Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Cher wore a black coat with red sequins, long black hair with big waves, and her facial features became more three-dimensional after makeup. She was a classic black-haired beauty.

Cher's facial lines are very suitable for filming. Her cheekbones are a bit high, which may be said to be mean, but with the cooperation of eye shadow and blush, it is very suitable for movie shots under lighting, and it is very three-dimensional.

The face has its own shadow, so only one light is needed, without complex composite light sources to create effects.

All images on the movie screen are flat, and the human brain needs to calculate to reconstruct the three-dimensional image of the face. The more three-dimensional the facial lines are, the easier it is for the audience's brain to think it looks good. In addition, the advanced lighting used in movie shooting, to be beautiful on the big screen, the requirements for actors are much higher than those for actors in TV dramas.

In a sense, whether an actor is suitable for the big screen is also selected by the God of Movies. Only actors favored by the God of Movies have the possibility of being the protagonist.

Cher made a dancing gesture and turned in from outside the camera. She seemed like Mimi, the protagonist of the opera "La Boheme", who was deeply intoxicated by love.

Olympia Dukakis entered the picture from another angle.

David Watkin is indeed a great director of photography. He quickly arranged several camera angles based on the results of the rehearsal, so that he could shoot the story around the long dining table from different angles.

He also made it just right that the camera would not shoot other cameras, hiding them very cleverly. Sometimes, the blind spot for shooting is just a little bit, and only a few dozen centimeters are suitable for placing the camera. Watkin quickly found the best angle based on experience.

When the actors still have the feeling of the quarrel just now, they can immediately enter the state of shooting.

"Oh my God, what happened to you?" Mother Rose saw her daughter dancing alone like crazy, waving a scarf in her hand, and couldn't help asking a soul-searching question.

"I really don't know where to start." Loretta, played by Cher, pulled out a chair and sat down next to the dining table.

"Your hair is different too." Mother Rose keenly noticed the change in Loretta.

"Mom, everything is different now." Loretta found her true love while watching the opera last night, that is, Ronnie with a wooden hand.

"Are you drunk?" Mother Rose poured her daughter a cup of hot coffee.

"No, you are drunk?" Cher's emotions still retained dissatisfaction with Dukakis. This rhetorical question just fits Loretta's dissatisfaction with anyone who doubts herself under the romantic feeling after she met the true love of her life.

"No, but I am a little hungover." Rose, like her husband Cosmo, had to use alcohol to numb herself last night so that she could fall asleep next to her cheating husband.

"Where's Dad?" Loretta has not yet woken up from the romance.

"Upstairs," Rose poured herself another cup of coffee, "Johnny Camarelli came last night."

"What? He is not in Sicily?" Loretta can no longer be calm. She and Johnny's brother Ronnie are not ready to tell Johnny everything. Johnny originally had to wait until the funeral of his seriously ill mother was over before returning to New York to marry Loretta. Loretta still had time to think about how to explain to Johnny.

Suddenly realizing that she was about to face her fiancé Johnny, Loretta stood up with a surge of excitement in her heart. Before she could enjoy a few hours of romantic warmth, she was scared away by the fierce conflict she was about to face.

"He's not in Sicily. He came yesterday and talked to everyone."

"Impossible, he's in Sicily, his mother is dying, and he's there to accompany her for the last time." Loretta shouted excitedly in denial.

When people suddenly face something they can't accept, they often deny the facts. Loretta was very excited and wanted to debate and deny the fact that Johnny had returned to New York.

"No, he's back."

"Impossible, he's in Sicily with his dying mother!"

"His mother is fine."

"Impossible, she's seriously ill and dying."

"This is a miracle!" Ross said indifferently. She didn't completely get rid of the conflict with Cher. This indifferent tone was like an acting master watching a singing amateur guest acting and making trouble.

"Miracle? Miracle, you are in the modern era now, there are no miracles." Cher seemed to be hitting back at the so-called acting master, saying that it only takes one good shot to make a movie.

