[US Entertainment] Actor

Leonardo spent five full days on the set of "Batman Begins" before leaving the studio with his head held high under Christopher Nolan's seemingly murderous eyes.

Mr. Director's livid face made Ebert tighten his heart. Nolan was angry. If he accidentally made a mistake, Mr. Director would be happy to let him feel the storm.

Although staying with Leonardo was very happy, the behavior of this guy slapping his ass and leaving and leaving Nolan the Devil to him still made Ebert very contemptuous.

However, perhaps due to the nourishment of love, Ebert's performance in the past half month has even surpassed the most attentive stage at the beginning of the filming. Nolan is undoubtedly the person who felt the deepest in the entire crew. Other actors will only think that Ebert's performance is in line with his status as an Oscar candidate. Only Nolan knows, from the supporting role in "White Night" to "Bat" The only male protagonist in Xia: Mystery of Shadow, Ebert's progress is almost leaps and bounds.

"White Night" is a relatively unsuccessful work directed by Christopher Nolan so far. Although the adaptation of the original Norwegian film is still a success, and the box office of the film has made Warner Bros. a big profit, the performance in the film critics and awards has been disappointing. Nolan was extremely disappointed. Not only could it not compare with Nolan's highest-rated "Memory Fragments", it could not even compare with his debut "Following", which cost only $6000.

The casting of the Oscar-winning actor and actress, the well-received original work, and the vigorous promotion of Warner Bros. have not allowed the film to receive more praise and praise.

As a supporting role, although Ebert's performance is remarkable, and his successful interpretation of the role also allowed him to walk out of the low ebb caused by "The Girl Cheerleader's Adolescence", but compared with the creative and outstanding performance in "The Pentium Era", "White Night" is really nothing.

Although Christopher Nolan has been cooperating harmoniously with Warner Bros., he has not given up on the idea of ​​directing a movie independently. A big company like Warner Bros. usually means that the filming of a movie will face many constraints. Or there is not much autonomy in choosing a director.

For example, "White Night Chase", or the "Batman" series that Warner will pull out and shoot again in a few years.Nolan is always following the script provided by Warner. In fact, as a director, he is more used to writing a script by himself before shooting.

The time quickly transitioned to September, and the filming of the film also entered the second half.Ebert has been on the set for more than 9 months since Ebert joined the filming. The signed contract has arranged for a total of 4 months of filming time. If there is no accident, he should be able to return to Los Angeles about half a month in advance. .

Although the time of more than 4 months seems very short, for Ebert, too many things have happened in these more than 100 days. Sometimes he can only marvel in retrospect. In this way, he solved his lifelong event.

Of course, when he went to Alaska to film "White Night", he probably never expected that a chance encounter on the plane would lead to his relationship with Leonardo.

Things are always so strange.Just like he didn't think that he would become good friends with Toby one day after taking "The Pentium Era", just like he didn't expect that movie would bring him so many unexpected honors and gains.

It might be argued that shooting Nolan's films has always brought him emotional luck.

The American film market in the second half of the year has been calm, but when autumn comes, the approach of the awards season always fills Hollywood with a restless atmosphere. Although Ebert is far away in Chicago, he also feels the radiation of the awards season ——After it was rumored that he might win another Oscar with "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", the reporters who came to the crew to interview him never stopped.

Nolan was so disturbed that he specially added security posts near the studio to stop the all-pervasive reporters. At the same time, he also warned Ebert not to focus on things other than filming. Of course, after learning that Ebert had won several Nolan also congratulated him after he was nominated for a prestigious award.

At this time, there is naturally no shortage of Leonardo who is extremely eager for awards. On the night when the nominations for a certain award were announced, Leonardo called Ebert-the two of them had a conversation over there After the evening, they developed by leaps and bounds, and they were so frequent that they became mutual hotlines.

