Chapter 87: Premiere (4)
Watching Ripley pound the oars into the boat on the screen, even though Dick was not visible, the audience still let out exclamations. Sean was slightly regretful, he had suggested to Minghella that Ripley could be used to smash Dick hard while talking with a little crying when he killed Dick.
It's a pity that Minghella thought about it again and again, but he still refused on the grounds that it was too complicated, which is a pity, at least Sean saw this and felt that if this was the case, it should be more impactful to use montage to edit a hideous close-up.
After Dick's murder, the movie is halfway through, and as Ripley begins to live as Dick, the dark side of human nature begins to magnify, especially after meeting Meredith again, and he enjoys the upper-class style more and more, until he Yujian Maggie and Peter at the theater.
"Nothing can stop him from coming back to you." Meredith said this to Maggie on the screen, and then hurried out of the square with an uneasy and inappropriate mood, and Ripley, who was observing from a distance, immediately seized the opportunity to go to the café and deal with the crisis in a few words.
While the audience sighed for Ripley's luck and skill, Sean sighed inwardly for Kate's performance. However, in just ten minutes, they have gone through three stages between the two, the ordinary friends stage in the theater, the stage of indifference because of his offense when he was on location in Italy, and the acting stage that exploded after seeing him and Gwyneth make love.
Great performance, the scene in the square, Sean can feel the surprise, surprise, disbelief, unacceptability and "he is like this" emotions conveyed by Kate on the screen.
weishenme: Why doesn't she come to the premiere today? Such a thought popped up in his head, and then he shook his head with a wry smile, and cursed himself in his heart, he had already guessed the reason when he heard that she was not coming to the premiere, why was he confused now? Thinking back to the time when he met her again in New Zealand before, although Kate covered it up well, the inner uneasiness, resistance and contradiction still did not escape his eyes, which meant that ...... Well, it's okay if she doesn't come, she doesn't have to worry about how to face herself, and she doesn't have to face her and her ......
Fortunately, at this time, the plot on the screen has progressed to a new link, and it is also Sean's favorite part, so he shifted his attention to the past.
"In fact, the only one like Dick's...... It's you! ”
"It's not that much like it."
"Have you ever had your hair?"
"What do you want to say, Freddy?"
"What?"
"What do you want to say?"
"I think I'm talking about something wrong, either he changed his faith or something else happened."
"I'd suggest you go to Dick yourself and ask, the Otello restaurant is at the corner of the street."
"Right at the intersection of the streets? You're a fast learner, aren't you? Last time you couldn't even tell the difference between elbow and butt in Italian, now you can show me the way. It's so unfair, you might be able to tell the difference between your ass and your elbow...... We'll zaijian noodles. ”
That's right, Freddy came to look for Dick and met Ripley, and it was with this performance that Sean made an impression on Minghella and laid the foundation for the role.
However, although he played well in the audition, when it came time to actually shoot, he was steadily suppressed by Hoffman, who played the opposite role. Unlike the bathroom scene, Jude can give him a certain amount of pressure, completely because the state is very suddenly in place, you must know that at other times Sean can always play better than him.
But Hoffman is different, he is quite sharp when he is in the three-man drama with Jude, and his cynicism is quite well handled, not to mention the one-on-one shots here. Before filming, he still had his usual very kind smile and grin, but after he shouted on the spot to start filming, he suddenly seemed to be a different person.
There are no specific changes in the movements, but the smile automatically adds contempt, mockery, and contempt, and even gives people the feeling that they have always been like this. The pressure on people in the gestures is not ordinarily great, and Sean was completely led by his nose during the first shooting, and what should have been a-for-tat scene turned into a one-man show by Hoffman.
"I can only say that this is accumulation, as long as you go all out for each of your roles, you will slowly sum up your own experience and way of expressing the feelings of the characters." When Sean asked for advice in private, Hoffman said, "There are no shortcuts, just constant practice and summary." Of course, it's also important to work with different directors, a good director can channel your emotions in a variety of ways, and if you feel that the film can't meet this, then the stage play is also a good choice. ”
Well, Sean also knows that many well-known actors in Hollywood with acting skills will go to various theater troupes to play some stage roles whenever they have time. As once said, stage plays need to be in the state of the characters for a long time in a scene, which is of great help to how to control the role, for example, before Kate came to Hollywood, the stage plays she acted in were much more numerous than Sean in terms of quantity and quality.
