Cher is wearing a black coat, with sexy black stockings exposed underneath, a pair of red high heels with red sequins on her feet, long wavy black hair, and more three-dimensional facial features after makeup, it is simply
A classic black-haired beauty appeared in front of everyone.
Cher's facial lines are very suitable for filming movies. Her cheekbones are a bit high and may be said to be mean, but with the combination of eye shadow and blush, they are very suitable for movie shots under lighting and are very three-dimensional.
feel.
The face has built-in shadows, and only one light is enough, without the need for complicated composite light sources to create effects.
All images on the movie screen are flat, and the human brain needs calculations to reconstruct the three-dimensional image of the human face. The more three-dimensional the facial lines, the easier it is for the human brain of the audience to find them attractive. In addition, the advanced film shooting
The lighting needs to be beautiful on the big screen, and the requirements for actors are much higher than those in TV dramas.
In a sense, whether an actor is suitable for the big screen depends on being selected by the God of Movies. Only actors favored by the God of Movies have the possibility of becoming the protagonist.
Cher made a dancing gesture and turned in from outside the camera. She was like Mimi, the protagonist in the opera "La Bohème", deeply intoxicated in love.
Olympia Dukakis enters the picture from another angle.
David Watkin is indeed a very good director of photography. He quickly arranged several cameras based on the results of the rehearsal, so that he could shoot this story around the long dining table from different angles.
He also hid the camera just right so that it would not capture other cameras. Sometimes, the blind spot for shooting was just a few dozen centimeters suitable for placing the camera. Watkin quickly found the best angle based on experience.
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When the actors still feel like they were having a fight, they can immediately get into filming mode.
"God, what happened to you?" Mother Rose asked her soul when she saw her daughter dancing alone like a lunatic, waving a scarf in her hand.
"I really don't know where to start..." Loretta, played by Cher, pulled up a chair and sat down at the dining table.
"Your hair is different too." Mother Rose keenly noticed Loretta's changes.
"Mom, everything is different." While watching the opera last night, Loretta found that she had found true love, the Ronnie with the wooden hand.
"Are you drunk?" Mother Rose gave her daughter a cup of hot coffee.
"No, are you drunk?" Cher's mood was still filled with dissatisfaction with Dukakis. This rhetorical question fit perfectly with Loretta's romantic feeling of doubting anyone after she met the true love of her life.
Everyone is dissatisfied.
"No, but I'm a little hungover." Ross, like her husband Cosmo, had to use alcohol to anesthetize herself last night in order to fall asleep next to her cheating husband.
"Where's Dad?" Loretta has not yet woken up from the romance.
"Upstairs," Ross got himself another cup of coffee, "Johnny Camarelli was here last night."
"What? Isn't he in Sicily?" Loretta could no longer remain calm. She was not ready to tell Johnny about everything she had with Johnny's brother Ronnie. Originally, Johnny had to wait for the funeral arrangements for his seriously ill mother.
After that, she can go back to New York to marry Loretta. Loretta still has time to think about how to explain to Johnny.
Suddenly realizing that she was about to face her fiancé Johnny, Loretta stood up with excitement in her heart. She had not enjoyed a few hours of romance and tenderness, but was suddenly frightened away by the violent conflict she was about to face.
"He is not in Sicily. He came yesterday and had a chat with everyone."
"Impossible, he was in Sicily, his mother was about to die, and he was there to accompany her on her last journey." Loretta shouted excitedly in denial.
When people are suddenly faced with something they cannot accept, they tend to deny the facts. Loretta was very excited and wanted to argue and deny the fact that Johnny had returned to New York.
"No, he's back."
"No way, he is in Sicily with his dying mother!"
"His mother is fine."
"Impossible, she is already seriously ill and is about to die."
"This is a miracle!" Rose said lightly. She had not completely gotten rid of the conflict with Cher. This kind of tone was like an acting master who was making trouble unreasonably when watching a singing amateur guest-acting.
