[US Entertainment] Hollywood reverses life

It is now 2003, and within a few years from now, movies starring 16/17-year-old girls will become popular, and some movies will go offline after a week in the theater.

Those popular teen movies seem to have one characteristic, that is, the protagonist has a special personality. For example, "Juno" won the Oscar for best screenplay in 2005, and "Mean Girls", which was a box office hit in 2004, the former is cool, while the latter prostitute.

Although the American people love the screen images of "sweetheart girl" and "silly big sister" for thousands of years, for teenagers, the image of anti-social and anti-hero is indeed becoming more and more popular. ".

This is why "Mom 16", which also tells about teenage pregnancy, has no splashes, but "Juno" is still highly regarded, because Juno is cool.The same campus chick movie "Aquarius Girl" can only go to the theater for a week, but "Mean Girls" can be made into a series because Katie is a green tea whore.

Whether the heroine is a person full of personality is very important for today's youth films, campus films, and chick films.

It’s just that everyone hasn’t realized this point yet. Looking at the unchanging youth films nowadays, all of them have the setting of “ordinary girl, silly big sister”, so Joey knows that in order to win at the box office, the heroine must have an outstanding personality.

Second, about the selected angle.

Today in 2003, movies around family themes have been weak at the box office for many years, because most of this type of movies are full of cold and desperate tones, because directors always think that this will be deeper.In fact, the audience is already tired of this kind of movie, so "Little Miss Sunshine" and "Juno" in the next few years will be so classic, because they broke through the bottleneck of cold tones, and used the warm tones of comedy to shoot family scenes. Ethical films.

Finally, there is the theme. In the next few years, there is a theme that will suddenly shine in Hollywood.

That is to use the contradictions among family members as clues, take American social issues as the keynote, use some daily family fragments to form a multilateral relationship, and tell the experience of losers.

Today in 03, people would never have imagined that in 04, "Sideways", which won so many awards in [-], opened a new chapter of family ethics drama with "Sorrowful Dog-style comedy literary film", which was very popular at that time.

The sharp "Juno", the youthful "The Savages", and the warm "Little Miss Sunshine", these family ethics dramas with a good reputation at the box office are all "bereaved dog-style comedy literary films".

If Joey hadn't been reborn, he might not have thought that now that the "silly big sister-style heroine" has become the mainstream, alternative heroines will actually have miraculous effects, and he might not have thought that family problems films with a cold tone as the mainstream are practical and relaxing. It will be more popular to interpret it in a warm way, and I don't know that "bereaved dog-style comedy literary films" will become a trend in the next few years.

But she already knows now that the audience will eat this way, so she will naturally use the way the audience likes to shoot.

The script of "Harvard Life" was written by Joy himself. It was originally a mediocre work. The heroine has both good character and academics and a silly big sister personality. She worked hard to take the Harvard exam, and her family members encouraged her in the process , in a very harmonious and loving way, the tone is slightly cold in order to highlight the profound meaning, and in order to conform to the values ​​of American society, the family relationship is woven harmoniously and perfectly.If it is not called "Harvard Life", it can even be called "Perfect Life".

Therefore, this completely mediocre work has no explosive points, and naturally it will not be favored by distributors, because there have been too many such films in recent years, and everyone knows that the audience is tired of it, but everyone is waiting. A "breakthrough work" that can break through previous images and values.

Knowing the above, Joy has decided to break up and rewrite all the scripts of "Harvard Life", although the backbone of the story is still the original plot, telling how the girl and her family resolved the conflicts in the family during her entrance to Harvard.

But she will use the above successful experiences she has seen in the next 50 years to write an excellent script that meets the expectations of Hollywood and audiences today.

She is not completely sure, after all, she does not intend to copy any works, all she wants to do is to present her own works in this style after knowing what kind of movies will be popular, but what is the result? I don't know, but I can only give it a try.

