[US Entertainment] Hollywood reverses life

This was the first day of filming for "Bat Wars". Joey got up from the hotel early in the morning and hurriedly planned to go out, but was called back by a phone call.

She glanced at the time, "Damn, she's going to be late!"Who is so ignorant to call her at this time!

Joey was obviously very angry. She said to Catherine on the other end of the phone: "I'm going to be late, Catherine! We'll talk about it next time!"

Catherine obviously didn't go around Joey, "Don't, Joey, you'd better read the news before going out."

Joey was taken aback, "What news are you watching?"

Catherine said in a tone that announced to the world: "Open Google, enter in the search bar, add your name to the Prince of Sweden."

"What?" Joey couldn't understand anymore, "Prince of Sweden? Are you kidding me?"

Then she hung up the phone, actually went to the computer, opened Google, and entered her name, Prince of Sweden.

The first news from Google stunned Joey.

【Prince Carl Philip of Sweden praised Joey as the best director in the world today】

[Swedes say they can accept Joey Grant as Princess of Sweden]

Joey clicked on the news details, and things were roughly like this.

"Yesterday, the Swedish popular lover, Prince Carl Philip, posted a message on his Facebook, saying, 'She is the best director in the world, isn't she?', with a photo of Joy winning the first prize in Berlin."

"Although Prince Philip did not express more information, the Swedish people are boiling."

"Prince Philip has always been known for keeping a low profile. Although he has a handsome face resembling an elf prince, he basically doesn't express too many private thoughts in public."

"This time, he actually wrote such words on his Facebook. It seems that Prince Philip also prefers intelligent women."

"After Jason Statham, another big name has been added to Joey Grant's fan list."

The more Joy watched it, the more she felt... Well, Prince Philip, even if she praised herself, it's not as fantastic as the media said, right?After praising herself, she is the future princess?The media really likes to speculate, she doesn't know that prince at all...

Then she Googled Prince Philip's profile.Only then did I discover that this prince is really the dream lover of the European people, and he is tied with Prince Andre of Monaco as the first two in the Most Wanted to Marry series.Have you ever been selected as one of the top 100 most beautiful faces in the world?

Joey stared at the computer for a while, then, she realized that it was getting late, and she was really going to be late, so she rushed out of the hotel with a small Boston bag.

After arriving on the set, Joey apologized very embarrassedly to everyone, because she was still late for a while in the end.

Fortunately, everyone has already started to make preparations, and Joey did not delay too long.

But she saw a lot of people who made her eyes shine.

Beautiful long legs, a handsome muscular man, and a man with a black belly and a paralyzed face.

Gal Gadot, a long-legged beauty with a thin waist and thin legs, was firing at her. She walked up to Joey and covered Joey's whole body, "Hi, Joey, I have admired you for a long time ,Hope for a happy co-operation."

At this time, Jesse Eisenberg also came over, he will play the role of Latty, he seems to have a little bit of Latty's crazy temperament at the moment, and the famous Hollywood handsome guy Ben Affleck came with him .

To be honest, Joey didn't know much about Jesse. He had seen his movies in his previous life but didn't know much about this man. He only knew that he and Garfield were good friends.

As for Ben Affleck... Joey knows that he is also one of the many derailed nannies in Hollywood (others include the Governor, Jude Law, etc., Hollywood men like derailed nannies)... and Matt Damon are friends for thousands of years , younger brother Casey Affleck is an Oscar winner.

However, they are all greeting Joey with great respect at the moment, and Joey also responded enthusiastically, "I hope we will have a pleasant cooperation. Handsome guys."

Jesse patted Ben on the shoulder, "I don't dare to be a handsome guy, he deserves it." Ben then put his arms around Jesse's neck, "Don't say that about Jesse, I'm not tender anymore, the world belongs to you young people of."

Joy turned her head and saw Henry Cavill walking towards her. He was wearing a superman costume with a sunny smile, and his muscles were about to collapse.

Joey licked his saliva, "Hey, Henry, how are you doing recently?"

In fact, since the end of the "Twilight" series, Henry has gradually become less popular, but he has good resources. He took over Joey's Oscar work "Slumdog Millionaire" and now He was selected as the candidate for the new version of Superman.

