Driven by Theorod, a dedicated and highly acting "monster", his scene was quickly filmed to the end, leaving only the last scene - the phantom was touched by Christine's kiss and let the two go - if he could have filmed one by one, Theorod might have been able to finish it a day earlier.

Schumacher looked at the time, and the tacit understanding between the actors in the filming and the post-production became more and more than he expected, so that at least half a day before the end of the day. He wanted to make a push so that Theolod could finish early, but the shooting that had been smooth sailing suddenly went wrong.

He disagreed with his male lead...... again。

They had a number of disagreements during previous shoots. He knows that Theorod is a tough person in acting, but he is also a smart and slick old fritter, and he will try to take into account the director's face and the authority on the set as much as possible when disagreeing and making objections, so in most cases Schumacher will be persuaded by Theorod's hidden needle debate, and besides, he can indeed prove why he acts the way he does through his acting skills.

This time, though, Schumacher decided that he couldn't be convinced by anything.

"Theo, you have to think about it, the Phantom has never felt love in his life, whether it is family, friendship or love, he has been abandoned and disgusted and feared all his life, and finally he has finally got a kiss, a pure, unadulterated kiss that is as tender as a mother kissing her child, what do you think he will think? Won't he weep with joy? This is the first kiss in his life, the first kiss in his life! The mother who abandoned him would not even look at him more, let alone kiss him!"

Schumacher led Theolod into the corner and patiently analyzed the phantom's mood with him. He thought that the scene of the Phantom crying with joy was the easiest to pass, after all, his mentality was very easy to understand at this time, as long as it was a normal person, he could analyze why the Phantom was crying. But Theolod's brain circuit is not the same as that of ordinary people, he actually thinks that the phantom should not cry, and even, he should not feel happy.

"That's right, Joe, you're right, it would be under normal circumstances, but don't forget, he's a genius, musically, he's a pervert who is extremely depressed about himself, he's not confident at all in areas other than music, he's very inferior, and in fact, because of this, his emotions are much more delicate and sensitive than the average guy. Theolod had a cup of coffee in his hand, but he didn't take a sip.

In fact, in the Phantom's heart, he knew very well why Christine wanted to kiss him, and he could feel it. Because of fear, because of sympathy, because of love—her love for Raul—there was no damn love for him. Compassion is a kind of compassion, you will sympathize with anyone, but you will never sympathize with your lover. ”

"In this case, you think, the phantom who got a kiss, why let them go?"

"Because he at least has Christine's sympathy for him, and Christine is as desperate as he is for Raul and for love. If he had left Christine, he would have nothing. ”

"Do you know what the greatest irony and sorrow is, Joe? From the beginning, he didn't want Christine's **, what he wanted, what he wanted, what she wanted. ”

Theolod sighed, his gentle blue-green eyes gradually welling up with a little inexplicable sadness with that sigh, perhaps he was grieving for the Phantom's tragic fate, more likely that he had put himself in the Phantom's place, entered the role, and regarded himself as the Phantom.

However, Theorod, who is the Phantom, is using his own way of thinking to understand and infer the Phantom's words and deeds.

Schumacher frowned: "Theo, you're too pessimistic, you know? You never thought about giving the phantom a few more rays of sunshine in his life, did it? ”

"Life is cruel, my good director. It's not that I don't want to give the Phantom Sunshine, it's that he's never had it. From birth to the present, he has been regarded as a freak show performer by the circus people, and he finally escaped and can only grow up alone in the cold and damp dungeon, and rarely meets his own musical angel, and fate plays a joke on him to make him realize that his little angel never belongs to him. What is love? He's a genius, he's a madman, he's a paranoid, he's a murderer...... I... His life was forever hopeless. ”

"That's the reality ......"

“…… Theorod!" Schumacher couldn't help but raise his voice abruptly, and then realized that everyone on the set was watching him because of him, and took a deep breath before lowering his voice and continuing, "Listen, Christine simply wants to use love to awaken the Phantom's sanity, to awaken her former musical angel, the Phantom felt the love she had never felt before, and was moved to cry, that's all." ”

For some reason, Schumacher thinks that Theorod's way of thinking is too dangerous at this moment, and he doesn't understand whether it is the dark and sad creature of the Phantom who influences Theorod as an experiential person, or whether Theorod himself gives the character too much tragedy. Although it was not Schumacher's intention to gradually make "The Phantom of the Opera" gothic, he did not want to continue to end in tragedy, and he was not filming Warner's Batman series.

