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In the conference room, James Cameron, the director of "Titanic", Jon Landau, the producer of Lightstorm Films, Grant Seale, the producer of Fox Films, and Mary Fei, the casting director of the crew Well, they each pulled out a chair in front of the oval conference table and sat down.

James Cameron, who was sitting at the top, looked around the crowd and tapped on the table with his fingers: "Tell me, what do you think about our heroine candidate?"

At first, no one spoke right away.

Jon Landau asked his assistant to make a cup of coffee for everyone, Mary Finn sorted out the performance resumes of most of the audition actresses, and asked his assistant to bring their audition tapes and put them on the table, Grant West Er seemed a little hesitant to speak, and was observing the expressions of other people.

After drinking the coffee, Jon Landau spoke first: "Now, are we going to finish the last one?"

He made a little joke, because James Cameron's posture all along seemed to be ready to start the public audition at any time, watching everyone like an obsessive-compulsive disorder attack.

Of course, that was unrealistic, so he ended up watching only actresses with names or well-connected agents.

Thank God, this saves everyone a lot of work and a sigh of relief.

"Yes, it's over," James Cameron promised. "Josie Horton is the last one, I swear."

Jon Landau didn't seem particularly convinced, and smiled before saying, "Okay, let me go first. As an ordinary audience, I think each of them is very charming, but as a producer, I don't want to see actors who can't control themselves appear in our crew."

He said that he took away Drew Barrymore's copy and several other copies from the pile of audition tapes that Mary Finn found, "We will start filming around July this year, as soon as Nineteen weeks—so, Winona Ryder, she decided to do Alien 3, no; Jennifer Aniston, she had to play 'Rachel,' no."

"None of these will work." James Cameron threw out all the overaged audition tapes like Madonna and Nicole Kidman.

Grant Seale also picked out a few, and said: "Jim, you know, we need more famous actresses, so Reese Witherspoon, Charlize Theron, Rachel Weisz , Kate Beckinsale... none of them can do it."

James Cameron was unmoved. These people have not been in the industry for a long time. The faces of the first two actresses are too modern, and the performances of the latter two actresses are too young to support the film itself.

He himself took the initiative to screen out two sexy modern girls, Cameron Diaz and Angelina Jolie. All of a sudden, there were seven or eight eight fewer actors' resumes on the desktop, and the ones left were those who were already a little bit old. Famous and young and beautiful actress.

In the end, there were only four candidates for the heroine.

Gwyneth Paltrow, who has both fame and background; Kate Winslet, a fledgling but highly regarded British rose; Josie Horton, a youth idol who became popular last year; "Juliet" Claire Dennis.

Among them, only Kate Winslet, who used to specialize in literary films, is not American.

Gwyneth Paltrow is the oldest, she is 24 years old this year, Claire Dennis is the youngest, only 17 years old.

James Cameron doesn't really want Gwyneth Paltrow: 'She's too old, too, I think she's struggling to play a 17-year-old girl'

"Will it? I think she looks about the same age as Claire Dennis." Grant Seale said that the age sense of Caucasians is actually very vague, and some people look like they are in their thirties. "And this Kate .Winslet, she looks like a 17-year-old girl, which is the limit-especially, you want her to play with Leonardo DiCaprio who is not fully grown .”

Mary Finn said something fair: "To tell you the truth, from the appearance alone, they are all qualified for this role."

This is not a lie, because Gwyneth Paltrow, until she was 24 years old, still maintained that kind of innocent girlishness, and her temperament is also elegant enough.

But James Cameron is not very satisfied with her, otherwise the heroine can be settled from the beginning, after all, Gwyneth Paltrow has a family background that the other three cannot match.

So he resolutely removed Gwyneth Paltrow's acting resume, and explained: "She doesn't have the indomitable and unyielding spirit of the heroine I want, and she has too much sense of superiority, so she must Not 'Rose'."

Grant Seale opened his mouth and held back his objection immediately, but he did not agree with James Cameron's evaluation.

"How about Claire Danes?" Mary Finn took the initiative to say, "Her age and acting skills are impeccable. After "Romeo and Juliet" is released, she should also gain a lot of popularity."

Baz Luhrmann is an excellent director, and his adaptation seems to be quite interesting, especially with Leonardo DiCaprio, who is popular with girls, this movie should not would suck.

However, James Cameron once again expressed his refusal: "The lower half of her face doesn't look good in the camera, especially when she makes some bigger expressions. No amount of acting can save her—and besides, she's not the best."

His gaze was fixed on the two remaining audition tapes, and he motioned to Mary Finn to put them into the prepared video recorder.

"The faces of the two of them have a common advantage. The outline is clear and clear, the soft tissue is full and smooth, and there are almost no redundant muscle lines, so any expression is very beautiful."

The more James Cameron talked, the more he felt that these two top-notch movie faces were pleasing to the eye, and he deliberately fixed the video camera on the frontal close-up of the two.

After listening to James Cameron's analysis from an aesthetic point of view, everyone else in the conference room couldn't help but nodded, feeling suddenly enlightened.

"I agree with you, Jim." Jon Landau said, "Before you told me this, I only thought they were both beautiful, but when you put it that way, there is something remarkable about these two actresses. "

Grant Seale also agreed: "It is conceivable that when their close-up shots appear on the big screen in a movie theater, this beauty with few flaws will be magnified countless times, and the shock will fascinate the audience."

