Once Upon a Time In Hollywood

Chapter 120 There are people above everyone, striding towards a new era

When Roland heard these two words, his right hand, which was about to knock on the door, hung in the air.

In his mind, a name has popped up—AngLee.

Since time travelling, he hasn't been looking for the familiar spots in his previous life memory, everything is going with the flow, but even with the passage of time, the name AngLee still makes him stop and look around.

There is no other reason, it is purely because the other party has won three Oscars.

Regardless of whether he is a spectator or an insider, Roland doesn't care much about awards, because as long as they are selected by people, there is no absolute fairness, but it is also amazing for people to win three Oscars. The key point is that the box office of the three award-winning films is all excellent, which is even more rare.

So, when he heard the sales words, he stopped moving.

Want to keep listening to what else the guy inside has to say.

...

Inside the office.

The guy who looks like the old man of the national husband is very similar, but the hair is all brown and yellow, and the guy with a little baldness on the forehead frowned and looked at the man with glasses who was about 30 years old in front of him. He wondered if his ears heard it wrong .

"?" McDavoy repeated the word uncertainly.

"Yeah..." Although his tone was a bit weak, the man with glasses still nodded.

The words of affirmation made McDavoy raise his hand and scratch the back of his head, with an expression of being infested by lice on his face.

"I think you may be in the wrong place. We are Columbia Tristar Pictures, not a B-movie company. If you want to find a distributor for your independent film, I don't think you should come here..."

"But the main content of our movie is still about love and family..."

Although he heard the intention of chasing away guests, he still wanted to continue to struggle, "I brought the briefing materials..."

But before he finished speaking, McDavoy made a stop gesture, then raised his right hand, pointing to the door.

"Mr. Shams, I don't want to call security."

...

‘Ho! So it was him? '

When Roland heard the name 'Mr. Shams', Ben was still feeling how he could meet Roland, a famous director, when he walked casually, so he immediately laughed—who is Shams, how could he not know?

This guy, that's AngLee's official producer!

James Shams became famous 20 years later. The Good Machine Company managed by him, which is the Focus Pictures that was renamed in 2004, is called New Miramax in the industry!

As an Olympic machine, his achievements are extremely impressive, two Oscars for Best Director, one Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, five best actor, one male supporting role, one female supporting role, plus small awards in different categories and fundamentals. In terms of countless nominations, in short, for Universal Pictures, his existence is a sideline of small-budget independent films!

After all, these achievements were made by fighting with the Weinstein brothers since the millennium!

And now, unexpectedly met him?

Roland's face showed surprise.

Although he knew all about these achievements, he didn't show any intention of saying hello.

Not only is it because this kind of behavior of listening to the corner is not good, but also because he has nothing to say to the other party!

So, he turned around and got into the empty office beside him, and then jumped out after the sound of footsteps disappeared.

...

Mike McDavoy is Roland's old acquaintance. When filming "T2", this guy often came to the studio to hang out. Naturally, he saw the scene where Roland and Cameron sparred. When Spielberg asked him to send the film when he was hooking Captain, he knew that it was Roland's special overspend again.

In such a situation where neither of the two powerful directors could KO him, as Spielberg's former agent, he would not have any reservations about Roland's request. When he learned that Roland wanted to copy a When he was working on the behind-the-scenes information of the movie "Groundhog Day", he directly picked up the phone and left these mindless things to his assistant.

After he gave the task, Roland, who had read the briefing materials Shams left on the scene, asked with a smile, "Why would this kind of independent film producer ask you to promote a movie?"

"Whether to buy overseas movies, shouldn't it be a matter of the procurement department?"

"You are the general manager of the project, how can you take care of such trivial matters?"

As soon as this remark came out, McEvoy, who was already upset, rolled his eyes immediately, and said to Roland very casually: "I have no choice! My friend asked me to help, I can't refuse, right?"

"Friends? The briefing materials are clean. I don't know anyone. What kind of friends would they have who can find you?" Although Roland didn't meet the other party, he still wanted to gossip.