Aside from this, there is not much difference between what Hoffman said and what Harrington taught Sean, no matter how much the acting party is divided in, there is no escape in the end - to convey the emotions of the characters to the audience. Everyone is different, and everyone's perception of different things is also different, so only by constantly learning and exploring to find the most suitable way to perform is the right thing to do.
For now, although Sean's acting talent is good, and he can experience the emotions of the character more than others, the accumulation is still relatively insufficient. So in the filming of this section, Hoffman's every action gave him a lot of pressure, slightly trembling eyebrows, mocking gaze, subdued tone and sneer, almost every scene is a scene.
If you use the analogy of wrestling, against Jude in the upper state, Sean can still counterattack to a certain extent after holding back his strength and finally achieve a small victory, but in the face of Hoffman, he can only parry.
Although this filming eventually passed, on the screen at this moment, Hoffman's performance can be said to have perfectly suppressed Sean. In a sense, he taught Sean a small lesson, and made Sean's pride swelled by his previous excellence disappear.
It can be said that if it weren't for the limitations of his appearance, Hoffman would definitely have achieved more results, instead of constantly playing supporting roles like he is now. However, as early as when filming this movie, Sean believed that if Hoffman could maintain such a mentality and level, he would definitely have his own career.
So, I keep trying. Sean, who was looking at the screen, clenched his fist lightly.
He was quite productive with Jude and Hoffman, but after the partner was replaced by Davenport, the latter was also a qualified actor, but the role did not have much room to play, except for Zuihou's confession before his murder, there were no more highlights. As for the two heroines. Gwyneth actually still has acting skills, that night in the Italian bar, Sean told the truth, just talking about "Shakespeare in Love" and "Elizabeth", the difference between Gwyneth and Kate is not particularly big, maybe as some media say, she won this little gold man by public relations, but if there is no foundation, how can public relations?
She, like Davenport, can only be considered modest in the movie, but there are at least two things that stand out. The first is to confront Ripley after discovering Dick's ring, and then intuitively think that Ripley is eccentric, and the two have a rivalry in the room, and Gwyneth's process of turning Maggie's uneasiness and worry into fear and horror is very convincing.
This rivalry scene was very interesting during the filming, when he and Gwyneth were "adulterous", so they couldn't meet the director's requirements in front of the camera, either laughing or not emotional, or reading the wrong lines. Zuihou still Minghella was a little angry, and scolded a few words harshly before concentrating on passing this paragraph.
In addition, it was the few shots when he left Venice, and when it was time to get on the boat, Maggie, who couldn't hold back anymore, burst out, holding gloves and constantly beckoning Ripley, knowing that he was being pulled away by Dick's father. Gwyneth is very explosive in this scene, coupled with the close-up of Minghella to Sean later, the uneasiness and happiness form a strong contrast with her grief, which makes people feel extremely sympathetic.
However, the audience focused more on Sean's Ripley, who basically kept the camera spinning around after the murder of Dick. Watch how he dressed up Dick to live the life of a high man, how he played tricks to get through crisis after crisis, how he murdered Freddy again and blamed Dick, how he blinded everyone and got a lot of money.
During this period, except for Hoffman who completely surpassed Sean in that rival scene, Sean firmly grasped the audience's attention most of the time, and in the later scenes, Davenport was not enough to compete with him, Gwyneth was more than enterprising and lackluster, and Kate could reach the level of Hoffman, but the role was reduced a lot. In addition, they took turns to play, instead of the two going in and out like Jude in front, so it set off Sean instead.
As a result, comments such as "what a great guy", "his luck is too good", and "what a lie" kept ringing in the hall, and many viewers who came to the premiere were completely attracted by the plot.
Eventually, Ripley, who seems to have everything done, sings loudly with Peter on the returning cruise ship, but unexpectedly meets Meredith again. Ripley had to cheat again, and Peter, who saw all this, became suspicious, and Ripley eventually had to commit a third murder in the whispers of the audience in order to keep his secret.
He leaned on his back, listened quietly to his description, and then smiled softly in an interesting place and laughed with him. Then, as soon as the scene turns, he walks in from the outside, there is no one else on the bed, and he sits down on the chair at the head of the bed, accompanied by his voice-over all the way until Zuihou cries out in pain. The close-up moves slowly, and the numb face, which is mixed with trance and helplessness, slowly falls into darkness, and Zuihou becomes hollow, echoing the opening credits.
The picture freezes at this moment, and then the subtitles rise in the music until Zuihou.
The lights turned on, there was a moment of silence, applause rang out, first one, then two, three, one, a group, and finally, the whole hall rang out, and the audience expressed their support for the film with their actions.