[US Entertainment] Kise's Hollywood Diary

"Restart the sentence just now." Brent sat across from the machine, glanced at the young man lightly, pressed a row of buttons, and adjusted the playback tape to the beginning, "Start."

Vincent sighed inwardly, listening to the accompaniment and finding the right moment to cut into singing.

This kind of day has lasted for nearly a week. During the day, the filming progress was non-stop, and in the evening, there was a six-hour special training here in Brunette.Not only special training in singing and recording, but also practical training in instrumental performance and live rock.In addition to Vincent, there is also a specially composed rock band to accompany his practice.

In this way, Vincent was even more stressed.

If he fails to do well alone, the others will need to accompany him to "suffer" and complete the training over and over again under the guidance of Brenat until the master's requirements are met before proceeding to the next step of the plan .

The voice and hands are used alternately. When the pressure on the vocal cords is too high, it will be suspended and replaced by performance training.Anyway, it takes turns. Since he has this talent, Brunat will try his best to "squeeze" the potential of young people with the mentality of "not wasting".

Under such an extremely intensive itinerary, Vincent's sleep time would not exceed four hours a day.After the filming of Johnny Cash's early stage of development, which is also the only part that is relatively easy in the whole play, Reese Witherspoon joined the team, and the filming task was further aggravated, and Vincent's rest time has been compressed It's three hours.

With the deepening of the plot, Johnny's life reached its climax, he became famous young, his reputation tended to the peak of the music world, and his records were sold like crazy. Due to the huge workload and the various negative effects of fame, Johnny can only rely on amphetamines to relieve his mental stress.However, the side effects of drug dependence are also unbearable. At this stage, Johnny has fallen into drug addiction and cannot extricate himself, abandoning his wife and leaving for New York.

In fact, the shooting task has progressed here, and the plot has progressed much faster than expected, but the actual shooting time has only passed one and a half months.Vincent's haggardness and mental stress can be intuitively interpreted almost without excessive special effects makeup.Including his melancholy and decadent temperament, pale and deep outline, and the different task aura brought about by the interweaving of mental tension and trance, these performances almost exceeded everyone's expectations, and the whole crew has unconsciously To change your original expectations.

Perhaps without Joaquin Phoenix, Vincent can also create a miracle?

From the initial "substitution" into the group, the whole group has a mentality of doubt and no expectation, and now everyone is full of praise for the young leading actor, and it doesn't take too long.

The fruits of the labor of the staff behind the scenes may not be easy to be discovered, but as an actor, especially a leading actor, Vincent's every move is watched by countless eyes.

Everyone knows exactly how he has lived since joining the group.At the busiest time, I couldn't even close my eyes for two or three days. After the director called cut to rest, I still had to accept the opinions of the crew's music director.You must know that Jacques Phoenix started preparing for the special training for this movie half a year in advance, while Vincent was rushing the ducks to the shelves, and there was not so much time left for him to slowly adapt to the rhythm.

Screenwriter Jill and director Mangold have even further refined and reduced the plot of the first half of the film to speed up the development of the entire film.To some extent, it can be regarded as barely reducing Vincent's shooting pressure.

After the day's filming tasks were over, Vincent and Reese Witherspoon needed to record the Johnny Cash and Joan Carter songs that appeared in the movie at night, all of which had to be sung by the two of them themselves.

The recording tools used in the recording are all products of the time, and cannot be modified with a little bit of digital technology to ensure that the effect is most in line with the sense of the times at that time.This also requires that the vocal and performance levels of the two leading actors must reach at least a standard performing singer level. Vincent is quite relaxed, after all, he has experience and a solid foundation.Although the workload is heavy, at least it can meet the requirements of Bunut.

And Reese Witherspoon will have to work harder-because before that, she has already recorded a part with Joaquin Phoenix, and now because she can't use it, she has to start over with Vincent again. .

This is no longer just a matter of increasing the workload. Whether it is for the behind-the-scenes staff or for the main actors, performing such complicated work under high pressure in a short period of time is not only a matter of ability. High pressure is a huge challenge to psychological endurance and mental resistance.

Just as the crew of "Indomitable Future" was rushing to work day and night, "Crash", which was ready to be released last year but was repeatedly delayed due to distribution problems, finally had a release date, and it was on the tail end of the summer vacation. Less than 2000 theaters were opened and it was shown in the continental United States.

