"You can lower your head in this place, don't be expressionless, you can have a slight change, and you can exaggerate a little, the director won't give you a close-up shot, and if you look down, the light is darker, and the exaggerated expression can be more obvious......"

Sitting in the corner of the studio, Downey took the script and told the play to the actors of the same crew.

The actor, surnamed Zhang, is an actor from Asia, and in the movie, he plays an Asian army commander -- just as the other four Wall Faces are thinking about ways to save humanity, and he's doing just that. Unlike other people who are constrained by the internal reasons of human beings, he directly abandoned all human beings from the beginning and only considered the practices of human civilization, and achieved a certain degree of victory. This task is a rather charismatic character, and it is not easy to perform.

These are things that Donnie doesn't need to know. This character is not performed by him, and he doesn't even have a rivalry with him, so he can't take care of it at all. However, these days, he knows all about it. Because in front of himself, the actor who plays this role has been asking him questions these days, so that his grasp of this character is not bad at all.

But who would have thought that he didn't know this person at all before he joined the crew? At that time, this person who had only acted in a few TV series had nothing to do with himself. It was only after they arrived at the crew that they met, and after getting to know each other, they quickly got acquainted with each other, and there were more exchanges. This actor doesn't have much acting experience, he always comes to ask Donnie questions, and every time, Donnie's explanation is very detailed.

Looking at the actor in front of him who seemed to understand whether he understood or not, but with a respectful look, Donnie didn't know whether he should be happy or sad in his heart. He was distressed. This actor's acting skills seem to be really poor, but he is very happy that there are still people around him who can come to ask for acting skills.

It seems like this hasn't happened for a long time. In his early years, when he was still a big star, there were some young people around him who always wanted to slap themselves up. At that time, I only had an unspeakable disgust for this kind of people, and I felt that they were all.

However, after a long period of self-destruction. There was no such person around him anymore - he also understood that in those days he saw someone he knew and wanted to borrow money to buy some medicine, and it was strange that someone was willing to pay attention to him.

Back in Hollywood, he is no longer the genius actor he was back then. Even when she asked her girlfriend out for the first time, she thought she was dating a weird guy, not a handsome guy - years of fooling around ruined her image, and she tasted all the warmth and coldness of human affection.

And after years of being coldly treated, someone can ask him so seriously about acting skills. It also made Donnie quite moved: there are many big-name actors in the crew who are better than him, and because of the indiscretions of his past life, there are not many people who are willing to deal with him - although there are many people in Hollywood who play drugs, but there are not many who play him so notorious. No one wants to be easily contaminated with such a person. Especially after he has long since lost his fame. There is an actor with an important role who took the initiative to ask him about acting skills, which made his self-esteem very satisfied.

Although said. It's not a big name, it's not a celebrity, it's just a little Asian actor -- but whoever it is. Isn't it nice to see him as an actor rather than a smoker?

And while his self-esteem was satisfied, he naturally did not hesitate to tell all his acting experience without reservation - no one has paid attention to him for so long, and now someone is willing to talk to him, even if it is only about acting skills.

"Pay attention to your eyes, pay attention to your gaze when the focus falls on the actress, you need to have feelings. Your character is cold, and if you want to neutralize that, you need to express the tender side of your character. There is no emotional scene between you and this woman in the play, but you need to show some of it yourself, and I think the director will approve of it......"

Reading the script, Donnie once again made his own comments, and Zhang Hanyu nodded again and again when he listened to his words.

Since joining the crew, he quickly discovered that he was probably the worst acting actor in the crew. Compared with him, those people are all big names, and his gap is too big, such a gap once made him worry about whether he can really play a good role and really perform this role. Perhaps, he will become the biggest variable in the movie.

However, soon, the director gave him a solution: the director asked him to ask Donnie for advice, which was a wonderful method.

There is no better place to teach than the now lonely and bored Donnie: all he needs now is a respectful and confided listener. There's no better listener than yourself: it's a rare experience for yourself to hear celebrities talk about their filming experiences.

The director's arrangement has indeed helped Zhang Hanyu a lot, Downey's explanation is very detailed and hardworking, and he is more responsible than some real teachers who teach acting, which has benefited him a lot.

