Birth of an actor

"—Thanks to Professor JRR Tolkien, the author of the original book "The Lord of the Rings", thank you Willlot, thank you Universal. Finally, I would like to thank our incomparable cast. Thank you." After delivering his acceptance speech, Peter Jackson walked off the stage with another screenwriter smiling, holding the Best Adapted Screenplay statuette in his hand.

"I'm losing count, how many statuettes is this?" asked Leonardo DiCaprio, who was sitting next to William.

"Ninth." William replied, "Among the nominations for "Lord of the Rings", only Best Director and Best Picture are left unannounced."

Tonight's Oscar night is the most star-studded one in several years, and almost all the popular Hollywood superstars are swept away. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman have films "The Last Samurai" and "Cold Mountain" respectively. "was shortlisted for Oscars, William, Leonardo, Angelina Jolie and Will Smith are all the award presenters tonight, Julia Roberts took the stage to commemorate the legendary actress Katharine Hepburn who passed away this year, Johnny Depp and Charlize Theron will compete for the best actor and actress... However, the biggest highlight tonight can only be "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King".

Eleven nominations are not uncommon, but it is a bit scary to be the final winner of each nomination - of course, it is the other nominees who think it is scary - at present, "The Lord of the Rings" has nine out of nine nominations, and a [-]% chance of winning the lottery is high Unbelievable, but the best director and best picture that have not yet been awarded are the most important weights to judge whether they can become the biggest winners.

"It's amazing." Leonardo said with emotion sincerely: "It's only been a few years? Willot's honor room is already comparable to some film companies that have been established for 30 or [-] years. Are you planning a celebration party?"

After the award ceremony, the most essential thing in Hollywood is the party. In addition to the "Oscar Night" held by "Vanity Fair", each winning team will also book a celebration party separately, and invite directors, actors, industry insiders, fashion People in the world, as well as the protagonists of the Oscars that night, no matter whether they won the award or not, they can all come to celebrate together.

Stars who receive invitations are often very happy to participate, even if they rush to the scene to attend six to eight parties in one night, and they can only stay at each party for two to three 10 minutes, they will not refuse any invitation.Winners naturally have to appear at all parties in turn, accept everyone's blessings, and earn enough exposure. Those who have been nominated but failed to win the award can also make contacts by the way to see if there is a suitable opportunity to pave the way for the next Oscar competition. It's the way of Hollywood.

"Willot has booked the main banquet hall of the Hilton Hotel, which is the one where the Golden Globe Awards ceremony is held." William replied: "Now there are already people from the party service company preparing there, and the catering will not be as good as that of "Vanity Fair." "The night of the Oscar night, let's go together later?"

"No problem." Leonardo touched his stomach, which had been hungry for more than ten hours to squeeze into this custom-made dress, and didn't even dare to drink more glasses of water, and said, "I'm about to starve to death, if now With pizza out here, I can eat at least three."

The filming of "Milk" does not require him to go on a diet to maintain a thin body, and even being taller is more in line with the role, so Leonardo has been a bit reckless in his diet recently, and he can hardly remember what it feels like to be hungry .For the first time, Leonardo felt sympathy for those actresses for the first time. He heard that in order to look good in their dresses, some of them lived on fruit and vegetable juice for a few days in advance.

"How many people here are not hungry?" The Oscar ceremony lasted for three or four hours. In fact, in order to be able to sit honestly in front of the camera for the whole process, all the guests may not have had a serious meal since noon.After thinking about it, William decided: "After the awards ceremony is over, we can order some pizza delivery. There is a good restaurant nearby."

At this time, a staff member came to inform Leonardo that he was going to present the award. Leonardo got up from his seat and walked to the backstage of the theater.

Leonardo is going to present the best foreign language film award, and William is the guest of honor for the best picture award-yes, the best film award at the finale of the awards ceremony.

