Chapter 572: Forrest Gump and Jenny are connected in spirit
Under Ronald's urging, the distributor of "The Joy Luck Club" has stepped up its efforts. The number of screening theaters has jumped from less than 20 to 300. If the box office is still strong, it will be added to more than 1,000 theaters next week.
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In addition, Bowie invested a large amount of money into the marketing of the movie. In addition to using the major media to promote one of the leading actors, Andrew McCarthy and Tomita Tamling, two stars familiar to American audiences, he also used
Thanks to the overseas distribution relationship, it was screened at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain and the New York Film Festival as a screening film.
Coupled with the Toronto Film Festival, which was originally scheduled to participate, and a Taylor Reed Film Festival in Colorado, the film is expected to receive some good reviews domestically and internationally.
In addition to the limited screening scale in the early stage, the audiences who came to see the movie were mostly Asian audiences, white people who are interested in Asian culture, or die-hard fans of Andrew McCarthy and Tam Ling Tomita, so the movie's reputation is very good.
With this kind of preparation, "The Joy Luck Club" will have a chance to become another box office dark horse by expanding its screening scale in the next two weeks.
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"Mr. Li, this is the document that Mr. Lovett (Richard) personally told you to see..."
Ronald stayed at home with his wife and children for two days. He felt as energetic as recharging his batteries. He didn't go to bed immediately after getting on the plane. At this time, seeing that the opportunity was right, the stewardess brought the newly released movie review to Richard.
Ronald looks.
Of two famous film critics in Chicago, Gene Sisko liked "The Joy Luck Club" more and wrote some very praising words.
He praised the film for showing a true image of Asians, no longer the image of childhood violinists and spelling bee champions. He also praised the performances of the four veteran actors for successfully portraying the first-generation Chinese female immigrants.
How the cruelty of life continues to affect their daughter's life growing up in America... Sisko rarely gave a movie with a Chinese-American main character four stars.
Most of the other movie reviews are A or B. The main point in common is that this movie portrays a new image of Asians. They are also individuals with flesh and blood, their own dreams and emotions, which completely breaks the previous American image.
Asians in literary and artistic works have a stereotyped collectivist image.
There was only one film critic who didn't know if it was racist against Asians, so he only gave it a C score. He was Ty Burr from Entertainment Weekly.
In his opinion, the film "deals with primal issues such as abandonment, infanticide, suffocating maternal love, and self-esteem, giving you a strong emotional impact and being extremely faithful to the novel."
But the story is generally tired and preachy. The movie is filled with embarrassing nudity, nonsense dialogue, and all the white male characters are "betrayers."
Only the scenes with Chia Chiu and Lu Yan are truly cinematic, but their appearance comes too late to save the film.
"Put me through to Mr. Michael Gray..."
Ronald is now somewhat immune to this level of bad film reviews. This film critic obviously cannot understand the implicit expressions of Easterners. He cannot understand many actors' expressions, body language, and the subtext behind their lines.
"Michael, yes, I saw it, we have to respond to his movie review..."
Ronald used the satellite phone to chat with the marketing consultant about strategy for a while. Such negative reviews actually have little impact on the box office. Firstly, he is the only one who is "unconventional", and secondly, the current audience loves movies of this style.
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But if there are negative reviews, let’s refute them again. It’s best for Ty Burr to fight back, so that the two sides can quarrel, and more viewers can see the quarrel about a Chinese-dominated movie, which can attract more people who are not booking
People in the audience went into the theater to see for themselves whether the movie was good or bad.
The counterattack against him now focuses on two aspects.
First, you are completely discriminating against Asian culture and looking at the problem from the perspective of white supremacy. The problems encountered by those first-generation immigrants are very common among many immigrants to America, and are not
It's not special. It's just the film critic's arrogance that causes him to be biased against unfamiliar cultures.
Second, you are simply discriminating against women and have not understood the movie. The so-called tiring and preachy thing is just because you have missed the wonderfulness of the actors' performances. Women's emotional expressions are more delicate than those of male characters. Tai·
Burr is a typical proud white man who is always full of judgmental tendencies towards women's way of thinking.
Michael Gray added a lot of interviews with director Wayne Wang and the actors, fully demonstrating that if you find this movie boring, it is because you are too chauvinistic.
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"Hahaha……"
Sure enough, this rebuttal article, published in the New York Daily News under the name of a new female film critic, has indeed received a lot of attention from the film criticism community. Even Sisko and Ebert published it on their weekly film review TV show
I also read a few paragraphs and made fun of Tai Burr. He said that he was not as good as a little-known female film critic because he had a profound understanding of movies.
