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Chapter 87 Kill the chicken to warn the monkey
Chapter 87 Kill the chicken to warn the monkey
"No, you acted very well, so don't worry about forgetting your lines." Jim, a black teacher in the Acting Department of the Academy of Performing Arts, finally got this role with the same profession as him, and also played the role of an acting teacher in the movie.
Today is the day when the film crew starts up. The first shot is to shoot Montgomery, a student he commented on for the admission interview.
"Cut."
Alan Parker, wearing his tattered lucky T-shirt, called a halt to filming.
The makeup artist stepped forward and wiped the sweat from the forehead of the black teacher Jim.The close-up of Jim was shot indoors, the lighting engineer matched strong positive light, and several headlights roasted Jim on the opposite side.
"I want to say this line in a different way, do it again," ordered the director.
"recording?"
"camera?"
"start!"
"No, you acted very well..."
"Cut"
"do it again."
"Cut, Cut, Cut..."
Ronald looked at the director torturing Jim, the acting teacher, and felt a little disapproving. What is this?Are you kidding me?
"Let's do it again." Allen signaled to resume shooting.
"No, you acted very well..." Watching Jim speak his lines, thinking that he had been stopped by Alan Parker more than 30 times, Ronald felt a little sympathetic to him.In the lines, Jim is praising others for their good performance, but he is always denied by the director in the real shooting scene.
"Cut"
Ronald saw that Jim was already showing some signs of collapse. Anyone who was denied by the director more than 30 times in a row would definitely doubt himself psychologically.
"Take a break for 5 minutes." The director also saw that Jim was a little uncomfortable, and called to stop the progress.
Jim drank a few sips of water, adjusted his posture, and then muttered to himself, as if to make psychological adjustments for himself.
"What is the director doing? I don't see anything wrong with Jim's performance? It's just a simple line, evaluating the interview students."
Ronald quietly asked Joanna Merlin who was waiting at the side.There will be a scene where she auditioned for a dancer later.
"Confucius, the wise man in Huaguo, once said that in order to scare a group of monkeys, you must first kill a chicken." Joanna motioned him to look at the camera.
"Let's continue shooting." The director asked everyone to prepare to start again.
"Recording, camera... start!"
Ok?Ronald noticed something unusual, the red light on the video recorder didn't turn on at all.The director didn't let the director of photography turn on the camera at all, he was just looking for an excuse to deliberately mess with Jim.
"Cut, Cut, Cut..."
Are you going to spend all morning on this lens?Ronald went back to find David Da Silva, and the producer allowed the director to waste his time so willfully?
If it was Roger Corman's crew, the director might have been fired by this time.
Da Silva obviously expected all this, and watched the progress of the crew with a smile.
Ronald was confused again.
The clumsy trick started again.
Jim couldn't bear it anymore, stood up and asked the director in a low voice: "Alan, what's going on? You asked me to say the lines more than 100 times, but the camera didn't turn on? What do you need me to do? "
Allen smiled and said to Jim: "Jim, don't worry. You changed this line in more than 100 ways to say, you will be fine, you are a good actor, don't deny yourself."
Jim sat down a little devastated.Fortunately, the sound engineer of the crew was an Italian. Although he could not speak English, he stepped forward and gave Jim a thumbs up, indicating that he did a good job.
Jim finally relaxed and signaled that he was ready to start the next one.
"Recording, camera,... start!"
This time the camera lights were on.
"Cut! Great, this print."
In this set of shots, there are only a few lines from Jim.After taking a few shots, Allen motioned for the next scene.
It was Ronald's first time watching a major studio shoot an interior scene.The indoor lighting was very time-consuming. The next shot was Montgomery, a student who came for an admission interview.His lines are much longer.
The lighting team began to remove the light bulb, and pointed the light at a chair on the stage from a different angle, starting the long lighting process.
The camera crew began laying rails on the ground under the command of director of photography Michael Seresin.This is a scene that requires actors to perform full of emotions. After discussing with the director of photography, the director decided not to shoot the main shot, but to start shooting from the close-up.
After nearly two hours, the light finally signaled to the director of photography that the light had been set up.Actors sat on stools and waited for the DP to measure focus and make final adjustments to lighting.
A cinema lens is similar to a camera lens, a wide-angle lens that shoots the main lens, and is small in size.But for close-up shots, the size is very large.
The huge close-up shot is as tall as a person on the stand.Close up on the actor playing Montgomery.The camera is very close again, almost right next to his face.It looked like a monster trying to devour him.
The actor has yellow hair and looks a bit like Robespierre, the leader of the Chinese Revolution.He is obviously afraid of the camera that almost hits his face.He kept repeating his lines, for fear that he might make a mistake during filming.
