The Best Director

"Cut! It's over!" Looking at Michael Pitt and Natalie standing at the door of the house, Wang Yang clapped his hands with a smile, then gave them a thumbs up, and praised them: "Good performance!" Nancy reminded him softly: "It's lunch time." Wang Yang nodded, glanced at the surrounding Walley Pfister and more than a dozen filming staff, and shouted with a smile: "Everyone has worked hard, it's lunch time!"

Everyone on the lawn cheered and started to clean up the work at hand. With the assistance of the stylist, Natalie turned her big belly back into a waist; Michael Pitt drank the mineral water handed over by Joshua; -George was arranging the camera equipment while muttering: "I'm starving to death, I want to eat four hamburgers..." A flying look flashed across his fat, bearded face.

The time has come to mid-July, and it has been nearly a month since "Juno" was launched. The shooting progress is quite good. After shooting big scenes such as the exterior of the town, Juno's home, and the big house of wealthy adoptive parents; After a few small scenes such as the grocery store, abortion clinic, and Paulie's home, the only big scenes in the script are the school, and a few small scenes such as the hospital and the supermarket. The progress was faster than expected. If Wang Yang hadn't burned film for multiple effects and repeated shooting, I am afraid that "Juno" would have been completed.

Although the same group of shots has different "good-takes", different performance effects of actors, and different angles and techniques of photography, this does not mean that the cost of the film exceeds the budget, which is due to the low number of ng times. The performances of the main supporting roles, including Anne Hathaway, are very brilliant. This is because Wang Yang valued their "true performances" during the audition. He was surprised and expected that the two leading actors with the least ng times were Natalie and Michael Pitt. Natalie had been preparing for nearly a year, and Michael Pitt had also been preparing for so long. His thoughts on Paulie And shaping, maybe not as crazy as Natalie is to Juno, but he definitely experienced it, coupled with his significantly improved acting skills, all made him become Paulie in front of the camera. His excellent performance also stimulated Natalie's acting nerves. Under this "chemical effect", her Juno became more and more "divine", and even made Wang Yang want to retake some previous scenes.

For Michael's performance, Natalie, both normal and nasty, praised several times. For example, she asked Wang Yang strangely: "Where did you find him? This guy's acting is great!" Wang Yang shrugged and said: "On the streets of New York."

"What?" Wang Yang looked at Natalie and Hathaway in front of him suspiciously, and said, "It's not a vegetarian burger?" Natalie nodded expressionlessly, and said in a somewhat uncomfortable tone: "Yes, mine has a big burger. A piece of steak." Hathaway's big eyes were also a little depressed, and she frowned slightly: "Mine is a chicken burger." Wang Yang bit the burger in his hand and chewed, stood up from the chair, and said vaguely: "What's going on! But you two beauties, you should find the director of field affairs. I'm the director, not the hamburger producer."

Having said that, he still raised his voice and shouted to the crowd of people on the lawn in the distance: "Jill! Jill! Come here!" It has been a month,

Who in the crew doesn't know that Natalie and Hathaway are both resolute vegetarians, and who doesn't know that hamburgers and pizza are good, and they want two vegetarian portions. How could that go wrong, not a single hamburger lunch was vegetarian.

Hearing Wang Yang's roar, Jill Thaddeus, the field manager over there, walked over quickly, followed by Joshua who was watching the excitement. After learning about the situation, Jill Thaddeus looked at Natalie and Hathaway, who were unhappy, and Wang Yang, and said helplessly: "I don't know, the daily menu is fixed, it should be fast food The people in the restaurant misplaced it." Wang Yang also understood that it was not his responsibility, and said: "Then let the fast food restaurant send two vegetarian burgers again, they have to be responsible." Jill Thaddeus nodded, and then Left to get in touch.

"Can't we just make up for it?" Joshua, who was watching the excitement, put forward his opinion. He had a look of gloating, and said, "I mean, take away those steaks, chicken legs, etc., isn't it vegetarian? ?" Natalie didn't speak, she moved a folding stool silently and sat down; Hathaway shook her head with her mouth tightly shut, and said, "Then I'd rather go hungry."

"Joshua, go to the convenience store in front and buy some vegan biscuits first." Wang Yang said, then looked at the two girls and asked, "Is the biscuit okay?" Both of them said ok, Na Tali added: "It's vegan, no eggs, no milk, no honey."

