Cher is wearing a black coat, with sexy black stockings exposed underneath, a pair of red high heels with red sequins on her feet, long wavy black hair, and more three-dimensional facial features after makeup, it is simply A classic black-haired beauty appeared in front of everyone.
Cher's facial lines are very suitable for filming. Her cheekbones are a bit high and may be said to be mean. However, with the combination of eye shadow and blush, she is very suitable for movie shots under lighting. She is very three-dimensional. feel.
The face has built-in shadows, and only one light is enough, without the need for complicated composite light sources to create effects.
All images on the movie screen are flat, and the human brain needs calculations to reconstruct the three-dimensional image of the human face. The more three-dimensional the facial lines are, the easier it is to be perceived as good-looking by the human brain of the audience. Coupled with the advanced lighting used in film shooting, the requirements for actors to be beautiful on the big screen are much higher than those for actors in TV series.
In a sense, whether an actor is suitable for the big screen has to be selected by the movie god. Only actors who are favored by the movie god can be the protagonist.
Xueer made a dancing gesture and came in from outside the camera. She is like the protagonist Mimi in the opera "La Bohème", deeply intoxicated with love.
Olympia Dukakis enters the picture from another angle.
David Watkin is indeed a very good director of photography. He quickly arranged several cameras based on the results of the rehearsal, so that he could capture the story happening around the long dining table from different angles.
He also hid it just right so that the camera would not capture other cameras. Sometimes, the blind spot for shooting is only a few dozen centimeters suitable for placing a camera. Watkin quickly found the best angle based on experience.
While the actors still feel like they were having a fight, they can immediately get into filming mode.
"God, what happened to you?" Mother Rose asked her soul when she saw her daughter dancing alone like a lunatic, waving a scarf in her hand.
"I really don't know where to start..." Loretta, played by Cher, pulled up a chair and sat down at the dining table.
"Your hair is different too." Mother Rose keenly noticed Loretta's changes.
"Mom, everything is different." While watching the opera last night, Loretta found that she had found true love, the Ronnie with the wooden hand.
"Are you drunk?" Mother Rose gave her daughter a cup of hot coffee.
"No, are you drunk?" Cher's mood was still filled with dissatisfaction with Dukakis. This rhetorical question fit perfectly with Loretta's romantic feelings about anyone who doubted herself after encountering the true love of her life. Everyone is dissatisfied.
"No, but I'm a little hungover." Ross, like her husband Cosmo, had to use alcohol to anesthetize herself last night in order to fall asleep next to her cheating husband.
"Where's dad?" Loretta has not yet woken up from the romance.
"Upstairs," Ross got himself another cup of coffee, "Johnny Camarelli was here last night."
"What? Isn't he in Sicily?" Loretta couldn't be calm anymore. She was not ready to tell Johnny about everything she had with Johnny's brother Ronnie. Originally, Johnny had to wait for the funeral of his seriously ill mother to be completed before he could return to New York to marry Loretta. Loretta still has time to think about how to explain to Johnny.
Suddenly realizing that she was about to face her fiancé Johnny, Loretta stood up with excitement in her heart. Before I could enjoy a few hours of romantic tenderness, I was suddenly frightened away by the violent conflict I was about to face.
"He is not in Sicily. He came yesterday and had a chat with everyone."
"Impossible, he was in Sicily, his mother was about to die, and he was there to accompany her on her last journey." Loretta shouted excitedly in denial.
When people are suddenly faced with something they cannot accept, they often deny the facts. Loretta was so excited that she wanted to argue against the fact that Johnny had returned to New York.
"No, he's back."
"No way, he is in Sicily with his dying mother!"
"His mother is fine."
"Impossible, she is already seriously ill and about to die."
"This is a miracle!" Ross said calmly. She has not completely gotten rid of the conflict with Xueer. This indifferent tone is like an acting master who is making trouble unreasonably when watching a singing amateur guest-acting.
"Miracles? Miracles, you... It's the modern era now, there are no miracles anymore." Cher seemed to be hitting back at the so-called acting masters. All she needs to do to make a movie is to do one thing well.