While arguing with her mother in a higher pitch and volume, Loretta quickly picked up the napkin on the table and began to wipe the lipstick on her mouth. If Johnny came this morning, she must not let him see that she had an affair with Ronny.

"Ha, I think Sicily is still keeping the original rhythm and has not entered the modern era." Dukakis looked at Cher's angry performance, sat down slowly, and answered calmly. If you have acting skills, you don't have to work so hard.

"He came directly from the airport and wanted to talk to you." Putting the coffee on a corner of the dining table, mother Rose looked at her daughter's deliberate makeup and understood the problem in her heart.

"There is a love kiss mark on your neck!" Suddenly Dukakis's tone also rose, "What are you doing? Johnny is coming home this morning to talk to you."

Loretta, played by Cher, was scared and went to take a picture of herself on the glass of the cupboard.

"Tsk"

Ronald watched the whole scene behind the camera. Sure enough, the best performance was the true performance. Everyone's emotions were already in place during the morning's quarrel. There was no need to do any mental construction at all, and the fresh emotions in the memory were readily available.

Of course, Cher's performance was still a bit off. Dukakis spoke with emotion and rhythm. Every sentence was stuck at the turning point of the emotion. The strict training on Broadway made their line skills very good. .

"What the hell did you do? Your beautiful future life was flushed into the toilet by yourself." Dukakis became more and more excited as she spoke. She spread her hands, palms upward, and used up and down gestures to strengthen her argument.

"Hurry up and cover that damn love bite of yours, cover it up with foundation and put on some makeup!"

"Okay, okay, you have to help me." Xue'er took out the plush pajamas from behind the door and was about to change out of a sexy outfit.

"Zi"

Suddenly the doorbell rang. The mother and daughter looked at each other. Is this Johnny coming?

"Oh, I'm going to change clothes, you open the door," Cher said to Dukakis.

"Zi" people outside the door are ringing the doorbell constantly.

"Open the door, Mom." Xueer picked up her pajamas and walked into the inner room.

"Um," the mother Rose, played by Dukakis, kept shaking her head and making some meaningless comments about her daughter's fall in love, expressing her disapproval.

"Cut!"

Ronald was actually not satisfied with Cher's performance. She did not express the panic of the heroine Loretta when something happened in a consistent manner.

Cher is a big singer herself, so she certainly doesn't panic at all about such small things. But Loretta is just a small accountant, making a living by doing part-time accounting for Italian small businessmen among relatives and friends.

Of course, you will be even more nervous when you encounter something like this being discovered by your fiancé on the spot.

But it doesn’t matter, Ronald thought to himself, such an emotional state is rare. Don’t waste time on such small details. The reversal of this scene is very dense. In just a few minutes, multiple characters will react backwards and forwards. Turn, the audience's emotions were stirred up and down, it is better to let go of Cher's little flaws, at least her previous performance was very good.

"Switch to the next game." Ronald said gently to the staff.

Nicolas Cage appeared at the door, looking through the glass.

Mother Rose saw that it was not Johnny, but another handsome guy of Italian descent. The star was younger than her daughter. I knew in my heart what was going on.

She opened the door and yelled to her daughter, "Not Johnny!"

Loretta opened the door and came out with her head tilted. She had already changed into a set of home-style plush clothes and plush socks, dressing up comfortably.

"Oh, it's Ronnie." Loretta breathed a sigh of relief.

Ronnie, played by Nicolas Cage, has a slicked-back hair, and his hair is still standing up a little unyieldingly. The black trench coat is carefully selected and he looks very handsome.

"Is Johnny here?" Ronnie asked Loretta inside.

"Not here now, but he will be here soon." Loretta felt a little more at ease when she saw her lover coming.

"Very good, when he comes we will spread everything out and make it clear on the table."

"Hmph." Mother Rose looked at the two people in this state, and her guess was more or less certain.

"Hi, I'm Ronnie, Johnny's brother, nice to meet you." Ronnie stretched out his hand and said to his mother Rose, who was blocking the way in the middle of the corridor.

