Hollywood Domination Chapter 409: Subtraction show

"The 26th shooting on July 23, 2010." With the closing of the electronic slate, Jenny, who had changed into a heavy winter coat with some colors from the 19th century, walked around the forest again. Feeling the cold wind blowing up the corners of the clothes, as well as the warmth of the illuminated panels and lights shining on her body, but this feeling of ice and fire is not comfortable, making it difficult for her to enter the state of play—to be honest, Even if she wants to get into the play now, it is a bit difficult for her, because Salvi didn't show her the specific script, but just let her go forward on this road like Heath, and gave her an emotional state, just like that Shooting back and forth over and over again, of course, there will be a break during each pass. After all, apart from Jenny being tortured, there are dozens of staff outside the field who are also providing her with technical support.

Walking back and forth like this for a whole morning, Jenny has always had a good temper, and now she also has the urge to give up on herself, but she didn't mean to protest, but mechanically followed Salvi's instructions and walked forward: On the set, the director has absolute authority. If he couldn't bear it all morning and had to give his opinion when Salvi didn't specifically target her, the next shooting would definitely not go smoothly. Moreover, this is indeed an existing shooting method, and it is not only the director Salvi who is using it.

——Yes, there are many cases where actors don’t know what they are filming on the scene, and the more famous art directors, the more they like to do this. The most famous of them should be Wong Kar Wai. This is also the reason why he will never be able to make a commercial film. The script of a commercial film must have been decided long ago, and it is very cost-effective. It is absolutely impossible for him to waste his time like this. And Salvi's style may be better than that of Wong Kar-wai, because he explained to Jenny the basic age and mood of Coke-the current Coke is not a girl's time, but the second meeting with Mentos She was a young married woman in her 20s, and she was not in a good mood, so she habitually came to the forest where she often walked with her former lover. Then...then it was gone. In the script that Jenny saw, there was no such paragraph, and she didn't know what Coke would do, she just walked over and over again, coming, back, coming, back, and Salvi Let's play the budget burning game together...

As for Wong Kar Wai, he could go on for hours and let the actors stand and wander, without a script or other information, until the actors finally collapsed before choosing one of the shots. The most exaggerated thing is , many times the film actors who shoot him can’t see the script from the beginning to the end... And the big names who collaborated with him just endured it obediently. Lose.

For his own approach, Wang explained that this can strip off the defenses of the actors, get rid of the slickness that comes from rich experience, and let them reveal the most authentic human side, while the naked The naked emotional expression can always hit people's hearts directly, and it also makes the movie more layered. I still remember that when I read the report in my previous life, Jenny still agreed with this. Wong Kar Wai’s movies can indeed make every audience have their own interpretation of the plot and characters. Everyone has their own opinions, not necessarily the same as others. ——At that time, she didn't know that she would be "ravaged" by a director of the genre like Wong Kar Wai. Of course, watching the excitement would not be a big deal...

But now, after she put on her costume and started to walk back and forth, Jenny understood the bitterness in the hearts of the actors who filmed Wong Kar Wai's films, as well as Heath's indescribable expression: For an excellent actor, Jenny is not afraid of the director adding tasks. Even if you give more than a thousand words of inner activities, you are required to think about this passage in your heart when you walk this road. As long as you give instructions, this addition can always be done. It came out, even as long as the script is given, she can make guesses based on the context and the biography of the characters no matter how brief the dialogue is, and knows what Coke will think in such a situation. There is nothing, not even why she is in a bad mood, and there is no script, which makes her completely blind, and she doesn't even know how to try.

For the first time, Jenny is still trying to find the feeling, to play some drama in her heart, the second time and the third time, she is trying to come up with different interpretations, and on the sixteenth time, she will do it again soon. Now that she was going to have lunch, she had completely given up and started to think about things: Salvi is not a crazy director, he shot "Monroe" quite well, why did he not use it in this self-created movie? Didn't follow the previous practice, but make such an attempt?

She can't communicate directly with Salvi, after all, if he wants to, he will come to chat with her himself. As far as she guesses, any performance is actually a journey of information between the audience and the actor. Through my own performance, I convey all kinds of complicated information, just like a silent and lagging communication journey, maybe in a biographical movie like "Monroe", because the characters' emotions are very intense, and the experience It is also very legendary. The director does not need the audience to really substitute and understand the actor from the heart, so the information given by the actor can be very direct and clear. After watching it, a thousand audiences will come to basically similar conclusions—— —Well, she's happy/sad/complicated at this point.

