Chapter 554 Young Actors
The first day of shooting was just a few simple shots, and then little Gilbert and Tom Cruise were interviewed by visiting reporters.
Tom Cruise rubbed his hands: "I am very much looking forward to this cooperation. Gilbert and I are very good friends. I am very happy that he can cooperate with me again."
Little Gilbert said: "This time we are telling a story between a father and his daughter. Tom and I are both fathers, and both of us can understand the feeling of being a father.
I I think Tom can interpret the role very well, so I chose to work with him again."
Jue De Law, who starred in the film, said excitedly: "This is my first time working with director Gilbert Jr. It’s a great opportunity for me.
Tom is also great, I play his younger brother in the film, and I love this role.” Bert and asked Saoirse Ronan to be interviewed. The main reason is that these media are very good at digging holes. Saoirse Ronan is inexperienced and easily falls into the trap.
But the little girl will have this time sooner or later, because she starred in Little Gilbert's movie.
There is data that can prove that after it was revealed that Saoirse Ronan starred in "The Last of Us", the search volume of her name instantly increased from zero to 150,000.
On Wikipedia, Saoirse Ronan also has her own homepage.
There is only a pitiful amount of information on it, but I believe that after a period of time, there will be more information on the homepage.
After the media interview day, "The Last of Us" officially entered the closed shooting stage. The first thing to be filmed was the father-daughter love scene between Joel and Sarah.
In fact, at the beginning, after Charles Rowan read the script and Little Gilbert's shooting plan, he asked if the scenes between Joel and Sarah could be shortened.
Because this scene lasts more than thirty minutes, the final editing can also produce a scene of ten to fifteen minutes.
However, little Gilbert made it clear that this part of the scene It cannot be shortened under any circumstances.
Because this scene pushes the audience to understand the relationship between Joel and Sarah, and finally understand why Joel rescued Ellie from the Firefly organization.
It is precisely because he has experienced loss once that Joel does not want to lose it again.
Although the film "The Last of Us" has many elements found in zombie films, the core of the film is driven by emotion.
Emotion is a very common element in film narrative types, and love is an eternal topic for various artists, creators, and directors.
In comparison, although there will be less exposition of family love, it is still touching when filmed.
Little Gilbert has performed a large-scale operation on the plot of the game, but retained the core and theme of the story, which is guaranteed to make emotional audiences burst into tears in the cinema.
However, the first problem the crew faced was that Dakota Fanning was so moved during the performance that she cried non-stop.
The lights in the room were dark, Sarah was lying on the sofa and fell asleep, and Joel had just come home at this time.
"Tommy, Tommy, listen to me." Joel found Sarah asleep, quickly lowered his voice, and whispered to the other end of the phone: "He is a contractor, okay? I Can’t lose this job.”
“We understand, can we talk about it tomorrow morning?”
At this time Sarah yawned and woke up from the sofa.
“Hey!”
Joel hung up the phone, asked his daughter to sit a little closer, and sat on the sofa tiredly, rubbing his head.
Sarah asked: "Did your work go well today?"
Joel obviously didn't want Sarah to know about his work, so he changed the subject: "It's so late, you're not sleeping yet, what are you doing?"
"Oops, what time is it?" Sarah He hurriedly looked at the clock.
Joel said: "It's past your bedtime."
"But it's not yet twelve o'clock."
Sarah dug out from under the sofa There was a gift box, and Joel hadn't noticed it yet: "Come on, baby, I don't have time to mess around with you, go to bed!"
Who knew that as soon as she finished speaking, Sarah handed the gift box to Before his eyes. "What is this?"
"You kept complaining about the broken watch, so, you know, I just..." Sarah looked at her father: "Do you like it?"< br>
“Baby,” Joel pretended to tap the watch: “I like it very much, but this watch seems to be broken.”
“No, no, no,” Sarah took the watch and looked at it. , it was good, dissatisfied with Joel's prank, and laughed twice.
Joel asked: "Where did you get the money?"
Sarah's answer was humorous: "Drugs, the money I made from selling drugs."
"Very good ," Joel turned on the TV: "From now on, you can help me pay off the loan."
"What a beautiful idea!"
This scene is shot through different lenses. It is composed and photographed one by one.
Anyone who has ever been a director knows that the most difficult thing to deal with on the set is not the big-name star actors, but the young child actors.
These child actors have little understanding of the identity concept of a great director. Once they make their children unhappy, they will go on strike and cry for you at any time.
But although Dakota Fanning is young, she has worked with great directors like Spielberg and has rich acting experience, so she didn't cause any trouble.
On this scene, the crew filmed it repeatedly for most of the day. She never complained or was tired, and from time to time there were surprises in her performance.
But in the end, the young actor with such rich experience could not help crying on the set.
The reason is simple. Sarah, played by Dakota Fanning, and Joel, played by Tom Cruise, really accumulated a trace of affection in half a month of getting along.
So when Sarah died in Joel’s arms in the end, watching Tom Cruise cry and feeling Tom Cruise’s heartbroken emotions, Dakota Fanning cried on the set stand up.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, I don't want to die, I'm not dead yet." Dakota Fanning wiped away tears on the spot, which made the entire crew sad and felt a little funny.
After filming this scene, little Gilbert was helpless and signaled to Tom Cruise to comfort him.
After all, Tom Cruise is no longer a novice. After all, he is the father of two children.
He immediately picked up Dakota Fanning: "Hug, don't cry, daddy is here! Be good, daddy will take you to have dessert, okay?"
In With the comfort of Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning finally walked out of the drama. Afterwards, Tom Cruise also fulfilled his promise and took Dakota Fanning for dessert.
Saoirse Ronan has not had any scenes in the past half month, so she mainly watched how Dakota Fanning, the child star, performed on the set.
Seeing Dakota Fanning crying on the set, Saoirse Ronan secretly vowed that she must hold back.
She will use her perfect performance to leave a good impression on everyone, and she will never cry.
But to be honest, this is more difficult to do.
Because child actors, those who can perform well without taking any acting classes are basically experience-oriented. Saoirse Ronan can be said to be an acting genius, taking the experiential route.
In order to research the role of Ellie, she not only read the script more than a dozen times, but also wrote a biography of Ellie of more than 20 pages.
Not only that, she pestered little Gilbert to ask questions when she had time.
Of course little Gilbert was not stingy and answered all questions, helping Saoirse Ronan deepen her understanding of the character.
After Dakota Fanning finished filming, it was Saoirse Ronan's turn.
(End of this chapter)