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Chapter 92 Improvisation
Chapter 92 Improvisation
The highlight of the dance department and the music department, the canteen dance, was filmed, and the crew started filming the drama of the acting department.Today was filming a scene with Latino student Ralph Garcia.
The actor who played Ralph was called Barry Miller.He is a veteran, 21 years old this year. In 1977, he played a suicidal high school student in John Travolta's "Saturday Night Fever."Later, she played a villain on the CBS TV series "Wonder Woman".It is one of the few faces in the movie that the audience is already familiar with.
Barry told others everywhere that he graduated from Stella Adler's acting training class, and Ronald was also looking forward to his acting skills.
"Li Zi said, Li doesn't understand that I'm grinding with an oar, so it's not dingy if I'm in the middle."
Ronald looked at the black teacher Jim who was playing with Barry. Jim put his hands on his bare forehead and lowered his head helplessly.
"Cut!"
"Barry, what the hell are you doing? What do you say in your lines? Why are you not clear at all." The director stopped in dissatisfaction. Today's shooting has seen Barry improvise many times on the spot, and the shooting progress has been greatly hindered. dragged down.
"Ellen, I feel like Ralph Garcia is a guy who likes to study acting, just like me. He's learning how Marlon Brando talks."
"Can't you read the lines according to the script?"
"Alan, I think you are a director who strives for excellence and should not be limited by the script. I feel that the role of Ralph is better expressed in this way."
With a buzzing sound, the extras sitting in the teacher's seat began to whisper among each other.This is the first time someone in the crew publicly challenged the authority of the director.
The cast members' dissatisfaction with Alan accumulated day by day, and today someone finally broke through the window paper.The dancers were dissatisfied with his shooting regardless of safety risks, and the local technicians in America also complained that the director favored fellow villagers in the British Isles.
But those are all contradictions accumulated for work, in the final analysis, to make better movies.As long as the shooting can continue to move forward, everyone will forget the old problems.
Today is the first time someone questioned the director's decision from an artistic point of view.After all, the other leading actors are mainly newcomers, and only Barry Miller thinks he is qualified to "discuss" the acting of the role with the director.
Before, everyone was intimidated by Alan Parker's operation on the black teacher Jim, but now someone took the lead, and a lot of dissatisfaction burst out from the bottom of their hearts. For the first time, everyone felt that what Alan said was not all right .
"You..." Alan Parker's face was a little flushed, but now is not the time to lose his temper.
Allen announced the suspension of filming, and took Barry to the inner room for a heart-to-heart talk.Everyone was talking outside, venting their grievances about how the director treated him rudely and so on.
Ronald watched coldly from the sidelines, and this was a challenge to the director's authority.If it is not resolved, there may be a lot of trouble in future shooting.
With a "snap", the inner door was opened, and Barry Miller walked out triumphantly.Allen announced that the scene would change the way it was shot.
The field recorder hurriedly picked up the pen and changed the script according to Allen's request.After that, she had to type it again, copy and replace the corresponding part of the script.
"Recording, camera, start!"
"Li Zi said, Li doesn't understand that I'm grinding with an oar, so it's not dingy if I'm in the middle."
"Ralph, Ralph, you're slurring again." Jim was playing Barry Miller.
"I don't understand," Barry replied, changing his articulation, "that's how the great Marlon Brando pronounced his lines, and that's how James Dean pronounced them. They're the greatest actors in the world, but no one I can understand what they're saying."
The "Puchi" extras contributed uncontrollably laughter.
These two are really students of Stella Adler, plus Robert De Niro, is the secret of Stella's faction that inarticulate speech?Ronald began to think wildly.
"Cut! This print," the director explained.
"Next, we will go to No. 122 Performing Arts Space in the East Village. The address is.... We will gather at No. 122 Performing Arts Space at [-]:[-] p.m. ..."
The first assistant director began to arrange transportation for various people, and everyone went to the assistant to get an address.
Ronald got in the car and sent Gene and Antonia to the new shooting location.Along the way, I was thinking about the consequences of Barry Miller's challenge to the director this morning.
Jean and Antonia are also talking about the director.
"We're not afraid of him at all," Gene said. "What business does it matter to us that he troubles Jim? Public high school teachers can't control us."
"Of course you are not afraid of him, but he is a little afraid of you. Everything is conveyed through Ronnie." Antonia laughed.
Ronald heard the conversation between the two from the driving position, and glanced at Gene through the rearview mirror.
It does make sense.After all, Allen is an Englishman, and he is more than 15 years older than himself.I don't understand the mentality of American high school students at all. After the Vietnam War, the hippies, and the civil rights movement, today's young people don't take public high school teachers seriously.
