“ACTION！”

As the time enters the end of September, at the same time as the TV autumn file kicks off, "500 Days with Shamo", which has been filming for more than a month and a half, is nearing completion.

Its work progress can be described as stable and rapid, unlike the situation imagined by many people in the outside world, Wang Yang was not affected by the injury, on the contrary, he seemed to be in a coma for a week, and he almost refused to let go of the weekend; and after directing and producing 9 films, from a super small cost of 10,000 US dollars to a super large cost of 200 million US dollars, how can he still be a green onion bad boy of USC? How to return to the theme of low-cost reality in the tenth movie, and explain about love, he is very handy and smooth.

The director is in good shape, the actors are in good shape, and their excellent performance is one of the important reasons why the set is moving quickly to the end. There are not many characters in the whole movie, and most of the shots are male and female protagonists, so the crew's daily harvest is largely based on the performance of Joseph Gordon Levitt and Natalie Portman.

"Jan, I have a question?", "I see!", "I don't think so. ”…… Natalie, as always, made Wang Yang very relieved, she was full of empathy and personal understanding for Shamo, and played this elusive personality girl to the fullest.

Wang Yang and her have not quarreled, mainly on the issue of disagreement on the degree of expression of some emotions of Sha Mo. The two are working together for the third time, regardless of the natural deed and acquired familiarity, they already have a fairly high tacit understanding, and it is not an exaggeration to call it the "best on-set partner", but unlike Juno's "Juno" and "MIT-21-TEAM's Amanda", they are both sharp and cool, and Shamo is both calm and introverted, enthusiastic and talkative cool, seemingly fickle, giving people a sense of distance from a goddess, but she still has to expose her uncoolness at some point.

In addition to the passionate part of the two of them in the same rhythm, what emotional level should Summer's true attitude towards Tom be expressed?

Wang Yang feels that this is the key point to determine the success of Samo's role and Natalie's performance, because when ordinary audiences watch the movie, he won't think so much and so fast, especially after the film confuses it with some camera techniques, and even some viewers think that "Shamo didn't love Tom at all, she just dumped him ruthlessly", "Shamo liked Tom, but never cared about him", "Shamo played with feelings, Tom was a victim" , and then sees the theme of the film as a self-healing after Tom's wishful thinking.

If the actor blindly cares about portraying Sha Mo as cool, without showing that she is not so cool and becomes a goddess who is too high, it will be a failed performance, making the audience simply face her senses and not being impressed, and it is difficult to make people feel Tom's nostalgia and regret the ending of this relationship. First of all, they did love each other deeply, and the audience needs to understand that.

So it is necessary to find a suitable position for Shamo's paradox, this position is the focus of Wang Yang and Natalie's quarrel, he tends to be more outgoing, a girl with a normal personality is still an ordinary person, she can't hide so much, and the audience is not Tom who is blindfolded by love; Natalie thinks that Shamo needs to maintain a certain degree of confusion, this is how she loves Tom, and it is also her unique charm.

"No, Wonder Young, you're completely wrong!" On the set of the greeting card company's office, watching the TV screen replay the footage taken by the digital camera, the two argue about a detail, which is just an ordinary set of shots, Shamo walks past Tom, Tom greets him intimately, but she acts like a normal colleague. Natalie shook her head resolutely, "Shamo shouldn't smile, what's so funny? ”

Following her gaze, Nancy and Joseph all looked at Wang Yang, but he nodded and said, "Yes!

Smiling is a real ordinary colleague, she is different from Tom, isn't this what she shouldn't be cool? Natalie still disagrees: "I don't think she can laugh, if she laughs at this time, she will laugh a lot of the time! This causes confusion, doesn't it?" Occasional arguments seem to be reversed, but Natalie did not grasp the stage of the gradual change of mentality, Wang Yang analyzed her well, and finally said: "Anyway, she has to smile, please! Don't think that having three children is a mother, you have too little experience in love." The next few people suddenly laughed, and Natalie immediately said, "But I'm a girl, are you a girl?"

"Ha!" several people couldn't help laughing, Nancy laughed even more, from "Juno" to "500 Days with Sammo", Jan and Natalie are still fighting like that, this great director is sometimes quite undignified, it is hard to imagine the scene where he scolded others and cried.