""The Aviator" has not yet been released, and samples have been handed over to the organizing committees of major awards. Martin and the others think my performance is not bad, and I should get an Oscar nomination or other awards, but I don't have many Confidence." Leonardo sighed, since the relationship was confirmed, Ebert rarely heard him in such an annoyed tone, "What do you think, Ebert, you don't want to give me a word of encouragement?"

"I think you can get an Oscar nomination, Howard Hughes is a good character, Martin Scorsese is a good director, and you are a good actor."

"Ha! This is the most beautiful thing I've heard in so many days!" Leonardo's hearty laughter came from the other end of the phone, "Honey, I found you are a boring guy, I always thought You are not very good at talking, now that you think about it, it’s just that you don’t want to say it. As long as you want, you can say love words that are a hundred times sweeter than this sentence.”

"That's because I'm only telling you."

The other end of the phone was silent for several seconds, and it took a long time for Ebert to hear Leonardo's annoyed voice: "Oh, Ebert, I really can't do anything about you. Don't say any more, why don't we come Talk about movies, or I suspect you'll just choke me speechless."

"Well, dear Leo, though I've never noticed you have such a thin skin before."

The two chatted until the pointer pointed to 11 o'clock before hanging up the phone.Ebert felt sleepy immediately after the call ended. He rubbed his swollen head, ran to the bathroom, took a shower, and lay down on the bed waiting to fall asleep.

Ebert feels that people always need motivation. Before that, he would feel sleepy if he went to bed a little later. Unless it was to study the script, he would never stay up late. But now, when he talks on the phone, his eyes light up, Energetic, he felt drowsy after the fight.

Sure enough, he actually has great potential, but he has never been in love in his previous life, and he has not noticed his passion other than making movies.He just started to try it in this life, and he felt that he liked this unique feeling very much.

Of course, apart from being in love, Ebert did not forget about filming.

"Batman Begins" has gradually come to an end.At the end of the movie, Bruce Wayne finally discovered the identity of Duka. He is the real Las A. Gu. After the mansion, the "Shadow Fighters Alliance" used the machine to evaporate the poisonous gas. Bruce was rescued by the old butler Alfred, put on the Batman's shirt again, and started the battle with Lars A. Gu.

The last few scenes are still more action scenes. Ebert climbed up and down under the control of Wia, jumped on the train and fought with Liam Neeson as the end of the movie.

When Christopher Nolan announced that the filming was completely over, Ebert had already taken off his costume and applauded loudly in celebration, but he had just run a few steps when he felt a pain in his ankle——

The young Batman actor was not overwhelmed by the fierce battle on the iceberg, in the sea of ​​​​fire, and in the poisonous fog, but when the filming ended and everything was moving in a happy direction, his legs cramped.

While the rest of the crew embraced Nolan to treat the guests, Ebert could only stay in the hotel and rest bitterly.He was even ridiculed mercilessly by Gary Oldman: "Liam, who is in his early 50s, is healthy until now, but poor Ebert has leg cramps. Boy, let's exercise more!"

Ebert said that his physical fitness is many times stronger than that of his peers. The reason why he is not as good as Liam Neeson is because Batman's action scenes are much more than Duka, and Liam Neeson Neeson is a macho who has been training in the fight club since he was 9 years old. Although he has no similarities with tough guy actors such as Bruce Willis and Jason Statham in appearance, Liam with glasses looks more like A polite scholar.

However, in fact, Liam Neeson's fatherly and tough guy image in "Taken" in 08 gave his career a second spring. The film raked in more than 2500 million US dollars at a small cost of 2 million. The performance was equally outstanding, making Liam Neeson, who was already 56 years old at the time, a representative of Hollywood's tough guy actor.

This undoubtedly proves the importance of mastering one more new technology for actors.Compared to Liam Neeson's performance in "Schindler's List," it's hard to imagine him becoming a stalwart of action actors in the future.

Reminiscent of Liam Neeson's future development, Ebert had to lament the magic of the Hollywood film market again.When Liam Neeson took over the role of "Batman Begins", his salary was only more than 100 million US dollars. When "Taken" and other works he starred in were all smashed at the box office, he successfully entered the 2000 million US dollar club You know, Liam Neeson was already an old man over 60 at that time.

