Chapter 52: The younger brother is the main character
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Morris was quick to move, and when he got a check for $30,000 from Bart, he immediately found the other actors, cameramen, makeup artists and show crews.
The script had already been written and delivered, with Richard playing his younger brother Joey and Alex playing his older brother Reilly.
Richard was so excited to learn that he was about to play the lead role in a movie, and he held the script all day and muttered lines to himself.
As for Alex, he flipped through it casually, and now he doesn't appear in many shots, at most at the beginning and the end. The main character is Richard, and the film is mainly about looking at this society through the eyes of a little boy Guò.
A few days later, Morris brought in a makeup artist to design a make-up look for them. With the help of a makeup artist, turn Richard into a kid in a denim costume with a toy pistol pinned to his waist and a goofy shape.
Morris touched his chin, circled around Richard a few times, and said, "Well, it seems that there is something missing." ”
The makeup artist also stared at Richard for a while, and suddenly said, "I know, is the face too clean." ”
As he spoke, he took out some small black dots from his makeup case and pasted them on either side of Richard's nose, which looked like he had many small freckles.
Everyone looked at it, haha, where is the original white and handsome little boy Richard. Standing in front of the people now is a freckled little cowboy Joey.
"Bang bang! Bang bang! Richard pulled out his toy pistol and aimed it in front of him, pretending to be shooting.
Morris slapped his thigh and shouted, "Yes, this is the Joey I want!" ”
Bart and Angel, who had been standing next to them, could hardly help but jump, and they looked Richard up and down, laughing constantly.
It's Alex's turn, and he transforms into a twelve-year-old playful boy Reilly under the skills of a makeup artist. Because Alex has always been taller than the average child, this role is not difficult for makeup artists at all.
"Well, that's good! That's it. Very good, you guys hurry up and familiarize yourself with the lines, we're going to start filming tomorrow. Morris nodded with satisfaction.
In the original history, when Morris was filming this film, he found a friend's child. Under the performance of these children's true colors, this movie has achieved a good response and honor.
It's just that the role he chose is too shabby and not loved by the audience, after all, most humans are visual creatures, and watching their unattractive actors perform in the movie really can't resonate with people. Assuming that Shirley Temple is an ordinary-looking child, no matter how good her performance is and how well the movie is made, she will not cause such a big sensation.
However, this may be the realism that the director can pursue, but the movie cannot cause people to watch it without beautification. His film was a success, but the actors in it were not as popular as other child stars.
Now that the Carpenter brothers have gone up, their appearance is much cuter than the original two actors. You even need to wear some makeup to cover some of them, lest the audience pay attention to them and forget to watch the plot of the movie.
The first shots are taken indoors, and when the movie is shot, it is not shot according to the order of the storyline. In order to save time and improve efficiency, it is common to shoot the plot of the same scene and then shoot it in other scenes.
The actor who plays their mother is a fatter aunt, she is an old actor, and it is easy to get into the state. It's just that Richard and Alex are novices, and they often make small mistakes, so that the shooting is intermittent. It wasn't until the afternoon that they slowly became familiar with the role they were going to play, and the filming speed up.
There are a few scenes that are more interesting, one of which is that on Reilly's birthday, his mother has to take care of his seriously ill grandmother on the street, so she gives Reilly the task of taking care of Joey. At this time, Reilly was so helpless that he could only be depressed, and Joey returned to his room and clumsily wrote a few lines on a piece of paper, and it was these lines that made him reshoot several times.
“cuT!” When Morris saw Richard's writing, he hurriedly shouted to stop, and said, "Richard, your handwriting is too thoughtful, not like a child can write, and you have rewritten." ”
Richard had to write it again, but it was just that the words written by one person had become habitual actions, and no matter how he wrote it, it did not meet the director's requirements. In the end, someone came up with a solution, which was to let Richard write with his left hand, so that he could get through the shot at once.
The next shot is Joey picking a gift in his small cabinet, choosing left and right, which is hard to part, picking up and putting down, and finally taking a tattered baseball, holding it up with that piece of paper and giving it to Reilly.
According to the script, Alex's Reilly opens the present, looks very upset, throws the baseball to the ground, and the baseball bounces back on Joey's body. Unexpectedly, this baseball may be too bad to bounce no matter how Alex throws it.
In the end, the prop master proposed to wrap a small leather ball with a baseball shell, which could bounce up, but the trajectory of the bounce was really difficult to control, either left or right, or simply flew in front of the camera, and shot several times in a row before it was a successful shot.
The last indoor shot is Reilly changing Joey's clothes, which was originally not difficult, but Joey seemed a little shy and embarrassed to expose his body in front of people. The clothes have not been able to take off, and after the director has a problem, he asked Bart to give him psychological counseling before the filming was successful.
