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Chapter 172: If you want to transform the film perfectly, you have to understand every minute of the film, Liang Xiaolong carefully recalled all the information he had learned about "Million Dollar Baby" before, and first of all, he naturally thought of the director and actors, although there are few characters in this film, it is undeniable that the cast of actors is definitely luxurious. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info first the male lead, that is, the director of the film - Clint . Eastwood, a famous Hollywood director, became famous as early as 1964 with "Red Dead Redemption", and then successively filmed "The Prodigal Son of the Wilderness", "Cross Shooting", "Never Look Down", "Black Handcuffs", "Pale Knight", "Devil Sergeant Major" and a series of films, it can almost be said that Hollywood in the sixties and seventies was Clint's world.

However, if Bruce Leung wants to shoot this film, then the actor must be changed, Clint himself is an extremely successful director, and his career is mainly director, almost only participating in his own films. However, Liang Xiaolong is not worried about this, Hollywood is a gathering place for the world's top filmmakers, and there is absolutely no saying that anyone can't play without it, and it is not impossible to find other actors to replace them.

The heroine is Hillary. Swank, whose acting skills are definitely one of the top in Hollywood. In her previous life, when she took over the film "Million Dollar Baby", she was already an Oscar actress, and she won the Oscar with this film, and her achievements are not brilliant. Thinking of this, Liang Xiaolong was somewhat ashamed, because Hillary won the honor of being a movie queen for the first time with her outstanding performance in "Boys Don't Cry", and now Liang Xiaolong filmed it in advance in order to please Rachel and let Rachel realize her dream of being an Oscar-winning actress.

So, thinking of these, Liang Xiaolong has decided that no matter what, the film "Million Dollar Baby" must be starring Hillary. However, Hillary Clinton should also belong to a special existence among many Hollywood stars, although she has extremely superb acting skills, but if the actress wants to break out of the world in Hollywood, it seems that her outstanding appearance is more important than her acting skills, and Hillary's "hard lines" have become a stumbling block in her acting career, and her eyes have limited her acting path. Therefore, in her previous life, she won the Oscar with the drama "Boys Don't Cry", but she was not as popular as she imagined, and few people even regarded her as a first-line star.

It wasn't until 2005 that Hillary Clinton played a female boxer in Clint Eastwood's film "Million Dollar Baby", which was not a first-line blockbuster but defeated the big production "The Aviator" with a thunderous momentum, and Hillary's superb acting skills also won her the title of Oscar actress again.

In just five years, he became the successor to Vivien. Leigh was nominated twice for actress who won two Oscars twice, which is also a myth in Oscar history. Since then, she has finally stepped into the ranks of A-list actresses, and in 2010 she was nominated for the Oscar for Best Actress again for "Conviction", before the award, many fans called on her to achieve the great achievement of "one explosion in five years", because her first two actress laurels were won in 2000 and 2005. But unfortunately, the 2010 Oscar actress was eventually won by Talina. Portman won.

"Hillary Clinton also starred in "Hollywood's Calm Day Sleepwalking Murder" last year, and the response can only be said to be good, but it is impossible to climb to the status of a first-line actress, and it should be easy to invite her to shoot this drama." Liang Xiaolong smiled, ready to wait for the script to be completed, and began to contact Hillary.

There is a great director Clint, and there is a movie queen Hillary, the lineup is already very good, but its supporting role is also extraordinary. Freeman is a famous black star in the United States, whose representative works include "The Seven Deadly Sins", "The Impostor", and "The Shawshank Redemption". In terms of honor, he has also been nominated for Oscars many times, including the 60th Academy Awards Best Supporting Actor nomination "Wandering Streets" in 1988, the 60th Academy Awards Best Supporting Actor nomination "Wandering Streets" in 1988, and the 67th Academy Awards Best Actor nomination "The Shawshank Redemption" in 1995.

