The reason why the tlb crew chose to shoot the 5-day green screen scene in Toronto is because of the old production reasons: taxes are low and it is cheap.
"Carrie", which took eight weeks to shoot, was completed last week as scheduled. Ye Wei has been following the filming situation from Kimberly Pierce, especially Nina's condition. Kimberly said Nina was getting better and better, and she had been particularly good in the last few weeks.
Nina will also be filming the sixth season of "Degrassi: The Next Generation" this summer.
Ye Wei did not contact her, let alone visit her in Scarborough. Both he and she knew that it was not appropriate for them to get close for the time being, which was good for everyone moving forward.
On Monday morning, the crew started working in the studio. It was also Ye Wei's first time filming a green screen scene. Mao Ruien and others were also inexperienced, but the crew had a visual effects department that worked with the director under the leadership of visual effects director Roger Gate to complete the work.
With a budget of 25 million, the budget allocated to the special effects part is not high, which is just right for this movie.
What is the biggest trap of tlb? Heaven.
On the issue of how to deal with heaven, Ye Wei and Peter Jackson had a huge quarrel more than once. This was also the main reason why he won the right to adapt. Alice Sebold believed in his ideas. Heaven doesn't need to be gorgeous, it can't be gorgeous, it's not even beautiful.
No matter how you deal with heaven, there will definitely be controversy after it is released, because the heaven in the original work is far from the heaven described by Christianity. Even if you cunningly say that it is actually the middle station between heaven and earth, who would care? That's heaven.
Perhaps the most uncontroversial treatment of heaven is a ball of light, with no scene, no color, no state, no sound no need to shoot.
The dispute in this area cannot be resolved or explained, because the setting is like this. There may be viewers who question and say, "This is unreasonable." Hey, the setting is the setting. As Siebold said, "This has nothing to do with religion," it's just her fantasy of paradise.
Paradise must be concrete and have a certain degree of fantasy expression, but it must not be too flamboyant with special effects. A fancy paradise is meaningless and will only drag down the main emotion of the story.
This is Ye Wei¡¯s tone for TLB Paradise.
After Susie¡¯s death, she is no longer the protagonist. What occupies the protagonist¡¯s position is the human world. Her growth exists as a branch line. She is more of a bystander. Therefore, the role of heaven serves the human world, and its emotions cannot conflict with the emotions of the human world. It can only be a kind of exaggeration and foil.
His idea is simply that heaven is not an amusement park. Although Susie's paradise in the original work is very open, with joy in suffering, friends, teachers, and later visits with her deceased grandfather none of these are true to the original work. .
Susie¡¯s so-called paradise is just a very small place, as small as a back garden, surrounded by a dark, dense and weird forest, giving it a strong sense of confinement. Although the scenery will change, it will all be dilapidated and decayed, and there will not be the level of fantasy like in "Alice in Wonderland".
Her vision of heaven is connected with human stories and her mood, but whether it is grief or nervousness, sadness runs through it all.
As everyone in the world recovers and Susie matures, her paradise gradually becomes more open and beautiful. Finally, the sense of confinement will be completely shattered and hope will be restored.
So Susie¡¯s murder did not bring her to a better and happier place. All happiness does not come from heaven, but from the hearts of herself and her family and friends.
How to exaggerate Susie¡¯s confinement and depression in heaven, and how to peek into the human world?
Ye Wei thought about it a lot, and finally got the answer from the beginning, the snow globe.
When Susie wants to see the human world, she approaches the edge of the forest, and an invisible glass sphere like a holographic image appears around her, covering her heaven from top to bottom. Through the image of the sphere, she can see the scene of the human world. , as if you are standing next to it.
It seemed that it was within reach. Susie reached out and touched the glass sphere. She could even touch the faces of her family members and Ray's image, but she didn't really touch it.
"Harley" played by Kelsey is the only person who appears in Susie's Paradise. She plays all the functions of the counselor Vernie and others in the original work.
Before Susie regained her life, she lived in such a "perfect world" until the end of the film.
Ye Wei reminded herself again and again that every scene and every shot in paradise must be effective, ruthless, and cautious!
