Once Upon a Time In Hollywood

Chapter 129 pretends to be a big beep, the essence of acting, the biggest advantage

Immediately joining the group is just a way to fool the other party's words.

In fact, from the very beginning, Roland had the idea of ​​doing special training after the filming of "Forrest Gump".

Regardless of whether it is fitness or martial arts, it is not something that can be achieved overnight, just like losing weight, fishing for three days and drying the net for two days, then the little flesh on your stomach will eventually be like Flammulina velutipes, and I will see you tomorrow.

Roland planned to help Ang Lee recruit a group of people in early 1994, and then make sprint preparations for the filming of "Spider-Man". The reason for this choice is actually related to James Cameron—

"You ask me when "True Lies" will be finished?"

"It will be April next year at the earliest!"

"What? You said you were going to wait for me to come back to discuss the action scenes of Spider-Man?"

"Fuck! What do you mean?"

"You have to wait for me! I tell you!"

"Don't think I won't dare to beat you up after I've been promoted to A+list! "Spider-Man" is my project! If you let Steven shoot it, then I will definitely drive the AV-8B to **** the project back !"

As soon as "Spider-Man" was mentioned, the old man's mood became a little irritable. If Roland didn't think about changing the director, maybe not long after the phone hung up, the old man would rush all the way from Venice to his home.

That's right, after the explosion of "Jurassic Park", Stan Winston, who had been fooled by Cameron, finally had time. Under Cameron's kidnapping, they came out of Industrial Light and Magic Together with Scott Rose, the manager of the company, they lived together in Venice, Los Angeles, and the digital field was born as a result.

Roland has no idea about this company that can squeeze into the top three in the visual effects industry in the future.

Because he can go through the back door!

Phew!

is queue jumping!

Want to use ILM technology?

Call their big big boss.

Want to use technology in the digital domain?

That's still calling their big big boss.

One phone call can make his project a priority, so he doesn't have to throw Franklin into this money-burning hole.

Of course, the digital field has nothing to do with "Spider-Man", because the special effects of Spider-Man's spider silk were solved by Industrial Light and Magic. Roland's next entry into "Forrest Gump", the ping-pong ball in it , is special effects, and that kind of blurry CGI technology is actually the basis for the production of the "Spider-Man" trilogy after the millennium.

Now that the technology has been conquered, how do those visual effects films that want to follow suit compare with the son of "Spider-Man"?

Roland firmly believes that as long as he works hard, let alone the same period, he will have no opponents throughout the year.

However, while preparing for "Spider-Man", Roland was actually curious...

If the truck driver's bad temper really comes to play "Spider-Man" next year, then his boat will not be able to drive anymore?

Although the actual filming time of the big ship was only half a year from September 1996 to March 1997, but Fox made the decision to inject capital in 1995, and the real preparation time for exploration actually started as early as 1991. It started, including digging ponds, including building ships, these things are all watched by James Cameron himself...

When "Spiderman" meets "Titanic", how will the truck driver choose?

Roland really wanted to know.

...

Of course, "Spider-Man" and "Titanic" are not things Roland will think about now.

While the box office of "Jurassic Park" continued to rise, and most of the box office in the world had completed filming, the global box office also exceeded 600 million. Warner, who wanted to win over the pair of master and apprentice, found a flirty idea when he was in the defense of Butler Berg.

Katherine - Kennedy business, they can not see the person?

It doesn't matter!

I invite the media, is this the head office?

Small media and small newspapers don’t like it?

It doesn't matter!

Do you know the cover character of "Time Magazine"?

Compared with News Corp., which is building a media network, and Disney, which has not yet acquired ABC, Time Warner is now rich and powerful. As one of the three major current affairs weekly magazines in America, this is already the biggest magazine besides Person of the Year. The media resources are gone, and now, it's just a way for Warner to force people to come forward.

Catherine Kennedy naturally accepted Warner's generosity.

And when Roland learned that his unique personality was going to be on the cover of "Time Magazine", he was very excited, because when he was looking for a job in his previous life, he very pretended to write down on his resume that he had been selected. In 2006, he was "Time Magazine's Man of the Year" and "was awarded the Special Award of the Organizing Committee of Moving China in 2008".

But it is a collective award after all, and it is not only bad to say it, but it is easy to be laughed at.

And now?

