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- Bang bang!
An egg-like white ping pong ball jumped to the corner of the dark blue ping pong table at high speed and bounced out. It was too late to catch the racket held by the evil tattooed hand.
"What!?"
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Exclamations and laughter rang out in this spacious and elegant table tennis room in the Courtyard Hotel. In addition to the two players, one old and one young, there were also several girls from the TLB crew watching.
The crew worked all day long that day and did not finish work until 9:30 pm and returned to the hotel. It was really overtime, but there was overtime pay.
Every member knew before joining that tlb was an exploitation film work system, and the online staff had good tempers, so there were no complaints.
The crew has welcomed several star actors in the past two days. Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon and Stanley Tucci have all arrived. The next two weeks will be full-scale filming. All their scenes, plus a week of green-screen filming in Toronto with Liz, Kelsey, and more.
Ye Wei is very satisfied with the results of the work over the past few days. The chemistry between the Shamon family members is great. They look like a family when they stand together without makeup. Alice Sebold, who came to visit the class, was filled with praise after seeing it and said many times, "This is amazing."
Ye Wei also feels the same way.
Directors who work with veteran actors can be troubled or happy.
Think about it, a director and Marlon Brando had a disagreement. The director said he was done talking, but Brando still said, "That's how I act." Most directors can only shrug and accept it. But this rarely happens in fact. Even a god-level actor like Brando can benefit from a good director, and a director can also benefit from an experienced actor.
It depends on whether the cooperation is successful. If either party is too arrogant and stubborn to move, it will not work. There are very few people who can become top actors and top directors.
He is not that type. He agrees with a concept, and actors are also creating. The director is better at stimulating than indoctrinating, and many times it is better to let go than to hold on tightly, so he likes to communicate with the actors, and there are often surprises. Of course, the premise is that the actor himself is capable.
¡°For example, the characters of the Salmon family can all perform in their true colors.
Wei Zi, who has just become a mother, exudes a natural sense of motherhood all the time. The few traces of her performance are more real, and she is a mature actor who performs with intuitionism.
Keanu Reeves is the one directed by Ye Wei the most, and that was the case in the pre-production stage.
Frankly speaking, what he values ??most about Keanu is his true experience. Keanu¡¯s subconscious has an emotional memory of the loss of close friends, relatives and old loves, which is a treasure. He himself didn't want to replace emotions when acting, but as a director, he encouraged, helped, and pulled Keanu to use those emotional memories.
Yes, this thing is a little cruel, just a little bit. An old man is in pain. Who doesn't have some pain? It's good to recover after the pain.
And as long as the sadness in Keanu's heart and brain is activated and he is suppressed to act, the pain will be revealed inadvertently Keanu's pain will make everything better. As for how Keanu will recover in the future, whether he will suffer from insomnia and dreaminess, or whether he needs to see a psychiatrist, that is none of his business.
¡° Anyway, the number of good actors who don¡¯t see a psychiatrist is less than the number of giant pandas.
Ye Wei knows that he is a bastard. At least until Keanu's scene is completed, he will only be a bastard who exposes people's scars. Does he have an uneasy conscience? No, for the movie.
But Keanu is a professional actor. This situation was made clear during the negotiation stage. Keanu said that he regarded this performance as a spiritual journey of great significance. He wanted to grow new bones like Jack. He specifically told Ye Wei not to be polite, and his goal was to perform well and thoroughly.
The fact that Keanu would say something like this shows that he doesn¡¯t understand viy. Ye Wei thought that after he played tlb, he would know that ¡°polite¡± does not exist in viy¡¯s dictionary.
Ask Stanley Tucci, he almost became a perverted pedophile murderer because he also used Methodism. What to do without the emotional memory of Mr. Harvey? Ye Wei asked him to find a place where he could slaughter live chickens and ducks, kill them with his own hands with a bad guy mentality, listen to their screams, watch them slowly die, and imagine
¡°The thing that gave him the most peace of mind on the set was ¡°Grandma¡±. Playing this role was zero difficulty for Sarandon, and it was no more difficult than if Kevin Spacey played Mr. Harvey. And she still did a lot of homework. She is a professional and dedicated person.
Ye Wei is not surprised. Sarandon is one of the greatest actresses of her generation, right next to Meryl Streep. It is not easy to get her.
It¡¯s not easy to beat her in a game of table tennis
"How?What's going on! ? "Ye Wei looked blankly at the table tennis ball falling on the wall of the table tennis room, feeling like he was playing table tennis with Forrest Gump.