While raising her voice and arguing with her mother, Loretta quickly picked up the napkin on the table and began to wipe the lipstick on her lips. If Johnny came this morning, she would not let him find out that she was having an affair with Ronnie. .
"Ha, I think Sicily still maintains its original rhythm and has not entered any modern era." Dukakis looked at Cher's furious performance, sat down slowly, and replied calmly. If you have acting skills, you don’t have to work so hard.
"He came directly from the airport. He wants to talk to you." Putting the coffee on the corner of the dining table, mother Rose looked at her daughter's deliberate makeup, and she already knew something about the problem.
"There is a love hickey on your neck!" Dukakis's voice suddenly rose, "What are you doing? Johnny will come home this morning to talk to you."
Loretta, played by Cher, is so frightened that she looks at herself on the cupboard glass.
"Tsk..."
Ronald watched the whole scene behind the camera. Sure enough, the best performance was the true performance. Everyone's emotions were already in place during the morning's quarrel. There was no need to do any mental construction at all, and the fresh emotions in the memory were readily available.
Of course, Cher's performance was still a bit off. Dukakis spoke with emotion and rhythm. Every sentence was stuck at the turning point of the emotion. The strict training on Broadway made their line skills very good. .
"What the hell did you do? Your beautiful future life was flushed into the toilet by yourself." Dukakis became more and more excited as she spoke. She spread her hands, palms upward, and used up and down gestures to strengthen her argument.
"Hurry up and cover that damn love bite of yours, cover it up with foundation and put on some makeup!"
"Okay, okay, you have to help me." Xue'er took out the plush pajamas from behind the door and was about to change out of a sexy outfit.
"Zi..."
Suddenly the doorbell rang. The mother and daughter looked at each other. Is this Johnny coming?
"Oh, I'm going to change clothes, you open the door," Cher said to Dukakis.
"Zi..." People outside the door kept ringing the doorbell.
"Open the door, Mom." Xueer picked up her pajamas and walked into the inner room.
"Um..." Dukakis's mother, Rose, kept shaking her head and making some meaningless comments about her daughter's fall in love, expressing her disapproval.
"cut!"
Ronald was actually not satisfied with Cher's performance. She did not express the panic of the heroine Loretta when something happened in a consistent manner.
Cher is a big singer herself, so she certainly doesn't panic at all about such small things. But Loretta is just a small accountant, making a living by doing part-time accounting for Italian small businessmen among relatives and friends.
Of course, you will be even more nervous when you encounter something like this being discovered by your fiancé on the spot.
But it doesn’t matter, Ronald thought to himself, such an emotional state is rare. Don’t waste time on such small details. The reversal of this scene is very dense. In just a few minutes, multiple characters will react backwards and forwards. Turn, the audience's emotions were stirred up and down, it is better to let go of Cher's little flaws, at least her previous performance was very good.
"Switch to the next game." Ronald said gently to the staff.
Nicolas Cage appeared at the door, looking through the glass.
Mother Rose saw that it was not Johnny, but another handsome guy of Italian descent. The star was younger than her daughter. I knew in my heart what was going on.
She opened the door and yelled at her daughter, "Not Johnny!"
Loretta opened the door and came out with her head tilted. She had already changed into a set of home-style plush clothes and plush socks, dressing up comfortably.
"Oh, it's Ronnie." Loretta breathed a sigh of relief.
Ronnie, played by Nicolas Cage, has a slicked-back hair, and his hair is still standing up a little unyieldingly. The black windbreaker is carefully selected and he looks very handsome.
"Is Johnny here?" Ronnie asked Loretta inside.
"Not here now, but he will be here soon." Loretta felt a little more at ease when she saw her lover coming.
"Very good, when he comes we will spread everything out and make it clear on the table."
"Hmph..." Mother Rose looked at the two people in this state, and her guess was more or less certain.
