"You're right, his performance, well, it's like nothing happened."
Art director Polly Platt was well-informed. She watched several of Harrison Ford's shots on the set and whispered to Ronald in her ear.
The dinner the night before was great. In the end, everyone was conquered by the food. Instead of talking about the shooting, we started talking about places in New York and Los Angeles that have delicious food.
Donna works on Wall Street and often has the opportunity to come into contact with high-level restaurants. However, she is not the person who knows New York food best. Local indigenous casting director Julia Taylor is the living map of New York food. In her story, Harry
Both Senford and Ronald were very happy to hear this and wanted to go to all these good restaurants.
This also made the relationship between Ronald and Harrison Ford begin to improve. After all, filming is work and food is life. With their wealth and social status, they can taste the best restaurants in New York without any pressure.
So this morning's filming of Harrison Ford and Melanie Griffith's sex scene had a much better atmosphere than last night.
The so-called "bed scene" is just a scene shot on the bed. Melanie Griffiths was wearing strapless underwear, lying on the bed, with Harrison Ford behind her.
The two were back to back, and the news program was still playing on the TV on one side. Melanie, who was woken up, stretched out her hand from the quilt and touched behind her. She saw a man!
Melanie Griffiths made a regretful expression. Tess did not want to sleep in the same bed with Jack Traynor before talking about business. She covered her face, then sat up, and
I turned around and took a look...
That's right, it's Jack Traynor.
Melanie Griffith picked up the alarm clock on the bedside and looked at it. It was already past seven o'clock. She climbed out of bed quietly, picked up a black skirt worth six thousand dollars, walked into the bathroom and started to tidy up herself.
The camera didn't focus on Melanie Griffith, but on the bed. Harrison Ford will have a performance here.
"Well..." Harrison Ford turned over, touched the bed, and found a pillow. He put the big pillow that Tess had slept on all night into his arms, and then lay down on it to sleep.
The action is very good, the quilt only covers his lower back, and the exposed upper back muscle lines are very good, as well as his side face facing the camera diagonally. This is why many female viewers like to watch Harrison Ford.
"Cut!"
Ronald stopped filming.
Harrison Ford only focused on showing off his handsome face and, well, half of his back. He didn't do any in-depth research for this scene at all.
The use of pillows as an important prop in the script is very meaningful.
Tess took sedatives, and when she woke up the next day, she thought she had sex with Jack. She touched it with her hands to confirm that there was a man, and then went over and looked at his face to confirm that it was Jack Traynor. This is a progressive psychological activity.
Melanie Griffith's performance is very layered. The rhythm of every action is on point, from waking up and realizing that she is not in her own home, to identifying a man, and finally seeing the face of the person she wants to know.
Picking up clothes and running, every turning point in psychological activity is explained clearly.
This kind of language under the lens allows the audience to easily understand the mentality of the heroine Tess.
Quilts, televisions, alarm clocks, and skirts are all used by Melanie to express this kind of psychological activity.
Jack Traynor, played by Harrison Ford, just goes home with a beautiful woman he met at a cocktail party. The progressive relationship in his performance is not that complicated. He is awakened by the noise made by Tess, and then turns over.
Use your hands to draw...
At this time, the pillow is a key prop used to show psychological progress. The pillow Tess slept on all night was contaminated with the fragrance of her hair and body. At this time, as long as Harrison Ford has some hints in his actions, the audience will
It's understandable that he still remembers Tess's charm last night.
but……
Harrison Ford did nothing. He just turned over and found the right angle so that the golden focus of the camera was exactly on the side of his face.
"You'd better pray, he's just like Gary Cooper back then..." Art director Polly Platt whispered in Ronald's ear.
"What do you mean?" Ronald was confused. He had seen Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly's calling card - "High Noon". Cooper's performance in it was accurate and charming, and his close-up appeared on the screen.
It's like he is saying something to the audience. He is a very powerful actor.
But what did Polly Platt mean? Which young director inspired Gary Cooper to suddenly have an enlightenment?
"I'll tell you later..." Polly Platt stepped forward and said a few words to Harrison Ford. This Hollywood heroine, who was older than Harrison Ford, went over to chat with him.
"Let's do another one..."
After chatting with Polly Platt, Harrison Ford offered to shoot another one. He seemed to have new ideas about how he should explain the character's behavioral logic, and he made movements on the bed and folded the sheets.
, marked two places.
"What did you say to him?" Ronald felt that Polly Platt was very good at communicating with stars, so saying these few words allowed Harrison to take the initiative to explore more performance possibilities.
"I just mentioned the past of filming "Dark Horse" with Melissa (Matheson) at Coppola's Peep Show Company. Melissa was the one who strongly advocated for him to film "Working Girl" this time.
The influence behind it.”
"It's really yours...Only you can handle this kind of thing." Ronald and the experienced Polly exchanged glances.
