The reason why the TLB crew chose to shoot a five-day green screen scene in Toronto is because of the old production reasons, which are low and cheap.

"Carrie the Witch", which has been filmed for 8 weeks, was completed last week as scheduled, and Ye Wei has been paying attention to its filming from Kimberly Pearce, especially Nina's condition. Kimberly says Nina has gotten better and better, and that she has been particularly good in the last few weeks.

Nina will also be involved in the filming of the sixth season of "Degras Middle School: The Next Generation" this summer.

Ye Wei did not contact her, let alone visit her in Scarborough. He and she both knew that they were not fit to approach for the time being, and it was good for everyone to look forward.

On Monday morning, the crew started work in the studio. Ye Wei is also filming a green screen scene for the first time, and Mao Ruien and others are also inexperienced, but the crew has a VFX department, and under the leadership of VFX supervisor Roger Gate, co-director to complete the work.

With a budget of 25 million, the budget allocated to the special effects part is not high, which is just right for this movie.

What is the biggest pitfall of TLB?

On the issue of how to deal with heaven, Ye Wei and Peter Jackson quarreled more than once, which was also the main reason why he won the adaptation rights, and Alice Siebold believed in his train of thought. - Heaven does not need to be gorgeous and cannot be gorgeous, it is not even beautiful.

No matter what you do with heaven, there will be controversy after the release, because the paradise in the original book is far from the paradise described by Christianity. Even if it is sly said that it is actually the middle station between heaven and earth, who cares?

Perhaps the least controversial of heavenly treatments is a ball of light, no scenes, no colors, no states, no sounds...... No need to shoot.

This controversy is unsolvable and unexplainable, because that's what the premise is. There may be viewers who question "this is unreasonable", hey setting is setting. As Siebold said, "It's not about religion," it's just a fantasy of paradise.

Heaven should be concrete, have a certain fantasy expressiveness, but not too ostentatious special effects, fancy paradise is meaningless, it will only drag down the main emotion of the story.

This is Ye Wei's tone for TLB Heaven.

After Susie's death, she is no longer the protagonist, the protagonist is the human world, her growth is to exist as a branch, she is more of a bystander. Therefore, the role of heaven serves the human world, and its emotions cannot conflict with the emotions of the human world, but can only be a kind of rendering and flattering.

In short, his idea is that heaven is not an amusement park, although in the original book, Susie's paradise is very open, with happiness in suffering, friends, teachers, and later visits with her deceased grandfather...... None of these can be faithful to the original.

Susie's so-called paradise is just a very small place, as small as a back garden, surrounded by a deep dense and strange forest, and there is a strong sense of confinement. Although the scenery will change, it will be very dilapidated and withered, and there will be no fantasy of Alice in Wonderland.

Her vision of paradise is connected to the story of the world, to her mood, but whether it is grief or soothing nerves, it is still in it.

With the recovery of the people in the world and the maturity of Susie, her paradise will gradually open up and become beautiful, and finally the sense of confinement will be completely shattered, and there will be hope again.

So Susie's murder did not lead her to a better and happier place, all happiness did not come from heaven, but from the hearts of herself and her family and friends.

How to render Susie's confinement and depression in heaven, and in what way to peek into the world?

Ye Wei thought about it a lot, and finally got the answer from the very beginning, snowflake glass balls.

When Susie wants to see the world, she approaches the edge of the forest, and there will be a hologram-like invisible glass sphere around her, enveloping her heaven from top to bottom, and through the spherical image, she can see the scene of the world, as if she is next to it.

Seemingly within reach, Susie reached out to touch the glass sphere, and could even touch her family's and Ray's image face, but she didn't really touch it.

Kelsey's "Hallie" is the only one who appears in Susie's paradise, and she has contracted all the functions of the counselor Fernie and others in the original book.

Before Susie was reborn, she lived in such a "perfect world" until the end of the film.

Ye Wei reminded himself again and again that every scene and every shot in heaven must be effective, ruthless, and cautious!

