disagreed. In his structure, the role of this scene is not only the introduction of characters, but also has several very important points. One is to show the 14-year-old Su Qian's first love. In addition, after the kiss scene, a pair of young people Lovers begin to form. This is not a love movie, but with this emotion, the character of Susie is complete, with family affection and green love.
She and Lei had a beautiful relationship. Her murder made this beauty tainted, shattered, and came to an abrupt end. Only then did the audience feel as heartbroken as they wanted.
The second is a complex melancholy arising from the contrasting changes before and after, which is exactly Susie's mood.
At that time, her youth was more hopeful, more exciting, more interesting, and more advantageous than Ruth's. Her family background, appearance, and school popularity were all higher than Susie's. She was also in love with Ray. But Ruth was just a freak who was scolded by the principal and cried. Susie and Ray listened on the stage support. She was embarrassed and Ray squeezed her hand. However, everything soon changed.
When Susie reached out to touch Ruth's cheek, she watched Ray and Ruth getting closer and closer in heaven. The audience naturally felt that the good things that originally belonged to her were gone, forever gone, and belonged to others.
So this is an important scene. Not only will the scene not be merged and adapted, Ye Wei also needs to shoot it well to enhance the emotional rendering it generates.
If Jackson focuses on "pre-crime, crime, investigation, and solving the crime", the emotional points required in these stages can be combined and placed casually. Ye Wei is not the same. He focuses on the destruction of all the beauties of the story, except for Mr. Harvey. , everyone suffered huge trauma and slowly recovered over time.
Susie and Ray¡¯s relationship must be played up.
First, there is a scene of a sister walking on the way to school. With Susie's narration, "I wore this hat to school for the first time a week ago. I didn't like it at that time, but something happened." Following this scene, Susie then narrated, "That week was so amazing," using a montage to show her last happy time. Whether it was at home or on campus, it was all related to her and Lei, and family ties and love were all integrated into it.
¡°For example, Ray handed Susie a love note in class. After Susie took it home with her book of poems, Lindsey accidentally opened the book and read it to tease her. The two sisters started to quarrel, which made it seem like the whole family was about to be turned upside down, but it was actually very warm. This would never happen again in the Shamoon family.
At the end of the montage, Susie was picking up things from the locker in the school corridor. She saw Ray coming, and he called out: "Susie."
Let¡¯s pick up the kissing scene between her and Lei. Before the kiss, Lei said that they couldn't go together today. In the afternoon, he would leave for the University of Pennsylvania to attend his father's speech. He would also stand on the podium and tell 45 international students about his adolescent experience. The two made an appointment to go out for the weekend tomorrow, and he also laughed and asked her to wear the colorful pom-pom hat tomorrow. He liked her wearing that hat.
After school in the afternoon, Susie was tricked into a hole by Mr. Harvey in the harvested cornfield and raped and murdered. During the process, the Shamon family was preparing dinner and Ray was giving a speech at the University of Pennsylvania.
There is not much time and the space is not heavy. In terms of the relationship between Susie and Lei, this is the best adaptation plan that Ye Wei can think of. It also best exaggerates the horror, cruelty, grief and anger when Mr. Harvey raped and killed Susie. He??Please don¡¯t cry if you don¡¯t believe me, kind-hearted viewers.
In the original novel, the scraps of love letters written by Ray to Susie were found by the police, making him a suspect at first, but he was freed from suspicion because he had an alibi for a speech at the University of Pennsylvania. Jack Salmon went to his house to inquire about the case while he was still ill and in urgent need of medical attention. These contents cannot be included in the movie and can only be discarded.
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This was not Ye Wei's first time acting, but he just couldn't like makeup. Sitting like a sissy in front of the makeup table in the makeup truck at the base camp, the makeup crew headed by makeup artist Sandy Cooper used a bunch of words that he couldn't say. The name of the tool for messing with hairstyles and faces.
The tattoos on his ten fingers are all painted flesh-colored with pink paste, and you can¡¯t even see them in a close-up of his fingers. The tattoos on his forearms are covered by a long-sleeved black jacket and costume.
Assistant makeup artist Nicole Sotillon arranged his short and medium hair into an old-fashioned look, then began to put on makeup and said jokingly: "Director, do you want me to give you a smoky eye?"
Liz and Dakota, who were sitting at different dressing tables in the car, both laughed. They were also surrounded by staff putting on makeup, with Sandy guiding them back and forth.
"Don't even think about it, just clean me up." Ye Wei said pretending to be serious: "You should prepare yourself for the performance later, so that you don't get the same number of times as your age when the time comes. It's okay now, and in 20 What are you laughing at?¡±
Although he keeps joking, he is very strict with the actors, including himself as an actor.
¡°Due to market, political and other reasons, there are very few Asian characters on screen, especially young ones. No matter before or now, he will never allow himself to mess up this opportunity. "Thunder" has a different meaning.
