atypical hollywood life

Margaret shuddered, thinking about what those film critics praised her, she really wondered if these people had suddenly taken a stimulant, one was more excited than the other, and it was completely funny .He almost said by name, "Look, that Margaret Jane, she is the granddaughter of Marilyn Monroe, she looks like Marilyn when she smiles! Friends, come and watch!"

There are also those film critics who praised her acting skills, "Crying is like Vivien Leigh, heartbreaking and desperate, God can't help her, she can only find a way out by herself, but this way out leads to Not heaven."

She admits that she really loves Vivien Leigh, and also loves her "Gone with the Wind" and "Blue Bridge", but she swears that she did not imitate Vivien Leigh in "Romeo and Juliet". She's been through a lot, okay?Why do you need to imitate others?Also, her appearance has nothing to do with this beauty. How can it be seen that she cries like Vivien Leigh?

"She has a strong imprint of the golden age, which is unique to that unique era. It is quiet and clear. As long as she sits there and smiles, you will be separated from the hustle and bustle and return to calm. This kind of It is the first time that the traits appeared in the post-golden age. People can't help but wonder if there is a soul in her body that travels from a distant era. This soul is elegant, beautiful, and strong. We expect her to be able to Blooming a flourishing flower..."

When I saw this passage, Margaret really wanted to flip the table, your sister in the golden age!Since childhood, she has been surrounded by old men or old ladies. Both Catherine and Anne have experienced a long life experience, not to mention Howard, who has escaped several times, Arthur is a typical old-fashioned style, and she herself is a A miracle witness who is dead and alive, can she still be violent if she is not calm?Don't have anything to do with the golden age, okay?

What is worse is not those older film critics, but some seemingly strange film critics. The chemical reaction between what and Leonardo DiCaprio is too strong to look at directly. Being together is as beautiful as a painting, but when I watch a movie, I blush and my heart beats, I just want to drag my girlfriend to open a room. Director Baz Luhrmann has the potential to become the next Dindo Ballas... balabala...

Margaret wanted to cover her face, what a mess, isn't this group of film critics really here to tear things apart?Another Dindo Ballas, be careful the director cries for you.

Thinking of the director's heart of literary youth, Margaret couldn't help but want to laugh. Maybe he wanted to cry when he saw these film reviews?

Baz Luhrmann really wants to cry now, but it's not fair at all to let him take the blame even though it's not his fault.

He stared at the tabloid with dark clouds on his face, "Compared to Tinto Ballas, I think Baz Luhrmann is closer to Pedro Almodovar. See how much he prefers Juliet. You know, whenever Juliet is on the big screen, the whole shot feels very bright, and there are a lot of close-ups. You have to admit that even if Margaret Jane's face is so perfect, the movie doesn't need so many close-ups Shots, this is not a sci-fi blockbuster that needs to be stacked with special effects shots. Erotic master Almodovar is best at worshiping women, independent, strong, and capable of deciding things... These are the qualities that the heroines in his movies always have. Let’s compare them , do you think it looks a bit like Juliet? Of course, it doesn’t mean that he doesn’t like Leonardo DiCaprio anymore. The audience was blushing and heartbeating when watching the movie. According to the survey, the rate of hotel couples around the movie theater was greatly increased during the film’s release. As an art film director from wild Australia, this is really a bit unbelievable, he is more like a French People or Italians are naturally romantic and passionate. So it's time to change your career planning, Baz Luhrmann!"

"Hahahaha, hahahaha, I laughed so hard." His wife Catherine Martin laughed out of shape on the chair. The movie became more and more popular and the box office was higher and higher, but her husband's face became darker and darker.Many film critics complained that he made a retro romance film like a erotic blockbuster. The most suitable way for him is to become a erotic master like Tinto Ballas or Pedro Almodovar.

Catherine Martin once watched a few intimate scenes between Margaret Jane and Leonardo DiCaprio. I really can't blame Buzz. The filming staff watching on one side were short of breath, their faces were flushed, and their pornographic level was comparable to some videos.

She also finds it very strange, why these two people are so pure and innocent like angels, how can they be so hot when they are filming an intimate scene?Is there really something between them?

