Birth of an actor

Under the gaze of more than two hundred pairs of eyes, William stiffly ushered in the first NG of the day.

"Why are there so many people on the shooting scene?" Sitting in the nanny's car, William asked very puzzled: "Didn't the first two cleaning scenes be very quiet?"

The first two cleaning scenes were all indoors, and there was no room for several cameras in the small bathroom, so many shots were shot through the glass door, and once the door is closed, even a transparent glass blocking the shot will give people a sense of loss. A great sense of security, so William quickly entered the state.The third scene was different in that it was at the seaside in the open air, and there was also a shot of nudity on the side and back—the naked buttocks can be seen clearly, not the kind that is faked through camera switching and cutting.

——In the NG scene just now, during filming, William felt like he was being treated as a woman, really.

"Uh, yes, that's how it is." The director's assistant who was forcibly pulled over by Danny Bourne stammered and explained: "Actually, I've rushed twice today, but people get together again and again, Director Andrew I had no choice but to let them go, as long as they didn’t block the lights and cameras. Look, they weren’t standing very close, they were 30 meters away from the beach, so they couldn’t see carefully, could they?”

William tilted his head in the distance: "Then what is that guy in the blue shirt in the crowd holding in his hand? Are you going to tell me that isn't a telescope?"

"...I'll go and confiscate it immediately." The director's assistant wiped his sweat.

"I'll look for the status again. If it really doesn't work, I still have to trouble you to clean up the game." William rubbed his brows and said.

"understand."

After the assistant director left, William leaned back on the sofa, took a deep breath, and let it out, while clearing his mind so that he could quickly enter the role.

"Why don't you just ask the director to clear the scene?" Danny Byrne waited for William to rest, and then asked strangely: "Those people who stick around you like slugs are too annoying, aren't they? The look makes me uncomfortable, like you're a very hot Victoria's Secret Angel, and I bet it's not just watching the shoot or enjoying the acting."

"I thought about doing it, but it was too much of a big game, after all, when I had a sex scene with Uma Thurman a week ago, she didn't ask to clear the scene."

Danny Bourne rolled his eyes: "That's because Uma Thurman was wearing a sundress even in the bed scene, and there was no risk of it being exposed at all! She is different from you, Will, you were almost caught Hundreds of people watched it all together!"

"Give it another go, Danny, I know you think about me, but come to think of it, I've been through bigger battles—during the filming of Titanic, the most people on the crew at the same time Thousands of people are working." William stood up from the sofa, and while arranging his bathrobe, he joked to Danny: "It's not good to make a movie if I keep thinking about being naked, or change my mind and dedicate myself to art?"

"Whatever you want," Danny Byrne muttered, his voice low enough that only he could hear, "I can't tell you what these guys are saying about you in the group gym anyway, and I can't tell you What have they been doing with your picture in the middle of the night, or you'd be dying. Poor Will."

……

The blue waves beat against the beach. William stepped barefoot on the fine white sand, bent down, and carefully picked and picked among the sand and stones. Finally, he chose a rough stone of suitable size and held it in his hand. , rub the thighs and arms carefully with the rough surface of the stone.

The cold air eroded the skin on his body. William resisted the urge to curl up to keep warm. He rubbed his body with stones and washed his body with sea water quickly and violently. He looked up into the distance with a forbearing and restrained expression.

"CUT!" shouted director Andrew Nicol.

Photography, lighting, and recording all stopped, waiting for the director to give orders again.

Danny Bourne hurriedly delivered the bathrobe, and after William put it on, he turned and faced the director who had already walked over: "Is there something wrong, Andrew?"

"I think you can let your emotions out a little more, don't be so restrained and restrained, after all, our scene is special than the previous two." Andrew Nicole said: "You are right about your emotions, as long as your body and The facial expressions could be a little more contagious."

The three cleaning scenes in Gattaca, one happened on the first day of work after Vincent interviewed Gedga Company with Jerome's genetic identity, was passionate and impulsive, and one happened in Vincent After working in Gedejia for a long time, it is mechanical and meticulous. After Vincent’s identity was suspected, he was chased by the police, and he ran away with the heroine Irene who was in an ambiguous relationship. I opened my eyes on the bed and found that a hair of my own had fallen on the pillow, so I immediately left the room and went to the beach to wash myself carefully.

