The Best Director

"Jessie, Jessica, come here!"

In the central business district of Manhattan, New York, the McGraw-Hill Building is the main shooting location of "The Devil Wears Prada", and it is also the publisher "Elias Clark" of the book version of "Runy" magazine. The prototype of reality is It's Condé Nast Publishing and vgue. In the building at this time, the crew is preparing to start a new day of filming, and it has been a few days since the start of the film.

In the bright and elegant office, everyone in the film crew is busy with their own work, and the assistant director is also giving lectures to several extras, and Wang Yang is naturally in charge of the protagonists. There is no Meryl Streep in the next shot, but there is a lot in this scene, and now she is sitting on a chair outside the camera, looking at the script and thinking about today's shooting.

She has been like this on the set since the start, everyone is resting, she is reading the script; Why can it get 13 Oscar nominations. Her acting talent, comprehension ability, and hard work are all genius-level.

Although Wang Yang said to the female king, "I give you this role", as a director, he will naturally get and participate in the discussion of Meryl Streep's role questions and shooting suggestions. It was decided not to refer to the character impression of the prototype Anna Wintour, but to shape Miranda into a new image, so the golden hair became silver, and the British accent was not used, etc...

For the greatest female actress in history, Wang Yang is very worry-free, basically there is no need to talk about the drama, because there is nothing to talk about, Meryl controls the character's mentality, and controls her every word and deed. What he has to do is to give her enough time to play from the script to the shot, and to capture her wonderful performance well.

"Jessie." Wang Yang shouted, beckoning to Jessica who was standing on the hanger full of various clothes, and shouted, "Jessica, come here."

The women in front of the hanger include Patricia Field, Emily Blunt who plays Emily Charlton, and several secretaries. They are laughing and talking about something; they are looking at the white dress Jessica in the wedding dress couldn't hear the sound, and all she saw was wearing a wedding dress and holding a bouquet of flowers... "Jessica!!" She suddenly uttered an oh, and hurriedly walked over to Wang Yang, laughing. Said: "Director, what's wrong?"

After Patricia's design, she was wearing a knee-length black cloth flower skirt, and a very rustic blue dress, with a slightly curly long brown shawl falling down, no obvious makeup on her face, lipstick and blush No red eye shadow, etc., only some foundation and eyebrow shaping. She doesn't seem to be a fashionable beauty, but she is still full of beauty, a simple beauty with a high rate of return.

"I'll tell you about a play." Wang Yang smiled. In fact, her appearance is really special. He thought about the script for a while, then looked around at the busy people around him,

Said: "You know Andrea just came for an interview, and suddenly this group of people said 'Miranda is back', and then ran around in a panic. Here, today and the next period of time, Andrea will It looks silly and rustic, and it's an outlier in the office..."

Seeing his serious face, familiar but long-lost voice, those hand movements, eyes... Jessica felt very happy. Although the filming had started for a few days, her excitement had not dissipated, and finally they were filming together again ! Moreover, there was no ng when it was turned on for a few days, only a sound of "gd!" and laughter, and she didn't have any unpleasant things in her dreams recently.

"Jessie?" Seeing the ecstatic smile on her face, Wang Yang patted her forehead and said with an annoyed smile, "Are you listening?" Jessica wiped her forehead painfully, embarrassed Said: "Yes, I heard that she is a different kind..." Wang Yang laughed helplessly, and then started from there: "Others think she is a poor girl who will be killed by Milan in a few days." Da kicked it off..."

Jessica’s performance these days is very good. Apart from the fact that there are some street scenes, lobby corridor scenes, etc. that do not collide with lines, she is also very suitable for playing Andrea’s temperament in the first stage of the first stage, which is slightly lively and silly. girl. This is also due to what Wang Yang reminded her a few years ago, don't be exaggerated, reduce body language and large expressions, and use more micro-expressions and eyes.

Otherwise, with her explosive beauty index, the exaggerated literary drama will make the audience feel that she is drifting away. Unless she has a poker face with no expression on her face, and then uses the atmosphere of the plot, the color of the screen, and the editing of the camera to set off her performance, it will be much better.

"But Andrea is confident. She thinks she is excellent, and in fact she is." Wang Yang spread his hands as he spoke, looking at the fashionable layout around him, and said, "It's just that this is a new world. She looks stupid in front of this group of people, but she's not really stupid, she's just an ordinary girl with a beautiful heart."

Jessica nodded silently. Ever since she confirmed the role in the study that day, she has been studying and said that she had a script and studied the script, and she had a lot of understanding of her own. When Wang Yang paused, she said, "Yang, that's what I thought. When Andrea started the interview, she also thought they were idiots. Why were they panicking? Andrea was very confused and felt weird. She thought how powerful the people here are, who knows why?"

