Chapter 48 It's proportional to me

After April Fool's Day, it took about 10 days to prepare, and "Shawshank Redemption" began filming at the Mansfield State Legion Institute in Ohio.

In addition to the high efficiency of Lavern and others in such a short time, it was mainly because Adrian was prepared, such as finalizing the shooting of the prison scene in Mansfield State Stairway from the beginning and convincing Tim Robbins to play this role.

Among the designated actors, Morgan Freeman and James Whitmore, who was later added, all agreed readily, and Bob Gunton gave a positive doctor even though he thought about it for a while.

Within one year, he directed and produced two movies with reputation and box office, and the title of genius director added a lot of weight to Adrian.

However, Tim Robbins rejected the character during his first contact, and the reply he gave was that this character was not suitable for him!

Adrian, who was drinking water, almost spit out when he heard the news. Of course, it was just for him, so after a long time of depression, he simply came to visit him.

He helped those people feel good again, and he allowed those who were bound in the system to see a glimmer of hope. He was painful and forbearing and unyielding and...perfect.I can't think of anyone more suitable than you.

At Tim Robbins' home on Flos Street, sitting on the sofa and tasting the other person...

His life partner, also the black tea made by the famous Susan Sarandon, said in such a passionate voice.

There are many more actors in Hollywood than me, aren’t they?Robbins's answer seems to have not changed, but it is obviously because he has been moved, but he doesn't know why he refused.

Yes, I admit, for example, I initially considered inviting Tom Hanks to the role, but I ended up thinking you were the best fit.I don't know why, Tim, I've seen almost all of your performances, from "The God of War" to "The Famous Man", and even "The Super Big Player" released a few days ago. To be honest, no image is suitable.But my intuition tells me that you are the forbearing Andy who never gives up.

Adrian continued in an extremely serious tone, and I trusted my intuition so I didn’t even ask you to come and audition.

Speaking of this, he turned to look at Susan Sarandon: Isn't that the case, Susan?Some birds cannot be locked up, their feathers are so bright that when they fly away, you know in your heart that it is a sin to lock them up, and you will be excited about it.Isn't Tim a bird like this?

Although Adrian didn't know why Robbins refused, he also knew the reason why he broke through the flanks if he didn't have the front.

Sure enough, after reading the script, Sarandon began to persuade Robbins after thinking. The two went aside and whispered for a long time, and finally Robbins agreed to Adrian's invitation.

Later he learned that Robbins would refuse the invitation mainly because he had just finished the promotion of "Super Big Player" and wanted to spend a few days with Sarandon. Since Sarandon suggested that he would refuse next, there was no reason to refuse.

Everyone should pay attention. This is the first scene of "Shawshank Redemption". I hope everyone can take this opportunity to cooperate more, thank you!

Adrian, standing on the lift, shouted at the crowd in the open space with a loud horn.

The first scene is the part when Andy was imprisoned. The reason why Adrian chose this was not only because of being easier to control, but just said that I hope these extras can get along well.

Although the external scenes of Mansfield State Leather Institute have been well maintained and many movies have been filmed here, the interior is really terrible. If renovated, it will cost much more than building in the studio, so only the outdoor scenes can be filmed here.

But except for a few shots, all the outdoor scenes are basically large crowded scenes, and the temporary actors are not enough. Adrian even contacted the education and management office to invite their staff to make a guest appearance for the time being. There are so many people together, and if there is a little problem, they may have to reshoot it.

Let everyone prepare, we will start the trial shooting in 10 minutes.

Adrian contacted the people below on the walkie-talkie. He stood on the elevator and was about to take the camera to shoot in person. As he said to Spielberg before, he still lacked in scheduling the big scenes. If he could shoot it well this time, he could basically be considered a starter.

Actin！

With this shout, the filming began on the set.

This is a panoramic shot that looks down from the front of the teaching and management office, crosses the playground where the air is released for a while, and then moves to the door of the barbed wire to stop, which is a big test for the cameraman.

This was the first time Adrian was shooting from such a high direction. It was impossible to say that he was not nervous or afraid, but when he picked up the camera, the negative emotions disappeared without a trace, and the only thing left was shooting.

