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The main creative team talks about some of the things behind this movie
1. Everyone knows that this is a film adapted from the novel of the same name. The original author James Ellroy praised this film as " an elegant film ". He admitted that although the secret world of Los Angeles was created by him, Curtis’s The movie version is beyond his imagination, which is the highest evaluation he can give . He said that when he rewatched his novel version, he would see the actors in the movie version saying their lines.
2. The director mentioned that he attaches great importance to the light in the film. He hopes to show the light of Southern California. The sunlight should be soft , so as to neutralize the local desert terrain. The Italian photographer Dante Spinotti believes that this film should show The externality of the city.
3. The director told the photographer from the beginning that this film should not be shot in the typical film noir method, but the photographer immediately asked him: What is a film noir?
4. In the early stage of shooting, the director found dozens of photos for the photographer to see. He hoped that the picture of the movie would look like this style
5. The crew watched several films from the 1950s that the director loved. They found that there were far fewer pedestrians, vehicles, and scenery on the street than they are now, and it seems too empty from a modern perspective.
In order to make the movie more in line with modern vision, the crew deliberately enriched the elements that appear in the screen, making the streets more like today's cities.
6. The director said that he hopes to convey a kind of contrast in the picture, not only the contrast between fantasy and reality, but also the contrast between the character's self-perception and the cognition from others
7. The director believes that in order to highlight the sense of the times in the film, there should be some people wearing hats in the film , but they should not be the center of the content, but a part of the image.
8. The lead actor Guy Pierce said that the director is a very warm and sensitive person in his heart, so the color used by the director in this film is mainly warm colors such as brown.
But for his role as Ed, this character is a somewhat cold-blooded careerist , so when he plays , his clothes are always gray, dark blue and other cold colors.
9. When Guy Pierce came to audition, the director was dissatisfied with his fangs and hoped that he could grind them down.
Guy Pierce didn’t want to have surgery, so in the end they had to wrap up Guy’s teeth and extend them slightly.
10. Gapierce said that in this film he learned the power of stillness . (In the scene where Ed learned the truth, a solid face with close-up shots created an excellent dramatic tension. This approach can be called a director’s textbook)
11. The director said that when filming the scene where Jack Vincent was killed by Sheriff Dudley, his idea was to unfold the story in the most ordinary and ordinary way.
12. Next, screenwriter Brian Helgeland said that every time he sees this scene, he will be surprised by Kevin Spacey .
"Kevin has a cup of coffee in front of him, and he is about to clean the coffee on his hands. This is perfect because it is not part of the script. This is the moment when the actor is fully invested in the performance...it always makes me I was shocked, I mean, how could a person who was about to clean the coffee on his hand be suddenly killed?"
Director continues to comment
"When we took this shot, it was incredible that I could really see the light in his eyes gradually dissipate. Now you can use digital technology to create this kind of shots, but at that time Kevin relied entirely on his own performance."
The editor said that after the initial cut, he and the director felt that the death shot should be longer, so the last picture we saw was that the camera kept shooting at Kevin until he couldn’t help but roll his eyes.
13, Kevin said to myself, this scene of death Vincent had wonderful ideas, while shooting style is also very simple, so the audience will never guess what will happen next, Kevin believes this lens handled more quiet effect on The more terrifying.
Kevin said that his eyes always moved with Cromwell during this scene, and he had to pretend to die slowly, so he asked the crew to help him draw two blacks on the wall in the opposite kitchen. Big circle so that he can shift his gaze from Cromwell to the circle.
14. The key line in the film "Rolo Thomasi" is the original film. According to the director, this line is to let the dead Jack reveal key information, and also to let everyone know that Dudley is the bad guy. In the end, the creators came up with This line.
15. The novel "L.A. Confidential" is a sequel to the novel "The Big Nowhere", and the hotel battle at the end of the movie comes from the novel "The Big Nowhere". The screenwriter frankly confessed that they picked up a ready-made one. In the novel, Dudley Police Long lived to the end of the book "L.A. Confidential" (however, he died in the sequel of the novel)
16. The screenwriter said that I just want to make a good film seriously. If this film has not won any awards or received any attention, I will be proud of my work and the experience of this collaboration. The director said that he knew that he was making a movie that he and his colleagues would like, which was very important to him, and ("L.A. Confidential" encountered "Titanic" and had little gain at the Oscars that year ) Facts have proved that it is difficult to do what you love in the film industry .
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