Chapter 217: Regret
"It's 9 p.m. now?" Sean opened his mouth wide and looked at the person in front of him in disbelief.
"Don't be so surprised, you'll be laughed at," Christopher? Nolan patted his arm, "I wasn't used to it when I first came here, but I'll be able to get started after a while." ”
Sean looked up at the sky, although there was no sun hanging on it, it was so bright that it didn't look like it was already night. Looking around, many scene and drama managers were snickering, and even Sanders was rolling his eyes, looking like "I told you a long time ago", which made him quite depressed.
"Well, I hope I won't be like Will? Domo couldn't get a good night's sleep for weeks on end. Sean smiled a little self-deprecatingly.
"Don't worry, life is not a movie, the crew is arranged, you will get plenty of rest, and then tomorrow we will start filming in the restaurant." Christopher said.
"Shoot the restaurant scene tomorrow? It's a little faster, I'm not ready to play against the actor. A surprised Sean asked half-jokingly tentatively.
"If you had come to the crew earlier, of course we could have done it gradually, but we had to adjust it to match your schedule." Christopher shrugged, the teasing in his tone palpable. He can really talk about a thing that was originally arranged haode, but only made a small adjustment, and said that it was done specifically for you, so as to put pressure on you.
"It's just a short scene, you shouldn't be a difficult task, right?" Christopher then added.
"No problem, just wait and see." Sean knew what he was thinking, and since he came up to win this role to have a good relationship with him, of course he couldn't let him underestimate him.
This scene is indeed a bit difficult, but it is not a particularly big problem, if you can get Al? With Pacino's cooperation, Sean is also confident to show a wonderful acting skills. Fortunately, after seizing the opportunity to contact Pacino, although the old actor felt that he was a little young, he had a good chat and did not show any feeling of relying on the old and selling the old.
"Come on, boy, let me see how good you are tomorrow." Pacino, who was preparing for a scene in Zuihou, said with a smile, and the smile between his eyebrows was very warm.
It's just that if he knew his real age, would he still be so enthusiastic?
"What do you care about so much, if you have time to think about this, it's better to read the script more and prepare for tomorrow's shooting." After delivering his luggage to his room, Sanders scoffed at his question.
"Well, you're right." Sean shrugged, but still couldn't hold back, "You didn't tell me before, it's 9 o'clock in the evening?" ”
"I warned you when I came out of Anchorage International Airport that the days here are very long, but you apparently forgot." Sanders said, rolling his eyes.
"No, I didn't forget, I just ......," Sean gestured to justify, "I took a nap on the way by car, and it wasn't dark when I woke up, so I thought it only took a little time." ”
"Come on, the driver said before I got in the car that it would take hours to drive, or do you want to tell me that you can't even do the simplest addition and subtraction?" Sanders continued to roll his eyes.
"Okay, okay, we should actually fly in small planes, it's faster, and it's not easy to sleep." Sean had to change the subject.
Alaska is sparsely populated and mostly located by the sea, and most of the land is uninhabitable permafrost like Siberia, Norway and Finland, so it has only about 600,000 residents, and only Anchorage, the state's largest city, has an international airport.
However, many cities have small airports, and many small ones, which can only seat a few people, and twin-propeller aircraft are still in use, so there are many short-haul routes in the state. is like the movie "Chasing the Murderer in the White Night", at the beginning, the male protagonist played by Pacino and the assistant played by Sean also took a small plane to the town where the murder occurred.
But for safety reasons, Sean turned down the small plane and chose to make a car to report to Valdez.
"Okay, I'll go to bed after reading the script for a while, and strive to show the best state tomorrow." After packing with Sanders, Sean said that he was indeed a little tired.
It's just that after lying down for half an hour, he put on his clothes and got up, and knocked on the director's door: "Is this really the movie you want to make?" ”
"Any questions?" Christopher, who welcomed him in, asked inexplicably, and introduced his wife to Sean by the way.
Sean said a brief hello to her, and immediately looked at Christopher again: "Are you sure this script is okay?" ”
"What do you think is wrong?" Christopher looked at him with some surprise.
"If nothing else, Will, as an old policeman who insists on justice, can he treat that pedophile with illegal means, but he was held hostage so easily?" Sean asked very seriously.
