When Ye Wei rushed back to the TLB set in Malvern Town, it was already past 1 o'clock in the afternoon. From last night to now, he has gone to Toronto, New York and then back to Philadelphia, and the two letters have been delivered, and his heart is full of sorrow and vitality.

Lily didn't reply to the text message, but he knew she would read it, and was going to send another one in the evening, two a day, so that it wouldn't bother her while contacting her every day.

He told Anastasia that there are two kinds of kinetic energy for creation, light and dark, both in the subconscious that he neither knows nor controls, like two buttons, and when one of them is triggered, there is an inspiration for creation.

Now he feels like he's pressed the third button, a whole new feeling!

It was as if the light had returned after a long absence, and it was like a calm and powerful grasp of the darkness.

Creative inspiration is exploding, creative desire is also exploding, and I have never been so eager to make a movie, as if I haven't set foot on the set for many, many years.

The changes in the past two days have brought a lot of new ideas, and during the journey, Ye Wei made some changes, additions and deletions to the script, details and shots of the script and storyboard, and even included important special effects shots in the ending scene. When he finished drawing the new footage, he couldn't help but laugh, it was so beautiful.

The film schedule made a new arrangement, not to shoot the kiss scene between Susie and Ray in the school hallway that day, because the actor has to put on makeup before he has to go on stage, and instead of spending a long time putting on his makeup and everyone waiting, it is better to shoot other scenes first, everyone is ready, and he will start filming as soon as he returns.

"Hey, guys!"

The afternoon sun was warm, and when Ye Wei came to the set on the streets of the beautiful and quiet town community, he greeted the staff. Knowing that Duoduo is fine, acquaintances such as Sean Maurer, who continues to shoot for him, and Jennifer Anderson, the assistant director, will also ask "Are you okay?", he smiled and nodded: "She had a good time." ”

"Are you ready?" he took the shooting schedule handed by Anderson and looked at it to see what was about to be filmed, the shot of Susie and Lincy walking on their way to school.

There was one less day to shoot, and the schedule was more intense, but he was full of confidence that he could finish the shoot and look around, everyone was going all out, and it was impossible to shoot badly.

"Director, there's a guy back. Anderson's tone was delighted.

Ye Wei was stunned, his heart was pounding, and he saw a woman in a wool jacket and overalls striding overalls, and he couldn't help shouting: "Jiya!" Running up quickly, his face was full of joy, and he opened his hands excitedly: "Master Jiya, welcome back!

"Needless to say. Gia hugged him, looked at him with a smile, and asked, "Are you back too?" ”

"Hmm......" Ye Wei thought and laughed, "I haven't come back, but it's gone, it's a new me." ”

"It's that complicated, I'll just come back to you. Gia couldn't help but smile away, and the joy in her heart came out, "I sense that you need me, so your special assistant, your mentor, and your enemy, Master Gia Coppola, is back!"

"Hahaha!" Ye Wei pushed her, smiled and walked to the camera over there, Elizabeth Olsen and Saoirse Ronan, one big and one small, were all looking at her with a smile, they had already had a rehearsal, and everything was ready.

Dakota Johnson, who plays Ruth, is also there, and there is a play today, and Margot, Mody, and Kelsey are all there, whether there is a play or not today. Ye Wei asked them to follow the crew to watch and learn more, and they would be in the class for the number of days when there was no drama, and the three of them didn't know that the tuition was paid by him privately, and the more they learned, the faster they progressed.

At this time, they stood quietly in the idler's area and watched, Ye Wei smiled at them and said hello, walked to understand the situation with Maurer, and said to the assistant director: "Begin." ”

"Guys, if no one moves, no one gets hurt!" Anderson clapped his palms and shouted, the set quickly fell silent, everyone took their places, and the lighting team shouted OK.

The recording begins. ”

"Photography begins. ”

"Accelerate. ”

tags. ”

Listening to these voices, Ye Wei felt that the blood in his whole body was boiling, looking at the two actors in front of him, the scene reporter hit the slapstick in front of the camera, the sound of "da" was like the sound of the boiling point, surrounded by everyone, on the sidewalk in this community, he shouted: "FIRE!!"