Joshua took two steps back in a daze, and said in astonishment, "Why me?" Wang Yang stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder comfortingly, and said with a smile, "Who made you stand in front of me." Then, He nodded his eyes with the index finger and middle finger of his right hand, crossed Joshua and made a gesture of "I'm staring at you". Joshua gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, okay, I'm the field manager, I'll go buy it!" He took a deep breath, turned around and walked towards the convenience store, and sang while adjusting his mood. Song: "We are the champions, we are the champions—"

Wang Yang smiled, and the damned Lakers won the season championship again. He shouted: "Man, hurry up! Show your speed!" Seeing Joshua running not far away, he just Sit back in the chair and continue to eat the beef burger, and smiled at the two girls: "You will be able to eat it in fifteen minutes."

Seeing Wang Yang chewing beef on the opposite side, Natalie frowned, hesitated to speak, and after a while, she still said: "Yang, don't you think it's cruel to eat meat like this?" Hathaway It seemed that he had endured it for a long time, and said: "Very cruel!" Wang Yang was startled, stopped and looked at them. Natalie said again: "That piece of beef came from a cow. The cow was originally a living life. It had feelings, and it had its own family and friends, but when humans killed it, it became your mouth. beef."

"Uh, um... what should I say?" Wang Yang looked down at the hamburger in his hand. Natalie looked at him seriously, and persuaded: "When you start to be a vegetarian, you will find the beauty of this world, and you will feel a great peace in your heart..." She saw Wang Yang took another bite Hamburger, suddenly asked loudly: "Think about it, vegetarian food can provide us with sufficient nutrition and energy, why kill life? Just to satisfy our appetite?"

Wang Yang shrugged, chewed the hamburger in his mouth, and said: "I don't tend to be vegetarian, but I don't like to kill animals either. You know 'a gentleman stays away from the cook', so I didn't become a chef, I became a director." Hearing his words Hathaway looked puzzled, and Natalie asked incomprehensibly: "What does that mean? 'Gentlemen stay away from the kitchen'?" Wang Yang said in surprise: "Oh, I thought you learned all Chinese in half a year. Already." He smiled and explained to Hathaway, "This nerd understands Chinese."

"The superficial meaning of this sentence is 'a good person, don't kill all living things with your own hands'. In fact, it means that you must be kind." Wang Yang smiled, ate the last bite of the hamburger in his hand, and said: "Actually, I I don’t quite agree with this sentence, my grandfather and my father are very good people.”

At this time, Joshua came back panting with a few boxes of biscuits, handed the food to Natalie and Hathaway, propped his knees and said, "Vegan, all plant biscuits..." He He looked at Wang Yang and the two girls in a funny way, and said, "Guess what the convenience store owner said? 'Oh, my God, someone finally bought it, and they're almost expired!' Haha!"

Natalie lifted the biscuit package and glanced at it, and said lightly: "Not expired." While unpacking, she looked at Wang Yang and said, "If you don't kill yourself, then you can eat them? This is Is it kind? Is there any difference? To ease the guilt and guilt in my heart?" Hathaway also looked at Wang Yang, while Joshua was very puzzled and couldn't understand what they were saying for a while.

Is this topic not over yet? Wang Yang frowned and thought about it, why not a vegetarian? Looking at the serious Natalie, he became serious and said, "Do you know Taoism? Maybe you should read some Taoist books." Natalie gave an incredulous oh, and said, "You read books too? I It's very strange, how does a person who spends all night watching football games read books? "Playboy"?" Wang Yang rolled his eyes with a smile, and said, "The piles of books I've read are taller than yours. heavier than you."

This sentence seemed to imply that she was short, but Natalie was not angry. She laughed, snapped her fingers, and said in Juno's tone: "Wow! Now I know who the 'nerd' is." Seeing that Wang Yang was smiling and speechless, she laughed and said, "Fifteen hits in a row!" She took out a biscuit and ate it, then returned to the previous topic and said, "I know Taoism, but I don't know much about it. What do you want to say?"

"To put it simply, you should know that everything is animistic, which is also an idea of ​​Taoism." Wang Yang organized his speech and said: "Everything in the world has life, emotion and soul, so I won't talk about stones. I said plants, do you think trees, flowers, and grass are life? How do you know they have no soul? You are eating them." Natalie bit the biscuit in her mouth and said disdainfully: "Hey, what are you? Sophistry! This one is very naive!" Wang Yang said with a smile: "Wait a minute, what I want to say is not this, what I want to say is nature."

