The Best Director

"Wentworth, during the audition, you have to act natural and confident. Don't be nervous! Do you understand?" In the corridor in front of the interview room, listening to Wang Yang's words, Miller, wearing a black suit, was expressionless. Nodding with expression, Wang Yang still frowned slightly. He had done too many auditions. There were more than 3,000 auditions for Juno in "Juno" alone. He could see the emotions of the interviewees.

Wang Yang was not in a hurry to enter the interview room, and called Miller aside, looked at him and said in a calm voice, "Yes, you are the only interviewer for this audition. The dozen or so interviewers in there are all from my phone call in the morning. They were called here just for you; there are still a dozen or so interviewers who don’t have time to come in person, but you know, they will also watch your audition video.”

"Well, Mr. Wang, thank you very much!" Miller's heartbeat still couldn't be slowed down. It wasn't his first audition, but of course it was his first time to receive such special treatment.

Wang Yang shook his head, he said that these are for this guy to face the pressure openly, you must know that there is no ng in the interview room, and continued: "This is not a thank you moment. Don't be nervous, nervousness will ruin everything, get a role It's about convincing us guys. I've weeded out a lot of people because they're always timid, asking me 'Is this right?', 'Are you happy with this or that?'”

"The director is not God. The characters on the screen must be shaped by the actors and give them vitality. We can even modify the script for you, but you must have that kind of charm and momentum. A successful salesman is always extremely confident, he will Convince customers that what's in his basket is the best; even if it's a bunch of shit in the basket, he'll say it's the best and coolest shit."

Wang Yang couldn't help smiling as he spoke, just like the couple who sold him a bad grade 8 camera, like "Ghost Story"... He patted the thoughtful Miller on the shoulder and said: "If you can't believe in yourself, how can others believe in you? How can you trust that role to you? Think about it." After finishing speaking, he walked into the interview room first.

"Huh..." Miller nodded silently, and some new ideas emerged in his mind, as if enlightened, and some things that he had thought about for a long time suddenly became clear. He should believe that he is the character from the beginning, not be careful to make mistakes, not have any doubts. Despite the fact that he is the selected party, he has to behave like a salesman, like a host, and greet the interviewers well.

He understands that in Hollywood, there are countless young people with the appearance of "Tom Hanks" or "Tom Cruise". Well, you should appear on the big screen", he has heard many words like this, but in the end it all became: "You can't! You can go out now, just having a face is not enough, wait until you can create something new Come again!"

There must be something that can convince and impress others, but if you can't believe in yourself, how can others believe in you?

Thinking of these,

Miller took a deep breath, his heart calmed down slowly, and he came to the door of the interview room confidently, knocked on the door and walked in. This time, he must succeed!

The spacious interview room is full of people. There are 6 or 7 interviewers in suits and leather shoes behind the long interview table. There are also two people holding the camera. There are also 4 or 5 people sitting on the sofa. It was as lively as a banquet. Miller recognized several of them. The white man with the blue tie was Paul Jones from the TV production department; the young man with the bald forehead was the director Dwight Ritter...

Miller couldn't help but think of the importance that Miracle Yang attached to him. For a dog walker he met in the park, he called these dozen people over to audition for him alone, crazy! With a faint smile on his face, he put his resume photo and other things on the front of the interview table, and introduced himself: "Hello, ladies and gentlemen, my name is Wentworth Earle Miller, and I am very happy to get this audition Chance."

"Yan, he has a really good appearance and temperament.", "Has that kind of genius feeling, Princeton University graduate? Not bad.", "I know him, he participated in my previous audition, now I think he is really suitable This role."...

The main creators behind the interview table either looked at Miller, or looked at the few documents, and discussed softly. Sitting in the room, Wang Yang kept responding: "Yes, this guy is very suitable, otherwise I I didn't ask you to come." He looked at Miller who was calm and composed over there, and was very happy that there was not much nervous expression on this guy.

Assistant Larsle handed a page to Miller, and saw that it said "a genius with a high IQ, taciturn, calm, paranoid, low-risk depression due to childhood shadows, the most important thing is family..." and so on Miller looked at these words intently, and slowly formed a vague image in his mind, with a soft tone of voice, no expression, no movements...Is that right? That's it!