Paul Haggis' only energy this year is to use it against those publishers and production companies, and to deal with the issue of the distribution copyright of "Crash" in various countries.Since the production was completed in October last year, it has been struggling to be screened. It was not until the first half of the year that the twists and turns were cleared and the qualification for screening was obtained. There is no other reason, and it is still a monopoly between subject matter restrictions, distribution, and production.

Compared with last year's "Brokeback Mountain", it was even more difficult to release.

"Brokeback Mountain" is currently being screened in four European countries. After the response and evaluation stabilized, it began to vigorously strive for the screening line in North America.And "Crash" can't do this, Paul Haggis can only do part of the test screening in Canada first.The topic is there, but the box office can no longer have expectations, but it is much better than expected.

The summer box office fight didn't end just because the time has come to the end of the summer vacation. Although there were several big-budget movies in the first half of this year, the box office appeal of the sequels of the series couldn't keep up with the results of the first one.

"Masquerade 2", which was released during the awards season at the end of February, invested nearly 2 million U.S. dollars in production costs and finally only reaped 8000 million U.S. dollars in the global box office. Few big companies and big-budget movies are released, and everyone is setting their sights on the big summer cake.

Until "Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith" took the lead in opening the first shot of the summer file warm-up.

As the last work in the Star Wars prequel series, this typical commercial film that brought together actors such as Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen refreshed many records when it was released. Box Office Records - The previous year's midnight opening for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the opening-day total for Spider-Man 3, the single-day record for Shrek 2 and The Matrix 2: Reloaded" had the highest-grossing Thursday ever.

For a while, it was not Ivan who played the leading role, but Hayden Christensen who played Skywalker and Natalie Portman who played Skywalker's wife Padmé.Until the end of May, various large advertising posters of Natalie Portman have been hung on major shopping malls in the United States.Hayden Christensen has also become a young actor sought after by producers. Although his popularity is not as obvious as that of Natalie, the media index has been steadily rising.

The following "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", "Batman Begins" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" were released one by one as the summer vacation approached. Although the box office results were also very good, they failed to surpass "Planet War Prequel 1" set a global box office record of more than 3 million.

But it is clear that this year's North American box office annual rankings have been decided in advance - there will not be too many big-budget commercial films in the Christmas file in the second half of the year.

The launch of "Crash" actually did not cause too much splash. Even if Vincent, a walking headline sender, participated in the filming, it might really have to wait until the awards season nominations to reap any cost.

This is definitely a big truth-only 2000 theaters are online at the same time, and it is still such a subject that is not very popular with audiences. The box office in the first week of release was 2310 million US dollars, which is still a passing result.Barely grabbing a single-week North American box office champion at the end of the release of a bunch of big-budget commercial films.

Compared with the sluggish box office results, "Crash" received surprisingly good reviews from professional film critics and public reviews.

"Premiere" and "Film Critic" gave a score of 4.6, and the other directly gave Paul Haggis a full-star score for the genius editing.

Because the subject matter involves too many social phenomena and contradictions, whether it is a film review magazine or a professional film critic, the reports released by individual film critics are cautious-not because they are afraid of causing war, but to look at it with more heart and true emotions. The thought that Qing wants to express in the movie.

"People" also gave a film review of "Crash" in the latest issue, "Every actor has contributed their excellent performance. If you don't watch the last minute, you will not understand the true meaning of 'Crash'. Good Evil, right, wrong, black and white are not absolute. Everyone has their own ruler. The seemingly complicated branch lines are neatly connected together in an orderly manner according to the director's thinking. The shock and reflection brought by each branch line are worth pondering over and over again. I was still impressed with Paul Haggis' "Million Dollar Baby" last year, but "Crash" was even more of a shock to me."

"In addition, I am very moved by the performance of the actors. Although there is no absolute protagonist, everyone's contribution is worthy of recognition. They perfectly displayed the two sides of human nature, and no one can override social rules Above all, whether it is absolute goodness or absolute evil. The thinking brought by this film is far more than that. While thinking about racial discrimination and more social contradictions, we should also pay equal attention to the hidden things in modern life. One side of personality."

This is just a film review that focuses on the overall performance of the film. As the first month of the film's release has passed, the topic of "Crash" has begun to fully ferment. The state is on the verge of limit.