Bang!

An egg-like white ping-pong ball jumped at high speed into the corner of the dark blue table table and bounced out, and it was too late to catch the racket held by the EVIL tattooed hand.

"What!?"

"Hahahaha!"

Exclamations and laughter rang out in the spacious and elegant table tennis room of the Courtyard by Marriott, in addition to the two players, one old and one young, there were also several girls from the TLB crew watching.

On this day, the crew worked all day, and didn't return to the hotel until half past nine in the evening, which was really overtime, but there was overtime pay.

Before each member joined, it was clear that TLB was a working system for exploitation films, and the online personnel had a good temper, so there were no complaints.

In the first two days, the crew welcomed several star actors, Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon and Stanley Tucci have all arrived, and the next two weeks will be full on filming all their related scenes, and then to Toronto to shoot a week of green screen scenes of Liz, Kelsey and others.

Ye Wei is very satisfied with the results of the work in the past few days, the chemistry of everyone in the Shameng family is very good, standing together without makeup, they are like a family. Alice Sieberd, who came to visit the class, was amazed and said many times, "It's amazing." ”

Ye Wei also felt this way.

A director who works with an old actor can be troubled or happy.

Come to think of it, a director had a disagreement with Marlon Brando, the director said dry saliva, and Brando still said, "I'll act like this." "Most directors can only shrug their shoulders and accept it. But this situation actually rarely happens, even a god-level actor like Brando can benefit from a good director, and the director can also gain from the old drama bones.

It depends on whether the cooperation is successful, either party is so arrogant and stubborn that it can't move at all, and there are very few people who can become top actors and top directors like that.

He's not that type, he agrees with an idea, and actors are also creating. It is better for the director to do stimulation than indoctrination, and many times it is better to let go than to catch it, so he likes to communicate with the actors, and there are often surprises. Of course, the premise is that the actor has his own strength.

For example, the Shamon family, all their true performances worked.

Vichy, who has just become a mother, radiates a natural maternal sense all the time, but there are not many traces of performance, but it is more real, a mature actor who performs with intuitionism.

Keanu Reeves is the most directed by Ye Wei, and this is the case in the pre-stage.

Frankly, what he values most about Keanu is his real experience, and Keanu's subconscious has an emotional memory of the loss of a loved one, a loved one, and an old love, which is a treasure. He doesn't want to touch emotional substitution when he acts himself, but as a director, he encourages, helps, and pulls Keanu to use those emotional memories.

Yes, it's a bit cruel, just a little. An old man is in pain, and who doesn't have some pain, and it is good that he can recover after the pain.

And as long as the part of Keanu's heart and brain is activated, and then he suppresses it, the pain is inadvertently revealed...... Keanu's pain will make everything better. As for how Keanu will recover in the future, whether he will have insomnia and dreams, and whether he wants to see a psychiatrist, it is not his responsibility.

Anyway, there are fewer good actors who don't see psychiatrists than pandas.

Ye Wei knows that he is a bastard, at least until Keanu's scene is completed, he will only be a bastard who uncovers people's scars, and his conscience is disturbed? No, for the sake of the movie.

However, Keanu is a professional actor, and this situation has been made clear at the negotiation stage, Keanu said that he sees this performance as a spiritual journey of great significance. He wanted to grow new bones like Jack. He especially told Ye Wei not to be polite, and acting well is his goal.

Keanu would say this kind of thing, which means that he doesn't know VIY, Ye Wei thinks that after he has played TLB, he will know that "polite" does not exist in VIY's dictionary.

Just ask Stanley Tucci, he's almost a psychopathic pedophile murderer because he's also methodistic. What if there is no emotional memory of Mr. Harvey? Ye Wei asked him to find a place where he could slaughter live chickens and ducks, kill them with his own hands with a bad guy mentality, listen to their screams, watch them die slowly, and imagine it well......

The most worry-free thing for him on the set is "Grandma", which is zero difficulty for Sarandon to play this role, compared to Kevin Spacey to play Mr. Harvey. And she still did a lot of homework, professional dedication is to say that she is a kind of person.

Ye Wei is not surprised, Sarandon is one of the greatest actresses of her era, right next to Meryl Streep, it is not easy to NG her once.

It's not easy to win a game of table tennis against her......

