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“The filming of "Transcendence" has finally entered the right track. Strictly speaking, it cannot be regarded as the right track. It can only be said that it has officially entered the shooting stage, because Tony's working style can be said to be erratic, and they never know what is "on the right track."”.
Sometimes, Tony is very strict and puts forward strict requirements for light, angles, shots and lines - especially lines. He does not like any form of free creation and must strictly follow the lines of the script, even if the words are the same. It is also not allowed to substitute justice. For every scene, we must be picky and strive for excellence..
But sometimes, he is very casual. In the middle of shooting, he will suddenly stop, then overturn the entire shooting plan and start over. He also has no requirements for the actor's performance style and method, and he will even give the actor enough space. Let them perform interpretations in different ways and then choose the most suitable one.
Everyone on the crew is trying to adapt to Tony's working style, and everyone is stumbling along, which results in the shooting speed never being able to increase..
This kind of shooting experience is completely new to Renly. He has never encountered such a type of director. Of course, his own shooting experience is very limited; but it is also exciting because Tony is constantly challenging his bottom line. , his abilities and his understanding.
On the first day of filming the first scene, Renly ended up filming it five times, not because of mistakes, but because his emotions were always fine-tuning during the performance, always looking for the most suitable rhythm and pattern, hoping to be able to To achieve the effect Tony desired. It is unimaginable that a single cut-scene was filmed four times, and it was still a scene without any lines, any conflicts, or any explosive points..
This method of shooting can simply be called: burning film.
But obviously, Tony doesn't care about wasting film at all. What he demands is perfection, constant communication, and self-examination over and over again. This is not to pursue perfection or to find the right, but just to find. most suitable.
For the producers, this may be a disaster; but for Renly, it is good news. For such a simple first scene, Renly is constantly reworking, polishing his skills bit by bit. Performance details, pushing your performance limits bit by bit.
As a director, Tony set up the stage, and then gave Renly unlimited freedom to let him play freely. He also continued to ponder, put forward different requirements, and made different attempts, truly giving Renly an experience. The pleasure of performing fancy tricks shows all the eighteen martial arts and thirty-six changes that I have learned and seen..
This graduation exam has truly become a stage for Renly to show off his talents..
However, this shooting method puts the crew in an unstable state. Sometimes the shooting progress is smooth and smooth, and seven to eight sets of scenes can be shot in a day. Sometimes, it stumbles and is blocked at every turn, and it may take three days to complete one set. role.
When the intention to cooperate was first confirmed, Tony said that the shooting cycle of this work should be about one month. But now it seems that it is obviously an unreliable joke. It is not that the shooting cycle will be longer or shorter. The problem is that Tony himself doesn’t know when the filming will be completed. With this fast and slow shooting rhythm, no one can say whether all filming can be completed within a month..
In the past few days, the crew has been at loggerheads. A bus scene was filmed for three days, but there was still no progress. The work of the entire crew came to a standstill, and everyone on the crew was in a bad temper. The entire crew is like an unstable powder keg, and even they themselves don’t know when it will explode..
The filming difficulty of this scene was originally "high". It can almost be said to be the most difficult scene since the crew started filming. The content is the first encounter between Henry and Erica..
That night, Henry fell into a state of insomnia and could not fall asleep, so he left the house and wandered outside for a while. When he returned home again, he received a call from the hospital. His patient, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, Grandpa once again found himself in the bathroom and refused to come out. The hospital nurse was helpless, so he called Henry and asked him to go to the hospital for treatment..
This isn't the first time it's happened.
Henry's mother committed suicide by taking pills in the bathroom at home. Henry, who was only seven years old, was the first to discover her mother's body. Later, Henry's grandfather also witnessed his daughter's death. After that, his grandfather took the blame on himself. He always believed that his daughter's death was his fault. After suffering from Alzheimer's disease, he still couldn't forget it. He would often lock himself in the bathroom and call his daughter's name, trying to save everything before her daughter committed suicide..
