Birth of an actor

After the filming of "The Modern Version of Romeo and Juliet", William didn't take on any new dramas for the time being, and he didn't even shoot a print advertisement, because he still had to go to college, so he had to focus all his energy in the second half of the year on the SAT exam and application above the school.

Agent Hardiman expressed dissatisfaction with William's decision, but thinking that being admitted to a prestigious school can increase William's value, and now he has signed a bunch of endorsements that are not high or low, it is better to wait for the value to increase. After the sale, he reluctantly agreed.

——This is Amon Goffman, this is the agent of Hollywood, who makes them refuse current benefits unless they can realize greater and more benefits in the future.

In the United States, it is not easy to get into a university of your choice. Most people have to work for half a school year just to prepare and apply for work. There are also many students who want to go to the Ivy League schools, from the 11th grade, no, even more As early as the ninth grade and the tenth grade, we started to fight for this - because the test scores before the ninth grade will not be recorded in the file, after the ninth grade, not only the grades of each subject of the students will be recorded in the GPA score, And they can already take the SAT.

SAT and GPA scores are crucial for applying to colleges.

GPA refers to high school grade point average, and SAT refers to the Academic Proficiency Test administered by the Educational Testing Service.

The United States does not have a unified university entrance examination organized by the state, so when a university recruits new students, the GPA is the student’s daily school performance, and the second is the SAT, which can compare the level of students in schools in different regions. Of course, there are also some universities, such as Colleges in the Midwest prefer ACT scores.

William's GPA was 4.0, SAT test score was 2350 (full score 2400), and the part of SATI (mathematics and English) got a double full score of 1600. Among the global candidates who took the SAT this year, only less than 30 people got the SAT double score. full marks.

Also, he has taken AP, or Advanced Placement courses, for the past two years.

More and more universities are beginning to use the performance of students in the AP exam as the basis for measuring whether the other party is competent for university study, and then decide whether to admit the other party, especially those Ivy League schools.

For students with lofty aspirations, taking an extra AP while busy with daily study and SAT exams will certainly make them busier, but there are also many benefits. First, it can show their initiative and depth in learning It stands out in the admission process of prestigious schools. Second, AP scores not only add points in the admission process, but also can be converted into credits for the corresponding courses taken by the university after admission in the fall.

In short, William's academic performance is really good. The university application counselor of Santa Monica Middle School said to him: "You have already passed most of the universities in the United States. If the application letter is more beautiful, then If you can have a high-quality recommendation letter, then the top schools will also open their arms to you."

It took William two months to delineate the universities he wanted to go to, screening, and then screening, and controlled the number to five to eight. He wrote to the admission offices of these universities to obtain school information and application forms, and spent more than half a month carefully Fill it out, and mail it out one by one.

While writing the application letter, he also got into some arguments with Madeleine, who didn't want William to apply to Harvard.

"Harvard is a great university, yes, one of the top universities in the United States, or the world, but I don't think it's better than all the other Ivy League universities, like Princeton, Yale or Stanford. You know that Harvard's professors Are they selfish? They only care about their own research and don’t care about ordinary students at all, especially undergraduates. All undergraduates are teaching assistants. If a student wants to ask a professor a question, the professor will just pose Putting shit faces on them, accusing the students of wasting their precious time with their eyes."

Madeleine put on the most serious expression: "Harvard's degree is indeed very valuable, but the H guarantees the minimum monthly salary of thousands of dollars for graduates, but do you lack the thousands of dollars a month, William? Yale Very well, baby, all the professors at Yale will participate in the teaching of undergraduates, maybe your freshman advisor is a Nobel Prize winner." She graduated from Yale herself. "Or Spielberg from USC and George Lucas from UCLA? Don't you like them?"

"Aren't you a bit extreme, Mom?"

"I'm not extreme! I know this because your **** dad——"

"You can't say dirty words, Mom, that's what you taught me."

"Well, your dead dad graduated from Harvard, so of course I know this. Harvard students are a bunch of megalomaniacs. They only see themselves, and think that they are the best work of God, the best work in the world. The king, the other students are only worthy of being followers."

"You're biased against Harvard, Mom."

"Yes, I am biased." Madeleine admitted straightforwardly: "Because Harvard taught students to be arrogant, but did not teach them to deal with setbacks, just like your father, he was so proud that he just fell down. A big fall, I couldn't take it anymore, and dared to commit suicide! He is so cruel, leaving me and you..."

Madeleine covered her face, her voice choking.

William hugged her silently.

"I don't want to interfere with your choice, baby, it's just..." Madeleine took a deep breath and let go of William: "Forget it, I've finished speaking, you can think about the rest." Then she turned back The bedroom is gone.

