Birth of an actor

Jonathan Bates, a Harvard freshman who is about to graduate, a member of the William Fan Club, a member of the Harvard and New York LGBT Association, a fan of CULT movies, and a self-proclaimed "William Bradley defender."

"William Bradley Defenders" is the code name of the secret organization he developed among William's loyal fans in a special period. Grow up - he has never done so much for any Hollywood star (referring to the energy invested, not the money), William Bradley is probably the first, and the last, because Jonathan is not only a fan of William, I like him more.

There are very few actors whose off-screen personalities are exactly the same as the characters they play, so liking for a star's on-screen image is always blind. Jonathan Bates, whose IQ is above average Harvard) has always liked actors only for their roles in a certain movie or their faces, and he never had a movie star he really liked and admired until he met William Bradley.

Well, although Jonathan initially only liked Billy in "Scream" (this character is really crazy and cool), and William Bradley's face and figure (God's grace creation) , but when William Bradley walked into the town of Cambridge and Jonathan had the opportunity to observe and contact him closely, he found that he really couldn't stop being fascinated by this man.

According to Jonathan's observation, William Bradley's life in just over twenty years has been more exciting than many people's lifetimes. Relying on his luck to return to the top, God gave him an incomparable appearance, and gave him the wisdom to match his appearance, God gave him the good manners and upbringing like a prince, and gave him a gentle character like gold... …Looking at the surface alone, it looks like a perfect prince cultivated in the greenhouse of a castle, but the harmless side is just an appearance. When digging deeper, it seems that the hero described by Dickens or Alexandre Dumas has suddenly become a reality.

The personality charm formed by the combination of various shining points in William Bradley has conquered most people who are curious about him at Harvard, but for Jonathan Bates, who has a high IQ and special hobbies, and even has a faint anti-social tendency It's far from enough.

It wasn’t until William Bradley singled out the Phoenix Club incident on Harvard campus that non-mainstream groups like Jonathan Bates were suddenly poked at the G-spot—they love this kind of rebellious temperament and anti-mainstream tendency !What is the perfect prince in the castle greenhouse, what is the resurrection of the protagonist described by Alexandre Dumas, this traditional typical heroic character is too plain and conventional for them, but when William Bradley is almost in the mainstream of society People at the pinnacle of values ​​suddenly made amazing moves to break the rules and challenge authority, and did something that they only thought about but didn't dare to do. Instead of sharing the halo with the ultimate clubs, they told them to die. This anti-mainstream character charm is truly irresistible!

It was then that Harvard realized that despite those good movies and Hollywood star status, William Bradley was undoubtedly more attractive. The image was recast at Harvard—not as a movie star, but as an ordinary Harvard student who was widely sought after and loved, and the title of campus heartthrob was completely worthy of the name from this moment.

Jonathan Bates first fell in love with William Bradley through movies, and later at Harvard, he found himself more fascinated by real people-maybe because the movies that William later acted in were not to his liking, he was more My preference is CULT movies, the more mysterious, more evil, and more bloody, the more I like them - but now, Jonathan Bates finds that he seems to have regained the emotion he felt when he first watched William's movies.

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Jonathan Bates stretched out his finger to touch the wet place on his cheek, raised it to his eyes, and stared at the transparent liquid on his finger in surprise, which was tears.He didn't know he was crying

It is an incredible experience for him to watch a movie and see involuntary tears.

As a senior movie fan, Jonathan goes to the cinema two to three times a week on average. There is an entire wall of shelves in his house dedicated to storing movie DVDs. It can be said that he has absolutely enjoyed all types of movies, but he has never seen any Movies can make him cry during watching, even if it is "Titanic", when Jack died and the ending song sounded, more than [-]% of the people in the theater were crying, only Jonathan, who was sucking and pinching the caramel burst Mi Hua's fingers thought that the soundtrack was really good, and then put a lot of popcorn in his mouth and began to chew. The sound of chewing was particularly abrupt among the audience who were either crying loudly or wiping their tears silently. Remember the front row A girl looked back when she heard the voice, and gave him a teary-eyed surprised look, as if wondering why the man was not moved, and Jonathan shrugged at the girl at the time, but he was not moved enough to cry so what?

Jonathan Bates only needs to watch the beginning of most films to know what the development and ending are. "Meeting Joe Black" is not an accident. The plot of the movie did not bring many surprises to Jonathan, but he still had no expectations. Got hit in the heart.

It was not love, but the unique loneliness in Death touched him.

For thousands of years, the god of death has repeated the boring work day after day, harvesting life. One day, he suddenly became curious about the human world, so he borrowed the body of a man who had just died in a car accident, and came here under the pseudonym Joe Black. In the world, he appeared in front of the dying billionaire Perish, wanting to feel the life in the world.

