The top of fame and fortune [Comprehensive British and American]

"Erica Parker became the first American female director to be nominated for an Oscar for best director with "Never Compromise". Since the establishment of the Academy Awards in 1929, only three female directors have been nominated for this." The old pioneer magazine " Vanity Fair focused on female directors in Hollywood, "Hollywood and even the world film industry seem to have regarded an implicit rule as a golden rule for many years-female directors can only live on the edge forever, whether it is a commercial blockbuster or an award-winning masterpiece. They can never expect to have a piece of the pie with male directors."

"And right now, "Never Compromise" has a global box office of [-] million and five Oscar nominations - Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, breaking Hollywood gender barriers in one fell swoop , showing the unstoppable iron will and amazing strength of female filmmakers.

In an interview with Vanity Fair, Erika admitted that she experienced unprecedented pressure and anxiety during the filming of "Never Compromise". In the director and screenwriter industry, the industry naturally believes that women lack power.

Therefore, after "Never Compromise" won two box office awards, Erica decided to use the hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from the film to set up an investment fund to support female Hollywood creators. Jane Campion ("The Piano Lesson"), Nora Ephron ("When Harry Met Sally," "Sleepless in Seattle," "The Electronic Love Letter"), Katherine Bigelow ("The End of the World" More than [-] female directors and screenwriters, including female creators such as Sofia Coppola ("Virgin Dead"), Nancy Meyers ("Natural Couple"), have joined this project.

Among them, Sofia Coppola's upcoming co-production with Erica "Cleopatra" has recently sparked heated discussions in the Hollywood industry. France in the [-]th century shows the legendary life of the magnificent French Queen Marie Antoinette.

Sophia and Erika said that "Cleopatra" will focus on the portrayal of the characters on the basis of the classics of the original work, focusing on recreating the pomp and emptiness of the French court in the [-]th century, confusion and violence. "

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In May 1999, Erika flew to France. "Cleopatra" won the unprecedented filming permission of the Palace of Versailles.

"Look, Erica, you look exactly like the most beautiful Austrian princess in the [-]th century." At the shooting scene, the modeling team surrounded Erica.

Marie Antoinette at the beginning of the movie was only 14 years old. In order to create a girlish appearance, Erica’s makeup was soft and sweet, with light blonde curly hair, bright red lips, snow-like skin, and a figure Light and graceful, beautiful costumes.

Obviously, the director of this film, Sofia Coppola, and the producer, Erica, planned to make the whole film extremely gorgeous, pushing soft luxury and gorgeous senses to the extreme.

In order to play Queen Mary, Erica tried to show a more grand and in-depth performance mode, presenting a special and charming dramatic atmosphere and amazing beauty, and combined with the experiential performance system to truly become a character, Living in a 'role' -

Marie Antoinette's life was legendary and impermanent. Her father was the Holy Roman Emperor, and her mother was Queen Maria Theresa, who owned the three crowns of Austria, Hungary, and Bohemia. She was only 14 years old. Marie, the soon-to-be Dauphine of France.

"Let others fight and kill, and you, happy Austria, marry and form an alliance." The Habsburg dynasty of Austria used this sentence as a family motto, so the young Mary became the old enemy of Austria and France for generations. Victims of the country's sinister politics.

To make matters worse, Mary does not have the powerful political skills of her parents. Although she is beautiful and elegant, with a lively and friendly temperament, she is also arrogant, capricious, and even lazy and thoughtless.

And this kind, innocent but frivolous temperament, after she married the French royal family, magnified all negative problems to the extreme——

The strict etiquette and conspiracy struggles of the French court made her feel depressed and depressed.To make matters worse, the French Crown Prince Louis XVI was not only cowardly and clumsy, but also unable to fulfill his husband's responsibilities due to physical defects. Mary was still a virgin for seven years after marriage.However, rumors in the palace and the noble people accused her of being infertile.

At the same time, her mother and elder brother, who were far away in Austria, repeatedly urged her to conceive and have children to achieve Austrian political goals, "You must know that if you do not give birth to an heir for a long time, it may lead to conflicts between France and Austria!"

