Chapter Thirty-One
Bruce Willis Richard?
Looking at the smiling big head photo on the webpage, the more Ye Wei looked, the more suitable he felt! Willis is currently the best candidate behind Hanks, and some aspects can be said to be more suitable.
This 48-year-old man is a member of the 25 million yuan pay club and is one of the top actors in Hollywood today.
From the Broadway stage to the TV screen, and then to the big screen, with the "Die Hard" series, he became one of the representatives of the group of action superstars in the 1980s and 1990s. He has a huge reputation worldwide and countless fans. He is really the favorite of overseas publishers.
If you think he has no acting skills because of his cool tough guy image, you will be wrong.
Willis is far more than an action superstar. He has won the Emmy Awards and Golden Globes Best Actor in TV Comedy ("Blue Moonlight Detective Agency", 1985), won the Golden Globes Best Supporting Actor in Movie ("Hot Cold and Warm", 1989), and four Saturn Awards Best Actor nominations. He has a wide range of acting careers, funny guys, kind fathers, and irritable veterans, all of whom are handy and praiseworthy. It is not surprising that he is from Broadway!
So in the mid-to-late 1990s, when the trend of muscle tough guys' action was gradually over, audiences should not like to watch special effects action blockbusters, or watch funny juggling action movies like Jackie Chan's "Peak Hour". Traditional action superstars such as Stallone and Shangge Yundon all wanted to transform, otherwise they would go downhill.
But their acting careers are not as good as Willis, so they are not as good as they transform. Like Stallone, although he has been nominated for the Oscar Award (Rocky, 1976), his 1997 "Police Empire" still has a good result, but his 2000 "The Killing" has been defeated and is still struggling hard.
Willis's status has not decreased but increased, and the highest record of single-piece pay is not as good as Schwarzenegger, but its commercial value is actually higher.
Because he can play the kind father worker in "The Peerless Heavenly Tribulation" (1998), the sad psychologist in "The Supernatural Sixth Sense" (1999), and the frustrated middle-aged man in "Returning My Innocence" (2000)... With these films, he successfully survived the crisis of changing movie trends and stood in the 25 million pay club.
Why is it said that he is more suitable in certain aspects?
Look at the most critical "The Sixth Sense" of his transformation period. This thriller and suspense drama has a box office of US$670 million worldwide, and 6 Oscar nominations including the Best Picture, which are well received! And its director and screenwriter M Knight Shamaran was only 28 years old when filming the film.
Shamalan is also a legend. He filmed more than 40 family short films at the age of 17, and won the Oscar for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay at the age of 29. He is currently the director of a first-line thriller commercial film in Hollywood. But at that time, he was nothing, or an unlucky newcomer who only won 280,000 box office for 6 million yuan in the screen debut "A Bag of Little Devils" (1998).
However, Willis starred in "The Sixth Sense of Supernatural Sense"! Although he played it with a 20 million yuan salary, it still shows that he has a good attitude towards acting. He dares to give young people a chance. Not everyone has the interest and courage to believe in a 28-year-old new director. This is very important!
Another point is that Shamalan is an Indian. Racial discrimination and racial prejudice are there exactly. Ye Wei has also had a lot of experience in this regard. Some people think that Asians cannot do some things well, but Willis does not seem to be the kind of person who is biased.
Willis also made a guest appearance in "Friends" a few years ago, with three episodes! Although he had to keep his promise because he lost the box office with Matthew Perry, not every superstar has such leisure. If he dares to bet, it means he dares to play. In his career, he is gambled!
And he never minds playing the role of father, middle-aged loser, funny guy on the screen, and he even dares to die on the screen. This guy is not narrow-minded!
"Wow!" Ye Wei couldn't help but exclaimed excitedly and strangely, which made Toto open his eyes slightly and looked up at the situation.
If anyone among these superstars has the greatest chance to star in "The Little Sunshine Beauty", it is undoubtedly Willis!
However, the difficulty has not been reduced at all. This is even more difficult than a nameless little-level official who convinces Bill Gates, "Hey, Bill, Microsoft should invest to support me in developing a software." Because software can basically distinguish between good and bad by looking at creativity, and movies are unknown before they are released in theaters.
No one said it was easy!
At that moment, Ye Wei took the paper and wrote down the notes, and determined the main targets: Richard, Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis; Grandpa, Destin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro; Cheryl, Julia Roberts, Sandra Brock.
Top goal: Bruce Willis!
Dada! The ballpoint pen tip was clicked on "Bruce-Willis" a few times, and Ye Wei was a little excited. Sheriff, you will be shocked by Brother Wei!
I really want to talk to Willis in detail about this great plan immediately. The question is how to get it online? He looked at the computer screen. Although Willis had contact information on IMDbPRo, he was really looking for death as a middle school student to use this kind of formal channel to contact the agent...
