As for the actors in "Harmony", it was not difficult to choose.
There are still many excellent actresses in China, and this movie itself does not have so high requirements on the actors' appearance, but more on acting skills.
It's quite ironic to say that although many times, everyone says that many actresses actually let people ignore their acting skills because of their appearance, perhaps there is indeed a reason for this.
But it is easy to find beautiful actresses, but it is very difficult to find actresses who are beautiful and have good acting skills.
On the contrary, if we simply look at acting skills, there are many domestic actresses who have really good acting skills.
Moreover, although his reputation is a little worse, he really doesn't need to worry about director Li Yi in terms of professionalism.
For example, the heroine in "Harmony" has a childbirth scene at the beginning. Everyone knows that as a female star, she must be beautiful anytime and anywhere, but as they have another identity as an artist, they must be in some TV series.
Do some challenges. For example, one of the most challenging scenes for acting is: giving birth!
Some actors once joked that the most intuitive way to see if an actress has acting skills is to let them play the role of giving birth to a child.
Although the twelve levels of pain were made up by netizens, it has to be said that there is a reason why labor pain is listed as the highest level of pain.
And if you want an actor to interpret such a level of pain, it's really impossible without acting skills.
The key is, this kind of childbirth scene will definitely make your expression collapse. A movie queen once said in an interview: Before giving birth to a child, I could only scream in acting because I didn't know how painful it was. But when I gave birth, I could only scream.
Only then did the child realize that he was completely speechless at that time.
Therefore, the scene of giving birth is indeed a test of the actor's acting skills.
Although Li Yi's heroine this time is not a top-notch actress, she is at the level of a movie queen, Sun Yu!
The reason why Sun Yu stands out is, on the one hand, because of Sun Yu's proven acting skills, and on the other hand, because of his style.
Sun Yu's style is changeable, and she can be happy or sad.
"Harmony" is a stick movie. Although this movie focuses on tear-jerking, in fact, it is somewhat similar to "The Gift of Room No. 7". It can be said that they are of the same origin, both are "comedy" style, and also have
A bit nonsensical.
The influence of Hong Kong films can be seen. Many of the comedy effects in Bangkok's films are actually imitating the nonsensical style of Hong Kong films.
Even in an era when Hong Kong films have completely declined, this is still the case.
And the more this kind of drama, the higher the requirements for actors, because usually if the acting is good, people can feel the other party's state of giving birth through the screen. Different people perform in different ways, but
If the acting is good, it can easily make people feel pain even through the screen.
But once the performance is not good, then the expression will simply collapse. But at this time, this kind of play will not only have no painful effect, but will make people want to laugh and complain. In this way, all of a sudden
The taste and atmosphere have changed.
Of course, it is not easy to start filming "Harmony".
There is still a lot of preparation work to be done. For Li Yi, he needs to make certain corrections to the plot based on the actual situation.
For example, the beginning of the movie quotes the criminal law of Bangzi, but the movie he shot is a Chinese-language movie, so it definitely cannot be like the original version.
According to the relevant laws and regulations that Li Yi learned about, if the crime is committed by a pregnant woman or a woman who is breastfeeding her own baby, and she is sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment or criminal detention, she can temporarily serve her sentence outside prison, and the term of her breastfeeding sentence outside prison is one year.
This is very different from the laws and regulations in Bangzi.
However, Hong Kong Island actually uses the Anglo-American legal system. Although it is different from Bangzi in this regard, it is also different from the mainland.
For example, in China, pregnant women are temporarily served outside prison, and female prisoners are not allowed to bring their children into prison. However, in Hong Kong Island, there is no prohibition against female prisoners giving birth in prison or women bringing their children into prison to serve their sentences!
Anyway, the background of "Harmony" was shot against the backdrop of Hong Kong Island, so there wasn't much of a problem.
This also saves Li Yi a lot of things. Otherwise, if the background is changed, then although the movie can be shot like that, it will easily become a complete fiction.
Although most of the time, movies will state that the story is purely fictional, but this is just a statement. If people really think that the story of the movie is completely false and fabricated, including background laws, etc., then it is completely nonsense.