But it doesn't look like it, Leonardo will feel a little uncomfortable because of his age after the filming of some intimate scenes, but Margaret, this little girl is completely in two states on and off the scene, I heard that the distant There is an art in China called face-changing, and Catherine Martin felt that Margaret could learn it.

In the end, Catherine Martin attributed this to the fact that two people are naturally so compatible. Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable didn't hate each other when they were filming "Gone with the Wind". When the film was shown, people saw Scarlett and Rhett walking out of the book, so that no one dared to remake the film after 1939.

You know, generally speaking, foreign masterpieces are like Chinese Jin Yong's novels, and they are constantly being remade.

The difference probably lies in that Jin Yong’s novels take people out for a walk when they want to praise people, basically they are becoming more and more irresponsible for the actor’s appearance.Western masterpieces are constantly remakes with beauties, trying to surpass the previous one in the new remake.Of course, it is not without Waterloo, but in terms of the appearance of female actors, they are generally becoming more and more beautiful.From this point, we can see how difficult it is that no one dared to touch "Gone with the Wind" for nearly a century.Perhaps this has something to do with its length. After all, if it is really a remake of the actors, it is a problem, and the background preparation is also a problem. Before the appearance of "Cleopatra", this movie was called the most expensive movie. If it is moved to today, it will probably invest Maybe it will surpass "Titanic".

So some people are probably born to be in the same frame, just like Margaret Jane and Leonardo DiCaprio. Looking at Hollywood, there is no contemporaries who can surpass them. It's almost against the sky together, no wonder those little boys and girls are crying and shouting to die for love with the two of them.

"Ahhhhh, I'm so pissed off, these damn gossip tabloids, I must sue them to death!"

Baz Luhrmann didn't know what bad comments he saw again, and he was about to lose his mind.

Catherine Martin hurried over and grabbed him, "Honey, calm down, don't just read the bad ones, read the good reviews, you see, even Roger Ebert praised you when he commented on this movie The camera angles were beautiful and he praised the structure of the film, he even said it deserved an Oscar nomination."

In a hurry, he pulled out a piece of "Chicago Sun" and pointed to Roger Ebert's column to show to his dear husband.If you don't comfort her again, she is worried that her husband is about to explode.

"I just want to pay tribute to the goddess, why do I get so many disgusting comments?"

Baz Luhrmann wiped his face and said in frustration.Margaret is the only divine actor he has seen in real life. This is very similar to the goddess Garbo in his heart. The attitudes towards world affairs are really strikingly similar.He just likes this kind of incomparable beauty, what's wrong with taking more close-ups?As for labeling him as Almodóvar's successor?

And Leonardo DiCaprio, please stop being so narcissistic!You can even kiss your sexually transformed version so passionately. How confident are you in your face? After kissing such a beautiful sexually transformed version of yourself, how can you keep kissing yourself in the future? Pretty actress?Hmph, it's not that I didn't report, it's just that the time has not come.I am waiting for your Waterloo!

The director of the literary youth thought indignantly.Curse Leonardo, the little goblin, who will get his eyes hurt by actors who are not as good-looking as him every time he shoots a kiss scene, let you call me the blame!

The end of 1996 was full of wind and clouds, and various dramas took turns. When Margaret was still dizzy at the fact that she laughed and thought of Marilyn, she received a call from Arthur Miller.

"Arthur? You're back? Yes, I heard from Rebecca that you went to an impromptu meeting. I thought you bribed those film critics, but I didn't expect the truth to be like this."

Margaret really didn't know how to tell her eighty-year-old grandfather that she had just discovered that she smiled like her grandmother.She knew that the couple's later married life was not good. According to the inside information she got from Rebecca, when she was a child, she was most impressed by the quarrel and cold war between the two.

Rebecca's point is that Arthur would never have attended Marilyn's funeral if he hadn't had two daughters with Marilyn.At that time, Marilyn was planning to remarry Joe DiMaggio. Even the funeral after death was arranged by the former baseball player. If it wasn't for the existence of his two daughters, he had to hold his nose to attend the funeral of his ex-wife. The invitation letter had been torn to shreds a long time ago.

Arthur Miller smiled happily in front of the phone, "Baby, I think your career is finally starting to take the right track. Three years ago, you were a child star, and you could only be a star in other people's movies." Supporting roles, even if you win an Oscar statuette, you are not valued by those directors and producers. Now you are completely different from three years ago, you have the capital to go to a higher status, and the curse of child stars is gone. The method will affect you again."

