The Best Director

The Shenandoah Theater was packed with seats for the screening of Big Jin. Amidst the vast and melancholy soundtrack, the credits rolled on the big screen, and a burst of warm applause suddenly sounded. The audience who attended the screening gave praise to the crew of "Mr. Hughes 2". This is truly a classic biographical movie! "Hughes: The Secret Life", which was released on the Christmas holiday in 2016, cost US$10,000 and eventually grossed 160 million at the global box office. It tells the story of the colorful first half of the legendary tycoon Howard Hughes; and "Citizen Hughes: Power," released this year, The production cost of "Money and Madness" rose to 100 million, and the story continued into Howard Hughes's crazy life after he stayed away from the public eye in his middle and later years. He locked himself in a dark room without seeing the light every day, and cut his head and nails once a year. Addiction to cocaine and other drugs, mysophobia and obsessive-compulsive disorder develop to morbid levels...

These are just small details. "Mr. Hughes 1" clearly explained the formation of Howard...Hughes' twisted character and inner pain; "Mr. Hughes 2" really ushered in an explosion, with Christopher Nolan, Jonathan... Nolan Lan adapted the biography written by Michael Nuosining into a dark and unique way, making a comprehensive exploration of the relationship between genius, power, money and madness. The 126-minute video contains Hughes' crazy past, gold... Carrey's masterful performance and the writing and directing's insightful perspective.

"Chris, it's wonderful." Just like the previous film, after the screening, the crew, creators, guests and friends of "Mr. Hughes Robbery" came to a nearby hotel to hold a celebration dinner. The lively banquet hall burst into laughter, and everyone was probably Laughing and walking around, or enjoying the sumptuous food and drinks at the table.

Different from the idol director couple who have become extremely popular recently, Christopher Nolan and Emma... Thomas's dress style is very unbeatable. Nolan is still wearing a suit and a straw suit, with his hair parted to the side, and his smile is the same as two years ago and four years ago. There was no big difference; Emma Thomas, wearing a dark blue low-hanging dress, was still so talkative and enthusiastic, smiling as she watched Wang Yangxu punch her husband: "Remember what I said? You have confidence, I have confidence.”

"Thank you." Nolan nodded. A few years ago, he had a heart-to-heart talk about "Memento" at Park City's Red Rock Theater and was a guest to finalize "Mr. Hughes." Although everyone was busy and didn't get along much, they still had a good friendship. If The words come from the heart, so it is not difficult to "compliment" at all. He smiled and said: "It has been a real pleasure to work with Flame Films in the past few years." Emma Thomas also pressed her lips in vain, laughing and thanking: "Yang, very Thank you for supporting us. Sometimes we talk about this..."

She looked at Nolan and continued to smile: "We don't even know how to express our gratitude. You know you are too generous."

The cost budget for "Mr. Hughes 2" was originally 10,000 yuan, but it was finally settled at 10,000,000 yuan, and it was over 10,000 yuan. One of the biggest characteristics of the Hollywood production system is careful budgeting, which is also one of the reasons why the preparation time for a film is longer than the production period. Every expenditure is strictly reviewed and controlled. The producer's motto is to save money and It's not squandering. Film producers don't care about striving for perfection. Otherwise, every film costs a certain amount. How can it be decent? You know, 10,000 is enough to make another low-budget movie, 2-3 small-budget independent movies.

So seeking perfection means to do the best within ten thousand,

If there is anything better, it is that in the end, tens of thousands are saved and the cost becomes tens of thousands.

A producer who cannot control the budget is a failed producer, especially Christopher Nolan is not a privileged director, and Emma Thomas is not a privileged producer. However, when "Mr. Hughes 2" lost control and wanted to pursue another kind of excellence, Flame Films agreed without saying anything. Maybe there was some. Wang Yang said, "If it's not enough, add more!" Of course, he was so proud. With pride, Flame will not let himself be blind. Detailed accounts must ensure that every money is spent on film production.

Considering the mediocre commercial performance of "Mr. Hughes 1" and "Mr. Hughes 2", Christopher Nolan is indeed having a very happy life.

