"Two of those four actors already have agents...Chris O'Donnell has many projects waiting to be released. He and Al Pacino collaborated on Scent of a Woman, which Universal will host during the awards season at the end of the year.
Distribution. Someone is also interested in Brendan Fraser. After the success of this movie, we will take over a new script depending on the situation..."
"What about the other two?" Ronald looked at the actor resumes compiled by Richard and found that these two actors were both from Catholic backgrounds and were not Jewish. This shows that Shirley Lansing has good taste and is looking for
Several good-looking boys are cast as Jews. This has to be said to be a emblem of the Jewish people.
"The other two were not popular. I signed them, but I didn't expect..." Richard said with a smile.
"What didn't you expect?" Ronald boarded the plane with him, and the group went to Seattle to check on the filming of "Sleepless in Seattle."
"I didn't expect that all they talked to me about were scripts. They co-wrote a script..."
"Oh? Not many actors can write scripts?" Ronald was a little surprised when he heard this. In Hollywood, actors and screenwriters are basically two different lines that rarely cross.
"They are serious college students, especially Matt Damon. The education they received at Harvard is still a few credits away from graduation. I advise them to get their degrees first. Although these two people both had high school diplomas when they were young,
Mirror, but they are not the kind of young actors who were brought into Hollywood by their parents or relatives..."
"It doesn't matter what the credits are. Even though they are from Harvard, they can still tell the difference if they have the opportunity to play a leading role in Hollywood..." Ronald thought of Elizabeth Sue, who was also from Harvard and had not yet had the opportunity to be a leading actress.
He resolutely gave up his studies.
"He's not the kind of person who transfers to another school. He got in by himself..."
"Oh..." Ronald suddenly felt great. This was not a shortcut like Su's, who relied on the transfer quota to go to school for two years and get a gold-plated diploma from Harvard. In the middle and upper classes, these people often
Ivy League diplomas know everything clearly. Only ordinary people will feel superior when they see the name of a big-name school.
"But the script is very poorly written. I think it needs some modifications. I can find him a script doctor or a teacher..."
Richard felt that the script was creative and talented, so Ronald agreed to ask the famous Hollywood screenwriter William Goldman to get to know him. In this way, it would be more beneficial to cultivate talents who can go to Harvard than simple rewriting.
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"Oh, the rain here is really annoying..."
When we arrived in Seattle, we encountered a steady drizzle. The climate here is a combination of warm currents and mountains, which produces a lot of rainfall. Ronald held an umbrella, bent down and got into the car, and drove to the set of "Sleepless in Seattle".
"Ronald... Rosie O'Donnell, you guys have met, this is my Whoopi..."
Director Nora Ephron was very happy and kept talking to Ronald, making Ronald embarrassed to say, I came to see your performance...
"Ronald... you are my idol, I love you..." The fat Rosie O'Donnell rushed up to hug Ronald, and kissed him on the cheek unexpectedly. Then she ran away with a wicked smile on her face.
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This supporting actress is very happy recently, and she continues to play supporting roles in Ronald's projects. And Nora Ephron also compared her to Whoopi Goldberg, which is an incomparable analogy in "The End of the World"
comedy scenes.
This "Sleepless in Seattle" also needs a supporting actress to increase the comedy element. Nora Ephron is obsessed with learning all of Ronald's directorial skills. In her opinion, learning from Ronald may not necessarily lead to success.
It has been nominated for an Oscar, but the box office is guaranteed.
"Oh, God, you are here...you are finally here...I have been tortured to death..."
Tom Hanks also came up and hugged Ronald like Rosie O'Donnell. He was exhausted from filming two movies in a row. Fortunately, Ronald had arranged for his wife Rita Wilson to marry him beforehand.
After it was delivered, Hanks felt normal again with the warmth of his family.
There were a lot of troubles during the script reading process before filming. Tom Hanks was dissatisfied with Nora Ephron’s female perspective. He believed that many of Sam’s plots could not be a normal American.
Men can do it.
Last time, Ronald believed that a father would not stop dating a beautiful woman because of his son’s objection. Hanks obviously agreed with this view and insisted on starting from a realistic plot logic, otherwise he would not be willing to film it.
Already.
When Ronald came this time, he also needed to find a way to make all parties satisfied with this conflict in the plot.
"Did you have so many troubles when you were a director? I asked them to say the lines according to the script I wrote, but they resisted..."
Sure enough, Nora Ephron complained to Ronald as soon as she arrived at the hotel. Many actors here, especially male actors, were a little dissatisfied with her.
Except for Tom Hanks, who is still talking about things as they are, the other actors and staff actually tend to look at the direction of the situation. If Nora Ephron can handle these big-name actors, then they will also change their appearance.
