The Best Director

As night fell, the streets were brightly lit. On the balcony of the hotel room, Wang Yang sat on the wicker chair with a slight frown, twisting the little Rubik's Cube, but his mind was obviously not here, he was just mechanically twisting verb: move. It has been almost a month since the crew of "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" started. During this month, the crew shuttled between San Francisco and Oakland, advancing the location shooting and part of the transportation scene every day. , the movie's overall

The shooting process is also nearly half completed. Although they are all film movies, compared with "High School Musical", the difficulty of shooting this movie is much, much higher, no matter which aspect it is. On the scene, "High School Musical" is in several places such as school and home. There are no street scenes, no city chase scenes, and no transportation such as buses, taxis, subways, etc., while "When Happiness Comes Knocking" Both. These plays bring

The difficulty is first reflected in the shooting conditions. The crew has to close the road, shoot on the subway, and change the blue seats on the car to brown... All of this requires communication, with street merchants, and the subway company, etc. Wait. When shooting, these shots were a brand new experience for Wang Yang. Sitting in the camera car, following the driving taxi, the camera shot Will Smith twisting the Rubik's Cube inside the car. In order for Will to master the Rubik's Cube skills, the crew Also specially invited the devil

Master Fang taught him; but in terms of acting, it went smoothly. Will Smith and Terry Smith are a real father-son relationship. The warmth between them will be revealed naturally in front of the camera without acting. Terry Smith performed in his true colors, often "acting" better than his father Will Smith.

In order to make the two fathers and sons act more emotionally, Wang Yang first finished all the shots of Chris' wife "Linda", and then Jada Pinkett took Jaden Smith back to Los Angeles first. Created Will and Terry's "abandoned" vibe. But today, after filming the scene of Chris and his son in the subway station toilet, Wang Yang was not satisfied after filming many times. He always felt that something was missing. Will Smith's expression and demeanor seemed to be in place, but Wang Yang felt that Will's input was not enough, and he could perform better.

Putting down the Rubik's Cube, Wang Yang took out his mobile phone and dialed a number. Looking at the looming moon in the sky, as soon as he got connected there, he smiled and said: "Hello, Mr. Zemeckis, I'm Wang Yang." qu; Immediately, Robert Zemeckis' hearty laughter came from the phone: "Haha, Yang! What is the problem this time? Do you want to chat?" Wang Yang smiled softly and said: "In fact , there is indeed a problem."

Ever since he met the most hated director and his idol at that charity dinner, Wang Yang couldn't figure out anything about movies and directors, and he often communicated with Robert Zemeckis. Robert was very enthusiastic even without eating, pointing him unreservedly like a teacher. Recently, because of the filming, Wang Yang has asked Zemeckis many times for advice. He seems to be a free remote producer, and Wang Yang has learned a lot.

"That's it, I want to ask, how can we make the actors more emotionally involved?" Wang Yang asked the question in his heart, and explained: "I shot a set of shots today,

When Chris came to the worst time in his life, he had no money to pay the rent, and he and his son had to spend the night in the toilet of the subway...I always felt that Will’s performance was a little bit lacking, maybe because of the devotion, I explained a lot, But it didn't work. "

Robert Zemeckis over there thought for a while, and said, "Young man, the little thing you think is missing may have nothing to do with performance. You know, there are not only actors in a shot, sometimes a prop plays the role of acting." It’s much better than hard acting.” Wang Yang listened carefully, and replied, “Well, it’s like the feathers in Forrest Gump.” Robert Zemeckis laughed , and said: "Zoom up to the whole movie, the performance is only a part of it, the editing of the lens, the soundtrack, these all make the performance valuable, we are not in the era of silent movies now, try watching a movie with the sound off, you I will not feel the martial arts. The holy king of the universe made the holy king. The king will kill the gods and seal the throne at night and seek the magic. Qiankun will kill the gods and seal the throne at night, seek the demons, the world's strongest abandoned young man, the great Zhou royal family, the god-making general, kill the gods at night, seek the demons, and the world's strongest abandoned young man, the Zhou royal family has reached so many."

