Translation: Night at the Museum
Director: Shawn Levy
Starring: Ben Stiller Ben Stiller
Robin Williams Robin Williams
Carla Gugino
Kim Raver Kim Raver
Genre: Comedy/Fantasy/Family/Action
Genre: Comedy/Fantasy/Family/Action
Genre: Comedy/Fantasy/Action Gugino Carla Gugino
Kim Raver Kim Raver
Genre: Comedy/Fantasy/Family/Action
Length: 105 mins
The Museum of Natural History is anything but boring, and its collection is staggering: there are hideous-eyed prehistoric creatures, ferocious ancient warriors, and long-gone ethnicities, animals of the African jungle, and legendary heroes of history. All of these are frozen in a single moment, and no matter how much time passes, they remain unchanged.
Larry (Ben Stiller) is an ill-fated dreamer who has many dreams but is unable to realize them. Larry believes that one day he'll be able to do something amazing. Of course, it's all just a dream, and what's in front of him now is that he has to find a job before Christmas. Otherwise, his young son will be sentenced to be raised by his ex-wife. Not wanting to let his son down, Larry works his way up to a job as a night guard at the Museum of Natural History in New York City.
On his first night on the job, he is left alone in the eerily quiet, sprawling museum with an oversized flashlight and a detailed instruction manual. The museum's old night watchman tells Larry that his job is to "make sure that nothing comes in or out of the museum at night". Larry thinks the night watchman is senile. What living thing is there in the entire museum besides him?
Wait! What was that sound? To Larry's disbelief, the prehistoric creatures and characters that only come alive in storybooks came to life, one by one! They surrounded him, and everywhere he went there was chaos: Tyrannosaurus Rex and Huns smashed the museum's marble walls; lions and monkeys scavenged for precious, fragile exhibits; three-inch-tall cowboys kidnapped Larry and put him on model railroad tracks; Indian warriors threw spears at Larry ...... Larry didn't know how to get the museum back under control. how to get the museum back under control. Every night these models come to life and torment Larry to the point of excruciating pain. And during the day, people don't believe what Larry describes and think he's mentally ill.
Larry wracks his brain to find a commemorative statue in the pavilion that has also come to life - former U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt (Robin Williams) - to help him survive this frightening night. In danger of losing his job and disappointing his son again, Larry is determined to win the battle to keep the museum and hopefully be the bold, adventurous dad he can be. Hasn't he been waiting for this moment, for something big to happen, for a long time? Now the opportunity has finally arrived!
Characters
1. The New Night Guard
The protagonist of this movie is a little reckless, but possesses a heroic quality. One of the first people the producers thought of was Ben Stiller. Stiller has a rich sense of humor and is at his best at showing the joys and sorrows of the little guy, making the simple character not at all stilted. He was the perfect choice to play Larry.
[Understanding the character] Stiller understands his character this way: "Larry's the kind of guy who can't get anything right, he's always coming up with new ideas, and he can't make them happen. He's worried about losing contact with his son. And now, just before Christmas, he must find a job. Then, there was the job as a night guard at the Museum of Natural History in New York. He thought it must be a terrible job, but he didn't expect the unthinkable to happen."
From the moment he read the script, Stiller wished he could be the hero of this adventure. He says, "I grew up just five blocks away from the Museum of Natural History, and there was a magic-like atmosphere that pervaded the place for a kid. Not only because of the paintings hanging on the walls, but also because you could see ancient things standing in front of you several times in person."
[Performing the role] For Stiller, the key is to keep a child's heart in order to go back to being a child and show the curiosity and enthusiasm he felt at the museum, and it's from this that his performance has developed.
Although he's done a lot of comedy, there's still a lot that's new to Stiller. "I've never had the opportunity to act in the fantasy genre. In order to do fantasy, instead, you have to maintain a very sense of realism in order for the audience to believe everything in the movie. It's the kind of thing that makes you phase into believing that Rae really did come across all this magic, and that ancient creatures and legendary figures really do appear right in front of you. The key for me was to be completely in the story."
Acting in "A Night at the Museum" was really hard work, and Ben Stiller faced a lot of physical challenges, running and jumping as hard as he could in many of the places that looked exciting and funny on screen. Running is Stiller's main task.