Melissa Matheson is the screenwriter of several popular commercial films. Her knowledge of selecting scripts is actually better than Harrison Ford's.
Celebrities should choose roles that match their daily image, but they cannot always take roles that perfectly match their appearance.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! It is best if the character's underlying traits are similar to your own, and then there will be a little breakthrough every time, which can allow film critics to praise your acting skills.
Polly Platt called Harrison's wife, and the two talked a lot about Harrison's performance on the set. Today she was coming to visit the set. It was because of this that Harrison Ford was willing to go more than usual.
Take a step forward and challenge your acting skills.
"Action!" A new one starts shooting.
Melanie Griffith finished those actions, picked up her skirt and ran away. When Harrison Ford turned around this time, he wrinkled his nose in dignity, buried his face in the pillow, and revealed a smell.
A smile like that of a baby familiar with good smells.
"This is a little better than last time," Ronald thought to himself. He couldn't ask for too much from the stars. As long as the audience can follow the plot and the performance does not confuse the audience and make them appear in a show, then the task has been completed.
"Didi beep... beep beep..." According to Harrison Ford's design, the bedside alarm clock rang at this time.
He was so immersed in the pillow with the scent of Tess that he didn't want to leave, and he stretched out his hand to look for the alarm clock.
"Bang..." Melanie Griffiths closed the door behind the camera. The storyline was that she was frightened by the sound of the alarm clock and ran out of the room quickly.
"Huh?" Harrison Ford was awakened by the sound of the door closing. He sat up suddenly, with a confused look on his face. Is that scent the beauty he brought home yesterday?
"Cut!" Ronald stopped before Harrison Ford could finish his performance.
"What's the problem this time?" Harrison Ford, as a star, has already given Ronald a lot of face. This simple scene was filmed twice, but he had to cooperate because of his promise to his wife Matheson.
The director is looking for a breakthrough in acting.
"It's not your acting problem." Ronald immediately smiled, then moved his hand across his chest and scratched it from left to right.
"Oh, Shxt!"
Harrison Ford looked down and realized that his quilt had fallen too low, exposing his chest.
In the agreement he signed with the crew, the scope of the sex scenes was stipulated in detail. He couldn't miss anything in the scene.
It’s not that his muscular chest is not good-looking and requires a stunt double, nor is it because the scale of this shot is too large. Originally, Working Girl is an R-rated movie. The frontal shot of a man’s upper body is not an out-of-the-ordinary shot.
But Harrison Ford's current star status makes it impossible to take such shots to please the audience. What shots and what positions can be taken are clearly stipulated in the thick contract submitted by his agent.
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"Action!"
Restored again, this time there was no big problem with the cooperation between the two, and they finally got the picture Ronald wanted.
"Melissa is coming to visit this afternoon, so I'm going to take a rest first," Harrison Ford said to Ronald.
"Oh, really? Then let's go try that Greek restaurant that Julia talked about yesterday together tonight?"
"why not?"
Still using food to coordinate his relationship with the big stars, Ronald asked Donna to book a restaurant, and he quickly grabbed Polly Platt. The two went to a small screening room near Manhattan and started watching the movie that was filmed yesterday.
Samples.
"What did you mean by Gary Cooper this morning?"
After sitting down, Ronald remembered what Polly had said to him before, and asked Polly next to him for advice.
"I heard it from Peter (Bogdanovich, Polly's ex-husband). According to old legend, Gary Cooper can't act at all. Orson Welles went to the set to watch Cooper's performance, and he
It was as if nothing happened at the scene.
However, the movie camera favors him. Gary Cooper, who is dull, clumsy, and has trouble speaking his lines, will, through the subtle transformation of the movie lens, turn into the America who seems to have penetrated the hearts of all the female viewers on the screen.
The most attractive man.
He doesn't have to act, all the audience can see any subtle expression they want to see through his close-up face on the screen."
"Is there such a thing?" Ronald was shocked. He had never seen such an actor before. "It's like a face full of ambiguity? What kind of expression does the audience think he should have at this time?"
Can it be seen automatically on the screen?"
"Hey, that's it." Polly Platt agreed with Ronald's statement. "I've heard many people say that Marilyn is like that too. As long as she's in front of the camera, she's that charming woman.
Although she is a beautiful woman in life, she does not have the charm that makes all men obsessed with her."
"This is really haunted!"
I saw a scene shot by Harrison Ford yesterday, and it turns out that the star does have that peculiarity of being favored by the camera as Polly said.
It may be a certain combination of facial features, or a certain line of the chin and cheekbones. In short, it is a very subtle thing. After being slightly deformed by the movie lens, the star's face becomes full of charm on the screen.
Although, Harrison Ford's acting skills are still terrible, but what does it matter?
From that tough, humorous, and cynical face, the audience can really imagine any expression needed for the plot.
"Melissa married him for a reason..." Polly Platt gushed there.
"What a miracle of God's providence."
