Chapter 291 You kiss her on the screen, off the screen
The crew of "Top Gun" added an additional production budget. Ronald and the camera crew, prop crew, and makeup crew all went to Chicago and rented a studio at a television station in Chicago.
Two scenes were built as quickly as possible. One was Charlie's home. Based on the stills from the time, an exact replica of the house and bedroom on the beach outside Los Angeles was built.
Another scene shows Charlie and Lone Ranger meeting in the elevator at Miramar Base the day after they broke up on a date at home. The two rekindled their interest in each other.
By the weekend of the second week, everything was ready. Ronald arrived at the scene setting very early and directed the film crew to start preparing for a full day of reshoots.
"Ronald, what do I need to prepare?" Tom Cruise rushed over from Highland Park. He just finished a scene opposite Paul Newman last night, and today he has to play a completely different role with Kelly.
·McGillis filmed passionate scenes.
After working more with Martin Scorsese, Tom Cruise began to think more about the performance of his acting skills before each scene. Scorsese and Paul Newman were experienced and gave him a lot of inspiration.
"Today, there are no requirements for your acting skills. You just need to show your masculine charm as much as possible. Let the feeling carry you forward."
"Okay, it's not difficult for me." Tom laughed heartily, showing his neat white teeth.
After becoming famous, his teeth were completely renovated by the most expensive dentist in Hollywood, and his smile has become a standard American smile.
"Remember that bathroom scene? You and Val Kilmer?" Ronald asked Cruise.
"of course I remember."
"Well, this is also the meeting with Charlie again in the elevator after taking a shower. I need to wet your hair to cover up your hairstyle so that the audience will not notice the big change in your hairstyle."
"No problem, I'll take a shower right now."
The hairstylist visited Scorsese's set a few days ago and observed and experimented for a long time. Perhaps inspired by Ronald's decision to make Kelly McGillis wear a baseball cap, he came up with an idea to make Tom K.
Ruth showered and combed her hair back to dilute the impression of length.
"Kelly," Ronald called McGillis back.
"This is great." Ronald adjusted McGillis' baseball cap, and a few strands of blond hair were exposed from under the hat, floating on his forehead and temples, adding a bit of playfulness. He continued to remove a few strands of blond hair from McGillis's hat.
Si's hat was pushed aside.
McGillis showed a rare shyness, and she was a little uncomfortable with such intimate actions in front of everyone. However, she also enjoyed Ronald's care and could not control her laughter.
"Remember this feeling, the scene in the elevator will be like this."
"Yes, sir." McGillis smiled even more happily.
"a!"
When everything was ready, Ronald took the time to start filming. Scorsese only gave him one day.
The camera started filming the small room built like an elevator.
McGillis was inside, wearing a black baseball cap.
Tom Cruise wore a tight-fitting vest, revealing his muscular upper body, with a towel around his neck. His hair was still wet and combed back. He walked into the elevator from behind the camera. Then from behind
to the camera.
The Lone Ranger saw that Charlie was there, and smiled knowingly like someone he likes.
Charlie also saw the Lone Ranger, was moved by his smile, and smiled too.
Ronald gave a gesture, and the props team used a rope to pull the false door of the elevator. With a whoosh, the door was closed.
"cut!"
Ronald was very satisfied with this shot. The smiles of the two protagonists were like a man and a woman who failed on their first date. They still had a good impression of each other the next day and their eyes met again.
"Restore, restore," the prop team shouted, opening the fake elevator door. The camera changed to a close-up shot and continued to film the two protagonists.
Afterwards, in the editing room, these two shots will be edited together. In this way, when the audience sees the conversation between the two in the shot again, they will naturally think that this is the two people talking after the elevator door closes.
"a!"
The Lone Ranger waited for the door to close and immediately turned to Charlie and looked at her with a smile.
"It looks like you still need to take a shower." Charlie teased.
"Yeah." Tom Cruise's smile became a little shy. Six months later, he is no longer single. Cher always comes for private meetings when he has the opportunity. When he acted in this kind of scene, he thought to himself
It’s still Cher, her sweet expression will make female audiences like her very much.
"Pfft," Kelly McGillis smiled. She also knew about his relationship with Cher. He and Cher had a long-distance phone call for half an hour before starting work.
"I just want to tell you that although the data of the MiG-28 is very important to me, but..." McGillis sighed, and then spit it out forcefully. It seemed that she had said something that made her embarrassed.
"I usually don't invite male students to my home." Charlie seemed to have made up his mind, "You are..."
The Lone Ranger walked closer and closer, his expression serious. Male hormones began to fill the air, and Charlie felt oppressed. "Please understand, MiG's data is very important to me."
"Ding!" The prop team used an electric bell to simulate the elevator bell.
Several other set designers opened the false door.
An officer came in.
The Lone Ranger and Charlie suddenly separated. After a while, the officer got off the elevator. The Lone Ranger waited for the false door to close, then approached Charlie and looked into her eyes with a smile.
"I'm glad we made things clear."
That said, but Cruise's eyes told another story. He looked at Charlie motionless.
Charlie was so moved by what he saw that he turned back to look at the Lone Ranger's lips, his eyes moving up and down.
"cut!"
Ronald was very satisfied.
After being trained by Scorsese, Tom Cruise's acting skills have obviously made great progress. Kelly McGillis is a theater actor who has officially debuted on Broadway. This kind of ambiguous and complex scenes is her strength.
The two of them talked about inviting him to their home because of work.
