The crew of "Happy Death Day" is not a very serious crew.

Because many people have worked together in "Fatal Bend", everyone is familiar with each other, and the atmosphere of the crew is much more relaxed.

However, none of this has anything to do with Tobey Maguire.

As a newcomer, especially a newcomer who plays the leading role for the first time, it is almost impossible not to be nervous.

Especially when the script in the hands of this newcomer is still incomplete.

That's right, until now, Toby has not seen the full script of "Happy Death Day".

All he knows at the moment is that he needs to play a nerd.

- Well, according to the description in the script, it should be "cute nerd".

It's hard to stop Toby. In fact, even Mr. Director himself said that his temperament is very much in line with this requirement. To a certain extent, he just needs to be himself.

However, the latter request is a bit strange.

According to the script, his character, Carter, meets a drunken and beautiful girl, Tsui, at a college prom, and then takes her back to the dormitory.

If it's a general story, then it must be a fragrant scene later.

Unfortunately, his character is a nerd.

He just gentlemanly let the girl sleep in his bed, and then folded the jeans for her.

Well, seeing this, Toby himself doesn't know what to say.

This is certainly what a good person should do.

But for college girls who are still in the stage of liking bad boys and pay more attention to "physical feelings" in many cases, such behavior can only get a sentence of "you are a good person".

- This can be said to be Toby's personal experience.

However, that's not exactly what confuses Toby in the script.

What's really troublesome is the requirement for a series of shots after the heroine Cui wakes up-

"What do you mean" according to the tone and reaction of the other party, combined with the basic lines, and perform accordingly "Huh!?"

- Director, are you playing with me!?

Although it seems that there is nothing wrong with the script, just this sentence makes Toby sense deep malice, and always feels that there is something behind it.

Especially, the script in his hand ends here.

"Why don't you send me the full script!?"

Toby wanted to grab the director's collar and scream.

Unfortunately, he didn't dare.

The cold light in the other party's black eyes always made him feel like a little spider that had been slapped by a fly, and pretending to be dead was his best choice than running away or resisting.

- Don't Mr. Director like himself?

Indeed, at the time of the audition, the director did not show up at all, and it was the producer Mr. Westwood and the assistant director Mr. Arsenal who judged the judges.

At that time, Toby was a little dizzy in the face of the beautiful blonde girl Charlize Theron, that is, the heroine, which made him feel that his performance was not good, but for some reason, the producer and assistant director were very satisfied.

"Is that what they want?"

Toby doesn't quite understand.

But anyway, he got the role.

At that time, he was happy. But now it seems that he was happy too soon.

"Could it be that the director and the producer have different opinions, and they are not the actor the director wants?"

Toby had to make such an association, who let him audition when the director didn't show up at all!

But even that didn't help Toby's current situation.

After all, it is the director who is in charge of him now, and it is also the director who chooses to let him NG or continue filming, and Toby, as a fresh little miscellaneous fish, can't get involved in the struggle between the crew bosses at all.

"But even then, it's too weird, isn't it!?"

What made Toby feel so much was the scene that made him "play on his own"-

According to the script, it should be the heroine Cui who wakes up in his dormitory and asks him about what happened last night with a blank face. Then, without waiting for him to explain, he hurried away.

- It was supposed to be like this.

But Miss Theron, who plays the heroine, doesn't know if she is too autonomous or what, and her performance is completely different every time.

After a while, he came up and asked his name first, and then asked him for medicine to treat his headache after a hangover;

After a while, I woke up and called out his name directly, as if they had known each other for a long time.

Back and forth more than a dozen times, each time it was different, but the director rarely shouted "CUT", so that Toby could only accompany this strange girl with a confused face and repeat it repeatedly.

- Hey, Director, that's not right!?

She didn't improvise based on the plot anymore, but changed the plot at all, right!?

You don't care about that!?

Toby was deeply skeptical that he had taken the wrong script.

Charlotte looked at Tobey Maguire's performance in the camera and couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Of course, he didn't mean to play this future Spider-Man, just as he didn't mean to miss Toby's audition-

That day, just in time for him to go to the FBI evidence database in the Los Angeles area to "research materials", he naturally had to be absent from the audition.

Of course, both the old gun and Mr. Producer didn't understand this, but after he explained that "he is actually very optimistic about Toby, so in order to ensure the fairness of the audition, it is best to avoid it", the two accepted.

So, at the time of Toby's audition, Charlotte was actually trying to get his hands on John Hinkley's gun......

And when it came time for the official shooting, he didn't send Toby the full version of the script, it was completely for the needs of filming.

In fact, among all the actors, except for the heroine Charlize, few people have complete scripts in their hands.

This is because "Happy Death Day" is a story in an infinite loop mode, in which the heroine repeats her experience on the day of her death over and over again.

In this mode, except for the heroine who retains her memory, everyone else is actually performing the same content repeatedly, but because of the heroine's different reactions, there are some subtle differences.

This kind of performance is complicated and complicated, simple but simple-

I say complicated because if other people don't have enough acting skills, they can't show subtle differences in their expressions and movements every time. And if it's too exaggerated, it will make the viewer feel that it is too much.

It's hard to grasp.

To put it simply, it is because the actors repeatedly perform in the same set of scenes, even if their acting skills are average, they can be repeated many times, and they can always get some good shots.

So, Charlotte simply took a trick here - he split the script of all the actors except Charlize into two parts.

Part of it is that you don't need to know the overall context of the movie, as long as you can fine-tune the content naturally with the heroine's performance.

In this part of the content, it is a good thing that the actors are confused, and the confused expression of "you are teasing me" is more in line with the needs of the movie to a certain extent.

And the other part is the part that really needs the cooperation of other actors. This part tends to be relatively backward, so Charlotte simply didn't post it for the time being.

- After all, admiring the bewildered expressions of actors is sometimes a pleasure, isn't it?

Moreover, this time, the script is definitely suitable for the mode of scene-based shooting. Charlotte is also ready to take the opportunity to give it a try.

In "Fatal Bend", he was filmed exactly according to the plot of the script. This way of filming is fine in movies with smaller stories.

But once blockbusters also use this model, it means that time and costs will rise on a large scale.

The reason is simple –

If all shots of the same scene were shot in the same time period, rather than separately by storyline, you could save time and money on recurring sets.

What's more, the use of many filming locations still requires a high rent, which is also a large expense.

In fact, with the exception of some stream-of-consciousness directors and novices, most of the films are shot in split scenes rather than following the order of the story.

Of course, this method of shooting also has its own difficulties.

Because the normal plot flow is not followed, it is more difficult for the actor's feelings to brew than to shoot according to the plot.

After all, you may still be eating in the previous scene, and you have to perform life and death in the first scene, and it is definitely not easy to brew feelings.

In the same way, it will be more difficult for the director to grasp the overall rhythm of the plot.

However, this is the mainstream shooting mode after all, not to mention that the script of "Happy Death Day" is also very suitable, so Charlotte is also ready to improve herself this time.