[Director's comments] Whether Stiller was running from lions, Huns, or legions of miniatures, playing President Roosevelt with Robin Williams, or showing his son how brave his dad was, the director found the comedian to be perpetually energized. Says the director, "He looks at everything and cuts through the light and the positive, and is very energized and infectious to those around him."
2, the old guards: three old boys
Larry sought the position of night guard at the Museum of Natural History, replacing the original three old guards of the museum. These three old guards are considered to be the museum's vintage. To bring these three roles to life, the cast cast three veteran comedians who are all well known, including the inimitable Dick Day, the crowd-pleasing Mickey Loney, and Bill Cobb, who has had a great career in stage, television and film.
Dick Day had a flamboyant gentlemanly air; Mickey was charming and unassuming; and Bill carried a sense of mystery. They brilliantly conveyed these three unique characters.
Born in 1925, Dick Day won five Emmys, Dancer of the Year from the American Dance Association, Lifetime Achievement Award winner at the American Comedy Awards, and was on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Not only is he one of the most popular comedians in the world, but he also has a number of screaming family movie classics such as Joy to the World. Dick Day was thrilled to get to play Cecil. Cecil was the original head of the night guards and the man responsible for "training" Larry. "With all these dinosaurs and Huns and animals, I thought it would turn into a riot, and when I read the script I knew it was a movie for a different audience. So I said, I've got to be one of those three. Working with Mickey and Bill, we're three similar ages, we're all old school, so we have wonderful chemistry with each other as well."
Born in 1920, Mickey Loney's 83-year acting career began when he was a baby, and in 1983 he was awarded the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement, the highest honor from the Academy of Performing Arts. Despite the many challenges of making movies, Loney stood by his love of film and made sure to make a movie that looked good and had a touching story, and that's exactly what struck him about A Fantastic Night at the Museum, saying, "I think we need more great productions like this one that can entertain the whole family together."
The trio is complete with the addition of Bill Cobb. The face is by no means unfamiliar to audiences, and the veteran actor is resigned to retiring from the movie world he loves. Cobb is especially happy to play the somewhat unkempt old guy, saying, "I've had a lot of fun in movies, TV, and stage productions, but this is really one of the best experiences ever, with a lot of drama, humor, and improvisation, and especially this wonderful, wonderful idea! With me, Dick and Mickey were much more comfortable playing the bad guys and interspersing the funny with the funny. We look like a bunch of nice old people on the outside, but we're not at all, and because of that there's a lot of fun in it."
3. Museum Lecturer Rebecca
[About the Character] Museum Lecturer Rebecca is researching Sacagawea for her dissertation topic. She is interested in Larry's very 'alternative' idea that museums are staging living history.
[About the Cast] The role of Rebecca is played by the sensual actress Carla Gonzino, the multi-talented actress who played the mom in the Spy Kids franchise. Gonzino loved this particular story: "It's really special to have a story like this that brings history back and makes the past happen again, and there's a lot of fun and excitement."
4. Dr. McPhee, Head of the Museum
[About the Character] Dr. McPhee is Larry's supervisor. Dr. McPhee is both conservative and narrow-minded, and doesn't want anything to go wrong, so this new guard is breaking his heart. Playing Dr. McPhee is well-known British comedy star Ricky Garvey.
[About the cast] Garvey was most pleased to have a role opposite Ben Stiller: "It was fun working with Ben, and there was a lot of tension between our characters rolling around. He's my subordinate, he's the kind of guy who keeps messing up; and I'm the supervisor, but there's a series of things that happen that overwhelm me, and those turn my subordinate into the hero."
5, live over the museum "residents"
▲ former U.S. President Roosevelt (wax)
Larry is about to spend a crazy, unforgettable night at the museum. In the midst of all the chaos, Larry finds someone special who can help him figure out what's going on. The best guide in the world is Teddy Roosevelt, a famous, learned figure in American history and the 26th President of the United States.
[About the character] Robin Williams plays such an important role. Because he has a real, down-to-earth demeanor. Williams said: "Reading about President Roosevelt will give you an idea of what a self-disciplined, disciplined and charismatic leader he was. It is such an honor to be able to interpret such a personality trait."