Already.
Of course, like in the movie, children and prisoners are on the playground together, which is really prepared for the movie. In reality, even if female prisoners are not prevented from bringing children into prison, it is absolutely impossible to bring children into prison.
Put together with other prisoners.
However, there is no need to say anything more about this.
After the actors confirmed their roles, they entered the Lo Wu Correctional Institution in advance to experience prison life. Yes, although this was not necessary, every actor did not refuse.
Of course, the actors are experiencing life after all, and more often they have contact and communication with cases in prisons similar to the characters in the movie "Harmony".
Many times, good acting skills do not mean that the performance can be realistic. After all, you don’t even know how they live, and how can they perform it?
If you don't have that kind of understanding at all, then no matter how good your acting skills are, what you show is just how you think they live.
Although the movie does not have to be exactly like reality, some reference is still needed.
Two months flew by.
The preliminary preparations for "Harmony" have been officially completed and filming will begin soon.
The first shooting was shot inside the Lo Wu Correctional Institution on Hong Kong Island. Of course, it is said to be inside the Correctional Institution, but it is actually an independent building, not within the prison area.
The scene has already been set.
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This scene mainly depends on the performance of the lead actor Sun Yu.
Originally, there was no need to perform such difficult actions in the first scene, but Li Yi still went straight to this scene.
The main thing is that he has seen the clips of Sun Yu's previous performances, and his acting skills are indeed very superb. It is indeed difficult to say that this scene is difficult, but as long as the leading actor can get into the state, it is not particularly difficult, because although this is an action scene,
But in fact, the scene is relatively simple and there are not many actors involved.
What's more, the doctors and nurses are not ordinary extras, but some veteran actors guest appearances.
"Every department is in its place!"
"Lights in place!"
“Photography in place!”
"The actors are in place!"
"record!"
"The first scene of "Harmony", the first shot, the first time, Action!"
The sound of the recorder's clapper fell.
"Harmony" officially begins filming.
Li Yi sat behind the monitor, staring at the monitor.
In fact, there is a big difference between watching the actors perform directly and watching the pictures transmitted by the monitor.
"Ahhhh!" A burst of miserable and painful shouts came!
This scene is actually a little different from other production scenes, because during the production process, the leading actor still needs to speak.
This actually tests the actor's on-the-spot adaptability.
"Shot No. 1, take a close-up shot of the heroine's face from above!" Li Yi commanded through the intercom.
In the images sent back by the monitor, the shots were taken from top to bottom and from back to front.
Sun Yu is worthy of being a movie queen. She pushed the back of her head downwards, raised her chin, closed her eyes hard, and opened her mouth as if she had exhausted all her strength. The veins on her face were so hideous that everyone watching could feel it.
It feels so hard and painful.
Li Yi couldn't help but nodded secretly.
"Take a deep breath, come on, work harder!" the delivery nurse in the delivery room shouted.
"Shot No. 2 is a close-up of the face from the front!" Li Yi continued to direct.
This time the shot was not upside down, but shot directly from the front.
Sun Yu opened her eyes, sweating profusely, her whole body arched up, and then she fell back on the bed heavily.
"Do it again, take a breath and push harder!" the doctor who delivered the baby encouraged.
In the original version, the heroine interacts with the doctor, giving the impression that even when she is giving birth, she does not forget to be funny.
Li Yi does not reject this, but it depends on the situation. For example, the heroine played by Sun Yu just now is obviously on the verge of collapse, but she still speaks, which seems a bit strange.
This time, Sun Yu suddenly took a big breath, and when he tried to exert force, his facial features began to become extremely ferocious, and his whole body also lifted up.
I can feel the pain through the screen
This time, it was as if all her strength had been exhausted. After her whole body arched, her head fell heavily back onto the pillow.
It seemed like I had no strength anymore.
"It's out, it's out! Try harder, it'll be out soon!" the doctor shouted.
"You said it an hour ago! Stop lying!" Suddenly the heroine Sun Yu, who seemed powerless, raised her head and cursed angrily and tearfully!
