"Wentworth, when you audition, you have to behave naturally and confidently, don't be nervous! understand?" In the corridor in front of the interview room, listening to Wang Yang's words, Miller, who was wearing a black suit, nodded expressionlessly, but Wang Yang still frowned slightly, he had done too many auditions, and there were more than 3,000 Juneau in "Juno" alone, and he could see the emotions of the interviewers.

Wang Yang was not in a hurry to walk into the interview room, called Miller aside, looked at him and said in a calm voice: "Yes, you are the only interviewer in this audition." There are more than a dozen interviewers in it, all of whom I called in the morning, specifically for you, and there are about a dozen interviewers who don't have time to come in person, but you know, they will also watch your auditions. ”

"Well, Mr. Wang, thank you very much!" Miller's heartbeat still couldn't slow down, it wasn't his first time auditioning, but of course it was the first time he had been treated like this.

Wang Yang shook his head, he said that these are to let this guy face the pressure calmly, knowing that there is no ng in the interview room, and continued: "Now is not the time to thank you. You don't have to be nervous, nervousness can ruin everything, and to get a character you have to convince us guys. I've knocked out a lot of people because they're always afraid to ask me, 'Is this right?', 'Are you happy with this or that?'"

"The director is not God, and the characters on the screen have to be shaped by the actors and give them vitality. We can even change the script for you, but you have to have that kind of charm and momentum. A successful salesman is always extremely confident that he will convince customers that the contents of his basket are the best, even if the basket is filled with a pile of shit, he will say that it is the best and coolest shit. ”

Wang Yang couldn't help but smile as he spoke, just like the couple who sold him a rotten Super Eight camera, just like "Ghost Shadows"...... He patted Miller's shoulder with a thoughtful face, and said, "If you can't trust yourself, how can others believe in you? With that, he was the first to walk into the interview room.

"Huh......" Miller nodded silently, and some new ideas emerged in his heart, as if he had been empowered, and some things that he had been thinking about for a long time suddenly understood. He should have believed that he was the character from the beginning, not to be careful for fear of making mistakes, and not to have any doubts. Despite the fact that he is the chosen party, he has to behave like a salesman, like a master, and greet the interviewers well.

He understands that in this place in Hollywood, there are countless young people who look like "Tom Hanks" or "Tom Cruise", and they can get some opportunities and favors at first, just like Magic Young said in the morning, "You look good, you should be on the big screen", and he has heard a lot of such words, but in the end they all become: "You can't go out now, it's not enough to have a face, wait until you can create something new!"

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

Thinking of this, Miller took a deep breath, his heart slowly calmed down, and he came to the door of the interview room with high confidence and knocked on the door and walked in, this time, he must succeed!

The spacious interview room was full of people, with 6 or 7 interviewers in suits and leather shoes behind the long interview table, two people operating the camera, and 4 or 5 people sitting on the sofa. Miller recognized several of them, the white man with the blue tie was Paul Jones of NBC Television's production department, and the middle-aged man with a bald forehead was director Dwight H. Ritter...... Miller couldn't help but think of the importance that Marvel Young attached to him, and for the sake of 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 handed his resume photo and other items in the middle of the interview table, and introduced himself: "Hello ladies and gentlemen, my name is Wentworth Earl Miller, and I am very happy to get this audition." ”

"Jan, his appearance and temperament are indeed very good. "That feeling of genius, Princeton graduate? "I know him, he's been to my previous auditions, and now I think he's really a good fit for the role. ”…… The creators behind the interview table either looked at Miller, or looked at the materials, and discussed softly, and Wang Yang, who was sitting in the middle, kept answering: "Yes, this guy is very suitable, otherwise I wouldn't have called you here." He looked at Miller, who was calm and calm, and was glad that there wasn't much nervousness on this guy's face.

Assistant Lass handed a page of paper to Miller, only to see that the paper read, "A high-IQ genius, taciturn, calm, paranoid, low-risk depression due to childhood shadows, most important family ......" and other character descriptions, Miller looked at these words attentively, and slowly formed a vague image in his mind, speaking in a very light and soft tone, without expression, and ...... Is it?