"Also, the actor's performance is often in our hands. We communicate with the photographer and the editor. For the front close-up shot, he takes the Oscar; for the side close-up shot, he takes the golden raspberry." Robert -Zemeckis joked and continued: "Why does a movie let the director decide? Because we control everything about the movie. I don't mean to say that acting is not important, we all know the importance of acting; but don't think about it. It’s impossible to have the best cinematic look on set. Take something that you feel is missing, off set.”

Wang Yang nodded silently. He seemed to be relying too much on individual performances. He forgot that performances complement each other. The same is true for biopics. Movies don't end with actors acting. The design of the screen, the language of the lens, and the editing in the later stage are all the "performance" of the director, and the director controls all of the film.

"Of course, we can pursue as good a performance as we can. This is our director's responsibility."

Robert Zemeckis smiled, and then answered Wang Yang's first question: "You asked how to make the actors more involved. Since no matter how you explain it, you still feel that Will is not involved enough, you can use common sense to let him Don't think about Chris, just think about your own things, things worth being sad, as long as the effect we need is enough. Oh, have you tried this before?" Wang Yang nodded and said: "Well, we tried gone."

Robert Zemeckis over there was quiet for a few seconds, and had a new idea, and said: "Play-music!" Wang Yang was stunned: "Play music?" Robert explained with a smile: "Yes, you Take a tape recorder or something and put it on the scene, play the appropriate music, and let the music drive Will's emotions."

play music? Wang Yang couldn't help but his eyes lit up, music can definitely boost emotions, "Black Sunday" can even make people commit suicide, this method sounds really good! He smiled and said, "Okay, I'll try it tomorrow, thank you, Mr. Zemeckis."

At this time, the mobile phone on the rattan chair rang. Wang Yang picked it up and saw that the caller ID was from Jessica. While connecting, he walked to the railing and said, "Hi, Jessica ?good evening."

"Yang, good evening." Jessica's pleasant voice came, and she said excitedly: "We will finish the film tomorrow." Wang Yang sighed: "I have at least a month here""" Hearing her happily said: "Yang, I found that the number of NGs I counted is much less than that of "High School Musical 1". Do you think my acting skills have improved, or Sarah's requirements are lower?" Wang Yang laughed: " It's definitely not the latter, I'm pretty sure! I have such an outstanding performance, such an insignificant role, Sarah actually NGed me 10 times, she is much stricter than me."

Jessica laughed happily, paused, and suddenly asked softly: "May I come to San Francisco to see you?" Wang Yang thought for a while, then agreed: "You come here. But Jessie Ka, you know that I am the producer and director, and I have to manage almost everything about the crew, so I don’t have much time to accompany you.” Jessica quickly explained that I know: “I just want to see you, you don’t need to worry about me , I’ll leave after a day. Jan, I miss you, we haven’t seen each other for a month and a half.”

Hearing her gentle voice, the sweet smile vaguely appeared in front of Wang Yang's eyes, and he felt very warm in his heart. He said to the mobile phone: "One and a half months? Now that you say it, I just feel it, it's terrible..."

Will Smith was stunned, his eyes were a little red, and his mouth was trembling slightly. Wang Yang raised the intercom in the other hand, and said in a very soft voice: "Knock the door"

The toilet door was knocked from outside. Will Smith looked at the discolored toilet door with a dazed and painful face. Those who were lying on the ground moved their heads back and forth, leaving a line of tears in their red eyes.

Wang Yang's heart skipped a beat, looking at Will Smith who was crying silently. Secretly holding the tape recorder hard, it's great! Will's performance of crying silently can definitely be shown in a close-up, instead of being drawn into a long shot like the original version and then ended hastily. It wasn't until Will Smith burst into tears, leaning his head against the wall and looking at the light tube on the toilet, that Wang Yang shouted happily: "U! That's great!" He praised excitedly: "Will-this It's an actor-level performance!"

After receiving the stop instruction, Walley Feite pressed the camera, and also praised with a smile: "Will, I feel like crying, your performance is very moving."

Wang Yang said with a smile: "Terry, have you seen it? This is where acting is fun and movies are fun." After speaking, he walked into the toilet and greeted Walley Pfister: "Okay , I’m making up some long-range shots!” He instructed Will Smith again: “Will, like just now, look up at the light tube at the end, that picture is very good.”

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