In the circle of Hollywood, beautiful girls are really common, but it is rare to see such beautiful girls who stand the test of time, who are also extravagant and full of youthful vigor.

As for himself, he’d be willing to pay a movie ticket—well, maybe even two—and maybe a collector’s edition for either of their faces on a movie poster. videotape?

"And then back to the acting. I needed a young actress who could tell this story of ups and downs, a four-and-a-half-day journey of life-changing, convincing audiences of whatever choices Rose made, and How meeting and falling in love with Jack changed her life forever."

James Cameron stood up and looked down at the crowd, with his hands on the table, "What we are going to make is an unparalleled love epic, a great tragedy, and even more a grand project. It should be similar to that of 'Titanic. Like the "Normal" itself, it is legendary and unrepeatable. It is for this reason that I salvage the wreckage of the shipwreck and build a live-action model for shooting... I am picky about the candidates for the leading role, but I always believe that only by finding the most perfect hero and heroine, Our film has to be successful."

Jon Landau agreed: "Excellence, this is the way to success for a genius, isn't it? So the only question before us now is, which girl are you going to use, Josie or Kate."

As far as he is concerned, no matter which of them can play the heroine, it is already a visual feast.

As soon as the voice fell, the conference room fell silent.

Mary Finn's eyes looked at the ballpoint pen in her hand. She was considering how much Josie Horton's charitable fund scholarship for her children was worth.

Grant Sean also looked away, flipping through the actor's resume in hand.

From Fox's point of view, he prefers Josie Horton because she has extraordinary popularity. According to the survey data of the video rental company, she is a popular topic among young people nowadays, even some office workers or older men , love her to death.

And Kate Winslet was completely defeated at this point.

On the one hand, British actors, especially actresses, did not have much box office appeal in Hollywood; Noticed her.

But this is precisely where Kate Winslet's advantage lies.

"True Lies", which became popular around the world last year, did not perform well at the box office in the UK, because the British did not buy much from Hollywood directors and the T-800, which made James Cameron very annoyed and vowed to Conquer the British peninsula with new films.

And Kate Winslet is a super newcomer highly praised by the British theater circle. As long as the crew is willing to use her as the heroine of the movie, they will promise to fully cooperate with the release of "Titanic" in China and build momentum for it.

That's pretty tempting.

After all, the British are very xenophobic, and there are not a few Hollywood blockbusters that fail on their side.

However, if James Cameron insists on using Leonardo DiCaprio in the male lead, Grant Seale still believes that it is best to use Josie Horton as the female lead, otherwise such a cast would be too much Makes the producers uneasy -- even a young duo like Leo & Josie isn't perfect, but at least they each have some fanbase.

Unexpectedly, James Cameron also replied with a wry smile: "Sorry, everyone, I actually don't know. It's really hard to make a decision."

The others looked at each other in blank dismay, but there was also a sense of expectation.

They heard James Cameron sigh, and continued on their own: "She is bolder, and she is more dignified. Both of them are as elegant and noble as the beauties in the painting, except that one is " Moonlight Girl" and one is "Unknown Girl."

He used two portraits of girls also from Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy to express the difference between the two, but even the harshest art critics would not It is impossible to roughly determine the specific advantages and disadvantages between them.

Because they are all artistic treasures belonging to human beings, and they are the peak embodiment of painters in artistic creation.

James Cameron couldn't help sighing again, and said slowly: "If I have to say it, Josie feels lighter, not because of the difference in size, but because of the wonderful grace on her body. It’s like the elegance carved into the depths of the soul, everything is revealed naturally. And her crying scene can make people feel sympathetic; as for Kate, she herself is a delicate classical oil painting, a work of art, her appearance plus her His performance is truly astonishing.”

In fact, Kate Winslet was one of the first batch of actresses who auditioned. It stands to reason that her impression should be far less fresh and shocking than Josie Horton who just auditioned today.

But that British girl or her team is very smart, constantly calling James Cameron to communicate in person, and sending him a rose every day, and attaching a handwritten small card: from your rose Silk.

There were times when James Cameron found her annoying.

Because while he was driving, Kate Winslet also called and kept emphasizing to him: "I am your Rose, don't look for it, I don't understand why you are still looking at other people!"

It sounds crazy, and a little vexatious.

But I have to admit that James Cameron appreciates this kind of strong woman who does not hide her ambition, and he is indeed impressed and remembered her deeply because of this, but his perfectionism makes him insist on watching all the auditions on the audition list. people, rather than being persuaded by Kate Winslet before.

Sure enough, he was right.

Josie Horton, who was underestimated at the beginning, this youth idol star who became popular in chick movies, gave everyone a huge surprise.

It is precisely because of the inherent impression she gave everyone of the silly, white and sweet rich lady that people are particularly shocked about her audition, because she is also the role of the rich lady, and she gave a completely different and brand-new "Rose" ".

—no trace of that chick flick.

This made James Cameron couldn't help thinking, it would be great if one of the two of them wasn't so good, otherwise he wouldn't be in a dilemma.

Or, Josie Horton's lightness and elegance combined with Kate Winslet's classical dignity, the two are combined into one, this is the most impeccable heroine in James Cameron's mind.

But no.

There was only one heroine in Titanic.

There is only one actress that James Cameron will choose.

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