"I'm Rose Castorini, Loretta's mother."

"Nice to meet you."

Mother Rose ignored Ronnie and pulled the collar of Ronnie's windbreaker with her hand to look at his neck. "You have a love bite too."

"Oh oh" Loretta held her head, and her mother Rose saw through Ronnie's bottom in just two strokes.

"Your mother is fine," Ross went to prepare oatmeal, telling him the news of his mother's miraculous recovery.

"Ah, that's a good thing, even though I'm not close to him."

"You have to go, you have to go, you can't be here today." Loretta pushed Ronnie, she didn't want to face her fiancé Johnny and her lover Ronnie.

"I'm here to meet your family today." Ronnie came to Loretta's house after careful consideration.

"Who wants oatmeal?" Mother Rose was there preparing breakfast.

"I want some," Ronnie pushed Loretta away, walked to the dining table, and took off his coat. When it came to the other hand, it was difficult to take off the sleeve with the prosthetic hand, so he had to bite the cuff with his mouth to take off the sleeve.

"Tsk" Ronald admired in his heart. Nicolas Cage was inspired by a bunch of old actors. His little action was very consistent with the identity of Ronica Marelli, who was equipped with a wooden prosthetic hand.

Acting is about reacting. You often play against people with excellent acting skills. It is difficult for a talented actor not to improve. In terms of performance, the effect of teaching by example far exceeds that by words.

The camera points to the hallway, and Centa Gardenia, who plays the father, Cosmo, walks in wearing a white shirt.

This is the difficulty of this scene. The characters walk into the kitchen one by one, eating and chatting around the dining table. It is very similar to the process in a play where actors go through the entrance door to the center of the stage.

As there are more and more actors, the drama itself becomes more and more complex. It is necessary to grasp the focus of the entire scene and limit it to only two or three people, so as not to overload the audience's attention and watch the trick smoothly. It is very much about the director's scheduling and the actors' performances.

Cosmo sat down at one end of the long dining table. He looked at Ronnie and examined the young man's wooden prosthetic hand. Then he looked at his daughter Loretta. He drank a lot of wine last night, and it was hard to figure out what the relationship between the two was.

Loretta didn't dare to look at her father, and kept her head down.

Cosmo had to ask Ronnie, "Are you Ronnie? Johnny's brother?"

"Yes, nice to meet you, I'm Ronnie Camarelli."

In Toronto, Canada, there was no representative of the photographers' union watching the set, so no one cared about the rule that the director of photography could not shoot the camera himself.

Director of photography David Watkin personally took the zoom lens closer and took a super close-up of the face of Centgardinia, who played Cosmo.

He used the zoom lens not to achieve any zoom effect. Instead, the time of this scene was particularly important, in order to save time and avoid the actor's emotions cooling down when changing lenses. By pulling the lens between zooms, lenses with different focal lengths can be achieved, which is equivalent to using a zoom lens as a fixed-focus lens.

Centgardinia's acting skills are extraordinary. He looked dazed, but he quickly figured out the relationship between the two. He happened to meet his daughter when he went to the opera with his lover yesterday.

But he didn't expect that his daughter's lover was actually her fiancé's younger brother.

Mother Rose came over with oatmeal porridge for everyone. Daughter Loretta couldn't stand being looked at by her father's strange eyes, "Don't look at me like that, Dad."

"Go on, keep this state." Ronald was very excited behind the camera. He felt that this shooting was like divine help, as if the god of film accidentally opened his eyes and looked at this studio in Toronto. The state of this shot was surprisingly good. I hope that the next actor who joins in can also keep it up.

If it is a continuous long shot, it will be amazing. The actor's emotions are smooth and the audience's viewing experience will be much better.

"Hi, good morning, Dad." Mother Rose heard the sound of the old man coming downstairs.

The old man played by Fedor Chaliapin, with a face full of dissatisfaction, slowly walked into the kitchen and found his seat.