After Miller thought for a while, Wang Yang nodded to the director Dwight H-Richter on the other side of the camera, and said with a smile: "Wentworth, let's start the audition." Dwight H-Ritter took over and instructed Miller to complete the most basic auditions: "Front, side, turn ......"

"How would you behave if a time bomb was about to explode in front of you right now, and there was 1 minute left, and it was in a back room?" After completing a series of shots and a few more casual conversations, Executive Producer Marty Anderstein asked a new acting question, and everyone in the interview room looked at Miller in the room.

Regardless of whether the script has this paragraph or not, he has to capture the needs of this scene! Time bomb, 1 minute, secret room...... This situation represents a lot of urgency, it seems that he is dead but there is hope for rescue, because it is a time bomb, the high-IQ protagonist cannot sit still, he has to find a way to stop the bomb, or escape from the secret room, what he wants is the feeling of tension and excitement...... Miller, who was sitting in the chair, breathed slightly heavier, with an expressionless composure, looking at the interviewers in front of him, including Magic Yang and others, his hands were making bomb defusal movements, and his condensed eyes did not blink, he would have the nervousness of a normal human, but he was definitely calm enough.

"Well, you stopped the bomb 10 seconds before it exploded, and you couldn't let anyone else find it, and that's when a prison guard came. Wang Yang took over the control of this performance question, and did not explain why there were prison guards in the secret room, changed his tone, glared at his eyes and said in a rough voice: "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 viciously: "Don't you know that this is a forbidden area in the prison!?Don't you prisoners are allowed to come in?" Miller was still expressionless, but his eyes were a little puzzled, and said, "Officer, I don't know, no one has told me." ”

"Be honest with me!" Wang Yang casually picked up the stack of materials on the interview table and used it as a baton, and made a gesture like Miller, and asked, "Say!" A touch of pain flashed on Miller's face, and he gasped slightly, but his eyes were still clear and firm, and he said in a deep voice: "Really not, officer." Wang Yang laughed with satisfaction, and said with a casual smile: "Really not!? boy, if I find out that you lied to me, you will die a miserable death." ”

Paul Jones, Marty Anderstein, Dwight H. Ritter and a dozen others nodded silently, quite satisfied with Miller's performance, perhaps because the temperament of this role was too consistent with him, and his small performance got a good chemistry, and he did not waste this special audition. Director Matt Beasley, who had auditioned Miller a few times before, was a little surprised, but this time Wentworth seemed to be a different person, much more confident, at least he didn't ask, "Is this okay?"

"Then another bully from the prison came and demanded that you pay protection money or find someone to beat you. ”

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

…… Miller walked up and down the hallway, glancing at the closed wooden door of the interview room from time to time, the audition had been over for 15 minutes, and Wonder Young told him not to leave for a while. He knew that his performance was definitely being discussed in the audition room right now. He'd been putting on a confident performance with a lot of certainty, and it seemed that the interviewers were quite satisfied, and he saw a lot of approving smiles.

But does that feel right? Just as he was thinking, the door to the interview room was opened, and the interviewers in suits and leather shoes walked out laughing and talking, and Dwight H. Ritter looked at him and said with a smile, "Very good!" Marty Andersstein also nodded, "Yes, it fits." Matt Beasley gave a thumbs up and laughed, "Winter, is this still you?" and "Young, you're not looking for the wrong person." ”…… Watching the interviewers walk by, listening to their praise one by one, Miller's heart beat a little faster, and an indescribable excitement gradually arises, is it really ...... He tried to keep a calm smile and kept thanking, "Thank you, thank you." ”

"Dude, I'll give you this one!" Wang Yang, who came out at the end, also smiled and gave a thumbs up. Miller's confident and excellent performance persuaded them, and the high fit of appearance and temperament was even more satisfying, although the audition results were not yet certain, because the video had to be shown to some interviewers who were not present today, but he had already decided, and the people present just now also agreed.

