Korean entertainment superstar era

In Xia Zhen's plan, she should marry Kim Jong-hyun in style after winning the Best Actress Oscar or the Best Director Oscar, but the plan always failed to keep up with the changes. At the age of 28, Xia Zhen suddenly realized that maybe she was really It has nothing to do with the Oscars, she finally let go of the little regret in her heart, and married Kim Jong-hyun with the blessing of EVE all over the world.

As a great director, Xia Zhen even made a micro-movie during her honeymoon, filming the process of her getting to know Kim Jong-hyun as a souvenir.

All along, Xia Zhen's greatest dream is to become an Oscar queen or Oscar best director. This is not only her own wish, but also the common wish of thousands of EVEs.

For this ideal, she worked almost all year round, and devoted the best years of her life to work. After marriage, Xia Zhen suddenly felt tired and dazed. Best Director and Oscar Best Actress, she has won almost all the awards that an actor and a director can win.

Is Oscar really that important?Is it really more important than her life?

Xia Zhen suddenly became a little uncertain. All along, she firmly believed that she was right, but the reality cannot be distinguished only by right and wrong.

She is sure that she loves movies. Maybe she chose to be an actor as a director at first, but her purpose was not so simple. At the beginning, she just didn’t have so much confidence in her voice, and thought that actors should be used as a breakthrough to open up the European and American markets. Singers are much more likely to be the breakthrough point. Later, the idea of ​​director arises only because they are worried that they will not be popular in the future and there will be no movies to be made. The director's status is relatively high.

But during this process, she has fallen in love with her career. Every time she finishes writing the script, every time the crew wraps up, and every time the post-production of the film is completed, she will be extremely excited and have an unparalleled sense of accomplishment.

It's just that in the past two years, her sense of achievement has been getting lower and lower, and her movies have become more and more Oscar-like. When she wrote the script, she couldn't help catering to the market. Not to mention the film critics, even her fans found out and complained Her films are becoming more and more academic and factory-like.

Even Kim Jong-hyun has sorted out the fixed pattern in Ha Jin's movies. After the beginning of the movie, the protagonist must have some kind of confusion. After the movie ends, the protagonist must be able to complete the counterattack.

Although most of the themes are like this, Xia Zhen's films, whether they are original scripts or adapted scripts, all follow this routine. Especially in the past two years, her films have deliberately created too much positive energy and lost The sharpness of her fledgling days.

Xia Zhen's remake of "Old Man Goriot" last year received mixed reviews when it was released this year. The British "Empire" called it "another masterpiece of Enid Xia".

"The Hollywood Reporter" believes that "compared with the films directed by Enid Xia in the past, it is less sharp and explosive, and the whole film is slightly weak and deliberate".

The "Los Angeles Times" also stated that "maybe the expectations are too high, the movie is not as brilliant as expected, and there is nothing wrong with it."

The box office of this movie is also Xia Zhen's lowest box office in recent years as a director. Despite the bonus points of the original work, the global box office did not exceed [-] million in the end. Although compared with most directors' works, the movie's box office results are already considered good. , but compared with Xia Zhen's previous films, the box office of this film can only be said to be mediocre.

"Hollywood Reporter" has a good vision. When adapting the script of "Old Man Goriot", Xia Zhen was full of burnout. During the whole filming process, Xia Zhen was always expressionless. This film can be called Balzac's best Xia Zhen's work is destined not to be the most outstanding work of Xia Zhen's directorial career. After the completion of the film at the beginning of the year, Xia Zhen felt unprecedentedly tired and depressed. She even thought that she had "exhausted her talent".

"If you feel uninspired or don't want to work, don't force yourself, you can try to live in a different way." Kim Jong-hyun suggested with a smile.

"What kind of lifestyle?" Xia Zhen couldn't help asking.

Kim Jong-hyun blinked, "Let's get married."

"Are you proposing?" Xia Zhen asked incredulously, the corners of his mouth twitching.

Kim Jong-hyun nodded, with a cute look on his face, "I let you see it!"

After speaking half kneeling on the ground, he took out a small box from his pocket, and when he opened it, it was a ring, "Will you marry me?"

In this way, Xia Zhen got married.

The married Xia Zhen really began to try to change her life. She began to slow down and spend more time with her family. The paparazzi rarely caught Xia Zhen no longer working, but on the street with Mr. King Photos of walking down the street holding hands.