There is no way, no one can't play the Oscar thing, and if a Chinese like AngLee can win the award, it will prove how deep Shams's background is, and now, even McEvoy He said that he was entrusted by a friend to help him take a look, so this kind of favor is not something ordinary people can give!

Facing his inquiry, McEvoy even narrowed his eyes with a smile, shook his head and said, "Oh, yes, you may not know these things."

"It's impossible for Steven and those guys to talk to you about these things..."

"It's okay anyway, so let me tell you, look on the list of producers of "The Wedding Banquet", is there a guy named Dolly Hall? She was an unknown actor before, and then she went behind the scenes ..."

"The first movie she made was "Revenge of the Poison Demon", and then she worked as an assistant director at Troma Company. In 1990, she made a movie "Love is a Promise of Life and Death" with someone. The male supporting role won the Oscar nominations in 1991..."

"She asked someone from MGM to let me take a look..."

I see…

When McEvoy explained to Roland the twists and turns behind the movie without hesitation, he heard Troma and "Revenge of the Toxic Demon", and he directly clarified the interpersonal network behind James Shams.

Troma, that is a well-known B-movie company! All kinds of wonderful elements can be found in their movies!

And what they produced "Three Queens and One King", "Waitress", "StuckOnYou!"...

Just by looking at the name, you can tell that this car is so fast that it can throw the wheels out!

Of course, it’s not the point to get started by making color movies, the point is that they can’t make any money making this kind of movie.

When they figured out that these bikini-wearing blond girls couldn't sell, they turned to horror movies.

"The Revenge of the Poison Devil" is the representative work of their company.

Of course, it's a horror movie, but "Venom" is more like an anti-hero movie like "Venom", and after the movie was successful, they fell in love with that crazy hybrid genre like plasma, stump, Nakedwoman .

When they got bigger and bigger, their influence went beyond the movie itself. Quentin Tarantino publicly admitted that he was a fan of Troma. Peter Jackson, who made "The Dead" said that his inspiration It is from the madness of Troma.

It is precisely because Troma has so many fans that many ordinary people who really like movies regard it as the starting point of their careers, such as Samuel Jackson, Angelina Jolie's ex-husband Billy Song Dayton, Kevin Costner, who won the Oscar for Best Director and Picture for "Dances with Wolves", Oliver Stone, who was under Martin Scorsese's door, and "Rocky" director John - Everson, James Gunn, director of the Guardians of the Galaxy series...

They're all from Troma!

Even Brad Pitt borrowed Troma's power!

Troma is the real novice village in Hollywood, where poor and white guys can try to get ahead after two years in it!

As long as you don't use up resources like a fairy and leave, the guy who has already played well will take care of you.

Because—everyone is a civilian.

"So it's from Troma? I see..."

Why did "The Wedding Banquet" appear on Sony?

This question is like why Roland can sit here.

If you have to divide Hollywood as a whole, after throwing away the small sects like the Australian Gang, the second most powerful is actually the Troma, which represents the common people, and the largest is naturally the Jewish Gang.

‘It turns out that Ang Lee opened up the American market by relying on the relationship of the Troma family? '

Roland originally came to get the materials of "Groundhog Day", but he didn't expect this sudden gossip to make him full.

Although this kind of thing is not important to others, it is quite meaningful to Roland.

Is it because of the discovery of James Shams, who can **** food from Miramax, who is a regular villain in American entertainment novels?

No, Roland, the kind of guy who can spray small steel guns, doesn't have the heart to understand. Some people just want to lean up and show themselves like Harry and Meghan. What can he do?

What really made him remember James Shams and the Troma faction was actually Xiangjiang's martial arts instructor!

That's right, while Roland was smiling, countless kung fu movies had appeared in his mind...

In fact, as early as when filming "T2" and "Captain Hook", Roland discovered something unexpected to him-Hollywood, there is no action guide at all.

How to shoot an action movie?