He looked at Miller, who couldn't hide his excitement, and said with a smile: "I think the actor is you, 99.9%." Unless Christopher Fossen returns tomorrow with the fleet, but I guess there shouldn't be much of a chance. ”

Miller was stunned for a moment, how could it be! It's not the sentence "You can't do it", 99.9% of them are the male protagonists of a TV series...... The heart that was about to explode with excitement suddenly gave birth to some dazedness, really? This is true? At this time, something quickly passed through his heart, like a plate of cold water that made half of his blood cold all over his body, some things cannot be hidden, but as long as they are explained.

"Mr. Wang, there is one thing I need to tell you. Miller's face was full of sincerity, and Wang Yang wondered: "Okay, what's the matter?"

Miller smiled a little self-deprecatingly and said, "I used to be a very extreme and bad person, because I had suffered a lot of discrimination and harm since I was a child, and everyone called me stinky. I was a cynic at the time, so I got into trouble when I was at Princeton, and we had a black professor at our school, Cornel-West, who was poached by Harvard, and I got so angry that I drew a cartoon and threw it to the Princeton Journal, where I described Professor West as a 'new slave' at Harvard, and it got big. ”

Black Professor, Newly Bought Slave ...... The smile on his face suddenly disappeared, and he said with a tense face: "What the hell is going on?" suddenly thought of Miller's sentence 'I have been discriminated against since I was a child', he vaguely figured out something, and wondered: "What kind of discrimination are you subjected to? You are not pure white? There is a black mixed race?"

"Well, I'm multi-national. Miller nodded, knowing that Wonder Young hated racism, and of course he himself was, and immediately explained: "My dad is of African-black, Jamaican, British, German-Jewish descent, and my mom is of French, Dutch, Syrian, and Lebanese descent. How could I racially discriminate against Professor West? That's just an irony of my anger. ”

"I understand. Figuring out the reason, Wang Yang grinned again, he understood Miller's mood at that time and what it meant to be cynical, every child who had been hurt in that way would have some of them, like Wu Yanzu, like Joshua...... Before the age of 18, he was impulsive, often angry, desperate to fight, unwilling to coax his girlfriend, and then scolded the principal...... Angry little boy!

Thinking about the past, he couldn't help but laugh at himself, it's good to fight back against those bad guys, but it's bad to hurt himself and the people he loves. He slapped Miller on the shoulder and smiled, "Winter, it's nothing, as long as you can prove your bloodline." This will not affect the audition results, but you will need to provide me with a certificate of pedigree. ”

"No problem, no problem. Miller said it twice in a row, and finally released the excitement in his heart, with a smile full of joy and gratitude: "Mr. Wang, thank you very much for today!" Wang Yang shrugged his shoulders and smiled: "No, you don't need this." With people like you, it's either "Prison Break" or "FBI SWAT". He tapped Miller on the shoulder again and headed over to the office.

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

※※The next day, Miller quickly provided a proof of family ancestry, and sure enough, there was a complex mix of eight nationalities, including blacks. This cleared the concerns of the "Prison Break" crew about choosing him as the leading actor, and the other interviewers also agreed to Wentworth Miller for the lead role after watching his excellent audition video, coupled with Wang Yang's "I will choose him".

In a busy situation, August 30-September 5 has also become history, another screening week has come to an end, this week's North American box office total is only 125 million, the top film on the weekly list is still "District 9", it received 26.48 million box office in 3580 theaters this week, and continued to win the weekly box office champion for the fifth consecutive week since its release, constantly refreshing Wang Yang's personal new record.

Another record was the highest grossing film in North America, with District 9 reaching the $300 million club ($309 million) in five weeks, becoming the third North American film to gross more than $300 million in 2002, the other two being "Spider-Man" with $403 million and "Star Wars Prequel 1" with $302 million. In the overseas market, it also maintained a good closing momentum, taking another 17.13 million in a single week, with a total overseas box office of 416 million and a global box office of 725 million.