Ronald did not continue to immerse himself in the joy of using scolding battles to drive the box office. He took a night's rest on the set and continued filming the next day.
"Robin, I will clear the field. If you feel something is wrong, call a timeout immediately. We have prepared a lot of snacks and hot chicken soup there. You can go and rest and find a suitable state, okay?"
In a small local theater-style house, Ronald was about to shoot the scene of Jenny's club singing.
"OK, the cold still makes me a little tired. Chicken soup is really good..."
Robin Wright was wearing pajamas, and she was going to shoot a scene where she was naked and holding a guitar and singing. Of course, in this movie, which is aiming for a PG-13 rating, there would be no full-frontal nudity.
This chapter is not over, please click the next page to continue reading! Jenny used the guitar to sing ballads in this club, which is actually a striptease performance venue, which is a symbol that she still has expectations for her future. Playing with the guitar
, which happened to be used to neutralize the nudity scenes.
"Action!"
Except for a few actors sitting in the audience, all other non-essential people had cleared out of the filming location. An actress in cheap and voluptuous clothes on the stage hugged the top she took off, covering her breasts, and then
Under the illumination of the lights, I walked downstairs.
A host announced on the stage:
"Let us give her a little more applause. Next, our rebellious girl from California (gold for Jenny's face), let us give her another round of applause to welcome this enchanting beauty, 'Bobby Dylan'
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The nickname of Bobby Dylan refers to the famous singer who imitated folk songs and the author of the song that Jenny is going to sing, Bob Dylan.
This kind of low-grade performance venue relies on all kinds of celebrity popularity to promote girls who are essentially engaged in striptease performances, adding various qualities that make men itchy, so that they can obediently throw money on the stage.
, and drink a few more drinks.
The curtains on both sides were opened, and Robin Wright was sitting on a chair, with his legs crossed and nothing on, covering himself with an acoustic guitar.
"Oh ho ho..."
There was sparse applause from the audience, and most of the men in the not-full auditorium whistled tacitly when they saw this scene.
“How far does a man have to go to be called a man?
How many seas does a dove have to fly over before it can sleep peacefully in the white sand?
Yes, how many times does the cannonball have to fly before it is banned forever?"
This scene was shot very naturally. Robin Wright herself has the temperament of a folk singer. Coupled with the hairstyle of the most coquettish female star on the screen in the 1950s and 1960s, the whole person is charming and charming.
Pure, giving people a contradictory feeling.
Several audience members and actors below were all whispering to each other. It was obvious that the level of singing in this section was beyond their expectations. They did not expect to hear real music here.
One of Robin Wright's raised feet, the pink high-heeled shoe fell off a little bit from the heel, swaying and beating the time, also teasing the nerves of the audience in the audience.
Finally, when the third verse of the lyrics was proposed, some viewers couldn't help it anymore, and they began to use language to tease Jenny.
"Hey hey, when are you going to put the guitar down?"
"Yeah, why not give her a harmonica?"
"Hahaha……"
The audience in the front row had spent a lot of money on drinks. After drinking a lot, their inner desires gradually overcame their reason and they began to use words to tease.
"Hey sweetheart this is not Captain Kangaroo"
"Hey sweetheart, I have something for you..."
Finally, an audience member who had drunk too much began to escalate his verbal teasing into actions. He took out a banknote, stood up, grabbed the stage, and stuffed it into Jenny's high heels.
"Cut!"
After taking a few shots, Ronald felt satisfied. Robin Wright also stood up quickly, put on the pajamas handed to him by the assistant who rushed over, and went to the lounge backstage to drink chicken soup.
The cold has not completely recovered, so filming a nude scene is really fatal. But Robin Wright is not afraid of being exposed. The script states that she is completely naked, but in fact she is wearing a pair of underwear and flesh-colored pantyhose. Under the lighting design,
The general audience can't see it. The upper body is covered with a protective nipple patch, and only the back is completely naked.
"The next scene is shot down from the stage. Tom, you have to stand in that position..."
Ronald took advantage of Robin's opportunity to rest and immediately began to arrange the next scene.
This is a double metaphor scene. In the minds of the audience and Jenny, they know that this is not actually singing, but a striptease. But in Jenny's heart, some uncontaminated place rushes to see her.
Forrest Gump, who is "performing", thinks that this is a folk singer's performance.
