From the 18th to the 24th, seven days a week, the crew of "Lovely Bones" spent tired, depressed and satisfied.

Working more than 15 hours a day, tiring is a certainty, and filming such a tragedy, each member of the team is more or less heavy, and this story is also based on Alice Sieberd's real experience.

The director has the responsibility to create a suitable atmosphere on the set for the filming scenes, such as the rape and murder scene of Mr. Harvey and Susie, but of course he can't, so it is difficult for the actors and all the creative staff to have corresponding emotions.

Ang Lee deliberately made the set depressed when filming "Brokeback Mountain", and good people like him were all commented on by Heath Ledger as cruel. On the other hand, the director is the one who is most fully invested in the whole story, and naturally it is also the easiest to get caught up in it.

And the atmosphere on the TLB set this week was very depressing, Ye Wei would laugh in the hotel and even the base camp, but there was no smile on the set, and his seriousness brought a sad pressure to everyone. On the day of filming that rape scene, it was like I couldn't breathe on set.

This is the first chapter of the book, in which Mr. Harvey lures Susie into a hole dug in a cornfield and then rapes and kills her. Every line of Mr. Harvey's dialogue is perverted and despicable, especially the few lines "Susie, you are so beautiful." "I want you, Susie. "You're wearing white panties. "After the last "Tell me you love me." When the weakened Susie said this, he was killed by him by cutting her throat with a razor.

This chapter is a complete blasphemy, with almost every line echoing back and forth. Ray said, "Susie Shamon, you're beautiful. Mr. Harvey also said, "Susie, you are so beautiful." "But the emotions generated and the meaning behind them are very different.

In the end, Mr. Harvey completely desecrated "love", and it was not only Susie's body that was defiled, but her heart was also completely occupied by grief and indignation, "I want him to die". And later, it was true love that made Susie grow, let go, and grow new bones. Mr. Harvey has evil retribution.

No matter how it is adapted, you can't escape this scene.

Ye Wei struggled very much when adapting the script, and kindly said, "Let's use a few metaphorical shots", but professionalism, reason, and art told him that he must shoot the emotion, effect, and power that Chapter 1 has, and under extreme sadness, he is completely heartbroken!

But it will not be taken in such detail, first, it is not necessary, and second, TLB's predetermined rating is PG-13. The audience will see Mr. Harvey's sin, Susie's kindness and pity, she struggles to escape, but she can't escape from the hole in the ground.

During the period, a montage of Shamon's house and Ray's montage will be assembled, and a large close-up of Susie will be used for the rape process, and only her face will be used in the whole frame, as if the dim light on the edge of hell is heard, and the voiceover will sound Mr. Harvey's words: "You wear white panties." ”

This will make the audience feel powerless, sad and angry, depressed, and painfully exploding. That's it.

The cave is actually a set in the studio, and during the filming of each shot, everyone on the set did not say a word of small talk, such as assistant director Anderson, scene reporter Lynn and other women first had red eyes, Gia also lost her vitality, and then many men also had solemn faces, and those who had daughters couldn't help but sigh.

Stanley Tucci brought a pervert to life, not only his facial expression, but also his voice, his voice performance was absolutely top-notch, when he read the perverted lines, every time he said a word, everyone's hearts were a little heavier.

This is the best scene that Liz has acted in since the start of filming, meeting Ye Wei's expectations for her, but overall it can be said to be an explosion. With this scene, I'm afraid her screen image will be "Susie" for a long time.

In the whole scene, Ye Wei almost didn't say a word, when all the shots were finished, as soon as he shouted CUT, he rushed forward and smashed Tuqi's back with a punch, banging heavily, "We are all brutes, and we actually filmed these things." "There was no one on set to stop it.

Tucci was choked by this punch, but responded with a perverted smile, which was a high praise for him.

Mr. Harvey has a lot of roles, and Tuzi's performance is more than just a pervert. In the original book, he also had a complicated childhood, which led him to become a pedophile and a psychopathic murderer, but the movie can't accommodate so many stories, he is a big villain.

This is the limitation of the film, all because of the limited duration.

Every main character in the original book is complex, and so is Susie's mother, Abigail, who deals not only with the pain of losing her daughter, but also with a woman's midlife crisis, self-desire, etc.

Susie once inadvertently took a picture of Abigail, and that mom was different, she was radiant. That is the other side that Susie's mother hid for the family, originally this housewife sacrificed everything for the family, but when the family was broken, her pillar collapsed, and Susie's mother fell into a state of "half Nielsen".

