From Flower Vase to Film Emperor in Hollywood

Without the advantage of being reborn, the aesthetic taste of the agent and the actor themselves becomes crucial. Among the countless projects in Hollywood, how to choose scripts and plan a career path requires wisdom and strategy—

And taste.

Both are indispensable.

That's why top superstars are one in a million.

It is precisely because of this that actors and agents need to work together and understand each other.

Sometimes, it's the agent's poor taste that ruins an actor's performance opportunity. Burt Reynolds, an actor who was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, was the first choice for Han Solo in the "Star Wars" series, but his agent thought it was a terrible role and rejected it under the pretext of a scheduling conflict, ultimately making Harrison Ford a star.

Sometimes, it's the actor's own limitations that cause them to miss a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Sean Connery, the original 007, suddenly became interested in science fiction films in the late 1990s, so his agent searched for a pile of scripts for him, including "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Matrix"; but Sean, who was almost seventy years old at the time, didn't like any of them because he "never understood them."

Perhaps Anson has the memories of the next twenty years, but he must go through Edgar to find the film projects he is interested in one by one.

Currently, through these five script projects, Anson can get a glimpse of a corner of Edgar's aesthetic, which surprisingly matches Anson's personal preferences.

This is a positive start.

"50 First Dates", a purely simple romantic comedy about a man who falls in love with a woman who suffers from short-term memory loss.

The heroine suffers from short-term memory loss due to a car accident. Every morning when she wakes up, she forgets what happened the day before, so the hero must make the heroine fall in love with him again every day.

If it were real life, this might be frustrating, and eventually lead to breaking up and leaving; but movies are movies, and the comedic perspective brings a different feeling, making each encounter a new beginning, like a first love, falling in love again and again, a romantic to the extreme interpretation.

Twenty years later, in an era when people no longer believe in love, such films have disappeared; but in the early 21st century, chick flicks still have a wide market, and such films can even be called another form of pure love.

In his previous life, the film starred Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. Both are regulars in comedy films. Adam has been playing the same honest, funny, and comical character for thirty years. Because of Adam's presence, the film once again falls into the trademark rut of "Adam Sandler movies", with comedy outweighing love, so the professional film critics' complaints are imaginable.

The media's comprehensive score is forty-eight points.

Obviously, the quality is not satisfactory.

But in fact, the audience pays the bill.

Regardless of the reputation and evaluation, many viewers believe that this is a movie that makes people believe in love and yearn for love, which is a success.

In the end, the film grossed nearly 200 million US dollars worldwide; however, because Adam's salary was high and the production cost was close to 75 million US dollars, the film not only did not make money, but also lost money.

However, the turning point is that Sony Columbia made a lot of money through DVD sales and rentals, once again proving the market potential of romantic comedies.

In Edgar's opinion, this script can create Anson's image of being dedicated and affectionate, and at the same time, handsome guys being funny can always win the hearts of more women.

In Anson's opinion, the valuable thing about this project is that, regardless of word-of-mouth and box office, it allows him to challenge comedy—

After trying his hand at dramas in "The Princess Diaries" and "Catch Me If You Can", he can truly challenge comedy once, explore the comedic elements in his body, which is undoubtedly an adventure, an exciting and exhilarating adventure.

This idea is good.

Provided there is no other script.

"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". When people see the movie title for the first time, they are often confused and cannot understand what the movie is about. In fact, there are some behind-the-scenes anecdotes about this name.

This script is the work of Hollywood screenwriter genius Charlie Kaufman. This screenwriter with a big brain contributed a matryoshka structure work "Adaptation" during this year's awards season. The interlocking script is dizzying. In addition, his list of works also includes "Being John Malkovich", "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind", "Synecdoche, New York" and "Anomalisa", and so on.

Charlie Kaufman is a screenwriter who likes philosophical thinking and exploring life. He often looks inward to examine the value of memory, the value of self-existence, etc., so his scripts are often mind-blowing and confusing at the same time.

"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" can be said to be the script in which he achieves the most perfect balance between art and commerce, philosophical thinking and popularization.

Translated directly from English, the movie name is "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", which comes from a poem by British poet Alexander Pope, and that poem was based on a French love tragedy in the twelfth century.

After such a literary name is translated, according to Cui Yuan's poem "Inscription" in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it is defined as being obscure and containing light, meaning that the surface is dim and unclear, but the inside contains light.

However, during the dissemination process, "暧" was mistaken for "暖", and over time, "暧暧内含光" became the "暖暖内含光" that everyone later became familiar with.

Accurately speaking, "暧暧内含光" is more in line with the artistic conception conveyed by Charlie Kaufman's original movie title "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind".

This movie tells the story of a couple who have been in love for many years. One day, the man suddenly discovers that his girlfriend doesn't remember him at all. After investigation, he learns that his girlfriend cleared all the memories of the two people in a clinic. In despair, he also went to the clinic in a fit of anger to clear the memories of the two people, but in the process of memory disappearing, he suddenly began to regret it, trying his best to retain what the two people once had.

The film shows the scene of memory collapsing and fading away in a special way, and at the same time cuts into the emotional relationship and the value of memory from different perspectives, once again showing Charlie Kaufman's imagination as a screenwriter.

The so-called eternal sunshine of the spotless mind means that in the perfect memory after forgetting the pain, there is still a beam of eternal sunshine that can reach the depths of the memory and light up happiness. The so-called perfection is not necessarily perfect, that beam of sunshine is—

Life should not only be beautiful, pain and happiness are equally worth cherishing.