William knew what Madeleine wanted to say, "Harvard raised your dad to be too arrogant, so he couldn't bear the blow and committed suicide when he went bankrupt. I have a shadow on Harvard, so I don't want you to apply there." And so on.

William could understand Madeleine's feelings, but the reason why he wanted to apply to Harvard was also because Edwin had told William when he was very young that he hoped that he could inherit his father's career and be admitted to Harvard.

Harvard, or many universities in the United States have a tradition of inheriting the father's career, and if the father is an alumnus, the son's chances of success in applying for the school will be higher than ordinary people.

Madeleine probably forgot about it, but William still remembered it clearly.

In the past few months, William often thought of some things before Edwin's death.

When Edwin just declared his personal bankruptcy, Madeleine and William each did a lot of things silently. Madeleine was taking stock of her assets, returned all the clothes, shoes and bags she had ordered, and even considered selling the car. William, he checked several public schools in New York and was going to pick a time to tell his parents that he wanted to transfer - he couldn't just tell them that he wanted to transfer because Calgate was too expensive, and he had to find a good school before then. The reason——William is still racking his brains to help the family relieve their finances, but it is too difficult to come up with a way to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in a short period of time, even if William has a vague impression of the future, because Whether in his previous life or in this life, he didn't know much about Wall Street.

Of course, both Madeleine and William initially avoided mentioning anything related to bankruptcy at home. As Madeleine said, Edwin Bradley was an extremely proud man. At the worst time, telling him that his family is ready to increase income and reduce expenditure will make him unacceptable, it will hurt his self-esteem, and it will make him feel that his wife and son look down on him and think that it is impossible for him to make a comeback.

So Madeleine and William have been waiting for Edwin to calm down before talking, but no one expected... The first thing Edwin did after breaking out of his manic state was not to sit with his family Chatting, but running to kill himself.

"Boom!" He jumped off the skyscrapers on Wall Street so selfishly, leaving behind a family that almost collapsed after hearing the news.

Four years have passed, bid farewell to New York, and use time to heal the pain. Both Madeleine and William started a new life. William found his interest and became an actor. Although Madeleine has no intention of remarrying, she has Sometimes I go out for a drink with my new male friends on weekends.

But Edwin still exists in the lives of the two and affects them from time to time, so Madeleine doesn't want William to apply for Harvard, so William wants to apply for Harvard.

—William felt guilty, really.

——Sometimes he even thought, since such an unscientific thing as rebirth happened to him, why not let him have the means to turn stones into gold on Wall Street?That way, at least he can avoid Edwin going bankrupt and... committing suicide.

But the reality is that God will not throw hundreds of millions of dollars from the sky to him just because he said "let me get rich".

William is just an ordinary guy.

——Okay, maybe a little bit better than ordinary people.

In any case, he had already sent the application letter, and it was not up to him to decide whether he could fulfill Edwin's wish.

……

Christmas is fast approaching and so is the premiere of Sense and Sensibility.

The good news and the bad news come together. The first good news is that Sony Columbia Pictures will tentatively set the date on December 12th, the hottest "Oscar schedule", before the nomination list of the major award ceremonies is released. The release of the movie may increase the chances of winning the Golden Globe and Oscar.

Oscar’s criteria for judging the eligibility of a film submitted for review is that it must be a film that has premiered in theaters in the Los Angeles area from January 1 to December 1 of the previous year, and it must be screened continuously for no less than seven days, while Columbia sets the premiere date at In mid-December, it can be seen that he has good intentions.

The bad news is that Columbia is unwilling to invest more resources in theaters because it is not sure how the film will be "money". The 72 theaters and the mini-screening are only better than the premieres of some low-cost independent films or literary films. Well, just a little bit.

The second piece of good news is that although there is no grand global release, "Sense and Sensibility" is not unknown due to the influence of Austin's works and the fame of famous actors such as Emma Thompson. Anyone who knows - another Austen movie is coming!

In October, the American New Market Press published Emma Thompson's "Sense and Sensibility" script and her film diary. Within a month, the hardcover edition alone sold nearly [-] copies in the United States, and most of the buyers were Fans of Jane Austen, and some film practitioners.

The script is a deep processing of Austin's original work, which is both original and has made many lovers of both classical literature and movies shout out that the adaptation is exquisite, and "Emma Thompson's Movie Diary" is unanimously laughing and calling it interesting. .

Emma wrote all the interesting things that happened when she adapted the script and made the movie into the movie diary, and most of the text is not about how much effort she put in for the movie, but revolves around her and her friends, such as Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, who said they never appeared in the movie, or just played a small supporting role with only a few scenes, but gave her a lot of help, as well as Amy Pascal, Alan Rick Man wait.