"Hi, I'm Ronnie, Johnny's brother, nice to meet you." Ronnie stretched out his hand... and said to his mother Rose, who was blocking the way in the middle of the corridor.
"I'm Rose Castorini, Loretta's mother."
"Nice to meet you."
Mother Rose ignored Ronnie and pulled the collar of Ronnie's windbreaker with her hand to look at his neck. "You have a love bite too."
"Oh..." Loretta held her head, and her mother, Rose, saw through Ronnie's bottom in just two strokes.
"Your mother is fine," Ross went to prepare oatmeal, telling him the news of his mother's miraculous recovery.
"Ah, that's a good thing, even though I'm not close to him."
"You have to go, you have to go, you can't be here today." Loretta pushed Ronnie, she didn't want to face her fiancé Johnny and her lover Ronnie.
"I'm here to meet your family today..." Ronnie came to Loretta's house after careful consideration.
"Who wants oatmeal?" Mother Rose was there preparing breakfast.
"I want some," Ronnie pushed Loretta away, walked to the table, and took off his coat. When it came to the other hand, it was difficult to take off the sleeve with the prosthetic hand, so he had to bite the cuff with his mouth to take off the sleeve.
"Tsk..." Ronald admired in his heart. Nicolas Cage was inspired by a bunch of old actors. His little action was very consistent with the identity of Ronny Camarelli, who was equipped with a wooden prosthetic hand.
Acting is about reacting. You often play against people with excellent acting skills. It is difficult for a talented actor not to improve. In terms of performance, the effect of teaching by example is far greater than words.
The camera points to the hallway as Vincent Gardenia, who plays the father, Cosmo, walks in wearing a white shirt.
This is the difficulty of this scene. The characters walk into the kitchen one by one, eating and chatting around the dining table. It is very similar to the process in a play where actors go through the entrance door to the center of the stage.
As there are more and more actors, the drama itself becomes more and more complex. It is necessary to grasp the focus of the entire scene and limit it to only two or three people, so as not to overload the audience's attention and watch the trick smoothly. It is very much about the director's scheduling and the actors' performances.
Cosmo sat down at the end of the long dining room table. He looked at Ronnie, examining the young man's wooden prosthetic hand. Then he looked at his daughter Loretta. He drank a lot last night and would not be able to figure out the relationship between the two for a while.
Loretta didn't dare to look at her father, lowered her head and remained silent.
Cosmo had no choice but to ask Ronnie, "Are you Ronnie? Johnny's brother?"
"Yes, nice to meet you, I'm Ronnie Camarelli."
In Toronto, Canada, there are no representatives from the photographers union watching over the set, and no one cares about the rule that the director of photography cannot take the shot himself.
Director of photography David Watkin personally went into action, zooming in on the face of Vincent Gardenia, who played Cosmo, for a super close-up.
He uses a zoom lens not to create a zoom effect. But the time of this scene is particularly important. In order to save time and avoid changing the lens, the actor's mood will cool down. By pulling the lens between zooms, you can achieve lenses of different focal lengths, which is equivalent to using a zoom lens as a fixed-focus lens.
Vincent Gardenia's acting skills are extraordinary. He has a dull look on his face, but he quickly understands the relationship between the two. When he went to the opera with his lover yesterday, he happened to meet his daughter.
But she didn't expect that this daughter's lover was actually her fiancé's brother.
Mother Rose came over with oatmeal for everyone, but daughter Loretta couldn't stand the strange look from her father, "Don't look at me like that, Dad."
"Keep going, keep doing this." Ronald was behind the camera, very excited. He felt that this shooting was like a divine blessing, as if the God of Movies accidentally opened his eyes and looked at this studio in Toronto next time. The condition of this lens is amazingly good. He hopes that the next actor will join and it can also be maintained. Go down.
If it is a continuous long shot, it will be great. The actors' emotions will be smooth, and the audience's viewing experience will be much better.
"Hi, morning, Dad." Mother Rose heard the old man's voice coming downstairs.
The old man played by Fedor Chaliapin slowly walked into the kitchen and found his seat with a dissatisfied look on his face.