That is not a candy that relaxes the audience's nerves and comforts the audience's broken heart. It can only be a big stone that destroys the audience's last fantasy of "Susie is happy in heaven", pressing into the deepest part of the audience's heart and crushing it.
Susie¡¯s life in heaven is not good at all! death?? means loss, sorrow, negativity, and farewell to everyone in the world. Heaven and hell are no different.
At the roundtable that day, Peter Jackson and his wife still retained their opinions on the paradise revealed by Ye Wei: a gorgeous paradise will not affect the look and feel of the story, and can also be poignant and impressive.
Shocked his skull and wanted to film "The Hobbit" with visual shock.
The scenes in heaven are not all green screen scenes. Some scenes in the storyboard are no different from those in the human world. They were shot in some locations in Philadelphia, but the lighting and color processing are different from the scenes in the human world.
But the crew still left five days for the green screen scenes. Ye Wei had to slow down the filming of these scenes and carefully consider the emotional unity between heaven and earth.
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"fire."
At this time, the green screen of the studio was filming a scene where Susie had just arrived in heaven. She was in a small snowfield surrounded by forests, and the sky was covered with heavy snow. From the beginning, the audience was reminded that "Heaven is equal to a snow globe." And through CGI special effects, the forest, snow and falling snow will be a bit dreamy.
The lights were on, the digital camera operated by Maurer was running, and Ye Wei, Gia and more than a dozen people were looking at Liz over there.
Liz had some doubts on her face and looked around. She walked around the stage, stretched out her palms to catch the imaginary snowflakes, and looked up at the gloomy sky with changing auroras.
"Cut." Ye Wei called to stop and commented: "Not bad, but what did I say?"
Everyone didn¡¯t quite understand. Anderson felt that Lizzie was okay with the first one. Gia, who had just listened to the director¡¯s request, also felt that Lizzie had done it.
Liz knows that Ye Wei has another request. She will go beyond his request and "perform her own thing." Isn't that enough? what to do? Rolling around in the snow? She really didn't expect it, so she said honestly: "Director, I have already given full play to myself."
"You don't have one, give me your personality! One more thing." Ye Wei used a stern tone.
"Okay, I'll try my best." Liz could only nod.
Looking at the scene in front of them, Anderson, Maurer and other old friends all remembered the time when the little tyrant broke out on the set of "Soul Surfer". "Garfield" was scolded so much that he almost cried. If viy scolded a 17-year-old girl like that, maybe Li I was about to cry on the spot.
Gia had bad expectations. She missed the good show last time.
However, Ye Wei did not curse, but said seriously: "I am not satisfied with your performance, because you just reacted like every ordinary person would do, and I want your reaction!"
Soon, "fire" sounded again, followed by "no". Liz's second line did not change the schedule, but she acted more exaggeratedly. Ye Wei criticized her "You are not acting in a stage play!" The third line Also, Liz lowered her head to look at herself, pulled her clothes a few times, and touched her neck where her throat had been cut. Ye Wei criticized, "It's too much, it exceeds the duration of this shot." The fourth shot was ng again, and Liz added a question line, "Is anyone there?" Ye Wei criticized, "This is a shot without lines."
Liz has lost his temper by his NG. Why is there a personality?
well! Even for stage plays, actors have to go through long rehearsals before they can perform on stage; in inconsistent camera performances, many times the actors don't even know what they are acting and just act according to the director's instructions. , the audience won¡¯t know it anyway.
What does Ye Wei mean? Liz asked her brother on the phone last night. Her brother studied film and television production at USC. He said: "Some directors like actors to be puppets, and some don't. He has done a good job in scheduling the camera, but he leaves room for you in scheduling the actors. , this part of the space is up to you to decide and play. If you don¡¯t fill the gap, he will not be happy.
¡°According to what you said, Ye Wei is actually very kind to you. He not only makes his own movies, but also wants to train you. Liz, you really met a good director. "
Of course, 18-year-old Oscar nominee for Best Director, what do you think? Liz also understands what her brother said. She has long understood that viy gives actors space and cherishes their personality, but hasn't she already used up that space?
besides? What else?