FIRE...... The members of the first collaboration were stunned, and Liz and Saoirse were also stunned, what?

Seeing Ye Wei raise his arm and signal, "Let's start, act!", Liz reacted first, remembering that she had seen it in "VIY", this was his ACTION, and finally heard it with her own ears! It was the first time since the Big Bang.

Gia, who was standing next to him, had already raised her hands and laughed silently, the flames were back, did you see it?

It's dazzling, right, this is the light of a genius director, you will get used to it!

Burn with him!

“Uh，CUT！”

When Liz and Saoirse started to move and read white, after the camera was completed, Ye Wei's voice was not satisfied, and he didn't go over to direct the play, but walked to the side where no one was: "Liz, come here." "He was going to talk to her alone.

Saoirse doesn't have this problem, she has finished filming her solo scene in the past week, and her performance is really good, she is so aura and has a good appearance, she will definitely succeed in the future.

The set suddenly stopped again, everyone avoided the sight of waiting, the girls couldn't hide their curiosity, and Jiya looked directly.

"What's wrong? I swear I'm not fat. Liz followed and muttered.

Ye Wei looked at her upside down, dressed in the style of Susie on the day she was killed, a royal blue hooded jacket in the 70s, yellow bell bottoms and a variegated wool hand-knitted hat inlaid with pompoms, her long blonde hair was moderately dyed, not deep or shallow, very warm and pleasant, her figure was young and slender, and she was really not fat.

He said softly: "Liz, I have to tell you, I have changed a lot in the past two days, the simple understanding is that I have returned, and the difficult understanding is that I have evolved." You're not going to hate me, you'll see. ”

"So?" Liz was a little confused.

"You can trust me, trust your director. Ye Wei shrugged and said with a smile.

Creating the right atmosphere on set is the director's main responsibility, and it's very important, not only in terms of morale and efficiency, but also in terms of actors' performance. The more the atmosphere makes the actors feel safe and willing to take risks, the more they will be able to reach their potential.

On the contrary, an actor who is insecure and does not trust the director will perform in a safe way, and the performance will be mediocre and boring.

What if the director wants to put wings on the actors and let them fly as much as they want, what if they fall from the sky? It's okay, the director catches you.

He looked back now that Liz hadn't fully unleashed her talents these days, her imagination was good, but he hadn't seen much. The key problem, he thinks, is that because of her disgust with him, he didn't activate her.

This is the end of the problem. Ye Wei smiled: "It's better to say it later than not to say it, Liz Olsen, welcome to my set, a place where dreams happen!"

"Wow. LIZ'S EYES COULDN'T HELP BUT BE CURIOUS, HE SEEMED TO BE REALLY DIFFERENT, HIS STILL EVIL EYES SEEMED TO HAVE MORE WARMTH, AND HE DIDN'T EVEN CALL HER "LICHEE" IN YINGYIN. Her nickname has long been spread all over the set, and even the media has reported it.

Ye Wei looked directly at her gray and blue eyes, and said: "Once you start performing, don't think so much, don't act with your brain, act with your heart." Right or wrong, good or bad, I stare at it, you don't need to think about it at all, you just act. I'll help you put on a coherent and credible 'Susie', as long as you believe me. ”

"Well, I will......" Liz nodded, what should I say, since the start of filming, this is the first time Ye Wei has inspired her like this.

She can't make a conclusive evaluation of his set, but no matter how it changes, there will definitely be the advantage of "communication".

VIY is really not a legendary little tyrant, he will let you try the interpretation yourself first, and then put forward some specific directorial suggestions, so that you can deepen the performance of what he wants. Sometimes there are too many NGs, and he will directly tell you what to do.

Although it was her first time acting in a screen movie, she had been on Broadway and was no stranger to film and television sets, so she knew that Ye Wei was really confident.