"What's going on!?" Ye Weiran looked at the table tennis ball that fell on the wall of the table tennis room, feeling that he was playing table tennis with Forrest Gump.

Sarandon was calm, but Gia over there almost burst out laughing, and Liz, Mody, and Margot were there, but Mody didn't laugh, she just smiled.

When Sarandon pulled Ye Wei to play before, he was talking to Liz and a few others, and they came to watch the game together. After Ye Wei returned to the crew, he could find him in the hotel as long as he looked for him at night, and he didn't go out to play.

"The thing is, you've been blown up by me, kid. Sarandon said in a somewhat shazy voice.

Susan Sarandon, whose real name is Susan Tomaline, changed her surname because of her first husband, Chris Sarandon, and the two have 1 child, and she has not changed her surname since the end of her 12-year marriage. Later, she and Tim Robbins, who was 12 years younger than her, have been in love for 18 years, have not married, and have 2 children.

She and Robbins are one of Hollywood's most famous sibling relationships, and when asked why she always likes younger men, she replied, "They are more energetic and can lead you to discover something new, or take you back something that has long been lost." ”

Indeed, this nearly 60-year-old old woman with a personality is not old-fashioned at all, and she still exudes vitality that is not inferior to that of young people. This is exactly the temperament of "grandma".

"I didn't expect young people to be so bad now. Sarandon made no secret of her pleasure in teasing Ye Wei, a genius, a handsome bad boy.

Ye Wei couldn't help but feel a little helpless, it was really tricky, grandma was tricky, and the person who played grandma was also tricky.

"Grandma" is also a big adaptation trap for TLB, if you don't change it well, her destructive power is enough to ruin the emotions of the whole movie.

To find out why, we must first know what kind of character the grandmother is in the original book and what role it plays.

In chapter 21 of the book, Susie in Heaven recalls her first and only kiss with Ray. In fact, she was very apprehensive at that time, and the original book wrote: "I'm afraid that our first kiss is not as good as others describe." To put it bluntly, I'm afraid that I'm not good enough, and I'm afraid that after the first kiss, not only will he not fall in love with me, but he will dump me. ”

Susie remembered that one day, she and her grandmother were on the phone and talking about their first kiss.

"The first kiss is predestined. "Grandma first made a definition, and then talked about her first kiss, her first kiss was not romantic, she was an adult, a friend's father. But she said nothing else happened to her and the man other than the kiss. Maybe just for Susie. Finally she asked Susie, "Does any boy want to kiss you?"

[Mom and Dad didn't ask me this question, but I now know that they already knew it in their hearts, and they had already secretly exchanged knowing smiles behind my back.

I swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said hesitantly, "Yes." ”

"What's his name?"

"Ray. ”

"Do you like him?

"Like. ”

"So, what are you hesitating about?"

"I'm afraid I'm not good enough. ”

"Susie?"

"What?"

"Baby, have fun. ”】

This paragraph clearly writes about my grandmother, who smoked, drank, and was hippie, and was not a fuel-efficient lamp when she was young, nor was she when she was old. Susie's mother, Abigail, was very annoying to her, but nothing seemed to be able to defeat this woman, it seemed that she would not be sad and painful, her husband would not have an affair, and Susie would not be able to pass away.

She always makes sense, and she listens to the vulgar truths of life. She is everyone's mentor, the glue that the Shamon family can bounce back from their grief.

In the long story of the original book, this character is three-dimensional and multi-faceted, and the loss of Susie is not painless, but she can't add to the pressure of this broken family, what she has to do is to try to pull her daughter back on track, let her son-in-law out of the haze, and let Lincy and Barkley grow up healthy and happy.

The novel can be read slowly, and the long length also makes the role of grandma's clown not abrupt. But when it was adapted into a movie, and instead of her grandmother as the protagonist, she had to become a more functional face character, one of which was a mentor and the other was a clown.

Why does Grandma have to exist? Because the tragedy of TLB has to have a clown-type mentor.

The so-called clowns are characters who play a different role from the main tone of the tragedy, and are usually full of comedy, bringing laughter, lightness and other atmospheres to the story, so as to ease the audience's nerves, and also contrast and enlighten the atmosphere and theme of the tragedy.

In the case of Shakespeare's tragedy, there are two main types of clowns.

