[US Entertainment] Hollywood reverses life

In the United States at this time, a film from Paramount was planning to do a release promotion.

This is a movie adapted from a novel, and it is reasonable to say that it may not make fans expect so much, but in the overwhelming publicity of this movie, people were surprised to find that the producer of "The Hunger Games" actually Only one person's name was written, and that was Joey Grant.

When did Joey do this movie?It's such a good job of keeping it under wraps that fans have no idea Joey even worked on the movie.

However, Joey did not publicize anything. It is possible that Joey was just a name and did not participate in the real production.

But I heard that Joey bought the movie copyright of this novel, which shows that at least Joey is very optimistic about the prospect of adapting this novel into a movie.

This is the first time she has been named a producer but has not been involved in a film.

Many American media and reporters are very curious, why did Joey buy the film copyright of this novel?Could this be a good movie in Joey's opinion?

Then why didn't Joey get involved himself?What's the point.

But even for the sake of the new world Valkyrie Jennifer Lawrence in "Ghost in the Shell", everyone will go to see "The Hunger Games".With the role of Suzi in "Ghost in the Shell", Jennifer Lawrence has countless fans.

The outside world has a lot of speculation about "The Hunger Games", what will happen to the movie that Joey has chosen and chosen.

And it did not surprise everyone, just like the "Twilight Saga" that turned out under Joey, the box office of this "Hunger Games" is amazing enough in the entire North American region.

Obviously, Paramount listened to Joy's words right this time. Since "Twilight", another movie that set off a carnival among young people around the world was born!

Paramount, after being tuned by "Ghost in the Shell" and "The Hunger Games", has received two box office masterpiece series. I don't know if it will be moved to tears by Joey.

However, it is clear that when "The Hunger Games" swept through North American ticket warehouses like a storm, major film critics in North America were not satisfied with this movie. They thought this movie was just a play house game for children. It has connotations, but it's just nonsense.

This is a teenager movie that North American film critics once again slammed after "Twilight".

The film critics pointed the finger at Joy, "I finally know why Joey Grant didn't direct this movie herself, she was afraid of ruining her own style."

"This film is entirely for little girls. It can only be said that Hollywood is getting younger and younger to achieve such a big box office."

"Joy Grant's vision is still very poisonous. At least in my opinion, she knows what the market will like, but she also chooses not to touch it so as not to ruin her own style."

"Joey Grant's eye is really... hit the nail on the head."

"The Hunger Games" came out as a mid-to-low-cost commercial film. It crazily swept away hundreds of millions at the box office and continuously occupied the top spot in the weekly film rankings. This is by no means accidental.

Joey Grant's vision for film selection is indeed extraordinary.

At this time, another high-profile news in Hollywood just came out.

The "New York Times" spent three years collecting the opinions of professional film critics, fans, and filmmakers from all walks of life, and through complex formula calculations, selected the 100 greatest films in history.

The "New York Times" gave this time an explosive headline, which doubled the sales volume of this issue of "The New York Times"-[The 100 Greatest Movies in History, Finally Selected! 】

"Whether it's high or low or public aesthetics, we give a fair ranking. The war between movies has begun. Our chief film critic, with the help of some film scholars on facebook, has selected this future destined to be the greatest in history. 100 films."

This selection, which took three years to complete, was unsurprisingly controversial once it was released, but in any case, this list is very pertinent.

Countless movie fans were waiting for this day, and they bought this issue of "The New York Times" immediately. (This list is true, as are other rankings except for Joy's movies, but the nature of the objects collected is slightly different from the reality.)

After a cursory scan of the list, as expected - "The Godfather" (1972) is the first.

Then, they began to read with relish.

No.2 - "Star Wars 2: The Empire Strikes Back" (1980)

This is also beyond doubt.

No.3 - "Batman: The Dark Knight" (2008)

Nolan is indeed Nolan, this is a miracle in the history of superheroes!He became a legend because he didn't make this movie as a superhero movie at all, he made a superhero movie into a crime epic.

No.4 - "Suicide Squad" (2010)

OH MY GOD!Fans exclaimed, what did they see?

2 superhero movies in a row, Batman twice in a row, DC in a row, and Warner in a row!Warner must be very grateful to God for allowing Nolan and Joey to be born in this century, and then allowing him to have these two people at the same time...

