Chatty Hollywood

The crew of "Happy Death Day" is not a very serious crew.

Because many people have worked together in "Fatal Turn", everyone is familiar with each other, and the atmosphere on the set is much more relaxed.

However, none of this has anything to do with Tobey Maguire.

As a newcomer, especially a newcomer who plays the leading role for the first time, it is almost impossible not to be nervous.

Especially when the script in the hands of this newcomer is still incomplete.

That's right, Toby has never seen the complete script of "Happy Death Day" until now.

All he knows now is that he needs to play a nerd.

——Well, according to the description in the script, it should be a "cute nerd".

This is not difficult for Toby. In fact, even the director himself said that his temperament perfectly meets this requirement. To a certain extent, he just has to be himself.

However, the subsequent requirements are a bit strange.

According to the description of the script, his character Carter met a drunk and beautiful girl Cui at a college dance, and then took her back to the dormitory.

If it were an ordinary story, there would definitely be a sexy scene at the end.

Unfortunately, the character he plays is a nerd.

He just asked the girl to sleep on his bed in a gentlemanly manner, and then folded the jeans she took off for her.

Well, seeing this, Toby himself didn’t know what to say.

This is certainly what a good person should do.

But for college girls who are still in the stage of liking bad boys and often pay more attention to "physical sensation", such behavior can only get a sentence of "you are a good person".

——This can be said to be Toby’s personal experience.

However, these are not the parts of the script that confuse Toby.

What is really troublesome is the request for a series of scenes after the heroine Cui wakes up——

"What does "according to the other party's tone and reaction, combined with the basic lines, perform corresponding performances"!?"

——Director, are you kidding me? ! ?

Although there seemed to be nothing wrong with the script, just this sentence made Toby aware of the deep malice, and he always felt that there was something behind it.

Especially since the script in his hand only ends here.

"Why don't you send me the complete script!?"

Toby wanted to grab the director's collar and scream like this.

Unfortunately, he didn't dare.

The cold light in the other person's dark eyes always made him feel like a little spider that had been swatted by a fly swatter. Rather than running away or resisting, pretending to be dead was his best choice.

——Does the director not like himself?

Indeed, during the audition, the director did not show up at all, and the judges were entirely made by the producer Mr. Westwood and the assistant director Mr. Arsenal.

At that time, facing the beautiful blond girl Charlize Theron - the heroine - Toby was a little dizzy, which made him feel that his performance was not good, but for some reason, the producer and assistant director But they are all satisfied.

"Is this the feeling they want?"

Toby didn't quite understand.

But anyway, he got the role.

At that time, he was very happy. But now it seems that he was happy too early.

"Could it be that the director and the producer have different opinions and I am not the leading actor that the director wants?"

Toby couldn't help but think about it, because the director didn't show up at all during his audition!

But even so, it doesn't help Toby's current situation.

After all, it is the director who is in charge of him now, and it is also the director who chooses whether to let him NG or continue filming. As a fresh little fish, Toby cannot get involved in the struggle between the bosses of the crew.

"However, even so,

This shooting is so weird! ? "

What made Toby feel this way was the scene that allowed him to "act on his own"——

According to the script, the heroine Cui should wake up in his dormitory and ask him what happened last night with a confused look on her face. Then he left in a hurry without waiting for him to explain clearly.

——This is how it should be.

But Miss Theron, who plays the heroine, has a completely different performance every time because she is too independent or something.

After a while, I came up and asked him his name, and then asked him for medicine to treat his hangover headache;

After a while, she woke up and directly called his name, as if they had known each other for a long time.

We went back and forth more than a dozen times, each time different, but the director rarely shouted "CUT", so Toby could only repeat it over and over again with this strange girl with a confused look on his face.

——Hey, director, isn’t this right? ?

She is no longer improvising based on the plot, but has completely changed the plot! ?

You still don’t care! ! ?

Toby deeply doubted whether he had picked up the wrong script.

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Charlotte looked at Tobey Maguire's performance in the camera and tried not to laugh out loud.

Of course he didn't mean to play tricks on the future Spider-Man, just like he didn't mean to miss Toby's audition——

That day, he was on his way to the FBI evidence library in the Los Angeles area to "research information," so naturally he had to miss the audition.

Of course, both Lao Qiang and Mr. Producer were a little confused about this, but after he explained that "he actually liked Toby very much, so in order to ensure the fairness of the audition, it was best to avoid it," the two of them accepted it.

So, while Toby was auditioning, Charlotte was actually trying to get hold of John Hinckley's gun...

And when it came time for the official filming, he didn't send Toby the full version of the script entirely because of the needs of the filming.

In fact, among all the actors, except for the heroine Charlize, few had a complete script.

This is because "Happy Death Day" is an infinite loop story in which the heroine repeats her experience on the day of her death over and over again.

In this mode, except for the heroine who retains her memory, everyone else is actually performing the same content over and over again, but there are some subtle differences because of the different reactions of the heroine.

This kind of performance can be said to be complex, but it can be said to be simple, but it is simple -

It's complicated because if other people's acting skills are not good enough, their expressions and movements won't be able to show subtle differences every time. If it is too exaggerated, it will make people watching feel that it is too much.

This degree is difficult to determine.

To put it simply, it is because the actors perform in the same scene repeatedly. Even if their acting skills are average, the more times they can repeat, they can always get some good shots.

So, Charlotte simply took a trick here - he divided the scripts of all the actors except Charlize into two parts.

Part of it is that you don’t need to know the overall context of the movie, as long as you can naturally fine-tune the content according to the heroine’s performance.

In this part, it is a good thing that the actors are a little confused. The confused expression of "your special code is kidding me" is more in line with the needs of the movie to a certain extent.

The other part is the part that really requires the cooperation of other actors. This part is usually relatively late, so Charlotte simply didn’t post it for the time being.

——After all, admiring the bewildered expressions of actors is sometimes a kind of fun, isn’t it?

Moreover, this script is definitely suitable for scene-based shooting. Charlotte was also ready to take the opportunity to give it a try.

In "Fatal Turn", he filmed the plot completely according to the script. This kind of shooting method is no problem in movies with smaller stories.

But once blockbusters also use this model, it means that time and cost will increase massively.

the reason is simple--

If all the shots of the same scene are shot in the same time period, rather than shot separately according to the storyline, the time and cost of repeated set-ups can be saved.

What's more, the use of many shooting locations still requires paying high rents, which is also a considerable expense.

In fact, except for some stream-of-consciousness directors and novices, most movies are shot in scenes rather than in the order of the story.

Of course, this shooting method also has corresponding difficulties.

Because there is no normal plot flow, the emotional brewing of the actors is more difficult than filming according to the plot.

After all, the last scene may have been eating, and the next scene involves a performance of life and death. It is definitely not easy to brew up feelings.

For the same reason, it will be more difficult for the director to grasp the overall rhythm of the plot.

However, this is the mainstream shooting mode after all, not to mention that the script of "Happy Death Day" is also very suitable, so Charlotte is also preparing to improve herself this time.