Chapter 1773

According to the last generation's Oscar faction works, Langley selected ten works, but also found unexpected surprises. Besides "big short", focus and wild hunter are the other two surprises.

"Wild Hunter" is famous. Even if Langley wants to ignore it, it is very difficult, because this work helps Leonardo DiCaprio to draw a perfect end to his ten-year journey of the little golden man competition, just like "the infernal Walker" to Martin Scorsese, he finally won his first little golden man trophy.

From the perspective of project preparation, "the wild Hunter" is adapted from the novel of the same name. Michael Punke uses the legendary real wild Hunter Hugh glass as the story prototype to complete the creation of the whole fictional story. By the way, Michael Punke is the official ambassador of the United States to the WTO, He finished the novel in his spare time.

Although this is not a biography, but a story reinterpreted and interpreted according to folklore, it can also be called a personal epic, and presents the most primitive and rough personal fighting, which can be regarded as a favorite type of academic school; But surprisingly, this work has not been optimistic, mainly because the shooting is too difficult, and the style and connotation presented have too much uncertainty, which makes the project has always been shelved.

The novel was published in 2001. At that time, the copyright had been bought by producer Akiva Goldsman. However, after years of wandering around, no suitable production company or team could be found. Even Akiva himself gave up and sold the copyright. In more than a decade, the copyright has changed hands several times, the director has changed hands several times, and even the leading actor has changed hands several times, but still has not been able to take shape.

Until the second half of last year, Alessandro Gonzalez inarito had just finished the shooting work of "Birdman" and saw the potential of the project and officially took over; However, Alessandro has not been able to change the difficulty of the project. In a few months, the leading actor and supporting actor have changed hands several times, and the arduous shooting work has made many actors give up——

Because Alessandro wants the whole film to be shot with natural light, which means that the actors need to stay in the ice for more than half a year; At the same time, Alessandro hopes to present a natural sense of reality as much as possible, and the makeup factor will be weakened to the minimum, which also means that the actor must be about 40 years old, which poses a new problem for the middle-aged actors' ability to challenge the cold.

To make matters worse, the new Regent film industry, which owns the copyright of the original novel adaptation, has encountered a dilemma in the capital chain. Although they have invested in the production of "twelve years of slavery", "bird man", "lost lover" and other works, the fiasco of "time planning Bureau" and "reversal trump card" has made their capital turnover in a dilemma, So far, all the projects in hand have been suspended, "wilderness Hunter" is just one of them, and "assassin creed" has also been temporarily stranded.

reason?

Or Alessandro. Because we insist on using natural light to complete the shooting, it means that the whole shooting cycle is lengthened, and all the shooting is more difficult. From equipment to staff, all the expenses have doubled. Now the shooting budget has exceeded 100 million US dollars, and the car still can't stop.

The new Regent also has a headache.

Although before the golden ball award, Alessandro convinced Leonardo to join the "wilderness Hunter", and Leonardo convinced Tom Hardy to join the film; But... They still can't persuade Wall Street to inject funds - no one will invest 100 million dollars for an Oscar series work. Even the best picture winner of the Oscar is impossible. It should win the box office first and then the awards. This is the order of Wall Street investment.

As a result, the new Regent had to start asking for help - it was Andre's personal project, not the agency.

In Andre's words, "I think they're crazy. But I'm not an expert, it's not my turn to judge; Maybe you can see potential that I don't see. "

"Focus" is another kind of situation. This is a biography, a work of justice, a work of reflecting the dark reality of society, which should be the work of a typical college; But no production company dares to take over, because this is a hot potato - even a hot durian, even if you get rid of it, it is estimated that it will be bloody.

The film is about a special column of the Boston Globe, which is called focus. It focuses on special cases and social in-depth reports. They began to report a case that had been hidden for a long time. A Catholic priest sexually harassed the children in the parish. At first, it was just a small task, but after being involved, they found a huge and terrible inside story, involving hundreds of victims. Moreover, the church has privately compensated these victims and sent people to cover up the crime.