"What's wrong, Dad?" Father Cosmo noticed that the old man was in a bad mental state and asked him what happened.
"I'm old. When I get old, I'm looked down upon by others. No one takes me seriously even if I speak."
Another camera faced the old man's front and filmed it from a slightly upward angle.
Fedor Chaliapin was very energetic in the upward shot, acting like a grandfather.
“Son, I gotta say this, you are paying for your only daughter’s wedding. Your arrogance is destroying your family.
That’s all I have to say, I’m done. "
After speaking, the old man pulled out his chair and sat down.
This is the first unexpected twist in this scene. No one expected that in the end, this somewhat old-fashioned grandfather would speak up for his granddaughter and use the dignity of an old man to get his stingy son to agree to pay for his daughter's wedding.
He didn't pay for Loretta's first wedding!
"It's okay, Dad, I agree. If Loretta gets married, I will pay for all the wedding expenses."
Vincent Gardenia's face is kind of funny in the camera. Cosmo's character is very scheming. He just saw the relationship between his daughter and Ronnie, and knows that Loretta and Johnny's marriage will most likely be cancelled, so there is no problem in just talking about it.
Who would marry his unlucky widowed daughter?
Loretta, played by Cher, made a face at her father Cosmo. She knew what her father was thinking, but she was still very happy to agree to her grandfather's request. For a moment, I felt that being Castorini was worth it.
"Bravo, you said it right now, okay, okay!" The grandfather was greatly relieved, happy for his granddaughter Loretta, and excited that someone could listen to his words.
Mother Rose filled a bowl of oatmeal for her grandfather, then moved to the other end of the long dining table with her heart full of thoughts, and sat at opposite ends of the long table with her husband, Cosmo.
While everyone was engrossed in eating oatmeal, maybe Cosmo had given in to the old man just now, or maybe it was a problem with her daughter, which made her mother Rose frown and look at the big family.
Then she clasped her hands together and asked Cosmo, her husband, at the other end of the dining table.
"Am I a good wife?"
Husband Cosmo raised his head in surprise. He didn't know why Rose suddenly asked this, "Of course."
Rose got the answer she wanted, and a smile appeared on her face. Then she returned to her seriousness, and spoke out the request she had wanted to say for a long time:
"I hope you won't see her again."
…
The sound of people scooping oatmeal onto plates with metal spoons suddenly stopped.
Cameras on either side of the dinner table captured Loretta and Ronnie's reactions. Loretta covered her head. She had talked with her mother, Rose, in church, and Rose told her about knowing that Cosmo had a lover outside.
Ronnie looked curious. It seemed that the chaos of the Castorini family was no better than that of the Camarelli family.
Another camera focuses on the old man on the other side of the dinner table.
Fedor Chaliabin was so deaf that he completely missed Dukakis's lines. But everyone's reaction clearly told him that it was now at that point.
He looked to his left to see Cosmo's reaction, and to his right to see Ross's. The old man had to rely on his children to take care of him, so he didn't dare to say anything, so he hurriedly lowered his head and drank porridge.
Ronald looked at his father Cosmo's reaction and performed very well.
Rose did not ask Cosmo if he had a lover, nor did he ask who his lover was, how they met, and what he wanted to do now, such vulgar women's questions.
Rose was very smart. After quelling her husband Cosmo with the question of whether she was a good wife, she directly made her request, asking Cosmo not to see that woman again.
Generally, a husband who is caught in an act of rape will either deny it or deny it, or simply find fault with his wife. But Cosmo just said that Rose is a good wife and there are no longer these options.
The expression on his face was more of shock than embarrassment.
All kinds of emotions rushed into that fat face. Actor Vincent Gardenia slowly stood up and looked at his wife's sad face...
"Snapped!"
He suddenly slapped the table. He was once proud that he had a lover outside and a wife at home. The arrangements were very good. In the end, Ross understands everything and every move is under the control of his wife.
