Chapter 40: Corner Play
In fact, just as Heckford expected, these two people are like they are working hard and no one intends to let anyone, every time they look at each other, every time you play the lines back and forth, every subtle movement, every look full of changes, it seems to burst out one fierce spark after another, so that the onlookers can't help but be addicted.
In the final scene, Connie Nelson, who plays Christa Bella Anderoli, has a large-scale nudity/drama. Although of course what the audience sees in the final film is Connie's full/naked, the real situation during the filming will not make Connie really take off all her clothes, which is not โกโก filming.
The costume team and props team made a mold for Connie to wear on her body, and it looked like she was stripped naked, and there was even fake hair somewhere on the mold, and the prop master had a bad taste to ask Connie for her opinion, asking her what color she wanted.
At that time, Connie just laughed and cursed, and told him that you can make whatever color you like, and in the end he planted a red hair, why red hair?
"I like red-haired beauties~" The prop master laughed so meaningfully that Connie wanted a high heel on his face.
After being repaired by the beauty, the prop master covered his face and begged for mercy after being punched without pain: "Okay, wait, I was wrong, I'll change it for you, I'll change it!" But honey, you don't think this kind of thing, can you also ask Theo's opinion, huh? That's it...... Well, you know what I mean, it's a matter of the two of you anyway, hehe...... Stop, don't fight, I was wrong!"
Connie glanced at Theolod, who was discussing something with the director and Pacino not far away, and thought that watching the play between him and Pacino just now aroused goosebumps, and she couldn't help but admire this child who was fourteen years younger than herself, at least she didn't feel so comfortable when she and Pacino stood together.
She was going to play against the two geniuses later, and she felt a little nervous thinking about it, as if she was worried that her joining would make Hekford's "cut" sound constantly.
"Don't be kidding, you'd better be serious, otherwise I'm not the only one who will beat you up later, and you don't know Taylor's seriousness, besides, those two geniuses also need respect. Connie glared at the prop master warringly, then walked over to the director and the lead actor.
Tsk, the girls in Northern Europe are different from the girls in Western Europe or North America, the prop master looked at Connie's slender back and shook his head, and he didn't know whether Theorod's kid saved the whole heaven in his last life or what, even if his acting skills are strong, he is still so popular.
However, this is of no avail, and the prop master is unaware of Theorod's sexuality.
"Oh, look, the girl is coming. "Helkford is clearly in such a good mood that he smiles at everyone he sees. Seeing Connie passing by, he immediately waved his hand and motioned for the other party to come over, "Connie, you're going to join these two perverts in fifteen minutes, do you feel anything at this moment?"
"Do you want to ask me how I feel when I'm making out with a brother who is fourteen years younger than me, and my dad is still watching? Connie quipped, hiding the nervousness in her words.
"Look, Milton, I said you're a ghost father and you still don't believe it, Ander Oli is on my side. Theolod smiled defiantly as if he had received an assist, holding his chest and looking at Pacino.
"Kevin, how can you compare yourself to the average human, the devils don't care about the sex, age, orientation, or species of the person they mate. Did you know that Satan once mated/mated with a goat?" Pacino didn't care, and even shook his head with some regret.
Theolod laughed speechlessly, he didn't want to reason with him or anything, he turned his head directly, and looked at Connie, who could be about the same height as him when he stepped on high heels, he looked at Connie at thirty-two years old when he was less than nineteen years old, with soft and gentle tolerance and approval in his eyes, and the warm smile on the corner of his mouth made him look very sincere.
"Ignore our terrible old father, sister, trust me, I'm not going to do anything embarrassing to you later, even if you're very charming indeed. โ
Theolod's gentle tone was tinged with respect and strictness, and he seemed so sincere that Connie didn't know how to answer. Why did she think for a moment that she should call him brother instead of brother? and...... In fact...... There's a little bit of it in her heart, and she doesn't mind him doing that...... Embarrassing thing......
Hollywood is a place that says it is good, it is narrow-minded, and it is indeed narrow-minded. Here, racial discrimination, gender discrimination, age discrimination, seniority discrimination, sexual orientation discrimination, all kinds of discrimination are hidden under the seemingly glamorous appearance. For example, women are inherently narrower than men, whites are inherently more likely to receive invitations to scripts than blacks, Americans are inherently easier to get jobs than Europeans, and even in the United States, there is discrimination in different regions, with people on the East Coast as if they were aristocrats and upper classes, while people in the South and Central regions are like farmers and useless workers, not to mention the differential treatment of people with different sexual orientations.
Until the end of the twentieth century, there were trillions of homophobes in the United States and around the world, and they discriminated against homosexuals to the point of hatred. In Theorod's last world, although on the surface Hollywood had embraced homosexuality, Theorod knew that the truth was not at all as rosy as it seemed.
As long as a star comes out publicly, he will basically not be eligible for any academic awards, it will be difficult for him to find a script invitation, and the role he plays will also change slightly.
This is one of the reasons why Theolod did not come out publicly in his previous life, and he wanted to continue to win the favor of the academy. And in this life, it's the same, even if he doesn't care about the eyes of the academy, but he cares about movies, if he doesn't want to limit his career direction, then he has to stay in the cabinet all the time, he loves acting too much, so he doesn't have the courage.
Of course, he didn't know that the world was much more gentle on homosexuals, at least not as harsh and impersonal as his world.
So much so that now, or in the near future, whether in this world or in the last world, he can receive all kinds of heterosexual and even gay roles, perform large-scale pictures with women, or be loved or pursued by actresses or even male actors who cooperate with him. And Theolod has long had experience in dealing with these things, so he doesn't care about Connie's good opinion of him at the moment.