Oscar's four heavyweight awards, Best Actor and Actress, Best Director and Best Picture, except that the performance awards are awarded to the winners of this year by the winners of the previous year, the latter two are generally found in Hollywood. For example, the best director award this year is awarded to Tom Cruise, whose starring movie ("The Last Samurai") was shortlisted for Oscars but did not receive any nominations.

Originally, the academy invited Steven Spielberg to present the best film—William was originally invited to present the best film editing—but Spielberg was unwilling to leave the crew, so he recommended William to replace him. Agreed, so William became tonight's finale guest, the kind without an awards partner.The awarding order of the best picture is after the best director, and the order represents the degree of importance. It means that William still faintly overwhelms Tom Cruise, but Tom Cruise still has a bright smile. When he saw William on the red carpet earlier, he also took the initiative. Say hello, without seeming to mind in any way.

Leonardo on the stage read the name of the winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Award into the microphone. The Canadian film "Barbaric Invasion" won this honor, and the film producer said the first thing when he came to the stage to accept the award. The sentence was "We are very grateful that The Lord of the Rings is not eligible for the best foreign language film", which made fun of the "Lord of the Rings" for every mention, which caused the audience to burst into laughter.

After Leonardo walked off the stage with the producers of "Brutal Invasion", the entire Kodak Theater was shaken, and it seemed that the exhaustion of sitting for more than three hours in a row was swept away at this moment, because tonight The Oscars ceremony has finally come to the last and most important moment - in the next half an hour or so, the four finale awards of best director, best actor and actress, and best picture will be awarded one after another.

When Tom Cruise took the envelope with the name of the best director winner on the stage and read Peter Jackson's name, the camera first gave Peter Jackson a shot, and then William congratulated him, And the rest of the cast.

"Thank you very much Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, you really brought me a great night..." After a simple opening, Peter Jackson read out a long list of thanks according to the usual practice of winners, and the camera followed While listening to his speech, he kept cutting the camera to the audience, mainly the area where the crew of "The Lord of the Rings" sat.

Of course, the camera also glanced at William, even though he and the crew were not sitting together - the seats of the "Lord of the Rings" crew were arranged at the far right of the auditorium near the exit aisle, which was a bit remote, but there was no way around it. There are too many people in the crew, the director team, cast members and the nominated behind-the-scenes staff, plus their family members, there are dozens of people, it’s not that they can’t sit in a remote area, and it’s convenient to receive the award near the aisle—— And William is sitting in the middle of the second row directly below the stage. Together with Leonardo, it is the position that is most likely to be patronized by the camera. Next to them are Julia Roberts and Tom Cruise. Charlize Theron nominated for Best Actress.

Whenever "The Lord of the Rings" wins an award, or someone mentions William in a thank you speech, the camera will always cut to him. Counting the camera's intentional or unintentional sweep when shooting other people, not many, William probably only appeared a few times tonight. Ten times.

"I'm really convinced of The Lord of the Rings, and I won't lose every award." Leonardo said after returning from the award ceremony and sitting next to William.

"Punham might actually work."

"What's a Poonam?"

"A kind of jade, which is generally green, and the locals in New Zealand also call it green jade." William raised his right hand and waved it in front of Leonardo's eyes. On his wrist was a string of small dark green jade that was wrapped around twice: "Long before European colonial times, Maori would often go to New Zealand's west coast to find this jade stone called poonamu, which was used to make weapons, tools and ornaments. They believed that regular wearing of this carved stone would give People bring good luck. When the crew left New Zealand, we were all given a lot by the locals. Peter is so obsessed with the culture of his hometown. A week ago, he called everyone and asked us to bring Poonham attended the award ceremony, saying that it would definitely bring good luck-but now it seems that he really 'prophesied' right."

Leonardo turned around to look at the actors of "The Lord of the Rings", and sure enough, he found this green jade on everyone, the difference is that most of the women wear the punam bead as a necklace, and the men wear it as a necklace. They were bracelets, but William looked best on them, because the color of the jade matched his eyes so well.