Xia Zhen's fans also think that Eind seems to be very happy after marriage, and Mr. King should be more reliable. Those fans who feel that Mr. King is not worthy of idols gradually stopped opposing and began to wish them well.

Although "Old Man Goriot" had a mediocre response and mixed reviews, Enid Xia has always been a high-profile public figure all over the world, and everyone is still looking forward to her first work after marriage.

Many people think that Xia Zhen after marriage should be more likely to become an actor. After all, as a director, according to Enid's practice, she must write the script herself, and it takes time to create the script.

What the media did not expect was that Enid once again chose the route of self-writing, directing and acting, but this time the script was not written by her independently, but a script co-written with comedy screenwriter Seth Rogen. Apatow will serve as executive producer of the film.

Apatow's style has always been witty and humorous. No matter his self-written and directed works, or his self-directed and self-acted works, they are basically R-rated comedies.

Even if the Oscar judges are convulsed, they will not allow an R-rated comedy to be shortlisted for the best picture award.

Is Judd Apatow changing style, or Enid Shah changing style?

As Judd Apatow's studio staff disclosed the details, the media who came to interview exploded. It was not Apatow who changed his style, but Enid Xia, who is famous for his works "high-end atmosphere and high grade".

In an interview, Enid Xia also made it clear that this is indeed a comedy movie, and the male protagonist is also a familiar one, her friend Jonah Hill, the director is herself, and the producer The picture is the three of them.

The content of the film released immediately surprised the media. It was adapted from "Tess of the D'urbervilles" by British writer Thomas Hardy.

As early as two years ago, in an interview, Enid Xia revealed that she had a soft spot for Hardy's masterpiece "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" and wanted to make it into a movie, but due to various reasons, she gave up. Well, now Enid Xia finally plans to put "Tess" on the big screen, which is considered to have fulfilled her wish many years ago!

But, why, why is it a comedy! ?

Oh god, Enid, wake up, what's wrong with you?

Is getting married making your head spin?

Even the British media that supported Enid in the past thought her decision was too risky this time. "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" tells the story of a beautiful rural girl Tess who was asked by her parents to marry a wealthy distant relative. , but was seduced by the rich young master Alec, and then Tess and the pastor's son Claire fell in love and got married. On the wedding night, Tess confessed her past of being seduced-rape. Infidelity abandoned.

Claire went far away, and Tess was in exile. She did not hesitate to destroy her face and cover up her beauty. A few years later, Tess met Alec again. Tess would rather suffer than commit herself to Alec, but the reality Helpless, Tess' father died of illness, her mother was in poor health, and her younger siblings had no money to go to school. For the sake of the family, Tess was forced to live with Alec and became her mistress.

Tess originally thought that this was her life, but she didn't expect her husband Claire to return from abroad. After suffering so much, he finally understood Tess's helplessness.

Although Tess became Alec's mistress, she was an extremely loyal woman in her bones. Her husband's forgiveness made her feel desperate. Rick was killed, and Claire fled for five days, Tess was arrested, and Claire started a new life with her sister according to Tess' last wish.

The creative background of "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" originated in the Victorian era. At that time, the full-speed development of capitalism led to a power-money society. Various contradictions were sharp. The society emphasized loyalty to women, women's social status was low, judicial injustice, religious hypocrisy, Hardy's creation of the character "Tess" is simply torturing the entire Victorian era.

It's hard to imagine "Tess" changing to an R-rated comedy-style movie with Judd Appa images "So Bad," "Knocked Up," "40-Year-Old Virgin."

It is also hard to imagine that Enid Xia, who has directed many films such as "Mrs. Warren's Career", "The Homecoming", "Old Man Goriot", will adapt "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" into a comedy film.

You must know that "Tess" is not the first Hardy's work adapted by director Enid Xia. Long before the old man Gao, Enid Xia successfully made another masterpiece of Thomas Hardy "thereturnofthenative" "Successfully moved to the big screen, this is also Enid's most successful adaptation so far, except for "Mrs. Warren's Profession".

With "Homecoming", she won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year.

Despite the objections from outside, the film was still launched, completed, produced, and released as scheduled.

This film named "Good-looking Tess" was almost bloody before its release. After the small-scale screening, the media originally thought that Enid Xia would receive overwhelming criticism. It is favored by film critics, calling it "the combination of producer Judd Apatow and director Enid Xia, 1+1 is greater than 2"!