He can be regarded as elated. After "Twilight", a series of excellent movies and his increasingly mature acting skills made him gradually lose the reputation of "Hollywood's number one vase". Now he is a hot new star in Hollywood.

Although the audition for "Superman Returns" hit a wall in 06 and lost to Braden Rose, he met Joey later, and his life began to be very different.

Henry crossed his arms and looked at Joey, "After 'breaking up' with my little girlfriend Emma, ​​I am currently single, why don't the big director introduce me to a new one?"

Joey was very speechless and puzzled and said: "You and Emma have been 'in love' for 5 years, but there is no spark?"

Henry sighed deeply, "I can only say that I don't like this category, I like sweet girls with no brains, the kind with a bit more plump body..."

Joey thought for a while, "I'm not an agency, I don't have one that meets your needs."

Then, seeing that it was getting late, she stopped chatting and started preparing for the shoot.

Most of the filming of this 2.5 million yuan movie was basically done under the green screen. After all, it is a blockbuster with special effects, and it is basically impossible to shoot most of the shots in real scenes.

Green screen shooting can control cost and time more.

Moreover, the people in Warner seemed very worried about letting the director's rights go. They even sent professionals to watch over the whole process. If there was something wrong, they would immediately report to Warner, and Warner would talk to Joey directly.

This is a blockbuster special effects movie, and what the director needs most is the deconstruction of special effects, so during the entire shooting process, Joey paid more attention to the construction of the lens rather than the performance of the actors.

Several actors present will find that the director seems to have forgotten them. This director, who has always been known for tuning and teaching actors, has now turned into a complete visual department director.

The picture composition she designed is different from other directors. This is Gal Gadot's first reaction. She doesn't shoot many movies, so she can't explain this state. I can only think in general that Joey's The lens structure is unique.

But in comparison, Ben Affleck's lens experience is much richer. He told Gadot, "Have you found that Joey's lens is full of a sense of pure ritual?"

"Sense of ritual?" Gadot was a little puzzled, "What does sense of ritual mean?"

Ben Affleck looked at the back of Joey in the distance, "It is in her lens that every character is like a muscular statue. This is a way to be loyal to the original comics and pay tribute to the original comics You can call it a sense of ritual."

Gadot thought about it carefully, "It seems to be true, she is obsessed with this shooting technique."

Ben smiled, "It's not an obsession. Every action the director makes is not meaningless and has a purpose. Joey is just a way to please the fans of the original work. After all, he must be a fan of the original work." It’s hard to balance both the passer-by and the audience. Joey may be trying to balance the scales. Die-hard fans of the original book may cry when they see these scenes full of ritual.”

At this moment, Joey walked up to Henry, "Henry, do you feel..."

Henry asked in surprise, "What?"

Joey explained the problem simply, "You acted too heavy. In the original book, Batman is gloomy, dark, and heavy, but Superman should be his opposite. If you and Ben use this This kind of story is too cold if it is interpreted in a different way.”

In the previous life, Ben Affleck played Batman very well in the movie. You can basically feel the dark, dark, sad, black belly, but the Superman in the previous life was too sad.

Joey thinks that Superman should be kind, smiling, confident, and even a bit rustic. This is the Superman in the original book, but in the movie of the previous life, he also saw a kind of Batman in Superman. temperament.

This is not Henry's fault, but the screenwriter's fault.

So Joey hopes that Henry can reinterpret his temperament more vividly, instead of being close to the sadness of Batman... Although this kind of sadness is very charming, it will make the audience feel that the film is too heavy and tiring.

Moreover, in this life, Joey has also made some changes to the script. Superman is not a person with a sad face from beginning to end. He also has a little humor and smiles.Joey thinks this is the Superman that the audience wants to see. As for looking for the self in life in confusion, it is what he should do in "Superman: Man of Steel", not here.

The gloominess is what the Batman line is responsible for, and Superman doesn't need to make himself that way in order to fit the tone of the whole story.

Joy is different from Nolan. She is not obsessed with using gloomy techniques and expressing complex meanings throughout. The dark connotations and themes of the film.

