"In short, the tone of the whole story is gray. Although there is a long paragraph in the middle, it is all bright and soft tones, and the lens is not that sharp, but the plastering color cannot be missing."

"So can I understand this way? The emotion of the character Ripley always has a desire, a desire to enter the upper class. No matter how his personality changes, this desire always exists."

"Very right, a focus throughout the entire film, but there is one thing you need to pay attention to, this is just my opinion. Although the director also agrees with this, it does not mean that he will not make changes in the actual shooting."

"Thank you, Roy, I'll remember this."

Soon, during the warm conversation between Sean and Locke, an afternoon passed again. It was very rewarding. By communicating their views on the script with different people, Tom Ripley's image became clearer in his head. Not only that, he also designed and summarized three different focuses using the techniques taught by John Harrington.

One is restrained, dislikes or is not good at expressing his feelings; the other is relatively outgoing and has more body language; the other is used to wearing masks woven with smiles and politeness. Sean designed different details for this, and continued to perform in front of the mirror, or pulled Garen to play against each other.

So much so that Galen complained: "Look at how you look, you're almost like another person."

And Sean's answer was: "That's right."

Of course, he did not forget that these can only be used as reference. Whether it is appropriate or not requires the director Mingla's opinion.

In addition, there are some gains from such communication, such as Locke has a good impression of him. Faced with those hidden enemies, Sean needs friends and needs to have friends in the crew. His expectations are not high, so he doesn't need to support himself much, but at least he has a good impression of himself.

"Contact them more, show yourself more in front of them, express yourself in a targeted manner, don't think it's troublesome, and don't think it's not in line with the principles. If you do too much, sometimes it will play an unexpected role." This is the PR advice introduced by Frederick to him.

A man, thirty-six years old, named Richard Lesen, is an employee of the famous Edman public relations company and is very good at handling interpersonal relationships. I have to say that these public relations are very good. At least Lesen's advice is very consistent with Sean's idea, that is, the charges are not cheap, around 75 to 100 US dollars per hour, and the monthly salary ranges from 1,500 to 3,000 to 3,000, so he has no plans to hire for a long time.

Basically, the next half of January 1999 was spent like this, and everything was fine, except for the occasional mediation of conflicts between assistants and agents.

"I really can't stand your agent. He's just an arrogant maniac who makes a fuss about my work all day long." Garen said.

"I really can't stand your assistant. He doesn't know anything and he even disdains my reminders and suggestions!" That's what Frederick said.

Well, this is Sean's fault. Because Galen has no experience as an assistant, he handed him over to his agent for a brief training, but because he was busy with his own affairs, he did not give detailed instructions to both of them, and even just called Frederick and asked Galen to find him, so it turned out like this.

Since that's the case, Sean had to clean up himself, call them out, and communicate face to face: "Okay, listen to me, guys. First of all, Fred is my agent, and all his considerations are from my perspective, so, Galen, you must respect and understand him, and listen to some opinions appropriately. If there is any problem, please tell me directly; secondly, Galen is my brother, and now my assistant, and his considerations are also from my perspective, so Fred, you must respect and understand him, and be patient. Although Galen is a novice now, he will definitely do it well. If there is any problem, please tell me directly, OK?"

Then he emphasized his tone: "We all know that in the next few months, I will be the most important period of my life. So I hope you can unite and support me to the best of your efforts, rather than distracting from the discord. Without your support, it will be difficult for me to go to the end, do you understand?"

"I'm fine." Since Sean said so, Frederick naturally wouldn't hold on to him.

"I'm fine, either." Garen was even more frank and apologized directly to the other party. "I'm sorry, Fred, I'll get familiar with the assistant's basic work as soon as possible."

During this period, he had heard Sean talk about his life in Los Angeles. He knew a little bit about being an actor and understood the meaning of the male lead in "The Genius Ripley" to Sean. And Garen's biggest advantage is that once he knew that he was wrong, he would never persist for the sake of face or anything else. This is one of the reasons why Sean asked him to be an assistant.

Garen made this gesture, even if Frederick was still unhappy, he could only suppress his attitude for Sean, and acted like "just know if he was wrong". The inside finally became so stable.

So, as time goes by, February 5 finally came.

