The prop team quickly bought what Adriaan needed. It was a large string of orange-and-red beads. Although many people were puzzled, why did he buy this thing back? This confusion didn't last long, but when the bead curtain was hung up in the room and Adriaan started shooting again, they understood.
"What should I say to them?" Stan's underling asked Stan when he was about to leave to negotiate with the police who had arrived.
"Tell them." Stan, who had walked some distance, suddenly turned around and walked to the bead curtain. He looked at his men with wolf-like eyes through the slender beads. "We are doing our job!"
“Good！” Adriaan, who was standing behind the camera and shooting, raised his head and gave Oldman a thumbs up. "This shot is quite good, Gary. The effect is better through the bead curtain. I believe this and the one with Nada yesterday should be the best scenes in this movie. "
This was mostly just a compliment. Indeed, after Adriaan had a brainwave and added the bead curtain, Oldman's scene looked more evil and dangerous, but it was fundamentally different from Natalie's. Matilda crying at the door of Lyon's room was the key to the turning point of the whole story. If Lyon didn't open the door, the movie couldn't continue. When Stan asked his men to deal with the other police officers, it was just to make his neurotic personality more obvious. It was dispensable. Even if it couldn't be reflected here, it could be reflected elsewhere.
However, it didn't cost money to say a few compliments, and it could make their relationship more harmonious. Everyone liked to hear nice words, so why not?
"I have to say that the effect of the bead curtain is obviously much better than without it." Oldman, who deliberately ran to the monitor to look at the camera, said, "No wonder they say you always have endless ideas."
Compliments were always mutual.
"Then let's continue. There are still a lot of scenes to shoot." Adriaan was about to ask everyone to redecorate the room, but Assistant Director Masterson stopped him. "Wait, Eide, before that, there are still a few scenes that need to be reshot first."
Adriaan raised his eyebrows and immediately realized that there were two main scenes here. In addition to the scene where Stan asked his men to deal with the police, there was also a scene where Stan played with Matilda's father. Now that the bead curtain was added, of course, the previous scene had to be reshot. Otherwise, if the bead curtain was not there for a while, it would be a joke.
"Indeed." Adriaan called the actor who played Matilda's father over. "I'm sorry, Brinkley. I need you to perform scene 54 in scene 104 again."
"No problem, Mr. Director," the chubby Brinkley said immediately.
"Very good, guys. We're going to start reshooting now. Let's get moving." Adriaan called everyone and then added half-jokingly, "To be honest, you should feel lucky. If I only thought of using the bead curtain after all the scenes in the apartment were shot, at least half of the scenes would have to be reshot."
This joke didn't arouse much laughter. Everyone was busy reshooting the scenes. Adriaan didn't care. He went behind the camera and took charge again. This time, it didn't take too much time. Both Oldman and Brinkley were already familiar with the process, and with the previous adjustments, Oldman's performance was even better.
Adriaan seized the opportunity to shoot the scenes in one go and finally completed the progress before the end of the day. Although according to the plan, the scene about the extermination of the family only needed two days to shoot, Adriaan had already delayed the time by at least half a day because there were scenes with four-year-old children.
All directors and producers knew that the most troublesome actors during filming were not big stars or extras who didn't know how to perform. The most troublesome actors were animals and four- to eight-year-old children! This was because they didn't know what emotions and feelings the director wanted them to express. If they cooperated with them, it would cause a disaster.
Fortunately, the little boy who played the role of Matilda's brother didn't have many scenes. Other than hiding under the bed and running out because of an unexpected situation, there was basically nothing else. Even the scene where he was shot was expressed by one of Stan's men shooting dozens of holes in the wall. Basically, there were very few scenes in American movies where the corpses of children were a few years old. Even with Kubrick's boldness, he could only use a fleeting scene in "The Shining" to show the scene of the twin little girls lying in a pool of blood. This was the bottom line of the MPAA, and it was absolutely not allowed to be crossed.
Even so, these simple scenes took a long time to complete. Although the four-year-old boy looked very clever, he didn't know what fear was, and he didn't like to talk. Whenever Adriaan told him to make him more nervous or panicked, he would always look at him with wide eyes, puzzled.