After Miller thought for a while, Wang Yang nodded to the director Dwight Ritter on the camera side, and said with a smile, "Wentworth, let's start the audition." Dwight Ritter took the conversation, Instructing Miller to complete the most basic audition content: "Front, side, turn..."

"If a time bomb is about to explode in front of you right now, and there are minutes left, and it's in a secret room, how would you behave?" After finishing a series of shots and chatting casually for a while, the executive Producer Marty Adelstein posed a new acting question, and everyone in the interview room looked at Miller.

Regardless of whether there is a paragraph in the script or not, he must meet the needs of this scene! Time bombs, minutes, secret rooms... This kind of situation represents extreme urgency. It seems to be dead but there is hope for rescue. Because it is a time bomb, the protagonist with a high IQ cannot sit still. He must find a way to stop the bomb or escape. Leaving the secret room, what I want is that kind of nervous and exciting feeling...

Sitting on the chair, Miller breathed slightly heavier, with a calm expression on his face, looking at the interviewers in front of him, including Miracle Yang, with his hands doing bomb defuse movements, his condensed eyes unblinking, he would Has normal human nervousness, but is definitely calm enough.

"Well, you stopped the bomb o seconds before it exploded, and you can't let others discover it. At this time, a prison guard came over." Wang Yang took over the control of this performance question, and did not explain why there was a prison guard in the secret room. Class, changed his tone, stared at his eyes and said harshly: "What are you doing here!?"

Miller looked calm and calm, and said in a soft voice: "I didn't do anything, I just walked around, officer." Wang Yang continued to say harshly: "Walk around? Don't you know that this is a restricted area of ​​the prison!? You are not allowed Did these prisoners come in?" Miller remained expressionless, but his eyes were a little puzzled, and he said, "Officer, I don't know, no one told me."

"Be honest!" Wang Yang casually picked up the stack of materials on the interview table to act as a baton, doing the same movements as Miller, and asked forcefully, "Say!" A flash of pain flashed across Miller's face, lightly He gasped lightly, but his eyes were still clear and firm, and said in a deep voice: "Really not, officer." Wang Yang smiled with satisfaction, and said with a casual smile: "Really not!? Boy, if I find you Lie to me, and you will die a miserable death."

More than a dozen people including Paul Jones, Marty Adelstein, Dwight Ritter nodded silently, quite satisfied with Miller's performance, perhaps because the temperament of this character is too suitable for him, and his small performance has been well received. Great chemistry, didn't waste this special audition. Director Matt Bisley, who had auditioned for Miller several times before, was a little surprised. Wentworth seemed to be a different person this time, with a lot of confidence. At least he didn't ask "Is this okay?"

"At this time, another bully from the prison came over. He asked you to pay protection money, or he would find someone to beat you up."

Hearing Wang Yang's words, Miller remained silent and didn't say anything. He just got up from his chair and took two steps, expressing that he would ignore the bully.

...

Miller walked back and forth in the corridor, looking at the closed wooden door of the interview room over there from time to time. The audition had been over for 5 minutes, and Miracle Yang asked him not to leave for a while. He knew that his performance was definitely being discussed in the audition room right now. He had been allowing himself to perform in a very determined and confident way just now, and it seemed that the interviewers were quite satisfied, and he saw a lot of approving smiles.

But does it feel right? Just as he was thinking, the door of the interview room was opened, and the interviewers in suits and leather shoes came out laughing and talking back and forth, Dwight Ritter, who was in the lead, looked at him and said with a smile: "You performed very well! "Marty Adelstein also nodded and said: "Yes, it fits well." Matt Bisley smiled and said with a thumbs up: "Winter, is this still you? Well done!", "Yan, you I didn't find the wrong person."...

Watching the interviewers pass by one by one, listening to their compliments, Miller's heart beat a little bit faster, and an unspeakable excitement gradually arose. Could it be true... He tried his best to maintain a calm smile, Thank you non-stop: "Thank you, thank you."