These two superheroes have a characteristic, that is, Nolan and Joey did not regard these two movies as superhero movies at all. There is no traditional routine of heroes saving the world, and some are just the issue of the world’s superheroes. Endless darkness to think about.

Yeah, that's how superhero movies should be made.But throughout the entire century, only Nolan and Joey have the strength to shoot like this.

No.5 - "Shawn Ke's Redemption" 1994

It is a pity that the works that occupy the top of the TOP250 list on the IMBD website for many years did not enter the top three.A film about hope and faith.

No.6 - "Pulp Fiction" 1994

Quentin Tarantino could rely on this movie for a lifetime.

No.7 - "Goodfellas" 1990

The Mafia Tales of Film Sociologist Martin Sikeseth.

No.8 - "Raiders of the Lost Ark" 1981

Steven Spielberg's adult fairy tale.

No.9 - "Jaws" 1975

This movie made Steven Spielberg truly a "big guy"!

No.10 - "Star Wars 4: A New Hope"

George Lucas can rely on this series to blow for a lifetime.

The top [-] also includes "The Lord of the Rings", "Alien", "Blade Runner" and "Fight Club".

No.17 - "Inception" 2010

I don't want to say too much about Nolan's movies.

No.18 - "American Sniper" 2010

It's Joey Grant's movie again, an unforgettable anti-war movie. It didn't simply criticize the war, but showed people the "humanity" under the war nakedly.

There is only one female director in the top [-], and her two works are on the list. This is a huge improvement. In the male-dominated industry of directors, Joy Grant can be said to be the first shot.

She is so talented that she single-handedly broke the established mold of this industry.

In any case, in the history of film, the names of two female directors will definitely be remembered, Joey Grant and Catherine Bigelow ("The Hurt Locker").

They are also the only female directors who have won the Oscar for Best Director so far.There are only two people in Oscar's century-old history.

Joey Grant entered the TOP20 of this list with "Suicide Squad" and "American Sniper".

I have to say that she is indeed the most amazing woman in the history of film in this era.

If it is to select the 100 best actors of this era, male and female actors must be equally divided, but if you want to select the best directors of this era, Joey Grant may be the only female director.

In the director industry, it is much more difficult for women to climb than in the actor industry.

This only further reflects the invaluability of Joey Grant.

In any case, this era will definitely remember her, just like people will always remember Vivien Leigh and Katharine Hepburn.

******

Joey is on the set of "Big Little Lies" and is fully committed to the filming of this TV series.

This TV series is a very delicate independent female drama, and the biggest suspense is not revealed until the last episode. Before that, the six episodes of slow foreshadowing are just to push to the final climax.

It's like people always ignore some trivial things in life, but in the end, because of various small things, they continue to accumulate and accumulate. After the accumulation, the last small thing will become the last thing that is overwhelmed and leads to big bad things. a straw.

The script that Joey is holding in his hand, the reason why Joey thinks this script is excellent, is that it shows the boring intrigue of rich women to a certain extent, but it also makes people narrow-minded, save face, and can't bear others to be more perfect than themselves. , can't bear any little grievances, can't bear the seemingly perfect man he loves is actually a big problem, loves to compare, easily bears hatred, loves to care about, these things are vividly expressed and very three-dimensional.

Ordinary people may think that rich people should live a good life, and rich people will also care about trivial things. This is too exaggerated, but isn't the real life like this?

What this script wants to tell the audience most is: money cannot make a narrow-minded person open-minded, nor can it make a person's temperament better.

This is a suspenseful urban drama. From the first episode, the police investigate the murder case, and it is not until the last episode that the person who died and the murderer are announced. Throughout the entire season, the police investigation is interspersed with the past acquaintances of the three young mothers The process continued until the night when the murder happened.

Isn't this slow way of investigating cases familiar?Joey's previous "True Detective" was like this. There was only one case in the whole episode. Since it was the only case in the whole episode, Joey's narrative technique appeared naturally, similar to "True Detective". As in Detective.

Joy's magic: first consume your patience, and then surprise you with a reversal.

Just like "True Detective", the first few episodes of "Big Little Lies", especially the first three episodes, are surprisingly slow-paced. In American TV dramas, each episode has one case, lines that can't be read clearly without pressing pause, and a huge amount of information In this era, this kind of slow-paced TV series is really weird, and Joey likes this kind of weirdness.