"It's normal, he is under investigation by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and he killed his partner by mistake, plus he was haunted by the white night in Alaska and couldn't rest, making this decision in a trance, from the perspective of plot logic, is acceptable." Christopher said quickly, "Didn't Zuihou correct his mistakes?" ”
"Hmm......" Sean thought for a moment, "Well, in terms of plot logic, it does make sense, but I don't think this should be your work." ”
"What do you think my work should be?" Christopher asked with interest.
Everything Will shows, in a trance, hesitation, and torture, is a performance for Zuihou to arrest the murderer writer. Of course, he is indeed very hesitant, and he has indeed considered the problems you mentioned, but catching the murderer and never compromising is something he has always insisted on. Therefore, this can show his contradictory feelings in the movie, sometimes making the audience think that he is really being held hostage, wanting to give up, and being in the same league with the murderer, sometimes acting as if there is something else hidden, in short, to convey false information to the audience as much as possible, but not to say it to death, zuihou will make a big comeback. Sean spoke eloquently.
Christopher didn't speak, just looked at him with some surprise and some sigh in his eyes.
"Xiexie, Sean, you've got a great idea," Christopher said after a few minutes, without making a direct judgment on his idea, "but you know, I'm just a director, and Emma is on the list of producers, but there are quite a few people ahead of her. ”
Such a sentence was enough, and Sean quickly recovered from his previous excitement, indeed, now Christopher? Nolan is not Christopher a few years later? Nolan, he is only a rookie director now, and he has to be subject to the producer everywhere, even if his wife is one of them, but he has almost no right to speak, and of course he can't make movies according to his own ideas.
It's no wonder that in my memory, Nolan's works don't have much impression of this "Chasing the Murderer in the White Night", it seems that it should not be very good.
"Okay, I see, I hope ...... I can cooperate happily once. Sean sighed, undisguised his regretful tone.
Then, he took his leave and left here, without saying a word more, coming and going.
"Very interesting people." When Christopher looked at the door, his wife, Emma, shrugged and said, "Same as you think." ”
"Hopefully tomorrow he won't let me down." The young director pinched his chin.
Sean didn't know what Nolan and his wife were thinking, he was really regretting, about Nolan's personal style, he recalled some of it, such as repeated interspersed shots, such as small edits, such as the ending of the big reversal. I won't talk about the first two points, it won't be shown until the movie is completed, but the flipped ending, or the ending that most ordinary people can't guess, will be known as soon as you look at the script, so he will go to him.
Without these distinctive features, even if it is Christopher? Nolan, can that also be considered Nolan's work?
It's a pity that Christopher and Sean are not big names now, and they lack the power to dictate the script, so there is no need to care too much, it is more important to complete the work at hand well.
Sean had a good night's sleep, although the days in Alaska are very long, but the suitable places for people to live are not less than the Arctic Circle, so there is actually no polar day, and the situation in the script that can't sleep all day because of the strong light is just an exaggeration.
After that-
"We've got to talk."
"No, I don't."
"Just sitting?"
"Nothing has changed."
"Hasn't anything changed? What do you think we're here for flounder fishing? ”
"Buck felt Charlie needed help, so we came."
"Buck thought the Home Office was going to come to me, and he guessed right. Warfield called me to the office yesterday for three hours, three fucking hours. ”
"He's trying to mess you up, man, that's it."
"I've talked to Tracy, I'm sorry, I have to compromise."
When he said this, the slightly younger man pursed his lips, as if he was very helpless, his eyes looked away, and he didn't dare to look at his old partner. And the old policeman glared at him, although his expression looked as calm as before, there was obviously a deep unwillingness and displeasure in his eyes.
“Cut!” Christopher, who was standing next to the camera, called a halt.
Sean let out a soft sigh and looked over to him, who didn't speak, just frowned and watched the previous clip behind the monitor.
"You're nervous?" Pacino asked from the side.
"Nervous? Of course not, I just ...... Want to get Christo's admission. Sean retracted his gaze and smiled, feeling very fond of this old actor who looks fierce and serious on the surface, but is actually very funny.
"So, you like him a lot?" Pacino asked with interest.
"Let's put it this way, Al, I took the initiative in Martin because I heard that he was the director of this film? Tang Wen asked to take over the role after quitting the crew. Sean said after thinking for a moment.
"Oh?" Pacino was even more interested.
Sean wanted to continue explaining, but when Christopher walked over to the camera again, he wisely shut his mouth.
"Go on." So says the director.