Chapter 60: Sleeping Jenny
It's been a few days since I started filming "Pirates of the Caribbean", and although it's a great work, it's not very difficult for Jenny, and it's a type of hard work. She didn't even need to rewatch Keira Knightley's performances as often, but she did a few auditions in the show space, and she was able to get the role of Elizabeth Swan almost perfectly, and she was easily approved by Gore at the script study.
Unlike the linear development of the character of the TV series, there are some basic skills that must be honed in actual combat to play the leading role in the movie. For example, interpreting the character through the script and finding the relationship between the characters are all things that must be done before filming starts. Of course, some wonderful directors don't even have a script in their hands when they start filming, and the relationship between the roles depends on the actors' countless reshoots to determine (Wong Kar-wai), but that is the score that only artists and directors can pose, and the normal commercial film crew must do character interpretation, script dialogue and auditions before filming, and at the same time, the set crew must also prepare props and prepare the filming venue. Filming a movie is a very expensive job, and there will be fewer staff during the preparation period, so adjusting the state of the actors at this time is much more cost-effective than NG again and again after the start of filming.
Jerry was ready to go on vacation at this time, and a big producer like him didn't need to solve the problems on the set unless they were so serious that they needed to ask Disney for money because of budget overruns, or if the main actor and director were too incompatible to continue working. Naturally, there are countless producer assistants and executive producers to take care of the crew's food, clothing, housing and transportation, as well as solve the endless small problems on the set. As for what each working group does every day, it is up to the director to decide, so a good director often has a fixed work team, and they are often masters of co-ordination, especially for blockbusters like "Pirates of the Caribbean", including temporary performances, sometimes the number of actors to be mobilized exceeds hundreds, and the number of film crews is also more than 100 people.
- It is also because of a little understanding of these things, Chen Zhen has never moved the idea of being a director or screenwriter, not to mention whether it is moral to plunder the fruits of other people's labor, such an idea is very stupid from the perspective of feasibility alone, let's talk about being a screenwriter first, Hollywood has thousands of good scripts lying in the script library of major film and television companies every year waiting to be filmed, a 14-year-old film, maybe the script was written in 2000, but it has never been able to find a suitable opportunity to shoot, even if you write it by pulling the film This kind of script will first go through copyright registration, the overlap rate is so high, the judge will judge plagiarism without blinking, and what awaits Jenny at that time is the result of a huge fine and discredit.
As for being a director, hehe, there are a lot of good films, and it doesn't mean that you can shoot them, you know that this shot is good, but do you know how it was made? Unless you can set up the scenery by yourself, or even shoot it yourself (even then there are limitations on your hands-on ability), otherwise even if you are given an unlimited budget and a sophisticated working group, you may not be able to restore the same movie, even if you restore the same movie, do you know how people in the previous life marketed it? Because the marketing is not done well, there are endless examples of good movies failing to achieve good performance, which is not uncommon at all. The biggest possibility of plagiarism is to deprive others of the opportunity to create good works, and they have not been able to make any classics.
But being an actor is different, a role played by two people may be two different performances, although it is a little shameless to say so, but after grabbing the role, Jenny thinks that the original version in the entertainment space plays the role of 'stones from other mountains can attack jade', and she cannot and does not plan to copy the performance of the original actor, but use it as a reference to improve her own performance ideas. For example, Keira Knightley of "Pirates of the Caribbean", her performance changes in the three "Pirates of the Caribbean" gave Jenny a lot of inspiration.
Judging from her resume, Kayla is also from a wild road, she has not undergone a professional education, nor has she been trained in the West End of London, in general, she is also constantly honing herself in various films, groping for the way of acting, so when she starred in "Pirates of the Caribbean 1", her performance is far from perfect, she has been relying on her personal charm to support it, many times there is a feeling of making people play, in addition to the love scene with the blacksmith is more blunt, the biggest problem is that she can't adapt to the humor of the "Pirates" series.
