The Best Director

Chapter 169 Grand Introduction: Fantastic Director Wang Yang

"Okay, very good, handsome..." In the studio, with the sound of clicking, photographer Mike Griff pressed the shutter of the camera, and Wang Yang, who was standing in front of the white background board, followed his request Adjusting the demeanor and movement. Mike Griff turned to look at the staff on the side again, and said, "Move that camera next to Jan, and take some more shots."

Soon Wang Yang held the black camera with one hand, looked at the lens of the camera, and said with a smile: "Mike, I'm taking pictures of you." Mike Griff pressed the shutter and said with a smile: " Come on, hey Young, can you be a little more serious? You know you and District 9 have been serious lately."

"I don't think so. I've been very funny recently." Wang Yang shrugged with a smile. He just didn't want to be so serious, so he asked not to wear a suit this time, and now he was wearing a set of young and fashionable clothes. Mike Griff over there smiled and said: "That's cool, cool." Wang Yang still lowered his face according to his request. After all, in the plane photo, Mike is a professional, and said lightly: "OK, I like cool. "

This is the cover photo shoot for the "Time" magazine two weeks later, and it is also the second time he has appeared on the cover of "Time" magazine. When he received this invitation, Wang Yang was a little surprised. It would be normal for entertainment magazines such as "People" and "Vanity Fair", but "Time" magazine has always treated him as "cool". Why this time? 'District 9' could be the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time? It gives many people nightmares at night?

In any case, he agreed, which is a good opportunity for the later promotion of "The Ninth District".

However, in the eyes of Mike Griff and others, it is very normal for Miracle Young to be the cover character of "Time", otherwise it would be a strange thing. He appeared on the cover of "Time" for the first time in September 1999, because of the great success and social effects of "High School Musical". He was also praised as a "phenomenal magical director". The tagline reads: "The next 'King of the World.'"

Now three years have passed and the night has passed, the old dV boy has already proved, and the public also has this consensus, he will not be James Cameron, he will not be Steven Spielberg, he will not be Robert Zemeckis ...He will only be another great director, the forever magical director Wang Yang.

In three years, whether it was the classic biographical film "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" at the age of o, or "Juno" that caused another phenomenon in the same year, or the youngest Golden Globe nomination for best director, etc. Enough to be on the cover of Time, but not at the time.

And now the masterpiece "District 9" that puts the whole earth in a state of depression appears, and the miraculous Yang who "disappeared" for two years has returned strongly, with terrible meaning, the most popular R-rated movie, and a great movie... "Time" The editors can no longer sit idly by, otherwise how can this publication be called Shiku?

"When was the first time to shoot something?" In the reception room,

The interview reporters Dennis Waller and Wang Yang were both sitting on the sofa. This is the second time he interviewed this young director, but compared to the last time he mainly asked about "successful mentality", "vision for the future" and so on, this Once he seemed to be particularly interested in Fantastic Young's childhood and upbringing, which was also a biographical interview.

Wang Yang was also aroused immediately, the first time to shoot something? An old black-and-white scene flashed through his mind, a guy wandering around with a small video camera... Thinking of the funny things in the past, he couldn't help laughing, how could he forget? Looking at Dennis Waller, he smiled and said, "Yu, I used a super8 camera to take a picture of people walking around on the street."

"There was no -dV at that time, so I was actually called super8-By at first." Hearing what he said, Dennis Waller laughed haha. Anyone who knows Fantastic Young will know dV movies and "Ghost Story" , this is exactly the first performance of his two labels, "Magic Young". He quickly recorded on the paper with a pencil, and said with a smile: "It seems that this is the cover slogan of this issue."

Picking up a cup of coffee and taking a sip, Wang Yang raised the corners of his mouth reminiscently, and said with a smile: "At that time, I had dreamed of being a director for several years, and I bought that super8 at a flea market, z-48xl, white Case black lens, cool; bought two reels of 8mm film. Oh my god they cost all my savings back then, dollars.”

Wang Yang shook his head with a smile, remembering the excitement at that time, and said: "I feel cheated now, but I was very, very happy and excited at the time, wow." He gestured to hold the camera and said with a smile: " With this thing, I can be a director, and I can make movies. All my savings and thoughts have been put into it. I want to do a good job. I thought about the story, called a few classmates, and then... "

"What was the result? The camera broke?" Dennis Waller frowned and asked, Wang Yang nodded helplessly, and said: "It took a few days to shoot, and it suddenly broke down with a bang. I thought it was always broken, and I was lucky enough to play for a few days.” Dennis Waller smiled regretfully and asked, “Then what do you do? Take it for repairs, or ask your parents?”

