November 24, 2009

T4雑談♪ その�� Chris Browning氏再び♪

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さてさて、皆様におかれましては『ターミネーター4』のDVDを堪能なさっておられることど存知あげ奉り候でございます♪。ええわしも地味に堪能しておりましてよ(笑)。そんな中再びChris Browning氏の再登板でございます。皆様は今年の4月にわしがここいらへんでこっそり書いたほんわー話を覚えていらっさいますかいのう。3:10 to YumaとT4で御大と共演なさった方が語るエピソード話でございます。当時わしの中では最もええ話〜といって書いたと思われでやんすが、Browning氏はT4の前半戦、ジョンコナ兄貴が海から戻った〜(トリトンかい:笑)ってなシーンでベースに入った時に一番手前で兄貴を迎える人を演じておられる方でございます(他には逃げるマーカスとブレアを上からバズーカだかロケランだかなんだかでバーンズがどかーん!と撃つシーンの時とかうっかり脇にいらっさって、でもってバーンズに話しかけておられます:笑)。Yumaでは前にも書いたけど囮役になっちまったばかりに燃やされちゃう人(名前はCrawley)でござんす。T4を観て「ああそういえばDVDが出たらもう一回書こうと思ってたんだった」ということを思い出して…あはは。てか、もう1回書いておいてついでにテキストを奪っておかないといつか読めなくなるかも〜という…えへへ♪。
そんなこんなで今一度懐かしくお読みいただければこれ幸い…なんて。ホントにこういう話をしてくれてありがとうって握手を求めたいくらいなんすよわし(結構本気:笑)。

(old article/source)
Fans of the hit film “3:10 to Yuma” may not remember the name of the character Chris Browning played, but many remember the scene his character died in.

Browning, 45, portrayed Deputy Crawley, the man who acted as a decoy to lure Ben Wade’s crew away.

It was Crawley who faced the wrath of Charlie Prince, who, with the rest of Wade’s crew, caught up with Crawley and burned him alive in the stage coach.

It was a good role for Browning, but one he was nervous about, because he knew he was going to have to film the intense scene.

“The main thing in my mind I had coming up was I had this thing that I was being burned alive,” Browning said.

Browning said he was nervous about how to portray the scene when he went in to audition for the movie. However, director James Mangold helped Browning through the process.

He said that when he went into audition they had him read for three roles, but the Deputy Crawley role was one that he didn’t know. He said he was able to rehearse at home for the other roles, which were dialogue related, but he didn’t know how to rehearse for someone burning alive.

“I hoped that I would get one of the other parts to read,” Browning said. “And then [Mangold] said, ‘lets see you do Deputy Crawley.’ And I said, ‘Oh shit.’ And I did it… and it wasn’t good.”

Mangold saw promise in Browning’s work and had him read again, coaxing a different performance out of him.

“Jim said ‘Ok, let’s do that again. Just remember, this is about fire and burning alive. You seemed uncomfortable, this is about fire not ants.’ And that relaxed me,” Browning said. “I liked the guy and I was comfortable and I did it again and I was spitting and screaming and he said that’s what it is.”

Browning said once he got on “3:10 to Yuma” he was able to work with Christian Bale, in several scenes. Bale even helped Browning prepare for his stage coach burning scene.

“He knew that I was worried about it and where that came from,” Browning said. “Christian Bale became a real friend to me. I don’t know if he could sense that I was terrified most of the time or what, but he was a real person.”

Browning said while shooting in the desert, he and Bale would often have 45 minute breaks where the two could just talk about the craft of acting while the crew set up for the next shot.

“I knew I had a pretty rare opportunity having Christian’s ear for hours on weeks on end,” Browning said. “I got as much out of him as I could. He was very unselfish and just was a great guy. And he really helped out a lot.”

Browning said that working with Bale taught him a lot. For instance, there was one scene that Bale filmed that Browning mistakenly thought Bale didn’t do well in.

He recalled the scene in which Bale’s character, Dan Evans, a struggling rancher needing to support his family, is listening to a man offer him money to take the dangerous criminal, known as Ben Wade, to another town and put him on the train to Yuma. It’s practically a suicide mission, because Ben Wade, played by Russell Crowe knows that his band of criminals will come looking for him.

In the scene, Bale is offered $200 to help take Wade to the other city, knowing full well the danger he could be in. Also, if he is killed he’ll leave his family struggling without him. At the end of the scene, Bale simply says, “I’ll do it.”

Browning was there the day that scene was shot and stood about 20 feet from where Bale was filming
“I watched and said, ‘That wasn’t any good. I would expect more from Christian Bale.’ But when I watched it on the playback monitor I was just blown away,” Browning said. “From 20 feet away it looked like he just said,’ I’ll do it.’ But on the monitor you could see all that was going on in his eyes.”

Browning talked to Bale about that scene after he had finished filming.

“I walked up to [Bale] after and I told him the story about how I watched from over here and thought, ‘Shit that sucked. And when I watched it on the monitor I could see all that was going on.’ I learned a lot right there,” Browning said. “He said he got a lot of his help from Michael Caine. They worked on ‘Batman Begins’ and ‘The Prestige.’ So they became really good friends. He said he got that from Michael Caine who told him, ‘Just do nothing mate, and pick a fucking eye. When you talk to somebody you talk to one of those eyes, you don’t dart back and forth like they do on soap operas.’”

Browning said he could tell how that advice had worked for Bale when he shot the scene as Dan Evans.

“He didn’t do anything. He just went through the thought process and said, ‘I’ll do it.’ And it shows,” Browning said. “You can see that it’s a big decision.”

Browning said the lessons he learned from Bale have stayed with him, as well as the friendship he and Bale formed on “3:10 to Yuma.”

The two worked again on “Terminator: Salvation,” but it had been a while since Browning and Bale had seen each other. With the time lapse, Browning was afraid that Bale had forgotten him. Browning was so concerned that he came up with a prepared speech so he could introduce himself and remind Bale of who he was, without having to put Bale on the spot.

But Browning didn’t need to worry. Bale again proved to be a friend to Browning, remembering him from “3:10.” He went up to Bale to say hello and Bale turned around to greet Browning by name.

Browning said that Bale told him he did a great job on “3:10” and talked about their discussions of Browning’s burning alive scene. Bale’s compliments of Browning’s performance in that scene meant a lot to him.

“He’s not that guy who runs around blowing smoke up peoples asses,” Browning said. “If you didn’t know him you wouldn’t think he was the biggest movie star in the world right now. I got a chance to tell him and thank him for helping me. And it was nice to be there.”

ついでにT4の撮影話もなさっておられますがそれはココでござんす♪。クリスチャンさんの話も出てきます
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