super actress
Chapter 9
"You think it's a doomed movie?"
On the other end of the new phone came Andri's voice, which had no ups and downs in tone, but Rhea could hear that he was starting to care, and the man's voice sank a little. "In that case, why are you still willing to audition for this movie?"
"Because when I knew there was this audition, I hadn't read the script."
"Miss Nolen, you still haven't read all the scripts."
Rhea grasped the phone tightly, perhaps because she held it for a long time, her palms began to sweat and the phone felt a little slippery, "You let me audition for Lolita, and I performed a script for you."
"...that was just a small fragment."
"That's enough." Rhea quickly took the words, hoping to use this to create momentum, but obviously it didn't work, the girl's voice was still too soft and tender: "The script described Lolita as It's like...too contemptuous, and she's not."
Startled briefly by this straightforward word, Andri was silent for a while before replying: "What makes you feel this way?"
"Because you arranged for Humbert to ask her for money! You let the male protagonist question Lolita and force her to pay back the money. This line makes Lolita look like a daughter-in-law bought by Humbert!" said Here, Rhea also brought a little nameless anger.
Even if Lolita's mother's inheritance and real estate are not mentioned, Humbert is still Lolita's nominal stepfather. Isn't it natural to pay maintenance?
Humbert married Lolita's single mother in order to be with Lolita, whom he was thinking of, in a fair manner. Soon after, Lolita's mother discovered Humbert's ulterior motives and died unexpectedly in a panic. Humber Te took the opportunity to take Lolita away.
In this episode, Lolita is a victim no matter what.
However, the 97 version of the movie portrayed Humbert as a victim.
Whether it is deliberately magnifying Lolita's sex appeal and seduction, or the picture of Lolita writing a letter to Humbert to borrow money after a few years of disappearance at the end, Lolita is portrayed as a greedy, shameless and emotionless character. bad girl.
The film even misleads people to sympathize with Humbert, who has always been infatuated and unilateral!However, in fact, Lolita does not need such unnecessary and disgusting efforts at all.
This old man who has the best sex has more than one girl, but Lolita is the only "good chance" he can get close to.
Even at the last moment of the finale, when Humbert thinks he is really in love with Lolita, there is no excuse for the damage he has done to the girl.
The movie only emphasizes the sadness of this kind of love, but does not point out the crime and cruelty.
Rhea feels that if the original "Lolita" is a pale apology from the Communist Party, and the 62 version of the film is a comic mockery of Humbert's vice, then the 97 version of the film can almost be said to mislead the audience. The most successful aesthetic cleansing.
After watching the 97 version of the movie, people may even have such doubts: Humbert is so good to Lolita, how can she have the heart to leave him?
It's just ridiculous.
The reason for this result is very simple.
First of all, this is the Lolita in Humbert's eyes, so they had to focus on Humbert, and secondly, because the actor who played Lolita was too young, she couldn't perform more in-depth content. So the director can only simplify and simplify.
So at the end of the editing, everything is left with the beautiful and exquisite eroticism. With the shell and flesh of the original "Lolita", but lost the essence and core of the original "Lolita".
She wanted to play Lolita, not just because she wanted to play the leading lady.
More importantly, Rhea wanted to change the image of Lolita in the 97 version of the movie. That girl should not have been like that. She wanted this challenge.
After the events of 1992, she has an odd resonance for this complex and tragic character.
In any case, this should definitely not be Lolita's fault, let alone a crime that can be covered up by the faults of both sides.
"I just read this short script, and I can't help thinking that Lolita is ashamed of Humbert." Thinking of this, Rhea's thoughts became more and more clear, "So I have to doubt the whole script."
"Mr. Witt, I think you should have read the script, can you tell me that the direction of the script is actually completely different from what I suspect?"
In fact, Rhea still quibbles, she can't see so much content from a short paragraph, and she can say this because she has watched the original movie.