Theolod probably realized that his words made Schumacher a little uncomfortable, and he fell silent, lowered his eyes, looked at the coffee cup in his hand, and didn't know what he was thinking. Just when Schumacher thought he was making a silent protest in this way, he finally nodded.

"Well, I'll cry. ”

Schumacher was still a little suspicious, after all, after getting along for so long, he understood that Theorod was not such an easy compromiser, and now he nodded so quickly that there must be a deception, and he asked again, and it was the same result.

“smile with tears， i know， it’s easy.”

couldn't think of a reason, Schumacher had to nod, and seeing that the rest of the time probably couldn't be finished in one go, he told him to go back and rest for a while to sort out his mood, continue tomorrow, and then let the crew leave work early. Anne and Padraic thought Theorod and Schumacher had quarreled, and went to probe for it, only to find that Theorod did not take it to heart, but asked them if they would like to go to the bar with him to celebrate after he finished.

The next day, filming continued.

Theolod did do what he said yesterday, and the Phantom did smile after Christine kissed him tenderly on the lips.

But Schumacher watched his performance and couldn't help but hold his forehead in distress. He just knew that his hunch yesterday was correct, how could this bastard be so disciplined, how could he compromise so easily? He was so stubborn that he couldn't pull ten cows back, and he said he agreed, but in fact he would still do things for him-

Phantom smiled and smiled, but his smile had nothing to do with joy and joy! That was clearly a bitter smile, a self-deprecating smile, okay!

And what about "smile with tears"? What about your tears?

"What's the matter, what's the problem? Okay, my dear Joe, don't worry, I do what I say, it's just, I don't seem to say when to make that expression?" The innocent look on Theorod's face almost made Schumacher feel like a heart attack, but on the contrary, Theorod's performance just now was flawless, from Christine's kiss to the self-deprecating Phantom who took off the ring he gave Christine and told them to leave the dungeon quickly......

Wait, did Theolod change the play for himself again?

Schumacher remembered in hindsight that Christine's ring should have been returned to the Phantom by Christine at the end, not by the Phantom himself. Theorod's performance was deceived even by him, the director, what else could he say, what was there to be dissatisfied with?

Schumacher remembered yesterday's analysis of the phantom by Theorod, the child who had lived in despair and lack of love since he was a child, and when he found that Christine himself had nothing, he personally took off the ring of his oath to her and let her go.

Theolod is using his acting skills to prove to Schumacher that it was the Phantom who let go of his sunshine for the little love left. At that moment, Schumacher realized that he had been persuaded by him again.

In the shot, the Phantom looks at Christine's departing back, and it is not until Christine and Raul's backs disappear at the end that a tear slowly crosses his intact left face. The ring in his hand seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, and he was almost out of breath, and Christine's departure seemed to take away all the strength he had to support it, and he knelt in the cold water with a "poof".

Covering his face, sobbing quietly to a faint low laugh, and then from a low laugh to a loud laugh, the demeanor and calmness that Christine had been able to maintain when she threatened her to exchange Raul's life before completely collapsed at this moment, until a heart-rending cry poured out all the pain in her heart.

The Phantom wiped away her tears, straightened her messy hair, put the ring on her little finger, and stood up again.

At the moment when Schumacher's "cut" sounded, everyone in the audience stood up and gave Theolod the warmest applause. Theolod took a few deep breaths to calm down, nodded his gratitude to the crew who had worked with him for several months, and finally waved his hand in distress, smiled and raised his left hand with a lady's diamond ring and said, "That, although I'm a little embarrassed, but I urgently need a candle, because I found that this ring may not be able to be taken off......"

"Hahahaha...... Honestly, Theo, you look better with this ring than I do, so you get it. Anne laughed and said that the picture was simply delightful.

In the end, Theorod solved this little trouble with the candles that can be found everywhere in the palace. On the night of the finale, he went to a bar with Anne and Patrick, and by the way, he called Eddie, whom he hadn't seen for a while, and flew back to Los Angeles the day after a hangover.

Except for the Oscars in March, he had almost a month to do nothing, just enough to give himself a vacation and see what work Marshall had found for himself. At Christmas, he had asked him if he was interested in biopics, and Theorod replied that he would wait until he finished filming "The Phantom of the Opera" and that it might be time to see a new life.

If he doesn't have much interest, he doesn't mind giving himself an extra vacation.

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