"Let me see... very well, that's it! What about there? Steven, how is the set over there?" Anthony Mingla took the assistant director and assistants to walk through the studio, checking what she wanted.

"Mr. Director, they are here." Dyx Roman, one of the assistants, walked over.

"Okay, I understand." Mingla nodded, told others a few more words, and then followed Roman to the studio.

A few minutes later, he arrived at the actor's rest area, and the protagonists were already standing or sitting there waiting.

"Hey, Jude, Philip." Mingla said hello from a distance.

"Hi, Anthony." The two people who were talking stopped and replied with a smile.

"How are you, Gwyneth." Mingla followed the heroine sitting in a chair drinking water.

"I'm ready, Anthony." The blonde girl smiled. It wasn't very beautiful, but she smiled charmingly.

Then Mingla looked at the young man sitting on another chair and was still flipping through the script: "Shawn, where are you?"

"I'm ready, Mr. Mingla." The young man stood up immediately.

"It depends on you." Mingla patted his shoulder without saying much.

He could see that he was actually a little nervous. Otherwise, how could he look down at the script even though he knew he had come. However, this is the first time a young man has played the leading role in the movie, and he has also been under a lot of pressure before, so it is normal to be nervous.

"Okay, prepare to start the first meeting." Mingla said with a wave of her hand.

Then, the four actors followed him to the tent for the meeting, called the drama business, and asked a few more people to help, and the first set meeting of the movie "The Genius Ripley" began.

It is said that it is a meeting, but it is actually the main actors who are about to participate in the filming that come together to talk about the lines and take this opportunity to get to know each other.

"God, you're just like this coat in Italy?" This is the line from Jude Law, who played Dick, who was the first to say hello to Mingla.

"Good morning, Tom, come and sit together." Then there are lines from Gwyneth Paltrow, who plays Dick's girlfriend Maggie.

"To be honest, I want your job too, Tommy. Oh, just now, you live in Italy, you live in Dick's, you eat Dick's, you wear his, and his father has to pay you the bill. If you don't want to do it, tell me, I'll do it." Following the lines of Philip Seymer Hoffman, who plays Freddy.

"The weather is good today." Followed by the youngest of several actors, Shawn Tang, who plays the leading actor.

As for other characters, they are not important people, so they are all done by the staff they find.

This line is neither long nor short. It took about ten minutes to finish it. However, Hoffman and Sean are the most devoted, followed by Gwyneth, and Jude is the second most. It is not that Jude is not serious and professional enough, but in comparison, Sean and Hoffman are more touching when reading aloud.

Although Mingla frowned in her eyes, she didn't care too much. This situation was not the case. The actor was careless when he was talking about the lines, but when he came to the camera, he was very serious.

So, after the assistant came over to tell Mingla that everything was ready, the lines were right, and everyone was ready to start immediately.

The first shot is about to be taken by Dick, Maggie, Freddy and Ripley having breakfast together. After hearing about Ripley, Fred mercilessly ridiculed Ripley in front of Dick and Maggie. Ripley could only use irrelevant topics to divert attention.

This shot is not difficult. Freddy's contempt and Dick's indifferentness are all very easy for experienced actors. Ripley needs to be a little more complicated, both embarrassing and very inferior, which is considered to be a test of acting skills. As for Maggie, just a few lines, they are basically considered vases and can be ignored.

So, this set of shots took an hour and a half, and took a 15-minute break in the middle. Even so, Mingla was still not very satisfied and always felt that she lacked something.

"Is it because of Sean?" Assistant director Andrews simply asked, of course, this was asked privately.

"No, he did a good job. It can be seen that he has done a lot of homework and has a good grasp of his emotions. Although he still uses too much force sometimes, as long as I remind him, he will correct it." Mingla shook her head, thought about it carefully and then asked the crew to come again.

It was probably because I had repeated the filming many times, and this time it was completed smoothly and quickly, but Mingla, who saw the tail from the beginning and the end, still frowned, and walked back and forth a few times in the middle of the set, as if she was looking for something.

"What do you think is the problem?" Mingla, who always felt that she could not catch her in front of her, asked about the actors.

“I think it’s good.”

"Maybe the relationship is a little stronger?"

"Well... I think it's good, too."
Chapter completed!