Susan暑假作文日常杂记(2)--喜莱坞制作(追星)

 

喜莱坞作品(更特别地,希拉里.辛迪) 

Susan著 小哭译

 

喜莱坞很是令人称奇!!是的, 我说的是喜莱坞,不是好莱坞。你可能从未听说过他们,而这也正是我要将他们介绍给你的原因!

 

基本上,喜莱坞利用一些著名的影片或名人制作一些模仿搞笑作品。他们的作品不是会让你笑翻在地的那种,而是些你看了会说“哇,真酷,我还想再看一遍”的那类。他们的作品都基于音乐,几乎就像是音乐视频MV一样。在他们的作品中,演员的口型和歌词同步,歌曲都是大家耳熟能详的曲目。他们挑选的演员通常都与真实电影中的演员看起来惊人地相像,如果我不带上眼镜,他们看起来就完全是真实的电影演员!

 

嗯,这就是喜莱坞作品的特点,卡卡,也是喜莱坞团队的特点。然而,喜莱坞团队的作品从不雷同。对于每一个新的模仿搞笑作品,他们都不得不更换演员,不过幸运的是,永远都是由希拉里.辛迪来扮演主角(不论男女)。希拉里.辛迪和汉娜.辛迪,是双胞胎姐妹,他们两个人创办了喜莱坞。他们既是制片人、导演、编辑和编剧,也是所有模仿搞笑作品中的服装设计师。通常他们还是摄影师、舞蹈指导、放映师(不管叫什么吧)、特效师、化妆师和所有作品的发型师!了不起,是吧?!所以不难说,这俩姐妹是喜莱坞的中心。事实上,他们就是喜莱坞,其余的人只是辅助他们成功地实现目标而已。希拉里的昵称是喜莱,因此就有了“喜莱坞”这一名称。从人气和幕后花絮来看,喜莱似乎比汉娜更积极开朗,并且更常在他们的模仿搞笑作品中扮演一个更受关注的角色,然而我知道,汉娜也是同样地重要。

 

话说至此, 就让我再多介绍一下喜莱坞吧。既然你已经知道了这俩姐妹有多么地了不起了,接下来我想专门谈谈喜莱。我崇拜喜莱,她可能是我最崇拜的人。一个原因是,象你已经知道的那样,她在电影制作方面是多么地有才华(你看,那些模仿搞笑作品制作得那么专业,以至于刚开始我还以为是电影预告片呢)!在他们作品中的字幕部分,喜莱的名字出现在众多的身份中,编辑、导演、主角等等……(见上段)。从她的作品中我也看出了她是个不同寻常的演员。她演男生演得相当地好!!当然,她演女生演得更好。我甚至都无法弄清她头发本来的颜色是什么,因为她的头发出现过黑色、棕色、亚麻色、兰色、粉色、绿色甚至这些颜色之间的任何一种合成颜色。所有模仿搞笑作品中的主角都是她一个人扮演的,这一点真是令人称奇!这就是喜莱!

 

喜莱也很擅长与人合作,从幕后花絮就可以看出来这一点。她会让合作者哈哈大笑,那种感觉就像是在家里一样。他们电影制作团队成员之间的亲密程度真是令人惊讶(从幕后花絮中可以看出来他们之间超级地相互信任)。大多数作品都要求他们去扮演非常,怎么说呢,非常有趣儿的角色(半祼地、喝醉的、如果他们不信任别的演员就根本就演不了的那些,另外请不要根据他们的角色来评说他们),这些演员演得都非常好,没有任何不情愿,而喜莱是他们中演得最好的那个。她组织安排所有的事情、从头到尾策划一个作品的那些方法,是导致我这么崇拜她的不可思议的因素之一(当然,也是促成我写这篇文章的因素)。我无法想像那得有多么大的工作量,策划每一个场景、找演员、培训演员、拿到歌曲作者的授权、一小时接一小时不停地编辑脚本等等,所有的这一切,都由这两个女孩在三个月内完成!他们在幕后花絮中所呈现的,是拍摄作品的真实过程。因为我自己曾经制作过在电视上放映的小电影,所以我知道除了拍摄过程外,还有大量额外的工作(拍摄过程其实是非常容易的部分)。喜莱和汉娜他们能够做得这么好,真是了不起。

 

我很崇拜喜莱的另一个原因是她的身体。好了,我不是那类很关注身材和化妆的女孩,但是我必须得说,喜莱这个女孩,是拥有最完美形象的最佳人选(对不起,我找不到更好的词儿来形容了)。她不胖、不瘦、不高也不矮(嗯……可能有一点点矮)。她的脸没有任何瑕疵,也不呆板乏味。她化的妆不浓,但也足以使她看起来更为靓丽。她穿的衣服跟她很相衬,她也非常擅长扮演性感女郎。最后这点我这么说,是基于我在那些模仿搞笑作品中看到了这件事儿。她实际上拥有几乎完美的外表,不太朴素(因为一些人真的十分精致,但是他们有点太完美了以至于你根本不会注意到他们),也不太妆扮(因为你知道,一些人看起来太性感了,实际上就会让人开始觉得变得丑陋了)。一些人可能并不觉得她的外表看起来有那么好(因为每个人对“漂亮”都有不同的看法),但是在我的眼里,她拥有最好的外表。

