Chapter Fifty-Nine: The Love of People and Ghosts is Unfinished
The movie Li Ping'an chose to shoot for Hepburn is naturally the tearful romance "People and Ghosts" in the nineties
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It took half a month to sort out the script, and after the preliminary work was ready, Li Ping'an and Hepburn came to the United States together.
In a small single-family villa outside Los Angeles, field workers are setting up a landscape for renovation. This is the first filming location of "Ghost Love", the home that the hero and heroine have not yet renovated after their marriage. The villa had been built for a long time, so Li Ping'an bought it for less than $300,000, but now he had to make it even more messy and dusty, like an old mansion that had not been inhabited for decades.
As for the scene after the renovation, it was previously decided to shoot in one of Li Ping'an's ordinary mansions in Beverly Hills, but the city of Sydney, Australia, gave Li Ping'an a certain tax rebate subsidy, so a large part of the scenes will be moved to Sydney for filming.
"Over there, carry this broken lamp over, remember to sprinkle some dust on it......" Deputy director Xu Anhua commanded the scene, but seeing everyone looking behind him in a daze, Xu Anhua was very displeased, "Hey, what are you doing in a daze? β
"Oh, what did I see? That's Miss Audrey Hepburn! She's so pretty. A staff member's eyes widened.
A staff member beside him denied dumbfounded, "No, it's definitely not Hepburn, it must just look alike, Hepburn can't be so young." β
"I think so. The man's words were agreed by the others.
"Hehe, keep working!" Xu Anhua emphasized loudly that this time she was able to become the assistant director, completely appointed by Li Ping'an, Xu Anhua cherished this rare opportunity, she turned to Audrey Hepburn next to Li Ping'an and smiled and praised, "Miss Audrey Hepburn, your new hairstyle is great, beautiful." β
Due to the needs of filming, Audrey Hepburn cut her hair short, which is a tomboy head shape, even shorter than Li Ping'an's hair. Audrey's weak appearance and somewhat masculine hairstyle make her look heroic and charming. This kind of hairstyle was very common after the feminist movement in the United States in the eighties, but no woman would cut it like this now.
"Thank you for the compliment. Audrey laughed, "Ping, thanks to your design, I feel much fresher now, like cutting my hair short during the filming of Roman Holiday." β
Audrey's short hair cut in "Roman Holiday" is the famous "Hepburn Head", after the film was broadcast, it caused women all over the world to imitate it, and even several famous women in China had similar hairstyles in the future.
"Hello, Miss Hepburn, are you really Hepburn? I'm sorry, please forgive my presumptuousness, but you are too young. A young man behind Li Ping'an came over and asked, he is William Dafoe, the actor of the villain Carl in the film, a middle-class family from Appleton, who has just graduated from the University of Wisconsin's drama school, and has been a little miserable, but in the future he will become the father of the Green Goblin and the sworn enemy of Spider-Man.
In fact, except for Li Ping'an and Audrey Hepburn, the other actors in this movie are all extras and newcomers, and most of the budget is spent on special effects and rentals and building shooting locations. But it's enough to have Li Ping'an and Hepburn, both of whom are world-class celebrities, and they all get a box office share for filming this movie.
"Audrey, this is Willem Dafoe, the actor of Carl. Li Ping'an introduced.
"Hello, William, it's a pleasure to meet you, I can have such a young appearance now, thanks to a makeup artist from Huaxia. Audrey took the initiative to reach out her little hand.
"Ah, oh, oh......" Willem Dafoe let out a series of exclamations, obviously excited, "God, you are really Audrey Hepburn, what an honor, I didn't believe it when Ransing told me that the main character was you, I really didn't expect it." β
The reason why Willem Dafoe is so excited, in addition to having a lot of rivalry with Audrey Hepburn, is because he is a big fan of Audrey Hepburn, and there are few people in Hollywood who don't like Hepburn, after all, she is the embodiment of angels.
The plot of the first scene of "Ghost Love" is that Sam (played by Li Ping'an) and his fiancΓ©e Meili (played by Audrey Hepburn) move into a beautiful apartment that their friend Carl (Willem Dafoe) helped them buy, but the apartment needs to be renovated.