"Miracles? Miracles... Now is the modern era. There are no miracles anymore." Cher seemed to be hitting back at the so-called acting masters. All she needs to do to make a movie is to do one thing well.
While raising her voice and arguing with her mother, Loretta quickly picked up the napkin on the table and began to wipe the lipstick on her mouth. If Johnny came this morning, she would not let him find out that she was having an affair with Ronnie.
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"Ha, I think Sicily still maintains its original rhythm and has not entered any modern era." Dukakis looked at Cher's furious performance, sat down slowly, and replied calmly. If you have acting skills, you don't have to work so hard.
"He came directly from the airport. He wants to talk to you." Putting the coffee on the corner of the dining table, mother Rose looked at her daughter's deliberate makeup, and she already knew something about the problem.
"There is a love hickey on your neck!" Dukakis's voice suddenly rose, "What are you doing? Johnny will come home this morning to talk to you."
Loretta, played by Cher, was so frightened that she took a look at herself on the cupboard glass.
"Tsk..."
Ronald watched the whole scene behind the camera. Sure enough, the best performance was the true performance. Everyone's emotions were already in place during the morning's quarrel. There was no need to do any mental construction at all. The emotions were fresh in the memory.
Have it at your fingertips.
Of course, Cher's performance was still a bit off. Dukakis spoke with emotion and rhythm. Every sentence was stuck at the turning point of the emotion. The strict training on Broadway made their line skills very good.
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This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "What the hell did you do? Your beautiful future life has been flushed into the toilet by yourself." Dukakis became more and more excited as she spoke, and she spread her hands.
, with your palms upward, use up-and-down gestures to strengthen your arguments.
"Hurry up and cover that damn love bite of yours. Cover it with foundation and put on some makeup!"
"Okay, okay, you have to help me." Xueer took out the plush pajamas from behind the door and was about to change out of her sexy outfit.
"Zi..."
Suddenly the doorbell rang. The mother and daughter looked at each other. Is this Johnny coming?
"Oh, I'm going to change clothes, you open the door," Cher said to Dukakis.
"Zi..." People outside the door kept ringing the doorbell.
"Open the door, Mom." Xueer picked up her pajamas and walked into the inner room.
"Um..." Dukakis's mother, Rose, kept shaking her head and making some meaningless comments about her daughter's fall in love, expressing her disapproval.
"Cut!"
Ronald was actually not very satisfied with Cher's performance. She did not express the panic of the heroine Loretta when something happened in a consistent manner.
Cher herself is a big singer, so of course she doesn't panic at all about such small things. But Loretta is just a small accountant, making a living by doing part-time accounting for Italian small businessmen among relatives and friends.
Of course, you will be even more nervous when you encounter something like this being discovered by your fiancé on the spot.
But it doesn’t matter, Ronald thought to himself, such an emotional state is rare. Don’t waste time on such small details. The reversal of this scene is very dense. In just a few minutes, multiple characters will react backwards and forwards.
Turn, the audience's emotions were stirred up and down, it's better to let go of Cher's little flaws, at least her previous performance was very good.
"Change to the next game." Ronald said gently to the staff.
Nicolas Cage appeared at the door and looked inside through the glass.
Mother Rose saw that it wasn't Johnny, but another handsome Italian guy who was younger than her daughter. She knew what had happened.
She opened the door and yelled to her daughter, "Not Johnny!"
Loretta opened the door and came out with her head tilted. She had already changed into a set of home-style plush clothes and plush socks, dressing up comfortably.
"Oh, it's Ronnie." Loretta breathed a sigh of relief.
Ronnie, played by Nicolas Cage, has a slicked-back hair, and his hair is still standing up a little unfavorably. The black windbreaker is carefully selected and he looks very handsome.
"Is Johnny here?" Ronnie asked Loretta inside.
"Not here now, but he will be here soon." Loretta felt a little more at ease when her lover arrived.
"Very good, when he comes we will spread everything out and make it clear on the table."
"Hmph..." Mother Rose looked at the two people in this state, and her guess was more or less certain.
