Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

At the invitation of MGM, Jade naturally appeared at the Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard.Before the Kodak Theater was built, the Chinese Theater had always been the premiere movie theater of choice for major film companies.At this time, MGM is still the same high-spirited MGM, so it is also reasonable to hire the Chinese theater to create momentum for "Thelma & Louise".

Although the "anti-monopoly case" that year hurt MGM's vitality, how can MGM, the leader of Hollywood, be defeated so easily?Soon, MGM still restored its former glory, and still ruled Los Angeles as the overlord of Hollywood's first army.

For this movie company with a lion as its logo, Jed still has respect.It can be said that MGM is a symbol of traditional Hollywood.A private company that does not announce its income and filming plans to the outside world; the integration of production and distribution, the last territory of the big studio system and the director-centered system... Unfortunately, with the development of the entire film industry, Hollywood has become more and more unable to tolerate this stubborn and stubborn man. proud lion.

In 2002, due to the disastrous failure of "Windtalker" directed by Chinese director John Woo, which became the last straw that crushed MGM, the once-prominent MGM finally had to admit that it was on the verge of bankruptcy.Without the support of the media group, the last independent production company in Hollywood finally had to bow its head to the capital market, and this proud lion finally became a plaything of Sony Group.

When MGM lost its final use value, Sony Group kicked this old lion out of the house.In the end, with the financial support of Lions Gate Films Corporation, MGM and Telescope Films merged, allowing MGM to escape the predicament of bankruptcy. That is the most magnificent.

Thinking of this, Jed looked at the MGM logo specially hung on the Chinese theater with a sense of loss.But soon Jed's thoughts were interrupted by the reporter's crazy spotlight. Compared with the leading actor and director, Jed is the most famous person in the crew. In order not to make tomorrow's layout ugly, everyone I had to dig some topics out of Jed's mouth.

Fortunately, Jed is also someone who has been interviewed. Apart from praising the movie, he did not disclose any content related to the plot.At the same time, I also expressed support for the leading actors and directors, in short, I will support it to the end.

The premiere held at the Chinese Theater mainly entertained film critics from major newspapers, radio stations and TV stations in the United States, in addition to members of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.After coming to the United States, Jed discovered that, besides lawyers and accountants, critics are the third most populous profession in the United States.

Film critics alone make up the American Federation of Film Critics, but the Federation is a loose organization.The American Federation of Film Critics is a major alliance of three national film critic organizations and as many as twenty local film critic organizations.The three National Associations of Film Critics are: the most senior National Association of Film Critics (National Board of Review of Motion Pictures); the most authoritative National Association of Film Critics (National Society of Film Critics) and the most influential Broadcast Film Critics Association (Broadcast Film Critics Association).Coupled with the more than [-] relatively important local film critic organizations, it will take a lot of public relations expenses just to entertain these film critics.

But no one dares to offend these film critics. If these film critics don't shout for you in the media, who will watch your film?Especially those film critics who have columns in authoritative newspapers such as "New York Times", "Washington Post" and "Los Angeles Times" were treated as honored guests, not only the whole process of luxury hotel reception, but also thoughtful small gifts.

Among all the film critics, Jed even saw the famous Roger Ebert.Ebert is the most controversial and authoritative film critic in Hollywood history. He is the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize and the first writer to receive a star on Hollywood Boulevard as a film critic.Movies released in the United States are honored to get his comments. If the movie can get his "thumbs up" or "two thumbs up" rating, the distributor will deliberately print this rating on the DVD cover Spread the word to your audience.

Ebert also founded the "Least Appreciated Film Festival" at his alma mater to showcase films that have been overlooked but have artistic value.It can be said that Ebert is the last guardian of American film art, and no film critic can have such credibility as him.

The "Thelma and Louise" filmed in this time and space has many changes compared to "Thelma and Louise" in that time and space, because Jade introduced more conflicts in the movie, which also gave the movie more dramatic tension.The heroine Hilma is a white housewife in a very ordinary middle-class American family, she looks very happy.But Hilma knew that her pious husband had already cheated, and she just let this marriage "exist in name only" in order to maintain the appearance.The other heroine, Louise, is an African-American with a husband who doesn't love her, and domestic violence has become commonplace.Originally, the two protagonists should have no intersection, but every Wednesday afternoon, Hilma would go to a bar for a drink, and Louise was the waitress of this bar.After several encounters, the two women established a different kind of friendship.

At this point in the story, one-third of the plot has passed.Such a plot made many film critics a little drowsy, not understanding what the movie wanted to express.Want to tell the story of a friendship that transcends race?Ebert quickly wrote a paragraph in his notebook.But he said from the bottom of his heart, if in the 70s, this subject matter might still be worth thinking about, but now, this subject matter is a bit superficial.

