"Smith's family is out!"

No media, no fans would have thought of this situation beforehand, they all thought that the cast of "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" was like this, unless Wang Yang persuaded Tom Hanks, who was going to shoot "Desert Island", to play a role, otherwise they would not be surprised. But they knew they were wrong, when they saw the latest information released by Flame Movies, "Christopher Gardner" will be played by Terry Smith, and Chris's wife "Linda" will be played by Jada Smith!

"It seems that Will Smith is very confident in this new film, obviously he doesn't think that there will be a situation where 'the family is in a bad movie at the same time', and after a year, will he regret it? ”

Undoubtedly, this news has brought great excitement to fans and Will Smith fans, father-son files, husband and wife files...... Maybe Jaden Smith will come out to make a cameo, and the whole family will go into battle together, which is really interesting! Many people who were not interested in "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" were also aroused and began to look forward to what kind of scene the Smith family's performance would be?

Wang Yang is indeed very happy, firstly, he has found a suitable leading role, the performance needs to be emotional, and the experiential school is even more particular about becoming a 100% character, and now the father-son relationship between Will and Terry is real, is there any performance that is more ideal than the interpretation of true feelings? Second, as the media said, this is very beneficial to the publicity work, which will be a major attraction of the movie.

After determining the lineup of Chris Gardner's family, Wang Yang successfully found several other non-roles, such as Mr. Tostel who gave Chris an interview opportunity, and the madman who thought the scanner was a "time machine".

At the same time, the formation of the crew is also underway, the photography team is mainly based on the team of "Youth Musical", and the position of photographer is held by Valley Pfister, Wang Yang and he have worked very happily together in "Youth Musical", and have cultivated a certain tacit understanding, and both are happy to work together again;

After many discussions with Varley Pfister about the photography style and color style of When Happiness Knocks on the Door, Wang Yang and Vare-First decided to shoot in an earthy photography style with bright colors, and the colors would change appropriately with the content of the story. At the beginning of the story, Chris's life has not changed, the colors are medium and bright, and when shooting street scenes, the pictures need to have a slightly yellowed historical feeling, when Chris is struggling, the colors can be darker, and when he tries to persevere, and finally succeeds, the colors will become more and more sunny and warm. If "Youth Musical" is a bright summer sunshine, then "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" is the warm morning light of autumn.

In addition to the photography team, the set designer and costume designer of the crew, Wang Yang also spent a lot of effort to choose, which is different from "Youth Singing and Dancing Youth", it is all campus scenery and costumes, which happen in the present, without too much difficulty, and the era in the movie "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" is 1981, and the 80s seem to be just ten years ago, but the world is changing with each passing day, no matter the city and people are constantly changing, if you can better restore the environment and clothes at that time, it is a very exquisite work.

In fact, the original "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" has quite a few "goofs", such as the 1981 San Francisco subway seats are brown instead of blue, and a passerby passes through the subway station eating potato chips that don't appear on the West Coast...... Although these details are insignificant, the audience and fans generally will not find out, let alone study them, but Wang Yang just wants to do better, maybe it is nitpicking, but there are fewer goofs and fewer goofs, which requires a good set designer.

Of course, some goofs are deliberate, because those are product placements, just like UTZ potato chips, there are a lot of these ads in "When Happiness Knocks on the Door", but Wang Yang doesn't want to do this kind of thing, those small advertisements can bring three or four million sponsorships to the movie, thereby reducing the production cost of the movie, but his purpose is to rather spend more money, but also want the movie to have the best effect, deliberately let ads appear in the camera? No, that can easily affect the audience's engagement and make them shout "Please!"

Through the introduction of Robert Zemeckis, Wang Yang tried to invite Nancy Hagrid to serve as the set designer of the crew, this white woman in her 50s is the set set designer of films such as "Forrest Gump" and "Truman's World", and has 3 Oscar Best Art Direction - Set Nominations and 1 award, and is the top set designer in Hollywood.

But she rejected Wang Yang, even though she had just finished work on the Coen brothers' new film "Three Days from Prison" and did not have a new film contract, and despite Wang Yang's sincerity and the remuneration nearly double that of the market, she still refused, and there was no reason. In fact, it's still the same one, she is not optimistic about Wang Yang's biographical film as a "baby director", and his qualifications are not enough, she is now working with top directors such as the Coen brothers, Tim Burton, Robert Zemeckis, etc., and Miraculous Yang is just a child.

After being rejected many times, Wang Yang did not continue to be bored, under the matchmaking of Will Smith, he finally invited Gordon Sheen to join, this 40-year-old man is not bad, he is the set designer of the unreleased "Hurricane", and there will be masterpieces such as "Chicago" and "Pirates of the Caribbean 4" in the future, and he won the Oscar for Best Art Director - The Little Golden Man for Set with "Chicago". Of course, his current reputation is just that of a "not bad" set decorator.