It is not a candy that relaxes the audience's nerves and comforts the audience's broken hearts, it can only be a boulder that destroys the audience's last vestiges of fantasy "Susie is happy in heaven", pressing it into the deepest part of the audience's heart and crushing it.

Susie didn't have a good time in heaven at all! Death means loss, grief, negativity. At the age of 14, he died with everyone in the world, and heaven and hell are no different.

At the roundtable that day, the Peter Jacksons still reserved their opinion on the paradise revealed by Ye Wei: the gorgeous paradise will not affect the perception of the story, and there can be a poignant and impressive shock.

Shocked his skull, wanted to play visual shock to shoot "The Hobbit".

Paradise is not all green screen scenes, some scenes in the storyboard are no different from the human world, they are shot in some locations in Philadelphia, but the lighting and color treatment are different from the human scenes.

But the crew still left five days for the green screen scenes, and Ye Wei had to slow down the filming of these scenes, carefully considering the emotional unity of heaven and earth.

......

“FIRE。 ”

At this time, in front of the green screen of the studio, Susie is filming a scene when she has just arrived in heaven, she is in a small snow field surrounded by a forest, and the sky is snowing, reminding the audience at the beginning that "heaven equals snowflake glass ball", and through CGI special effects, the forest, snow and falling snow will be a little dreamy.

The lights were on, the digital camera operated by Maurer was running, and Ye Wei, Ji Ya and more than a dozen people were looking at Liz over there.

Liz looked around with some confusion on her face, and walked around as she walked the steps, reaching out her palms to catch imaginary snowflakes, and looking up at the gloomy sky with changing auroras.

“CUT。 Ye Wei shouted to stop and commented: "It's not bad, but what did I say?"

Everyone didn't quite understand, Anderson felt that Liz's first rule was okay, and Jiya, who had listened to the director's request just now, also felt that Liz did it.

Liz knew that Ye Wei had another request, she would go beyond his request and "perform her own things", wasn't that enough? What should I do? Rolling on the snow? She really couldn't think of it, and said honestly: "Director, I already have to play myself." ”

"You don't, give me your personality! Ye Wei used a stern tone.

"Okay, I'll do my best. Liz could only nod.

Looking at the scene in front of them, Anderson, Maurer and other old guys all remembered the little tyrant outbreak on the set of "Soul Surfer", "Garfield" was scolded so much that he almost cried, if VIY scolded a 17-year-old girl like that, maybe Liz would cry on the spot.

Gia had bad expectations, and she missed the show last time.

However, Ye Wei didn't scold, just said seriously: "I'm not satisfied with your performance, because you just did the reaction that every ordinary person would do, I want your reaction!"

Soon, "FIRE" sounded again, followed by "No", Liz's second article did not change the schedule, but acted more exaggeratedly, and was criticized by Ye Wei "You are not acting in a stage play!" The third article is also NG, Liz added a lower head to look at her movements, and also pulled her clothes a few times, and touched her neck that had been cut throat. Ye Wei criticized, "It's too much, it's more than the duration of this shot." The fourth article is NG again, and Liz added a question line, "Is there anyone?" Ye Wei criticized, "This is a shot without lines." ”

Liz was so bad of temper by him that she still has a personality?

Alas, even in a stage play, the actors have to go through a long rehearsal before they can perform on stage, and in the case of incoherent camera performances, many times the actors just don't even know what they are playing, and just put on a show according to the director's instructions, and the audience will not know anyway.

What does Ye Wei mean? Liz called her brother last night to ask her brother that her brother studied film and television production at USC, and her brother said: "Some directors like actors to be puppets, and some don't. He does a good job of scheduling the camera, but the actor scheduling side leaves room for you, and this part of the space is up to you to decide and play, and if you don't fill in the gaps, he's not happy.

According to what you say, in fact, Ye Wei is really good to you, he not only makes his own movies, but also wants to train you, Liz, you really met a good director. ”

Of course, the 18-year-old Oscar nominee for Best Director, do you say it? What my brother said, Liz also understands that VIY gives space to actors and cherishes the personality of actors, she has long experienced it, but hasn't she used up that space?

And what else?

