[US Entertainment] Hollywood reverses life

The winter in the Santa Monica Valley always looks so bleak. As the most beautiful beach in the north of Los Angeles, although it is cold, many people come for vacation.

The bald palm trees on the side of the street spread to the depths, and in a quiet villa area surrounded by valleys, Joey was thinking hard about the way out in his own house.

Renee came out of the kitchen, took out the freshly baked cupcake and put it in front of Joey, "Joy, don't be so sad, is there no other way to borrow money besides the director's union?"

Joey's eyes circled around the room, and then he lowered his eyebrows and said, "I'm still thinking, but you know, all I know are friends, and now I refuse to participate in all activities, so I basically have no contact .”

At this time, there seemed to be some news flashing on the TV station, and Renee immediately noticed something keenly, and said quickly: "Don't tune, quickly tune back to the channel just now."

Joey was taken aback, and quickly turned the channel back. A handsome face seemed to appear in the news broadcast, and Renee immediately said excitedly: "Look at Joey, your idol, your idol seems to have established some kind of film and television Investment funds, which provide investment funds to talented filmmakers who lack funds, and then take a cut of the film after it is released, oh my god, it’s true.”

Joey's eyes were fixed on the TV, and the face of Tom Cruise appeared on it. It seemed that he was unwilling to be just a superstar. Not only did he have share agreements with the six major commercial film companies, but now he planned to expand With his own business model, he extended his hand into the independent film industry, and founding this kind of investment company is aimed at the independent film industry.

Independent films are a different category of film than commercial films.

If commercial films are produced and distributed by large Hollywood commercial film companies, aiming at the market and expecting to maximize profits, then while commercial films receive a large amount of box office returns, they also limit the space for film creators to play.It is a behavior that is purely based on interests and ignores the artistry of movies and the essence of human thinking.

Therefore, in order to get rid of the control of large commercial film companies, a group of filmmakers raised their own funds, even wrote their own scripts, acted as directors, and made many ideological films that are completely different from commercial films, which are called "independent films". ".

Joey's behavior of raising money by himself, writing scripts and shooting movies by himself is the process of shooting independent movies.During this period, there was no intervention from commercial film companies, and she would not be forced to add vulgar plots and advertisements in order to increase the box office. She could play by herself.

Nowadays, independent films have occupied half of the film market, and more and more excellent independent films have set off a storm that is not inferior to commercial films at the box office.

The news on TV did not report much, and started other reports instead, but Joey was there for a long time, but Renee immediately patted her on the head and said: "What are you doing in a daze, go to your idol! Try it there! Maybe you can meet your male god."

Joey glanced at her, "Don't you talk about me like those brainless fans, okay? He's just the actor I admire and like the most in Hollywood."

Renee laughed at her, "How dare you say you are not a fan girl? The only movie poster in your family since you were young was "Top Gun". Who was it that yelled at me about Lester every day during my adolescence? Admit it, You're just a superficial woman, like so many female fans around the world."

Tom Cruise, the superstar of our time.

Joy admits that she likes Tom Cruise's handsome appearance, but what she appreciates more is his intelligence and sharpness. His success is closely related to his accurate positioning of himself.

And his hard work, he was not all smooth sailing, from a poor family, parents divorced, mother even worked three jobs, came to the West Bank when he was 18 years old with nothing, and went to Hollywood alone to earn tuition for his younger sister.

Today's people can't imagine that, as a "money printing legend" in Hollywood, he used to only rely on hot dogs and rice to satisfy his hunger, looking for audition opportunities again and again, but ended up failing again and again, with various reasons, such as "not handsome enough" and "too enthusiastic to perform". , "The skin is too dark".

Before "Top Gun" became popular all over the world, he also made a few movies that were not very brilliant, and also played small supporting roles. His efforts outside of success are often ignored. He became fat and thin for filming, and basically did not need a substitute These are things that many actors cannot do in person.When I played "The Color of Money", I was willing to swim 12 hours a day.

Of course, what Joey likes the most is his warm, soft and slightly sweet temperament, which can only be possessed by people who are clean and self-sufficient. There have been basically no scandals for so many years, typical Hollywood "Mr. Nice Man" and "Mr. Sweetheart".

Finally, there is acting.People always like to ignore Tom Cruise's acting skills, but as a commercial actor, Tom Cruise's acting skills are indeed good. Of course, acting skills are a very subjective thing, and everyone's preferences are different.You can like Marlon Brando's stage accent, and you can also like Morgan Freeman's one or two daughters, and Tom Cruise may belong to the category that uses masculinity and acting skills to complement each other.

After all, he is a three-time Oscar nominee, and his acting skills are only overshadowed by his appearance.

In short, appreciating a certain actor is a very accidental thing. Most directors may have a strong preference for some powerful actors who are niche, academic, literary, and Oscar regulars, but Joe Yi is indeed very vulgar, like countless people around the world, he admires this super star who is well-known in Hollywood.

But having said that, she doesn't have time to pursue stars now. She is facing bankruptcy, and seeing such news, she must give it a try when she is desperate.

Anyway, I won’t see Tom Cruise in person. Joey is not too nervous, but he just feels regretful. I've seen Tom Cruise himself, and I'm really ashamed that I've done a poor job.

All in all, Joey found the official website of Tom Cruise's film and television investment fund, and then prepared the materials according to the above requirements. There is also a script to be submitted.For this reason, she went to the screenwriters union to file the script.

