On January 7, in a villa in Beverly Hills, it was officially opened.

Based on the consideration that fertilizer and water do not flow into the fields of outsiders, many of the supporting roles are selected from UTA. Kapoor was right, these people have no problem acting, they just lack opportunities.

Even if they can get a small role with only a few lines in the director's new film, these little actors are quite satisfied. Eric didn't promise anyone, either.

As soon as it is released, the contracted cast of UTA will find out how lucky they are. Because of the popularity in his previous life, even the elevator operator who only appeared a few times in the movie ended up becoming a comedian with constant film appointments.

Edward's mercenary personal lawyer, Philip Starkey, who had no suitable actor in the UTA, contacted Jason Alexander, who played the original version.

Jason Alexander was still an ordinary Broadway stage actor at this time, and although his acting skills were good, he had no advantage in appearance, and only played a few inconsequential roles in a few movies and TV series. Hearing that he could get a supporting role with a heavy role in Eric's new film, the other party jumped from his original agency to join UTA without hesitation.

Hollywood is so realistic that as long as Jason Alexander succeeds in the future, no one will accuse him of betrayal, but will envy his good fortune.

In the villa, all the actors have been buried, Eric sits behind the monitor, makes an OK gesture to the assistant, and the shooting officially begins.

"Act I, Act I!"

The slate clicked down on the slate and everyone in front of the camera moved.

In the shot, a magician hired from the circus speaks his lines while expertly conjuring up coin magic.

"No matter what they say, the topic is inseparable from money......"

Soon, the camera pans up, and the magician pulls out a gold coin from the ear of Edward's ex-girlfriend, and Jason's Philip Starkey appears in the camera with a smile on his face, asking a man who watches the magic trick about the whereabouts of the male protagonist Edward.

This is a long shot of nearly a minute, and the performance is difficult and quite a test of the actor's ability to play. In order to shoot this shot well, it had been rehearsed many times before.

Jason Alexander didn't disappoint Eric, as Jason smiled all the way to the monitor as the camera moved, spitting out lines without hindrance, and wandering among the guests, accompanied by a rich and natural body language.

After Jason kissed a female guest on the cheek, Eric shouted in satisfaction, "Cut!"

Jason Alexander put down the champagne in his hand and walked towards Eric with a smile on his face: "Director Williams, how was that scene just now, do you want to do it again?"

Eric couldn't help but give a thumbs up and complimented, "Not at all, it's perfect, it's a good start." ”

Several members of the crew couldn't help but come over, and Eric replayed the footage just now, and everyone nodded their heads when they saw Jason Alexander's performance.

After watching the replay again and confirming that there was no need to shoot again, Eric clapped his hands and said, "Okay, the relevant staff will prepare for the second scene immediately." ”

The crowd dispersed, and Jason Alexander went into the villa to prepare for the next scene with Al Pacino and the others.

A room on the second floor of the villa had been converted into a conference room, and Al Pacino was flipping through materials that he had read for an unknown number of times.

In order to make Al more immersed in the character, Eric specially asked people to prepare a more than ten pages of information about the Louis Company and the Moses Company, although these two companies are fictitious, but the content of the materials is designed by professionals based on the company that exists in real life.

The second was filmed at a meeting to discuss the acquisition of Moses. Although the room had undergone a preliminary remodeling, it still took half an hour to set up the cameras.

After the filming began, Eric focused most of his attention on Al Pacino, who made his debut, and Al Pacino didn't have a few lines in this scene, but relied on expressions and body language, which Al Pacino was best at.

Al's image is very different from that of Richard Gere in the original, and his portrayal of Edward is still personable, but his temperament is more wise and cold, and less gentle and easy-going. In fact, this is more in line with the premise of the script that Edward is a cold-hearted businessman who executes his plans like a machine.

As a result, Eric quickly embraced the new image that Al had created.

"Cut," after a few shots, Eric suddenly shouted a timeout, frowned, and stood up at the beginning of a shot.

"Eric, what's wrong?" asked Al Pacino, confused, the first few shots going well, and he didn't think he had just performed badly.

Eric shook his head, "Al, it's not your problem. With that, Eric sat down behind a blonde at the conference table, and a blonde named Dolly quickly stood up.

Eric looked expressionless and picked up the notepad on the table where Dolly had just written and drawn: "Dolly, do you know that because of your negligence, we have to reshoot all the shots just now!"

Dolly nervously apologized, "I'm sorry, director, I ...... Can I know what the problem is?"

"Your character is a meeting note-taker, but in the first few shots, you look absent-minded, you know? If it's a real company meeting, you're going to get fired, look at what you've written, 'Can I compare you to summer, but you're more gentle than summer', is that a poem?"

The blonde's fair face flushed slightly, and she explained softly, "Yes...... is a sonnet by Shakespeare. ”

"All right, Miss Literary Youth, now, sit down. Eric asked Dolly to sit down again, ate the little tofu lightly, corrected her sitting posture himself, and placed the notepad in front of the girl: "Next, remember, don't write any more poems, wait and write down all the lines that Al said quickly, understand?"

