Chapter 41: Exotic
As a long-time graduate from Harvard, Natalie Portman returned to her alma mater not to hang out of her youth, but to find creative inspiration. Since receiving the invitation to direct Emmanuel Bembie www.biquge.info she has been actively preparing for the second part of the "City of Love" series, "New York, I Love You", and she stayed in New York for a few days without a clue, so she came to her alma mater for a visit.
If you want to "observe" love, there are so many good places, whether it is a hospital, a park or a convenience store everywhere, love happens all the time, as long as you have a pair of eyes that are good at discovering, you can always find those shining fireworks. However, the best place for lovers is still the campus, where everything seems to be clean, at least it seems.
"You want to be a director?" Liang Baoguang was a little surprised at first, but then relieved, he himself can make movies as a business school student, why can't other people in psychology? Natalie Portman has been in Hollywood for more than ten years since he completed the filming of "This Killer Is Not Too Cold" in '94, and regardless of his talent in directing, his resume alone is more professional than he looks.
"In Hollywood, there are very few people who can turn down the opportunity to be a director, right? 'City of Love' is just an attempt, and if it turns out that I have the talent for it, I will consider making the transition to becoming a full-time director, and if not, I can convince myself to become an actor." "Natalie Portman has always wanted to be a director, because the ceiling of a director is much higher than that of an actor, and the title of a big director not only represents the respect of the industry, but also represents the right to speak in Hollywood.
After the actors who are mixed in Hollywood are successful enough, they will think about changing careers in other aspects, such as Schwarzenegger, who became the governor, ignited the fire of politics in the hearts of a group of actors, and these people cannot always succeed, and the transformation director school represented by Tom Hanks is still struggling on their road.
Liang Baoguang thought of himself, the profession of director is indeed tempting, "So you found inspiration?"
"I was a little bit inspired, I didn't think that a director would need to prepare so many things, but I really enjoyed it when I started to work. "Natalie Portman is a very ambitious woman, but sometimes this ambition is too strong, and her perennial hacking is related to this character, always giving people a feeling that they will be close when they are used, and they will kick people aside if they are not used.
Many directors and actors who have worked with Natalie Portman have turned black in the end, just because she talked and laughed on the set, and deleted the phone book when she finished work. If the collaborative work is well received, it's okay to say, if the previous work is not satisfactory, she won't even pay attention to finding her to cooperate again.
Another problem is that Natalie is very fond of speeches, and she is obviously a Jew in her bones, but she appears at various universities in the United States all year round to pour poisonous chicken soup on students. When mentioning past movies, it is customary to interpret the work in the way that high school students in the Celestial Empire do reading comprehension, as if she is not the female lead, but a director and screenwriter and also a producer, and the reason why the movie can be made is because she has ideas and connotations. Whenever she is asked why she has made so many bad movies, cold films, and loss-making films, she will be very unhappy, although she won't say it explicitly, but those big talking eyes will still tell others: It's all the director and screenwriter rubbish, and it has something to do with me?
As the conversation progressed, Liang Baoguang already had a considerable understanding of the woman in front of him, because he himself was a former psychology student at Harvard University, and he was more Taoist than Natalie Portman. The reason why this woman shows such and such problems is not because of how bad her nature is, but because of the Jewish educational values, they have always put their interests before God, and they have not been able to express them frankly.
"Are you familiar with acting?" Natalie Portman was surprised by Leung's professionalism during the conversation, and his insights into film and acting were very original, and many of his views were also insightful.
"Of course, I am familiar with it, I used to study Staniravsky's "The Self-cultivation of Actors" in order to perform "Thunderstorm", and later became the main director of the school's drama club, relying on the piano suit and clover, I don't know how many girls and young women were captured...... Uh, that's a long way off. These are the real experiences of Liang Baoguang in South Korea (please do not sit in the opposite seat).
"Oh, can you show me a performance?" said Natalie Portman.
"Is the bridge in "Thunderstorm"?" can be used, but Liang Baoguang is afraid that the lines in Chinese and Korean will not be understood by the other party, "The Korean script I used when I performed at the beginning, I was afraid that you would not understand the content." ”
"Then just change the clip you like, movies, TV dramas, or dramas. "Natalie Portman doesn't want to listen to Korean.