"Pirates of the Caribbean" tells the story of the adventure of the pirate captain Jack Sparrow in order to recapture his Black Pearl in order to regain his Black Pearl, and Will Turner, the son of Will Turner, the crew of the Black Pearl. On the one hand, the battle to destroy the city is indeed happening, and the NPCs in the background are also dying on the ground, and even the British Navy is also chasing pirates, the whole big world view is still following basic common sense, it is a serious world, not a downright ridiculous comedy, but on the other hand, the audience does not need to worry about the main characters will die, or even worry that they will fail, Captain Jack is not Stallone, Schwarzenegger, a traditional hero with a deep hatred and a frowning brow, rarely even has a serious moment, and the character itself has a strong sense of joy. The fight between life and death takes place between laughter and scolding, and the fight and funny elements are entangled, turning into a tool for flirting or reflecting the character's personal charm.
In the whole movie, all the plots around Captain Jack have this very strong sense of absurdity and joy, Jack is using unreliable methods, through a very unreliable process to complete reliable things, even if he does big things, it will not make people worship him, but this kind of people-friendly and funny shaping method is very enjoyable in the audience, the audience will think, oops, this guy is funny, cool and funny, and unspeakably stylish. The pirate series is popular all over the world because of the charm of Captain Jack, rather than the modest performances of Will and Elizabeth, which is why starring in the pirate series has made Johnny Depp a superstar, one of the few super A-lists in Hollywood, and the help for Orlando and Kayla is very limited to help them go further on the star road. In addition to their own acting limitations, it is also because the essence of "Pirates of the Caribbean" is completely condensed in Captain Jack, and they can only become the 'normal' side of its 'abnormal' charm.
Specific to Kayla, in "Pirates 1", her performance is worse than Orlando, because Orlando's blacksmith and Captain Jack interact more, and the script also arranges a lot of ingenious and funny details for him, although he is not integrated into the character all the time, but at least there is a side that sticks to the 'ridiculous and funny', and Kayla's Elizabeth bears a lot of screams, panic, The scare scenes, for the most part, are a vase for the plot, and some of the rare funny scenes Kayla plays unnaturally, and the love scenes with Orlando are also very stiff, so the character doesn't feel brilliant, the only effect is to make people affirm that she is indeed beautiful - to make enough people around the world affirm this.
Jenny thinks otherwise, even Kayla's performance has matured and improved in "Pirates 2" and "Pirates 3", and the character of Elizabeth has gradually exuded an 'abnormal' charm, which has captured the charming elements of "Pirates of the Caribbean". This shows that Kayla's acting ideas were not clear enough in the first part, and in the second and third parts, she also understood the popularity of "Pirates" and is trying to get closer to it. And with her extraordinary talent, the results of her efforts are quite obvious, the only regret is that Kayla's own temperament is too serious, and her teeth are not very straight, and she has a wry smile when she laughs, so in the final 3 she can't be the same as Depp, seamlessly switching between serious and funny, which perfectly matches the most charming characteristics of the entire series. At this point, the actress of "Pirate 4" Penelope Cruz performed very well, and she deserved to be the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, although "Pirate 4" is full of beauties, but she and Depp sometimes turn their faces and fight to the death, sometimes save each other, and the relationship between love and kill each other is handled very properly, and there is no feeling of not being able to keep up with the rhythm of the performance. In "Pirates 1", it is not uncommon for Kayla to drop the line, and even in the whole set of scenes in her first appearance, the scene of "being strangled by a corset and unable to breathe" is not convincing, which is the reason why it cannot adapt to the style of "Pirates". And what Jenny wants to do is not to make the mistakes that Kayla made, and continue to carry forward the points where she performed well - Kayla performed remarkably well when dealing with some of the eldest lady's boudoir scenes, which shows that this is her area of expertise, so the following year she won a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination for "Sense and Sensibility". It's just that this kind of scene is too rare in "Pirates", and it's definitely not the point.
For Jenny, the eldest lady's boudoir scene is her difficulty, because she is not British, and she does not have the natural, casual classical aristocratic temperament of British actors, she decided to use empathy to perform this part of the scene, as for the scene that Kayla is not good at handling, she is not very scared, she already has a very complete idea, and has been verified several times through the entertainment space - compared to Kayla's restrained facial expressions, she decided to do the opposite, through rich facial expressions, Body movements and eye changes to express Elizabeth's character.
