Vol 2 Chapter 321: The biggest surprise in shooting

"I heard you went back to Canada a few days ago?"
Sitting on the sofa casually, Duke said to Alan Peggy in a chatty tone, "It should be winter soon, right?"
Alan Peggy nodded, "It's snowing all over my house, but it's going to start summer here. The world is really curious."
"Filmmaking is a process of experiencing the wonder of the world." Duke laughed. "You can discover the wonder of the sudden transition from winter to summer, and you can see why others are happy and sad."
After chatting with the little girl at random, seeing her gradually relax, Duke changed the subject again, "I heard Kate say, you are very happy to play with her?"
"Yeah, I usually call Kate's mother." She reached out and hugged Kate Beckinsale's arm, "Kate likes me very much, and I like Kate very much."
"Then you should be very happy with Kate." Duke guided her, "Why was it so stiff just now?"
"Uh..." Alan Peggy shook his head, "I'm just a little nervous."
"Kate is your mother." Duke winked at Kate Beckinsale, and she immediately answered, "Yes, dear, when you used to get along with me, you weren't nervous at all."
∞, "I'm just..." She lowered her head, "I'm a little bit afraid of my performance."
"Now," Duke asked.
"I will prove myself!"
Children around ten years old are in the age group to be competitive and eager, "waiting to be optimistic."
"I am waiting."
Duke clicked on her with his finger and was about to stand up and go back behind the monitor, but the the opposite side suddenly got closer, lowered her voice, and said in a tone that only the three of them could hear. "Can I ask you a question? I have been thinking about it for a long time. If I don't know the answer, curiosity will continue to torment me."
"Hello," Duke said nonchalantly.
"That..." Alan Peggy turned to look at Kate Beckinsale, stuck out his tongue, and asked. "Are all Hollywood directors as patient as you?"
"You will understand later." Duke smiled and left here.
In the subsequent shooting, Alan Peggy’s performance was still a little tight, but it was much better than during the trial shooting. In addition, talent is sometimes something that hard work cannot replace. With re-shooting again and again, her performance gets better and better. Even in Duke's view, if the next shooting. If Alan Page was adjusted by him, he would be able to compete with the performance of Scarlett Johansson in "The Horse Whisperer".
Especially after the three, when shooting the fourth, anyone can see Alan Peggy’s tremendous progress. Compared with this amazingly talented girl, Kate Beckinsale is really pure After performing, Duke didn't know what her best talent was. But it's definitely not a show.
As an actor, Kate Beckinsale's talent can only be said to be very general.
Subsequently. The rivalry with police officer Michael played by Liam Neeson also fully exposed her shortcomings.
Liam Neeson has been in Hollywood for so many years, and he is not known for his outstanding acting skills. His talent can only be considered mediocre, but Kate Beckinsale is obviously inferior to him and is not a grade.
Duke looked at the picture on the monitor. He did not stop immediately.
Kate Beckinsale’s character, Catherine’s husband, was a bank escort. He was shot dead when he encountered a robbery. Michael, who was in charge of investigating the case, came to inform her that the family happiness with his daughter just disappeared instantly. . Sadness permeated every corner of this home.
According to the requirements of the script and the scene, Kate Beckinsale needs to express a variety of emotions such as shock, disbelief, unwillingness and grief, but her beautiful face is really a bit stiff, despite these expressions It can be done, but the traces of the performance are too obvious.
In other words, she is acting for acting.
"stop!"
Duke finally called to stop, and at the same time asked the assistant to call Kate Beckinsale over, pointed to the replayed screen on the monitor and said, "Can you see your problem?"
"Yeah." Kate Beckinsale looked at it for a while and nodded.
"You have ten minutes to adjust."
After Duke finished speaking, Kate Beckinsale walked to the temporary resting place, and a makeup artist immediately followed to make up for her.
After ten minutes walked quickly, Kate Beckinsale's performance was a little better after starting shooting again, but the improvement was too limited.
The moment when a person suffers a huge emotional impact is often the place where acting is the most sophisticated. In just a few seconds, several expressions change continuously, let alone the current Kate Beckinsale, even if she starred in " It was also extremely difficult to achieve this when Fan Haixin was at its most brilliant.
