Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 385
"Hi, Kevin. This scene is Hector after he learns that the comet has turned all people directly exposed to red light into dust. Died, but he still has a glimmer of hope..."

"Keep this sliver of hope that nothing will happen to the family." Kevin Costner came to the crew to report today. His leading role roles are relatively small, and they are concentrated in several centralized locations such as home, department stores, and underground bases.So it was only in the second week of shooting that I came to the crew to report.

Seeing Kevin nodded, Ronald continued to talk about the play, "So, when he got home and found that everyone was gone, he knew something was wrong. At this time, he had an emotional breakdown. At this moment Zombies came in to kill him, and he quickly switched from the collapsed state of his family's tragic death to the state of fleeing for his life..."

"Let's walk around for a rehearsal, don't arouse your emotions." Ronald reminded, and let Kevin start to walk.

"Mom, Mom..." Kevin Costner walked into his house in a shirt and jeans, the jukebox on the table was still playing music, and the colored lights in the room hung on the wall. night".

Hector immediately understood that the family was also celebrating the return of the comet last night, and the whole family went to see the comet.Knowing that, he suddenly became sad while sitting on the bed.

The turntable completed a cycle and played the music again.Hector woke up from his grief, he had more important things to do, so he took a bag and put all the family photos in it.

"Who's there?" Kevin Costner pretended to hear an unusual sound. He stood up, took out an automatic pistol, and loaded it with a click. .

“Fine, we’re going to do it this way, give Kevin a few more full-body shots, he’s in great shape, then do a close-up when he’s sitting on his bed sad, and then a medium shot when he’s finally standing up to take a picture of his family, I needed that gentle gesture of him putting family pictures in the bag."

Kevin Costner is a good actor with layers of acting skills.All kinds of emotions are stimulated by the objects in the lens, and there are obvious transitions.Maybe it was well trained by director Lawrence Kasdan in "The Big Chill", Ronald felt that he was very good at acting in front of the camera.

Unlike the fixed seats and field of view of a drama, movie audiences actually watch the actors' performances through the lens.So body movements, language, expressions, etc., the details of the performance must be realized with the camera.

And this scene requires a lot of emotional accumulation, transformation, and release. It can be regarded as a heavy scene in the middle of the movie, allowing the audience to be touched by Hector's feelings for his family, and then continue to fight against the zombies.

This is a break in the middle of a zombie fighting scene, and the audience needs a little relief, and all the performances are brought by Costner's performance alone.So Ronald let Kevin Costner go through the scene first, and then prepare the storyboard based on his performance in front of the camera.

"I need some time," Kevin Costner walked into his trailer to brew his emotions, but after 10 minutes, he walked out of the trailer, "I'm ready."

"Action!"

When Hector walked into the house, he still had a hopeful expression on his face, because there was nothing unusual in the house, as if the family had just left.He also carries a lot of hope.

Then he turned his back to the camera, saw the colorful lights on the wall, and suddenly understood that his family was also going to see the comet.The rhythm of his movements slowed down significantly, and a sad mood suddenly emerged from Costner's back.

Then there was a close-up of the face. Hector already knew the tragedy of his family in his heart, and his whole spirit was like a tire with a hole, and it quickly deflated.

Suddenly, Hector was awakened by the music played by the jukebox. He looked up and saw the family photos on the table. He wiped his eyes quietly, took out a bag from the drawer, and began to put the family photos in carefully and gently. .

"Cut!"

Ronald is very satisfied. The biggest characteristic of a good actor is relaxation, and he can be very relaxed in front of the camera, so that he can express various emotions.If you are very nervous when you go up, you will not be able to perform this kind of drama that requires turning points and layers.

"Very well, let's move on to the next game."

No one applauded, everyone automatically entered the mode of preparing for the next game.Save a few minutes per shot and get more shots in a day.

"Ronald, how is my performance?" Kevin Costner leaned over. He felt that his performance still had some room for improvement, and he hoped for another one.

"You know? If I have an 800 million budget, I can shoot this scene for a day, and you have room to play. But unfortunately, I am not Lawrence Kasdan, and Atlantic is not the former United Artists, so I am very happy You are satisfied with the few items just now."

"Oh, I wish you were Kasdan so you wouldn't cut all my scenes."

"No, it's up to you to attract female audiences to my movie. Apart from Regina's self-improvement, they also need a handsome guy to fall in love with her." Ronald knew that Costner was a little bit attracted. She was terrified, and quickly gave him a guarantee.

"In the next scene, the child actor will appear with you. I can only accept his state first, so you have to cheer up."

"Okay, I will cooperate with him."

The next scene has a kid playing the zombie, storming Hector's house to bite him.Hector recognized that it was a neighbor's child and couldn't bear to shoot him. After locking the door, he went out to find the car and ran back to find Regina.

It is said in the industry that the most difficult scenes to shoot are children, animals, and water.

Ronald finally tasted the difficulty of shooting children's movies, that is, children's performances are not stable enough and unpredictable.