"What's wrong, Dad?" Father Cosmo saw that the old man's mental state was not right and asked him what happened.

"I'm old, and when I'm old, I'm despised. No one takes me seriously even if I say something."

Another camera was facing the old man's front, shooting from a slightly upward angle.

Fedor Chaliapin was very energetic in the upward shot, showing the style of an old grandfather.

"Son, I have to say something. You have to pay for your only daughter's wedding. Your arrogance is destroying your family.

That's all I have to say. I'm done."

After that, the old man pulled out a chair and sat down.

This was the first unexpected reversal of the scene. No one expected that in the end it was this somewhat old grandfather who spoke up for his granddaughter and used the dignity of an old man to make his stingy son agree to pay for his daughter's wedding.

He didn't pay for Loretta's first wedding!

"It doesn't matter, Dad, I agree. If Loretta gets married, I will pay for all the expenses of the wedding."

Centgardinia's face was a little funny in the camera. This Cosmo character is very scheming. He just saw the relationship between his daughter and Ronnie, and knew that Loretta and Johnny's marriage would most likely be cancelled, so there was no problem with talking about it.

Who would marry his unlucky widow daughter?

Loretta, played by Cher, made a face at her father Cosmo. She knew what her father was thinking, but she was still very happy to agree to her grandfather's request. For a moment, she felt that being a Castorini was worth it.

"Bravo, you are talking like that now, good, good!" Grandpa was very relieved, happy for his granddaughter Loretta, and excited that someone could listen to him.

Mother Rose served a bowl of oatmeal to Grandpa, and then sat at the other end of the long dining table with a lot of thoughts in her mind, sitting opposite her husband Cosmo at both ends of the long table.

Just when everyone was eating oatmeal, maybe Cosmo just gave in to the old man, or maybe it was the daughter's problem, which made mother Rose frown and look at this big family.

Then she clasped her hands together and asked Cosmo, her husband, at the other end of the table, a question that suddenly came to her mind.

"Am I a good wife?"

Cosmo looked up in surprise. He didn't know why Rose suddenly asked this. "Of course."

Rose got the answer she wanted. She smiled slightly, then she regained her seriousness and said word by word what she had wanted to say for a long time:

"I hope you won't see her again."

The sound of people scooping oatmeal porridge into the plate with metal spoons suddenly stopped.

The cameras on both sides of the table captured the reactions of Loretta and Ronnie. Loretta covered her head. She had talked to her mother Rose at church. Rose said that she knew Cosmo had a lover outside.

Ronnie showed a curious look. It seemed that the Castorini family was no better than the Camarelli family.

Another camera was facing the old man at the other side of the table.

Fedor Chaliapin was very deaf and he didn't hear Dukakis's lines at all. But the reactions of the crowd clearly told him that it had come to that point.

He looked to the left to see Cosmo's reaction, and then to the right to see Ross's reaction. The old man still needed his children to take care of him, so he didn't dare to say anything and quickly lowered his head to drink his porridge.

Ronald looked at his father Cosmo's reaction and performed very well.

Ross did not ask Cosmo if he had a lover, nor did she ask who his lover was, how they knew each other, and what he wanted to do now, which were questions that only vulgar women would ask.

Ross was very smart. After using the question of whether she was a good wife to stop her husband Cosmo, she directly put forward her request, asking Cosmo not to see that woman again.

Generally, husbands who are caught cheating either deny it, or simply find fault with their wives. But Cosmo just said that Ross was a good wife, so there were no such options.

The expression on his face was more shocking than embarrassed.

All kinds of emotions surged on the fat face, and actor Centgardinia slowly stood up and looked at his wife's sad face.

"Pah!"

He suddenly slapped the table. He was once proud of having a lover outside and a wife at home, and the arrangement was very good. In the end, Ross knew everything, and his every move was under the control of his wife.

The old man was startled by his son's palm slap, and he fell back suddenly and looked surprised. It wasn't that he was frightened by the sound, but Cosmo's palm just hit him next to the rice bowl.