With the deepening of the investigation, they found that the conspiracy was even more terrible, not only in Boston, but all over the world; Not only church members, but also local officials, consortia, gangsters and other forces, all of them collude to bury the whole incident for their own interests.

Before we know about the case and the film, we need to understand the particularity of the Boston area.

History can be traced back to the European pioneers, or the initial history of the invasion of North America. New York and Boston are the most important port locations, but there is still a slight difference between the two areas. To the New England area where Boston is located, it is mainly British Protestants who escape religious persecution; While those who stay in New York are more diverse, including speculators, blue collar workers, people at the bottom and so on.

It is because of this difference that the development of New England has become more and more rapid. In the mid-20th century, they transferred most of their traditional industries to other states in the United States with lower labor costs or overseas, while the high-tech areas with Boston as the center began to rise, including biotechnology, education, finance, services, pharmaceuticals and so on.

Slowly, it has become the most affluent and high-end area in the United States. Yale University, Harvard University, MIT and so on are all in this area; Law, economy, politics, finance and so on also have a unique leading position in this region.

Naturally, people living in this area either actively or passively distinguish themselves from other areas, and the distinct level of class begins to permeate every corner of society

From economy to politics, from education to law, from news to gangs, from language to culture, all of these areas seem to be independent of the United States. They have their own pride and dignity and refuse to compare with other states.

When people talk about the North American continent, the west coast led by Los Angeles and the east coast led by New York are tit for tat for geographical and historical reasons; But among them, New England, led by Boston, stays aloof. They even despise New York, showing a kind of arrogance.

It can be said that New England has its own system!

The Boston gang in Hollywood has always been a unique existence. Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and others are the core figures of the whole faction.

It is for this reason that Boston can form an iron barrel in the "focus" story, which can prevent the column from revealing the truth from all aspects; However, in the real world, the film "focus" obviously has the characteristics of academic school, but there is no film company willing to take over——

Everyone is afraid to uncover the scar of Massachusetts again. If he is not careful, he may lose his wife and lose his army.

Tom McCarthy was born as an actor. He started his career in 1997 and worked in small roles for many years. In 2003, he first tried to write a screenplay and took charge of the director. He shot the "soul station". He made a great success at the Sundance Film Festival the next year and won the Audience Choice Award and the Special Jury Award. This also officially changed his career and his transformation was successful, He has even been officially invited by the government to participate in projects beyond cultural exchanges and go to the Middle East to promote different cultural projects.

Then in 2007, he wrote and directed "uninvited guest" again and successfully won the best actor Oscar nomination for Richard Jenkins for the first time in his career. After that, Tom wrote scripts for "flying house" and "million gold arm" and his career gradually stabilized.

"Focus" is Tom's latest project. It took him nearly a year to overturn several drafts before it finally took shape, from collecting data in the early stage, to deeply exploring each prototype of the reporting group, and then to studying all the reporting materials and the whole story of that year.

But now, he can't find a production company that dares to invest in - not to mention the production process. Even if the film is successfully released, the college public relations of the film will be very difficult. It's hard to imagine how serious the obstacles will be. No one is willing to take risks.

The trend of the award season of later works also proved this point. Although "focus" won the best picture Oscar, there was only one best original script trophy, which can be regarded as one of the weakest best pictures in the past decade.

It is the most ironic thing to refract from the film to the reality, from the cases told in the film to the difficulties of the film project in reality.

In any case, "big short", "wild Hunter" and "focus" finally came to lanli.

Andy noticed that there was a special Pentagram behind the "focus" project, which was not found in other projects. He couldn't help looking up at Lan Li and said, "pentagram, what does it mean?"

Andre also slightly Leng Leng, before high school years of those memories, now really a little fuzzy, he turned his head toward Matthew cast to help the line of sight.

"Absolute caution." Said Matthew.

Lanli nodded in affirmation, but he didn't explain why.

Because of his professional background in journalism, he is always very tolerant and partial to movies with news themes. This is his personal orientation. There is no special reason.