Birth of an actor

First of all, in the interpretation of the two characters, Brad Pitt is very charming, there is no doubt about it, but the difference between the man in the cafe and the Grim Reaper played by him is very small, and this window of the soul occurs when the roles are switched If it weren't for the big difference in expression (the cafe man loves to laugh and the Grim Reaper doesn't), it would be hard to see that Brad Pitt is playing two completely different characters, and one of them is still a god.

But William Bradley, he is much better than Brad Pitt in handling the difference in roles. The man in the cafe he played left a handsome, sunny and enthusiastic impression as soon as he appeared. The good ones, this is because William Bradley added a little Kansas accent when reading his lines, don't underestimate this accent, it can directly make the cafe man born and raised in a small town grow up The image of coming to the big city alone to work hard is vividly displayed, which is exactly the same as the background of the character set in Martin Brest's script, and William Bradley didn't even have to say where he came from the small town. The lines, the positioning of the characters is completed only through expressions and accents.

To be honest, most of the green-eyed actors are mysterious and connotative. It is rare for William Bradley to act sincerely and enthusiastically, but with a very outwardly charming temperament.

And when playing Death, William Bradley's accent changed again, this time with a slight Oxford accent, very elegant and charming-a god speaks with such an accent, even the most picky fans Can't find anything wrong with it.

By the way, not only is there a difference in accent, when playing the man in the cafe, William Brandley's voice is mid-pitched, and his speech speed is a little bit faster and jumping, which is a typical speech habit of young people. , his voice suddenly became very deep and magnetic, speaking slowly, with a little cadence and a sense of drama.

Then there is the interpretation of death. There are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people. Similarly, the scripts in the eyes of a thousand actors are not the same, although Brad Pitt and William Bradley read the script. It is the same script, and the audition is also the same plot, but their performance methods, especially the interpretation and shaping of the protagonist Joe Black, are completely different.

As I said before, Brad Pitt's Grim Reaper has a kind of childlike innocence in it. His eyes are clear and ignorant. Although he plays the Grim Reaper, it is more reminiscent of an angel.

As for William Bradley, his god of death is more unfathomable. Although he is also full of curiosity and exploration of everything in the world, his god of death is not like a child, but like a king While inspecting his new territory, he is unfamiliar, but he is not at all uncomfortable, because he knows that in this land he is equivalent to the existence of the master.

After weighing the audition performances of the two, Martin Brest had already made a decision in his mind, so when Stacy Schneider asked him about his decision, Martin Brest directly shrugged and said: "OK, I Blown away by his performance."

Producer Jim asked cheaply: "By whom?"

Although Martin Brest looked at Jim a bit unpleasant, he still directly expressed his inner thoughts: "William Bradley." After the reality proved that Jim was correct, Martin Brest told the other party The feeling is very complicated, I admire the vicious vision of the other party, but I am also unhappy with the elation of the other party.

"I mean William Bradley too." Stacy Schneider asked. "Anyone else's opinion?"

"Unconditional support for William Bradley." Producer Jim said.

"William Bradley and Brad Pitt are both great." A representative of the actor union, which exists as a supervisor, said: "No matter which one you choose, the union will not question the fairness of this audition."

Three votes for William Bradley, one vote neutral, the answer has no suspense, but to show respect, Stacy Schneider still asked the film's other starring Anthony Hopkins opinion: "Anthony, you choice?"

Everyone could see that Anthony Hopkins hesitated for almost a minute before saying, "William Bradley is fine."

Now even Martin Brest looked at Anthony Hopkins with surprised eyes, not to mention Jim and Schneider-they all thought that Anthony Hopkins would definitely stand on the side of Brad Pete's side, because Hopkins, who has worked with Brad Pitt in "The Burning Years", is not only the second person in the crew who is very in favor of Brad Pitt playing Joe Black, he has even been trying to Pushing the re-cooperation with Pitt, before the audition, he also personally told the director Martin Brest that if Universal unreasonably forced to replace Brad Pitt, he would use his contacts to tell Stacy Schneider pressed.