"Give it to me." Leonardo said, grabbing William's arm.

"Actually, Peter took Punum with him for the Oscars for three consecutive years, and only this year has worked." Under the attack of Leonardo's puppyeyes—in fact, the camera was about to turn around again—William directly took off the bracelet. It came down and stuffed it into Leonardo's hand, "Forget it, I'll give it to you."

Satisfied, Leonardo prepared to put the bracelet on his wrist. After thinking about it, he stuffed it into his pocket again, worried that he would be photographed by the media at the "Vanity Fair" dinner later.

At this time, there was sudden applause from all around, and the two people who sneaked away to chat only discovered that Nicole Kidman, the last best actress, had awarded the best actor trophy to Sean Penn.

"Did Sean Penn win a Grand Slam?"

"Venice, Berlin, Cannes, and now the Oscars?"

"Great, that's him after Jack Lemmon."

People around talked a lot, and stood up to applaud Sean Penn one after another, and finally turned into a standing up and congratulations for Sean Penn.

It happens from time to time at the Oscars that the audience stands up because someone wins an award, but it is rare. Sean Penn has this treatment because he really deserves it—there was a media summary before the award ceremony, Sean Penn In the 90s of the last century, Pan won the Silver Bear Award for Best Actor at the Berlin Film Festival, the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival, and the Volpi Cup Best Actor Award at the Venice Film Festival. He currently owes only one Oscar.

The aesthetic difference between the United States and Europe in film culture is not small. To succeed in Hollywood and to be recognized in Europe is no less difficult than defending an Oscar.Before Sean Penn, there was only one person in the world who had won this award—not Katharine Hepburn, who won four Oscars. Although Hepburn was the greatest actress of the twentieth century, she was far from the Grand Slam There is still a Berlin Film Festival trophy - but Jack Lemmon, Jack Lemmon is the first actor in history to win the three major international film festivals and Oscar winners.

However, because Jack Lemmon died of cancer in 2001, Sean Penn has become the only Grand Slam winner alive, and his status is even more special.

Leonardo suddenly remembered: "Are you only short of a Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival?"

William was taken aback, then nodded: "Yes."

It wasn’t Leonardo who reminded him, William almost forgot that he was only one step away from the grand slam of the film industry - he won the best actor in the Venice film industry for "Fight Club" and won the award for "A Beautiful Mind". Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, Oscars and British Oscars, by the way, "The Truman Show" helped him win a Golden Globe Award a few years ago, and other awards such as Teen Choice Awards, MTV Movie Awards, and Saturn Awards Needless to say, as a Hollywood actor, he has almost won all the honors he can get.

Sean Penn did not prepare a draft in advance. When he was not fluent in his acceptance speech, William, led by the staff, came to the backstage and took the last sealed envelope of the night.

The host Billy Crystal re-entered the stage and interacted with the guests of "Lost in Translation" in the audience. After the lights refocused on him, he stretched out his right hand to signal: "Everyone, please welcome William Bradley." !"

Amid applause and background music, William walked quickly onto the stage, and another round light followed his steps until he stood in the middle of the stage.

William waited for a few seconds, and when the applause gradually fell, he read out the pre-award speech he had long memorized into the microphone: "People say that there is a reason for saving the best picture until the end, it is the sum of all elements. The end of a journey always begins with a dream, and this year those dreams were inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" and Patrick O'Brien's adaptation of "The Raging Sea"—— "

After naming the five best picture candidates, William began to open the envelopes.

At this moment, it can be said that the eyes of the entire Kodak Theater, the United States and even the whole world are focused on his hands. There is the last and biggest suspense of this year's Oscars.

After seeing the name on the envelope, the smile on William's face didn't change in any arc—even if his fingers trembled a little because of excitement—he glanced at the audience, and many people were obviously holding their breath to watch Looking at him, William said directly into the microphone, "The winner is tonight's big winner (there are already screams from the audience)—congratulations to Lord of the Rings!"

