[US Entertainment] Hollywood reverses life

Tom re-upgraded his private theater at his home in Beverly Hills, and upgraded all the equipment in an all-round way. It is basically the best state that the home theater can present at present.

For this reason, he specially invited Joey to be a guest and experience his latest projection equipment by the way.This kind of movie-watching experience is much more comfortable than going to any movie theater.

Joy readily accepted Tom's request. When she appeared in Tom's mansion, Tom was taking out stacks of old discs in his collection and looking through them.

Joey walked over, picked up a DVD he was holding and said, "Avatar hardcover DVD? What? Are you going to watch 3D or IMAX in your home theater?"

Tom stood up from the squatting position, "IMAX is useless, but 3D is really good." Then he got two pairs of 3D glasses out of nowhere.

Joey raised the corners of his lips slightly, showing a smirk, "Unfortunately, I don't want to watch "Avatar" very much."

Tom put a basket of DVD albums in front of Joey, "Then you choose it yourself, choose one and experience my latest theater."

Joy began to flip through the pile of DVDs. Basically, from the pile of DVDs, she could see Tom's taste. His taste... really belonged to the last century...

Most of the albums are "Black Hawk Down", "The Hurt Locker", "Lebanon" and other types of films.

Joey sighed with a smile on his face, then looked at him with a look that saw through Tom, and said lazily: "So, as the top American agent in the 21st century, you actually like to see this kind of American soldiers." movie with the main theme of heroism?"

Tom couldn't help laughing at Joey's words. Apparently, Joey's ridicule made Tom unable to explain himself, "Can we not engage in heroism discrimination? Just because you just made an anti-hero movie, Is heroism useless?"

Joey pulled out a DVD of "The Hurt Locker" from it, "Forget it, in order to fulfill your hobby, let's enjoy this typical American movie with the theme of individual heroism today."

Tom stood against the door with his chest folded helplessly, "This is the biggest Oscar winner this year, and the director is also a woman. You should appreciate such an anti-war movie."

Joey's tone couldn't say any praise or criticism, "American-style heroism-themed movies, there is nothing to appreciate or not to appreciate, every American will like such movies."

Tom took the DVD and stuffed it into the player, "You seem to be discriminating against movies with the main theme?"

Joey stuffed a grape into his mouth and bit it slowly, "Of course not, it's just that Oscar likes this kind of politically correct theme movie the most."

Tom asked back, "Then do you think that "The Hurt Locker" won the Oscar over "Avatar" because of the main theme of political correctness?"

Joey said casually: "No, the main theme movie can also be shot with a strong style and a great story. "The Hurt Locker" is like this. I don't think many people probably thought of the director of "The Hurt Locker" It turned out to be a woman, and she was James Cameron’s ex-wife. Therefore, never underestimate American individual heroism movies, and the recognition it can bring to the American public cannot be underestimated. After all, we are all Americans.”

This small-budget "The Hurt Locker" wasn't a good box office hit, but it shined at this year's Oscars, passing all the tests, and "Avatar" was second to none. This shows that as long as the American individual heroism is well filmed , If you make good use of it, you will definitely be able to touch the heroism and patriotism of the American people.

Tom poured Joey a cup of freshly ground coffee, "Spielberg is best at movies like this."

Joey shook his head and muttered: "No... To be honest, I don't want to watch Spielberg's heroism-themed movies anymore. If Spielberg were to shoot "The Hurt Locker", it wouldn't be able to make such a taste. .Spielberg now prefers to make any major theme movie into a sensational blockbuster, but the audience is tired of it."

Tom suddenly looked at Joey with a little emotion and mystery, his handsome eyes seemed to be rekindled, "It seems that you have a lot of ideas about American heroism movies? To be honest, I really like this movie very much." Movies like this may really be because my heart is getting old.”

Joey walked past him, glanced at him, and then began to observe Tom's entire row of bookshelves, "I haven't made a theme movie, and I never dreamed of making a theme movie, so I don't have any ideas." But having said that, you really have a lot of books here..."

