Chapter 117: The Rose of France

"Mr. and Mrs. Smith" is an action movie directed by Doug Liman, the director of "Spy", a remake of Hitchcock's old work, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie play the male protagonist John Smith and the female protagonist Jane Smith respectively. Interestingly, this film also indirectly caused the marriage of actors and actresses Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in reality, and the two eventually became husband and wife.

The original film is hailed as a hybrid version of "True Lies" and "War of the Roses", telling a series of absurd and hilarious stories that happen when two agents meet and fall in love, and then discover that their target is each other. At this time, the two films "True Lies" and "War of the Roses" did not even have a shadow, Wang Jie felt that the original version had a lot of things that were too pitiful, the fighting action was not exciting, and many plots were far-fetched, so he made big changes to the script of this film.

Under Wang Jie's pen, the script tells the story that John Smith and Jane Smith are an enviable and ordinary couple, and since they met in Italy five or six years ago, the handsome man and the beautiful woman have been living a peaceful life. But life may be too peaceful, and both of them feel that their marriage is about to become a grave, so that even the marriage psychiatrist can't fix the gap between them.

Soon, though, the Smiths began to discover a new passion in their lives. The two are unexpectedly attacked by killers, and both are thrillingly saved, it turns out that they respect each other and never know each other's work secrets - the husband and wife are both legendary killers, well-trained and skilled in killing, and the key is that they are still on a mission for two rival "cleaning companies".

This perfect "scavenger" husband and wife duo recently had a thrilling series of encounters because they received the latest mission at the same time - assassinating each other, and their pride and work ethic escalated the assassination operation. After a series of "unexpected" events, the Smiths understand that they have been targeted for assassination, and that the person they love is the target this time. How will they desperately kill their targets, who are equal and deeply in love?

In the process of tracking down the culprit of sabotage their actions, the couple gradually began to suspect each other. It wasn't until the wife unintentionally exposed her agile skills to her fellow killer husband during dinner that the two-storey villa where the couple had lived together for seven years immediately became a murder battlefield. However, after years of marital friendship and a lack of skill, the Smiths finally chose to lay down their arms. However, the killer organization was unwilling to let them go, and in order to escape the pursuit of the killers sent by their respective owners, the two top killers joined forces to complete the so-called tasks assigned to them by the organization, so that the organization would no longer hunt them down.

But when they complete the mission, they discover that it is a conspiracy. It turned out that the ultimate goal of this mission was themselves. The two companies believed that the relationship between the two would be detrimental to the two companies, so the two companies joined forces to set up this mission, hoping that the two would kill each other.

Surrounded by an office building when they know the truth, they will join forces to fight for their fate.......

On October 22, 1988, the film was officially launched in a villa in Wang Jie's New York. It is rare to have the opportunity to be alone with Wang Jie, and the romantic feelings in Sophie Marceau's bones completely burst out, and she is obsessed with Wang Jie.

In addition to the male and female leading actors, the other Wang Jie in this film were handed over to the casting director, and the investment was not big anyway, Wang Jie was too lazy to toss.

In this version of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" adapted by Wang Jie, the male and female protagonists are part of a multinational killer group headquartered in Rome, the capital of Italy. The heroes and heroines played by Wang Jie and Sophie Marceau met and fell in love by accident when they completed an assassination mission in Rome.

Wang Jie, the filming location of the film, chose several countries, and all of them were countries and regions with high box office in his previous films. The multi-country filming can show that the film is international and high-grade, and on the other hand, it is also to cater to fans in these filming countries, so as to increase the overseas box office. Sophie Marceau is very happy about this, and she should have taken a trip around the world, not to mention that she has Wang Jie's lover by her side.

Of course, multi-country framing has also caused the cost of filming to increase exponentially, but the last thing Wang Jie lacks at this time is money.

As early as after Wang Jie's shooting plan was initially formulated, there was already a special person in charge of preparation, Wang Jie is now a global super director, and there is no need to do many things himself.

For example, the shooting in Italy took about 5 to 7 days. The crew has already reached sponsorship agreements with several businesses such as Hilton Hotel and Chanel, providing free venues for the crew of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" for filming.

In addition, Hilton Italy will also provide a week of free food and lodging for the American crew of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", and Wang Jie will have to pay for this by showing the logo of the Italian Hilton Hotel for three seconds in the movie.

"Attention departments. ”

"The camera crew is ready. ”

"The lights are OK. ”

"The actors are in place. ”

"Mr. and Mrs. Smith's second scene first shot, Ikesh!"

