Birth of an actor

It is not easy for Vincent, who has inferior genes, to wander outside. "Flawed people" are a discriminated group no matter where they are. Better companies will not hire them. "Normal people" look at them strangely, as if they With germs and criminal cells.

After cleaning almost half of the toilets in the state, Vincent settled down in Gedejia Company. This is the place where he dreamed of working——Gedejia has gathered genetic elites from almost the entire planet, and excellent employees want to fly to A spaceship is easy - but innate genes determine that if Vincent wants to stay in Gedejia, he can only work as a cleaner.

Although Vincent and the space center are close at hand, his dreams are far away.

Of course Vincent was not reconciled.

He also tried to sneak into the company by himself, but it didn’t work. Gedejia Company has strict security measures. Employees go to work every day. (or lack of good genes), it is impossible to pass the initial test.

When Vincent's own blood came into contact with the testing equipment, the company's siren beeped.

A little discouraged, but Vincent did not despair.

He works out after work, hanging upside down on the door to do sit-ups, ten, twenty, fifty, one hundred, two hundred... The amount of exercise is far beyond what he can bear, but before exhaustion he never stop.

Vincent challenged his tolerance time and time again—in order to live past the age of 30.

Genetic testing at birth determined he would not live past the age of 30, and Vincent rebelled against the genetics' conclusions about his fate.

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In a shabby room, dim light, and cramped space, William was hanging upside down on the door doing sit-ups, his entire naked upper body glowing pink.

"180, 180 one, 180 two..." William silently counted the numbers in his heart. This is the total number of supine times he has done since filming this scene.

Different from the pink on the upper body, William's head and neck are almost flushed due to movement and hanging upside down - especially under the red light deliberately enhanced by the lighting engineer.

"... 180 nine, 190."

When William felt another drop of sweat drip from his eyelid into his eye socket, director Andrew Nicol was finally satisfied, and he gestured to the cameraman to cut shots.

William jumped down from the door cautiously, did not have time to rest for a while, and waited for the signal from Andrew Nicole to start filming again,

"Boom!" With a loud noise, William fell to the ground while supporting the wall. His mouth opened wide and his chest heaved violently, grabbing oxygen from the air like a fish that has been out of the water for a long time.

Andrew Niccol wanted to capture Vincent exercising and exhausting himself, and William actually exhausted himself in order to show Vincent's emotions as realistically as possible.

William struggled on the floor for 2 minutes and Andrew Nicol called "CUT".

Danny Bourne immediately rushed forward with a towel, and William took it to wipe off his sweat and stood up. He originally wanted to go back to the actor's bus to rest, but after thinking about it, he still walked over to the director Andrew Nicole. Beside him, he asked, "Can I have a look at those shots just now, Andrew?"

"Of course it's okay, Will, come and take a look." Andrew Nicole bowed to the side, leaving a place for William in front of the camera, and then played back the filmed images, pointing at the results just now, He said to William: "Look, the facial expressions you added to Vincent, who kept swallowing saliva and almost rolled his eyes after he was exhausted, are so realistic. The reckless character of the target expressed itself."

"Oh, thank you." William was a little absent-minded about Andrew Nicole's words. He stared at the camera screen, thinking rapidly in his brain-he always felt that there was something missing in this picture, what is it?

William thought of a rivalry scene with Jude Law a week ago. According to the story, that scene developed after today’s scene, but filming never followed the order of the script—unlike the finished film, during filming , except that the script will give the outline of the story, the filming of all scenes is arranged according to convenience rather than continuity. For example, if a church scene appears at the beginning and end of a story, then these two scenes will be arranged in Shooting at one point in time, even though the scene is the same, the story and the emotions of the actors are opposite.

For example, when William was filming "Sense and Sensibility", because the original shooting location happened to be a country church, director Ang Lee immediately decided to shoot the finale of the film in the country church in advance.

There are even some directors who like to play tricks. They don’t even give the actors a complete script outline, but let the actors shoot messy and incoherent scenes according to their own requirements. The actors may not know what they are until after the movie is released. What kind of story was filmed.

So although there are many handsome men and women in Hollywood, there are not many beautiful and good actors. Now that Hollywood film production has been fully industrialized, it is impossible to expect to follow the script from the beginning to the end. At the beginning of filming, I have a deep understanding of the script and the characters themselves, and have at least two different performance levels, so that I can give corresponding performances according to the director's different shooting requirements.Those who spend the whole movie with one expression may be good stars, but they will never be good actors.