In the words of the original book, her unknown side, the longing that has been suppressed in her heart for many years, are all because of Susie's tragic departure, like a wild horse coming out of the reins. "She lost her self-control and succumbed to her heart's desires. She is left to the dictation of her body, and as soon as her body awakens, she may be able to evoke the residual feelings in her heart. ”

Half a year ago, Ye Wei's feelings about this were not very strong, but now he fully understands Susie's mother, in that state, it is possible to do anything, it is a kind of self-pursuit after no longer suppressed, but it is often on the wrong track.

Susie's mother cheated on her, and she hooked up with Officer Fernemon who was investigating the case, and she used it as a way to release her pain, chase herself, and want to get back to her youth in order to escape Susie. But it only became more and more painful and confused, and finally she left her husband and two children and ran away from home, and she could not forgive herself until many years later, at the end of the story.

Is the movie going to be made like this?

The first thing that can be determined is that Susie's mother must run away from home, if she doesn't leave, there will be no sense of fragmentation of the Shamon family, and it will become a united face for the family.

She must go, but the "sad escapism" can also go, and the question is whether she should cheat.

This is not Susie's mother's movie, and two hours can't accommodate her complexity. Ye Wei hesitated for a while on this issue, and later at the round table, the Jacksons tended not to cheat, because this is a complex psychology, which is not equivalent to the grief of losing a daughter, and it is easy for the audience to wonder.

It's true, the audience can't see the hearts of the characters, why did Susie's mother cheat at such a difficult time for the family?

Yes, she's crazy. To let the audience see this, we have to use more scenes to show it, this is not Susie's mother's movie!

So Ye Wei was very hesitant, not worried that it would be too dark, nor that the story would be too complicated, or that there was no space to explain it clearly, and it would be self-defeating if he was not convinced.

But on the other hand, if Susie's mother leaves home for many years without cheating, it is also unconvincing, and the huge damage suffered by the Shamon family is not enough to show, this injury makes a good husband a physical and mental disabled person, and a good wife becomes a cheating woman who abandons her husband and children, which is also a blasphemy of love.

To put it simply, Susie's mother has to make mistakes and betray her.

In the end, Ye Wei still decided to let her cheat, because of her limited space, she had to adapt it to be simple and natural, from active to passive, from confused and painful→ derailment→ making mistakes→ leaving home to being confused and painful→ making mistakes→ cheating → leaving home.

What mistakes could cause her to cheat?

Abigail, who lost Susie, was in pain, and Jack neglected her, either wandering outside to investigate the case or hurting at home. One day, she got very drunk and had sex with Officer Fernemon, who came to tell her the case. After sobering up, Susie's mother naturally ran away from home.

There is nothing new in this treatment, but it is the best reason to quickly concretize, and get similar results: Susie's mother is indulging herself, avoiding herself, and punishing herself.

It's better to be old-fashioned than nothing. That day, the Jacksons expressed their doubts, would it be too heavy? Too desperate? So that the story has multiple wrongdoers, Mr. Harvey, Susie's mother, and the police officer, will it hurt the unity, innocence, and moral high ground of the decent camp?

The idea of adaptation is so different!

One of the main points of TLB is that the incompetence and non-absolute justice of the police and the law represented by Officer Fernemon will make Mr. Harvey have evil retribution, hoping that all bad people like him will be punished.

Although his adaptation does not employ karma, the credit does not go to the police. They can't solve the case, the audience can feel that they did their best and don't blame them, and Officer Fernemon hooked up with Susie's mother, and the audience will only think that this guy is a scumbag, and the police are not the absolute antonym of a bad guy.

And if Susie's mother doesn't cheat, she leaves home → confused and painful, then she is just a mother with a personal background, an insignificant character who has no effect on the story. But everything is different when she cheats, and she has to cheat on this one.

Ye Wei is not sure that it must be like this, just do his best.

Rachel Weisz also agrees that "Abigail" is better off cheating, and she herself is now living happily ever after, and her performance is just as amazing.

Ye Wei likes to communicate with her, she majored in English literature at Cambridge University, and there are many topics to talk about. If he had been born in the same era as her, he would probably have courted her, jokingly, but it was her British accent that made him miss the girl.