If the teacher dares to take care of their words, he is afraid that he will not be killed on the spot by a prick like Gene.
It's a bit of a mistake to try to scare the teacher and build authority in the hearts of student actors.
The new generation of American teenagers are not so obedient to the authority of their elders, but to their teenage heroes, such as the punk rock Ramones.
When the car arrived at 122 Performing Arts Space, Ronald and the two got out of the car to have a look.The so-called performing arts space is also an abandoned high school.However, it was occupied by New York artists and transformed into a theater rehearsal space and a small theater, serving as a center for avant-garde theater.
Producer David Da Silva greeted him, "Ronnie, you should also go to the shooting scene to watch in the afternoon. I heard about what happened in the morning. You should go to the scene to watch, and Barry Miller will come to every move. tell me."
Ronald nodded. Originally, this afternoon was filming the love scene between Ralph Garcia and Doris, so he didn't need to be on the scene.But now, David, the person who pays himself, has given orders, and he has to listen.
"I have a lot of fathers, they come to my house, some of them pay the rent, ..." Barry Miller is reading his lines.
The character of Ralph Garcia is a Latino in Harlem, which is worse than blacks in a way, because a lot of charitable donations don’t go to Latinos.There are 5 brothers and sisters in the family, mainly relying on the relief of the church, and the single mother has a man on the list from time to time.
"Cut!" Change to a close-up shot to capture Barry's monologue.
The main shot just now was shot, followed by Barry's monologue. Allen's style is not to use over-the-shoulder shots, but to use close-up shots to express the dialogue of the characters, which is different from the traditional Hollywood method.
The advantage of this is that it can express the emotions of the characters more clearly. The disadvantage is that the audience sometimes does not understand who the characters are talking to.Especially when there are more than two characters present.But Alan Parker is a famous British director after all, so there will be no problem.
"You have to understand Puerto Rican women, they don't look for men because of love, but because they want to support their children."
"Cut, Cut, Cut" Allen angrily stopped the shooting.
"Barry, Barry, you have to follow the lines, honey." Allen pressed Barry Miller's shoulder, squeezed his face, and threatened.
Ronald also felt that Barry Miller was a little too much.Roger Corman once said that if actors can improvise, give them a chance.But that never includes changing lines at will between master shots and dialogue shots.
You can improvise in some of the main shots of the panorama, and you can improvise in some of the dialogue shots that show you close up.
But it's best not to say A in the main shot, and say the irrelevant B in the dialogue shot.Because doing so would make editing difficult.There is a disconnect between the main shot and the dialogue shot.
This Barry Miller is a bit too attached to his acting skills, as if he wants to show all his talents to someone.
"No, no, Alan. My performance is based on the situation. At this time and in this environment, Ralph Garcia should have said this. This is not my intentional design, but a natural expression. You You can't limit the natural display of an actor."
"Barry, Barry, what should I do with you? You are a talented actor, but you need to distinguish between priorities when filming. This will seriously slow down the progress of filming, and we are just a small production." Allen tried Reason with Barry Miller.
"Barry, can you limit the improvisation to each scene? Otherwise, it will be edited later..." Ronald tried to help, so that Barry's improvisation would not interfere too much with the shooting and post-editing .
"Hey, who are you? Don't interfere with a great actor-director conversation."
Raising his hands in surrender, Ronald stepped back to Maureen Tiffey, who played Doris.
"Barry is always like this. I started to add more scenes to my opponent. I'm already a little tired. He always makes Alan work overtime." Maureen complained to Ronald in a low voice.
Ronald turned his head in surprise and glanced at Maureen, "Maybe he has his own ideas."
Allen and Barry finally reached a temporary agreement, and the director called the third one.
"Recording? Camera? Start!"
Barry Miller walks to the window with his wine glass in hand and pauses for two seconds with his back to the camera.Then turned around: "My mother has a spare house that she always rents to a man, so I have a new dad."
"Okay!" Ronald thought to himself, the mood of this performance was quite smooth.
"Most new dads will only be one day."
He started improvising again, and Ronald covered his face.
"Cut!"
Allen stepped forward and slapped Barry Miller.
"Snapped!"
"Stop messing around! Say your lines, in the order of the script. Be honest with me and stop chasing girls around!"
The next scene was surprisingly good. Barry honestly finished the lines in the script, and the last crying scene was very emotional.
Maureen Tiffey also ended her shot, said "Bye!" to Ronald and others, and got into the car with Allen on her arm.
