Chapter 221 Leonardo
"Hey guys, do you know what I just saw?"
On the other side of the set of "The Butterfly Effect", Leonardo sat down with a plate and winked at his two supporting actors, Mark Wahlberg and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
"alien?"
Mark Wahlberg joked.
Leonardo looked around and said in a low voice, "I saw Renee. She went to Link's office alone!"
"That's nothing. It's not like you haven't been to Director Link's office before."
Mark Wahlberg said.
Fat Philip Hoffmann smiled as he ate his pizza.
"It's different. We went there to discuss work. The newspaper said Renee is Link's girlfriend."
Leonardo looked around again and added, "One."
"That's nothing. Director Link isn't married."
Mark Wahlberg said.
Leonardo smiled and glanced at Fatty Philip. "Fatty, don't forget that we have a kissing scene with Renee. Will Link be angry with us because of this? I heard that the Chinese care a lot about this."
"Are you kidding me? Link is a professional director, why would he mind such a thing?"
Mark Wahlberg said.
Leonardo thought about it and felt that it was indeed unlikely, so he shrugged his shoulders and buried his head in eating.
After the lunch break, everyone returned to the set to continue filming.
"137th 6th shot, start!"
In the dormitory, Evan lay on the bed and began to read the diary to the girls. He read about when he was thirteen years old, the "little devil" Tommy burned the pet dog at the garbage dump, and he and the fat boy Lenny were beaten. While reading, he suddenly fainted.
This is Evan's first time traveling into the past.
After waking up, Evan didn't bother to date the girl. He drove back to the place where he used to live and found the fat boy Lenny. He discovered that the fat boy was affected by his time travel and became an autistic patient.
His first love Kelly became a waitress with a failed life, and was stimulated by his visit to commit suicide.
After Evan returned to school, he continued reading his diary, ready to change the bad past and save Kelly and Lenny.
The first time he traveled through time was when he was 7 years old. Kelly's perverted father made him and Kelly shoot an indecent movie. He severely reprimanded Kelly's father and threatened to kill him if he dared to do so again.
After waking up, he found that Kelly had become his girlfriend and was also studying at college. They were very much in love and lived a good life.
It's just that Kelly's brother Tommy was affected and turned into a violent criminal who had just been released from prison.
When Evan was dating Kelly, the little devil Tommy suddenly appeared and had an argument with Evan. Evan accidentally killed him and was put into prison.
Because Evan was delicate and had low fighting power, he was quickly taken away through the back door.
In order to change all this bad thing, Evan took back the diary and traveled to the past again, to the garbage dump, and asked the fat boy Lenny to kill the little devil Tommy in advance.
Affected by this incident, the fat boy Lenny was detained in the hospital as a mental patient, and his first love Kelly was disfigured and turned into a prostitute, living a life worse than death, which was even worse than the last time.
Seeing his friend and first love in such a miserable situation, Evan goes back to the past again, back to when he was 13 years old, and they played a prank by placing a detonator in the neighbor's mailbox, accidentally killing Mrs. Haben and her child.
This time Evan bravely stepped forward to stop Mrs. Haben from approaching the mailbox, but when the detonator exploded, he was too close and was injured, with his hands and legs blown off.
After waking up, he became a disabled person with four limbs crippled. His first love Kelly and the fat boy Lenny became a happy couple and were affectionate in front of him.
'Little Devil' Tommy became an excellent college student. His three friends were very kind to him and took good care of him.
It's just that his mother was affected by his disability. She smoked for a long time and had advanced lung cancer and was about to die.
Evan was not satisfied with the status quo and went back to the past again, back to when he was 7 years old. When he was shooting an indecent video in the basement, he lit the detonator to kill Tommy and Kelly's perverted father, but accidentally killed Kelly.
After waking up, he was locked up in the hospital as a mental patient.
When he was about to travel through the diary again, the attending doctor told him that there had never been any diary.
Everything that happened before was his fantasy, including going to college, going to jail, and becoming disabled. They were all his fantasies. He wanted to escape the guilt of accidentally killing Kelly in this way.
Evan didn't believe it, so he used the home video tape his mother brought to travel back to the moment before he was born. He committed suicide by wrapping the umbilical cord around his neck in his mother's womb.
There were originally two possible endings for the film.
Another one is that Evan used a videotape to travel back to the scene of a childhood family gathering and bullied Kelly, making her hate him. In the end, Kelly and Tommy lived with their mother and were not tortured by their perverted father.
Later, the two met again in college and passed each other as strangers.
However, the version of suicide using the umbilical cord is more classic and has received high praise from the audience, so Link also used this ending when filming.
“Cut!”
"Leon, bring some emotions. You need to immerse yourself in the role and think of yourself as Evan from the bottom of your heart. Only then can you play this role well."
"I know, director. I'm working on it."
Leonardo shrugged and smiled.
"Leon, you are the most talented actor I have ever worked with, and I believe you can do better."
Link said seriously.
Leonardo's eyes lit up and he nodded excitedly, promising to act well.
The crew continued filming.
Evan returned to the dormitory, found all the diaries, and read them one by one.
Take out the oldest one and start reading.
"I wasn't planning on being in a movie anyway, I was cold and wanted to get dressed, but Mr. Miller took off my shirt."
Leonardo frowned, his eyes fixed on the diary, and his expression became complicated.
Seeing Leonardo in front of the camera, Link couldn't help but think of his performances in "Shutter Island" and "Inception". His roles in the three movies were somewhat similar, all of them were people with mental problems.
Although Leonardo's performance at this stage is immature and cannot be compared with more than ten years later, it is still remarkable and seems to be more suitable than the original male lead.
Link estimated that if Leonardo DiCaprio played the leading male role, the box office subsidies would be higher.
"What the hell are you doing?"
The fat classmate in the same dormitory asked.
"Shh! Be quiet and don't disturb me."
Evan said.
"Are you stupid, buddy?"
The fat roommate came over and took the diary from him. "Maybe there is a reason why you took the initiative to forget that pervert made you wear panties. I suggest you don't continue doing this. It's possible that when you wake up, you will be in a worse state than you are now."
"Worse than now?"
Evan laughed at himself and said, "Do you think you know me well? I don't even know myself."
Evan snatched back the diary, stared at it, and then, thinking of his roommate's advice, he closed the diary heavily again.
“Cut!”
"Leon, the emotional outburst in the latter part is not intense enough. Evan is a perfectionist. Before opening the diary, he thought his life was perfect. When he flipped through the diary and saw those terrible past events that he had almost forgotten, he almost collapsed. You need to understand Evan's emotions. If you can't, think about the things you have experienced in the past that almost made you collapse."
Link is guiding Leonardo into the play.
Although letting actors immerse themselves in the play will affect their cognition, and some actors may even be unable to get out of the role after getting into it, this method of guidance is very useful and will achieve twice the result with half the effort during filming. This is also the reason why many directors are willing to let actors immerse themselves in the role.
Leonardo nodded, and began to adjust his emotions and perform again.
(End of this chapter)
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