Chapter 74: Accident on the set
There are no lines, just body language can create a tense atmosphere, Alex has to admit that Theorod does have the capital to play freely, and his dominance on the set has been seen at a glance when he was in a one-man show, no wonder he was able to break the rumors that he could be a newcomer and suppress the drama before, after all, Alex can only see the momentum that Theorod has in the old drama bones and big actors...... No, even they can't keep up this good momentum all the time.
John's good-natured nature has long been intuitively revealed in front of everyone through his frightened but clear eyes. People may wonder who he is, but looking at his face, just looking at his eyes, the audience will only think of him as a poor man with amnesia, not some villain.
And this preconceived intuitive impression also played a decisive role later.
John stumbled out of the tub, perhaps his dizzy brain at work, which made his steps look so vague that he almost fell to the ground several times. But he still didn't hesitate, purposefully, and walked to the only mirror in the bathroom.
All he could remember was the knowledge of these everyday events, but any information about himself seemed to be completely erased by a rag, leaving only a pale self-question—who am I? Where am I? Why am I here? What is wrong with me? Why can't I remember who I am?
John staggered to the sink and leaned against it, propping up his naked/naked body, slowly, with a hint of timidity and inquiry, looking up at the face in the mirror in the dim light, a face he didn't recognize at all. The face had a pair of deep blue-green eyes, messy brown hair, haggard eclipsed the slightly soft but still angular handsome face, and the long soaking of water had made the lips almost lose any blood, and the pinhole-like wound on his eyebrows was unusually obvious under the paleness.
Even when facing himself in the mirror, his eyes were full of confusion and strangeness, and even with a hint of panic, this subtle emotional treatment made many people present who were used to seeing actors perform secretly applaud. They could no longer see Theorod's shadow in this man, as if Theorod did not exist at all, and standing in front of them was an amnesiac who was completely unfamiliar with him.
"Cut, beautiful!" Alex clapped his hands, waking up the group's drifting thoughts, "Give John a bathrobe and don't let him freeze himself." John, I've got a few more shots to fill in, you're okay, right?"
The "John" in Alex's mouth was still facing away from everyone, standing in front of the mirror, looking at his face in confusion, and when he heard Alex's voice, he turned his face sharply as if he had suddenly woken up, avoiding the mirror, as if avoiding a cursed monster. He waved his hand at Alex, indicating that he was completely OK, but now that he was naked, he couldn't turn around and face everyone.
A costume assistant in the crowd listened to Alex's instructions, and when he saw that Theorod's assistant didn't move, he picked up the bathrobe and towel on the side, and strode towards Theorod with a slightly red face while sighing that Theorod's back looked really sexy. It's incredible, she can still have a shy love in the face of this man, and she is not one of those little girls who are still in school.
As a result, as soon as she passed the assistant, the other party picked up what she was holding, snorted "thanks" almost through her nose, and walked straight to Theorod, who had his back to everyone, and draped him in a gray bathrobe.
The costume assistant stared blankly at his empty hands, then at Theorod who was getting dressed, and at the assistant who was wiping his hair with the towel she had brought with her own hand - did this bastard misunderstand something? Did he think she was his assistant's assistant? Did he still think he was helping him get the bathrobe and towel? You just snatched it for granted!
Natel looked at Theolod with his eyes downcast, allowing himself to toss his hair wildly, and from his vantage point he could clearly see the length of the other man's thick eyelashes, which were just enough to completely cover his master's eyes. Natel looked at it for a moment before he raised his eyes to focus on the act of wiping his hair.
"You are Theolod Recht. Nattle said.
In the afterglow, he noticed that the other person's eyelashes were trembling slightly.
"You're Theo. Nattle added.
"Of course I do. Theolod looked down and smiled, raised his hand to take the towel from Nattel's hand, wiped his hair barefoot, and walked over to Alex to see what he wanted to do next.
Natel looked at Theolod's back and frowned - if it wasn't his delusion...... Was Theolod evading the question he was trying to ask?
As the plot progresses, John wakes up from the bathtub and realizes that he may have had amnesia, so he puts on his clothes on a chair next to him and tries to leave the bathroom and go to his room to find information about himself. However, this apartment did not look like his home at all, it was just a certain room in a hotel, except for a little luggage, there was only a female corpse lying on the ground, half naked/naked, with a strange totem carved on her body with a knife.