But the way they look at each other and their body movements are undoubtedly telling another story. These are two men and women who have been together for a long time, admiring each other, but have not yet officially started a relationship, the most comfortable, expected, and desired relationship.
stage.
After asking the director of photography, Ronald announced that the elevator scene was finished.
The group of people transitioned to another scene, Charlie's bedroom.
"I want this big backlight to be darker." Ronald saw the lighting conditions in the bedroom scene. He stepped forward to look through the camera and continued to give instructions to the director of photography.
In order to prevent the audience from being distracted by this sudden passionate scene, and to prevent the two people's hairstyles from being worn out, Ronald decided to use a very dark-key shooting method.
The curtains were tightly drawn, leaving only two places with white semi-transparent curtains to let in some outdoor light.
In fact, most of the time, only a silhouette can be shot of such a passionate scene. Ronald deliberately did not let the audience see too exciting scenes.
After all, this is a PG movie, and it can only be touched with a few kisses and hugs. The main purpose is to let the audience's own imagination complete the missing part of the filming.
The scene was cleared, with only the director of photography, Ronald, a few necessary lighting assistants, and the sound crew inside.
"Are you okay? Kelly?" Ronald went over and knocked gently on the dressing room door.
"I'm done." Kelly McGillis walked out, wearing only a white shirt with a long hem.
Ronald watched the effect from a foot away from her. McGillis was extremely sexy. The typical working girl's white shirt reflected the intellectual beauty of instructor Charlie in the dim light.
McGillis stood on tiptoes and held Ronald's chest with both hands, "It would be great if you were the leading actor. I wouldn't have to stand in the ditch."
Ronald smiled slightly and said, "Trench is also necessary. It's just that I'm standing underneath."
His chest hair was a little itchy due to McGillis' gentle movements. Looking into McGillis's eyes, he also approached McGillis gently and slightly aggressively, just like the character of The Lone Ranger.
"After you finish filming, you wait for me." McGillis said softly in Ronald's ear.
"Hmm..." Ronald felt a tingling sensation, rising from his waist, down his entire left ear, and up to his neck, as if someone had tapped his acupuncture points.
"Prepare."
Tom Cruise was already shirtless and waiting in the room.
The two of them aligned themselves, and the dim light filtered through the curtains, backlighting the two of them, creating a nice outline of light.
"a!"
The camera's motor buzzed slightly. "Take My Breath Away" sung by the Berlin band was gently played by the recording team to make it easier for the actors to enter the scene.
McGillis and Cruise looked at each other, slowly, slowly getting closer.
The camera's viewfinder was right at their knees.
Below, which was not captured by the camera, the set crew had dug a trench in advance. McGillis's feet were standing in the trench, which forcibly made her shorter by several inches.
In this way, in the photo frame, Charlie and the Lone Ranger are very similar in height.
McGillis doesn't have to be distracted and bend down while performing such a very subtle and ambiguous scene.
The two gradually came closer, closer, and finally their lips came together gently, then quickly separated, and then continued to kiss together.
Ronald's hand grabbed his thigh. Scorsese was right, watching a woman he was having an affair with filming a passionate scene with other men was a very bad experience.
To make matters worse, Ronald is also the director, so he has to carefully consider the acting skills of the two people. If the chemistry is not right, he is also responsible for telling the story.
The lips, fingertips, chins, and nose tips of the two people all deliberately touched lightly. For a scene of this scale, it would not be a big problem to give it a PG rating.
Then the two of them lay down on the bed and continued to shoot passionate scenes similar to silhouettes under the backlight. Although there was no nudity, it made people's blood boil.
"cut!"
We finally finished filming this scene, and it was almost evening. Tom Cruise was in a hurry to leave. Cher was coming to Chicago for a visit soon, and he wanted to go back to the hotel as soon as possible.
McGillis, who stayed behind, also took advantage of the setting sun to shoot a scene where he woke up alone in the afterglow and saw an airplane folded by the Lone Ranger with paper on the bedside, which clearly looked like an F-14 Tomcat.
"cut!"
Ronald was also so teased that he couldn't stand it anymore.
After confirming that there was no problem with the play, he took McGillis' hand and walked outside.
McGillis was staggered by him, "My shoes."
"It's okay, the assistant will put it away."
Ronald simply bent down and picked up McGillis' waist and carried her to the car.
When the car arrived at the hotel, McGillis took the initiative to hug Ronald. The two of them avoided the eyes of the waiter in the lobby and walked quickly into the elevator until they reached the room on the executive floor.
Ronald opened the door with the key card and walked in.
McGillis came in from behind and turned on the light. She stood on tiptoe with her bare feet. She was wearing a thick windbreaker and no shoes.
"Pop!" Ronald turned off the switch.
As the lights from the upscale areas of Chicago filtered through the windows at night, Ronald hugged McGillis, and the two hugged each other tightly.
McGillis gently brushed his fingertips across Ronald's face.
There was another tingling feeling, and Ronald put his hand into the windbreaker and wrapped it around her waist. She was still wearing the white shirt.
Wow, the windbreaker was squeezed out of McGillis' body by Ronald and fell to the ground.
Ronald also touched McGillis' waist and back with his fingertips, and then gently touched her neck and cheeks with his lips.
"Um...ah..." Now McGillis also felt the sensation of his skin breaking apart at the first touch, like an electric shock.
The lips pressed together tightly.
Ronald pressed the electric switch on the wall of the high-end hotel, and the curtains were slowly drawn closed.
There was only a dim floor lamp left in the room, and two men and women kissing each other passionately.