amaotonovel Chapter 3658 Movie Plan (1)
Chapter 3658 Movie Plan (1)
Chapter 3658 Movie Plan (XI)
There was only one scene on the train, but it took us half a day to perform. Although Director Chris is usually smiling, he is actually very demanding. We reshot dozens of times before we finally got the effect he wanted. Even though the little wizards have good bodies, they were exhausted.
After lunch and a nap, Wanda also came back. The whole afternoon was spent filming the Sorting scene. Because this segment did not use magic, and there were not so many little wizards to act as extras, so some ordinary children were found to act as extras. Seven or eight hundred children were in one venue, and the scene almost became uncontrollable.
The young wizards were fine. Although Kamar-Taj was relatively simple, it still had a lot of magical elements. They were used to some fantastic scenes.
But it was different for ordinary children, especially some of them were local residents who had never been out of Massachusetts. When they suddenly saw such a big castle and such a gorgeous hall, they were completely stunned, and then they ran around and screamed like crazy.
Massachusetts law states that children cannot be left alone in an adult workplace, so the children's parents had to come in. But they were powerless against such a sight, grabbing their children with one hand and taking pictures with the other, turning it into a large-scale garden party.
The important actors were a little speechless, but it seemed that the producer was used to it. He just let them go crazy for three hours, and when the excitement of the children and parents had passed, most of them were tired and finally sat down in their seats.
Many people looked around curiously and whispered to the people next to them, but this did not take away from the play. After all, in real life, it is difficult for children of this age to sit still, and some small movements make it seem more real.
Then came the long shoot. When it came time to get serious, Director Chris didn't give anyone any slack. He corrected the walking posture, the action of raising the glass, every look and expression, and the pauses in the lines over and over again. If the filming was not good, he would not pass it.
Schiller had quite a few scenes in this scene. After filming the young wizards' sorting, Strange finished his speech and began to introduce the professors. The other professors had no lines, just waiting to be introduced. Schiller, however, had a line here to remind them to be careful, and it was an important line to pave the way for the subsequent plot. Schiller was indeed a little unsure.
Strange, wearing the Sorcerer Supreme uniform, walked to the table and began to introduce the glorious history of Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and the professors. He finally mentioned Schiller's name:
"This is our school doctor, Dr. Patton. His name is Eldridge Patton."
Strange looked back at Schiller. Schiller stood up.
"You can just call me Dr. Eldridge. I have saved countless students' lives in this school, but I don't want this number to increase again. Especially this year, before the arrival of the new students, several underclassmen have gone home to take a leave of absence due to strange blood diseases. I don't want you to..."
"Stop!" Director Chris shouted. Schiller had no choice but to turn his head and look at him.
"Don't be so gloomy, Dr. Schiller. Yes, I know that as a doctor you should show concern for your students, but you can't show too much concern. You should act impatient and warn them not to add to your workload. Do you understand?"
Schiller opened his mouth. He didn't really understand. If you said there were a bunch of high school students sitting down there, that would be fine. But the key point was the little wizards in the front row. The oldest one was only ten years old, and the youngest one was only seven or eight years old. Some of them sat on the chairs with their feet not even touching the ground. How could he threaten these kids?
Besides, he is a school doctor. Isn't it the duty of a school doctor to treat children? If they don't get sick, won't he be out of work? If he is unemployed, won't he have no money to earn?
To be honest, although Schiller's consultation fee is high, his medical ethics are still quite good. He really works for you after you get paid. Don't worry about whether he uses orthodox medical methods. Anyway, he can definitely cure you. It can be said that the medicine cures the disease and the doctor brings you back to health.
The doctors he knew were generally very dedicated. Although Strange had a bad temper, he really did perform surgeries. His interns scheduled 15 surgeries for him a day, and he could complete them all. God really didn't give him these hands in vain.
Besides, Schiller was relatively patient in most cases. Otherwise, if he hadn't been patient, he would have been annoyed to death by the hundreds of kids running around him and clamoring for his autograph.
Schiller sighed and tried again. Chris was still not satisfied and insisted that he should be tougher so that the protagonist and the audience would misunderstand him. Schiller swore that he had tried his best, but after trying three or four times and failing, he was a little annoyed. He could see that Chris was trying to irritate him, but he really didn't have that bad temper.
Seeing that it was getting dark, the little wizards below were all sleepy and staggering, and Strange was going crazy. Schiller had been standing for more than an hour, and he really couldn't stand it anymore. He gritted his teeth and stomped his feet: Change people!