The director has a new car.
(End of this chapter)
The highlight of the dance department and the music department, the canteen dance, was filmed, and the crew started filming the drama of the acting department.Today was filming a scene with Latino student Ralph Garcia.
The actor who played Ralph was called Barry Miller.He is a veteran, 21 years old this year. In 1977, he played a suicidal high school student in John Travolta's "Saturday Night Fever."Later, she played a villain on the CBS TV series "Wonder Woman".It is one of the few faces in the movie that the audience is already familiar with.
Barry told others everywhere that he graduated from Stella Adler's acting training class, and Ronald was also looking forward to his acting skills.
"Li Zi said, Li doesn't understand that I'm grinding with an oar, so it's not dingy if I'm in the middle."
Ronald looked at the black teacher Jim who was playing with Barry. Jim put his hands on his bare forehead and lowered his head helplessly.
"Cut!"
"Barry, what the hell are you doing? What do you say in your lines? Why are you not clear at all." The director stopped in dissatisfaction. Today's shooting has seen Barry improvise many times on the spot, and the shooting progress has been greatly hindered. dragged down.
"Ellen, I feel like Ralph Garcia is a guy who likes to study acting, just like me. He's learning how Marlon Brando talks."
"Can't you read the lines according to the script?"
"Alan, I think you are a director who strives for excellence and should not be limited by the script. I feel that the role of Ralph is better expressed in this way."
With a buzzing sound, the extras sitting in the teacher's seat began to whisper among each other.This is the first time someone in the crew publicly challenged the authority of the director.
The cast members' dissatisfaction with Alan accumulated day by day, and today someone finally broke through the window paper.The dancers were dissatisfied with his shooting regardless of safety risks, and the local technicians in America also complained that the director favored fellow villagers in the British Isles.
But those are all contradictions accumulated for work, in the final analysis, to make better movies.As long as the shooting can continue to move forward, everyone will forget the old problems.
Today is the first time someone questioned the director's decision from an artistic point of view.After all, the other leading actors are mainly newcomers, and only Barry Miller thinks he is qualified to "discuss" the acting of the role with the director.
Before, everyone was intimidated by Alan Parker's operation on the black teacher Jim, but now someone took the lead, and a lot of dissatisfaction burst out from the bottom of their hearts. For the first time, everyone felt that what Alan said was not all right .
"You..." Alan Parker's face was a little flushed, but now is not the time to lose his temper.
Allen announced the suspension of filming, and took Barry to the inner room for a heart-to-heart talk.Everyone was talking outside, venting their grievances about how the director treated him rudely and so on.
Ronald watched coldly from the sidelines, and this was a challenge to the director's authority.If it is not resolved, there may be a lot of trouble in future shooting.
With a "snap", the inner door was opened, and Barry Miller walked out triumphantly.Allen announced that the scene would change the way it was shot.
The field recorder hurriedly picked up the pen and changed the script according to Allen's request.After that, she had to type it again, copy and replace the corresponding part of the script.
"Recording, camera, start!"
"Li Zi said, Li doesn't understand that I'm grinding with an oar, so it's not dingy if I'm in the middle."
"Ralph, Ralph, you're slurring again." Jim was playing Barry Miller.
"I don't understand," Barry replied, changing his articulation, "that's how the great Marlon Brando pronounced his lines, and that's how James Dean pronounced them. They're the greatest actors in the world, but no one I can understand what they're saying."
The "Puchi" extras contributed uncontrollably laughter.
These two are really students of Stella Adler, plus Robert De Niro, is the secret of Stella's faction that inarticulate speech?Ronald began to think wildly.
"Cut! This print," the director explained.
"Next, we will go to No. 122 Performing Arts Space in the East Village. The address is.... We will gather at No. 122 Performing Arts Space at [-]:[-] p.m. ..."
The first assistant director began to arrange transportation for various people, and everyone went to the assistant to get an address.
Ronald got in the car and sent Gene and Antonia to the new shooting location.Along the way, I was thinking about the consequences of Barry Miller's challenge to the director this morning.
Jean and Antonia are also talking about the director.
"We're not afraid of him at all," Gene said. "What business does it matter to us that he troubles Jim? Public high school teachers can't control us."
"Of course you are not afraid of him, but he is a little afraid of you. Everything is conveyed through Ronnie." Antonia laughed.
Ronald heard the conversation between the two from the driving position, and glanced at Gene through the rearview mirror.
It does make sense.After all, Allen is an Englishman, and he is more than 15 years older than himself.I don't understand the mentality of American high school students at all. After the Vietnam War, the hippies, and the civil rights movement, today's young people don't take public high school teachers seriously.