"I've seen incredible things about you humans, I've seen a spaceship hit at the edge of the constellation Orion, blazing with fire. I've seen C-rays streak through the dark cosmic space of Don Wyser's Gate. However, all these moments will be lost in time, like tears...... Disappear into the rain as well. The moment of death...... "This is the most praised clip in "Blade Runner", as long as you are a fan of this movie, or even a fan of science fiction movies, no one knows this line, Liang Baoguang just watched it a few days ago, so I remember every word very clearly.
The cold world, the brilliance of humanity, the warm sun hanging outside, but Natalie Portman clearly saw the raindrops sliding on the window glass, and the shocking performance is like this, which can pull the audience into a world that should not exist.
Although she didn't reveal much information about "New York, I Love You" out of confidentiality, Natalie Portman still told Liang Baoguang a lot about this movie, she is in charge of her movie, and she wants to invite Liang Baoguang to be her twelve-minute male lead, "In the clip I directed, there will be sparks from the collision of different races and religions in love, you are very suitable for this setting, if you want, I will be the heroine, and you will be the male lead." ”
Liang Baoguang's most advantageous place in the United States is his exotic style as a Celestial Empire, in Natalie's imagination, an atheist Celestial Empire and a Jew who believes in God will inevitably produce all kinds of contradictions, quarrels and shots, which can set off the greatness of love beyond race and religion.
"This, I'm afraid the time is a little uncoordinated, I still have a lot of things to do after the beginning of spring. Liang Baoguang's schedule is very full, otherwise he would not have temporarily given up his studies and applied for a leave of absence, but when he clearly received the invitation, he was already very inclined to appear in this hodgepodge movie composed of twelve clips, and he was just using push and pull tactics.
chatted with each other very closely, and the other party was also a student of her own psychology school, Natalie Portman firmly believed that knowing Liang Baoguang was a guide in hesitation, so the invitation to appear was sincere, "You can rest assured, the filming of the 'City of Love' series will be completed within 24 hours, and it won't take you too long at all." ”
"Alright then, I promised. Liang Baoguang showed that he felt that it was difficult to resist the hospitality, so he reluctantly agreed, not because he liked acting, but because he hoped to make Natalie Portman owe him a personal favor. Of course, he understands the truth of multiple friends and multiple paths, even if Natalie Portman refuses to help in the future, this cooperation experience can be used as a stepping stone elsewhere.
When it comes to profit first, when it comes to utilitarianism, Liang Baoguang is much more thorough than Natalie Portman, but he knows how to hide his true thoughts.
"I'm curious, who did you learn your acting skills from, many first-line actors in Hollywood are not as good as your acting skills. "Asking Liang Baoguang to be the leading actor, of course, is to have confidence in his acting skills, when talking about acting before, Liang Baoguang's imitation of the performance of "Blade Runner" who died in the rain really amazed her, and this is the main reason why she suddenly wanted to invite Liang Baoguang to star in her movie.
"Self-taught, hehe, self-taught. Liang Baoguang's mind floated through a list of acting teachers' surnames related to place names, such as Ozawa, Aoi, Matsushima, Yoshizawa, Amamiya, Nishiyama, Ohashi, Hasegawa...... He also remembered the rotten rhetoric used by the protagonists of those novels with their own goldfinger system: My master is an existence that I don't know how high I am than you, but his old man won't let me say his name, so as not to cause another round of bloody rain on the rivers and lakes.
In order to alleviate the embarrassment, Liang Baoguang decided to change the topic, and now he has accepted the invitation, although he has not signed a contract, he is also a relevant person of the film, and he has the right to know more information, "This movie is played by me, an amateur, is it really no problem, and there are some other people involved?"
"You are an amateur, your acting skills are not amateur, as for the other people, it doesn't have much to do with us, we are only responsible for one of the clips, and I am afraid that there is not much intersection with others. As long as the film crew is in place, Natalie Portman is confident that she can complete the whole shooting in half a day, because they are talking about being directors, but in fact, they only have to shoot for twelve minutes, "But can I take you to meet my good friend, Scarlett Johansson?"
"Of course, the girl with the pearl earring. Scarlett Johansson is the dream lover of thousands of young men, how could he not know in the United States, and hearing that these two are good friends, Liang Baoguang is not surprised at all, they are of the same age, and their fame experience is also very similar.