在伦敦,每个周六的早晨,青年克里斯托弗都会召集自己的业余演员朋友。
Every Saturday morning in London, young Christopher gathered his amateur actor friends.
他选择伦敦大学学院,是因为那里有配备摄像机的电影社团。
He chose University College London because it had a film society with cameras.
他拍摄这部长篇电影的全部预算仅有六千美元。
His entire budget for the full-length feature was only six thousand dollars.
朋友们都有正职,所以只能在周末拍摄。
His friends all had day jobs, so they could shoot only on weekends.
他们每周只拍大约十五分钟的素材,不再多拍。
Each week they shot about fifteen minutes of footage, and no more.
克里斯托弗用拍企业宣传片挣的工资,支付了全部费用。
Christopher paid for it all with his salary from making corporate videos.
为了省下昂贵的16毫米胶片,他们每个场景都排练好几个小时。
They rehearsed every scene for hours to save the expensive sixteen millimeter film.
完成这部黑白惊悚片《追随》,整整花了一年。
Finishing the black-and-white thriller Following took a whole year.
克里斯托弗说:“我是围绕我们手头已有的东西来写故事的。”
Christopher said, "I wrote the story around what we already had."
这部小电影在电影节上获奖,也引起了好莱坞的注意。
The little film won prizes at festivals, and Hollywood noticed.
在一次长途驾车中,弟弟乔纳森曾给他讲过一个奇怪的故事点子。
On a long drive, his brother Jonathan had told him about a strange story idea.
下一集,克里斯托弗会把这个点子拍成一部倒着讲的电影。
Next, Christopher would turn that idea into a film that runs backwards.
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