[US Entertainment] Hollywood reverses life

Tom Cruise has been caught off guard by a sudden career climax lately.

The reason is that although he had torn face with his old club Paramount not long ago, his masterpiece and hard work "Mission: Impossible" series was completely put on hold.

Just when people felt that after he lost Mission Impossible, it would be difficult for him to have a series of masterpieces that could complement his superstar status, he once again returned to people's vision with "Iron Man".

Compared with his frustrated years in later generations, this time his climax came faster, leading people to think that he never left, and he never fell down.He always has a way of making people fall in love with him and not be able to forget him.

And his rivalry with Joey Grant in "Iron Man" also gave birth to a new pair of on-screen couples in people's eyes.When people think of Iron Man, the first reaction is Pepper. The two look very seductive and match well.

Due to the unprecedented success of the first film, "Iron Man 2" was quickly put on the agenda by Marvel, but before that, there was another task in her schedule, which was the filming of "The Weakness".

While "Iron Man" was raging throughout Hollywood, Joy was back on the pitch to film her "The Vulnerability."

Will Smith is even more ready to go, planning to show off his acting skills in this low-cost, warm-hearted and passionate inspirational film.

Will Smith's acting skills are fine. After all, Hollywood's "Emperor History", if box office masterpieces such as "Independence Day" and "Men in Black" did not give him any room for self-expression, then how many people are he? I am impressed by the acting skills in "I Am Legend".

But one of Joy's tricks for keeping actors performing well is to always keep them challenged.

So she gave Smith a difficult problem. He is used to playing those righteous, perfect, fearless and tall characters in big commercial movies. How can he get out of those roles and play this depressed, depressed, and timid embarrassed man? .

It is precisely because Smith has not performed the same type of role before that Joey is looking forward to Smith's performance.

Because Joey knows that challenging new types of roles will have amazing effects on actors and audiences.Actors hide part of their talents, not because they can't play various roles, but because you don't know it.

As for other supporting roles, some supporting roles with few roles such as coaches, relatives and even team members, Joey did not adopt newcomers as before, but used some old actors.

Smith once teased Joy, "The role of the coach is played by the famous Hollywood veteran Christopher Waltz, and the role of the team manager in the team is even less, played by the powerful actress Amy Adams, and The role of the hero's father, which is basically useless, will be played by Denzel Washington, who is even a black Oscar winner."

He exclaimed, "Oh dear. You are too good, and you brought these old actors here just to show up in "The Weakness"?"

Joey responded lazily, "Then why don't you think about it, why are these old actors willing?"

why?

Because of the script and director.

They believed in Joey's vision and knew very clearly that if they signed on they were working on a very special film.That kind of trust is what Joy needs to build as a director.

As a director, but if no actor is willing to work with him, then his directing career is not far away.It's about the importance of being a visual storyteller.

In addition, Joey never believed that the role of big names is to play major roles. The reason why many small roles in "The Weakness" are played by big-name actors.It is because both the director and the actors understand a truth.

Sidney Lumet once said, "There are never small roles. There are only small actors."

The shooting process of "The Weakness" was actually very smooth, but in terms of the choice of framing, because most of the shots of "The Weakness" were completed on the field, so the scene shooting that Joey is best at will not work here.

She can only look for real scenery for real shooting, which adds a lot of difficulty to her.

Although live-action shooting has realistic pictures and beautiful natural landscapes, it also has a fatal shortcoming, that is, uncontrollable light.There are many accidents.If you need sunlight from a certain angle, you can only shoot a little time a day. If there are many scenes, you can only shoot a little bit a day. The total number of shooting days will increase, which will bring a lot of expenses. The crew's fare and accommodation will also be higher.

In-studio shooting is not only cheap, but also can control the light, and can shoot for 8 hours a day, with fewer accidents and fewer total shooting days.Although there will be expenses such as renting a shed and setting up a scene, it is still relatively controllable.

However, "The Weakness" has a large number of exteriors that cannot be built, only real scenes, which makes the whole shooting process very slow, because there are too many uncontrollable factors in the real scene.

Joey was very troubled by this, but he had no choice but to make up his mind to add a few more sums to the budget.

But even with the increased budget, Joey still knows the importance of keeping the crew happy.Anyone who has worked with Joy in a movie will know that Joy is very different from other directors in that she will set up a complete mars bar in the crew every time.

When Joey and Tom asked to develop a script for the food truck, they repeatedly emphasized to Tom, "Keeping the actors and crew happy is essential to the shooting process."

What makes people happy?food.beauty.It works anytime.

People love food and need it for fuel, and it's a shame that many producers and directors don't go out of their way to provide top-notch crew food trucks.But Joy is different, she will provide a wonderful crew food truck.

Working with Joy, Smith also gradually got to know Joy as a person and her style.

She's a creative person who brings charm and warmth to her scripts, characters, and other filmmaking craft.

And, she pays great attention to details.

The most common sentence Joy said in the crew is, "Every detail counts."

In Joy's perfectly constructed world, it's almost impossible not to notice the extra details she's sculpted.

Like a scene.

Smith's mother wore a pair of black high heels in her coffin after her death.A few scenes later, the hero will be pacing around the living room, and Joy is determined to put the pair of black high heels into the scene.

This kind of detail that the audience will miss when they relax for a while, there will be countless in Joy's movies.

In addition, Smith also believes that Joy is one of the clearest thinking directors he has worked with. She has a very clear plan for her film and the goals that need to be achieved, and any technique is never muddled.

She is not a director who loves action and competition scenes.The highlight of her movies is not popularity but taste, but the shots, scenes, music, and rhythm in the film are all carefully crafted, and there is a lingering strong aura.

Her rendering of the film is not very explicit, but more of a feature that permeates from the narrative texture.She has a clear plan for the transition of the shot, when it is a dissolve (a means of returning to the past), and when it is a hard cut.

Smith was surprised to find that she had few weaknesses.

There is a scene that impressed Smith very deeply, which shows Joey's profound technical ability.

It was a rainy day, and Joey was filming an indoor scene.

Joy had the boy actor who played a young Smith squat behind a door to peek at a neighbor's TV, which was playing a Major League Baseball game.

Just watching this shot, you will find the expressions and lines of the characters, which seems to be a boy full of dreams.

then.

Joey immediately asked the cameraman to cut the next shot.

Behind the boy is a messy, dilapidated and dirty room, as if entering another world immediately.

You may not feel anything just by looking at one shot, but once you look at the two shots together, Smith realizes how terrifying this shot is, completely subverting people's initial preset impressions.

That's staying power.

It is Joey's strong overall sense of coordination and control that makes the audience feel full of stamina, chewing repeatedly to experience the taste of the bone.

Even when it comes to lyrical scenes, Joey is still different.

Her understanding of lyricism and warmth is not what the public understands, and she also has to play with stamina in lyric dramas.It seems to infiltrate her style and techniques in every scene and detail.

For example, at the beginning of the memory line, she shot an unforgettable lyrical scene.

It is in the back alley filled with sugar fog that the hero and a girl are kissing.The scene is deserted and black in terms of light and tone, but in the warm soundtrack and the snow-like sugar mist, their love is romantic, unique and somewhat uncomfortable, which is exactly the same as the hero and the girl. The tone of the future matches.

Smith is both helpless and appreciative, but it is an inspirational film, but Joey has played suspense thrillers several times before he likes to play the plot reversal. Fan, happens to be very good-looking.

He seems to be able to foresee the worldwide applause and blockbuster scene of this movie in the future.