Sarandon was very calm, but Gia over there almost laughed out loud. Liz, Moody and Margot were also there, but Moody didn't laugh out loud, she just smiled.
When Sarandon dragged Ye Wei to play ball before, he was talking about drama with Liz and others, so they followed him to watch the game. After Ye Wei returned to the crew, you could find him in the hotel if you looked for him at night. He didn't go out to play.
¡°The thing is, I got you beat up, kid.¡± Sarandon said in a gravelly voice.
Susan Sarandon¡¯s real name is Susan Thomas. She changed her surname because of her first husband Chris Sarandon. The two have one child. After the 12-year marriage ended, she has not changed her surname again. Later, she and Tim Robbins, who is 12 years younger than her, have been in a relationship for 18 years. They are not married and have two children.
She and Robbins are one of the most famous sibling relationships in Hollywood. When the media asked her why she always prefers younger men? She replied: "They are more dynamic and can lead you to discover something new, or bring you back something that has been lost long ago."
Indeed, this nearly 60-year-old old woman with a unique personality is not old-fashioned at all, and she still exudes vitality that is not inferior to that of young people. This is exactly what "Grandma" is like.
"I didn't expect young people today to be so bad." Sarandon made no secret of her pleasure in teasing Ye Wei, a talented and handsome bad boy.
Ye Wei couldn't help but feel a little helpless. It was really difficult. Grandma was difficult, and the person who played the grandmother was also difficult.
"Grandma" is also a major adaptation trap of TLB. If one is not changed well, her destructive power will be enough to ruin the emotion of the entire movie.
To understand why, we must first know what kind of character the grandmother is in the original work and what role she plays.
In Chapter 21 of the original book, Susie in heaven recalled her first and only kiss with Ray. In fact, she was very uneasy at that time. The original book reads: "I'm afraid that our first kiss won't be as good as others described. To put it more clearly, I'm afraid that I'm not good enough. I'm afraid that after the first kiss, not only will he not fall in love with me, Me, will dump me instead.¡±
Susie remembered one day when she and her grandmother talked on the phone about their first kiss.
"The first kiss is destined." Grandma first defined it, and then talked about her first kiss. Her first kiss was not romantic. It was an adult, the father of a friend. But she said that apart from the kiss, nothing else happened between her and the man. Maybe just tell Susie. Finally she asked Susie: "Does any boy want to kiss you?"
¡¾My parents have never asked me this question, but now I know that they already knew it, and they secretly exchanged understanding smiles behind my back.
I swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said hesitantly, "Yes."
"What's his name?"
"thunder."
"Do you like him?
"like."
"So, why are you hesitating?"
¡°I¡¯m afraid I¡¯m not good enough.¡±
"Susie?"
"What?"
"Little baby, have fun."]
This paragraph makes it clear that grandma smoked, drank, and was a hippie. She was not a fuel-saving lamp when she was young, and she is not a fuel-saving lamp when she is old. Susie's mother, Abigail, was very annoyed with her, but nothing seemed to be able to knock this woman down. It seemed that she would not be sad and painful, not even her husband's affair, not Susie's death.
She always makes sense, truths about life that sound vulgar. She was a mentor to everyone, the glue that kept the Salmon family back from their grief.
In the long story of the original work, this character is three-dimensional and multi-faceted. Losing Susie is not without pain, but she can no longer add to the pressure of this broken family. What she has to do is to work hard to get her daughter back on track and her son-in-law out of the haze. , let Lindsey and Buckley grow up healthy and happy.
The novel allows people to read it slowly, and its long length also makes the clown role of the grandmother unobtrusive. But when it was adapted into a movie, instead of grandma being the protagonist, she had to become a more functional character, firstly a mentor and secondly a clown.
Why does grandma have to exist? Because the tragedy of tlb requires a clown-type mentor.
The so-called clown is a character whose role is different from the main tone of tragedy. They are usually full of comedy and bring other atmospheres such as laughter and relaxation to the story, thereby easing the audience's nerves and also adding to the atmosphere and theme of tragedy. Contrast and inspiration.
In Shakespeare¡¯s tragedies, there are two main types of clowns.
One is the two gravediggers in the cemetery in "Hamlet". In a place like the cemetery, they are digging graves, and Hamlet's conversation with themEvery sentence is humorous, but it still revolves around serious topics such as suicide, law, and religion. This makes the dark story a little brighter, and also pave the way for Hamlet's psychological turn when he sees the skeleton and laments the impermanence of life, and takes a dim view of life and death.