On the one hand, it can continue to collect good box office thanks to the lack of competitive new film releases, but due to the early release of overseas box offices, in addition to counting on the future in Chinese mainland to receive 5 million, it is difficult to achieve anything; on the other hand, it is the global viral marketing, the mysterious strategy before the release, and the distribution publicity department after the release takes advantage of the high evaluation momentum of the media to launch "Do you want to miss a summer miracle?" and "Great science fiction movie" on the Internet The flood-bombing virus propaganda creates a herd effect.

And "My Grand Greek Wedding", which received 17.7 million this week, "Tian Zhao", "Tian Zhao", and "Extreme Agent", which received 12.47 million, do not have these tricks;

Now all the film companies understand that this is a trend, and Flame Films is at the forefront, and now there is no one competing for this market with them...... This whole set of virus propaganda has made the film companies that suddenly woke up "shocking", and the one that simply boasted about themselves on the Internet was outdated, how could they be indifferent when they saw these new things?

But as we all know, the end of the rush is to make the audience quickly get used to it, and the excitement in the face of these tricks will decrease, and this set of viral marketing will slowly become mediocre, but whoever wants to suffer and don't use it, please leave by yourself.

Of course, the traditional way of publicity will never be eliminated, another box office miracle is also underway, the 20-week release of the warm comedy "My Grand Greek Wedding" gradually expanded the number of theaters and the amount of weekly box office, after the second place in this week of 17.7 million, this film with a total cost of 5 million has received 85.45 million box office in North America, which also drives and reveals the market demand for marriage comedy films, and the strong hunger demand.

And movie fans and media naturally think of a movie, "The Hangover", which is scheduled to be released this year's Christmas schedule, its content introduction and teaser have been announced. A pre-wedding party leads to the groom's disappearance, and the groom Doug will have to be found if the wedding can take place in 1 day, but the problem is that none of the three can remember what happened last night.

Looking at the cute and obscene fat man in the trailer, the poor crazy toothless dentist, the bad handsome teacher, and the mysterious gangster girl like a tyrannosaurus...... There is also the cameo O'Neal, who did not reveal his approximate identity in the trailer, only half a second close-up, but the quirky look is enough to make people laugh, Robert Downey Jr. and others, as well as the personal cameo of Fantastic Young at the table...... Most of the fans immediately had great expectations, and almost insisted and believed what Magic Young said: "This is a comedy that can laugh to death." "Unless the director, who has just given a depressing and sad gift to fans around the world, put all the only jokes of "The Hangover" in the trailer. While looking forward to the release of "The Hangover", they also speculated about who the character was based on.

The groom Doug is obviously Tom Welling, the teacher may be Wonder Young, the decrepit dentist may be Zachary Levy, and what about the fat man?

However, not everyone chose to believe Wang Yang, and a considerable number of fans left messages on the official website of "The Hangover" and other places, expressing their injuries. "I'm not going to watch 'The Hangover' in the first week, I'm going to wait for a clear signal, is it funny or sad?, I don't think comedy movies are sad!", and Karan D was a lot more excited: "I'm just now realizing that I'm fooled, 'District 9' is a bastard movie at all!"

"Before the release of "When Happiness Knocks on the Door", Amazing Young said it was inspirational and touching, and it was like that; "Juno" Amazing Young said it was warm and humorous, and it was like that; "District 9"? The cunning Magic Young didn't define it, and said that staying mysterious can get the best experience, and it turned out that experience was to make my heart ache until now! He spoke again, "The Hangover" would make everyone laugh to death, but I very much doubt that he still has a funny function after "District 9"? I think the trailer is all there is to "The Hangover". - Cristina's message, which was supported by many people.

With the growth of the number of moviegoers, "District 9" has dropped to 8.7 in the TOP250 score on IMDB, and the audience liking on Rotten Tomatoes has dropped to 89%, but it still steadily receives a lot of applause and praise in the critics' circles, with a small amount of ridicule, and the freshness of the latest popular film critics is 92%, and the freshness of popular film critics is 95%.