"Hi, I'm Ronnie, Johnny's brother, nice to meet you." Ronnie stretched out his hand... and said to his mother Rose, who was blocking the way in the middle of the corridor.
"I'm Rose Castorini, Loretta's mother."
"Nice to meet you."
Mother Rose ignored Ronnie, pulled the collar of Ronnie's windbreaker with her hand, and looked at his neck. "You also have a love bite mark."
"Oh..." Loretta held her head, and her mother, Rose, saw through Ronnie's bottom in just two strokes.
"Your mother is well." Ross went to prepare oatmeal and told him the news of his mother's miraculous recovery.
"Ah, this is a good thing, although I am not very close to him."
"You have to go, you have to go, you can't be here today." Loretta pushed Ronnie. She didn't want to face her fiancé Johnny and her lover Ronnie in person.
"I'm here to meet your family today..." Ronnie came to Loretta's house after careful consideration.
"Who wants oatmeal?" Mother Rose was there preparing breakfast.
"I want some." Ronnie pushed Loretta away, walked to the dining table, and took off his coat. When it came to the other hand, it was not convenient to take off the sleeve with the prosthetic hand, so he took off the sleeve with his mouth.
"Tsk..." Ronald admired in his heart. Nicolas Cage was inspired by a bunch of old actors. His little action was very consistent with the identity of Ronny Camarelli, who was equipped with a wooden prosthetic hand.
Acting is about reacting. You often play against people with excellent acting skills. Even if you are a talented actor, it will be difficult if you don't improve. In terms of acting, the effect of teaching by example is far greater than words.
The camera is facing the corridor, and Vincent Gardenia, who plays the father Cosmo, walks in wearing a white shirt.
This is the difficulty of this scene. The characters walk into the kitchen one by one, eating and chatting around the dining table. It is very similar to the process in a play where actors go through the entrance door to the center of the stage.
As there are more and more actors, the drama itself becomes more and more complex. It is necessary to grasp the focus of the entire scene and limit it to only two or three people, so as not to overload the audience's attention and watch the play smoothly.
It is very much about the director's scheduling and the actors' performances.
Cosmo sat down at one end of the long dining table. He looked at Ronnie and examined the young man's wooden prosthetic hand. Then he looked at his daughter Loretta. He drank a lot last night and would not be able to figure out the two for a while.
What is the relationship between people?
Loretta did not dare to look at her father, lowered her head and remained silent.
Cosmo had no choice but to ask Ronnie, "Are you Ronnie? Johnny's brother?"
"Yes, nice to meet you, I'm Ronny Camarelli."
In Toronto, Canada, there are no representatives of the photographers union watching over the set, and no one cares about the rule that the director of photography cannot take the shot himself.
Director of photography David Watkin personally went into action, zooming in on the face of Vincent Gardenia, who played Cosmo, for a super close-up.
He used the zoom lens not to create a zoom effect. But the time of this scene was particularly important. In order to save time and avoid the actor's mood cooling down when changing the lens. He just used to pull the lens between zooms.
Realizing lenses with different focal lengths is equivalent to using a zoom lens as a fixed focus lens.
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When I went to the opera with my lover, I happened to meet my daughter.
What I didn't expect was that this daughter's lover was actually her fiancé's brother.
Mother Rose came over with oatmeal for everyone. Daughter Loretta was looked at by her father strangely and couldn't bear it. "Don't look at me like that, Dad."
"Continue, continue to keep this state." Ronald was behind the camera, very excited. He felt that this shooting was like a divine blessing, as if the God of Movies accidentally opened his eyes and looked at this studio in Toronto next year.
The condition of the camera is surprisingly good. I hope it can be maintained even if the next actor joins the cast.
If it were a continuous long shot, it would be amazing. The actors' emotions would be smooth and the audience's viewing experience would be much better.
"Hi, morning, Dad." Mother Rose heard the old man's voice coming downstairs.
The old man played by Fedor Chaliapin slowly walked into the kitchen and found his seat with a dissatisfied look on his face.