The role of the two clowns here is gentle, and the audience will not be completely relaxed.
In "Antony and Cleopatra", before Queen Cleopatra died, a simple and honest countryman brought a basket of figs as a gift to Her Majesty the Queen. The Queen asked the guards to bring in the clown. Afterwards, it was a scene of complete laughter. The comic effect produced by this character with "I am a clown" engraved on his forehead is obvious, strong and unreserved, allowing the audience to temporarily put aside the whole tragedy and relax completely, and then Cleopatra's death will not seem surprising. So heartbreaking.
These two types of clowns, the former is the negative type and the latter is the positive type, both bring varying degrees of comic relief to the tragic atmosphere, but do not harm the sadness of the entire story.
Grandma Liu in "A Dream of Red Mansions", one of China's four great classics, is also a clown.
All these clowns in stories around the world always bring a neutral perspective, allowing the audience to temporarily step away and watch the story. These clowns often get comedic endings that are different from the tragic ending of the main line. Because their presence is a comfort, a supplement and an inspiration, giving the audience the understanding of the story that the creator wants them to realize.
This is not the first time Ye Wei has dealt with the role of a clown.
lms¡¯ grandfather is not a clown, and black humor belongs to the category of comedy; Sarah Hill, Bethany¡¯s teenage mentor in SS, is a positive clown mentor who generates completely positive warmth and laughter every time she appears. Even just looking at Melissa McCarthy makes her laugh.
What type of clown should grandma be set as in the tlb movie story?
At the roundtable that day, both Jackson and Spielberg believed that positivity was better. What they mean is that the opening of this story is too hurtful. Usually the utter pain of tragedy occurs at the climax or ending. TLB is at the turning point in the first act, and I'm afraid the audience won't be able to bear it for that long.
¡°And if it¡¯s a negative clown, maybe by the end of the film, the audience won¡¯t have the feeling that these characters have recovered or that they themselves have recovered. It is likely to be even more sad because they realize that this absurd clown is pretending to be strong to comfort them, instead of them being naturally infected by a strong and optimistic person.
This loses credibility and leads to no recovery on and off the screen. The second act will become increasingly long, boring, and irritating. The third act will make people unenergized. Even if they don't leave early, the audience's final evaluation will be " Unbearable¡±.
Jackson also has a directorial idea to use a montage to show grandma Marimaha helping the Salmon family cheer up, and giving all her joy and positive power to the audience. It would be best to pair the montage with a light rock song.
no! Ye Wei didn't even know if Jackson wanted to harm him or if he had fat in his brain? Grandma must be a negative clown!
This is like the first kiss between grandma and Susie in the original book. What she brought was not 100% positive power. She even talked about the beauty of the kiss between her and "Mr. McGahan". In fact, this is a negative and intriguing contrast: the grandmother who "knows this is wrong, but it feels really wonderful, at least I like it" is still alive and well, while the "I'm afraid I'm not good enough" Susie died at the age of 14 .
Susie is so kind that she would sympathize with Mr. Harvey's loneliness and be tricked into a hole by him. If Mr. Harvey wanted to attack his 14-year-old grandmother, he would only get a sentence: "I have no interest in you, you old pervert."
Alice Sebold's writing is very emotional, sensitive, and candid, and she dares to take readers passively through the road of recovery. But Peter Jackson, he always seems to be afraid that this is too dark, this is too sad, this is too much, so we want a gorgeous paradise, a positive clown grandma, and rock and roll! Bullshit.
Hey, here is an angel girl who was raped, killed and dismembered, a happy family was broken up, and all the good things disappeared.
This story is doomed to be serious from the beginning, and it has only a failed relationship with rock music.
Ye Wei felt that Jackson was really arrogant. His thinking was like he was manipulating a group of characters that were not rounded, or a group of puppets to tell a story, and he personally shouted from the top of the stage: "Okay, now you should be sad. ", "Okay, now you should laugh.", "Okay, now you should be moved." Then the audience will definitely follow it and be completely moved.
Using this simple and crude way of dealing with emotions and psychological transformation to treat such a serious story He thought the most likely thing would be for the audience to rush up and tear down the stage and beat up Fatty Jackson who fell down.
Positive clown? How to be emotionally unobtrusive? How can there be emotional resonance?
Ye Wei has no confidence to do it, nor is he interested in doing it. This makes no sense at all.
So he said this to the two best directors at the time: "When Susie is killed, only the ending scene can be completely positive."
His "grandma" is a passive clown. She is neither a neutral bystander nor a detached guide. She is a dynamic old man who walks with the audience. She has more life wisdom and the same emotions.