Camera assistants measure the focal length of the terrified actor, and costume and hair stylists confirm that his appearance meets the requirements.Allen didn't give him any acting direction, talk about the motivation of the character, or talk to him about the details of the performance, without even looking at him.
No, what is the way to scare this young actor like this?Ronald felt that he couldn't understand Director Yingji's thinking at all.If you're the director of New World, at least you have to talk about the show, right?
"Recording, camera, start!"
Alan Parker ignored the actor's somewhat terrified state and started the first shot directly.
"Every time I go to a party, I'm always worried that people won't like me..." the actor who played Montgomery began to speak.
Ronald stood in a safe area behind the camera, watching his performance with the naked eye.The lines are quite fluent, but there is a hint of panic in the voice, and his eyes are fixed on the black teacher Jim who is standing behind the camera and playing with him.
The camera pans slowly from above a still from Shakespeare's "Othello" to a close-up of Montgomery's full face.
"I have been studying in the military academy. My mother is an actress, but she is very busy and has no time to take care of me, so she let me go to the military academy..."
Several assistants of the photography team, under the command of the chief pusher, pushed the camera in a controlled manner.The camera starts to approach the actor very slowly, in what is, in DP parlance, a "extreme close-up".
If you look through the viewfinder, the actor's face gradually exceeds the frame from the red line that fills the entire frame, and the picture focuses on his panicked eyes and stuck mouth.
The Montgomery in the plot forgot the next line.
"Cut!"
"Very good, print this one." Alan Parker instructed the scene recorder to write it down, and then said to the first assistant director: "Let's do another one."
"Every time I go to a party, I'm always worried that people won't like me..."
Huh?Even Ronald, who was far away, felt that the actor's performance this time was not as good as the previous one.The fear, embarrassment, and helplessness of forgetting the words in the admission interview are still the most full in the first one.
That's it!
Alan Parker deliberately didn't talk to the actor, and then used a super huge close-up shot to face him at close range.In addition, Jim, who played the teacher before, was caught by Allen and took dozens of shots, which caused a lot of mental pressure on these young actors.
This kind of mental pressure is naturally reflected in the performance of the actors, just like the mental pressure they face when they participate in the entrance interview.So the emotion of the first article is very real and full.
And when it came to the second item, because the first item was passed, the psychological pressure of the actors was also relieved to a certain extent, so the emotional performance of the natural performance was not as real as the first item.
"Tsk," Ronald sighed secretly. This trick is a bit interesting. The director seems to have been preparing for a long time. First, he made an excuse to punish Jim, the drama teacher, and then deliberately arranged a series of blows for the actor who played Montgomery.Only then did he perform that perfect performance.
"The idiom of killing chickens to scare monkeys does make sense, but is it what Confucius said?"
The pace of shooting in the afternoon started to pick up.Because it is the same interview location, there is no need to readjust the lighting and lighting, just make some minor adjustments according to the height of each actor.
The effect of killing Jim as an example to the monkeys in the morning is still there, and several actors have completed their performances honestly.
Maureen Tiffey played the shy Doris. She was very handsome, with a small nose and blond hair. She was not at all Jewish but very Irish.I don't know if it's because of her superb acting skills, or because the director gave her extra guidance, so she finished filming the difficult crying scene of the entrance interview in one go.
"Ronnie, it's your turn to act well." Alan Parker called Ronald with a smile. This was based on Woody Allen's suggestion, asking him to play a stunned young man who came to the interview.
With makeup and costumes on, Ronald is a brawny, simple-minded student with goofy hair.Taking the props in his hand - a soft cover Romeo and Juliet novel, Ronald stood on the interview stage.
"Recording, camera,... start!" Allen called to start, found the director's chair and sat down with a serious expression, watching Ronald start his performance, ready to stop at any time to let him talk about the play.
Ronald was not afraid of him, adjusted his emotions, opened the novel, and began to read the lines in it.
"Romeo, where are you? Deny your father, deny his surname."
Ronald shook his legs while reading the lines, like a fool who studied sports and came to the art high school to audition for the acting department.
"If you don't want to do that, then I'll ditch my last name and I won't be a kapu, kapiu, kapiu... what"
"Capulet," reminds Jim, the black teacher who plays with him.
"what?"
"It's Capulet."
"Yes, I just read it as Capulet," Ronald continued, "you won't be a Monta soon, Munta,...no, what a jerk."
"It's Montague, listen, you're reading Juliet's lines."
"Oh, Shxt." Ronald turned around decisively and hit the wall.
"Cut!" Alan Parker also had to admit that this was a good performance, and ordered the reporter to write it down: "This is a print."
Ronald is not afraid of Allen, and this emotion just plays the role of the silly stunned young man.
"One more thing," Allen yelled, "Ronnie, you have to be a little more silly, you still look too smart when you read your lines."