Ye Wei's anatomy was constructed by the director and the actors together. "Thunder" is not difficult. Now he feels that he has completely mastered this character because he completely understands him. They are similar in some ways. They are arrogant and conceited. "Ray" is not a bad boy, he just doesn't care.
He doesn't care about everything in this town. He has moved many times since he was a child, and he has a sense of wandering that he will move away at any time. Even if he doesn't move away, he will not continue to stay in the town when he grows up, so Malvern Town is just a place. He will definitely leave this temporary place of residence.
So people in school, people in small towns, these guys who have never seen the world, what they say and think, Lei doesn't care. This is not the kind of negative indifference, but a kind of maturity and rebellion beyond his age. Many things are ridiculous in his eyes, so ridiculous that he doesn't even bother to laugh. Of course, Lei is a teenager after all. He will also have some pretense and act alone without integrating into the community. He is not truly free and easy.
But Susie is a complete exception. Ray likes Susie.
Why? Ray's first line in the original work is: "You are very beautiful, Susie Shamon." This is why, in Ray's eyes, Susie is very beautiful, not only in appearance, but also in her temperament. He likes every little look and movement.
Susie is different, different from everything in the small town, different from this world, she is beautiful. This is enough for teenagers, and it is also one of the fundamental reasons for love.
Ye Wei felt that it was not difficult to play Lei well and the relationship between Lei and Susie.
A few days ago, I finished filming the scene where Lei gave a speech at the University of Pennsylvania, and I had an addiction to speaking that I hadn¡¯t experienced in a long time. Many directors actually have very good acting skills, especially those who studied acting. He doesn't know if he is one of them, but compared to the starring role in "Wedding Day" and the guest appearance in "Little Miss Sunshine", he is definitely improved. .
He did not use his true acting style, and he also avoided using emotional substitution methods, so as not to mess up the emotional memories in his mind because of his performance. Especially today, I remind myself as soon as I get up: Ye Wei is Ye Wei, Lei is Lei, Lily is Lily, Lizzie is Lizzie, and Susie is Susie.
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It's the free summer vacation, and many students from Valley High School have gone back to school to watch the filming of the TLB crew. Most of them are girls. Maybe they will be lucky enough to make a guest appearance, or be spotted by viy and embark on the road to stardom. What kind of excitement will happen? good.
The luckiest thing was that Shou saw Ye Wei and others getting out of the car and walking to school in the parking lot. The students wanted to break into the set in the auditorium, but they were blocked by the security guards. However, the venue manager came forward to express Viy's gratitude. He, the Olsen sisters' sisters and other young actresses would meet them during lunch time and have the opportunity to sign autographs and take photos.
At this time, the stage of the auditorium was busy. This scene was a big project. There were many different camera positions, divided into those on the ground and those that required the use of camera lifts. The latter was for shots that were shot on the stage stand. These lenses also put more workload on the lighting team and sound recording team.
The crane needs to be set up and the crew needs to warm up, so the ground shots need to be shot first and then the crane shots.
Today the photography team is the busiest, and the art team also has no time to spare.??All human scenes must have the look and feel of the 1970s, which places high demands on the scenery, costumes, and props.
The costume designer of tlb is Mayes-C Rubeo, her and Ye Wei¡¯s second collaboration after tet; the set designer is Heather Leffler, the production designer Adam Stockhausen, and the props designer Tony - Bonaventura, their second collaboration with Ye Wei after LMS; Donald Burt continues to serve as art director, and this is his third collaboration with Ye Wei after LMS and SS.
When we first cooperated, except for Bonaventura, everyone¡¯s status in the industry was not high. Now they have all improved, but they are still as serious and hardworking as before.
Ye Wei did not come from that era, Donald Burt did, he attended high school in 1976. Speaking of the 1970s, this old guy certainly knew better, so he delegated more power in art this time and adopted more opinions from art directors.
He and Donald were talking about some small decorations for the stage.
The original book says that "young drug addicts" most often sneaked in to school through the back door to escape punishment from the school. At the end of 1973, the hippie movement was at its peak. Those people passed by every day, so it was impossible not to do something with the stage frame, like Post photos of Mick Jagger, Barbra Streisand and more.
He had communicated with the set design team during the pre-planning process, and Donald also said it was feasible. Now the two of them are making final decisions. This is not a pure stage, but pure things happen.
After settling down, Ye Wei patted Donald on the shoulder and turned around to take a look. The camera team and specialized operators were placing the crane over there, as well as Master Gia.
"Director." Liz was walking over.
Ye Wei stopped and looked at her, "What?"
