Chapter 8 Filming Begins
Bai Xuejia has seen a lot of movies, but the script is the first time I have seen it.
There are no gorgeous pictures, no accompanying BGM, no impressive actors, and even the text, which does not look gorgeous. There is only the simplest and most direct flat and direct narrative, and after Bai Xuejia saw the script, he only had one thought in his heart: Ah, it turns out that this is the script.
The story of "5 Centimeters per Second" is very simple, it tells the story of a pair of children who are in early love, and are forced to separate the two places because of family reasons. In the end, the child grows up, and in the end, there is no happy story of coming together.
Who are the people who go to the cinema to watch romance movies?
Needless to say, 99% of them must be lovers, and the remaining 1% are fire magicians.
However, what would it be like if a couple walked into a movie theater with the sweet idea of watching a romance movie to see this 90-minute story about a very realistic long-distance relationship that happens every day all over the country?
I'm afraid that the fox who has been caught by the rabbit day should be deeply touched by such feelings.
……
Yazhou.
Bordered by mountains to the north and the sea to the south, the terrain gradually slopes from north to south, forming a long and narrow polygonal shape. The tropical climate makes it cool all year round. When he got on the plane in the imperial capital, Bai Xuejia was still wearing a down jacket, and when he got off the plane in Yazhou, he had already changed into a single coat.
Accustomed to the refreshing air of the imperial capital, Bai Xuejia seemed to be addicted, and suddenly came to Yazhou, feeling a little uncomfortable, and always felt empty in his lungs.
The filming location of Bai Xuejia's scene in "5 Centimeters per Second" is in Yazhou, which is known as the "Oriental Hawaii...... Next to the county seat.
Bai Xuejia, Makoto Shinkai and the two crew members got off the plane, transferred to the car, and after more than two hours of bumps, they arrived at the location of the crew.
The crew lived in a decent hotel in the county, and Makoto Shinkai took Bai Xuejia to meet other people in the crew.
The story of "5 Centimeters per Second" is divided into three parts, the first part is the first part of the encounter and separation of the male and female protagonists in elementary school and junior high school, the melancholy, worry, and nostalgia in high school are the second part, and the numbness, doubt and final relief after work are the third part.
With Bai Xuejia's figure, unless the audience is blind, he can play a primary school student. Therefore, the male and female protagonists in elementary school are different. And this part of the scene is in Tokyo, so the two children have not yet joined the crew.
filmed in Yazhou is the second part, the story of Guishu transferring to his hometown and completely losing contact with Akari. The male protagonist Guishu is played by Bai Xuejia, and after Guishu and Akari separated, the actor who had a crush on Guishu's female No. 2 flower seedling was named Ayase Aragaki. She has a delicate and beautiful appearance, a slender figure, and her eyebrows are slightly thicker, but this is nothing, but it adds an unusual taste to her.
Her body naturally reveals a temperament that cannot be seen at all in other girls of the same age, very calm, and generous in her gestures.
There is also a supporting role, Hua Miao's sister, an eldest sister named Dong Yue. As for the heroine Akari, Bai Xuejia didn't see it, and when he asked, he found out that the actor who seemed to play the heroine had been delayed a little and hadn't come yet. However, in the second part, the heroine did not have many scenes, so Makoto Shinkai was ready to start filming first, and then make up her scenes when the heroine came.
After a day off, the next day, it was officially turned on.
"5 Centimeters per Second" depicts the ignorant feelings of the campus students, it happens to be a weekend, and the students who have just started school are on vacation, so after obtaining the consent of the school, Makoto Shinkai is ready to give priority to shooting footage on campus.
"Guys in place!"
"Photography OK!"
“Action!”
In the corridor, the crew set up a camera and pointed the camera at the classroom.
In the classroom, students sit in pairs and threes, chatting as they usually do during recess.
Except for Hakuska, and Ayase Aragaki, everyone else was a group performance by students who were hired on the spot. The students were excited to apply one by one, but because they were making a movie, they were afraid that something would go wrong, and the director kicked him, and he was very restrained, so that the whole person became like his eyes were shining with light, and he was aiming at the window camera from time to time, and his body was extremely stiff, just like a stiff neck that couldn't turn his neck.
“cut!”
As soon as the machine was turned on, Makoto Shinkai stopped.
"Students, don't be too nervous, don't keep staring at the camera, you just like you usually do during recess, let it be natural. ”
After that, let the students brew for a while, Makoto Shinkai waved his hand to the field note, and the field note said "action", and the shooting began again.
In the scene in the entire classroom, Bai Xuejia only has one line.
That was because Hua Miao hadn't filled in the application yet, and was called to the office by the teacher, and then the classmate sitting in the front row turned sideways and said to Guishu (Bai Xuejia): "Isn't this Guishu's girlfriend?"
Guishu (Bai Xuejia) lowered his head, read the book, and said lightly: "No." ”
After filming all the scenes in the classroom, most of the day has passed. The main scenes are all Aragaki Ayase, Bai Xuejia sat for most of the day, and with just one line, he almost forgot that he was the leading actor.
After finishing the classroom scene, he finally ushered in his first rivalry with Ayase Aragaki - finally having a little bit of a feeling of being the protagonist.
In the evening, after returning from swimming, Hua Miao's sister wanted to drive Hua Miao back, but Hua Miao refused her sister's kindness and ran to the parking shed. But instead of going back, she straightened her hair in the rearview mirror of her electric car, and then walked around to the back of the school building next to the parking shed.
Every few seconds, I looked at the watch, and then at the direction of the carport.
When she saw Guishu's figure appear in the parking shed, a bright smile bloomed on her face, and then she retracted sharply as if she was afraid of being discovered by Guishu.
He took a deep breath, patted his cheek, waited for his breath to steady, and then walked towards Guishu as if he had met by chance.
Guishu: "Ah, Hua Miao, only go back now?"
Hua Miao: "Well, you ...... Guishu too"
Guishu: "Ah. Let's go back together. ”
Bai Xuejia originally thought that filming was all simple filming, but it wasn't until he was filming that he realized that it wasn't like this. There may only be a few people chatting in the picture, but outside the camera, there may be a sea of people.
Perhaps it is rare to see people who make movies, and the people in the county show extraordinary enthusiasm. They didn't bother shooting, they were just watching, but there was a lot of pressure around them, not to mention the heads poking out of all the windows of the teaching building, and even the walls were crawling with people.
He felt like he wasn't at school, but at Monkey Mountain.