"Cut! Another one"
(End of this chapter)
"No, you acted very well, so don't worry about forgetting your lines." Jim, a black teacher in the Acting Department of the Academy of Performing Arts, finally got this role with the same profession as him, and also played the role of an acting teacher in the movie.
Today is the day when the film crew starts up. The first shot is to shoot Montgomery, a student he commented on for the admission interview.
"Cut."
Alan Parker, wearing his tattered lucky T-shirt, called a halt to filming.
The makeup artist stepped forward and wiped the sweat from the forehead of the black teacher Jim.The close-up of Jim was shot indoors, the lighting engineer matched strong positive light, and several headlights roasted Jim on the opposite side.
"I want to say this line in a different way, do it again," ordered the director.
"recording?"
"camera?"
"start!"
"No, you acted very well..."
"Cut"
"do it again."
"Cut, Cut, Cut..."
Ronald looked at the director torturing Jim, the acting teacher, and felt a little disapproving. What is this?Are you kidding me?
"Let's do it again." Allen signaled to resume shooting.
"No, you acted very well..." Watching Jim speak his lines, thinking that he had been stopped by Alan Parker more than 30 times, Ronald felt a little sympathetic to him.In the lines, Jim is praising others for their good performance, but he is always denied by the director in the real shooting scene.
"Cut"
Ronald saw that Jim was already showing some signs of collapse. Anyone who was denied by the director more than 30 times in a row would definitely doubt himself psychologically.
"Take a break for 5 minutes." The director also saw that Jim was a little uncomfortable, and called to stop the progress.
Jim drank a few sips of water, adjusted his posture, and then muttered to himself, as if to make psychological adjustments for himself.
"What is the director doing? I don't see anything wrong with Jim's performance? It's just a simple line, evaluating the interview students."
Ronald quietly asked Joanna Merlin who was waiting at the side.There will be a scene where she auditioned for a dancer later.
"Confucius, the wise man in Huaguo, once said that in order to scare a group of monkeys, you must first kill a chicken." Joanna motioned him to look at the camera.
"Let's continue shooting." The director asked everyone to prepare to start again.
"Recording, camera... start!"
Ok?Ronald noticed something unusual, the red light on the video recorder didn't turn on at all.The director didn't let the director of photography turn on the camera at all, he was just looking for an excuse to deliberately mess with Jim.
"Cut, Cut, Cut..."
Are you going to spend all morning on this lens?Ronald went back to find David Da Silva, and the producer allowed the director to waste his time so willfully?
If it was Roger Corman's crew, the director might have been fired by this time.
Da Silva obviously expected all this, and watched the progress of the crew with a smile.
Ronald was confused again.
The clumsy trick started again.
Jim couldn't bear it anymore, stood up and asked the director in a low voice: "Alan, what's going on? You asked me to say the lines more than 100 times, but the camera didn't turn on? What do you need me to do? "
Allen smiled and said to Jim: "Jim, don't worry. You changed this line in more than 100 ways to say, you will be fine, you are a good actor, don't deny yourself."
Jim sat down a little devastated.Fortunately, the sound engineer of the crew was an Italian. Although he could not speak English, he stepped forward and gave Jim a thumbs up, indicating that he did a good job.
Jim finally relaxed and signaled that he was ready to start the next one.
"Recording, camera,... start!"
This time the camera lights were on.
"Cut! Great, this print."
In this set of shots, there are only a few lines from Jim.After taking a few shots, Allen motioned for the next scene.
It was Ronald's first time watching a major studio shoot an interior scene.The indoor lighting was very time-consuming. The next shot was Montgomery, a student who came for an admission interview.His lines are much longer.
The lighting team began to remove the light bulb, and pointed the light at a chair on the stage from a different angle, starting the long lighting process.
The camera crew began laying rails on the ground under the command of director of photography Michael Seresin.This is a scene that requires actors to perform full of emotions. After discussing with the director of photography, the director decided not to shoot the main shot, but to start shooting from the close-up.
After nearly two hours, the light finally signaled to the director of photography that the light had been set up.Actors sat on stools and waited for the DP to measure focus and make final adjustments to lighting.
A cinema lens is similar to a camera lens, a wide-angle lens that shoots the main lens, and is small in size.But for close-up shots, the size is very large.
The huge close-up shot is as tall as a person on the stand.Close up on the actor playing Montgomery.The camera is very close again, almost right next to his face.It looked like a monster trying to devour him.
The actor has yellow hair and looks a bit like Robespierre, the leader of the Chinese Revolution.He is obviously afraid of the camera that almost hits his face.He kept repeating his lines, for fear that he might make a mistake during filming.
Camera assistants measure the focal length of the terrified actor, and costume and hair stylists confirm that his appearance meets the requirements.Allen didn't give him any acting direction, talk about the motivation of the character, or talk to him about the details of the performance, without even looking at him.