But for "Life Journey", there are many metaphors in this movie, there are also many stream-of-consciousness parts, and the characters are also very ordinary, ordinary people whose personalities are not extreme. Intention and feelings, what the actor gives is a catalyst, which touches the audience's feelings about their own experience, which is a blank topic, and this has higher requirements for the actor. Of course, the actor himself cannot act stupidly. When acting, I don’t give any information, and I have to rely on my true feelings to impress the audience, but the true feelings should not be too clear, which will limit the audience’s perception—and it is very easy to give people the feeling of excessive force, because the audience When watching this type of movie, the director will first lead you into the rhythm that resembles the voice of your heart, and unconsciously put your emotions into the character, while the expressions of normal people are generally more restrained, and no one is fine. You won't be overjoyed, if you go too far, the audience won't be able to blend in, and instead feel embarrassed about your performance. Just like in "The Great Gatsby", Leonardo's performance is like this, especially the part where he is waiting to reunite with Daisy, it is a model performance that is too hard, because it is actually a part that is easy to evoke The plot of empathy, and his performance is really divorced from normal people's perception of this situation.

It doesn’t work if you don’t act, and you can’t do it deliberately. If you have to have a theme to act in this kind of movie anytime, anywhere, it’s a bit blind. That’s why the successful people in this kind of movie are generally praised. Salvi is also a big coffee from the experience school, and he also found Jenny and Heath, two well-known experience parties. What he needs may be the kind of feeling that seems real and unreal, that seems to be part of the play, coupled with the life experience of the character, but without deliberately feeling sad and happy. As far as this standard is concerned, the first few times when Jenny left definitely It's unqualified. She has been adding to herself, acting a little too deliberately.

It's not a long journey, no matter how fast your thoughts turn, a few perceptions will be over. Salvi yelled 'cut' and said calmly, "Take a break and continue in a while."

The staff were already used to his tortoise hair, several staff members spread out immediately, put blankets on her body, and had hot water to keep Jenny warm—after she suggested that she would not drink tea and coffee, The crew prepared special hot water. Of course, the heater in the trailer was always on. During the rest period, you can go to the trailer to rest and eat some snacks to replenish calories. Gloves off, sitting on the trailer steps and munching on free donuts. ——This is how the Hollywood crew can be so professional. They have been working in a small forest for more than a week, working super mechanically, but none of the crew members have any negative emotions. Everyone is still happy, it seems like that It is not a problem to continue shooting for a few months.

After a short rest for fifteen minutes, everyone took their positions very familiarly, and Salvi also came out of the trailer. He seemed to be much more serious than usual at work, and there was a faint sense of awe A sense of alienation, he tidied up, recorded the scene, Jenny fixed her thoughts a little bit, it seemed like a walk in the mountains with no end in sight, and the filming started again.

"What would Coke think at this age?" This time, Jenny decided not to try to add, but to try... She didn't know, so she just took it as a casual exploration. "What would women of this age think? Since what Salvi wants to evoke is a universal sympathy..."

Since it is empathy, what are you thinking at this age? As Jenny thought, she walked along the route almost instinctively: if counted as her real mental age, she should be her previous self, and she was probably at the marriageable age before time travel... But her experience is quite special, maybe she can't generic.

If I were an ordinary girl who grew up in a normal family, what would I be thinking at this time? She thought—since she is of marriageable age and has not yet fallen in love, it is natural to feel anxious. After all, although American parents forced marriages will not be as crazy as in China, the pressure is not trivial. At the age of marriage, if you haven’t found a suitable partner, it’s like being abandoned by the public. Reason can’t suppress the emotional hesitation and panic, at least not completely, maybe it’s okay, but I can’t, if I don’t This wonderful experience, if I didn’t come to Hollywood, so although my rationality can be dominant, the emotional feedback is still very powerful—maybe I didn’t have the experience when I was growing up, and I grew up in an ordinary environment. It will be weaker and willful, which is also understandable...

If you can choose to do it all over again, give me two options before traveling to Hollywood. One is to return to a Chinese city and be the daughter of a happy family. In China, women are subject to too much restraint and discrimination because of traditional culture. It is better to be in the United States, and Northern Europe is also good, but the United States is more familiar-if you are reborn in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York, living like Lilian Life, maybe a little less beautiful, and the present situation, crossing over to the poor and white Jenny, who has nothing but golden fingers, how would she choose? Enjoying the love of my loved ones, I never have to make any difficult decisions. The biggest worry is that my husband doesn't want to be a househusband...

Jenny couldn't help shaking her head slightly, she pursed her lips, and hid her smile, after all, she could still realize that she was taking pictures. Although it is a hypothesis, although this road has been stumbling to this day, there are countless moments on the verge of collapse, but it is not a sunny journey, although she still remembers those frightening moments, and remembers the loneliness and pain that no one cares about... But these past Makes her whole, yes, the past is not perfect, but after those nostalgic emotions... she has no regrets, she is still content with the present.