"Dude, I'll give you this one!" Wang Yang, who came out at the end, also gave a thumbs up with a smile. Miller's self-confidence and excellent performance convinced them, and the high degree of fit of appearance and temperament made people more satisfied and even more satisfied. Although the audition result is not yet certain, because the video will be shown to some interviewers who are not present today, but he It has been decided, and those who were present just now agreed.

He looked at Miller, who couldn't hide his excitement, and said with a smile: "I think the leading actor is you, 99.9%. Unless Christopher Fussen comes back with the fleet tomorrow, but I don't think there is any possibility."

Miller was stunned, how could it be possible! It's not the sentence "You can't do it", 99.9% is the male lead of a TV series... The heart that was so excited that it was about to explode suddenly felt a little dazed, really? This is real? At this time, something quickly passed through his mind, like a plate of cold water that half-cooled the blood in his body. Some things cannot be concealed, but as long as they are explained clearly, it will be fine.

"Mr. Wang, there is something I need to tell you." Miller's face was full of sincerity, and Wang Yang asked doubtfully, "K, what's the matter?"

Miller laughed a little self-deprecatingly, and said: "I used to be a very extreme and vile person, because I suffered a lot of discrimination and harm since I was a child, and everyone called me nky (smelly). I was a cynical person at that time, so I got into trouble when I was studying at Princeton University. At that time, a black professor netet in our school was poached by Harvard University. I was very angry, so I drew a cartoon and submitted it to the Princeton Daily. I described Professor West as Harvard. 'Newly bought slave', and then things went wrong."

Black professor, newly bought slave... Wang Yang frowned suddenly, racial discrimination! ? The smile on his face disappeared immediately, and he said sullenly, "What's going on?" Suddenly, he thought of Miller's sentence of "being discriminated against since childhood". Not pure white? Mixed blood with blacks?"

"Well, I'm of mixed race." Miller nodded, knowing that Miracle Yang hated racial discrimination, of course he himself did, and immediately explained clearly: "My father has African-American, Jamaican, British, and German-Jewish ancestry; My mother is of French, Dutch, Syrian, Lebanese descent. How could I racially discriminate against Professor West? That’s just a mockery of my anger.”

"I understand." After figuring out the reason, Wang Yang grinned again. He understood Miller's mood at that time and what it means to be cynical. Every child who has suffered that kind of injury will have some, like Wu Yanzu, like Joshua ... He committed suicide before the age of 8, was often angry, fought desperately, was unwilling to coax his girlfriend, and then scolded the principal... Angry little boy!

Thinking about the past, he couldn't help laughing at himself. It's good to fight back against the bad guys, but it's bad to hurt yourself and the people you love. He thumped Miller on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Winter, it's nothing, as long as you can prove your bloodline. This matter will not affect the audition results, but you need to provide me with a bloodline certificate."

"No problem, no problem." Miller said it twice, and finally let go of his excitement, with a happy and thankful smile on his face: "Mr. Wang, thank you very much for today!" Wang Yang shrugged and said with a smile : "No, you don't need this. For a person like you, it's either "Prison Break" or "SWAT." He patted Miller on the shoulder again and walked towards the office.

Miller looked at the back of the young director and smiled, clenched his fists and said "yes" a few times.

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The next day, Miller quickly provided a family blood certificate, and he really had mixed blood from 8 countries, including blacks. This cleared the "Prison Break" crew's concerns about choosing him as the leading actor; the other interviewers also agreed with Wen after seeing his excellent audition video, and Wang Yang said "I will choose him". Trevors Miller plays the leading role.

Amidst the busy schedule, August 0-September 5 has also become history, and another screening week has come to an end. This week, the total box office in North America was only 500 million. "District", it won the box office championship for the fifth week in a row at the home theater this week, constantly setting new personal records for Wang Yang.

Another record that has been refreshed is the highest box office in North America. "The Ninth District" took five weeks to reach the 100 million club (the third movie with a box office of over 100 million US dollars, and the other two are "Spiderman" and "Spiderman" with a box office of 100 million. "Star Wars Prequel". In the overseas market, it also maintained a good closing momentum, taking another 70,000 in a single week, and the total overseas box office reached 460 million, and the global box office was 750 million.

