Chapter 31: Gentian Tiger

Bruce Willis Richard?

Looking at the smiling headshot on the webpage, the more Ye Wei looked, the more he felt suitable! At present, Willis is the best candidate after Hanks, and some aspects can be said to be more suitable.

The 48-year-old man is a member of the 250,000 salary club and is now one of the top actors in Hollywood.

From the Broadway stage to the TV screen, and then to the big screen, with the "Die Hard" series, he became one of the representatives of the group of action superstars in the 80s and 90s of the last century.

If you think that he has no acting skills because he is the most famous for his cool tough guy image, it is wrong.

Far from being more than just an action superstar, Willis has won an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Comedy ("Blue Moonlight Detective Agency", 1985), a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture ("The End of the World", 1989), and a four-time Saturn Award for Best Actor. It's not surprising, he's from Broadway!

So in the mid-to-late 90s, when the trend of muscular tough guy action gradually passed, the audience either liked to watch special effects action blockbusters, or they didn't like to watch funny vaudeville action movies like Jackie Chan's "Rush Hour", and traditional action superstars such as Stallone and Shange Winton wanted to transform, otherwise they would go downhill.

But their acting career is not as good as Willis, so the transformation is not as good, like Stallone, although he has been nominated for an Oscar ("Rocky", 1976), 1997's "Police Empire" is still passable, 2ooo "Killing" was a failure, and it is still struggling.

As for Willis, his status has risen instead of falling, and the highest record of single-film remuneration is not as good as Schwarzenegger's, but the commercial value is actually higher.

Because he can play the loving father worker in "The Peerless Tribulation" (1998), the sad psychiatrist in "The Sixth Sense" (1999), and the frustrated middle-aged man in "Return My Innocence" (2ooo...... With these films, he successfully survived the crisis of the change of the film trend and stood tall in the 250,000 salary club.

Why is he better suited in some ways?

Take a look at the most critical of his transition period, "The Sixth Sense", a thriller and suspense drama film Global 6. With $700 million at the box office and six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, it was a hit and a blockbuster! And its director and screenwriter M. Knight Shyamalan was only 28 years old when he made the film.

Shyamalan is also a legend, he made more than 4o family short films at the age of 17, and was nominated for the Oscar for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay at the age of 29. But at the time, he was nothing, or an unlucky newcomer who only got 280,000 at the box office at a cost of 6oo in his screen debut "A Basket of Little Ghosts" (1998).

However, Willis starred in "The Sixth Sense"! Although he starred with a salary of 2ooo million, it still shows something, his vision for choosing plays is very good, he dares to give young people opportunities, not everyone has the interest and courage to believe in a 28-year-old rookie director, which is very important!

Another point is that Shamalan is of Indian origin. Racial discrimination and racial prejudice are indeed true, and Ye Wei has also had a lot of experience in this area, some people just think that Asians can't do some things well, but Willis doesn't seem to be the kind of person who has prejudice.

Willis also made a cameo appearance in "Friends" a few years ago, three episodes! Although he had to keep his promise because he lost the box office bet with Matthew Perry, not every superstar has this kind of leisure, and if he dares to bet, it means that he dares to play, and in his career, he has a gambling nature!

And he never minded playing the image of a father, a middle-aged loser, a funny guy on the screen and on the screen, he even dared to die on the screen, this guy is not narrow-minded!

"Wow!" Ye Wei couldn't help but exclaim excitedly and strangely, so noisy that Toto opened his eyes slightly and looked up at the situation.

If there is one of these superstars who has the greatest chance of starring in "Little Sunshine Beauty", it is undoubtedly Willis!

However, the difficulty has not diminished at all, which is more difficult than an anonymous Xiaocheng member trying to convince Bill Gates that "Hey, Bill, Microsoft should fund me to build a software", because software can basically distinguish between good and bad when looking at creativity, and movies are unknown before they are released in theaters.

No one said it was easy!

At that moment, Ye Wei took the paper and took notes, and determined the following main targets: Richard, Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Grandpa, Destin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Cheryl, Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock.

The goal of the top priority: Bruce Willis!

Da Da! The ballpoint pen tip clicked a few times on "Bruce-i11is", Ye Wei was a little excited, Sheriff, you will be shocked by Brother Wei!

He looked at the computer screen, although there was Willis's contact information on ImdbpRo, but as a middle school student, he was really looking for death by going through this regular channel of contacting an agent......

"A ninth-grader looking for Willis to make a movie? April Fool's Day hasn't come yet!" the agent hung up immediately, and Willis himself would not have known that such a thing had happened.

So he had to take another path, a shortcut. He thought about it, what are his current connections in the film industry? Kevin Thomas? or the people in Focus Movies?

Ye Wei picked up the phone, pressed it a few times, and fixed it on a name in the address book, that's right, Lily Collins.