 

好了,现在我把最好的这部分内容留到了最后。前面我已经谈论了她的电影制作才能、她的表演才能、她的合作才能、她的组织才能、她的应变才能、她的创造性(噢,我提到过这一点吗?好吧,我马上就会说到这儿了:喜莱坞作品真的是很滑稽、很有创意并且很酷,而这都是因为喜莱和她的姐妹汉娜)、她的令人称奇的外表等等,还有很多我没有提到的部分,但是这些都不是最重要的。那最重要的是什么呢?是喜莱和汉娜,他们俩都是基督徒!不可思议吧?!难怪他们的态度总是那么地令人赞叹!我真的崇拜他们这一点,因为他们从不隐瞒这件事儿。他们在推特上说他们热爱耶稣基督。他们在拍摄每个场景之前都祷告(我在幕后花絮中看到过很多次。他们甚至能让其它的演员和他们一起祷告。在那些祷告中,他们总是感谢上帝,总是祷告他们的拍摄结果会很好)。他们甚至在采访中也会提到这一点他们这样说:“……我们知道,没有上帝的帮助,我们不可能做得到。”令人称奇吧!!他们忠实地坚守信仰,还能广为人们所喜爱,我太喜欢这件事了。这给别的基督徒在信仰方面树立了一个非常好的榜样。

 

好了,这就是我没法不去介绍的喜莱坞。如果你有时间,请在YouTube上查看他们!搜索“Hillywood Parodies”或“Hillywood Warm Bodies”或“Hillywood Breaking Dawn”,你绝不会后悔的!还有,千万记得一并观看幕后花絮。

 

 

 

【小哭介绍背景】不得不说,这过去的一年,Susan变化很大。她不但成为了一个基督徒,也成为了一个追星族。然而,不论是她文章中关于信仰的讨论,还是关于明星的介绍,都让我想到了林书豪。小哭我是林书豪的粉丝,不是因为他打的球我能够欣赏并懂,而是因为我看到了一个人内心的强大和强大的动力----信仰!特别是信仰在年青人的成长路上所展示出来的魅力!!

 

所以,不难理解,如果喜莱坞就是Susan的林书豪的话,我怎么会反对她去崇拜呢?我只是跟她说,我没有钱让她买票追星,可是,我不反对她在网上欣赏她的偶像。

 

孩子必竟还是孩子,Susan曾经多次恳求我们资助她去追星。对于喜莱坞,印象最深的一次,是她说这两个女孩子即将来芝加哥,她想买一张大概是五十美元到一百美元左右的票去看偶像。我问她和电脑上看有什么区别?她说可以近距离,特别是可以和他们说话。我说如果只是说“你好”和“再见”,有什么真正的意义?其实我知道,仅仅是“你好”和“再见”对Susan也是有意义的。 可是Susan明白我的想法,于是她说,她可以问他们关于拍电影的事情,因为她本来也是对拍电影很感兴趣的。但是我认为,Susan的票价换不来明星级人物和她长谈什么“业务”知识的,所以,我还是不为所动。她说她必须得让妈妈明白,她追的星绝对是值得妈妈支持的星,于是就有了这篇文章。

 

其实远在这篇文章之前,当她开始迷上喜莱坞时,她就曾迫不急待地在厨房跟我介绍着这两姐妹,可是因为我总是没有足够的时间听她慢慢地说,所以她从来也没有让我真正明白过,她到底在追什么星。直到这篇文章出来后,而那个见面会也成为过去时时,我才明白她在追什么星。虽说现在我也仍然不会为她买票追星,可是我也确实是问过自己,如果我还有在国内时的经济能力,这票,大概我肯定是会买两张了吧?

 

我一直想看看喜莱坞在YouTube上的作品,可是,限于生活中总是有比这件事更为值得的事情去做,所以,我一直也没有看过。但是,今天晚上,我想我会去看一看了。无论如何!!!

 

 

 

附上英文原文:

 

注:其中有两个单词拼写错了,我还不认识,翻译它们着实费了不少劲儿呢。害得我谷歌、百度一通乱忙。不过我还是不会为Susan改正这些错误的。附上的说是原文,就是原文哈):

 

Hillywood Productions (and more specifically, Hillary Hindi)

 

 

Hillywood is amazing!! Yup, I said Hillywood, not Hollywood. You’ve probably never heard of them, so that’s why I’m going to introduce them to you!

 

Basically, Hillywood makes parodies out of really famous movies or people. Their parodies aren’t really funny the way that you would roll on the ground with laughter, they’re more of the kind of parodies that makes you go “Whoa!! That was so cool, I want to watch it again!” Their parodies are all music based, almost like music videos. The songs for their parodies are lip synced by the actors, and are all very well know songs. The actors they choose usually look shockingly similar to the actual actors in the actual movies, so similar that if I don’t put my glasses on, they look just like the actual movie actors!