The scene of the villa was quickly set up, and at least from the inside, it really looked like it was an apartment that had not been occupied in years.
The three of them quickly changed their clothes, Li Ping'an and Willem Dafoe were shirtless on their upper bodies, a pair of work pants on their lower bodies, and Audrey was also wearing a denim suit.
"Makeup artist, please come over here and make my skin a little darker. Li Ping'an's perfect figure of nearly 1.9 meters made the female staff present swallow their saliva, especially the eight abdominal muscles that were not exaggerated were full of strength.
Li Ping'an's skin is very healthy and white, which is the result of long-term cultivation, but this will make him look too young, so he needs to have darker skin.
One of the makeup artists who helped Audrey Hepburn touch up her makeup finally couldn't help but ask, "Miss Audrey Hepburn, can you ask how you take care of it?"
Audrey Hepburn smiled and gave the answer, "Eat more vegetables and fruits, and always keep a positive and optimistic heart!"
"Oh, but it's hard to do!" the makeup artist was a little annoyed when she heard this, but still a little unrelenting, "Miss Hepburn, do you have any other secrets?"
"I'll tell you a secret, that is, I have been taking the health medicine of an old Chinese medicine doctor in Chinatown all year round. Hepburn pretended to give the answer mysteriously, but he didn't know that after the film was released, the makeup artist passed on her explanation in an interview, and the business of the Chinese medicine shop in Chinatown was much better for a while.
I have to say that this movie is a big test for makeup artists. They need to make Li Ping'an more mature and old-fashioned, after all, although Li Ping'an's appearance has completely grown, he is both handsome and charming, but after all, he is not yet twenty years old, and he is still childish.
Li Ping'an was not satisfied with the makeup he gave himself, so he simply went into battle by himself, in his previous life, he had given many makeup artists a lot of makeup artists when he was working in Hengdian, and he learned a lot of things, plus the disguise technique he learned in the cultivation realm, it was not too simple to retouch himself.
Li Ping'an didn't want these Hollywood outsiders to see his makeup skills beyond this era, so he asked for a separate room, and half an hour later, when Li Ping'an walked out again, he immediately stunned all the makeup artists in the crew.
Li Ping'an has become a handsome guy who is close to thirty years old and slightly mature, different from ordinary Oriental men, Li Ping'an's facial features are very three-dimensional, and he is a little more beautiful than Keanu Levi's appearance at his peak.
All the makeup artists surrounded Li Ping'an and scrambled to ask, "Mr. Li, you have a pair of God's hands." This is not makeup anymore, this is a transfiguration, I wonder if I can teach a thing or two?"
"Hey, hey, everyone's started, everyone is in place, hurry up. Li Ping'an didn't pay attention to these sparrow-like makeup artists at all, and beckoned all the staff to bury themselves.
This is a very simple scene, mainly about the plot of Sam and the three moving into the apartment, cleaning up the house, explaining the relationship between the hero and heroine and the villain, and the appearance of an extremely important prop in this film - an antique coin, which will be an item that makes the heroine believe in the existence of the hero's soul and makes the film reach a small peak.
When the shooting officially began, Li Ping'an gestured to the gaffer, who made an OK gesture to him, the lights began to converge, and the two staff members pushed the rail car forward, and the camera lens on the car was cruising indoors.
Another set of cameras drilled into the makeshift ceiling, Li Ping'an took tools to poke a big hole in the ceiling, and Audrey Hepburn and Willem Dafoe also surrounded and appeared in the camera.
These sets of shots are very simple and finished quickly, and the acting skills of Willem Dafoe, a young man, are not bad, all of them are all one-time. On the contrary, it was Audrey Hepburn, originally Xu Anhua, the assistant director, did not shout to stop, she actually took the initiative to ask for a reshoot, saying that she felt in a bad state just now, after all, it is a work of rest, and Hepburn hopes to be perfect.
Li Ping'an finally has a new understanding of Audrey Hepburn's work attitude, and knows why it is rumored in Hollywood that all actors who play opposite her can play extraordinarily.
It is rumored that Audrey Hepburn once took a picture of Givenchy, and because she wanted to choose a dress that suited her, she stood still for six hours, and asked the staff to try it on herself one by one, no wonder she was able to become a confidant with the fashion master.