Just when Ebert decided to give up the movie, the story on the screen suddenly changed.Hilma said that she was tired of wearing a mask every day, so Louise, who was also dissatisfied with her current life, suggested that the two of them might as well travel by car.This suggestion naturally got the approval of Hilma, so the two women set off towards the unknown world.

In a small bar, the blond Hilma was taken by a gangster.Although the two of them managed to leave the bar, the gangster followed him relentlessly, and even wanted to rape Hilma.In desperation, Louise snatched the gangster's pistol, but shot the gangster dead when the gun misfired.

The two women were stunned by this sudden change. After years of education, Hilma naturally suggested that the two should surrender themselves, but Louise refused. "Hilma, if I was white, I would turn myself in. But I'm black, do you know what that means? They sentenced me to death before I walked into the courthouse!"

Louise's words made Ebert's eyes brighten up. As an American critic, he was naturally very dissatisfied with the various injustices in the United States.Although slavery has not been abolished for many years, and even the apartheid system has been abolished for a long time, the discrimination against blacks in the hearts of Americans still exists.Although Hollywood is a gathering place for American liberals, not many dare to mock the conservative status quo of the United States so blatantly in their movies.At this time, Ebert is already very interested in knowing how the next plot will go. Is it mediocre?Or is there a Jedi reversal?

Although Hilma is a housewife, she is not stupid, and she quickly understood what her friend Louise said. "Then what should we do next? The police will definitely think we are murderers, and they will come to arrest us soon!"

"Calm down, Hilma, calm down!" Louise thought for a while, and then said, "Hey, why don't we smuggle to Mexico?"

Hilma was appalled by the audacity of the idea, but had to say it seemed the only way out.So the two women ran towards Mexico in a panic, and soon the police also discovered the murder scene and listed Hilma and Louise as fugitives.While fleeing to Mexico, Hilma decides to give her husband a break so he can understand.

But what made Hilma angry was that instead of asking her why she was going to Mexico, her husband scolded her on the phone for not taking good care of him at home these days.After listening to the man's self-righteous reprimand, Hilma quietly hung up the phone.Then he said to Louise: "It seems that men really don't have a good thing!"

The escape of Hilma and Louise was not so smooth, because a white extremist provoked Louise, Hilma set fire to the white man's truck; A "nice man" in the end turned out to be a liar trying to cheat her of money... When the two got closer to the Mexican border, there were more and more police.Not only the police in New Mexico were mobilized, but the FBI and the National Guard were even alerted.Seeing such a huge chasing and suppressing team, some viewers couldn't help complaining: "Is this catching drug lords? Or catching smugglers? It's just two women, is it worth it?"

Ebert naturally heard the audience's complaints, and he had to admit why bother to kill the two women?When he came up with this idea, he suddenly found that he had been "brainwashed" by the plot completed by the director and screenwriter.Hilma and Louise were indeed fugitives, and the fugitives should have been arrested and brought to justice.However, due to the foreshadowing of the previous plot and the subsequent development of the plot, the audience who originally had a sense of justice sympathized with these two "fugitives". Ebert couldn't help but marvel at the screenwriter's screenwriting skills.

Before watching the movie, he checked the screenwriter Jed Sherman's information, and knew that he was a graduate of the USC Film School and a well-known playboy in Los Angeles.But after his family got into a car accident and lost his parents, this playboy changed his mind overnight and not only became a successful writer but also made great achievements in running the family business.Ebert briefly flipped through the original novel "Hilma and Louise" of "Thelma and Louise". Compared with the movie, the plot of the novel is more gentle.But Ebert also understands the difference between novels and scripts, and scripts need more dramatic conflicts, so Jed made a major transformation of his own novels to come up with this script.

Ebert also compared and read Jade's other novels, and he found that this young man has his own understanding of the world.He seems to be looking at this beautiful and ugly world with sympathetic eyes, and then showing the ugliest side of this world and destroying all the good things.He uses almost extreme writing techniques to make people discover the pain of losing beautiful things, thereby inspiring people to cherish beautiful things.

At this point the story has begun to come to an end, Hilma and Louise have been surrounded, there is no way to escape.There is only the abyss further ahead, and they can only wait for a long lawsuit.Film critics have begun to analyze the significance of this plot, and everyone has already seen that this is a film about women's self-awakening and feminism.The police and national guards who rounded up the heroines are all men without exception, and those who bring misfortune to the heroines are all men. It can be said that men are the only villains in this movie.The destination of the heroines' escape - Mexico is naturally considered to be the place where feminism is finally realized, but the heroines are intercepted not far from Mexico, which also symbolizes the impasse of feminism.