"What's wrong, Dad?" Father Cosmo noticed that the old man was in a bad mental state and asked him what happened.
"I'm old. When I get old, I'm looked down upon by others. Even if I say something, no one will take me seriously."
Another camera faced the old man's front and shot from a slightly upward angle.
Fedor Chaliapin was very energetic in the picture shot from above, and he looked like a grandfather.
"Son, I have to tell you, you have to pay for your only daughter's wedding. Your arrogance is destroying your family.
That’s all I have to say, I’m done.”
After saying that, the old man pulled out his chair and sat down.
This was the first unexpected twist in this scene. No one expected that in the end, it would be this old and confused grandfather who spoke up for his granddaughter and used the dignity of an old man to get his stingy son to agree to pay for his daughter's wedding.
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He didn't pay for Loretta's first wedding!
"It doesn't matter, Dad, I agree. If Loretta gets married, I will pay for all the wedding expenses."
Vincent Gardenia's face is a bit funny in the camera. The character of Cosmo is very scheming. He just saw the relationship between his daughter and Ronnie, and knew about Loretta and Johnny's marriage.
The probability is going to be cancelled, so there is no problem in just saying it.
Who would marry his unlucky widowed daughter?
Loretta, played by Cher, made a face at her father Cosmo. She knew what her father was thinking, but she was still very happy to agree to her grandfather's request. She felt that being Castorini was worthwhile.
Already.
"Bravo, you're talking right now, good, good!" Grandpa was overjoyed, happy for his granddaughter Loretta, and excited that someone could listen to his words.
Mother Rose filled a bowl of oatmeal for her grandfather, then moved to the other end of the long dining table with her heart full of thoughts, and sat at opposite ends of the long table with her husband, Cosmo.
While everyone was engrossed in eating oatmeal, maybe Cosmo had given in to the old man just now, or maybe it was a problem with her daughter, which made her mother Rose frown and look at the big family.
Then she clasped her hands together and asked Cosmo, her husband, at the other end of the dining table.
"Am I a good wife?"
Husband Cosmo raised his head in surprise. He didn't know why Rose suddenly asked this, "Of course."
Rose got the answer she wanted, and a smile appeared on her face. Then she returned to her seriousness, and spoke out the request she had wanted to say for a long time:
"I hope you won't see her again."
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The sound of people scooping oatmeal porridge on plates with metal spoons suddenly stopped.
The cameras on both sides of the table captured the reactions of Loretta and Ronnie. Loretta covered her head. She had talked with her mother, Rose, in the church, and Rose told her that she knew that Cosmo had a lover outside.
Ronnie looked curious. It seemed that the chaos in the Castorini family was not much better than that in the Camarelli family.
Another camera is focused on the old man on the other side of the dinner table.
Fedor Chaliabin was so deaf that he didn't hear Dukakis's lines at all. But everyone's reaction clearly told him that the stage was now reached.
He looked to the left to see Cosmo's reaction, and to the right to see Rose's reaction. The old man still relied on his children to take care of him, so he didn't dare to say anything, so he quickly lowered his head and drank his porridge.
Ronald looked at his father Cosmo's reaction and performed very well.
Rose neither asked Cosmo whether he had a lover, nor asked him who his lover was, how they met, and what he wanted to do now, such vulgar women's questions.
Rose was very smart. After stymieing her husband Cosmo with the question of whether she was a good wife, she directly made her own request, asking Cosmo not to see that woman again.
Normally, a husband who is caught in an act of rape would either deny it or deny it, or simply find fault with his wife. But Cosmo just said that Rose is a good wife, so these options are no longer available.
The expression on his face was more of shock than embarrassment.
All kinds of emotions rushed into that fat face. Actor Vincent Gardenia slowly stood up and looked at his wife's sad face...
"Snapped!"
He suddenly slapped the table. He was once proud that he had a lover outside and a wife at home, and the arrangements were very good. In the end, Rose understood them, and his every move was under the control of his wife.
The old man was startled by his son's slap, and he fell back suddenly as if in surprise. It was not that he was frightened by the sound, but that Cosmo's slap hit him right next to his rice bowl.
