John McTiernan was very angry. He felt that the two producers, Ronald and Joel Silver, were deliberately going against him. This kind of character would interfere with the director even if he spoke nonsense German.
arrangements, maybe there will be some problems during the final editing.
Ronald did not expect that his opinions for the sake of international box office would be misunderstood as interfering with the director's work. As the crew continued to watch the filming, he clearly felt McTiernan's anger towards him.
The position is different, and Ronald's thoughts are also different. If his "working girl" had a producer who made irresponsible remarks about his director, he might also feel this way. Of course, Ronald
With its box office performance, no one from Twentieth Century Fox would be stupid enough to say anything, and Ronald is also one of the producers.
McTiernan showed his anger by deliberately not shooting the main shot that explained the entire scene, and instead used close-up reaction shots and mid-shot front and back shots to show the dialogue and interaction between the characters. In this way, in the editing room
, the producers can do much less.
Ronald, who knew it very well, just watched from behind the camera and said nothing. His purpose was not to point fingers or replace the director's work.
Today's shoot is another thrilling action stunt shot. A close-up shot of Alan Rickman finally falling from the building.
Just like the first scene of filming, the scene with Bruce Willis, the rooftop on the top floor was cleared by the crew again. Alan Rickman's body was hung outside the railing, hung with a safety rope.
The camera with a fixed stand was switched to a close-up shot, facing Rickman's face from top to bottom, with the cameraman hanging on it, operating the big machine, which looked very funny.
A stuntman grabbed Rickman's hand with his hand, and McTiernan was talking to him next to him. "When the time comes, I will count one, two, three. When the count reaches three, Mike will let go."
, you have to make a surprised expression. Then it’s OK.”
"Okay, no problem." Alan Rickman wiped his hands on his body. It was the first time he filmed such an action scene, which made his heart beat faster as an actor in Shakespeare's plays.
The stuntman named Mike also explained their protective measures to Rickman. "Don't worry, this safety rope can withstand impacts ten times greater than your weight. There is also an airbag insurance underneath. Bruce Willis is the first
That lens is not protected by a safety cord, so just relying on the airbag is no problem.
Don't hold your hands too hard, I will pull you hard. When the director counts to three and gives the signal, I will let go, so that the fall will be more natural. We have been doing this simple stunt for many years, and many actors have tried it.
,Very simple."
Alan Rickman was relieved by what he said and signaled to the director that he was ready.
For this kind of shot, the most important thing is whether the actor is ready. If you are not afraid psychologically, you can often succeed in the first time. But if you are not mentally prepared for fear, the actor may be under pressure to perform unnaturally every time he dances in the future.
There's no end to taking pictures.
"Attention of all departments, we have started filming.
Action!"
Director John McTiernan gave the order while standing next to the camera.
"One, two..."
Before the count reached three, McTiernan secretly sent a signal to the stuntman, and Mike, who grabbed Rickman's hand, immediately let go.
"ah……"
Alan Rickman was shaken unexpectedly. His face was full of panic and fear caused by subconscious conditioned reflexes. He screamed and fell from the top.
"Did you get it?" McTiernan asked director of photography John de Bont.
De Bont scratched his hair and nodded in confirmation. The effect of this close-up shot is very good. The frightened expression on Rickman's face cannot be achieved by any genre of performance. This is completely a human instinctive reaction.
"Damn... damn director, I want to complain." came the curse from Alan Rickman. This time, he was frightened enough. He was waiting with all his concentration, but suddenly he let go a little early, frightening him.
I broke out in a cold sweat.
"Forget it, it's all for filming..." Alan Rickman saw Ronald who came down to look at him, and suddenly no longer thought of complaining to the Screen Actors Guild. Although he was a member of the British Screen Actors Guild, he automatically enjoyed all the rights in America.
The power of the Screen Actors Guild.
There are still many differences between film performances and theatrical performances. Although this method is damaging, the final effect is definitely good.
…
After watching the filming of the more dangerous scenes, Ronald's matters in Los Angeles were settled, and he flew back to New York. The actors had already gathered together to start reading and rehearsing the script.
"Working Girl" is a movie that relies on plot and performance to advance the plot, and the level of drama is very high. Therefore, before filming started, the actors read through all the scenes according to their own characters, so that they could understand the emotions in each scene.
What is the intensity of .
Everyone is an actor with a background in theater. Alec Baldwin and Joan Cusack are very familiar with this form. Melanie Griffiths is a child star who has been acting since she was a child and comes from an acting family. She studied for two days in a row.
In the future, I will have my own understanding of where the plot should be and how much effort should be put into it.