No, what is the way to scare this young actor like this?Ronald felt that he couldn't understand Director Yingji's thinking at all.If you're the director of New World, at least you have to talk about the show, right?
"Recording, camera, start!"
Alan Parker ignored the actor's somewhat terrified state and started the first shot directly.
"Every time I go to a party, I'm always worried that people won't like me..." the actor who played Montgomery began to speak.
Ronald stood in a safe area behind the camera, watching his performance with the naked eye.The lines are quite fluent, but there is a hint of panic in the voice, and his eyes are fixed on the black teacher Jim who is standing behind the camera and playing with him.
The camera pans slowly from above a still from Shakespeare's "Othello" to a close-up of Montgomery's full face.
"I have been studying in the military academy. My mother is an actress, but she is very busy and has no time to take care of me, so she let me go to the military academy..."
Several assistants of the photography team, under the command of the chief pusher, pushed the camera in a controlled manner.The camera starts to approach the actor very slowly, in what is, in DP parlance, a "extreme close-up".
If you look through the viewfinder, the actor's face gradually exceeds the frame from the red line that fills the entire frame, and the picture focuses on his panicked eyes and stuck mouth.
The Montgomery in the plot forgot the next line.
"Cut!"
"Very good, print this one." Alan Parker instructed the scene recorder to write it down, and then said to the first assistant director: "Let's do another one."
"Every time I go to a party, I'm always worried that people won't like me..."
Huh?Even Ronald, who was far away, felt that the actor's performance this time was not as good as the previous one.The fear, embarrassment, and helplessness of forgetting the words in the admission interview are still the most full in the first one.
That's it!
Alan Parker deliberately didn't talk to the actor, and then used a super huge close-up shot to face him at close range.In addition, Jim, who played the teacher before, was caught by Allen and took dozens of shots, which caused a lot of mental pressure on these young actors.
This kind of mental pressure is naturally reflected in the performance of the actors, just like the mental pressure they face when they participate in the entrance interview.So the emotion of the first article is very real and full.
And when it came to the second item, because the first item was passed, the psychological pressure of the actors was also relieved to a certain extent, so the emotional performance of the natural performance was not as real as the first item.
"Tsk," Ronald sighed secretly. This trick is a bit interesting. The director seems to have been preparing for a long time. First, he made an excuse to punish Jim, the drama teacher, and then deliberately arranged a series of blows for the actor who played Montgomery.Only then did he perform that perfect performance.
"The idiom of killing chickens to scare monkeys does make sense, but is it what Confucius said?"
The pace of shooting in the afternoon started to pick up.Because it is the same interview location, there is no need to readjust the lighting and lighting, just make some minor adjustments according to the height of each actor.
The effect of killing Jim as an example to the monkeys in the morning is still there, and several actors have completed their performances honestly.
Maureen Tiffey played the shy Doris. She was very handsome, with a small nose and blond hair. She was not at all Jewish but very Irish.I don't know if it's because of her superb acting skills, or because the director gave her extra guidance, so she finished filming the difficult crying scene of the entrance interview in one go.
"Ronnie, it's your turn to act well." Alan Parker called Ronald with a smile. This was based on Woody Allen's suggestion, asking him to play a stunned young man who came to the interview.
With makeup and costumes on, Ronald is a brawny, simple-minded student with goofy hair.Taking the props in his hand - a soft cover Romeo and Juliet novel, Ronald stood on the interview stage.
"Recording, camera,... start!" Allen called to start, found the director's chair and sat down with a serious expression, watching Ronald start his performance, ready to stop at any time to let him talk about the play.
Ronald was not afraid of him, adjusted his emotions, opened the novel, and began to read the lines in it.
"Romeo, where are you? Deny your father, deny his surname."
Ronald shook his legs while reading the lines, like a fool who studied sports and came to the art high school to audition for the acting department.
"If you don't want to do that, then I'll ditch my last name and I won't be a kapu, kapiu, kapiu... what"
"Capulet," reminds Jim, the black teacher who plays with him.
"what?"
"It's Capulet."
"Yes, I just read it as Capulet," Ronald continued, "you won't be a Monta soon, Munta,...no, what a jerk."
"It's Montague, listen, you're reading Juliet's lines."
"Oh, Shxt." Ronald turned around decisively and hit the wall.
"Cut!" Alan Parker also had to admit that this was a good performance, and ordered the reporter to write it down: "This is a print."
Ronald is not afraid of Allen, and this emotion just plays the role of the silly stunned young man.
"One more thing," Allen yelled, "Ronnie, you have to be a little more silly, you still look too smart when you read your lines."
"Cut! Another one"
(End of this chapter)
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