Fedor Chaliapin's back was turned to the camera, and his whole body was full of drama. After he was surprised, he couldn't hear clearly what the content was, so he leaned back and continued to eat porridge.
"Tsk..." Ronald curled his lips. He could steal the show even with his back view.
"OK!" Cosmo slapped the table hard, but spoke softly.
"You still have to go to the church to confess." Ross's face showed a smile of victory. The husband agreed to cut off contact with his lover and went to the church to confess his sins. In Italian culture, this is equivalent to a full admission.
I made a mistake, and I will never be disconnected from that woman again.
Cosmo shook his head and smiled bitterly, "A man will one day discover that his life is based on nothingness."
Who could have known that yesterday there was one at home and one outside, but today the dream was punctured like a piece of paper?
Olympia Dukakis's face suddenly became very excited, there were tears in her eyes, and her chin trembled slightly with excitement.
Ross spoke one sentence at a time, gritting his teeth and speaking out what was in his heart:
"Your life is not built on nothing..."
"Ti Amo (meaning I love you in Italian)." Rose's voice was slightly distorted as he uttered the Italian vow of love.
"Anch'io Ti Amo (I love you too)", Cosmo heard his wife's tearful confession, and felt excited, as if he had returned to the time when he was young and stood downstairs in his wife's house.
Then he blew a kiss to his wife Rose, his voice trembling with excitement.
Rose felt her husband's true feelings and held back the tears that were about to burst out.
Loretta, played by Cher, did not expect that her parents were suddenly involved in the problems that were originally her own.
She rolled her eyes and looked at Ronnie beside her.
Ronnie immediately made a Ti Amo expression, causing Loretta to roll her eyes again. Now that there was love, what would happen to the rest of Johnny?
"Zi..." The doorbell rang again.
"It's Johnny. I'm going to open the door." Loretta covered her face, she had to face it after all.
"I'll go, I'll make it clear to him." Ronnie felt sorry for his lover and wanted to open the door.
"No, no, I'll go." Loretta asked Ronnie to sit down. She looked at her father Cosmo, "What should I tell Johnny?"
The old man over there still looked at his family members with a confused expression. He moved his mouth to speak, but nothing came out, so he had to lower his head and continue to drink porridge.
"To be honest, Loretta, they will know sooner or later." Father Cosmo said to his daughter based on his own experience and lessons.
"Oh... you're right, Ti Amo, dad."
"Ti Amo, my little cookie."
Loretta was about to open the door when she found that the door had already opened and standing there were her uncle Raymond and her aunt Rita.
They looked at Loretta as if something big had happened.
Aunt Rita looked at Loretta as if she had committed some serious crime. "Do you have anything to say to us? Honey."
Loretta looked confused, "No, what?"
Uncle Raymond glanced at his wife and decided to give his niece another chance, "We just came back from the bank."
"So?" Loretta still looked confused, "Oh, my God, I forgot to deposit the cash in your store into the bank."
Loretta went to her bag and found the cash. She was the accountant of her aunt and uncle's shop. Yesterday was the day she sent cash to the bank. On the way, she had to do her hair and had a date with Ronnie at night, so she forgot about it.
"God, that's great, she still has the money."
Uncle and aunt walked towards Ross, "Yesterday was such a strange day..."
"We never suspected you, but yesterday was really weird."
"Sit down and drink some coffee."
The family realized it was a misunderstanding, and like Italians, they made exaggerated gestures to express their unnecessary worries.
Aunt Rita was attentive, and she noticed something was wrong with everyone's expressions, "So what are we doing?"
"Wait for someone, wait for Johnny to come." Mother Rose said to her.
Rita looked at Ronnie and then at Loretta, knowing that the problem was with this young man.
"This is Johnny's brother, Ronnie Camarelli," Ross hinted at sister-in-law Rita.
"Oh, hello, I'm Rita Capomagi."