The entire Kodak Theater is boiling!

"The Lord of the Rings" was mentioned eleven out of eleven, a new Oscar record was born!

In the area where the "Lord of the Rings" crew is located, Peter Jackson looked a little dizzy. Several actors who played the Hobbit were crying with excitement. Others urged Peter Jackson to let him go on stage quickly, but Peter refused. Alone, he called out to everyone around him, and the stage was packed in no time.

William handed the Best Picture statuette to Peter Jackson and stepped aside.He also felt a little strange at this time. He awarded the best picture to the film he participated in. This kind of experience probably few people have.

"Wait, wait. Let me take a breather, this is too unbelievable." Peter Jackson held the statuette tightly and took a deep breath: "Thank you Academy for finally recognizing this fantasy movie this year, I feel very honored, touched and relieved. Thank you New Zealand people and government for your long-term support, city council and everyone who has helped Lord of the Rings."

"The two people I need to thank most are the two people standing behind me. A big thank you to Barry Osborne, our producer, who is there every day to support us. You are my pillar." Peter Jackson slightly He turned sideways, looked first at the producer, then at William and said, "And you, Will, you are not just Glorfindel, you have magic, you are the beginning of all legends. You have I made a risky decision that no one in Hollywood has ever done before, and we wouldn't have been able to get here so quickly without you, but today it finally paid off."

Having said that, Peter Jackson raised the statuette in his hand again. After the audience gave him warm applause, Peter Jackson opened his mouth and closed it with an "uh"—at such an important moment, he It got stuck.

It’s not that he didn’t prepare his acceptance speech in advance, but that Peter Jackson never thought he would be on stage to receive the award three times—this happy trouble that speaking out might cause him to be surrounded by several other nominees—the words he prepared I had finished talking when I received the best adapted screenplay and the best director, but I couldn't find someone who I have never thanked before.

But it doesn't matter, Peter Jackson knows how to resolve the crisis for himself: "Please give Will and Barry applause, I want them to say a few words."

After finishing speaking, Peter Jackson turned around and put the statuette into William's hand, then backed away to give up the microphone.

William was still hugging other crew members one by one at this time, and suddenly there was a statuette in his hand, and he heard Peter Jackson speak like this again. Fortunately, his expression was well managed and his on-the-spot reaction was quick, so the corners of his mouth did not twitch on the spot.

At this time, not only the crew members on stage, but even the audience in the audience began to applaud. The camera lens was already in place, and it could follow William's position at any time.

"It's a great honor to stand here. "The Lord of the Rings" finally won the best picture award this year, which is a surprise to everyone. The special trophy was awarded from me, which is doubled for me. surprise."

William said while thinking that he had encountered similar emergencies several times at different awards ceremonies, and it was not difficult for him to make urgent preparations for his speech: "Thanks to the American Film Institute, I will always remember this moment. Thank you The people and government of New Zealand, I am very happy every day I work in New Zealand. Thanks also to Tolkien and the fans who support us, sorry, and Peter, as a director, he is never 120% satisfied, because he always pursues Both are [-]%. Finally, thanks to all the actors in front of the camera and behind-the-scenes personnel, each of us did our best to shoot, and we have this film that does not make people regret."

The time spent in New Zealand flowed through my heart like yesterday, and those memories not only did not fade at all, but became more vivid with the passage of time. In the end, William held up the trophy and said in Quenya: "Celebrate The time has come!"

Although 90.00% of the people at the scene and watching the live TV broadcast did not know what William was talking about, everyone in the "Lord of the Rings" crew standing behind him definitely knew that as soon as William finished speaking, he was pulled into a big collective hug Among them, everyone's expressions were excited and unforgettable, and someone was sobbing and said: "Let's make "The Silmarillion", I miss New Zealand so much!"

Naturally, at this exciting time, the proposal was unanimously agreed by all.

……

First there is a medium shot, Leonardo DiCaprio puts his hands on the window and looks in. After observing for a while, he sneaks open the window and sneaks into the city hall.