Set Decorator, Prop Engineer, Costume Engineer...... The work of assembling the crew was completed one by one, and when everything was ready, all the members of "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" went to San Francisco, and the time had come to the beginning of October.

The weather in San Francisco is still so pleasant in October, and as another center of the film industry, there are film crews filming in the city every month, and now it has a new crew, Wang Yang, who is no stranger. In the next 2 months, Wang Yang will shoot movies in this "turf", and today, they are going to officially start shooting the first set of shots.

"When Happiness Knocks" has several major interior scenes, Chris Gardner's home, agency, subway station, etc., while there are a lot of exterior scenes, streets, parks, etc. As a child who grew up in the Bay Area, choosing a scene is a very easy thing for Wang Yang, he used to wander around the Bay Area a lot, and once in the summer vacation, he and the girl came to a two-person activity of "walking all over San Francisco", what kind of street scene he wanted, he could think of a bunch of places casually.

In the first scene of the start-up, Wang Yang chose "Chinatown Nursery". To put it bluntly, he can move freely in Chinatown with his eyes closed, and it takes no effort for Wang Yang to find a small street that is very suitable for photography, and there is also a small nursery in the street, the same windows that can be seen from the outside, and the same graffiti wall, on which are painted with wall paintings full of childlike fun. Of course, there is no "happyness" and "**".

The street in front of the nursery was crowded with people, the camera crew was setting up and adjusting the equipment, Harry George carefully put a film into the camera, Will Smith in a black suit and a coffee-colored tie, he and Terry Smith sat and talked about the script, Jada and his personal assistant teased Jaden in the BB car, Wang Yang and Valey First discussed the shooting angle, nodding their heads from time to time. In the distance, there are also extras ready to play passers-by waiting to begin.

"Director Jan!" shouted Gordon Sin, who was standing next to the graffiti wall, holding a bottle of black graffiti spray paint, looking at Wang Yang in the distance and shouting, "I'm going to start spraying!"

"Oh!" Wang Yang patted Varley Pfister on the shoulder, then walked quickly to the graffiti wall, pointed to a location, and smiled: "Happyness sprays here, remember it's not I, it's Y." Gordon-Sheen smiled, pressed the spray paint, and with the sound of "Zhizhi", a pale black English word "happyness" gradually appeared on the wall, and Gordon smiled: "Okay, when it dries, I'll deal with it again." Wang Yang nodded, pointed to the upper position again, and said, "damn spray here, it's bigger." Gordon changed to a darker bottle of spray paint and began to spray.

Wang Yang did not choose "**", the meaning of that word is that it aggravates the bad situation in the nursery and further illustrates the poverty of Chris Gardner, who loves his son so much, but has no choice but to put his son in a nursery school in such an environment. The effect of "damn" is about the same, and it is not a dirty word, Wang Yang wants to win the release of the G level as much as possible, once there is a **, it will definitely be the PG-13 level.

Similarly, in several sets of daily life shots, Chris's wife "Linda" will wear an extra pajama and appear on camera without wearing a bra.

There is one more change in the plot of the nursery, that is, the bitter Mrs. Zhu is actually a good person, which can be changed by adding a few lines and a few scenes. Chris Gardner was so poor that she couldn't even pay for the nursery, and it dragged on for a long time, but Mrs. Zhu didn't kick Christopher out, on the contrary, on the day when Chris was late to pick up the child, Mrs. Zhu cooked a noodle for Christopher to eat.

Is it true that Mrs. Chu is bitter? It's not true, because the fact is that Chris Gardner was in New York at the time, and Christopher didn't go to nursery. Why did he make this change? Wang Yang is part of Chinatown, and he admits that there are some low-level nurseries here, which is fine, but he doesn't like that Mrs. Zhu, the only Chinese character in the movie, is a bad person, and this is San Francisco! It's Chinatown! He deserves to be a glory here.

The two letters dried quickly, and Gordon Sheen processed them a little more to make them look like they had been sprayed a long time ago, and when the scene was set up and the extras were in place, Will Smith got up and stood at the door of the nursery, playing the role of a Chinese uncle who could not speak English, and sweeping the fallen leaves and garbage on the ground with a broom.

Wang Yang stood behind the camera and looked at the crew around him, Valey Pfister, Harry George, and many other old faces from the "Youth Musical" crew, are you ready?

"action!" Wang Yang raised his fist excitedly, this part of his life is called making movies!

(To be continued)