Director David Lowe:
Very early, in my mind, there lived a ghost, a ghost wearing a bed sheet. I love this ghost, this ghost wearing a bed sheet. Before, I tried to make a movie about him, but without success. It now appears that he has been waiting for me, waiting for a suitable movie.
Quarrel with my wife
During the filming of "Peter's Dragon", my wife and I moved from Texas to Los Angeles. I went to New Zealand, which was the filming location of "Peter's Dragon". After the filming, I returned to Los Angeles. Leaving Texas is very heartbreaking for me, because my wife and I got our first home there after we got married. I love it, so my wife and I will go back to Texas during the holidays. While on vacation, I once asked her: "Can we return to Texas after shooting "Peter's Dragon"?" But she said, "I don't want to go back to Texas anymore. I think Los Angeles is pretty good. Los Angeles is a Good place.” Because of this difference of opinion, we had a quarrel. I love Texas. That is the place where my wife and I used to be happy together. I belong to Texas.
Because of differences of opinion, we started quarreling. We were sitting on the sand, drawing straight lines. The length of the lines indicated how far we could go for each other. We discussed our future in this way. During the quarrel, I seemed to have seen the end of our journey. I often think back to that moment. It turned out that a simple little thing could bring our happiness to an end. I felt so troubled and sad. Fortunately, we calmed down and reached a settlement. Later I wrote down the content of our argument, and it became a shot of the movie.
Regarding the content of the script for this scene, I wrote about 10 pages. I still remember the day when Cassie and Rooney were performing this scene on the set, and my wife was there too, when the conversation between Cassie Affleck and Rooney Mara appeared in the conversation we used to argue, I saw her rolling her eyes, haha, of course she wouldn’t mind, she was totally supportive of me, she might be thinking: "I support you very much! Because you extend our relationship to artistic creation Ah." The content of this lens is also integrated with other lenses, interspersed in different places according to our needs.
Heart-warming friend; fortunately I didn't give up
At that time, I was still working hard to complete "Peter's Dragon" in Los Angeles. I was thinking about what else could I do during this summer vacation. I think now is the time and the best time to make a decision to make this movie.
After I made up my mind to make this movie, I started to inform my friends. Really, I only called my friends. They are all my best friends. I called them: "Hi, friend, do you want to come and do this big thing with us?" "This summer, would you like to spend two weeks in Texas?" My photographer Andrew Droz Palermo, Art director Jade Healy, costume designer Annell Brodeur and so on, they all came. My team is very small, very united and close. In the previous period of time, I had to spend a lot of time in Los Angeles to complete Peter's dragon. On weekends, I flew to Texas, and we would find suitable houses for shooting together. We don't have a preparation process in the traditional sense. Everything comes together in an organized way, but the lack of the preparation process does cause some problems. .
It was not until two days after the completion of "Peter's Dragon" that I returned to Texas and the whole filming started to get on track. In the middle of the shooting, I almost gave up this movie, because at that time, in many shootings, the way I wanted was not achieved, but at the same time, I also found that our shooting was too deep to As for the inability to go back. At that time, I lost my confidence. Sometimes, I was convinced by myself. I even told myself: Why is this work so complicated and difficult! This is totally impossible. At that time, I was ready to fail. But I have the best friends, the best team members, they encourage me, we work hard together, stick to it, and we will always find a solution.
Wonderful way; our luck
Because we are self-raising, on the one hand, there is no big restriction on the use of money. There are enough funds for us to use without causing our bankruptcy. There is no need to knock on others’ doors to ask for money, but on the other hand On the one hand, our capital budget is relatively small, and we have to think of some smart ways to make good use of our money.
Everyone knows that the whole movie we shot was in this house, and in the end this house was demolished. This was a real demolish, not a model or a plywood wall. So how to find a house is really a big problem. In this regard, our producers James (James M. Johnston) and Toby (Toby Halbrooks) have used a wonderful way to achieve this goal.
They called the local demolition company and got a list of the houses to be demolished. We drove the car to see the houses to be demolished. If there is a house that meets our requirements, we call the owner of the house and ask them if they want us to use the house.
Later we found a house that looked perfect, exactly the kind of house we wanted, and the owner of this house was called Scout. Under the guidance of our art designer Jed, we restored the house, designed the kitchen, installed the floor, and even repaired the ceiling, and finally it looked like a warm home. Then when we installed it, we demolished it again, just like in the movie.
When filming in this house, what we did not expect was that the owner Skuter not only agreed to give the house to us, but he also helped us a lot during the filming process. His granddaughter, who was in high school at the time, became Rooney's stand-in in the film, and in the film, she also played one of the pioneers. Scout also runs an air-conditioning company. He installed a portable device for us that can send cold air into the house so that we can stay dry in the heat of Texas.
We welcome them to our filming family very much. They have helped us a lot. Of course, they also came to the Sundance Film Festival to participate in our premiere. They are as proud of this film as we are. I don't think we could finish this film without them.
There are some tidbits:
1. This film was shot in Irvine, Texas, USA. The funding for this film came from the last film "Peter's Dragon" directed by director David Lowe (that is, the American animated film)
2. The film was kept secret from the public when it first started. It was not until the filming of the film was over, and it was a few months before the director announced that "our film is over. The film is called Ghost and Charm Floating Life."
3. On January 22, 2017, the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and long before the premiere, A24 Film Company obtained the distribution rights for the film.
4. The shot of Rooney Mara eating pie was successful only once, and it was successful once! ! Also, about the pie Rooney ate, director David Lowe said: "The pie Rooney ate is delicious. That pie is a vegetarian chocolate flavored pie!"
Let me explain to you why it is called vegetarian chocolate pie. Generally, chocolate pie is made. Eggs, butter, milk, etc. and flour are used to make small pastries. The jam is used as filling, and then it is rolled in the chocolate sauce. Just a turn, it's fine. So vegetarian pie means that there is no need to use eggs or milk to make noodles, or no butter, etc.
It is not allowed to reprint without permission. This article was translated and compiled on August 12, 2017, and there are more than 2,000 words that have not been compiled yet.
I will organize and share it with you when I have time. BYE
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