But if the prelude is filmed too lengthy, the pace will be maddeningly slow. For this reason, Joey's method is... to make the lines weird and delicate.

Joey's lines all have a weird feeling, without the point, or only half of it.It's spooky and cozy.Under her lens, she likes to use some unimportant things to catch your sight in a deceptive way, but in fact the focus is hidden in other places, such as the behavior of passers-by and the spatial orientation of the lens.

Joy is a person who likes to play tricks so much that no one seems innocent under her lens.But Joey's sunspots are generally irritated by those fakes.

But even the staff, seeing Joey narrating the story unhurriedly at this moment, couldn't help saying: "fuc-k, Joey must be the slowest person alive."

Another photographer also said with a little gloat: "The audience of American dramas has been accustomed to a fast-paced habit. If they see this film, they will probably go crazy."

The photographer shook his head helplessly, and smiled bitterly, "I have been the photographer of Joy's crew since "True Detective", she has this style and temperament, but as long as you give her time, she will definitely be able to Give you a satisfactory explanation. She likes to challenge the audience's tolerance limit, and then stun them with a big reversal. Unlike other directors, no matter how much time you give him, he can't make a big reversal confession. "

Another photographer suddenly smiled mysteriously and said: "Joy Grant announced his relationship with Tom Cruise, but why do I think it means a marriage, Tom Cruise is also said to be gay, Joey Grant , Tsk tsk, this aesthetic doesn't look like a straight girl, look at the women under her lens, especially Catherine Zeta-Jones...too coquettish."

If it is said that what surprised the photographers and other staff the most, it must be the appearance of the three actresses in this movie.

The 36-year-old Marion Cotillard has passed the age of a sweetheart, but she maintains a sense of justice and vigor, and sneers at the powerful and strong women.

Anna Paquin's performance is very layered. Although it lacks explosive power in front of the other two, it is generally remarkable, and it releases the despair of a desperate young mother just right.

Then there's -- Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Catherine Zeta-Jones seems to be the character that Joey has created with the most heart.She is the most stunning of the three women, or rather coquettish.Joey Grant always likes to use some coquettish shots in the scenes where she appears, and the coquettish light makes Catherine so coquettish that people can't look directly at them.

You said that a female director with a normal sexual orientation, how can she shoot such a showy scene, such a showy woman?

Isn't that supposed to be the best thing straight straight old horny men do?

But in terms of strength, Catherine is really good at it.The years have added to her charm of hidden needles in the cotton, tepid, strong sense of propriety, whether she is slightly shuddered by family affection, or fear and anger when encountering domestic violence, she is such a weak but hidden needles woman.

After watching her performance, everyone must say: The breeze blows over the hills, the English rose that never withers!

And you thought it was over?Of course not, when you see the actor Alexander Skarsgard appearing on the stage, you will find that Catherine's show is nothing short of trivial!

This man is really coquettish...

Alexander, who is more than 190 tall, has an excellent figure and muscles, and Joey also made full use of them.

His appearance is either in a suit + tie + abstinent expression, or without a shirt showing his muscles all over his body. The light is always dimly hitting his face and muscles, as if simulating the provocative gaze of women.

His body, gleaming, gloomy and oppressive, symbolizes the best pursuit of a woman.

While watching the filming of the TV series, the screenwriter really didn't understand. He asked Joey, "For such a serious urban-themed TV series, will it be questioned and implanted with soft-pornography? This is not soft-porn. The erotic "True Blood"..."

Joy explained to him earnestly, "Brother, let me ask you, if a film's pre-sales make the audience feel bored, what do you think we should do to keep them?"

The screenwriter was stunned, "Huh? Use..."

Joey patted him on the shoulder, "At least we have to provide beautiful girls and handsome guys, so that the part of the show is not so lengthy, isn't it? As for these actors, it's them who make the audience fall in love with them at first sight." As an actor's duty, there are only different ways of revealing and not revealing."

In the process of filming this "Big Little Lies", what Joey did the most was to build detailed scenes.

This was a pain for the on-site staff, because this kind of fine detail scene requires more effort than the big scene.

Joy likes to hide the metaphors of story interpretation in the details, and she loves to shoot water, wood, fire, red, and owls.

She likes to photograph flowing water, as if it can gently take away the soul of a person.