The director drew the actions on the storyboard, let the actors learn one by one, and then shot them one by one. Through post-editing, the scenes became tense and exciting. Because of this, 1995 years ago, Hollywood action movies would be punchy. To the meat, not because they don't want to be elegant, but because of the freeze-frame shooting, it is not easy to be elegant...

In this way, such a situation appeared—

"T1", the governor drove against the wall, "T2", the governor raised people against the wall, "T3", the governor himself attacked the wall, "T4", the governor pinched people against the wall, "T5", the governor took his head against the wall, "T6" , the governor turned into a pile driver, constantly hitting the wall...

Although T-800 is such a setting, he is a devil terminator, he must have an absolute sense of power, and can’t make those fancy things, but this also has something to do with taking pictures in front of the storyboard.

The movements are dismembered, how do you make them coherent?

It's like a "Fuse", which can make the guys on YouTube watch it and scream.

The ‘Captain America trying to strangle Ultron’ action can be done in freeze-frame—

You want him to float, but he can't float!

So when Roland saw Schwarzenegger, Williams, and Hoffman foolishly dancing single or double dances on the set, he was like Brother Chao, beeping in bewilderment. 'whatare you doing? ’ soul torture.

And this is actually the real reason why Roland couldn't write the script of "Spider-Man" at all...

Because he couldn't design the action in freeze-frame, he didn't know how to write every fight scene, and there was no way for this thing to plagiarize, let alone, Roland didn't even look down on this low-level action shooting method!

He wants Xiangjiang martial arts instructor to save his life!

He didn't want to make the elegant Spider-Man into Tim Burton's version of Batman!

Fighting in the water, even the flying bat Ke Zheng'e is not as good as it is!

However, it is possible to find someone, but there is a problem.

How could he tell Spielberg and Cameron that I need to ask the guys from the film company to go to the other side of the ocean and invite me some awesome martial artists when Hollywood has no concept of action direction?

According to Spielberg's agreement, "Spiderman" will be filmed in 1995, and Jackie Chan broke into Hollywood with "Red Fan District" in 1996, and Wu Baige only filmed "Broken Arrow" in the same year. In this case...

I can't explain it!

Yes, after Xiangjiang Kung Fu movies entered Hollywood, those guys who thought it was amazing started to learn how to direct and design movements, actors to learn, and start filming after doing two tricks...

"Face Changing", "Mission: Impossible 2", "The Matrix", "Charlie's Angels"...these are all products after learning.

And the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, which was covered by Li Lianjie's Chen Jiaban, as well as "007: Skyfall", "Rogue One", "The Last Jedi", "Ace Agent", "Aquaman", these are all It is the work of Wu Zhi who is stationed there.

The most typical is the handsome stormtrooper in "The Force Awakens", which is played by the big brother Yang Liang from the Northeast.

Also in "Mission: Impossible 6", the guy who fought Ethan and Da Chao in the toilet.

And the action director in "Wonder Woman 2" was also taken down by him.

Wouldn't Roland be a fool if he didn't pay attention to the fact that he knew that there was a martial finger that could be used?

Do the best you can, Peter Parker's spider sensor can do bullet time, so...

Keanu Reeves, it's not your turn to show this time!

I, Roland, will be the handsome beep in the action movies of the new era!

Just imagine, in the era when "Red Fan District" did not appear in North America and "Broken Arrow" was not released, I had already left the set and ran wildly on the road of Liu Jialiang, a hard horse, Liu Jialiang, and a family class!

In the case of Xiangjiang Wuzhi + Industrial Light & Magic + Super IP + that unlucky Cameron will become the director!

Other guys, how do you compare with me?

Watch my taillights follow my **** and eat ashes!

Alas, the feeling of being surrounded by top resources is so unpretentious and boring!

Before, he really couldn’t find a good way to explain to those big bosses who taught him bit by bit, how did I know that Bruce Lee’s hometown has a lot of capable people, but now! Isn't the channel just in front of you!

Among the producers, in addition to James Shams, there is also Xu Ligong from Wanwan!

Xu Ligong is indeed not from Xiangjiang, but he should not be too familiar with Anle Films, which occupies 40% of the market of Xiangjiang cinemas!