Andry didn't directly answer her question, "So, you think it's doomed."
"If it's a movie that takes Humbert's shoes and defends him, then yeah, I think it's doomed." And it almost never came out.
"I see, Miss Nolen." His tone returned to his original arrogant look, "It seems that you are not only talented in acting, but also very knowledgeable in other aspects."
here we go again!There is irony in this statement.
Rhea's heart skipped a beat, and then Andrea asked a question that Rhea didn't even know was a question: "Then I guess, after all this criticism, you'd still be willing to condescend to play this role?"
In the end, Rhea gave this answer: "If I were to play it, I would never play it like that."
The man snorted inexplicably, and just when Rhea thought they would all skip the matter of the manager, Andri brought it up again, not caring that he had been rejected before, or that he would be rejected again. reject.
"If this movie is a big success, then you should reconsider the manager." The mocking tone in Andri's voice became stronger, "Because you will regret rejecting me, Miss Noren."
"Good night, have a good night." He said the noble emphatically, "Lolita."
In Andre's way of pronouncing this name, there is no Humbert's obsession and fascination, but full of cold mockery.
When the phone was hung up, Rhea didn't even react, and then she realized that she didn't even ask Andri why she proposed to be her manager.
She didn't think she could impress this man who didn't take anyone seriously in just two auditions.
When Rhea was still immersed in frustration, someone who could answer her doubts called: "Hey, Rhea! You are that Lolita!"
"I already know."
Malloy raised the volume, he was a little surprised: "What? I called as fast as I could, and you actually knew the result first?"
"Andre Vetter! You gave him my phone number, and then he called." Rhea raised her hand and touched her eyes, "You never think what he said to me."
"Did that man really call you?" Malloy's voice sounded incredible. "Well, what did he say?"
"He wants to be my manager."
Malloy immediately took a breath: "...No, no! Please don't tell me you refused."
"Yes." Rhea answered Malloy slowly but firmly, "I say no."
"How could you—" He didn't finish the sentence and then started another sentence: "If I told you the background of that man, would you change your mind?"
"Is he a member of the Oscars committee? Or the unknown but actually real American Prince?"
"...that's not funny at all."
"No! Are you crazy?" Rhea was very firm on this issue, "Even if he has a background, he is a complete layman in movies, and he doesn't even bother to hide this, why should I invite such a Someone to be my manager?"
"but--"
"I said no, my God, no matter how good he is, I don't want to pay part of my salary to such a man." Rhea sighed, in order not to entangle herself, she refused to listen to Ann. Derry's background science popularization, "The more important thing for us now is to discuss how to persuade my parents first, and then discuss the revision of the script, Malloy."
"Hey! Call me Mytes!"
Malloy is very concerned about titles. He always feels that the last name can't bring the relationship between the two people closer, "Listen, I'm already trying to contact the screenwriter Stephen Schiffer, and he is still revising the script, so we are not completely hopeless .”
"Perhaps you will be surprised, but I am one step ahead of you in this matter. I just mentioned it to Andre Witte."
"what?"
After listening to Rhea's retelling, Malloy marveled for a while, but this can only be done in a situation like Rhea's, and he can't replicate it, so he can only sigh with emotion that Rhea's brain turned so fast that he turned the embarrassing rejection into Suggested situation that is beneficial to oneself.
Before he could sort out his thoughts, Rhea said the next sentence: "Actually, if you don't object, I still have an idea."
"If it works, I can convince my parents too."
"..."
After listening quietly and in shock for a long time, it took several minutes for Malloy to regain his spirits quickly after thinking about it on the other end of the phone, "Damn... Maybe what you said is actually feasible!"
He said slowly: "But first, we have to meet that screenwriter, Stephen Schiffer."
—
Stephen Schiffer thought he was unlucky, he took over a mess, and he was not exaggerating, he did take a difficult job.
"Lolita" was originally a controversial work, and the adaptation of the script based on the original work naturally greatly increased the difficulty.