One is the two gravediggers in the cemetery in "Hamlet", where the gravediggers are being excavated, and the conversation between Hamlett and them is humorous, but it still revolves around serious topics such as suicide, law, and religion. This makes the dark story more bright, and also makes an important foreshadowing for Hamlay's psychological turn of life and death after seeing the skeleton and feeling the impermanence of life.

The role of the two clowns here is gentle, and the audience will not be completely relaxed.

And in "Anthony and Cleopatra", before Queen Cleopatra died, a simple and simple countryman with a basket of figs must give a gift to Her Majesty, and after the queen asked the guards to bring the clown in, it was a complete laughter scene. The comedic effect of this character engraved on his forehead "I am a clown" is obvious, strong, and unreserved, allowing the audience to put aside the whole tragedy for a moment and completely relax, and then Cleopatra's death seems less heartbreaking.

These two types of clowns, the former being negative and the latter positive, both play a different degree of comedic reconciliation to the atmosphere of tragedy, but do not hurt the sadness of the whole story.

Grandma Liu in "Dream of the Red Chamber", one of China's four great masterpieces, is also a clown character.

All these clowns in the world's stories always bring a neutral perspective, allowing the audience to take a break from the side of the story, and these clowns often get a comedic ending that is different from the tragic ending of the main story. Because their presence is a comfort, complement, and inspiration that gives the audience an awareness of the story that the creator wants them to recognize.

It's not the first time Ye Wei has dealt with the role of a clown.

LMS's grandpa is not a clown, and black humor belongs to the category of comedy, and Sarah Hill, Bethany's teenage mentor in SS, is a positive clown mentor who generates completely positive warmth and laughter every time he appears. Even just looking at Melissa McCarthy will make her laugh.

What type of clown should grandma have in a TLB movie story?

At the roundtable that day, both Jackson and Spielberg agreed that the positive type is better. What they mean is that the story is too sad at the beginning, and the utter pain of the tragedy in general occurs at the climax or at the end, and TLB is at the turning point of the first act, and I'm afraid the audience can't bear it that long.

And if it's a negative clown, maybe the film is over, and the audience doesn't have a feeling that this group of characters has recovered and that they have recovered. It is likely that they will be more sad because they realize that this absurd clown is pretending to be strong to comfort them, rather than that they are naturally infected by a strong and optimistic person.

This loses convincing and leads to no recovery on or off screen, the second act will become more and more long, dull, and irritable, and the third act will be unrefreshed, and even if you don't leave early, the audience's final evaluation will be "unbearable".

Jackson also had the idea of using a montage to show his grandmother Mari Maha to help the Shamon family cheer up, giving all her joy and positivity to the audience, and it would be best to accompany the montage with a soft rock song.

Ye Wei didn't know whether Jackson was trying to harm him, or if his brain was fat? Grandma must be a passive clown!

It's like the first kiss between my grandmother and Susie in the original book, she didn't bring 100% positive power, she even talked about the beauty of the kiss she had with "Mr. McGhan". In fact, here is a negative and intriguing contrast: "I know it's wrong, but it feels really wonderful, at least I like it" grandmother is alive and well, "I'm afraid I'm not good enough" Susie died at the age of 14.

Susie is so good that she sympathizes with Mr. Harvey's loneliness and is tricked into a hole by him. If Mr. Harvey wanted to do something to his 14-year-old grandmother, he would get the same sentence: "I'm not interested in you, old pervert." ”

Alice Sieberd's writing is very emotional, perceptive, and calm, daring to take the reader all the way through the road to recovery. But Peter Jackson, he always seemed to be afraid that it was too dark, this was too sad, this was too much, so we wanted gorgeous heaven, we wanted a grandmother who was an active clown, we wanted rock 'n' roll!

Hey, here is an angel girl who was raped and killed, a happy family is broken, and all the good things are gone.

The story is destined to be serious from the beginning, and it has nothing to do with rock and roll.

Ye Wei felt that Jackson was really arrogant, his idea was like he was manipulating a group of characters who were not mellow, or a group of puppets to tell the story, and he personally shouted above the stage: "Okay, now you should be sad." "Alright, now it's time for you to laugh. "Alright, now it's time for you to be moved. Then the audience will definitely follow, and they will be moved.

Use this simple and crude emotional processing idea and psychological transformation method to deal with such a serious story...... He thought that the most likely thing was that the audience rushed up to tear down the stage and beat up the fat Jackson who had fallen.

