In early April, with the return of Dustin Hoffman, the "Rain Man" crew, Barry Levinson and Deams, began filming at a location suitable for the script of "Rain Man".

No one was impatient with Dustin Hoffman when he ran to stay with autistic people in order to create the character of Autistic Raymond.

In addition to Dustin Hoffman's worth and fame, it is his dedication that has been admired by everyone, and he has been backing down and agreeing to his request

In order to learn the technique of kneading together commercial literature and art, Lester deliberately came to learn to observe how Barry Levinson filmed "Rain Man" when the filming of "Rain Man" was started

World No Tobacco Day is observed worldwide on the 7th, and Leicester has ordered employees to ban smoking on this day.

At the same time, he also informed director Barry Levinson to postpone the shooting of smoking, and if he didn't want to postpone it, he would delete this scene.

After all, this no-tobacco day was first proposed in North America, and Leicester had to take it seriously.

Coming to the filming location of the "Rain Man" crew, led by his assistant, Lester met Director Barry Levinson and Dustin Hoffman.

The status of the two in Hollywood, with Dustin Hoffman being the highest, is one of the four kings of Hollywood.

In this era, there are recognized four kings in the Hollywood actor circle, Dustin Hoffman and Jack Nicholson are one of them, and the other two are also well-known superstar actors Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.

These four are one of the people in Hollywood who have a high status in the film industry, no worse than George Lucas and others.

At the end of the eighties, their age was already considered to belong to the older generation of the Four Heavenly Kings, and a new generation of the Four Heavenly Kings is gradually emerging.

"Director Barry Levinson, it's an honor to meet you. Lester held out his right hand and shook it.

"Mr. Lester, you are so young and promising. ”

Barry Levinson looked at the 21-year-old young man in front of him with some amazement.

He learned from Dims that it was Lester who recommended him to direct "Rain Man", and after reading the script, there were many places in it that could give him room for imagination to shoot.

Lester looked at Dustin Hoffman, who was discussing the script with Tom Cruise, and the other party was obviously patient with Tom Cruise.

It can be seen from here that Dustin Hoffman cares about the role of "Rain Man" very much, and even had a conversation with Tom Cruise before filming started.

Lester stepped forward to greet him, "Hello, Mr. Dustin Hoffman." ”

Dustin Hoffman stopped to discuss the script with Tom Cruise, raised his head and looked at the young man in front of him who was a little enthusiastic about him, slightly surprised that Lester was so young and the boss of Asuka Films, and said politely: "Hello." He bowed his head and spoke to Tom Cruise.

Seeing this, Tom Cruise gave an apologetic look.

"Come on, take it. ”

Lester didn't care, cheered Tom Cruise, and looked at Barry Levinson, who had begun to prepare the crew.

The other party arranged the crew in an orderly manner to prepare what he wanted, and the cameras were placed at different angles.

In the crew, Lester also met a producer sent by Michael Ovitz, and it seems that because of Dustin Hoffman's relationship, the other party did not interfere too much with the operation and filming of the crew.

Lester greeted the other party politely, and arranged for someone to keep an eye on him at all times, and went to see Barry Levinson's filming of "Rain Man" by himself.

, a director who has been recognized by Hollywood for shooting literary films, is also very good at shooting films that combine literature and business.

"All set, start shooting. ”

After the crew got things ready, Barry Levinson made the board and began filming the first scene of "Rain Man".

Lester sat next to Barry Levinson, looking at the monitor footage coming back from the camera, and noticed that it was a little different from the previous shots.

Looking up at Barry Levinson's position and angle of the camera for the crew, it was fundamentally different from making a commercial film.

Footage came back from the monitors, and Leicester saw Barry Levinson showing off his personal expressive art without destroying the commercial genre.

Watching the performances of Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, Lester was a little surprised to find that Tom Cruise seemed to have increased his acting skills a lot because he performed with Dustin Hoffman, and he was not the kind of performance with dull eyes and a cool face.

It seems that Tom Cruise has honed his acting skills in other movies and improved a lot.

It's just that with Dustin Hoffman's performance, Tom Cruise is obviously still slightly suppressed, barely crushed into pieces.

Dustin Hoffman observed autistic people in a year's portrayal, and he successfully portrayed the role of Raymond.

Lester paid attention to the performances of the two, and continued to watch Barry Levinson's shooting, wanting to find out a different kind of literary shooting, and sometimes Lester would communicate with Barry Levinson about how to shoot the plot behind "Rain Man".

Time went by like this, and Lester figured out a little bit of Barry Levinson's idea for "Rain Man".

Barry Levinson's exquisite expression, clever contrasting settings, smooth and perfect narrative techniques, and profound visual language vividly show the social life of the United States in the 80s of the 20th century through a plain and simple realistic style.

Trying to do so through delicate and meticulous brushstrokes

to tell a touching and profound human emotion.

After observing this time, Lester sensed that Barry Levinson was slowly building up the plot of "Rain Man".

Its literary and artistic shooting uses realism to create characteristics and white narrative techniques to meticulously let each character have his own unique character and establish his storyline, but in order to avoid being too literary, he added light comedy to it, which makes people more understandable, and can also make the viewer feel comfortable and funny.

Barry Levinson used these three segments to shoot "Rain Man", which allowed Lester to learn a lot of the combination of business and literature, and when shooting, he had to not only shoot his literary route, but also control his commercial scope.

This kind of shooting must be strictly and seriously filmed, and once it is exceeded in some aspects, it will destroy his overall picture and plot.

After following Barry Levinson to shoot "Rain Man" for more than half a month, after receiving Dimes saying that "everything is ready for the second part of "Die Hard", Lester left the "Rain Man" crew with some reluctance. 》