"Indeed, she is a very beautiful girl," said an old woman who, though wrinkled, was still noticeably younger than her peers in a secluded mansion in Hollywood, and who was still very charming, "perhaps this is one of the benefits of dying early, and behold, the people who play Marilyn are now much better than her." ”

"Grandmother—" Elizabeth. One of Taylor's favorite grandsons cried out in dissatisfaction, and he said in disgust, "Marilyn is already a symbol of the times, how can it be said that Jennifer is better than her?" ――In my opinion, this girl's acting skills are very good, but they are not without annoyance, at least the PR agency she hired is too annoying, what kind of strategy is this? Why step on Marilyn to elevate yourself? ”

Elizabeth has been married eight times in her life, has given birth to four children, and of course there are more grandchildren and great-grandchildren, relying on her, the family lives a very privileged life, but there are not many people interested in the film industry, Conrad is the only one among her grandchildren who wants to enter the film industry, he has loved watching movies since he was a child, and is now studying directing at USC, so he has nothing to do, and often visits his grandmother in the mansion, and Elizabeth generally welcomes the company of this grandson. However, after all, Conrad is still young, and he likes to go to extremes when looking at problems, especially he likes to watch old movies, and belongs to the kind of person who is more literary and artistic. Jefferson wasn't so cold, but Marilyn. Monroe is a big fan, so it is reasonable that he will be disgusted by his grandmother's remarks. Although he is now rubbing the promotional disc received by his grandmother and watching the now hard-to-find "A Week with Monroe" in the home theater, when he heard Elizabeth say this, he still sensitively thought of the PR staff who visited the door a few days ago, and made some associations with Elizabeth's comments more sensitively. - He didn't realize that his grandmother and Monroe were also the same era, and Elizabeth was only six years younger than Marilyn.

"How much do you know about Marilyn?" Sure enough, Elizabeth scoffed at Conrad's comment, she pressed the pause button, pointed to the screen and said, "Let me tell you, this movie is not badly made, and one of them is well restored - Marilyn has always known that she is not a good actor, her fascination with method school completely says it all, and she herself knows how much acting she has." And Jennifer. What about Jefferson? This girl he. Mother. is an acting genius, and she is also very beautiful, not inferior to Marilyn in appearance, is there anything wrong with saying that she is much better than Marilyn? Conrad, you are still young and do not understand the power of time, in fact, before Marilyn's legendary death, she was already going downhill, it was her death that saved her and kept her remembered to this day, if she had survived, lived to your grandmother's age, maybe she would have fallen in people's memories long ago. ”

Conrad realized his grandmother's faint displeasure, and he couldn't pull his face to apologize, but he was somewhat guilty of not arguing with his grandmother anymore, just shrugged his shoulders, and said with some peace, "Well, I admit it, maybe in 50 years, people will look at Jennifer like this. Jefferson's, after all, she won two actresses at such a young age - I think there will be a group of people who can't help but want to play her, but for her fans, of course, no one's performance can compare to her own style. Marilyn is the same for me, although Jennifer is also beautiful, but it seems to be a little worse than her, I don't know what it is, but if grandma were to say that Marilyn is not as beautiful as Jennifer, I really can't accept it. ”

"Good eyes," Elizabeth said, holding her mug, and glanced at Jennifer on the screen with some complication—even though she had a legendary and rich life, a former beauty would always have some indescribable sourness when she looked at a new beauty as she grew old—"Before this movie, I agree with you, Jennifer. Jefferson is pretty, but she is not an actress based on her beauty, but that's not a bad thing - if you just rely on her beauty to get a foothold in Hollywood, then you have a good chance of stuffing a lot of pills down your throat in her thirties, just like Marilyn - in fact, although she is beautiful, you don't think she's dominant, you don't go crazy for her, because she doesn't follow the line of acting in her true colors and charming temperament, and in that respect, she is an authentic actor. Her charm is determined by the charm of the character, and if her personal temperament is too strong, it will hinder you from entering the play, so she is really not Monica. Bellucci, Catherine. A amorous actress like Zeta-Jones. ”