A doorman spotted him: "Wait, sir..."

Leonardo walked forward while talking back: "My assistant was supposed to come down and open the side door for me, but she never showed up."

"Then who are you?"

"Dan White, member of the City Board of Supervisors."

Through the entry and exit of the doorman, the camera was naturally panned up to the face, and then Leonardo turned his head and continued to walk forward quickly, turning into a back-to-back shot.

The camera follows Leonardo's back, walks along the lobby into the open entrance of the city hall, and walks up to the second floor.

During the brief moment in which Leonardo disappears around the corner of the stairs, the camera pans down to William carrying his briefcase through the metal detector security gate at the entrance to the town hall hall, and after the inspection, he holds the briefcase , with a smile on his face, walked up the steps briskly, like a sailing ship going forward bravely, his mental outlook formed a sharp contrast with Leonardo.

When William was about to walk out of the frame, the camera panned upwards, and Leonardo had already appeared in the corridor on the second floor.

The camera changed to a profile shot, and Leonardo went straight to the office of Mayor George Moscone. When he opened the door, the camera paused for a moment on his trembling hands.

Leonardo engages in a dialogue with the mayor's secretary: "Is he coming? Can I see the mayor?"

"Wait a minute, let me inform you first."

In this brief conversation, the focus of the screen was first given to the mayor's secretary, and then returned to a close-up of Leonardo's depressed and tense facial expressions.

"Mr. White, the mayor can see you now."

Leonardo walked forward, and at the same time the secretary of the mayor opened the door for him. The camera naturally followed Leonardo's back into the room, and the mayor Moscone came from the front: "Dan, please come in." Welcome Leonardo into the private lounge inside.

"You can't just take away my official position and kick me away!" Leonardo accused angrily, and it could be seen from his back that he was waving his arms very emotionally.

"Calm down, Dan, listen, the decision to resign is your own!" Mayor Moscone lit a cigarette for himself, walked to the table with his back to Leonardo, poured two glasses of cocktails, While persuading, he said: "The focus now is to do what is fair to the talents in your constituency. Why don't you take a vacation for yourself, rest for a while, and spend time with your family."

Leonardo reached into his arms with his left hand and pulled out a pistol.

The camera moves, and amid the three muffled beeps of the muffler, it points at a mirror on the wall, and slowly zooms in. In the mirror, Mayor Moscone falls to the ground, the cigarette in his hand wrapped around his tie. At the same time, a pair of Leonardo's feet were changing direction and walking towards the door.

The camera followed Leonardo's flustered footsteps as he walked out of the lounge, passed the unconscious mayor's secretary, and walked out of the mayor's office. The moment he stepped into the aisle, the panic in his footsteps suddenly disappeared.

The picture changed from a close shot to a medium shot. Leonardo walked a little faster, his head looked left and right, and he seemed overly vigilant, but soon, he grasped the hands hanging by his side several times, and his fingers slowly moved. Trembling again, the back straightened forward, and the steps became more and more steady, as if some kind of belief had been strengthened.

The camera follows Leonardo's back, passing through offices and busy government officials. Occasionally someone looks at him, but no one notices his strangeness.

Leonardo's pace became more and more relaxed. When passing by an office, he greeted people calmly.

At this time, William's voice came from outside the screen, sounding impassioned: "At this time next year, we will go to Washington DC to march, just like Castro Street, but the number will be as many as 100 million—"

Leonardo walked straight towards the source of the sound, and William was standing in the doorway of the office, chatting with a friend.

"Harvey," Leonardo said, "can you talk to me in my office?"

The camera moved from the back of Leonardo's head to William's face, and the expression on it was unexpected, but quickly changed to a friendly smile: "Of course." William said goodbye to his friend, "Please wait for me for a while."

The camera followed the two people along the aisle to another office. William entered the room first and stood by the window, while Leonardo's footsteps stayed at the door.

