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Chapter 560: Have they ever acted as a couple?

"Ronald, I'm glad you can really reassure Rita. You know, she has always had a say in my career choices. She was recommending another script to me before..."

Tom Hanks was still a little thin, and Ronald asked him to prepare according to Forrest Gump’s figure when he was young. Hanks nodded in agreement and sent Ronald out. When the two were together in private, Hanks

He also told Ronald the truth.

Rita Wilson was Hanks's second wife. Hanks divorced her and remarried her, and Rita immediately became a stepmother to her two children, Colin and Elizabeth, who were born from his previous marriage.

This makes Tom Hanks feel a little guilty towards Rita Wilson. Before remarrying, he converted to the Orthodox Church of his Greek wife. Rita Wilson also has a considerable say in his acting career.

"Oh, you seem to have a good impression of that script. If you value it, it must be a good script..." Ronald thought it was interesting.

"Yeah, it's an adaptation of Stephen King's novel called The Shawshank Redemption, and they want me to play the lead role, Andy."

"What?" Ronald asked subconsciously when he heard the complicated and un-English movie title. He has never been very good at pronouncing non-English names like Shawshank."

"Shawshank Redemption, who cares, I don't know what it means. I'll see you when I audition with the other supporting actors..." Tom Hanks also felt that the name was too hard to pronounce, so he sent Ronald out with a smile.



"God, you nailed Tom Hanks. What a casting victory. John Travolta is so much closer to the original in appearance, but Hanks... oh, I'm so proud of you, Rona."

Virtue..."

It turned out that Ronald's teacher in casting, Julia Taylor, was recruited as the casting director for Forrest Gump. When she heard that Tom Hanks had been confirmed as the leading actor, she was immediately happy.

very.

This is the theory adhered to by casting directors in her lineage. Whether an actor matches their appearance is not the most important, but whether their inner temperament matches is the most critical. From The Godfather looking for Al Pacino to graduation

I was looking for Dustin Hoffman. Both of them are candidates whose appearance is very different from the original work, but whose temperament is particularly suitable.

Pacino is short in stature, but his performance is explosive, making him more suitable for the talented second-generation Godfather in the original work. Dustin Hoffman is a typical Jew, and has little resemblance to the handsome blond man in the original work.

None, but the role of a sensitive and delicate young man is particularly suitable for him.

In the original work, Forrest Gump is nearly two meters tall, tall and powerful, and good at all sports. John Travolta, a former dance king, is indeed very suitable in appearance. But in the adapted script, his kindheartedness makes people trust him

, with the character traits of slowness and perseverance, Tom Hanks is indeed the most suitable.

"Yeah, when I saw the script, the first thing I thought of was Tom Hanks. It seems that the things you taught me before are working now... Hahaha... By the way, I heard that Tom also has other

I needed him for the script, but luckily I was smart enough to work with Shirley and Lansing to get him..."

Ronald boasted smugly, and Julia Taylor, who didn't know his details, was very happy. She went to pour a cup of coffee and handed it to him to express her relief.

"By the way, the movie you're talking about looking for Hanks isn't the one that the Weinstein brothers of Miramax are working on, right? I heard they found a director genius..."

"Well, it doesn't seem like it. I heard Hanks mention that it was released by Columbia. It's called... it's called..."

Ronald was stuck. The title of this movie was a mouthful and had no clear meaning. "Well, Xiao Sha... no, Shen Xiao..., Atonement... no, help... anyway, it's a novel by Stephen King."

Adapted…”

Ronald was about to collapse. As a director and producer, he could not remember the names of the scripts he had heard. He only remembered that the first word was the name of a place with a foreign pronunciation that was difficult to pronounce, and the last word seemed to have some religious meaning.

The meaning is an area that he knows very little about.

This movie is about the theme of prison break. You said it would be better to just give it a new name, called Prison Breaker. It is simple and clear, and the audience will understand it at a glance.