Although no matter how she acts, Depp's performance in the entertainment space is similar, so her changes are a little out of place, Jenny still decided to stick to her idea, anyway, she has a psychological safety blanket: no matter how bad her performance is, it's Kayla, and even if she does that, doesn't it affect the box office? I do my best anyway, as long as I perform better than her, the extra praise or something, even if I earn it.
She didn't know how Kayla wrote the character understanding at that time, Jenny combed through the script and Kayla's performance in the three parts, and decided to build her own understanding of the character in this way: Elizabeth is a big lady with adventurous genes in her bones, she is often very excited when facing a desperate situation, and she can save the situation with a little cleverness, and has the cunning and wisdom unique to women, but at the beginning of the film she is still too naïve, and a little pampered and timid, but behind these pampering and timidity there is still a boldness. The cautious and cunning Elizabeth is observing the situation. Her joy and romance are politely disguised at the beginning of the film, only slightly revealing clues, but they are unreservedly revealed later in the film. Even at the beginning of the film, she only maintains the demeanor of the eldest lady in front of people, and behind her people she is still a lively, cunning young woman, with many inappropriate rude behaviors, all of which are expressed through her overactive body language and rich expressions and language, and in social situations, although her demeanor is flawless, her eyes and expressions still reveal her true character.
Of course, this is only a rough idea, and there are some specific scenes Jenny has also written performance interpretations, and she has turned in more than 70 pages of character reports, which is more than Johnny and Josh's reports combined. After Gore watched it, he also agreed with her idea - and then the whole work was very simple for Jenny, all she had to do was to get up early every morning, and use some of the odd time to make up and wait, preview the scenes to be filmed today in her mind, according to the acting ideas, combined with empathy to make various attempts, and then through playback, find the one that is most integrated with the style of the film, and start acting. It's like a sniper, test shot - find the best angle to shoot - da.
Generally speaking, Gore doesn't have much of an opinion about her 'da-da', Jenny rarely NG because of her performance, and this kind of performance also makes some crew members look at her with admiration, Mary said to Jenny that there are some voices in the crew who say, 'Her performance and that role report are not at all like only high school graduation, nor like only one year in the circle'.
- It is worth mentioning that although Jeanne is now out of New York, Mary has not resigned, but has become her long-term assistant, in her words, 'after listening to Mr. Vijerry's speech, I measured my chances of success by his method, and found that my chances of success were even lower than zero at my current weight.'"
Despite this, Mary is still full of interest in the acting industry, although she no longer hopes to be an actor, but she still wants to stay around the entertainment industry and find her own development direction, so she changed the runway, hoping to win Jenny's long-term assistant position, which is actually a path that many people at the bottom of the industry will choose, whether it is to transfer to the direction of agents and managers in the future, or to be an artist's housekeeper or life assistant, in fact, it is a high salary and high return If Jenny can take off, Mary can be regarded as holding a golden thigh.
And Jenny, she also found that she was naïve to reject Cesare's idea of asking her to find a manager, at least now she needs someone who can answer the phone for her in time when she is filming, and do some simple communication, such as the simplest, when PR Judy calls to confirm the interview time with her, Jenny is filming, it will be very delayed, then Mary can pick up the phone, simply check the shooting schedule, and finalize the interview time. In addition, she did not ask for a high price, her performance was not bad, and she had always been diligent and dedicated, so after consulting Cesare, she signed a one-year employment contract with Mary, and of course, a confidentiality contract, which restricted Mary from commenting on her work and Jeanne's public and private life.
After hiring Mary, Jenny will hear some gossip in the crew from time to time, and she doesn't restrict Mary from chatting with people, as long as she doesn't say her right or wrong, anyway, although she has an assistant, Mary does a lot of the work within the scope of managers, basically such as taking food, bags or something, Jenny does it herself, and others can't find fault with her for playing big names.
