Chapter 740 Dream Lover
If there is no advantage of rebirth, the aesthetic taste of agents and actors is also crucial. Among the countless projects in Hollywood, how to choose scripts and plan routes requires wisdom and strategy. ——
And taste.
One cannot exist without the other.
So, top superstars are the only ones in a million.
It is precisely because of this that actors and agents need to work together.
Sometimes, it’s the agent’s bad taste that ruins an actor’s acting opportunities. Burt-Reynolds, the actor who was twice nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, is “ The first choice for Han Solo in the "Star Wars" series, but his agent thought it was a bad role, so he rejected it on the grounds of schedule conflict, and finally became Harrison Ford,
At that time, it was because of the actor's own limitations that he lost a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Sean-Connery (Sean-Connery), the original 007, suddenly became interested in science fiction movies in the late 1990s, so his agent searched for a bunch of actors for him. The scripts included "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Matrix"; but Sean, who was nearly seventy years old at the time, rejected them all because he "never was able to understand them."
Similar cases happen every day in Hollywood.
Russell Crowe turned down "Wolverine" and introduced Hugh Jackman to the crew.
Tom Cruise had been the first choice for "Iron Man" for a decade, but he believed the project was doomed, forcing the crew to turn to Robert Downey Jr.
Denzel Washington believed that the movie "Seven Deadly Sins" was "too dark and evil and no one would like it." This is how Brad Pitt's screen classic came about.
And so on and so on, so people always say that it is hard to buy something worth a thousand dollars.
Now, Anson also needs to get along with Edgar. This is a brand new topic -
Maybe Anson has memories of the next twenty years, but he must go through Edgar. Only then can you find the movie projects you are interested in one by one.
At present, through these five script projects, Anson is able to peek into a corner of Edgar's aesthetic, which unexpectedly fits Anson's personal orientation.
This is a positive start.
"50 First Dates", a pure and simple romantic comedy, tells the story of a man falling in love with a woman suffering from short-term memory loss.
The heroine suffers from short-term memory loss due to a car accident. She forgets what happened the previous day every morning, so the hero must make the heroine fall in love with him again every day.
If it were real life, this might make people collapse and finally choose to break up and leave; but movies are movies, which use a comedy perspective to bring different feelings, making every encounter a new beginning, just like first love. Falling in love again and again, an interpretation of romance to the extreme.
Twenty years later, when people no longer believe in love, such movies have disappeared; but in the early 21st century, chick flicks still have a broad market, and such movies can even be called another form. of pure love.
In a previous life, the movie starred Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. Both of them are regulars in comedy movies. Adam has been playing the same honest man for thirty years. An honest yet hilarious character, because of the existence of Adam, the movie once again fell into the trap of the "Adam Sandler movie", where comedy is greater than love, so the complaints from professional film critics are conceivable.
Comprehensive media review, 48 points.
Obviously, the quality is unsatisfactory.
But in fact, the audience pays the bill. Regardless of word-of-mouth reviews, many viewers think this is a movie that makes people believe in love and make people long for love. This is a success.
In the end, the movie earned nearly US$200 million at the global box office; however, because of Adam's high salary and the production cost of nearly US$75 million, the movie not only made no money, but also lost money.
However, in a twist of events, Sony Columbia made a fortune through DVD sales and rentals, once again proving the market potential of romantic comedies.
In Edgar's opinion, this script can create a dedicated and affectionate image of Anson, and at the same time, a handsome guy who is funny can always win the hearts of more women.
In Anson’s view, the valuable thing about this project is that, apart from word of mouth and box office, it allows him to challenge comedy——
After having a small taste of his talents in the form of dramas in "Princess Diaries" and "Cat and Mouse Game", he was able to truly challenge a comedy and explore the comedy elements in himself. It is undoubtedly an adventure, exciting and exciting. adventure.
This is a good idea.
The premise is that there is no other script.
"Warmness Contains Light", when people see this movie title for the first time, they are often confused and unable to understand what the movie is about. In fact, there are some behind-the-scenes anecdotes about this name.
This script is the work of Charlie Kaufman, a genius Hollywood screenwriter. This imaginative screenwriter dedicated a matryoshka-structured work "Adapted Script" during this year's awards season. The scripts are dizzying, but his list of works also includes "Puppet Life," "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," "New York Metaphor" and "Abnormal," to name a few.
Charlie Kaufman is a screenwriter who likes to think philosophically and explore life. He often looks inward to examine the value of memory, the value of self-existence, etc. Therefore, his scripts are often imaginative and confusing at the same time.
The work "Warmth and Light Within" can be said to be his script that achieves the most perfect balance between art and commerce, philosophy and popularity.
Literally translated from English, the name of the movie is "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", which comes from a poem by the British poet Alexander-Pope, and that poem is based on the 12th century French It is a love tragedy creation.
After translation, such a literary name is defined according to the "motto" of Cui Yuan's poem of the Eastern Han Dynasty in "Nieguibuzi" and "warmth", which means that the surface is dim and unclear, but the inner light is contained.
However, in the process of communication, "warmth" was mistaken for "warmth". Over time, "warmth contains light" and "warmth contains light" became familiar to everyone later.
To be precise, "warmth contains light" is more in line with the artistic conception conveyed by Charlie Kaufman's original film title "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind".
This movie tells the story of a couple who have been in love for many years. Suddenly one day, the man discovered that his girlfriend did not remember him at all. After investigation, he found out that his girlfriend had erased all the memories of the two of them in a clinic. He was disheartened. In the cold, he angrily went to the clinic to clear the memories of the two of them. However, as the memories disappeared, he suddenly began to regret and tried his best to retain the past that belonged to the two of them.
The movie uses a special technique to show the scene of memory collapse and fading, and at the same time cuts into the emotional relationship and the value of memory from different perspectives, once again demonstrating Charlie Kaufman's wild imagination as a screenwriter.
The so-called eternal sunshine of the beautiful soul means that after forgetting the pain, there is still a beam of eternal sunshine in the flawless memory that can reach the depths of the memory and light up happiness. The so-called perfection is not necessarily perfect, that beam Sunshine is——
Life should not only be beautiful, pain and happiness are equally worth cherishing.
(End of this chapter)