"However," Elizabeth took a sip of coffee, her eyes fell back on the blonde beauty on the screen, for a while, this face that has been maintained by various beauty methods over the years, has become somewhat unnatural, and also showed an extremely rich nostalgic expression, this big-name movie star who has spanned half a century, also has a long and vicissitudes in her tone, "After this movie, everything is different, from this point of view, taking over Marilyn is the most correct decision for her." - Maybe it's a character need, maybe it's an inspiration, and her performance is almost reborn - no wonder the director is so obviously in love with her-"

Conrad interrupted Elizabeth with a startled noise, "I'm in love with her—"

"Oh, please!" Elizabeth glared at her grandson, "If you can't even see that, then what kind of film school are you going to study?" Isn't all this clearly written in the camera? ”

She waved impatiently at the screen, and when she saw the shyly smiling blonde beauty in the freezer, the old star's lips couldn't help but curl slightly, and she said in a tone full of nostalgia, dreamingly, "However, the style that Jennifer shows in this movie - that feeling that is free and fitting with Marilyn...... Do you know? This -- this lip licking really reminds me of Marilyn -- so many years, so many years, 40 years, Conrad, do you have an idea of this number? That's even your two lifetimes, I thought I had forgotten about it...... Yes, more than 40 years ago, in that crazy era, Marilyn always liked to lick her lips like that, and she was like that, always with a little childlike innocence......"

In Elizabeth's emotional tone, on the wide screen of the private theater, Marilyn, played by Jennifer, removes and retracts her tongue licking her upper lip - this action is indeed a little childish - and happily hugs her husband Arthur. Miller's arms, posing under the guidance of the photographer, seemed to be completely immersed in happiness, and seemed to be unaware of the distant gaze from Colin and Vivien Leigh, and the longing on Colin's face, the restrained and reserved smile on Vivien Leigh's face, had already interpreted the current relationship between several people—Marilyn's beauty was like a sharp weapon, and without realizing it, it had cut deep into Colin's chest, and also made Vivien Leigh feel deeply uneasy.

"This is the damn British actor......" Elizabeth muttered to herself, no longer bothering to communicate with her grandson, "yes, Vivien Leigh was like that back then, crazy and frightening, the movie was too kind to her, and of course, this scene would not have happened in reality, Larry (Lawrence. Oliver didn't dare to let her see Monroe at all, otherwise she would definitely break her head......"

For Elizabeth, the film is just as mesmerizing, not because she's fascinated by Monroe's beauty — not that she's denying Jennifer. Jefferson's beauty, in fact, she admires Jennifer more than Marilyn, and even thinks that Jennifer is more beautiful than Marilyn from the bottom of her heart, after all, Marilyn and her are contemporaneous beauties - however, Elizabeth is really past this age, and what really attracts her is no longer the beauty of young people, but the film's very good restoration of Britain in the 60s, those antique, contemporary details, those costumes, those props, There is also the reserved openness and playfulness of the time (compared to now, a little bit more), and even Jennifer's attentive but weighty performance, those small details that bring her back to forty or fifty years ago, belong to Marilyn's careless sex. Sense of temperament, the kind of peerless beauty that effortlessly competes for everyone's attention - in terms of appearance alone, Jennifer and Marilyn actually don't look very alike, but for Elizabeth, Jennifer is the Marilyn with the highest degree of restoration over the years, and she restores Marilyn's temperament, which impresses her contemporaries and brings great pressure, and can even be said to make her a little envious and jealous.

"The combination of human and drama," she said softly, "is definitely her classic and peak, and it is difficult to reproduce even after this, she can't reach such heights in every play......"