Wang Jie was wearing a white shirt, and his hair was cut into a spiritual inch, looking like a young white-collar elite.

Several Italian extras on camera two walked into the hotel lobby and chattered about suspicious characters in Italian. The photographer on the No. 1 camera sat on the rail car, aiming at Wang Jie at the front desk, and gradually changed from a medium shot to a close-up.

The script of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" was written by Wang Jie, he knows very well how to show the details, and in his previous life, Wang Jie had been a "scavenger" in Italy for many years, only to see Wang Jie's relaxed expression but vigilant eyes scanned the situation in the lobby, and his right hand gradually stretched out to his waist to touch the gun.

At this time, the No. 3 machine gave Wang Jie's hand touching the gun a close-up.

Sophie Marceau, dressed in sexy casual clothes, came in from outside, and before she could speak, she heard the executive director Wu Baige suddenly shout: "Click!"

"What's wrong?" Sophie Marceau looked at Wu Baige in confusion.

The moment he stopped, Wu Baige remembered his identity, he was just an executive director who was used by the boss, and Sophie Marceau in front of him was a popular actress who had already become famous in the world. Speaking of Wu Baige, this gentleman is more unlucky now, and the "True Colors of Heroes" that made him famous made Wang Jie shoot in advance, so now he is just an ordinary director of Xiangjiang DreamWorks, Wang Jie promised him to wait until the filming of this "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" to open a separate play for him, and Wang Jie handed over the script to him, called "Hot Hand Detective".

Wu Baige said in a consultative tone: "Well, it's nothing. It's just that Miss Sophie Marceau, after you entered the hotel lobby, you saw a few policemen inside, and your expression should have been stunned for a moment, and then it returned to normal, your performance just now was a little wooden. ”

"OK, no problem. "Sophie Marceau is very talkative.

Wang Jie is the director of this film, and he said: "Okay, let's continue filming from Sophie's hotel." ”

The filming continued, and this time it was over and over again, and this kind of commercial action movie didn't test acting skills too much.

The biggest selling point of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" is handsome men and beautiful women and cool, after replacing Wang Jie as the leading actor, those action scenes were adapted and designed by him more gorgeously, of course, the difficulty has increased a lot.

In a luxurious restaurant at the Hilton Hotel in Rome, extras are dancing to beautiful melodies.

Wang Jie's dancing skills are great, Sophie Marceau has learned professional dance, and the two of them have achieved good results in filming, almost all over again.

Back in the room, soon the lights and photography were in place.

After communicating with executive director Wu Baige, Wang Jie and Sophie Marceau started kissing in front of everyone at the door.

This is usually incomparable, Wang Jie started to move according to the play in his head, he skillfully hugged Sophie Marceau's waist, and the two kissed passionately.

After the filming of this intimate scene, the crew packed up their things and went out, and Wang Jie and Sophie Marceau also walked into a restaurant hand in hand and began to enjoy Italian food.

As a director, many times the actors and other behind-the-scenes people are asleep, and they have to sort out the content filmed during the day in the middle of the night.

Wang Jie relied on his "super control" of the details of the film, and many times he was extremely incompetent, often asking Wu Baige and other staff members to do some basic screening work first, and only after a few scenes of filming did he take a break to guide him.

While Wu Baige was working hard, Wang Jie and Sophie Marceau had already started to combine and cultivate in the room.

After the passion, Sophie Marceau lazily lay in Kang Jianfei's arms and said: "I really want to be like this, just the two of us, and we will be happy until we are old."

"I'm sorry!" Wang Jie smiled bitterly, "But you can't handle me by yourself." ”

Sophie Marceau naughtily pinched the flesh on Wang Jie's waist and said, "Then you must love me more in the future." ”

Wang Jie pretended to be serious and said, "Then I'll love you again now." ”

"No, I don't dare anymore. Sophie Marceau begged for mercy.

Wang Jie said affectionately: "I will definitely make you the happiest woman in the world." ”

"You guys?" said Sophie Marceau sourly, "My sister and I must have owed you something in our previous lives. ”

Wang Jie joked: "Maybe I owe you something, God asked me to save you in this life." ”

Sophie Marceau's fingers suddenly increased in weight, Wang Jie pretended to cry out in pain, Sophie Marceau let go of her hand in amusement, and kissed Wang Jie again.

The filming of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" in Rome took a total of five and a half days, and after returning to Los Angeles, the crew began to take a break because Christmas came.