She likes to take photos of wood. The growth rings and patterns on the logs in the forest seem to remind the totem beliefs of primitive tribes.

She likes to shoot fire, as long as she is indoors, the fire in the fireplace is always burning strangely.

She likes to shoot red, red curtains, red blood, red leaves, red houses, making people enter the moment of rapid heartbeat.

Her favorite is owls. Every time the police question the residents of the town, they will take pictures of owls hanging on the branches and staring with big eyes. The strange feeling is always with me.

These are the reasons why film critics love Joy so much. These metaphors are simply incomprehensible to ordinary audiences. They serve professional film scholars and film critics.

Ordinary TV viewers pay attention to the lines and language when watching movies and TV shows, but the lines in Joey's TV series are only half-understood, and they usually only speak half of them, which is weird.But it also gives infinite space for imagination in various patterns and metaphors.

This is why film critics and professional film scholars will kneel down and worship Joy after the birth of "True Detective", because Joy uses the method of filming TV series, which is generally not easy for TV audiences to accept.

Every detail of every shot of her, even the weird expressions of the characters, narrates unusual connotations, and the atmosphere is weird and bleak.

Sudden grim expressions, hideous and strange expressions, uneasy environment, seemingly real and false images, and unrelated weird characters appear from time to time.

She still likes to play slow motion, and always slowly zooms out the camera, making everything have a kind of compassionate affection, and a kind of philosophical meditation on the tragedy of the overall worldly life.

All of these make this TV series really unique. It is not an independent female drama, but a philosophical movie full of suspense.

The hottest shoot of the day was a set of bed scenes.

However, under the lens of Joey, this scene is really too much to die for...

It is simply a concentration camp of beautiful bodies.Alexander's performance is great, not only is this body full of power and sparkle, but the strength, speed, emotion, etc. can be called perfect imitation...

The photographer who was shooting swallowed. He was gay, and he couldn't help but said to Joey at this moment: "I seem to have some reactions... If you don't mind... I'll go and solve my personal problems..."

Joey agreed.

After a brief pause in filming, Anna Paquin walked up to Joey and asked, "Where's the A-camera cameraman?"

Joey could only answer truthfully, "I went to solve his personal problems..."

Anna Paquin's face twitched for a while, and then she started laughing wildly, "Hahahaha, Alexander really can take both men and women."

Joey could only smile helplessly, "You know, there is no way..."

Anna Paquin looked at the back of Alexander who was putting on clothes. His back muscles were strong and tight. She thought it should be hard to press, and she suddenly said: "Watching the scene where Catherine plays Celeste, I suddenly Finding se-x in a family relationship, maybe it's really important."

Joey pursed his lips, and suddenly said without a clue: "That's right, Celeste has never left her domestic violence husband, except to maintain a seemingly perfect marriage for her two sons, and the wonderful and intense sex after being domestic violence." -Love is like a drug, which instantly relieves the pain and increases the short-term illusory happiness. With Celeste, everything before was reconciled instantly. She herself also said that there is a handover of rights after domestic violence. Like a seesaw. She's a spoiled goddess until the next domestic violence strikes."

Anna Paquin said enviously: "Although I don't envy this woman being domestically abused, but I only watch the sex scene, the sex scene between her and her husband is quite enviable, haha~"

Joey expressed his thoughts, "At least in this show, these women have suffered a lot because of sex-love. Medellin cheated on him for three months, and enjoyed the love with his cheating partner. Three months of crazy sex-love. Pain-relieving, stress-relieving sex-love, obviously Medellin is also addicted. Jane was born because of being suffocated by a one-night stand. Sex-love rape-violence The child's life has been messed up."

Anna Paquin jokingly said to Joey: "So you made all the sex scenes in this show so beautiful, intense and crazy, not just to stimulate the audience?"

"I think that's what fits the character."

So, if you see a lot of heart-pounding sex scenes in this show, don't be surprised to think that you are on the wrong channel and dialed some "True Blood" channel, because this is really "Big Little Lies" Yes, Joey That's what happened this time.

During the noon break, Joy was sitting in her makeshift MARS bar eating an exquisite work meal, and Catherine sat across from her in a costume, that is, a large sexy pajamas.

Joey was drinking juice, she swallowed the food and said to her, "Are you hungry too?"

