Chapter 47: Premiere and Lunch Break
May is a great time for black humor movies in Los Angeles with fresh air and pleasant weather.
Caesar gathered all the cast and reconfirmed the impressive supporting cast to make sure their roles were all original.
In Caesar's mind, the only roles that can't be replaced in the whole film are Samuel L. Jackson, the boxer played by Willis and the little daughter-in-law Phoebe, and the robber couple at the beginning of the film, and the rest of the actors can be replaced.
In Hollywood circles, many people envy Caesar's three women who have been growing up in reverse since they beat Caesar, but when many people in the crew saw the actor who played the role of Willis's fighter's wife, they understood what real reverse growth was.
Maria? Morality? Medelo was born in 1965 and looks no more than sixteen at the age of twenty-five.
Many people in the crew felt incredible, and even suspected that she had lied about her age, and it was only when everyone knew that she had made three movies that they really believed it and were shocked.
In the face of this kind of demon that grows against the growth, everyone can only envy, jealousy and hatred, and even Caesar's three women have to bow down in the field of "Binen".
Everyone in the entire crew has to sign a confidentiality agreement, and the leakage of the script hurts not only the box office, not to mention that now Caesar's enemies have been eyeing each other to find an opportunity to make a black hand, and Caesar will not have problems in such an important link.
Kai Saman's mind is full of what the British call the "small shopkeeper" mentality, and prudence and conservatism in his work have always been one of his codes.
It seems that he has crossed so many fields and does things vigorously, but in fact he only does it when he is very sure, and if these fields have to be made original, he does not do it freely.
While the other actors were still familiarizing themselves with the script and memorizing their lines, Samuel? Jackson had already let Caesar lead the way in rehearsing the long shot of black and white.
This is a long shot that is very famous in the film critic world. Vincent and Jules get out of the car and chatter all the way into the elevator, followed by a shot from the elevator to the hallway and finally to the target door.
During this period, the two didn't do any particularly classic actions, they just kept talking, anyway, they said what was useful for the plot, and they had to say what was useless, and they talked all the way to the door of the mission location. Realizing that the time had not yet come, he walked to the other end of the corridor and waited for the time while talking in the vernacular.
Some critics think that this is a classic long shot, which shows the daily behavior of the killer and the dialogue table that cannot be seen in ordinary movies, and the casual behavior of two black organization killers in the face of murder, chatting and saying this, as if they were just playing a bottle of soy sauce.
When this kind of cold-blooded and casual, the long shot is more intuitive, just like a documentary, every nonsense and even swear words are so intuitive and real, unabashed.
If the shot is chopped. This feeling is gone at once, and the audience will find in their subconscious that this qiē is modified after all, and cold-blooded and casual are all fake.
The opposition in the film review said otherwise, they thought that this paragraph was basically useless nonsense, and there was no key dialogue and excitement to drive the plot, and there was no need for long shots to show off the director's scheduling.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that most film critics can't understand the dialogue and can only watch the castrated scum translation.
Caesar doesn't care what critics say. No matter in his past or present life, he doesn't take film critics seriously.
It can be said that there is no influential film critic who does not take money. Inexplicably squirting can sit on the ground and collect money, and it is also called a critic......
This way of obtaining money is not justified or not, at least in Caesar's opinion, the person who receives the money and speaks must be full of lies and nonsense.
So Caesar ended up using the original long shot, Samuel? Jackson's acting skills are unquestionable, and his professionalism and attitude on set are also commendable.
Caesar has the original in mind as a yardstick. Whether it's acting or memorizing lines, it's not a problem at all.
In addition, in order to speed up the progress, Caesar used a stupid method.
First of all, he took on the role of photographer first, let the photographer follow him as an assistant, and let any staff member follow Samuel temporarily? Jackson became Vincent's stand-in next to him.
Let Samuel walk all the way with the staff, and then Caesar will talk to Samuel while carrying the camera. He also has to direct the staff and tell him when to leave and when to stop.
On top of that, he also had to explain to the photographer next to him the general position and feel of the lens.
Multitasking, but also wearing a Steadicam, and then holding a camera, a lens down and stop-and-go, the small twenty-pound equipment in Caesar's hands is simply lightweight, and the photographer on the side is about to protrude when he sees it.
Although Caesar especially hates Korean-style sissy actors, he himself is the kind of person who doesn't have big muscles no matter how he looks at it.
The photographer pondered for a long time, and always felt that Caesar did not have this kind of power.
You must know that even if the cinematographers are not all bodybuilders, they are not decently strong, and even if they are fat, they are fat people like Sammo Hung who have a particularly good body.
Because the photographic equipment is very heavy, especially the moving long lens without a track, sometimes it needs to be carried or held for a long time, and the strength and endurance required are not something that ordinary people can achieve.
A good photographer in Caesar's mind is at least half a fitness freak, and if a photographer doesn't maintain the peak of good strength and the upper limit of his body, then his career will not be too long.
Like the famous one-shot movie "Russian Ark", a group of people praised it so well and so well, and the only thing Caesar praised was "The photographer is so good!" ”
This photographer in Caesar is called Pete? Anderson, an Englishman, has followed Caesar since the former filmed the MV for Spacecraft Smith.
