The Best Director

"The Smith family is dispatched!"

None of the media or movie fans would have thought of this situation in advance, and they all thought that the cast of "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" was just like this, unless Wang Yang persuaded Tom Hanks, who was going to film "The Rest of a Deserted Island", to play a certain role. character, otherwise they would not be surprised. But they knew it was wrong, when they saw the latest information released by Flame Movie, "Christopher Gardner" will be played by Terry Smith, and Chris' wife "Linda" will be played by Jada Smith!

"It seems that Will Smith has great confidence in this new film. Obviously he doesn't think that the situation of "a family appearing in a bad film at the same time will happen. Will he regret it after a year?" But what is certain is that the young director of that year is very happy now, this is his propaganda method, and it has succeeded. "

Undoubtedly, this news has brought great excitement to movie fans and Will-Smith fans. Father-son files, husband-and-wife files... Maybe Jaden Smith will come out to make a guest appearance. The whole family will play together, which is really interesting! Many people who were not interested in "When Happiness Comes Knocking" have also been aroused, and they have begun to look forward to it. What kind of scene will the "Smith Family" show be like?

Wang Yang is really happy because he has found a suitable leading actor. "The performance requires emotional involvement, and the experiential school pays attention to becoming a character 100%. Now the father-son relationship between Will and Chili is real. What kind of performance is there?" Is it more ideal than the interpretation of true feelings? Second, as the media said, it is very beneficial to publicity work, and it will be a major attraction of the movie.

After confirming the lineup of the Chris-Gardner family, Wang Yang successfully found several other candidates for non-exclusive roles. "Time Machine" lunatics and others, these roles are not difficult to play, but they are quite attractive, so the requirements for appearance and temperament are higher.

At the same time, the formation of the film crew is also going on. The photography team is mainly based on the "High School Musical" team, and the photographer is held by Valle Fischer." Wang Yang and him worked together in "High School Musical" Very happy, a certain tacit understanding has been cultivated, and the two are very happy to work together again; now the fat man Leng Li-George, who is the assistant of Walley-Fiss, has also become the camera assistant of the film, and has the opportunity to hold the camera by himself , Of course, the focus of work is still doing chores.

Regarding the photography style and color style of "When Happiness Comes Knocking", after many discussions between Wang Yang and Walley Pfister, they decided to shoot in a simple photography style with bright colors, and the colors will change with time. Make appropriate changes according to the content of the story. The beginning of the story "Chris's life has not changed" is medium-bright, and when shooting street scenes, it is necessary to make the picture have a slightly yellowish historical feeling; when Chris is struggling, the color can be darker; when he is struggling , to the final success, the color will become more and more sunny and warm. If "High School Musical" is a bright summer sun," then "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" is the warm morning light of autumn.

In addition to the photography team, Wang Yang, the set designer and costume designer of the crew, also spent a lot of thought on choosing,

This is different from "High School Musical", which are all campus sets and costumes" that take place in the present, without too much difficulty; while "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" is set in 1981, the 1980s seems to be just It was only a dozen years ago, but the world is changing with each passing day, both cities and people are constantly changing. It is a very delicate job to restore the environment, clothes, etc. at that time.

In fact, the original version of "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" has quite a lot of "goofing scenes". For example, in 1981, the subway seats in San Francisco were brown, not blue; Twilight films of the UT brand that appeared on the west coast...Although these details are irrelevant, audiences and movie fans generally will not find out, let alone pay attention to them, but Wang Yang just wants to do better, maybe it is picky, but there can be fewer goofy shots Just less, which requires a very good set designer.

Of course, some goofy shots are intentional, because those are implanted advertisements, like UTZ potato chips. There are many such advertisements in "When Happiness Knocks on the Door"" But Wang Yang doesn't want to do this kind of thing, those small advertisements can give The film brings three or four million sponsorships, thereby reducing the production cost of the film, but his purpose is to spend more money, but also to have the best effect of the film, and deliberately let advertisements appear in the lens? No, that will easily affect Get the audience's engagement and let them shout "Please! "

Through the introduction of Meggis translated by Robert, Wang Yang tried to invite Nancy Hagrid to be the set designer of the crew. " and other movies, he has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Art Direction and won two awards, and is the top set designer in Hollywood.

But she rejected Wang Yang, even though she had just finished working on the Coen Brothers' new film "Three Days of Prison Break" and had no new film contract yet; even though Wang Yang was very sincere, and the remuneration was nearly double the market." She still refused No, there is no reason. In fact, it is still the one, she does not watch the biographical film of the "baby director" Wang Yang; besides, his qualifications are not enough." She is now with the Coen brothers, Tim Burton, Rob With the cooperation of Zemeckis and other top directors, the magical Yang? Just a kid.