Catherine put her legs gracefully, "Yeah, eat whatever you want. I'll chat with you by the way."

Joey swallowed the last bite of food contentedly, "Well, I want to talk about something."

Catherine lit a cigarette, and after lighting it coquettishly, she lowered her head and looked at Joey, "For example, how did you manage to get Tom Cruise?"

After hearing this, Joey immediately showed a surprised smile, "Why don't you ask him how he got me?"

Catherine jokingly said after listening: "Tom Cruise handles women, why?"

Joey also smiled at her and said, "Of course, I consider myself one of the most difficult women in the world."

Catherine bit her lips with her white teeth and said, "It seems that he took a lot of effort to get you done?"

Joey smiled at her and said, "Then you think, who is easier to get rid of, Tom or me?"

Catherine begged for mercy and smiled: "Oh! Please forgive me, I think you two seem to be one of the most difficult people in the world, the most handsome man in the world, and the most valuable woman in this era, this The combination is really, really powerful.”

Afterwards, she paused, and asked in a low voice, "But I still want to ask, is Tom Cruise difficult?"

Joey chuckled, she waved her hand and laughed at Catherine, "I really don't know what to say, he is a difficult person to get along with if he is not familiar with it, but he is easy to talk to if he is familiar with it."

Catherine put her waist up and twisted her upper body a few times, showing a beautiful smile, "He is my idol. But you are a good match."

Then she took out a newspaper, which was the latest "New York Times", and she said: "The 100 most classic movies selected by the New York Times, I guessed that your "Suicide Squad" and "American Sniper" would definitely be shortlisted , I didn’t expect it to be ranked so high.”

Joey was taken aback for a moment, and it took him a long time to realize, "What? I'm shortlisted, I don't know yet."

Catherine looked at her in disbelief and smiled helplessly: "Oh my god, you are too closed, look at this whole page, it's all about you."

She spread out the newspaper, and indeed, as she said, the whole page was about Joey.

【Greatest female director in film history】

"If you refuse to acknowledge that Suicide Squad is great as a superhero movie, if you refuse to acknowledge that American Sniper is a female anti-war film, then you're just going to be a lowly sexist forever."

"The industry of film directing has been completely disrupted by a woman."

For this reason, the "New York Times" also specially interviewed some professional film scholars and film critics, as well as some famous actors, to see if they agree with this ranking result.

Cate Blanchett, who was filming the set of "Blue Jasmine," had this to say: "I totally endorse this list, especially about Joy Grant, who really did make a unique superhero movie and anti-war movie of this century. piece."

Al Pacino is also on his set. The actor who is over 70 years old is full of praise for Joey, "If you want to ask me what I think about Joey's nomination, I can only say the top 100 films, There's only one female director and 99 male directors, and that speaks volumes."

Julianne Moore also spoke for Joy on his Facebook, "The only female director who has suddenly emerged from an all-male director, I think we should protect her and her films."

Meryl Streep, who is participating in big and small "Iron Lady" promotional events, told reporters: "Directing is not a patriarchal business anymore."

The reporter of "New York Times" even caught Tom Cruise, wondering how he felt about his girlfriend's two films being so honored.

Tom was filming "Jack Reacher" far away in Canada. His face with a bit of wind, frost and dust after a fight scene still has dust from it. This is known as one of the most important icons of the new Hollywood era Face.

This is a face that is completely in line with the consumer era, with regular and good features, a bit sexy, a bit serious, but not too much, well-behaved, with a middle-class confident smile, full of affinity and affection.

In fact, from the perspective of "sexual allure", he is not as good as Brad Pitt's wild and powerful beauty, not even as good as Tom Hardy, and he is not the elegant beauty of the British style (such as Tom Hiddleston) , Handsome beauty (such as Orlando Bloom in the early years) or melancholic beauty (such as Ben Wishaw), Tom's face belongs to the orthodox Hollywood aesthetics of the new era.

It is estimated that he himself did not expect that his youthful, rebellious and unrestrained self would one day become one of the icons of Hollywood action movies.

Tom didn't hesitate under the microphone for too long, and he didn't answer the question directly. He has been immersed in Hollywood for many years, and he knew that any answer he made would easily confuse Joey, so he simply said: "If you really want to know Whether Joey Grant deserves such a ranking, you can pay attention to her "Big Little Lies", maybe you will find the answer."