Chapter 74 Shooting Begins II
Among the four leading actors selected by Mark, except for Mason, the others are satisfactory to him, so Mark is ruthless in his heart, and he doesn't use him again, not because he can't compete with Blake XX00.
Heath is a talented acting genius, debuted at the age of sixteen, has acted in stage plays, TV series and movies, and has a lot of experience, after he knew that this role was a middle-aged teacher who was passive and slacking off, tired of work, and tired of boring family work life, he went to school to make a cameo appearance as a teacher for more than ten days because he had not played a teacher, so in this performance, Mark was the least courageous is him, after Ji Tai talked about a play, he no longer asked, let him play on his own.
David Lee Smith is a master of all things at home, he said that his wife and daughter are not daring to put a fart, this time playing a timid and cowardly obscene dentist, he didn't have to go to dentist, but let his wife beat him, abuse him, try to be bullied by his wife, control, which made his neighbor almost call the police to report domestic violence.
And Zach, the fat man, plays a super two and self-righteous funny fat man, he asked his family to send him to a mentally handicapped school, read a book for a month, and observe the words and deeds of these people up close, like Heath, David, they also have to go on a tour to promote the movie, and he doesn't have to do anything, he can concentrate on staying in the mentally handicapped school to study, the results of this are remarkable, he is a serious person all day long, very serious, but always with a silly atmosphere that makes people laugh, he is a comedy star in the crew, as long as he has an expression, he can make people laughγ
Only Mason, except for the rehearsal required by the crew, does nothing, goes to spend time when he has time, opens and closes his mouth is how the director asks how to act, in fact, he has no own way of acting, playing Doug, a mature and steady warm man, will only stand stupidly like a stupid bird, his eyes and expressions are not in place, and he will forget his lines, so that when he is acting, Mark asked people to write lines on the blackboard and let him watch and read, but this thing reads the lines like a monk chanting, and forgets his expressions and movements, he is the film killer in the crew, Ruby is sometimes joking: "When filming Mason's scenes, it's not too late to wait for him to act three or four times before opening the camera. β
Mark began to regret that he gave him the role of friendship, this guy went to acting school after graduating from high school, but obviously he didn't learn much, his acting skills were not as good as marksmanship, his acting skills were not as good as Blake's, he called himself a cool man's cold way of acting, which Mark called facial paralysis performance.
This time Scarlett is playing the sexy and hot **** Jorden, this is a mother's role, Mark was worried that she didn't want to play, so he didn't take the initiative to invite, because there is this habit in the Hollywood entertainment industry, playing sweetheart has been playing sweetheart, playing mother is playing mother, playing mother is difficult to play sweetheart, like Jennifer Aniston, Cameron Diaz and other people in their thirties, still playing tender sweetheart.
Who knew that Scarlett took the initiative to audition, since she came to audition, this role was naturally hers, Mark asked her what she liked about this role, and she teased and said: "I like you! I want to do it with you, oh! β
Mark couldn't help but laugh.
Scarlett said seriously: "It's better for you to stay with me for two weeks, I won't charge you for your salary, which can save hundreds of thousands of dollars!"
Mark said: "I've met a female hooligan!" He was a little aggrieved, and other producers and directors put a red sofa in the office in a grand manner, indicating that they accepted the * deal, and they seemed to be reversed.
Due to the large labor expenses here, they concentrated on filming the scenes in Las Vegas and then filmed other scenes, and did not shoot in the way the story progressed, which would give the actors discomfort in emotional transformation, but the actors couldn't even do this emotional substitution, it was too much of a failure, earning 1,000 US dollars a week in the United States, earning 52,000 US dollars a year to live a chic and free life, Blake is now famous, and a cameo role is 50,000 US dollars, Mike Tyson 300,000, several leading actors in Hiss and David are 500,000, and Mason is less than 150,000.
This easy monthly income of tens of thousands has made countless people squeeze here, hoping to become famous one day and make money every day, Mark has no objection to the sharp increase in the price of actors, but you have to be worthy of this price, your acting skills are not as good as ordinary people, why do ordinary people take 1,000 and you take tens of thousands? Even if Zach is a novice rookie, the crew generously gave him 100,000, the same as Rachel, as long as he works in the crew for three months, he is equivalent to twice the average salaryman, and his life is quite easy, so he attaches double importance to this job, the small hope is to continue to have this kind of work, and the big hope is to be an instant hit, like those big-name stars, an instant hit, no worries about work, no worries about salary, and you can live a luxurious life by only making one movie a year.