However, Bruce Leung's deepest memory of him is not his masterpieces, in his previous life, he paid great attention to the development of Chinese stars in Hollywood, and he has a particularly deep memory of several films starring Jet Li, among which the old blind man in "Danny Wolfdog" is starring Morgan.

In life, Morgan is also a man of integrity, who has publicly opposed the celebration of Black History Month and will not participate in any related activities. "I don't need Black History Month, Black history is American history," he said. Morgan believes that the only way to end racism is to stop talking about it, and he notes that there is no "White History Month."

The cast of actors is huge, and if possible, Liang Xiaolong will definitely continue such a lineup to ensure that there will be no criticism in terms of actors. Leung began to recall the film's approach to filming, where director Clint used a straightforward approach, which often felt lacking in drama, but Clint was clearly not such a simple director, and he reflected the drama of the film in a more brilliant way.

It is through the interaction of the characters to drive the flow of the film's emotional baseline, and the whole story is actually about the story of the male and female protagonists and the supporting actors, but it is connected with the heroine's boxer career as the main line. ####开始在男女主角的 In the "opposite" relationship, the supporting actor plays the role of "secretly helping", it seems that the supporting actor connects the first two, but in fact, what is implied in this is the partnership between the actor and the supporting actor for many years, without the acquiescence of the actor, the role of the supporting actor as a "matchmaker" cannot be done. Therefore, it can be said that the male protagonist took the initiative to connect himself with the heroine. But the connection is veiled by the supporting actors, so it's much more subtle and interesting. In the same way, when the supporting actor participates in the relationship between the male and female protagonists, the audience gradually understands the life of the supporting actor, so that the supporting actor unconsciously occupies the audience's consciousness. After that, as the plot develops, the heroine's family is introduced, but instead of adding side plots, it strengthens the emotional connection between the hero and heroine. In this way, the narrative of the film seems to be casual, but it alludes to the steps of the construction of emotional relationships, and the way that the emotional clues resonate with the audience is "moisturizing things silently", which is stronger than any "drama" that is highlighted for the sake of prominence.

And "love" is also the first focus of the film, if you only watch the first half of the film, you will feel that this is an action inspirational film, but the second half, especially after the heroine is injured and disabled, is the focus of the film, focusing on describing love. In this regard, director Clint also did a lot of foreshadowing, such as the boxing match, which could have been made into a very exciting action movie, but he only took an intuitive approach, and did not even have a slow motion, in order not to let the wonderful action dominate.

Therefore, on the whole, the film is restoring the true state of the story and characters, and trying to tell it in a simple and natural way, but in fact, through the clever arrangement of the plot, characters, and even lighting and photography, it paves up emotions without traces. In this way, the casual simplicity on the surface is seamlessly combined with the subtlety and delicacy of the interior, achieving a natural effect. Moreover, director Clint also hinted at this realm in the film, the male protagonist likes to read Ye Ci's poems very much, Ye Ci of 10,000 years, the poetry style is simple and direct, but the meaning is far-reaching, showing the highest realm of returning to the basics.

Similarly, we can see this directly through the performances of the actors, and there is almost no dramatic treatment in the performance of the whole film, only the state of the characters themselves is truly restored. Therefore, after the release of the film in the previous life, almost everyone thinks that it is the most real film in Hollywood history, just like a plain-faced beauty, she does not apply powder, but she is very peugeot; The demeanor is casual and calm, but gentle and charming.

"If I'm going to adapt this film, although it will continue this narrative, it should be a lot of processing in terms of background." Liang Xiaolong thought secretly, because this is a film adapted from a novel, if you don't buy out the adaptation rights, you can only deal with it on a large scale.

However, Liang Xiaolong has a plan in his heart, and is ready to rebuild it in an all-round way on the basis of ensuring the original tone of the film. The first is to process the background, transform the past into the future, incorporate sci-fi factors, and pursue visual perfection. In this regard, he borrowed from The Matrix and once again used virtual networks, and it could even be said that this is the way the future of the web will develop.