"A ninth-grade student asked Willis to make a movie? April Fools' Day is not here yet!" The agent immediately hung up the phone. Willis himself would not know that such a thing had happened.
So he had to take other ways and shortcuts. He thought about it, what are his current connections in the film industry? Kevin Thomas? Or those people in the focus movies?
Stop talking! Ye Wei picked up his phone, pressed it a few times, and set it on a name in the address book. That's right, Lily Collins.
She might be able to help with this, because her dad is a rock star and her mom is the chairman of the women's club with great influence. Does she have connections? Even if she doesn't have one, she can just ask for it, and she can become one.
It was only nine o'clock now, and Ye Wei called without hesitation, beeping a few times, and connected, and a clear voice with Lily a little British accent came from: "HELLO, bastard."
"Hi, beautiful girl, good evening, do you have time to chat with the phone?"
"Well... it's not very good. My homework hasn't been done yet..."
"Wow, didn't your nanny do it for you?" Ye Wei exclaimed. Harvard-West Lake has a lot of homework. The total number of homework for each subject is normal for more than an hour a day. On weekends, there will always be one night for them on Saturdays and Sundays, which depends on how the students choose.
"Never." Lily's voice seemed a little angry, "I'm not the kind of spoiled celebrity daughter. My mother asked me to study Harvard-West Lake just to give me a strict education. But why didn't she know that there were students like you in the school." She said and laughed.
"How am I? I have finished all my homework and I am more diligent than you." Ye Wei said in a serious tone. His daily homework is no more than 10 minutes, as if the boss signed it.
Lily had already known this situation and immediately smiled and said, "Okay, smart kid, do you understand how to do this math problem? This is it..."
"No, no, don't say it! I signed the code of honor, 'My conscience is my guide'. Telling you the answer will make my conscience uneasy and I can't tell you."
"Stop coming, please, just say it!"
"Okay, let me tell you quietly..." Ye Wei solved the math problem for her, and both Yu and Yu taught her. Lily suddenly realized that she said, "Tell me something serious. I already have a list of the target candidates for big stars."
After Lily decided to dream with him, she fully supported this matter. Hearing him, he asked with interest: "Who are there?"
Ye Wei read the list and finally joked: "There are Phil Collins and Richard." Lily laughed and sneered from her phone immediately, as if she was disdainful: "He? His acting skills are so bad. You have never seen the two bad movies he starred in. It's simply a disaster."
"You mean "Train Thieves" and "Super Deception"?" Ye Wei responded while checking IMDbPRo.
"How did you know!? Have you seen it? Oh no..."
"I've watched thousands of movies, but I haven't seen these two movies. I've only found them on IMDb, but I've watched his screen debut "One Night Carnival" and he's doing it very well."
"One Night Carnival" (1964) is actually the first movie of the Beatles. 13-year-old Phil Collins played a supporting role in it. One of a group of children fans, he had not played rock at that time. When he later became a rock star, this performance became very interesting and magical. Paul McCartney said that he really couldn't believe it.
"Yes, he did a good job in it." Lily held back her laugh, "You know he was an extra that time, right?"
"What! Is that right? I always thought it was a big collection of rock stars."
"No..."
After joking for a while, both of them were tired of laughing. Ye Weicai became serious and talked about who the key goals and why, and said: "Do you have any way to contact Willis? It's better to have a chance to meet and have a face-to-face conversation."
Lily murmured and thoughtfully said, "I know his eldest daughter, Ramo Willis, who is a tenth grader at Wildwood School. I don't have much friendship with her, but I'm still a friend. I've talked to her and her mom Demi Moore several times at the Beverly Hills Women's Club."
"That's great!" Ye Wei stood up from the chair excitedly, and walked around the room with his cell phone, "I feel like I'm walking into the direct passage!"
"Don't be happy so quickly." Lily stopped him and explained: "I really don't know much about Ramo Willis. She may not be willing to help. I don't know what her relationship with her father is like, maybe..."
Ye Wei said oh, and suddenly remembered how many years have passed between Willis and Demi Moore, and there is indeed a possibility that Ramo Willis will fall out with him.
He quickly returned to the computer, checked the IMBb information of Chalamo Willis, and said, "It should be no problem. In 2000, she also starred in "The Complete Nine Codes" starring Willis, no problem. In addition, Ramo is obviously not the type I like, so you can rest assured."
"Who cares!" Lily should roll her eyes, in a distracted tone: "You can do everything you want, and this is something except me, a fool, who will support you, others, as a joke? I told my mom before dinner, do you know what she said?"
"What?" Ye Wei was interested.
"She said, you are either a genius or a lunatic! But no matter what, you are a dangerous person, let me be careful."
"Oh, it makes sense. I'm so hot that it will explode like a bomb at any time. You should listen to your mom, be careful."
"I will!"
The two laughed for a while, because Lily had Ramo Willis's mobile phone number, she finished the call without delay and called immediately...
Chapter completed!