It's the best time of the year in Nevada in October, and it's no scorching heat to work outdoors.
They closed the street to shoot mainly after the traffic jam, Phil plugged the police car on the pedestrian passage, making the chicken fly and the dog jumping, they invited more than 200 extras, rehearsed for a day, only to take the street closure permit issued by the city government, and blocked half of the street for filming, they operated such a large crew, or the first time, Mark divided the personnel into N groups, through walkie-talkies and loudspeakers to contact, in order to effectively capture the footage, they set up multiple cameras, shooting from multiple angles, the city government only approved them for one day, if it was not completed at the specified time, it was also their businessThe city government is sending a special team of inspectors to supervise their work.
Fortunately, it was Heath, David, and Zack who came out today, and they had a lot of rehearsals in advance, and Ji Tai completed the scene within the specified time.
Speaking of the crew of "The Hangover" this time, everyone knows that this is a high-quality project, and now the movie has not yet been released, there is continuous publicity on TV and the Internet, and stills continue to come out on the official website, Mark also told the leading actors that their filming work was completed, but only part of the work was completed, and it was immediately transferred to publicity and promotion, which surprised everyone, which means that they have more opportunities to explode and appear, and fame seems to be just around the corner.
It's a work full of jokes, and many of the works aren't necessarily funny when filmed, but "The Hangover" is different in that it's full of jokes when it's filmed.
Zach Galifeanakis told the crew in an interview arranged by the crew: "It was a lot of fun to shoot this film, everyone couldn't help but laugh on the set, and the joyful atmosphere was contagious to everyone on the set, and I knew it was very disrespectful, but considering the 'Hangover' that we starred in It's such a ridiculous and funny movie, as an actor, I and the other protagonists really can't control themselves, during the filming process, there are a few scenes where I have to star with the baby, it was a real child, he hung on my chest like that, and when I saw that look, everyone couldn't help but want to laugh, but the director was miserable, because we definitely didn't achieve the effect he wanted, but Mark was a good-natured director, and we didn't get much scolding. β
Heath is also clearly immersed in the joyous memories of the filming process: "The Hangover The filming is indeed a pleasant thing, the actors are very energetic, and there is such an interesting script, filming with small babies, it is indeed pleasant, because the children themselves have a factor that makes people feel happy and warm, you just try to stay with the baby all day, you will be able to be happy in your heart, but many people know that if it is filming, babies and animals are the most difficult to control, and will always bring you this or that accident, but this is so insignificant compared to the happiness obtained from it, I really like to stay with babies and see them, a smile would involuntarily crawl onto my face. β
For a comedy like "The Hangover", improvisation also occupies a very large proportion and space here, Mark is very tolerant of the actors when shooting this film, he often encourages the actors to try more about every plot that happens in the movie when discussing the plot in private meetings on the set, although he has the perfect original version as a reference, but a good actor can get out of the script and do some improvisation.
These people are almost newcomers, at first they didn't dare to do this, they could only carefully follow the script to perform, but later found out that Mark was right, we always have a lot of ideas when actually shooting, and sometimes the appropriate on-the-spot performance can add a lot of color to the film, but this requires prior communication with the actors, as well as mastering an appropriate limit, it is the actor's task to create jokes, but it must really make the audience feel funny, not the actors themselves feel funny.
So at this point, Mark gave the actors as much space as possible to play, so that they understand what kind of performance can achieve the best funny effect, funny is not easy, not every comedian is like Jim Carrey, as long as there is an expression, the audience can laugh, like the comedy master Ben Stiller in order to make the audience laugh, in "Meet My Grandfather", he starred in Greg surnamed "Farke", in his classic work "I'm Crazy for Mary" In order to make the audience laugh, he peed and zipped to pinch the balls, jerked off, sprayed on the top of his head, and said it was hairspray to his girlfriend, and peed on the side of the dark highway, the lights were on, and there was a gay guy with a big mouth kneeling in front of him, so it can be said that in order to be funny, racking his brains, he did everything, so much so that movie critics commented on him: "As long as he can please the audience, he doesn't mind peeing out of the big screen!"
By playing one frustrated man and after another, the role of the clown in "Meet My Father-in-law", Farker, who was troubled by his father-in-law, Mel who was looking for his biological parents in "Flirting with Disaster", Zuland, a model who walked an exaggerated catwalk in "Supermodel", and Goodman, a bullish dodgeball master in "Crazy Dodgeball", etc., Ben Stiller gradually became the guarantee of the comedy box office in the United States, a member of the 20 million club.