However, the absence of Harrison Ford and Sigourney Weaver prevented the actors from doing the final overall script reading. That is, each character rehearsed their lines continuously according to the plot from beginning to end.
Many problems that were not discovered during intermittent reading often become apparent at this stage.
"Director, before we start shooting, do we have to do another round-up after Harrison arrives?" Melanie Griffiths asked Ronald in a husky but sexy voice.
"No, you, Harrison, and Sigourney's scenes will not be rehearsed in advance. I need a sense of strangeness. You have filmed Jonathan Demme's "Shot", so you should not be familiar with this method.
strangeness."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Ronald had no plan to let them rehearse in advance. The two key points for the success of this film are Melanie's role as Tess.
And the couple feel between Harrison Ford's Jack Traynor character. And the fight scene between Tess and Catherine, two women who are all in competition.
The supporting roles in the movie are all played by veterans, and Harrison Ford and Sigourney Weaver are also stars with distinctive styles. If they are chosen as the protagonists, corresponding updates will be made in the script to make the characters closer to their star images.
In this way, everyone is familiar with movies, but they often fall into a perfunctory problem. Everyone has played similar roles dozens or hundreds of times, but when they actually start shooting, they will fall into skills and inertia, and they will not be able to perform.
That kind of natural reaction.
Tess and Jack fell in love at first sight. Well, isn't it similar to Han Solo's first meeting with Princess Leia in Star Wars? Tess competes with Catherine for her career and her man. That Hollywood actress over thirty has never acted in one or twenty years.
A similar role? Experience will hinder these veterans and stars from performing that kind of sincere emotion.
Just like Laurence Olivier, who has performed hundreds of Shakespeare plays and is known as the best actor in Britain, he will be nervous every time before he goes on stage, for fear that he will encounter too familiar problems and his performance will dissatisfy the audience.
Ronald asked directors he was familiar with for advice on this problem. To solve this dilemma, Hollywood directors generally have three methods.
The first method was taught to him by Peter Bogdanovich. It is to choose a novice who has just learned acting and let her stimulate the other veteran actors. Use fresh and unpredictable novices to give the veterans a sense of freshness.
elicit their natural reactions.
The recent films directed by Bogdanovich are not very good, but he has rich experience and is familiar with all the stars and directors of the golden era. He has interviewed them and written several biographies.
His own famous work "The Last Picture Show" also found Sybil Shepherd, who had just debuted, and then paired it with several veteran actors.
But this method is also an old method from the golden age. At that time, stars were long-term employees of the studio, so this method could be implemented. Today, movies need stars to sell tickets, and Ronald cannot do this.
The second method is taught by Martin Scorsese. It is like Stanislavsky's drama theory, grinding it slowly.
When performing the first scene, there is a lot of craftsmanship among veteran actors. If the requirements are not met, they will continue filming. By the time the tenth and twentieth scenes are filmed, all the crafty performance methods have been performed more than once.
The actor will get bored, angry, or even break down. He will start to wonder why he is always rejected by the director, whether his acting skills have deteriorated, or whether he is not suitable for the role at all.
But as long as the director continues, by the time of Article 25 or Article 30, all the shackles of the actors’ past acting experience will be completely eliminated. At this time, when they want to act, they must show
Something different and something that has never been tried before comes out, which brings the same sense of excitement as a novice actor.
But this method is not suitable for this movie. Scorsese is facing Tom Cruise, who has just become famous. Tom himself respects these famous directors and is willing to learn. And the other Paul who plays opposite him
·Newman, among the many stars in Hollywood, is the most humble, respects the director the most, and regards himself as an ordinary actor.
What Ronald faced was Sigourney Weaver, who had a tight schedule, and Harrison Ford, who was showing off as a big name before filming even started.
So he decided to use the third method, which was what Jonathan Demme taught him. Important scenes were never rehearsed until the filming started, and the protagonists had their first conversation.
Humans are animals that are very sensitive to hypocrisy. Only when they cooperate for the first time, whether the actors are novices or veterans, their reactions are the most original and natural, and they are also the ones that the audience likes best.
Just like when Alan Rickman fell, it was a completely natural reaction that cannot be performed by any acting genre.
Therefore, during the early rehearsals, the most important thing is to prevent the three most important protagonists from feeling familiar and maintain a sense of strangeness.
"Well, I'm looking forward to filming with him..." Melanie Griffiths is indeed a nymphomaniac type of actress. She is just as emotional in life as she is in filming.
people.
"Alec, I still don't understand some lines very clearly. Can you chat with me tonight?"
It was a pity that I couldn't see the handsome and charming Harrison Ford. Turning around, Melanie Griffith thought that Alec Baldwin, who played her ex-boyfriend, was also very handsome. Especially since he had a boyfriend with Harry.