"When we get a sum of money, we have an obligation to make it back for the film producers; but Flame is not an ordinary film producer at all. I don't know how to say it, it's just that he is so handsome." Emma Thomas said and laughed. Nolan , Wang Yang and others couldn't help but smile. Emma smiled and looked at her husband: "Then we thought, what we can do and what we need to do most is to make the movie well! For the trust of Huoyan Films, and for ourselves, if we pass We would be so happy if we got a Golden Globe nomination in a few days."

Listening to others praising her husband so highly, Jessica Qiaobei, holding his arm, felt really elated, and vaguely admired Emma... Thomas, while being a good wife who raised children all his life, was also a good wife. The producer who takes care of everything for her husband is amazing! Jessica couldn't help but glance at Wang Yang, who had a peaceful smile on his face: "Believe me, these are really no big deal. I just need to thank you for bringing these two "Mr. Hughes" movies to Flame Films."

"Okay, don't say thank you." Wang Yang took a glass of red wine from the tray of the passing poet and sipped it. , asked with interest: "So do you have any new plans? We are interested in filming "The Green Hornet", but you definitely don't want to direct, and you are not very suitable for comedy action movies."

Just now he asked Kim Carey, who was also present at the dinner, what he meant about "The Green Hornet". The comedy king said that he and his management team still need to consider it, because it is a very bold comedy idea. Wang Yang knew that Kim Carey was only looking forward to mainstream awards for recognition of his acting career. If "Mr. Hughes 2" could provide him with an Oscar nomination for Best Actor and fulfill his dream of many years, he would be able to happily agree to it. Starring in the movie "The Green Hornet."

"Comedy? That's really not suitable for me." Nolan shook his head slightly and rejected it without thinking about it. He didn't think he had much humor. Guanma Thomas smiled and took over the conversation and said: "He and Jonathan do have a new plan, about adapting Christopher Priest's novel "The Prestige"..." She was about to introduce the novel, Wang But Young said he knew "The Prestige", which is not surprising. The 61-year-old British man Christopher Priest is a famous science fiction novelist. One of his masterpieces, "The Prestige", was the winner of the 1996 World Prize.

This saves Emma... Thomas a lot of time. She said: "We are preparing to find investment for this project, contact Christopher Priest to obtain the adaptation rights, and then make it into a movie with a production cost of about 10,000 yuan."

Christopher...Priest's "The Fatal Magic" was inspired by historical facts such as Cheng Liansu and Zhu Liankui. Similarly, in London during the Victorian period and the early 19th century, the Chinese illusions at that time were very magical and exaggerated in order to enhance their charm and exotic atmosphere. American William Ellsworth...Robinson grew Qing braids and wore Qing Dynasty clothes to pretend to be Chinese. At that time, Europeans did not know what Chinese people looked like, and Cheng Liansu never spoke, and even hired a " He acted as a translator and finally became a big star of Mo Wei Shi at that time.

However, this cannot fool Zhu Liankui, the Chinese magician who shocked the global magic world. It was he who made illusions popular in the United States, Europe, and London, and also led to the emergence of "Cheng Liansu". After meeting him in London...after a media farce about "real and fake Chinese people", Zhu Liankui issued a letter of challenge to Cheng Liansu: "If Cheng Liansu can do ten of my twenty tricks, or I can't Do anything to him! I'll lose to him by a thousand tricks." Cheng Liansu, who felt guilty, did not accept the challenge.

Cheng Liansu's specialty is "shooting a living person". The audience comes on stage to check and load bullets into the gun, then shoots him, and he catches the bullet and puts it on the plate. In fact, of course the gun was manipulated. The gunpowder would detonate in a fake chamber below the real chamber, and the bullet would not leave the gun. What if it did? That's a fatal magic trick. When performing again in 1918, Cheng Liansu was shot by a bullet and shouted the first and last words in English: "Oh my God! Something happened, the curtain comes down!!"

Maybe it was murder, maybe it was an accident, Cheng Liansu died just like that.