On the one hand, it can continue to receive a good box office thanks to the release of new films that are not competitive. However, due to the simultaneous release of overseas ticket warehouses, it is difficult to achieve anything other than hoping to earn tens of thousands of dollars in the National University of China. On the other hand, it is the global viral marketing, the mysterious strategy before the release, and after the release, the publicity department takes advantage of the high praise from the media and the public to launch "Are you going to miss a summer miracle?", The water-bombing viral propaganda of "great sci-fi movie" creates a herd effect.

However, films such as "My ***Greek Wedding", which received 10,000 yuan this week, "Signs", which received 470,000 yuan, and "Xxx" which received 470,000 yuan, did not have these tricks; even the blockbuster "Spiderman" a few months ago , "Star Wars Prequel" are all honest propaganda, disdain for new viral marketing?

Now all the film companies understand that this is a trend, and the flame film is at the forefront, and now there is no one competing with them for this market! What kind of virus station, three-dimensional posters, virus posters, guiding the direction of the Internet... This whole set of viral propaganda made the film companies who suddenly woke up "shocking". , how could they remain indifferent?

But everyone knows that the end result of swarming is that the audience will quickly get used to these tricks, and their excitement will decrease in the face of these tricks; this set of viral marketing will gradually become mediocre, but whoever wants to suffer a loss should leave on their own.

Of course, traditional publicity methods will never be eliminated, and another box office miracle is in progress. The warm comedy "My ***Greek Wedding", which was released for o weeks, gradually expanded the number of theaters and the weekly box office amount. After the second place, the movie with a total cost of 10,000 yuan has already received 85.45 million box office in North America, which also drives and reveals the market demand for marriage comedy movies, a strong and thirsty demand.

Fans and the media naturally think of a movie, "The Hangover", which is scheduled to be released this Christmas, and its brief introduction and preview have been released. A pre-wedding rave leads to the disappearance of the groom. Doug, the groom, must be found if the queen's wedding can proceed, but the problem is that the three of them can't remember what happened last night.

Looking at the naive and wretched fat man in the trailer, the pitiful crazy dentist with missing teeth, the bad handsome teacher, the mysterious gangster girl like a tyrannosaurus... and O'Neill, who played a cameo, has not announced his approximate identity in the trailer, only half Close-up shots in seconds, but the weird appearance is enough to make people laugh Will Smith, Robert Downey Jr., etc., as well as the cameo appearance of Magic Young at the gambling table...

Most of the movie fans immediately had great expectations, and they almost insisted and believed what Magic Yang said, "This is a comedy that can laugh people to death." Director, put all the only jokes in "The Hangover" into the trailer. While looking forward to the release of "The Hangover", they also speculated who the prototype of the character was.

Doug the groom is obviously Tom Welling, the teacher might be Fantastic Young, the dentist with a bad face might be Zachary Levy, and what about the fat guy? The gossip media has long revealed that there were not only three people that night, and there is enough evidence to show that Joshua Alba was also present and should have been drinking; but the parties did not respond to this incident.

However, not everyone chose to believe in Wang Yang, and a considerable number of fans left messages on "The Hangover" official and other places, expressing their hurt. Ted-r said: "I will not watch "The Hangover" in the first week, I will wait for a clear signal, is it funny or sad? I don't think comedy movies are sad!", Karan- D was much more excited: "I've only now realized that I've been fooled, "District 9" is a bastard movie at all!"

"Before "When Happiness Comes Knocking" was released, Magic Young said it was inspirational and touching, and it was true; "Juno" Magic Young said it was warm and humorous, and it was true; "The Ninth District"? Sly The magical Yang did not define it, and said that keeping it mysterious can get the best experience. It turns out that experience has made my heart ache until now!

He talks again, "The Hangover" will make everyone laugh, but I very much doubt that he will still have a funny function after "District 9"? I think the trailer is what The Hangover is all about. "—Christina's message, which received support from many people.

With the increase in the number of movie viewers, the score of "The Ninth District" on imdb dropped to 8.7, and the audience's favorite rating on Rotten Tomatoes dropped to 89%. Sarcasm, the freshness of the latest popular film critics is 9%, and the freshness of popular film critics is 95%.

