[US Entertainment] Hollywood reverses life

After Joey decided to shoot a sports movie, as a very active person, she naturally started planning.

Conquering women depends on perfume, fancy clothes, and jewelry, so conquering men depends on the sweat on the green field and the heart of a child chasing dreams.

She's going to make a sports movie about men who conquer all of North America.With blood, hard work, and passion, they can no longer contemptuously call her a "director who only makes chick films".

Based on the research and experience of Joey's previous life, those sports movies that will be successful in the future and cause a sensation among the people and resonate with men can basically be summed up in several similarities.

First, it is based on real historical figures or events. Such movies are more convincing close to reality.It's like "Not Just a Game", "The Need for Speed".

Second, that is, the protagonist cannot be a genius. He must rise from adversity at the beginning and grow up through countless setbacks, contempt, and ridicule. A disabled person can never be a perfect person.Like "Coach Carter", "Facing the Giants".

Third, it is necessary to face the issue of racial discrimination.The protagonist must not be Caucasian, but must be a minority, such as Mexican, African, Asian, etc., but not white.Because minorities will definitely suffer more cynicism and more difficult setbacks in the process of marching to success, so as to better interpret the spirit of the "American Dream".Such as "Perfect Game", "Unbeatable".

Fourth, the field that the protagonist enters must be a certain sports field dominated by white people.Only in this way can the protagonist break into the top of the project under tremendous pressure and launch a revolutionary challenge to racial issues.Such as "Paths of Glory" and "Ride on Ice".

Any movie that can achieve any of the above four points, as long as the degree of completion and director level meets the standards, can basically become a popular sports movie.

And once a certain sports movie can reach 2 or even 3 of the above four points, then this sports movie will inevitably become a classic in the history of sports movies.

For example, "Million Dollar Baby" once swept the Oscars and left a strong mark on sports movies in the history of Hollywood movies.

"Million Dollar Baby" achieved two of the above four points, and because of the director's extremely high personal skills and quality, the film has been piled up to an unprecedented degree of completion and ideological height, so it is famous in the history of film as a sports film. History.

And people now may not know that a few years later, in the calm film market, there will be another sports movie dark horse named "Weakness".

"The Flawless" is based on the novel "The Flawless: The Progression of the Game" by Michael Lewis. The film tells the story of Michael Oher, a homeless African-American boy who was orphaned as a child. With the help of the kind Mrs. Taoxi, Michael Oher gradually found himself. With his physical condition and hard training, he finally became the first batch of selected players in the National Football League.

This football-themed inspirational movie based on the experience of real people, with a very low production cost, has raked in hundreds of millions of box office in the movie market.And dominated the major award ceremonies, swept all the awards, and sent Sandra Bullock, who was almost out of date at the time, to the throne of Oscar queen.

This "Weakness", it did all four of the four points summarized by Joy above, so it succeeded.Even if its directing quality may not be as good as "Million Dollar Baby" director Clint Eastwood.But "The Weakness" reaped huge box office revenue with its extremely touching warmth and inspiration.

And since Joey has made up his mind to shoot sports movies, he definitely needs to refer to these points he summed up based on his previous life experience.Especially seeing the success of "Weakness", she can sum up a lot of experience from it.

In her previous life, she also thought about the sports movie project. According to her previous life's ideas, she finally decided to shoot a baseball-themed movie.

As the most popular sport in the United States, there are already too many rugby-themed movies.As the second most popular sport in the United States, baseball, there are not so many movies on this subject.

The third most popular sport in the United States is ice hockey, followed by the NBA.It's just that Joey doesn't know much about ice hockey and NBA, but she is very good at baseball.

The subject matter was baseball, and the sport of baseball has been dominated by whites all year round.

That's why the appearance of the black player Robinson Canno will surprise everyone in the Major League Baseball. This talented baseball player, currently playing for the New York Yankees, has become an alternative "dark horse" in the history of American baseball.

After Joey checked his information, he decided that this new MVP in the history of American baseball must have an extraordinary past, and he would definitely be able to become her excellent movie subject.