This was definitely an annoying thing. Although these scenes barely passed in the end, Adriaan felt depressed and had a headache when he thought that he still needed to appear in the scene when filming Matilda's family life.
Well, no matter what, there was still some time before that scene. It was already over for the day, so there was no point in being depressed. With this thought in mind, Adriaan left the set with Monica after giving a few instructions to Charlize. The program in the evening was naturally eating and shopping. Although Monica had participated in several fashion festivals in New York when she was a model and visited some scenery, it was basically just a cursory tour.
Although Adriaan rarely came to New York in the past, he would come every year at the end of the 1990s because he needed to rebuild his relationship with his uncle. His understanding of New York had also increased, so it wasn't a problem for him to be a simple tour guide.
Fifth Avenue, Times Square, the Statue of Liberty at the mouth of the Hudson River, these were all must-see places, even if the two of them had been there before. It wasn't until they had a good time that they returned to the apartment and continued to do what they loved to do.
It was the same for the next few days, but Monica didn't stay at the set of "This Killer Is Not Too Cold" every day. She would also go out alone when Adriaan was directing, but as long as Adriaan finished work, the two would go out together and go back to the apartment together.
In this way, whether it was the new staff of the crew or Oldman and the others, they would all know what their relationship was. Of course, no one would say anything. This kind of situation was really normal. Oldman even joked with Adriaan a few times, but Adriaan easily brushed it off.
"Just shoot the upper body, Sophie. If you feel uncomfortable, you can tell me. We can modify the action." Adriaan stood in the narrow kitchen aisle and talked to the two actors. The fat and slightly wretched man was Brinkley, who played the father, and the woman with dyed blonde hair and a leopard-print silk coat was Sophie, who played the stepmother.
"No problem, Mr. Director, I'm ready," Sophie said immediately.
"I'll pay attention to the situation, Mr. Director," Brinkley said.
"Very good, then familiarize yourself with the lines. We will start the first shoot in a few minutes." Adriaan nodded and walked to the other side to talk to the others.
The scenes of the family being exterminated had been shot, and now they were shooting the scenes of Matilda's first home. The time was around the morning when the family was exterminated. Basically, after these scenes were shot, the scenes of the apartment were also finished.
"Hey, look here, Toby. I'm a little goat, a little goat, eating little grass all day long, little grass." As they walked past a room, Adriaan suddenly heard such a voice, followed by giggles.
He curiously took a few steps back and looked inside. It turned out to be Natalie playing with the boy who played her brother. She sat on the bed with her hands on her head, pretending to be a goat. She looked very cute when she smiled. Sometimes she would look at him, and sometimes she would stick out her tongue. The little boy was teased and giggled.
"You look more like a rabbit, Nada," Adriaan, who was standing at the door, could not help but say.
"That's impossible. Everyone always said that I'm good at pretending to be a goat." Natalie immediately refuted after she saw who it was.
"But you do look more like ears than horns." Adriaan said with a smile. He then raised two fingers on both sides of his head and shook them.
"It's not like that …" Natalie was about to continue to refute when she suddenly thought of something. She hugged her arms in front of her chest and retracted her legs. At the same time, she pouted and "glared" at Adriaan. "How can you peek! That's not gentlemanly at all! "
Adriaan almost choked on his own saliva. He looked at Natalie, annoyed and amused. He did not know what to say. Because they were filming the scenes in the morning, and Natalie had already filmed the scene where she answered the phone call from the reform school, she had not had time to change her outfit. Thus, she was still wearing a blue and white striped shirt, a white vest, and safety pants.
Although she was only a few days away from turning 12, her slightly developed chest was already a little curved. Her pair of white and slender legs were also exposed. In addition, her delicate face was a mixture of shyness, annoyance, dissatisfaction, and slyness. It was as if she had become one with Matilda. It made her look young and inexperienced, but fatally tempting. Even before this, Adriaan had already seen her dressed like this when they were filming the scene where she answered the phone.
Vladimir, I curse you once more, and I praise you once more. Adriaan sighed softly in his heart. For a moment, he once again thought of the famous quote from Lolita. There was no better adjective than this, was there?