What Reaper didn't know was that the body he borrowed once fell in love with Perish's daughter Susan in a coffee shop. Reaper fell in love with her during the process of getting in touch with Susan, but Susan always believed that Reaper Joe Black was The young man who had met her before, she sweetly mentioned the first meeting between the two in the cafe in front of the god of death.

When Jonathan Bates heard Susan on the screen say the wrong words to the God of Death with a happy face: "You just stand there (cafe), you are that person.", the eyes of the God of Death immediately became sad At that time, his heart seemed to be grasped suddenly by a big hand; when he heard the god of death say to Susan, "I love you now, I will love you forever", but his eyes were saying "goodbye", the loneliness that was as cold as ice could not be melted. When he condensed in those eyes, his heart throbbed with pain; when he saw that the god of death resurrected the young man in the cafe and let the young man appear beside Susan, but he chose to return to hell with the memories of the world, he felt the screen. The Grim Reaper who was fading away in the past gradually overlapped with the former, no, present self.

That is loneliness, but the word "loneliness" is too simple for this emotion.

Death Joe Black is mysterious, powerful, has the ability to manipulate life and death, is handsome, charming, and exudes fatal charm, but he has always been alone. When Death came to the world, he tried to figure out the emotions that fascinate human beings. What is it? The Grim Reaper has witnessed the greatness of family affection in the world, and experienced friendship and love in person, but in the end he couldn't keep a single emotion. Joe Black will eventually become that superior god, and continue to repeat thousands of times. The work that has harvested lives for many years and made human beings fearful and awe-inspiring.

Perhaps this is why Jonathan Bates is crying. The feeling of loneliness that is incompatible with the whole world and cannot be dissipated in the god of death makes him feel the same.

Jonathan was born in a family with a rich material life but an extremely poor spiritual life. Since he was a child, he lacked the normal emotional experience that most people have. His parents who hated each other made him rarely receive love from both parties. When he was young, his weak appearance, good grades and introverted personality made him unable to please any mainstream circle on campus, so that he did not accumulate many friendships. As for love, he came out to his parents at the age of 14 and gradually Falling in love with Jonathan, who dresses himself up in various exaggerated shapes, even as a girl, understands that love is something more elusive to him.

Loneliness, over time, became one of the emotions that Jonathan savored the most, and that feeling often made him feel chills all over,

So now, when he found Joe Black, a character who was always by his side and who resonated most with him, Jonathan's heart was easily hit. For a moment, he felt that his breath was taken away. Go, the hot tears that slid down his cheeks can best express Jonathan's true feelings. He let the tears flow wantonly, as if he wanted to use this opportunity to burst out all the emotions that had been suppressed for a long time.

After a long time, when the ending song was played in the last minute, some audience members had already got up and started to leave, and before the lights of the cinema were turned on again, Jonathan stared hard to stop the tears, and then lowered his head to wipe away the tears on his cheeks At this moment, although his nose is sore and his eyes are swollen, he feels extremely happy in his heart, just like going to the seaside to drink a glass of cold beer in the hottest summer time.

It can be said that this is not a very ups and downs movie. Although the content of the movie is very exciting, including family betrayal and fierce battles in shopping malls, the director uses unique shots to tell the whole story in a warm and tender way. In other words, some movie fans may feel that the rhythm of such a movie is too slow, but from another perspective, this kind of warm narrative can also be said to be an advantage, allowing the audience to experience the world from the inside out. Calm down completely, and follow the movie to think about some deeper issues.

From the first second to the last second, the movie is beautiful and incredible, like a serenade, suitable for one or two people's quiet taste, rather than a group of people watching a movie together.No matter what anyone says, this is the perfect movie for Jonathan Bates, and he insists on it like never before.

Not to mention that it was played by William, which is a [-]% bonus.

The lights turned on, the sound effects disappeared completely, and the movie theater was completely quiet. Most of the audience were still sitting in their seats, their expressions seemed to be hesitating or thinking, as if they were wondering whether to give the movie a good rating or a bad rating. review.

At this moment, Jonathan Bates was the first to stand up and clapped his hands vigorously.Death Joe Black was flawless in his role and William's performance was flawless, they brought him so much to touch and think about, he's sure he's by no means the only one who enjoyed the film and didn't expect a big hit in this premiere In the past few days, there was a large-scale criticism of the movie in the movie theater, so he wanted to use his applause to resonate with others.