"No, I don't like to ask my parents and family members for help." Wang Yang smiled, it was really annoying at that time, his enthusiasm was hit, he breathed out: "I have no money, so I decided to fix it myself, I thought it would be fine to take it apart and clean it up, and it just got worse and worse, which is really sad."

Dennis Waller asked with great interest: "Is that super 8 camera still there? And those two reels with your real debut film? They are all so precious." Wang Yang smiled and nodded. : "It's all in San Francisco. Although I hate it, I won't throw it away." Dennis said while recording quickly, "So you started shooting very early."

Wang Yang nodded again, and said, "After that time, whatever I wanted to shoot, I would rent a super 8 back and shoot some 8mm short films." He shrugged and said, "The next thing is Ghost Story."

"How would you describe your childhood?" Seeing that the topic was over, Dennis Waller asked a new question.

Wang Yang rolled his eyes upwards, thinking about it and said: "Well, my childhood? Childhood means before the age of 10? That means there is no super8 event, haha" He laughed a few times before saying: "Very good, worry-free Carefree, practicing kung fu, watching movies every week, ball games, playing, and fighting. You know there are always a few bullies at school, but sorry, I'm not afraid of them."

"When I was in school, those annoying guys often slapped me on the head." Dennis Waller sighed unbearably, and asked, "So you spent your childhood happily?" Wang Yang stared , with an unbelievable look of "how is it possible", said: "There will always be some childhood troubles and regrets, and I am no exception. But it can be said that I am growing up happily."

"Okay, then..." Dennis Waller nodded, and then asked with a gossipy smile, "What kind of role did Jessica play in your childhood?" "In the cover interview, they revealed the relationship between the two when they were young. At that time, everyone thought that they would break up soon, but now it has been more than three years. Now for the second cover interview with Wang Yang, he did not forget to ask this question.

"Oh!" Wang Yang yelled like an electric shock, sat up straight seriously, and said, "What role? I don't know, I have to think about this question carefully, and I can't make her angry and disappointed. Dude, don't remember this sentence. "Dennis Waller suddenly smiled and raised his right hand holding the pen, and said: "Don't worry." Wang Yang thought for a while, and said seriously: "A very important role is that she gave me more opportunities to fight. ,I love her."

Both of them laughed. Wang Yang pointed to the notebook in Dennis Waller's hand, and said with a smile, "Just write it like that. Also, Jesse was my best girl friend at that time, and we talked about everything. , but then she transferred to another school and left, and I was very annoyed at the time." Remembering that she misunderstood her not being a good friend at that time, he couldn't help frowning: "How could she leave? But she just disappeared suddenly and didn't tell me However, not a single word was left."

There is such a thing? Dennis Waller asked curiously: "What's going on?" Wang Yang spread his hands, and a bitch said with a smile: "It sounds like the matter between Wiggs and his wife. In fact, she left a letter The farewell letter was given to me, but the letter was stolen by a bitch, and I didn't see it. Then I kept misunderstanding her, 'What did that girl think of me? An insignificant passer-by? A fool?' This was my very unhappy childhood one of the things."

"So we know why you did what you did to Wiggs and his wife?" Dennis Waller asked with a frown and a smile, the ballpoint pen scribbling away. Wang Yang shrugged and smiled, "Maybe, but Wiggs is much worse than me." Dennis hummed, looked at him, and asked a key question seriously: "What influence do you think your childhood had on you?"

He said with emotion on his face, "We don't know how to define you other than miraculous. You can shoot "High School Musical" full of enthusiasm and youthful sunshine; "When Happiness" is touching and warm and never gives up your dream "Knock on the Door" and the sweet and humorous "Juno," they're all so happy but "District 9" is depressing like a nightmare; "The Ghost Story" can scare people..."

"In fact, everyone is not easy to be defined, they are complex complexes. Faced with different things, they also have different moods, and you think so when you are 0 years old, but you change when you are 5 years old or 0 years old." Wang Wang Yang thought for a while and continued: "I like to be a different person to experience under different stories. Does this sound a bit like an actor? What a happy and beautiful childhood brings is that you in life are a There are more optimists than pessimists."

After Wang Yang accepted the cover interview of "Time", within a few days from August 9th to the second week, four new films were released, Sony's action crime film "Xxx" costing 10,000 yuan, the independent film company Emperor Gate Films' 10,000-cost action comedy "Spy", and Warner Bros. 10,000-cost action crime film "Blood Type Puzzle".

Three new action films were released in one go, and the 74, o7, and 55 theaters also seemed ambitious, as if they wanted to capture the end-of-season market of this hot summer. And they received 50,000, 5 second, fourth and sixth places respectively in one week of screening. The fifth place is O850,000's "Tian Zhao" and the third place.

In the past two weeks, film critics and movie fans have liked to use words such as "cookie, dull, boring" to describe the newly released movies, including the three new films of this week; " and so on a few words, given a movie.