She may be able to help with this, because her father is a rock star, and her mother is the president of a very influential women's club, so does she have any network resources? Even if she doesn't, she can turn into a person if she asks.

It's only nine o'clock now, Ye Wei dialed without hesitation, beeped a few times, connected, and Lily's clear voice with a bit of a British accent came out: "HeLLo, bastard." ”

"Hi beauty, good evening, do you have time to talk on the phone?"

"Hmm...... Not very much, I haven't done my homework yet......"

"Wow, didn't you let your nanny do it for you?" Ye Wei exclaimed, there are really a lot of homework in Harvard-West Lake, and the amount of homework for each subject adds up, and the amount of homework for an hour a day is normal, and it is even more on weekends, and there is always a night left for them on Saturday and Sunday, depending on how the students choose.

"Never. Lily's voice seemed a little angry, "I'm not the spoiled daughter of a celebrity, my mother let me go to Harvard-Westlake just to give me a rigorous education." But she didn't know that there were still students like you in the school. She smiled.

"How am I? I've done all my homework, and I'm more diligent than you. Ye Wei's tone was serious, and his daily homework was only 1o minutes, as if the boss had signed.

Lily already knew about the situation, and immediately smiled: "That's good, smart boy, do you know how to do this math problem, it's like this......"

"No, no, no, don't say it! I signed the code of honor, 'My conscience is my guide,' and telling you the answer will make my conscience uneasy, and I can't tell you. ”

"Less, please, say!"

"Okay, tell you quietly......" Ye Wei solved the math problem for her, and both fish and fishing were taught, Lily suddenly realized, and then he said again: "Let's get down to business, I already have a list of target candidates for the big stars." ”

After Lily decided to dream with him, she fully supported this matter, and Wen Yan asked with great interest, "Who are they?"

Ye Wei read the list again, and finally said with a smile: "And Phil Collins, Richard." Lily immediately laughed on the phone, as if she was disdainful: "He, his acting skills are so bad, you haven't seen the two bad movies he played, it's a disaster." ”

"You mean 'Train Thief' and 'Level Deception'?" Ye Wei replied while checking ImdbpRo.

"How do you know!?Have you seen it?Oh no......"

"I've seen thousands of movies, and I haven't really seen these two, I just found them on Imdb, but I've seen his screen show, One Night Carnival, and he's done a great job. ”

"One Night Carnival" (1964) was actually the Beatles' first film, in which 13-year-old Phil Collins ran a trick, one of a group of child fans, who didn't even play rock 'n' roll at the time, and when he became a rock star, the show turned out to be so funny and magical, Paul McCartney said he couldn't believe it.

"Yes, he played very well in there. Lily couldn't help laughing, "You know he was a group performer, right?"

"What! yes? I always thought it was a big collection of rock stars. ”

"No......"

After laughing for a while, both of them were tired of laughing, Ye Wei became serious, talked about who the key target was and why, and said: "Do you have any way to contact Willis? It is best to have a chance to meet and talk face-to-face." ”

Lily sighed, thoughtful, "I know his eldest daughter, Ramo Willis, who is a tenth-year student at Wildwood School. I didn't have much of a friendship with her, but we were friends, and I had a few conversations with her and her mom, Demi Moore, at the Beverly Hills Women's Club. ”

"That's great!" Ye Wei excitedly stood up from his chair and walked around the room with his mobile phone, "I feel like I've walked through the passage!"

"Don't be so happy just yet. Lily stopped him and explained, "I don't really know Ramo Willis well, she doesn't necessarily want to help, and I don't know how she gets along with her father, maybe ......"

Ye Wei sighed, and suddenly remembered that Willis and Demi Moore had been divorced for several years, and there was indeed a possibility that Ramo Willis had a falling out with him.

He hurriedly returned to the computer, checked Chalamo Willis's ImBb information, and said: "There should be no problem, she is still starring in "The Whole Nine Yards" starring Willis in 2ooo, no problem." Also, Ramo is obviously not my type of fan, so you can rest assured. ”

"Who cares!" Lily was about to roll her eyes, in a nonchalant tone, "You can do what you want, and besides me, a fool who will support you, what about the others, as a joke?

"What?" Ye Wei was interested.

"She said, you're either a genius or a madman! But either way, you're a dangerous person, so be careful. ”

"Oh makes sense, I'm so hot, I'm going to explode like a bomb at any moment, you should listen to your mother, be careful. ”

"I will!"

The two laughed and talked for a while, because Lily had the mobile phone number of Ramo Willis, and without further ado, they ended the call and called immediately......

Ye Wei waited a little nervously, walked around the room, played sandbags, did sit-ups, and played football...... After nearly half an hour, when he was sweating profusely, the phone finally rang, Lily's call!

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