The Best Actor in the Vase of Meiyu

Chapter 376 Creating the Atmosphere

"Happy birthday!"

"……I?"

"Hey Anson, happy birthday."

"Thank you, but today is not..."

"Happy birthday, wow, nineteen, God, I envy your youth."

"Please, how old are you, twenty? So do you feel old now? Does Steven know that you are like this?"

During the coming and going, everyone around burst into laughter, and even whistled and applauded. The entire shooting scene was extremely lively, and the atmosphere suddenly became warm.

"Cat and Mouse Game" has begun filming.

On February 2002, , the filming schedule was originally scheduled to start on January , but due to delays in casting, the filming schedule had to be postponed again. However, Steven also realized that he could not continue to delay the filming day by day. , which is a burden to all members of the entire crew.

So, with an order, the entire crew worked overtime on the preliminary preparations and started running at high speed. Finally, before leaving New York in the winter -

Because several key scenes in New York all took place in the winter, Steven needed the help of the real rainy, icy and snowy weather on the East Coast.

To be precise, it has been ten days since filming started. It is different from any previous performance experience by Anson. Steven Spielberg is a director who plans carefully before shooting, from the lens to the lighting to the performance and so on. The real purpose of planning in advance and rehearsing in advance is not to ensure that the shooting does not go wrong.

"This is a movie, not a play."

Steven said.

All discussions and planning are to ensure that when everyone enters the shooting scene, they clearly know what they are doing, what tasks, goals and regulations, and then use their professional expertise to complete the shooting according to the situation on site and within the framework of the plan. Look for the spark.

Delicate, meticulous, detailed and comprehensive.

This way of working really makes the entire crew run at high speed like a precision instrument. For Anson, this is a brand new experience.

From the first day of official launch, the crew got into gear, cooperated tacitly, and made rapid progress, demonstrating Steven's skills as a senior director.

Based on his previous experience in "Princess Diaries" and "Spider-Man", Anson thought that it might take three days or even five days to complete the scene. As a result, Steven was able to complete the filming in one afternoon, and it was not perfunctory, and the quality was completely guaranteed. This also puts forward strict requirements for actors——

Especially Anson.

Not only are there many scenes, but they are also heavy. Anson's performance status is often the key to whether the entire crew can remain efficient.

Tremendous stress.

So far, Anson has withstood the pressure, and the entire filming went very smoothly. Before they had time to adapt to the atmosphere of the set, they ushered in the last day of filming in New York. Next, they will go to Los Angeles, then Quebec and Montreal, and their footprints will be all over the world. All of North America.

However, the last day of shooting does not mean that it is easy. In fact, on the contrary, the previous ten days of shooting were all easy scenes. The real highlight is the finale, because Steven needs to ensure that the crew has completed the run-in and is in the best condition. to complete difficult shooting.

Everyone feels stress.

Early in the morning, Anson arrived at the set in a daze at a house in Queens.

dilapidated. Wither. barren.

Although it's not a slum, it's still close. After old Frank's last struggle to apply for a loan from the bank was rejected, they were completely declared bankrupt and had to leave their single-family home and come to a small 40-square-meter apartment in Queens to survive. trying to survive.

The crew has been filming in this apartment for the past two days.

People thought that Anson would not adapt, because on the outside, Anson looked like a young man who didn't know what it was like to be sad, but they didn't expect that he would adapt very well.

If Anson told them that in his previous life, he and his mother had even spent long nights huddled in front of the apartment, under the overpass, or on McDonald's chairs. Compared with those places, no matter how shabby the apartment in front of him was, it still had at least a roof and four walls. In fact, I am very satisfied—I’m afraid no one wants to believe it.

But having just arrived at the apartment, what was going on with the staff?

Birthday?

Anson’s birthday was in November, and it had already passed. Lucas made a special trip to Los Angeles to hold a birthday party for him. Friends gathered together to celebrate that he was one step closer to the legal drinking age of 21, so that night The way to celebrate is to ban all alcohol.

Anson still remembers James Franco's expression of lovelessness but was forcibly suppressed by Lucas. How could he forget his birthday?

So, what's going on?

Facing him, Anson saw Steven Spielberg, "Steven?"

Before Anson could ask, Steven had already understood, "Don't ask me, it's what Tom meant. He said he can help you get into the role."

He raised his hands as if he was throwing away the shopkeeper, "I don't understand the performance thing, but I need today's shooting to go smoothly, so happy birthday."

Then, Steven patted Anson on the shoulder and said, "Congratulations on coming of age."

adult?

Looking at Steven's old naughty smile, Anson looked a little helpless, "Nineteen. Even if it's a fake birthday, at least his age..."

Steven shook his head slightly, "No, sixteen." Then nodded slightly, "Sixteen years old."

After saying that, Steven turned around and continued busy preparing for the shooting.

Anson couldn't hold it back and laughed——

This morning's scene was a conversation between Abagnale and his son on Frank's sixteenth birthday, which led to the scene before him.

In the United States, compared with birthdays such as eighteen and twenty, sixteen represents the ability to take a driver's license and twenty-one represents the ability to drink alcohol legally. These two birthdays are often more important.

After thinking about it carefully, Anson guessed that Tom Hanks should have noticed it. Although Anson and Tom had no direct confrontation scenes so far, Tom must have been observing and noticed Anson's attempt at method acting, so It created the atmosphere for Anson.

I have to say...it really works.

Even if Anson understands that today is not his birthday, lies are just the same thing. When three people, ten people, or a hundred people keep repeating the same lie, the lie becomes the truth, at least to a certain extent.

Involuntarily, Anson put himself into Little Frank's state and thought of his twenty-fifth birthday in his previous life.

"Anson, happy birthday."

When a strange voice passed by, Ansen no longer resisted, and subconsciously looked over with a smile, "Thank you."

Then Anson saw old Frank.

To be precise, it should be Christopher Walken dressed up in costume——

Christopher, who stepped onto the Broadway stage as early as 1964, is an expressionist actor with solid basic skills. He has been in Hollywood for forty years. Although he has never been the absolute protagonist of dazzling glory, he has always shined on the big screen with his unique personality.

His outstanding performance in "The Deer Hunter" won him the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. He can also be seen in "007", "Pulp Fiction", "Sleepy Hollow" and other works.

At this time, Christopher paused slightly, looked at the staff coming and going, and then looked at Anson who was a little sleepy in the morning, and his smile froze at the corner of his mouth.

"Hey, Junior, happy birthday."

(End of this chapter)