Wang Yang suddenly stretched out his right hand and slapped Natalie's head, she covered her head in surprise: "Why did you hit me?" Wang Yang glanced at everyone, proudly spread his right hand, and let out a laugh: "If you hit you, you will hit you, you dare not hit my head, and my right hand." Everyone laughed, and Natalie gritted her teeth: "I can sue you, everyone can testify, but I don't." She said and walked around to his side, and suddenly came behind her, flew up and kicked at his ass: "I can kick your ass!" Wang Yang happened to think of something and shouted: "There is!"

The degree of conflict between the two has always been limited to bickering, and they have never tried to fight and conflict, and finally the solution to this dispute is that Tom, who greets him, reaches out to pull Samo's hand, but she avoids it, and she has a faint and indifferent smile on her face.

In addition to the difference between men and women, Wang Yang, as a director, needs to consider the subtle feelings brought by the camera to the audience, the handling of the overall rhythm, etc., while Natalie only thinks about the role of Shamo, of course, the actor's understanding also reflects some other situations.

Basically, in general, Wang Yang gave Natalie a lot of freedom to shape Shamo, so that she could keep the acting ideas that felt right, just like Juno and Amanda before, especially the filming of "500 Days with Shamo" is a quick operation, and the inspiration and use of inspiration are very important. In addition to the performance itself, he used the camera to help her get to that suitable position, for example, in several key scenes, he asked the cinematographer Harry George to slow down the rhythm of the shot, and then designed some individual shots for her from the storyboard, with post-editing, so that she has more space to perform, and the audience feels longer, when Summer and Tom are not in the same picture, she will be particularly uncool.

This treatment has temporarily yielded good results, and Shamo looks so charming that it can also make both of them shout CUT with satisfaction.

Natalie and Joseph can be regarded as true performances, and Joseph is even worse, he is doing "The Evil Girl on the Other Side" when he grows up, like a beautiful vase, and one stop in front of the camera is the play, he interprets Tom's disapproval of Shamo at the beginning, to the crush, ecstasy, infatuation, and other stages of the change of mentality applauded. Compared with Natalie's cunning, Joseph was obedient to Wang Yang, and the two rarely had the opportunity to argue.

This is also because Tom is easier to play than Shamo, he is like a big child, his inner emotions will not be covered up at all, all of them are directly revealed on his face, happy is happy, proud is proud, crazy is crazy, frustrated is frustrated, angry is angry.

The only thing that is more difficult to play is the most violent emotional crazy days after Tom's lovelorn, Wang Yang always feels that Joseph is not fierce enough, not committed enough, and fails to make people feel his heart-rending pain, and he doesn't know if it is the reason why Joseph has not been dumped; Often at this time, Wang Yang misses Heath Ledger's entry into the play too deeply, if Joseph can also enter the play too deeply, it will definitely be better than now!

However, it is undoubtedly impossible to expect Joseph to suddenly enter the play too deeply, so Wang Yang relied on himself to give full play to the director's emotional guidance, gave Joseph an imaginary breakup, played some lovelorn and sad songs, and did not hesitate to sing it in person...... Of course, the result is that it is better not to sing, except for Jessica, who comes to visit the class, who applauds in fascination, everyone else feels like they have just spent a Halloween.

The two leading actors performed well, and a number of supporting actors, Zachary Levy, Chloe Moretz and others also had commendable performances, and the funny scene of the 8-year-old little Kolo looking like a big love saint was even more joyful. Under the leadership of the director's enthusiasm, the rest of the crew is also highly efficient, Wang Yang feels more and more that Harry George is maturing, and there are faint shadows of Vary-Pfister and different, Joshua gradually has some ideas and opinions of his own, as a production assistant, he can start to say "I think", "Isn't it?", and can humbly listen to everyone's words, which is exactly the attitude that producers need; ”。

With such an excellent team, such efficient work efficiency, and the fact that there are no big scenes in "500 Days with Shamo", the quality of the crew's work every day is very high, and it is not surprising that they have achieved satisfactory work results.

(To be continued)