Ronald's pressure is increasing. This long breakfast table scene is the most important scene in the entire film. If it is not shot well, the film will collapse.

"A!"

"Cut, Cut...you're in the frame."

"Cut, Cut...it's not your turn to move yet."

"Cut, the recording pole is coming in"

When it came time to shoot this scene in the morning, it took several shots but nothing worked.

This scene is a showdown for everyone. The center of the drama is from Loretta confessing that she is in love with her younger brother Ronnie, to Ronnie coming to the house to meet his family, and then to the grandfather forcing his father Cosmo to give money to his daughter.

Have a wedding.

Then her mother Rose revealed that her father had a lover outside. Just when everyone was dealing with the conflict, Loretta's fiancé and Ronnie's brother Johnny came back from Italy.

Everyone didn't know how to tell him that when Loretta didn't want to marry him, Johnny actually said he wanted to break off the engagement!

The center of the drama is constantly wandering between several characters. After the actors entered the role, they acted very unrestrainedly. There were problems with the originally set camera positions and split shots, which did not suit their performances.

After shooting several shots with no success, Ronald decided to stop and let everyone rest for half an hour, "You guys go out first and let me think here alone."

After all the actors and staff left the house, Ronald lowered his head and sighed, "How are we going to film this?"

This kind of group portrait scene requires precise control of movement. As soon as Ronald took the shot, he knew why directors regarded the dining table scene as the biggest challenge.

To express the tension between multiple characters in a long shot, not only does the actor make mistakes, but it also tests the director's scheduling ability.

"If it doesn't work, use a short lens to cut into a close-up." David Watkin stayed in the room and said to Ronald, who looked frustrated.

"No, the overall tone of this movie is just a medium-length shot of a few seconds to ten seconds, and the climax scene at the end. If the editing rhythm is suddenly increased, the audience will be shocked." Ronald covered his hands with his hands.

With a smile on his face, he encountered the biggest challenge in his career as a director. For the first time, he didn't know how to shoot on set.

"If you want to make a good film, there is only one way." David Watkin is a British man who has seen many drama performances in London's West End.

"You need to direct the scene like a play, and let them rehearse until they are proficient before shooting. In this way, I can re-storyboard the scene based on their most comfortable position, so that there is a perfect balance between the camera and the actors.

They won’t interfere with each other.”

"Rehearsal, rehearse..." Ronald muttered to himself for half a minute, "That's it!"

Ronald called everyone in and announced his decision.

Rehearse, wait until everyone's emotions are in place and their positions are familiar, and then the camera positions and storyboards will be set according to the route they are most comfortable with.

Rehearse the scene as a drama first, and then introduce cameras to film it after it passes the test as a drama.

…

"Wait...it's already very late today. Let's end it here and continue rehearsing tomorrow morning."

The rehearsal lasted all day, and Ronald was close to despair. He even considered Watkin's first suggestion, which was to use film editing techniques to get over it.

During rehearsals, Cher was very demanding. She had worked with people like Peter Bogdanovich and Michael Nichols who had won Oscars for best directors. For Ronald, who did not give performance guidance,

The concept of focusing on the actor's own understanding and performance is very inappropriate.

Throughout the play, she often interrupted rehearsals and asked Ronald to "instruct" her on how to act.

Ronald explained patiently, but often after rehearsals resumed, Cher stopped again and continued to ask for acting guidance.

The Broadway character actors were also exhausted. Especially Fyodor Chaliapin, who played the old man, was eighty-one years old and needed a rest.

Ronald had no choice but to end the rehearsal.

For the first time since joining the industry, Ronald fell behind schedule when filming a movie.

…

The next morning, after the actors arrived, rehearsals continued.

Cher's dissatisfaction with Ronald was evident on her face. She felt that her performance was not good, mainly because Ronald did not provide enough guidance.

The supporting cast of Broadway character actors, headed by Olympia Dukakis, supported Ronald. They felt that such a director only talks about the effect he wants to achieve, but does not determine the performance method, allowing the actors to have a certain amount of leeway.

, is the best.

Stars and actors actually quarreled over whether Ronald was a good director.

