[US Entertainment] 1994

"Good morning, Josh, how are you feeling today?" Gus Van Sant warmly greeted Josh as soon as he arrived at the studio.

Josh smiled at him: "I'm fine, Gus, how about you?"

"It can't be better. I have a hunch that today's shooting will go very smoothly."

After greeting each other, Josh sat on a chair and read the script. In fact, he had already memorized the script by heart. He even memorized the lines of other actors in his heart, but Josh enjoyed the feeling of reading the script at this moment. One by one The fate of the characters is doomed by a few words, imprisoned in the script, but the audience can remember their sorrows and joys for a lifetime.

This is probably the magic of the movie.

Today's scene is a follow-up to yesterday's scene, in which Scott meets his father, and the two have a conversation.

The actor Tom Tropp who plays Scott's father is 62 years old this year. He has rich experience and many works. His filming years can be traced back to the end of the 50s. He is definitely a familiar face.

"Ready, Josh?"

"Of course!"

Josh made a V-shaped gesture to indicate that he was ready.

At the desk, the father and son sat and stood, their expressions were not gentle, Josh didn't care, and Tom Tropp, who played his father, was sad and disappointed.

"Could it be that God is punishing me on purpose, you are wasting your youth and wasting your life like this, God is punishing me for the wrong things I did in the past, I came back from France and settled down in Clark County, and saw your cousin Bill Davis's farm , he has more heart than you to inherit my career."

When Tom Tropp was performing, Josh was always standing opposite the table, with a blank expression on his face, only staring at Tropp with his eyes, the whole person seemed to be floating in the sky, losing interest in everything.

It doesn't matter, it's also a struggle.

Josh has analyzed the role of Scott. In the script, his setting is indeed not as good as Mike, but this does not mean that there is nothing worth discovering about Scott. His rebellion is largely due to his desire to get rid of the original character. life, free from the pressures his father put on him, so it's not so much that Scott isn't interested in anything, but that he just shuts himself up and keeps himself from getting hurt.

"He's younger than you. He works for a senator and lobby for businessmen. He has a five-year plan to save the forest..." Tom Tropp sighed heavily, like a father who really cares about his children, "But I have to think of you, how decadent you are..."

Tropp lowered his voice slowly, shook his head slightly, and expressed his disappointment with Scott with both language and body.

In Josh's opinion, Tropp's performance is not very talented, but after all, he has been an actor for 33 years, and acting has been integrated into his bone marrow. His performance is more of the accumulation of years of experience. Rather than the shocking performance unique to the real acting school.

"Don't do this, father, you will find out that this is not true." Josh looked down at Tropp, and his voice was deliberately lowered by him, "I will forgive those who speak ill of me, and when the time comes I will completely change my mind and become a good boy like him."

Tom Tropp looked at Josh.

Josh also looked at him.There was the warmth of a son towards his father in his eyes. At this moment, Josh was not as rebellious as he was at the beginning. He walked lightly to Tom Tropp and hugged his waist: "Bill Davis is a good cousin of mine, and I don't think you should value him so much, Dad, and I will die to win your love back."

Undoubtedly, this is a classic line in Shakespeare style. In the script of "Uninhibited Sky", a large part of the lines come from Shakespeare's plays. Therefore, in the column of screenwriters of the script, the name William Shakespeare is the first Before Gus Van Sant.

The scene was played out quickly, and for Josh, such a role was not difficult, but his performance still received loud praise from Gus Van Sant.

Josh smiled and looked at Mr. Director: "Gus, I'm easy to be proud when you praise me like that."

"But you deserve a story like this, Josh."

The next thing to be filmed is the scene between Josh and Rui Fan.

In the script, Mike wanted to go to Idaho to find his brother, and the two embarked on a journey of searching together.Josh struggled to start the motorcycle while Rui Fan spoke his lines.

"I feel like this road is a broken face, and it's here to set me free."

In the evening, the crew once again worked overtime and filmed a night scene.

This is the most exciting scene in the entire script, which can be said to be the essence of the movie, and it is also this scene that reveals the ending of Mike and Scott's rupture.

The filming of the scene has not yet started, the other actors have already withdrawn, and only Josh and Rui Fan are present.

Josh looked at Rui Fan suspiciously: "Did I mess with you recently?"

Rui Fan was silent at first, but Josh insisted again and again, he could only reply slowly: "No."

"Are you sure?" Josh raised his eyebrows, "Then why are you ignoring me?"

"No."

"Is that supposed to be my illusion?"

"Ah."

Josh hunched over with a dazed look on his face.Now he was [-]% sure that he had offended Rui Fan. Although this guy was silent, he was not as cold as he was today.Josh scratched the back of his head, where did he offend Rui Fan?

"Are you still angry about the scene the day before yesterday?" He gently pushed Rui Fan, "It's just for the plot, you don't need to take it seriously."

"Do you think I took advantage of you? You can't blame me. I liked the role of Mike from the beginning. If you are not happy, you can replace me."

Rui Fan, who had a cold face for a long time, finally gave Josh a look: "Shut up."

"Hey, River Phoenix, can you be reasonable? Aren't we friends?"

