Chapter 1450 The Waves Washing the Sand
In 2009, a small-budget comedy movie "Hangover" became the dark horse of the year.
The investment of only $35 million has swept the box office of $470 million worldwide, becoming a phenomenal box office bomb of that year, and has derived the "Hangover" trilogy, which is undoubtedly the most successful, most brilliant and special comedy series since the millennium.
However, box office success is only one aspect of the influence of the series of movies. With this movie, the two people have completely changed their life trajectory.
One is Bradley-Cooper. The actor has been rolling in Hollywood for a full ten years but is still struggling on the 18th line, and even as a vase, he has not won his own attention.
"Hangover" became a turning point. Bradley's career turned completely. Not only did he win full attention at the Oscars, he won five acting nominations, one for Best Director, and five for Best Picture nominations, and he blossomed as an actor, director and producer. He also joined Marvel to dubbed Rocket Raccoon in "Guardians of the Galaxy", and also achieved a lot of success in the field of commercial films, and gained a firm foothold at the top of the Hollywood Pyramid.
Incredible that all changes require only the success of an R-rated movie.
One is Todd-Philips, who has had a series of good performances before "Hangover", including "Single Men's Club", "Borat", etc., and the latter even won him the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
However, the director has been trapped in the comedy genre and cannot break his own shackles. After the "Hangover", he was still tied with Bradley for a long time, and his career has not been able to complete the transformation in one breath.
But the glory of "Hangover" is equivalent to a death-free gold medal, protecting Todd and ensuring that he can always find projects in Hollywood and not lose his job.
Until 2019, a full ten years after the success of the "Hangover", Todd finally completed his transformation and filmed a well-known and popular "Joker" - a gorgeous turn.
Of course, the success of "Hangover" is far more than that, and the other major actors of the film also made a gorgeous turn, each with the opportunity to play the leading role.
In addition, Las Vegas has also become a beneficiary.
In fact, "Hangover" can be shot in any city, and it is no problem to stay in California. However, because director Todd Phillips simply likes Las Vegas, the movie was eventually shot in Las Vegas, so that the city became the preferred destination for bachelor parties in the United States for the next ten years, and no one could shake it for a whole decade.
Moreover, the producers convinced Las Vegas' "Caesar Palace" as the filming location. As one of the top five-star hotels in Las Vegas, Caesar Palace has appeared in countless Hollywood movies over the years. They are not short of this traffic at all, but Caesar Palace did not expect that this nodding cooperation will become their most successful commercial promotion.
First fifteen years later, there were still people who made a special trip to Caesars Palace because of a "hangover" and spoke classic lines from the movie when they checked in.
The front desk, beggar and lobby manager of Caesars Palace must be skillfully remembered by a series of lines from the "Hangover" to provide the best experience for customers.
Success often cannot just look at the numbers.
It is no exaggeration to say that "hangover" has become a cultural phenomenon, and the impact will spread inside and outside will be completely spread, and it is definitely not just the box office.
So, the project that appears in front of Anson now is the "Hangover"?
From the perspective of creativity and inspiration, this is true, the whole story outline and framework are completely the same; but Anson is still not sure.
There are two reasons.
After that, it is only 2004, and there are still five years left before the "hangover" debut in the previous life.
Of course, this is understandable. The time for "walking with songs" and "butterfly effect" to go around in Hollywood has been far more than five years; even if it has not wasted so long, it is not uncommon to spend two or three years from project establishment to fundraising to entering the crew and finally entering the theater.
And what Anson is really confused about is the timing. The success of a movie often requires some luck. Only when the movie appears in the right way at the right time can the movie gain market recognition.
The simplest and most direct, if "Avatar" was launched several years ahead of schedule and 3D technology was not successful, this movie might not be able to create such results.
Similarly, "Spider-Man" did not experience the trough of the "September 11 Incident". It landed in the summer season under the attention of the crowd and shouldered the expectations of revitalizing New York. Perhaps the movie could still succeed, but the historical record of the box office of the premiere weekend exceeded 100 million yuan, but it may not be able to belong to it again.
The right time, place, and people are indispensable.
"Hangover" was released in 2009 and could become a box office dark horse, but it may not be able to replicate miracles several years in advance.
Second, Jon Lucas? Scott Moore?
These two names are still a little strange.
At this time, Anson realized that he did not care about the name of the "Hangover" screenwriter. He only vaguely remembered that Todd Phillips was involved in the writing of the screenwriter; and the screenwriters of the movie - or screenwriters, did not seem to have particularly eye-catching careers in their later careers, only one flash.
This is the same as Eric and McGee; but the difference is that the screenwriters of science fiction movies often rely on creativity and conception. Once these are gone, they do face many difficulties. The screenwriters of comedy movies rely more on talent, a kind of wisdom and agility to discover humor in daily life.
Moreover, the screenwriter team continues to replace the second and third parts of "Hangover". Let's put aside the quality of the latter two slightly regrettable movies, what does all this mean?
A hypothesis, the script brought by Jon and Scott is indeed the "Hangover" that Anson knew, but it is probably far from the finished version of the movie in his mind. Perhaps Jon and Scott are like science fiction movies, they just provide a genius creativity.
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As for the most important humor, jokes and spoofs of comedy movies, they have nothing to do with them. In the fierce competition in Hollywood, they still lack some competitiveness. The success of the "Hangover" comes entirely from one inspiration and the other creativity.
Of course, this is just an unreliable guess, or an association between lightning and flashing in Anson's mind, that's all.
In front of him, Scott was not aware of Anson's thoughts surgingly, and he finished speaking in one go. In a hurry, he had no time to think about it and could only pour out everything he could think of now.
Then, he glanced at the clock on the wall of the coffee house. The time... seemed to be running out.
Scott was stunned and added.
"Although it's a spoof comedy, believe me, the hero remains charming and he shines in the movie."
Jon noticed Scott's gaze, and he nodded repeatedly to agree.
"Yes, yes, yes, yes, there is no need to be ugly or funny. Even comedy is still full of charm, which is different from ordinary comedy."
An Sen firmly believes in this.
If what they are discussing now is the "hangover" in their previous life, Bradley Cooper was promoted to Hollywood's new male god and was hailed as the sexiest man because of this movie.
(This chapter ends)