Olympia Dukakis was very dissatisfied with Cher for repeatedly disrespecting Ronald. When it was close to noon, she couldn't help it anymore and directly accused Cher:

"Even if Ronald is a rookie directing a film for the first time, as an actor, you should respect his position. What's more, he is a very talented and talented director. He is the director that actors most want to meet.

Type, we are so lucky to have met him.

You can't say such bossy things to a director."

"Hmph, do you think I haven't filmed under famous directors? Let me tell you, my first two movies were directed by Oscar-winning directors. It's not that I haven't seen good directors. And the stars in the movies are

art, this is not a Broadway theater.”

"snort……"

"snort……"

The two actresses both expressed their anger, and they began to quarrel over their acting skills, professionalism, and how to respect the director.

"Won't you go up and stop it?" Director of Photography David Watkin quietly pulled Ronald.

"I don't want to stop them. Anyway, sooner or later they will have a fight." Ronald has already seen that the two of them have disliked each other for a long time. This is essentially the different attitudes of actors and stars towards the film career.

"If the quarrel doesn't come out today, I won't care about my job." Ronald couldn't stand the continuous lack of progress in rehearsals. No matter how hard he quarreled or talked, he had to focus on the dialogue and performance of the scene.

Only when you reach a consensus can you continue shooting.

"Okay, I'll go eat first and then go to bed. When they finish arguing, you can call me again." David Watkin walked out leisurely.

Several male actors on Broadway just handed water to the two female actors. On Broadway, they were used to seeing quarrels over artistic differences. Such intense exchanges were actually a good thing, if both parties focused on drama.

Nicolas Cage spoke for Ronald the day before and was suppressed by Cher. Now he is silent and just watching from the side.

This time the two sides quarreled even more fiercely, and everyone had their own opinions on this scene.

However, the two of them showed no signs of stopping, and instead seemed to be really popular.

When Cher was mentioned that her acting skills were not good, she blurted out that Dukaski had never played a leading role on Broadway for so many years. Meryl Streep, who entered Broadway later than her, and Cher were in the previous "Sk."

She is already a major actress who has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

Dukakis was so angry that he retorted, saying that Cher was just a has-been female singer and didn't have a deep understanding of film shooting. All the film needed was a good shot. He had seen her scene in "The Skew Incident" and was criticized.

It was cut into many short scenes. Didn’t Director Bogdanovich tell you that this was because of your poor acting skills?

Fyodor Chaliapin, who plays the old man Grandpa, is severely deaf, but he can read the speaker's mouth movements.

Seeing the two women arguing more and more fiercely, he couldn't stand it anymore.

In his long career, he has seen many quarrels and even fights due to artistic differences. In this movie, everyone had a great time filming, and the two female leads got along very well. It was unnecessary

Got it to this point.

Fedor Chaliapin stood up and stretched out his hand to signal the two of them to stop.

No one listened to him.

Fyodor Chaliapin had no choice but to slam the table, and everyone stopped.

"Let's fight with words, not with force."

Cher and Dukakis were startled by the loud noise Fedor Chaliabin made by banging the table. After hearing the old man's words, they both stood still and stopped quarreling.

"First Evolution"

The two of them looked at each other. They were originally discussing how to perform the scene, but for some reason, they started to argue more and more fiercely.

The eighty-year-old actor still had to listen to his words. The two sat down at the dining table and looked at each other.

The two parties who were quarreling were stopped by the old man's words, and the other actors were speechless.

Suddenly, everything stopped.

Ronald suddenly felt blessed. He immediately felt that the current situation was very similar to the plot of the breakfast scene.

Everyone revealed each other's deepest secrets at this breakfast table.

Shocked that others knew their secret, every family member apologized for their past.

Then they understand each other, and the big family is finally united again. This is how big Italian families solve family conflicts. Let everything be discussed at the dinner table.

There are weaknesses among family members, and they are bloodyly divided at the dinner table, but in the end, eating the food cooked by the mother together, everyone still has to trust each other and move on.

"David!"

Ronald suddenly shouted, "David, David, come on."

David Watkin ran in after hearing the news.

"Hurry up... The situation is just right now. It's too late to draw storyboards. Don't waste this situation. You need to book the camera position quickly.

Lighting!, Recording!, Notes!, Makeup!”

Ronald shouted to everyone to come back and start filming immediately!
Chapter completed!