Chapter 151 Everyone is Tony Leung(1/2)
In the valley not far from Lenak Village, there is a natural cave flowing about six meters deep, and it is very smooth inside.
This morning, our drama will begin here.
In the morning, Wallace added thatch to the roof of the house in front of the stone house. Then Murren's father, Mr. Lennover, rode his horse under his eaves. On the grass in the distance, a group of English soldiers were fighting and acting. Apart from that, some Scottish farmers had just started their day's work.
"Little William!" Mr. Lennover shouted loudly at Wallace from below.
Taking the camera upwards, Wallace smiled apologetically at Lennover: "Mr. Lennover, if you come to me for what happened yesterday, I apologize."
Lennover was stunned for a moment, and then he thought for a while before he realized that Wallace was talking about taking Murren out on the rainy day.
He waved his hand to Wallace: "I'm not talking about that. Come down and I'll take you to a meeting."
"What meeting?" Wallace was a little confused.
"It's very mysterious."
The two looked at each other and suddenly seemed to understand something. Wallace jumped down, took out his horse, and followed Lenavre through the hillside to the valley.
Lenafer came to a thorn, opened the cover, and a dark hole appeared in front of Wallace.
The two of them groped in and a faint light shone inside. With the light, Wallace found that more than twenty people had arrived in the cave earlier than them.
Lennoff introduced Wallace to everyone. Because of his father, Masso, everyone respected him very much.
"I brought you here because you were Marso and you sacrificed your life. Do you understand?" Lenafer said solemnly to Wallace.
Old Campbell kept nodding: "Scotland is full of long-legged troops. These bastards have brought our teenagers out as their tools of war and our teenage girls to be prostitutes. The whole Scotland is almost turned into a hunting ground for the British!"
Old Campbell's words immediately aroused everyone.
"William, your father once led us to attack the British base. Although he left us, we will not forget his spirit!" Lenaver stared at Wallace's eyes, his eyes burning.
At this time, the cave was extremely quiet, and everyone was watching Wallace.
Close-up. Wallace's hand touched the hilt of his body and then shrank back.
"I came back to the farm left by my father, just to be a farmer honestly, and then marry a woman and have children. If I could live safely, I would do this, gentlemen."
After saying that, Wallace stood up and turned around and walked out of the cave, leaving everyone with a back view.
Lennover followed Wallace out of the cave, then Old Campbell, and finally everyone came out one after another. Old Campbell looked at Wallace's back and shook his head.
Wallace and Lennoff came back together, and they ignored each other one after another. When they arrived in front of Wallace's house, Lennoff said to Wallace: "If you keep what you say, I allow you to pursue my daughter, but if you violate it, I will kill you with your own hands!"
Wallace looked at Lennaffer's figure riding away with a thoughtful look on his face.
This scene, and the scene to be filmed in the afternoon, are different from the previous scenes that focused on the Scottish style. From this scene, the film gradually showed the difficult journey of the Scottish people rising up to resist the British, and the psychological change of William was expressed little by little as he was willing to be an ordinary farmer to William, but in the end he became a freedom fighter who led the Scots to take up swords to fight the British rule.
This scene is mainly based on medium scenes and close-ups, with basically no panoramic shots. The light is dim. In the part where the meeting in the cave is held, except for lighting candles in the cave, we only put a beam of main light on one side of the cave. In this way, half of the faces of Wallace, Old Campbell and others in the camera are buried in the dark. They have few movements and the atmosphere seems very depressing. Wallace, Old Campbell and Lennover are located in the center of the picture, while the others are located on the left side of the picture, and the right side is empty, which is the entrance to the cave. In this way, the entire picture forms an extremely uneven situation, as if something breaks in from the right, making the venue extremely tense.
There are very few moving lenses, and the lenses are almost fixed. The connection between the pictures is also a switching between them, which is compact and neat.