"cut." Salvi shouted, "good, this shot is over."

Surprised voices were heard among the crew members—compared to Heath's first 'good' which took two days to complete, Jenny only got 'good' in one morning, which really made them unprepared Well, many crew members even thought that Salvi was deliberately trying to grind on the two actors for a week to wear off their Hollywood bigwig temper.

"Go to lunch." Of course Salvi himself did not respond to the staff's surprise. Out on location."

This also announced the official end of the "trial shooting" without a specific storyboard and shooting plan. The staff cheered a little, and Salvi waved to Jenny, waiting for her to come When he was in front of the computer, he played back the shot just now, "There is no light adjustment and color adjustment, it is a bit rough, but I believe you can still see the difference. ——I won't say which section is which section, you can judge."

He released a picture. In the picture, Jenny was walking in the forest, looking at the surrounding trees expressionlessly. She seemed a little absent-minded, even indifferent and dull, and hurried through the forest between. It's hard to tell what mood she's in right now—it's as if she's not in the mood at all.

In the second scene, Jenny still doesn’t have much expression, only her eyes look at the sparse trees occasionally—although the forest is really not big, but under the cover of the viewing angle, she looks like It's like walking in a dense forest—but it's natural for her to be thinking about something. It can be seen from the brows of her eyebrows. She doesn't know what to think of, and a smile flashed in her eyes. But at the same time, her expression is slightly sad, which makes her expression leave a deep impression on people.

"Well, the first paragraph should be in the middle, right? It's when you're very tired from walking." Jenny said speculatively, "The second paragraph is... I don't know, the last time?"

Salvi nodded, "The first paragraph is indeed in the middle... Read this paragraph again."

He clicked on another video, and Jenny was still walking with her hands in her pockets, unhurriedly, her expression was not much, it was between the second paragraph and the first paragraph, but... from then on From the faint expression, you seem to be able to see her emotions. She must be full of thoughts, and maybe a little irritable-her eyes are unpredictable, flickering, making people wonder what she is going through.

"Uh..." Jenny said, she was also confused, "Is this the last time?"

"The second paragraph is the last time, and this one is the first time." Salvi said, "Comparing the two paragraphs, what do you feel?"

"The last performance was more restrained—" Jenny frowned and thought.

"It's also more sincere." Salvi said, "It's more natural, it's the expression of an ordinary person, think about it, you rarely see dazed passengers with changing expressions on the subway, but you can see Get his emotions, maybe even read parts of his life. Yeah? As for the first pass, that's the actor's performance, which is brilliant, but in this movie, I don't need it."

"Subtraction." Jenny said, she was a little proud - Salvi's thinking was quite consistent with her guess.

Salvi's eyes fell on her, and his tone softened, full of approval. "Yes, subtraction."

There is no need to specifically say that the unique tacit understanding between the two made them all smile naturally: Compared with Heath and Salvi who need to work together for a week to find a compatible point, it is obvious that Jenny and him are more compatible.

"After the filming officially starts, can we see the script?" Jenny walked to the trailer side by side with him.

"Most of the time, no." Salvi said, "I will tell you before shooting every day. This is the only information you can get."

"Even though I've read the script?"

Salvi rubbed his blond hair, his majesty as a director faded away, and his usual shy and reserved reserve also faded away, he looked like the one who was immersed in his own world, full of romance and passion . Love the big boy.

"How do you know that script wasn't my bait?" He winked at Jenny, "Would you have signed the gig without it?"

Jenny blinked a few times to make sure he was joking, and when Salvi laughed, she knew she had lost, and she said, "Hey—"

And Salvi just waved at her, "Let's wait for the story, Jennifer—remember, this is a movie about subtraction, and even if you remember the script, you'd better forget it all .”

He didn't intend to communicate too much, as if he wanted to maintain Jenny's ignorance and depression, he turned and walked towards his trailer. And Jenny stood there, looked at his back for a while, and then shrugged and got into her car.

——Without a doubt, this will be the most psychedelic and special filmmaking she has ever experienced. There is indeed a mood of excitement and anticipation: a movie is like a never-ending road trip. When you think you know everything about it, after the next turn, you will be surprised to find that there is a whole new road ahead. landscape.

Without a mobile phone, no one can share her feelings. Jenny can only look out the window, daydreaming about Los Angeles thousands of miles away, where most of her familiar friends live. Smiling innocently, he said to himself, "I'm starting to make movies again, yeah——"