Looking at Marilyn on the screen with a light smile and cast a glance in Colin's direction, when the eyes of the two sides met by chance, the shy and amorous smile on Colin's face, the expression that seemed to be deeply attracted, and the subtle eyes of Vivien Leigh standing on the side, and the reserved and restrained body language, Elizabeth shook her head, her tone was almost a little melancholy, "From the director to the actor, it cannot be copied...... It's one of a kind ...... classic."

"Grandma!" Conrad raised his voice in dissatisfaction and protested, Elizabeth realized that she was talking a little too loudly, she glanced at her grandson next to her, and laughed generously: although he did not admit it positively, Conrad was undoubtedly attracted to the plot, otherwise he would not have maintained a quiet viewing environment so rudely, and this made Elizabeth feel victorious, so she has always had a hard personality and rarely chose to be silent: it is not difficult to understand that young people are always attracted to love dramas, and in this movie, the chemistry of the actors is strong, the acting skills are so sincere and natural, as Elizabeth said, and even the people and the drama have been integrated, and the director is obviously at the peak of his creative desire - in the state, it is not unusual for Marilyn and Colin to attract each other to bring Conrad in......

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With the beautiful beauty of the shots, as well as the layered performances of the actors, the plot and character relationships that should have been embarrassing and tense were handled very comfortably, and it can even be said to be funny, and the director dealt with the human flaws of each character with an almost compassionate attitude, Lawrence's artificiality, arrogance, and his hidden fascination with Marilyn - this point was handled especially restrained, not watched repeatedly, and it was almost difficult to see the clues, will only ignore the one or two seemingly unrelated close-ups of small actions, Vivien Leigh's insight into all this, her frustration with her old age, her distrust of her husband and her own inferiority, including the sudden emotional wave brought about by her mental illness, and the kind of hostility and suspicion and malice hidden under her self-esteem. Miller's arrogance, these human shortcomings have been handled with warmth, and even Monroe's two ruthless agents seem excusable in the camera, and they can even be said to be a little cute.

And Colin himself, not to mention, his advantages are appreciated, and his shortcomings can't help but feel that he is actually excusable - as a noble boy who yearns for movies and belongs to the black sheep of the family, Colin is a little confused and lacks a sense of responsibility, but this is actually a common problem of young people, which does not make the audience hate him, and the audience will even feel that these small shortcomings make Colin more cute and more humane - this also makes it easier for them to substitute Colin's perspective, To peek into Monroe's life, although until the first 20 minutes, Monroe's shots are not very much, but the audience will not lose interest and feel that the whole movie is boring, on the contrary, they have completely convinced Monroe played by Jennifer, and the questions they held before the opening of the movie: Is Jennifer as beautiful and so amorous as Monroe? It's a biographical film, will she act like it? Will this movie be boring? -- these doubts had been dissipated unconsciously, and they had entered the world completely, into Colin's heart, and had experienced his feeling, the young boy who had suddenly been given a chance, into a mysterious world, and had a close look at the goddess—such a high, almost dreamlike woman—and the feeling of having such an opportunity, and sighing and smiling at it, and with Colin, holding this feeling as if it were a dream, looking forward to the next opportunity to see Marilyn again.

In the interval between each of Monroe's appearances, the director will use a lot of complex editing techniques to do the scenes, almost skillfully in a very short period of time, to explain a lot of information clearly: after Marilyn came to the UK, countless costumes were sent to the set, the staff were refreshed and smiling, the work before the start of filming was carried out in an orderly manner, and the famous actors also entered the set either reserved or excited, and began to talk to Monroe' The first intimate encounter', soon, Colin ushered in another opportunity to contact Marilyn - the heavyweights have arrived, the time has come, but Marilyn has not yet appeared, Colin is sent by Lawrence to the lounge, to invite Marilyn to come.

"Miss Monroe?" In front of the door of the break room, Colin hesitated for a moment—Elizabeth let out a slight exclamation at Simon's body language—but he knocked on the door quickly. "The director asked me to send my greetings."