The movie's torture of human nature makes people shudder. -- Bowen Hovans, "Film Review"; Shock, excitement, sadness, profundity, these are not all of it, it is all great. - Jonathan Rom, "Sunday"; Maybe that's great enough, but on a case-by-case basis, District 9 isn't great. —Kevin Hercott, Boston Herald ...... But the nation's most popular film critic, Roger Albert, scoffed at those who smashed the Rotten Tomatoes, and the old man who gave two thumbs up to four movies in a row wrote a long and large praise for "District 9" with his usual light-hearted tone.

"I can only describe this movie in one word, unbelievable. Let's talk about some digressions first, I know Wang Yang in "Ghost Shadow", to be honest, although I said he was magic-young at the time, but who would believe that an 18-year-old guy can do anything? I thought it would take at least 10 years before I could give him two thumbs up again, and at the age of 28, he still has a bright future.

Who knew that half a year later, he came out again, and used "Youth Musical" to make me want to go back to school and dance with beautiful women, and he created an incredible phenomenon, and then he was going to make a biopic of middle-aged people? I thought at that time this guy was still praised and lost, who did he think he was? He used "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" and "Juno" to shut me up completely, what two classics. Two years later, he used "District 9", a masterpiece that brought Hollywood summer vacation blockbusters to shame, and I almost died of a heart attack. ”

After Roger Albert agreed with the "shameful" remarks, he also officially commented on the content of the film: "This movie has no bikini beauties, but it definitely won't make you fall asleep, because its footage is too shaky for a preppy film film, it's like sitting on a crazy taxi, but it's not meaningless, pretentious shaking, it makes you feel a strong substitution of immersion, nerves are slowly tensed, and this lens language is full of alternative charm." ”

"Subversive science fiction stories, what fables and what profound...... That's all right. If you cry when you watch a cute puppy die, it's normal, when you watch a poor ghost voluntarily sink to the bottom of the sea for the sake of a rich lady, and the rich lady lives happily for the rest of her life, and you cry out because you are moved instead of angry, it's a bit of a problem; when you watch a shrimp worm man who is so ugly that people want to beat him sit in a pile of garbage and play with toys that you actually cry, should you think about what's wrong?"

"What are you crying about? I'm crying that District 10 is built in the desert instead of the beach. Roger Albert made a joke before commenting earnestly: "They were isolated and abandoned in a pile of garbage, and Victrex who had completed his transformation and awakening of humanity was abandoned in a pile of garbage, and he was spitted on and struggled in despair." The good human nature is treated as worthless garbage, but the ugly side is celebrated after the government packaging and propaganda, and the public is not aware of it. That's why I'm crying. ”

"Everyone is a human being, and we are all shrimp and worm people, and how we treat others is how we treat ourselves. I even think it's an eco-friendly movie because Victrex makes beautiful bamboo dragonflies out of garbage recycling. Maybe I'm thinking too much, but the whole movie is all about keeping you coming back and watching it, and of course you need a pacemaker. ”

"If there is an Oscar in the first half of the year, "District 9" will sweep all the awards, but unfortunately the reality is that there is still a second half of the year, maybe there will be many great works, but if there is no "District 9" and "Magic Young" in the list of Best Picture and Best Director nominations for the Oscars next year, I will still only use one word to describe it, unbelievable. ”

The article ends with his patented thumb scoring system, and this time Roger Albert makes an astonishing "three-thumbs-up!" The old man also seemed to realize that fans might mistake him for Alzheimer's, so he explained: "That's right! Two thumbs up for District 9 and Super Wonderful, and the other thumbs up for Vickers!"

In this regard, many media fans are very lamented, Roger Albert is worthy of being a "die-hard fan" of Magic Young, and he actually created three more thumbs up for him, will the DVD cover of "District 9" really hit three in the future? What about Magic Young's future movies? Four thumbs? Five?

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

(To be continued)