But to be honest, Joey couldn't help but start protesting even though the filming had already started. Warner is really screwed!

Warner advertised that the film cost 4.1 million yuan, but in fact it only gave her 2.5 million yuan. As a result, Joy’s many special effects battle scenes could only be performed on rainy days under darker lenses to save costs. In previous lives, many audiences complained about the film footage. It was raining anyway, it was too dark to see clearly.

In addition, in order to save costs, many small theaters basically do not adjust the brightness of 3D to the best level, resulting in many times the picture is too dark to see clearly.

This is Warner's fault, not the director's!The budget given by Warner was not sufficient, and the director could only save costs.

In the next shooting, the most puzzled is the photographer.

Usually, in such special effects movies where fighting scenes are very important, Hollywood directors like to learn from Hong Kong film directors, that is, to make the shots very fast, make the movements very fast, and emphasize a certain strength.Therefore, in Hong Kong fighting drama movies, frame picking is a very common practice.The more you draw the screen, the faster it will be.

But Joy is doing the opposite. Her camera is very slow, so slow that it is even "soft"... She uses a lot of upgraded slow motion.

This kind of lens has only become popular in recent years. The representative work is "300 Spartans", which was born by Zack Schneider. Starting from him, this kind of action movie full of slow-motion fighting scenes has become popular all over the world. You can see action movies learning this way everywhere.

The advantage of this kind of slow motion is that when the characters fight, every movement is a pose, which pushes the elegance to the extreme, but the strength also drops to the bottom. It is difficult for the audience to feel the sense of impact and strength.

Therefore, there are very few successful examples of imitating this shooting method, but there are many examples of failure. If you look at the next few films of "Resident Evil", they imitate this method and imitate it into scum.

What the photographer didn't expect was that Joey planned to use this kind of fighting method in the fighting scene of "Bat vs. Super Fight". You must know that almost none of the people who imitated "300 Spartans" were truly successful.

But soon he found out that Joy was not sure. Although Joy used the upgraded slow motion extensively, her shots did not make people feel "soft" at all, but very powerful.

Soon, he discovered Joey's secret: almost every slow-motion scene contains a shot of an object being knocked down, a brick wall being smashed, an iron bolt being knocked out, and an iron rod being shaken—— The loss of power caused by slow motion is compensated by the twist of steel.

In fact, photographers and people today will not know that this trick was learned by Joy from a later film, that is, Wong Kar Wai's "The Grandmaster".

Letting the beaten thing twist and shatter gorgeously in slow motion does the trick.

So Joey's "Bat Wars", you will find that it is surprisingly gorgeous and elegant, and every shot seems to imply a sense of ritual to pay tribute to the original work, as well as a very distinctive composition method.

In this process, the audience will enjoy the feeling of a gorgeous thing being destroyed.

After a few days of shooting, Warner asked Joey to take some copies of the shooting to Warner to have a look. In fact, Warner wanted to review the results of Joey in the past few days to see what she had shot. Can't pass, after all, 2.5 million is dropped, if Joey goes astray, they can stop it in time.

Joey was also willing to cooperate. She recorded the shooting results of the previous two days separately, and then asked a post-production special effects artist to do some renderings. After all, it is definitely not enough to just look at the film and film copies.Fortunately, Joy is different from ordinary directors. When she was filming, the special effects artist followed her all the way, so she could discuss with the special effects artist at any time.

After Joey worked with the special effects artist for several nights, he finally edited and rendered these materials simply.

But this dungeon only lasted 5 minutes.

For these 5 minutes, Joey and the special effects artist adjusted and taught all night for a week.The special effects artist was also drunk.

This special effects artist from Warner obviously has a lot of opinions on the fluffy Joey, because he feels that Joey's construction, thinking and requirements for the screen have reached the level of abnormality.

Especially for the rendering, color, and texture adjustment of the lens, it is almost impossible for ordinary people to serve them.

Afterwards, Joey submitted the rendered and edited material copies of the first few shots to Warner, and Warner also attached great importance to it, inviting many high-level executives to watch these material copies together.

Very short, only 5 minutes of material.

However, from the first picture, a slight gasp from some of the upper echelons can be heard.