How can you be emotionally unobtrusive? How can you have emotional resonance?

Ye Wei didn't have the confidence to do it, and he didn't have the interest to do it, there was no reason at all.

So at the time, he said to the two best directors: "When Susie is killed, only the ending scene can be completely positive. ”

His "grandmother" is a passive clown, she is not a neutral bystander, nor is she a detached guide, she is a dynamic old man who walks with the audience, has more life wisdom, and has the same emotions.

"Director, your balls. At this time, in the table tennis room, Mo Di went to pick up the table tennis ball and handed it back to Ye Wei.

Her words made everyone stunned, Gia endured the laughter in her stomach, the corners of Liz's mouth curled, should it be said to be big or small? Sarandon laughed directly, she didn't know Mody's temperament, picking up the ball was brave enough for Mody, Margot was competing to perform.

Mo Di looked at the people who were smiling, from doubt to red faces, and also laughed: "Haha." ”

Ye Wei didn't laugh, is Mo Di negative or positive? He knew that she must be an honest person who was often bullied at school, and it was rare for her to take the initiative once but she was teased by everyone, which was really not a good thing. He took the ping-pong ball and said in a serious and gentle voice: "Thank you, Modi." ”

Modi nodded silently, and suddenly became much more natural.

"I'll pick it up next time. Margot laughed.

"I'll pick it up myself. Ye Wei looked at her, and had already told her that it was just one time, talking too much was pure narcissism, and it wouldn't be in the future, she would understand it herself.

Margot frowned in frustration: "Oh. ”

"Susie, I'm going to play with you seriously. Ye Wei stood in front of the table tennis table, reached his right to serve, squatted down, held the racket tightly with his right hand, and hit the table tennis ball with his left hand, with a murderous flash in his eyes, and said: "I just respected the old before, but now I let you see my real strength!"

Sarandon is in a tight formation, although Ye Wei's ball skills are very good, but he is very fast, and his strength, speed, reaction and other aspects of movement are very high, and he will not be able to cook for long.

Ye Wei threw the ping-pong ball high, and everyone's eyes looked at the white ball falling from mid-air, only to see Ye Wei swing it violently!

Didn't hit, missed.

"Hahahaha!" Now Master Gia could burst into laughter, and Liz, Mody, and Margot all laughed.

"Oh, please......" Ye Wei slapped his head with a racket in annoyance.

"Boy, you've disappointed me too. Sarandon shook his head and teased, "There is a Chinese saying that I particularly like 'knowing shame and then courage', knowing shame and trying to become strong." ”

"I'll tell you a story. Ye Wei continued to serve, playing table tennis balls in his hand, and said in a deep voice: "When I was a child, there was a guy who humiliated me on the football field, do you know what happened to him? He went to wrestle later, so he at least had a better reason to fall to the ground!"

He tossed the ball, swung it off, and hit it with a snap!

Sarandon on the other side also waved his racket and bang-

"Oh no...... This can't be my ball!traitor!!"

"That's your ball. ”

"You wait, you wait for me......"

※※

"Lily, I don't know if you really blacklisted me, no matter what, I will continue to text you twice a day, please forgive me if it bothers you, I can't help it. Again, I don't think that's enough to tell me what I want, and I want to tell you all about it.

Songs have always been an important way for human beings to express themselves, and I want to sing a song for you every day. You are the daughter of a singer, and you are used to hearing songs like your father's level, and my singing voice may not be so good, but it all sounds from the depths of my heart. If you want to listen to it, you can go to the IA-Songs channel on YouTube, don't worry, I won't be exposed, come and listen to it. ”

Enter the URL, open, IA-Songs channel, user Heathclimb.

Heathcram Heathcliff.

Heathcliff is wilderness + cliff, Heathclimb is wilderness + climbing, want to say you are working hard in solitude?

A video "A-Whole-New-World", click on.

The video window on the laptop screen broadcasts images of a tall guy wearing a smiley face mask sitting on a high wooden chair with a log-colored guitar in his arms on a hotel balcony visible at night. He was dressed in a black robe and black trousers, his short black hair hung down from the mask, and his hands were wearing black half-finger gloves.

That mask is weird, oh the mask from Vendetta, the Guy Fawkes mask.

