Rebirth in America

Morris acted very quickly. After he got the $30,000 check from Bart, he immediately found other actors, photographers, makeup artists and stage managers.

The script had already been written and sent, with Richard playing the younger brother Joey and Alex playing the older brother Reilly.

Richard was so excited when he learned that he was about to star in a movie. He held the script all day long and muttered the lines.

As for Alex, he flipped through it and found that he didn't appear in many scenes, at most in the beginning and the end. The main character is Richard, and the film mainly tries to look at society through the eyes of a young boy.

After a few days, Morris brought in a makeup artist to design their look. With the superb skills of the makeup artist, Richard was transformed into a child wearing cowboy clothing, with a toy pistol in his waist and a silly hairstyle.

Morris touched his chin, circled around Richard a few times, and said, "Well, it seems there is something missing."

The makeup artist also stared at Richard for a while and suddenly said: "I know, my face is too clean."

As he spoke, he took out some small black dots from the makeup box and placed them on both sides of Richard's nose. It looked like he had many small freckles.

Everyone took a closer look, haha, where is the original fair and handsome little boy Richard? Standing in front of people now is a little cowboy Joey covered with freckles.

"Bang bang! Bang bang!" Richard took out his toy pistol and aimed it in front of him, pretending to shoot.

Morris slapped his thigh and shouted: "Yes, this is the Joey I want!"

Bart and Angel, who had been standing nearby, could hardly help but jump up. They looked up and down at Richard, laughing constantly.

It was Alex's turn. Under the help of a makeup artist, he transformed into a playful twelve-year-old boy named Rayleigh. Because Alex has always been taller than the average kid, the role was not difficult for the makeup artist at all.

"Well, not bad! That's it. Very good. You guys should quickly familiarize yourself with the lines. We will start shooting tomorrow." Morris nodded with satisfaction.

In the original history, when Morris was filming this film, he found a friend's child. With the authentic performances of these children, the film has achieved good response and honors.

However, the role he chose was too shabby and was not loved by the audience. After all, most humans are visual creatures. Watching unattractive actors perform in movies really cannot arouse people's resonance. Assuming that Shirley Temple was an ordinary-looking child, no matter how good her performance was and how good the movie was, she would not have caused such a big sensation.

However, this may be a sense of reality that the director can pursue, but the film cannot arouse people's desire to watch it without beautifying it. His movie was a success, but the actors in it did not become as popular as other child actors.

Now the Carpenter brothers are in, and they look much cuter than the original two actors. You even need to use makeup to cover some of them, so that the audience will not focus on them and forget to watch the plot of the movie.

The first thing to shoot was an indoor shot. When shooting a movie, it is not shot according to the order of the storyline. In order to save time and improve efficiency, the plot of the same scene is usually shot before going to other scenes.

The actor who plays their mother is a relatively fat aunt. She is an old actress and can easily get into the mood. It's just that Richard and Alex are newbies and often make small mistakes, resulting in intermittent filming. By the afternoon, they gradually became familiar with the roles they were going to play, and the shooting speed also accelerated.

There are several interesting scenes. One of them is on Reilly's birthday. His mother called from the street to take care of her seriously ill grandma, so she gave Reilly the task of taking care of Joey. At this time, Rayleigh had no choice but to feel depressed. Joey returned to the room and clumsily wrote a few lines on a piece of paper. It was these lines that made him reshoot several times.

"CUT!" After Morris saw what Richard had written, he quickly shouted to stop. He said, "Richard, your handwriting is too neat. It's not like what a child can write. Please rewrite it." ."

Richard had to write it again, but the words written by one person had become a habitual action. No matter how he wrote, he could not meet the director's requirements. Finally, someone came up with a way to let Richard write with his left hand, and then he passed the lens in one go.

The next scene is of Joey selecting gifts in his small cabinet, choosing from left to right. It was difficult to let go of any one. He picked it up and put it down. Finally, he picked up a tattered baseball and used the piece of paper to hold it up and give it away. To Raleigh.

According to the script, Reilly, played by Alex, opened the gift and was very unhappy about it. He threw the baseball to the ground and the baseball bounced back to Joey. What he didn't expect was that this baseball might be so bad that it couldn't bounce no matter how hard Alex threw it.

In the end, the prop master proposed that a small rubber ball should be wrapped in a baseball shell so that it could bounce. However, the trajectory of the bounce was really difficult to control. It would either veer to the left or right, or simply fly in front of the camera. It was shot continuously. It took several times to get a successful shot.

The last indoor scene is of Reilly changing Joey's clothes. This scene was not difficult at first, but Joey seemed a little shy and embarrassed to expose his body in front of people. He couldn't take off his clothes. After the director discovered the problem, he asked Bart to provide him with psychological counseling before the filming was successful.