The 62-year-old "Lolita" movie script was adapted by director Stanley Kubrick and the original author Vladimir Nabokov. The combination of these two people is a perfect restoration of the original. and reinvention.
This made the adaptation of the new version of "Lolita" more difficult.
No one wants the new version of the movie to carry the shadow of the old version, nor do they want to be compared with the old version, so every screenwriter tries their best to write the script differently.
Yes, every screenwriter.
Stephen Schiffer is not the first screenwriter of this film. Among the several rounds of screenwriters hired by the film company that produced "Lolita", James Dearden, Harold Pinter, and others are all he knows. and David Mamet.He was brought in last, and it was at the worst of the situation.
The script of the movie has been written over and over again, and it is almost finished, but it is sent back and revised again and again, and if it fails, another person writes it.
To be honest, after Stephen Schiffer finished writing the current version of the script, he himself didn't quite know what core content he wanted to express.
He wants to meet director Adrian Lane's request to express the ambiguous and seductive erotic relationship in the original work; and then Mario Caesar is also satisfied, the producer hopes for a work that is more restored than the old version of the movie; Of course, he still needs to add gimmicks, otherwise the film company will feel that there is no selling point...
At this point, there will be no thoughts left in the script that Stephen Schiffer wants to express.
Stephen has little say in the production of this movie. If it doesn't work, maybe Mario will find a new screenwriter.
What's more, the addition of the new producer Andre Witter forced all these processes to continue to accelerate, and the pressure on Stephen was even greater.
At this time, he didn't want to deal with any entertainment from the agent at all, until the other party revealed such a message, "Mr. Schiffer, don't you want to meet the Lolita they have chosen?"
The heroine has been chosen!
Stephen didn't have time to think about the neglect and cold reception he received in this casting process, he just wanted to meet the girl who was going to be the heroine of his novel - he needed inspiration too much!
That's why there was this meeting, a slender and beautiful blonde girl, and a tall and strong agent sitting next to her, sitting opposite them, Stephen Schiffer looked much more plain and even mediocre.
If he was alone, the waiters in the coffee shop might not be very enthusiastic to come over, because he doesn't look like a person who can give a lot of tips.
But it's different now, the service enthusiasm of the waitress is much higher, and she always shows a delicate smile to the man who claims to be Metus Hugh Malloy, and the eyes of the surrounding guests are also indifferent Glancing over, Stephen even heard some discussions.
"That girl is so beautiful, is she a model?"
"Maybe it's an actor?" Ha, that's really common in Hollywood.
But it still made Stephen uncomfortable.
"Mr. Schiffer?"
The heroine's agent, Malloy, called him, "We're sorry to disturb you so abruptly."
"Oh, it's okay." Stephen waved his hands indifferently. He glanced at the girl named Rhea Nolen who was chosen to play Lolita several times, and he really noticed her extraordinary charm. Let him have some understanding of this casting.
She is blond and blue-eyed, but she is very similar to the Lolita in the 67 movie, but Stephen knows some movie arrangements, and they will turn her into the Lolita in the book.
"So, you are our Lolita."
"Actually, I'm not, Mr. Schiffer." Unexpectedly, Rhea answered him, "I haven't signed a contract yet."
Sure enough, the next moment, Stephen followed Rhea's words and asked: "Why not?"
After exchanging glances with Malloy, Rhea adjusted her emotions and said slowly: "Mr. Schiffer, we actually came to you for this. We know that you are the current screenwriter of this movie."
She lowered her eyelids slightly, and her slender eyelashes cast shadows on those impeccable blue eyes, which made this beautiful face a little more fragile.
“I auditioned for a small part of the script, and it confuses me.” The light that streams through the glass shop windows in the cafe is the most natural light, giving Rhea a pale, angelic gold rim.
"Mr. Schiffer, would you like to hear my story?"