As for the damn stupid name "Harvard Life", Joy has already decided to change it. As for the new name, she decided at once. The name of the movie is "Juno", although this is another "Juno" that is completely different from the small-budget but box-office-selling "Juno" in 2005.

If you want to remake a movie, the first one is to rewrite the script. In the next few days, Joy started writing a new script. She didn't have much time. time.

On this day, she was writing a script at home, and Renee happened to bring her lunch. She walked into the house and looked around the messy environment, looking at Joey with an expression of imminent death, "Dear Joey, so You can stay in your room for a week, and I admire you too."

Joey ignored her, and still buried his head in the pile of books like a hill, wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses, typing desperately on the computer keyboard with his fingers.

Renee took out the pizza and handed it to Joey's table, and threw a book at her head, "Joy, don't be desperate, eat first! A woman who is broken in love is indeed the scariest."

Joy stared back at her threateningly, "It's a peaceful breakup, which means rebirth."

Renee laughed loudly, and then sat on the table, "I said, Summer Redstone should be the happiest in your breakup. Didn't he say in public more than once that his grandson is ridiculous? , actually like you so much..."

Joey was not angry, but said calmly: "There are some things he can't bring to the table, but I know in my heart how much he looks down on me."

Renee pulled her blond hair with her hands. Sometimes people are very strange, because in the United States, ethnic minorities and ethnic minorities are easy to become friends, that is, Asian friends are generally Asian, and African-American friends are generally also friends. African American, only Latino can easily be friends with native Caucasians, but Renee, a native Caucasian American, is actually good friends with Chinese Americans like Joey, but Renee doesn't care, she just likes a girl with a personality like Joey .

Renee patted Joey on the shoulder and said comfortingly: "It's okay Joey, look, you are trying to be crazy, we are going to hit them hard and make them look down on you again. They just judge people by their appearance. They don't You like Asians, you don’t like yellow skin, don’t those Hollywood reporters who attack you also wear colored glasses? There are even more directors who have fallen into the bottom line, and they like to hold you, not because you are Yellow skin, they naturally think that you are not their kind, so they just like to read your jokes. And the whole Hollywood likes to objectify women, which female star has not been attacked? You are a director, and you have to compare yourself if you want to get along in Hollywood. Men work much harder, because directors have been the domain of men until now. They look down on women."

Joey stretched his waist and leaned lazily on the back of the chair, "Yeah, that's why I have to stand up again. I can't be looked down upon like this for the rest of my life. It doesn't matter if I rely on men or I'm short-lived. It’s okay to say that I’m at the end of my talents, I don’t care about these things, I just hope that this time I can persevere and realize my ideal.” Then she turned and pulled Renee’s wrist, “But thank you this time, without you With the guarantee extended for another six months, I'm literally going to sleep on the streets."

Renee was still a little worried, she turned her head and looked at Joey's computer screen, "But... is it really okay this time? You seem to be more confident than before, but even if you write the script well, we can't raise money for a reshoot Funds."

Joy frowned. This is indeed a very troublesome problem, but there is no way out. She said: "I plan to go to the Directors Guild to try. The Directors Guild has a fund, which will lend money to some directors who are in short supply every year." And producers, etc., as long as they think these people have the conditions they approve, they will agree to lend them."

Renee was still worried. After all, she didn't know that Joey was reborn this time, and she really planned to take her life seriously. She said without confidence: "But you also said that, the premise is that they must recognize that you meet the requirements. For their conditions, they should also need to provide scripts, storyboards, plans, etc. for review, and you don’t know the people in the guild, they are basically powerful and bribed..."

Speaking of this, Joey also felt that her head was big, she rubbed her head, "I can only try, I can't think of other ways to raise funds at present, I am a person who is being chased by the bank and going bankrupt gone."

This time, even though there were many difficulties, she didn't want to give up lightly. She once abandoned her dream for the sake of self-esteem. This time, even if her head was smashed, even if she was alone, she would persevere.