"No!" Article 5 continued, and Liz jumped a little. Ye Wei shouted angrily: "Liz Olson, let me give you a suggestion, get out of your pants!"
After hearing this sarcasm, no one dared to speak. Giya glanced at Ye Wei, was it a bit too much? All constitute sexual harassment.
But as an expert "Alien" fan, Liz knew this was Valentine saying to Rhonda "get-out-of-pants!" It was so classic. No matter what time it was, Liz would explode when she heard this.??, but not now.
She also got a little fired up: "I think I have an idea, why don't we drop a bomb where we're going? When it goes off, we run like fucking assholes!"
"You can try, I've always wanted you to have your own ideas." Ye Wei said.
Liz took a deep breath, okay, I understand, I am an actor, not the director¡¯s puppet, not a puzzle, not a tool, I am an actor! !
"fire."
Article 6 The shooting started. Liz looked around with a puzzled look, walked a few steps, raised her head to look at the heavy snow in the sky, raised her hand to grab a handful of snowflakes, opened her palm to see, there was nothing, and even more Confused.
Ye Wei stared at her seriously, and when she finished her performance, she shouted: "cut!"
Liz looked over, waiting for him to say why not, but she saw him laughing: "This one is good, this one is really good. Lychee, the five items just now, no matter good or bad, I can see your personality from them , those are your creations!" Liz's heart suddenly felt warm, yes, she really met a good director
She asked with a toothy smile: "Have you passed Article 6?"
"No, the first one is the best and the most natural." Ye Wei's smile remained unchanged, "I will choose the first one for later editing."
Everyone who just felt that they understood something was stunned, Liz opened her mouth wide, what! ? What were you doing just now? What are you doing with the extra five shots?
Ye Wei walked up to her, looked into her gray eyes, and encouraged: "Remember the feeling just now, it must be a creative feeling, independent of the director, use your creativity to give you Whatever the role gives you, whatever it is, it's yours.
You showed it, I saw it, and now you know more about yourself and I know more about you, so that we can do better. As for this time, even if I don¡¯t adopt it, there will always be a time when I do. "
"Hmm" Liz couldn't help but think after hearing this, "I'm trying to understand what you're saying"
Ye Wei walked back, "Understand the director while creating yourself. Good actors are like this, like me."
"Asshole." Liz glared at him with hatred, but the corners of her mouth curled up in a smile.
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finally!
The last week of June has just begun, and the gossip media has finally gained something new on the topic machine of viy. Ye Wei and Elizabeth Olsen have confirmed their date! On Sunday, the 25th, the two were photographed dining together at Pat-S-King-of-Steak in Philadelphia.
In a series of photos secretly taken by the paparazzi, the two were talking and laughing, and even fighting for food affectionately. Little Olsen's face was full of coquettishness, and he looked like a young man in love.
There is no such thing? It¡¯s funny to gossips and movie fans, now it¡¯s happening!
Although spokespersons for both parties quickly denied the incident, Leslie Dart told the media: "They just met there by chance and wanted to have another cheesesteak sandwich before leaving Philadelphia with the crew. "
A chance encounter? Who would believe it? Is there no better reason to cover up? Are there other people traveling with us but not included in the photo?
The secretaries have already seen viy¡¯s new girlfriend, Olsen, who is 1 year younger.
? tmz said, this shows several points: first, Ye Wei is tired of playing with sister-brother love, second, Olson is not so easy to pursue, and third, Ye Wei is quite serious this time. So Ye Wei threatened to concentrate on pursuing little Olson, but despite seeing the results, she still couldn't escape the clutches of "Hiskellam".
? laineygos private p said, "We have predicted it a long time ago."
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Ye Wei felt that this was his fault. He didn¡¯t notice any paparazzi following him along the way. Damn him! But as celebrities, appearing together at a place like Pat-S-King-of-Steak would most likely be exposed. They should have turned away when they saw Liz. No one believed it was a chance encounter.
Leslie didn¡¯t believe it. She said that it would be better to say nothing to the public that it was a chance encounter. But he insisted on telling the truth. It was just a chance encounter. It would be like this for a hundred years.