"Director, your ball." At this time in the table tennis room, Modi went to pick up the table tennis ball and returned it to Ye Wei.
Her words made everyone startled. Gia burst into laughter while holding back the laughter in her stomach. The corners of Liz's mouth twitched. Should she say it was bigger or smaller? Sarandon laughed directly. She didn't know Moody's temperament. Picking up the ball was already brave enough for Moody, but Margot was competing to show off.
Modi looked at everyone who was laughing, and his face went from confusion to red, and he also laughed: "Haha."
Ye Wei didn¡¯t smile. Is Modi a negative or positive type? He knew that she must be an honest person who was often bullied at school. It was not a good thing for her to take the initiative only to be teased by everyone. He took the ping pong ball and said in a serious and warm voice: "Thank you, Moody."
Modi nodded silently, feeling much more natural immediately.
¡°I¡¯ll pick it up next time.¡± Margot said with a smile.
"I'll pick it up myself." Ye Wei looked at her and told her that it was just once. Talking too much is purely narcissistic. It won't happen in the future. She will understand.
Margot frowned in disappointment: "Oh."
"Susie, I'm going to play with you seriously." Ye Wei stood in front of the table tennis table, got his right to serve, squatted down, held the racket tightly in his right hand, and dropped the table tennis ball on the table with his left hand Fighting, a murderous look flashed in his eyes, and he said: "I just respected the elderly before, but now I let you see my true strength!"
Sarandon got ready. Although Ye Wei's skills were very good, he got started quickly and had high strength, speed, reaction and other aspects of athleticism. He wouldn't be good for long.
Ye Wei threw the ping pong ball high, and everyone's eyes were watching the white ball fall from the air, only to see Ye Wei swipe the ball and hit it!
Didn¡¯t hit, missed.
"Hahahaha!" Now Master Gia could laugh as much as she wanted, and Liz, Maudie and Margot also laughed.
"Oh please" Ye Wei hit his head with the racket in frustration.
"Boy, you really disappoint me." Sarandon shook his head and joked, "There is a Chinese saying that I particularly like, 'Know the shame and then be brave'. After knowing the shame, work hard to become strong."
"Let me tell you a story." Ye Wei continued to serve, with table tennis balls dripping from his hands, and said in a deep voice: "When I was a kid, there was a guy who humiliated me on the football field. Do you know what happened to him? He later went to play wrestling. , that way he would at least have a better reason to fall to the ground!"
He lightly tossed the ball, swung it with his bat, and hit it with a bang!
Sarandon on the opposite side also waved his racket, bang bang
"Oh nothis can't be my ball! Traitor!!"
"That's your ball."
"You wait, you wait for me"
¡ù¡ù
"Lily, I don't know if you really put me on the blacklist. In any case, I will continue to send you text messages twice a day. If it bothers you, please forgive me. I can't help it. I feel so far away again. It's not enough to express my feelings, I want to tell you everything.
Songs have always been an important way for humans to express themselves. I want to sing a song for you every day. You are the daughter of the King of Singers, and you are used to hearing singing voices of your father¡¯s level. My singing voice may not be that beautiful, but it all sounds from deep in my heart. If you want to listen, just log on to the ia-songs channel on Tube. Don¡¯t worry, I won¡¯t be exposed. Come and listen. "
Enter the URL, open, ia-songs channel, user heathclimb.
Heathkram? Heathcliff.
Heathcliff is wilderness + cliff, and heathclimb is wilderness + climbing. Do you want to say that you are working hard alone? Are you?
A video "a-whole-new-world", click on it.
The video window on the laptop screen played an image. On the hotel balcony under the night sky, a tall guy wearing a smiley mask was sitting on a high wooden chair, holding a log-colored guitar in his arms. He was wearing a black robe and black trousers, with medium-short black hair that could not be covered by the mask hanging down, and black half-finger gloves on his hands.
That mask is very strange, oh, the mask in "V for Vendetta", the Guy Fawkes mask.
He is facingHe nodded in greetings in the direction of his head, a smiley mask covering his expression, and he said in a rough voice: "Hello, I am Heathram, and the song I want to sing for you today is "a-whole-new-" world". "The radio is very clear, there is no other noise, and the professional equipment, camera and lighting are used.
Heathram strummed the guitar and sang: "I can show you the world, shiny, glowing, gorgeous. Now tell me, princess, when was the last time you let your heart make a decision? I can open your eyes and take you to see one wonder after another"
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