Hollywood Director 1992.

Chapter 107: A radical movie? (Subscribe)

The pictures taken by Sofia are beautiful, delicate and artistic.

But this film is a documentary, and most importantly, it is real.

Only truth can make the audience believe that the story in the movie is true. Only by believing that it is true can they feel involved and feel terrified.

The shots taken by Sofia are too neat and delicate, like a woman who has been carefully dressed up. Although beautiful, she is fake and affected.

There is no authenticity at all.

"How is it? Stop being in a daze and say something."

Sophia pushed his shoulder.

"What does this mean? Why are Renee and Matt looking at each other? Why do they look so ambiguous?"

Link pointed at the screen.

"They are a young man and woman. Isn't it normal for them to develop feelings for each other while traveling?"

Link's mouth twitched.

"What does this mean? Why does Ben look so unhappy?"

"My idea is that the female lead, Annie, likes the male lead, Mike, and the male lead, Charlie, has a crush on Annie. Mike and Charlie are good friends, and he doesn't want to see Charlie sad, so he doesn't accept Annie's advances and pretends not to know that Annie likes him."

"What a mess! This is a horror movie, not a romance movie. Who told you to insert a love scene? And a most vulgar love triangle at that? What's the point of this kind of scene other than distracting the audience's attention?"

"I have to do this. The storyline of your script is too thin. The first few dozen minutes are just walking and chatting, or interviewing residents. It's too monotonous and undramatic. If you shoot it this way, no one will watch this movie."

Sophia said without giving in.

Link covered his forehead and said, "You are right. Adding other elements will indeed increase the appeal of the movie. Many movies handle this way, but it is not appropriate in this movie.

The design of this film is very simple. Driven by curiosity, three college students come to the small town of Wilton to visit the Blair Witch. This is a documentary with two key words: one is truth and the other is horror. Apart from these two points, nothing else is needed. "

"Is it possible to not have acting skills?"

"Sure. As long as the three of them can make the plot more thrilling during filming, they can act however they want. Everything is for the sake of thriller, and all other details can be discarded."

"Are you filming a Yakuza movie?"

"Extreme? Well, kind of."

Link wasn't sure if there were any Yakuza in the film industry, but Sophia's analogy was spot on.

“Sophia, there is one thing you have to understand, we are making an experimental film, not a classic art film or a commercial blockbuster.

Therefore, you don’t need to think too complicatedly when filming, and don’t attach too much meaning, ideals, or goals to the film.

A movie of this budget can’t support too many things. Imposing too much will only make the movie collapse, and it will also make you collapse.”

"Okay, whatever you want. My original plan was to be your assistant on the crew, but you asked me to be the director. Since you think my shooting is not good enough, then you can do it yourself. I want to see what you can shoot."

“It’s not that I think what you shot is not good, but it’s not suitable for this movie.

The target audience of this movie is young people in their teens and twenties who are curious and like fast food, as well as middle-aged and elderly people who like supernatural stories but have a low level of appreciation.

Instead of the highly educated and intelligent social elites, this group of people are mostly materialists who do not believe in the rumors about witches and will not even look at a film no matter how well it is filmed.

The target audience of the film is different, which means that what we shoot cannot be too profound. If it is too profound, they will not understand it. It is like dancing ballet for the blind. Do you understand?"

Link said patiently.

"Is this also the reason why the box office of "The Godfather" directed by my father was not as good as "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial", "Jaws" and "Home Alone"? "

Sophia thought about it and asked.

"Yes, that's true." "Okay, let's shoot it according to your script, but the threshold of your movie is too low. I don't think those people will be tricked into going to the cinema by you."

"Who knows."

Link shrugged his shoulders and said no more. He took Sofia back to the crew, found Renée Zellweger, Matt Damon and the others, and told them that there were problems with the previous filming and that it needed to be re-shot.

But not all of it had to be reshot, there were also some acceptable shots in the plot shot by Sofia.

This type of thing doesn't need a retake.

"Take it again?"

After hearing Link's request, Ben Affleck had no objection in person, but whispered to Matt Damon in private.

“I feel like this movie is going to be terrible.”

"why?"

Matt Damon was flipping through the script on his chair. The previous script given by Sofia was invalid. They had to shoot according to the original script and they needed to memorize the lines again.

"I've been in Hollywood for more than a year, and I've never heard of a crew reshooting from the beginning to the end after wrapping up. This is making a movie, not playing a game. If you fail the first time, you can try the second time. If someone does what Link did, it would be strange if the movie didn't lose money."

"Then you are surprised by what you have seen."

Renée Zellweger interjected.

"You've only been in Hollywood for half a year. Have you ever seen many crews shoot a movie several times?"

Ben Affleck curled his lips, not quite convinced by Renee.

Renée Zellweger smiled slightly, hooked her hair by her ear with her fingers, and glanced at Link who was busy in front of the camera. "Guess how many times Paranormal Activity was filmed?"

"Hmm? More than once?"

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck asked in amazement.

Suddenly they remembered that Renée Zellweger was the second female lead in "Paranormal Activity" and knew the inside story of the movie very well.

"Of course, there were more than one. The first time, the male lead was Link. I heard that the Paranormal Activity released in Asia used the first version."

Renée Zellweger laughed.

"Link was the male lead in the first version, and Jeremy Northam was the male lead in the second version, so Paranormal Activity was filmed twice?"

Ben Affleck asked.

"No, based on my observation, it should be three times. There are three versions of this movie."

"Three versions?!"

"Shoot a movie three times?"

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck almost cried out in surprise.

"A movie is shot three times. Is Link making a movie or doing an experiment? Which experimental result is the best to use?"

Ben complained.

"Before filming Paranormal Activity, Link publicly said that this was an experimental film, used to practice and explore audience preferences. Since it is an experimental film, it is normal to shoot it two or three times."

Renée Zellweger said:

“Is this how movies are made?”

Ben Affleck's eyes lit up and he was deeply moved.

(End of this chapter)