Angela turned her head sharply and looked at Kate blankly. The other party was standing there calmly, but his head was slightly tilted, his eyes and face were lowered and he couldn't see the expression clearly, which made the girl feel at a loss for no reason.
"Well... OK... OK, no problem." The battered director Ike stuttered almost subconsciously, but fortunately he recovered quickly, waved his hand and led the others out of the room.
The surroundings suddenly fell silent, and the two women stood there for a while without moving, let alone talking. After a long time, Kate sighed softly: "It's just a passion scene."
"No! I will never accept it!" Angela blurted out, the determination in her tone was unusually obvious.
"Why?" Kate's voice was suddenly filled with anger, "I made such a change!"
"Do you think it's fun to make out with you in front of the camera?" Angela turned her head sharply, clenched her teeth and looked at Kate, her chest constantly heaving, "Do you think people are watching us take off our clothes and make out with the camera? Is it fun to film it and show it to people all over the United States and the world?!"
Her fists were clenched tightly, and her whole body was trembling slightly with excitement: "I can take off my clothes in front of you... I can... But in front of the camera in front of others... never... never!"
"Never in front of others? I should be happy, shouldn't I?" Kate said sarcastically.
Angela's face suddenly became pale, and her body swayed and took a few steps back to lean against the wall. Kate didn't speak, but turned around and covered her forehead with her hand. After a long while, a jerky voice came out of the girl's mouth: "I see."
"No..." Kate turned around abruptly, an eager look flashed in her eyes, but she turned her head away after waving her hand.
"There are some bottom lines that I won't give in." Angela lowered her head and moved towards the door, her voice still jerky.
A storm seems to have passed like this, but the scene was dragged to a few days to shoot, and the content has been revised. Although the details of the kissing scene and the bed scene are preserved, the clothes will definitely not be taken off, so we need to work hard on the montage technique. Even so, the shooting didn't go well.
"Cut!" Ike shouted loudly, frowning deeply and thinking for a few minutes before walking to Kate: "Kate, you feel a little too much. At this time, Irene is indeed very excited and enthusiastic, but you There was more than passion just now, there was an indescribable kind of... possessiveness? Hey! It feels good, but it's better to be more restrained."
The director who discovered the new idea clapped his hands with joy, but turned his eyes to Angela: "It's much better than before, Angela, but still a little nervous and stiff... Maybe take a few minutes of rest to adjust your mood?"
Although he was severely hit by Angela before, as a personality director with a good reputation in the independent film circle, Ike has not become shy because of this - as long as he can't touch Angela's bottom line.
"It's alright, let's come again." Angela, who was sitting beside the bed in a loose baggy T-shirt, shook her head. Now she just wants to finish this group of shots as soon as possible. Whenever Kate hugs her and kisses her in front of the camera, she always has a feeling of resistance and sadness in her heart. She doesn't want this feeling.
"Okay, then let's continue." After realizing that Angela was not joking, Ike nodded and returned to the back of the camera, then waved to the recorder to signal to start.
Think of yourself as Sybil, and Kate as Irene. Although Angela raised her head and looked at Kate in front of her. But obsession has blinded her eyes, and she can't see anything else.
"Act 133, 74 scenes, get ready."
"Cut!"
"Act 133, 74 scenes, get ready."
"Cut!"
"Act 133, 74 scenes, get ready."
"Cut!"
After repeated repetitions, the shot finally passed, and Ike was satisfied with the effect. However, Angela, who wanted to pursue the victory and sat silently by the bed after seeing the completion of the shot, and Kate, who came back after a long while on the excuse of going to the bathroom, made a wise choice to end today's shooting.
After that, the progress was very smooth, except that the shooting was temporarily interrupted several times due to sudden heavy rain, the actual progress was half a gear faster than the plan. Both Kate and Angela are in great shape, especially the kiss scene in the alley behind the bar was over once, which made Ike surprised and puzzled at the same time.
As a director, keen observation is essential, so Ike also noticed that Kate hadn't talked to her much from Angela to the crew, and there seemed to be a very delicate relationship between the two. But Ike didn't think about it elsewhere. Everyone knew that the two of them were sisters, so he thought Angela and Kate were just quarreling.
He had asked a few questions about this, but both of them kept silent. This kind of thing is not something he can intervene as a director, and because it didn't affect the shooting, he didn't pay attention to it in the end.
By the first ten days of June, Angela's scenes were basically finished. According to the schedule, she would leave the crew and go to Montana to prepare for the start of "Brokeback Mountain". But before that, there was a small storm - although Ike put all the public scenes in the last shot, and when shooting in cafes, restaurants and amusement parks, Angela was not taken because of her mediocre makeup. recognize. But she is not as ugly as Kate after all, so she was finally discovered by sharp-eyed people when shooting the last scene at the ice rink, and then surrounded by three layers.
