King of Hollywood Chapter 48: Proportional to me
After April Fool’s Day, it took almost 10 days to prepare, and the filming of “Shoushenk’s Salvation” began at Mansfield State Correctional Institution in Ohio. Being able to arrange everything in such a short period of time, in addition to the high work efficiency of Lafferne and others, mainly because Adrian was already prepared, for example, from the beginning, it was finalized to shoot the prison scene in the Mansfield State Correctional Institution and convinced Tim Robbins starred in this role.
Among the several designated actors, Morgan Freeman and James Whitmore, who later supplemented them, readily agreed, and Bob Gunton gave a positive doctor even after considering it for a while. . The strength of directing and producing two movies with word-of-mouth and box office within a year, and the name of the director of ghost talent added a lot of weight to Adrian.
However, Tim Robbins rejected the role in his first contact, and the reply given was that this role is not suitable for himself! Adrian, who was drinking water, almost did not spit out the news, which was really funny-of course, only for him-so he went to visit in person after being depressed for a long time.
"He helped those people to feel the good things again. He let those who are bound in the system see a glimmer of hope. He is painful, forbearing, unyielding and...perfect. I can’t think of it, Tim, I can’t think of a more suitable person than you.” At Tim Robbins’s home on Floss Street, he sat on the sofa tasting the other person…life partner, also famous Susan The black tea made by Sarandon, Adrian said so emotionally.
"There are more actors who are better than me in Hollywood, aren't they?" Robbins' answer didn't seem to change, but apparently it should be tempting, but I don't know why I refused.
"Yes, I admit, for example, at the beginning I considered inviting Tom Hanks to play this role, but I still think that you are the most suitable. I don’t know why, Tim, I almost watched all of you. Performances, from "Howard the Duck" to "Cadillac Man", and even "The Player" released a few days ago, frankly, no image is suitable. But my instincts told me that you are the forbearing but never give up Andy." Adrian continued with a very serious tone, "I believe in my instincts, so I didn't even ask you to come over for an audition."
Here he turned to look at Susan Sarandon: "Isn't that the case, Susan? Some birds can't be closed, their feathers are too bright, when they fly away , You know in your heart that it’s a sin to lock them up, and you’ll be excited by it. Isn’t Tim such a bird?”
Although Adrian doesn’t know why Robbins refused, he also knows that he can break from the wing if he can’t do it. Sure enough, after seeing the script, Sarandon began to persuade Robbins. The two went to the side to argue in a low voice for a long time, and finally Robbins agreed to the Adrian invitation.
Later he realized that Robbins would refuse the invitation mainly because he had just finished the promotion of "The Player" and wanted to stay with Sarandon at home for a few days, since Sarandon suggested that he would not postpone Reason.
"Everyone pays attention, this is the first scene of "The Redemption of Shawshank", I hope everyone can take this opportunity to cooperate more, thank you." Adrian standing on the elevator with a big horn facing the open space The crowd shouted.
The first scene was the period when Andy was in jail. The reason why Adrian chose this one, in addition to better control, is just what I said, I hope these temporary actors can get along well.
Although the external scene of the Mansfield State Correctional Institution is well maintained, many films have been filmed here, but the interior is really bad. If it is renovated, it will cost much more than building in a studio. So here can only shoot location. But all the scenes, except for a few few shots, are basically big scenes with many people, and the extras are not enough. Adrian even contacted the school to ask their staff to come to the guest temporarily, so many People may have to retake if they have a little problem together.
"Let everyone prepare, we will start trial shooting in 10 minutes." Adrian used the intercom to contact the person below. He was standing on the elevator and was ready to take the camera with the camera, as he said to Spielberg. He still lacks in the scheduling of the big scene. If he can shoot well this time, then he can basically get started.
"Action!" With this call, the filming started. This is a panoramic view, from the front of the correctional school, across the wind-ridden playground for a week, and then moved to the barbed wire gate to stop, which is a big test for the mirror.
Adrian is the first time to shoot down from such a high place, it is impossible to say not to be nervous or afraid, but when he picked up the camera, the negative emotions suddenly disappeared without a trace, and the rest is only Shooting.