Rita saw the unusual relationship between him and her niece. She looked at Ross with a questioning look in her eyes, isn't your daughter engaged to Johnny?
Ross returned a look that said, "You're right."
Rita looked at Cosmo again, and Cosmo nodded.
Then came Loretta. Loretta made a face.
Finally, there was the confused old man. He looked left and right. Everyone was embarrassed and silent. The atmosphere in the air gradually solidified. The old man couldn't stand it anymore. He complained, "Anyone can tell a joke."
No one spoke, except Ronnie, who was moved by the old man's sense of humor and laughed out loud. No one agreed with him, and it was a bit embarrassing for a while.
"Zi..."
The doorbell finally rang.
Aunt Rita, feeling that nothing was right today, went to open the door.
"Johnny Camarelli", Rita announced to everyone.
"Hey, hey..." Johnny laughed a few times before entering the door. He was always so cautious.
"Loretta?" Johnny was surprised when he saw Loretta, who was completely different from before and was radiant with beauty.
"Ronnie?" Johnny was continuously surprised today, "Are you here to reconcile with me? Ronnie?"
"Yes, but it may not be what you want." Ronnie stood up and said to his brother, he was here to steal the bride.
"Of course I want to reconcile with you." Johnny looked at Ronnie, thinking that he had agreed to attend his wedding, and was a little relieved.
"Didn't you say your mother was sick and about to die? How could she get better?" Loretta asked Johnny.
"I told her I was getting married soon, and she got better. It's a miracle." Johnny replied.
"Of course it's a miracle." Ronnie understood very well that the mother from her hometown in Palermo, Sicily, always liked to use this method to manipulate her son's behavior.
"Johnny, I have something to tell you." Loretta stood up. She decided to face the situation she had created and use her father Cosmo's strategy to tell the truth.
"Loretta, I also have something to tell you, but can you come out and let's talk alone?" Johnny also had something to say.
"No, I want to be with my family. If you have anything to say, just say it here."
Danny Aiello, who plays Johnny and is also a Broadway character actor, looked at Cher and solemnly said what was in his heart:
"Loretta, I can't marry you."
"Hmm...huh?" Xueer's change of expression was very good. These words were beyond Loretta's expectation.
"If I marry you, my mother will die." Johnny was particularly superstitious. He had personal experience of Loretta's bad luck. His mother almost died because she was engaged, so he came to break off the engagement.
"What are you talking about?" Loretta was confused.
"What are you talking about?" Ronnie was dissatisfied. Johnny was willing to break off the engagement. Isn't it just right?
"Let me talk about promises again. He made a promise. This is the engagement ring." Loretta showed the engagement ring on her middle finger to Ronnie and Johnny.
"My mother almost died, and now she's recovered. I can't marry you."
"Oh, Johnny, you are 42 years old and you are still being controlled by her." Ronnie couldn't bear the fact that his brother was controlled by his mother.
"What about you? You are a son who doesn't love his mother." Johnny was particularly dissatisfied with his brother's rebellion against his mother.
"What about you? You are a big liar. I have a ring here as proof. You proposed to me and now you want to regret it."
"Loretta, I have to get my ring back."
"You..., okay", Loretta took off the ring and threw it on Johnny, "The engagement is cancelled!"
Johnny didn't catch the ring and fell to the ground. He was also very angry. He didn't expect that he would encounter such fierce abuse. "You will understand in the future, Loretta, this is the best for you." Johnny pointed at Loretta.
Reta said.
Loretta was irritated by Johnny's finger movements and said, "If you burp your ass from now on, I will wear red clothes and go to your funeral."
Both of them were in a state of mental collapse, and they began to yell at each other.
"Loretta," Ronnie said suddenly.
"What?!"
"will you marry me?"
"What?" Johnny, who had just picked up the ring, knelt on the ground and raised his head. He heard a strange sentence: his brother Ronnie actually proposed to his ex-fiancée, Loretta.
"Where's the ring? Where's the proposal ring?" Loretta was dissatisfied because neither brother prepared a ring for the proposal.
