[US Entertainment] Actor

"Ebert, you didn't perform well in that section just now, do it again." David Finch raised his horn and waved his arms, emotionally.

Ebert sat on a bench for people to rest, and nodded silently upon hearing the words.The sweat on his forehead hadn't dried yet, and it was stuck together with the makeup ingredients, but he didn't dare to touch it when it was so wet.

Before cooperating with David Fincher, Ebert's understanding of the director was limited to words, except that he could roughly grasp the director's habits from several of his classic works. However, the real cooperation Later, Ebert discovered that the reason why David Fincher can stand out among the directors in North America is his personal rigor.

It’s not that Ebert is boasting. In the current Hollywood, he is the representative of the acting school in the media and film population. He is the youngest Oscar winner in film history. There are still many film companies and directors rushing to cooperate with him.However, during the months of filming The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, David Fincher shattered his perception.

The director's rigor was far beyond Ebert's perception.

In fact, compared with Ebert's previous films such as "The Dark Knight" and "The Pentium Age", the plot of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is relatively simple. In addition to paying the actors' salaries, most of the film's investment is spent on the actors' remuneration. In terms of special effects for capturing facial expressions, however, it is not easy to make special effects that satisfy the director. Although Paramount was very reluctant, it still made additional investment under the strong request of David Fincher.

You can compare "The Dark Knight" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". Both films star Ebert, and the salary is similar. The investment in "The Dark Knight" is slightly more than that of actors. It is 1 million U.S. dollars, and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is 8500 million U.S. dollars. To some extent, the shooting costs of the two films are very close after excluding the actors' salaries.But on the screen, "The Dark Knight", which is full of various blasting scenes and explosion scenes, undoubtedly looks more expensive, including Batman's Batsuit and Batmobile. The investment in this aspect is very high.But in this case, the cost of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is still comparable to that of "The Dark Knight", and its shooting cycle is even shorter. In addition to the investment in special effects, there is another point, that is, the big David Finch is extremely picky about the performance of the actors. If there are some flaws in the performance of the actors, he will not hesitate to start over.

As the leading actor, Ebert's plot is the heaviest. Although his NG times are much less than other actors, but shooting the same scene over and over again, even he inevitably has a sense of unconfidence in himself.

Fortunately, his ability to regulate emotions is top-notch, and the shortcomings pointed out by David Fincher are not without purpose. After his correction, Ebert has made significant progress in the adjustment of expressions and the appeal of movements.

At least he's confident of getting another nomination at next year's Oscars.

No, perhaps one nomination is not enough, after all, it is only a nomination, and it cannot satisfy his appetite.

Ebert showed a faint smile. After David Fincher announced that the shooting had resumed, he quickly adjusted his state and continued to devote himself to the focused shooting.

Although there are still many troubles in the filming process, as long as it is a performance, Ebert enjoys it very much. Even if he has to correct it a hundred times or a thousand times, as long as he is in the best state on the big screen, Ebert will be happy. Sweet as sweet.

In the blink of an eye, the filming of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" came to an end. Although he was forced to die by the director every day countless times, Ebert still felt his progress in the details of the filming.

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is Ebert's 9th film, and this year is his 8th year in this world. He basically maintains the state of one film a year.In fact, the few movies that made him nominated for Oscars are okay, because he can feel his progress in character control during the filming of these movies, but the few movies in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Batman" series Although it allowed him to accumulate a lot of popularity, the help to his acting skills was very limited.Of course, this is the consistent style of commercial blockbusters. No one cares about the inner world of the actors, as long as the plot is exciting enough.

After filming The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Ebert exchanged calls with David Fincher, Cate Blanchett and others before heading back to Los Angeles.

After filming, the actors have very little contact with each other. Unless there is an opportunity to continue to cooperate in the future, they will connect with each other more deeply.Since filming, Ebert has more contacts with producers and directors. They always have various channels to get in touch with scripts that interest Ebert. Can finalize.

"This is something everyone has to go through. There are not many real friends in the actor circle." After listening to Ebert's emotion, Leonardo ordered Ebert to beat his thigh, and said nonchalantly.

"What's your next plan?" With his head shaking unconsciously, Leonardo suddenly got up and asked Ebert.