Perhaps there is something so idealistic in my heart. After shooting and getting off the elevator, Adrian thought a bit self-deprecatingly.
There is nothing wrong with this shot-if it is still messed up when it is fully prepared and does not require any acting but only temporary actors running around, then it can only be said that the director and producer are useless-however In the following shooting, various situations emerged endlessly.
Because the time is set in the forties and fifties, all the props must match the characteristics of the age, and the clothes are all good, but the transportation is very troublesome. At that time, most transportation vehicles were in museums or private collection rooms, not to mention prison **** vehicles. Although the blessing of the correctional school, I got one that can be opened before the shooting, but this thing is too old, and it can be anchored three or four times at a distance of tens of feet.
In addition, there are a lot of laughs and misunderstood lines. Some people even pushed down some temporarily erected barbed wire because they were too excited. Fortunately, no one was injured.
Although this situation was anticipated before the shooting started, Adrian was inevitably depressed, and had to be patient to repeat the shooting over and over again. What is comforting is that whether it is Morgan Freeman or Tim Robbins, or James Whitmore, Bob Gunton are excellent actors, especially Tim and Morgan, very simple The character of the characters is captured, so their shots are relatively smooth.
"Why is it so urgent? Because I don't have much time. In my plan, it would be great to end the location shooting in three weeks and end the indoor shooting in three weeks." When faced with Nathan White's question, Adrian replied.
Nathan is a producer sent by Universal, and is only responsible for reporting the company’s financial expenses to the company. At first, Universal was hesitant about investing. They originally thought that Adrian was going to be adapted from a horror novel by Stephen King. With the ability he showed before, it is definitely worth investing. But later I found the novel and found out that the adaptation was actually one of Stephen King’s worst rated novella series, which made them very embarrassed.
As everyone knows, Stephen King is best known for his horror novels, but because of this, he is often criticized by mainstream critics. Although Stephen King didn’t pay attention to it, he would inevitably get angry after a long time, so he simply wrote a few novelties that have nothing to do with ghosts, demons and other things-except that the last one involves some mysticism- Then assembled in a book. However, it is a pity that after this collection, which took a lot of his hard work, went to market, the publisher only said one thing to Stephen King: you continue to write horror novels.
This is really a big blow. Stephen King has never written a similar literary novel ever since, and rarely mentions this novella collection, so Adrian can be so short for Lafferne. I was surprised to get the right to adapt "Shawshank's Redemption" within the time.
Faced with this situation, the global side is still in dispute. The original sales volume of this collection is too bad, and Adrian is still a newcomer after all. If "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" and "Memento" were produced within two years, then Universal will not hesitate to post one, but now no one knows what Adrian can shoot~IndoMTL.com~Qualification Sometimes things are so wonderful. Fortunately, a word from Brant who was finally consulted gave them confidence.
"Think about it, gentlemen, what did he do when we wanted to get the script of "Scream" and "American Pie" from him?" Brant said.
Think about it too. Not many directors in Hollywood like Adrian? And he seems to be planning to cooperate with Spielberg, so Global finally invested 10 million. In order to express trust, Nathan was only responsible for reporting to the company.
"Are you going to complete this movie in 6 weeks? But the projected schedule is expected to be two months." Nathan looked surprised. Originally, he just saw Adrian complaining and wanted to come and talk a few words.
"The plan is always the worst," Adrian shrugged. "As long as everyone is in good shape and there are no low-level errors, I can definitely complete all the shots within 6 weeks."
"Can..." Nathan made a gesture without knowing what to say. The investment of more than 20 million yuan is now considered to be an upper-middle investment in Hollywood, and such things as filming, investment, speed and Quality is never directly proportional. It seems that Adrian should be used to shooting quickly, so I want to do this now, but...
"In my hands, speed and quality are proportional." As if he could see what he was thinking, Adrian smiled, "I know you may not believe it now, but, Nathan, I will prove to You see, I am a person who is good at creating miracles!"
After he finished speaking, he walked to the camera without looking back, and clapped his hands and yelled, "Okay, guys, it’s time for the rest, let’s continue!"
(Tears eyes, the collection is not awesome...)