The door was opened, and Marilyn's acting teacher appeared behind it with a serious face, and she glanced at Colin a few times, who continued, "He wanted Miss Monroe to know that he was ready. ”

"But Marilyn wasn't ready." The old Eastern European woman said coldly, it looked very annoying, but she still got out of the way, and Monroe, who was dressed in black and was taking a selfie in the mirror, naturally appeared in the camera, she seemed to be a little tired and depressed, with her hands on her head, she was sitting in front of the dressing table in a daze, after hearing the voice, she looked at Colin through the mirror - she didn't wear makeup, and she looked very different from her previous amorous appearance, of course, it wasn't ugly, in fact, she was still very beautiful for ordinary people, However, compared with the superstar aura in front of the camera, she at this moment undoubtedly looks much more fragile and ordinary.

However, it was such a low Marilyn that seemed to hit Colin's soft underbelly and opened his heart more thoroughly - he couldn't help but show a concerned expression, his brows twisted slightly, although there was no line, Colin's face had already said all the words: he was so caring for her and caring about her, maybe because the boy at this age was full of emotions, maybe because of his love for Marilyn, maybe because of Colin's kindness and enthusiasm, at this moment, He cared so much that he couldn't help but take a few steps forward, almost causing Vanessa, the Eastern European teacher, to shout.

Colin's movements also caught Marilyn's attention, and their eyes met in the mirror, and Colin's expression - the shock caused by Marilyn -

At that moment, so many emotions flowed through Marilyn's somewhat gloomy big eyes, and the audience also received her complex thoughts, although there was not a single line, although she almost didn't move, although all her movements were only eyebrows slightly raised, and a few muscle lines around her nose were relaxed, but Marilyn's perception of Colin's mood, including her feeling of emotion and surprise at this moment, and some pity - now she was depressed and needed comfort, and Colin's concern moved her, She was pleasantly surprised by the emotional support she wanted, and at the same time, Colin's innocence and openness made her feel pity for him, an adult who had experienced many setbacks and ups and downs, instinctively maintained and worried about such a fresh, unharmed soul.

Her response was just as precise as Colin's expression, and his eyes quickly took over with joy, but at this moment, he didn't dare to go any further—he took a few steps back, and the corners of Marilyn's lips raised, and she covered half of her face and said to Colin, "I'm sorry to let you see me." ”

The director cut a close-up at the right time, and after this childish action, half of Marilyn's face gradually smiled, she looked at the camera, and smiled affectionately and happily - and then, as if instinctively, she put down her hand, stretched out her tongue and licked her upper lip, like a child's aftertaste of food, although still without makeup, but haggard and tired, faded like a tide in this moment, that lazy innocence and sexuality. The feeling returned to Marilyn's face, as if she had gained strength from Colin, and she reached out and pressed it on the table, and slowly stood up......

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"Grandma!" Conrad cried out again in disgruntle, his voice full of complaint, but Elizabeth was unmoved.

"I'm sorry." She said, putting the cup aside and standing up, "Old man's bladder, give me a few minutes." ”

From Conrad, who was squeezed past by a disgusting 'ew' sound from hearing her grandmother talk about her organs, Elizabeth left for a few minutes, took her pills this morning, and took a short break before returning to the theater - her body actually couldn't support watching movies for a long time, and after watching for more than ten or twenty minutes, she always had to take a break to gather enough strength to continue. And Conrad apparently remembered this, so instead of urging Elizabeth, he began to talk to her.