"No!" Article 5 continued, and Liz jumped. Ye Wei shouted loudly: "Liz Olsen, I'll give you a suggestion, get out of your pants!"

Hearing this angry ridicule, everyone didn't dare to speak, Ji Ya glanced at Ye Wei, isn't it a bit excessive?

But as an expert fan of Alien, Liz knew it was Valentine's "Get-Out-of-Your-Pants!" to Rhonda. At any time, Liz would burst into laughter when she heard this, but not now.

She also ignited: "I think I have an idea, why don't we drop a bomb in the way we're going? When it explodes, we run like goddamn bastards!"

Rhonda's classic line.

"You can try, I've always wanted you to have your ideas. Ye Wei said.

Liz took a deep breath, okay, I know, I'm an actor, not a director's puppet, not a puzzle, not a tool, I'm an actor!!

“FIRE。 ”

The sixth began to shoot, Liz looked around with a puzzled look, walked a few steps, raised her head to look at the snow in the sky, raised her hand and grabbed a handful of snowflakes, opened her palm to see, there was nothing, and she was even more confused.

Ye Wei stared at her seriously, and when she finished acting, she shouted: "CUT!"

Liz looked over and waited for him to say why not, but saw him laugh: "This is good, this is really good." Lychee, the five just now, whether it's good or bad, I can see your personality from it, it's all your creation!" Liz's heart suddenly became happy and warm, yes, I really met a good director......

She grinned toothily and asked, "Article 6 has passed?"

"No, the first one is the best and the most natural. Ye Wei's smile remained the same, "I will use the first one in the post-editing." ”

Everyone who just felt that they understood something was stunned, and Liz opened her mouth even wider, what!?What were you doing just now? What are you doing with the more shots?

Ye Wei walked in front of her, looked at her gray eyes, and encouraged: "Remember the feeling just now, it must be a feeling of creation, independent of the director, use your creativity to give your character what it is, no matter what it is, it's yours."

You showed it, I saw it, and now you know more about yourself, I know more about you, so we can do better. As for this time, although I don't use it, there will always be a time when I will do it. ”

"Hmm......" Liz thought, "I'm trying to understand what you're saying......"

Ye Wei walked back, "While understanding the director, while creating yourself, good actors are like this, such as me." ”

"Bastard. Liz stared at him with hateful eyes, but the corners of her mouth curled up with a smile.

......

Finally!

The last week of June has just begun, and the gossip media finally have a new harvest on the topic machine of VIY, Ye Wei and Elizabeth Olsen are confirmed to date! On Sunday the 25th, the two were photographed together at Pats-King-of-Steak in Philadelphia for dinner.

In a series of photos secretly taken by the paparazzi, the two are talking and laughing, and they are also affectionately competing for food.

Gossip people, movie fans, it's funny, now there is!

Despite the fact that spokespeople for both sides were quick to deny the relationship, Leslie Dart told the outlet: "They just met there by chance, and they both wanted to go for a cheesesteak sandwich one more time before leaving Philadelphia with the crew." ”

Who would believe it? Is there no better reason to cover it up? Like someone else who was traveling with you but wasn't photographed?

The secrets have already seen VIY's new girlfriend, Olsen Jr., who is 1 year younger.

TMZ said, this shows several points, one is that Ye Wei is tired of playing sister and brother love, the second is that Xiao Olsen is not so easy to pursue, and the third is that Ye Wei is quite serious this time. So Ye Wei threatened to retract and concentrate on pursuing Little Olsen, but she still couldn't escape the clutches of "Hiscram".

Lainey Gossip said, "We predicted it a long time ago. ”

......

Ye Wei felt that he was to blame for this, he didn't find any paparazzi following him all the way, but as a star, appearing together in a place like Pats-King-of-Steak would be exposed, and when he saw Liz, he should have turned around and left, and no one believed that it was a coincidence.

Leslie didn't believe it, she said that it was better to say nothing to the public than to say nothing, it was he who insisted on telling the truth, that is, coincidence, and it would be for a hundred years.

What is the attitude of the friends? Lev sent a text message: "Another one! Brother Wei, it seems that you are starting to fire again, I really envy your life!"