Maybe it's because he has an Oscar nomination for Best Director, and there is nothing to question about the name of genius, but at the age of 18, he doesn't have the kind of dog-like "I'm smart, I'm the God here, I'm talking about the Bible!" He can listen to words, even if it's a small actor, he cherishes the personality of that little actor.

It's actually a demeanor that requires self-confidence and detachment.

He doesn't like to get angry, he hasn't scolded anyone, reason, logic, learning, authority, he always has a way to convince you.

Talking about this in the morning, Ji Ya said that VIY actually had this stage, and it is said that when filming "The Wedding is Coming", he was more serious than a dog to protect food, and he couldn't tolerate a little others who felt that he was not familiar with it, and he grabbed the director's authority to death, and whoever opposed him was kicked out of the crew by him at any time.

Now it's different, and today he suddenly said, "The previous me wasn't good enough, the better me came", and Liz was really surprised.

She knows the essence of film acting, and many famous artists have also said that all crew members are in the service of the director's imagination. Although the film is created by a team, all the results must go through a funnel into the bottle, and what can and cannot go in is decided by the funnel. The funnel is the director.

The reason why she planned to act in a movie in advance was because she wanted to realize VIY's imagination.

Probably because this emotional reason is too heavy, she is easily affected by his off-the-field events. In early May, he regained a crush on him, but he had too many scandals, the worst of which was that the other day she found out that he was out on the street with Margot Robbie on a date.

Do you trust him on set? He's a talented director, and of course Liz trusts him, but when he says that, he really doesn't feel at his best.

"Play with your heart. Liz looked at him, and the more she looked at it, the more she felt different.

"Yes, you have a heart, right? Ye Wei said. Liz didn't know what to do: "Yes, but not as big as Scarlett Johansson." Ye Wei looked casual: "It's okay to have it, it's okay to be like a lychee, hahaha!" He walked back with a smile and shouted to everyone: "Everyone get ready!"

Liz glared at his back and walked back, you are wrong, I hate this you, you are still a bastard.

"FIRE" soon sounded again on the set, and everyone didn't know what Ye Wei and Liz said, but they could see the difference between the front and back: the former Liz seemed to be playing Susie, and the latter Liz was Susie. Differences in feelings lead to subtle differences, and subtle differences lead to differences in the whole.

"GOOD-TAKE!" YE WEI SHOUTED HAPPILY, "THAT'S ALL!"

Gia's smile was even happier, and she saw Olsen leave the nest and fly into the sky like a bird learning to fly under the protection of genius, oh poor Emma!

Whether it is Maurer, Anderson, or Dakota, Mody and others, they are quite surprised. As the shooting of one shot after another, the atmosphere was a little different, their director was more active, and the appeal existed in every FIRE, which improved the efficiency of the set a lot.

At 8:30 p.m. sunset in Philadelphia in June, the crew had dinner and rested at 8 p.m. after seven hours of work. Because today's daytime shots have all been taken, magic time has been wasted a lot. The crew plans to wait until after dark to shoot night scenes, including Susie's encounter with Ruth after she was killed.

At this time, the crew had moved to the empty parking lot of Dagudi High School, and was having dinner at the base camp.

"Girls, now is not the time to shoot those shots that take a lot of time. Ye Wei said.

"Shooting breaks are the time to talk about shots that take a lot of time to shoot. Gia answered.

The two laughed at each other, because the rookies laughed even harder!

“Its-not-the-time-it-takes-to-take-the-takes-that-takes-the-time，its-the-time-it-takes-to-talk-between-the-takes-that-takes-the-time。 This sentence is called the "Douglas Trump maxim", coined by the director and legendary pioneer of visual effects Trumb, the verbs "take time" and "make a movie" are both "TAKE", indicating that "a shot" is also TAKE, hence this ingenious tongue twister.

But it's not that the old fritters on the set really don't know, even Liz and Dakota are stunned at this time, and Mody and a few people are even more so, and they only understood after listening to Gia's explanation.

