Chapter 67: Hone your acting skills
Jumping away from the actors to look at the script, the audience can clearly see that this play was originally about the brotherhood between Song Zihao and Song Zijie, and Xiao Ma is not the protagonist; In fact, after watching the whole movie, maybe everyone doesn't remember Dillon or Leslie Cheung, but they must remember Chow Yun-fat.
It is precisely because of this focus that Lu Yan has very high requirements for the details of Chow Yun-fat.
On the way to send counterfeit banknotes to the transaction, the details of "Pony and Brother Hao smoking a cigarette" are another wonderful design that shows the deep friendship between the two after "smearing oil". At the same time, Brother Hao laughs at Pony's English level, and then Pony remarks his English nonsense in front of foreigners, and explains his background of Brother Pony's low education. Coupled with the scene of the pony accosting the beauty and being frustrated and "intimidating" Ah Cheng, the image of a funny, frank, righteous and light little brother has become plump. Uncle Yao, the boss of the "company", summed it up well: "You (Ah Cheng) don't look at the pony hanger, but you are quite loyal." ”
Anyway, he rented an office in this building, and Lu Yan combined the two parts of shooting. Whether it is negotiating with foreigners about counterfeit banknotes, or "companies" are placed here for shooting.
"Brother Fa, you'll be able to show off your broken English later!"
Hearing Lu Yan's joke, Chow Yun-fat also smiled confidently: "I don't need to act, I don't know anything about English." ofcourse! ofcourse! Haha......"
"That's pretty standard!"
"By the way, Rong Shao, you are a talented student who came back from studying in the UK, don't make fun of me."
Leslie Cheung's humor, coupled with Chow Yun-fat's self-deprecation, made everyone chuckle.
It's very easy to find two foreigners to perform in Hong Kong, and even Lu Yan didn't invite them. There were a lot of foreigners working in this building, so he directly asked someone to invite a few people over. When several people heard that they were participating in the film shooting, they were very happy.
Remuneration? They don't have to be paid at all, which is a lot of fun for them.
"Alright, all parts ready!"
For the filming of this scene, Lu Yan can be said to have done a lot of work. The Hong Kong dollars in that box, of course, are all real. And another box of US dollars, others don't know how he really got some counterfeit bills.
Seeing that everyone had already buried their positions, Lu Yan shouted: "action!" "I started shooting.
Dillon was a breeze with his performance, especially when it came to trading counterfeit money. With a meticulous face, he took out the money detector and picked up a stack of Hong Kong dollars and checked it.
Chow Yun-fat, who was standing not far away, was holding a toothpick in his mouth, laughing and talking in broken English with two other foreigners.
When Dillon turned his head to look at it, his demeanor and eyes were very in place.
"Mr. Song, it's been a pleasure to work with you."
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"Pony, let's go."
Dillon took Zhou Run out of the office before he smiled and said, "Stinky boy, there has been progress in English!" ofcourse! ”
“ofcourse! ofcourse! Haha, standard! ”
“cut! Very good, Brother Long, Brother Fa, the performance just now was very exciting. Lu Yan hugged his arms, stood there with a light smile and praised him.
In "The True Color of Heroes" in his previous life, I don't know if it was from the guidance of John Woo or if Fa Ge himself suddenly opened his mind. He changed the tense and serious performance mode in the previous movies, and the whole person was relaxed as if he was in the camera. , gestures, smiles, and a kind of "don't care" is revealed everywhere.
It is precisely because of this kind of "not caring" that Xiao Ma has a unique soul beyond the ordinary debauchery, and it has also become the most important personal charm and performance symbol of Chow Yun-fat later. He doesn't have to stand tall and pull his back, he doesn't need to be beautiful and white, he just grins casually and moves his fingers, and the light fills the audience, suitable for both men and women, young and old.
Now Lu Yan is changing Chow Yun-fat in this direction. In fact, Chow Yun-fat's acting skills are indeed not bad, which can be seen through the filming of these two scenes. Although it is far less light and breezy than the later clouds, it is natural, but the fire is already out.
In a sense, Chow Yun-fat is not only a powerful faction, but also the biggest idol faction. His charisma has overshadowed everything, or his strength is the ability to make any character work for himself. No matter what you play, it will make the audience obsessed and pampered. Even completely ignore the essence of the character, whether he is a gangster, a traitor, a thief or a bum.
Lu Yan once laughed and said that he could win another actor with his smile in the "pomade" shampoo, isn't it, what else do the audience and judges need to watch? His laughter is his acting skills.
Later, some literary drama filming began to be simple and fast.
Regarding Brother Hao, Uncle Yao also said two sentences before "summarizing" Brother Xiaoma: "Your (Brother Hao's) shortcoming is that you are too easy to trust others" and "He (Brother Hao) is the most righteous"
These two sentences show the two biggest characteristics of Brother Hao's surname, "The surname determines fate", and Brother Hao's fate almost revolves around these two sentences. Lu Yan has a very delicate shooting technique in grasping the key points.
Uncle Yao's words are almost crucial: "Your (Brother Hao) brother graduated today", which led to Applejack, and the audience knew that Applejack was not really shot; "You (Brother Hao) will go to Taiwan the day after tomorrow and bring Ah Cheng with you", this sentence "started" the event that was about to change the fate of all the important characters in the play.
In addition to Uncle Yao, Brother Hao also spoke the key lines. When Pony says, "Applejack has graduated, give him a woman", Brother Hao says, "you, I'm not good at myself, I don't want him to learn badly." From this sentence, we can see Brother Hao's dissatisfaction with his current situation and his expectations for his younger brother, which laid the groundwork for Brother Hao's decision to "wash his hands in a golden basin" in the future.
"Brother Fa, 'Don't be so old-fashioned!'. You must say this jokingly, and ...... later"
These days' filming has no role for Leslie Cheung. But Rao is like this, Leslie Cheung still arrives early every day. He didn't ask Lu Yan at all why he promised to shoot his role at that time, but he didn't.
Lu Yan didn't deliberately slow down in this regard, but he tried his best to shoot all the shots around the office.
After several days of filming, Lu Yan was also a little tired as a director.
"Who called me in the middle of the night?"
Suddenly, the phone rang, which surprised Lu Yan. Just as he picked up the phone, a familiar voice came from the other end.
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