After the port scene is completed, the next step is the plot of the opera house, where Minghella fully explores Ripley's inner shijie, Dick and Freddy's disdainful opera, which he can watch with relish, and even shed tears over the tragic plot. At the same time, the script also depicts that when Ripley lives in the basement of New York, he likes to listen to songs, likes to play the piano, and so on, echoing back and forth, giving people the feeling that he is not so bad. Very contradictory, but also more real, making people sigh that he fell for desire.

In addition to this, there is also the scene where Ripley meets Maggie and her friends at the theater and is then questioned about Dick's whereabouts, and Gwyneth also returns to the set again, along with another new actor, Jack who plays Peter? Davenport. Therefore, it is indispensable to concentrate on the lines and familiarize yourself with each other.

Davenport is 24 years old, and like Jude, he is also British, and he was also favored by Minghella to join the crew. He is a few months younger than Jude, with black hair, he can be considered handsome, but just like Jude did at the beginning, he kept a certain distance from Sean after entering the crew.

Sean just shrugged his shoulders at this, he was used to it, after all, not everyone was as generous as Hoffman, and Jude's relationship with him only improved after that incident. But something odd enough, Kate? Blanchett and Gwyneth? Paltrow also kept his distance, and after the two young girls met on the set, at most they said hello lightly, and there was almost no communication.

This is obviously something wrong, at least Sean knows that unless there is a holiday, women will talk a few words when they get along together, and they will not say nothing, but I haven't heard of them having a holiday?

"I know weishenme?" Surprisingly, during the break, he casually asked, but Galen jumped out to say that he knew, and then made a "come and ask me" expression. During his time in the crew, he had a very good relationship with several other actors' assistants, so he was naturally well-informed.

It's a pity that Sean is very familiar with his style and treats him completely as air, and after a few minutes, Galen, who was holding back, had to take the initiative to say: "Just look at the Oscar nominations that have just been released." ”

Sean immediately came to his senses, looked for the list, and sure enough, women kept a distance from each other, except for the holidays, there was a conflict of interest. On the list of nominees for the 71st Oscars released this year, Kate and Gwyneth were nominated for Best Actress for "Elizabeth" and "Shakespeare in Love" respectively, and they will compete in this Oscar in half a month.

It's no wonder that Gwyneth always leaves the crew as soon as she finishes her work, probably to go to public relations, which Frederick mentioned, if you want to win the Oscar, five points are strength, four points are public relations, and one point is luck, since the late 80s, public relations has become more and more important. Kate is the same, she leaves after filming, so that Sean can't say a few more words to her.

None of this has anything to do with Sean, although he found Meryl on the nomination for Best Actress? Streep's name — her ninth Oscar nomination for Best Actress — also glanced at the Best Actor nomination, but quickly left it behind.

It's not like Sean didn't think that one day his name would appear on the list of nominees, or even in the envelope of the award, but those were too early. One step at a time is what you should do, without foundation and no strength, everything will only be a castle in the air. It's like Sean knows that Microsoft's stock will rise sharply, but he doesn't have capital, so what's the use of knowing more?

To paraphrase an example, foundation and strength are 1s, while PR, chance, and luck are the long list of zeros after 1. To be honest, if it weren't for his intuition telling him that "The Genius Ripley" would be a very good movie, worthy of his all-out efforts, I'm afraid he would really accept his agent's offer and jump from a TV series to a movie.

Well, let's not talk about that, soon the theater scene was completed, and the only difficulty was the close-up of tears because of the tragic plot when watching the opera. This shot stuck Sean for a long time, but in the end, it still made him brew the feelings he needed to shrink, and he didn't use those special means.

"Only true feelings can move the audience, and the closer the feelings you show to the truth, the easier it is for the audience to be infected, so don't borrow physical means to express the character's feelings until the last resort." He kept Harrington's words in mind.

It's a pity that this nice teacher has already returned to the UK, and he was not informed before leaving, nor did he leave contact information, which made him quite depressed.

In this way, coupled with the fact that no one understands what it feels like to be a different person like him, and is fully prepared in advance, he finally captures the character's inner shijie and accumulates it.

After that, there was two weeks of intermittent filming, and in early March, the crew moved to New York to start filming there. The main scene is that at Dick's father's banquet, Ripley plays the piano in a borrowed Princeton University uniform, and is mistaken for Dick's classmate. There is also the street scene at the end of the banquet, the exterior view of the basement where Ripley lives, etc., although the story takes place in the 50s, there is not much change between the current New York and the New York of more than forty years ago.