"That's right!" Wang Yang nodded with a smile, patted her on the shoulder, looked into her eyes, and praised without hesitation: "Yes, that's it! You said what I wanted to say, try to put It's a show! You can go away and continue to look at the beautiful clothes." He said with a smile, ignoring Jessica who was very happy and satisfied, and waved: "Emily, come here!"

Among the audition personnel for the role of Emily was Emily Blunt. After watching her performance, Wang Yang made the same choice as the future version, although she had only acted in stage plays in British theaters before. , who has not appeared on the big screen yet, is a completely fledgling rookie, but her acting talent is very high, and she is the kind of person who will become famous sooner or later.

For this character of the same name, she has a special feeling. The aura of controlling the screen is not possessed by many famous female actors. In fact, among the female actors in the future version of "The Devil Wears Prada", her performance level Only under Meryl Streep. Of course, Emily is a supporting role, the character's mentality is very stable, basically there is no level change, and it is relatively easier to control.

"Here we come!" Emily Blunt heard the director's shout, and hurriedly turned and walked away.

...

"u, good performance!"..."Lunch time! Let's continue in the afternoon!"..."u! Dinner time, call it a day! Everyone worked hard today!"

Time passed day by day, and in a blink of an eye, "The Devil Wears Prada" has been on for more than ten days, and the shooting work is going on every day, except for weekends and days when night scenes are not shot. Wang Yang and Jessica were playing in New York, went to Broadway to watch a stage play, and drove to the izd center in New Jersey to watch the NB playoffs, the New Jersey Nets v Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference semifinals.

This year's nb rookie champion Yao Ming averaged 13 points and 8 rebounds in his debut season, but the Rockets did not enter the playoffs by one win; Wang Yang's beloved Warriors also only ranked 11th in the West; The Lakers, who have the four kings, are fighting fiercely with the Spurs, and the current score is 2:2.

In order to facilitate the production, the soundtrack work of "-21-em" was moved to the soundtrack room in New York. Wang Yang sometimes went to see the results at night, and then gave his opinions to Christopher Baker; The headquarters looked at the preparations for "Kung Fu Panda", and the days were very busy and fulfilling.

"Next, you have to change your appearance and temperament." Seeing the red light on the street ahead, Wang Yang on the driver's seat slowed down and the black car came to a stop. He turned his head to look at the Looking at Jessica, who was wearing big earrings and a fashionable gray coat next to her, she smiled and said, "You want to become a super fashionable and deadly beauty, like you are now." Jessica nodded, and Wang Yang advised again Said: "But don't pay attention to fashion, even I have become a fashion leader, you know it's not interesting."

"How could I?" Jessica suddenly smiled, raised her right hand in a spinning pose, and said with a smile: "I'm a Texas cowboy! My favorite is always jeans and a shirt." She glanced down. The scarf around the neck, pouted and shrugged: "But sometimes these napkins have to be tied, I don't know why, it's more beautiful!"

"I know why, women love beauty, like wearing these patterns, handbags and so on, in fact, it is a kind of female characteristics of animals, they want to get other people's attention and admiring eyes, just like peacocks blooming Screen, everyone has beautiful clothes, what should I do? The role of the brand is exalted, 'Look! I'm wearing it! Oh! It's still a limited edition!''You can't see it? Of course! I'm wearing a Prada dress.' "Then you know why it's not "The Devil in Wear?" Then the more accessories and the better the matching, the more attention it can attract..."

Amidst Jessica's uncontrollable laughter, Wang Yang said a few words with a casual smile. Seeing that the red light in front was off, he stepped on the gas pedal and started the car.

"Really?" Jessica stopped laughing, thinking about what he said, which seemed to make sense, but isn't it wrong to want to be praised? Like someone you like. She looked at his side face, suddenly remembered something, and asked: "Isn't it the male peacock that opens its tail?"

"...Yes, that's why men also dress up to be beautiful. It's scary."

After the weekend, the crew of "The Devil Wears Prada" continued to shoot. Jessica swept away the rusticity and began to wear all kinds of fashionable clothes, changing her beautiful and charming looks. But the number of "ng"s on the set suddenly increased. The filming list was not in the order of the script, but divided by scene. Andrea continued to learn and grow, and gradually understood the rules of the fashion industry and the office.

She knows how to satisfy Miranda, and how to deal with Emily, who is an "enemy and friend", unconsciously becoming more and more like Miranda.

This is a level change of Andrea, shedding her childishness and becoming a demon. But Jessica also began to struggle a little bit. Although her performance was not so exaggerated, it was still too lively and joyful, without the feeling of subtly becoming evil. Naturally, this cannot make Wang Yang shout "gd" into the microphone. His current requirements are very, very strict.

After the play had no effect, Wang Yang suggested that she try to change into a poker face, but the result was too abrupt, and the second stage should not be a poker face; so he went "outside the set" to find a way to redesign I took a few close-up shots to let her continue her childish and lively appearance, but when it came to those few key shots, she showed her changed appearance, deep, tired, and dazed...