In William's view, Jude Law has a great possibility of becoming a good actor. The reason why he is not yet is because the West End of London and the Broadway drama stage in New York are still too heavy on the other party. Body movements are occasionally a bit exaggerated, especially on the big screen.But sometimes, this exaggeration can easily move people's hearts.

For example, in the scene a week ago, Vincent and Jerome initially reached a cooperation to buy a genetic identity. The black market dealer was measuring the difference between Vincent's appearance and Jerome's, and giving suggestions for grooming or plastic surgery. The scene was a rivalry between Vincent, played by William, and the black market dealer. Jerome, played by Jude Law, only played a background role in their conversation, and there were not many shots of him—— But when Jude Law played this "background role", he did not wait dryly at all, but pushed the wheelchair around for a while, lit a cigarette for himself and poured a glass of wine for a while, although it was only a few shots These actions of his were photographed, but they were very present.

If you switch to another leading actor, seeing the second actor always adding body movements to himself, you may feel that the other actor is stealing the show, but William doesn't feel this way at all. On the contrary, he also thinks Jude Law is very cute, those The exaggerated physical movements of smoking and drinking seem to make Jude Law himself and the character of Jerome gradually merge.

I have always felt that there is something wrong with this shot, is it also missing some small movements that can deepen Vincent's personality?

William thought of himself from Jude Law, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

Andrew Nicole warned again: "Today and tomorrow, you won't have any part in the show, Will, go back to the hotel and have a good night's rest. You can go to the city if you want to play, but remember to come back on time the day after tomorrow and do some body care by the way. , and then we’re going to start focusing on the cleansing scenes.”

In the world where genes determine everything set in "Gaitball", testing of human genes is ubiquitous, hair, dander, blood, urine, eyelashes...everything that the human body naturally sheds may become cultural heritage. The fatal evidence of Sente’s identity exposure, so Vincent, who has used Jerome’s genetic identity, must clean himself from start to finish every morning if he wants to avoid being discovered, and then put on the various medical examination data Jerome prepared for him. , completely become another person.

In the script, Andrew Nicholl designed several scenes where Vincent cleans himself, and these will be shot together.

"Andrew, I think the scene just now was not handled very well, can you do it again?" William, who came up with a good idea, said to the director.

Although Andrew Nicole was a little surprised, he still agreed: "No problem." Then he picked up the guide tube: "Everyone pay attention, the third scene of the 180th scene needs to be re-shot, and the photography, lighting and make-up must be prepared."

Since the start of the film, it was the first time that William proposed that he want to shoot more when the director himself was quite satisfied with the shooting. Andrew Nicole was very curious about what kind of performance the other party would bring, because according to his observation, William Bran Deli is by no means the kind of aimless actor.

Rejecting the makeup artist's idea of ​​spraying water on himself again, William drank half a bottle of sports drink to replenish water and sugar, then approached the bookshelf specially arranged for Vincent by the prop artist, and picked a book from it The ten-centimeter-thick "Astronomy and Aeronautics"-props book, of course-turned out that the book weighed more than he imagined!Almost ten pounds!

The prop master didn't cut corners and pretend to be a future book with a piece of plastic foam, but really found such a thick book and made an exquisite book cover?William couldn't help but open the cover, and the content inside turned out to be "Encyclopedia Britannica"...

Although the book weighed more than William expected, he still held the book and went to explain his intentions to the director Andrew Nicholl. After warming up, he repeated the shooting of the previous sports scene.

Compared with the previous shooting, this time William really used all the strength of his whole body, without using a little light, his head, neck and even the upper half of his chest were hot pink, his breathing was rapid and his heartbeat was pounding. Not even a little moisture.

And the expression of the director Andrew Nicol, with the continuous movement of the camera, is gradually changing.

Doubt, surprise, surprise, excitement.

"If it is said that Vincent, regardless of his poor physique, has been challenging the difficult amount of exercise that he could not conquer, which is to express Vincent's resistance to this gene-oriented society, then he is holding astronomy books while exercising. , but also showed his unremitting pursuit of his dream!"