"Very well, please stand up, Tom, and let me see you... The light here should pass through Jenny's blond hair to form an outline of light..."
Ronald issued an order to the director of photography, asking him to direct the lighting team to arrange the effect he wanted. A stand-in, who was about the same height as Robin Wright, found the lighting for her in place.
"Action!"
Two hours passed, and the shots from the back began.
Robin Wright immediately handed the chicken soup to his assistant, rubbed his hands, and struck the same pose again. This time the camera filmed it from behind.
Jenny's naked back, under the dim light, is full of erotic connotations. A spotlight shines on her hair from the roof, projecting from the edge of the blond hair, coupled with the religious lyrics of the song
, giving the whole scene a holy meaning.
The many male audience members in the audience looked at each other with lustful eyes, and Forrest Gump, who was standing behind the auditorium and enjoying Jenny's singing, created another double contradiction.
In such a scene, the movie audience can easily feel through Forrest Gump's eyes the feeling that Forrest Gump and Jenny are connected in spirit, but both cannot live in the world.
"Cut!"
Ronald captured the feeling he wanted, and the crew began to arrange the lighting again. Waiting for a shot from Jenny's side and behind, it was used to shoot the scene where Jenny had a conflict with the audience in the front row.
Continuous shooting has entered the middle of the night. After resetting the lighting and adjusting the focus, it was already one o'clock in the night.
Although Robin Wright had a good rest, she still showed fatigue. The cold had not completely recovered, which made her very tired. However, Robin Wright was still very dedicated to the filming of the movie. After touching up her makeup, she still only hugged her.
Sitting on a stool with guitar.
"Action!"
"I have something here for you..." The audience actor stood up again and wanted to stuff money into Jenny's high heels.
"Get out of here..." Jenny sang with the feeling of a folk singer. She felt that she was not here to be a dancer.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Fuck..." The audience member picked up a glass of wine and poured it on Robin Wright's face...
"Cut, Cut..." Ronald immediately stopped. This time Robin Wright's performance was a bit out of place. She was not mainly because of the audience's tampering, but because the other party did not regard her as a singer and regarded her as a singer.
The stripper was angry. So instead of avoiding the other person's hands touching her feet, she kicked him in anger.
"Okay, I understand."
Robin Wright understood what Ronald meant, but her hair and makeup, which had been splashed with alcohol, had to be redone. The hairstylist and makeup artist surrounded her and worked for twenty minutes before they were restored to their original state.
"Action!"
"Cut, Cut..."
When he got to the place where the audience stuffed money, Ronald was dissatisfied again. In strip clubs in America, the default rule is that you can see but not touch, and stuff money into the dancer's clothes if you feel like it.
This spectator's action somewhat broke this unspoken rule. Audiences who have been to the club will definitely see that this is a mistake. In fact, the audience just wants to put money into their shoes and see "more things", rather than to
Breaking the rules and causing trouble caused him to be thrown out by the bodyguards in the venue.
However, Robin Wright's hair and makeup were messed up again, and Ronald had to wait for another half hour. He thought for a while, "We can just mess with this one."
"Splash your feet?" The actor playing the role of the audience made a splash gesture at the stand-in's feet.
"Yes, the scene captured this way is more impactful..."
That said, it was actually to reduce the time wastage of the heroine having to put on makeup repeatedly after being splashed with water. Anyway, the difference between the two shooting methods on the final screen was minimal. Ronald weighed it up and decisively prioritized cost.
Soon, after changing the shooting method of this shot, the desired effect was quickly achieved. Next, Forrest Gump rushed to the front and beat the audience angrily for Jenny, and then jumped on the stage and wanted to hold Jenny away. And Jenny because of Forrest Gump
The beating job was gone, so the scene where he jumped out of Forrest Gump's arms and walked away alone was also filmed.
Finally, the angle was changed to an upward shot from the audience. Forrest Gump held Jenny's guitar and rushed behind the stage to chase Jenny.
"Tom, Tom... feel like Forrest Gump running..."
"OK!"
In the next one, Tom Hanks held the guitar decisively, then stuck his butt out and chased after him with a ridiculously clumsy pace.
"Cut!"
Finally, the long shooting was over, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. The actors went to bed first, and the staff quickly packed up. The assistant director was checking the equipment list. Ronald was also one of the last people to leave.
As soon as he arrived in the room, he fell asleep as soon as his head rested on the pillow. Tomorrow he would be filming scenes of the Vietnam War. There would be many armed helicopters and large barrels of petrol bombs...