Fifteen minutes later, filming resumed, and Theorod, as he himself had said, did not make any moves beyond the scale required by the script. Connie was a little unnatural at first when she played with this old and young acting school, but she quickly got into the groove after performing with her mother since she was a child, coupled with Pacino's strong pressure and Diorod's thoughtful guidance, she soon entered the role.
The plot is in its final stages. Theolod plays Kevin's progression from the collapse and despair at the beginning to the indulgent emotions at the moment, with great depth. At this moment, Kevin had already abandoned the despair and insensitivity when he sat on the ground at the beginning, and Milton's long verbal temptation seemed to make him make up his mind, so he smiled, as if he had abandoned a baggage, as if he had already seen his final result.
He made a deal to Satan, and like every fallen human being, all a single thing is just a deal.
However, for some reason, his smile was unusually strange and sarcastic, and the eyes in his eyes, hidden behind the broken hair, were mysterious and provocative. The firelight stained his face red, like a demon standing in the flames, desperate.
He cooperated with Milton's request to make out with Anderoli, but at the last moment, he suddenly raised his head, looked at Milton opposite, and laughed.
His smile was too bright and dazzling, so bright that it didn't have any real feeling, so bright that it was like a madman's laughter, and it was like seeing through the red dust. And in his blue-green eyes, all emotions, whether provocative or hateful and angry, dissipated almost in that instant, leaving only a desireless calm, and a trace of triumph and arrogance.
"Now, what are you afraid of?" Kevin's voice was extremely calm, he stared straight at Milton, and without waiting for him to stop, he raised the gun in his hand and pulled the trigger on his temple.
His eyes were wide open, and he kept looking at the angry Milton, who could see the smugness and ridicule in his eyes even if he was dead.
Kevin thinks he's won and thinks he's freed from being a marionette and a pawn to be exploited.
And this is the saddest thing, because he didn't.
He thinks that his suicide is his free will rebellion against Satan, but he doesn't know that the final choice of the good part of his human nature has actually been in the hands of another master, that is, God, he thinks he is free from Satan, but he is still a pawn of God, and God uses the light of his humanity to crush Satan's plan.
Satan, on the other hand, has the ability to overturn a single qiฤ and start over - that is, the legendary reading of the file and starting over.
Kevin is a pathetic toy throughout.
After today's shooting, Theolod will have his first real rivalry with his "wife" Charlize Theron. In the previous courtroom scene, there was only one line between the two, but this time it was different, because this time, the scene of Marianne's suicide will be filmed.
The first confrontation between Theolod and Pacino can arouse people's endless adrenaline, which makes the crew wonder what level of Theolod's one-man show will be played without Pacino's stimulation, or will it not be able to surpass the peak state of playing against Pacino?
Most people think that Theorod will probably never reach that level again, but they are wrong.
When Marianne slit her carotid artery in front of Kevin, the dazed-eyed Marianne seemed to see behind the window on the door, and Kevin's broken blue eyes at that moment looked like countless shards of glass lying on the floor, which looked like enough to pierce people's hearts.
Kevin had a pause or two and silence for a second or two.
Theolod thought of the people he loved, but left him, whether it was his parents who left him at a young age, or the best friend who would always be, and his only grandmother. At that time, he was with the hospital bed, holding Maggie's right hand, watching her gradually stop breathing, but he couldn't do anything, at that time she had no strength to speak, he could only watch Maggie with cloudy eyes full of tears, as if he used all his strength to pull the face of his grandson with one hand, deep into his heart......
After a second or two, all the emotions, at that moment, all exploded, almost instantly, making the noses of everyone present sour and their eyes moist.
"No!! Mei, no!!" Kevin squeezed into the room through the crack by the door, and for this, Theolod even scratched his arm with a broken glass prop because he was trying too hard. Blood suddenly fell from his arm to the ground, it was real blood, not some kind of prop plasma.
Heckford almost shouted "cut" to the sound of several staff members gasping, but as soon as he spoke, the voice was choked in his throat. Because he saw Theolod, he saw that he didn't care, he didn't even feel pain, and he continued his performance.
At that moment, Heckford realized that if he disturbed Theorod's performance at this moment, it would be disrespectful to this child who was completely obsessed with his performance. So he watched quietly as he threw himself at Marianne, kneeling on the broken glass, and took Marianne's body into his arms, holding it tightly, as if he would lose his whole world as soon as he let go.
Theolod's explosive acting skills almost made all the crew on the set look away, they couldn't bear to watch it like this again, they were afraid that they would not be able to hold back their tears if they continued to watch it like this. Theorod's desperation, and the humble begging in the almost broken roar, almost everyone could relate to it, and they felt their hearts break when they saw the originally proud man pleading so lowly, and listening to the hoarse and desperate cry of the originally charming voice.
But the moment the doctor announced Marianne's death, Theolod's cry gradually subsided, and he lowered his head and looked at Marianne quietly, so gentle that he could not bear to disturb her deep sleep, and gently arranged her hair, and then sat motionless, without anyone moving.
At last, he staggered to his feet, like a marionette with a broken string. He looked at his hands stained with his wife's blood, and suddenly used the cold blood to wipe his hair, and wiped all the broken hair on his forehead to the back of his head.
When he looks up again and looks at his mother (the camera), Kevin is like a ...... Completely changed a person.
His face was calm, as calm as a pool of stagnant water, as if he was indifferent to anything, and his green eyes, as if they were scarlet blood, were enough to make people tremble with just one look.