Although this kind of filing is actually useless, if those big film companies have really read your script, it only takes a few weeks or less to create a script similar to yours, and they will not be so stupid as to copy it directly , You can write a new script with a little modification, and you don’t have any evidence to sue others. After all, the other content is just the same idea, but the most valuable thing in Hollywood is nothing more than creativity.

And many scripts have been revised one after another. Sometimes the next screenwriter just changed a sentence, so that he can add his name in the screenwriter column. Therefore, most screenwriters like to hide good scripts for people they trust. .

It's just psychological comfort to file with the screenwriters union, but every screenwriter is still doing this.

Then, Joey followed the instructions on the Internet and submitted his resume, script, planning book, storyboards of the first [-] scenes, etc. via email, saying that there would be a reply within [-] days.

After handing it in, Joey became anxious instead.

I don't know if this script will be read, or it's the same as the directors' union. When the reviewer sees her name, she directly denies that she failed the interview, and doesn't even read the script.

Or if the script, planning, budget and even the storyboards have been read, will they be submitted to Tom Cruise for review?

If Tom Cruise really saw it, how would he evaluate the script with his keen sense of Hollywood?

The script is the first step. Once the script is satisfied, they will give a result based on her budget, plan and other things, as well as evaluation of her previous works.

On the other side, after Joey sent all the materials, the reviewer of the other party received the email soon.

What is amazing is that the script and plan of this movie called "Juno" were delivered to Jack Hans in a very fast way. He is a producer and is relatively experienced in Hollywood. And the famous producer, I don't know how Tom Cruise dug him up for the final review.

When he saw the email for the first time, he noticed the director's name, and also noticed that the script was written by the director himself.

Then he curiously began to pay attention to the name, Joey-Grant.

who is thisvery familiar.

He frowned and thought, but couldn't find the answer.

Then Google told him the answer.

I didn't expect to be such a girl. It's a pity. Her originally good talent was wasted. Now that she doesn't have her fiancé as a backer, the film companies basically reject her. After making so many bad movies, she turned out to be Still fantasizing about a comeback?

Kind of funny.

She even wrote the script herself?

It means that the bad movies she made in the past were all bad scripts, so she will do it herself this time?

He didn't think a 23-year-old party girl with a muddy head and only going to parties could write anything decent.

But if the script is not interesting, it is impossible to pass it into his hands.

Although he had a bad impression of Joey, he still decided to read the script of "Juno" out of professionalism. Of course, whichever page he saw counted.

He has seen countless scripts in Hollywood. As a senior producer, he certainly knows which ones can attract the audience and which ones are unanimously negative.

Usually, the script that can make him read more than half of it is a good script. If you turn it off at the beginning, it is basically useless.

He decided to give this Juno half an hour.

He slowly opened the document, starting from the first line and going down.

He thought he could last 10 minutes, but in reality he lasted four hours.

He thought he could only turn to the first ten pages, but in fact he turned to the last page.

He thought he would snort, and in fact he did.

He thought that what would attract him to finish watching was some excellent script of a commercial film, but in the end he found out that it was just a literary chick film.So he scoffed.

However, he finished reading it. Whenever he can successfully read a script, it proves that he smells something that can be invested.

After reading it, he was still a little unsatisfied, and without hesitation, he read the script again from the beginning to the end, and he seemed to sneer and sigh while reading, "I didn't expect this 23-year-old chick, her mind is not all muddled. , What did you do in those 7 years before you could write such an excellent script? This kind of link design, conflict and comparison techniques are so skillful, even the script structure design is so novel, it seems that I have to take a closer look at her planning and Budget."

He glanced down at the screen, but he didn't expect that the girl would send over the scene record sheet, drama management, scene record, breakout script, and storyboard script. Isn't she afraid of being stolen?

etc--

He is very interested in the storyboard script, how a director's kung fu can be glimpsed from the storyboard, because the storyboard is the brain of the director.How she plans to shoot a movie can be reflected in every detail from the storyboard.

After seeing a lot of storyboards, he can basically judge the level of a director from the structure of the storyboards and basic artistry.

Although there are also great directors whose storyboards are too rough and scribbled.

However, directors with poor drawing skills, such as Peter the Great, the director of "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit", after he finished the rough storyboards, he asked professional storyboarders to help him redraw the script storyboards. .

After all, the completion of a shot involves the scheduling of the entire crew, so everyone in the crew must know the movement route of the shot, and actors acting in the air must have an intuitive image reference for the final picture as an imaginary blueprint. Then at this time, If the director's drawing skills are clumsy, then it is obviously not enough.

However, there are many such directors who become monks halfway.Directors with professional background basically have solid basic skills.

I don't know how many grades this Joey can achieve?

Open the storyboard document, here are the first thirty acts.

With the "tick" click of the mouse——

A storyboard was presented in front of him.

The corner of Jack's mouth opened unconsciously. He wanted to say something, but he didn't know where to start.

He just stared blankly.

Because the storyboards presented in front of him are either freehand or weird, and the solidity of the basic skills can be described as amazing.

And from the perspective of the storyboard and the structure of the picture, it is by no means mediocre.

You know, when Joey lived in seclusion and was bored in his previous life, one of the joys was practicing storyboards. Just copying those of those great directors would fill up several drawers.

Jack stared unconsciously, but was speechless.

Then he dialed a phone.

The phone was picked up after three beeps.

On the opposite side is the sound of cold air flowing after being electrolyzed, quiet and silent.

It took a long time for Jack to say something, "Tom, I think we've met a big guy..."