Chapter 270 Chapter 270

It has been a week since "Sleepless in Seattle" was launched. After the early run-in, the cast and crew gradually entered the state, but the content of the first week of shooting was relatively simple, and the real test did not come. The scene to be shot today is the top priority of the entire film.

The scene filmed today is Sam's son Jonah calling the radio to express his desire to find a new wife for his father. Sam was very angry when he found out, but under the patient persuasion of the host, he told his own experience. He understood that Jonah needed a new mother, but he also knew that he would never find a lover as perfect as before.

This phone call with the radio is the basis of the whole movie, and it's where the story begins. It's the call that makes Annie who listens to the radio touch Sam's heart, and it's the call that will take place between two people in Seattle and Baltimore. Strangers are connected. So, the call must be convincing, and there must be enough sparks to convince the audience of the real emotions in it, so that the story behind it can unfold naturally.

In short, if Hugo's performance on this call isn't convincing enough, the entire movie is doomed.

Therefore, there is a huge pressure on Hugo's shoulders. This is also after "The Hero of the Sea of ​​Righteousness", Hugo is faced with the challenge of acting again after half a year. Perhaps the difficulty of this scene is not as difficult as that in "The Hero of the Righteous Sea" with Jack Nee Coulson's rival scene, because this scene is Hugo's one-man show, but the requirements for the depth and appeal of acting skills are even higher.

When there is pressure, there is motivation. Hugo has been brewing his emotions for the past two days, hoping that he can win this scene. For a while, Tom Hanks appeared in the original "Sleepless in Seattle" performance in his mind. In fact, Tom's The performance is the most delicate, and the emotion is expelled quietly. If you deliberately look for traces, it will be fruitless, because Tom often does not borrow points during the performance, and it is difficult to find his strength. , it seems that everything comes out naturally.

Moreover, his age is also very different from Tom's, so Hugo knew that if he was going to imitate Tom in this scene, it would be doomed to fail, and he had to rely on himself to complete the scene.

Then relying on Hugo's own strength, what should he do? After Sam lost his wife, he was devastated and even changed his view of love and life. What kind of emotion is this? Hugo couldn't help recalling what he said to Nora during the second audition. Those words were actually Hugo's feelings about Uma's relationship, or a little psychological feeling, which meant that Hugo had to go Recalling Uma's relationship, recalling the surging pain in her heart when Uma turned and left.

But... Hugo didn't want that. He couldn't help but closed his eyes and suppressed all the confusion in his heart. He had no way to recall those things, at least not now.

"I'm ready." Hugo knew that he couldn't delay any longer, so even if his emotions were not fully brewed, he still said this to Nora. Although he was always hesitant, he still didn't say it in the end. .

Seeing the depression between Hugo's eyebrows, Nora nodded, then glanced at Ross who was standing at the door of the kitchen, and after receiving a confirmation reply, she said loudly, "Start shooting!"

"Dad, someone called you." Ross shouted in the direction of the balcony, and then Hugo pushed open the door and walked in, walked over to the phone, and picked up the phone.

At this time, Hugo was wearing a simple T-shirt and overalls. Because of the cold weather, he wore a bottoming shirt and an open-neck T-shirt. This suit was what Hugo chose when he auditioned for the first time. Clothing, standard 90s blue-collar men's ordinary dress, put on a ginger waterproof jacket outside, the taste of the whole dress comes out.

His dark golden medium-length hair was messy and disordered like a bird's nest, as if it was just a hairstyle that was casually groomed by hand when he woke up in the morning. Makes him look a little more decadent. However, his handsome and sunny face lost his splendor because of those dull eyes, and the slightly frowning eyebrows lost a bit of temperament, while the faint wrinkles on the eyebrows and the corners of the eyes were the traces left by the years, just a face-to-face. very convincing.

Hugo, who was covered up with simple makeup, now looks like a widower in his mid-thirties, a young widowed widow who lives alone with an eight-year-old child. Although he does not have the calm charm of a forty-year-old, he is also not too young to be too young. Lost of convincing, and more importantly, Hugo's mature yet energetic, brisk yet hidden sadness has amazed the entire crew, including Nora. Now Hugo is Sam.

Sam picked up the phone, only to hear a voice on the other end of the phone, "Hello, Sam, I'm Dr. Feidon from National Radio." This voice was spoken by Nora Ephron on the scene for Hugo For the play, it looks very lively.

