I’m in Hollywood Chapter 130: Little favors
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Du Qifeng is one of the few Hong Kong movies Director that Eric rarely likes. If Baige Wu had a great success because of "Heroes" himself, he formed his own set of three axe in the wrong way. In terms of violent aesthetics, then Du Qifeng has developed a mature and distinctive personal style after groping and experiencing dozens of movies. The film has its own set of black philosophy that combines coldness, violence, fate and sorrow.
《Running Out of Time》 is one of the few films in Du Qifeng ’s work that is free and easy, and if it is evaluated from the perspective of ordinary audiences, then the most frequently used vocabulary is definitely a word: cool! This is the main reason why Eric chose this movie.
At the same time, this is also a bold attempt of Eric. He wants to see whether such a movie that does not exist in the history of Hollywood will succeed.
In the memory of Hollywood many big-selling movies in the next ten years, the current copyright is already famous, and Eric wants to grab the food from those giants. The difficulty is not ordinary, especially when others know that he is optimistic. After the movie. In fact, there are not many big-selling movies that have no copyright attribution. If you work hard according to the current progress, you may have finished shooting in two or three years.
Of course, this is also a fairly safe attempt. First of all, the story of 《Running Out of Time》 is very exciting, and it has also been recognized by the two big coffees of Cruise and Hanks, which shows that this story does not have the problem of the difference between the tastes of Eastern and Western audiences.
Secondly, the two male protagonists launched by Eric are now very protected by Box Office. Tom · Cruise has just experienced the success of 《Rain Man》, and the popularity has once again reached a small peak. Tom · Hanks relied on last year's "Big" Also just won the Oscar best actor nomination. Coupled with the Box Office appeal accumulated by Eric's own previous films, and this cool script, according to the analysis of the Columbia data department, this movie won 100 million USD's Box Office in the summer file is very easy.
On April 5th, in a large studio of Columbia Film Industry, 《Running Out of Time》 was officially started. The first thing to ask for shoots is a series of indoor scenes. This time Eric did not intend to perform shoots in chronological order like the previous 《Pretty Woman》.
The images of the two protagonists of 《Running Out of Time》 are very clear, and there is no change before and after. One is smart and the other is evil. As long as you can successfully enter the scene, no matter how shoots starts from that scene, there will be no big problems. Therefore, Eric has determined the shoots process from simple to complex, and from the inside out.
In the ward, Andy, played by Cruise, learned that his condition had deteriorated, and still came down from the bed without changing his face and began to dress slowly.
"How long is there?"
"Four weeks, if you bleed inside, you will die at any time." The hale doctor sat behind the desk and replied hoarsely.
Andy's dressing movement did not stop at the moment of hearing this bad news. After fastening the belt, he handed a dozen banknotes to the doctor: "It doesn't matter, just give me four weeks of painkillers."
After taking the painkiller, Andy finally put on his coat and prepared to leave. It seems that the doctor with some emotion said: "I don't think we will meet again."
"This life is only," Andy answered calmly.
"Card!"
This scene is completely finished, Eric shouted a pause, neither saying ‘good’ nor ‘no-good’, sitting behind the monitor, frowning slightly as if thinking about something. Although he was discharged from the hospital, Eric still had bandages on his head and occasionally had headache symptoms. However, after repeated inspections, no problems were found and Eric was no longer nervous.
This performance of Cruise does not have any peculiarities. It can be easily completed with his acting skills. Later this shot will be combined with the Andy shot on the roof, using montage to mix and cut, and it will be used. The processing method of fast and slow shots, there will be two switches of fast and slow shots in just two shots.
The reason for this is that the tight voiceover is still intertwined with the click of the second hand, to subtly convey to the audience a hint of the passage of time. Andy has only four weeks of life, after a few short The expression of the camera language will cause tension and curiosity in the audience. What will he do in the remaining four weeks?
The staff at the scene are all old people who have worked with Eric several times, so I have seen Eric fall into this kind of thinking during the process of shoots more than once. Organizing the instrument, patiently waiting for Eric to recover.
But after waiting for a minute, Cruise was finally impatient. He felt that there was nothing wrong with his performance. If he could, then pass it. If not, Cruise did n’t think he would mind repeating it again. , What's going on now?
"Hey, Eric, how about the lens just now, do you need to come back again?" Cruise finally couldn't help walking to Eric and gently pushed the other side.
Eric felt a figure suddenly appeared around him, because in the studio, all the lights were artificial. When Cruise appeared next to Eric, he just blocked a headlight behind him, forming a faint light in front of Eric shadow.
Shadow!
Eric suddenly raised his head consciously, and saw the expression of Cruise, explaining: "Sorry, Tom, I thought about some problems and lost my mind."
"It doesn't matter," Cruise smiled with a big smile: "How was the scene just now, do I need to come back?"