With his similar wide chin, Sen Ford is a man among men.
Unlike Europe, where aesthetics tend to be feminine, America's aesthetics for men is still in a relatively primitive and normal range. Here, male stars have a wide chin, which is very popular with female audiences.
The two camps have been in a cold war for decades. Among the major countries, only America and China and Japan in East Asia still have a dominant aesthetic of men based on masculine charm. Traditional men with sharp edges and corners are still the mainstream aesthetic.
But this situation is slowly changing. In big cities, men with overflowing male hormones are gradually being labeled as blue-collar workers. Men with thin chins are mainly beautiful and feminine.
Male celebrities are gradually becoming more popular.
In particular, action stars like Stallone and Schwarzenegger cannot play smart men. This trend is more obvious in Europe and Japan. The new generation of male stars have increasingly obvious femininity.
"Sorry, Melanie, I have something else to do." Alec Baldwin declined the other party's invitation.
"Don't get me wrong, Alec, I just want to talk about lines with you..." Melanie Griffiths is now dressed as the elite beauty, not the ugly secretary in the first half. She wears those red pairs
She wears glasses, talks softly, and is really a heart-warming beauty.
As she spoke, Melanie Griffiths was still gently stroking the back of Baldwin's hand with her fingers.
"e On, Melanie." Alec Baldwin spread his hands and was very unimpressed by Melanie's blatant seduction. He actually looked down on Melanie Griffith. How beautiful this woman was.
I am limited and addicted to alcohol. I have just turned 30 and my muscles are already sagging a bit.
"I don't date the actresses on the set. This is not in line with professionalism. If we did date, some scenes of breakup and mutual dislike would not be possible. Sorry, this is my principle." Alec Baldwin
The reason was that he came right out of his mouth. He had already done similar rejection countless times.
"Oh, Alec, Alec, you are so cute. Are you sure we can't try an intimate relationship first... This is also a..." Melanie turned her hand to touch Baldwin's face.
"Sorry, I have other things to do..." Baldwin, who was well-informed, also wanted to run away. This kind of nymphomaniac was really too much to bear.
"Oh..." Melanie Griffiths covered her face with her hands. It was really embarrassing to be directly rejected by a man like this.
After sorting out her thoughts, Melanie Griffiths began to pack up her broken pieces. The script, notebook, glasses, lipstick, mouthwash, and some small plastic packages were slowly put into the bag. She turned around and saw director Luo Luo
Nader was still sitting there, chatting with screenwriter Kevin Wade.
Yeah, Ronald is so handsome. He has dark blond hair that shines in the sun, a broad chin, and a cute little dent. He has a deep voice when he talks to the screenwriter. He is so talented. It's really fascinating.
.
"Ronald, I still have some lines for Tess..." Melanie Griffiths stepped forward.
"Don't overdo it...Melanie. I need you to relax and use your talents when shooting."
Ronald looked back at her, whether he really didn't know or pretended not to know Melanie's nymphomaniac personality, he decisively rejected her temptation.
He stretched out his finger and firmly clicked on the cover of Melanie Gerryface's script, "What I need now is a relaxed Melanie."
"Melanie, Ronald is right. Don't analyze the character too hard now. After filming starts, we will slowly find a feeling. I have watched your first few movies. You are a talented actor. Don't worry about this. If
If you want to talk to someone about Tess’s psychology..."
Screenwriter Kevin Wade looked at Melanie, and he immediately felt that this Hollywood actress was very beautiful, and she had the charm of a thirty-year-old professional woman in every move, and she also had some gentleness that is rare in professional women.
Tess, who works as a secretary, agrees that she also has a lot of experience in character analysis, which she can share with her slowly in the evening.
"Thank you, Kevin, I'd better listen to director Ronald, relax first, haha..." Melanie Griffith looked at Kevin Wade, her chin was not wide enough...not masculine enough,
It doesn't give myself a sense of security, and it doesn't have the natural charm that makes people's hearts beat and their legs tighten.
While thinking about it, Melanie Griffiths took out a small notebook from her bag and called the Wall Street investment manager Liam Dalton, the manager who gave her M&A course. His chin was also very tight.
Width!
"Liam, as for the legal provisions on mergers and acquisitions you mentioned last time, why does foreign capital's acquisition of media in America require congressional approval? ... Well, I still don't understand. Can you come over and explain it to me tonight?"
"She's not your type...Kevin, or not yet." Ronald slapped screenwriter Kevin Wade on the back, "Focus on the script and change it to suit Harrison Ford.
, you will soon have other stars asking you to tailor scripts for them..."