Chapter 107: Jodie Foster
On February 15, 1987, "The Silence of the Lambs" was quietly launched in a studio in Burbank. Originally, Wang Jie wanted his woman to play the heroine Clarice Starling, but it seems that women are not interested in this role, originally Wang Jie asked Monica Bellucci, but at this time she was not interested in the entertainment industry, and devoted herself to the lawyer industry, last year Monica Bellucci has set up her own law firm, because of Wang Jie's financial resources and network support, the law firm has developed rapidly, and it can already be ranked in the top five in California.
Seeing that the women were arrogant, there was no way, Wang Jie could only find the original Jodie Foster, and when Jodie Foster received Wang Jie's notice, it was unimaginable.
Judie Foster was born on November 19, 1962 in California, USA, to a former Air Force colonel father and a consultant to a Hollywood production company. In 1965, my mother took 8-year-old Judy's brother to apply for a sunscreen advertisement, but I didn't expect that it was Foster, who was only 3 years old who accompanied my brother to apply, was favored by the advertising agency and finally took over the advertisement. From the age of 3 to take over the first commercial, Judy officially stepped into the showbiz, and then starred in dozens of large and small commercials and TV series. From Ken-L rations to Oreos biscuits and shampoo commercials, by the time he was eight years old, Foster had taken on more than 40 commercials.
In the fall of 1980, Foster went to Yale University to study. At Yale, Judy chose to major in literature, she began to study classics, changed to American literature in her junior year, and was particularly interested in black American literature, liking the Nobel Prize-winning writer Toni Morrison, who also wrote her graduation thesis. Judy is a minor in Latin and speaks Italian and Spanish in addition to English and French. In 1984, Jodie Foster graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree and a magna laude in Latin Literature. In the fall of 1980, Judy temporarily left the entertainment industry to study at Yale University, and she wanted to live a peaceful life because of the Hinkley incident. Hinckley was madly obsessed with Judy in "Taxi Driver", he watched the film fourteen times, and finally in order to get Judy's attention, he followed the example of Robert in the film, and on March 30, 1981, he went to assassinate the then President of the United States Ronald Wilson Reagan (attempted), he tried to get Judy's attention with this extreme behavior, but he did not expect that this incident would make Judy fall into the whirlpool of public opinion, and become the focus of people's discussion for a while.
In recent years, Jodie Foster has almost no one cared about, no director dared to use her, and receiving Wang Jie's invitation to the role was a surprise for her at this time, and after reading the outline of the script, Jodie Foster agreed without saying a word.
In addition to Zeng Jiang and Ren Dahua, Wang Jie has used the original actors, in which Zeng Jiang plays Hannibal Lecter with a very high IQ, quick thinking and some psychopaths, Ren Dahua has evolved into a murderous maniac, and Bison Bill, who has a cross-dresser, originally Wang Jie promised to help Ren Dahua "turn positive" But because he didn't find a suitable script, he could only delay it backwards, Ren Dahua didn't have any complaints about this, he also knew that his image was not easy to pick positive roles, and he was also very happy to be able to follow the boss in Hollywood, after all, as far as DreamWorks itself is concerned, there are no actors who can star in Hollywood movies.
"The Silence of the Lambs" was originally a thriller film adapted from Thomas Harris's novel of the same name, but this series of time and space was plagiarized by Wang Jie in advance, and naturally became Wang Jie's work. The film tells the story of trainee agent Clarice, who is a trainee agent of the FBI. A series of murders occur in her city, and the murderer is a psychopathic murderer "Bison Bill" who specializes in skinning women. Clarice is instructed to visit Dr. Hannibal, a psychiatrist, in a high-security prison to obtain information about the psychology and behavior of the offender to help solve the case. Hannibal is a middle-aged man with an extremely high IQ, quick mind but a high degree of perversion, and an ogre who asks Clarice to tell her personal experience for her own analysis in exchange for his assistance. Soon, another female corpse appeared. Clarice discovers two new clues: first, the deceased has been stripped of two diamond-shaped pieces of skin on his back, and second, the deceased has a cocoon the size of a little finger in his throat. According to insect experts, this is a moth that originated in Asia and is known as a "hell insect".
Another woman has been kidnapped, this time the senator's daughter. Clarice asks the doctor for help, and the doctor still psychoanalyzes her, and Clarice recounts the most painful memories of her childhood as the days after her father's death. The doctor reminds Clarice that the characteristics of the moth are to change, from a worm to a chrysalis, and from a chrysalis to a moth, and that "Bison Bill" also wants to change, and because he was abused by his stepmother as a child, Bill has developed a perverted mentality, and he has visited three sex reassignment surgery centers, but has been refused...... Their conversation was eavesdropped on by the attending doctor, Chiton, who tried to take the lead and interrogated Hannibal, but found nothing. Later, the doctor was transferred to another prison. Clarice arrives at the news, and after some questioning, Hannibal learns why Clarice always hears the screams of the lambs, but just as she asks the doctor to name the murderer, Chilton and his guards arrive and take Clarisse away. Soon after, the Doctor used the wire of the ballpoint pen that Chiton had dropped to open the shackles, killing the guards and escaping. Clarice continues to search for clues on her own, gradually locking on to a man named Jaime Gam, as he had carried a box of live caterpillars from Suriname at customs and had visited a transgender center. Clarice finds the residence of "Bison Bill", and she and the killer have a fierce battle in the gloomy basement, and finally Clarice hits Jaime and rescues the senator's daughter. "Buffalo Bill" is killed, but a more dangerous figure emerges. At the celebration, Clarice receives a call from Dr. Hannibal, and after the call is hung up, Hannibal, wearing sunglasses, silently enters the flow of people, looking for his prey, Chitton.
Jodie Foster is very interested in Wang Jie, as a veteran in the circle, it is hard for her to imagine that there will be a director who is so talented, as a woman with a super high IQ, she is a little jealous of Wang Jie, in fact, the reason why Jodie Foster has become a lace edge in the original time and space has something to do with the fact that there is no man who can suppress her, in short, Jodie Foster became interested in Wang Jie, when a woman begins to be curious about men, it means that the beginning of this woman's fall.
Because Wang Jie wanted the movie "The Silence of the Lambs" to participate in this year's Cannes Film Festival, the filming was somewhat rushed.
The acting skills of all the actors in the crew are very good, which saves Wang Jie a lot of effort and time when filming. Zeng Jiang actually only appeared for 16 minutes in "The Silence of the Lambs", but Wang Jie filmed this 16-minute scene for a whole week. Buffalo Bill in the film is derived from three real-life serial killers, namely Ed Gain, who has a penchant for skinning people, Ted Bundy, who lures murdered women into a van, and Gary Heidnik, who imprisons kidnapped women in a cellar. In order to make Ren Dahua more familiar with this role, Wang Jie specially obtained the file of the relevant case for Ren Dahua to consult through the relationship, which made him portray the character very well when he acted, and even the American actors were amazed that his performance was wonderful.
After intense filming and production, "The Silence of the Lambs" was finally completed just a week before the opening of the Cannes Film Festival, and the film will also be the opening film of this year's Cannes Film Festival.