Best Actor

"It's 9 o'clock in the evening?" Sean opened his mouth and looked at the person in front of him in disbelief.

"Don't be so surprised, you'll be laughed at," Christopher Nolan patted his arm, "I wasn't used to it when I first got here, but it will get better after a while of."

Sean looked up at the sky, although there was no sun hanging on it, it was so bright that it didn't look like it was night. Looking around again, many of the set and drama managers were snickering, and even Sanders was rolling his eyes, looking like "I told you so long ago", which made him quite depressed.

"Well, I hope I'm not like Will Dormer who can't get a good night's sleep for weeks on end." Sean smiled somewhat self-deprecatingly.

"Relax, life is not a movie, the crew is arranged, you will get enough rest, and then we will start shooting in the restaurant tomorrow." Christopher said.

"Fitting the restaurant scene tomorrow? Hurry up a little bit, I'm not ready to play the opposite role with the actor." Surprised Sean asked tentatively half-jokingly.

"If you must come to the crew earlier to report, of course we can shoot step by step, but in order to match your schedule, we have to make adjustments." Christopher shrugged, his tone was teasing Outwardly obvious. He can really speak well if he can put pressure on you by saying that something that was originally arranged with only minor adjustments was done for you.

"It's just a small scene, it shouldn't be difficult for you, right?" Christopher said immediately.

"No problem, just wait and see." Sean knew what he was thinking. Since he came together to win this role in order to have a good relationship with him, of course he couldn't be underestimated. stand up.

This scene is indeed a little difficult, but it is not a particularly big problem. If he can get the cooperation of Al Pacino, Sean is confident to show a wonderful acting. Fortunately, after seizing the opportunity to contact Pacino, although the old actor felt that he was a little young, he still had a good conversation and did not show any feeling of relying on the old and selling the old.

"Come on, boy, let me see how good you are tomorrow." Pacino, who was preparing for the last scene, said with a smile, the smile between his eyebrows was very warm.

Just, if he knew his real age, would he still be so enthusiastic?

"What do you care about, think about it when you have time, why don't you read the script more and prepare for tomorrow's shooting." Sanders asked his question after sending his luggage to his room scoffed.

"Okay, you're right." Sean shrugged, but couldn't hold back, "Why didn't you tell me before that it's 9 o'clock in the evening?"

"I reminded you after coming out of Anchorage International Airport that the days are very long here, but you obviously forgot." Sanders said, rolling his eyes.

"No, I didn't forget, I just..." Sean gestured to defend, "I took a short nap on the way over by car, and it wasn't dark after I woke up, so I thought It only took a while."

"Come on, the driver said before getting in the car that it will take several hours, or you want to tell me that you can't even calculate the simplest addition and subtraction?" Sand Si continued to roll his eyes.

"Okay okay, we should actually take a small plane, it's faster, and it's not easy to sleep." Sean had to change the subject.

Alaska is sparsely populated and is basically distributed by the sea. Most of the places here are permafrost like Siberia, Norway and Finland, which are uninhabitable, so there are only about 600,000 residents. The airport is also only available in Anchorage, the largest city in the state.

However, many cities have small airports, and many small ones can only take a few people. Twin-prop planes are still in use, so there are many short-haul routes in the state. Just like the movie "Chasing the Murder in the White Night", at the beginning, the actor played by Pacino and the assistant played by Sean also took a small plane to the town where the murder occurred.

But for safety reasons, Sean rejected the small plane and chose to report to Valdez by car.

"Okay, I'll go to bed after reading the script and try to be in the best shape tomorrow." After packing up with Sanders, Sean said, he was indeed a little tired .

Only, after lying down for half an hour, he put on his clothes and knocked on the director's door: "This is really the movie you want to make?"

"Is there any problem?" Christopher, who welcomed him in, asked inexplicably, and introduced his wife to Sean by the way.

Sean greeted her briefly, and immediately looked at Christopher: "Are you sure this script is ok?"

"What do you think is the problem?" Christopher looked at him in surprise.

"Not to mention, Will, as an old police officer who insists on justice, can use illegal means to treat that pedophile, but he was held hostage so easily?" Sean is very serious ask.

