Camera No. 1 is outside the car, and the lens is just fixed within the windshield, so it can see the situation inside the car at a glance. It is a rainy day, and the wiper wipes the raindrops on the windshield from time to time, until it enters Fox Town and drizzles
Just stopped.
The movie, or the script, is not like the novel, and has more dialogue. In the shots, there is more silence between the two father and daughter who are getting along awkwardly. Occasionally, the father is awkward and tries to communicate with his daughter, asking questions to ease the awkward atmosphere in the car.
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The original book repeatedly emphasizes that Bella and her mother used the word "escape" to leave this gloomy town with nowhere to hide.
Bella's trip was also described by herself as "self-exile", and she never concealed her disgust for this town.
She likes the sunshine in Phoenix and hates this town full of gloom.
As for her father Charlie, Bella behaves awkwardly most of the time.
According to the original book, she had left her father with her mother a few months after she was born. She had not had much emotional ties with her father since she was a child. Neither of them understood how one could act as a good father in this parent-child relationship.
How to play a good daughter.
Two feelings that lack each other are like two pieces of ice, blocked in the middle, and cannot be frozen in a day.
Until, starting from a certain year, I had to go to Forks to live with my father for a month every summer.
And when she was fourteen, Bella firmly refused the "journey" for this month every summer?
For the next three years, her father Charlie would take her on vacation in California, and she is seventeen years old this year.
This is what Xia Yu said about Isabella Swan - a little girl with a disguised personality.
"Your hair has grown longer again."
"I just cut it after I saw you last time."
"But it grew back"
There are only these three lines in the first act.
This kind of scene without dialogue is more difficult, especially at the beginning of shooting, which escalates the difficulty.
If this were us, how should I act?
This is the sentiment of many actors in front of the monitor.
How to interpret a little girl whose parents are divorced, whose mother's lack of care has led to her inner loneliness since she was a child, who is not gregarious with her peers, and whose delicate and quiet personality is particularly clumsy in communication?
How to interpret an equally awkward father who is equally sensitive, responsible, and not good at communicating, but who longs for the affection of his daughter? What form of performance should be used to complete the content of this scene?
Of course, most actors paid more attention to Xia Yu.
"action!"
I saw her closing her eyes for about three to five seconds, and then opening her eyes again, it seemed that the world of "Twilight" had started to rotate. She was no longer the actor Xia Yu, but just the world of "Twilight"
Isabella Swann.
His entire expression, eyes, and temperament have undergone a 360-degree change.
Locke on the side, holding the steering wheel, seemed to be in a good state, but visible to the naked eye, his state was not so natural, but it was already very good, not particularly outstanding, and that was compared to Xia Yu.
If it were anyone else, he would definitely be on par, and even better under Xia Yu's leadership.
"Stable!" is a fair evaluation of these veteran actors.
Of course, can we really say that Xia Yu is particularly outstanding in this scene? Not necessarily, but she gives everyone the feeling that she is not acting, let alone during rough rehearsal, because in the eyes of everyone, she has already
It's Isabella Swann.
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"Ka! This scene is over!"
Ashley spoke up.
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"Hiss!" When the filming of the first scene was over, a few actors had not yet reacted, but those with some acting skills could not help but marvel - for a literary and artistic film queen to act in a commercial romance film, isn't it a dimensionality reduction attack?
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The first act is not very difficult, there is no big scene, but the emotional handling of such delicate small scenes is also very crucial.
In addition, the heroine is a boring gourd. Before meeting Edward Cullen, she did not have many emotions on her face.
Ashley was just worried that Xia Yu was used to acting in Chinese literary films and was trying too hard to adapt to the rhythm of Hollywood films, let alone romance films. There was no big show of emotion, just like a continuous sunshine.
It was as sweet as rain, or a continuous rain came, with a slight depression and sourness, and the rhythm was very fast - but it was obvious that she was overthinking it.
After the scene, the actors were not allowed to rest much.
Ashley added, "Does the actor need to touch up his makeup? No, the next scene will begin in one minute!"
During this minute's rest, Ashley expressed her emotion, "I didn't expect you to adapt so quickly?"
Because the pace of Hollywood movies has always been very fast.
Xia Yu smiled like a fool.
"You know that I am the actor who plays Isabella, but you seem to have forgotten that I came into contact with the original work earlier than you? This script was written by me. In fact, you have forgotten that even the storyboards of the movie are
I did it with you?"
Ashley stared slightly and suddenly realized, "Hey, Xia, if you didn't mention it, I really almost forgot!"
That is to say, she didn't know that Stephanie Xia was Xia Yu. Otherwise, she would have been even more shocked, and she would have clearly figured out why Xia Yu's performance could adapt so smoothly to the Hollywood performance rhythm.
"The first act is a good start? I hope you can keep it up!" Ashley is not Dai Chengbi. She has not witnessed the growth and rise of Xia Yu's acting skills. Coupled with the past two years and the past few months, Xia Yu's down-to-earth atmosphere
, also made Ashley forget it, or rather - "Still can't believe that a Venice Best Actress is filming under her hands?"
But I think it won't be long before her mentality will undergo earth-shaking changes.
The set is actually in one area, and the plot of the first three acts mainly revolves around Isabella's house, so the behind-the-scenes studio of the set was directly arranged in a house in another area of "Swan House".
After a minute, the shooting continued.
The second scene is when Bella arrives at Swann's house. She gets out of the car, opens the trunk to get her luggage, and then turns to the stairs inside the house. It's all done in one go. This second scene is also very smooth.
These two scenes were all done in one go, and the people on the scene had to admire them. They took less than half an hour in total.
The filming came to the third scene.
Isabella and Jacob were childhood sweethearts. They played together when they were young because of Charlie.
Jacob does not appear so early in the original work, but there are quite a few differences between the script and the original work.
After all, the original work is a novel art, while the script is a film art. All shooting must obey the rhythm of film art. The first difference between the script and the original work is that the plot of the script is clearer, contradictory, and develops faster.
Therefore, the meeting in the third act directly connects the 1953 red Chevrolet pickup truck given in the original work to the meeting of Billy and his son. And this is also Daniel's first official scene after rehearsal.