MTL - Best Actor-Chapter 50 out on location

He could watch with relish and even cry over the tragic plot. At the same time, at the beginning of the script, Ripley also described things like listening to songs and playing the piano when he lived in a basement in New York. Very contradictory and more real, one sighs that he fell for lust.

In addition to this, there is also the scene where Ripley met Maggie and her friends at the theater, and was then asked about Dick's whereabouts, Gwyneth also returned to the set again, and there were other A new actor, Jack Davenport as Peter. Therefore, it is also indispensable to concentrate on the lines and get familiar with each other.

Davenport is 24 years old. Like Jude, he is also British. He is a few months younger than Jude, with black hair and handsome, but just like Jude, he kept a certain distance from Sean after entering the crew.

In response, Sean just shrugged, he was used to it, after all, not everyone is as generous as Hoffman, and Jude's relationship with him was only after that incident. improve. But it's a little strange that Cate Blanchett and Gwyneth Paltrow also kept their distance. After the two young girls met on the set, at most, they said hello, and there was almost no communication.

This is obviously wrong, at least Sean knows that unless there is a festival, women will chat a few times when they get along with each other. ah?

"I know why?" Surprisingly, when he took a break, he asked casually, but Galen jumped out to show that he knew, and then made a "come and ask me" expression . During his time in the crew, he had a good relationship with the assistants of several other actors, and naturally he was well informed.

It's a pity that Sean is very familiar with his style and treats him like air. After a few minutes, Galen, who was holding back, had to take the initiative to say: "Go and see what just came out. The Oscar nominees will be known."

Sean suddenly realized, and looked at the list. As expected, women keep a distance from each other. Except for festivals, there is a conflict of interest. On the 71st Oscar nomination list released this year, Kate and Gwyneth were nominated for Best Actress for "Elizabeth" and "Shakespeare in Love" respectively, and they will compete at this Oscar in more than half a month.

No wonder Gwyneth always leaves the crew as soon as she finishes her work, probably to go to public relations, Frederick mentioned this point, she wants to win an Oscar, five points It is strength, four points is public relations, and one point is luck. Since the late 1980s, public relations have become more and more important. The same is true for Kate, who leaves after filming, making Sean want to have a few more words with her.

None of this has anything to do with Sean, although he found Meryl Streep's name on the Best Actress nomination - her ninth Oscar nomination Actress nominated—and took a few glances at the Best Actor nomination, but quickly forgot about it.

Shaun didn't think that one day his name would appear on the nomination list, or even appear in the award envelope, but those are too early. Step by step is what you should do. Without foundation and strength, everything will only be a castle in the air. It's like Sean knows that Microsoft's stock will go up, but without capital, what's the use of knowing more?

To use an example, foundation and strength are 1, while PR, chance and luck are a long string of 0s after 1. To be honest, if it wasn't for his intuition, "The Genius Ripley" would be a very good movie, and it was worth his effort to get a shot at it. I'm afraid he would really accept the agent's proposal and jump from TV series to movie. .

This shot stuck on Sean for a long time, but in the end it still made him develop the feelings he needed to shrink, without using those special methods.

"Only real feelings can impress the audience. The closer the feelings you show, the more easily the audience will be infected, so don't use physical means to express the characters' feelings unless you have to." He Always keep Harrington's words in mind.

Unfortunately, this good teacher has returned to the UK, and he did not inform him or leave his contact information before leaving, which made him quite depressed.

So and so, plus no one like him, understands what it's like to be another person, and fully prepared beforehand, he finally captured the character's inner world and accumulated riches and released it .

After two weeks of shooting on and off, in early March, the crew moved to New York to start the location. The main scene is that at Dick's father's banquet, Ripley played the piano in a borrowed Princeton University uniform, and was misunderstood as Dick's classmate by the other party. There is also the street scene at the end of the banquet, the exterior scene of the basement where Ripley lived, etc. Although the story takes place in the 1950s, there is not much change in New York now and New York more than 40 years ago.

Sean and his mother have been to New York a few times before, and he was deeply impressed by the high-rise buildings and checkerboard-like streets in Manhattan. Although Los Angeles is considered prosperous, because in the earthquake zone, high-rise buildings are not Much, much less dense. In fact, there are very few places in the United States with such dense high-rise buildings as New York. After all, in this nearly 4 million square miles of land, there are only close to 300 million people, so some people say that New York is the least American place.