To put it more exaggeratedly, it's as if half the town's people came to the ice rink. If it weren't for the fact that it's June now, and the news of the shootout between Angela and the gangsters has almost died down, the scene might have been even more spectacular.
As a result, the impact on the shooting can be imagined. Fortunately, the actual progress exceeded the plan in the previous shooting, so it is acceptable to drag on for a day or two. Of course, Angela had to make some sacrifices.
"Fortunately, the director's arrangement is correct, otherwise you will not know how many times you will be harassed in the past half month." Mavis, who was sitting next to Angela, said so when he drove away from the crew.
"This won't happen in Montana, I'm just a director, and I don't need to be too public." Angela, who looked tired and leaned back on the seat, said, "Frankly, I think the gangster who wants the ransom wants to There is a higher chance of kidnapping me than terrorists kidnapping me."
"Unfortunately, you have to tell my boss about this, it's useless to tell me." Mavis shrugged, glanced at the bodyguard in front of her eyes, and asked in a tone that only the two of them could perceive: "To be honest, Angie , your relationship with Kate…”
"I don't know when the FBI agents became so gossipy?" Angela stopped her before she finished speaking, and then she turned her body sideways: "Sorry, please let me take a break."
"It's here again." Meiweisi frowned slightly, showing a relieved look after taking it. Both of them are the kind of people who are very egoistic. If it wasn't for that street shootout, God knows what the current conflict would have reached. But fate is also very interesting, at least she never thought that she would become friends with Angela when she received the task.
Wouldn't she really be a couple with that Miss Kate Beckinsale? Although she was robbed by Angela, Mavis still thought so in her heart. Once she became friends, the things that were overlooked because of her work naturally fell into her eyes, and her insight was much higher than ordinary people, but her curiosity was sometimes a good thing and sometimes a bad thing...
After resting for two days in Helena, the capital of Montana, Angela and her party came to the selected filming location, a small town called Courtley in the northern part of Montana, near Alberta, Canada. While Ms. Prue lives in Wyoming, the model for the mountain is in Montana. And to the north of Montana is Alberta, where some of the most beautiful national parks in the world are concentrated. It is easy for the crew to shoot in the past.
The reason why I like the town of Courtley is that its environment is very convenient. It is not far from Canada because of the beautiful mountains and beautiful grasslands near the Rocky Mountains, so Angela chose this for the first time. place.
"I have to admit, both of you seem to have a good riding posture." Angela nodded after Gyllenhill and Ledger jumped off the horses, "I can see that you practiced very hard. "
"Thank you for the compliment." Maybe it's been a long time since we've seen you, and Gyllenhill is much more relaxed in front of her than before, "How about showing off your riding skills, Angela? I heard that your riding skills are very good."
"There will be a chance, but not now," Angela shrugged, "You know, I just finished a movie performance, and I just used these few days to rest in nature and sort out my thoughts. .
Once everything is in place, we can start right away, don't take it easy, Jack, to be honest, Hesby, you're serious. "
Heath Ledger, who came over, just heard this. Facing Jack's gaze, he pressed the cowboy hat on his head to cover his eyes. He spread his hands and said nothing, just so low-key. go away.
"You can't take not speaking as serious because Heath's character is restrained and not good at expressing feelings, right? It's not fair to me!" Gyllenhill muttered, seeing Angela showing a "murderous" look, He quickly raised his hand and said, "Okay, I see."
After a pause, he couldn't help but ask curiously: "Honestly, what do you think, Angela? I mean, taking on a lesbian role while directing a gay movie."
"Why, are the prices quoted by those tabloids high?" Angela raised her eyebrows.
"Of course not, I'm just... a little curious." Gyllenhill explained hurriedly.
"Guess for yourself." Angela left a sentence and left without looking back. Gyllenhill could only scratch his head helplessly: "Sure enough, you can't argue with a woman... No, you can't argue with Miss Genius."
In fact, Angela didn't take the matter that the media poked her out as a gay character in "The Devil" - since she was known about the itinerary, do you still expect it to continue to be kept secret? Moreover, the homosexual scandal has been clinging to her since this year, and you also expect the tabloids to show mercy for this? But these are not the main reasons. As long as she thinks of the movie "The Devil", Angela's mind will come to the scene of Sybil's phone call to Erin in front of the police that day. Ike praised her for expressing Sybil's emotions very well, but who knows what she was in at that time...
Shaking her head, Angela sighed in her heart and drove these out of her mind. Then he greeted Mavis and the bodyguards, got in the car and left the station and drove up the mountain. If you don't think about it, then you should devote yourself to more work.