He nodded in the direction of the camera, his smile mask covering his expression, and he said in a deep voice, "Hello, I'm Heathcram, and the song I'm going to sing to you today is "A-Whole-New-World." "The radio was very clear, there was no other noise, and the professional equipment, camera and lighting were also used.

Heathram played his guitar and sang, "I can show you the world, shiny, shiny, gorgeous." Now tell me, Princess, when was the last time you made your heart decide, and I could open your eyes and show you one wonder after another......

Close the webpage. Voice: "Haha." ”

Ye Wei didn't laugh, is Mo Di negative or positive? He knew that she must be an honest person who was often bullied at school, and it was rare for her to take the initiative once but she was teased by everyone, which was really not a good thing. He took the ping-pong ball and said in a serious and gentle voice: "Thank you, Modi." ”

Modi nodded silently, and suddenly became much more natural.

"I'll pick it up next time. Margot laughed.

"I'll pick it up myself. Ye Wei looked at her, and had already told her that it was just one time, talking too much was pure narcissism, and it wouldn't be in the future, she would understand it herself.

Margot frowned in frustration: "Oh. ”

"Susie, I'm going to play with you seriously. Ye Wei stood in front of the table tennis table, reached his right to serve, squatted down, held the racket tightly with his right hand, and hit the table tennis ball with his left hand, with a murderous flash in his eyes, and said: "I just respected the old before, but now I let you see my real strength!"

Sarandon is in a tight formation, although Ye Wei's ball skills are very good, but he is very fast, and his strength, speed, reaction and other aspects of movement are very high, and he will not be able to cook for long.

Ye Wei threw the ping-pong ball high, and everyone's eyes looked at the white ball falling from mid-air, only to see Ye Wei swing it violently!

Didn't hit, missed.

"Hahahaha!" Now Master Gia could burst into laughter, and Liz, Mody, and Margot all laughed.

"Oh, please......" Ye Wei slapped his head with a racket in annoyance.

"Boy, you've disappointed me too. Sarandon shook his head and teased, "There is a Chinese saying that I particularly like 'knowing shame and then courage', knowing shame and trying to become strong." ”

"I'll tell you a story. Ye Wei continued to serve, playing table tennis balls in his hand, and said in a deep voice: "When I was a child, there was a guy who humiliated me on the football field, do you know what happened to him? He went to wrestle later, so he at least had a better reason to fall to the ground!"

He tossed the ball, swung it off, and hit it with a snap!

Sarandon on the other side also waved his racket and bang-

"Oh no...... This can't be my ball!traitor!!"

"That's your ball. ”

"You wait, you wait for me......"

※※

"Lily, I don't know if you really blacklisted me, no matter what, I will continue to text you twice a day, please forgive me if it bothers you, I can't help it. Again, I don't think that's enough to tell me what I want, and I want to tell you all about it.

Songs have always been an important way for human beings to express themselves, and I want to sing a song for you every day. You are the daughter of a singer, and you are used to hearing songs like your father's level, and my singing voice may not be so good, but it all sounds from the depths of my heart. If you want to listen to it, you can go to the IA-Songs channel on YouTube, don't worry, I won't be exposed, come and listen to it. ”

Enter the URL, open, IA-Songs channel, user Heathclimb.

Heathcram Heathcliff.

Heathcliff is wilderness + cliff, Heathclimb is wilderness + climbing, want to say you are working hard in solitude?

A video "A-Whole-New-World", click on.

The video window on the laptop screen broadcasts images of a tall guy wearing a smiley face mask sitting on a high wooden chair with a log-colored guitar in his arms on a hotel balcony visible at night. He was dressed in a black robe and black trousers, his short black hair hung down from the mask, and his hands were wearing black half-finger gloves.

That mask is weird, oh the mask from Vendetta, the Guy Fawkes mask.

He nodded in the direction of the camera, his smile mask covering his expression, and he said in a deep voice, "Hello, I'm Heathcram, and the song I'm going to sing to you today is "A-Whole-New-World." "The radio was very clear, there was no other noise, and the professional equipment, camera and lighting were also used.

Heathram played his guitar and sang, "I can show you the world, shiny, shiny, gorgeous." Now tell me, Princess, when was the last time you made your heart decide, and I could open your eyes and show you one wonder after another......

Close the webpage.