Generally speaking, her reputation in the crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean" is actually on the rise, and at the beginning, even the script writer had some doubts about Jenny's appearance, after all, Kayla was at least British, and no one had heard whether Jenny's British accent was pure at the time, plus Cesare's mother was a Disney production manager, although she did not appear in this game from beginning to end, but the public's ability to guess the inside story has always been very strong. Add to this the comparison of resumes and other factors, many people think that Jenny won the role through a strong agent, and Mary heard the most excessive nickname as 'Vijri's bitch', but after filming began, the gossip in the pantry quickly disappeared, and people began to inquire about the box office storm she caused on Broadway. - After all, they are all insiders, and many staff members may not be able to give subtle comments on acting, but they can still have an intuitive feeling of good and bad.
After more than a month of filming, Jenny's only nickname with a bit of negative color is 'Sleeping Jenny', which is mainly the sequelae of Goldfinger, because a large part of the time on the set is waiting and putting on makeup, Jenny is generally immersed in the acting space, so that she can at least have a more complete rest time, so that she will not work at full capacity every day. So in the eyes of outsiders, she is equivalent to seizing all the time to close her eyes and recuperate, although it is not a mistake, but it is also a little difficult to get close.
Of course, this is not without intention, because if she is very social, Jenny will inevitably have more opportunities to meet Gore, which is not a good thing for him or her, in order to avoid damaging his million-dollar net worth or her mental health, she still continues to maintain an unsocial image on the set, but when she is filming with Josh and them, she will talk a few words during the break to create an atmosphere of mutual affection.
However, it's been a month since filming started, and there aren't many scenes between her and Josh, so the two are far from familiar. Josh is not enthusiastic about her at all in private, but has clues of alienation and avoidance everywhere, and it feels like he is doing his best to maintain basic social politeness, and Jenny even suspects that his relaxed behavior when chatting with her at Jerry's house is pretending to deceive the higher-ups, and in fact he is a homosexual with misogynistic tendencies.
Although the two have a contract, the execution of this contract is very flexible, and Jenny can't always stick a hot face to a cold ass, so the relationship between the two remains deadlocked for the time being, and Jenny's initial plan is to wait for the filmmaker to put pressure on her before having close contact with Josh - in fact, the reason why this accident has developed like this is that it cannot but be said to be related to their stiff socialization.
After filming some interior scenes in LA, the film crew now moved to the Caribbean coast to start filming on location, because they chose a wild island that could not provide accommodation, and every day the film crew had to go back and forth between the filming location and the residence by speedboat, Johnny and Jeffrey both enjoyed a speedboat alone, Jennifer and Josh shared one for two, plus some assistants and retinues of the two. However, because there was no cell phone signal on the island, Mary usually stayed on the shore, and Jenny came alone, and for several days on end, there was a frozen silence on the speedboat.
Jenny herself was a little seasick, so she simply went back to the performance space, on the one hand, to take a break, on the other hand, to avoid the embarrassment with Josh, tonight there was heavy rain, the sea was big, she was a little scared, but she didn't want to show weakness to Josh, as soon as she got on the boat and sat down, she went directly into the space, and she didn't know what was going on. By the time I woke up, the boat had already begun to enter the water - due to the wind and waves, the speedboat hit the rocks, and the bottom of the boat was scratched.
Of course, there are life jackets in the speedboats, there is no need to panic in this situation, just put on and wait for rescue, several speedboats are equivalent to going hand in hand, their accidents can not be found by no one, and someone should come to the rescue soon.
But, the bad thing is that the bottom of the boat is scratched, Jenny was in the space just now, and her reaction was a little slower, and when she came back to her senses and knew what she should do, the life jacket fell out of the hole directly, and now she was really quite panicked - it was dark, the wind and waves were strong, and in the middle of the vast sea, the whole ship was slowly sinking into the water, and she kept shaking, and she didn't even have a fucking life jacket.
The situation became very urgent, no one said anything, the captain had been using the radio to call his companions, organize the rescue, and was busy fixing the hull, Josh did not say a word, directly took off his life jacket and put it on Jenny, and when she put it on, he went to try to untie the lifebuoy tied to the side of the ship, but before he could finish it, the captain shouted, Josh wore nothing, pulled Jenny, and jumped out of the cabin under the captain's vague command.