A few close-ups are naturally much easier than a scene-by-scene. This problem has been solved with camera techniques, and it has made Andrea's changes more natural.

It's just that the biggest problem is still to come. After the betrayal, Andrea in the third stage is very confused and painful. Her impatience and anger are displayed on her face from time to time, showing almost uncontrollably; There is inner pain, self-doubt and reflection... These painful struggles are arranged with inner monologue shots. Jessica can't act well, even the anger.

Painful and struggling, she acted numbly, while anger was still playful and lively, and the drastic expression changes made her hover on the verge of wandering off the scene. The third stage of the performance can be said to have been messed up.

Although there is Meryl Streep on the set with 13 Oscar nominations, she can't help. Acting is not simply taught to copy, otherwise Meryl's daughter Mamie Gummer doesn't have to play tricks up. Acting can be said to be a very personal thing. As a professional actor who graduated from an acting school and has been in the film industry for many years, he basically knows the theoretical and practical skills and experience, but knowing it does not mean that he can do it, so acting is very personal. , temper.

Talent can make Natalie explode in her teens or twenties, and it can make someone like Emily Blunt, who is debuting on the big screen, have an aura; perception and tempering can make some people accumulate to a middle-aged explosion. , the older you get, the better you can act.

"u! Jessica, put in some emotion...", "u! It's still not enough!", "Jessie...", "I won't shoot this shot, the next one!", "Everyone, let's take a break!" ...

"What on earth do you want!?" Only Wang Yang and Jessica were left in the elegant office. He drove out the camera crew, Emily and everyone else, and couldn't help but take a deep breath after closing the door. He took a deep breath, scratched his head, frowned and looked at Jessica standing in front of the glass desk, and said bitterly: "Please, why are you like that... like a piece of wood! You can't say no Understood! Emotions! Andrea needs emotions!"

Jessica looked at his frenzied appearance, she lowered her head slightly and didn't dare to look into his eyes, her brows were tightly frowned, her face was full of remorse and self-blame, her heart was hurting, she had tried her best to act, But, how could it get worse and worse...

"Don't seem so innocent! You're not!" Wang Yang yelled again, but then realized that the meaning of this sentence would be misunderstood, and hurried over to Jiang Ye: "No, no, I mean Andrea don't act Very innocent! I'm sorry!" Seeing Jessica's flushed eyes, his anger suddenly vented, and he cursed himself: "Can fire solve the problem? She's not Downey, and the fire will only get worse. Oops……"

Wang Yang sighed in his heart, maybe he was too strict with her! He still has the same problem. He scolded her in "Young Song and Dance Net" because he didn't have enough emotional investment. Now it's easy for her to play "Youth Song and Dance net". Stuck with the same problem! There is no way to solve this with lens techniques, because the lens itself needs these.

"Yan, I'm sorry..." Jessica blinked her eyes, grinned, and said, "I understand how you feel, I understand."

Looking at her slightly red eyes, Wang Yang hugged her and kissed her forehead, and said playfully again: "Jessica, Andrea is not innocent, she has violated her principles, her heart It has become bad, but not 100% changed, that is the reason for her suffering and troubles! Maybe everyone has a demon in their hearts, it will be pulled out, and it will be eliminated, it depends on how you look at it For yourself, look at it."

"Hmm..." Jessica nodded, feeling very comfortable leaning on his shoulder, but her sense of annoyance was getting bigger and bigger, she must act well——! ! !

"Bring some emotions into it, aren't you very troubled now? Bring it in!" Wang Yang smiled and gave her an encouraging look. He knew it was difficult to do, and he had tried standing in front of the camera lens , but good actors have to overcome these difficulties. He continued: "The scene is a semi-revealed emotion, you know repressed, she doesn't want people to know she's angry, but it shows."

Jessica carefully feels the martial arts, the holy king makes the holy king, kills the gods at night, kills the gods, seals the throne, seeks the magic, proud of the world, the strongest abandoned boy of the ninth heaven Zhou royal family's martial arts move the heaven and earth will kill the gods and seal the throne in the night, seek the devil, proud of the world, the strongest abandoned young man, the Zhou royal family's god-making general, kill the gods and seal the throne in the night, seek the demon, proud of the world, the strongest abandoned young man, suppressing anger ... She said "I'll try", and then performed to him.

"Your eyes are not sharp enough, you can be very sharp, you are scary when you are angry!" Wang Yang clapped his hands, and encouraged him: "I know you can do it, think about the things that make you angry , how about the paparazzi? I just need that momentary look from you and be like, 'I'm going to kill her!' That's Miranda, that's you! You're about to take it, you're about to crack!"

"You're wondering what kind of shit life this is, betrayal, what the hell is it for