The Greatest Showman (Big Play Bone)
Chapter 222: Ready
Jennifer looked at the bright and cheerful smile at the corner of Lan Li's mouth, like a flower that bloomed proudly after encountering the first spring/wind. The moment the wind added a bright color to the whole world, those bright eyes were narrowed by the cheerful smile. It became a slender line, and the faint light revealed the joy after the prank, the cunning and proud look was like a child.
This reminded Jennifer of Lan Li with a kite in his hand the last time he was at Mount Sinai Hospital. The usual maturity and politeness of a gentleman is completely different. The simple, pure, and clean smile is like a child. A five-year-old is sunny, beautiful, and simple.
Lan Li's ridicule made Drake and the others chuckle. Although they didn't understand what happened just now, the banter and ridicule in the words really made people laugh.
Jennifer twitched her mouth and laughed with everyone, but the laughter was a bit dry. She lowered her eyes in embarrassment, avoiding the brilliant smile, and the sound of "puff, puff," heart bang came from her chest. Jumping briskly like a deer, the strange feeling made her fingertips seep a little sweat.
Just now Lan Li was just demonstrating performance, but she was like a high school student who had never seen the world, panicked and overwhelmed. No, she was originally a high school student. Thinking of this, a ridiculous, funny, shy, and speechless smile rang from the depths of his throat. The fleeting throbbing made Jennifer feel more funny the more he thought about it. After all, he didn’t hold it back and smiled chucklingly. I got up and joined the ranks of everyone-although it was a bit slow.
After finally waiting for the laughter to calm down a bit, Jennifer said abruptly, "Childlike smile."
"What?" Drake and the others didn't know, so they asked with question marks.
Jennifer turned her head and looked over, "Just now Lanly asked me why Sam fell in love with Jacob, I said, a childlike smile." Then Jennifer looked back at Lanly and paused for a moment. Then he said, "There is also the lingering melancholy between my brows, which makes me always want to reach out to smooth it, and then... again see the childlike smile."
While talking, Jennifer raised his right hand. Under the gaze of everyone's gaze, the slender fingertips stretched towards Lan Li's eyebrows, as if he wanted to smooth out the subtle wrinkles with his fingertips. .
Lan Li was really not quite used to it, and subconsciously leaned back, away from the fingertips that had been searching.
But it was such a small magnitude and the conditioned response that made the air freeze for a while, and then Jennifer gathered her fingertips, raised her head and laughed loudly, "Hahahaha!" Looking at Lan Li's masterpiece calmly The expression was even more ecstatic, and he laughed loudly while holding his belly.
Prank vs. Prank, Jennifer also took revenge.
When Lan Li saw Jennifer’s fingertips closed, he had already reacted. After thinking about it carefully, that ridiculous joy came to life. Then he saw that Jennifer had no baggage, no cover, no image. Lan Li laughed loudly, and the corners of Lan Li's mouth couldn't help but rose up and laughed happily.
This time, Drake did not join in, sitting next to him, looking at Lan Li and Jennifer who were laughing at each other with a helpless expression, Felicity couldn't help but laughed, feeling that such a scene was too great. I was overjoyed, but I was not sure whether my laughter would be too rude, so I controlled it a bit.
"Hey, hey, you two." Drake did not hold back, waved his hand and stopped the two people in front of him, "You two! Lan Li, you should communicate with Felicity, and then brew a spark. , She is your lover, your wife."
This is a typical director’s perspective. They are almost ignorant of the tacit understanding and running-in between the actors. They just pieced together according to their own ideas. Directors who know how to train actors like William-Wyler are really rare. .
Hearing what the director said, the four actors all chuckled, and Jennifer murmured directly, "When is the wedding?"
Just now Drake used the real names of the two actors, not Jacob and Anna; but generally speaking, in order to distinguish between reality and drama, actors are very concerned about whether they use the names of the characters in the script. Of course, Commercial popcorn movies do not have such a need.
Jennifer's ridicule once again made the actors laugh more joyously.
Lan Li’s eyes fell on Felicity, he nodded in a friendly gesture, Felicity also nodded quickly in return, and then he looked at the unknown director, "Drake, in In the movie, Anna and I never knew each other, from recognizing love, from love to each other. This process of exploration requires us to keep a certain distance, which is good for performance."
In other words, it is to cultivate emotions according to the filming process of the film, and to synchronize reality with the film. However, this method is not universally applicable. If the film is shot with a method that disrupts the timeline, it won't work.