"First of all, I never thought that human beings are the masters of the earth. We are just a part of it, a part of nature. And there is a part of nature called eating." After a pause, Wang Yang looked at Natalie and continued: " Have you seen the animal world on the Discovery Channel, wolves eat sheep, lions eat bison, giraffes eat leaves... some humans eat meat, some humans eat vegetables, maybe this is the nature of this world, but! We should not be a conqueror Psychology, we eat it, it is the continuation and integration of life, we thank it. But what we eat is only their **, their souls are still free, they return to God, God, Jesus, the Creator... By their side, their souls will find peace."

"So the point is not to eat plants or animals, the most important thing is our attitude." Wang Yang closed his eyes and said, "Just like the piece of beef just now, I got it, and I also merged with that cow, let me Listen to its voice in the sky. Oh, it answered me 'Man, take good care of my meat, I am very happy in God's place.'" Natalie frowned and muttered: "That's what you imagined .”

Wang Yang spread his hands angrily. Of course he hoped that this was not imaginary, but like the ideal world Pandora in "Avatar", he could communicate with each other by touching his hair; unfortunately, he was in the The place is Earth. There are many Taoist ideas in "Avatar". This is because James Cameron read a lot of Taoist books when he was in college. Later, when he created Pandora Planet, Taoist ideas became one of his considerations. There are spirits, heaven and water, etc.

Thinking of "Avatar" and Taoism, Wang Yang finally said: "We kill and eat, this is not our choice, this is a natural choice. Let nature take its course, let yourself become a part of nature, and nature, the animals we eat Plants, everything in the world communicates and merges, this is the unity of man and nature.”

Natalie gnawed the biscuit silently, thought for a while, and suddenly said: "Interesting, is man and nature combined? But I have a question." She didn't mean to argue, and asked seriously: "We and other Animals are so different, we learn, we think, we get rid of the animal nature, do you think this is natural?" Wang Yang frowned, and said: "I think human beings are so unique, it is a natural arrangement... "

Joshua, who was sitting on the stool beside him, felt very bored and wanted to leave, but he wanted to "stare" at Wang Yang, so he had to hold his chin and try to listen to what the two said; Hathaway also interrupted Listen in silence. But they are used to it, this is not the first time, those two people often have a long talk about a certain topic, and this time it is about vegetarianism, but now it seems to be talking about nature? This is also the characteristic of those two people chatting. Later, we may talk about the universe, and there will be "several combos" from time to time.

"Hey, what are you talking about?" Michael Pete came over with a bottle of mineral water. Joshua glanced at him, and said listlessly: "I'm on the Juno talk show. The topic of this episode seems to be 'should I eat a meat burger or a vegetarian burger', but like everything before, it sucks." Wang Yang, Na Tali had already greeted him, and the two were about to introduce the topic they were talking about, but Michael Pitt said first: "Oh, you guys continue." After speaking, he turned around and left in a hurry.

After a day of filming, the crew also returned to the hotel to rest.

Looking at the entertainment news on the computer screen, Wang Yang couldn't help shaking his head, and cursed softly: "What the hell!" Now the paparazzi are getting more and more powerful, and he didn't even realize that someone took a picture of him.

I saw this piece of news titled "Yan and Natalie Walking the Streets Closely", with several frontal photos of the two of them walking on the streets of the town, talking and laughing. But Wang Yang knew that not far to their left was the entire crew, and they just walked there together, not at all the "date shopping" as reported; and the so-called "intimacy", he and Natalie are not enemies, no It needs to face each other coldly, and this is a movie, the director and the actors must communicate, can it be said that he is Kei by taking a few photos of him joking with Michael Pitt?

In particular, he and Natalie want to discuss the creation of Juno's lines, and if it is funny and novel, it can become a trend, and Juno has a character trait that is sharp-tongued. They have already agreed that they allow each other to joke and run without limit. This can lead to more inspiration. So they sometimes satirized each other, as if they were arguing, and Michael Pitt persuaded them to "fight" at first.

Holding the mouse and clicking to close this boring news, Wang Yang continued to browse other current events in the film industry, ""Frozen Planet" failed at the box office and will be completely offline soon." This Fox Corporation invested 75 million and took three years to produce an animated feature film. It only received 22 million box office in North America for one month. Currently, there are only 283 theaters left. Fox Corporation expressed that it was "very disappointed."

Seeing this news, Wang Yang naturally thought of Blue Sky Studios and "Ice Age". The production progress of this animation is going well and meets expectations. It will definitely be released before his daughter is born. He suddenly missed Jessica very much in his heart. He smiled, took out his mobile phone and pressed her number. He hasn't called her yet today. Fortunately, in a few days, the promotional activities of "High School Musical 2" came to Toronto, Canada.

(to be continued)