After being rejected many times, Wang Yang didn't continue to make fun of himself. Under the help of Will Smith, he finally invited Gordon Xin to join. This man in his 40s is not bad, he is The set designer of "The Wind", which has not yet been released, will have masterpieces such as "Chicago" and "Pirates of the Caribbean 4" in the future. He is also the statuette who won the Oscar for the best art direction set for "Chicago". Of course, his current reputation is nothing more than being a "nice" set designer.

Set designer, prop designer, costume designer...the work of forming the crew was completed one by one. When everything was ready, all the members of "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" went to San Francisco, and the time has come to the beginning of October.

The weather in San Francisco in October is still so pleasant. As another center of the film industry, there are film crews filming in this city every month, and now it welcomes a new crew, the familiar Wang Yang. In the next two months, Wang Yang will be shooting movies in this "site", and today, they will officially start shooting the first set of shots.

"When Happiness Knocks on the Door" has several main indoor scenes, such as Chris Gardner's home, brokerage company, subway station, etc.; and there are many exterior scenes "streets, parks, etc. As a person who grew up in the Bay Area My son, choosing a scene is a very easy thing for Wang Yang. He used to wander around the Bay Area a lot, and once in the summer vacation, he and that girl had a two-person activity of "walking around San Francisco". What kind of street scene he wanted, he could think of a bunch of places at will.

In the first scene of the boot, Wang Yang chose "Chinatown Nursery". To put it a bit exaggeratedly, he can move freely in Chinatown with his eyes closed." Without any effort, Wang Yang found a small street that was very suitable for shooting. There is also a small nursery in the street, the same window that can be seen from the outside, the same graffiti wall with childish wall paintings. Of course, there is no ""happy, ness, and "fu2k". ".

The street in front of the nursery was full of people, and the camera team was arranging and adjusting equipment." Harry George carefully put a reel of film into the camera; Will Smith wore a black suit , wearing a brown tie, he was sitting with Charlie-Smith talking about the script, Jada and his personal assistant were teasing Jaden sitting in the BB car; Wang Yang and Walley-Pfister were discussing shooting angles, Nodding from time to time. In the distance, there are some extras who are ready to play passers-by waiting to start.

"Director Yang!" Gordon Yixin, who was standing next to the graffiti wall, shouted. He held a bottle of black graffiti spray paint, looked at Wang Yang in the distance and shouted: "I'm going to start spraying!"

"Oh!" Wang Yang patted the shoulder of Vallefische." The detective walked quickly to the graffiti wall, took a place, and smiled: "Happyness is sprayed here, remember it's not I, it's U" Gordon Yixin smiled, and pressed the spray paint." With the sound of "Zhizhi, a light black English word "Happyness" gradually appeared on the wall." Gordon smiled and said: "Okay." When it dries, I Let's deal with it again." Wang Yang nodded, then pointed to a position higher up, and said, "Dame sprays here, it should be bigger.

"Gordon switched to a bottle of darker spray paint and started spraying.

The reason why Wang Yang did not choose the word "Fu2k" is that "it aggravated the bad situation in the nursery, which further explained the poverty of Chris Gardner." He loves his son so much, but he reluctantly put his son in the nursery in such an environment. The effect of "Damn" is about the same" and it's not a swear word, Wang Yang wants to try his best to get an A-level release" Once there is a ****, it will definitely be PG-13.

Similarly, in several shots of daily life, Chris's wife "Linda" will wear a pajamas like that, and appear on the scene without a bra.

One more twist to the nursery plot is that the acerbic Mrs. Chu is actually a person, and that only needs a few more lines and a few shots to change that. Chris-Gardner was so poor that he couldn’t even pay for the nursery, and it took a long time, but Mrs. Zhu didn’t drive Christopher out. On the contrary, on the day when Chris was late to pick up the child, Mrs. Zhu cooked noodles for Christopher. , although she is not forgiving "opening a not-so-good nursery school, she is very kind-hearted.

Is the bitter Mrs. Chu a fact? That's not true, because the fact is, Chris Gardner was in New York at the time, and Christopher wasn't in daycare. Why this change? Wang Yang is a part of Chinatown, and he admits there are some lower-level nurseries, which is fine; but he doesn't like that the only named Chinese character in the movie, Mrs. Zhu, is a lousy "This is San Francisco! It's Chinatown! He deserves it Credit to this place.

The two mother-of-pants were quick to fuck, and Gordon Sheen treated them to make them look like they had been sprayed on a long time ago, and when the scene was all set and the extras were in place, Will Smith got up and stood At the entrance of the nursery school, the Chinese uncle who can't speak English also took a broom to sweep the fallen leaves and garbage on the ground.

Wang Yang stood behind the camera and looked at the crew members around him. Warley Fischer, Harry George, and many old faces from the crew of "High School Musical", are you ready? Second film on film! He smiled slightly, turned his eyes to the viewfinder, and shouted: "Let's get started!" Following his words, Warley Fiss started the camera, and after the scene manager finished shouting the serial number, he knocked down the camera with a "Da" sound. The field record is pulled.

"N!" Wang Yang raised his fist excitedly. This part of his life is called making movies!

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