That is "The Ninth District", which has won the North American box office weekly chart for two consecutive years, has strangled three new films in 758 theaters, and is classified as science fiction/thriller/drama/action/magic. This week, its number of theaters increased by 08, and it continued to sweep across North America like a storm, making more audiences scold "k", and scored on ImdB and Rotten Tomatoes, still 8.9/8.8; Audience approval dropped to 87%, and some angry and frantic fans dropped sporadic stars.

"I really regret watching this movie. It's like eating a rotten apple with maggots. The worst part is, those goddamn maggots are still churning around in the stomach" hits Allen sporadically -k commented like this; and Ian, who scored one star, directly blasted the gunpowder at the director: "Magic Young wants the whole world to accompany him to taste the experience of going to prison, what an amazing bastard"

Amidst the praise and criticism, "District Ninth" swept the box office of 7.48 million US dollars in the second week, and the total North American box office rose to 500 million. This figure also made it jump to the fourth place in the total box office list of R-rated movies , the top three numbers are .4 and .Ninth District "will definitely become the new highest-grossing R-rated movie in history, and it only takes another weekend.

The number of film critics on rotten tomatoes has increased to the articles. Some of the film reviews have chosen to rot. The freshness of O's freshness has reduced the freshness of the public film critics to 95%, and the well -known film critics are still 95%.

"What I don't like about District 9 is that it's a world that looks awful and ridiculous, not novel, and the humans and aliens are just as stupid in it, and if that happened, living in Beverly Hills Fantastic Jan of the Hills will be the first to spit on the Bugman.” —Michael Fox, The Baltimore Sun; Tried to say it, but ended up saying nothing. It's a comedy that can't find any fun." --Kyle Smith, New York Post …

But the overwhelmingly admiring sound completely covered up those few ridicules that buzzed like mosquitoes.

"District 9 is a timely antidote to a summer of moviegoing." --David Hoffman, San Francisco Chronicle; "Classic sci-fi fable at its most wrenching and convincing. I'm talking about Planet of the Apes in 968, which means District Nine." --Scott A. Mentiz, Access Hollywood; Trembling cinema, human beings, it is." - Ken Hank, Cinema Signal  …

The overseas box office of "The Ninth District" naturally came out in the second week. Audiences in many countries and regions spent another 400 million US dollars, and the total overseas box office reached 900 million in two weeks; the global total box office was 496 million. In one fell swoop, it broke Wang Yang's personal record at the global box office. The highest of the previous four films was "High School Musical" with 400 million, and this number will continue to increase.

In addition to joining the "Global Box Office Billion Billion Club", Wang Yang will soon have more director titles and records, such as "the youngest single-film 500 million", "the youngest single-film 600 million"...more Many media shouted "the youngest Oscar nomination for best director".

Everyone can see the popularity of "The Ninth District" in the critics, and these praises are also published in the media newspapers, so another topic that attracts people's attention has arisen again, in the Ninth District next year "What kind of performance will it have? But first, as a cult film, as a sci-fi film, what would it be nominated for?

Best Visual Effects? Best Sound Editing? Best sound? The Oscars have used these technical awards to knock down many excellent sci-fi films for decades. Is this the foreseeable fate of "District 9"?

But the media who said last year, "I'm afraid the next piece of chocolate won't be the best director, and it's already a miracle to be nominated" now have completely different voices: ""The Ninth District" will definitely be the big hit for next year's Oscars. , it has this qualification and right”

"Can't the soundtrack, which is so sad, tense, and desolate, make the old Oscar judges move their ears? Can't Robert Downey Jr.'s tearful genius performance make the old Oscar's eyes moist? Can't the sadly wonderful play adapted from Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" touch that old heart?"

As for the best picture and the best director of "Magic Yang Booked", Yahoo Entertainment seemed more excited and analyzed very rationally. There have indeed been many masterpieces of sci-fi films over the years, and their system settings have great significance and far-reaching influence on sci-fi films, such as "Terminator", "The Matrix" and so on.

Some of them are commercial films, and it is normal to be rejected by the Oscars; while aspects such as "The Matrix" discussing illusion and reality are not mainstream topics that are preferred by various awards.

However, although "District 9" is novel and unique, it has a lot of mainstream topics. The whole movie discusses human nature, including good and evil; it can also be regarded as another favorite project of Oscar, anti-racism ; There are traces of human social habits, freedom, anti-war and other deep meanings, when they are all added up, it produces an indescribable shock and sadness.

"'District 9' is like a big buffet, you get a taste of humanity, you get a taste of anti-racism, and all kinds of delicious food." -Charles Hewitt, Empire magazine; "What about my suggestion? Everyone has to go see 'District 9' in theaters to make the world a better place." -- Chris Bambly, Movie Arcade.