Martin's name for Joey's visual department madman is definitely not fake.

Yes, how could they have forgotten that Joey's movies have always been known for their extremely gorgeous colors and textures, and they still remember the dazzling colors bursting out like a kaleidoscope in "Source Code" Stitching and color contrasting?

Do you still remember the long cylindrical lens like an oil painting in "Lola" and the elegance and gorgeousness of the humid and hot summer?

Remember the calm and restrained gray color full of texture in "West Coast"?

If you don't remember it, it doesn't matter, just take a look at this short 5-minute dungeon material.

Looking at the whole of Hollywood, this kind of oil painting style with heavy ink, heavy color and rich texture is the only one, and there is no other semicolon.

She has completely restored the rich and colorful style of comics.

Over the past few years, various Hollywood blockbusters have used digital cameras to shoot a lot, and they have been lazy and refused to spend time on post-production.As a result, the picture quality of Hollywood movies is getting thinner and thinner, and it is getting closer to the TV news picture. From "X-Men" to "Reunion" series, the TV news picture quality is uniform, while Joey's "thick picture" "Wind" is more unique and precious under the background of this trend.

As for the fighting scenes in several shots, Joey used the ultimate slow motion, but it gave people a kind of carefree pleasure.Joey officially pushed Zack Schneider's "soft" fighting style to the extreme...

This style gives the audience a lot of brain space, and it will also give the audience a psychological pleasure.

From this 5-minute material, it can be seen that Joey's commercial film style is different from other Hollywood masters. Of course, this is nonsense. Each of the top ten Hollywood directors has his own unique style.

After the clip ended, everyone was silent for a moment.

A senior Warner executive said, "Everyone, please say something."

The discussion below exploded in an instant!

"Joy's big scene scheduling ability is worthy of recognition, even better than Nolan's by how many grades."

"Let's not talk about this, as we all know that Nolan's ability to manage large scenes is the weakest."

"However, haven't you noticed that under her guidance, many shots have shown an amazing intimidating effect, and she is naturally sensitive to the elements of movies."

Martin also spoke at this moment, "Joy's style is obvious, she makes movies based on feelings. She just uses simple elements to infect the audience with music, comics and surging passion, and her advantages are because She's extremely sensitive to the elements."

"That's right, for example, the fight scene between Superman and Batman, it's amazing!"

Martin also smiled, "That's right, that scene also makes me remember the most deeply. It can be said that it is the most exciting part of the director's play with the screen in the past ten years. Not only is it very American-style comics, but it is more like... um... Texture Awesome..." He couldn't find an adjective.

At this time, another person reminded him, "It was even played by her as a rock MV with video games!"

"Yes, yes, this kind of picture style, really, there is no other branch in Hollywood!"

At this moment, Martin deeply felt that his evaluation was really good at all, "She really played the picture to the extreme and became a visual madman."

Hollywood, perhaps because of this "Bat vs. Super War", will really usher in a visual madman.

Joey, she is a geek, but she is not a geek who is high and low, but a geek who belongs to our world!

But Warner is still worried. They decided to show this material to Nolan, who is filming the third part of "Batman Prequel". After all, Nolan is the originator of dark heroism.

Nolan was quite interested in this material, and it took him a few minutes to finish reading it.

After reading it, Warner's executives asked for his opinion.

Nolan answered them with personality, "You want her to make a superhero movie with a dark core like me, but now it seems that she doesn't intend to go my way, but shoots in her own style. gone."

Indeed, although Joey's filming is still quite deep, in fact, when it is time to discuss, there will still be some core discussions. Although the tone is lighter than "Batman Prequel", there will often be slightly deeper shots, showing the darkness of the movie. the kernel.

Then Nolan added: "I haven't tried this attempt. I don't know what it will be. I just want to say at this moment."

"Damn it, the scene of this damn Joey playing is really too fucking awesome!"

"Her sexy brain, I really want to say hello to (FUC-K)."

All Warner: "..."

Nolan said in a low growl, "That woman is so fucking sexy. If she says she is willing to sell her brain now, I think countless people in the world will pay a high price for it!"