Rui Fan didn't speak again.

Josh looked at the starry sky helplessly: "I have always regarded you as a friend. If you have offended you, you must tell me. Don't let me guess like a fool. I don't know anything."

"No, you didn't offend me."

Rui Fan's cold face finally disappeared, but this time, he gave Josh a meaningful look, but the meaning was so rich that Josh didn't understand what he meant at all.

But before Josh had time to think more, Gus Van Sant announced the start of filming. The cost of night scenes was high, so Josh had no time to think about other things, and devoted himself to filming.

The dialogue in this scene was expanded by River Phoenix. Gus Van Sant wrote only 3 pages of the original script, which only described the subtle relationship between Mike and Scott. Phoenix expanded it to 8 pages , showing Mike's admiration for Scott. Compared with the two, it is obvious that Phoenix's expansion is better, and Gus Van Sant adopted his version.

I have to say that Phoenix is ​​really a very talented actor. Under his description, the originally plain lines immediately become sufficient and rich. Mike's emotion for Scott is not weak, but three-dimensional and vivid. Vivid.

In the version shot by Keanu Reeves, Reeves himself opposed Rui Fan's approach. Although he himself did not oppose homosexuality, he could not accept having sex with men. For him, the movie The acting in is undoubtedly tough.

Josh, who was born gay, has no obstacles in this regard at all.

When Rui Fan came to ask him for his opinion, Josh accepted Rui Fan's rewriting without even moving his brows. Although Rui Fan left with confidence, he didn't know if it was an illusion. Josh always felt that Rui Fan looked at him in the eyes strange.

"Boys, start your show!"

Beside the campfire, Josh was lying on the ground leisurely: "It feels good to be free from everything."

Phoenix poked the fire: "Yeah, that's great."

Phoenix lowered his head and stared intently at the fire: "If I had a normal family and a good upbringing, then I would be a normal person."

Josh smiled: "That depends on what you think is normal."

"Yeah, normal, you know, like a man has a father and a mother, and a dog, normal, normal."

It has to be said that there is a reason why River Phoenix's acting skills have been well received. When the movie started shooting, he showed a Mike with a personality disorder in front of everyone, and in this scene, only Josh With the two of him, in a quiet and dark atmosphere, his personal expressiveness reached its peak at this moment.

Focused, neurotic, lonely.

This made Josh even more stressed.

"So, you don't have a normal dog?" Josh looked at Rui Fan with a trace of pity in his concentration.

"No, I've never had a dog."

"There are no dogs and no normal fathers."

River Phoenix sobbed: "It's okay, I don't feel sorry for myself, I mean, I think I'm a normal personality."

Josh snorted softly and pulled out a depressed smile. He continued to look at Rui Fan. Although he didn't get a response from the other party, his eyes were still focused on the other party. "What is a normal father?"

"I do not know."

At this moment, the eyes of Josh and Rui Fan finally met.

One was sitting, the other was lying down, beside the bonfire, the expressions of both of them were a little unnatural, probably because of the darkness, they found a resonance, and some words that they dared not say during the day also had a place to vent.

"Two outstanding young men." Photographer Edwards said to Gus Van Sant, keeping his eyes on the two. "The performance of the two of them is really amazing!"

"At first I thought that Rui Fan would be better, after all, the character is more brilliant, and Rui Fan's acting skills are also recognized, but Josh - I swear, he did a great job, and most importantly, he was discovered by me. baby, before anyone finds out how good he is."

"But, you know, I don't think I... I don't think we are close, I mean we are very close, now we are very close but you know..." Rui Fan seemed to have tied his mouth, and kept repeating the same sentence.

But because of this, he vividly showed Mike's eagerness to confess but was unable to speak out.

Josh moved his body vigorously, and slowly approached Rui Fan: "How close?"

He was joking, because Scott had no idea what Mike was going to say next.

"What do I mean to you?"

Josh raised his eyebrows, his expression still gentle. He thought this was just an ordinary conversation between him and Mike, and it was no different from previous conversations: "What do you mean to me? Mike, you are my best friend."

"I know we're friends, we're good friends, and that's fine."

Josh looked at him: "So?"

"So... nothing, we can be friends."

Mike's hesitation, apprehension, and stuttering finally made Scott aware of his mood, but Scott's next words made him fall into hell.

"I sleep with people for money, two men cannot love each other."

Phoenix's hands moved uneasily, twisted together: "I mean, for me, sometimes people don't give me money, and I will fall in love with him... I love you, and you don't have to pay me money."

Josh's face fell into a dull moment at this moment, but soon, tenderness floated on his cheeks again, but this tenderness just represented cruelty.

Because Scott couldn't understand Mike's mood.

His tenderness could be given to Mike, as usual, but he could not give love.

"I would love to kiss you...goodnight...I love you."

Phoenix was already incoherent during this conversation. He curled up and hugged himself into a ball. Josh tried to step forward to comfort him, but he hesitated when he heard the phrase "I love you", his hands Hanging in the air, he didn't take another half step forward in the end.

"I really love you……"

The author has something to say: This movie has more plots, because I personally like this part better, and I feel like crying when I see the movie.