"The emotional line is indeed very good," he judged from the perspective of a directing student, "The key is that the actors have chemistry, so the information transmission is very labor-saving, and there is not much loss, it is extremely natural, and most importantly, it highlights the acting skills, and in this year's awards season, Jennifer has taken a big advantage." ”

"If the judges agree with you," said Elizabeth, resisting the urge to laugh at her grandson, "then Jennifer would really be crying—seriously, Conrad, if we all look the same way as you, will anyone still value the Oscars?" ”

In the end, she couldn't help but sarcastically say, and she pointed out the maze for this little grandson who was swaying in half a bucket of water, "Colin's actor is indeed performing in his true colors, which is not a problem, but if you rewatch the editing this time, you will find that the chemistry of this emotional scene is not inspired by the actor himself, Colin's admiration for Marilyn should be the actor's own performance, which is no problem, but Marilyn's response and the emotional connection between the two are completely made by editing, so many close-ups." Marilyn must be winking at the camera - if I had to say, she was more like smiling at the person behind the camera, and she and Salvi. Tuqi must be in love, at least when filming this scene, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to make such a movie, that's what I said, this movie can't be replicated - even if they are asked to shoot this part again now, everything will be restored, it won't feel like this, the feeling when they first fell in love is the most fleeting, and even once the relationship is stabilized, the interaction between the two changes, and it is likely that Jennifer will not be able to act like this in front of the camera. ”

She took a breath and admonished again, "This must be a compulsory course for you, analyze the director's shooting techniques, Conrad, if you can't even understand the director's intentions, then I tell you, you just can't copy the essence......"

Conrad seemed to be a little distracted almost immediately, and his intention was to change the subject obviously, "So, at this year's Oscars, Jennifer will be a big hit?" Looking at her public relations efforts, I thought she was the Oscar actress this year, grandma, listening to your tone, do you think Jennifer has no hope this year? ”

"Who said that?" Elizabeth glared at Conrad, she was really starting to get a little impatient, "Conrad, although this is only our second time, I still expect you to see some of its doorways, "A Week with Monroe" is the best movie of the year, Jennifer. Jefferson is undoubtedly the best actress of the year, even if she played the emotional drama so well because she fell in love with the director, but so what? Let me tell you, when an actress shoots an emotional scene, if she doesn't fall in love with the lead actor or the director or photographer, this scene can't be filmed well - this is the most common empathy psychology, people can't convince themselves, they can't convince others - if you can't understand what is good about her, then I'm afraid you don't have the talent to be a director at all - this year there are indeed factors that prevent her from winning the award, which is true, but so far, this is the strongest film of the awards season, and no actress can match her performance. ”

"Hindering the prize?" Conrad didn't care about his grandmother's blows to him, after all, it was a common thing, he just pondered Elizabeth's words curiously, "Ah—do you mean the Oscar she won a few years ago?" However, that was in '06, and this year's competition is for the '09 award, and it's been 3 years, so it can't be said that it's hopeless......"

He suddenly laughed wickedly, "But you only have two Oscars - and it's been six years since you won them, so I guess you won't vote for her even though she performed well, would you, Grandma?" ”

Elizabeth once again gave Conrad a hateful look, and she didn't bother to talk nonsense with her grandson, she just shook her head and said simply, "No, of course I'll give her the ticket." ”

"Ahh Conrad exclaimed, his surprise revealed how he usually thought of his grandmother's open-mindedness - obviously, Elizabeth's image in his mind was not particularly ideal, "Why is this - don't tell me that those PRs actually came up with chips that can impress you, grandma, what are you lacking now-"

She was missing a lot, and Elizabeth's eyes fell on the screen, looking at Monroe's 60s-style shoulder pad jacket, and Lawrence. Oliver's reserved smile, she shook her head full of melancholy: the youth that can't be recovered, the glory that has become a thing of the past, the love that has been missed, the friend that has been lost-

"It's not about PR." Suddenly lost all the mood to tease her grandson, Elizabeth said softly. "It's a decision that's been made a long time ago."

Her denial, of course, once again attracted Conrad's curious and inquisitive eyes, and this time, Yu Po was like gold, and only succinctly spat out two words.

Sidney. Pollack. ”

Already in May of this year, Sidney, who sadly passed away on the eve of the release of "Monroe". Pollack......