The car drove slowly on Manhattan Island, and the cold winter made the streets less pedestrianized, but the bad traffic situation still did not improve much.

Anne leaned excitedly next to the window, staring intently at the bustle and noise outside the window.

Because of illness, the schedule must be strictly adhered to the doctor's instructions, and both parents are busy with work, so they often need more rest at night. Therefore, it is rare for Anne to be able to come out at night once, "one man concert" is one, the Grammy ceremony is one, and beyond that, there are very few.

But Anne just watched quietly, even if she was curious, she didn't shout, even if she was confused, she didn't ask, and just quietly admired, as if she could peek into the whole world through this window, and that was enough.

Seeing this, Paul slapped the driver's seat and whispered to the driver, slowing down, there was no need to be in a hurry.

Although Paul's voice was very soft, Anne heard it, and looked back at Paul, her eyes shining brightly, and a big smile on her lips, as if she wanted to say something, but finally turned her head shyly, looked at the window again, and said nothing.

Slowly, slowly, but finally we reached our destination.

Paul took the initiative to get out of the car, opened the car door, waited for Anne to get out of the car, protected Anne's back, closed the door, stood in place and waited for the traffic light at the intersection, and then there was a touch of warmth in his right hand, and when he lowered his head, Paul could see that Anne was carefully holding his right hand.

A small gesture made the corners of Paul's mouth rise.

"Is that the pioneer village?" said Anne's voice, which could not hide the joy of joy, and even the whole person jumped lightly, as if the whole world was bright. After Paul's affirmative answer came to her ears, Anne eagerly asked, "But, why are there so many people tonight? Wow, the whole line has gone around the other side of the street!

Paul had just noticed the abnormal queue at the entrance of the bar, and was slightly stunned, and then he heard Anne's inquiry, and laughed dumbly, "They're here to watch the show tonight, just like you." ”

"However, this is filming, not a concert. Doesn't it mean that no one else is allowed to come and disturb the filming scene? Tonight, we must also be quiet and not disturb Lan Li's work?" Xiao Nizi, who was silent in the car just now, now started asking questions word by word, and her eyes still flashed with stubbornness, as if she had to ask to the end.

Is it because of the blue ceremony?

Paul bent down and solemnly explained, "When filming, we need extras to cooperate with the director's shooting to present the ordinary people in the film, and then together form a complete picture. ”

"Ahh It's like the townsfolk watching the fight in Kung Fu Panda, right?" Anne made sense of it, babbling her opinion, "It would be funny if they weren't for the townsfolk who were fighting like two fools." As she spoke, Anne burst out laughing to herself, as if she were making up a picture.

Paul laughed too, "Yes, that's it. Today, too, we are here to act as extras. So, we can't disturb the work of Lan Li, but we can enjoy the performance like a real audience, and then applaud Lan Li. ”

Today is the first day of the official launch of "Drunken Country Ballads".

After deliberation and discussion, the Coen brothers decided to shoot in chronological order.

First, because the context of the whole movie is relatively simple, for the director, it is easier to grasp the context of the story in chronological shooting, and secondly, because the characters are closely related to the development of the plot, especially Levine, this delicate change often requires more speculation, and the difference is more subtle than imagined, shooting in chronological order, which is undoubtedly more suitable for actors to play.

So, the first scene of the first day of filming was Levien's live performance at the kerosene lamp bar. It forms a circular intertextuality with the final scene of the film, beginning with the performance and ending with the performance.

According to the original plan of the script, Levien was supposed to perform two tracks, one "Hang Me, Oh, Hang-Me" and one "Wave Goodbye."

However, after an in-depth discussion and analysis between the Coen brothers and Lan Li, they still gave up "waving goodbye".

As Lan Li said, "Waving Goodbye" is a special song, which is a song that Levien collaborates with his partner, and it has a special meaning at the beginning and end, as a dark line for Levien's character, further enriching the performance and plot.