Obviously the night before, Irene had vaguely guessed that Vincent might be a "flawed person", and Vincent also saw this, but neither of them exposed each other. However, Vincent still chose not to confess, but continued to pretend to be himself. What is his mood at this moment... William guessed that he was so rational that he was almost cold, tenacious, and reckless to the point of madness for the ultimate goal.

After all, Vincent has a line that is "I never left myself a way out".

This interpretation of William has also been approved by director Andrew Nicole, so he has always interpreted it this way.

Now the director asks for more emotions to be released. William replays his performance just now in his mind, dismantling and reassembling each action, but after a few seconds, he has an idea. He nodded to the director and began to untie the bathrobe tape.

Seeing that William was so cooperative, he accepted NG without any doubts or dissatisfaction, and was ready to start shooting immediately without taking a break. Andrew Nicole was satisfied but also a little embarrassed—after all, the outdoor temperature was only a dozen degrees at the moment. Left and right, it takes more than two hours to shoot naked at the beach, and keep soaking the body in the cold sea water. It's not like making a movie but like deliberately torturing and training actors, and today is also Andrew Nicole’s own helplessness towards those onlookers made William NG several times despite the embarrassment of being surrounded by onlookers. After filming for a long time, he didn’t find the state until just now... Thinking about it this way, Andrew Ni Cole felt guilty in his heart.

"Will, do you want to take a break before continuing?" Andrew Nicole's voice was a little comforting and apologetic: "It's so cold, why don't you take a break and have a cup of hot coffee."

"No need." William shook his head and said, "I feel just right now. If I rest, it will be bad if the inspiration runs away."

Then without saying a word, he threw the bathrobe he took off to Danny, then turned and walked back to the beach.

Andrew Nicole knew that William had entered the state again, and couldn't stand any interruptions at this time, so he immediately walked back to the director's seat and ordered the cameramen to follow up immediately. One of the three cameras shot William's back, one side, and one front.

Walking on the beach, picking stones, cleaning the body... The first half of William's performance seemed to be the same as before, but Andrew Nicol still used his keen observation to capture two differences: the first, the previous In the first shot, most of William's body was facing the camera. This time, his entire body was facing the sea. In the second shot, William had been wiping his body quickly in the previous shot. Faster rhythm.

Surprise flashed in Andrew Nicole's eyes, and a smile couldn't help but appear on the corner of his mouth—William captured what he wanted, rhythm!And Andrew didn't even have time to mention this request to the other party!

What is contagion?Is it a passionate movement or a loud cry?

No, the most important point of appeal is actually the rhythm.

Rhythmic bursts make people feel hearty, while non-rhythmic bursts will be very abrupt, making the whole scene look weird and uncoordinated.

Just like in many police chase movies, if the police shot the suspect to death, or caught the other party, it would be too boring. Flashing, running, running, accompanied by some thrilling car jumps and gun battles, running faster and closer, the distance is getting closer and closer, so close that you can grab it with your hand-if the soundtrack is that kind of drumbeat The sound, tension and tension come out immediately, and the audience will follow their hearts beating!

This rhythmic appeal is what Andrew Nicol wanted!

But what he didn't expect was that William Bradley could express it with a tacit understanding!

On the beach, William wiped his body faster and faster. He threw the sea water on his chest violently, and rubbed his hands vigorously until his skin turned red and his whole body became hot!

His eyes trembled, his lips trembled, his shoulders trembled, his movements were full of extreme compulsion, extreme madness... and extreme loneliness!

Lonely?

Yes.

He suddenly felt a little lonely—although he never regretted giving up everything and being desperate for the dream of going to space, but in order to achieve his goal, he ran away from home, erased his past and became another person, and he had to be cautious every day Pretending to be himself, hiding the world, deceiving the world, even the lover who is in love can't tell, because once he tells, the truth will be exposed, he can't bear the result, so he can only continue to deceive her with lies, so Isn't life lonely?

So, who is this person who feels lonely right now?

William Bradley?