"What do you want to sell? Barbecue grill, ninja knife?" Sam's tone was a little heavy, with a hint of exhaustion.

"I don't sell anything, I just want to help you," the doctor explained. "Your son is calling to ask me to help you find a new wife."

Sam's eyes were full of doubts, and his brows furrowed involuntarily, "Who are you?"

"Doctor Marcy Feidon, Nationwide Radio, you're live." Following the doctor's words, Sam turned his head in disbelief and looked at his son hiding in the kitchen door, those eyes were full of confusion and tangle, and then Sam moved the microphone away a little and asked, "You call the station?"

Jonah didn't dare to answer at all, just hid with the phone, and the doctor couldn't help calling, "Sam, Sam, are you still there?"

Sam looked at the kitchen angrily, even though Jonah could feel his father's anger across a wall, Sam could only hurriedly reply, "Yes", and then looked in the direction of the kitchen puzzled but angrily, Trying to get a little answer from Jonah.

"Your son thinks that your wife has been unhappy since his death. He is very worried about you," the doctor explained.

Sam saw Jonah quietly probing out, raised his chin, raised his right hand and greeted his son, "You, come out to me. Come on, I won't be embarrassed by myself!" Jonah held the phone helplessly. , Listening to the receiver, slowly moved it out step by step.

"I think it's hard for him to talk to you, we can talk, maybe reassure Jonah. Sam?" the doctor insisted.

"Tell her, she's a doctor," Jonah said to his father, also listening to the landline in the kitchen.

"What doctor? Maybe her name is 'Doctor'." Sam still thought it was all absurd.

"Please?" Jonah said to his father, looking at Sam so pitifully that Sam couldn't refuse. And the doctor's voice came over the phone again, "Sam, this is his Christmas wish."

Sam looked at his son and nodded helplessly, "Okay." Then he slowly took off his jacket and decided to stay indoors.

"I know it's difficult, but how long has it been since your wife died?" the doctor asked.

"About a year and a half ago." Sam's voice dropped involuntarily, and he didn't even notice that his eyes began to drop unconsciously.

"Have you ever had a girlfriend after that?"

Sam was silent for a while, then gave a simple answer, "No."

"No? Why not?"

"Uh... Dr. Marcy? Or Dr. Fei Dong?" Sam raised his head, his voice returned to normal, and after getting the reply from "Doctor Marcy", Sam said, "Doctor Marcy, I don't want to be rude... "

"Oh, I don't want to explore people's privacy either," the doctor said quickly.

"Of course you don't want to." Sam sarcastically, but the doctor seemed not to understand what Sam meant. "Go ahead, I'm listening." Unfortunately, Sam did not respond, which forced the doctor to say again, "Sam? "That's the downside of radio, you never know what kind of person is on the other end of the airwaves.

Sam coughed lightly, slowly picked up the phone and walked in Jonah's direction, "My son and I were very painful at first, but... we got through it." Sam said slowly and with difficulty, "Me and Jonah It will calm down...after I smash his radio." Sam and Jonah came face to face to the bench at the bottom of the stairs, Sam, apparently still dissatisfied with Jonah's behavior of calling the radio, said gloomily. arrive.

Sam's complaint made the doctor laugh, and Jonah, who sat down on the bench and looked carefully at his father, who was still saying on the radio, "I believe you are a good father, a man's voice You can hear a lot of his personality."

Sam said at once solemnly, "Of course you can!" The irony couldn't have been more obvious.

But the doctor is already familiar with this situation and ignores it. "But for some reason, Jonah thinks you are still in a low ebb. Just a few questions, can you sleep well at night?"

When Sam opened his mouth to answer, he was interrupted by Jonah, "He didn't sleep at all."

"How do you know?" Sam frowned again unconsciously, looking at his son in surprise.

"I live here, Dad," the Jonah kid said loudly, leaving Sam speechless.

"Uh..." Sam tried his best to pretend that he was okay, looking for a credible explanation, "Actually, it's Christmas." Sam was at a loss. He also sat down on the bench and put the landline phone heavily on the ground. Then leaning back on the bench, he hesitated and said confusedly, "Maggie, my wife, she celebrates...she loves..." Every time Sam opened his head, he couldn't keep up. The heavy loneliness and pain made it impossible for him to organize his own language. "She... arranges everything perfectly, and every time it comes, it's even harder. Every child needs a mother." Sam asked his son to sit He came to his side and took him into his arms.

"Do you need a company like Jonah?" the doctor asked, but Sam didn't know how to answer.