What about the family? My mother, who is traveling far away in China, received a call and asked, "Only, tell us about your new date?"

"No! I'm after Lily, you know. Ye Wei told his mother truthfully, and his mother chose to believe it. Nina and Amy will believe it too.

Except for his family and close friends, in fact, he doesn't care what others think, he only cares what Lily thinks. He texted her to explain, didn't call, was too pressed and knew she needed time.

One person said that it was better than two people, although they were both in the hotel, and each other's suites were not far away, Ye Wei called Liz. When it comes to this scandal, she is really eye-catching: "Do you want me to help explain it to your girlfriend?" But there is also dissatisfaction: "I'm not in a hurry, a few friends asked me if I became your prey, my sisters...... Never mind. ”

"Please. Ye Wei had no choice but to sigh, there was no heroism on the set during the day.

"Okay, I know her, I'll take care of it. Liz seemed impatient.

Ye Wei was stunned, "I haven't said who it is." ”

"Scarlett Johansson?"

"No!"

"Kidding you, Phil Collins' daughter, right? ”

"Yes. In fact, we are not a boyfriend and girlfriend relationship, but a more romantic and intimate relationship, which we call an IA relationship. You understand it as a romantic relationship. ”

......

IA relationship? It's so emotional, someone else's boyfriend!

Liz was lazy and half-lying on the bed, she and Lily Collins knew each other, they didn't know each other very well, they had each other's mobile phone numbers, and they texted to ask if they were calling, so they called: "Hey, Lily, how are you doing?" ”

She told the truth: "Weige and I really met yesterday, we talked about movies at the dinner table, to be precise, he directed my performance. We walked together because...... He was worried that I would eat more, and I couldn't get fat during the shoot, but I was a foodie. You know, I have no reason to lie to you. ”

Lily's laughter came over her phone: "Elizabeth, he's not my boyfriend, and I'm not dating him." I only knew about your scandal, you told me. ”

"I know he said you have a special relationship. Liz laughed too.

"Don't listen to him, I have nothing to do with him, not friends. Lily said.

"What?" Liz was stunned, feeling a question mark on her head, "but he said......"

Lily's voice was calm: "He's pursuing me, I've already rejected him, he's still in the stage of insistence, but I really don't have feelings for him." So you don't need to explain it to me, your business has nothing to do with me. ”

Ha! Liz rolled her eyes strangely, Ye Wei was wishful thinking? Wow! Thinking about Ye Wei recently, she kindly said good things for him: "He's good, after his sister went missing and found, he changed a lot when he came back from Los Angeles, I can't see him have a flower, just a man." ”

Lily on the other end was silent for a moment, and said, "Please tell him, don't continue, let everyone live a good life." ”

"Oh. Liz got more and more amused, this is really interesting, it was VIY! quipped, "You really don't want it?" I just took it away, I really wanted to date him, this one recently. As she spoke, her heart jumped.

"Take it away if you want, watch out for him, he knows how to play with emotions best. Lily chuckled.

"I'm kidding you, he loves you so much, I don't have a chance. Liz paused as she spoke, feeling bored in her heart, if she played the scene of Susie watching Ray and Ruth kissing now, she must be very creative. She added: "Okay, that's it, I don't know about you, anyway, nothing happened to me with him, no date!"

"Okay, goodbye, good night. ”

"Good night. ”

After ending the call, Liz looked at the phone in her hand, thought for a while, and laughed for a while, it was so funny......

After a long time, she called Ye Wei to reply: "It's all said, it's all said." ”

"Thank you, what did Lily say?" Ye Wei asked anxiously.

"Hmm...... She reacted like ...... She doesn't like you, she doesn't care about you. ”

"Sounds like that. ”

"She told you to tell you, 'Stop going on, let everybody live their lives.'" ’”

You repeat her words word by word. ”

"That's not okay, that's about privacy. ”

"Please. ”

"No, not really. ”

"Please......"

"I'll just tell you, you should understand 'Be careful with him, he knows how to play with emotions best.'" ’”

"What else?"

"Goodbye, good night. ”

"Hey, hey!"