In the performance, I boldly adopted the zero-action performance mode, gave up body language, and used my eyes to reveal my true thoughts to the camera. As we all know, if this performance method is difficult and easy, everyone will become Tony Leung. We reshooted the first few shots again and again. However, Griffith and Dunar agree with my method of interpreting Wallace's inner world. With their support, we spent one shot after another. This scene, which only took a few minutes in the movie, took a whole morning.
After lunch, it started to rain. It started to be very small at first, but then it poured down.
"Boss, I'm afraid the afternoon drama will not be filmed." Dunar stood beside me, looking at the vast chaotic world outside, and sighed.
In the script, the scene to be filmed in the afternoon was a wedding held in the bright sunshine. The bride of the wedding, Loren, was a playmate with Muren in the village. During the wedding, the local English lord rushed over with his army.
The "First Night Right" issued by Edward, the local bride must be dedicated to him. Although the groom and the bride's father rose up to resist, he was quickly subdued in front of the powerful English army. In order to protect his father and groom, Loren voluntarily followed the lord.
This scene was the first scene to change Wallace's desire to be a farmer.
My idea is to use the golden light at dusk to make the scene look sad. It is obviously my own bride, but the first night has to be handed over to others. The arrogance of the British aristocratic lord and the helplessness of the Scots are huge in the background of the bright dusk.
"I don't know when this rain will fall. If it keeps going like this, we will be slapping it!" Griffith squeaked the cigar.
It was so heavy rain that not only the two of them, but the others in the crew gave up their plans to make movies.
But suddenly, an idea broke into my mind.
If you show tragic, what is more appropriate than a heavy rain?!
"David, Dunar, ask everyone to prepare!" I shouted excitedly.
"Boss, you, don't you want to start shooting in such a heavy rain, do you?" Dunar was extremely excited when he saw me and opened his mouth into a big "O" shape.
After following me for so long, they all know my personality.
For me, nothing is impossible.
"Boss, I really have to shoot in the rain!" Griffith quickly squeezed out his cigar and looked at me in disbelief.
"David, Dunar, our plan was good, but we showed tragic. Isn't it more appropriate to have a wedding in the heavy rain?" I smiled.
Griffith and Dunar looked at each other, then thought for a while, Dunar even walked to the camera and looked at the effect through the eyepiece. Then both of them showed a stretched expression on their faces.
"Boss, I think your idea is OK!" Dunar's words made us laugh.
The actors stood up when they saw us laughing, and they knew there was work to do now.
The Scottish weddings are not as particular as those of the English. The places where they hold weddings are usually in the square of the village or in the public hall of the village.
The original plan was the main location for the shooting in the square, but now it has been turned into the hall.
This hall can accommodate nearly one hundred people.
The actors who play Loren, her father, groom and later appear, are all newly recruited people. They all have several years of acting experience and are called "third-rate actors" by Hollywood people, who are just supporting roles. But the people I chose have very good acting skills. If it were an ordinary drama, I wouldn't worry about their acting skills at all, but today's drama is a bit unstoppable.
I summoned all the actors and started to tell them a collective play: "Listen, today's play, we will shoot in the rain. You are all familiar with the script and your own characters. I didn't need to say anything more, but what I want to tell you is that the most important thing about this scene is the tragedy expressed in the conflict. The wedding was lively and joyful, the aristocrat suddenly appeared, and knew that he wanted to exercise his first night's right, the helplessness and crying after resistance. This series of emotional changes must be real and natural. My requirement is that you should express these emotions through your eyes! Do you understand?"
"I understand!" the actors agreed in unison.
I gave them more than ten minutes to adjust, and everyone adjusted the performance plan they had originally formulated according to my requirements. Many people began to practice their eyes in front of the mirror.
"Boss, on the camera, smiled at me.
"Didn't you photographers always work with your eyes?" I smiled knowingly.
Half an hour later, the shooting began.
First, there is a close-up of the food, a plate of watery grapes. Then the camera opened, and there were all kinds of hearty food piled up on a large long table. It was raining outside, but on one side of the long table, there were crowds of laughter and laughter. The fresh flowers were collected on the spot, and many people sang ancient folk songs specifically for weddings in the lively music.