As Williams delved deeper into the plot, his respect for Roosevelt grew, especially his glowing, positive attitude and belief that anything was possible. "He infected and inspired Larry: 'You can do it, and if you can bring order back to this place, nothing will be hard for you from now on,' and Roosevelt gave Larry a lot of old-fashioned but always valid advice."
When it came time to shoot the movie, Robin Williams had more fun than anyone. He had no recourse to the imagination that drenched Wonderful Night at the Museum. "Exactly what a museum looks like after dark is always something that people are curious about. It's incredible to imagine how lifelike these exhibits would suddenly come to life. I really enjoyed the legion of shrunken models segment because I collect models and often imagine what it would be like if the world was alive at this size."
[Actor Ben Stiller's comments] Ben Stiller said, "Robin Williams is arguably the only actor who could have played the role, with a natural sense of comedy, but he was so humble that he read history as diligently as a student in order to play Roosevelt, hoping to make President Roosevelt even more recognizable. His insightful portrayal makes this historical figure more real."
▲Indian Woman
[About the Character] Among the historical figures Larry dealt with at the museum was Sacagawea, an Indian woman of the Shawnee River. This was a major discovery on the important American "Louis and Clark Route" (a 27-man expedition of two men*** in 1804 that traveled deep into Montana and crossed the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, the first time a white man had entered a land originally occupied only by Indians and bears). Sacagawea uses her renowned skills to help Larry put the out-of-control museum back in its place in A Night at the Museum.
[About the cast] The brave woman is played by rising young actress Miso Baker, in her first Hollywood movie. She says, "This woman is smart and talented and has a knack for finding things, and she helps Larry a lot. This movie is everything I dreamed it would be: Hollywood magic, oversized studios, wild animals running around, weird and wonderful things. What could be more exciting?"
▲The King of Egypt
[About the Character] Actor Remy Malle, who has a keen interest in ancient natural history, plays the King of Egypt, a young Egyptian actor whose face was often seen in the TV movie series The War at Home. The Egyptian mummy and the young king who has been sleeping for thousands of years are about to wake up on this night.
[About the actor] The legend and image of the Egyptian king has been standardized, and Malle is happy to have the opportunity to make a more three-dimensional interpretation: "Maybe the audience's expectation is that it's all about the pharaohs and the curses, but you're going to see a vibrant and more storytelling performance on screen, and it's refreshing but not too far from the traditional, to see a young man who wants to have his own adventures as well," he said. fresh but not a departure from tradition."
▲Central and South American capuchin monkeys
They're the museum's troublemakers, not to mention miniature, but they can be a real handful. Dexter is not a computer-animated monkey, but a real capuchin named Christo
Behind-the-Scenes
◆Background
Origin: Entering the Museum - The Beginning of a Fantastic Journey
At the heart of the film is a thought that often comes to mind: when a capuchin is born, it's not just a monkey, but also a monkey. At the center of the film is a thought that often crosses our minds: when we browse through a museum, we are presented with many eye-opening exhibits. We can't help but wonder: Will these models suddenly come to life? Will they come out of the pedestal, out of the glass? The whole museum becomes a living site, rather than only exist in history?
The story ideas in A Night at the Museum have been praised by everyone who has heard them. Croesian picture-book artist Milan Trek has drawn a children's book about a new night guard at the New York Museum of Natural History who suddenly realizes that a dinosaur skeleton he's supposed to be looking after has strangely disappeared. The guard then finds himself surrounded by a group of flailing statues that turn the museum upside down. Humorous and engaging, this book has quickly become a favorite among parents and children alike.
The writers responsible for the screenplay were Thomas Lenoirn and Laub Carlan. The two screenwriters read the book and marveled, "We're both from New York, and we all hung out at the Museum of Natural History when we were kids. We can even draw a map of the museum from memory, which shows how well we know and love it. It was truly the coolest place on earth!"
Childhood memories gave them a lot of inspiration, and many ideas quickly spread. "What did we need first to drive the specimens throughout the museum to move? Since the Egyptians were focused on keeping people and things alive forever, it made sense to start there. It's a prayer to be immortalized and kept young forever."