The outdoor scenes were quite easy for Alex. His character, Reilly, wanted to play with his two friends, but didn't want to take Joey with him. Unexpectedly, Joey refused to let them go and insisted on following them.

So Reilly's partner came up with a bad idea and used Joey's curiosity about real guns to devise a scam in which Joey accidentally killed Reilly. Joey was young and ignorant, and mistakenly thought it was true. He took his brother's harmonica from an older child and ran back. At this time, Rayleigh got up and went to play with his friends laughing.

While playing, Rayleigh had a conflict with his friends. He ran home angrily, only to find that things had gotten worse and his brother Joey was missing.

For Alex, these scenes were a piece of cake. The few young actors hired by the director also acted in their true colors, and almost every scene was passed in one go.

After Alex's scene was shot, it was shot that Richard ran away from home and took the train to Colin Island alone. At this time, Colin Island was a very famous amusement resort in the United States. It was like a large theme park amusement park and a holiday paradise for people at that time.

At this point in the filming, everyone moved to the seaside playground on Colin Island. The main character being shot was Joey, and no one else had a chance to appear, so Alex and the others had a good time inside for a few days. There’s a carousel, bocce games, batting cages, horse riding arena, exotic photo studio, beach, and more.

Alex's favorite thing is the beach. He wears a pair of shorts, goes to the sea to swim and surf, and when he is tired, he goes back to the beach to bask in the sun. At this time, he could always see the group of people from the photography team taking pictures around Richard. He thought that Richard liked this feeling of being surrounded by people.

Richard has the most scenes and is also the hardest. In order to get a shot, he had to act over and over again. Even when he was wrestling, he had to fall seven or eight times, which made the Carpenters extremely distressed. However, he enjoys it himself and does not complain about suffering or tiredness.

"Oh! Life is really short, why bother making yourself so tired." Alex put on a pair of sunglasses, lay on the beach, and enjoyed his life.

After shooting seven, seven or eight, there were still a few missing shots that were not finished, and that was the scene of searching for someone in the rain. The time they chose was unlucky. The sky was clear for several days, and there was no sign of rain. Fortunately, they did not waste this time. Instead, they stayed in a hotel by the sea. They went to play on the beach when they had free time, and went back to rest when they were tired.

Morris, a perfectionist, could have used a water truck to make it look like it was raining, but he said it didn't look realistic. Alex thought about it later and realized that it was indeed not realistic enough. On a big beach, no matter how much water was sprayed, there would be no sign of rain.

They waited like this for almost a week, and finally on Sunday, it rained. At this time, people who came out to play were scolding each other, and they were as happy as if they had found money. Hurry up and get ready for shooting, and shoot this set of shots in one go.

After filming the movie, Alex and the others planned to go back when the rain stopped. It was a heavy rainstorm and it lasted for a long time. There was so much water on the ground that the streets were flooded by rainwater. Pedestrians struggled to walk in the water, black cars could barely move, and each one was blocked on the street, unable to move.

Alex looked at the seemingly familiar scene in front of him, as if he had returned to China in the 21st century. At this time, the United States was in a period of rapid development. Many urban facilities were not perfect, the streets were muddy, and there were many cars and narrow roads. At this time, big cities like New York did not have the feeling of modern and luxurious cities of later generations. Only the rapid changes are memorable.

"Hmm! It smells so familiar!" Alex said, taking a deep breath of air.

"Haha, UUReading www.uukanshu.net Alex, if you don't stay in the house, why did you run out to watch the rain?"

Morris liked working with Alex. During the filming process, Alex asked him many questions. These questions can only be asked by those who have thought carefully. It can be seen that Alex is very interested in making movies and he likes to communicate with such people. At the same time, Alex's talent is astonishingly high, and he can often draw inferences from one instance to another.

Sometimes Alex was able to say something that inspired Morris too. Several scenes in the movie were reshot at Alex's suggestion, such as the scene where Joey mistakenly thinks he shot Reilly. Alex believes that the audience should be allowed to see the flight of the bullet after the shot is fired, which will increase the persuasiveness of the film.

Morris thought about it and felt that this suggestion was good, so he took additional shots of this sequence. He originally planned to save what he could, but failed to capture some details.

There are also hints that Joey is interested in cowboys at the beginning and end of the film, but these hints are not very obvious and can be easily ignored by the audience. At Alex's suggestion, a set of close-ups of Joey's chalk drawings were added to both the beginning and the end of the film. It was a little man riding a very slender horse. With such a few seconds of close-ups, Able to connect the audience back and forth.

In the film, Joey just wants to be a cowboy, and the clothes he wears are also jeans, so he picks up empty bottles again and again to exchange for money to ride horses. It is precisely because of this that he attracted the attention of the horse trainer, and finally informed his brother Reilly to come and find Joey. In this way, the clues of the film will be clearer and more reasonable.