The author has something to say:
... Alas, routine=. =
On the other end of the new phone came Andri's voice, which had no ups and downs in tone, but Rhea could hear that he was starting to care, and the man's voice sank a little. "In that case, why are you still willing to audition for this movie?"
"Because when I knew there was this audition, I hadn't read the script."
"Miss Nolen, you still haven't read all the scripts."
Rhea grasped the phone tightly, perhaps because she held it for a long time, her palms began to sweat and the phone felt a little slippery, "You let me audition for Lolita, and I performed a script for you."
"...that was just a small fragment."
"That's enough." Rhea quickly took the words, hoping to use this to create momentum, but obviously it didn't work, the girl's voice was still too soft and tender: "The script described Lolita as It's like...too contemptuous, and she's not."
Startled briefly by this straightforward word, Andri was silent for a while before replying: "What makes you feel this way?"
"Because you arranged for Humbert to ask her for money! You let the male protagonist question Lolita and force her to pay back the money. This line makes Lolita look like a daughter-in-law bought by Humbert!" said Here, Rhea also brought a little nameless anger.
Even if Lolita's mother's inheritance and real estate are not mentioned, Humbert is still Lolita's nominal stepfather. Isn't it natural to pay maintenance?
Humbert married Lolita's single mother in order to be with Lolita, whom he was thinking of, in a fair manner. Soon after, Lolita's mother discovered Humbert's ulterior motives and died unexpectedly in a panic. Humber Te took the opportunity to take Lolita away.
In this episode, Lolita is a victim no matter what.
However, the 97 version of the movie portrayed Humbert as a victim.
Whether it is deliberately magnifying Lolita's sex appeal and seduction, or the picture of Lolita writing a letter to Humbert to borrow money after a few years of disappearance at the end, Lolita is portrayed as a greedy, shameless and emotionless character. bad girl.
The film even misleads people to sympathize with Humbert, who has always been infatuated and unilateral!However, in fact, Lolita does not need such unnecessary and disgusting efforts at all.
This old man who has the best sex has more than one girl, but Lolita is the only "good chance" he can get close to.
Even at the last moment of the finale, when Humbert thinks he is really in love with Lolita, there is no excuse for the damage he has done to the girl.
The movie only emphasizes the sadness of this kind of love, but does not point out the crime and cruelty.
Rhea feels that if the original "Lolita" is a pale apology from the Communist Party, and the 62 version of the film is a comic mockery of Humbert's vice, then the 97 version of the film can almost be said to mislead the audience. The most successful aesthetic cleansing.
After watching the 97 version of the movie, people may even have such doubts: Humbert is so good to Lolita, how can she have the heart to leave him?
It's just ridiculous.
The reason for this result is very simple.
First of all, this is the Lolita in Humbert's eyes, so they had to focus on Humbert, and secondly, because the actor who played Lolita was too young, she couldn't perform more in-depth content. So the director can only simplify and simplify.
So at the end of the editing, everything is left with the beautiful and exquisite eroticism. With the shell and flesh of the original "Lolita", but lost the essence and core of the original "Lolita".
She wanted to play Lolita, not just because she wanted to play the leading lady.
More importantly, Rhea wanted to change the image of Lolita in the 97 version of the movie. That girl should not have been like that. She wanted this challenge.
After the events of 1992, she has an odd resonance for this complex and tragic character.
In any case, this should definitely not be Lolita's fault, let alone a crime that can be covered up by the faults of both sides.
"I just read this short script, and I can't help thinking that Lolita is ashamed of Humbert." Thinking of this, Rhea's thoughts became more and more clear, "So I have to doubt the whole script."
"Mr. Witt, I think you should have read the script, can you tell me that the direction of the script is actually completely different from what I suspect?"
In fact, Rhea still quibbles, she can't see so much content from a short paragraph, and she can say this because she has watched the original movie.
Andry didn't directly answer her question, "So, you think it's doomed."