If you can't figure it out, hey, then you can start messing around.
"Hey, this is actually a good thing, Nora..." For this reason, Ronald had no choice but to resort to coaxing...
"Is this a good thing?" Nora Ephron's eyes widened.
"Yes, when the director encounters actors who react very seriously to certain lines, you will know that you have got a correct and motivated casting..."
Ronald started talking about how many actors don't care at all about how to act, they just care about how much they get paid, how high their salary is...etc.
There are also some actors who only pay attention to the details of their own performances and do not pay attention to the cooperation of other actors or the rationality of the plot. What they want most every day is for the director to give them a few more close-ups.
When you meet Tom Hanks, what you consider is whether the plot is reasonable and whether the dialogue is what ordinary Americans would say. This kind of actor considers things from the perspective of the entire movie. You don't even know you have it.
How lucky, Nora!
"Oh, really? What you said makes sense, Ronald. I'm so lucky to have you to guide me. But what should I do if they don't read the lines as I wrote them?"
Nora Ephron didn’t know whether she really didn’t understand or was pretending not to understand, but she relied on Ronald to give her advice on how to solve the problem of Hanks not wanting to say certain lines.
This is a common problem among directors who are screenwriters. When they write, they have already selected the actors for the roles in their minds, and then let them act them out in their own minds. They use the accents of the actors the screenwriter likes to express those lines.
Say it first.
Therefore, they always think that their lines are the best and most suitable for those actors. In particular, Ronald also favored Nora Ephron's two leading actors, Tom Hanks and Meg.
Ryan is here. This makes her even more obsessed with her lines. Why doesn't Hanks read my lines the way he thinks in his head?
"Oh, God..." Ronald muttered to himself. He didn't expect Nora Ephron to understand the director's work so well.
At this point, it’s hard to teach her from scratch. How should we adjust it based on the actor’s on-site performance and give her a certain amount of room for improvisation? Since improvisation is different from the original intention of the script, where should this line be drawn? It’s discovered that the actor cannot perform.
How many times should you reshoot to get what you want?
Luo Jian felt that it was better not to tell Nora Ephron about this difficult directorial decision, otherwise the entire crew might collapse. A director who has never directed a star would have such a problem in his first movie.
Only by overcoming the past can you achieve success.
"In this way, when I look at these controversial lines, they are mainly lines related to the male side of Hanks. I understand that you want to create a perfect image of a man in the minds of women, with both masculine charm and compassion.
, it is not easy to understand women, and they are their lovers as well as their friends..."
"Yeah, yeah, I knew you would understand me, Ronald..." Nora Ephron's eyes were red, it seemed she was under a lot of pressure.
"All the lines related to men and women are up to you. All the lines where Sam shows his masculine charm, let Hanks play freely..." Ronald thought for a while and drew a line for her.
Regarding how to make a romantic drama well and how to penetrate the hearts of modern American female audiences, Nora Ephron is undoubtedly the most suitable candidate. However, she does not understand the psychological aspects related to men.
So Ronald simply separated the scenes according to whether there was a plot between men and women, let Ephron be responsible for the male and female parts, and let Hanks perform the part where the man is monologued with his friends. Anyway, he has shot so many
Comedies are all about this kind of cute male protagonist.
"I'm not complaining, Ronald, the weather in Seattle is really terrible..."
After coaxing Nora Ephron, Ronald went to Tom Hanks' room and told him the results of the discussion. Hanks was very happy that he finally didn't have to say that those things were obviously the imagination of a middle-aged female screenwriter.
’s lines.
But his wife, Rita Wilson, complained to Ronald again. After they got married, Hanks promised to spend time with her. This movie was shot in a hellish place like Seattle.
It’s simply torture. How many days have you not seen the sun? Can’t you go back to Los Angeles to set up filming?
"The cornerstone of this movie lies in these senses of reality, so we can't go back and set up scenes for filming." Ronald flatly rejected the proposal.
The plot of Sleepless in Seattle is really exaggerated. After the death of his wife, his son called the emotional hotline on the radio and told him about his father's loneliness and wanted to find him a new wife.
The radio host gave Sam a pseudonym, "Sleepless in Seattle," and talked with him about the pain after his wife's death. Female listeners across the country fell in love with him and wrote to him asking for a relationship. Finally, his son read the letter.
, fell in love with Anne's letter.
Anne had a fiancé, and she felt that there was no earth-shattering love between her and her fiancé, and that the two of them were just suitable. She tried to see Sam, but by some strange coincidence she did not see him.
In the end, Sam's son bought a plane ticket alone and went to meet Anne, making an appointment on the top of the Empire State Building in New York. Sam panicked and chased her, and the two waited for a whole day on the Empire State Building but did not see Anne.
