Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Cut! Good, good, Patrick, keep this feeling..."

Most of Patrick Schwytz's scenes are very difficult performances. The feeling of being in front of a room full of people, but no one can see you. You need a strong imagination to perform well.

On the one hand, Ronald asked the extras to encourage Schwytz as much as possible. At the end of every filming, they tried their best to applaud to stimulate the actor's pride.

On the other hand, he also had to give Schwytz a lot of psychological massage and keep telling him that he was satisfied with his performance.

Shooting a monologue in front of the camera is actually not as difficult as many people imagine. Because there's usually an actor behind the camera playing opposite you. When actually filming, you are still performing in front of a real person, interacting with him through eyes, expressions, body movements, etc.

When it finally appeared on the screen, it was of course shocking, as if he had performed such a powerful performance in the air.

But what’s really difficult is Patrick Schwytz’s performance. When the camera is focused on him, there are more than one actor surrounding him, but because of the plot (no one can see Sam's ghost), they all turn a blind eye to Schwytz.

In other words, what looked like an easy performance turned out to be Patrick Schwytz's inability to get feedback from any of the actors.

It is said that acting is about reacting. Two characters react normally to each other's lines, so that they can promote each other.

There were a lot of actors present on the surface, but there was no feedback on the performance, and that was the difficulty for Patrick Schwytz.

Sometimes, Ronald would stand behind the camera, acting as Schwytz's sole audience and validation of his performance. He doesn't need to react. He only needs to use affirmative eyes and a slight nod to give Schwytz some encouragement that "you did a good job."

Even so, there were still many scenes that did not satisfy Ronald.

There is no way, Patrick Schwytz is not a top actor. Ronald had to use more close-ups to connect scenes that he felt were not convincing enough.

That's the strength of stars like Patrick Schwytz. Ever since the close-up was invented by Griffith, Hollywood's first great director, it has always been the source of star magic.

The human mind has a special recognition mode for human faces. We can recognize an acquaintance much faster than we can recognize an animal or any other living or inanimate object.

Simply put, our brains like to look at faces, especially faces that are good-looking and make us have certain impulses.

Ever since a good-looking human face was zoomed in with a close-up lens onto a screen as big as two floors, and watched by hundreds of viewers in a dark big house without any interruptions, the species star was born. .

Sometimes Patrick Schwytz's performance was not good, so Ronald planned to insert a close-up shot to make the audience forget about the unharmonious performance and immerse themselves directly in the pain and joy of that star's face, unconsciously. Shift your attention to the next scene.

"Patrick is really good. I saw how he shot this kind of shot, and I realized how difficult it is."

Demi Moore acted as Schwytz's counterpart behind the camera in this scene, and she nodded in admiration after Ronald gave Schwytz some psychological training.

"Tell your colleagues more..." Ronald said.

"What do you mean?" Demi Moore was a little confused.

"What I mean is, when marketing the movie, you should talk more to the media about the difficulty of Patrick's performance, and...hey, forget it..." Ronald saw Schwytz coming over and stopped talking. Put it down and quickly went up to praise him.

Demi Moore seems to understand something...

Patrick Schwytz actually became a star with a huge fan base after "Dirty Dancing". But like everyone who becomes famous as a star but wants to be a good actor, he hopes to use this film to gain critical and award recognition.

But with such acting skills, not to mention the audience, even ordinary actors don't know how difficult it is.

Therefore, in the review circle, which is dominated by film critics who have no experience in film shooting, and in the award circle, which is dominated by actors who have never filmed such roles, most people still can’t feel Schwytz’s acting skills this time. of sublime points.

Ronald's phrase "Speak more to your peers" is a veiled complaint.

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"Is it coming to me?"

Soon, after a lot of Schwytz's scenes were filmed, it was Demi Moore's turn. In this movie, she also had a few scenes that she had to act on her own without anyone giving her feedback.

"Almost, just wait for a while. Patrick will come and play with you later to give you a little feel." Ronald replied with a smile.

This scene is not a big problem for an actor of Demi Moore's level. The problems she faces are also simpler than Schwytz's.

For example, the scenes shot today were close-ups of her facing the camera. They were when Sam just died, and when Molly missed her boyfriend in the middle of the night, she cried silently alone. There is also the scene when Sam reveals that the bad guy Carl will finally go to heaven and say goodbye to Molly.

Although these two scenes are far apart in the script, the scenes are the same, so in medium and large-scale productions like this, they are usually shot together. It is convenient for scheduling and for actors to find the right size of emotions.