"To be honest," Tom's hoarse voice sounded above her head at some point, "I think you can try to make a movie with the main theme. When I watched your "West Coast", I always I felt something was missing, and after watching "The Hurt Locker", I discovered the problem. It is also an anti-war film, but you were too restrained in "West Coast", not only did it lack personal heroism, but also did not have any shadow of anti-war theme. .”

Joey grinned loudly, "That's because I want to win awards at European film festivals. Do you think Europeans will be in the mood to watch anti-war films with American heroism?"

Tom smiled slowly: "But you are in the United States now, maybe you can try it."

Joy brushed her broken hair behind her ears with her hands, and she looked at Tom with sunshine in her eyes, "It seems that you really want to see me make this kind of movie?"

Tom's answer was straightforward, "Because I like this kind of movie very much, and I want to see your film."

A smile faded slightly from Joey's mouth, "Then what good suggestions do you have? You mean, make a film similar to "The Hurt Locker"?"

In fact, what such a movie needs is a good subject, and there are too few such good subjects.

American-style heroism, American-style movies with the main theme, then the story is the most important thing, but how to shoot it is second.

Tom's slender fingers moved slowly over the entire row of books on the bookshelf, and then fixed on a book, and then he pulled the book down with a little force.

He is very familiar with the book and can tell he has seen it, more than once.

Joey saw the cover of the book, and it seemed that Tom was really interested in such military and historical things.

He recommended the book to Joy.

It is an autobiography - "The First Sniper of the US Army".

Joy suddenly realized that she knew the book and the story behind it.

This book is the autobiography of Chris Kyle.

Chris Kyle is a former U.S. Navy SEAL captain who served as a U.S. military stationed in Iraq for ten years.

He is also a well-known marksman in the history of the US military.

He was stationed in Iraq for 10 years. According to unofficial records, he shot and killed 255 enemy soldiers during this period. The official record provided by the Pentagon is 160. The furthest sniper range is 1920 meters. , considered the deadliest sniper in U.S. military history.

In the 10 years in Iraq, he became the best sharpshooter in the history of the US military.

You can’t say he is a good man. He once said that the enemy he shot for the first time was an Iraqi woman. He also shot and killed an Iraqi child (the child was tied with a human bomb-bomb, you can only shoot or die. U.S. military).

But it is undeniable that he is the representative of the individual heroism of the US military and one of the main theme idols of the American people.

In 2009, he retired to save his marriage.

If his story is made into a movie, it will be a typical American theme movie.And it is not a simple theme movie, but it will have a certain anti-war speculative nature.

In his autobiography, he confessed that he had killed many helpless women and children because the other party wanted to use women and children to persecute the US military. He had no choice but to shoot. After killing a woman for the first time, he even locked himself up. For several days and nights.

What kind of process did he go through from shooting a gun for the first time, shooting women and children for the first time, to becoming the "undead sharpshooter" of the United States.

During the ten years of his long mission, what kind of psychological changes have taken place in his family, children, and wife.

These are all things he needs to face.

As well as people's thoughts on war and anti-war thoughts, these were all things he had to face after returning to American society.

Undoubtedly, he is an American hero, but in the context of today's anti-war trend, his identity has become a little embarrassing.

It can be said that there are already many heroic anti-war films shot against the background of the Iraq War in the United States.

Ang Lee's "Billy Lynn's Halftime Break" and Oscar dark horse "The Hurt Locker" are basically anti-war films aimed at Oscars.

And their cleverness lies in not taking any position in the film, not arguing about the wrong and right of the Iraq War itself, but implanting anti-war thinking into the film.

This biography of "The First Sniper of the U.S. Army" was also adapted into a movie in the previous life, and it was even shortlisted for the Oscar for best movie, and it reaped very good box office results. It was starring Bradley Cooper in the previous life—— "American Sniper".

However, Joey was not very satisfied with that movie.

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