Finally, Annie confessed to her fiancé not far away and rushed to the Empire State Building. Sam and his son had already left, and the Empire State Building was closed. Annie begged the security guard, which was imitating the plot in the movie "Golden Alliance", and then went to the top floor. Sam happened to
The father and son's bags were lost and they came back...
The whole movie is about two very suitable men and women who only officially got to know each other in the last minute of the movie because of a phone call, a radio broadcast, and a letter.
This kind of romantic love is really too exaggerated. As long as there is a problem with the acting, it will make the audience feel that it is very exaggerated and fake. So on the other hand, when filming, it must be completely real.
Whether it's live shooting, or the kind where Hanks improvises the friendship between men and the relationship between father and son, there is this consideration of being as real as possible.
Seeing that Rita Wilson was still complaining here and there, Ronald suddenly stopped and stared at her.
"What's wrong?" Rita Wilson just wanted to complain more so that she could gain more say for her husband Hanks. Being stared at by Ronald, she felt flustered, as if she realized that she had said too much.
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A director and producer of Ronald's level was still very intimidating to her. Tom Hanks also realized something was wrong and had to calm down.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Tom, your wife Rita is very photogenic..." Ronald said, leaving Rita Wilson stunned.
"Yeah, he and I met when we were filming a movie...hehe," Tom Hanks replied with a smirk on his face.
"Do you think it's suitable for her to play the role of Sam's sister? I think the tacit understanding between the two of you is enough to play the role of brother and sister." Ronald looked at Rita Wilson, looked around a few times, and asked
I took out the director's viewfinder and pretended to take a look.
"Hahaha, that's good. But you have to give Rita a formal signature..." Tom Hanks was very smart and immediately understood what Ronald meant. Let Rita Wilson also play a role,
There is also an official cast list, so that she changes from an outsider to an insider. She can only contribute to the good of the movie, so she doesn't have to listen to her nagging every day.
"Can I do it? Do you want Nora to audition..." Rita Wilson touched her hair, she was very willing. She didn't have a good representative work before, and she gave birth to a child after marriage, so now she can only receive some
TV series roles.
"I still have this privilege, and Noila will definitely agree. I know she is just busy with other things now. If it takes a few days, she will definitely think of it..."
Among the main characters in the cast, only Meg Ryan is relatively silent. Her husband Dennis Quaid was not able to play a couple with her because he was in a bad mood and was drinking and using illegal drugs at home.
Meg Ryan also has to use her influence to find him a leading male role and star in a movie with him. Now she is in talks for a black suspense thriller movie "The Heartless Earth".
Now she is using her influence to make movies with Quaid, which is rare among Hollywood couples or husband-and-wife actors. Even Quaid is not considerate of her. As a result, she, who is breastfeeding, is a
People are filming with their children on the set.
Ronald hired the best professional nanny for her so that Meg Ryan could try not to worry about it. Since she went to work after giving birth, he could only try to create conditions for her so that she could immerse herself in the plot and character creation.
Ronald had directed her and knew that the actress loved acting, so it was a good thing to keep her away from the worries of reality.
Finally, the crew officially started filming a few days later.
Young actor Nathan Watt plays the son of Sam played by Hanks. He is an important clue to the advancement of the plot. So the first scene was filmed in a boathouse next to the Fremont Bridge when the father and son settled down in Seattle.
play.
This is a living environment that Nora Ephron specially found for the character Sam. She believes that Sam, the architect, will definitely like this unique free environment in Seattle. A man who lives in a houseboat is a woman.
The type I like.
For this reason, Ronald also paid a relatively high rent price to find a suitable location.
"Cut!"
Nora Ephron halts first filming.
Ronald was smiling next to him. Ephron is still okay. Although she has many shortcomings, she has one advantage that other new directors don't have, which is that she knows exactly what picture she wants. It seems like she can stay here for a day.
, that’s about it.
Director Nora Ephron shot another shot, and then asked the crew to relight the scene to shoot another shot, which was an exterior shot of the houseboat.
The lighting team moved quickly and quickly set up the lights. Efron called start. The camera began to slowly move forward. This was a very simple empty shot.
"Cut! Cut!"
But Nora Ephron stopped filming very unhappy, "Nathan, what are you doing there?" It turned out that a young actor ran into the camera.
What a mess!
Ronald had to pull the first assistant director and whisper a few words. This kind of scene required the sergeant major to scold the irresponsible staff.
"Cut! Cut! Nathan, I want you to stay where you are, okay?" In the second shot, the young actor named Nathan ran behind the camera again and suddenly made a strange scream to scare the coolies of the camera crew.
"Where are his parents?" Ronald was also impatient. So much time and money was wasted on the first day of filming...