Enid Shah and Seth Rogen moved Tess's background to modern times. Alec, a wealthy young man in the Victorian era, became a hotel manager, and Tess became a hotel waiter in the countryside. , and Claire's identity has also changed. He has become a pedantic and self-righteous teacher, and he is the real boyfriend of the beautiful waitress Tess.

In the workplace, sexual harassment, working women in hotels, and bad boyfriends who stand on the moral high ground and accuse their lovers regardless of right and wrong, there is a bitter and funny line in the film, "There are so many waitresses, if he doesn't harass others, why does he harass you ?You thought you were Queen Victoria's jewel?"

In Enid and Seth's writings, Tess is no longer cowardly and unable to protect her own girl. She finally uses modern high technology to expose Alec's harassment crimes and defend her dignity. Most importantly, She dumped the self-righteous Claire, although the other party regretted the original, and returned Claire's words to the other party, "You think you are Queen Victoria's jewelry? I must you?"

Not all mistakes can be forgiven, if you regret it, you want to come back to me, no way!

At the end of the story, because of her outstanding performance, Tess was appointed as the new supervisor in the applause of many employees and started a new life.

This brand-new "Tess" has strong personal styles of Seth Rogen and Enid Shar. Two completely different styles are subtly integrated in one movie. Patou's humor also has Enid Shah's rigor.

Jonah Hill as Claire and Seth Rogen as Acrylic are both excellent, and Enid Shah as the heroine Tess deserves the credit.

The production cost of this comedy film was only 1600 million US dollars. After its release in July, it not only won the North American weekend box office chart for two consecutive weeks, but also raked in 1.5 million yuan in global box office, becoming a well-deserved box office dark horse of the season.

And director Enid Shah once again proves that she is definitely not exhausted, she is good at any genre of film, even an R-rated comedy!

"Good Tess" is another memorable masterpiece of Enid Xia's directorial career. This film may not be as milestone as "Mrs. Warren's Career" for Enid Xia himself, but it is indeed It is indeed her transformational work. After "Tess", fans found that Enid Xia's works are more casual, with richer themes, and fuller character creation, and the film style is no longer rigid to the Oscar style. Injected more director's own thinking.

"Entertainment Weekly" commented that "it seems that overnight, she became a real film master".

And Xia Zhen said with a smile in an exclusive interview, "I used to always want to win awards. I didn't feel this way at the time, but subconsciously, when I wrote the script, I couldn't help but cater to the tastes of the judges. I didn't think it was meaningful. What, this kind of thought is not shameful. I was very young at that time. It is normal for young people to be competitive and want to prove themselves. Now I still want to win awards because I am still young, but this kind of thought is not so strong. Probably not as young as that time..."

"I've made enough movies over the years that I can say I'm a prolific director and actor, maybe it's okay to relax and stop stressing that I'm the most nominated actress and director before I'm 30, I admit at the Oscars , I am a successful loser, but I am quite successful as a screenwriter. I have at least one Oscar for Best Screenplay every other year. I have a lot of books in my hand. If you want to cooperate with me, just come to me. The price Reasonable!"

-Unfinished-Continue tomorrow-I made a mistake, I haven’t written the Oscar part~

The author has something to say: this chapter has not been finished yet, a girl asked me to write some "Mrs. ...Because of my own mistakes, I feel guilty for making everyone read the previous content over and over again...

"Ms. Warren's Occupation" tells the story of Mrs. Warren who opened a brothel to make money and raised her daughter Weiwei. After Weiwei became a college student, she moved with her mother, Mrs. Warren, and gradually discovered that her mother's money was not So clean.

She and a boy named Frank had a crush on each other, but the other party came for her money. There was a 24-year-old man George who was older than Vivi proposed to Vivi, also for money. After Vivi refused, he Tell Mrs. Vivi Warren about her family history, and say that if Mrs. Warren hadn't helped her, the brothel wouldn't have opened so big, and she couldn't afford to go to school.

Moreover, this 24-year-old man told Vivi that Frank, whom she had a crush on, was actually her half-brother.

All of her mother's male friends had that kind of relationship with Mrs. Warren

Weiwei tortured her mother, and the mother told her daughter about her embarrassment. She also wanted to survive. Weiwei thought her mother's actions were great, but she couldn't accept men. She decided not to marry for the rest of her life and focus on her career.

The above is my summary of the content of "Ms. Warren's Occupation"