After speaking, Lan Li looked at Felicity again, "What we need now is not sparks, but tacit understanding."
Lanly has found a little bit of Jacob's feeling. As Drake said, Jacob likes Anna's eyes. It just so happens that Felicity also has a pair of moving eyes.
This is the first official communication between Lan Li and Felicity after we met today. Although it was only an eye contact, Felicity also read the deep meaning in Lan Li’s eyes, and she nodded. Affirmed, "I agree with Jennifer's point of view, smile."
With this thoughtless sentence, Drake obviously didn't keep up with the rhythm, and Charlie was also a little hazy, but the three of Lanly, Jennifer and Felicity exchanged their sights, but they showed it clearly. The look comes. What Felicity said was that the shining point of Anna falling in love with Jacob was a smile.
However, Anna and Sam are obviously different. What Sam saw was a smile from a broken heart; what Anna saw was a bright smile without any reservations, a carefree, shy, ignorant, gentle and restrained smile.
Lan Li spread his hands with a helpless expression, "It seems that I must reduce my smile as much as possible in the future, otherwise there will be too many people following, which is also a kind of trouble." The smug look had a hint of it. The childish naughty made Jennifer and Felicity laugh, and the two women exchanged a glance, and then Qi Qi showed a contemptuous look at Lan Li, which made the atmosphere even more joyous.
Drake and Charlie were sitting next to each other, with a blank and really sad expression on their faces.
Lan Li has gained a lot today. The script written by Drake is actually lacking, it lacks Anna’s psychological foreshadowing, and lacks the branch lines of the two roles of Sam and Simon. In other words, Drake talks about himself more often-that is Jacob's psychology, then from his perspective, from the experience gained from that broken marriage, and from some conversations with his ex-wife, outline the whole story.
Lanly believes that Drake must have had a long conversation with his ex-wife, so the movie's description of Anna is also very detailed. However, for Lan Li, he lacks the two pieces of jigsaw puzzles in Anna's eyes and Sam's eyes. Now through dialogue and communication, he can make up for the puzzles, which is crucial for the construction of the character.
"So, what's our next plan?" After the joke, Lan Li took the initiative to bring the topic back to work, "When shall we invest in shooting?"
"This afternoon." Drake gave a straightforward answer. This is the case with the independent crew. There is not much preparation, and there are not too many cumbersome procedures. You can directly invest in filming anytime, anywhere, "We will first Los Angeles completed a part of the filming, and then went to London, the final finale returned to Los Angeles to shoot again. Jennifer’s scenes will be filmed in one breath, you don’t need to follow us to London to toss; as for Charlie, it’s up to you. If you want to stay here, follow us to London, or go back to see your family in advance, and wait for our reunion, there is no problem."
"Why?" Felicity asked, and she showed a puzzled look, "Can't you finish shooting in Los Angeles first, and then go to London to shoot? Or the other way around?"
"The ending contains the vicissitudes of the whole time wasted. If the shooting is completed here in one go, on the one hand I am worried that it will be more difficult for you to enter your emotions. Of course, as a director, I may not be careful enough to capture these delicate shots; On the one hand, after going to London to shoot, these emotions may also affect your performance. The tossing of time is more or less influential. I will follow the development of time clues as much as possible to complete the shooting."
Drake explained the ins and outs very carefully~lightnovelpub.net~ The actors all nodded slightly to express their understanding, "So, is there any problem?"
Drake's eyes fell on the four actors in front of him one by one. No one asked any questions. Everyone exchanged their eyes with each other and smiled together, "Very well! Then we are ready to work now! Wait for this. One day, I really waited for too long, and now I finally waited for Renly to join, I can’t wait to start working!"
After that, Drake stood up, rubbing his hands, seeming to be ready to roll up his sleeves and do a big job at any time.
Charlie was originally going to stand up, but he looked at the three colleagues next to him. All three of them sat firmly on Mount Tai. He hesitated, but after all he did not stand up. Then he heard Lan Li's voice with a faint tone. A smile rang, "Drake, don't you plan to start work after lunch? Or, we are going to film and eat for our first scene today?"
Jacob and Anna’s first date was meeting in a coffee shop, which was barely a part of dinner.
Drake was stunned, and then he reacted, scratching his head, and grinning happily, "Eat, eat first, of course, eat first. I'm so hungry." I quickly sat down again.