The Best Actor in the Vase of Meiyu

Chapter 1274 Big Brand Suspicion
Sunshine, just right.

It is warm and comfortable, dry and bright, making people want to wander in it.

The early morning in Memphis in February is a little bit cool, a little bit lazy, and a little bit comfortable. Although it is not as warm as spring, the chill of winter can still be felt; but compared with the hot and dry sunshine in Los Angeles, it is much warmer here, bright but not dazzling, brilliant but not strong, and the pace of walking on the street can't help but become brisk.

The night has just faded, and the city is slowly waking up. My body seems a little stiff, and I haven't fully stretched out yet. I leave the shadows of the room, go into the sunlight, light a cigarette, and take a moment to be lazy before entering the busy daily life. If I add a cup of coffee and donuts, then -

Everything is perfect.

Finally, "Singing with You" is ready to start filming, and today is the start day.

After waiting and waiting, postponing and postponing, this day has finally arrived.

Early in the morning, crew members arrived at the shooting site one after another.

But as they looked at each other, they couldn't control the bitter smile on their lips. A sense of absurdity arose spontaneously, making people want to laugh.

"... According to the plan, wasn't it planned to shoot the first scene on Linden Avenue? Why did we end up here?"

"Who knows? Everything was arranged properly, but then something changed at the last minute."

"I heard it was because of Anson."

"Of course it's Anson. It can only be Anson. Who else could it be? The whole crew revolves around him, so what happened to him this time?"

"The rumor is that he thought the first scene should be shot in the studio because he's 'still in the studio' and 'it feels right'."

"And we are here? All the preparations made in the past half month have been overturned?"

"Hey, after all, that's Anson Wood. We should be thankful. He's a top star and he takes his role seriously. We should be happy that we can witness a legend."

Haha, hahaha.

There was a burst of laughter, but the sarcasm and mockery behind the laughter were obvious.

Indeed, "Sing Along" finally started filming, a full week later than originally planned.

Not one day or two days, but seven days, a whole week.

However, after finally starting filming, problems continued to arise. Just yesterday, at a single order, the crew's entire shooting plan was overturned.

For the work "Sing Along", the producer and director James hoped to restore the texture of that era as much as possible and insisted on shooting on location. This idea was also recognized by Forest Pictures and they fully cooperated.

So, they need to shoot in different cities——

Memphis. Nashville. Dallas. Houston. Los Angeles. New York.

Etc., etc.

In such a situation, in order to control costs, they cannot shoot as they please, but have to disrupt the script and complete the shooting according to the city and shooting location.

It poses a severe test for the crew and the actors.

Especially the actors.

Because this means that actors cannot interpret life according to the emotional context of real people. They must fully understand the life trajectory and emotional state of the character, and then show it anytime and anywhere as required.

Like Memphis.

Here, Johnny Cash ended his military career and returned to North America. He started a family and had two children, but was trapped in a mediocre life and could hardly pay the rent. However, he still had the dream of music in his heart.

Here, Johnny Cash and Vivian's marriage life encountered many challenges. Although there were happy moments, they were still hitting walls more often, until Johnny seized the opportunity and took the first step towards his musical dream. This was a life full of ups and downs, which occupied a long period of time in Johnny Cash's life, but the movie needed to be condensed into five or ten minutes to show it, and the performance requirements for the actors can be imagined.

According to the original plan, the crew was going to start filming on Linden Avenue.

This was Johnny and Vivian's first home and they spent a lot of time here.

Director Mangold selected a few relatively simple scenes from many scenes as the start of filming, hoping to help Anson enter Johnny's world.

Everything has been arranged.

But I never expected that the plan would be changed twelve hours before the start of the filming.

To boot, instead of Linden Avenue, head to Union Avenue.

706 Union Avenue is now a museum where fans from all over the world come to visit and pay their respects; it was once the home of Sun Records.

Sun Records, founded by Sam Philips, is where Elvis Presley got his start, as did Johnny Cash. This record company has unearthed many country and rock superstars and holds an important position in the golden age of music.

Sadly, it gradually became history.

Despite this, Sun Records still holds a unique position in the hearts of fans, and a large number of fans visit the museum every year.

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This time, "Walk with the Song" went to Memphis for filming. Mangold spent a lot of effort negotiating with the museum, and finally persuaded the museum to rent the venue to the crew to present the scene of that year in its original form.

However, even though the museum agreed to this, it did not anticipate such an unexpected situation.

The shooting date was two weeks in advance.

The Sun Records Museum is not a famous historical heritage building, and there are not many tourists visiting the museum. It is even more of an off-season in winter, so there may be less than a hundred people visiting in a whole day!

but!

A small group of people are still tourists. If the museum has to close due to filming, it would be a real disappointment for tourists who come here specially to visit and find themselves in a closed state.

The museum was not happy with the crew's casualness.

No one knows how Mangold convinced the museum to accept the crew's antics, but apart from the museum, the crew's own staff also found it ridiculous and hard to believe that all this was actually happening.

For the crew, everything needs to be planned and organized. What they dislike most is emergencies.

As is happening now, Anson had a crazy idea, and the result was that the staff had to stay up all night to help clean up the mess, burning their lives to turn the actors' accidental inspiration into reality.

Anyway, those "artists" just sit in their trailers and give orders, but as a result, these hard-working workers are exhausted.

Honestly, even if Anson was very charming, they still found it hard to accept him.

What's more, Anson had already kept them waiting for a long time due to the emergency.

They arrived in Memphis early and were ready to go. Each of them was like an arrow on a bow string that had to be shot. But Anson's move made them all hold back, and they stayed where they were, like wooden men.

The filming of the movie hasn't even started yet, but the crew members are already furious.

Sure enough, big names are big names, and they are different from others. Regardless of the actors’ professional abilities, their ability to mess with the crew and staff is already qualified.

100% brand-name style. No matter what else, the momentum must be there first, and the whole scene must be built up directly.

Ha ha.

(End of this chapter)