The movie's torture of human nature makes people shudder. —Bow Hovans, "Film Review"; Shocking, exciting, sad, profound, these are not all of it, all of it is great. —Jonathan Rohm, Sunday; It's just an ordinary gore show, and Fantastic Young tries to tell us something that turns out to be as young as his age. That might be remarkable, but for what it is, District 9 isn't great. -- Kay Helcot, Boston Herald  …

But Roger Ebert, the most popular film critic in the United States, scoffed at those who smashed Rotten Tomatoes. District Nine wrote a long praise.

"I can only use one word to describe this movie, evb1e (unbelievable). Let me talk about some digressions. I know Wang Yang in "Ghost Story". To be honest, I said he was g, but who would I believe what else can an 8-year-old kid do? I thought it would take at least 0 years before I could give him two thumbs up again, and the 8-year-old still has a bright future.

Who knew he would pop up again half a year later, using "High School Musical" to make me want to go back to school and dance with beauties, he created a phenomenon unbelievably; and then he wanted to make a biopic about young people? I thought at the time that this guy was still so lost in praise, who did he think he was? He completely shut me up with "Happiness Comes Knocking" and "Juno", two classics. District 9, the masterpiece that put Hollywood's summer blockbusters to shame, nearly killed me from a heart attack. "

After Roger Ebert agreed with the "shame" remarks, he also formally commented on the content of the film: "This film has no bikini beauties, but it will definitely not let you fall asleep, because its shots are not as good as an academic film. It's too shaky for the movie, it's like sitting in a crazy taxi, but it's not a meaningless, pretentious wobble, it makes you feel intensely immersive, nerves slowly tense, this kind of The lens language is full of alternative charm."

"Subversive sci-fi stories, fables and profound... It's all right to mention these. If you cry when you watch a cute puppy die, it's normal; when you watch a poor ghost for a The rich lady voluntarily sank to the bottom of the sea, and the rich lady lived happily for the rest of her life. There is something wrong with you crying because you are moved instead of angry; A pile of trash playing with toys, and you actually cry, should you think about something big wrong?"

"What are you crying about? What I'm crying about is that District 10 was actually built in a desert instead of a beach." Roger Albert made a joke before seriously commenting: "They were isolated and abandoned in a pile of garbage Li; Wiggs, who has completed his ideological transformation and awakened human nature, was abandoned in a pile of garbage, and he was reviled and struggling in despair. The beautiful human nature is regarded as worthless garbage by human beings, while the ugly side is It was praised after the government packaged the propaganda, and the people didn't know it. That's why I cried."

"Everyone is a human being, and we are all worms. How we treat others is how we treat ourselves. I even think this is an environmental movie, because Wiggs made a beautiful bamboo dragonfly out of garbage recycling. Maybe I'm overthinking it, but the whole movie just keeps you coming back and watching it over and over again, and of course you need a pacemaker."

"If there is an Oscar in the first half of the year, "The Ninth District" will sweep all awards; unfortunately, there is still a second half of the year, and there may be many excellent works, but if next year's Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Director The list does not include "District 9" and Fantastic Young, and I still only use one word to describe it, evb1e."

The chapter finally came to his patented thumbs scoring system. This time Roger Ebert amazingly hit "tree-tumbs-up (three thumbs up)!" Thumbs, of course, if you count the feet, there are four. The problem is that this kind of thing has never happened. The old man also seemed to realize that movie fans might think of him as dementia, so he explained: "There is no typo! Two thumbs up for "District Ninth" and Super Magic Yang, and the other thumbs up for Will Gus!"

Many media fans are very impressed by this. Roger Ebert is worthy of being a "die-hard fan" of Miracle Yang. He actually created three thumbs up for him. Is the dvd cover of "District 9" real in the future? Hit three? What about Miracle Young's future movies? Four thumbs? five?

At this time, Wang Yang suddenly officially announced on his personal official website, blog and other places other than "The Hangover", some of his future plans, including the mysterious work with Natalie Portman again .