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

After Erica left England in late February, she went straight to Florida to film The Truman Show.And a month ago, when Lex Luthor officially entered the White House, Erica did not attend his presidential inauguration.

The last time the two met was a few months ago, at the dinner party at Wayne Manor - Luthor claimed that he would rethink his stance on dealing with superheroes, but in the past six months, he has not made any changes .

And Erica didn't intend to continue her "multiple dates", not just for Lex, but for Bruce Wayne, the man who had a strong attraction to women and was the type she always favored, Erica In the past six months, she didn't have a fake show with him.

In fact, in Erica's original plan, two months ago, she and Wayne should have ended this fake relationship and returned to being single.

However, due to Bruce's appearance in "Scent of a Woman", the tabloids in the United States once again sparked heated discussions, resulting in Erica's "breakup statement" having to be postponed.

At this time, in the community of Seaside, Florida, Erica was on the phone with Ovitz, "Regarding "Four Weddings and a Funeral", Richard Curtis plans to start shooting at the end of May, and the shooting schedule will probably only It lasted more than 30 days."

It's a low-budget film, but it's written well enough for a British romantic comedy that Erika thinks it has the potential to be a surprise hit.

However, in recent months, she needs to live in Florida to shoot "The Truman Show", so she naturally has little time to pay attention to the preparation of this British comedy. Her chief financial officer, Kayla Brown, is in charge.

"About cast and crew salaries," Ovitz asked Erica during the call, "still insist on equal pay for equal work?"

In the crew of "The Truman Show", Erica, as the director of the production company, clearly stipulated that male and female actors and actresses should be paid equally for equal work, so as to avoid many Hollywood crews, where women's salaries are far lower than those for the same position and work intensity. The case of men.

Erika put the cell phone to her ear and replied, "Yes, in my studio, I insist on that."

"Although she will let you spend a quarter of the talent cost more, if you insist, I have to accept it." Ovitz continued to talk about other affairs, "You are nominated for the Oscar again, but we know very well , "Basic Instinct" is really not the type that the academy judges are used to awarding, and you are destined to stop nominating again."

Since the films that brought the best individual performances this year did not sell well, Erica's box office appeal in "Basic Instinct" was favored by some academy judges.But unlike the Golden Globes, the old-school academy awards obviously don't really award her the best actress award.

After all, the Academy is just trying to use the amazing commercial value of "Basic Instinct" and Erica to increase the ratings and attention of the awards ceremony.

Erica has been accompanying the Oscars throughout the entire process for several years, and she doesn't know whether to express surprise or sigh helplessly for being nominated this time.

But she obviously couldn't miss the awards ceremony, even though everyone knew she couldn't win.

Absence from the award ceremony means that she is giving up hundreds of friendship tickets, or sympathy tickets, compensation tickets for the next nomination, but its importance is self-evident. At present, Erica needs to be considered by the academy. Be their cronies.

Therefore, even if she is destined to accompany her, Erica still needs to attend the 65th Academy Awards Ceremony at the end of March.

Before that, she put all her energy into the filming of "The Truman Show"——

"If I can't see you again, I wish you good morning, good afternoon and good night." Nancy Truman had a beautiful and friendly smile on her face in the small city with a sea view like the Garden of Eden.

Erica's makeup is so light that it is close to bare makeup, which makes her originally beautiful face look clear and beautiful, and even looks a little innocent, her gestures are reserved and refined, and she is slightly conservative.

"Nancy Truman" is obviously in great contrast with Erica herself. Nancy is very likable, but not very outstanding. She is the kind of ordinary and beautiful girl who is gentle and friendly in life, almost ordinary, But stubborn and tenacious, with free will unwilling to yield.

Erica uses the "psychological posture" in Michael Chekhov's acting skills, and uses external performances to lead to her subconscious mind, so as to obtain the acting skills of body and mind, and become Nancy Truman.

She tried to shape the true character of "Nancy Truman", as well as her unique character atmosphere and texture, and even the deepest inner motivation and personality traits of behavior - making Nancy Truman's soul and Erica Parker's bodies meet.

Compared with before, when Erica played Nancy Truman, her performance was more calm and introverted, natural and sincere, but humorous enough.

"The Truman Show" is a black comedy, the Haijing Town studio where Truman lived is like the Garden of Eden, and Christopher, the producer who directed the whole soap opera "The Truman Show", is like God Christ.