However, because of the plot needs of "Million Dollar Baby", the virtual network cannot be a sound virtual network, but it is flawed. Through the contact of various nerve points, the human body is comprehensively scanned in all aspects, and then the consciousness is linked to the virtual network to achieve 100% simulation, but this technology is flawed, if it is severely stimulated in the virtual network, it will stimulate human neurons, causing sudden nerve death, causing disability or death.

Moreover, by integrating future sci-fi technology, it is possible to reasonably create a full range of visual effects, and of course, the funds required will be very large. However, Liang Xiaolong doesn't care about these, the film is perfect, the higher the box office, plus the income of other sectors, there is no need to worry about losing money at all.

Determined this, Liang Xiaolong continued to analyze the characters in the film, first of all, the male protagonist, as a boxing coach, worked hard to train a black buddy, and finally the buddy left him and successfully won the gold belt. As a father, his own daughter ignored him, and the inner torture can be imagined; As a believer, he has been going to church every week for 23 years to celebrate Mass, just to ask some nonsensical objects to provoke the pastor, which can be described as extremely boring.

But it is these settings that fully reflect that he is an empty and lonely person, like the heroine, her family never treats her as family, she likes boxing but is never looked down upon, and even despised. Therefore, when these two extremely empty people stand together, the emptiness of their hearts allows them to be comforted by each other, and finally there is a touching love. From this aspect, it can also be seen that everything director Clint does is to pave the way for the "love" in the film.

And this is where director Clint is clever, because he knows that this kind of straightforward treatment is difficult to make the audience feel like a play, so make the characters more interesting and make it easier for the audience's emotions to be integrated into the plot. This is also a must-have for a clever director who knows how to capture the psychology of the audience.

"The actors, the story structure, the shooting techniques, and the character structure are all there, but the philosophy in the film is still lacking." Liang Xiaolong carefully recalled, for example, the hero's boxing argument is not to defeat the opponent, but to protect himself at any time. This sentence also runs through the whole film, when the male protagonist says this, the female protagonist always listens very carefully, but after listening to it, she always does it her own way, although she wins again and again, but in the end after being secretly disabled, she cries and says: "He always told me to protect myself at all times, but I never did what he asked." The actor cried at the end: "I always tell her to protect herself at all times, she listens carefully every time, but after listening, she still does it in her own way, and she has won one victory after another, and she is about to get the championship belt." ”

In fact, the role of this sentence is the relationship between the self and others, whether to win the championship according to the requirements of others, or to fight through the way of self? This is very important, in life, there are some people who follow the crowd and end up with nothing, and some people insist on themselves, although they do not succeed, but they have no regrets in their lives.

Similarly, this sentence is also a discussion of the meaning of life, such as the heroine, although she was crippled and died in the end, she could leave peacefully, because she won applause and calls through her own hard work, she realized her dreams, realized her self-meaning, and died without regrets.

There are many more philosophies related to boxing: "Boxing is about dignity, winning your own and depriving others of it." "A lot of people will say that the most important thing for a fighter is passion, but Frankie said, bring me a fighter who only has passion, and I will tell him what it means to have a blue nose and a swollen face." "If there is magic in boxing, it is a magic that transcends endurance in combat, beyond broken ribs, beyond kidney piercings, and joint separation. It's a magic you'll risk for everything, but no one else will see it. "Boxing is an unnatural sport because everything is the other way around. You want to move to the left, you don't have to move to the left, you push your right toe hard, you move to the right with your left toe, you don't want to avoid the pain like a normal person, you have to meet it. Everything about boxing is the opposite. ”

In the film, there are many lines that have a certain philosophical significance and are worth recalling, such as the actor saying to the supporting actor Don't buy expensive bleach, the supporting actor said: "This smells better." The actor said: "No matter how bleach smells, it smells like bleach." The answer to this question fully reflects their attitude towards life.

Liang Xiaolong turned on the computer, wrote down everything he could think of, and then began to write: "Change it to the background of science fiction, then the first thing is the setting on various instruments, I believe it will be difficult for those special effects companies." ”

(To be continued)