Chapter 162: A Dollar
Because of his "negligence", Lin Mingyang has always felt guilty, so he has always taken good care of Christine during the filming of the crew. However, there is no trace of these concerns, only he and Christine are aware of them, and no one else sees any special intimacy between the two.
On this day, the crew filmed the scene where Christine fell on the frozen road, and Lin Mingyang was not involved in this set of shots, but he still appeared on the set as usual, and he came to ask Uncle Ti for directing skills, but in fact, he was worried that Christine's performance would go wrong, so he didn't feel at ease, so he came to take a look.
"Felix, are you going to see if Christine is ready?" When you were working on the set, Uncle Ti didn't care who you were, you had to work if you were caught by him, and there was no room for negotiation. Uncle Di saw Lin Mingyang "dangling" on the set, and beckoned him over.
Lin Mingyang accepted the task assigned to him very happily this time, which made Uncle Di feel a little puzzled, this kid usually likes to bargain with himself for what he does, why did he suddenly change his surname today?
He didn't know that Lin Mingyang was lacking an open excuse to visit Christine in the dressing room at this time, and Uncle Di's request was exactly what he wanted.
Uncle Ti has a strange temper and always has a straight face in the crew, so everyone is afraid of him. And Lin Mingyang, because his surname is easy-going, and he usually doesn't put on a celebrity shelf, so his popularity in the crew has always been good. Along the way, people kept greeting him, and he responded with a smile and one by one. There are a lot of dressing rooms in the crew, and Lin Mingyang doesn't know which room Christine is in, but he can easily get the information he needs from a certain staff member.
The door of the dressing room is not well insulated, and you can hear the voices of people talking inside when you stand outside the door, and there should be two people in the room at this time, one of them is Christine, and the other sounds like Taylor Lautner, a supporting actress in the film. Although I was very curious about the content of the two girls hiding in it and whispering, in the aisle where people came and went, lying on the door and eavesdropping, Lin Mingyang would definitely not be able to do this kind of thing.
Holding back his curiosity, Lin Mingyang knocked lightly on the door. The conversation in the dressing room came to an abrupt end, and after a burst of footsteps, Taylor Lautner opened the door, she obviously didn't expect it to be Lin Mingyang who knocked on the door, and covered her mouth in surprise: "Mr. Felix, do you have anything to do?" β
"Director Burton asked me to come over and ask if Christine was ready, because filming was going to start soon!" With Taylor Lautner, an "outsider", present, Lin Mingyang replied seriously.
Nominally, Lin Mingyang still has the title of assistant director, although this title has been rendered useless after the casting, Lin Mingyang often likes to see how Tim Burton directs and shoots, so he said this without arousing Taylor Lautner's suspicions.
"I suddenly remembered that the bag was left in the car, and my phone was still inside, you guys talk first, I'll go get the bag!" Taylor Lautner wasn't a fool yet, and instead of staying to make a light bulb, she just made an excuse and left in a hurry.
Christine leaned back on the dressing table, her hands propped back her body, and her head raised to reveal her delicate and fair neck. Through getting along these days, she and Lin Mingyang are already very familiar, so the tone is very relaxed when talking, "Are you going to be Mr. Tim's deputy today?" β
Lin Mingyang nodded: "Observing how a director directs a film up close will be very helpful for me to be a director myself in the future." β
"But aren't you already a director yourself?" Christine tilted her head, a charming smile on her lips.
"Every director has his own strengths, and these are the places where I should keep learning!" Lin Mingyang shrugged with a smile, "The scene you want to shoot today is not difficult, you have to be prepared for your ass to be hurt!" β
Thinking of the "protective equipment" she had added to her jeans, Christine blushed suddenly, "How do you know..."
"Why did you forget, I am the screenwriter of the film, and in the entire crew, no one knows the plot of the whole story better than me." Lin Mingyang said with a smile.
Christine clasped her fingers in front of her chest, "I hope I can pass it once!" β
--God didn't seem to hear Christine's prayers in the dressing room, the first time she shot this shot, she literally smashed her ass on the ground, but she was not satisfied after seeing the camera in the monitor, Uncle Ty was still thinking about it, and then Christine offered to shoot it again.
"Are you sure?" Tim Burton didn't have the slightest surprise on his face because of Christine's seriousness, he actually had another question on his mind. Christine is not yet 16 years old, and under child protection laws, minors are limited to a maximum of five hours a day of filming, and must attend at least three hours of cultural classes a day, adding to the pressure.
Kristen nodded stubbornly, "I think I can play better!" β
"Okay!" Uncle Ti couldn't resist her in the end, so he could only agree to shoot again.
While Christine was preparing, Tim Burton turned his head and made a bet with Lin Mingyang, who was sitting next to him: "I'm sure that she will definitely not be able to play this time!" β
Lin Mingyang didn't believe it at first, but the actual situation was not much different from what Uncle Di expected, probably because of the pain of the last fall, Christine was always a little twisted and couldn't let go of her hands and feet when she shot for the second time, and the final shooting effect was like a fake fall of an athlete on a football field.
Despite the poor performance, Christine's ass actually fell to the ground, and after the fall was a little dizzy, she had to say after confirming the shooting effect: "I really can't do it again, that's all!" β
Uncle Ti nodded in satisfaction, although Christine messed up the second shoot, he won the bet with Lin Mingyang. He appears elated, but confuses the unwitting Christine.
Although the ghost director's strange temper is famous, Christine still has a lot of questions in her heart, and she didn't dare to ask in person, so she had to ask Lin Mingyang from the side.
"Actually, you did a good job the first time you shoot!" After listening to Christine's doubts, Lin Mingyang comforted her and said.