And the script is handled very cleverly. The theme of black comedy is not too dark and depressing, but relaxed and uplifting. At the end of the movie, it settles on the eternal theme of Hollywood-freedom.

Just as the Statue of Liberty is a symbol of this country, liberalism is almost the core value of American culture. Since "The Truman Show" intends to win awards, in terms of value orientation, it must naturally conform to mainstream values ​​in order to get those whose average age is over 60. Year-old judges of all ages.

In other words, "The Truman Show", as the first film produced by Erica, combines superb and perfect interpretation, mainstream core value orientation, and subtle black comedy creativity, which is fascinating enough.

In the middle of filming, on March 3, she had to leave the crew and go to Los Angeles to attend the No.29 Five Academy Awards.

Los Angeles Music Center, the host Billy Crystal has hosted the Oscars for the fourth time, "The first award to be presented tonight is Best Supporting Actor, please welcome the presenters - Erica Parker and River Phoenix."

Regarding the Oscar presenters, the Academy of Film often invites the star they think is the most popular star to be the presenter of the first award.Erica and Rui Fan are undoubtedly the most outstanding talented actors of this era.

River Phoenix is ​​known as the reincarnation of 'James Dean'. He became famous at the age of 16 and was nominated for an Oscar. At the age of 21, he won the Best Actor Award in Venice. This indifferent, melancholy and talented handsome man, people think that the entire 90s will be his.

And at this moment, when Erica and Rui Fan walked onto the awards stage together, the number of viewers on the ABC television broadcasting the Oscars ceremony reached an astonishing peak. These two beautiful young people are not only acting geniuses, but also All-American Teen Icon.

"The Academy Awards are coming—" Erica opened the letter, and River Phoenix approached her, announcing the winner, "Gene Hackman, Unforgiven."

After handing over the stage to the winner, Erica and Phoenix walked off the stage hand in hand. During the whole process, Erica noticed that this indifferent and handsome man had cast his eyes on her many times.

Erica didn't dodge his gaze, her eyes were calm, and River Phoenix's pair of green eyes, which were always indifferent when facing the media, looked at each other, but he averted his gaze.

As for his previous gaze - Rui Fan was not fascinated by this blond stunner, but, for Erica Parker, he believed that the experiences of the two had some similarities.It made him curious.

The two are not only regarded as talented actors who became famous when they were young, but even their reasons for joining Hollywood are similar-to afford the family's financial problems.

A few years ago, Rui Fan had read reports about Erica in the newspapers. In order to support her family, she interrupted her studies and came to Hollywood to develop.Rui Fan, on the other hand, has to support his four younger siblings and parents.

There are many similarities between Erica and Rui Fan's experience, but in comparison, Erica seems to be considered luckier. At least, she has a family that loves her very much since she was a child.

However, River Phoenix's childhood was almost horrific——

His parents had no fixed place to live and believed in cults. Rui Fan was sent to the streets to sing and perform as a performer since he was a child, and was even required by the cult to "have sex with each other and with adults."

The first time Rui Fan had sex with someone was when he was four years old, and the other person was also a child.And when he was 15, his 'second virginity' took place in a tent in his backyard, with family friends and parents who arranged the sex.How ridiculous and scary.

And when he was discovered by scouts and became famous in one fell swoop, he became the breadwinner of his family.In order to support his family, he became an actor, and because of the huge pressure of Hollywood and high-intensity filming work, his depression continued to worsen and he drank excessively.

When filming "The Uninhibited Sky", which won him the best actor in Venice, he was too involved in the drama, got involved in drugs, and tried to suppress his depression.

River Phoenix looked at Erica again, "After the awards ceremony, are you interested in having a drink?"

"I'm afraid I won't be able to attend the after party tonight," Erica replied. "There is a filming scheduled for tomorrow morning, and I need to go back to Florida overnight."

Rui Fan was not displeased by this, but instead smiled, looking a little childish, "The Truman Show? I read a brief plot of it in the newspaper, and I like this story."

While the two were talking, new awards had already begun to be presented on the stage, and when the long hours passed, Erica was once again unsuccessful in accompanying the award for the Best Actress award.

For this reason, with a daily circulation of millions of copies, USA Today, which ranks first in the American newspaper industry, published a headline on the front page——

"About Erica's award luck, does Oscar love her or hate her?"