"Are you free to rehearse?" Liz asked with a smile. Today she is wearing a lilac jacket and white trousers costume, and a hand-knitted fur hat. Her blond hair is shawl down her shoulders. She has beautiful eyebrows on her youthful face, long eyelashes, and her penetrating gray-blue eyes. , seems to be able to speak in the blink of an eye.
To separate, Dakota¡¯s hair was dyed dark brown, which made her look even more withdrawn and cold. She was sitting on an actor's chair not far away, reading the script.
"Okay." Ye Wei nodded. In any case, a hundred years of directors would not let him set up the swing arm. That was done by professionals.
Rather than joining in the fun, it¡¯s better to seize the time to rehearse so you can know if you need to modify your lines. Although there is support from the original work, lines can often be changed at the last minute during film shooting, which depends on the actual feeling of the situation and on-the-spot performance.
Ye Wei and Liz walked to the actor's area, so they wouldn't hinder other people from walking around and doing things. Modi and the others were here.
He first spoke as a director: "The main point of this scene is to test each other. Ray's need is for Susie to take care of him, and Susie's need is to take an adventure. In this atmosphere, they are not sure what the other person thinks. , they test and feel each other, and the physical contact of holding hands is very exciting and satisfying for them. We want to perform this feeling of first love.¡±
"I understand." Liz agreed as she thought about it.
"Do you have a first love?" Ye Wei asked.
"Of course." Liz immediately rolled her eyes and said in a voice as if she couldn't bear to look back, "It's not very interesting. What's the matter?"
"Forget everything first. You are Su Qian. You have never been in love. This is the first time." Ye Wei said to her.
The only people in the cast who haven't had their first love yet are 12-year-old Saoirse and "My Name is Shy" Maudie. It's ridiculous and fun to have someone who is both a love saint act like a first love. place.
"Although we are no longer young." As he was talking, Liz interrupted: "17 and 18 are not young?" He said seriously: "What we are going to play is the time when we were 14 and 15. What happened just now? To start, think about the feeling you had when you first entered middle school or high school. Everything is new, full of unknowns and hope, and you can make all your dreams happen.¡±
Liz nodded and said nothing.
The two read the script for a while, and after they both put down their chairs, under the gazes of Dakota and others, Ye Wei walked a few steps away and stood on the stage support.
He looked at Liz's beautiful face, not wanting to replace it with emotion at all, but Lily's smiling face emerged uncontrollably in his mind, and many memories came to him in an instant, including the cuttlefish operation that day, looking for her bracelet in the bedroom, and giving it to her. Her Jane Eyre doll was filled with the feelings of first love.
He smiled naturally and said in a cynical tone: "You are very beautiful, Susie Shamoun."
Liz also started acting. She was stunned when she heard this and looked around.
"I'm here." Ye Wei said with a smile.
Liz looked over and saw his tall body wearing a black jacket and jeans. He had broad shoulders and a pair of long handsome legs that could make girls stare.Handsome face, deep eyes. There was a thump in her heart, and she could definitely feel Susie's "heart plummeting to the ground" mood.
"Hi." Ye Wei said hello, blinking his eyes just in time.
"" Liz continued to be stunned for a few seconds, then she pursed her lips with a smile and asked: "The first class has started, what are you doing up there?"
"You'll know when you come up and take a look." Ye Wei's smile gradually became brighter, revealing his neat and delicate white teeth, and he extended his right hand to her, "Come up and take a look, Susie."
He called her Susie directly, which made her heart beat more and more, but was she absent from class? Liz looked hesitantly towards the exit of the auditorium, but finally walked over with a smile like a man possessed.
Dakota and the others watched this rehearsal, and the more they watched, the more surprised they became. They really came to the show, and the impression of their partners was good
As the saying goes, a perfect rehearsal is equivalent to wasting a lot of good shots. This is the case now. The rehearsal of the two people was completely wasted.
In the future, the image that the audience will see on the screen will be roughly like this: 1. A panoramic shot, Susie is walking in a hurry with a schoolbag on her back, and the voice-over sounds "You are beautiful, Susie Shamon". 2 In a medium-close shot, she stops and looks around in confusion, and the voiceover says, "I'm here." She looks up.
3. A wide panoramic shot of Susie looking up from the back. She looks up to see Lei on the stage support above the frame; 4. A close-up shot of Lei. He sits down on the support, looks down slightly, and says hello at the same time; 5. A mid-close shot of Susie looking up, looking down at the camera, smiling and asking what Ray is doing up there.
? 6 An oblique angle panoramic shot from above, Lei stretched out his hand to invite her to come up. 7 A frontal close-up shot of the ground, Susie hesitates for a moment, then walks over. 8 A large panoramic view from the side of Susie, she is about to climb up the support, and Ray is about to pull her up.
These eight shots were shot like this on the set: the crew first shot all the ground shots of this big scene, including Ruth's scene, etc., and then shot all the crane shots, including Susie and Ray lying on the stand chatting. wait. The order of completion of this group of shots is: No. 2, No. 7, No. 3, No. 1, No. 8, No. 4, No. 6, No. 5.