John was so startled that he took a step back, accidentally touched the foot of the bed, lost his center of gravity, and fell to the ground.
His eyes widened in disbelief and even horror as he looked at the female corpse. In his blank memory, he didn't even know who he was, let alone the identity of the female corpse, or who had killed her. What frightened him even more was that he was afraid that the murderer of her cruel murderer was himself, and he was afraid that he was a murderer before he lost his memory, which he couldn't accept.
Theolod had already portrayed John as an innocent man with his excellent acting skills before, and at this moment, when John found a female corpse in his room, the preconceived notion would make all onlookers subconsciously doubt the fact that John was the murderer, maybe he was framed - after all, his eyes were completely devoid of evil thoughts.
A poor man, who has not yet recovered from the blow of amnesia, finds himself involved in another murder. Without any lines, just with the dim lighting and Theorod's acting skills that were enough to support the whole scene, he successfully created a suspenseful and tense atmosphere, and even the staff on the set couldn't help but hold their breath, for fear that the sound of their breathing would destroy the tense aura centered on John and spreading around.
The totem on the victim's body is still the result of Alex's previous discussion with Theorod. At first, Alex wanted to engrave a spiral on the victim's body, indicating the meaning of the labyrinth, implying that everyone in the city is a guinea pig living in the labyrinth. Theolod thought about it for a while, thinking that the overall appearance of this floating city in the universe might be more convincing than a labyrinth, symbolizing that although John was not told where he was, he subconsciously knew that he was just a prisoner, just like the subconscious seashell beach symbolized freedom.
When Alex heard this, he immediately applauded, so a totem with a double helix structure was finalized by two guys who figured out the criminal mind, and now it is painted on the body of the "female corpse".
Alex filmed this scene dozens of times before he stopped, because he found that his John's gestures were all scenes, and when he wanted to shoot a close-up of his face, his trembling hands still had scenes, and when he moved the camera to his hands, his throat suddenly swallowed a mouthful of saliva. So, Alex could only shoot a few more for post-editing.
When the scene in Theorod hotel room is over, Alex skips the next few scenes and chooses the first confrontation between John and the interracial on the billboard.
The green screen has been set up a long time ago, and the shots that are more than a dozen stories high in the film are actually only two stories high on the set, and there are thick two-layer sponge pads underneath. With the exception of the billboards and billboards at Shell Beach, all the other backgrounds are replaced with green screens, and will be made into an urban scene in the dark in the post-production.
This was the first time John realized that someone was manipulating the city in the dark, and it was also the first time he realized that he had suddenly mastered the same abilities as the men in black in top hats.
He can use telekinesis to knock a person into the air, he can control any object to fly and fall, he can create a door on a wall that leads to the inside of the wall, and even, he can change the city. In the film's post-production, John and the other men in black display brainwave abilities that are processed with special effects, such as a distorted air wave, but in reality there is no post-production, and it is all about acting freely.
In the absence of special effects, it is obviously ridiculous that a group of people can stare at each other, and it is extremely easy to laugh, but Theorod is still able to maintain John's panic and fear when he first meets the men in black - perhaps he still thinks that these people are the police who came to arrest him - and even when he adds hand movements to prevent the camera from looking too thin and counter-killing, he is still able to use his acting skills without laughing.
Those who don't know may think that he really has some strange abilities.
At first, Alex thought that this scene would be filmed several times because of the actors' laughter, but he didn't expect Theolod to be so reliable, and his strict sù naturally led other actors to be influenced by him. In front of Theolod, even if they play against him seriously, there will be a sense of being suppressed and unable to play, and if they laugh again, I am afraid that this movie will not be able to be watched.
Therefore, they also raised their energy and withstood the pressure brought to them by Theorod.
And the accident also happened at this time.
In Alex's plan, the billboard is three-dimensional rather than flat, with the arms of a beautiful woman in a bathing suit printed on it independent of the mural and connected by a rotating hinge that can be connected to a generator that swings up and down as if beckoning. Before the filming began, Alex had the billboard checked for safety, as it was impossible to knock the arm off unless it was hit by a ton or two.
As a result, just as John mistakenly used his ability to repel the man in black, the plank that kept swinging up and down suddenly looked like a rusty screw when it rose to the apex, and it stopped for a second or two, and under the influence of gravity and gravity, it suddenly swung down rapidly, and when it fell to the lowest point, it still did not stop, and inertia caused it to swing in a counterclockwise direction - the bearing of the plank was broken!