Fedor Chaliapin had his back to the camera, and his whole body was full of drama. After he was surprised, he couldn't hear clearly what was said, and his upper body leaned back and continued to eat porridge.

"Tsk" Ronald curled his lips, this is a back view that can steal the show.

"OK!" Cosmo slapped the table very hard, but spoke softly.

"You still have to go to church to confess." Rose's face showed a triumphant smile. Her husband agreed to cut off contact with his lover and went to church to confess his sins. In Italian culture, this is equivalent to fully admitting that he had done something wrong and would never have any contact with that woman again.

Cosmo shook his head and smiled bitterly, "A man will find out one day that his life is built on nothingness."

Who would have known that yesterday there was one at home and one outside, and today the dream was punctured like a piece of paper?

Olympia Dukakis's face suddenly became very excited, tears in her eyes, and her chin trembled slightly because of excitement.

Ross paused and gritted his teeth as he spoke out his true feelings:

"Your life is not built on nothingness"

"Ti Ao means I love you in Italian." Ross's voice was a little distorted as he spoke out the Italian oath of love.

"Ano I love you too," Cosmo heard his wife's confession with tears in his eyes, and his heart was also excited, as if he had returned to the time when he was young and stood downstairs in his wife's house.

Then he blew a kiss to his wife Ross, and his voice was a little trembling with excitement.

Ross felt her husband's true love and held back the tears that were about to flow.

Cher's Loretta didn't expect that complications would arise. It was originally her own problem, but suddenly her parents also came.

She rolled her eyes and looked at Ronnie beside her.

Ronnie immediately made a Ti Ao expression, which made Loretta roll her eyes again. Love is there, but what about Johnny?

"Zi" the doorbell rang again.

"It's Johnny, I'll go open the door." Loretta covered her face, and she still had to face it after all.

"I'll go, I'll tell him clearly." Ronnie was worried about his lover and wanted to open the door.

"No, no, I'll go." Loretta asked Ronnie to sit down, and she looked at her father Cosmo, "How should I tell Johnny?"

The old man over there still looked at the family members with a puzzled look, and moved his mouth to speak, but he couldn't say anything, so he had to lower his head and continue to drink porridge.

"To be honest, Loretta, they will know sooner or later." Father Cosmo said to his daughter based on his own experience and lessons.

"Oh, you're right, Ti Ao, Dad."

"Ti Ao, my little cookie."

Loretta was about to open the door, and found that it was already open, and it was Uncle Raymond and Aunt Rita who were standing there.

They looked at Loretta, as if something big had happened.

Aunt Rita looked at Loretta as if she had committed a serious crime, "Do you have anything to say to us, dear?"

Loretta looked confused, "No, what?"

Uncle Raymond looked at his wife and decided to give his niece another chance, "We just came back from the bank."

"So?" Loretta was still confused, "Oh, my God, I forgot to deposit the cash in your store to the bank."

Loretta went to her bag to find the cash. She was the accountant of her uncle and aunt's store. Yesterday was the day she sent the cash to the bank. She was on the way to get her hair done and had a date with Ronnie at night, so she forgot about it.

"Oh my God, that's great, her money is still there."

Uncle and aunt walked towards Ross, "Yesterday was a strange day"

"We never doubted you, but yesterday was really strange."

"Sit down and have some coffee."

The family found out that it was a misunderstanding, just like the Italians, making exaggerated gestures to express their unnecessary worries.

Aunt Rita was careful and noticed that everyone's expressions were not right. "So what are we doing?"

"Waiting for someone, waiting for Johnny to come." Mother Rose said to her.

Rita saw Ronnie, then looked at Loretta, and knew that the problem was with this young man.

"This is Johnny's brother, Ronnie Camarelli," Rose hinted to her sister-in-law Rita.

"Oh, hello, I'm Rita Capomaji"

Rita saw the unusual relationship between him and his niece. She looked at Ross with a questioning look in her eyes. Isn't your daughter engaged to Johnny?

