1871 Stuntman
"The rumored blue ceremony", this is an unsolvable problem, because there are so many rumors about the blue ceremony in Hollywood that it is impossible to identify, let alone find out the truth from it.
Everyone is eager to cooperate with Lan Li, but everyone is afraid to cooperate with Lan Li, Lan Li is the existence that stands at the top of the entire pyramid, which is admirable.
For the stuntmen actors, in fact, they have heard a lot of legends about Lan Li: the actor who scared Vin Diesel during the filming of "Fast and Exciting / Love 5", it is estimated that Lan Li is the first one in the world, and even Dwayne Johnson has no chance to fight with Diesel head-on;
Inevitably, they are all looking forward to seeing the actors in real life. Because the nature of the work of stuntmen is inherently different, they do not exist for acting, but for difficult scenes - to challenge the shooting of different scenes with their bodies, this is their job responsibility, so they are inevitably a little different from other crew members, and the relationship with the actors is also a little different.
Some actors disdain to be in the company of stuntmen because they don't think they are actors, while others become friends with stuntmen because they take on many dangers for them. Of course, in the final analysis, this is related to personality and attitude, how to behave in the world, etc., and cannot be generalized.
Because there are too many rumors about Lan Li, when the stuntmen see Lan Li, they will inevitably be a little apprehensive, and even have some gains and losses.
In particular, "Jurassic World" is a special production, where the main actors such as Lan Li and Bryce have their own stuntmen who are responsible for some skillful and dangerous scenes such as running, ramming, and beating, and there are also the four in front of you, although they are stuntmen, their main job is to become substitutes for motion capture technology - they are more like supporting roles without scenes than stand-ins.
This also means that they have a rivalry with Lan Li!
Even if it is the rivalry of the "taming the beast" relationship, it still makes the stuntmen excited, and now that they have only taken a look, the development of things has been slightly different: it is even more exciting than imagined!
"Are you really? I mean, if I'm acting a little more slender and cowardly, doesn't that matter?" Brad, who plays Echo, began, "I know that people have the impression of dinosaurs as ferocious and brutal, but I think even dinosaurs have different personalities and styles. Eco is a woman who can be more introverted, with a smaller range of movements, and even a different voice, which distinguishes her from the other three guys. β
After that, Brad added, "Of course, I know it's a stereotype of women, but what I'm thinking about now is to break the stereotype of dinosaurs and give the character more traits." β
Lan Li looked at Brad, who was a little hurried to explain, and chuckled, "I know, I know." β
"It's a very, very good idea, and in fact, we can bring in Colin and give him some advice, and in post-production, can our VFX team also be able to make some distinctions in terms of movement or eye in detail? I'm not an expert, I don't know if computer effects can do that, but if they could, I thought it would be a very interesting attempt. Lan Li's expression also became cheerful, looking left and right for Colin's figure.
Seeing it in the crowd, Lan Li waved his hand at Colin, and then continued, "I'm not sure if you guys participated in the script meeting, I once talked to Claire that the bond between Owen and the velociraptor is very special, everyone has seen that Owen can control the velociraptor but in fact Owen has established a connection with them, I think that if Owen can capture the different personalities of each velociraptor and during the training process, there are slight differences in tone, movement and demeanor, which is very important for the character, It's a very important addition to the story. β
"It's like everybody has their own personality, and I think the velociraptor also had its own character and edges, which is a great addition to the core of our story. Lan Li's thoughts were now becoming clearer, but he still needed more discussions to further improve.
Samuel, who was standing in front of Lan Li, was a little excited and a little restrained, and turned his head to look at his companions, "Lan Li, are you serious about what you just said......? But now ......"
"No, no, no. Please don't think like this, I always believe that performance is also an art, and artistic creation requires divergent thinking and collision inspiration. I think your ideas are fantastic, and they make up for some of the omissions we made in the script, you know, we're all a bunch of bastards standing in the spotlight, with no one in sight, no one else in sight, how can we see dinosaurs?"