This is the real cover!

Although it was performed with Spielberg, it is still an honor, right?

However, when Roland was happily docking, Catherine Kennedy told him again: "No, no, you are alone."

"Steven said that he will definitely be in next year; and he asked me to tell you that if someone from Warner asks you about the status of "Spiderman" or his own project, you can tell them directly, Steven said: 'Wait Like Clint, come back to me after I've won two Oscars next year...'"

Fuck…

This old man definitely did it on purpose!

Roland originally thought that the fact that "Time Magazine" licked his face and came to his door could make him pretend to be a big beep, but he didn't realize that the old man's pretending skills are stronger. Listen, listen, is that human?

What do you mean next year will definitely be there?

What does it mean to wait for me to win two Oscars next year?

This special code simply does not take the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences seriously!

Compared to the kind of guy you will beg me to be on the cover next year, Roland instantly felt that the cover character was boring...

What a spicy thing!

People can get on if they want to, and they can’t if they don’t want to. They just go in and out at will, which is boring!

Just like the holy monk rejecting 50 billion, he was so angry that he couldn't open his eyes.

Of course, although the old man pretended to be a big beep, Roland still took pictures of the cover.

Don’t waste the resources that are delivered to you.

The news that Roland appeared on the cover of "Time Magazine" did not cause much splash.

Or, those who subscribed to Time Magazine were not curious about his appearance.

No way, with my cumulative box office exceeding 2 billion and my unlimited screen swiping within two months—

It's not normal if you can't get on the cover!

Moreover, since his debut, there have been only two paper interviews related to him, which are far from reaching the level of being a carpet star at an international film festival or a star at the United Nations, and he is not worthy of virtue. , The bluffing criticism has nothing to do with him. Being able to promote the A+list while announcing the confidence to prepare for a new movie for two years is the reason why the big guys still like him. Come on, there aren't many down-to-earth guys like Roland. Those famous guys are not crazy about making money? There are too few people who can settle themselves down like him!

However, for such criticism from the outside world, people in the circle said hehe...

In the case of falling into a trough and having resources to make a comeback, who dare not settle down?

hold head high?

...

After dealing with the miscellaneous things and leaving a pile of fairy tale books for Elizabeth, the time quietly entered August. Roland also entered Hanks' house and saw the project team of "Forrest Gump" arrange.

According to the previous plan, their shooting time was from August to December, but because Roland was very eager to improve himself, after "careful" consideration, Paramount sent a production director over to take charge of the Time coordination.

All right…

In fact, after Paramount learned that Roland accepted any replaceable role and entered the group with zero pay, he directly estimated a release time, and then ignored it. In the words of the board of directors, it was—'We need to manage What? Producers, directors, screenwriters, actors, photographers, editors... are all their people, and Roland is willing to show his face, so we can just invest money, what else do we care about? Just wait for the release...'

Unlike David Fincher, who can fight with investors to death, the guys in the crew of "Forrest Gump" have all proved themselves; The list is the investor's favorite lineup, because they don't have to worry that the main creative team will suddenly become young.

Since everyone knows how to live, what's the point of spending a few million more to change the shooting process?

Just think of it as the money spent asking Roland to help clean up the platform!

How many millions for a potential publicity point?

It's worth the extra code!

Because of this, when Roland opened the plan book, the first thing he saw was Walterboro, South Carolina.

"We'll go to Walterboro first, where we'll be shooting scenes of Forrest-Gump as a child, Jenny's farmhouse, Forrest's family boarding house, elementary school, being chased by bullies...these scenes will all be shot there... "

Tom Hanks and Roland opened the plan book together, looked at the above process and said: "The oak tree where Gan and Jenny fell in love, in the Lee Mountain Plantation...Then there is the University of Alabama in Alabama, we will Shooting scenes of Gan's college life and desegregation, and then Gan finds out that his girlfriend is hanging out with other male classmates..."

"Then we have to go back to South Carolina. The scenes of joining the army and the scenes of the Vietnam War were all filmed on Fripp Island and Hunting Island. As for the mountains and other scenes, George and Industrial Light & Magic will help us..."

"After that is Washington, where you need to show your **** to the president..."

"Then we went back to Port Royal in South Carolina to film the scene of the fishing boat..."