TLB's kiss scene is not only the first kiss between Susie and Ray, but also the love kiss scene between Ray and Ruth, and the second kiss scene between Ray and Ruth after Susie went down to possess Ruth. In the original book, the latter was crazy sex, and a kiss was enough to make a movie, and it couldn't destroy the aesthetic feeling of the two.

When filming these kiss scenes, Ye Wei used emotions instead, thinking about Lily.

He thought about it, his acting ability has not yet reached the realm of substitution when he says substitution, and withdrawal when he says withdrawal, if he doesn't need to replace it, he may put his feelings for "Susie" on Liz, thinking that Lily is Lily's.

The crew first filmed the kiss scene between Ray and Ruth, on the hillside grass, the two were drawing, watching together after painting, and then the natural couple kissed.

This is one of the montages of Susie peeking into the world while narrating, designed with just a light kiss between lips and lips. When Anderson shouted ACTION, Ye Wei and Dakota first smiled and stared and kissed naturally, but Dakota suddenly kissed passionately, and she even stuck out her tongue......

It was really a jamming moment, Ye Wei couldn't shout CUT as an actor, Anderson thought it was their on-the-spot performance in the face of this accident, and he didn't shout CUT, Master Jiya didn't have the authority to shout CUT. As a result, in full view of everyone, he kissed Dakota for six or seven seconds until Anderson finally called CUT.

Naturally, it's NG, before filming the second one, Ye Wei solemnly told Dakota, who was smiling and reminiscent, as long as he kissed gently, not too much, and not moving!

After that, it was indeed a light kiss, but she deliberately made mistakes in other aspects, and it took six shots.

Ye Wei was a little angry, but no one seemed to believe it, and they all thought he was joking. VIY WILL BE ANGRY AT A BEAUTIFUL GIRL FOR KISSING A FEW MORE TIMES? "HAHAHAHA!" What can he say? Waste of film? TLB is digital shooting.

Dakota didn't believe it either, and whispered to him afterwards, "Is that my only chance to kiss you?" He replied to her seriously: "Yes, the only chance, I have a girlfriend." Dakota was surprised and disappointed.

He didn't blame her, she thought he was still living a debauched life. Her performance is not bad, she performed Ruth's coldness and yin and yang weirdness, which is worthy of her growing up in an acting family.

After Susie descends to earth, she will use Liz to play Ruth's body, so he and Liz kissed for the second time, but this time they wanted a warm and beautiful kiss.

Because he couldn't let go of his heart, Ye Wei kissed very unnaturally, which made things worse, and he took four shots, one of which was due to technical goofs, and the microphone was also filmed. He was almost angry, and the thought that this kind of bastard thing would most likely accompany him throughout his career as a director made him want to leave with his burden.

"I'm all Lizzy. Liz was a little upset, "Professional." ”

"Oh my God!" he could only make this sound, it was either professional or unprofessional, or he didn't want to kiss any girl except Lily right now. He wants to act in his own or other people's movies in the future, and avoid those roles with kiss scenes and intimate scenes.

There was one more thing that made him depressed.

TLB's publicity has been ongoing, and Paramount recently released a batch of stills, including Ray and Susie's first kiss photos, the stills are in charge of the photo photographer, and the publicity is in charge of Paramount Distribution.

It's nothing to release stills, but the promotion side used it to make a selling point "Ye Wei and Elizabeth Olsen's first on-screen kiss".

Ye Wei asked not to use this as a selling point, Paramount didn't take it seriously, and it was a big deal to alarm Spielberg from a professional point of view for this matter, especially now that he is still a playboy image. But he had to ask, otherwise Paramount would definitely hype up the scandal between him and Liz to promote it.

However, his power is on the producer's side, and Spielberg, although he understands, supports and is glad that he has taken care of it, there is nothing he can do about it, and the distributor has the right to implement their promotional strategy, and he accuses him of inappropriate rules.

However, he didn't need to cooperate, which was tantamount to vetoing the scandal hype. Because there is a deadline for the hype of fake scandals, the party concerned will say "there is no such thing" after the deadline, and now he can deny it within the time limit, which is difficult to hype. But what selling point of Paramount's promotional film, he doesn't want to be noisy.

As a result, the "Ye Wei and Dakota Johnson kiss scene" has also become a selling point.

Every time a kiss scene is filmed these days, Ye Wei will do a good job of reporting in the text message sent to Lily that day, and he doesn't want her to have any misunderstanding, although the text message may have been intercepted.