Maybe there is something idealistic deep in my heart.After the shooting was finished, Adrian thought to himself with some self-deprecating thoughts.

There is no problem with this shot. If it is still messed up when it is well prepared and does not require any acting skills and just needs temporary actors to run around, then it can only be said that the director and producer are useless. However, in the following shooting, various situations are emerging one after another.

Because the time is set in the 1940s and 1950s, all props must conform to the characteristics of the age, and clothes are easy to say, but transportation is very troublesome.

At this time, most of the transportation tools in that era were in museums or private collection rooms, not to mention things like escort trucks in prisons.

Although the Fu of the tutoring and custody department got a car that could be driven before the shooting started, this thing is too old and can break down three or four times a distance of dozens of feet.

In addition, there are many people laughing and mispronunciating lines. Some people even pushed down some of the temporarily erected barbed wire mesh because they were too excited. Fortunately, no one was injured.

Although this situation had been expected before the shooting started, Adrian was still depressed and had to patience with the nature of shooting over and over again.

It is comforting that both Morgan Freeman, Tim Robbins, or James Whitmore, and Bob Gunton are excellent actors, especially Tim and Morgan. They simply grasp the character's qualities, so their shots are relatively smooth.

Why are you so anxious?Because I don’t have much time, in my plan, it would be great to be able to end the outdoor shooting in three weeks and end the indoor shooting in three weeks.

Adrian replied in response to Nathan White's question.

Nathan is a producer sent by Universal and is only responsible for reporting the crew's financial expenses to the company.

Global was hesitant at the beginning of whether to invest. They originally thought Adrian was going to adapt a horror novel by Stephen King. Judging from his ability to show his previous performance, it is definitely worth investing.

But later I found the novel and found out that the adaptation was actually one of the novel series that Stephen King was rated as the worst, which made them very embarrassed.

Stephen King is known to be best known for his horror novels, but for this reason he is often criticized by mainstream critics.

Although Stephen King didn't take it to heart, he would inevitably get angry over time, so he simply wrote a few novella stories that had nothing to do with ghosts, devils, etc. except that the last one involved some mysticism and then was compiled into a book to publish.

Unfortunately, after this collection that took a lot of effort to go public, the publisher only said to Stephen King: You should continue to write horror novels.

This was a big blow. Stephen King has never written a similar literary novel since then, and he rarely mentioned this collection of novels, so Adrian was surprised that Lafen was able to obtain the adaptation rights of "The Shawshank Redemption" in such a short time.

Faced with this situation, the global side argued. The sales of this collection were really bad at the beginning, and Adrian was still a newcomer after all.

If "Two Big Blows" and "Memory Fragments" were produced within two years, then Universal would have made a comeback without hesitation, but now no one knows what Adrian can shoot, and qualifications are sometimes so wonderful.

Fortunately, Berrant's words, who was asked to consult, gave them confidence.

Think about it, gentlemen, what was he doing when we wanted to get the scripts of Scream and American Pie from him?That's what Berrant said.

Think about it, too, there are not many directors in Hollywood who can be as good as Adrian?

And he seemed to plan to cooperate with Spielberg, so Global invested 10 million in the end, sending Nathan to report the situation to the company in order to show trust.

Are you planning to finish this movie in 6 weeks?The projection is expected to be two months.

Nathan seemed a little surprised. Originally, he just saw Adrian complaining and wanted to come over and chat.

Plans are always the worst.

Adrian shrugged, as long as everyone is in good condition and no low-level mistakes, I can definitely complete all shots within 6 weeks.

But... Nathan made a gesture and didn't know what to say. The investment of more than 20 million yuan in Hollywood is considered a medium-to-high investment. However, when making movies, investment, speed and quality are never proportional.

It seems that Adrian should have been used to shooting quickly, so he wants to do this now, but...

In my hands, speed and mass are proportional.

As if seeing what he was thinking, Adrian smiled. I know you may not believe it now, but, Nathan, I will prove it to you. I am a good person at creating miracles!

After saying that, he walked towards the camera without looking back and clapped his hands and shouted: OK, guys, the rest time is up, let's continue!