No, this is Vincent!

"Flawed Man" Vincent!

Before wiping the bloodstains off his body, he stopped cleaning—even when human emotions are full of brains and extreme sensibility, he still knows how to clean, that is, he cannot wipe the bloodstains, because wiping the bloodstains If it is, it means that the gene may be exposed, and the cleaning work will be in vain.

Throwing away the stones, he landed on his knees, facing the sea, looking up at the blue, and opened his arms.

His eyes were dark and unspeakable.

There is persistence, cruelty, madness, loneliness... There is also pain and hope.

He is lonely because of chasing ideals, suffering because of loneliness, and looking for hope to the sea because of the pain, because the sea is the starting point of his self-path.

If he hadn't been swimming in the ocean with his younger brother Anton when he was young, he wouldn't have known that he was a "flawed person" with inferior genes, and he could defeat a "normal person" with superior genes, and he wouldn't have opened his eyes to the rules of the whole society. resistance and challenge.

It was the sea, which told Vincent: the human spirit has no genes.

Then, relying on his strong spirit, Vincent came to the present step by step, and accomplished an achievement that is unimaginable even in the eyes of "normal people".

His eyes returned to calm after the turmoil.

Like the ocean in front of me.

……

"Perfect! Incredible! Unbelievable!"

Andrew Nicole was so excited that he could only speak one word at a time: "Treasure! It's an inexhaustible treasure!"

In fact, as early as when William's eyes showed the emotion of "lonely", Andrew Nicole already wanted to shout "Great, that's the effect I want!" to indicate that the shooting was over, but the photographer followed the instructions A big close-up at the end of the shooting, but Andrew Nicole changed his mind——

That face, the expression is so complicated!

Those eyes were filled with so many human emotions!

This is not the performance at the end of the filming at all, but it seems to be an extension?

When those inorganic emerald eyes were suddenly filled with so many emotions and became extraordinarily rippling, Andrew Nicole was so shocked that he couldn't speak.

Is that pain?

Is that layer of transparent water light tears?

Is the man in the camera William Bradley?

No, William Bradley looked more like a shell at this moment, and the soul inside was Vincent!

While the heart was surging, Andrew Nicole did not forget to take pictures - he even performed the operation himself, directed the camera, and pulled the lens close to the man's eyes.

It was a long, almost frozen close-up of those eyes.

I don't want to miss a second, because this wave in the window of the soul is definitely a scene that hits the soul directly.

I don't want to move a centimeter away, because only a still lens can perfectly show the vitality in those eyes.

Andrew Nicol did not expect to meet such an actor when he directed a movie for the first time.

The eye scenes are full of tension and infection.

The ability to convey a thousand words without saying a word, just relying on eyes, is actually rare in Hollywood.

— not to mention the fact that the performers are so young!

Absolutely has the potential of an actor!

Unprecedented, Andrew Nicholl is glad that he (or Columbia) chose the right actor. Can "Gait Shot" become William Bradley?Andrew Nicol didn't know, but he knew that William Bradley would definitely be able to make the movie "Gait Shot" and the role of Vincent!

……

After reciting the lines of the script for two hours in a row, the high-intensity use of brainpower, and the lack of air circulation in the nanny's car, Jude Law felt a little dizzy, so he put the script aside, opened the car door and walked out. Get ready for a walk and get some air.

After walking along the coastline for about 5 minutes, Jude Law suddenly heard a loud sigh coming from not far away, like dozens or hundreds of people uttered together, the sound was so loud that it almost overwhelmed the waves hitting the beach sound up.

"What are you doing?!"

"Almost saw it!"

"Pity!"

Listening to these sounds, it seems to be coming from the seaside where you are filming?According to the schedule, today's shooting doesn't seem to be an action scene. Why is the beach so lively?

While Jude Law was thinking this way, he involuntarily followed the guidance of the voice and walked towards the seaside.

Without actually approaching the beach, Jude Law stood at a slightly higher place, and had a clear view of the scene not far away: the vast blue sea, the empty beach, the man rubbing his skin with sand and stones on the beach, sporadic The three cameras dotted, the director's position, and the densely packed human heads...