Julia Taylor was so confused by what Ronald said that she couldn't even remember that it was an adaptation of Stephen King's best-selling novel. "Oh, I'll ask someone, but it's definitely not the movie I was talking about. The Miramax one

The project is called Pulp Fiction, it’s not a high-concept movie, and they also want to find an actor to star in it.”

"Pulp novels?" When Ronald heard this name, he felt that it was much better than that Shoshaka. Generally, in bookstores, there is a type of name that exposes the name, the description is strange and explicit, and it specializes in telling things that don't sound true.

Novels for the lower class to read for entertainment are called Pulp Fiction. They are sold in a special area (in fact, the translation that is closer to the Chinese context is Storytelling).

Although it is not as clear-cut as "Prison Break", it is still very eye-catching and does not make any mystery, so that the audience is curious to see what the story is about. It is much easier to understand than "Sasha Ken's Life".

"But we still need a preliminary candidate..." Julia Taylor said. Although the male lead has been decided, the casting is still a process stipulated by the Screen Actors Guild, unless you are not using actors from the Screen Actors Guild, and the project is not in Hollywood.

MPAA registration, otherwise you can't just bypass the public casting call and do it privately.

"Who do you think is suitable?" Ronald asked.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "John Travolta must be dying, how about trying this?" Julia Taylor found an actor's resume. This man was very tall and had a handsome face.

There is also a reserved temperament.

"Tim, I know him, he does have a possibility..." Ronald recognized that this was Tim Robbins, who played a backseat weapons officer whose call sign was Merlin in Top Gun.

"And our old acquaintances..." Julia Taylor handed over another one. On it was Madonna's ex-husband, one of the leading actors in Ronald's debut film, Sean Penn. His face also had a certain look.

Characteristics of mental retardation.

"Okay, I have no problem with that. You can ask them to audition. Then you can tell me what the reason is..."

"Hahaha, what is editing?" Julia Taylor was amused by Ronald's joke, "I just said, if there are other projects in the main selection, they can be the second place substitute..."

"You have the final say, boss..." Ronald said what he often said when he was working as a portrait photographer for Julia Taylor in New York, and the two immediately started selecting other roles.

"What do you imagine the heroine to be like?" Julia Taylor immediately asked.

"I don't want a traditional hippie girl. It's best to have a southern appearance, innocent, sensitive, who has been insulted and bullied. Although she lives in the hippie circle, she still retains a trace of pure ideals..."

Ronald thought for a while and explained his understanding of the character of Jenny. Movies are a visual art. Readers can have their own interpretations of Jenny in the novel. But in the movie, the male protagonist like Forrest Gump is definitely the audience.

The perspective of substitution.

So what kind of Jenny, after abandoning Forrest Gump again and again, can still be accepted by the audience without feeling that there is anything psychologically unacceptable?

This Jenny must first have the vulnerability of a victim. All the bad things that happen to her must be the result of a series of tragedies imposed on her by the outside world.

And for Forrest Gump, in addition to a kind of pity, she must also have the kind of intimate emotion between two children who are not accepted by the group. The reason is unclear, but the lifelong bond...

In other words, when the audience sees Jenny's choices, they can think that she did something wrong, but they cannot regard her as a completely bad woman. At some moments, the audience must also feel that there is a soft place in her heart, which is

Reserved for Forrest Gump.

"Jodie Foster..." Julia Taylor immediately recommended. Such a role requires a hard-line face and restrained and rich acting skills.

"I'm not saying she's not good, but..." Ronald felt that the actress in the original version was pretty good. Jodie Foster sounded like a good choice, but... her salary was a bit too expensive.

"Demi Moore..."

Another actress with strong lines, but again, expensive.

"What about Robin Wright? I heard my friend Robert Reiner say something about her performance in The Princess Bride." Ronald said the name directly.

Julia Taylor found the audition photos and looked at them carefully for a long time, "You know, Ronald, if you had been a casting director back then, you would have been a first-class actor in Hollywood."