"This place, there is nothing difficult, if you think about it again, you can understand it." After Downey finished explaining, he slapped the script into his arms, "You have to hold on tightly, your part should be the last part that needs to be filmed now, right?" ”

"yes, we're done shooting, we're going to shoot the location."

"Exterior...... It's very desirable......" Donnie smacked his lips, with a hint of longing in his expression, "Go abroad and look at other scenery, such an opportunity is really rare." ”

Zhang Hanyu didn't speak, just looked at him. Compared to himself, why didn't Donnie get help? For him, isn't it a great gain that his mood has changed for the better now?

The director's arrangement, the hardships overcome, are not only his own variables? ――

The parts that needed to be done in the studio were basically done now, and before leading the team out of the United States to shoot on location, there were other things that Levy noticed.

Halfway through the filming of his film, the cost accounting was also going on at the same time. And a very surprising news is the cost of his films. It doesn't seem to cost as much as he thinks. If you continue to shoot like this, after the final filming of the movie is completed, maybe the shooting cost of 300 million yuan will not be exhausted.

If you think about it, this seems quite reasonable: the reason why Levy always thought that the filming would cost 300 million yuan was because he always remembered that the filming of Avatar cost 350 million yuan. He wants to make a good movie no less than Avatar, so he is naturally investing, and he is not willing to be sloppy in the slightest. James Cameron is known as the tyrant on the set and the king of over-budgets. Levy asked himself that making a movie was not as expensive as him, but, in his opinion, the cost of 300 million US dollars should also be indispensable. So, he also thinks that movies need so much.

However, if you think about it carefully, it seems that a large part of the filming cost of Avatar is the cost of upfront investment.

These investments. A large part of it is spent on the investment in special effects production. Avatar that movie from the 90's James. Cameron was already preparing, and in order to shoot the film, he spent a large part of his money on research on how to make special effects. And these words cost money. When calculating Avatar's investment at a later stage, he counted them all - and it was not wrong to do so, because the research was originally spent on making a movie, but. In this way, the cost of the movie is undoubtedly much higher.

The investment in the actual shooting of this movie has always been said to be about 237 million - that is. Compared with Pirates of the Caribbean 3 filmed in the future, the investment in Spider-Man 3 is actually slightly less.

Although those two movies can't be compared with Avatar on the scene, the investment in movie actors is not small at all. Their expenses are also around 250 million. It's just that compared with Avatar, they have less equipment and technology preparation fees in the early stage, so the total cost is not as good as Avatar.

It's just that without preliminary preparation, it is natural that there will be no money savings when shooting later. Avatar put the money into the preliminary preparations, and it can't be wrong.

And if this is calculated, it is easy to understand why Levy's film investment has a surplus: when it comes to pre-production, Levy invests a lot, but he does not count it.

For his special effects company, Levy has been investing continuously over the years. It's just that unlike Cameron, when he invested, he also let his special effects company participate in the production of commercial blockbusters, and he was also making money. Because the company is his own, he doesn't expect to rely on a movie to make a return like Cameron, and his company has been involved in various commercial activities, not purely unprofitable investments, and these investments are not included in the cost of the film. But if you really count this money, I am afraid that the investment in his films is only a lot - in the past few years, in which year has his investment in the special effects department been less than 10 million?

Moreover, there is a big problem here: the filming of that movie, although it took a long time to prepare, but the real start of filming began in the period of 07-08. Cameron needs to pull money and find investments, so it takes a long time to prepare. And Levy's films don't have these concerns, and he naturally starts faster: and because he started early, he also gets the cheapness of the price.

For these reasons, it's no surprise that his movies cost a little less money than Avatar when they were filmed.

The film didn't cost as much investment as expected, and the news was an unexpected surprise for Levy, but it was more difficult for Alexander to accept.

"Now that the money has been spent, don't think about saving money. We've invested so much money in our films, and it's useless to save some more, so don't be reluctant to spend money just because I'm complaining. ”

Alexander was a little worried about saving money on the movie. When he spends money, he always feels that spending money is a waste, and now that he doesn't spend money, he is worried that the movie will not be made well. This kind of gain and loss also made Levy smile bitterly.

"You can rest assured, there will be no problem with the filming of the movie. It's all come to this, how could I make such a low-level mistake? Moreover, it is not without benefit to keep some money, right? Spending that money on post-production or publicity might be a bigger good thing for our films. (To be continued......)