According to Caesar's brain search, this guy was unknown in his previous life, but he had an extremely good grasp of Caesar's black and white and silhouette style.
Whether it is Marx? Payne" is cold and dignified, and the "warm winter" picture texture of "Home Alone" makes Caesar score 120 points.
In Caesar's eyes, Pete's camera doesn't feel like "Janus?" Kaminsky: "Poor. (Kaminsky is Spielberg's royal photographer, and his masterpiece is "Schindler's List" in black and white)
And Pete's biggest hobby is going to the gym...... That's probably why Caesar kept using him.
Pete made two movies and one music video for Caesar, and Caesar never showed him the camera positioning, which made Pete feel the importance that Caesar attached to this "Pulp Fiction", and also shocked him by Caesar's power.
For a would-be master in the world of photographers. Peter? Anderson only needs a little walk through the position to be in good shape.
And then there was the long shot that shocked everyone on the set, over and over again.
The two of them said a lot of things today, and the audience was talking about daily chatter at first glance, and it seemed that they could improvise nonsense.
Actually, it's not nonsense at all, you have to know Samuel? Jackson's lines are memorized very hard, and there are many foreshadowings in the large dialogues that need to be related to the plot later.
There are some things to think about in retrospect. It's basically a flag.
Such an important conversation was mixed with nonsense, and the two of them talked as they walked, and one of them passed the ......
The field reporter and Pete looked at each other, and could only shrug their shoulders, indicating that they were still holding on.
Samuel? Jackson had a clear understanding of Caesar's acting skills at this time.
He originally thought that Caesar couldn't find a suitable actor and temporarily replaced him to make up the numbers. Which Cheng thought that Caesar would be almost off the horse as soon as he came up.
Not to mention the nervousness of the first performance, the whole time it was as relaxed as ...... "He's Vincent!" ”
That's right, Caesar to Samuel? Jackson's feeling was that the former was Vincent, the suave and unruly Vincent.
Samuel? Jackson is a veteran driver in the actor industry. What genius actor hasn't seen? But a debut like this by Caesar definitely caught his eye, and now he is looking forward to the next rivalry between the two.
Judy, who is a producer watching the scene from the sidelines? Foster is also a master, winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress at least at the age of fourteen, but she still expressed her amazement at Caesar's performance.
Caesar's appearance has not changed much overall, and it is still the shortest "caliper" (round inch) that has remained unchanged for the ages, with a black formal suit and a white shirt.
Some minor changes were the replacement of the regular tie with a bolo-tie and a sparkling white gold earring on the left earlobe. Mouth full of fuvk and fuvking between talks.
The most eye-catching thing is that he keeps pumping the big (what) hemp that rolls his hands. After taking out the 1911 from the trunk, before pinning it to the waist, he rubbed his scalp with the crosshair on the barrel of the gun to relieve the itch.
And the accent has also changed dramatically, Caesar's previous accent had a little bit of English, which he learned from his grandmother in this life. (Mainly the British English that I learned in junior high school in the previous world, some words are even the same as oral fetishes, which are not easy to change)
Now Caesar has completely incarnated Vincent. The accent has also become the accent of Los Angeles, which everyone listens to.
This change from accent to temperament is almost like a transformation, and if he wears makeup, I believe that his closest family members and three goddesses will not recognize him.
At the beginning, Caesar also chatted with the three goddesses about Superman and Batman, and Caesar joked that Batman was actually a villain. The whole comic is about how he raises his self-respect.
He also said that there is a huge conspiracy in Superman's world, that is, people all over the world are connected by a force to do one thing, that is, pretend that Superman is Clark? Kent.
I took off my glasses, combed my back, and wore my fat clothes on the outside, thinking that no one would recognize me? It's no wonder that superhuman aliens are simple enough to be thorough.
The most tragic thing is that Superman's favorite Louis? Ryan is cooperating with this force to deceive Superman...... Even if she's the closest to Superman, she's never seen it.
At that time, Emily made Caesar's statement stunned, after reading the Superman comics for so many years, she really didn't think about this problem, why didn't anyone recognize it? Obviously there is no makeup at all.
Bea held back for a long time and made a sentence, "Maybe the temperament has changed too much, right?" Interestingly, even Bea herself didn't believe this, and as soon as the four of them talked about it, Caesar soon ended the conversation and dragged them to the bathroom.
In Judy's opinion today, this sentence may really be true if the temperament has changed too much. If Caesar eats a little fatter, wears a pair of black-framed glasses, wears a mustache, and then uses Vincent's current dress and temperament to appear in front of the three girls, it is really easy to be deceived.
Caesar was on the side to accept the results of the shooting just now, but didn't expect Judy? Foster had already wandered to his grandmother's house.
Caesar's final review is complete. Expressing satisfaction, he hurried to shoot the next classic one-man show of Jules.
Jules and Vincent entered the target room, and then Vincent quickly entered the innermost kitchen area of the room, instantly allowing the two to form a situation of internal and external attack, which can be said to have used the terrain advantage to contain everyone in the room.