As a partner, William of course also occupies an important position in Emma's book. Emma mentions him even more than Gray Wise - or it may be out of British shyness, she is I deliberately didn't mention my fiancé more in the book.

But that kind of appreciation is overflowing from between the lines, look at these sentences:

"William is not the No.1 choice for Edward in my heart. At that time, I preferred Hugh Grant. Even when I was writing the script, Edward appeared in my mind directly as the image of Grant. But the production cost of the crew is not much. Grant A little expensive, William's audition won Lee and Amy, they chose him, I was reluctant to accept it at first, but when the film officially started shooting, I found that I was wrong, William was better than expected, his Edward was better than There are more words and images, more gentlemanly, more respectable, and more lovely."

"The only downside is that William is so handsome that I have to spend an extra hour every day in the dressing room to make myself look better in the camera. :-D"

"At the end of the movie, William and I have a kiss scene, and after that scene he's flushed and looking so innocent, I bet any woman's heart skips a beat when she sees William's rippling green eyes when he's shy. A little out of control - as long as they're not lesbians - G dear, if you're reading this, don't be jealous, William is as cute as our little brother."

"The kissing scene was requested by Columbia Company during the shooting. When it was later edited, Li and I thought this scene was too romantic and wanted to cut it out—we don't want the audience to one-sidedly view "Sense and Sensibility". As a romantic movie with a happy ending, it should be given a deeper meaning."

"But when the two versions were screened separately, most critics and market analysts thought that the version with the kissing scene was better. From a commercial point of view, it was just the way William Brandley kissed. It can be printed as a large poster and pasted at the entrance of the theater, and it can attract countless fans who are curious about the love movies of the era to enter the theater. This is what market analysts said. From an artistic point of view, most film critics said that the kissing scene was too romantic, In fact, it is more helpful for the audience to clearly understand the theme of the film - the mutual transformation of reason and sensibility. In "Sense and Sensibility", Elena and Edward are both representatives of reason, but in the end they can't help but make Emotional actions and changes in human nature are so wonderful, if deleted, the theme of this change will become obscure. Therefore, this shot was retained after numerous disputes."

If it is said that Emma's words brought the name William Bradley into the eyes of many film practitioners, then the preview of "Sense and Sensibility" broadcast on NBC, ABC, CBC, FOX, CW and other TV stations in November The movie brought an explosive publicity effect—the trailer was cut so well, classical, beautiful, full of British style and fresh pastoral atmosphere, it looked as good as "Howard End" that swept the Oscars two years ago— —Everyone who knows William's name also remembers his face.And deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Tom Cruise can conquer most of Hollywood with his handsome face and amazing acting skills, so can others.

Not to mention that in Los Angeles, which looks fair on the surface, but is actually discriminated against everywhere, William's background and appearance are not flawed.

Not dark skinned, not a new immigrant, not Jewish - this is a disadvantage in the eyes of some people, but it is also an advantage in the eyes of more people - three generations of ancestors were born and raised in the United States, no matter according to the standards of the east coast or west coast , are considered pure Americans, with dark hair, emerald eyes, and the appearance of a smart person. Although he is too handsome, as long as he is not golden and blond, he will not be imaged as a vase with low IQ, and he has a wide range of roles many.

Edwin Bradley's bankruptcy suicide?This is not a big problem. In Hollywood, there are many people with poor parents, drug addicts, divorcees, and flesh and blood. To be honest, there are many stars with unfortunate childhoods. Stars from well-to-do upper-middle-class families are very rare.Unless the parents of celebrities are criminals, such as being charged and implemented by the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) for tax evasion or something, even the most despicable tabloid reporters will not cling to celebrity parents to make a big fuss.

In short, the broadcast of the movie trailer has greatly increased William's reputation. Amon said that he now receives calls asking about William's price and schedule every day, which is twice as many as in the past.

"After the movie is released, there will be more calls. I won't take any new jobs for you now. The price is too low now. They all want to take advantage of you before you are popular. We have to wait a few more God, wait until your worth has doubled!" Amon said confidently, his eyes flashed with the desire for more fame and more money.

At the beginning of December, a week before the official release of the film, Columbia invited many media in Los Angeles to hold a small trial screening. A number of media publications have praised Ang Lee's work, and "Time" magazine even directly announced that "Sense and Sensibility" can be tied with "Persuasion" as the best film of 12.

High topicality and high coverage rate are the best marketing coups. As a literary and classical film that American audiences are not very interested in, "Sense and Sensibility" has attracted more and more people's interest.