Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

In fact, if Jed is not a producer but a pure fan, I would be very happy to hear Tom Hanks' plan to accumulate acting skills.After all, winning the Oscar winner for two consecutive years is an unprecedented achievement. As for three consecutive championships, it is simply an impossible task.Firstly, there are not good scripts every year, and secondly, the Hollywood film giants will not allow such a situation to happen.Tom also understands that he is a young bird now, if he doesn't hide his strength and bide his time for a while, I'm afraid he won't be able to do well in Hollywood.So when Tom received the invitation of Galaxy Movie, he was very conflicted.

He really wants to make this movie. First, Jed Sherman's script means a classic. Even if last year's "Shawshank Redemption" failed miserably in terms of box office and awards, it will not damage its status as a classic. Even Some movie fans believe that the biggest injustice of the Oscars last year was that "The Shawshank Redemption" was not given an award.Many film critics believe that no matter what the reason is, the best adapted screenplay, best director or best film should always be awarded to "The Shawshank Redemption".

But to everyone's surprise, "The Shawshank Redemption" all failed.Even "Variety Show" with Black Jed as its own responsibility thinks this is too much. After all, "Variety Show" doesn't want to see Jed Sherman, but "The Shawshank Redemption" is indeed a movie that even the editors of the "Variety Show" movie version are convinced. movie of.Therefore, as soon as the news that "The Shawshank Redemption" failed at the Oscars came out, before the fans made a fuss, the film critics complained about the blindness of the Oscar judges in their columns.

Because of the hype of the Galaxy movie, "The Shawshank Redemption" has only two non-technical nominations for Oscar nominations: Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture. This nomination list is actually quite controversial as soon as it is announced, but many people think that the Oscar judges are In Discrimination Jed's independently directed debut.In fact, it is not a big deal to be discriminated against for the director's debut, but Jade's work is recognized as the biggest opponent of "Forrest Gump".

As a result, "Forrest Gump" won 13 nominations including best film and best director. How is this a "king vs. king" situation?Not only the film critics were not happy, but the reporters were also not happy. The "King vs. King" campaign that had been going on for several months was turned into a "big brother bullying younger brother" crushing situation by the Oscars. How did the reporters end up?

In addition to Jed always having a good script in his hand, Tom Hanks actually wants to make a Jed movie, because the two have been friends for a long time.Starting from "Sleepless in Seattle", Hanks has filmed three consecutive films written by Jed, among which "Philadelphia Story" and "Forrest Gump" brought him two Oscars.In terms of emotion and reason, Tom Hanks has no reason to refuse the invitation of Galaxy Movie.But the problem is that Tom Hanks is also worried about whether he will attract the attention of some black forces if he is too prominent, so he "learned" on the suggestion of his agent.

But since Jed Sherman came to the door in person, Tom really had no reason to refuse the meeting, so he had to invite Jed to his home as a guest.

In fact, Jed is also thinking about what prompted Tom Hanks to suddenly decide to take a break after winning two movie stars, and the conversation with David Geffen made Jed understand some reasons.In any industry, in any region, there is never a shortage of interest groups.Of course, you can say that they are black and evil forces, but you have to admit that there is no way to eliminate such interest groups.If you want to get rid of the harassment of interest groups, then you have to become another interest group, and finally compromise under the balance of power between the two parties.Obviously, Tom Hanks' success in the past two years has touched the interests of some people.

Don't say how fair and just the Oscars are. In fact, the standards of most Hollywood movies are about the same. Therefore, the decision of who wins the Oscars is not driven by interest groups.And the so-called Oscar curse that winning the best actor will inevitably decline for three years is not just a means used by interest groups to suppress the best actor. If you win the best actor once, you will naturally not be able to let you go smoothly. Unlucky years are just what it should be up.

But there was an alternative Tom Hanks, who won the best actor for one year and then won the best actor for another year. How does this make other actors play?Therefore, Tom Hanks decisively chose "study" to temporarily avoid the limelight.Thinking of this, Jed could only sigh.This kind of interest group is something that a rich man like David Geffen is unwilling to face directly, let alone Xiao Xiami himself?Geffen had already reminded himself out of affection, it would be too senseless for him to ask for anything else.

So Jed kept thinking on the way to Tom Hanks, how to let Tom Hanks take over the film without too exciting some people? "Apollo 13" is a historical movie, which is the favorite of the Oscars, so unless Jed deliberately smashed this movie, it must be nominated for the Oscars.I don't have to worry about technical awards, it's mainly performance awards.