Some viewers think that maybe this is the end of the movie, after all, it is a good ending here.Feminist resistance is finally suppressed, and the critical role of the film has been achieved.However, the screenwriters clearly don't think that's enough.

In the tattered car because of fleeing, Hilma suddenly said: "You know, Louise, meeting you is the happiest thing in my life!"

Louise also laughed, "I know, meeting you is also the happiest thing in my life."

"Do you regret it?" Hilma asked.

Louise replied very firmly: "I don't regret it!"

Hearing this, Hilma stepped on the accelerator and drove towards the abyss.With the crash of the car, the movie ends.

Many film critics were shocked by the screenwriter's extreme approach to the end of the film. Even though the lights in the cinema have gradually turned on, many film critics are still wondering why these two women committed suicide?Because of "manslaughter"?That's justifiable self-defense, and it's completely possible to overturn the case when it comes to the trial stage.Because of "arson" on the road?Please, it's clear that the shameless white driver "racially discriminates" first, okay?Why commit suicide?

Ebert was also thinking about this issue. He thought for a while, and finally wrote down a sentence in his notebook, "Perhaps all hope should be wiped out, so that people can understand the truest tragedy. I am very happy that I once again I have witnessed the birth of a classic in film history, and I am also very happy that a capable young man has joined our film family!"

The next day, the first batch of film reviews for "Thelma & Louise" were released.As Jed predicted, there were mixed reviews.People who like it think this is a movie that blows the horn of feminist recovery; people who don't like it think the movie is too sensational.

But people who liked it quickly accounted for the majority, and most film critics believed that this movie satirized the indifference of racism and feminism in today's American society.As a result, the film also received support from the black community and female audiences, and its box office hit $800 million in its first week, pushing it down to the runner-up position on the weekend box office list.For a movie with an investment of 1600 million, the box office results of this first weekend have already made MGM very happy.Because according to this estimate, the film's domestic box office performance in the United States should not be less than 6500 million yuan.

More importantly, this film has been loved by the vast majority of film critics, so it is bound to be rewarded in various awards at the end of the year.The most important reason for MGM to shoot this film in the first place was to win an award. Now not only is there hope of winning an award, but also hope to make a small profit. MGM executives are very satisfied.

After attending the premiere of Thelma & Louise, Jed was back in his office.To Jed's surprise, David Kelly brought a script.The script is called "Warning the Fence", and it is a police drama.The TV series is considered tepid, but Jed thinks it can be handed over to David Kelly to practice his hands, and also points to Anthony Suk as the screenwriter assistant of this TV series.The reason why Jed made this arrangement is not only to allow Kelly to adapt to screenwriting work as soon as possible, but also to allow Su Ke to accumulate experience and lay the foundation for his future creation of "CSI".

Kelly's script was not troublesome, and soon Dongfeng Productions decided to put the play in the production plan for the end of the year.What Kelly needs to do now is to form a crew with Su Ke and prepare for interviewing actors.Jed didn't intend to participate in the whole work, he wanted to know how far Kelly and Su Ke could do it.You know, the four screenwriters that Jade recruited are star-level screenwriters who can be their own in the future.Jade hoped that they could eventually independently form their own production studios and become a satellite company of Dongfeng Productions.On the one hand, it is to not restrain these geniuses, and on the other hand, it is also hoped not to create a monopoly, so that the Ministry of Commerce and the State Trade Commission will take special care of themselves.

After arranging to leave Kelly and Suk, Jade focused on the screenwriting situation of the screenwriting studio for the second season of "Will and Grace" and "Friends".In the script of the second season, Jed only provides ideas and settings, and then completes the more critical plots of the episodes, and the rest is completed by the screenwriters in the screenwriting studio. Jed is only responsible for the final review and polishing .Looking at the thick script in front of him, Jed began to examine it carefully.

The author has something to say: Special note: If the movie mentioned in the novel is different from the real version, then the article will use more space to explain it, because these are related to the plot.If there is not much difference, or if it is exactly the same, then it will be mentioned in the text.Please don’t think that the author is trying to cheat money when you see the description of the movie’s plot in the entertainment novel. The reason why you write it must be because it affects the plot or the theme.I remember someone said that Tanmei is the most difficult category to write.Because no matter how you write, there will always be some readers who are not satisfied.Since there is no way to please everyone, I will write as I originally thought.This is the main essay.The age difference between Gong and Shou is seven years old.There will be no plot where Xiao Shou is eaten up and wiped clean when he is a minor.