Of course, it doesn't mean he won't act anymore, but he can use other personality traits to take over. Don't you want a fierce one? I'll find you the fiercest one!
Shooting started again. Schiller sat back in his chair first, and after a brief moment of distraction, his eyes changed. When the camera captured his eyes, the gray color that was more desolate but more focused than usual made the photographer pause, but the director next to him brightened up.
"This is our school doctor, Dr. Patton. His name is... yes..."
"Stop!!!" Chris stood up and roared at the stuck Strange, "What are you doing!! I've said it so many times, but you still don't remember the name?!"
Strange didn't reply, still staring at Schiller blankly, then slowly turned around and said, "Sorry, do it again."
When he started again, he subconsciously took a step back and was stopped by Chris again. Chris slammed the table and said, "Where are you going?! You are almost out of the shot!! Isn't there enough space for you to stand?!"
Strange could only stand back to his original position helplessly. He saw that Schiller had been replaced, so he really didn't want to stand here now.
"This is our school doctor, Dr. Patton. His name is... Eldridge Patton..."
Schiller did not stand up, but just sat in his seat, stretched out his hand to straighten the school badge hanging on his academic robe, and with his other hand picked up the fork and tapped the wall of the cup. The crisp sound made the audience quiet immediately.
"Hello, I'm Doctor Barton. I'll be spending the next few years with you. You can come to me for any health problems you have... Oh, maybe I forgot to tell you that this year, three of your seniors have already bid farewell to Ilvermorny. If you want to follow them, you'd better continue to ignore your own safety."
Schiller did not show the kind of irritability and impatience that Chris wanted, and even spoke slower than before, seeming nonchalant and casual. But when he finished speaking, the audience was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
“Cut!” Chris pumped his fist vigorously. “Perfect! Just like that! This is the feeling I want!… Stephen and Wanda, why are you two standing so far away? Hurry and get back to the camera, we still need to continue filming!”
After the scenes in the auditorium were finished, the wizards went to the lake nearby to film the boating scene. Yes, Strange still did not delete the boating scene, and it was not even in the original script, but Strange strongly requested to add it, so the director and screenwriter added it for him.
The boating scene was another busy one, and it was late at night when we finished. The crew sent a car to take the actors back to the hotel, while the director team started reviewing the film overnight to pick out the problematic parts so that they could reshoot them the next day.
As a famous director, Chris has a very accurate control of emotions. He looked at the changes in Schiller's expression on the computer screen and said in confusion: "Why do I feel that this is a bit unlike him?"
"I also find it a bit strange," the assistant director sitting next to him said, "In fact, you can see that when you ask him to be more irritable, he is quite unwilling to do so and can't get into the state for a long time. This is the disadvantage of non-professional actors. When they are asked to play roles that are different from their personalities, they can't use professional skills to control their reactions, which will result in many takes failing. I thought we wouldn't be able to finish shooting this scene today."
Chris crossed his arms and said, "The last part of his performance didn't seem like an act. It was like he was a completely different person... Split personality disorder?"
"That's impossible. He's a psychiatrist," the assistant director said. "Psychiatrists also have to undergo regular psychological examinations. If there's a problem, they can't practice, right?"
"That would only be discovered if he couldn't control himself, but he's obviously switching on his own initiative. He switches his personality based on the situation he needs to adapt to... I have an idea!" Chris suddenly raised his voice.
He took a script from the side and began to write and draw in the blanks, and then started to call the screenwriter who had already left. The two of them were completely immersed in the atmosphere of artistic creation and didn't know what the world was.
So the next morning, Schiller, who had just woken up, received a new script, which was completely different from the previous version and even thicker.
Schiller sat on the bedside, speechless and choking. He finally understood why actors, like psychiatrists, had to charge by the hour—he had just accepted the character setting of the previous script yesterday and had almost memorized all the lines, so why was there a completely new version today? !
Could you, the director team, first reach a consensus among yourselves, figure out who I am, and then start filming the movie?
When Schiller opened the script, his eyes went dark. He grabbed his phone, found the director's number, dialed it, and yelled, "That's not called schizophrenia, that's called dissociative identity disorder!!!"
Then he suddenly realized, looked at the script and said, "You mean the school doctor has dissociative identity disorder, he has a good personality and a bad personality, so he behaves inconsistently?!"
Chris was talking nonstop on the other end of the phone. Schiller listened and read the script, and then he discovered a key point - the bad personality of the school doctor was Saphir, the most brutal black wizard who had contracted Mephisto, the king of hell, and helped Mephisto invade the earth decades ago!
This isn't Snape anymore, it's Voldemort now, right? !