This Robin Wright is tall enough, and is more pure in static photos, but in some clips of The Princess Bride, the determination in her eyes to pursue her own ideas is very similar to Jenny.

"However, her physical condition may be a bit troublesome..." Julia Taylor called her agent for a while and came back to tell Ronald.

"Ah? She hasn't given birth yet?" Ronald felt strange. During the last filming of Sugar-coated Trap, Robin Wright said that she was pregnant. Why hasn't she given birth after so long?

"Her agent said the due date is within the next few days. If we start the production normally, it depends on her recovery speed..." Julia Taylor also pouted. Robin Wright's boyfriend is Sean Penn.

There was a lot of gossip between these two people, they separated and reunited many times, and some things were unclear.

"It depends on her own wishes..." Ronald scratched his head. Although he didn't have to do it, her performance in the dream clip was still wonderful, so he still gave her a chance.

"Where's Barb?" Ronald continued another important role, the black soldier who became good friends with Forrest in the army, Benjamin Buford Blue, nicknamed Barb.

"I have a few candidates here, Dave Chappelle, Ice Cube, Tupac (2Pac)..."

Among the several candidates submitted by Julia Taylor, these black people all have one thing in common. They are the kind of "civilian black faces" that are often seen in life, not Eddie Murphy or Denzel Washington.

He has an "elite black face" that is very delicate and can quickly blend in with white people.

"What do these two people do?" Ronald looked at the faces of Ice Cube and 2Pac. They both had the ferocity of those who came from street gangs, and their names were also different.

It's too much like a serious Hollywood actor's stage name.

"They are rappers, but their acting skills are all natural. They have both acted in John Singleton movies, Ice Cube has played the boy from the block, and Tupac and Janet Jackson have played Justin who writes poetry.

Si... were all directed by Singleton."

Ronald looked at the photo handed over by Julia Taylor and then remembered. This was John Singleton, the black director who broke his own age record for Best Director nomination at the Oscars that year. A movie that became famous and a hit.

The box office was wiped out.

However, the performances of these two actors are quite natural. They also meet Ronald's requirements for the role of Barb, which is not to have the black elite style passed down from Sidney Poitier.

No matter the degree of racial discrimination, there are always one or two black actors in Hollywood who can ignore the color of their skin and make white audiences regard him as one of their own, not those of black people.

After Sidney Poitier, there is OJ Simpson, a former football star, and then Eddie Murphy. In the past two years, Denzel Washington is also very hopeful to take over the inheritance.

But the character of Babu is purely an ordinary black person to be compared with Forrest Gump. Instead of treating them as black elites who do not look like black people, the audience must look at them as black people.

A particularly interesting thing in the script is that Forrest's name, Forrest, is inherited from the founder of the Ku Klux Klan in the South. But in the army, he was best friends with Barb, a black man, and became his best friend.

To him, Babu was like Jenny in the army, a character who was also discriminated against and insulted, but in A-Gump, who was kind and pure at heart, he could find the purest friendship.

After John Singleton's training, the two actors, Ice Cube and Tupac, don't think there is much of a problem in conveying this kind of emotion. The only thing to worry about is that the two of them have a similar appearance.

Too fierce and not silly enough. But this needs to be determined through auditions.

In the end, it was Lieutenant Dan and Forrest’s mother’s choice.

Lieutenant Dan and Julia Taylor recommended Joe Pesci, the winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, who recently starred in Scorsese's gangster film, and Joe Kevin Bacon, who started his career in musicals and has a typical white appearance.

As for Forrest Gump's mother, Ronald immediately thought of Sally Field, who also played a mother from a traditional white southern wealthy family in "Steel Magnolias". All backgrounds were similar, and double Oscar winner Sally Field obviously played the role.

It's easy to get up and drive.

"You have to consider that Ronald Sally Field and Tom Hanks played roles that seemed like a couple a few years ago... If it's troublesome for the audience to think about it, they might laugh out loud.

"

"Ah? They also played a couple? What kind of movie? I have to find it and watch it..."


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