She got on the phone with Robinson-Cannon and expressed her desire to make a baseball movie based on him.Robinson Canno was just surprised at first, and then he became very interested in the Joey project.

He expressed his willingness to cooperate with Joey and to be the prototype of Joey's new movie.

Joey discussed his past with Robinson Canno on the phone. Not surprisingly, as Joey expected, his past was full of hardships, struggles, and the pursuit of dreams and beliefs.

Although the story of Robinson Canno has already become a well-known inspirational legend in the baseball world, there are still many details that Joey learned from Robinson Canno for the first time.

Afterwards, she recorded the content of the conversation, and then started writing the script.

Although she has a real story as a prototype, she still needs to carry out artistic processing on the script. After all, the script is filmed for the audience to see. It needs to be sensational, inspirational, passionate, etc., and it also needs to be arranged under the framework of a big real story. Some plots that can make people warm and incite people's hearts.

Therefore, it is not enough to have a big framework of a real story, but also need to add a fabricated plot under artistic creation and many details that need to be added to the plot.

As for the name, she thought about it and decided to call it—"Weakness".

Because she hopes that this movie will be a sports movie full of warmth and dreams like "Weakness" in her previous life.

Because of the ideas from his previous life, Joey started writing very quickly.

A month later, a baseball movie script called "The Vulnerability" was born in her hands.

Robinson Canno, born in 1982, came from a slum in northern Nigeria, where he had already had a strong interest and talent in baseball as a young and ragged boy.In the eyes of others, this thin, shabby and poor boy could not be compared with baseball, which was considered a noble sport at that time.

But no one would have imagined that this kid who couldn't even afford decent jerseys, sneakers, even bats and balls would become famous in the World Baseball Youth Qualifiers.

Then he came to the United States and played in the major league baseball dominated by whites. Both his teammates and the audience looked at him with colored glasses, and only the coach kept encouraging him.

In the end, amidst racial discrimination and abuse, Robinson Canno, under great pressure, shined on the field and became the best MVP of the Major League Baseball that year, and launched a revolutionary challenge to racial issues.

Joey took a deep breath after finishing the script.

In fact, this script is just the same as Robinson Canno's experience in the general framework, and the details are basically created by herself, but she thinks that Robinson Canno's real experience must be the same.

Then she began to think about candidates for actors.

She knew that in the United States, if one were to choose a black actor with national popularity, Will Smith was definitely the best choice.

As the only black actor among the superstars in the 2000 million club, his acting skills are amazing, and he is so handsome!

The most important point is that he is very keen on making sports movies, and he has an indescribable plot with sports movies.

"Boxing King Ali", "The Legend of Begwins", and "Concussion Effect" are all classic sports movies performed by Will Smith.

If you want to find a black actor with good looks, wealth, and acting skills, Will Smith is definitely a rare choice.

But...he is too expensive!

A "Weakness" in Joey's budget is at most 2500 million investment. This is already a very small investment movie. How can it be possible to hire a super big guy like Will Smith?

Although many Hollywood superstars often use very low salaries to make some independent films directed by awesome directors in order to win awards, the key point is that Joy has never directed this kind of passionate sports film. Will Smith should not be willing to gamble with her on a subject she has never dabbled in.

Besides, she has always been scorned as a chick film director, and it is not convincing to shoot a sports movie like "Weakness" that challenges male adrenal hormones!

Either she spends a huge amount of money to invite Will Smith, it also depends on whether Will Smith is in the mood to accept her invitation.

So in general, it should be impossible to invite Will Smith...

Joy hesitated on the issue of actors, so she simply changed clothes and walked out of the villa in the Santa Monica Valley to take a tour of Beverly Hills.

Just as she bought a matcha-flavored cone at the entrance of a dessert shop, she sat on a hollow chair and enjoyed it slowly.

A super-invincible and expensive supercar passed in front of her, and a hurricane almost knocked off Joey's skirt.

She took a closer look and saw that the supercar had stopped in front of her. A little black boy jumped off the supercar and shouted, "Father, I want to eat a cone!"

A tall black adult male stepped out of the supercar and opened the door.

Joey exclaimed inwardly——Wow!

Will Smith!