Warner quickly told Joey that they recognized Joey's technique very much, and hoped that Joey would continue to work hard to make this movie well!

Joy is still on the set, gnawing at this difficult bone, because she is still asking screenwriter Mark to change the script. Even after the filming starts, she is still very dissatisfied with certain plots.

She is most dissatisfied with this script, it can be said that Superman is the most dissatisfied, especially the scene where she plans to shoot Superman kneeling to Luthor. Originally, when she was preparing in the early stage, she thought about it and passed it, but at this moment She couldn't take it anymore when she was photographed here.

She called Mark over, "Mark, go and revise this script, I can shoot the latter part first."

"Why, Warner didn't say anything."

Joey was about to growl, "Ahhh, do you know how much I like Dachao? He should be smiling with confidence and kindness. Why do you design him to look bitter and bitter 90% of the time? Face! But in order to cooperate with you, I tried my best to create that kind of atmosphere, but I really can't accept Superman kneeling down to the villain."

Joey really couldn't accept that he used such indecent means to treat Dachao.

Da Chao can be torn apart by a nuclear bomb, and can be pierced to death by a krypton spear. When will Da Chao kneel in front of such a psychopath?

Mark felt that he was about to be tortured by Joey, "This script has been changed a hundred times, if not two hundred times? Director, I think it's better for you to write it yourself."

Joey said to Mark patiently: "Hey, Mark, please be patient. We want to make a work that can take into account both hardcore fans and passers-by. This is quite difficult, so we will definitely experience various running-in and setbacks. It’s nothing to change the script, as long as the script can make the audience like it better, we will win in the end.”

Mark is really speechless to Joey, a perverted pervert. He and the special effects artist have complained about Joey hundreds of times together. Joey is a pervert at all, pervert!

She is so demanding on her works, as if every detail can ruin her!Moreover, she is a person who thinks very fast, and the rest of the crew follow her thinking every day and keep chasing after her.

This is the rhythm to drive people crazy!

In the end, Mark still immersed himself in revising the script. For what Joey called "reasonableness", it was unheard of for a movie to be revised after a week of filming!

But Joey still had a good time alone in her own movie world. Yes, in order to cater to the passers-by audience, literary dramas really can't make any particularly awesome narrative structure, but in martial arts, especially on the screen, she Had a great time.

Just from Warner's evaluation of her visual madman, it can be seen that this bvs will definitely be able to rely on the picture to dominate in the future.

Although Joy had a great time playing with the screen, she also tried to be very smooth in the narrative of the literary drama, abandoning some technical narrative structures.

She changed the narrative method of the script, from all kinds of hints and escapes of implicit metaphors to a straightforward narrative, so that ordinary audiences can understand the movie better.

This is because Joey has realized something that many directors seem to have not yet grasped.

That is, if you want to succeed as a world-class director, you must bow your head to the world.Going to talk about philosophy with diehard movie fans in a humble way is destined not to become a great secular director.

Joey has such determination.

After staying on the set for about a week, everyone present basically understood the director's outstanding style. In Hollywood, the director is basically a leader on the set, and his style constrains the style of the entire set.

Especially those well-known directors in Hollywood, basically all of them have Thunder style.But Joey is obviously not that type, she has no style, her style is to be quiet in her own world...

Sometimes she was so involved in filming that she didn't even have a few words to explain to the actors in a day.It seems that as soon as she enters the shooting mode, she enters her own imaginary world, full of feelings for movies, but others cannot enter her world.

Ben Affleck, Henry and Gadot often get together to talk about Joey, and Gadot is the most curious about Joy, after all, she doesn’t make many movies, “Joy seems to be a self-fantasy consciousness people."

Ben Affleck poured himself a cocktail in the MARS bar, "How can a person who lacks self-illusionment be a director?"

Gadot looked at Ben with a smile, "It makes sense."

Ben Affleck said slowly: "However, I have been filming for so many years, and I have never seen this kind of director. She is definitely an anomaly in Hollywood, an anomaly that emerges from the mud without staining."

Gadot looked back at Henry, "Henry, you know Joey very well, what kind of person is she?"

Henry was eating a sandwich, and he smiled brightly, "She's a weirdo, you can hardly guess what she's thinking."

