King of Hollywood Chapter 73: The most troublesome lens
"So, Donna, are you dancing tango?" After the greeting, the well-dressed lieutenant colonel asked.
"Well... I wanted to learn before, but... Mike didn't want to." The beautiful girl replied with a smile.
"Mike? Who are you waiting for?" Lieutenant Colonel asked.
The girl shrugged and accepted the Lieutenant Colonel’s statement, and then explained: “Mike thinks Tango is crazy.”
"Hah, I think Mike is crazy." Although the lieutenant colonel's eyes were not shiny, his face clearly showed disapproval.
"Don't care about him," Charlie next to him quickly interjected, "Well...I seem to have said that?"
The slightly embarrassed appearance made the girl giggling, and the lieutenant colonel could not help sighing, "What a beautiful laugh."
Then he asked the girl: "Want to learn Tango, Donna?"
Donna is obviously a little surprised: "Now?"
"How about free service?" said the lieutenant colonel, who could not see anything, but confidently.
"I'm a little scared," Donna didn't know how to refuse, "Fear of stepping on the wrong steps."
"Tango has no wrong steps, unlike life, it is simple, so great, if you step on the wrong steps or trip, continue to jump." The lieutenant colonel said with a smile, the confident look has never changed.
I don’t know if I was infected by the lieutenant colonel’s confidence or really want to be crazy, Donna nodded: "Well, then try it."
The two stood up immediately. After Charlie explained the surrounding environment for Lieutenant Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel led Donna to the dance floor. The previous song just finished playing. After a few seconds of pause, the prelude of "Gone with the Bullets" sounded.
"Stop!" Adrian shouted loudly. After everyone stopped, he looked at the dance floor for a few seconds, then waved to everyone: "This paragraph, we will come again!"
He is currently shooting one of the three most troublesome scenes of this movie-the amazing tango in the restaurant!
The reason why this stunning tango is one of the three most troublesome scenes is because this drama is a test of the director’s scheduling and shooting skills. How can Frank be a blind person in tango? How to make the audience think that he is no different from ordinary people? These need to be handled with care, and even a little carelessness may be self-defeating. Even if Adrian is already familiar with the lens and the plot, it still can't be careless.
In his opinion, this scene is more troublesome than the other two. The other two relatively troublesome scenes are: Lieutenant Colonel Frank driving in New York City, and finally in the school hall Preach.
For the former, all kinds of problems caused by road closures during shooting have been learned, but that is the matter of assistants and executive producers; for the latter, Adrian already has experience in large-scale scene scheduling, and Pacino It just happened to be in excellent condition, and the magnificent preaching was filmed five times repeatedly, each time just once.
has to admit that the old play bone Pacino is very good. Among all the characters with disabilities, the blind is one of the worst. Because the eyes of ordinary actors have a very important supplement to personal acting skills, for example, some people think that Nicholas Cage's eyes have added many points to his performance.
But blind characters cannot perform with their eyes, they must transfer that part of their eyes to expressions, movements and body language. Pacino did this very well, especially when he was preaching in the auditorium, the body movements were small but quite powerful, and the crew and temporary actors were infected during the shooting.
Although Oscar has always favored male protagonists with disabilities, although Pacino has the advantage of qualifications, his excellent acting is also one of the important reasons for getting the small gold man. Adrian fully believes that he can still get this time .
Well, the topic is back to Tango shooting. Compared to drag racing and preaching, the key to making a tango is all on the director. As I said before, not only should the audience feel that the lieutenant colonel is the same as a normal person, but also to make them feel that the lieutenant colonel is actually a blind person, except for the performance of the actor, it depends on the director's control.
For this, Adrian did not spend much time, for example, according to the memory, I sketched the dancing sub-drafts early, and then invited two dance directors to complete the dancing design based on these drafts, and then took other fragmentary shots. At that time, let Pacino practice the dance steps with actress Willa Jamison, who plays Donna.
Trouble is trouble, cautiousness is cautious. Adrian does not think that this lens will upset himself. Although his works are all plagiarized and copied, it does not mean that he will be incompetent.
"Do you need eye drops, Al?" After filming Tango's previous scene twice, Adrian specifically announced a 15-minute break in order to meet the next challenge, and also joked with Pacino.
"Don't you know? I will blink my eyes desperately every time the camera moves away." Pasino replied in the same tone.
"It looks like I should prepare an additional camera to shoot these images, so that I can give some extras when I release the tape in the future." Adrian continued to laugh.
Pacino didn’t have an interface this time, but moved on to other topics: "I went to see your new movie a few days ago when I was out and about, which is very infectious. Although I have met many directors and producers ~IndoMTL.com~ For the first time like you. To be honest, Ed, I suddenly wanted to know what this "Scent of a Woman" would look like after it was completed."
"You will see, Al," Adrian smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "When the time comes, I will have a surprise for you."
After the break, the shooting continued. In order to minimize the mistakes, Adrian repeatedly played scenes for several protagonists. In fact, he didn’t say much. Caspar Jager, who played Charlie, did a good job of being a little white face, and he had nothing to do with his role when he danced tango; as for Pacino, the method of performance showed him Most of the time there is a state, just a little reminder; therefore, the most talked about is Vera Jamison playing Donna.
"... In short, don't be nervous when you open your chest, just like you did with Al before. Didn't you perform well in the shots at the table just now?" Adrian patiently relieved some nervous women The actor, I just tried it twice, and every time the music was stopped as soon as it started, Vera was clearly out of state.
Adrian originally wanted Cate to play this role. She was very suitable only from the appearance. But when you think of the height of about 5 feet and 8 inches, you can only give up. You can’t let Pasino and compare yourself. A third tall woman dances tango? So in the end, I picked this black hair, slightly skinny, and played a supporting role in some small-cost movies. The 23-year-old young woman is about 5 feet 5 inches tall. Unfortunately, I don’t know why. The normal lens is in good condition. It's not bad to practice tango with Al, but when I dance in front of the camera, I feel nervous.
(Let’s talk about it a little bit, there should be some, but now it’s just beginning. Okay, my book is really slow...for recommendation tickets)