As Arthur Miller said, Margaret didn't see much increase in her value even when she got the statuette, because a child star is too easy to fall.Child stars are actually a fast-moving commodity in Hollywood, and they can be grabbed a handful, but there are very few who can really make it to the top. Hollywood's attitude towards child stars is like treating leeks, harvesting one crop after another.

The ultimate in this aspect is Disney, which releases a large number of child stars in batches every year. Anyway, their positioning for all age groups is indeed suitable for this method, and then wait for them to become popular and try their best to extract benefits and residual value. Movies, TV dramas, record releases, concerts, the whole process, teenage stars are produced like commodities on an assembly line.Then when they gradually leave the form of teenagers and girls and can no longer use this image to make money, they will quickly abandon them and train another batch.

As for whether the abandoned child stars can make a smooth transition, that's none of their business.During this period, those child stars who are in a state of confusion will not care about whether they will voluntarily degenerate or disappear because of family factors and the pressure of future transformation. Anyway, after the transformation is successful, they will have another cash cow. If the transformation fails, it will not hinder them.There are many children and their parents waiting to become famous, not less than one or two.

There are several in Margaret's memory, Lindsay Lohan, a self-deprecating alcoholic and drug addict, now this is a cute little girl with freckles, who would have thought that she would become that ghost in the future ?His face is full of oily spots and wrinkles, and he makes himself in his 20s look older than a woman in her 40s.There was also that blond sweet girl Hilary Duff who also had a cute smile back then. This one is not as self-absorbed as the previous one. She tried very hard to get rid of her inherent image, which can be regarded as a She's the clearest among Disney child stars, but unfortunately I don't have enough hardware, so I can only work in the independent film industry. Fortunately, she has a good brain, can afford everything from writing books, recordings, and starting a company, so she's doing well.This is what she knows, and she doesn't know how many people don't know.

Child actors outside of Disney aren't much better off either, with Macaulay King in "Home Alone" and Edward Furlong in "Terminator 2" being well-known examples.

Alcoholism and drug abuse seem to have become the standard equipment for most child stars in Hollywood after they grow up.There's only one Drew Barrymore who's been able to come out of it for so many years.The key is that he not only has a good foundation, but also has a great director Spielberg as his godfather.Others don't have this capital.

Compared with these people, it is not an exaggeration to say that Margaret is a ray of clear spring left on the mountain.After winning the statuette, I went directly to university, not the kind of Ivy League university that is generally welcomed by the American people, but a California Institute of Technology known for its crazy study and research.People who know have been surprised, okay?Not to mention making connections in this school, after living in the same dormitory for four years, you may be able to recognize your classmates on the street, it's blinding.She doesn't drink alcohol, and for some special reasons, she attaches great importance to physical health, living habits and laws, this kind of person really doesn't look like a Hollywood person.

And the most important thing is that she has no disability, this is the most important thing, not only does she not have a disability, but the longer she is, the more beautiful she is, and her height is the height of the public, which is easier to take on the show, neither too tall nor too short .So it is true that she broke the child star curse.

"what do you mean?"

Margaret asked cautiously, she had a hunch that what Arthur said would definitely refresh her worldview again.

"I mean, do you want to try to win this year's Best Actress Oscar?"

really!I knew that Arthur was going to make a big move! Margaret knew that Arthur's language was not amazing, and she was a little dazed by this sentence.

"Oscar Best Actress? Arthur, are you sure you're not kidding me? Don't you think I'm too young?"

Margaret shook her mouth and uttered her own question. Isn't this really teasing her?

Arthur Miller chuckled, "Meg, you still don't know enough about the judges of the Academy, if you look back at the information of the actresses after the big studios gave up sponsoring Oscars in the 60s, you will find that beauties can win Oscars The odds of the Oscars are decreasing year by year. From the occasional slip-ups in the 70s to the 80s without exception to the current state of more and more discrimination against beauty, Oscar is heading for a wrong path. In the future, beautiful actresses want to win Oscars If they do, they must work harder on things other than the characters themselves, acting ugly, being mentally ill, and being special are their way out, and the beauty of extra points will only hold them back."