Although Anthony Hopkins is just an actor, he is definitely a very famous actor. He has already booked the Oscar for Lifetime Achievement. An empty phrase.

And now, Anthony Hopkins actually said he had changed his mind?

Probably because the eyes of other people were too surprised, Anthony Hopkins took the initiative to explain: "William is of course excellent beyond expectations, but it cannot be said that Brad's performance is inferior. The play is faster, he really has the feeling of death."

In fact, everyone has already seen this point, but due to the existence of Martin Brest and Anthony Hopkins, and out of respect for Brad Pitt, everyone did not say it. Now that Anthony Hopkins brought it up, Jim and others immediately said: "That's right, Anthony, I also think that you have more of a Perish character when you play with Will than with Pete. There's really sparks between you two."

Amid heated discussions, director Martin Brest thought regretfully: 'I can only say sorry to you, Pete. '

……

"I do not believe!"

Brad Pitt's manager Anthony Immediately quit: "Will Bradley be better than Brad? Ha!"

Martin Brest tried to reassure the other party: "It's like this, Anton—"

"Some people can't afford to lose? Huh." Amon Goffman sneered at the right time. Seeing Anthony's extremely ugly face, he suddenly felt that the depression he had held for many years was swept away!

Anthony became even more furious now. He looked at Martin Brest with angry little eyes, and demanded strongly: "I must know the reason why you chose Bradley, Martin, I hope it won't be stupid power. The result of the game struggle, otherwise I will never give up."

In fact, there is a reason for Anthony’s reaction to be so strong—although it’s all his own fault—generally speaking, the bigger the movie, the more famous the stars participating in the audition, and the less likely the audition results will be announced at the time, and the producer Generally, the factory will be very friendly and ask the stars to go back first, and then call the other party or the other party's agent one by one in private to inform the audition results. This is to protect the fragile self-esteem of those stars who were not selected.

But Anthony probably had too much confidence in Brad Pitt, and wanted to hit his old rival Amon Goffman face to face, so he deliberately said goodbye to them when director Martin Brest came to say goodbye. He wanted to embarrass his old opponent. When Martin Brest said to him with embarrassment, "Maybe we can talk about this issue on the phone later", he still refused to let go. He insisted on telling the other party, so Martin Brest could only tell the truth.

Then, tsk tsk, Anthony and Brad Pitt's faces are like overturned paint cans, from white to red to purple, it's just wonderful.

——If you want Amon Goffman to say, Anthony deserves it all.

Now, Martin Brest is starting to look ugly because of Anthony's persistence - stupid Game of Thrones fight?Hey, is it Anthony's first day in Hollywood? Doesn't he know that completely fair auditions are extremely rare in this industry?For example, today's audition pits Brad Pitt and William Bradley against each other, which sounds fair, but due to the favor of the director and producer, only the two of them are auditioned, and even if the other star actors are the same The character design that fits Joe Black was not taken into account, which itself is already a kind of tilt of power.Anthony the fuck is it serious?

"Hey, Anton, we all know that your self-esteem has been severely hit, but real men can afford to lose and stand up, like me." Amon Goffman had enough of watching, and hurried out to add fuel to the fire : "Just be refreshing and accept your failures like a man, wouldn't it be good?"

"No!" Anthony roared angrily at Amon Goffman.

"Enough, Anton!" Brad Pitt has never felt that his agent is so naive and immature, and he has no brains. He didn't have an audition without William Bradley. Let's argue, is there any actor in Hollywood who has a 100% audition rate?Although he also had doubts, Anthony's behavior was too unrefined. Is it to make him completely unable to step down?Please, Anthony is not afraid of offending Universal, he is.Brad Pitt felt a great loss of face, and for the first time, he couldn't help feeling a little bit dissatisfied with his agent, whom he had trusted in the past.