Jed thinks that the only way is to make the protagonist played by Tom a green leaf of many strong supporting actors, and make the protagonist less conspicuous through the superb performance of the supporting actors.Thinking of this, Jed's head grew bigger. What other directors were worried about was how to make the protagonist more conspicuous, but what he was thinking about was how to use supporting roles to cover up the light of the protagonist.

Fortunately, the supporting roles Jia Fei found for Jed are not ordinary people. Among them, the role of the ground commander is played by Hollywood tough guy Ed Harris.It is a big breakthrough for Ed to let a tough guy who fights and kills play the role of a civilian technician who has a tough personality and is not easy to admit defeat. Presumably such a breakthrough is enough to cover up Tom Hanks' true performance.

The most important thing is that the contract signed by Jafei and Harris is for two films. Jade originally signed him to play General Hammer in Michael Bay's "Brave to Kill the Island", but he actually auditioned It was also approved as commander, which surprised Jed a little.

With his own statement, Jed showed up at Tom Hanks' door on time.Accompanying Tom was his agent. After all, some words are not suitable for actors to say. At this time, an agent is needed to act as the villain.But Jed didn't care about the agent's presence. In his opinion, the agent still needs to confirm the contract after this negotiation.

After the two exchanged pleasantries for a while, Jed asked straight to the point: "Mr. Hanks, what are you worried about?"

Tom Hanks could only smile wryly, and his agent said: "Mr. Sherman, Tom has always been very grateful for the scripts you created for him. Originally, we shouldn't decline this invitation, but there are some things that make us have to do not give up."

"I understand what you are worried about. If I am only worried that Mr. Hanks is too prominent, I will add a few key supporting roles in the script and try my best to cover up Mr. Hanks' acting skills." Jed said, "And I This movie is a purely commercial movie, not a work made to please the Oscars, so it is very likely that it will be ignored by the Oscars. Mr. Hanks, you must know how good this movie is, and my time It is very limited, and after deducting the two-month shooting cycle and one-month post-production, I don't have much time for you to think about it."

Tom Hanks is also very tangled at this time, and the agent is even more tangled.Although Hollywood's unspoken rules made him have to persuade Tom to "hibernate".But as Hanks' agent, he naturally knows how excellent Jed's script is. This is a movie that can earn both box office and trophies. It is extremely helpful for Tom Hanks' resume .

But the problem is that, as a broker, he naturally knows the power of those interest groups.Jed may be regarded as a peripheral member of the interest group. Jews who have been in the entertainment circle such as Redstone and David Grand have a good impression of him, and he is completely trained as a junior, so even if there are interest groups that are really attracted by Jie If De is offended, they will not go to the door without opening their eyes.But if you can't deal with Jade, then naturally it's your own artist.

After struggling for a long time, the agent asked, "Will the film company's promotional focus no longer be on Tom? After all, Oscar's nomination rules are difficult to control in the early stage. If Tom appears on the first round of nominations, then his It is very likely to enter the second round and even appear on the official nomination list."

""Apollo 13" itself is a work whose plot is better than the actors." Jed said slowly, "I don't mean to belittle Mr. Hanks' acting skills, but because of the many characters in this movie, the scenes are different. It involves multiple places such as space and earth, so we don't have many shots to portray Mr. Hanks. It can almost be said bluntly that Mr. Hanks only became the male lead because of the necessity of submitting the form, otherwise the film There will be many people who can become the so-called leading men. And more importantly, this movie will be a transformation of Mr. Ed Harris, and we will use more promotional efforts on him. I think so Can you avoid retaliation for making Mr. Hanks show off?"

"Ed still has a movie contract with you, right?" The agent immediately saw the clue.

If you don't have a contract for the next movie, how can people push you to the top?But the agent was just asking this question, and he didn't expect Jed to answer it.What makes the agent a little depressed is why Jade started making movies so late, otherwise his own actors could have cooperated a few more times. "If it's what Mr. Sherman said, I think we can sign this contract."

After all the actors arrived, Jed first arranged the training of the actors.Because of Jed's pursuit of the authenticity of the shooting, Tom Hanks and the three who played the role of the astronaut were all arranged to go to the Wilson Space Center to participate in a one-week crash course for astronauts.Hanks and others have to understand the basic work of astronauts and experience the feeling of weightlessness within a week.Because this part of the money is reimbursed by NASA, Jed let Hanks experience more than 100 parabolic flights in a week very cruelly. Coupled with the weightlessness scene during the real shooting later, Hanks experienced very hard 234 minutes of weightlessness, this data is almost catching up with the real training data of ordinary astronauts.