In this case, there is no need to say anything about the play. The requirements of the actors in the scene are clear at a glance. Duke cannot give Kate Beckinsale much performance guidance. As a professional actor, she is much better than Duke in acting. Up.
"Cut!"
After the nth call to stop, even if Duke is not a director of the style of James Cameron, his voice gradually became angry. The half-afternoon time passed in one shot, and the entire crew could not accompany an actor. Endless consumption of time.
"Sorry……"
The crew took a break, and Kate Beckinsale knew that this was entirely her problem, and ran over to apologize to Duke.
"Maintain your best condition."
Getting angry will not solve any problems, Duke thought for a while and said, "I will make appropriate adjustments."
Since the actors couldn't do it, in order to shoot according to the plan, he, the director, had to make some adjustments. Such adjustments would not have a big impact on the film. The actors were more affected.
In fact, the adjustment is very simple. Just now, the lens has been showing Kate Beckinsale a close-up of the front, reducing the close-up to her whole person, and adjusting the camera to the side to shoot, then her acting defects will be covered up.
Under normal circumstances, the director will not treat the main actors in this way. An actor can only leave a deep enough impression on the audience if he shows his face in close-up on the camera. If it is not for the director to deliberately complete the actor, or the actor is actually It is not up to the requirements. Few directors will give a main actor a side shot when he needs a frontal close-up.
Yes, Duke can continue shooting for this shot. Strictly speaking, the crew has enough time.
But the problem is that he discovered through these nearly twenty times that Kate Beckinsale's plasticity is very general, and the degree of progress after repeated repetitions can only be said to be better than nothing, and there is no need to waste time.
Sure enough, vases and vampires with tight faces that don't need expressions are the most suitable characters for her.
Duke can only come to this conclusion. Performing this kind of thing, like most industries in the world, has the same talent requirements. People without talent often need to work ten times or more to be outstanding. Performance.
Kate Beckinsale may go to an independent film to hone for five to ten years, and the acting skills will be greatly improved, but it is absolutely impossible to make a film in a short time.
Besides, with her appearance conditions and the acting skills that can reach the base line, as long as she is lucky, she is enough to live comfortably in this circle.
How many actresses are willing to give up making vases to easily make money and gain fame, and hone their acting skills in the extremely low-income and chaotic independent film circle?
What's more, how many of them can really get their heads in the independent film circle?
Seeing the crew adjust the camera position, Kate Beckinsale immediately understood Duke’s intentions, her face was a little ugly, but Duke would not care about her thoughts at all, wasting time was a waste of money, he was the crew. The director and producer of, apart from Warner Bros., made the decision without explaining to anyone.
The filming restarted very quickly. After only two ngs, Duke shouted through, and today's filming ended.
The shooting of a film is a long-term process. The director is the leader in the shooting, and in a position like Duke, it is definitely the master of the entire crew. The crew of "One Hundred Thousand Rush", like other crews, needs a process of running-in. After a relatively slow and jerky operation in the first week, the crew started in mid-November and gradually became more mature. The actors in various positions gradually found their best conditions. The overall filming went smoothly.
It's just that after that adjustment, Kate Beckinsale obviously had some opinions about Duke, but Duke didn't care. Whether it was a movie or an actress was important, he didn't have to make a choice.
Compared to Kate Beckinsale, whose performance traces are heavy, Jennifer Love Hewitt, who was born as a youth idol, gave Duke some surprises. In the past month, apart from rehearsing plays and studying role scripts, she has Part of the time was spent in a drug rehabilitation facility in the suburbs of Wellington, interacting with girls who really took drugs.
There may not be a reward for paying, but there is absolutely no reward for not paying. Jennifer Love Hewitt's rebellious drug addict daughter is definitely the biggest surprise in the filming this time.
"I really value this role."
Outside of filming, she would also come to take the initiative to exchange roles with Duke, and occasionally talk about other topics, "From the beginning, I was regarded as a youth idol. This is my biggest capital, but It’s too difficult for idols to transform, and I finally met such a suitable role."
Jennifer Love Hewitt looked at Duke earnestly and said, "I know very well that my idol road is coming to an end soon. If I don’t seize the opportunity or work hard, Hollywood will soon forget. Who am I. As long as I can meet your requirements, I am willing to pay any price. If you think that my performance is not enough, I can take drugs and then film the role of the characters who take drugs and go crazy." (To be continued... )