"It's really coming out this time. Inhale and push hard! Do it again! Come on!" The doctor said very quickly while looking under the hood!
Sun Yu's eyes suddenly widened, as if he was going to use up all his energy to suck the milk, he sucked in a big breath suddenly, then gritted his teeth, and his whole head hung in the air.
The camera shows the doctor: "Come on, it's out, it's out, it's really out!"
At this time, the camera turned away from the doctor, and someone immediately held a baby and handed it to the doctor.
The doctor immediately took the pacifier away from the baby's mouth.
"Wow wow wow" a baby's cry sounded at the right time.
In fact, it's not that easy to shoot here. After all, it's difficult to control the baby's cry, but it doesn't matter, because even if the baby doesn't cry, it can be added later.
At this point, in fact, this first scene can basically be said to have passed.
The doctor held the baby and said with a smile: "It's a boy, congratulations!"
Sun Yu closed her eyes, tears falling from the corners of her eyes.
This may be difficult for some actors, but for an actor of Sun Yu's level, it's really not that difficult.
On the contrary, it is relatively easier here.
"CUT! This one passed!" Li Yi shouted loudly.
"Okay!" Everyone in the crew shouted excitedly.
It's a good start, it's a good start. It's such a difficult scene to pass in one go. It's definitely a good start!
"Wow, wow, wow!" But at this time, the little guy's crying became louder and louder.
Fortunately, a nursing mother immediately came to take over the baby, and after a few coaxings, the baby stopped crying.
Perhaps because of the confidence brought by the good start, there were not many scenes in Li Yi's original plan in the next few days. After all, no matter how good the early stage was, the crew still needed to get used to it a little bit.
But unexpectedly, the shooting went extremely smoothly.
The shooting of the day was often completed beyond the plan, and the atmosphere of the crew was very good. Even if Li Yi added a few more scenes, it was still completed smoothly.
In fact, this has a lot to do with the plot previously filmed.
If the movie is shot according to the movie's timeline, pre-shooting is indeed beneficial.
Because the crew will also follow the plot and have a complete understanding of the plot.
Unlike other out-of-sequence shooting, many people will be unable to follow the plot. After all, maybe what you shoot in front of you is actually the plot behind it, so naturally it will not be so coherent.
Of course, currently, few directors will shoot directly in the order of the plot of the movie like Li Yi.
Most of the time, one scene is shot directly by focusing on the scene.
In fact, even Li Yi is the same. If it weren't for the fact that "Harmony" doesn't have many scenes and the scenes are relatively simple, otherwise, it would be difficult for him to shoot according to the timeline of the plot.
After all, many movies may have many filming locations, and the filming locations are located in different areas. Naturally, it is impossible to shoot one here today and another one tomorrow.
The previous scenes of "Harmony" are actually somewhat similar to "The Gift of Room No. 7", both are relatively relaxed, so naturally, everyone will be affected and feel more relaxed.
Of course, this kind of shooting goes smoothly in the early stage, but it becomes difficult to say in the later stage.
At that point, the plot will take a turn for the worse. At that time, following the plot may not be a good thing.
However, it is impossible for all plots to be filmed according to the timeline.
For example, there are several scenes where people in prison commit crimes.
These scenes were shot together.
First is the scene where the heroine Sun Yu accidentally kills her husband, and then there is the scene where Yumi accidentally kills her husband. Wen Yu kills someone with his car.
These scenes are obviously incompatible with the previous atmosphere.
Therefore, the atmosphere of the entire crew began to take a turn for the worse.
Of course, maybe after the movie is released, people will say that this arrangement is too deliberate. How come these people are forced to commit crimes like this?
But there's really no way to say this, because if a "big evil" female prisoner were to come, then this movie wouldn't have been made.
Therefore, whether it is deliberate or too coincidental, in short, if you ask for anything, you will not be able to write a book!
These scenes all represent these people's most unbearable memories, which even exist like nightmares.
After all, if they didn't have these, they wouldn't have committed crimes and wouldn't be here.