Ebert pondered for a while: "One movie a year or one movie every two years...Probably. Anyway, this year won't work, and the promotion of "The Dark Knight" will start soon, and there will be a "Benjamin Buttonch" in the second half of the year. thing"."

Leonardo's eyes widened suddenly, and he looked at Ebert happily: "Then you should have a lot of vacations, why don't we go out and have fun together, as long as we don't go to that ghost place in Australia."

Reminiscent of the scene where Ebert was accosted on the beach, Leonardo was still full of anger even after a long time had passed.He couldn't help but went around behind Ebert and bit his shoulder hard, and he nodded in satisfaction until a deep tooth mark appeared on the smooth and unmarked skin.

Ebert sighed silently, letting go of the guy's vindictive behavior.

Right now "The Dark Knight" hasn't started intensive publicity, and Ebert's plan is to hang out with Leonardo for a few months after the movie is released. Get up in the morning to exercise, clean the balcony, go out for a stroll or watch a movie in the afternoon, play games in the evening, and occasionally watch two horror movies wrapped in a quilt, of course, that is what Leonardo strongly requested, Eber I have no idea about this at all.

In short, watching my dear Leo eating and drinking while watching a movie every night, I can only squint my eyes to spy on the plot in the movie. Once I find any terrible plots, I immediately close my eyes, Eber I really don't want to.

He felt that after being tormented by Leonardo, his problem of not being able to watch horror movies became more and more serious.

Later, there was no way, Ebert was really fed up with the bad behavior of a guy who regularly turned on the TV to watch horror movies.He went to the video store to find some horror movies made in Japan. After saying a word, he suddenly stuck out a tongue and burst out a bunch of brains. Leonardo couldn't control it no matter how strong his mental capacity was, so he decisively turned it off. Turned off the TV, and said dissatisfied: "Why do they always like to cover their eyes, it's so scary, and they all have black hair, if they have blond hair, they can't perform such an effect at all."

"I swear, I'll never eat ketchup again."

Ebert felt that the world was finally quiet.

Not even the earplugs he had in place to avoid hearing the horror movie soundtrack.

However, one morning, Ebert, who was exhausted physically and mentally from horror movies and managed to sleep well, opened his eyes and saw Leonardo's energetic face.His family Leo looked at him with a smile, as if he had made up his mind: "Ebert, after these few days, I found that I am still a little timid, so I decided to exercise."

Ebert silently stared at the DVD of "XX Ring" and "X Resentment": "..."

He decided that during this time he would sleep in a separate room with Mr. Leonardo DiCaprio.

He absolutely must not encourage someone's perverted habits!

However, I don’t know whether it was to scare Ebert or he really became interested in Japanese horror films. After watching these DVDs with gusto, Leonardo said to him: “It’s no wonder that horror films with slightly better quality can It sold well, Lionsgate must have made a lot of money over the years. Ebert, our first plan to start the company is to invest in some low-budget horror films, what do you think?"

"The plan is good, but the quality of the movie must pass the test."

Although horror films belong to a niche genre, they have many fans. Lionsgate Films can develop to the scale it is today, and horror films have contributed a lot. Movies such as the "Saw" series, "Anime: Ghost Story", "The Blair Witch" and other films are all typical of small and big.Having said that, Lionsgate has been very profitable in recent years. For a while, this small company was even called the most profitable company in Hollywood. Of course, the "Twilight Saga" that made Lionsgate truly famous " series will not be officially released until the end of this year, but with the foundation laid by horror films, Lionsgate has already occupied a place in the highly competitive Hollywood.

Their type can be described as the only one, there is no semicolon.

The plan of the two of them to start a company gradually took shape.Although Leonardo has his own production company, it is a way for investors to let him participate in film production in order to save costs. This is also a way that Hollywood first-line superstars will choose, like Tom Han Max, he has invested in many excellent movies.

Of course, this is not something that can be done just by thinking about it.In the horror film market, Lionsgate has already formed a reputation, and the scripts eliminated by Lionsgate will also be favored by other smaller film companies. Although Ebert and Leonardo are both first-line superstars in Hollywood, but in In the investment market, they are not easy to take advantage of.