Chapter 101： mature (1/2)
After a month and a half, the filming of ”Junuo” was completed, and the crew announced the dissolution. (Read novel) Say goodbye to Toronto, the quiet and beautiful Taobao women's Tmall Taobao Mall Taobao women's winter coat m, Natalie Portman boarded the plane to Sydney; and Wang Yang took the shooting results, He returned to Los Angeles with Michael Pete, Joshua and others. After attending the premiere of ”High School Musical 2”, Wang Yang rested for no more than two days, and his life once again entered the busy post-production of the movie.
When looking for an editor for ”Junuo”, Wang Yang naturally first considered and interviewed the old partner Margaret Goodspeed. In the previous two cooperations, they have cultivated a certain tacit understanding. As a female, Grete has unique insights into the story of ”Junuo”. After talking with Wang Yang, she also knows exactly what he wants, and understands the charm of this character ”Junior, arbitrary, freehand, cool ”It is also clear that the style and rhythm of this movie is” warm and sunny ”. In the end, she passed the interview easily and the two collaborated for the third time.
”Juno” has a scheduled length of 120 minutes, how to edit? If from a certain point of view, this movie is similar to the rhythm of ”When Happiness Comes to Knock on the Door”, they are all character dramas, which are about one thing and the change of life, and promote the time and story. , ”When happiness comes to knock on the door” is Chris Gardner wants to be a stock broker; ”Junuo” is Juno pregnant. So the movie is still a timeline-style single-line structure. Juno found out that she was pregnant, conspiracy to abortion, and decided to give birth. Then it was a whole pregnancy. Family, adoptive parents, Poly, classmates, etc. all appeared on the scene, and finally Juno gave birth child.
The theme of this film did not discuss whether the teenage pregnancy was correct and did not preach; nor did it discuss whether the abortion was correct and did not express any kind of bias. This is a clever point of ”Juneau”, the rock girl Juno started She chose abortion. She was free to choose, which was in line with the taste of the abortion school who advocated that ”women have the right to choose”; but Juno did not do that. She realized that the child in her belly was a life, and her conscience found that abortion was eliminated. This is also in line with the conservatives ’respect for life.
In the original version, one of the reasons why Juno changed her mind was that she met a Chinese student Su Qin at the door of the abortion clinic. Su Qin said, ”The baby has already given birth to nails”. Although Su Qin has no obvious accent, But her original lines have a few cold humor, and her rigidity highlights Juno's special.
Wang Yang did n’t shoot that much. This is a “bad habit” in the movie industry. He makes jokes with ethnic minorities and Asians. He wo n’t be angry. He laughs when he watches it; The vices will not agree with the fixed images of Chinese supporting actors ”stiff nerds, overwhelming beating guys, or directly yin and yang harlequins.”
Therefore, Su Qin's role was directly replaced by white people, which will not have any effect on the film; and Juno said, ”You should go to China. I heard that people there give baby like free d.” Wang Yang removed this line. He did n’t know what d was, and he did n’t know the survival situation of babies in China. But this is definitely a joke, and it ’s not funny for him. This is also a vice. Besides, he did n’t want his grandfather to slap his face, and then scolded “Xiao Yang, what did you shoot?”
These two places are only minor changes. The real change is the change in the core theme, and the focus of the story. The original ”Juneau” is naturally a very good story and movie, but it wants to express and tell things, and He wanted to express it differently. Relying on these rich shooting materials, Wang Yang can make Margaret cut out a 90-minute ”Juno” with the same story and theme as the original. Maybe it is the same as it, maybe it is better than it; but What he wanted was not this, what he wanted was the 120-minute ”Juneau”.
Will it succeed? Even if he died, he just wanted to make ”the movie he wanted to make.” The rest is still the same sentence. Make a good movie, make a good publicity, do your own work, and let the audience decide the rest.
However, as the year passed, and after a month and a half of shooting, Wang Yang's ideas were also very different from the original. The script was revised repeatedly, and the ending of ”Juneau” also had several.
At the beginning, he wanted Juno and Poly to raise their children together, but now there is no ”memorizing women into madness” at that time. After communicating with real teenage mothers such as Kathy, I heard her say that ”men are assholes.” ”Sometimes I will be very regretful and annoyed, I ruined my life”, how about Juno? Although Poly became mature and became an asshole, after all, he and Juno did not have sufficient financial capacity, and it would be a harm to them and children.
So in one of the endings of Wang Yangpai, the custody of the baby still belongs to Vanessa, the adoptive mother, but Juno and Poly will not decide not to take a look at the child, then when nothing has happened; Juno and Poly will visit the child From the beginning, she tried to adopt closed closed adoption. She did n’t even want to get pictures and dynamics of her baby; to the last open adoption; from disdainful attitude towards children, to thinking that she was a “mom”, she would be gentle. Looking at the child, this is the change of her mindset. There is no childishness and escape from what she learned from pregnancy. She knows what is responsibility and what love is.
The same happened to Vanessa. From the beginning, when she heard Juno talking about the ecstasy of closed adoption, to the final calm and happiness, she also had her own ”pregnancy period”, and she also learned something .
It was the baby who made them mature. The child was Vanessa, Juno and Poly. This ending is also the most favored and appreciated by Margaret. As a middle-aged mother, she said, ”This makes me feel very moved and warm.” After many considerations, Wang Yang decided to choose the ending for the release version; other endings It will be included when the DVD is released.
Post-production without special effects, in addition to the other most important part of editing, is the soundtrack of the movie. The soundtrack style of ”Junuo” needs that kind of country style, young and lively youth, warm and natural. Wang Yang did not look for Jen-Kezmelik. Jane's style is not suitable for ”June”, he is The master of string and piano, his soundtrack always has an atmosphere; but not ”Junuo”, not the guitar, harmonica and the like.
Wang Yang didn't know many soundtrack artists. He tried to contact David Lawrence. There is no doubt that the soundtrack of ”High School Musical” is excellent and excellent. The original soundtrack was sold out of stock, but it was a passionate style. Can David Lawrence do the country style of Juno? After some interviews, Wang Yang got the answer in the soundtrack room, and David Lawrence also became the soundtrack artist for ”Juneau”.
While Wang Yang is busy with the post-production of ”Junuo” every day, ”High School Musical 2” also gains its own box office in North American cinemas. As early as August 4th, when it was premiered in Los Angeles, it was logged in 2986 theaters in North America. Although the director is not Wang Yang, many fan fans have disappointed early and expressed little interest; but Tom Willing The popularity of Jessica, Rachel and others cannot be underestimated, and they still attract a large number of fans, and the script is also written by Wang Yang, which gives fans a lot of confidence in this sequel.