Chapter 838 Ice and Snow
“Stuck!”
Michelle’s voice came from the intercom.
Hoola la.
A group of staff opened the door of the villa and rushed out, into the beach, holding large warm blankets in their hands, and immediately wrapped the two actors Anson and Kate tightly.
Anson didn't have time to take care of himself. His first reaction was to reach out and pull Kate up from the snow, help Kate brush the snowflakes off her body, and cast a questioning look.
"Are you okay?"
Kate nodded and reassured Anson, "Actually, I'm a little hot now, and the warm baby seems to have been attached too much. Oh, Jesus Christ, you Fingertips, are you okay?"
Anson let go of his right hand, brought his hands together, and kept breathing into his palms, trying to warm his fingertips.
Kate quickly took out a warm baby from her pocket and put it into Anson's hand, "Hey, you guys, Anson needs something hot, hot cocoa, hot coffee, hot red wine, yes, yes, yes, a little alcohol. , his temperature has dropped sharply now.”
Before he finished speaking, Noah appeared in front of Anson with a cup of steaming hot cocoa, staring intently at Anson's bloodless face, "Anson, I added a little vodka."
Anson took the hot cocoa without being polite and took a quick sip.
The scalding warmth flowed down the throat into the stomach, and the cold and stiff internal organs began to stir. It seemed that the sound of a pile of ice cubes clattering together could be heard, and I felt a numbness in my fingertips, toes and knees.
At this time, the crew of "Warm and Bright" is on the beach. If the judgment is correct, this should be the Atlantic coastline of Montauk in the northwest corner of New York.
Don't get me wrong, Anson likes the sea. He is completely "sea-oriented". If he chooses among forests, mountains and the sea, he will always choose the sea.
Montauk is lonely and desolate, with a feeling of loneliness at the end of the world. The solitary lighthouse stands quietly on an inaccessible promontory. It is hard to imagine that not far behind you is one of the most prosperous and lively cities in the world. But in just a short time In just a few hours' drive, you can enter another world -
Silence and vicissitudes of life.
Standing on the beach, staring at the lighthouse, the whole world became quiet.
It is a landscape, perfect for a secret corner of dazed thinking.
Anson fell in love with this place the first time he saw it, and he could understand why Montauk was chosen as the location for the story in Charlie Kaufman's script.
There is a kind of sadness and loneliness that is closely related to marginalized people hugging each other for warmth.
The scenery here is unique.
However, going to the beach on the Atlantic side in the harsh winter is completely different. Anson saw the winter sea for the first time, and finally experienced the endless feeling in "Manchester by the Sea" that seemed to last forever. There is no way out of the winter sea.
Cold is one thing. The temperature is minus ten degrees Celsius, and the body temperature is estimated to have exceeded minus 20 degrees. Humidity and strong wind are another matter. Standing outdoors, facing the sea, it is almost To be unable to breathe.
The hunting wind is like a knife, hitting the face without hesitation; even if you are wearing thick clothes, any crack will become a breakthrough of biting cold, quietly taking away the heat from the body.
There was a chill all over my body.
Coupled with the bad weather -
Heavy snow, heavy snow; if it's just snow, it doesn't seem so bad, but occasionally it rains, and the crazy rain is like a knife. .
There are not only physical attacks, but also magic attacks.
Being outdoors is a test. My stiff and numb head completely loses the ability to think, and it is even difficult to breathe. But now I have to stand in the strong wind and ice rain for a long time while filming?
Difficult, difficult to reach the sky.
It’s simply torture.
However, that’s the beauty of shooting on location. In the studio, although the set designers and post-production computer special effects can create beautiful ice and snow, the actors in California's spring-like environment all year round can never 100% simulate the feeling of a bad and harsh environment, and the performance will always be Unable to capture reality.
Only by being at the scene, truly immersed in it, feeling the uncontrollable natural reactions of the body, and integrating the outside world with the inner world, can we enter the world in the movie and present the real world. state.
In front of you, that's it.
The crew of "Warm and Light Within" is in Montauk, filming the key scenes of the movie——
There are scenes in memories, there are scenes in illusion, and there are scenes in reality.
The crew needs to stay here for at least a week, or even longer.
Montauk was also very "cooperative". It started to snow heavily on the third day, and there were some showers on the fifth day. The terrible weather actually met the needs of the script.
In Anson's memory, the beach has always been associated with keywords such as sunshine, coconut trees, tropics, vacation, etc. But now, Anson finally broke through his narrow cognition and saw the snow-covered beach for the first time - —
Snow and sea, this is indeed a different scene.
Today, the crew filmed the scene of Joel and Clementine playing in the snow on the beach in Montauk.
The first scene, script by Charlie Kaufman, moves a double bed to the beach, Joel and Clementine wake up in a sweet dream, in such a ridiculous way Highlighting the confusion between dreams and memories.
In the second scene, Joel and Clementine are having a snowball fight on top of the snow on the beach. To be precise, Clementine is trying to play, while Joel is trying to find a "no one can find in his memory." Hide Clementine in the corner to prevent the Wangqing Clinic from completely erasing Clementine”——
In other words, one is a comedy and the other is a tragedy, one is playing and the other is on the run.
In the first scene, two people were filming while wearing pajamas and hiding under the quilt. But the point is that there is no roof or walls here, and there is wind from all directions. Even if they are covered with quilts, the cold can easily penetrate.
Obviously, the crew and Kate spent a lot of effort to ensure that the body temperature of Kate, a pregnant woman, would not be too low.
Overall, though, it’s not bad.
In the second scene, the two people were playing around, but Kate couldn't move too vigorously. Naturally, Anson needed to shoulder the heavy responsibility of this scene, using Anson's performance to present the emotional transition and plot development. context.
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Kateli wore three layers and three layers to ensure that she could keep warm.
For the convenience of movement, Anson only wore a pair of thermal underwear, and put on a parka directly outside to ensure that he could move his hands and feet.
Once he started moving, the pervasive cold wind made Anson feel like a popsicle.
In a real sense, it was too cold to think.
Sure enough, making a movie is not as glamorous as it seems on the surface.
While Anson, Kate and the photographer were running outside, the director and other crew members stayed in the well-heated villa and watched the monitor.
There is no harm without contrast.
Anson held the hot cocoa handed over by Noah and took one sip after another. After taking a few sips, his fingertips finally regained some feeling.
“Now I finally know why there are so many alcoholics in Hollywood.”
(End of this chapter)