"I don't think anyone else needs to be involved in this, I need to be alone to brew it..." Demi Moore read the script again carefully and suddenly made a request.

"OK, let me go and tell Patrick..." Ronald will consider the actor's request as appropriate. This kind of solo scene mainly relies on the actors mobilizing their own imagination and previous emotional memories.

Ronald will not make demands on actors like the Methodists, forcing them to mobilize the emotions of a certain period of their own life experiences. But however the actor wants to act, he will definitely agree.

After the funeral, Molly was doing pottery alone and couldn't sleep alone. Suddenly, the sadness that had been accumulated for many days burst out due to a small incident. The camera only captures her alone, and the audience mainly relies on Demi's acting skills to generate sympathy.

"!"

Demi Moore sat on the top of the wooden stairs in the house. The camera shot upwards. More than two-thirds of the composition was occupied by the tall wooden ladder. Demi Moore was sitting there, revealing of a sad face.

Demi Moore's performance is very good, the sad and sad mood is very full, and then she will pick up the lucky coin in the glass jar and throw it to the opposite wall (that is, towards the camera).

"Sorry, sorry..." Demi Moore had been brewing for a long time, and just before tossing the coin, she suddenly raised her hand...

"Cut!", Ronald called a stop. Demi Moore took the initiative to call a stop because she was not in the right mood. There were very few times. What happened this time?

"I think the emotions are wrong. When people are desperate and sad, they don't have the energy to explode... They often live in a haze for a long time. Only when they are suddenly aroused by something, pain and sorrow will come to their hearts. At this time, they are There is no energy..."

"What you said makes sense..." Ronald agreed very much with Demi Moore's idea. This type of acting, which can more accurately figure out and grasp the character's psychology, is not possible without talent.

"Tsk..." Ronald sighed. Demi Moore was still in bad luck. No one saw her potential like she did. The roles she got before were all urban girls with a bit of "Bitch" flavor. As long as the true character appears.

"!" Ronald started shouting again.

Demi Moore sat blankly on the floor of the second floor at the top of the ladder, her eyes full of sadness, and she rolled the glass jar containing coins back and forth on the ground with one hand.

"Hey..." Demi Moore's eyes were a little unfocused. She was looking at Ronald behind the camera, and past memories came to her mind.

Why doesn't this man want to develop a reliable relationship with him? If he wanted to, he could be a good wife and mother like Diane.

In the end, she could only marry a rough guy like Bruce Willis, and have to change diapers and feed her children like a servant in the middle of the night.

If you come from a bad background, what's wrong with relying on men to get the upper hand? The only blame is that when I discovered this unpolished diamond, I exposed my true side too much...

An uncomfortable feeling surged into her heart. As soon as Demi Moore moved her finger, the glass bottle slowly rolled towards the wooden stairs.

The glass bottle rolled faster and faster. After falling down two stairs, it shattered on the third step...

"Snapped!"

"Cut!" Ronald paused for a few seconds before calling it off. This shot was perfect. The glass bottle was arranged by props, so it fell quite easily. And Demi Moore's expression, with tears in her eyes but no control over them, formed a very heartbreaking and loving expression.

"Wonderful..." Ronald took the lead in applauding, and the applause resounded throughout the studio.

"Demi Moore is a Methodist. She must have thought about her own memory. I wonder what made her so melancholy and sad?" Ronald couldn't ask Demi, either Emilio Estevez Cheated on a Latin girl and gave birth to an illegitimate child during a relationship with her?

It doesn't seem like it, maybe his stepfather who was very good to him committed suicide after being tortured by her mother?

"Hey, it's not easy for Demi either..."

"Well, well..." Demi Moore seems to have not gotten over her emotions yet. It is actually very dangerous for Method actors to mobilize their emotional memories. If this emotion comes from trauma in her past, human nature is to hide it and not think about it.

In order to move the audience and successfully make them empathize, fully recalling the trauma that people subconsciously want to avoid is actually quite harmful to the actors.

Demi Moore could not get rid of her self-sorrow. When she saw Ronald approaching, she hugged the man and started to cry.

"God, good girl, good girl, you are a good girl... don't cry, I feel it, it's all over..."

Ronald held Demi Moore in his arms and felt that she was crying very emotionally and sadly. Her whole body was still shaking violently in his arms, as if her emotions were very intense.

