Chapter 626: Night of Bullying
March has come, and this year's Oscars are away amid controversy. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoNo matter what fans think, it is a fact that Ye Wei has no award, he was gloated by the American media, and was criticized by the Chinese media one after another.
In the eyes of the outside world, the loser Ye Wei lives a good life.
He did go on with his life as a professional footballer, not just by publishing photos of him training in The Sun, but by making a YouTube selfie video "Into Carrington", taking a tour of Manchester United's training centre and showing off some footwork on the pitch. His post-apocalyptic zombie fiction All-Dead has been continuously updated, and a set of self-drawn concept illustrations have fans delighted and thanked the independent arbitration panel for their wise decision!
His website, SpotPass, also made a breakthrough, with the $500,000 crowdfunding "Bullying Night" going through less than a month.
This caused some media coverage, but the project's main creator, Santiago Young-Bollard, was not interviewed and did not make any appearances, and his so-called hugely popular YouTube videos were just a few London landscape videos. Lack of publicity means no attention, except for the "Hollywood Reporter" and IMDB databases, this project seems to be non-existent, it is just an ordinary member of thousands of small-budget projects.
At the same time, Young-Bollard's other R-rated horror film project "There Is No Vampire in the World" with another goal of crowdfunding $1 million has quietly launched.
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For the sake of damn San Diego, Gia has been so busy lately that black smoke is coming out of his head, that guy is determined to be the shopkeeper this time, and he also gave a death order to start the film on Friday night on the 9th, and plans to shoot for seven days in a row, except for two days on weekends, and the remaining five days are working from evening to night, and he just returned to Los Angeles to celebrate Lily's birthday after filming.
At the age of 20, she was working as a producer and assistant director for the first time, and although she grew up on the set and followed him for a few years, she couldn't do it herself.
Her main helpers are Lena Duham, who has previously excelled in Winter Bone, and Carlo Dixi, a 35-year-old Italian producer who is active in the UK, who has been involved in the production of TV movies and DVD films, but is well versed in British production and financial law.
The three of them formed a production team with San Diego, and then pulled up a basic scale crew, everything must be kept secret, and the personnel must be cheap and easy to use. Santiago has appointed cinematographers and art directors, the former is Ali Asha, a 45-year-old Syrian photographer based in the United Kingdom who will become the first cinematographer to make a film with Red-One last year, and Julie Berghoff, the old man of Tet and Winter Bones, who leads the art department.
There are still a lot of old friends in the crew, but most of them are recruited in the UK. Fortunately, this is a small project, a single field scene, ordinary costumes and props, and there is not much pre-preparation work, but all departments have to move forward quickly, and everything is so busy that my stomach hurts.
It's not for nothing that Santiago is confident that he will only shoot for a week, it's because the script is simple enough.
It's a typical haunted house story, with a house (a limited space) and monsters, where the characters encounter dangers caused by the monsters and either defeat the monsters or die. Most horror thrillers are like this, "Jaws", "Alien", "Chainsaw", "Rose, Red Lotus", "Exorcism Video" are all there.
It's not a novelty, it's a group of young men and women in a school who are big names and bullies are partying in a deserted and abandoned farm warehouse in the town on this day, and Brie Larson plays the heroine who is the only bullied in the audience, she is a nerd played by the prom queen, and she sends invitations for her but is not invited, and is ridiculed. According to Santiago, it was based on Jennifer's real-life experience. The difference is that it's a double play, and when Brie is so sad at home that she cuts her fingers and wants to kill herself by cutting her wrists, she receives a call from the prom queen, saying that it was just a joke and asking her to go to the party. Brie went anyway, happy to be able to attend their party.
This is the first scene quickly, just as Brie arrives at the lively warehouse, the party has just begun, the prom queen and others are just about to play her, the male protagonist played by Nicholas Holt breaks into the warehouse, he is a bullied at school, he is not invited, he has a gun in both hands, and as soon as he enters, he blows the prom queen in the head. People screamed in fright, but no one around would hear them, and there was only one doorway in the warehouse, which was guarded by Holt, and he told everyone to be quiet, and whoever was arguing to kill whom, and sure enough, killed another girl who was still crying.
Then the second act is how he slowly and cruelly tortures, judges, tortures, and kills the bully in the warehouse, and Brie is in a desperate situation and will die at any time.
It's interesting in that the monsters are the male protagonist (or the villain?), the female protagonist is the one who wants to live, escape from the house or kill the monster, and the villains also have to live, hateful, pathetic and pitiful. This confusion in the setting creates tension, and the audience's empathy is substituted for which side, and the elusiveness of the male protagonist creates suspense. Is Holt the victim or the bully? Will Brie survive? How will this night of bullying end?
There are gaps in the script, and many details of the warehouse scene will be improvised, about what the male protagonist does, what he says, and how the rest of the people react. Gia thinks there is already something very interesting in it, thought-provoking, shocking, it's up to the writer and director Santiago, "12 Angry Men" is also a classic among the classics.
The simple version of the script, no storyboard script, not even the name of the character, he said, "You'll know when you shoot", a week! This project is like a game after he plays football, has a casual dinner, or wants to try red-one? She doesn't know, but she knows that she can't underestimate him, this person can make a good movie with any story.
In addition to the director is an actor, the heroine will be the main substitute for the audience, if she can't tie the audience to the chair to be nervous, caring, and moody, then she and the film will fail. Another key point is, of course, the male lead, who must be both good and evil, and bad and attractive, so that the audience will be attracted to him and not want to leave. Santiago said in the director's elaboration that for example, Jack Nicholson, the "Joker" in "Batman" in 1989, and Li Guohao in "The Crow" in 1994, they are all wanton and crazy without a little hesitation.
Will Brie Larson and Nicholas Holt work?
Gia wasn't sure, she should, there wasn't a genius director here! She was also involved in the casting, but every young actor and actress in the warehouse was ultimately decided by the director, and he hired some unknown newcomers, including a few deceived girls he had funded, no Modi, no future girls.
If you want to join this project, you have to sign a confidentiality agreement, so every actor will be shocked when they join, San Diego is Ye Wei!
In the near future, there will surely be a lot of girls who will be angry and shout, "What!?Who is Brie Larson?, how did he become his new favorite?"
At sunset at 6pm on Friday the 9th, in an old red-brick farm warehouse south of the town of Carrington in Manchester, "Bullying Night" is about to start.