To tell the truth, if it weren't for him, Jenny might not have understood what the captain was shouting at all under the wind and waves, because she could barely see anything now, so her five senses were also blinded, and she felt that the surrounding environment was very turbulent, and she was so nervous and scared that she wanted to vomit.
After falling into the water, she didn't know where the captain had gone, only that the whole ship was sinking slowly, and all she could barely reach was Josh's hand, and she couldn't push too hard to hinder Josh's own swimming movements, because the life jacket couldn't carry the weight of two people, and if Josh held her, they would both sink.
To be honest, Jenny has had many lows in her life, but only at this moment did she know what it meant to be abandoned by the whole world, no matter how ambitious she was or how long she was a child, she was a fart in front of the great power of heaven and earth, she was completely left with a simple survival instinct and a strong determination to stay with Josh.
"Josh!" a wave hit, and Jenny was pushed backwards a few meters away, and she screamed in fear, and shouted without knowing her direction, "Josh! God, Josh!
Fortunately, the next second, the opposite wave pushed her forward again, and Jenny also heard Josh's cry, "Jennifer!"
Then there was a shrill whistle, and repeated calls: "Jennifer!"
With the repetition of whistles and cries, Jenny made her way, and she barely regained a little of her senses, and swam as best she could in Josh's direction—when the waves were coming, her full strength only allowed her not to be pushed too late, but when the waves were pushing in her direction, she was able to go a long way.
However, Josh was not very far away from her, and when Jenny reached Josh in the misty light of the sea (a sinking speedboat), she was ashamed to find that Josh had only swam a few meters away. And he also magically has a lifebuoy on his body, which looks like the one he didn't solve just now.
"I'm sorry!" Josh explained as soon as he hugged her, "Jennifer, I can't hold out long without a lifebuoy, or we'll both be in danger." "
"Oh God, God, it's good you're okay!" Jenny couldn't listen to the explanation, and she hugged Josh tightly... 's lifebuoy, now she only has the happiness of the rest of her life in her mind, that is, if she wants to die, she would rather die with Josh than be washed into the depths of the sea alone and drowned. "Good thing you're okay!"
"Be cool, it's okay, Jennifer, we're safe. Josh may have sensed her emotional turmoil, he turned around and struggled to find an angle, and carried Jenny up to him, so that she was as close to him as possible, close to her ear and said steadily, "We will be safe soon, Jennifer, the captain has contacted a colleague, now the wind and waves are too strong, as soon as the wind and waves turn smaller, the coast guard will come out to pick us up, we are near the fixed route, the goal is very obvious, we will be rescued." "
In a panicked situation, a well-organized explanation is the best way to regain her senses, and Jenny gradually listens to what she says—her survival instincts have receded, and sociality has returned to her body.
"Really?" she breathed a sigh of relief when she thought about it, indeed, although the island was uninhabited, it was also a tourist attraction, and besides, the film crew passed by this voyage every day, and even if it was washed away, as long as it was near the island, it could be found by helicopter and speedboat. "Well, what about the captain?"
Josh took her hand and let her touch one of the ropes of the lifebuoy, the rope was taut, obviously under force, "He's on the reef side, he kept shouting when the ship was wrecked, didn't you hear? He also asked me to sneak over to get the lifebuoy. "
"I was so panicked. Jenny muttered, "Basically nothing." "
"It's okay, it's okay," Josh's voice was particularly calm in the waves, and his arm around Jenny was firm, "You're okay now, don't be afraid, Jennifer." "
The ship had sunk deep, the surroundings were slowly darkening, there was not even stars and moonlight in the boundless sea, and the only familiar things she could touch, the things that belonged to human society, were the lifebuoy, the rope, and Josh.
Jenny knew in a daze that it seemed to be empathy, but she really suddenly felt that her affection for Josh had exploded to the highest point - this man was really worth relying on.
"Don't call me Jennifer. She said, "Call me Jenny—that's my real name." "
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