The shooting of "detachment" is finally on the right track. Strictly speaking, it can't be considered on the right track, it can only be said that it has officially entered the filming stage, because Tony's work style can be said to be erratic, and they never know what is "on the right track".

At times, Tony is very strict and has strict requirements for lighting, angles, shots, and lines, especially lines, he doesn't like any kind of creative freedom, and must strictly follow the lines of the script, even the substitution of a word synonymously, which is not allowed. For every scene, it is nitpicking and excellence.

But sometimes, he is very casual, halfway through the shooting, he will suddenly stop, and then overturn all the shooting plans and start over, and there are no requirements for the actors' performance styles and methods, he will even give the actors enough space to interpret in different ways of acting, and then pick the most suitable one.

Everyone in the crew is trying to adapt to Tony's work style, and everyone is stumbling forward, which leads to the shooting speed never improving.

This kind of experience is new to Lan Li, he has never met such a director, of course, his own shooting experience is very limited, but at the same time it is exciting, because Tony is constantly challenging his bottom line, his ability and his understanding.

On the first day, when the first scene was filmed, Lan Li finally shot it five times, not because of mistakes, but because the emotions during the performance were always fine-tuned, always looking for the most suitable rhythm and pattern, hoping to achieve the effect that Tony desired. It's unimaginable that a cutscene was filmed four times, and it was a scene without any lines, any conflict, or any explosive point.

This type of shooting can be simply called: firing film.

But apparently, Tony doesn't care about wasting film at all, all he wants is perfection, constant communication, repeated self-examination, not for the sake of perfection, nor for the sake of finding the right, just to find the most suitable one.

It may have been a disaster for the producers, but for Lan Li, it was good news. In such a simple first scene, Lan Li is constantly reworking, polishing the details of his performance little by little, and pushing his performance to the limit little by little.

As a director, Tony set up the stage, and then gave Lan Li unlimited freedom, let him play heartily, and constantly pondered, put forward different requirements, and made different attempts, which really made Lan Li experience the thrill of a fancy performance, and showed all the eighteen martial arts and thirty-six changes he had learned and seen.

This graduation exam has truly become a stage for Lanli to play freely.

However, such a way of filming has caused the crew to always be in an unstable state, sometimes the filming progress is smooth and in one go, and seven to eight sets of scenes can be filmed in one day, but sometimes they stumble and are hindered everywhere, and they may not be able to shoot a set of scenes in three days.

When the intention to cooperate was confirmed, Tony said that the filming cycle of this work should be about a month. But now it seems that it is obviously an unreliable joke, not that the shooting cycle will be longer or shorter, but Tony himself does not know when it will be finished, and this fast and slow, wavering shooting rhythm, it is estimated that no one can say whether all the filming will be completed within a month.

In the past few days, the crew has been on the bar. A bus scene, filmed for three days, still no progress, the work of the entire crew has come to a standstill, everyone in the crew is in a state of temper, the whole crew is like an unstable powder keg, even they don't know when it will explode.

The difficulty of filming this scene was originally "on", and it can almost be said to be the most difficult scene since the crew started filming. The content is Henry and Erica's first encounter.

That night, Henry fell into a state of insomnia and could not sleep, so he left the house, wandered outside for a while, and when he came home again, he received a call from the hospital, his grandfather, who had Alzheimer's disease, once again put himself in the bathroom, refused to come out, and the hospital nurse was helpless, so he called Henry and asked him to go to the hospital for treatment.

This is not the first time this has happened.

Henry's mother committed suicide by taking medicine in the bathroom at home, and Henry, who was only seven years old, was the first to find his mother's body, and then Henry's maternal grandfather also saw the death of his daughter with his own eyes. From time to time, he locked himself in the bathroom and called his daughter's name, trying to save everything before his daughter committed suicide.

The situation was extremely tricky, and my grandfather didn't listen to anyone else, and even Henry had to be patient, patient, and spend a lot of effort to persuade my grandfather little by little.

Because of this, Henry asked the hospital to remove the locks from the bathroom doors to avoid such a situation. But apparently, the nurses in the hospital didn't care at all and never carried it out, and every time something happened, they were irresponsible and called Henry over to deal with it. Tonight, again.

Henry tossed and turned, and finally coaxed his grandfather out and put him to bed. Later, Henry saw the sleepy-eyed and idle nurse, and his anger finally exploded, and he vented all his emotions to the nurse, and threatened the other party fiercely, and then turned away.

In fact, Henry was not hard-hearted. He noticed the caretaker's embarrassment and embarrassment, and he also noticed the caretaker's fragility and timidity, like a stray dog shivering in a rainstorm, under the weight of life, she was powerless to fight back, and even if there was no unnecessary attack, she was already scarred and tired. However, he still poured out his anger unrelentingly, and until he saw the tears of fear in the other party's eyes, he gave up and walked away.

It was a tumultuous night, tormented by the pain of insomnia, which put his physical strength and energy to the test, his grandfather's terrible condition worried him even more, and the gray and rotten aura that was infinitely close to death was overflowing little by little, and the grandfather's confusion about his mother awakened the nightmare in his mind, the nightmare of his mother lying naked in the bathroom.

That day was like drowning, the pain and torment of struggling between the water's surfaces, deeply entangled in the corners of the soul, never really healed, the long torture had left the soul so broken that it was almost unsustainable, and every day seemed to be lingering. Alive, but never really alive.

On the bus home, Henry fell into a breakdown, tears streaming down his face, unable to contain himself, and all the sadness, bitterness, and pain erupted. It was in this situation that he met Erica.

In this scene, Henry sees Erica serving a drunken drunkard in the back seat of the bus. When the service was over, the drunkard was too dazed to react, and Erica demanded her payment loudly, only to receive a slap in the face. Erica stood up in a timely manner, and turned to see Henry, whose face was covered in tears, with pity and sympathy in his sad eyes. So, Erica finds a new prey, and she decides to stalk Henry, then wait for an opportunity to earn her first payment of the night.

The scene itself is quite heavy, about two minutes before and after, and this is not only Erica's first appearance, but also Henry's first breakdown.

According to Lan Li's conception, Henry's emotions are revealed layer by layer, side by side, especially when facing the three female characters, the sense of layering and depth presents the whole character in three dimensions. Therefore, this scene is even more important, it can be regarded as the first acting scene since the start of filming of "Detachment".

Not only that, but Tony's requirements for this scene were also different, he was looking for a more suitable and mature shot, showing the relationship between Erica and Henry, his thinking was not very clear, and he was always wavering.

For a while, he wanted to be able to shoot a panoramic shot of the inside of the bus to capture the relationship between Henry and Erica from an all-round perspective, and at another time, he wanted to capture the details of the expressions of the two actors in close-ups, but the scale of Erica's service was too large, and Sammy was still a minor, so some scenes could not be filmed directly, and at the same time, he ran out of the bus to try to record the emotions in the performance from an indirect perspective.

For two days, in fact, Tony was tossing all the time, and the actors didn't have time to play at all, Tony himself first vetoed the semi-finished product that was filmed, and then started over, which caused the entire crew to be unable to calm down and move forward at all, and before they had time to make progress, they retreated back to the same place and returned to "zero point".

What's more, this bus scene took place at night, and Tony insisted on real-time, on-site shooting, so the crew had to work in a situation where day and night were reversed.

After entering the third day, Tony finally found some form, and the filming was able to continue intermittently, but there was a major problem with Lan Li's performance status, and he was unable to meet Tony's performance requirements, or Tony was never satisfied with Lan Li's performance rhythm and state.

Cards, cards, cards!