Arthur Miller is worthy of being a character who has been able to survive for decades in the American theater world. The so-called mature man is probably used to describe a person like him.He was keenly aware of the change in the academy's attitude towards film.

As he himself said, since the major studios gave up their sponsorship of the Oscars, their influence on the Oscars has been decreasing year by year.At the beginning, there will be some films produced by major studios that can win Oscars for acting, but as time goes by, the tastes and demands of the academy's judges are constantly changing.Now, these people have become more and more inclined to politicized niche films, especially for actors.It’s not good for an actor to be too handsome, and it’s also not good for an actress to be too beautiful, because these old men will stubbornly think that their outstanding appearance will deprive people of their attention to the plot.

They call themselves the saviors, and believe that the popular aesthetics cannot select truly educational films from the vast sea of ​​films, and they must select films for the audience that can touch their hearts and shock their souls.To put it bluntly, I feel that the IQ of the American people is too low, and they like movies without connotation. As such a great award, they must be different and shoulder the important task of saving people's thinking.

"Young age is actually an advantage for you. Honey, you are so beautiful, even if you have acting skills that can match your beauty, Oscar's prejudice will not be an exception for you. While you are still young, You have the opportunity to operate this award only if you have not fully grown and have not been classified as an adult. If you miss this excellent opportunity, you will encounter more resistance when you grow up."

Arthur said sarcastic words with a smile on his face, "Oscar has been criticized in recent years for aging, niche, and politicization. Isn't that how the best supporting actor nursing home came about? But niche and Politicization is precisely the core of the academy, and it will not be affected at all, and aging, more than 70.00% of the members of the academy are white old men, and the choice of best actor and best supporting actor reflects their own Projection, how do you make them younger? In the end, they can only work hard on Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress."

What he said was merciless at all, and completely tore off the fig leaf that the old white and straight Oscar judges wore, "It's just that the weight of the actress is too heavy, and they can't go too far. You've got a vested interest in that strategy, my dear."

The cunning old fox smiled happily at the moment, "Since this is the case, why don't we push it to the next level? Think about it, Meg, the youngest actress in Oscar history was born in their hands What a thing to be proud of, and this actress has good acting skills and good looks, which can completely wash away Oscar's reputation of discriminating against beautiful women, and you are even just a little girl, even if you win the award next year, you will only be 15 years old That's all, it won't break the stereotypes of those academy members at all. After all, in their eyes, you are still a little girl, and you are still far away from those beautiful Hollywood actresses. This is a wonderful opportunity, if you miss it, you will Not anymore."

Sighing softly, Arthur Miller said with a bit of regret, "Honey, I went to see your movie, although I know you will be a beautiful girl when you grow up, but I I didn't expect you to look so much like Marilyn when you smiled. You have no similarities in appearance, but you feel so similar when you smile. This is really a wonderful blood relationship. Just like your mother, you look so much like Marilyn, but writing The talent is like mine. Even though she rebelliously writes non-realistic vampire novels, she still carries my imprint in her writing, just like "400 Years of Surprise" and "Vampire Love" series, she is writing these When I was young, I always subconsciously dig deep into the relationship between humanity and society. But when she was a child, she was not even willing to read my works."

After being silent for a while, Arthur Miller pulled himself together and continued to tell Margaret what she didn't know, "Now that you have just appeared in the eyes of the public, those who once contributed to Marilyn's collapse With a sense of guilt and compensation for you, you can definitely hit this award for the highest achievement for an entertainer. Meg, even if my marriage with Marilyn did not end well, I cannot deny her own charm. You will always No one knows how much Marilyn's plot is in the hearts of those who are old."

The dead are the most perfect people. The American people always like to consecrate the dead, and Marilyn died so early, she died in her best years and left all kinds of mysteries behind.She is no longer a mere actor but has evolved into a huge cultural symbol that hangs over the western world.Even ordinary people who don't pay attention to the showbiz don't know who Marilyn Monroe is.Her influence radiates too far.

Quietly listening to Arthur Miller, Margaret said, "Okay, Arthur, I want an Oscar, I will fly back to New York with Brian as soon as possible, I think we will create a miracle?"

Margaret put down the phone. Before she could recover, the phone rang again. She answered it reflexively, "Arthur?"

"Meg? It's me, Tom. Are you waiting for the call?"

The voice of Tom Cruise came from the microphone.