Dolly nodded, "I see, Director Williams." ”

Eric returns to the director's chair and directs everyone to restart filming. The reason why it was so easy to let the girl go was because Eric himself was at fault.

He had just focused too much attention on the performances of Al and the others, ignoring Dolly's mistakes, and he didn't react until Dolly appeared in the center of the screen in a shot. If he had corrected it in time at the beginning, he would not have wasted so many shots.

However, as a director, in order to maintain his prestige in the crew, he will definitely not admit that it was his mistake in such a trivial matter.

Although the scene of the villa is only a few minutes in the film, it took most of the day to shoot. It wasn't until around four o'clock in the afternoon that the last shot in the villa was finally ushered in, that is, a conversation between Edward and his ex-girlfriend Susan.

After breaking up with his current girlfriend Jessica on the phone rudely and directly, Edward, who was about to leave the villa, walked downstairs and happened to run into his ex-girlfriend, so the two briefly struck up a conversation.

……

"Susan, do I want to ask you something?" Edward stared at Susan.

Susan wondered, "What?"

Edward raised his hand slightly, thought about it for a moment before saying, "When you were my girlfriend, did you talk to my secretary more than me?"

Susan's tone was a little disappointed, as if she recalled the past when the two of them got along: "Your secretary later became my bridesmaid. ”

Edward was stunned for a moment, smiled awkwardly, and then said goodbye to Susan.

This plot seems ordinary, but it is actually one of several character turning points in the movie, the male protagonist Edward.

It is not for nothing that it has been a box office success and has been included in most of the romance movie lists. Many people will think, heck, this is just a fairy tale of the prince and Cinderella without nutrition, and it can't happen in reality.

There is nothing wrong with saying this, but the plot design of this movie is much more exquisite, and perhaps the director himself did this subconsciously, but it does not negate the existence of these exquisite settings.

If you want to say that there is no logic, in the previous life, after Julia became famous, it was called illogical, the hero and heroine only met, and without saying a few words, they kissed in the actor's apartment, Eric saw this movie for the first time, and was scorched by the abrupt scene.

And the reason why the hero and heroine were able to come together in the end was not because they were pulled and dragged unlogically. In the movie, Vivien and Edward's personalities undergo at least three metamorphoses.

Vivian's first transformation is shortly after the beginning of the film, when she meets the prostitute who died in the trash can, and in the close-up of the camera at that moment, Vivian's eyes show fear, so when she meets her friend Kate Luca, Vivien asks for the first time, 'Don't you want to get out of this life?'

The second time was to accompany Edward to the banquet, Vivien went shopping for clothes alone, was kicked out by the clothing store, and Vivien, who was walking on the street with her coat tightly wrapped, felt a bitter humiliation, which also made her determined to escape from her old life again.

The last time, Edward gave up on buying Moses, and the furious Philip Starkey put the blame on Vivian, and in the hotel room, Philip Starkey said to Vivien in a mean tone: "Don't forget your identity, Miss Vivian, you are not a little woman, you are just a prostitute!"

This sentence completely awakens Vivien, who is immersed in Edward's Cinderella dream. So, when Edward said that he wanted to take care of her, Vivien ran to the balcony, not daring to look Edward in the eyes, but dreaming about her childhood fantasies. She said to him, either give her a fairy tale, or, let her go.

She eventually chose to leave, although that wasn't the end.

The change in the personality of the male protagonist Edward began in the villa, the conversation with his ex-girlfriend Susan, he asked his own question, Susan said that her secretary ended up being her bridesmaid, you can imagine how cold and ignorant Edward was to Susan at the beginning, so that his girlfriend had to rely on his secretary for company. Although this detail is unlikely to change Edward's personality much, it also makes him reflect on his actions.

Edward's second transformation was when he returned to the hotel after a meal with the owner of Moses, where he sat alone on his balcony and looked out at the night view of Los Angeles. Because the conversation during the meal reminded him of his father, who had passed away not long ago, who had studied hard, worked hard, and finally took revenge on his father for abandoning her mother, and the first thing he did after setting up the company was to buy the company that his father was in charge of, break it up, and sell it.

However, his father died, and fourteen years of grievances and grievances had disappeared, and he finally felt a trace of exhaustion. When a person is tired, willpower is always the weakest, and at this time, a woman suddenly appeared in front of him, enlightened him, soothed him, and unconsciously broke into his heart.

On the piano in the dining room, the tired Edward erupted with strong emotions for the first time.

The final metamorphosis began that night, when Vivien pestered Edward to play chess, and Edward held his chin and said, "Why don't you play again tomorrow?

Vivien asked rhetorically, "Why do you want to go to work, take a day off?"

Edward woke up from a dream: "Yes, I'm the boss." ”

So Edward was completely 'degenerate', and they went shopping like a couple, hugging each other and lying on the lawn to read, and chatting in the snack bar......

Eventually, he found that he couldn't live without Vivien.

On the sad rainy day before parting, Edward finally made up his mind to give Vivien a fairy tale, and he took the form of a knight, holding a sword (umbrella) in his right hand and flowers in his left, and climbed the window of the castle (hanging ladder) to welcome his princess.