"Then it's home, mother died, and Jenny reunited, Jenny disappeared, and Gan also started running..."

"Woods Memorial Bridge in Beaufort, Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah, Monument Valley, these are the places we go, and after the running scene is finished, we go back to the family..."

"That is to say, our road map is from California to South Carolina, then to Alabama, then back to South Carolina, then to Washington, then back to South Carolina, to Utah, then back to South Carolina, and finally back to Los Angeles..."

When the circle-like itinerary appeared in Roland's mind, he—

How do you let a guy who hasn't touched geography in a long time calculate the length of the entire route?

What's more, this is not something he needs to care about at all!

He only knows that the filming process of the film will be consistent with Forrest Gump’s growth process, and then at the end of the film, it will be OK to add the story of sitting in front of the bus stop and waiting for the bus to arrive, and telling the story to passers-by by the way...

Since the shaping of the characters follows the experiences of the characters, then...

"Where do we start?"

"Should I learn Little Forrest's spoken English first, or..."

Roland closed the shooting plan, clapped his hands, and looked at the fat-nosed uncle beside him with a smile, "Tom, Comeon, I will listen to you for the rest of the time, I am not here to play..."

Roland clearly remembered that in the behind-the-scenes revelations of the film in his previous life, Hanks deliberately learned the content of Forrest Gump's accent in order to make a good film. In his opinion, this was actually the first step for Hanks to enter the state.

And he came here to learn how to shape the character with the Great Theology.

However, when he discarded the filming schedule, Hank shook his head when he heard the words, and said: "No, No, No, Roland, character creation is actually very simple, you don't need to be so excited..."

What?

Roland smiled. He felt that Hanks wanted you to relax, "Tom? You think I'm not in the right mood?"

"No...I'm serious, we never start by digging into the character's heart when we create characters..."

Seeing Roland's disbelief, Hanks didn't give him a chance to ask questions. Instead, he got up, took out two cans of Coke from the refrigerator, put them on the table, and motioned for Roland to sit across from him, "Since you think I It’s a bit confusing, so let’s enter the quick question and answer session, first of all, the first question, what do you think of my acting skills?”

"Great, perfect."

Roland felt that this was a sub-question. If Hanks' acting skills were not good, he wouldn't come to waste his time.

"Ok, since you think I'm good, can you tell me what's good about me?" Hanks smiled.

"Watching your movie won't feel awkward..." Roland felt that this question didn't need to be thought out.

"Ok, the third question, do you think it's not embarrassing, is it because the picture is harmonious? If so, don't you admit that it's the director's credit? Do you believe it or not? Steven heard this sentence, and he Will hit you?" Hanks tapped the table with his right index finger, with a curious smile on his face.

"Oh, No, Tom, I admit it's because of the harmony of the picture, but... can you stop mentioning Steven at this time?"

Roland rolled his eyes.

"Of course you can, but I actually want to tell you that acting is never a one-person thing... catch it." Hanks pushed the Coke in front of him hard, and when it slid in front of Roland, he obediently pressed it Roland, who put it down, made Hanks nod his head, "So, do you think the picture just now is harmonious?"

Looking at the Coke in his hand, and then looking up at Hanks, Ben thought that the other party was a bit pretending, so Roland narrowed his eyes.

His action made Hanks tilt his head and said: "Your appearance now can be used in the plot of the police interrogating the prisoner."

"Or it's a scene where two characters confront each other and you express doubts about me."

Hearing what he said, Roland reacted, "Are you teaching?"

Unfortunately, Hanks still shook his head, "Teaching? No, no, no... Before teaching, I just want to tell you that none of the scenes seen on the screen can be completed by an actor alone. Okay, but the premise of my good performance is that there are a series of behind-the-scenes personnel such as lighting and photography. Moreover, the character creation you want to know and the character creation I will teach you are not the same thing at all. I know you may now I'm thinking about genres, but you don't need to think about that kind of thing at all, as for the explanation, I'll just give a few examples..."

"Robert De Niro, great acting, right?"

"He played a cynical gangster in "Mean Streets."

"He played a veteran in "Taxi Driver", and he is the kind of guy who can assassinate a presidential candidate to prove himself after failing to pursue a girl..."

"In "Raging Bull", he played an angry, paranoid, lunatic who refused to kitsch..."

"In "Once Upon a Time in America", he told the story of gangsters working **** the streets..."