The outdoor shots are quite relaxed for Alex, who plays Reilly who wants to play with his two buddies, but doesn't want to take Joey with him. Unexpectedly, Joey didn't give up and insisted on following them.
So Reilly's partner comes up with a bad idea and uses Joey's curiosity about real guns to devise Joey's scam to kill Reilly by mistake. Young, ignorant and mistaken for the truth, Joey took his brother's harmonica from an older child and ran back. At this time, Reilly got up and went to play with his friends laughing.
In the process of playing, Reilly and his friends have a conflict, and he runs home in a rage, only to realize that things have gotten bigger, and his brother Joey is nowhere to be seen.
These scenes are a trivial matter for Alex, and the few young actors hired by the director are also in their true colors, and almost all scenes are one-time passes.
After Alex's footage was filmed, it was filmed that Richard ran away from home and took the train to Colin Island alone. At this time, Collin Island was a very famous amusement resort in the United States, like a large theme park amusement park, and it was a vacation paradise for people at that time.
At this point in the shooting, everyone moved to the seaside playground on Collin Island. The main character filmed was Joey, and no one else had a chance to appear, so Alex and the others had a good time in it for a few days. Inside there is a merry-go-round, a game of boccing, a driving range, a horseback riding range, a bizarre photo studio, a beach, and much more.
Alex's favorite thing is the beach, he wears a pair of shorts, swims in the sea, surfs, and returns to the beach to bask in the sun when he gets tired of playing. At this time, he could always see the group of people in the camera crew shooting around Richard, and he thought that Richard liked the feeling of being surrounded by people.
Richard has the most scenes, and it is also the hardest one. In order to shoot a shot, he has to act over and over again. Even the wrestling had to be wrestled seven or eight times, and the Carpenter were distressed to death. But he enjoyed himself, not shouting bitterness or tiredness.
"Alas! Life is really short, why make yourself so tired. Alex put on a pair of sunglasses, lay on the beach, and enjoyed his life.
After filming seven, seven, eight, eight, and eight, there were still a few shots that were missing in the end, and that was the shot of the rain looking for people. The time they had chosen was inopportune, and the sky was clear for many days, and there was no sign of rain. Fortunately, they didn't waste this time, but stayed in a hotel by the sea, went to play on the beach when they were free, and went back to rest when they were tired.
Morris was a perfectionist, and he could have used a water jet to create the illusion of rain, but he said it didn't look real. Alex thought about it later, it was indeed not real enough, on a large beach, no matter how much water was sprayed, there would be no trace of rain.
They waited like this for almost a week, and finally on Sunday, it was a rainy day. At this time, the people who came out to play scolded their mothers, and they were happy as if they had picked up money. Hurry up and get ready for the shooting, and finish shooting this set of shots in one go.
After filming the movie, Alex and the others plan to wait for the rain to stop before going back. It was a heavy rainstorm and it was raining for a long time. There was a lot of water on the ground, and the streets were flooded with rainwater. Pedestrians struggled to walk through the water, black cars could barely move, and all of them were stuck in the streets, unable to move.
Alex looked at the seemingly familiar scene in front of him, as if he had returned to China in the 21st century. At this time, the United States was in a period of high development, many urban facilities were not perfect, the streets were muddy, and there were many cars and narrow roads. At this time, a big city like New York did not have the feeling of a modern luxury city like that of later generations, and only rapid changes made people memorable.
"Hmmm! What a familiar taste! Alex said as he took a deep breath of air.
"Haha, Alex, why don't you stay in the house, why do you have to run out to see the rain."
Morris enjoyed working with Alex, and during the filming, Alex asked him a number of questions that only those who had thought about it could pose. It can be seen that Alex is very interested in making movies, and he likes to communicate with this kind of person. At the same time, Alex's talent is amazingly high, and he is often able to draw inferences and bypass others.
Sometimes, Alex was able to say things that inspired Morris as well. Several scenes in the film were reshot under Alex's construction, such as the scene where Joey mistakenly thought he had shot Reilly. Alex believes that the audience should be allowed to see the flight of the bullet after the shot, which will increase the persuasiveness of the film.
Morris thought about it and thought it was pretty good, so he reshot this set of shots. He originally planned to save money, but he didn't shoot in some details.
There are also hints of Joey's interest in cowboys at the beginning and end of the film, but these hints are not obvious and the audience will easily ignore them. In Alex's construction, a set of close-ups of Joey's chalk drawings are added to the opening and ending credits, which are a small man riding on a very slender and slender horse, and with such a few seconds of close-up, the audience can connect the front and back.
In the film, Joey just wants to be a cowboy, and the clothes he wears are also denim clothes, which is why he will pick up empty bottles again and again to exchange money for horseback riding. Because of this, he attracted the attention of the horse trainer, and finally notified his brother Reilly to come and find Joey. In this way, the clues of the film are clearer and more reasonable.