The self-teasing joke made the four stuntmen chuckle, and then while he was talking, Colin had already walked over, "Lan Li, what are you still doing here, are the other actors ready to greet you?" Colin also nodded to the stuntmen next to him, but he didn't pay much attention.
"Colin, wait. Remember the last time we talked about how to convey some of Irving's qualities, certain skills to the audience quietly? We've found the right rhythm in our script, and if we add lines or details, it might get too bloated, and it's not an easy task, and I think my friends just solved this problem, as if they saved Irving in the movie, and now they've saved us. β
Lan Li introduced with great interest, and Colin couldn't help but be curious, and then Lan Li turned his head and cast his gaze, "How about it, aren't you going to tell the director those wonderful ideas yourself?" I can only say that in the crew, I can't call the shots, and those plans still need to be approved by the director." β
"Lan Li. Colin shook his head helplessly and said to the stuntmen in front of him, "You should know that Lan Li is just joking, right?"
"Hurry up, Pete, I remember you were the liveliest one just now, come on, you say. Seeing that the four stuntmen looked a little restrained, Lan Li directly began to name them.
All the staff of the crew were ready and in place, but the director and the actor both gathered around the stuntman and did not move for a long time, which made everyone else's eyes projected one after another, but there was no way - the biggest name in the crew was standing there, who dared to urge?
In the end, the other actors also gathered.
"Hey, Lanley, I'm Omar. A tall and strong black actor happened to look at Lan Li, and he took the initiative to introduce himself.
Omar-Sy (Omar-Sy), in 2011, became familiar to everyone with the French annual box office champion movie "Untouchable", and later participated in many Hollywood works one after another, "X-Men: Days of Future Past", "Dante's Code", "Transformers 5", etc., can not be said to be popular, but still made a name.
"Hey, Omar, you can come over and hear about the idea between us and the velociraptors, I think maybe it can give us some inspiration for our performance. Lan Li said with a bright smile on his face.
There was no mention of "untouchable" β in fact, almost everyone mentioned the film to Omar after coming to Hollywood. Omar can't deny that this is his most famous movie at the moment, and even won him a CΓ©sar Award for Best Actor, but when everyone can only say this movie, it is actually a prejudice against actors, just like "Harry Potter", which becomes a kind of harm over time.
But Lan Li doesn't mention it, and instead smoothly brings Omar into his role: he will play Owen's caretaker partner Barry in the movie, in charge of the Velociraptor's cage, etc., and he shares Owen's idea.
By the way, Colin's original version of the script was quite greedy - that is, the final version of the previous life, and the themes covered the greed of biological weapons, the ambition of humans to try to play God, respect for life, and the importance of returning to the family, etc., too greedy and too complex for the script to accommodate, and finally all turned into dragonflies, which led to the weakness of the characters, including the male and female protagonists, as well as a number of supporting characters, so by the time of the sequel, the whole story pattern became even stranger.
Now in the revised version, the whole theme is condensed into a single focus, human greed and ambition can often be the beginning of self-destruction, abandoning the God perspective of criticizing "human genes to create dinosaurs", and instead focusing on the ambition of "human beings using dinosaurs as biological weapons to enter war", and then adapting characters such as Owen and Claire.
Again, Barry is one of them.
According to the script version of the previous life, Barry has no chance to appear in the sequel, and if he does, he will have to make up and shoehorn it, but now, Barry has become Owen's partner, giving full play to his black identity, emphasizing in the background of the story that he has experienced the Holocaust in Rwanda, and is full of rejection of war and massacres, and then becomes an important character in the story.
Overall, the story is simpler and more concise, and the characters have won more space, which in turn creates more possibilities for the sequel, connecting the thematic core of the entire trilogy.
Commercial films always want to do addition, but sometimes, constantly subtracting can win better results.
Omar immediately became curious, "Oh, Velociraptors have their own minds, too?"
Lan Li smiled and nodded, "That's it." β
Performance is such an interesting thing, in the collision of inspiration and artistic creation to find their own way, and then bloom with different brilliance, there is no absolute right, only absolute richness.