Yahoo Entertainment's editorial commented: "There's no doubt that District 9 is great enough to get the nominations it deserves, and I'm talking Best Picture and Best Director."

It's just fake documentaries shaking the camera, crazy B-movies with bloody violence, science fiction movies... no matter how good it is, these "Oscar taboos" still exist. So can it help sci-fi films return to the list of Oscar Best Picture nominations for the first time in o years after "e.T." in 1998? Can the 20-year-old Fantastic Young become the fourth person to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Director for a science fiction film after Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg?

"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what the next one will be." Yahoo Entertainment finally ended with Wang Yang's words last year, which were also the first words of Forrest Gump's mother.

However, seeing that "The Ninth District" is about to become the box office champion of R-rated movies in North America, and the global box office is also soaring like a top-selling commercial blockbuster, some media joked, but said truthfully: "As we all know, the Oscars are not very good. I like movies with too high box office, if Miracle Yang still wants to win the best director, "The Ninth District" will be canceled immediately."

This is naturally impossible. The days of summer passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, the screening week from August 6th to August also came to an end. As some schools started a new semester, this week’s North American box office fell by .5% compared with last week, only . 6.7 billion US dollars.

In this big cake, the 1995 Italian film "Wind Candle Tears" re-launched by Rialia Film Company has the least share. It ranked first, and it is still in the ninth district. Dominating the film market in August, from the August issue to the issue, it has been the box office champion for three consecutive weeks.

The second place is "Xxx" with 054,000, and the newly released "Girl in the Sea" with 9.9487 million. As a good friend, Wang Yang also sent a text message to congratulate Michelle; and the fourth place is "Tian Zhao" with 5.67 million.

The total North American box office of "The Ninth District" has increased to 500 million. It also officially surpassed "Beverly Hills Cop" with 400 million, becoming the highest-grossing R-rated movie in the history of North America. Of course, if it is converted by inflation Well, "District 9" isn't quite right now, but it's only been in theaters for three weeks.

The professional evaluation analysts of Flame Films predicted that its final North American box office should be in the range of 500 million; The box office is ten thousand.

The overseas box office of "The Ninth District" in the third week is exactly 670,000 US dollars. The overseas box office and the 580 million + 500 million North American box office combined, its global total box office has reached 800 million. Perhaps in the near future, shrimp Insects will reach a total box office of 700 million US dollars. This is also the market analysis of Flame Movie and its competitors. Good movie + viral marketing once again won an overall victory.

Years old, the highest single-film box office of 800 million, and the total box office of the five directed films totaled 100 million, with an average of 400 million each... These crazy statistics add up to magic. The number of his fans naturally soared, the hit rate of his blog is soaring every day, the IP address comes from all over the world, and there are messages in various languages: "yure-s-ng", "I-1ve-yur- -yu-ve-me——ss? I-1ve-yu", "Tú-eres-grnde", "あなたは大大だ"...

When the entertainment media were rushing to report on this "miracle reality show", the latest issue of "Time" magazine was put on the shelves, and the person on the cover was wearing a shirt and jeans and holding a camera with one hand Wang Yang. After much deliberation, "Time" finally chose the nickname that the public is most familiar with as the introduction slogan on the cover: "bsp; Jessica is leaning on the fabric sofa, holding a copy of "Time" Looking at Wang Yang's exclusive interview, she suddenly saw the content about herself, and her eyes lit up immediately. After reading it, she looked up at Wang Yang who was playing with Danny over there, and asked happily: "Yang, when did you Are you angry? I mean about my sudden departure. "

"Why?" Wang Yang turned his head and glanced at her. Seeing her smiling brightly, he couldn't help but frowned and asked, "Are you happy?" Jessica rolled her eyes playfully before nodding. Said: "Yes, I'm very happy" He was angry, indicating that he cared; if it didn't matter, what did he think of her? She smiled curiously and asked, "Have you ever scolded me?"

"Haha, it seems that there are still people who want to be scolded by others?" Wang Yang patted Danny's head with a smile, then walked towards the sand, and said with a smile: "Well, probably, I forgot about it at first. But you once Said I remembered again, I used to scold 'that damned J--ass--bsp;a every day? Jessica was stunned for a moment, then couldn't help laughing, she held the "Time" magazine Patting Wang Yang who was sitting next to her, she laughed and said, "You're so stingy, but haha..." She managed to hold back her laughter, gritted her teeth and said, "I've scolded you a lot too, that damn... Well"

While she was thinking, Wang Yang shrugged and smiled again: "bsp;※※

ps: Wali pulls the recommendation ticket, thank you everyone for letting Wali and this book stay on the recommendation list of the urban classification week, what do you think? Thank you