"In "The Untouchables", he played the gangster boss of the bootleg market..."

"He is still playing the gangster in "Goodfellas"..."

"He still played a bad guy in "Cape Fear"..."

"Did you find anything wrong?"

When Hanks rubbed his hands and looked at the little guy opposite with a smile, Roland's surprised expression made him sigh, "Do you know why Steven doesn't let Robert and Clint teach you?"

"Because your play styles are different."

"You think we're doing well, but in reality we're just repeating our success."

"The so-called breakthrough is just adding some other character elements in essence."

When Hanks said this, Roland finally understood.

In his previous life, he knew that Hanks was a methodist with a high level of proficiency, but he didn't expect...

This guy is more straightforward than I thought...

Yes, repeated success and acting breakthroughs have never been a pair of contradictions.

In "Philadelphia Story", Hanks played a homosexual and an AIDS patient;

In "Forrest Gump", he played a guy with an IQ of only seventy-five;

In "Apollo 13", he played the pilot;

In "Saving Private Ryan", he played the captain;

In "The Green Mile", he played the prison policeman;

In "The Rest of a Deserted Island", he played the role of a courier company employee;

In "Cat and Mouse Game", he played the FBI agent;

In "The End of Happiness", he played the poor man who lost his country;

In "Captain Philip", he played the captain hostage kidnapped by pirates;

In "Bridge of Spies", he played the lawyer;

In "Captain Sully", he played the role of the captain;

In "Washington Post", he played the editor;

It seems that the occupations are different, but the essence is actually the same...

are good people.

Same as Robert De Niro's gangster attributes, Tom Hanks has been repeating his truth, goodness and beauty, using various occupations to repeat the same core.

Different professions are the most commonly referred to as acting breakthroughs, and being a good guy is actually the core of his performance.

"Then what do you mean? Steven thinks my life path is a good one?"

After understanding what Hanks meant, Roland had a very bright smile on his face.

To be honest, after these big names admit that they are repeating their successful self, Roland actually has no psychological pressure on the performance. Although what Hanks said is very simple, it is easy for every actor to fail. Into the trap.

If Hanks and De Niro were to be reversed, the former playing the bad guy and the latter playing the good guy, wouldn't it work?

Sure, they might succeed.

But for them, this is actually throwing away the greatest chance of success.

Obviously I can achieve the breakthrough that film critics and audiences most want by changing my career and identity, so why should I lose the core of success I have accumulated for many years? Why should I play the bad guy when I can find the book of the good guy?

This is the same as Chen Daoming.

If I can receive the book I am holding, then I will not play those little people.

Although the casting of the anthology seems to have nothing to do with the performance, but—

It can greatly avoid your performance failure.

And when Hanks heard Roland's question, he shook his head, "Good guy? No...I don't think you are..."

"Although I haven't talked about you with Steven, you make us feel weird, you know?"

"If Arnold Schwarzenegger will play the tough guy repeatedly, Robert De Niro will keep playing the bad guy, Harrison Ford will keep repeating the identity of the savior, and I will keep playing the good guy, and you…"

"There is no way to define it now, you know?"

"I personally think that your greatest advantage is your age. The core of your success is age. You only need to do what the big guy in that age group wants to do most at each age group. As long as you act in your true colors, you are the one with the best acting skills." one."

"Just like you played in "Home Alone", to be honest, if you were compared with Kim Carriage, people could knock you to the ground and beat you; and in "Terminator 2", if you let me play the protected person , I can kick your **** hard, and in Jurassic Park, Harrison Ford could knock out your teeth if he played your part, but…”

“People will like you eventually.”

"Because they have a sense of substitution when they see you, but we don't."

"This is what I just told you. If you don't play, the first consideration is not acting skills, but the harmony of the screen..."

"And Steven put you in "Forrest Gump", in fact, because Gan is a good man, and the Spider-Man you will play next, he must also be a good man. The core of your success is age, and your acting skills have made breakthroughs. The direction of the hero is..."

"do you understand?"

"Yeah!" This was straightforward enough, and Roland would be stupid if he still couldn't understand.

The so-called superheroes are equivalent to those professions that Hanks mentioned before.

His age corresponds to the good nature of Hanks and the bad nature of De Niro.

After the essence is determined, the role is easy to shape.