Then there are several consecutive camera pans, switching back and forth between William and Leonardo, as if the camera is moving with their gaze, and presents a close-up shot or a close-up shot according to the subjective perspective of the two. .

Leonardo turned and locked the door.

William stood by the window with a conciliatory smile.

Leonardo touched his pocket with his hand, and raised his pistol expressionlessly.

William raised his hand subconsciously, the smile on his face hadn't completely disappeared yet.

Leonardo shoots.

The bullet went through William's palm and into his arm, and he glanced at the wound, "No—" It sounded more like a plea than a call for help.

The muscles on Leonardo's face trembled, and there were countless emotions in his eyes. His shooting hand was not steady, and his entire arm was shaking, but this did not prevent him from continuing to pull the trigger.

Another shot pierced William's chest and prevented him from calling for help.Realizing that the other party really wanted to kill him, William turned around with all his strength and staggered to get close to the window. Just as he was about to touch the window sill, the third shot hit him in the back, and he knelt down facing the window He fell to the ground, unable to make a sound.

The single-person medium shot is aimed at William's back. His back is still straight, kneeling in the middle of the window, and with the horizontal window sill, it looks like a cross when viewed from behind.

A hand holding a gun appeared in the picture, and the muzzle of the gun was slowly aimed at the back of William's head. A face with a fixed expression, dazed and lifeless, with his eyes staring out of the window, his eyes gradually becoming lax.

Through William's point of view, he can see the scenery outside the window, extending farther, is Castro Street.

William's eyes were out of focus, and he still opened his eyes, looking at the beloved Castro Street, looking at the beloved San Francisco.

In the blurred background, Leonardo approached, the last gunshot sounded, and William fell forward, leaving only white smoke from the muzzle of the gun in the picture.

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There are many kinds of lens languages ​​in today's movies, such as panoramic shots, medium shots, close-up shots, close-up shots, single shots, double shots, group portrait shots, over-the-shoulder shots, front and back shots... Long shots are of course also a part of audio-visual language. way of expression.

As the name suggests, the long shot is characterized by its length. This length does not refer to the length of the subject or the focal length, but the duration of the shot without editing.Broadly speaking, a shot longer than ten seconds is a long shot.

In the first 30 to 50 years of the film’s birth, due to backward technology and poor equipment, many films were a long shot to the end. For example, the world’s earliest film "The Train Into the Station" was an uncut long shot of about [-] seconds. lens.

The shooting method of "one shot to the end" means more restrictions, but restrictions often lead to great works. Long shots have natural advantages in restoring the real environment and the atmosphere of the scene. Through the linearity and continuity of time, actors The performance of the film is seamlessly combined with the development of the film's plot and even the environmental background, so that the audience can empathize with the emotions of the characters and be completely immersive.Hitchcock's "Soul Reaper" is a work that uses long shots to the extreme. Orson Welles even used a long shot to mobilize a city in "Gone with the Wall".

Later, with the development of film technology and aesthetic concepts, techniques such as montage editing and splicing were developed. Because editing can strengthen the narrative ability, highlight the story of the film, and attract more audiences to the cinema, long shots began to give way to editing. Editing became one of the most important components of the film.

However, editing often cannot reflect the level of the director, but only the level of the editor—most Hollywood directors do not have the final editing rights—and after the development of editing technology matures, film narrative skills have encountered new bottlenecks, so people I started to "nostalgia" again, and I favored long lenses again.

And shooting long shots is another benefit for directors. Sometimes the director takes a shot carefully, and the editor thinks it is not good, so he will cut it in a mess, but the long shot adopts "one shot to the end" shooting It is very difficult for editors to artificially create editing points, and the shots can often be completely preserved.

Of course, what the directors favored at this time was not the simple, boring and lengthy shots shot with fixed camera positions in old movies, but the complicated camera position movements—thanks to the invention of the movable wheel camera trolley, which made The camera can move flexibly in a limited space, and the long lens can express more dynamic information-in short, it is easier to show off skills.