"Great! This scene is handled so well! This book is literally Mona Lisa's smile. Without it, the picture is perfect but slightly boring. With it, the whole world is lit up!" Andrew Nicole was so excited that he couldn't sit still. He stood up, walked back and forth in front of the camera, and couldn't help but say to the photographer who was taking the shot: "Has the title of the book been photographed? And Will's sweat The traces of water dripping on it, the way he looked at the book when he fell down! Finally, a close-up of that book! Definitely a close-up of the spine!"

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"You are amazing, Will!" Danny Bourne was like a messenger, faithfully conveying everything he had heard and seen to William: "Your inspiration has been praised by director Andrew Nicole. On the one hand, I praised you firmly for 10 minutes!"

In fact, it doesn't need to be said by Danny, William also felt it. When the shot was finished just now, the smile on Andrew Nicole's face was so bright that it could even light up the studio.

William was exhausted from today's filming. He got into the nanny car and asked Danny to drive back to the hotel, "Did Amon call?"

"Romeo and Juliet Modern Edition" premiered in Los Angeles today. William couldn't be there, so he asked Armon Goffman to help him order a flower basket to send there.

"Yes, he said the flower basket has been delivered." Danny replied.

William still didn't buy a mobile phone. No matter how advanced the communication technology is these days, the mobile phone produced still looks like a brick. He really has no interest in carrying it with him... So after hiring Danny as his assistant, William gave it to him. Danny bought one, mainly because he didn’t have a phone booth around him when he was shooting outside. It would be easier for Amon, Madeleine and others to find him. If there is anything wrong, they can contact Danny in time, and then let Danny notify him.

"Did Amon say anything else?"

"It's nothing important. I just said that after the full release of "Romeo and Juliet Modern Edition", he will pay attention to the box office data and film critics' articles. If there is any situation, he will contact him, and then let you feel at ease when filming."

William nodded and began to rest with his eyes closed.

Back to the hotel, after washing up, read the script and elective textbooks for a while, William went to bed, got up at 05:30 the next morning for a morning run, and when he returned to the hotel room at almost [-] o’clock, he lived in another bedroom in the suite Danny wasn't there either, probably out for breakfast or to buy a newspaper.Unlike William, Danny Byrne is the kind of person who will die when he exercises, but fortunately, Danny is born with a relatively high metabolism, and he doesn't exercise or get fat, but the flesh on his arms and stomach is soft. The face looks a little baby fat.

Called for breakfast. After taking a shower, William changed into comfortable clothes. After waiting for a while and seeing that Danny hadn't come back, he turned on the desktop computer equipped in the suite, and prepared to go to the IMDB website to see if there was any "Romeo" The latest information on The Modern Edition with Juliet.

IMDB, the full name of which is Internet Movie Database, was founded in 1990. At the beginning, it only served people in the industry and charged a fee. After the server was updated in 1993, it was opened to the public. Information on almost all movies in the history of movies can be found on IMDB. Including directors, actors, plots and deeper content, the TV section has also been updated recently, and you can find a lot of TV series information since 1982. Because of the complete information, fans can find almost all the information they want. Every registration Users can also rate and comment on any movie according to their own ideas, so it is very popular among movie lovers, especially among young people.

Moreover, IMDB ratings are getting more and more attention from print media, probably because many of the users of this website are media reporters, film critics or Hollywood industry insiders. The paid version of IMDB is different from the public version in that , there are a lot of specific personal information and work contact information of directors, actors, screenwriters or other professionals in the Hollywood industry, as well as information that major film companies are willing to disclose to the industry. Those who are interested in cooperation can completely bypass the Screen Actors Guild of America , get in touch via the contact details provided on the website.

As far as William knows, Amon Goffman has his own account on IMDB, and has also registered accounts for him and other customers.

However, even though he knew the account password, William himself seldom updated his information on IMDB, and Amon was responsible for those.

Open the IMDB homepage and search for "Romeo and Juliet Modern Edition", and a page pops up as expected - 31 short reviews, 110 people rated, and the movie's rating is 8.3.

Given that the movie was only released in the United States yesterday, and it is the mid-90s, not many people have the habit of browsing movie websites online (most of them should be college students), and there are this number of comments and person-times in less than 24 hours , the data is already good.

But when he saw the top short comment, William almost didn't spit out the coffee in his mouth:

"Who chose the actor for Juliet? Kissing with Romeo is not as beautiful as Romeo, dancing with Paris is not as noble as Paris. Is this really the Juliet of the Capulets?" - account "Lucky" commented.