Chapter 86: 17 years old again
The two leading actors of "Friends" have joined one after another, plus Lin Mingyang, a popular Hollywood student, the film "17 Years Old Again" is no longer as unknown as "Cinderella's Glass Phone" before the start of filming. From the plot revealed in the promotional materials, Hollywood reporters found excellent hype points. In the play, Lin Mingyang and Jennifer Aniston partnered to stage the subversive plot of "Young Husband and Old Wife", which whetted the audience's appetite.
Some paparazzi have further "planed" the scene in the play where Lin Mingyang will take the initiative to kiss Jennifer Aniston, and all the entertainment media seem to have been beaten, and related reports are endless. Facts have proved Kenny Ortega's great prediction, whenever there is a beautiful woman standing with Lin Mingyang, the next day the Hollywood media will pull the two together, and a lace news for the public to entertain after tea and dinner is born.
Readers don't actually care about the content of the report, because these articles know that they are at a glance, but the media has done a good thing, that is, to help the film do a free promotion, and the audience who didn't know about this film before now basically knows that Lin Mingyang, a guy who can't stand loneliness, has begun to "toss" the new film again.
This time, Disney responded quickly, and immediately after reading the script, they sent someone to contact Ex, and they made great concessions on copyright ownership, profit sharing, and director selection without exception, and finally gave the film a shooting budget of $10 million. MGM came one step late and missed the opportunity to cooperate with Lin Mingyang again.
All Hollywood studios are optimistic about Lin Mingyang's future development, so most of them are interested in establishing a good cooperative relationship with Lin Mingyang, and Disney's "generous" concession in the filming of this film is a positive sign. Under normal circumstances, shooting such a small-scale film, even a very famous director, can get a shooting budget of no more than 10 million. Although everyone still values Lin Mingyang's fame rather than his directorial strength at this time, such progress also indicates that as long as there are more opportunities, Lin Mingyang's directing ability will be slowly recognized by everyone, and his youth will gradually be ignored by people in the growth of strength and fame, and finally transform from a disadvantage to an unparalleled advantage.
Despite such progress, Lin Mingyang's "problem" of spending money lavishly when he was a director has not been changed, he used to spend his own money, Lin Mingyang is not distressed, and now he spends other people's money, of course he will not be polite. Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry have already spent half of their budgets, and before the film has even started shooting, another $1 million has been spent on various preparations, and Ickes, as a producer, has given up on persuasion efforts and is instead concentrating on how to help this guy with crazy ideas plug the leak.
In addition to spending money, of course, Lin Mingyang also made some efforts to save money. The film was written, directed and acted by him, and one person saved three people's money. Ax, who successfully "cultivated", made a cameo appearance in the film as the actor Mike's nemesis Ned, and played a very heavy role in the film, but Lin Mingyang also saved his share of money by the way.
"Why? The Federal Labor Code clearly stipulates that workers have the right to be paid! While visiting the set of "own" villa with Lin Mingyang, Ex complained.
"Ex, don't just see such a small profit in front of you, you have dividends on the copyright of this film, this is where you need to keep an eye on it!" To deal with Exx, Lin Mingyang first lured him to his advantage. Ax's Ned character in the film is a crazy movie fan, and all the decorations in his villa are all the props that the film is famous for, and being in it is like visiting a small museum of film history, with King Arthur's sword in stone, as well as various laser swords from Star Wars.
"And then you saved all my wages and exchanged these things?" Ex pulled out a laser sword and inadvertently touched the button, and the entire blade lit up at once, startling him. "Is this a real thing?"
"Take it easy, this is a collector's edition that I took a lot of effort to get from ILM, and we'll have to have a fierce battle between 'Skywalkers' when we are filming!" The set of the villa is basically the same as Lin Mingyang's expected appearance, "What's more, part of your salary was shared by me to Ms. Martha, and I was under a lot of pressure when I read the script to her." ”
"And what did she say in the end?" Ex was very "calling" on this topic, and as soon as Lin Mingyang mentioned it, he put the matter of asking for money behind him.
"Everything is fine in the front, but does it really have to be like that in the end?" Lin Mingyang imitated Martha's original words in a loud voice, and even he couldn't stand it, but Ex listened to it with relish.
"I think it's going to take a while for her to accept the last clip!"
"yes, not all women can get into bed with money, am I right?" Lin Mingyang looked at his agent with frowns, and found that the other party actually accepted his ridicule very calmly.
"I'm not the prodigal guy I used to be, so please don't look at me like that in the future!" Ex said seriously.
"Well, to celebrate the return of our prodigal son, if you can really get Martha this time, then I'll give you this villa!" Lin Mingyang clapped his hands, and even gave away more than one million dollars of things with decoration and furniture.
"It's going to take time!" Aix is not optimistic about the form.
Lin Mingyang gave Ex a preventive shot in advance, "Don't expect me to waste film when the two of you are playing, if there are three shots, I will replace you immediately, you have to spend time outside the play!" ”
"There's got to be a buffer, right?" Ex knew that Lin Mingyang's warning was not a joke.
"It's a big deal that the last scene of you in bed, I'll cut it a few more times, so that you can 'exchange' your feelings, so it's always okay, right?" While speaking, they had already come to the door of the bedroom, and Lin Mingyang twisted the door, "Welcome to your bedroom!" ”
Ex looked stunned and pointed to the spaceship in the room, "Are you sure this thing is a bed?" ”
"It's a high-end cargo, and in Star Wars, it's as fast as a supersonic plane!" Lin Mingyang pulled out the cabin, this so-called spacecraft is just a shell, which is genuinely covered with mattresses, pillows and quilts, "This is a special version of sleepeezee bedding, don't get dirty when filming, I don't have to send it when you get married!" ”
――――
Lin Mingyang is a director who is afraid of trouble, anyway, the film "17 Years Old Again" has been hyped by the media for a while before, and there is no need to invest more experience in the early publicity, so before the film officially started filming, he just held a small on-site press conference. During the half-hour question session, the press conference was hastily concluded before the reporter could finish the question.