"If it's a movie that takes Humbert's shoes and defends him, then yeah, I think it's doomed." And it almost never came out.
"I see, Miss Nolen." His tone returned to his original arrogant look, "It seems that you are not only talented in acting, but also very knowledgeable in other aspects."
here we go again!There is irony in this statement.
Rhea's heart skipped a beat, and then Andrea asked a question that Rhea didn't even know was a question: "Then I guess, after all this criticism, you'd still be willing to condescend to play this role?"
In the end, Rhea gave this answer: "If I were to play it, I would never play it like that."
The man snorted inexplicably, and just when Rhea thought they would all skip the matter of the manager, Andri brought it up again, not caring that he had been rejected before, or that he would be rejected again. reject.
"If this movie is a big success, then you should reconsider the manager." The mocking tone in Andri's voice became stronger, "Because you will regret rejecting me, Miss Noren."
"Good night, have a good night." He said the noble emphatically, "Lolita."
In Andre's way of pronouncing this name, there is no Humbert's obsession and fascination, but full of cold mockery.
When the phone was hung up, Rhea didn't even react, and then she realized that she didn't even ask Andri why she proposed to be her manager.
She didn't think she could impress this man who didn't take anyone seriously in just two auditions.
When Rhea was still immersed in frustration, someone who could answer her doubts called: "Hey, Rhea! You are that Lolita!"
"I already know."
Malloy raised the volume, he was a little surprised: "What? I called as fast as I could, and you actually knew the result first?"
"Andre Vetter! You gave him my phone number, and then he called." Rhea raised her hand and touched her eyes, "You never think what he said to me."
"Did that man really call you?" Malloy's voice sounded incredible. "Well, what did he say?"
"He wants to be my manager."
Malloy immediately took a breath: "...No, no! Please don't tell me you refused."
"Yes." Rhea answered Malloy slowly but firmly, "I say no."
"How could you—" He didn't finish the sentence and then started another sentence: "If I told you the background of that man, would you change your mind?"
"Is he a member of the Oscars committee? Or the unknown but actually real American Prince?"
"...that's not funny at all."
"No! Are you crazy?" Rhea was very firm on this issue, "Even if he has a background, he is a complete layman in movies, and he doesn't even bother to hide this, why should I invite such a Someone to be my manager?"
"but--"
"I said no, my God, no matter how good he is, I don't want to pay part of my salary to such a man." Rhea sighed, in order not to entangle herself, she refused to listen to Ann. Derry's background science popularization, "The more important thing for us now is to discuss how to persuade my parents first, and then discuss the revision of the script, Malloy."
"Hey! Call me Mytes!"
Malloy is very concerned about titles. He always feels that the last name can't bring the relationship between the two people closer, "Listen, I'm already trying to contact the screenwriter Stephen Schiffer, and he is still revising the script, so we are not completely hopeless .”
"Perhaps you will be surprised, but I am one step ahead of you in this matter. I just mentioned it to Andre Witte."
"what?"
After listening to Rhea's retelling, Malloy marveled for a while, but this can only be done in a situation like Rhea's, and he can't replicate it, so he can only sigh with emotion that Rhea's brain turned so fast that he turned the embarrassing rejection into Suggested situation that is beneficial to oneself.
Before he could sort out his thoughts, Rhea said the next sentence: "Actually, if you don't object, I still have an idea."
"If it works, I can convince my parents too."
"..."
After listening quietly and in shock for a long time, it took several minutes for Malloy to regain his spirits quickly after thinking about it on the other end of the phone, "Damn... Maybe what you said is actually feasible!"
He said slowly: "But first, we have to meet that screenwriter, Stephen Schiffer."
—
Stephen Schiffer thought he was unlucky, he took over a mess, and he was not exaggerating, he did take a difficult job.
"Lolita" was originally a controversial work, and the adaptation of the script based on the original work naturally greatly increased the difficulty.
