Chapter 92: Bergman Forever
Bergman's acting skills are in line with her beauty, which is an indisputable fact.
Her slender figure, deep eyes, pointed nose, and perfect lips make her have a noble and elegant temperament, and she looks more like a goddess when she gazes from a distance. Even if you don't wear fancy clothes, you still shine.
She came to Hollywood from her native Sweden and quickly became one of the most well-known stars of the time. Dignified appearance, charming voice, and extraordinary acting skills have left many classic films for the audience.
She and Joy Frye Bogart's "Spy in North Africa" (also known as "Casablanca") is one of the most classic films in the history of cinema. Bergman's extremely short hair in "The Bells of the Battlefield" became popular all over the world, and by that time she was already an idol in the hearts of women in the United States, almost influencing women's preferences and dresses.
Usually, when ordinary people see Bergman for the first time, they will always be shocked by her beautiful, holy, natural, fresh and elegant appearance. It's unbelievable that there can be such a beautiful woman in the world. After he saw Bergman's acting skills, he would be overwhelmed by her outstanding performance.
However, such a beautiful and holy woman has experienced a tragedy that no one else has experienced. She lost her mother at the age of two and her father at the age of twelve, and was later adopted by her uncle.
Alex: The more time they spent with Bergman, the more they felt that she had an incredibly obsessive passion for acting. They had never met such an actress, who had completely dedicated herself to her acting career. In the face of beautiful women, many men will involuntarily behave as themselves, which is the natural instinct of men. Alex is no exception, he especially likes to spend time with beautiful women like Bergman and Hepburn.
Bergman also liked his kind of genius, and no one could treat Alex like a child. At least they will get along as equal friends, the two of them have similar aura, and they like to talk together when they are free to shoot.
Alex also learned some things about Bergman from the conversation between the two, especially the biggest turning point in her life, and being admitted to the Royal Cinema was such a moment.
Her lonely childhood fostered a strong interest in acting, and she was often immersed in the imaginary world alone. At the age of fourteen, she recorded in her diary her dream of one day standing on the stage in her hometown, and the audience applauded her.
After graduating from high school in 1933, when Bergman was 17 years old, she was enrolled at the Royal Drama School in Stockholm, and she wanted to apply for the exam, so she expressed her idea to her uncle.
The uncle thought about it for a moment and said to her, "I'll only give you this chance, if you can't pass the exam, you have to do it according to my arrangement." ”
She agreed, and in the days that followed, she began to prepare for the exam.
Bergman cherished this hard-won and unique opportunity, she carefully prepared a skit, rehearsed it repeatedly at home, and even slept and dreamed of acting in the show.
On the day of the exam, she came to the examination room early, it was her turn to perform on stage, she walked to the stage and began to perform her own sketches, halfway through the performance, she found that all the people were talking to each other about something, and they were gesturing with their hands, and they didn't watch her performance at all, she felt extremely lost, thinking that she must be out of play, and when she was distracted, she forgot her lines again......
When she was in a panic, she heard the chairman of the jury say to her, "Stop, thank you, thank you, please come up and perform." ”
Bergman walked off the stage in frustration, heartbroken, for she knew that she had lost this opportunity forever. She cried as she walked, feeling that there was no point in living anymore, and she wanted to die.
She came to a river and was about to jump off to end her life. The water is dark black, shiny and smelly. She thought, this water is so dirty, I can't die like this even if I die. So she left the river, considering another way to end her life.
That night, she wrote a suicide note and put her things in order. She plans to go to the store the next day to buy a lethal potion and use it to end her life.
The next morning, when she got up and was about to go out, the postman suddenly came and handed her a letter, which she opened and saw that it was from the Royal School of Drama, and it was actually a letter of admission to her!
She couldn't believe it, ran to the school with the admission letter, personally found the chairman of the jury yesterday, and said to him: "I performed so badly yesterday, you are so disappointed in me, why did you admit me today?" ”
The chairman of the jury said, "You did quite well yesterday! Of all the candidates yesterday, your performance was the best, so within a few minutes of your performance, we all talked about it below, and we all thought that you had excellent acting talent, and we were all happy for you. At that time, one of the judges said that you don't need to perform this kind of ability anymore, and you should be admitted directly, so I asked you to stop and replace it with another one......"
Hearing this, she was very surprised, and very afraid, she thought, if it wasn't for the dirty water in the river, maybe she really lost this opportunity forever! In this way, she successfully entered the drama school.