If Levien sings alone at the beginning, and outlines Levien's complex mentality full of bitterness through the details of the performance, to a certain extent, this has some similarities with the ending, which destroys the design intention of echoing and contrasting the difference between the opening and the ending, and further affects the sublimation of the ending performance.

So, in the opening performance, Levien only sang one song.

Then, following the camera to capture Levian's life, Levine and his partner collaborated on the version of "Waving Goodbye" as the background music, playing the studio version, and through the subtle differences in the performance, highlighting the gap between melody and reality, conveying the true meaning of the song, and finally completing the intertextuality when the ending comes.

Tonight, the crew of "Drunken Country Folk Song" officially started the filming of the first scene in the pioneer village.

Different from other crews, in order to present the real texture of that era as much as possible, the Coen brothers chose to complete the shooting at night for the first scene of the film, and invited the audience to really drink for three rounds before experiencing the performance.

Anne is also part of the extras.

She had always wanted to be able to watch Lan Li's performance work live, and this performance was the best opportunity, and Paul happened to come to New York to visit Lan Li after the "gravity" shooting, so he became the best candidate for a nanny. However, Anne will not be in the camera, but will sit in the corner and enjoy the performance.

Before tonight's official shooting, the crew didn't leak any news, because the Coen brothers directed Lan Li and Justin, two popular superstars, were so powerful that they didn't want to ruin the realism of the entire filming set, but instead reduced it to a private meeting between fans and idols.

The crew issued an invitation through the Pioneer Village, inviting folk lovers living in Greenwich Village to attend a show of independent folk singers, including Troy Nelson, Al Cody and Levine Davis.

Even the most veteran folklore lovers are confused and have never heard of the names of these three singers at all—because they are all characters in "Drunken Country Balk," names that the Coen brothers have completely concocted.

But in the contemporary world of independent folklore, there are countless independent singers with unknown origins, and standing on the streets of Greenwich Village, three out of ten people passing by may be singers, three are actors, three are down-and-out artists, and the rest are tourists who come to join in the fun.

The pioneer village took great pains to make an announcement and cordially invited the audience to come and watch the performance, with the only special requirement that the audience be dressed in the costumes of the sixties, casual, formal, flamboyant, austere, all of them, but they must be from the sixties.

This is not unusual.

New York is known as the city that never sleeps because it's a city full of surprises for its nightlife, and theme parties are just one of them. In the streets and alleys, you can see pedestrians of different ages, styles, and themes coming and going, even if it's not Halloween.

In the pioneer village, this is very normal, as if it were a show that can be seen in the pioneer village every day.

What if the audience doesn't come actively?

The Coen brothers were not worried. Because in the story of the movie, this is an ordinary bar show, about twenty or thirty people are enough, even if there are only a dozen people, this is also in line with the plot setting.

With the appeal of the pioneer village, there was nothing wrong with gathering a dozen or twenty veteran music lovers to attend, but on the contrary, if there were too many people, it would easily disrupt the Coen brothers' filming plans and create unnecessary trouble.

Therefore, the entire crew kept a low profile up and down, and did their best to avoid leaking the news.

But apparently, the plan still failed.

By the time Paul and Anne arrived at the pioneer village, the queue at the entrance was already so long that more than a hundred people could be seen as far as the eye could see, waiting to enter the village in excitement and excitement, and behind them there was a long queue that could not be seen.

What's even more interesting is that everyone is dressed in retro clothes from the 60s, and there is nothing particularly exaggerated, except for shirts, suits, top hats, and bow ties, but little by little, Greenwich Village is brought back to the distant days of half a century ago.

Paul took Anne's hand, and with Nathan's company, walked across the crosswalk and walked towards the pioneer village, and when he came to the door, the crowd all projected their eyes, and someone recognized Paul at the first time, and shouted uncontrollably, "Hey, Paul!"

Paul politely waved his hand, and then the crowd began to stir.

"Paul, it's really Paul! That's true! The singer who is here tonight is really Lan Li! God testifies, Paul is Lan Li's closest friend! Ahhhh