Next, the heart of the story shifts to Larry. The writers set him up as a man who has big aspirations but is always down on his luck. To top it off, Larry takes the job of night guard at the museum because he doesn't want to disappoint his young son as a dad anymore.
Having set up the movie's main characters, what does Larry encounter next? What else debuts first on his first night on the job at the museum? There are so many topics in the museum that the screenwriters have devoted a long list to pretty much everything in the museum: there's something about the development of civilization, something about the American railroads, something about the secrets of Easter Island, something about the world of model Lilliputians in the Western Hall of Mirrors, and so on. In addition, about setting up the character of Roosevelt, Lenoirn said: "We wanted Roosevelt, the former president of the United States, to be the other main character in the film because you stand in the Museum of Natural History in New York, and you feel the spirit of this man there. Not to mention that he himself was a learned natural historian and many of the exhibits could be said to have come from his ideas." Roosevelt's maxim: "Failure is painful, but it is worse never to try" is arguably an important one that inspired the spirit of the movie "A Night at the Museum.
◆Production
Building the Museum: The world's largest natural history site is coming to Vancouver's Mammoth Studios!
At its core, A Night at the Museum is about bringing history back to life, so the amount of production design work that went into it can only be imagined. Responsible for creating such large, marvelous visual effects are Oscar-winning art director Claude Pel and costume stylist Rae Reece Able for The Player of Gods and Ghosts.
▲The film's art design
The art designers were tasked with recreating the world-famous museum in the studio, with every hall and corner of the building looking almost real. The movie is based on the exterior of the world-famous Museum of Natural History in New York, but of course the museum couldn't joke about its valuable exhibits, so the interior had to be constructed on set. The Mammoth Studios in Vancouver, where many box office hits have been made, was chosen as the location for the movie. Now the world's largest natural history scene is about to be born!
Typically, a movie only has to deal with one or two period settings. But "A Night at the Museum" had to work with many different eras, from the ancient Egyptian pantheon to the early days of the Savage Land, each with a different history. After weeks of intensive work, the movie's art designers almost became museum interior designers, creating several separate exhibits, each with its own story to tell.
[Pyramid Model] The art design team built a pyramid for the Egyptian Room. This was inspired by an exhibition of Egyptian artifacts held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In order to emphasize the atmosphere of that time and place, and to show that ancient, mysterious and majestic atmosphere, they made a pyramid that is very similar in appearance, but relatively small in size.
[Wax Figure of Former U.S. President Roosevelt] The art team designed a very important statue in the movie - former U.S. President Roosevelt. He is sitting on a horse and wielding a sword. In order to show how the statue came to life in one night, Robin Williams had to strike the pose without missing a beat, which meant that the actor had to hold the pose at all times. In order to have the metallic look of the statue, he had to be bandaged up and the surface had to be treated to make Williams and the Roosevelt wax figure look like one person.
[Shrinking Figures] The elaborate shrinking figures in the film attack Larry when he comes to life. In creating the world section of the miniatures, the designers first researched the themes of the exhibition, from the Mayan civilization to the history of American railroads. Then they set about making delicate and accurate models, laying them out to see how the space would hold up, and then putting Ben Stiller in them so that they could arrange the miniatures and the miniature equipment in relation to each other. It's a very detailed job.
The cast arrived on set one by one, and everyone was in awe of what the art design team had accomplished with the set. As soon as they entered the studio, it was as if they had stepped into a giant world of toys.
▲ The movie's costumes
Costume designer Rémy Able had to face this unusual challenge. What awaited her was not one or two period settings, but a range through the ages, from Huns in animal skins, to the Mayan civilization, to armed Roman soldiers, to the uniforms of the American Civil War, to the uniforms of museum guards in the 21st century.
April's costume design credits include The Day After Tomorrow and Mrs. Parker's Lover. She is thrilled to be working on A Night at the Museum, which has prompted her to study history in more detail.
April took several field trips to the Museum of Natural History in New York City and unearthed a lot of inspiration. She was looking forward to not only showing the diversity and splendor of what she observed, but also how to make the different themed costumes echo each other in "A Night at the Museum" - there was heterogeneity as well as consistency.