This time the scene is not the kind of scene that requires a lot of acting skills. It just pretends to be a zombie and rushes in from the door, trying to bite Hector played by Kevin Costner.

Children's performances are irregular. They can perform well in one scene, but they can't shoot well in the next one due to inexplicable reasons.Sometimes they performed well, but the adult actors didn't keep up, so we had to try our best to follow them.

And Ronald can't talk about them. If he talks too much, the child will either start to cry, or become even more uncooperative, dragging the shooting time for a long time.

Fortunately, the producer is a person with children. He saw something was wrong and gave the child a piece of chocolate. After the child ate it, the scene was filmed smoothly.

"He seems to be hungry, sometimes give them a little sugar, and then praise them for a good shot last time, and he will work up the courage to take another shot."

Ronald patted the child actor's head, and the staff of the Screen Actors Union next to him was already eyeing him, waiting to come out and interrupt Ronald's continued filming with the excuse that the child was in a bad mood and should not continue filming.

"Next time, if you feel uncomfortable, just tell me, okay?" Ronald said softly to the little actor.

"This zombie's makeup makes me feel bad." The little actor pointed to the beige zombie makeup on his face.

"Did you know? The next shot is a close-up, and your classmates and friends will see your scary appearance on the screen."

"Like a dinosaur?"

"Yes, like a dinosaur."

The energy cycle of children is faster than that of adults, and the young actors suddenly regained their energy and entered the state quickly. The indoor fighting scene with Costner looked quite convincing.

"Oh, little boy, what a horrible creature."

Ronald looked up and saw an old acquaintance, Mary Voronov, who also came to the scene.

Voronov played the staid headmistress in "Rock High School", and Ronald also found her to play Audrey White, an expert at the underground biological laboratory base, based on the prompt of a dream.

"Why are you here, Mary?"

"There is something wrong with my script, I want to talk to you."

"OK, well, after I finish my work here, let's talk in the trailer."

Seeing the scene being packed up, Ronald confirmed that tomorrow's scene will be Mary Voronov coming to the mall where the two sisters are fighting zombies to rescue them.

He went into the trailer, and Voronoff and Voronov started chatting about the script.

"Ronald, is there something wrong with the character of Audrey here?" Voronov immediately criticized.

"Okay, tell me what's wrong?" Ronald couldn't keep a straight face in front of Voronov. When she was a supporting actress, she was still an assistant.

"This is a very good script, but it is not about any profound human nature, but a collection of all the fashion elements at the moment."

"OK, then what?" Ronald nodded, indeed "Night of the Comet" combined many popular elements.

"Look, it's the Valley Girls saving the world, and now the Valley Girls' songs are trending, and your 'Fast Tempo' made their accents and mannerisms popular with middle school students across the country. And then zombies, since 'Dawn of the Dead' , there are a lot of zombie movies coming out.

After that comes the comet, Halley's Comet is about to return to Earth, and the newspapers just reported that this return has been discovered by amateur astronomers, and everyone is talking about it.Then there's mall shopping, and shootouts. "

"I agree with these, so what?"

"So Audrey should also be a humane, state-changing character. She is a conscientious biological researcher. She can't understand that the base has recruited survivors as living blood draw subjects, and wants to save these children.

Her character also has a psychological transformation, not a symbolic villain, so her lines must fit the current situation..." Mary Voronov said eloquently.

Ronald scratched his head. What Voronov said was actually good. Of course, there were also some of her petty ideas for more close-ups.Ronald didn't point it out, "But you're going to be shooting your part tomorrow, so I don't have time to change your lines."

"I'll help you write it." Voronov handed over a few pages of paper written by herself, all of which were lines that she came up with and were more in line with the character's identity.

Ronald smiled, and it turned out that he came prepared.He browsed through it and thought it was all right, "Very well, then you can follow what you wrote."

"You are a good director, Ronald." Mary Voronov was very happy that her understanding of the characters was recognized by Ronald.

"This may not be my business, but there is still a Regina foreshadowing here, why didn't it be connected later?" Mary Voronov felt that Ronald was more open-minded to accept opinions, so she asked him a question.

"What foreshadowing?"

"It's this DMK. When Regina was playing video games, No.6 was a person named DMK who broke Regina's record. Why didn't the latter DMK appear?"

"This is not a foreshadowing, this is a scene where I want to show Regina's independent spirit that loves competition and refuses to admit defeat. With her tomboy hairstyle, the audience will immediately accept her identity."

Mary Voronov shook her head. She has made many Roger Coleman-style low-budget movies, and knows that the audience remembers the plot at the beginning of the movie better. Given a shot like this, have you ever heard of Chekhov's gun?"

Ronald blew his whistle. Chekhov's gun means that if there is no echo in the following plot, don't add this plot.

"I don't have this foreshadowing idea, but since you also think there should be a foreshadowing here, let me think about how to make it up."

(End of this chapter)