Although the crew of "Brokeback Mountain" has basically arrived in Courtley Town, but there are still a few days before the official start of filming, Angela also used these days to travel around the mountains. In addition to taking this opportunity to relax in nature, she also sketched out the scenes of the whole movie in her mind and thought about how to show these beautiful scenery and the relationship with the characters, etc., but most importantly, she still wanted to Know what you can learn from it.
Yes, what to learn from it. Although she has been learning the skills and techniques of directing since she picked up the guide tube, and has accumulated a lot of experience so far, her learning has been more targeted since she decided to put "The Pianist" on the screen . For example, the way of interpreting the war learned from "The Pianist", and the main points of the adaptation of the biography learned from "A Beautiful Mind", or the method of learning multi-line narration that should have been launched this year, etc., not She likes trouble but she only has one chance, so she can only succeed and not fail!
So, what can you learn from Brokeback Mountain? Angela doesn't know, after all, this movie will be put on the agenda mainly to cover up her trip to San Francisco with Jessica.
"What are we doing here?" Mavis asked after getting out of the car and following Angela to the lake.
"Look at the filming location, this is the place I picked for Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar to date once a year." Angela, who brushed her hair in the breeze, looked at the scene in front of her and whispered softly said.
In front of him was a calm lake, the surface of the lake was calm, the green mountains, the blue sky and the blossoming white clouds were reflected in it, and the giant rock that protruded into the lake from hundreds of feet away was towering and tall. This is like an oil painting, full of messy and unified colors; it is like a postcard, clean, bright, delicate and beautiful, with a breathtaking beauty.
"It's so beautiful. It must be very comfortable to come here for vacation in summer." After standing by the lake to take in the beautiful scenery, Mavis couldn't help but sigh.
"Yeah, it's very beautiful, that's the charm of nature." Angela looked at this beautiful place in a trance, and just like that, people couldn't help but want to jump down and swim.
"Although I haven't read Brokeback Mountain, I don't know how to make a movie, but I think if these pictures can be made like postcards, it will be very attractive." Mavis continued to sigh with arms crossed.
"Indeed, such a beautiful picture..." Angela, who was speaking along the way, was suddenly stunned.
"Every picture is so clean that it can be used as a postcard", "smooth shots, messy but not messy colors", "just right use of long shots" and other comments suddenly popped out of my mind.
Yes, yes, these are all I can learn. Angela looked into the distance in a trance. Although she has always been most proud of her handling of colors and smooth shots, and believes that she is not too far behind those famous directors in this regard, but a lot of reference makes what she is good at better. OK.
The technique of making each picture as clean as a postcard is also reversed to make the picture obviously messy and dirty; more importantly, although I have known about the use of various long shots before, I am not familiar with it, if...
Think about it, think about it... Angela raised her head and closed her eyes.
The sky occupying two-thirds of the shot was gloomy, while the city of Nanjing below continued to emit fire and smoke. With the humming sound, the Japanese army planes flew down from the sky again fiercely. As they fly by, the camera pan follows the Japanese army planes toward the city of Nanjing, moving rapidly. When the plane dropped the bomb, it moved with the bomb and finally fell into the running crowd... No, no, it's not like this. This is Nanjing, not Pearl Harbor. It may be like this...
"Angie? Angie!" Mavis' voice rang in Angela's ear.
Angela opened her eyes abruptly, recovered from her imagination, and looked at Meiweis beside her in a daze: "What's the matter? Did something happen?"
"It's going to rain, I think it's better for us to go down the mountain first." The female detective pointed to the already gloomy sky, which usually means that it will rain when it rains, and it also comes and goes quickly.
"It's really going to rain, and it's a little late, well, let's go down the mountain." Angela nodded, followed by hugging Mavis suddenly, while holding her tightly with her hands.
Meiweisi couldn't help but feel a little inexplicable, and patted Angela with a smile: "Why all of a sudden..."
"Thank you, Mess!" Angela smiled brightly, "Thank you for your reminder, I know what to do."
Facing the words that didn't match the foreword, Meiweisi couldn't help but feel more and more inexplicable: "What's the matter?"
"It's nothing, nothing, I just came up with a very good idea, from your 'postcard', long shot! It's great! Thank you!" Angela said excitedly, walking towards the car While waving to the bodyguards to get ready to drive: "I have to go back and think about it, think about how to shoot!"
Although she understood something, Angela came up with a good idea because of her own words, but Maeves still felt a little dizzy. But she immediately waved her hand and threw them out and walked to the car. A genius, there must be something different from ordinary people, and... In half a month, this was Angela's happiest smile.