"If you really want to know, well, no problem." Producer Jim was fed up with the farce in front of him, and he said directly to Brad Pitt and his agent: "You can watch the audition tape. "

In order to be able to see the appearance of the actors in the lens more realistically and carefully, and to facilitate later comparison, the audition is generally recorded with simultaneous photography and video. If the movie is enough for Naruto fans and the actors love it enough, when the movie is released on DVD, The audition shots will even appear on the disc as extravagant eggs, which are convenient for fans to collect.

Just now, when Brad Pitt and William Bradley auditioned separately, the camera naturally recorded everything faithfully. Martin Brest originally wanted to temporarily seal these shots for the production of promotional videos or movie extras I will use it from time to time, since some people are dissatisfied now, let them watch it.

Brad Pitt and his agent Anthony looked at each other and accepted the proposal-after all, they were still unwilling.

Half an hour later, only the producer Jim appeared in front of William and Amon Goffman: "Pete and his agent left through another exit." He simply explained.

There are still many unfinished meanings in the words, but Jim believes that even if he doesn't say them, the two people on the opposite side can fully understand them.

"Aha!" Amon Goffman patted William on the shoulder excitedly: "You kicked Brad Pitt's ass hard, and made him ashamed that he didn't want to see you again. Good job, William you!"

"We can start talking about the specific terms of the contract tomorrow. At the same time, we will shoot makeup photos. If everything goes well, the filming will officially start next week." Producer Jim said to William: "By the way, I want to thank you, Will, You saved the crew a fortune."

"What money?" William was confused.

"Please ask for Morgan Freeman's dubbing fee." Jim said with joy: "Director Brest has very high requirements for the voice of Death. , so we were going to ask Morgan Freeman to voice Death, and the majestic and noble dramatic tone forged by his 30 years of Broadway stage experience was also suitable for the setting of Death, but then we heard you, Will Well, your voice is also very good, or it is great, and it would be more natural and real to use the original soundtrack, so we decided not to invite Morgan Freeman, but let you do the voice of Death yourself."

Amon Goffman immediately began to think that when negotiating the contract with Universal, he would strive for a higher salary-it would be even better if he could negotiate a box office dividend.

……

In the international financial market in the summer of 1997, three things closely related to William happened.

The first thing is that in Asia Gold, Lance’s foundation followed many international capitals all the way to fish in troubled waters and triumphantly. Not only did they make more and more money, they even accumulated rich trading experience and became more and more famous. Many people always pay attention to International speculators all over the Asian financial market are trying to dig out the owner behind this fund. After several failed attempts, international speculators used the 1981 film of the same name directed by director Jack Pfister to refer to the owner behind this fund as For "Mystery Man".

In the Indonesian stock market, after Quantum Fund and Tiger Fund made their first fortune, they tried to set up a trap for the "mysterious man" they had been unhappy with, and was cleverly honed by the "mysterious man" who had already become a veteran in this turbulent financial market. Although he avoided it, it also exposed the fact that the source of funds for the fund is the United Kingdom and the United States.

Lance immediately decided to stop work after finishing the last vote in Malaysia. Anyway, they have already had a good harvest, and it is meaningless to continue accumulating capital blindly. There may also be a capsize in the gutter, such as leaving early and going to China to digest and absorb the money. Strengthen your foundation.

The second thing is that following the listing in May, Amazon continued to raise 400 million US dollars, and the company's market value once reached 4.3 million US dollars. William spent 1000 million US dollars to buy 60 shares, which once approached [-] after Amazon's financing ended. The mark of one share of US dollars, from the purchase of the stock to the present, has increased the income by as much as three times, which can be called a huge return.

Of course, Amon Goffman also enjoyed this skyrocketing treatment. My God, when countless gold coins fell from the sky into Amon Goffman's pocket, the Jew's eyes on William almost caught up with God up.

The third matter is even more sensational in terms of public opinion - under the big mouth of Steve Jobs, the fact that William bought 150 million Apple shares from him was exposed, and the high media attention also made his Some other properties were exposed, and William's plan to make a fortune silently seemed to be completely unfeasible.

Moreover, William also has a special nickname: "Billions of Boys".