 

So, that is the basics on Hillywood Productions, aka, Team Hillywood. However, Tean Hillywood is never the same from parody to parody. For every new parody, the actors would have to change, but the good thing is, the main character (male or female) is always played by Hillary Hindi. Hillary Hindi and her twin sister, Hannah Hindi, are the two people that started Hillywood. They are the producers, directors, editors, screenwriters, and costume designers of all their parodies. They’re also usually two of the camerawomen, the choreographers, the cinematographers (whatever that is), the special effects and make-up, and the hair stylist of all their parodies! Amazing, right?! So, it wouldn’t be hard to say that the two sisters are the heart of Hillywood. Actually, they ARE Hillywood, the others are just helpers to help them succeed their goals. Hillary’s nickname is Hilly, hence the name “Hillywood”. Judging from the credits and behind the scenes, Hilly seems more active and outgoing than Hannah, and usually play a more spotlighted role in their parody production, although I’m sure Hannah is just as important.

 

That brings us to my next topic on Hillywood. Now that you know how amazing the two sisters are, I want to expecially talk about Hilly. I adore Hilly, she is probabaly the idol of my life. One reason, as you already know, is how talented she is at film production (well, parodies, but they all look so proffesionally done that I first thought they were trailers for movies!) In the credits section of their parodies, Hilly’s name appears in most of the roles, editor, director, main actor…(see above paragraph). She is also a great actor, as I could see from the parodies. She played boys REALLY WELL!! She plays girls better, of course. I don’t even know what her natural hair color is, since it’s been black, brown, blond, blue, pink, green, and everywhere in between. It’s amazing that the main character of all the parodies were actually played by one person—Hilly.

 

She is also really good at working with people, as I saw from Behind the Scenes. She makes them laugh and feel at home, and it’s amazing how close their film crew is to eachother (there was an immense amount of trust shown in the Behind the Scenes). Most of the parodies required them to play very…interesting roles (getting half naked, acting drunk, stuff they would never act out if they didn’t trust the other actors not to judge them for it), and the actors played all of them really well without hesitation, Hilly best of all. The way she organized everything, planning a parody from beginning to end…that’s got to be one of the most awesome things I admire about her (of course it is, to have made it into this article). I can’t imagine how much work it must be, to plan out every single scene, find the actors, train them to act it out properly, ask for permission from the song writers to use their songs, editing hours and hours of footage….all done in three months by two amazing sisters! What they show in the behind the scene was the actual filming of that stuff, but since I’ve worked in making mini-movies myself, I know how much extra work there is other than the filming (the filming’s actually the easy part). Hilly and Hannah are amazing, to be able to do it so well.

 

Another thing I really admire about Hilly is her body. Okay, I’m not one of those girls that care a lot about their body shape and make up and all that, but I’ve got to give it to Hilly—that girl is the perfect image of perfection (sorry I couldn’t think of a better phrase). She’s not too fat, not too skinny, not too tall, not too short (hm…maybe a tiny bit short). Her face is without any bleamish, but not too boring either. She applies not too much make up, but enough to enhance her look to a whole new level. She wears clothes that really suits her, and is really good at acting sexy. That last part I know for a fact, I’ve seen it in the parodies. She’s really got the almost perfect look, not too plain (because some people are actually really pretty, but they’re a bit TOO perfect that you don’t notice them at all. Hilly is not someone to be unnoticed), not too glamorized (because you know, some people look so sexy that they actually start to look ugly). Some people may not think her look is good enough (since everyone have different views on the word “beautiful”), but in my mind, it’s the perfect look for somone to have.

 

Okay, I’ve saved the best part for last. I’ve talked about her film making skills, her acting skills, her working with other people skills, her organizing skills, her adapting skills, her creativity (oops, did I not mention that? Okay, I’ll say it now: Hillywood Parodies are really funny and creative and cool, all due to Hilly and her sister, Hannah), her amazing looks……there’s a lot more that I haven’t mention, but here’s what’s most important of all. Hilly, and her sister, are Christians. Amazing, right?! No wonder their attitude is always so wonderful! And I really admire that about them, because they’re not hiding it. They said they loved Jesus on their Twitter page. They pray before scenes they are going to film (I’ve seen it a lot of time in the Behind the Scenes videos. They even get the other actors to pray with them. During those prayers, they always thank God, and pray that their shot is going to turn out okay). They even said it on interviews—they say things like: “…..and we know that without God’s help, we could not have made it.” AMAZING!! I love the fact that they stay true to their faith, and are also really well liked people. That sets a good example to others about the Christian faith! J

 

Okay, that’s about all I have to say about Hillywood. If you have the time, please, check them out on YouTube! Search for

 

“Hillywood Parodies” or “Hillywood Warm Bodies” or “Hillywood Breaking Dawn”, you won’t regret it! And make sure to check out the behind the scenes also!!