"The Deadly Magic" tells the tragic story of two extremely talented young magicians, Robert Angel and Alfred Den, who transformed from brothers to life-or-death enemies, leading to a murder. Wang Yang has watched this movie in the future film and television library in his mind. It is full of the suspenseful narrative structure of the Nolan brothers. This structure sometimes affects the core human nature of the poem, but it also makes the film full of unique charm. .

"Fire movie!" Even more crisp and clear than "Mr. Hughes", Wang Yang's unhesitating attitude still made Nolan and his wife stunned for a moment, and it was quite expected. What kind of plan would be met with this? He said""? Wang Yang smiled enthusiastically and said: "The story of "The Deadly Magic" is very interesting, and I like magic very much, and I can do several tricks."

His joking made Guanma... Thomas chuckle a few times, and Nolan asked: "Really?" Wang Yang shrugged: "Isn't my name Magic Yang?" He smiled: "That's it! Let's get in touch Christopher Priest got the adaptation rights first."

The Nolans are naturally very happy about this, and it seems that they will continue to happily cooperate with Fire Films for another two years.

"Do you really know magic? I mean magic." After chatting for a while, Wang Yang and his wife walked towards the long dining table. Seeing him nodding and saying yes, Jessica smiled and asked, "Nonsense." ! Why haven't I seen you change?" Wang Yang gave a strange look, and gestured with his hands in a low voice: "Don't I change every day? There is something on my body that is obviously only this big, but in my body With the help of an assistant, it will become that big again; it can also change a certain location on your body from a plain to a mountain, and then a cute child will come out! What a wonderful magic trick."

The banquet hall was bustling with people, and people were coming and going. Jessica looked at him dumbfounded, her cheeks flushed with shame, as if she remembered some magic scene, she rolled her eyes in disbelief: "You idiot .”

"The Prestige" is still an unknown, while "Mr. Hughes 2" is almost certain. The day after the December issue was released, both Rotten Tomatoes scores were "dark" on Rotten Tomatoes. The audience likes it, and it continues. It gained momentum in the test screenings and won unanimous praise from film critics. The Fire Movie, which was recently criticized for "Saw 2", has made a beautiful turnaround in an instant. David Anson of "Newsweek" praised it. It said: "This is a great epic about the life of American giant Hughes."...

The weekend of December 12th will soon become a thing of the past. The box office rankings will not be determined until daytime on the 13th. Many people were woken up in the early hours of the morning. This year’s Golden Globe Awards nominations were announced without a live TV broadcast. The organizers The complete list of nominees has just been announced to the media.

Some people are happy and some are sad. The Golden Globe Awards, as a weather vane, will reveal the pattern and trend of the entire awards season. Publicity and momentum, praise, etc. are just waiting for this moment to bloom, or wither in terms of TV awards, the popular series " "Prison Break" and "The Big Bang Theory" were not nominated. It was a relief that many fans of the dramas would curse a few words, while the fans cheered; but in the film category, they could not find many reasons to be happy, although These nominations do not belong to him but to Flame Films, and more to his vision... "Mr. Hughes 2" was nominated for Best Picture in the Drama Series, Best Actor in a Drama Series (Kim... Carrey), and Best Director (Christopher Nolan) and Best Screenplay (Jonathan Nolan); "Crash" was nominated as a dark horse for Best Picture in the Drama Series, Best Supporting Actor (Matt... Qiu Long), and Best Director ( Paul Linges), Best Screenplay (Paul Haggis), Best Original Song ("In-the-deep") and five awards.

what happened! ? Many film producers who checked the list for the first time have to ask: Flame Movie suddenly got 7 nominations! The biggest award for best picture in the drama category is "Mr. Hughes 2", "Crash", "Stealing Hearts" (Columbia), "Finding Neverland" (Miramax), "Hotel Rwanda" (United Artists 6 Lionsgate "Dollar Baby" (Warner Bros.), six nominations for Fire Films accounted for two of the five Best Directors and two of the five Best Screenplays.