Ronald also expressed his appreciation. If Gary Cooper's screen charm is 100%, then Harrison Ford is at least 90%.
This may be the truth behind many legends about celebrities in Hollywood. After all, it is an art under the lens. Many times, acting skills are not as important as the care of the camera.
Celebrities may not perform realistically at all, but what the audience loves is not the reality of character actors, but the bit of reality they believe in under those completely unreal faces.
After watching all the samples taken the day before yesterday, Ronald had an idea. To deal with a star like Harrison Ford, there is no need to follow the same standards as to deal with Melanie Griffith. As long as it can generally fit the storyline, Ronald
Nader lowered the standard of acting to 70 points. Anyway, the audience will filter out the unreasonable elements in the star's performance.
Ronald, who had regained his strong confidence as a director, and Polly Platt returned to the crew.
A tall beauty, with her hair tied up, wearing a professional woman's uniform short skirt and black high heels, was entangled with a volunteer from the Screenwriters Guild who came to supervise the filming location.
"You are a member of the Writers Guild. I'm sorry, but you can't go in." The supervisory volunteer stopped her and refused to let her in.
"For the sake of Jesus Christ, I'm here to visit, and my husband is filming there."
"I know you. I saw you go up to accept the award at the annual meeting of the Writers Guild. I don't think there is any aspiring screenwriter who doesn't know the screenwriter of ET, right? Ms. Melissa Matheson."
"e on!" Ronald couldn't stand it anymore, and Harrison Ford's wife was stopped outside. "She is not only the screenwriter of ET, but she is also the wife of Han Solo. Can't we be accommodating? She
Now he is not a screenwriter of our crew, this is just a wife who comes to visit her husband... I must be a little sympathetic..."
Ronald hurried up to defend Harrison's wife Matheson. Polly took Melissa to the side to chat.
"I...this...is not allowed according to the regulations..." The volunteer became less arrogant.
"Let's see. You find someone to go in with her, which is considered fulfilling your supervision obligation, right?" Ronald glanced over and saw the gentler screenwriter he had talked to last time. He quickly asked her to come over to accompany Meili.
Sarah Matheson enters.
"Hi, Melissa..." Harrison Ford saw his wife coming and quickly went up to hug and kiss her. "You don't know how much I miss you and the kids here."
"Polly and I are watching over there. Don't delay Ronald's filming. He is a good director and a very good person." Melissa Matheson looked at Ronald, obviously interested in him and herself.
Very satisfied with the respect.
"Wait for me, let's see my performance... Ronald has agreed to eat Greek food with us today. He is a food expert..."
In the afternoon shooting, Tess escaped from Jack's house, changed her clothes, went to Jack's office, formally pitched her merger and acquisition plan to him, tried to get him to join, and went to Tesco to sell it together.
Melanie Griffiths changed her hairstyle. Her light blond hair was no longer hanging down randomly, but was neatly coiled on her head, fixed with magic hairpins, and stuck tightly to her scalp, revealing her fair and beautiful neck.
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"That hairstyle is very nice, where did you get it? It's very retro..." Melissa Matheson, who was standing behind watching the shooting, whispered to her friend Polly Platt.
"That's the hairstyle that Melanie Griffith's mother, Tippi Hedren, had in Hitchcock's 'The Birds.' I asked the hairstylist to try it on her. Like mother, like mother."
His daughter is a perfect match."
"Uh huh..." Melissa Matheson cleared her throat in a low voice and subconsciously touched her hair. It was also tightly tied.
"Cut!"
In this scene, Jack talks to Tess about the merger and acquisition plan in the office. Members of Jack's team think that although Tess's idea is whimsical, it does have a high possibility of success in theory.
So everyone approved the plan, and Jack Traynor officially decided to cooperate with Tess.
The two slept in the same bed last night. Tess went home and changed her clothes in the morning. Jack Traynor was still wearing yesterday's shirt, so he changed his shirt in the office.
The camera was facing Harrison Ford and the glass window behind him. The problem of leakage in the medium shot was not serious, and Harrison poured cold water on himself and wiped himself with an old shirt, blocking a lot of the lens.
Behind the office glass windows, the extras working in the lobby were all happily watching Harrison Ford's strip show.
After finally putting on a new shirt, Harrison Ford straightened his clothes. Some of the actresses playing the secretary in the extras outside had already begun to applaud.
Harrison Ford also extended his hands in a salute. His unbuttoned body radiated the strongest masculine charm from an actor on the big screen today.
"Cut!"
Ronald was very satisfied with this part. Anyway, the female audience on the screen would definitely scream like the extras on the screen.
"Harry is a walking blessing..." Polly Platt said to her friend Melissa Matheson, "You are such a lucky woman."
"Come to have dinner with us." Melissa was obviously very satisfied with her husband's live performance. In the evening, Melanie Griffiths, who had the same hairstyle as her mother, was not going, which made her lips curl up even more.