Originally, NASA was willing to lend the real ground command center to Jed for shooting, but Jed commissioned a prop master to completely reproduce the scene of the Houston command center in the studio of Universal Studios so that he could control the shooting cycle and duration.And all the actors who participated in the ground center performances were sent here for a surprise study to understand what the general ground staff would do.

When interviewed by reporters afterwards, Ed Harris couldn't help but teased the reporter of "Hollywood Report": "You know, I didn't know anything about physics at first. But after participating in this performance, I am very confident. Confidence to take the SAT test, maybe I can still get into MIT because of that.”

Because of the presence of NASA, a rich man, Jed's requirements for props are almost harsh.The lunar module and landing module and other equipment in the movie shooting are the real Apollo NO.13 spare equipment left over by NASA, and even the space suits are real and usable.Seeing Jed expropriating NASA equipment without restraint, the staff in the public relations office turned green.Fortunately, these devices are obsolete devices, otherwise NASA would have to explain to Congress why these items were taken away.

When all the preliminary work was ready, "Apollo 13" officially started shooting.As Jed's third work, this movie still got a certain amount of attention.In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Jed said, "This is a purely commercial movie. Of course, I also poured some of my respect for aviation heroes into it. I tried to make it as true as possible for all the plots. , at the same time full of all the elements that a movie needs. I think you will like it during the summer vacation!"

"It seems that Mr. Jed Sherman still hasn't remembered his failure last fall!" "Variety Show" soon published a review article, "From March to summer, it's only four or five months. Look, how does our Mr. Sherman complete a space-themed work? Does he plan to edit some material from the news documentary and make do with a few scenes to complete it?"

However, the teasing of "Variety Show" did not disturb Jade's shooting. Thanks to the previous training, there were very few low-level mistakes during shooting, and the shooting of the ground scene was very smooth.The difficulty lies in the shooting of space scenes. Although many shots were actually shot on the ground, the small space capsule brought great trouble to the shooting.Although the space capsule was made detachable for the convenience of shooting, it took the photographer a lot of effort to ensure that the lens does not leave the country.

The biggest difficulty of this movie is all the shots involving weightlessness. These shots can only be shot when flying in a parabolic Boeing plane.Since each time of weightlessness can only last 25 seconds, the entire crew must be tense to shoot.The temporary studio set up on the Boeing plane can accommodate very limited people, but Jed, as the director, must be there anyway.So often after a day of filming, I watched Jed walk out of the plane with a group of pale-faced crew members.As for Hanks and the others, they looked a little more normal than Jed and the others because of their training.

Although the filming was a bit hard, fortunately everyone finished filming the movie within the scheduled schedule, and the rest is the post-production work.At the same time, John Woo also came back with his works.Compared with Jade's shooting speed, John Woo's shooting speed of "Jumanji" is relatively much slower this time.And according to the people on the set, John Woo has very strict requirements on the detail of the shots this time. Not only a few child actors couldn't stand it, but even adults like Robin Williams complained.

Of course, in addition to the strict shooting, John Woo also had very strict requirements for special effects this time, even Lucas was almost driven away by him.However, under the joint efforts of the special effects team and crew members, John Woo still completed this family-themed adventure film.

When Wu Yusen handed the copy to Jed, he smiled wryly: "I don't even think this is my movie. There is no gunplay or fighting style, it feels like I have become another person."

Jed said sternly: "Mr. Wu, do you think that cloak and sunglasses are your style? Could it be that your 'violent aesthetics' are only limited to falling bullet casings and white pigeons flying in the sky? If that's all, then you The 'violent aesthetics' created is too superficial. I suggest that Mr. Wu can take a look at some gadgets that Quentin has edited recently. He used Hong Kong movies as materials to edit some things he wanted. The original shooter is exactly the same as him Irrelevant, but after editing, you can see the presentation of things that belong to his style. Mr. Wu, I believe in your ability and respect your profession. I hope you will not let me down. I will personally be in charge of "The Brave" I am looking forward to your 'new work'!"

Wu Yusen blushed slightly, in fact, he was somewhat dissatisfied with Jade's arrangement for him to shoot such a subject, after all, he is a big director in Hong Kong!But being satirized by Jed, Wu Yusen realized that his arrogance had attacked again.

In fact, John Woo also put in a lot of effort in filming "James of the Brave". Compared with the rough and careless action design of the original work, it was done by the aesthetic madman Wu Yusen in a smooth and smooth way. It came out very impactful.

It's just that his mouth was cheap for a while, and now Wu Yusen is extremely hopeful that he can take regret medicine.