"Johnny, can you lend me the ring?" Ronnie asked his brother for the ring.
Johnny looked at his brother and then at Loretta. Although he was extremely embarrassed, he still wanted to reconcile with his brother. After hesitating for a few seconds, he handed the ring to his brother.
"Loretta Castorini, will you marry me?"
Loretta's face turned from cloudy to clear, "Yes, Ronnie, under the witness of my family, I am willing to marry you."
"Oh, Loretta, do you love him?" Mother Rose saw that her daughter was deeply in love.
"Yes, I love him so much."
"Oh, that's too bad." Ross lowered his head and smiled bitterly. If you love a man, you often have to forgive his shameful shortcomings."
"Did you hear that? She loves me." Ronnie let go of his worries. He hoped that Loretta would marry him because of love.
The two hugged each other happily, looked at each other for a while, and then started to kiss.
The camera on the other side began to film the old man.
The old man used a tissue and wiped his eyes tremblingly, as if he was crying.
"What's wrong with you, Dad?" Cosmo asked.
Fedor Chaliapin put down the tissue, "I'm confused."
Cosmo nodded, everyone would be confused at this point.
"Cut!"
"Cut! Cut!"
Ronald stopped filming.
The actors seemed to pause for more than ten seconds, unable to believe that such a difficult scene was passed in just one shot.
Ronald saw David Watkin and gave him an OK gesture, "It's over, let's eat."
It was almost two o'clock in the afternoon, and all the actors had not eaten. Ronald quickly asked his assistant to serve food.
"Uh..." Ronald's own stomach also made a loud sound.
"Hahaha……"
The actors began to applaud, expressing their happiness for such a wonderful play.
"How did you do that? Ronald." Olympia Dukakis played it very well. This scene was full of sighs, multiple plot twists, and the rivalry between the actors was also extremely exciting. Even on Broadway
, not every performance can be performed so vividly.
"Maybe the God of Movies has answered my prayer and is opening his eyes to see us." Ronald didn't know why it went so well. Maybe it was because the actors' previous state was just right, or maybe everyone was hungry for a long time.
, all want to put on their best performance as soon as possible after filming and eating.
Maybe, it's just a coincidence that everyone happened to be performing at their best.
The actors all had something to eat, but Ronald still had time to eat. He and the crew's technical staff began to rearrange the camera positions. Then, Ronald directed the last scene of the film.
The camera was right next to the kitchen door and was filming inside, where a family was popping champagne to celebrate Loretta and Ronnie's engagement.
Everyone followed the Italian tradition by adding a sugar cube to the champagne and toasting to celebrate.
Johnny sat alone and was depressed, but the old man brought him a glass of champagne, "Johnny, come on, for the sake of the big family, don't you understand? We are all members of the big family."
"For the family!"
"For the family!"
Johnny is not happy anymore, so he raises a glass to celebrate with everyone.
The wine glasses were touched together, Ronald and David Watkin stepped back together, and the camera slowly exited the dining room and retreated into the hallway of the living room.
The camera slowly turned around and took a picture of the group photo on the wall.
There are photos of Loretta as a child, photos of Cosmo and Ross getting married, and photos of Ross and his brother Raymond as children.
The camera continued to move to the right, and finally stopped at a group photo, which was the first photo of the old man's parents after they immigrated to America from Palermo, Sicily.
The two old people in the photo seemed to be smiling happily as they looked at the house full of children and grandchildren.
The camera slowly zooms in...
"Cut!"
"Oh, God. It's finally done."
Ronald finally let go of his worries and felt dizzy, as if he hadn't eaten at noon and had the sequelae of intense mental work in the afternoon.
Unlike actors who can go to the trailer to replenish snacks at any time, and the director of photography who also takes time to eat and catch up on sleep, Ronald is always thinking about the shooting with high tension.
The high-intensity pressure was suddenly released, and Ronald's vision went dark. Hypoglycemia caused him to stagger and almost fall.
"Are you okay?" David Watkin helped him.
"Give me a sugar cube, I seem to have low blood sugar."