And the reason why those big guys can continue filming is not because they don't get into the film, nor is it as exaggerated as they enter the role in an instant and then leave it in an instant as written in the novel, but because the nature of the roles they play has not changed at all. .

For Hanks, playing a good doctor only needs to observe the doctor's habits, because the core goodness already exists.

For De Niro, playing a bad doctor only needs to observe the habits of doctors, because the core is bad, he has acted countless times.

In this case, repetition is the easiest act for them.

Because they only need to grasp the details of each occupation.

"Ok, now that you understand, then I can teach you how to play a good person and not repeat the good person like me."

After seeing Roland nodding, Hanks opened the can happily, "If you lose the core of success because of my teaching, then Steven and the others will definitely beat me to death..."

"Oh, Tom, what you said is wrong." Roland also pulled away the Coke and took a sip into his mouth, "Can't you play a good person? You are very successful now..."

"Am I successful? Yes...but I will never be like you. Every film may get 18%, okay? If I were you, then I would only use my good nature as a tool, in the filming After finishing Spider-Man, I will change other breakthroughs as I grow older."

Hanks shrugged and gave an example, "For example, when I was seventeen or eighteen years old, I could play a soldier, whether it's good or bad or a recruit, it's people of that age The only thing you can do is to talk about a century-old love. Guys in that age group are full of hormones. Even if your performance is only a level line, as long as the story is more touching, people will think that your performance is better. Because, the age filter ah…"

When Hanks said 18%, Roland just smiled, because the uncle in front of him took no less than that, but when the other party mentioned the breakthrough and said that after the recruit and the century were in love, Ben was still there to give the other party Roland raised his eyebrows, "Wait, what are you talking about?"

"What am I talking about? Let me give you another example! Let me talk about the difference between your age essence and my good person essence!"

Seeing something wrong with Roland's expression, Hanks spread his hands and said, "It's what it is. When your "Spider-Man" is released, you will be at least sixteen, seventeen or eighteen years old. If you don't make a sequel immediately, then you can Try the most common choice for young people today! For example, to be a soldier, whether it is a recruitment advertisement like "Top Gun" or an anti-war movie like "Full Metal Jacket", regardless of whether it is the Vietnam War or World War II, there will be a wave of people Hurry up to help you promote it?"

"And that age is also the age when many people fall in love. If you can find a book that touches the world, brother, I think with your popularity, that movie will definitely be more popular than "Jurassic Park"...how much do you have now? Height? Five feet? After three or four years, as long as you can grow to six feet, I think you can really try to take a romance movie."

Grass hold...

The extremely affirmative words made Roland curse secretly in his mind.

He knew that Hanks was just chatting with himself casually, before formally teaching how to play a good person, talk about the specific direction of choosing the book according to the essence of his own success.

but-

Hanks' casual remark, to Roland, was thunder on the ground.

Because the book in the other party's mouth is free to him.

Free in various senses.

Note: ① The spider silk technology of "Spider-Man" was solved by Industrial Light and Magic in 1993. In reality, Cameron has always emphasized that the technology was immature at that time, and he could only shoot "True Lies" if he couldn't make "Spider-Man". In fact, it is the reason why he himself is tinkering with the digital field. ILM felt that Cameron would keep poaching his employees, so he didn't do it for him. ② It is not my theory to first establish the essence of success (personal characteristics), then find the script, and then repeat yourself while creating different characters. I also said the same thing in the "Washington Post" announcement, "acting is not about becoming a different person, but finding similarities in appearance, and then being yourself", including Ang Lee also said, "Emotions cannot be acted out , "Youth Pi" has always allowed children to "play themselves", of course, this can be said to be the result of Hollywood being occupied by method schools, and Mr. Zheng Xuelai (researcher at the Institute of Film and Television Art of the Director), wrote "Great Dreams of the Silver Sea", which recorded the events of being invited to the Moscow International Film Festival in 1987. He said that Robert De Niro emphasized creating different characters, but focused on personal characteristics. If conflicts arise , the individual characteristics are preserved. And watching those movies called great gods, very few people have changed their essence. Their changes are professional changes. The ones who really change the core are their acting skills jumping up and down. Of course, I have always felt that it is really "shameless" for the old actors to "lie" to the young people, making them good people today and bad people tomorrow.