"Seriously. While eating, Ye Wei said to Liz and Dakota opposite: "Let's talk about the play that will be held." ”

In the early stages, he had already helped the two of them create "I", especially Liz, whose notes on Susie's creation and understanding were as thick as a script. It's all prepared, and at this stage, it's about using it in the performance.

In this scene in the original book, Susie meets Ruth in the school parking lot before leaving the world. Ruth was standing next to a rusty car when she saw Susie floating over in a white robe, and Susie "wanted to feel the warmth of the world one more time before she left the world" and reached out to touch Ruth's face.

In the script and filming, Susie is still dressed in the clothes before she was killed, walking like a living person, because she is very visible in a white robe and floating on the screen. Both saw each other, and Susie reached for Ruth's cheek, which gradually disappeared.

The filming is not in order, tonight is filming this scene, but tomorrow we will shoot a few school scenes before Susie's accident. Ye Wei first warmed up the two of them about their current position, where they had just come out of, and where they were going.

"There are three key shots in this scene. He said again.

The girls were listening attentively.

Ye Wei described the designed shot: "One is a sideways middle shot, Ruth is on the left side of the frame, Susie is on the right, and she slowly raises her hand to touch Ruth's face. The camera begins with her hand raised to touching Ruth's cheek. This was followed by a close-up of Susie's face, and after three or four seconds, she began to blur and faintly.

Liz, this shot is your showtime. When you start blurring, followed by a close-up of Ruth's face, there will also be three or four seconds until Susie's hand disappears completely, Dakota, this is your show time. followed by an ascent shot, making the audience feel like following Susie to heaven. Do you understand?"

"Very clear. Liz nodded, imagining the shots.

"Understood. Dakota nodded.

"Here's a cadenza that would be put in the trailer. Ye Wei was very serious, raised his chopsticks and pointed to one side, "I want the audience sitting in front of the big screen in the future, whether adults or teenagers, because of these three shots, their tears flow like elephants." ”

Gia also listened attentively, learning his thoughts, there will be a strong contrast, the same flower girl, one is still alive, the other is dead, the most poignant is obviously Susie's attachment to the world.

Ye Wei was saying, "Let's give them a little bit of power." In those few seconds, I want you all to transform from one posture to another, to drive the audience from one emotion to another, to express your heart with your face, and we want to shoot the best close-ups. ”

He looked at the thoughtful Liz and asked, "Attachment is Susie's biggest point, do you agree?"

"Agreed, I understand here. Liz stopped her spoon and thought, "She saw Ruth, not only in love, but also in fear, some inferiority, she was defiled, and Ruth was not, she understood that she could never be like Ruth again, she died." ”

"Very good idea. Ye Wei nodded and asked, "Will she cry?"

"I think...... No. Liz took a bite of her meal, "Susie is not a cryer. ”

"Then don't cry. All I asked for was a change of mood, a change that could be heartbreaking in a single shot. Ye Wei turned his eyes to Dakota and asked, "What is Ruth's biggest point?" Dakota responded: "Confused?" He shook his head slightly: "Confusion can't make people cry, and if you don't create characters, everyone will be confused." Lost?"

He looked at the still bright sky, "At that moment, Ruth remembered a lot of lost moments in herself, a lot of lost moments in this world, and you wanted to keep them, but there was nothing you could do. For example, the dog you have raised for many years has died, the beautiful flowers have withered, you don't want winter to come but it still comes, that kind of loss that has something to leave. ”

"What about sadness?" Dakota asked again.

Ye Wei smiled and said: "As long as the emotion ends with loss, how to change before, you come to perform, I will judge." It's time to remember your lost moments. Liz, you also reminisce about your moments of affection. OK, I'll talk to our photographer first. He stood up and walked to Maurer in the distance, holding the lunch box.

"Oh my God!" As soon as the director walked away, Dakota couldn't help but sigh to them: "He's so talented, I was blindsided just now." ”

The girls chuckled sympathetically, Mody blushed, Margot looked at the figure in the distance in fascination, and Liz was not angry, but she was also laughing.

"You don't have a chance, look at him, how happy, it can't be because of you. Gia said meaningfully, and got up and walked away.

