Chapter 75: This part of my life is called "making a movie"

"The Smith family is out!"
No media in advance, no fan would have thought about this situation, they all think that the cast of "When Happiness Comes Knocking on the Door" is like this, unless Wang Yang persuaded to shoot Tom Hanks to film "The Rest of the Desert" Role, otherwise they will not be surprised. But they knew they were wrong. When they saw the latest announcement of the flame movie, "Christopher Gardner" will be played by Terry Smith, and Chris' wife "Linda" will be played by Jada Smith!
"It seems that Will Smith is very confident in this new film. Obviously he doesn't think it will happen." The family appeared in a bad film at the same time. Will he regret it one year later? But what is certain is that this year the light director is very happy now, this is his propaganda method, and it has succeeded. "
Undoubtedly, this news has brought great excitement to the fans, Will-Smith fans, father and son files, couple files ... Maybe Jaden Smith will come out and make a cameo, the whole family will be together, it is really interesting! Many people who were not interested in "When Happiness Comes Knocking on the Door" were also aroused by interest, and began to look forward to it. What kind of scene will the Smith family perform?
Wang Yang was indeed very happy. Once he found a suitable star performer, "the performance needs to be devoted to emotions. The experiential school is more about being 100% role-playing. Now the father-son relationship between Will and Chili is real. What performances are there? Is it more ideal than true interpretation? Secondly, as the media said, this is very beneficial to the promotion work, which will be a major attraction of the movie.
After confirming the lineup of the Chris-Gardner family, Wang Yang successfully found several other non-dragon role candidates, such as Mr. Toster who gave Chris an interview opportunity, and believed that the scanner was The "time machine" lunatics and others, these roles are not difficult to perform, but they are quite holding color, so the requirements for appearance and temperament are higher.
At the same time, the formation of the crew is also underway. The photography team is mainly based on the "High School Musical" team, and the photographer's post is precisely the role of Valais-Fez. "Wang Yang and his cooperation in" High School Musical " Very happy, cultivated a certain tacit understanding, the two are very happy to work together again; now is the fat man Leng Liyi George who is an assistant of Valais-Fis, and has also become a photographic assistant of the film, and has the opportunity of hands-on handheld Of course, the focus of the work is still on the handyman.
With regard to the photography style and color style of "When Happiness Comes to Knock", Wang Yang and Valais-Fister have discussed for many times and decided to shoot in a simple photography style with bright colors. Make appropriate changes based on the content of the story. At the beginning of the story, "Chris ’s life has not changed." The color is medium and bright, and when shooting street scenes, the picture should be slightly yellowed. When Chris struggles hard, the color can be dimmed; when he tries to persist , To the final success, the color will become more and more sunny and warm. If "High School Musical" is a bright summer sun "then" When Happiness Comes to Knock "is the warm morning light of autumn.
In addition to the photography team, Wang Yang, the set designer and costumer of the crew, also took a lot of thought to choose, which is different from "High School Musical", it is all campus settings and costumes. " More difficult; and the time in the movie "When Happiness Comes Knocking on the Door" is 1981. The 80s seems to be only a dozen years ago, but the world is changing with each passing day, no matter the city and people are constantly changing, if more Restoring the environment, clothes, etc. at the time was a very important task.
In fact, the original "When Happiness Comes Knocking on the Door" has quite a lot of "passing shots". For example, in 1981, the subway seats in San Francisco were brown. They were not blue; The twilight of the ut brand that appeared on the West Coast ... Although these details are not painful, the audience fans generally will not find it, nor will they go to the elaboration, but Wang Yang just wants to do more, maybe it is fault-finding, but there are fewer shots Less, this requires a very set designer.
Of course, some of the wearing lenses are intentional, because those are placement ads, like UTZ potato chips, there are many such ads in "When Happiness Comes to Knock", but Wang Yang does not want to do this kind of thing, those small ads can give The film brings three or four million sponsorships, which reduces the production cost of the film, but his purpose is to spend more time, and also to have the most effect of the film, deliberately let advertisements appear in the lens? No, that will easily affect To the dedication of the audience, let them shout "Please! "
Through the introduction of Robb's translation of Megis, Wang Yang tried to pray for Nancy Hagrid to be the set designer of the crew. This white woman in her 50s is "Forrest Gump" and "The World of Chumen" "And other film set designers, with the Oscar nomination for Best Art Direction Set" on hand, won the award and is the top set designer in Laywood.
But she refused Wang Yang, although she had just finished the work of Cohen Brothers' new work "Three Days of Jailbreak", and there was no new film contract; despite Wang Yang's sincerity, there was still a reward that was nearly double the market. There ’s no reason. In fact, it ’s still the one. She does n’t watch Wang Yang ’s
Director of Baby
biographical film; besides, his qualifications are not enough.
She is now with the Cohen Brothers, Tim Bolton, Rob The cooperation of top directors such as Izawa Miguel, Miracle Young? It's just a child.