"But the second time I messed up the shoot, why did Mr. Bolton not only look not angry, but also happy." Kristen pouted, "Is it because my second performance was hilarious?" β
"You're really thinking too much!" Lin Mingyang shook his head, "Before your performance, Mr. Bolton made a bet with me, he thought that your second performance, the effect would definitely not be as good as the first time, I didn't believe it, and then I made a bet with him, and in the end he won!" β
"I'm so sorry!" Christine lowered her head sadly, because of her mistakes and stubbornness, she not only messed up her own shooting, but also made Lin Mingyang lose the bet, which made her especially unhappy.
"Don't worry too much, I actually only lost a dollar!"
"A dollar?" Christine's eyes widened in surprise, "That's your bet?" β
"Of course!" Lin Mingyang nodded very seriously, he didn't lie on this issue, but he concealed a very important prerequisite.
Uncle Di did only win one dollar, but according to the agreement between him and Lin Mingyang, one dollar means an agreement of unconditional cooperation, although Lin Mingyang is still just a budding director, but don't forget, he also has multiple identities, in the field of actors and screenwriters, he has stood at the forefront of the frontline, whether it is his script or himself, for a director like Uncle Di who pursues perfection, it is a gain that should not be underestimated.
ββββForksThe changeable weather has become the biggest enemy of the crew's shooting, yesterday it was just a gloomy sky, today it was engulfed by gray clouds, large and large dark clouds, pressing the sky very low, like a broken wall about to collapse, since the morning has brewed a kind of snow not yet the weather.
Today's crew filmed a shot of Christine and Taylor Lautner walking on the beach with the waves, which was supposed to be filmed in mild weather, but it turned out to be like this: with freshly melted snow and frost, the bitter cold sea breeze rolled the knee-high waves, posing a very serious challenge to the performance of the two actors.
To protect themselves, both Kristen and Taylor Lautner wore several pairs of socks and even home plush socks, which they filled all the gaps and even wrapped them in a layer of water-proof plastic wrap, but this still did not block the biting cold.
Before the official start of filming, Uncle Di clapped his hands and called the two actors in front of him, "Girls, I know the weather is terrible today, but our filming can't be postponed, and the producer urges me to speed up the shooting every day, so today you need to overcome the inconvenience caused by the weather, and we strive not to reshoot!" β
If it weren't for the fact that today's weather was indeed a little too cold, the feet of the two actors would still be soaked in the waves, otherwise they would never have heard such comforting and encouraging words from Uncle Ti's mouth. He has always been unsmiling at work, and it is a very rare thing to be able to grin today.
The oncoming cold wind was blowing, tearing people's clothes and sweeping their frozen purple faces. Don't look at Uncle Ti's rare smile just now, but in fact, his mood at the moment is as dark as the gloomy sky. Under the continuous high-intensity work and the harassment of changeable weather, the cinematographers in the crew fell ill one after another, and this set of shots had to be shot from multiple angles at the same time, and his manpower on hand seemed to be a little stretched.
In such bad weather, Lin Mingyang did not stay in the hotel honestly, he quietly mixed into the crew's location car, and was shushing Christine in the temporary windshield tent at this time. Uncle Ti opened the curtain door of the tent and walked in, and then found that Lin Mingyang was also there. His eyes lit up, he was short of photographers, and Lin Mingyang, isn't this guy a ready-made candidate?
Uncle Ti laughed, and smiled a little malice, which made Christine and Taylor Lautner a little nervous, but Lin Mingyang knew that he was unlucky. Because every time he saw Uncle Ti's expression, he didn't encounter anything good next.
Sure enough, as soon as Uncle Ti opened his mouth, he told him about the problems encountered by the crew, under the gaze of the two beauties, Lin Mingyang, the photographer, had to be the photographer if he didn't want to, because he couldn't put his face down, although he was very reluctant, but Lin Mingyang reluctantly accepted the fact that he was caught by Tim Burton.
Uncle Ti is quite kind, Lin Mingyang is only responsible for the side reshooting, he doesn't have to be like the No. 1 photographer, his legs have to be soaked in the cold and biting waves. But even so, the cold wind still blew on the face like sharp stones, and the taste was not pleasant.
Lin Mingyang is okay, he was blown by the wind uncomfortably, and he could grin and stomp his feet, but this made the two people in front of the camera suffer, they were facing the biting cold wind, stepping on the cold sea water, and they still had a breezy expression on their faces. This is not only a test of acting skills, but also their endurance.
Lin Mingyang's camera can clearly see the side faces of the two actors, and even capture their subtle frowns or unnatural twitching of the corners of their mouths. At this time, he suddenly admired these two tough girls, because not everyone was able to do this. At the same time, he began to curse the damn weather in his heart.
Although the shooting environment was harsh, Uncle Ti lowered his requirements at all because of this, and he also hoped that this set of shots would pass at one time, but the actual situation was not optimistic, and this set of shots was shot 3 times before barely passing. When he called "OK" for the last time, Kristen and Taylor Lautner were half-kneeling on the beach, crying with joy.
ββββIn the general line of the story, Tim Burton faithfully reproduces the original book, but he also adds and modifies some of the stories in the original book according to the special surname of the movie. In Lin Mingyang's original novel, there is no scene where the male protagonist climbs to the top of the tree, but Uncle Di came up with this chic idea. Lin Mingyang is very suspicious that Uncle Ti's inspiration came from the bamboo top battle in Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".
In order to complete the filming of this scene, the crew filmed in 7 different places. During the filming of the long shot, the stuntman substituted for the two leading actors, especially the scene where the two climbed the tree trunk, which was filmed by helicopter. As for the close-up shooting, the crew sawed off the top of a tree and planted it on the edge of the cliff, so as to create a romantic scene of the two standing on the top of the tree, but for safety reasons, Lin Mingyang and Christine were tied to steel cables.
(To be continued)