The film officially began filming at Arkansas Law High School, and in order to ensure that the film did not leak any flaws, the gymnasium of Law High School was repainted and the name of the gymnasium was changed to Hyde High School. Lin Mingyang has not had the courage to use a surname like "Fake" in the film, and the school trustees, who have always wanted to change the name of the school, took the opportunity to officially change the name of the school to Hyde High School. In order to meet the needs of filming, the crew also erected a flagpole with a permanent surname on the field.
This shooting not only tests Lin Mingyang's skills, but also a new challenge to his acting skills. You must know that Lin Mingyang's role has always been that kind of youth, so it is not easy to play a person with a mind in his 30s.
Performances in this field have never been touched upon by Lin Mingyang before. If his character is still a teenager, that feeling is not strange to him at all: first kisses, lame dates, estrangement with his parents, etc., but the only thing he hasn't tried is to have a daughter about his age, and then the relationship between the two is very bad... In the eyes of others, this is a very challenging character, but for a freak like Lin Mingyang who has a mature soul in his young body, such a performance is the real performance.
In that performance of comforting his daughter, Lin Mingyang let everyone in the crew see his "mature" performance style. With an expression of worry, concern and distress, Lin Mingyang in front of the camera began to "recite" the classic line:
"When you're young, everything is like the end of the world, but it's not, it's just the beginning. You may meet more villains, and one day you will meet a boy who will treat you like a treasure and accompany you like a rising and falling. ”
Through the lens of the camera, Lin Mingyang's performance gives people a sense of unknown that cannot be defined, and that feeling is very special.
"He's really talented in acting!" Martha, who was standing on the sidelines and watching, said with emotion.
Ex, who has been acting as a "flower messenger" since the start of the filming, of course has to say two good words to the other party's meaning at this time: "His talent is rare among his peers, not only in acting." Although he is a bit 'crazy', the other side of 'crazy' is focus, no road play in and out of the play, he can fully devote himself to any identity role, and he does it almost perfectly! In the past two years, I have witnessed first-hand how much he has grown and progressed. ”
"His performance in my office that day fooled almost everyone!" Through these days of getting along, Martha gradually became aware of Ex's intentions. She is a very smart woman, and she guessed the mystery after a little connection with the situation before and after.
"You're not talking about renting school space?" Ex asked, feigned surprise.
"Come less, don't tell me you didn't know beforehand!" Martha glared at him with a wide open eye, "When I saw the script, I realized that I had been deceived by the two of you guys. You said that Felix is not serious, and I think your brain as an agent is not normal, and you actually mess around with him. ”
As a veteran of the love scene, Ex knows that no matter what he says at this moment, it is wrong. The best thing to do is to be silent for a while, and see how the woman's attitude is deciding how to answer. Sure enough, Martha didn't mean to continue the investigation, Exx secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and finally didn't forget to invite Martha to dinner, this time there was no twist, Martha directly agreed to Aix's invitation.
Lin Mingyang, who had just finished the performance, was watching the replay of the cameraman, so he didn't know that on the other side of the crew, Ackes had successfully taken a big step towards his goal.
――――
The second touching scene in the film's shooting occurs when the heroine files for divorce from Mike, and during the court trial, Mike makes the final speech on behalf of 'himself': "Before you go through this, I want to remind you of September 7, 1988, when I first met you, you were reading the book "Lessthanzero", you were wearing a T-shirt with guns and roses, I had never seen anything so perfect, I remember the thought in my head was to either be with you or die, And then at the homecoming party, you whispered in my ear that you loved me. I feel, so peaceful, so safe, because I know that from that day on, no matter what happens, it will not be too bad because I have you. ”
Lin Mingyang became very involved after entering the role, he has completely regarded himself as Mike in the film, when he read Mike's letter to his wife, he felt that there was a very soft thing in his heart that was gently touched, and the natural affectionate expression inadvertently made his low tone have a magical appeal, and he knocked on everyone's hearts word by word.
Jennifer on the other side also seemed to be infected by this emotion, and she also forgot that she was performing, but like a wife who heard her husband's affectionate confession, she was so excited that she couldn't help herself, bowed her head and hid her face, and tears welled up in her eyes.
Fortunately, the photographer has not forgotten his work, he pointed the camera at Jennifer, and then, Lin Mingyang's tone became a little heavy, with a touch of reluctance and pleading:
"Then I grew up, lost my way, and blamed my failures on you. I know you think you have to do it today, but I don't want you to. Do but I guess if I love you, I should let you go and move on with your new life! ”
Immersed in this different atmosphere, everyone was deeply moved by the performance of the two, and finally the performance ended, Lin Mingyang sighed deeply, and then clapped his hands and shouted, "Stop!" Only then did everyone come back to their senses. When the camera was taken out of mode, the camera, including the other actors, applauded the wonderful performance.
――――
Well, it's a frog who made a mistake, this book was only on the shelves on the 9th, and the two chapters were released in a row, which is the Shaolin abbot who cashed out the chapter at noon, and welcomed the majority of book friends to come and read, the latest, fastest, and hottest serialized works starting point original!;