The old man was startled by his son's slap, and he fell back violently as if in shock. It wasn't that he was frightened by the sound, but that Cosmo's palm hit him right next to his rice bowl.
Fedor Chaliapin's back was turned to the camera, and his whole body was full of drama. After he was surprised, he couldn't hear clearly what the content was, so he leaned forward again and continued to eat porridge.
"Tsk..." Ronald curled his lips. He could steal the show even with his back view.
"Okay!" Cosmo slapped the table hard, but spoke softly.
"You still have to go to the church to confess." Rose's face showed a smile of victory. Her husband agreed to cut off contact with his lover and went to the church to confess his sins. In Italian culture, this is tantamount to fully admitting that you have done something wrong, and you will never be disconnected from that woman again.
Cosmo shook his head and smiled bitterly, "A man will one day discover that his life is based on nothingness."
Who could have known that yesterday there was one at home and one outside, but today the dream would be punctured like a piece of paper?
Olympia Dukakis's face suddenly became very excited, there were tears in her eyes, and her chin trembled slightly with excitement.
Ross kept saying what was in his heart through gritted teeth:
"Your life is not built on nothing..."
"ti amo (meaning I love you in Italian)." Rose's voice was slightly distorted as he uttered the Italian vow of love.
"ano (I love you too)", Cosmo heard his wife's tearful confession, and felt excited, as if he had returned to the time when he was young and stood downstairs in his wife's house.
Then he blew a kiss to his wife Rose, his voice trembling with excitement.
Rose felt her husband's true feelings and held back the tears that were about to burst out.
Loretta, played by Cher, did not expect that her parents were suddenly involved in the problems that were originally her own.
She rolled her eyes and looked at Ronnie beside her.
Ronnie immediately made a ti amo expression, causing Loretta to roll her eyes again. Now that there is love, what will happen to the rest of Johnny?
"Zi..." The doorbell rang again.
"It's Johnny. I'm going to open the door." Loretta covered her face, she still had to face it after all.
"I'll go, I'll make it clear to him." Ronnie felt sorry for his lover and wanted to open the door.
"No, no, I'll go." Loretta asked Ronnie to sit down. She looked at her father Cosmo, "What should I tell Johnny?"
The old man over there still looked at several family members with a confused look on his face. He moved his mouth to speak, but nothing came out, so he had to lower his head and continue to drink porridge.
"To be honest, Loretta, they will know sooner or later." Father Cosmo said to his daughter based on his own experience and lessons.
"Oh...you're right, ti amo, daddy."
"ti amo, my little cookie."
Loretta was about to open the door when she found that the door had already opened and standing there were her uncle Raymond and her aunt Rita.
They both looked at Loretta as if something big had happened.
Aunt Rita looked at Loretta as if she had committed some serious crime, "What do you have to say to us? Honey."
Loretta looked confused, "No, what?"
Uncle Raymond glanced at his wife and decided to give his niece another chance, "We just came back from the bank."
"So?" Loretta still looked confused, "Oh, my God, I forgot to deposit the cash in your store into the bank."
Loretta went to her bag and found the cash. She was the accountant of her aunt and uncle's shop. Yesterday was the day she sent cash to the bank. On the way, she had to do her hair and go on a date with Ronnie at night, so she forgot about it.
"God, that's great, she still has the money."
Uncle and Aunt walked towards Rose, "Yesterday was such a strange day..."
"We never suspected you, but yesterday was really weird."
"Sit down and have some coffee."
The family realized it was a misunderstanding, and like Italians, they made exaggerated gestures to express their unnecessary worries.
Aunt Rita was attentive and noticed something was wrong with everyone's expressions, "So what are we doing?"
"Wait for someone, wait for Johnny to come." Mother Rose said to her.
Rita looked at Ronnie and then at Loretta, knowing that the problem lay with the young man.
"This is Johnny's brother, Ronnie Camarelli," Ross hinted at sister-in-law Rita.
"Oh, hello, I'm Rita Capomagi."
Rita saw the unusual relationship between him and her niece. She looked at Ross with a questioning look in her eyes, isn't your daughter engaged to Johnny?