The rest is almost a one-man show by Jules, who greets politely. Grinning and eating the target's burger, drinking the target's Sprite, and then the one lying on the couch in the target lay down.
Jules shot him in the liver and sent him on his way, then recited the Bible verse, and Vincent both nailed the bullet to the main target.
Unlike the sequence after editing, the second half of the miracle is filmed directly, so it is simply done in one go on the set.
Here, too, Caesar meets Samuel? Jackson's skills as a veteran driver. Although he didn't know that Samuel was actually inspired by all his energy and enthusiasm in his debut.
What's more, any actor who encounters Jules's rare one-man show will be overjoyed and burst into potential.
The vanilla has two bugs here, one is the number of bullets fired, and the other is the bullet holes in the wall.
As a loyal Colt fan, Caesar has long decided that whenever there is a gun in his film, he must use Colt's products, so this time "1911a1" and "Python Six Inch" appeared in "Pulp Fiction".
The original goofs bug is in the prologue of the movie. Jules's 1911, having run out of bullets, hung up empty warehouses. As a result, in the third chapter "Bonnie's Situation", in the same scene, the gun is not hung up.
After the target hiding in the bathroom rushed out, Jules continued to shoot, firing at least two more shots. There is no shot of a magazine change inserted in the middle, and there is nothing else to explain. As a result, Quentin just let a standard 1911 with a maximum of eight rounds of bullets to fire a minimum of ten rounds.
The second goof bug is like this, the guy who rushed out of the bathroom was holding a far more than his physique, "Colt Python Magnum Bullet Six-Inch Barrel Revolver" The big brother rushed out of the bathroom and raised his gun to the black and white double brake and fired, and six bullets were fired in an instant. But not a single bullet hit the target two, and they were shot dead by the two men.
The bug is that on the shot before the big brother shoots, there are already bullet holes in the wall behind the two, although it is fleeting, but it is enough for people to see clearly.
Caesar would never allow such a horrible bug in his films, so these shots were absolutely perfectly shot.
And the bullet hole here, Caesar has also been adjusted, the original version, according to ballistics and the position of the two, a bullet is bound to hit Jules.
"Large-caliber Magnum bullets, a direct hit in the middle of the torso, conclusion, killed on the spot." Theoretically, this passage should have appeared in the preliminary post-mortem report done by the police on Jules.
However, the fact is that the bullet, which had to hit the torso, actually crossed the space and hit the wall directly, and Jules was unscathed.
And according to the trajectory and position of the original, Vincent will not take any bullets.
Caesar's change was to make a potentially fatal bullet hole appear in the wall behind Vincent.
Because of the different positions of the bullets in the original version, it is logical that the two made different choices in the end, and the different endings in the end happened naturally.
Caesar's version requires two people to have a miracle or a warning happen at the same time, and then the choice of the two people is based on personality differences, not because of different external conditions.
In fact, the bullet hole scene itself is not as divine as Jules thinks, the recoil of the large-caliber Magnum revolver is very huge, and it is not something that an untrained person can control, especially continuous shooting, in addition to bringing huge recoil, it will also make the bullet fly in any direction you want......
Note that the casual here refers to the heart with the bullet, with this kind of cannon-like gun burst fire, the actual impact point of the bullet has nothing to do with the gun holder, and it is too normal to not be able to hit people at close range.
From this point of view, the original director Quentin still didn't add too much surreal things.
Caesar had a different understanding of this part, so he subjected Vincent to the fatal bullet hole as well.
Now that there is something surreal in the film, you might as well take a bigger step.
To Caesar's pity, Samuel was in just the right state and should have finished filming the scene in this room in one go.
In the afternoon, the color temperature decreases with the change of the position of the sun, and if you continue to shoot, there will be an amateur bug like color temperature goofs.
Color temperature is not a thing that can be perfectly solved by a few reflectors and filters, and post-production adjustment is even more nonsense, because the current film technology is not so developed, unlike after the millennium, there are various software that converts film to digital and then uses it for adjustment, at the end of the eighties, the difficulty and cost of post-film color grading are touching enough.
Caesar didn't have this skill himself, and the colorist's commission was nothing short of a robbery.
Caesar looked at the time and resolutely decided to take a lunch break, and in half an hour, the takeout he ordered would be delivered.
The actors in the entire crew, to be honest, are only Caesar's biggest name, although he is only a rookie in the actor world.
Among the other actors, is Bruce? Willis can get his hands on it, after all, with the help of Marx? Payne and Blue High Light Detective Agency, he has already entered the ranks of supernovas and is one step away from superstardom.
Caesar doesn't even have a trailer, so no one lives in a trailer and plays big.
There are no private trailers on the set, and the so-called trailers are just a place to change clothes and store props and costumes.
Seeing that there was no one around, Caesar held Judy's tender hand and played with it repeatedly in the palm of his hand, while his eyes searched back and forth.
"What are you looking for?" Judy asked curiously, blushing.
Caesar looked at Judy's pretty face, which had become red and tender because of shyness and nervousness, and for a moment he became even more distracted, and the ghost made the subtext out of the way.
"I knew how good it would be to get a private trailer, and it would be convenient to pull you in and get into the car." (To be continued......)
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