However, because such a long shot is too much a test of the director's skill, every element of the painting must be designed in advance, and it is also necessary to ensure that hundreds or even thousands of people are on-site without any problems. The photography and actors must also be able to keep up, which is extremely difficult High, so in current movies, long shots longer than 1 minute are rare.

For example, there is a 98-second long shot in "Notting Hill", which clearly shows the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter. The long shot of three running sections in "Run Lola Run" is also very classic.

Spielberg is recognized as a film master, and he has also shot a lot of long shots, but few people talk about his long shots, and no one calls him a "master of long shots". One is because Spielberg doesn't like showing off skills , he will deliberately control the length of the shot, usually at about 2 minutes, and the longest shot will not exceed 3 minutes. Another reason is that his long shots are often cleverly conceived, without fixing the camera position, so that the lens keeps moving, and the focus changes from one character to the other. For another character, the background of the shot also keeps changing naturally, often making people feel that it is a long shot.

Among Spielberg's works, the most long-shot presence is probably "Schindler's List". In this movie, he abandoned his previous shooting habits and used many fixed long shots and moving long shots to Showing the documentary color of the film, of course, also achieved great success.

It is also a serious work, Spielberg designed two long shots for "Milk", one is "Milke's Death", using long sports shots to record Leonardo entering the city hall, cheating the security guards, and shooting the city hall. The whole process of shooting and killing Milk ended with the fall of Milk.

Another fixed long shot, of Tobey Maguire and James Franco, candles in hand, as thousands marched from City Hall to Castro Street in a procession for the dead. People prayed, and candles lit up half of the city. Spielberg called it "hope."

And "Milke's Death" is obviously the most important of the two long shots, not only in terms of duration - when it is finally presented on the big screen, it may exceed 5 minutes, and it is the longest shot Spielberg has ever taken. It’s a long shot—it’s also reflected in the difficulty of shooting, which involves nearly ten scenes and the on-site scheduling of hundreds of people. Ordinary directors dare not try such a long shot.

In fact, in order to take this long shot well, the entire crew rehearsed and shot about forty or fifty times, because to avoid film waste as much as possible, the crew adopted the same method as stage play rehearsals, and posted signs on the ground. Tape, the actors rehearsed the same scene again and again, briefly discussed it, started the official shooting, and then continued to rehearse, discuss, and shoot. Everyone was exhausted, and many actors even formed performance conditioned reflexes.

And this kind of performance that forces the actors to present without any time to think is exactly the effect Spielberg wants.

Thank God, the end result leaves even Steven Spielberg, the perfectionist, speechless.

"Very good, card!" Spielberg held the walkie-talkie in his hand, finally turned his eyes from the monitor reluctantly, and shouted into the walkie-talkie amidst the quiet and excited waiting of the surrounding people: "Willdone!"

From the lobby on the first floor to the second floor of the San Francisco City Hall, all the staff members who received this sentence from their earphones were elated, accompanied by small-scale cheers: "Will's part is over!"

"It's perfect, it's great!"

The sound of congratulations spread to the camera, and the people who worked hard for several days to shoot this long shot applauded and hugged.

"Leo, give me the gun."

The greeting from the staff of the props team woke up Leonardo. He was a little immersed in the emotions of the character just now and couldn't recover. He handed the prop gun in his hand to the cautious staff and watched the other party take it back for storage. Leonardo momentarily There is actually a sense of unreality of "That's it? Will is finished? Don't have to do it again?"

This is not the first time that Leonardo has cooperated with Spielberg, but the obsessive-compulsive disorder and perfectionism shown by the other party this time is ten times that of "Cat and Mouse Game". He shoots it many times, and if he thinks it is not right, he will keep shooting it until it is right, maybe forty or fifty times, or even seventy or eighty times.

It may seem a bit masochistic to say it, but it is actually quite reassuring, at least not very nervous every time you shoot, and there is no