[US Entertainment] Hollywood reverses life

The shooting of "Juno" has come to an end after about half a month.

The reason is that the guarantor of the guaranty company is so dedicated, he follows Joey every day and urges him, it seems that he can get an extra bonus if he can finish it one day earlier.

Joey couldn't bear the urging, so he tried his best to complete the progress every day.

At this time, a group of crew members are shooting a certain scene in the studio.

In order to prepare the white ribbon for her funeral, Juno's grandmother insisted on going to the grocery store to buy it the day before Christmas Eve, but she got lost in the snowy night and was finally found by the police.

Juno and her mother rushed to pick her up.

The policeman took a recording pen and looked at the two people who looked nothing like mother and daughter, "What is your relationship with that old lady?"

Juno habitually said: "She..." She used to introduce herself and her mother separately, and never stated that she and her daughter were mother and daughter, and let others understand for themselves.

But just for a moment, she suddenly stopped talking. After experiencing a series of things, she seemed to suddenly understand the meaning of family affection. She moved the corners of her mouth a few times and stopped there.

Joyce looked at her daughter in surprise. The mother and daughter seemed to know what would happen in the next moment. Joyce looked at Juno expectantly.

Then, Juno said bluntly and handsomely: "We are the family of that old lady."

This seems to be a signal that the mother and daughter have settled down.

Every staff member present seemed to be moved and taken in by the acting skills of the two, and their faces showed a gasp of joy.

Joey is naturally also very satisfied with the performance of the two. From the expressions of the on-site staff, it can be seen that she did not find the wrong actor.

Whether it's "Little Miss Sunshine", "The Savages" or "Sideways", in addition to showing the style of "loser-style comedy of losers" very uniquely, there is also a superb relationship with the protagonist. Acting is inseparable.

She believes that her "Juno" will also shine in many small-budget independent films, and even has the power not to lose to commercial films.

After shooting at this point, it is time to go to the next point, and after the next point is shot, the entire shooting task is completed.

And now Joey started to have another headache, which was the post-editing.

The former editor of "Harvard Life" now seems to Joy to be a terrible thing.

In the Hollywood film system, the editor and the director are equally important. When shooting, it depends on the director's skill, and in the later stage, it depends on the editor's skill.

When shooting, everyone can follow the director’s storyboards to try their best to shoot according to the director’s mind, and the editor does not participate in the shooting. The editors who get the material later rarely refer to the director’s storyboards. Basically, according to the editor's own understanding, he edits it into what he thinks is "the order of the story that the audience will understand".

This is because the material shot by the director is piece by piece and not coherent, so the editor can edit the story in the order of his own understanding instead of the order of the script.

Especially today, when film films have been abandoned, digital shooting technology makes material shooting more convenient. In the film film era, editors basically follow the order of script materials to cut them neatly with scissors. The upside-down nature of digital shooting This allows editors to have more room to play. They can edit movies not according to linear editing but non-linear editing, that is, they can cut the story backwards, along the lines, and interspersed with each other.

Therefore, many Hollywood movies have two versions, one is the editor's final version, and the other is the director's cut version. These two versions are sometimes two completely different movies.

The most famous one is "Kingdom of Heaven" filmed by the great director Ridley Scott. As soon as the film was released, the word-of-mouth of this heavily invested film was rotten, but when people watched the director's cut version that flowed out afterwards, Found this movie to be actually pretty good.

This is because in Hollywood, even a big director like Ridley Scott does not have the right to edit.Editing rights are something that every Hollywood director is fighting for, but except for super directors like James Cameron and Steven Spielberg, other directors are not eligible for editing.

Or you have a personality like another great director, Quentin Tarantino, who directly threatens Warner that if he dares to make any cuts in his movies, he would rather not release "Reservoir Dogs"!

However, for an independent film like Joy, there is basically no need to worry about being forced by the film company to drag the film to edit without letting her intervene.

But she still wants to find an editor who "harmony" with her.

The so-called "harmony and harmony", Joey's understanding is that the director and the editor have a good understanding, fully aware of what is thinking in the other's head, and can complement each other harmoniously and play a role in each other.

If you even forgot to judge a movie when you watched it, and were just attracted by the story, then you should have encountered the combination of Qin Se and Ming.

If you can't meet "Qin Se He Ming", you can find someone who "husband sings and women follow".

This category is that the editor's skills are very hard, and the director's skills are also very hard, and even if the editor's ideas are not exactly the same as the director's, they can still complete the director's ideas to a high degree.We can see a very strong director from the screen - traces of previous design can be seen in most scenes and plots, and the editing restores his intention very well.

You will also be very excited to watch this kind of movie in the cinema, but there is a little less sense of substitution. This is because although the director and editor have piled up the completion of the movie, they lack a little soul collision.But also very good.

What Joey is most afraid of is the third type of "halfway couple", that is, the editor is very strong and edits regardless of the director's ideas.If you meet another director who is not strong, accepts the editor’s suggestion, checks for mistakes and omissions in the early stage, and even re-arranges the story in a large structure, then basically the edited story will be another story.

You might see a movie that's done well, but you can't praise the movie.I always feel like something is missing. "Why didn't the director make this scene a little deeper?" "If the back of the woman walking away is longer, the emotion will be fuller." "When he said this line, it was very touching, but why did the scene cut to someone else's face?" ".If so, you just came across such a film.Because many parts of the whole movie are no longer the director's original idea, but the editor's idea added later, so we always feel that something is missing.

The above are the three types of getting along with editors for directors who have aspirations. If it is a director with no aspirations and an editor with no aspirations, then the final movie is likely to be the last type, "whitewashing the peace".

Even most mediocre commercial films in Hollywood are of this last type.It also has a more appropriate title, called "bureau".It's just one game.

Bureau means that the way this movie appears is a "game" cobbled together by all parties.Some people want to make money, some people want to be famous, and some people want to play with culture.Those who want to play with culture are rich, those who want to make money are famous, and those who want to be famous are considered educated, and such a game is completed.There is no awe and obsession with the movie in it, even if the participants are all well-known in the industry, they cannot change the inherent flaw of this project-that is, no one really loves it, everyone just loves what it may bring thing.

Since it is an episode, the director and editor are all here to work, so there are no ideals, pursuits, or sincerity.For example, in a movie by a certain master, many people are surprised why the dignified director uses so many post-90s young meat?Why is the heroine a certain famous canary with little popularity in acting?This completely inconsistent with the master's usual style, we can call it a "game".

Joy's "Juno" is not a game, but she doesn't want "halfway couples" or "husband singing and wife following". She wants "Qin Se He Ming", but when she can't find "Qin Se He Ming", she decides to Do the editing yourself, and then ask an editor to advise her.

Anyway, "Juno" is just a pure drama, and it doesn't play any high-tech plot reversal. Basically, the plot is edited linearly, so the editing is not difficult technically, and it is digitally shot. All you need is a computer and software.

Thinking about it this way, Joy immediately decided that she would cut it herself this time!