After being rejected many times, Wang Yang did not continue to ask for fun. Under Will-Smith ’s bridge, he finally invited Gordon Yixin to join. The 40-year-old man was not bad. He was The set designer of "Breeze" that has not yet been released, and future masterpieces such as "Chicago" and "Pirates of the Caribbean 4", won the Oscar's best art director set by "Chicago". Of course, his current fame is just a "not bad" set designer.
Set decorator, prop master, costume master ... The work of setting up the crew is completed one by one. When everything is ready, all the members of "When Happiness Comes to Knock" go to San Francisco. The time has come to early October.
The weather in San Francisco in October is still so pleasant. As another center of the film industry, there are film crews working in the cities every month, and now it has ushered in a new crew, unfamiliar Wang Yang. In the next 2 months, Wang Yang will make movies in this "site", and today, they will officially start shooting the first set of lenses.
"When Happiness Comes Knocking on the Door" has several main indoor scenes, Chris Gardner's home, agency, subway station, etc .; and there are many exterior scenes "streets, parks, etc. As a grown up in the Bay Area Child, the scene selection is a very easy thing for Wang Yang. He used to walk around the Bay Area in the past, and once during the summer vacation, he and the girl came to a "walking through San Francisco" two-person activity. Whatever street view he wants, he can think of a bunch of places.
In the first scene of the boot, Wang Yang chose the "Chinatown Nursery" to exaggerate. He can move freely in Chinatown with his eyes closed. "Without any effort, Wang Yang found a small street that is very suitable for shooting. There is also a small nursery in the street, the same window that can be seen from outside, the same graffiti wall, and there are childlike wall paintings on it. Of course, there are no "" happy, ness, and "fu2k. ".
The street in front of the nursery is full of people, and the crew of the photography team is arranging and adjusting the equipment. "Harry George puts a film into the camera carefully; Will Smith wears a black suit , Wearing a brown tie, he sat with Chili-Smith while talking about the script, Jada and his personal assistant teased Jaden sitting in the bb car; Wang Yang and Varey-Fister discussed the shooting angle, Nodding from time to time. In the distance, there are some mass actors who are ready to play passers-by waiting to start.
"Director Yang!" Gordon shouted next to the graffiti wall. He took a bottle of black graffiti spray paint and looked at Wang Yang in the distance, shouting, "I'm going to start spraying!"
"Oh!" Wang Yang patted Varefis's shoulder. The detective quickly walked to the graffiti wall, holding a position and smiling: "Happyness sprayed here, remember not I, but U" Gordon Yi Xin smiled and pressed the spray paint. With the sound of "knowledge," a light black English word "Happyness" Gordon appeared on the wall and smiled: "OK" and waited for it to dry, I Deal with it again. "Wang Yang nodded and pointed to some of the above positions." Dame sprayed here, it should be bigger. "
"Gordon changed to a darker bottle of paint and started spraying.
The meaning of Wang Yang ’s failure to choose the word
Fu2k
lies in
aggravating the bad conditions of the nursery, further illustrating the poverty of Chris Gardner
and the helplessness of putting his son in such an environment. The effect of "Damn" is similar "and it's not swearing, Wang Yang wants to try to get the level of release as much as possible" Once it appears, it will definitely be PG-13 level.
Similarly, in several groups of daily life shots, Chris's wife "Linda" would wear a pajama and appear without wearing a bra.
There is another change in the nursery plot, that is, Mrs. Zhu, who is sour, is actually a person. This only needs a few lines and a few shots to change. Chris Gardner was so poor that he could n’t even pay the nursery ’s stack and dragged on for a long time, but Mrs. Zhu did not drive Christopher out. Instead, on the day when Chris was late to pick up the baby, Mrs. Zhu cooked a noodle for Christopher Although she opened a kindergarten without a word, she was very kind-hearted.
Is the bitter Mrs. Zhu true? This is not a fact ~ EbookFREE.me ~ because the fact is that Chris Gardner was in New York at the time, and Christopher did not go to the nursery. Why did you make this change? Wang Yang is part of Chinatown, he admits that there are some lower level nurseries here, this is no problem; but he is not happy that the only Chinese character in the movie, Mrs. Zhu, is a bad person. "This is San Francisco! It is Chinatown! He deserves it. Glory for here.
The two mothers quickly dried up, and Gordon Sim treated it again to make them look like they were sprayed up a long time ago, and when the scenes were set up, the crowd actors were all in place, and Will Smith stood up To the door of the nursery, the uncle who played Chinese who did not speak English also took a broom to sweep the fallen leaves and garbage on the ground.
Wang Yang stood behind the camera and looked at the crew around him, Vale-Fischer, Harry-George, and many old faces in the "High School Musical" crew. Are you ready? The second film movie! He smiled slightly, pointed his eyes at the viewfinder, and shouted: "Let's go!" With his words, Varey-Fiss reconnaissance activated the camera, and after the field service shouted the serial number, he knocked out "Da". The record is pulled.
"N!" Wang Yang raised his fist in excitement. This part of his life is called making a movie!
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