Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Chapter 16 Performing in front of the camera

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"Hi Kevin. This scene is when Hector wants to go home to check on his family after he learns that the comet turned everyone who was directly exposed to the red light to dust, even though he knows there's a good chance they'll all be gone. He was killed, but he still had a glimmer of hope..."

"Keep this trace of hope that the family is not in trouble." Kevin Costner came to the crew to report today. His leading role is relatively small, and he is concentrated in several concentrated locations such as home, department stores, and underground bases. Therefore, it was only in the second week of filming that I came to the crew to report.

Seeing Kevin nodded, Ronald continued to talk, "So, when he got home and found that everyone was gone, he didn't know it well. At this time, he had an emotional breakdown. At this moment Zombies came in to kill him, and he quickly switched from a collapsed state of tragic death to a state of escape..."

"Let's go for a rehearsal, don't arouse your emotions." Ronald urged Kevin to start moving. .

"Mom, Mom..." Kevin Costner walked into his house wearing a shirt and jeans, the jukebox on the table was still playing music, the lights in the room were hanging on the wall, and below it was "Comet of the Comet". night".

Hector knew right away that the family was celebrating the comet's return last night, and the whole family went to see the comet. Knowing that he couldn't help it, he sat on the bed and suddenly felt sad.

The jukebox completes a loop and starts playing the music again. Hector woke up from his grief, he had more important things to do, so he took a bag and put all the family photos in it.

"Who's there?" Kevin Costner, acting as though he heard an unusual noise, stood up, took out an automatic, and loaded it with a click.

"Very good, we'll do the storyboard like this, give Kevin a few more full body shots, he's in good shape. Then we'll give a close-up when he's sitting in bed sad, and finally a medium shot when he's standing up to take pictures of his family, I need his tender gesture of putting family pictures into the bag."

Kevin Costner is a good actor with layers. All kinds of emotions are stimulated by the objects in the lens, and there are obvious ups and downs. Perhaps it was well trained by director Lawrence Kasdan in "The Big Chill", Ronald felt that he was very good at acting in front of the camera.

Unlike the fixed seat and field of view like in a drama, moviegoers actually watch the actors' performances through the camera. Therefore, body movements, language, expressions, etc., and the details of the performance must be realized with the camera.

And this scene requires a lot of emotional accumulation, transformation, and release. It is a major scene in the middle of the movie, which makes the audience feel moved by Hector's emotions towards his family, and then continues the battle against the zombies.

It's a break in the middle of a zombie fight scene, and the audience needs a little soothing, and all the performances are brought by Costner alone. So Ronald asked Kevin Costner to walk through the scene first, and then based on his performance in front of the camera, he prepared for the storyboard.

"I need some time," Kevin Costner walked into his trailer, brewing emotions, but ten minutes later, he came out of the trailer, "I'm ready."

"!"

When Hector walked into the house, he still had a hopeful expression on his face, because there was nothing unusual in the house, as if the family had just gone out. He also carried a lot of hope.

Then he turned his back to the camera, saw the colorful lights on the wall, and suddenly understood that his family was also going to see the comet. The rhythm of his movements was noticeably slower, and a sad mood suddenly emerged from Costner's back.

Then there is a close-up of the face. Hector already knew the tragedy of his family in his heart, and his whole spirit was like a tire with a hole, and it quickly deflated.

Suddenly, Hector was awakened by the music playing on the jukebox. He looked up and saw pictures of his family on the table.

He wiped his eyes quietly, took out a bag from the drawer, and began to carefully and gently put family photos in.

"Cut!"

Ronald is very satisfied. The biggest characteristic of a good actor is relaxation. He can still be very relaxed in front of the camera, so he has room to express various emotions. If you are very nervous when you go up, you will not be able to perform this kind of play that requires transitions and layers.

"Fine, let's move on to the next game."

No one applauded, and everyone automatically entered the mode of preparing for the next game. Save a few minutes per shot, and you can take more shots at the end of the day.

"Ronald, how is my performance?" Kevin Costner came over, he felt that his performance still had some room for improvement, and hoped for another one.

"You know what? If I had an eight million budget, I could shoot this scene for a day, and you have room to play. But it's a pity that I'm not Lawrence Kasdan, and Atlantic is not the former United Artists, so I I'm satisfied with what you just said."

"Oh, I wish you were Kasdan so you wouldn't cut all my scenes."

"No, it's up to you to attract female audiences to my movie. In addition to liking Regina's self-reliance and self-reliance, they also have to have a handsome guy to fall in love with her to be successful." Ronald knew that Costner was a bit overwhelmed. She was afraid, and hurriedly gave him a ticket.

"The next scene is for the child actor to appear with you. I can only take his state first, so you have to cheer up."

"Okay, I will cooperate with him."

The next scene is a zombie, played by a child, rushing into Hector's home to bite him. Hector recognized the neighbor's child and couldn't bear to shoot him with a gun. After locking them up, he went out to find the car and ran back to find Regina.

According to legend, the most difficult scenes to film are children, animals, and water.

