The play just now is undoubtedly wonderful, Damien can clearly feel it.
It turns out that opponent plays can be so superb. Damien could have felt it when he was shooting Fletcher slapping Andrew in the face; Today, however, they go up to a higher level, active and passive, upper and lower, control and anti control, bondage and break free. All the tension is permeated in the performance of the two actors, and with the progress of drumming, they complete the changes with ups and downs, which is amazing.
Damien had no way to look away from Langley.
Lenley's performance really shows the essence of art, not only Andrew's drum, but also lenley's acting skills.
Even if Damien is a layman in acting, he also knows that for actors, such a state of explosion requires a lot of energy and physical strength; Moreover, actors can't always be at the top, just as athletes can't always break the world record.
But the first reaction in Damien's mind was that he needed a close-up shot.
To be more precise, he needs to supplement the performance details of the two actors, and capture all the details of confrontation and transformation, especially the performance of Langley. If only the drumming is shown in the camera, it will be too wasteful. Damien originally thought that drumming is drumming, and all the performances and emotions are hidden in the drumming. It is very difficult to perform, but he obviously underestimated and miscalculated Langley.
There are so many thoughts in my mind that when I blurt out, the words become, "but... But we still need to make up the camera."
There was no end to it. All the people on the scene were looking at Damien. They were looking at Damien as if they were on their back.
Even without these visual reminders, Damien realized that he had caused a misunderstanding. He closed his eyes in chagrin, quickly sorted out his thoughts, cleared his throat, and quickly explained, "it's not your performance. Your performance is excellent! Perfect, I'm serious, it's perfect! "
"It's just that I need to add some close-up shots, including lenley's eyes, hands and back. The tension of these details is really excellent. I hope that I can use the fast editing method to fit with the drum, and further push the tension of the play to the extreme." Damien quickly expressed his idea, "of course, JK is the same, I need to do some big close-up."
Andrew's transformation.
Fletcher's transformation.
There's also the transformation of jazz bands and drums.
If we can combine the three together and use the film art editing method to complete the arrangement and combination, it is bound to be a very interesting thing. Damien was ready to try.
"I know, you're working very hard now, but... But..." with that, Damien was embarrassed and ravaged his instant noodles.
Looking at Damien scratching his head, he was about to pull out his hair. He was nervous and annoyed. He was completely in a dilemma. The smile at the corner of lanli's mouth rose slightly. After all, he didn't continue to embarrass Damien. He said in a relaxed tone, "I have no problem."
Shooting and acting, that's what actors do.
Most of the time, actors are actually the pieces in the hands of the director. Even if the actors are competitive, big and excellent, they still have to shoot again and again for the pictures and shots in the eyes of the director. A really good director should know how to use actors skillfully and bring their talents and abilities into full play.
Damien has been regarded as a merciful director. Tony Kaye, the "detached" director, is a model of negative teaching materials, and Wong Kar Wai, the "king of sunglasses", is a model of torturing actors.
When he was shooting "spring burst", Leung Chao Wei agreed to shoot the work in Buenos Aires because of the invitation of Wong Kar Wai when he didn't know anything, even the role and script were uncertain——
Of course, at the beginning of the shooting, even the director didn't know what he wanted to shoot. There was only one frame, which was beyond recognition in the later shooting, almost thinking while shooting.
At that time, Tony Leung had other films with him. It was just for Wong Kar Wai and Cheung Kwok Jung that he went to Argentina to shoot this work. He had previously agreed with sunglasses king that he could only stay in Argentina for a period of time. After the time expired, he had to rush back to Hong Kong.
The king of sunglasses nodded and agreed.
However, after entering the production group, sunglasses King filmed and thought while shooting. He filmed a play 70 or 80 times over and over again. He didn't tell the two actors what he was looking for, so he let them wander in front of the camera. It was an endless ordeal for the actors and the crew. Later, the play was filmed for nearly two weeks, As a result, all of them were deleted in the finished film, and there was no picture left.