"I'm afraid we have to come again," Eric replied: "Wait a minute, please?"
Cruise shrugged and stepped back, watching Eric yelled at the lighting engineer, and then the lights on the scene began to be dimmed slowly, no longer just the scene of the simulated sunlight, Eric stared at the monitor, He waited until the lighting was adjusted to his satisfaction before the lighting engineer stopped.
"Ok, all the staff are ready, we just took the shot again," Eric said aloud.
After a while, the game record stepped forward and played down the game record board, shoots started again.
Eric carefully stared at the Andy and the doctor ’s pictures on the monitor, and secretly compared this lens with the rooftop lens in his mind.
This shot is used to illustrate the current status of Andy in the movie, and it is very similar to the memory of Andy on the rooftop. The audience will even read this paragraph and produce a misunderstanding that Andy wants to jump off the building, and even feel that this It may be a flashback movie. Andy used four weeks to fulfill all his wishes, and then he was born in love, climbed to the roof of the building, and jumped down.
Since it is used for explanation and memory, Eric feels that the light of the lens in original is too bright. It is exactly the same as the light of Andy on the sunny rooftop, and it cannot give the audience any sense of difference. Therefore, the expression effect is much worse.
It ’s not Eric, the use of lights in Du Qifeng ’s film is like the white pigeon Wu ’s three axe. In addition to the common high contrast and stageization, there are not many tricks. This aspect is strong with the same personal style, but The use of lighting and color is incomparable. Master Wang Jiawei is completely incomparable. Of course, the family of Wang Jiawei is taking the art film route, and the movies of the two can certainly not be compared.
Solved the light problem, Eric began to focus on the performance with Cruise, this small scene really has no place to play, and Eric has no meaning to pick, if the performance of Cruise can bring unexpected surprises, then he is of course very happy, If not, not disappointed, as long as it meets his personal standards.
Anyway, the opportunity has been given to Cruise. Can you rely on this movie to get nominated, and even get some performance awards, still need Cruise's own efforts, Eric is more important to this film's Box Office.
As for the prospect of Oscar portrayed in order to persuade Cruise to agree to the disguise as a woman, huh ... did n’t all the Director producer Houyou Actor say so when he entered the group, Eric did n’t feel guilty at all, he was more concerned It's still Box Office in the movie. After all, he is so young now, and his desire for the Oscar award is not very strong. It is the last word to make money.
The novel theme of the movie 《Running Out of Time》 is affirmative, but only God knows if it can please the Oscar judges. previous life Andy Lau got the first Hong Kong Film Award. If you think about it carefully, maybe there are more public relations components. In addition to the fact that Hong Kong movies have been completely decayed in 1999, there are not many excellent movies. Andy Lau was able to realize the long-cherished long-cherished wish of the emperor.
Just two or three times after ng, this shot passed, the crew began to transfer to another room in the studio, this process took more than half an hour, a film really used the time of the lens shoots Not too much, most of the time is spent on long-term scene layout.
Most of the shots in the past two days have been Cruise's one-man show. He will finish looking at Shane played by Hanks in his room, making women's clothes and vomiting blood while drinking, disguised as Andy father Peter and confrontation with villains.
Although there are original movies in mind, Eric still designed some additional scenes so that there are enough materials for post-production. After all, this is already a brand-new Hollywood movie. It is impossible for Eric to make the film with the memory. Exactly the same.
According to the shoots plan, this process will last for three days. After the fourth day, there will be a group play of Hanks and others, and then the indoor opponents of Cruise and Hanks will appear. Eric is looking forward to the moment. The two major superstars of previous life have no intersection on the screen. , This has to be said to be a pity.
Because of the abundant time in this movie shoots, the entire eight-hour crew set off work directly and ordered the deputy Director to send the shot footage to the editing room. Eric took the lead in leaving in a hurry. In addition to the movie, he compared with other People have more to do. The later stage of 《Running Out of Time》 also needs to wait for the movie to be completely filmed before proceeding.
The initial casting of "The Others" and 《Scent of a Woman》 has been completed, and he will need to finalize the selection of Actor. He also needs to pay attention to 《Steel Magnolias》, which is far away from Louisiana shoots.
《Steel Magnolias》 has been filmed for a month, but with the ink of Herbert · Ross, the older Hollywood old-generation film Director, the film ’s shoots progress is less than half completed, and it will take at least a month. To filmed, post-production will take at least one month.
Moreover, this movie may even have the risk of overspending. Eric is happy to hear about it. 《Steel Magnolias》 is not an independent investment of Firefly. Before that, there was 3 million funds drawn by Herbert · Ross alone.
So Eric does n’t mind investing one or two million more in the movie to expand the share of Firefly, Eric is now waiting for Herbert · Ross to ask for money.
"Hi, Eric, is the wound on your head okay?"