The applause of Jonathan Bates seemed to wake up the thoughts of many people. After a second, the audience couldn't help applauding and stood up. The second, third, fourth... Not long after, The audience in the whole theater stood up one after another, clapping and discussing the movie with their lovers and friends in a low voice.

"Reaper equals taxes? Haha, this stalk is too funny! Although the first half is a bit slow, the second half is really cool, especially when Reaper scares the idiots on the board of directors, and pretends to be an IRS tax officer to scare the bad guys. The scene where the crap is out, it's so fucked up!"

"Is it funny? The picture of Death eating peanut butter is very interesting, but I think the ending is quite sad. Joe fell in love with Susan, but they still failed to have a good result in the end. Even if Zeng and Su So what if the man Shan fell in love with at first sight is brought back to life? That's not Joe Black, and I'm so sorry for death."

"Is this really the god of death? Although Joe is doing the work of harvesting lives, he is more kind and childish than anyone else. Originally, Perish would leave a big mess after his death, but Joe helped him keep the company , helped him resolve conflicts with his family, and also helped him fulfill his dying wish, and even resurrected a man's life for Susan. If the god of death in hell is really like this, people will never Don’t be afraid that you won’t be able to go to heaven.”

"Jesus, yes, Will is so handsome that you can't close your legs."

Through observation, Jonathan Bates found that some people felt life and love from this movie, some people were thinking about death and religion, and some people found the eternal loneliness like him, but it is certain that few people hated this movie. The movie - great, and finally for once, Jonathan prides himself on being able to share the same views as the vast majority of people.

The applause finally ended, and no one got up to leave the stage. All the audience were waiting for the end of the media interview session, to investigate and deal with the siege in the crowd. With a chance to get in touch with his favorite actors, Jonathan Bates was originally very happy. He seldom participates in such popular fans activities. He usually prefers to express his love for William in a different way, but now, although his upper body is sitting safely in the seat, his toes are just around the corner. As soon as the first few rows of annoying reporters dispersed, they could immediately rush up to grab a favorable position.

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After the film screening, it was time for interviews with the main creators.

What is extremely interesting is that the expressions of the media and the actors before and after the screening of the film were completely reversed: before the screening, most of the reporters looked like they were waiting to see the fun with malicious intentions, while the main creators of the film were tense and worried, but after the screening, they were relaxed. Pleasant smiles appeared on the faces of the actors, while the reporters were either disappointed or embarrassed. Anyway, most of the reporters had strange expressions.

If you want to talk about the reason, of course it is because many of them have expressed some not-so-good opinions on the film before today, some bad-mouthing, criticism and even more serious criticism, especially after the closing of the Venice Film Festival, many American The press is mocking Universal and Martin Brest, saying they "attempted to recreate the glory of Scent of a Woman, but it was undoubtedly a parody."

Especially during the Venice Film Festival, the media who stayed in Italy and watched the Venice Film Festival premiere of "Meet Joe Black" have been publishing and publishing from the end of the film festival to today. The bad opinions about the movie are either unceremoniously criticizing the slow pace of the movie's plot, or sarcasm that "the best thing in the whole movie is the face of William Bradley".

It is a fact that "Meet Joe Black" failed at the Venice Film Festival. The three-hour version of the film screened in Europe was praised by a few media such as "Premiere" in France. It is also true that most of the film reviews were not good. The American media is fanning the flames with ulterior motives or hatred of iron and iron. Before today, the movie has indeed been in a state of being generally disliked.

But what I never expected was that after the film was changed from the three-hour director's cut version screened at the Venice Film Festival to the two-hour version released in North America today, there was a qualitative leap. Is the version the best movie version?

However, there are exceptions.

The reporter of "The New Yorker" immediately thought of "American X-Files", which was released last month and produced by New Line Films, starring Edward Norton. example - it is said that New Line trusted director Tony Kaye at the beginning, and planned to use the director's cut version as the North American release version, but the film cut by Tony Kaye was boring, and every test screening Suffering bad reviews, New Line had to find editor Jerry Greenbert and starring Edward Norton, and recreated a 117-minute version. The final release version of the film was a great success, and Norton also won an Oscar. Nominated for Best Actor.

Wait, doesn't "Meet Joe Black" look like a rehash of the events of "American X-Files"?Martin Brest cut a very bad version, Universal was dissatisfied, so he asked an editor to cut a new one, I heard that William Bradley provided a lot of suggestions for the new version, and finally released it The version of this is awesome...almost the exact same plot.

'What's wrong with the recent American directors, have they got into slime collectively in their heads? There was an embarrassing silence at the scene, and many reporters continued to wail in their hearts: "God, who would have expected this? The scolding was too harsh before, how will it end now!"