Chapter 260 Large Crew
“The first team is ready.”
“The second team is ready.”
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“The fourth Group 4, the crowd of onlookers enters the frame and needs to retreat five yards.”
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"Makeup team, please wipe off the oil for Mr. Robinson. The lens is slightly reflective."
"Sound team, the No. 3 radio microphone is slightly raised and is now in the lens. .”
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“The camera crew is ready, waiting for the lights”
"Give me a little more time."
Noisy, busy, orderly in chaos, without feet touching the ground.
This is another ordinary day for the crew.
"Spider-Man" officially started shooting in March, because Sam Raimi wanted the story to be set in winter, showing the coldness and indifference of New York. If it is postponed further, spring will come and summer will come. In the near future, if the crew continues to insist on live shooting, they will encounter a series of difficulties.
Having experience in filming "Princess Diaries" before, the crew needed to build a scene of a virtual small country in the studio, so the crew's shooting work had to be divided into two parts: the real scene and the studio.
And this time "Spider-Man" has to go one step further, because the movie requires a lot of computer special effects and needs to "destroy" a lot of New York city buildings, so it has to go into a studio for green screen shooting.
At the same time, Sam still hopes to start shooting in real scenes. After all, the studio cannot present the texture of reality. This is why he went to Berlin, Paris, London and other cities to explore, although the story of "Spider-Man" completely takes place in New York, but the New York City Council was not necessarily willing to approve all filming applications, so they had to go to other cities to find scenes.
It is precisely because of this that the filming of "Spider-Man" has become a challenge -
Especially for Anson, a newcomer.
Movies are not shot according to a timeline or a story line, but unfold around the shooting scene.
Now that the crew is in New York, they must finish filming all the scenes arranged in New York, regardless of time, until the scene is over, and then go to the next filming location.
Disrupting the timeline means disrupting the story line and emotional line.
When the audience watches the movie, they follow the development of the plot and characters and feel the emotional context; but when filming, the actors cannot do the same. They may be happy one second, but they may be separated from each other the next second.
Therefore, this places strict requirements on the actor:
He must know the ins and outs of the character and completely penetrate into the world of the character. Only in this way can any fragment be extracted at any time, and what the actor presents The emotions and states that come out will not be fragmented, just like a puzzle. They will still fit together seamlessly after the film's post-editing is completed.
Big crew, always.
Of course, things can be simpler. After all, this is "Spider-Man", not "Sophie's Choice". The actors only need to show accurate emotions at the right moment——
Sad? joy? happiness? Bitter? upset?
And so on and so forth.
As long as the emotion is correct, the state presented in the picture will not be abrupt, and even if it does not fit 100%, it will not be noticed by the audience.
However, Anson didn't think so.
Character arcs and emotional contexts, these seemingly simple but actually complex expressions, are precisely the key to distinguishing commercial movies from bad. An excellent commercial movie may not need to think about the depth of human nature, but it needs to maintain a For a smooth movie-watching experience, these invisible connections play such a role. Look at "Titanic", look at "Avatar", look at "The Avengers", there is a reason why these movies can detonate box office bombs.
In its previous life, "Spider-Man" achieved great success and was unquestionably brilliant. Years later, it is still considered a landmark work in superhero movies, and Anson himself likes it very much.
But, is "Spider-Man" perfect?
No.
At least in Anson's opinion, this is not the case. The most important reason lies in the performances of the three actors.
Be it Tobey Maguire, James Franco, or Kristen Dunst, the performances of the three actors are too iconic.
Led by Toby, he gave Peter Parker a shy and youthful quality, but it became superficial during several emotional turns and psychological changes.
In fact, this has also been his acting habit. It can be seen from later works such as "The Great Gatsby" and "The Age of Era" that the characteristics of different characters are exactly the same, and their emotional response to The presentation always remains superficial, without layers or power. His career as an actor is more about repeating the same role——
There may be some differences, but they are very limited.
The result is that the character arc is complete, but more comes from the script, which is not missing but not full enough.
In the end, "Spider-Man" became an iconic movie. Although the script gave Peter Parker a complete and three-dimensional room for growth, Tobey Maguire's version of Spider-Man was never as good as Christie's. Christian Bale's version of Batman generally packs a punch.
Of course, there is a doubt here:
Not only Toby, James and Kristen also have the same problem.
This makes Anson have to guess, either this is Sam Raimi's original intention, to consciously keep the story light and avoid being too emotionally heavy; or this is what Sony Columbia means, they hope to maintain the entertainment effect of the movie, No. 1 at the box office, no Need to dig deeper.
So, they made an "idol movie".
To a large extent - about 90%, Anson agrees with this view. The box office success of "Spider-Man" is due to this strategy. There is really no need for bitterness and hatred; but between excellence and classics There is just a thin piece of window paper. If it can be pierced, the film can usher in a radical change.
Anson wondered if he could give Peter Parker a layer of psychological changes in some scenes of emotional outbursts and plot twists without affecting the editing and weight of the film. Would it be possible to make this character who has the qualifications to become a classic Do story templates really unleash their due charm?
So, before the movie started, Anson had been studying the script, studying the characters, studying the relationship between the characters, and studying the psychological state, not only for the characters, but also to enter the shooting stage, so that he could accurately capture the emotions presented in any scene. state, and try to enrich the interpretation.
There is no doubt that this is a difficult question.
Moreover, this is also the first time Anson has tried this, and it is the first time he has played the leading role, which is completely different from the situation in "Friends" and "Princess Diaries".
Whether it is a mule or a horse, you will only know if you take it out for a walk.
In the blink of an eye, the "Spider-Man" crew has been filming in New York for half a month. From the initial chaos to the current situation, the crew has finally found a rhythm.
Then, today the crew is about to shoot a key scene——
In Anson's view, it can be said to be the core of the entire movie, and it is also the key to making the entire movie unique.
The classic line "With great power comes great responsibility" comes from here.
At the same time, the crew chose to shoot in New York in order to truly capture the light of New York. The location is located at the entrance of the Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Another landmark building in New York.
Thus, the scene of the crew not touching the ground but orderly in the chaos appeared. Busyness and noise, chaos and excitement collided and sparked in the air.
(End of this chapter)