This is simply a curve that rises rapidly as it goes backwards. It is completely opposite to the development trajectory of most Hollywood actors, and it is nothing more than a salted fish turning around.

It's nothing more than pitiful resting in the hotel, but Leonardo actually stabbed Ebert with a knife at this time.

After falling in love, Leonardo, who has become a hundred times more arrogant than before, has always been picky with Ebert these days. Even if Ebert suffered from leg cramps, he would still be sarcastic. The reason is very simple——Ebert Burt and Katie Holmes have a kiss scene in Batman Begins.

Mr. Leonardo DiCaprio expressed his opinion about Ebert's leg cramps in this way: "It must have been kissed too deeply. You are so excited that your legs and feet are numb."

"Hey, Leo, this is needed for shooting!"

"Yes, it was necessary for filming, do you think I didn't take pictures, I even recorded a video. To tell you the truth, Ebert, you have a lot of my informants in your crew, I know how intoxicated you were at that time... ..."

Ebert swore that if the two were not talking on the phone but face to face, he would let Leonardo know what real "intoxication" was.

After thinking about it, he found it funny again. It seems that falling in love with Leonardo gave him the "commitment temperament" that was popular on the Internet in his previous life. At that time, he was very silent most of the time, and rarely expressed his emotions. At this level.

In any case, the filming of "Batman Begins" has ended, and Ebert can finally unload his burden and take a good rest for a while.

This movie has a lot of action scenes, and the acting skills of the actors are not very high, but because Nolan insisted on the authenticity of the shooting, the transnational shooting and the grand setting of the scene also made it the longest shooting span since Ebert's filming. movies, which took longer than Pirates of the Caribbean.

Ebert thinks that he has exhausted his prehistoric energy when filming "The Age of Pentium" and "Pirates of the Caribbean", but compared with "Batman Begins", the hard work in the past is nothing worth mentioning.

After the filming of this film, there are only two short months left in 2004. Although Ebert wanted to leave Hollywood for a while and go to other places for a vacation, the intensive shooting plan and the arrival of the awards season made him all plan fell through. In February 2, "Pirates of the Caribbean 05" will start filming. After the second part, Disney intends to use the original studio and location to continue filming the third part. Judging from the news released, Disney does have such a plan.

In addition to "Pirates of the Caribbean", there is also "The Departed".

In fact, from the beginning of this year until the second half of next year, it will be difficult for Ebert to find a time to rest.First, the Golden Globe Awards, Oscars, then the promotion of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", and then the filming of "Batman Begins", his every day is almost full of schedules, but now, he can only Take advantage of the rest of the week after filming to continue working on awards season nominations and awards.

Leonardo is no easier than Ebert.The "Aviator" he starred in has received very good reviews in the industry. Although the film has not yet been officially released, judging from the nominations for major awards during the awards season, Martin Scorsese's new work is undoubtedly the next year's Oscar winner. Strong contender.

Although some media have been bad-mouthing the movie since "The Aviator" won some awards, Leonardo has always had a positive attitude.

Martin Scorsese is not favored by the Oscars, which is a reality that countless people in the industry know.Although this director became one of the "Four Directors of the 80s" early on, his works are quite abundant, almost every year, and his Oscar nominations can kill most of his opponents in seconds, but since he broke out in Hollywood in the 70s, Since his fame, he has never had a work that allowed him to get the highest honor in the director's circle.

On the one hand, Oscar is born with Los Angeles blood, but Martin Scorsese is a director with New York in his bones.On the other hand, Oscar is also a stage that is good at whitewashing peace. What Martin Scorsese expresses is too sharp. His works can always analyze the dark side of the bottom of society. For those who favor peace, dreams, hope and other positive energy Martin Scorsese is undoubtedly an outlier in terms of Oscars.