"Your position is extremely unstable." The Queen of Austria mentioned this to Mary countless times in her letters, and in this uneasy fear and endless emptiness, when Louis XVI successfully succeeded to the throne, Mary finally became a stable position. Queen of France, she began to indulge in luxury and pleasure like compensation-

At the solemn entrance ceremony, when Marie Antoinette entered Paris from the Palace of Versailles, the whole Paris was boiling, and tens of thousands of people seemed to fall in love with her instantly.

Amidst the hustle and bustle of cheers, Erica was captured by the camera: her gestures, facial expression, possessed all the delicate elegance that the world can hardly imagine, but in her eyes, there was something boiling as if it was about to burn. Frenzied, "she realized that she had conquered Paris."

Everyone in Paris seemed to love her so much, the whole Paris was falling for her!

She hangs around balls, casinos, and all places of luxury and pleasure.And her luxurious rococo aesthetics have been imitated by the high society in Paris, France and even the whole of Europe. She seems to have power at last.

But her marriage was still unfortunate and hopeless, so Marie Antoinette began to have fun wantonly-a young and handsome knight nobleman, a gentle and lingering beautiful lady.And Louis XVI indulged her extravagant life out of compensatory psychology.

For Queen Mary's indulgent and extravagant life, Sofia Coppola used a very psychedelic montage technique to show, warm, fast, delicious food, gorgeous clothes, bewildered eyes, bright red lips, frame by frame Rococo The visual feast of style is dizzying.

In the classic and extremely luxurious movie screen, Sofia unexpectedly chose to be accompanied by rock music, bringing an absurd and powerful sense of confusion.

But after all the extravagant banquets, when Queen Mary woke up from her sleep, the camera pointed at Erica, she looked at the solemn and luxurious Palace of Versailles, her eyes faded away, leaving only loneliness, emptiness, anxiety, as if she was still the same A lonely girl trapped in fear and an endless void.

There is something powerful about her performance, so dignified and full, so intriguing and yet so organic.

"Marie Antoinette was put on the pinnacle of madness and ultimately doomed." - "Queen of the Dead"

Before everything is torn apart, there always seems to be a beautiful illusion-Louis XVI finally gave birth to a child with Mary after a long period of treatment.

In the idyllic Trianon Palace of the Versailles farmhouse, the queen was running in the garden with her daughter in a white dress, with an expression of satisfaction never seen before.

But her fate is going straight to hell - countless terrible rumors and slanders have turned the queen from "the pearl of France" into "the most obscene, corrupt, sinister and cunning bitch".The French even attributed the country's huge debts to her, civilians rioted, and the French Revolution broke out.

"Kill the whore of Austria!"

"Execute the deficit queen!"

During the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette was horribly treated, her loyal and tender girlfriend was murdered and mutilated in front of her, her husband Louis XVI was wrongfully executed, her children were taken from her - by the mob Beating and gang-raping with the jailer, and even being beaten into a trick, slandering the queen and her nine-year-old son for incest!The most notorious slander accusation in history!

In the trial court, Marie Antoinette defended herself calmly and firmly, and none of the charges could prove her guilt.She showed amazing will and dignity, as if at this moment, she finally grew into a real queen.

French politician Mirabeau said, "She was the only man in Versailles at that time."

But in the end, Queen Mary was still sentenced to death and sent to the guillotine.

Before being beheaded, the queen's last words in her life were when she accidentally stepped on the foot of the executioner Sanson, she immediately apologized, "Please forgive me, sir, I didn't mean it."

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Erika did not return to the United States immediately after the [-]-week filming schedule of "Cleopatra" ended.

Because she used too many experiential performances in the process of playing Queen Mary, she was a little too involved, so that her inner emotions were affected.So she chose to go to Cannes for vacation, hoping to make her mood happy and relaxed.

The blue Mediterranean coast of South France is very moving. Among the ancient buildings of the last century on the coastal avenue, Erika rests her arms on the mast railing of the roof, surrounded by palm trees and flowers in South France.She wears sunglasses on her face, blowing the comfortable sea breeze.

Until the French door next to the roof was pushed open, Harry Osborn approached, hugged her from behind, and left a kiss on her face, "Do you want to go out to sea by boat?"

Before Erica could reply, he seemed to be a little dissatisfied with kissing sideways, so he turned her body to him, pushed up her sunglasses to reveal those beautiful green eyes, and kissed her lips. lip.

At this time, on the other side of the coastal avenue, a French reporter pressed the shutter of the camera to focus.