This situation was extremely difficult, and my grandfather would not listen to anyone else at all. Even Henry had to be patient, patient, and spend a lot of effort to persuade his grandfather to come out bit by bit..
It is precisely because of this that Henry asked the hospital to remove the lock on the bathroom door to avoid such a situation. But obviously, the hospital's nursing staff did not care at all and never implemented it; and every time a situation occurred, they were irresponsible and directly Call Henry over to deal with it. Tonight, it's the same again.
Henry struggled a lot and finally coaxed his grandfather out and put him to bed. Then, when Henry saw the sleepy and idle caregiver, his anger finally broke out and he vented all his emotions to the caregiver. And he threatened the other party severely before turning around and leaving..
In fact, Henry was not hard-hearted. He noticed the embarrassment and embarrassment of the caregiver. He also noticed the vulnerability and timidity of the caregiver, like a stray dog trembling in the rain, under the pressure of life. , she had no power to fight back. Even without any unnecessary attacks, she was already scarred and exhausted. However, he still poured out his anger relentlessly, always seeing the fear in the other person's eyes. Tears, just give up and walk away.
It was a bumpy night, tortured by insomnia, which put his physical strength and energy to a huge test; his grandfather's bad condition made him even more worried, the gloomy and decaying atmosphere that was infinitely close to death, It was overflowing bit by bit; and the grandfather's obsession with his mother in his confusion once again awakened the nightmare deep in his mind, the nightmare of his mother lying naked and dead in the bathroom..
That day was like drowning. The pain and torture of struggling to float up and down in the water was deeply entangled in the corners of the soul. It has never been truly healed. The long-term torture has left the soul broken. , almost unsustainable, every day seems to be lingering. Living, but never really living..
On the bus home, Henry collapsed, bursting into tears, unable to control himself, and all the sadness, bitterness and pain burst out. It was under such circumstances that he met Erica.
In this scene, Henry saw Erica who was serving a drunken drunkard in the back seat of the bus. After the service was completed, the drunkard was too dazed to respond. Erica loudly demanded her reward. As a result, What she got was a hard slap in the face. Erica stood up wisely, turned around and saw Henry with tears on his face. His sad eyes were filled with pity and sympathy. So Erica Having found a new prey, she decided to follow Henry and then wait for an opportunity to earn her first reward tonight..
The scene itself is quite heavy, lasting about two minutes; moreover, this is not only Erica's first appearance, but also Henry's first collapse..
According to Renly's conception, Henry's emotions are revealed layer by layer, face by face. Especially when facing the three female characters, the sense of layering and depth presents the entire character in a three-dimensional way. Therefore, this scene is even more important. It can be regarded as the first scene where the acting skills exploded since the filming of "Transcendence" began..
Not only that, Tony's requirements for this scene are also different. He is looking for a more suitable and mature lens to show the relationship between Erica and Henry. His thinking is not very clear and is always wavering. indefinite.
For a while, he hoped to take a panoramic shot inside the bus to capture the relationship between the two characters Henry and Erica from an all-round perspective; for a while, he hoped to capture the details of the two actors' expressions with close-ups, but The scene of Erica performing services was really too big, and Sami was still a minor, so some scenes couldn't be filmed directly. After a while, he ran outside the bus again, trying to record the emotions during the performance from an indirect perspective..
For two full days, it was actually Tony who was doing the work. The actors didn't have time to perform at all. Tony himself rejected the half-finished product and then started over. As a result, the entire crew couldn't calm down and move forward, and they didn't have time to achieve anything. progress, it will return to the same place, back to "zero point"”.
More importantly, the bus scene took place at night, and Tony insisted on real-time, on-site filming, so the crew had to work with day and night reversed. The busy work in the middle of the night was already exhausting, but the result was... Nothing is working, which is really frustrating. The whole crew is not in a good state..
After entering the third day, Tony finally found some form, and the filming was able to continue intermittently. However, there was a major problem with Renly's performance status, and he was unable to meet Tony's performance requirements, or Tony was not satisfied with Renly's performance. The performance rhythm and state of the ceremony are always unsatisfactory.
Card, card, card！
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