It was a sunny day in Springfield on Monday, October 2. It is not a place where it does not rain. It can rain for 7 or 8 days in October, so the filming schedule of the "Winter's Bone" crew must be arranged according to the weather forecast. .
There were no weather surprises on the day of filming. Before dawn, the crew and convoy left the hotel and headed to the filming location, the town of Rogersville, a 20-minute drive east.
For Ye Wei, who comes from Los Angeles, California, this is a beautiful rural town. Telegraph poles and wires connect smooth and clean roads. There are trees everywhere, and almost all of them are one-story houses. The countryside The girl looks simple and natural, and he likes this feeling.
But for Jennifer, who comes from the countryside of Louisville, Kentucky, just to the right of Missouri, she hates this kind of town that doesn¡¯t even have a movie theater. Do you know why many people¡¯s back gardens are surrounded by barbed wire fences? It protects against wild animals and thieves, and saves money. Those girls? 99% of them are country people, and I don't know who is a racist.
However, the shooting location was not in the town. The place where "Rui" lived was even more backward. It was a residential building in the mountains of the Ozark Mountains in the southeast of the town. There was a simple wooden house only a long way away, and there were many kinds of food next to the house. Livestock, and the hills beside the mountains are even large tracts of farms, in line with the original town style.
Because the driveway up the mountain was too narrow and there was no parking lot, the team had to park in an open space on a hillside some distance away from the set. This was set up as a base camp, with only equipment trucks, power supply trucks, food supply trucks and other necessary vehicles. Approaching today's set, "Dolly's House."
The makeup truck is at the base camp, and the hair and makeup team doesn't have much work at this stage. W'sb's style is destined to not require much makeup. Basically, the actors' faces are clean or even dirty, including the heroine Jennifer. She is beautiful, but it highlights her rural sense of mountain people, like her cheeks are red, and the original book said, "it seems like being slapped in the face one after another."
Jennifer originally had flowing blond hair, but now it has been dyed Rui's light brown, tied into a ponytail, and somewhat messy, as if she hasn't washed her hair for several days.
The work of the costume team is not difficult, all daily clothes are enough, and because the family is poor and the story time is short, Rui only has 3 or 4 looks. Until she was almost beaten to death, she was the same one. As described in the original work, she wore A sleeveless yellow dress and combat boots.
The average temperature here in October is only around ¡æ. Wearing just one dress is unreasonable and can easily damage the actors from the cold, so Ye Wei decided after discussing with the costume team that Rui would wear an old-style short-sleeved sweater on the upper body and an extra one on the lower body. Cropped jeans and then layer that dress over it.
This choice is not only not beautiful, but also a bit weird, but it exactly shows Rui's situation of wanting to live a girl's life but not being able to; as well as her complex and contradictory psychology. This dress is her struggle, dream and nature, even if it's cold She also has to dress to remind herself "I'm a girl."
¡°But after all, the movie has to consider the visual effects. The light yellow color is not suitable for Jennifer. In the end, it was a gray-blue skirt, a variegated sweater, and black combat boots.
Ye Wei was very satisfied when she was setting her makeup before. Jennifer stood there looking exactly like "tall, with a small waist, plump arms, shoulders and thighs, and a body built for survival."
At this time, Jennifer and other actors were getting dressed and were walking to the set on the mountain.
The young actors who played the two younger brothers are also among them. They are all local young actors acting in film and television for the first time, and they have proven themselves to be good enough during the audition. Everyone, except their accompanying mother, calls them by their character names, Sonny and Harold.
In the book, 10-year-old Sonny has dark brown hair, and 8-year-old Harold has black hair, but Sonny is the child born from an affair between Rui's mother and her neighbor and family relative "Blonde Milton." Now in the movie, Sonny has blond hair and Harold has light brown hair so that the audience can understand the difference.
This was also followed when casting. Jennifer is of mixed British, German, Irish, Scottish and French descent, with a typical Western European appearance. Harold looks similar to her, as if he is really her brother; Sonny is a descendant of Eastern European immigrants, and Ye Wei It looks like Sonny is Nina¡¯s brother.
Nordic Alicia did not have a role this morning, so she also followed suit.
When the sky dawned, they came to the set and looked at the dilapidated huts in front of them and the crew members who were busy setting up. They looked at each other and couldn't help but smile excitedly. Because of the "stress reduction" last night, they were able to feel natural and have a different mentality: there is nothing to be afraid of here, viy is my best friend!
They all saw it. Ye Wei was talking to photographer Michael Grady, art director Julie Berghoff and others in front. It seemed that the camera position was at the mercy of the camera. He suddenly saw them, smiled, said a few words and came over, "Hey!"
"Hi!", "Hey."??Niff and Alicia both said hello, but they were a little nervous, as if the power was cut off after going crazy, how to recharge it? Was it true last night?
"How do you feel?" Ye Weixiao asked as he approached, "JL, AV?"
The two girls burst into laughter immediately. They had already laughed at this joke that was not suitable for children last night. They laughed so hard at the time, but it still sounds funny now.
JL and AV are the abbreviations of their names, AV is also the abbreviation of adult-video, and jl When j is written as a lowercase j, you will understand. The above point is like jl is one state, jl is another state, the two The or is continuous, and the l reads like a groan. So when JL and AV are put together, it's like watching an adult video while
There were people coming and going around, but viy's poisonous tongue made them all relax. There was really nothing on the set. When they saw him making a face, they laughed even more happily.
¡°I don¡¯t want this nickname!¡± Jennifer solemnly stated while laughing. He said that the studio likes to use nicknames, firstly because of group psychology, and secondly to distinguish people with the same name. There are three women named "jennifer" in the crew. She, assistant director Jennifer Anderson and set worker Jennifer Tiller, the director calls "Jennifer", "Jenny" or "Jen", three people come over, that's not okay, just call her by her nickname, and everyone will know that they are calling her.
"Okay, jl." Ye Wei nodded and suddenly shouted: "What happened!? Someone quickly find a coat for jl to wear. Don't leave her cold, hurry up!!!"
His shout immediately attracted the attention of the audience, and an assistant responded and walked away quickly. Jennifer couldn't help but let out a wow in her heart! Alicia is a little envious of Jane's treatment as a heroine