"It's normal, he is under investigation by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and he killed his partner by mistake, and he was troubled by the white night in Alaska, unable to rest, and he did this in a trance. The decision, in terms of plot logic, is acceptable." Christopher said quickly, "Didn't he correct his mistake in the end?"

"Well..." Sean thought about it carefully, "Well, it can be said from the logic of the plot, but I don't think this should be your work."

"Then what do you think my work should be?" Christopher asked with interest.

"Everything Will shows, trance, indecision, torment, is a performance for the final arrest of the killer writer. Of course, he does hesitate, you He has indeed considered the issues mentioned, but catching the murderer and never compromising is what he always insists on. Therefore, this can show his conflicting feelings in the movie, and sometimes make the audience think that he is really He was kidnapped, wanted to give up, and conspired with the murderer, and sometimes acted as if he had other secrets. .

Christopher didn't speak, just looked at him with surprise and sigh.

"Thank you, Sean, you have a great idea," Christopher said a few minutes later, without directly judging his idea, "but you know, I'm just a Director, although Emma is on the list of producers, there are still many people ahead of her."

Such a sentence is enough, Sean quickly recovered from the previous excitement, indeed, the current Christopher Nolan is not the Christopher Nolan of a few years later, he is now just A rookie director is subject to the producer everywhere. Even if his wife is one of them, he has almost no right to speak. Of course, it is impossible for him to create a movie according to his own ideas.

No wonder in my memory, about Nolan's works, I don't have much impression of this "Chasing the Murderer in the White Night", it seems that it should not be very good.

"Okay, I get it, I really hope... I can cooperate happily once." Sean sighed, not hiding his regret.

Then he said goodbye and left here without saying a word. He came and went in a hurry.

"Interesting people." When the door closed, Christopher looked over, his wife Emma shrugged, "As you think."

"I hope he won't let me down tomorrow." The young director squeezed his chin.

Sean doesn't know what the Nolan couple is thinking, he is really regretful, about Nolan's personal style, he recalls some, such as repeated interspersed scenes, such as fine editing , such as the ending of the Great Reversal. I won't say the first two points. It will not be shown until the film is completed in the later stage, but the flipped ending, or the ending that most ordinary people can't guess, can be known by looking at the script, so he will look for it. he.

Without these distinctive features, even if the director is Christopher Nolan, can it be regarded as Nolan's work?

Unfortunately, neither Christopher nor Sean is a big man now, and they lack the power to dictate the script, so there is no need to pay too much attention, it is more important to complete the work at hand.

Sean had a good night's sleep. Although the days in Alaska are very long, no place suitable for human habitation is below the Arctic Circle, so there is actually no polar day phenomenon. Intense and unable to sleep all day, is just an exaggeration.

After—

"We need to talk."

"No need."

"Just sitting here?"

"Nothing has changed."

"Has nothing changed? What do you think we're all here for flounder fishing?"

"Buck thinks Charlie needs help, so we're here."

"Buck thinks the Home Office is coming for me, and he guessed right. Warfield sent me to the office yesterday for three hours, three **** hours."

"He wants you to mess around, man, that's all."

"I talked to Trish and I'm sorry I have to compromise."

When he said this, the slightly younger man pursed his lips and seemed very helpless. The old policeman glared at him, although his expression seemed as calm as before, but his eyes were obviously deeply unwilling and unhappy.

"Cut!" Christopher, standing next to the camera, stopped.

Sean sighed softly, then looked at him, the latter did not speak, just frowned and watched the previous clips behind the monitor.

"Are you nervous?" Pacino asked at the side.

"Nervous? Of course not, I just...want to get Christo's approval." Sean retracted his eyes and smiled, for this seemingly fierce and serious, but actually very funny The old actor is very good.

"So, you like him very much?" Pacino asked with interest.

"Let's put it this way, Al, it was because I heard that he was the director of this movie that I took the initiative to ask for this role after Martin Tangwen quit the crew." Sean thought After thinking about it, he said.

"Oh?" Pacino became more interested.

Sean wanted to continue to explain, but when Christopher walked to the camera again, he immediately closed his mouth wisely.

"Go ahead," said the director.