The 62-year-old "Lolita" movie script was adapted by director Stanley Kubrick and the original author Vladimir Nabokov. The combination of these two people is a perfect restoration of the original. and reinvention.
This made the adaptation of the new version of "Lolita" more difficult.
No one wants the new version of the movie to carry the shadow of the old version, nor do they want to be compared with the old version, so every screenwriter tries their best to write the script differently.
Yes, every screenwriter.
Stephen Schiffer is not the first screenwriter of this film. Among the several rounds of screenwriters hired by the film company that produced "Lolita", James Dearden, Harold Pinter, and others are all he knows. and David Mamet.He was brought in last, and it was at the worst of the situation.
The script of the movie has been written over and over again, and it is almost finished, but it is sent back and revised again and again, and if it fails, another person writes it.
To be honest, after Stephen Schiffer finished writing the current version of the script, he himself didn't quite know what core content he wanted to express.
He wants to meet director Adrian Lane's request to express the ambiguous and seductive erotic relationship in the original work; and then Mario Caesar is also satisfied, the producer hopes for a work that is more restored than the old version of the movie; Of course, he still needs to add gimmicks, otherwise the film company will feel that there is no selling point...
At this point, there will be no thoughts left in the script that Stephen Schiffer wants to express.
Stephen has little say in the production of this movie. If it doesn't work, maybe Mario will find a new screenwriter.
What's more, the addition of the new producer Andre Witter forced all these processes to continue to accelerate, and the pressure on Stephen was even greater.
At this time, he didn't want to deal with any entertainment from the agent at all, until the other party revealed such a message, "Mr. Schiffer, don't you want to meet the Lolita they have chosen?"
The heroine has been chosen!
Stephen didn't have time to think about the neglect and cold reception he received in this casting process, he just wanted to meet the girl who was going to be the heroine of his novel - he needed inspiration too much!
That's why there was this meeting, a slender and beautiful blonde girl, and a tall and strong agent sitting next to her, sitting opposite them, Stephen Schiffer looked much more plain and even mediocre.
If he was alone, the waiters in the coffee shop might not be very enthusiastic to come over, because he doesn't look like a person who can give a lot of tips.
But it's different now, the service enthusiasm of the waitress is much higher, and she always shows a delicate smile to the man who claims to be Metus Hugh Malloy, and the eyes of the surrounding guests are also indifferent Glancing over, Stephen even heard some discussions.
"That girl is so beautiful, is she a model?"
"Maybe it's an actor?" Ha, that's really common in Hollywood.
But it still made Stephen uncomfortable.
"Mr. Schiffer?"
The heroine's agent, Malloy, called him, "We're sorry to disturb you so abruptly."
"Oh, it's okay." Stephen waved his hands indifferently. He glanced at the girl named Rhea Nolen who was chosen to play Lolita several times, and he really noticed her extraordinary charm. Let him have some understanding of this casting.
She is blond and blue-eyed, but she is very similar to the Lolita in the 67 movie, but Stephen knows some movie arrangements, and they will turn her into the Lolita in the book.
"So, you are our Lolita."
"Actually, I'm not, Mr. Schiffer." Unexpectedly, Rhea answered him, "I haven't signed a contract yet."
Sure enough, the next moment, Stephen followed Rhea's words and asked: "Why not?"
After exchanging glances with Malloy, Rhea adjusted her emotions and said slowly: "Mr. Schiffer, we actually came to you for this. We know that you are the current screenwriter of this movie."
She lowered her eyelids slightly, and her slender eyelashes cast shadows on those impeccable blue eyes, which made this beautiful face a little more fragile.
“I auditioned for a small part of the script, and it confuses me.” The light that streams through the glass shop windows in the cafe is the most natural light, giving Rhea a pale, angelic gold rim.
"Mr. Schiffer, would you like to hear my story?"
The author has something to say:
... Alas, routine=. =
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