Most well-known Hollywood film companies have branches here, because it is more convenient to raise funds next to Wall Street, and Miramax even set up its headquarters here.

Speaking of which, Miramax sent another producer shortly after Hoberg and Chicharelli got out. This time, the other party did not make any small moves, and honestly dealt with financial-related matters, seemingly giving up. Sean can only pray like this now, otherwise, if he does it again, although he is not afraid, the impact will probably be very bad.

The location in New York went well. Sean played a musical instrument for a while, and also served as the lead singer in a classmate's band. He knows a little piano. It's okay to fool around in front of the camera.

Five or six days later, the crew immediately set off for Italy, where the location was the top priority. In fact, after a preliminary understanding of the operation of the film, Sean felt that some scenes could be done in the studio, such as Ripley and Meredith shopping, or Dick's father coming to Venice to deal with his son, and Ripley and Dick , Freddie at a party, etc.

funds. However, director Minghella is obviously a realist. It is said that when he was filming "The English Patient" a few years ago, he wanted to go to the Sahara Desert to shoot, but after several persuasion and on-the-spot investigation, it was really not suitable, so it was changed to Egypt and Morocco. Similarly, if the sea is not windy and waves are not strong, and it is difficult to wait for suitable weather, the few shots on the yacht may also be shot on the spot.

"Reality has the advantage of being real, isn't it? At least, I saw the footage of you walking past the Roman Forum at the director's place, and I thought it was very beautiful." Use your spare time to talk about this , Kate said so.

"Indeed, the real scene is more real than the CG after all." Sean nodded.

Well, if Minghella hadn't insisted on coming to Italy for a location, and there are so many places - look at the list, from Rome to Venice to Positano to Naples, there will be a few Well-known cities are over. If he chooses post-production synthesis, he will definitely save a lot, then maybe there is no shortage of well-known actors' remuneration, and he will have no chance.

"Okay, let's go here today." After two scenes of Ripley's shopping with Meredith as Dick, the field foreman announced the end of today's work.

Look at the time, although the scene was taken at night, it was actually only around 5:00 pm, and the sky was bright despite the thick clouds. This is the magic of film, by adjusting the aperture and using special lenses, plus the various settings of the lighting engineer, you can shoot the effect of night and day in the day.

"How about having a cup of coffee together?" After removing her makeup and changing her clothes, seeing that Kate hadn't left yet, Sean walked over to ask such a question.

"Huh?" Kate was stunned, slightly stunned.

"You know, this is my first time acting in a movie, my first leading role, and before that, I was just a newcomer with no name and no friends in the crew. You are The person who talks to me the most of all, I'm grateful, so I've been wanting to buy you a cup of coffee. But when you were in LA, you seemed to have a lot to deal with and always left early, but now in Rome, I I think there should be a chance." Sean, who was in a hurry, said such a nonsense.

Kate blinked, as if surprised, but then laughed: "Well, I've always wanted to try Italian coffee."

"No no no, you are too heavy, I prefer to think that Kundera put hope, or part of hope on the surface, when people sigh at the end of reading, I found comfort in reminiscing about the ease and casualness." On the street where the street lights began to light up, Kate, who was sitting at the round table, repeatedly objected to Sean's opinion.

"You see, that's why I don't want to talk about contemporary writers," Sean immediately spread his hands, "Sometimes, a person or a writer, his achievements and status are in the end Where he should be can really be determined only after he dies. As long as he is alive, then there will be changes, such as the few novels that Kundera has published in the past few years, the standard has dropped a lot.”

"You are playing tricks, look at my mouth shape, play tricks!" Although Kate said this, she kept giggling and was quite happy.

"Okay, if you want to think so, then think so." Sean shrugged, looked helpless, then looked around, "Okay, it's getting late. Now, I'll take you back."

Their cafe is not far from the hotel where they are staying, and they are there in a few minutes. One of them lives on the 5th floor and the other lives on the 6th floor. When the elevator arrives, they part ways.

Women dating."

"Shut up," Sean glared at him, "Is there anything to eat? I'm hungry."

"You guys have been chatting for so long, yet you haven't had dinner yet?"

"Galen!"