Then there is a long shot. The shot passes through the crowd and enters into the interior of the hall. The bench inside is full of people, with Murren and her family sitting on one side and Wallace sitting on the other.
In front of the hall, a choir composed of children from the village is singing extremely gentle songs. The camera is walking through the rows of chairs. The recorded in the camera are pairs of various eyes, including children of childishness, girls with longing for love in their eyes, men with laughter, and elderly people with layers of wrinkles piled up at the corners of their eyes.
Everyone's eyes were so happy and cheerful. The last pair of eyes were Wallace's eyes. He did not look at the choir in front, but looked at the side of the bench with his eyes slanted.
The subjective shot, on the other side, was sitting Miao Lun, and she also looked over here, with affection.
When the groom and the bride came in, all the people in the hall stood up. They applauded and laughed loudly, while the children threw the petals in the basket into the air.
The groom and the bride thanked people politely and occasionally looked at each other happily. The bride's father stood behind with satisfaction.
They walked to the front of the hall, and the priest began to preside over the ancient and tedious wedding ceremony.
Petals floated down from the air and fell on a pair of newcomers, and the elderly pastors also
The atmosphere in the hall is extremely strong and warm.
Suddenly, all the sounds were lost on the screen. In the slow motion, you can only see people's cheering faces.
In slow motion, a child in front of the hall turned to the square's face, and her eyes were so panicked.
Slow motion. Close-up. A white petal falling on the ground, and then a horse's hooves broke into the picture roughly, trampling the petal into the dirty mud.
A flag embroidered with a family emblem appeared in the camera. The camera was pulled apart, and a team of English soldiers armed to their teeth appeared in the square. In front of them, a tall war horse, a nobleman in his fifties, wearing armor and smiling proudly at the camera. His head was covered with feathers and dressed in gorgeous clothes.
People flocked out in the hall. People were quiet and anxious, not knowing why the lord suddenly visited.
A close-up of the eyes, the bride, the groom, and the people attending the banquet. I was puzzled, puzzled, surprised, panicked... I had all kinds of eyes, but I just didn't have the happiness I just now.
The lord drove his horse to the groom and the bride. He leaned down and looked at Loren greedily, closed his eyes and sucked the fragrance on her body deeply, then stood up and laughed.
"I am here to perform the 'first night power'! As a lord, I have the right to stay with the brides in every territory to wish them and the groom a long life!" The lord proudly raised his fat neck.
Quiet, the scene is quiet.
A close-up set of women snuggling together arms, men snuggling tightly with thick hands exposed by the blue veins of wooden sticks. Of course, their eyes, in which there are anger, they are also angry.
"No! No! My God!" The bride's father shouted and rushed out of the crowd and rushed into the rain.
The English soldiers came prepared and they pointed the spear in their hands at the unarmed Scots.
The noble lord smiled proudly: "'First Night Power' is the power given to us by the great King Edward. I have received this new territory, and this time I came here to take care of you."
Before he could finish his words, the angry groom rushed over. He and his father-in-law fought with the group of English soldiers naked.
The crowds at the wedding began to stir, but in front of the well-equipped English soldiers, the groom and his father-in-law were quickly subdued, and the people attending the wedding were also taken care of by a team of soldiers.
The nobleman was furious by the actions of the groom and the bride's father. He pulled out his sword and walked to the two of them and was about to cut them down.
The bride Loren rushed up, she grabbed the groom with one hand and her father with the other, and then raised her head to the nobles.
A pair of tears, full of begging and sadness.
The noble sneered and took back his sword.
Luolun pulled his husband and father aside and talked to them in the heavy rain. The groom and his father looked at Luolun and the nobleman on the horse from time to time, with their eyes that were not willing to spit out the fire.
Everyone knew that Luo Lun decided to sleep with the noble for a night to save the lives of the two people he loved the most.
To be continued...