Rose returned a look that said you were right.
Rita looked at Cosmo again, and Cosmo nodded.
Then came Loretta, who made a face.
Finally, there was the old man, the grandfather of Hutu. He looked left and right. Everyone was embarrassed and silent. The atmosphere in the air gradually solidified. The old man couldn't stand it anymore. He complained, "Anyone can tell a joke."
No one spoke, except Ronnie who was moved by the old man's sense of humor and laughed out loud. No one agreed with him, and it was a bit embarrassing for a while.
"Zi..."
The doorbell finally rang.
Aunt Rita, feeling that nothing was right today, went to open the door.
"Johnny Camarelli," Rita announced.
"Hey, hey..." Johnny laughed a few times before entering. He was always so cautious.
"Loretta?" Johnny was surprised when he saw Loretta, who was completely different from before.
"Ronnie?" Johnny was continuously surprised today. "Are you here to reconcile with me? Ronnie?"
"Yes, but it may not be what you want." Ronnie stood up and said to his brother, he was here to steal the bride.
"Of course I want to reconcile with you." Johnny looked at Ronnie, thinking that he had agreed to attend his wedding, and was a little relieved.
"Didn't you say your mother was sick and about to die? How could she get better?" Loretta asked Johnny.
"I told her I was getting married soon, and she got better. It's a miracle," Johnny replied.
"Of course it's a miracle." Ronnie knew very well that the mother from her hometown in Palermo, Sicily, always liked to use this method to manipulate her son's behavior.
"Johnny, I have something to tell you." Loretta stood up. She decided to face the situation she had created and use her father Cosmo's strategy to tell the truth.
"Loretta, I also have something to tell you, but can you come out and let's talk alone?" Johnny also had something to say.
"No, I want to be with my family. If you have anything to say, just say it here."
Danny Aiello, who plays Johnny and is also a Broadway character actor, looked at Cher and solemnly said what was in his heart:
"Loretta, I can't marry you."
"Hmm...huh?" Xue'er's change of expression was very good. These words were beyond Loretta's expectations.
"If I marry you, my mother will die." Johnny is particularly superstitious. He has personal experience of Loretta's bad luck. His mother almost died because she was engaged, so he came to break off the engagement.
"What are you talking about?" Loretta was confused.
"What are you talking about?" Ronnie was dissatisfied. Johnny was willing to break off the engagement. Isn't it just right?
"Let me talk about the promise again. He made the promise. This is the engagement ring." Loretta showed the engagement ring on her middle finger to Ronnie and Johnny.
"My mother almost died, and now she's recovered. I can't marry you."
"Oh, Johnny, you are 42 years old and you are still being controlled by her." Ronnie couldn't bear the fact that his brother was controlled by his mother.
"What about you? You are a son who doesn't love his mother." Johnny was particularly dissatisfied with his brother's rebellion against his mother.
"What about you? You're a big liar. I have a ring as proof. You proposed to me and now you want to go back on your promise."
"Loretta, I have to get my ring back."
"You..., okay", Loretta took off the ring and threw it on Johnny, "The engagement is cancelled!"
Johnny didn't catch the ring and fell to the ground. He was also very angry. He didn't expect that he would encounter such fierce abuse. "You will understand in the future, Loretta, this is best for you." Johnny pointed at Loretta. Reta said.
Loretta was irritated by Johnny's finger movements, "If you burp your ass from now on, I will wear red clothes and go to your funeral."
Both of them were in a state of mental collapse, and they began to yell at each other.
"Loretta," Ronnie said suddenly.
"What?!"
"will you marry me?"
"What?" Johnny, who had just picked up the ring, looked up from his knees on the ground. He heard a strange sentence. His brother Ronnie actually proposed to his ex-fiancée, Loretta.
"Where's the ring? Where's the proposal ring?" Loretta was dissatisfied. The two brothers didn't prepare rings for the proposal.
"Johnny, can you lend me the ring?" Ronnie asked his brother for the ring.