They looked at each other and were suddenly shocked, VIY and Master Jiya!?

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"Lily, good evening, we did a great job today! There are a few scenes that are particularly difficult, not for me, but for the actors, NG more than a dozen times, but fortunately in the end I still shot the effect I wanted, they didn't cry, I almost cried, I hope I won't have nightmares tonight." ”

A new text message:

"Don't bother me, can you? If you do this again, I'll have to put you on the blacklist. ”

":( let me send it, two a day. ”

"Please don't bother me, thank you. ”

"TRY TO STOP ME? ”

"I'll block you after this text message, good luck. ”

"Really?really blocked?hello?", "Is Lily there?", "Is there anyone?", "Hey, it's so dark here, let me out, please let me out!", "Help!", "Anyway, you're blocked, it won't bother you, so I'll post it to your heart's content." "I'm dancing, it's funny. "I want to sing. "La-la. ”......。 ”

Gia also listened attentively, learning his thoughts, there will be a strong contrast, the same flower girl, one is still alive, the other is dead, the most poignant is obviously Susie's attachment to the world.

Ye Wei was saying, "Let's give them a little bit of power." In those few seconds, I want you all to transform from one posture to another, to drive the audience from one emotion to another, to express your heart with your face, and we want to shoot the best close-ups. ”

He looked at the thoughtful Liz and asked, "Attachment is Susie's biggest point, do you agree?"

"Agreed, I understand here. Liz stopped her spoon and thought, "She saw Ruth, not only in love, but also in fear, some inferiority, she was defiled, and Ruth was not, she understood that she could never be like Ruth again, she died." ”

"Very good idea. Ye Wei nodded and asked, "Will she cry?"

"I think...... No. Liz took a bite of her meal, "Susie is not a cryer. ”

"Then don't cry. All I asked for was a change of mood, a change that could be heartbreaking in a single shot. Ye Wei turned his eyes to Dakota and asked, "What is Ruth's biggest point?" Dakota responded: "Confused?" He shook his head slightly: "Confusion can't make people cry, and if you don't create characters, everyone will be confused." Lost?"

He looked at the still bright sky, "At that moment, Ruth remembered a lot of lost moments in herself, a lot of lost moments in this world, and you wanted to keep them, but there was nothing you could do. For example, the dog you have raised for many years has died, the beautiful flowers have withered, you don't want winter to come but it still comes, that kind of loss that has something to leave. ”

"What about sadness?" Dakota asked again.

Ye Wei smiled and said: "As long as the emotion ends with loss, how to change before, you come to perform, I will judge." It's time to remember your lost moments. Liz, you also reminisce about your moments of affection. OK, I'll talk to our photographer first. He stood up and walked to Maurer in the distance, holding the lunch box.

"Oh my God!" As soon as the director walked away, Dakota couldn't help but sigh to them: "He's so talented, I was blindsided just now." ”

The girls chuckled sympathetically, Mody blushed, Margot looked at the figure in the distance in fascination, and Liz was not angry, but she was also laughing.

"You don't have a chance, look at him, how happy, it can't be because of you. Gia said meaningfully, and got up and walked away.

They looked at each other and were suddenly shocked, VIY and Master Jiya!?

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"Lily, good evening, we did a great job today! There are a few scenes that are particularly difficult, not for me, but for the actors, NG more than a dozen times, but fortunately in the end I still shot the effect I wanted, they didn't cry, I almost cried, I hope I won't have nightmares tonight." ”

A new text message:

"Don't bother me, can you? If you do this again, I'll have to put you on the blacklist. ”

":( let me send it, two a day. ”

"Please don't bother me, thank you. ”

"TRY TO STOP ME? ”

"I'll block you after this text message, good luck. ”

"Really?really blocked?hello?", "Is Lily there?", "Is there anyone?", "Hey, it's so dark here, let me out, please let me out!", "Help!", "Anyway, you're blocked, it won't bother you, so I'll post it to your heart's content." "I'm dancing, it's funny. "I want to sing. "La-la. ”......