A few minutes later, Demi Moore's shoulders no longer twitched involuntarily. She felt the warmth of Ronald's embrace all over her body and slowly calmed down.

"Everyone, take an hour's rest and let Demi have a good rest and adjust..." Ronald looked at Demi Moore who raised her head in his arms and looked quite fragile and her eyes were red. She looked like a strong mother. Suddenly broken, Ronald seemed to see her fainting in the hospital and confiding her feelings to him.

"Sorry, I didn't control my emotions well, thank you..."

"It's okay. I'll give you some hot drinks. You'll feel better after drinking them. Calm down slowly, don't be anxious..."

Ronald's loving care seemed to make Demi Moore even more uncomfortable.

"Huh...huh..." Demi Moore picked up a stuffed doll in the dressing room and beat it hard.

"Let's get ready and shoot another close-up XX-XXX..."

Seeing Demi Moore coming out after a rest, Ronald quickly asked the crew to start preparations.

Such huge emotional ups and downs actually do a lot of harm to the actors. But behind their work, their fame, their money, their fans' love, there are also these vulnerable moments.

"I love you……"

Schwitz, who plays opposite her, is standing behind the camera. This time it was Sam's ghost's turn to take the initiative to say these words. He had already taken revenge, frightened him to death and killed his own Karl. In the end, he still had a wish, which was to express his love to Molly, who was destined to have no fate, and to fulfill his wish in the world.

Demi Moore is in a close-up, looking behind the camera at Patrick Schwytz... no, actually Ronald. Also shouted, "Dido"

This sentence was originally an escape statement used by Sam because he was unwilling to say "I love you" because of his uncertainty about the future. Now, it has become Molly's memory of her lost lover.

Her eyes were filled with hot tears, and they were welling up in her eyes.

Under the lighting approved by the special effects director, one light and one dark shine on the face, making it extremely clear.

During post-production, rim lighting was added to Sam's image. This is a way of expressing a kind ghost who wants to go to heaven. Seeing this, the audience understands that Sam is going to heaven.

In order to unify the lighting, three special effects directors headed by Van Fleet were all on site to maintain the lighting consistency of the special effects shots and reaction shots.

So Demi Moore's face is also flashing bright and dark lights.

Suddenly, her eyes could no longer hold the tears, and a crystal teardrop flowed down from her right eye first.

Then another tear fell from his left eye.

Demi Moore's facial expression changed from pain to joy, and finally turned into a smile.

This is a very difficult performance. Molly needs to escape from death, get her revenge, reunite with her lover, and finally watch him go to heaven. In less than half a minute, the emotions are layered on top of each other. All the rich and touching emotions are well acted.

Demi Moore's performance is quite convincing. She plays the role very well, as if she is recalling similar experiences in her life. I paid some prices, got some rewards, and realized some dreams.

"Cut!"

Ronald bared his teeth and stopped helplessly. All of Demi Moore's performances were very good, except for the last scene where she watched Sam go to heaven. She didn't smile long enough. In about half a second, the relieved smile disappeared from her face.

Although laughter and tears were the main emotion at the end of the movie, and it was also the emotion Ronald wanted the audience to experience, but after all, the smile was too short, and Ronald felt it was not enough to convey Molly's sweet life and expectations in the past. A confirmation.

"You don't seem to like smiling, Demi..."

Ronald had no choice but to take a second shot, and Demi's smile lasted even shorter. Even if you use editing methods to make up for it, you can't cut it...

He looked at Demi Moore and thought she could smile a little longer.

"No, I can't do it..." Demi Moore has taken two pictures. The high level of difficulty and the dramatic mobilization of emotions in two extremes have exhausted her performance energy.

"OK, OK..."

Ronald had no choice but to resort to technical means. Use elevated photography to re-shoot the heroine's smile, and then use slow motion to lengthen Demi's smile during editing.

"Cut!"

In this shoot, there was only one smiling shot, and Patrick Schwytz did not stand behind the camera to act opposite Demi.

Demi Moore looked at Ronald behind the camera, her expression even sadder. Her smile was tinged with tears. It was half sad, but half happy, coupled with the crystal tears, it was almost painful for the audience. no.

Why can't Molly and Sam, two lovers, be together?

"Cut!"

When Ronald saw that Schwytz was not there, Demi seemed to be more engaged in the performance, and he had some guesses in his mind. He didn't dare to discuss it in depth. After taking the required material, he immediately announced that today's shooting was over.

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