Sean had been to New York with his mother a few times before, and he was very impressed by the high-rise buildings and checkerboard streets of Manhattan. In fact, there are few places in the United States with such a density of high-rise buildings as New York, after all, there are only close to 300 million people in this nearly 4 million square miles of land, so some people say that New York is the least American place.

Most of Hollywood's well-known studios have branches here, because it is easier to raise funds next to Wall Street, and Miramax simply has their headquarters here.

Speaking of which, after Hoberg and Chiccarelli got out, Miramax quickly sent another producer over. This time, the other party didn't make any more small moves, and honestly handled finance-related matters, and seemed to have given up. Sean can only pray like this now, otherwise if he does this again, although he is not afraid, the impact may be very bad.

The location here in New York is quite smooth, Sean has played musical instruments for a while, and he has also served as the lead singer in his classmate's band, and he knows a little piano, which is not very good, but it is okay to make a show and fool around in front of the camera.

Five or six days later, the crew left for Italy, where the location was the most important thing. In fact, after getting a preliminary understanding of the operation of the movie, Sean felt that some shots could be done in the studio, such as Ripley and Meredith shopping, or Dick's father coming to Venice to deal with his son's affairs, and Ripley and Dick and Freddy going to a party, etc.

Just like shooting a scene in a yacht or a boat in a pool, the prop master will make the set, pull up the green curtain around it, and add the scenery later, which should save a lot of money. However, director Minghella is obviously a realityist, it is said that when filming "The English Patient" a few years ago, he wanted to go to the Sahara Desert to shoot, but after several persuasions and field trips, it was really not suitable, so it was changed to Egypt and Morocco. Similarly, if it weren't for the rough seas and it was difficult to wait for the right weather, the shots on the yacht might have been filmed on location.

"Reality has the benefits of reality, doesn't it? At least, when I saw the director's footage of you walking outside the Roman Forum, I thought it was very beautiful. Kate said this in her spare time.

"It's true that real life is more realistic than CG after all." Sean nodded.

Well, if it weren't for Minghella's insistence on going on location in Italy, and there are so many places to go - look at the list, from Rome to Venice to Positano to Naples, a few well-known cities would be almost finished. If he chooses post-synthesis, he will definitely save a lot, then maybe there will be no shortage of well-known actors' salaries, and he will have no chance.

"Alright, that's all for today." After filming two scenes of Ripley shopping with Meredith as Dick, the field foreman announced the end of the day's work.

Looking at the time, although the view was taken at night, it was actually only around five o'clock in the afternoon, and the sky was bright despite the thick clouds. That's the magic of the film, by adjusting the aperture and using a special lens, plus the various settings of the gaffer, it is possible to shoot the effect of night during the day.

"How about a coffee together?" After removing makeup and changing clothes, seeing that Kate hadn't left yet, Sean walked over and asked.

"Huh?" Kate was stunned, slightly stunned.

"You know, this is my first time acting in a movie, my first time playing a leading role, and before that, I was just an unknown newcomer and didn't have any friends on the set. You're the one who talks to me the most out of all, and I'm so grateful that I've always wanted to treat you to a cup of coffee. But when you were in Los Angeles before, you seemed to have a lot of things to attend to and you always left early, but now in Rome, I think you should have a chance. Sean, who was in a hurry, came out with such a nonsense.

Kate blinked, as if surprised, but then laughed, "Well, I've always wanted to try Italian coffee." ”

"No, no, no, you're talking too heavily, and I'd rather see Kundera putting hope, or part of it, on the surface, and waiting for people to sigh at the end of the book before they get solace in the lightness and casualness of the reminiscence." On the side of the street, where the street lights began to come on, Kate, who was sitting at the round table, repeatedly disagreed with Sean's opinion.

"You see, that's why I'm reluctant to talk about contemporary writers," Sean immediately spread his hands, "Sometimes, the place of a person's achievement and status as an author can only be truly determined after his death." As long as he is alive, there will be changes, such as Kundera's novels published in the last few years, and the standard has dropped considerably. ”

"You're playing tricks, look at my mouth, play tricks!" Kate said this, but she giggled, quite pleasantly.

"Well, if you're going to think so, then think so." Sean shrugged, made a helpless look, and then looked around, "Okay, it's getting late, I'll send you back." ”

Their café was not far from the hotel where they were staying, a few minutes away, and the two stayed on the 5th floor and the other on the 6th floor, and they parted when the elevator arrived.

"Dating back? How does it feel? As soon as he entered the room, Galen, who was staying in the hotel room, asked with a smile, "And said that he would not date a woman who was more than ten years older than him." ”

"Shut up," Sean glared at him, "anything to eat?" Hungry. ”

"You've been talking for so long, and you haven't had dinner yet?"

"Galen!"