What¡¯s the attitude of your friends? Lev sent a text message: "Another one! Brother Wei, it seems you are firing again. I really envy your life!"
Where are the family members? My mother, who was traveling in China, received a tip and called me asking: "Wei, tell me about your new date?"
"No! I'm pursuing Lily, you know." Ye Wei told her mother truthfully, and her mother chose to believe it. Nina and Amy would believe it too.
Except for family and close friends, he actually doesn¡¯t care what others think, he only cares about what Lily thinks. He sent her an explanation text message without calling her. It was not good to press too hard. He knew she needed time.
one personAlthough they were both in the hotel and their suites were not far apart from each other, Ye Wei called Liz. When she talked about this scandal, she was really alert: "You want me to help explain to your girlfriend, right?" But she was also dissatisfied: "I'm not in a hurry yet. Several friends asked me if I have become your prey. My sisters forget it."
"Please." Ye Wei could only sigh, not at all as heroic as he was on the set during the day.
"Okay, I know her, I can handle it." Liz seemed impatient.
Ye Weiyi was startled, "I haven't said who it is yet."
¡°Scarlett Johansson?¡±
"No!"
"I'm kidding you, Phil Collins' daughter, right?"
"Yes. In fact, we are not a boyfriend and girlfriend relationship, but a more romantic and intimate relationship. We call it an ia relationship. You can just understand it as a love relationship."
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ia relationship? not understand. What a sentimental thing, someone else¡¯s boyfriend!
Liz lay lazily on the bed. She and Lily Collins knew each other, not very well, and they both had mobile phone numbers. She immediately texted her to ask if she could call her, so she called her: "Hi Lily, how are you doing? ? I¡¯m here to explain.¡±
She told the truth: "Weige and I met by chance yesterday. All we talked about at the dinner table was about movies. To be precise, he was directing my performance. We left together because he was worried that I would eat too much. I can¡¯t gain weight during filming, but I¡¯m a foodie, so I have no reason to lie to you.¡±
Lily's laughter came from the mobile phone: "Elizabeth, he is not my boyfriend, and he and I are not dating. I only know about your scandal, you told me."
"I know, he said you two have a special relationship." Liz also laughed.
"Don't listen to him. He and I have nothing to do with each other. We are not friends." Lily said.
"What?" Liz felt her head filled with questions, "But he said"
Lily spoke calmly: "He is pursuing me. I have already rejected him. He is still in the persistence stage, but I really have no feelings for him. So you don't need to explain to me. Your affairs have nothing to do with me. ¡±
ha! Liz turned her eyes strangely, was Ye Wei just wishful thinking? Thinking of Ye Wei recently, she kindly said good things to him: "He's not bad. After his sister was lost and found, he changed a lot when he came back from Los Angeles. I don't think he's carefree, he's just manly. ¡±
Lily on the other end was silent for a moment and said, "Please tell him not to continue and let everyone live a good life."
"Oh." Liz felt more and more interesting, this is really interesting, that is viy! She asked jokingly: "You really don't want him anymore? If you don't want him, I'll take him away. I quite want to date him, this guy recently." Her heart skipped a beat when she said those words.
"You can take it away if you want. Be careful with him, he knows how to play with emotions best." Lily said with a chuckle.
"I'm kidding you, he loves you very much, I don't have a chance." Liz paused as she said it, feeling bored again. If she were to play Susie watching Ray and Ruth kiss, she would be very creative. . She added: "Okay, that's it. You and I don't know. In short, nothing happened between me and him. We are not dating!"
"Okay, bye, good night."
"Good night."
After ending the call, Liz looked at the phone in her hand, thought for a while, laughed for a while, and then called Ye Wei to reply: "I said it all, I said it all."
"Thank you, what did she say?" Ye Wei asked anxiously.
"Wellshe reacted likeshe doesn't like you, she doesn't care about you."
"It just sounds similar."
"She asked me to tell you, 'Don't continue, let everyone live a good life.'"
"Retell her original words sentence by sentence."
"That's not okay, this involves privacy."
"Please."
"No, really not."
"Please"
"I'll tell you, you should understand, 'Be careful with him, he knows how to play with emotions.'"