And Theorod, who played John, was forced to take a step back by those men in black, and when he raised his eyes, the plank was like a pendulum for siege, rushing towards his front door.
Instinctively, Theolod raised his right arm and stood in front of him. At that critical moment, he could only make the most basic defenses.
The next second, Theolod felt as if his arm had been hit by a hammer, the pain in his heart made his scalp tingle, and the huge impact force swatted him backwards like a fly, and he took a few steps back under the unsteady center of gravity, smashing the fence behind him, and the sense of crisis only allowed him to quickly stretch out his left hand.
It was less than three seconds from the time the wooden board smashed into Theorod and knocked him out, and before everyone could react, they saw Theorod hanging in the air with one hand clasped to the edge, his right arm hanging abnormally at his side.
Richard O'Brien, who was standing on the platform next to the billboard, was stunned, as were the set crew and other actors below. All that was left of the studio was the creaking and swaying of the broken wooden planks, and it wasn't until two seconds later that no one reacted.
The first to rush forward was Nattel, who sped onto the thick sponge pad in an attempt to climb up with a rope hanging from Guò to get Theolod down.
"Theo, I'm here, hold on!" he shouted at Theorod.
The back of Natle rushing forward to rescue finally alerted the others, and immediately someone took out his mobile phone to dial 911, and O'Brien, who was on the platform, also stepped forward immediately, just about to bring Theolodra up, but the next second he was stunned in place.
Even though the pain made his face pale, and despite the danger of his current situation, those eyes, that look, made O'Brien realize the moment he saw them that this child was still performing at the moment.
Blood dripped down his right arm onto the sponge pad beneath them, and he didn't realize it, but he slowly lifted the battered right arm. Obviously, this action would pull at his wound, as can be seen from his frowning and gritted teeth, and his trembling right hand stretched out to Mr. Hand was like a zombie breaking out of the grave, and he almost exhausted his strength, as if holding a dagger in his hand, from right to left, making a gesture of waving a knife.
In O'Brien's peripheral vision, the broken plank swung back clockwise from right to left.
Suddenly, he understood what he meant, and he felt incredulous for it, and even admired the other party's dedication.
Out of respect, O'Brien immediately jumped backwards, kept backing, and "fell" to the ground.
Alex, who had just wanted someone to lower the platform, was stunned when he saw this, and then he suddenly realized that Theolod didn't make that gesture.
After Theorod sneaked into the bathtub without permission at the beginning, Alex had an extra mind, in order to avoid the situation that Theorod played freely and he thought he had an accident, he discussed a gesture with him, when Theorod raised his hand and made a gesture, it meant that he really had an accident and not acting, and he would immediately stop filming and find someone to help him.
At this moment, Theolod did not make any suggestive moves, in other words, he took advantage of the accident and added it to his free play and continued to perform!
Did he forget the gestures they had discussed, or was acting more important than his own personal safety?
Alex looked at O'Brien, who chose to cooperate with him, in disbelief, as if he realized something, and immediately said to the people around him: "Hurry up and get that kid who rushed up with me!"
"What? But the director, Theo......"
"Don't say anything, stop him for me! Don't you see Theo still performing? The actor hasn't given up, and as a director, I can't give up!"
The man stared at Alex in some surprise, and under the pressure of the director, he had to rush up and grab the assistant's trouser leg who had already climbed halfway and pull him down. Immediately after that, the assistant couldn't help but punch him in the face, it was a real punch, and suddenly, the man tasted the blood in his mouth, and before he could say anything, he punched him again, hitting him in the abdomen, so that the unlucky man could only snort lowly.
The third punch didn't reach his face, and he was lucky because someone stopped him.
"Stop, Pop, look at Theo!" Herman tightened his grip on Nattel's neck and whispered in his ear, "Don't be impulsive!
Listening to this, the struggling Nattel raised his head and looked at Theorod hanging in the air. At this moment, he was already out of the hanging state, he dragged the arm in his hand, and climbed onto the platform with a hard support. From this angle, Natel could only look up at Theolod standing on the edge, straightening his back and clenching his bloody fists.
"Who are you?" he heard his voice, which had become low and muffled by forbearance, "what kind of power is this? Why do I have the same power as you......? Do you know me?"
"Sue me!"