Ronald finally got a taste of the difficulty in filming children's scenes, which is that children's performances are not stable enough and unpredictable.

This time the scene is not the kind of drama that takes a lot of acting skills. It's just pretending to be a zombie and rushing in from the door to bite Hector played by Kevin Costner.

Children's performances are irregular. They can perform well in one scene, and then start to fail for some inexplicable reason. Sometimes they perform well, but the adult actors don't keep up, so they can only try to keep up with them.

And Ronald couldn't speak to them. If he said too much, the child either started crying or even more uncooperative, which dragged the filming time for a long time.

Fortunately, the producer is a person with children. He saw something was wrong and gave the child a piece of chocolate. After the child ate it, he shot the scene smoothly all the way.

"He seemed to be hungry, and sometimes he gave them a little sugar and then complimented them on how good the last shot was, and he would summon the courage to take the next shot."

Ronald patted the child actor's head, and the staff of the Actors Guild next to him was already eyeing it, and they just waited to interrupt Ronald's continued shooting on the grounds that the child was in a bad mood and should not shoot continuously.

"Next time, if you have any discomfort, just tell me, okay?" Ronald said softly to the little actor.

"This zombie makeup makes me uncomfortable." The little actor pointed to the gray-brown zombie makeup on his face.

"You know what? The next shot is a close-up, and your classmates and friends will see you horribly on screen."

"Like dinosaurs?"

"Yeah, like a dinosaur."

The energy cycle of children is faster than that of adults. The young actors suddenly came to the spirit and entered the state very quickly. The scenes of fighting with Costner in the interior of the shooting looked quite convincing.

"Oh, little boy, what a horrible creature."

Ronald looked up and saw an old acquaintance, Mary Voronoff, who had also come to the scene.

Voronoff played the old-fashioned headmistress in "High School of Rock", and Ronald also asked her to play Audrey White, an expert at the underground biological laboratory base, based on a dream.

"Why are you here, Mary?"

"There is something in my script that doesn't make sense. I want to talk to you."

"OK, okay, when I'm done here, I'll go talk to the trailer."

Watching the scene tidied up, Ronald confirmed that tomorrow's scene was Mary Voronoff coming to the Two Sisters Vs Zombies mall to rescue the two of them.

He went to the trailer and started chatting with Voronov about the script.

"Ronald, is there something wrong with Audrey's character here?" Voronov came up with a criticism.

"Okay, tell me what's wrong?" Ronald couldn't face Voronov. When she was a supporting actress, she was still an assistant.

"It's a good script, but it's not about deep humanity, it's a collection of all the fashion elements of the moment."

"OK, then what?" Ronald nodded, indeed "Night of the Comet" combines a lot of popular elements.

"Look, it's the valley girls saving the world, and now the valley girls' songs are just trending, and the 'fast tempo' you shoot has also made their accent and style popular with middle school students across the country. And then there's the zombies, since 'Dawn of the Living Dead' , there are a lot of zombie movies coming out.

Then came the comet. Halley's Comet is about to return to Earth. The newspapers just reported that this return has been discovered by amateur astronomers, and everyone is talking about it. Then there's mall shopping, and shootouts. "

"I agree with these, so what?"

"So Audrey should also be a person with humanity and a state of change. She is a conscientious biological researcher, and she can't bear to see the survivors recruited by the base as living blood samples, and she wants to save these children.

Her character also has a psychological transformation, not a symbolic villain, so her lines should be in line with the current situation..." Marie Voronov said eloquently.

Ronald scratched his head, Voronov said it was good, of course there were some of her careful thoughts for more close-ups. Ronald didn't point it out, "But I'm going to shoot your scene tomorrow, and I don't have time to change your lines again."

"I've written it for you." Voronov handed over a few pages of her own handwritten paper, all of which she had come up with and more in line with her character's identity.

Ronald smiled and turned out to be prepared. He browsed through it and felt that there was no problem, "Very good, then you can follow what you wrote."

"You're a good director, Ronald." Mary Voronoff was pleased that her understanding of the characters was recognized by Ronald.

"It's probably none of my business, but here's a foreshadowing of Regina, why didn't it follow?" Mary Voronoff felt that Ronald was more humbly accepting opinions, so she asked him a question.

"What foreshadowing?"

"It's this DMK. When Regina was playing video games, a person named DMK broke Regina's record in sixth place. Why didn't the latter DMK play?"

"This is not a foreshadowing, this is a scene where I want to show Regina's independent spirit that she likes competition and refuses to admit defeat, and cooperates with her tomboy-like hairstyle to make the audience immediately accept her identity."

Mary Voronoff shook her head. She has made a lot of Roger Coleman-style low-budget movies. She knows that the audience remembers the beginning of the movie more clearly, "If it is not foreshadowing, there is no need at the beginning. For such a shot, have you heard of Chekhov's gun?"

Ronald whistled, the meaning of Chekhov's gun, that is, if there is no plot echoing behind it, don't add this plot.

"I don't have the idea of ​​​​this foreshadowing, but since you also think there should be a foreshadowing here, let me think about how to make it up."

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