This also led to Tony Leung running out of time and having to go back ahead of time. However, sunglasses king seized Liang Chaowei's passport directly and refused to release him. He left Liang Chaowei in the cast for a long time, so that the latter was almost depressed. After the shooting, Liang Chaowei almost fled back to Hong Kong, cursing and complaining to sunglasses king.
However, the king of sunglasses didn't care. Later, when he was preparing to shoot "in the mood for love", he found Liang Chaowei again.
Compared with the king of sunglasses, Damien is really a very amiable director, even guilty and shy. This is really a very interesting thing.
Looking at Damien in front of him, the smile at the corner of lanli's mouth bloomed.
People who are familiar with lanli can feel that at this moment, it is lanli, not Andrew, who is sitting behind the drum. At this moment, although lanli's energy and physical strength are slightly tired, the overall state is still stable, and the whole person seems to be full and energetic. This is really a rare situation.
Far from it, during the shooting period of "pop drummer", the boundary between lanli and Andrew was always blurred, which made people confused. Sometimes, in the face of lanli, "Andrew" could not help but blurt out his voice. Later, he was in prison and was besieged by paparazzi; But today, that feeling is fading.
This is a kind of illusory feeling, like meeting a pair of twins, sometimes it is impossible to distinguish clearly, but sometimes it can be recognized immediately. It's the temperament of the other party, and it's also your own intuition.
It's not an illusion. The same is true.
Langley's awake now. He can really feel the core meaning of Expressionism. Actors can immerse themselves in the role, but they can't get lost in the role. Otherwise, it's difficult for him to keep the performance at a high level. After the feeling of losing control lasts for a long time, the whole performance will gradually lose control.
However, lanli can not be regarded as an expressionist or a Methodist. He has broken the shackles of different factions and methods and found his own way of performance. Although it's just the beginning, the overall feeling has begun to change. So, he's very sober now.
At this moment, Langley can put himself into shooting again at any time. What Damien is worried about will not happen.
"I have no problem." After Lan Li simply said that, he turned to look at Simmons and cast his eyes to ask.
Later, Langley can be aware that Simmons has not been able to take off the play.
Simmons is still completely immersed in Fletcher's state. He is excited, timid, excited and reverent. His contradictory state of mind makes him deeply immersed in his own thoughts, which no one can know——
Maybe, at the moment, Simmons is replaying the performance over and over again in his mind; Maybe Simmons is imagining the problem after Andrew became Charlie Parker; Maybe Simmons is marveling at Andrew's skill; Maybe Simmons is reflecting on the little things he had taught Andrew; Or maybe Simmons is imagining the moment when he will break the shackles and reach the peak
The wonderful world in Simmons' mind is unknown to outsiders.
But his whole person seems to be in a trance. Standing in front of him, he seems to be isolated from the world, forming a space of his own, floating and sinking in the crevice between reality and film.
Langley is slightly worried, because after Andrew's patricide, Fletcher is on the weak side. No one knows what kind of ideas he will have and how he will deal with this situation. Everyone is different. Now Simmons's idea is the same. If he doesn't pay attention, he may go to another extreme - collapse.
It's not shown in the movie, and how Simmons actually guessed Fletcher's psychology is all unknown.
It's not a joke. In reality, it has happened, is happening, and will continue to happen. In fact, Hollywood's top actors, more or less equipped with their own psychiatrists, must regularly relieve psychological pressure, otherwise, their work will be unsustainable.
There was a touch of worry in lanli's eyes, but he couldn't help, because everyone's situation was different, so he couldn't generalize. His understanding of Simmons was too limited, and he wasn't a psychologist; However, lanli is very good at dealing with such a situation - after all, he has experienced it more than once.
"Fletcher?" Lanli raised his voice and called, "wait for my cue."
In a simple word, just like a hypnotist's signal, he lifted Simmons's blockade, and his eyes gradually recovered. It seems that the situation of entering the play too deeply is not as serious as he thought.
However, Simmons was still a little surprised, and the sentence expression was also a little difficult, "what? What... What? "