This is why scene notes are needed, and why actors who love performing will yearn for and go on stage. Acting during filming is not as enjoyable as rehearsing. The key lies in continuity.
It had taken several hours to finish shooting this big scene, and it was almost noon. The set continued to move around the school to shoot the material for the montage.
Before lunch, Ye Wei, Liz and others went outside the teaching building to meet the enthusiastic students. They were all of the same age, but the students were making an excited noise.
Throughout the whole day, Ye Wei deliberately suppressed the kiss scene and did not want to shoot it, but he still had to shoot what was on the schedule every day, and this kiss was a must.
During the roundtable meeting that day, Jackson came up with the idea of ??keeping this kiss as a regret, and waiting until the scene where Susie comes down from heaven to possess Ruth, and reunites with Ray to make out, to make up for the regret and merge the scenes. In the end, you can still choose to love and let go.
He really couldn¡¯t agree with this. This kiss was the finishing touch of Susie¡¯s beautiful youth, completely pure, sincere and beautiful.
The original story reads: "Ray kissed me next to my locker that week. He meant to kiss me on the stage stand, but he didn't; our only kiss was an accident, like the rainbow halo from a gas gun. Just as beautiful.¡±
This paragraph is so well written!
This was an unexpected kiss that was not explained clearly. What accident? Caused by being hit by another student? Was it caused by the two people turning their heads inadvertently? Or was it caused by Lei suddenly falling and throwing himself at him? He loves falling! This clich¨¦d accidental kiss has the feeling of destiny, and it is also a testimony of the clumsiness of the two people's youth. Susie recalled that this kiss was so beautiful, so beautiful that its beauty could be compared to a gas gun that had no sense of beauty at all. It made everything beautiful.
When Mr. Harvey kisses Susie forcefully with his mouth open, the audience will be pained to the bone. The destiny is torn apart and the dreams of youth are shattered. It is so tragic.
So Ray and Susie must kiss, and there must be an element of surprise. When the two of them finished talking, Ray turned to leave but slipped on his feet and staggered forward, almost falling on Susie. The two stared at each other, without any words, and Ray kissed Susie, a light kiss from lips to lips.
It was already afternoon, and the crew was filming next to the lockers in the corridor of the teaching building.
There were no student extras, and there were not many people on the set. There were only the necessary camera crew and two actors. The director asked that the set be cleared, and no other people were allowed to watch the scene. Even Gia was kicked away. She said: "If you have the ability, I won't be able to see it in the theater in the future."
Despite this, there are still more than a dozen people involved in photography, lighting, sound recording, etc.At work, after shooting other shots of this scene, we finally arrived at the kissing scene between the two. The close-up shot from the side slowly zoomed in, giving a gentle and romantic sense of closeness. Susie was on the left and Lei was on the right.
The two actors were making preparations on the side. Ye Wei was chewing gum, and Liz was chewing gum too. They looked at each other. Needless to say, they both knew each other's thoughts. Let's fight for a way out!
"Break a leg!" Liz cheered for herself.
"I gave you a Chinese name." Ye Wei suddenly said.
"What?" Liz looked at him doubtfully.
Ye Wei took out the pen from his pocket and wrote two words "Liz" on the script, explaining to her: "The Chinese words for these two words are liz, which means 'the grace of jasmine', but The Chinese translation of lily is 'lily', so it can also be said to be 'lily's grace'."
Liz frowned, understood somewhat, and nodded without saying anything.
The director took action himself, so the sound of fire naturally did not ring on the set. When everything was ready, Maurer operated the camera, Lynne wrote down the slate, and Anderson said softly: "action." In full view of the crowd, the machine was right next to it. , there was soft light coming from the scene, and a microphone hung above, and the two of them started performing like this.
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? On the left side of the frame, Liz is clinging to the locker. Ye Wei, who fell from the right, is holding the locker with his right hand. He presses his palm on her shoulder and makes a sound. He is a head taller than her, and he is immediately condescending. looked down at her.
Liz¡¯s eyes were a little evasive at first, but as his face slowly came closer, she gradually stared at him, her cheeks turning red.
Ye Wei looked at her, almost touching her forehead. The closer he got, the softer and crazier her expression became. He opened his lips slightly and kissed her lips gently.
Liz¡¯s eyes were slightly closed, her face full of the beauty of a girl in love for the first time.
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Many years later, when the scene known as "wall bang" became popular in the world, when the media and the public mentioned wall bangs in movies and television, they would inevitably mention Ye Wei's confrontation with Elizabeth Olsen in the 2006 American movie "The Lovely Bones" The classic wall-dong. This was also their first on-screen love and first kiss. - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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