After Bergman became a star, he was described as "a brilliant gift from Sweden to Hollywood".
What sets her apart from other Hollywood actresses during this period is that she hasn't changed her name, she performs completely natural, without any makeup, and Bergman is one of the tallest actresses.
When she plays opposite Pike, she doesn't fall behind at all. Her every move reflects the demeanor of a baroness. Driven by her, Parker's performance also played at a super level. Hepburn, driven by Parker, has also matured rapidly and has improved very much.
Hepburn's relationship with Bergman is a bit strange, both are unusually beautiful women. When they weren't filming, they seemed to have a good relationship and talked about everything. But when it comes to their own performances, they will work hard and compete with each other to see who performs better.
Seeing the three people in this state, Alex would be glad to laugh in his dreams, but fortunately he found them all, otherwise without one, he would be much inferior to this movie.
As for others, they found it a pleasure to film with people like Hepburn, Bergman and Pike. Driven by the three actors, all the people who appeared in the performance had a very good performance, and their respective performance levels were also improved.
Whenever he sees the Baroness played by Bergman, Alex remembers the resentment of later generations that the character was abandoned by the Colonel. He felt as if he could use it to give him a free hand. After all, with the Bergman at the level of the actress, he is not afraid of messing up.
"Miss Bergman, Mr. Pike, please come over for a moment!" Alex did whatever he wanted, so he immediately called the two men over.
Morris and the others looked at Alex in confusion, thinking that this little director had some whims.
After Alex waited for the two of them to get closer, he picked up a piece of paper and quickly wrote some lines on it. He wrote and said, "Wait a minute, you guys will make up this scene, and this scene, and this scene." ”
When Pike and Bergman picked it up, they both had few lines, but they asked for intimacy. They couldn't figure it out, wasn't the heroine of this play Hepburn, why did she suddenly add these scenes to the baroness?
"Director, can you explain it to us?" Pike was the first to attack, and he asked the same question Bergman wanted to ask.
Alex shrugged his shoulders and said, "This is the scene when the Colonel and the Baroness used to be together, and I need to use it in the film." ”
Pike and Bergman understood, but in this way, they couldn't understand that the original script was so good that it needed to be revised. However, there is no need for the director to explain these things to them in such detail.
Both of them are veteran actors, and they got the simple script written by Alex temporarily, and quickly finished filming the scene clips above.
It's just that these temporary clips made Hepburn feel a little strange when he watched it, as if something beloved had been taken away.
Alex wants to add these for a purpose, he wants to make an MTV-style easter egg similar to "Little Fugitives" at the end of the film. It can also be said that he is an interpretation of the past of the Baroness and the Colonel. As for why he did this, it was because he saw Bergman and thought of it temporarily.
In the 1942 filming of "Casablanca", Bergman played Ilsa, who was so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, faced with the man he loved deeply, had to turn away when he was within reach. In that film, Bergman sits at the piano and mutters, "Sam, please play 'Time Goes By' again for the sake of old friends," smiling as Humphrey Bogart raises his glass and bids farewell on the misty airport......
Similarly, in the 1943 film "For Whom the Bell Tolls", she played Maria, who also lost her lover, and they were encircled during their retreat. In order to cover the breakthrough of his comrades, and to protect the little life in Maria's womb, Robert resolutely pushed her away and kept the last choice to himself......
In both films, Bergman plays the role of a lost lover. Now Alex wants to add a third part, that is, to make the Baroness love the colonel deeply, but she was snatched away by someone, and finally left in disgrace.
Alex believes that an actor like Bergman plays a character so perfect and holy that the audience will feel the slightest hurt when she is hurt by a star. They will rejoice, grieve, and be ashamed of what happened to Bergman.......
That's why people are so angry when Bergman does something immoral.
In Bergman's glory days, she led a generation of coquettishness.
She cut her hair short, which would make short hairstyles a popular hairstyle of the year. When she appears on the screen without makeup, the sales of cosmetics decrease; She played the role of a nun, and the number of people studying in women's constituencies increased.
Hollywood businessman Howard Hughes once bought all the tickets from New York to Los Angeles, so she had to accept the invitation to fly on his private jet. A fan personally drove a sheep from Sweden to Rome to give it to her. There were also letters addressed only in London, and Ingrid Bergman could receive them and deliver them to her.
With Bergman in hand, what else would he not dare to do? He dares to do anything! He was convinced that Bergman's acting skills would move those people to tears.