In many commercial films, female roles are often unflattering, either going the sexy route or acting as a vase, making it difficult to show acting skills. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

As a judge of the Oscars, he has an instinctive resistance to commercial films, and there are really few commercial films with good word-of-mouth and box office. Judges from the academy are more inclined to small-budget art films.

If you want to get the little golden man, you need to follow its rules to be able to achieve the greatest possibility.

Women's films, which can highlight the heroine, are also very much in line with the Oscars' habit of focusing on independent women.

Hollywood has a very complete film system, from the screenwriters' guild to the actors' guild, and has enough resources to meet Du Jiayi's requirements. The film industry, in the final analysis, still needs a lot of money, as long as the investment is in place, no matter how demanding the requirements can be met.

Scripts are the foundation of Hollywood films, and if there is no story that can attract the audience, all tricks will be in vain. Every day, through solicitations, script agents, or full-time screenwriters, Hollywood's major studios collect hundreds of movie scripts, but in the end, it is only one in a million that can be made into a movie.

From an idea to the final formation of the shooting script, it often takes several years or even more than ten years. Before studio executives make the decision to shoot, there will be thousands of screenwriters, agents, script analysts and script doctors who need to complete the basic work, forming a complete industrial chain.

When screenwriters' scripts are submitted to the studios through their own submissions or agents, the first to read them are script analysts, who seem to have a humble status but control the fate of the writers. Every script submitted to a Hollywood studio has to be analyzed and summarized by them. Because busy producers don't have time to read lengthy scripts. The script analyst is responsible for summarizing the story and core elements of the script in short words, and giving an assessment of whether it is worth further follow-up.

From the initial version of the screenwriter to the final script, Hollywood films go through a long process of script development and revision, which is often likened to purgatory, and is a painful ordeal for both screenwriters and producers. But it is also this long polishing that guarantees the quality of the film's story. The story of a Hollywood movie may lack personality, but it tends to appeal to the widest range of audiences, because the story contains the work of too many people and the greatest consensus.

The new film company integrated by Du Jiayi hired a number of script analysts to select scripts that met Du Jiayi's requirements from a large number of scripts.

You need to have the strength to impact the Oscars and be able to highlight the heroine, and these two items alone have directly brushed off a large number of scripts. Some scripts just take the commercial route and rely on visual effects to attract audiences. Among the few surviving scripts, script analysts focused on the genre of feature films, trying to find a script that could meet Du Jiayi's requirements.

The final screenplay, based on Matthew Quake's novel of the same name, is a movie that can release people's emotions in terms of watching the movie, and the second half gives people a sense of thrill to see the clouds.

The male protagonist is a high school history teacher with mental illness, and after four years in a neurological hospital, he feels as if he has been living for months. He lost everything, including his house, his job, and his wife, and he was determined to start a new life and try to get back together with her, but in the end he was defeated.

Later, Pat meets a young girl, Tiffany, whose life is not satisfactory, her husband dies in a car accident for her, and in the following days, she does many bad things and becomes a problem girl. Tiffany helps Pat and his wife reconcile, but only if Pat agrees to Tiffany on the condition that he dance with her. When their agreement came into effect, an incredible relationship began between them.

The script excels in the fact that the father and son are two mentally challenged characters who overcome their obsessive-compulsive disorder and mania, as well as superstition and psychological prejudices, respectively, to win the Philadelphia Eagles and ballroom dancing competition. In terms of construction and arrangement, the storyline is strictly in accordance with the routine of traditional family *** and romantic comedy, and uses a snowball narrative mode to solve the love and injury between members of the family, so that the love of two madmen gradually blooms.

The emotional swings of the characters in this film are also very challenging for the actors. In particular, the heroine Tiffany is quite brilliant, although she is in a tragic situation, but she is really cute, she sleeps with almost everyone in the office, but just to hide the loneliness in her heart. She is very honest and arrogant, "I have a **** side, but I like it, this is as true as other aspects of me." ”

Tiffany may seem impersonal on the surface, but she still has a pitiful and endearing side, forcing people to dance, forging letters, and arguing with De Niro with the temperament of a brutal girlfriend. The heroine's need for a tense performance deepens the complexity and contradiction of Tiffany's character, which in turn makes the audience feel empathetic.

In "The Happiness Line Behind the Dark Clouds", two socially marginalized characters, with scars all over their bodies, are gradually approaching, and finally find true love and self. The hero and heroine are guarding their bottom line with the same insistence as Forrest Gump, and then gradually discover what they really want. Their search and persistence, as well as their love, have become the most touching part.

This film is able to highlight the acting skills of the heroine, and it is also very much in line with the taste of the Oscar judges. In particular, the humanistic care and modern psychological pathology are very consistent with today's environment.

Du Jiayi also agreed with this script very much, spent five million dollars to buy and change the script, and invited the original author to join the film project to restore the author's subjective picture as much as possible.

In terms of director selection, Du Jiayi chose the famous independent film director David Russell. In '94, Russell received funding to make his feature film debut "Monkey Fighting". The film tells the story of a mother-love complex, with sharp and humorous strokes, and the performances of the little-known actors are also very good, making this film the biggest star in the independent film industry that year. In addition to winning the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, Russell also won the 1995 Independent Spirit Award for Best New Writer and New Director.

In '96, Russell brought his second film, "Flirting with Disaster," which still focused on dysfunctional family life and relationships, and which was both critical and commercially successful, paving the way for Russell to go mainstream.

Four years later, he directed the film "Three Kings of Gold", which tells the story of three GIs in the Gulf War who were bent on treasure hunting and finally discovered their conscience. This heroic anti-war film with a hot scene draws a clear line with Russell's previous works, and it makes people feel physically and mentally comfortable after venting.

It can be said that Russell is very good at humanistic films, and his fame in the independent film industry has become Du Jiayi's first choice. (To be continued.) )