If the teacher dares to take care of their words, he is afraid that he will not be killed on the spot by a prick like Gene.
It's a bit of a mistake to try to scare the teacher and build authority in the hearts of student actors.
The new generation of American teenagers are not so obedient to the authority of their elders, but to their teenage heroes, such as the punk rock Ramones.
When the car arrived at 122 Performing Arts Space, Ronald and the two got out of the car to have a look.The so-called performing arts space is also an abandoned high school.However, it was occupied by New York artists and transformed into a theater rehearsal space and a small theater, serving as a center for avant-garde theater.
Producer David Da Silva greeted him, "Ronnie, you should also go to the shooting scene to watch in the afternoon. I heard about what happened in the morning. You should go to the scene to watch, and Barry Miller will come to every move. tell me."
Ronald nodded. Originally, this afternoon was filming the love scene between Ralph Garcia and Doris, so he didn't need to be on the scene.But now, David, the person who pays himself, has given orders, and he has to listen.
"I have a lot of fathers, they come to my house, some of them pay the rent, ..." Barry Miller is reading his lines.
The character of Ralph Garcia is a Latino in Harlem, which is worse than blacks in a way, because a lot of charitable donations don’t go to Latinos.There are 5 brothers and sisters in the family, mainly relying on the relief of the church, and the single mother has a man on the list from time to time.
"Cut!" Change to a close-up shot to capture Barry's monologue.
The main shot just now was shot, followed by Barry's monologue. Allen's style is not to use over-the-shoulder shots, but to use close-up shots to express the dialogue of the characters, which is different from the traditional Hollywood method.
The advantage of this is that it can express the emotions of the characters more clearly. The disadvantage is that the audience sometimes does not understand who the characters are talking to.Especially when there are more than two characters present.But Alan Parker is a famous British director after all, so there will be no problem.
"You have to understand Puerto Rican women, they don't look for men because of love, but because they want to support their children."
"Cut, Cut, Cut" Allen angrily stopped the shooting.
"Barry, Barry, you have to follow the lines, honey." Allen pressed Barry Miller's shoulder, squeezed his face, and threatened.
Ronald also felt that Barry Miller was a little too much.Roger Corman once said that if actors can improvise, give them a chance.But that never includes changing lines at will between master shots and dialogue shots.
You can improvise in some of the main shots of the panorama, and you can improvise in some of the dialogue shots that show you close up.
But it's best not to say A in the main shot, and say the irrelevant B in the dialogue shot.Because doing so would make editing difficult.There is a disconnect between the main shot and the dialogue shot.
This Barry Miller is a bit too attached to his acting skills, as if he wants to show all his talents to someone.
"No, no, Alan. My performance is based on the situation. At this time and in this environment, Ralph Garcia should have said this. This is not my intentional design, but a natural expression. You You can't limit the natural display of an actor."
"Barry, Barry, what should I do with you? You are a talented actor, but you need to distinguish between priorities when filming. This will seriously slow down the progress of filming, and we are just a small production." Allen tried Reason with Barry Miller.
"Barry, can you limit the improvisation to each scene? Otherwise, it will be edited later..." Ronald tried to help, so that Barry's improvisation would not interfere too much with the shooting and post-editing .
"Hey, who are you? Don't interfere with a great actor-director conversation."
Raising his hands in surrender, Ronald stepped back to Maureen Tiffey, who played Doris.
"Barry is always like this. I started to add more scenes to my opponent. I'm already a little tired. He always makes Alan work overtime." Maureen complained to Ronald in a low voice.
Ronald turned his head in surprise and glanced at Maureen, "Maybe he has his own ideas."
Allen and Barry finally reached a temporary agreement, and the director called the third one.
"Recording? Camera? Start!"
Barry Miller walks to the window with his wine glass in hand and pauses for two seconds with his back to the camera.Then turned around: "My mother has a spare house that she always rents to a man, so I have a new dad."
"Okay!" Ronald thought to himself, the mood of this performance was quite smooth.
"Most new dads will only be one day."
He started improvising again, and Ronald covered his face.
"Cut!"
Allen stepped forward and slapped Barry Miller.
"Snapped!"
"Stop messing around! Say your lines, in the order of the script. Be honest with me and stop chasing girls around!"
The next scene was surprisingly good. Barry honestly finished the lines in the script, and the last crying scene was very emotional.
Maureen Tiffey also ended her shot, said "Bye!" to Ronald and others, and got into the car with Allen on her arm.
The director has a new car.
(End of this chapter)
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