A sure win! For the first time, there is no magic star, but there are so many nominations! Is it possible that Flame Movies will also start a full-scale attack in the award field besides the box office? Are all the good things being taken away by it?

"Damn it!" Many people who attended the Toronto International Film Festival this past year cursed. "Crash" is actually a treasure? He was actually loved by the judges? Just know it! Just know it! Will the movie that Miraculous Young likes be bad? But what's the use of knowing it? At that time, no one thought "Crash" was a bad movie. However, who dared to pay 10,000 yuan to compete with the crazy "black hole", from the normal market price of 10,000 yuan to a buyout fee of 10,000 yuan, God knows Will Nergyang, who never plays his cards according to common sense, be able to play his cards to the tune of ten thousand?

Despite the release of "The Haunted Man 3", Jon... Philtimer still feels a little regretful. If the price increase reaches 10,000, he will beat the Magic Young... The Weinstein brothers were so angry that they said several times, "Leave Disney immediately!" I can't stand this stuffiness anymore! But having said that, they didn't dare to bid 10,000 yuan...because looking left and right, the commercial ability of "Crash" was not worth the price. The result will be known next week.

"Oh! Wow... seven nominations." In the dimly lit bedroom, Wang Yang, who had just slept for a while, was woken up by his mobile phone. After listening to Mark Slant's report, he looked at Jesse lying in his arms. Ka, her blushing face was very attractive. She had performed a more intense magic trick tonight. She was already exhausted. He asked again: "Natalie Teman, Jenn...Kez Is Melik nominated?" When she heard that name, Jessica suddenly sobered up a lot, which was even more stinging than the seven nominations. She blinked her eyes lazily and heard him smile happily and say, "That's great. "... then you know they have all been nominated.

Natalie...Terman received her fourth Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress ("Stealing Hearts"); Jenn Kezmellick won her third Best Original Award for "Finding Neverland" For the soundtrack nominations, it is worth mentioning that Clint, the great director who once again acted in person after "Mystic River"... Eastwood was also nominated for Best Original Score and Best Director for "Million Dollar Baby" Meryl and Streep couldn't stop giving outstanding performances from "Quantico", and they were nominated for Best Supporting Actress for the first time.

Films such as "Cowherder's Spring", "House of Flying Daggers" and "Motorcycle Diaries" were shortlisted for the best foreign language film. The controversial "The Passion of the Christ" was eliminated without any surprise.

"Okay, thank you for your hard work, bye!" Wang Yang pressed the end call button, lowered his cell phone, clenched his fist, looked at her and smiled: "Understood?" Jessica was not as excited as in previous years, and was a little unhappy. , how come "Prison Break" and "The Big Bang Theory" were not nominated! She nodded: "I heard it all." Knowing what she was thinking, Wang Yang shook his head and smiled, pinching her cheek: "Smile! Smile!" He dialed a number on his mobile phone with his right hand. Such a happy moment, he woke up the nomination People are polite. As soon as Nolan heard "Hello" from Nolan...he laughed and said: "Hi, Chris! Congratulations!"...

"Hi, Jonathan, congratulations!", "Hi, Kim, congratulations!", "Hi, Paul, congratulations!"... Listening to his laughter, Jessica, who was being pinched by him, couldn't help laughing. , I thought with great anticipation, "Firefly" will also let him accept congratulations from others, right? She sat up, pulled on a white lace gauze nightgown and put it on, then walked over to pour him a glass of warm water to moisten his throat.

"Hi, Natalie, congratulations! A beautiful hit!" Natalie, who was lying on the netg rolling on the netg, laughed when she heard Wang Yang's energetic laughter: "Yes, congratulations! You only did it twice , I have done it four times." Wang Yang over there smiled and said: "Don't be so arrogant, keep a low profile!" Natalie prolonged her voice: "OK - but this is a fact." Wang Yang said with a smile: "No matter what How to congratulate you! Bye, I will continue to congratulate others."

Wang Yang took the water glass handed over by Jessica and drank. , said "Thank you," and dialed another number: "Hi, Zhan, congratulations!" "...

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