Back to the office of Firefly, Eric saw the Jonathan · Demme that had been waiting here. Jonathan's face showed obvious fatigue, but the tone was still full of breath.
"Thank you for your relationship, Jonathan, much better, did the data bring you?"
"Here, I have selected dozens of alternative Actor lists according to your requirements, but it has exhausted me." Jonathan said with a smile.
He is indeed the most tired person these days, everything is still because of "The Others", because there are two small Actor in script, stimulated by Stewart · Lunkel, Firefly has received more than five thousand one after another A copy of the small Actor file.
Many of the children who sent the files did not have any performance experience at all. It was just that many parents sent the files of their own children with the illusion that they would become rich overnight like the Lankel family.
And there are also forged files. Some unscrupulous parents deliberately made up lies that their children had guested in certain movies or TV series. The staff had to spend a lot of time to confirm the authenticity of these files. In this case, If you want to identify potential Actor, the difficulty can be imagined.
Eric is also not thinking about relying on the memory in his mind, let people directly find those potential children.
However, the operational difficulty of this kind of thing is estimated to be greater than the screening of the potential Actor among 5,000 people.
Although the memory of previous life was completely copied in the mind of Eric, he still did n’t know much information that he did n’t know. If he could casually say the name of a famous Hollywood Star in later generations, maybe the staff could find hundreds A child with the same name and surname came out, but the Westerners were not famous for their originality.
Take a dozen thick document bags handed over from Jonathan · Demme, which includes not only the alternate list of the two children in "The Others", but also three servants, the real Victor family, the husband of Grace Wait Actor.
Although a few less important supporting actors, Eric has let Jonathan decide, he still has to take a look at it himself after all.
First of all, the two important little Actor materials were opened. Eric glanced at the list of ten little boys and was surprised to see the name of Macaulay · Culkin, while the other nine boys did n’t know anymore. .
Go directly to the Culkin information. Although there is no "Home Alone", the boy still has experience in participating in two movies, which also explains why the other party appears on this list. Directly extracting the information of Culkin, Jonathan glanced curiously: "Eric, did you fancy this boy?"
Eric shook his head directly: "No, this one was eliminated."
"Uh, I think this boy named Macaulay · Culkin is the most exciting of the ten children ..."
Eric is also impossible to tell Jonathan, he does not want Macaulay · Culkin to be as famous as previous life. Although "The Others" cannot bring the reputation like "Home Alone", the impact will certainly not be too low.
It is best to keep Macaulay and Culkin in the state of one or two not-so-outstanding movies from time to time. When the boy is an adult, he can also choose his own way in the future.
Pick up the boy now, his wonderful parents will surely be like previous life for money, and a series of cheap trick will destroy the poor boy.
"Jonathan, you forgot, the character of the boy Nicolas in" The Others "is relatively indifferent. Looking at the boy's big eyes in the picture makes me feel too clever, so it doesn't work."
Jonathan glanced along the lines of Eric and found that it was like this: "Well, I really ignored this point."
Eric continued to look at the data of the remaining nine boys, suddenly raised his head, staring at the Jonathan · Demme sitting opposite and asked, "Jonathan, do you know any of these children?"
Jonathan · Demme glanced away a few times, his face slightly reddish, and finally nodded, got up and extracted a boy ’s profile: "This ... this Brian Baker is the one I worked with before. Actor's friend's younger son, I'm sorry, Eric, I shouldn't do this, but I swear, I will seriously add this kid after interview to ensure that the little one is qualified. "
Jonathan said that he was about to crumple the boy ’s information into the trash, but was stopped by Eric. After taking that information and carefully examining it, Eric nodded with satisfaction: "Jonathan, just him . "
"Well, I'm really sorry ... Uh, Eric, what are you talking about?" Jonathan looked back and looked up at Eric incredulously.
Eric smiled and said: "I mean, just him, you know, I don't have time for an interview now. And, I believe you won't joke about this movie, right?"
"When ... Of course," Jonathan nodded his head definitely. This movie is related to his future in Hollywood. Whether he can jump the dragon gate depends on it.
"So, are there any others?" Eric asked again.
This time Jonathan shook his head firmly: "Absolutely no more, Eric, all the remaining alternative Actors have nothing to do with me."
Eric is also a temporary intention. He sold a small favor of Jonathan. Although he has sent a great opportunity to the other party because of "The Others", Eric does not mind giving a little more without paying anything. . Jonathan · Demme is a good potential stock. Eric has decided to envelope it under his own. In addition to the future 《The Silence of the Lambs》, Hanks's first Oscar emperor movie "Philadelphia" is his Director.
Now that the boy is determined, there is no need to read the following, just take the file bag containing the little girl's alternative Actor and open it.
The fact that Hollywood is actually very small seems to be true. This time, two actresses met.
Kirsten · Dunst and Sarah · Michelle · Gella.