Johnny looked at his brother and then at Loretta. Although he was extremely embarrassed, he still wanted to reconcile with his brother. After hesitating for a few seconds, he handed the ring to his brother.
"Loretta Castorini, will you marry me?"
Loretta's face turned from cloudy to clear, "Yes, Ronnie, in the presence of my family, I am willing to marry you."
"Oh, Loretta, do you love him?" Mother Rose saw that her daughter was deeply in love.
"Yes, I love him so much."
"Oh, that's too bad." Ross lowered his head and smiled bitterly. When you love a man, you often have to forgive his shameful shortcomings. "
"Did you hear that? She loves me." Ronnie let go of his worries. He hoped that Loretta would marry him because of love.
The two hugged each other happily, looked at each other for a while, and then started to kiss.
The camera on the other side began to film the old man.
The old man wiped his eyes with a tissue, tremblingly, as if crying.
"What's wrong with you, Dad?" Cosmo asked.
Fedor Chaliapin put down the tissue and said, "I painted it."
Cosmo nodded, which would make everyone confused.
"cut!"
"cut! cut!"
Ronald stopped the filming.
The actors seemed to pause for more than ten seconds, unable to believe that such a difficult scene could be passed in just one shot.
Ronald saw David Watkin and gave him an OK gesture, "It's over, let's eat."
It was almost two o'clock in the afternoon, and all the actors had not eaten, so Ronald quickly asked his assistant to serve the meal.
"Uh..." Ronald's own stomach also made a loud sound.
"Hahaha……"
The actors began to applaud, expressing their happiness for such a wonderful play.
"How did you do that? Ronald." Olympia Dukakis played the role very happily. This scene was full of sighs, multiple reversals of the plot, and the rivalry between the actors was also extremely exciting. Even on Broadway, not every performance can be performed so vividly.
"Maybe the God of Movies has answered my prayer and is opening his eyes to see us." Ronald didn't know why it went so well. Maybe it's because the actors' previous state just matched it, or maybe it's because everyone has been hungry for a long time and wants to give their best performance as soon as possible after filming and eating.
Maybe, it's just a coincidence that everyone happened to be playing at their best.
The actors all had something to eat, but Ronald didn't have time to eat yet. He and the crew's technicians began to rearrange the camera positions. Immediately afterwards, Ronald directed the final scene of the film.
The camera was right next to the kitchen door and was filming inside, where a family was popping champagne to celebrate Loretta and Ronnie's engagement.
Everyone followed Italian tradition by adding a sugar cube to the champagne and toasting.
Johnny sat alone and was depressed, but the old man brought him a glass of champagne, "Johnny, come on, for the sake of the big family, don't you understand? We are all members of the big family."
"For the family!"
"For the family!"
Not happy that Johnny is away, he raises a glass to celebrate with everyone.
Wine glasses were clinked together, Ronald and David Watkin stepped back together, and the camera slowly exited the dining room and retreated into the hallway of the living room.
The camera slowly turned around and took a picture of the group photo on the wall.
There are photos of Loretta as a child, Cosmo and Ross getting married, and Ross and his brother Raymond as children.
The camera continued to move to the right, and finally stopped on a group photo, which was the first photo of the old man's parents after they immigrated to America from Palermo, Sicily.
The two old people in the photo seemed to be smiling happily as they looked at the house full of children and grandchildren.
The camera slowly zooms in...
"cut!"
"Oh, God. It's finally done."
Ronald finally let go of his worries and felt dizzy, as if he hadn't eaten at noon and had the sequelae of intense mental work in the afternoon.
Unlike the actors who could go to the trailer to replenish snacks at any time, and the director of photography who also took time to eat and catch up on sleep, Ronald was always thinking about the shooting with high tension.
The high-intensity pressure was suddenly released, and Ronald's vision went dark. Hypoglycemia made him stagger and almost fall.
"Are you okay?" David Watkin helped him.
"Give me a sugar cube, I seem to have hypoglycemia."
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