Ross replied with a look that said you are right.

Rita looked at Cosmo again, and Cosmo nodded.

Then it was Loretta, who made a face.

Finally, it was the old man who was stupid. He looked left and right. Everyone was embarrassed and silent. The atmosphere in the air gradually solidified. The old man couldn't stand it anymore. He complained, "Anyone come and tell a joke."

No one spoke, only Ronnie was moved by the old man's sense of humor and laughed out loud. No one agreed with him, and it was a bit awkward for a while.

"Zi"

The doorbell finally rang.

Aunt Rita, who felt that something was wrong today, went to open the door.

"Johnny Camarelli," Rita announced to everyone.

"Hi hi" Johnny laughed dryly a few times when he entered the door. He was always so cautious.

"Loretta?" Johnny was surprised to see Loretta, who was completely different from before and radiant.

"Ronnie?" Johnny was surprised again today, "Are you here to reconcile with me, Ronnie?"

"Yes, but it may not be what you want." Ronnie stood up and said to his brother, he came to grab the bride.

"Of course I want to reconcile with you." Johnny looked at Ronnie, thinking that he agreed to attend his wedding, and was a little relieved.

"Didn't you say your mother was dying? How did she get better?" Loretta asked Johnny.

"I told her that I was getting married soon, and she got better. It's a miracle." Johnny replied.

"Of course it's a miracle." Ronnie knew very well that his mother in Palermo, Sicily, always liked to use this method to manipulate her son's behavior.

"Johnny, I have something to tell you." Loretta stood up. She decided to face the situation she created and use her father Cosmo's strategy to tell the truth.

"Loretta, I also have something to tell you, but can you come out and talk to us alone?" Johnny also had something to say.

"No, I want to be with my family. If you have anything to say, just say it here."

Dani Aiello, who plays Johnny, is also a Broadway character actor. He looked at Cher and said his true feelings solemnly:

"Loretta, I can't marry you."

"Hmm?" Cher's expression changed very well. This statement was far beyond Loretta's expectations.

"If I marry you, my mother will die." Johnny is particularly superstitious. He has a personal experience of Loretta's bad luck. His mother almost died because of her engagement, so she came to cancel the engagement.

"What are you talking about?" Loretta was puzzled.

"What are you talking about?" Ronnie was not satisfied. Johnny was willing to cancel the engagement, wasn't it just right?

"I'll say the promise again. He made a promise. This is the engagement ring." Loretta showed the engagement ring on her middle finger to Ronnie and Johnny.

"My mom almost died, but now she's fine again. I can't marry you."

"Oh, Johnny, you're 42 years old and you're still being controlled by her." Ronnie couldn't stand his brother being controlled by his mother.

"What about you? You're a son who doesn't love his mother." Johnny was particularly dissatisfied with his brother's rebellion against his mother.

"What about you? You big liar, I have the ring as proof. You proposed to me, but now you want to regret it."

"Loretta, I have to get my ring back."

"You, okay," Loretta took off the ring and threw it at Johnny, "Engagement canceled!"

Johnny didn't catch the ring and it fell to the ground. He was also very angry. He didn't expect that he would encounter such fierce abuse. "You will understand later, Loretta, this is best for you." Johnny pointed at Loretta and said.

Loretta was angered by Johnny's finger pointing at her, "When you die in the future, I will wear red clothes to your funeral."

Both of them broke down and started to curse each other.

"Loretta," Ronnie suddenly said.

"What?!"

"Will you marry me?"

"What?" Johnny, who had just picked up the ring, knelt on the ground and raised his head. He heard a strange sentence. His younger brother Ronnie actually proposed to his ex-fiancee, Loretta.

"Where's the ring? Where's the proposal ring?" Loretta was dissatisfied. The two brothers did not prepare rings for the proposal.

"Johnny, can you lend me the ring?" Ronnie asked his brother for the ring.