Ang Lee had no money for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, so Xu Ligong immediately went to Jiang Zhiqiang, the boss of Anle, to invest!

Fa Ge, Michelle Yeoh and Yuan Heping were also found by Jiang Zhiqiang!

In this way, Russian nesting dolls can be played!

Martin Scorsese is Oliver Stone's teacher, Oliver Stone is the predecessor of the Troma faction, James Shams is from Troma and Ang Lee's good brother, and Ang Lee's boss is Xu Ligong, Xu Ligong is Jiang Zhiqiang's friend, and Jiang Zhiqiang... Oh, this six-dimensional space theory is really easy to use!

It's like Roland asked David to help him pluck the bear's hair, and directly blamed Perelman on him—

It's like Roland encouraged Spielberg to start a distribution company and directly blamed Cameron on him—

It's like Roland bought a game company and then blamed Spielberg for his hobbies—

Something that doesn't make sense?

Then find someone who can explain and push it to them, isn't it over?

Brother Kai got a super aiming device and deployed it, but I still have to shout that my reed is not activated!

And now—

AngLee, look at this pot, it’s black and heavy, just like the prize, big and thick…

After receiving the materials of "Groundhog Day" handed over by the beautiful black silk secretary, Roland pushed the materials in front of McDavoy, "Mike, I want to ask you to do something..."

"Huh? You don't want me to buy this movie for distribution, do you?"

"Difficulties?"

"It's okay to buy, and it's okay to distribute, but you have to give me a reason..."

"I like it, okay?"

"What? Do you believe that Steven will beat you to death if he finds out?"

"Bah! What are you talking about? I mean I like the guy James Shams...Hey! You see I was wrong! I mean this director named Ang Lee is NYU Tisch People from the Academy of Art, who went to the same school as Martin and Oliver, plus the Troma you just mentioned, give him a chance..."

"Wow, why do you guys like to give others a chance as much as Steven?"

"Do you dare to say such a thing in front of Steven?"

"Uh... I didn't say it... But you can buy it, but I said in advance that there is no way to spread a large area of ​​films with this kind of theme, and the production cost of the whole movie is only 750,000, so..."

"Okay, okay, don't count that for me. If you don't want to buy it, then I will pay for it and then distribute it to you at Columbia Samsung. If you are afraid of losing money, then deduct 8% of the fee. If it is not enough Buckle, I will supply you, do you want to do it?"

"Do!"

When Roland saw the upright guy, his eyes suddenly showed contempt.

Isn’t it because you are afraid of losing money? Is it necessary to be so picky?

Note: ①After the golden age, there is no such thing as big luck in Hollywood. The Troma Company is also a faction. Although they turned over at a small cost, there are still some people on it. Brad Pitt was brought up by Kevin Costner. It's poisonous chicken soup. The same is true for Ang Lee. That movie was promoted by someone from Troma, and it was actually MGM that took over. ②The situation of action direction is true. Before Wu Baige and Jackie Chan went, there were only two concepts in Hollywood, one was 'stunt coordinator' and the other was 'stunt double', and a Powell family was derived from Dini- Starting with Powell, his nephews, nieces, and three generations of his family are stand-ins for the "007" series, specializing in doing good-looking movements for actors. Before using martial arts, only a few movies hired professionals to guide the movements. ", the "Star Wars" series, but all of them are swordplay. Wu Baige once said that when he went to shoot "Ultimate Target" in 1993, he found that there was no action guide, and he couldn't draw Hollywood stop-motion pictures, so the actions were all designed by Jean-Claude Van Damme himself. That is to say, only after he and Jackie Chan broke into Hollywood one after the other, did the action director say so. And Hollywood companies are very shrewd. Later, when they filmed "The Matrix", they wanted to make all Lianjie's movements into CGI, the copyright belonged to themselves, and then use them casually. It was Lianjie who refused. Now there are many martial arts in Hollywood. , Yang Liang mentioned in the article has a very rich resume. ④I checked, and the bullet time was already in 1994.