Then he planned to find an appropriate adjective, "Well...it's a...steel woman."

Ben Affleck was amused by him, "Iron Woman? Does that mean she's too independent?"

Henry swallowed a sandwich, "That's right, she is different from any woman in Hollywood. She doesn't need others, family or love. She just needs herself. She will stand at the top of Hollywood and be elegant alone. The earth is powerful."

Gadot pondered, "Well, if in Marvel's world, Joey is Black Widow?"

"No, no...not Black Widow." Henry denied Gadot's statement, "Black Widow, you will find that it is not inconsistent to change her into a man. She doesn't have any signs that women should have, but Joey has , I can still feel that she is a woman."

Gadot smiled, "It's just a strong and invincible woman?"

Henry nodded, "That's about it. She has no flaws, and she is almost perfect. I don't know how she has such an indestructible body at her age. If she is 70 years old this year, I will I still believe it a little bit.”

"Actually, I'm really 70 years old," Joey patted Henry's head all at once, and then rubbed his hair, which startled Henry.

Henry rubbed his heart, "When did you come, it's scary."

"This is the style of women of steel, why, are you not satisfied?" Joey raised his eyebrows and smiled at him.

Seeing Joey coming, Ben Affleck, who has always been relatively silent, said, "Joy, since you are here, by the way, do you think there is any problem with my Batman?"

Joey shrugged, then picked up a cup of mocha coffee and drank it, "No, you acted very well, there is no problem. Although countless original fans asked you to stay away from DC before this, your performance is still impressive. Convinced. In fact, I didn't have high requirements for Batman at the beginning. After all, wearing a big mask and having a ruthless and sharp jaw is enough, but your performance is unexpectedly good."

Ben Affleck showed a charming smile and thanked Joey sincerely, "Thank you for your compliment. I am more happy to get your compliment than the sum of tens of thousands of other compliments."

Joey clapped his hands, "Okay, it's time for a break, let's continue shooting!"

Then, the day's filming resumed.

But that night, after a busy day of filming, Joey returned to the hotel, but received a call from Catherine.

Catherine told Joey something on the phone, "A wealthy Swedish businessman didn't plan to hold a charity dinner in Los Angeles. As a fundraiser for the Affirmative Rights Charity Fund, you were also invited. I checked the date and it happened to be It's the day you gave the crew a holiday, why don't you take the time to participate?"

Joey was having dinner, and while eating dinner, he thought about it for a while, "A rich businessman from Sweden?"

"That's right, he has invested in many excellent movies, and he can be regarded as a celebrity in Hollywood. He participated in the investment of "Top Gun" back then."

Joey replied casually, "It seems that he is a big guy with rich experience, but since it is a charity dinner, I would like to attend it, and it would be good to promote my own equal rights fund by the way."

Catherine immediately began to help Joey plan the itinerary, "Well... yes, then you will send the dress to you the night before, and then you will drive directly there on the same day?"

"Beverly Hills?" Joey asked immediately. After all, this kind of celebrity event is usually held in Beverly Hills, where the rich gather.

"No, in Palm Springs. I'll send you the address later."

"OK"

Then, after finishing the phone call, Joey got up and went to take a shower.

At this moment, in a luxurious villa in Beverly Hills, the well-known Swedish wealthy businessman Andrew was asking his assistant, "Did Joey Grant agree to come?"

"Yes, she agreed." The assistant replied looking at the text message on the phone.

Andrew touched the smooth top of his head helplessly, "That's good, remember to entertain her well then."

The assistant asked very puzzled: "Boss, why do we have to invite this lady? Is there anything unique about her?"

Andrew glanced at the assistant, "No, she doesn't have anything unique."

"Then why..."

"Because I also invited our Prince Philip of Sweden that night, I did everything possible to invite him, just to let him increase the exposure of our charity fund." Andrew made a still puzzling explanation.

The assistant continued to ask: "Prince Philip and Joey Grant know each other?"

"do not know."

"Then I still don't understand..."

Andrew wiped the sweat from his brow, "Because Prince Philip said that the only requirement he came to participate in was to help him invite Joey Grant!"

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