[Most Difficult Costume Design - The King of Egypt] One of the most difficult sets of costumes on Able's list was that of the King of Egypt, played by Remy Malle. Speaking about the Egyptian King's costume, she said, "Since he was mummified, we made the costume and had to be wrapped in it. But the honor and glitter of being the King of Egypt was not to be covered up by a golden costume that was wrapped around him. So that part of the costume took a lot of work."
[Costume design with no reference point - Huns] There are no photos of the Huns' costumes to refer to. Able used her imagination and used some old felt blankets, then sewed animal skins onto them, then paired them with metal weapons, and bridles. It may not be 100% accurate, but it looks colorful and very much in the style of a Hun impression.
▲Makeup effects for the movie
The challenge of "A Night at the Museum" was to make the real actors look more like lifeless wax figures. In charge of the makeup was special effects director Anri Moru. Through techniques such as waxing, glossing agents and some additions and toning done to the faces, the makeup artists have been able to surface the characters to bring out the texture, especially the Indians and Huns, so that their makeup still has to look like a wax figure when it comes to life.
▲The movie's special effects - the magic that makes the museum come to life
Once the design of the characters and the casting of the actors were ready, and the artwork and sets on the set had been constructed, all that was missing was the magic that would get the late-night Museum of Natural History up and running - and that relied on no Pharaohs. -which relies not on the incantations of the Pharaohs, but on the magical digital technology of the 21st century.
To show the movement and vitality of the museum's animals and statues, the director relied on VFX expert Jim Riggs, who has worked on the Lord of the Rings trilogy, among others, and Rhythm & Hues, one of Hollywood's top visual effects companies, whose effects are among the most highly rated in the industry, and who worked on The Chronicles of Narnia.
The main challenge for the special effects team was the chase between the African fauna and Larry. Larry was chased by animatronic lions in this scene. Computerizing a life-like animal is not easy because the scene where the lion is located is a studio set, and there is no entire vein on the computer screen to adjust to. So the special effects people used the very beginning of the set as a reference point, and then carefully matched it up in order to get the whole passage to go down. The finalization of the scene in which the lion's paw almost rests on Larry's shoulder.
Another big challenge for the VFX team was the scale-down section. How do you get an army of toys to move and have an intense battle with real people when the shrunken models are only a few inches in size? For this part, the VFX studio recreated 89 basic models, from which hundreds of movements evolved through the computer. The different fighting maneuvers were simulated by filming the real people and then scanned into the computer. The size of the miniatures posed many challenges. If the original camera had been used to film Lilliputian, the slightest movement of the camera would have extended the entire border of the country. So we had to use a green screen to capture the actors' expressions, and then paste them together so that the actors could show off their comedic talents, and the audience would be amused by the whimsical courage and temperament of these little heroes.
◆ Highlights
▼ The actor who gets Larry the job of night guard at the museum, and who plays the staff of the employment agency, is a mysterious figure close to Ben Stiller - Ben Stiller's mother, the brilliant comedian Anna Mira. -Anna Mira. This is the first time that mother and son have officially acted opposite each other on the big screen, and Stiller says, "It's cool to be in a movie with my mom!"
▼ While many of the sets and props in the film are charmingly rendered, art designer Claude Pel's favorite of the design results is the one with the highest degree of finesse - the floor of the museum. Its texture is in fact the visual motif of the entire film, Night at the Museum. The floor is the most important part of the set design, it sets off everything and makes the museum look more solemn," says Pell. It's very smooth, and just the thing for Ben Stiller's woefully slippery wrestling."
▼ The two screenwriters spent the writing process arguing, often in a very childish way, about who in the museum would be the scariest when they came to life. There's a cute side to otherwise scary prehistoric animals. Being big doesn't necessarily mean you're a threat; instead the small, goofy creatures are a bit sinister and are the ones to watch out for.
▼ To help Ben Stiller become more comfortable with the wonders of Larry's experience, director Shawn Levy took it upon himself to dress up as a Tyrannosaurus Rex, growling and chasing Stiller down corridors in an effort to get him more into the swing of things.
▼ When casting an actor to play the Egyptian king, the auditioners did more than just the usual reading of lines; the demands of the plot required the auditioners to act out jumping up from their marble coffins
Introduction found on Sina
I think that's the movie
I've seen it
I think it's OK
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It's a good one
It's a good looker. /I think it's a good movie.