Johnny looked at his brother and then at Loretta. Although he was extremely embarrassed, he still wanted to reconcile with his brother. After hesitating for a few seconds, he handed the ring to his brother.

"Loretta Castorini, will you marry me?"

Loretta's face turned from cloudy to sunny, "Yes, Ronnie, in the presence of my family, I am willing to marry you."

"Oh, Loretta, do you love him?" Mother Rose saw that her daughter was deeply in love.

"Yes, I love him so much."

"Oh, that's too bad." Rose lowered her head and smiled bitterly. To love a man, you often have to forgive his shameful shortcomings. "

"Did you hear that? She loves me." Ronnie put his worries aside. He hoped that Loretta married him for love.

The two hugged each other happily, looked into each other's eyes for a while, and then began to kiss.

The camera on the other side began to film the old man.

The old man wiped his eyes with a tissue, tremblingly, as if he was crying.

"What's wrong with you, Dad?" Cosmo asked.

Fedor Chaliapin put down the tissue and said, "I painted it."

Cosmo nodded, which would make everyone confused.

"Cut!"

"Cut! Cut!"

Ronald stopped the filming.

The actors seemed to pause for more than ten seconds, unable to believe that such a difficult scene could be passed in just one shot.

Ronald saw David Watkin and gave him an OK gesture, "That's it, let's eat."

It was almost two o'clock in the afternoon, and all the actors had not eaten. Ronald quickly asked his assistant to serve the meal.

"Uh", Ronald's own stomach also made a loud sound.

"Hahaha"

The actors began to applaud, expressing their happiness for such a wonderful play.

"How did you do that? Ronald." Olympia Dukakis played the role very well. This scene was full of sighs, multiple reversals of the plot, and the rivalry between the actors was also extremely exciting. Even on Broadway, not every performance can be performed so vividly.

"Maybe the God of Movies has answered my prayer and is opening his eyes to see us." Ronald didn't know why it went so well. Maybe it's because the actors' previous state just matched it, or maybe it's because everyone has been hungry for a long time and wants to give their best performance as soon as possible after filming and eating.

Maybe, it's just a coincidence that everyone happened to be playing at their best.

The actors all had something to eat, but Ronald didn't have time to eat yet. He and the crew's technicians began to rearrange the camera positions. Immediately afterwards, Ronald directed the final scene of the film.

The camera was right next to the kitchen door and was filming inside, where a family was popping champagne to celebrate Loretta and Ronnie's engagement.

Everyone followed Italian tradition by adding a sugar cube to the champagne and toasting.

Johnny sat alone and was depressed, but the old man brought him a glass of champagne, "Johnny, come on, for the sake of the big family, don't you understand? We are all members of the big family."

"For the family!"

"For the family!"

Not happy that Johnny is away, he raises a glass to celebrate with everyone.

Wine glasses were clinked together, Ronald and David Watkin stepped back together, and the camera slowly exited the dining room and retreated into the hallway of the living room.

The camera slowly turned around and took a picture of the group photo on the wall.

There are photos of Loretta as a child, Cosmo and Ross getting married, and Ross and his brother Raymond as children.

The camera continued to move to the right, and finally stopped on a group photo, which was the first photo of the old man's parents after they immigrated to America from Palermo, Sicily.

The two old people in the photo seemed to be smiling happily as they looked at the house full of children and grandchildren.

The camera slowly zooms in

"Cut!"

"Oh, God. It's finally done."

Ronald finally let go of his worries and felt dizzy, as if he hadn't eaten at noon and had the sequelae of intense mental work in the afternoon.

Unlike the actors who could go to the trailer to replenish snacks at any time, and the director of photography who also took time to eat and catch up on sleep, Ronald was always thinking about the shooting with high tension.

The high-intensity pressure was suddenly released, and Ronald's vision went dark. Hypoglycemia made him stagger and almost fall.

"Are you okay?" David Watkin helped him.

"Give me a sugar cube, I seem to have hypoglycemia."