The Best Director

Chapter 93 Are you kidding me?

"I'm sorry, Annie..." Wang Yang raised his head from behind the camera, looked at Anne Darren standing in the middle of the audition room, shook his head, and said, "You are not suitable for this role. (Read the novel)"

The selection of supporting roles for "Juno" started a few days ago, and he stayed in the audition room almost all day every day. There are a lot of actors auditioning, so the progress of these works is very fast. Every day, he can determine a role candidate for audition that day, and the role auditioned today is Juno's best friend "Leah".

Anne Darren auditioned for this one, and she was the first one to come in and audition first. The reason why he eliminated Anne was not because of her performance, her performance was okay; but the decision to choose this role was not only based on acting skills, but also considering her and "Juno", that is, Natalie Portman From the comparison of appearance and temperament alone, it is a feeling of "losing friends" that she wants to get together with Juno.

And Annie's temperament is quiet, and the classic image on the screen is that kind of dull and conservative good girl, like a librarian; if she lets her stage play style show, there will be Weird and funny effects; Wang Yang thinks that if she is more exaggerated but delicate, she can even develop towards the crazy type. But she is not suitable for Leah, at least not now, maybe in the future.

This is because of an excellent actor, his/her temperament can be changed. For example, Will Smith, before the release of "When Happiness Comes Knocking", everyone thought he was the most suitable for laughing and laughing. No one knew that he could still act That kind of middle-aged man with vicissitudes of life, but he successfully played Chris Gardner, and is now praised as "a strong contender for best actor in the Oscar next year".

The change of temperament is not only through the design of the shape, careful makeup, etc., but more importantly, it requires high-level performance skills. For an actor whose acting skills and comprehension of character scripts are still in the immature stage, it is best to act according to the temperament that is most suitable for him, and wait until the "true performance" is no longer difficult. Slowly challenge other temperaments and have a "screen transformation".

If you want to backfire, not only will it be easy to mess up, but it will also affect the effect of the movie. This is why he rejected Jessica and eliminated Anne.

"Well, director, I understand." Annie over there pursed her lips lightly, with disappointment and regret flashing in her eyes, she nodded again with a smile, and said, "I understand, thank you for the opportunity to audition today."

Wang Yang secretly sighed, this is the third time he has rejected Annie in the audition, every time she has worked so hard to act, looking at her pretty face, he said: "Annie, the problem is not It’s because of your performance, I want you to understand this.” Annie listened seriously, Wang Yang shrugged, and said again: “You know, everyone has a suitable role, and some don’t Role,

You're just not right for Leah. You must recognize your own temperament and advantages, so that you can maximize your strengths and avoid your weaknesses. Your temperament is biased towards the lady type..."

After talking for a long time, Wang Yang suddenly remembered that this was an audition, and there were many girls waiting outside. He smiled at Annie and said, "Let's continue talking on the phone." Annie nodded and said, "Okay." , then goodbye." Wang Yang hummed, walked back to the interviewer's desk and sat down, Annie picked up the handbag on the chair, looked at Wang Yang and the union interviewer Ms. Lucy, she smiled slightly: "bye" then out of the room.

"Mr. Wang, it looks like you know that girl?" Ms. Lucy asked. Wang Yang nodded and said with a smile: "Well, that's true. When I was looking for a heroine for "Spiritual-Ghost Records", she was also the first one I interviewed." Ms. Lucy said in surprise: "That's really interesting. .”

After interviewing more than a dozen girls in a row, Wang Yang called out "next" again, and soon the wooden door of the audition room was opened, and a brown-haired Caucasian girl walked in. Big, with a tall and long nose...Wang Yang glanced at her. This girl has a good appearance and temperament, and she can be put together with Natalie. Whether she feels like a "bad friend" depends on her performance. However, he frowned suspiciously, this girl looked familiar.

"Hi, Mr. Wang, Ma'am, hello." The brown-haired girl grinned and opened her mouth, showing a bright smile. As she walked up to hand Wang Yang her resume, photo collection and other documents, she smiled and said: "I'm very glad to be here for the audition. My name is Annie..." Because she was looking at Wang Yang instead of paying attention to the chair in the middle, she accidentally tripped over the foot of the chair, and suddenly lost her balance. She screamed: " Oh my God……"

Both Wang Yang and Ms. Lucy were stunned, watching her fall to the ground with a thud, and then he stood up abruptly. Laughing, Ms. Lucy couldn't help laughing, Wang Yang asked with a smile: "Girl, are you okay?"

"I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine..." The brown-haired girl quickly stood up from the ground, with an embarrassed expression on her face, she cursed herself inwardly, it's really terrible, the guy in front is amazing Yang

Seeing her embarrassed face, Wang Yang spread his hands and smiled: "It's nothing, my girlfriend Jessica also falls down a lot, and there is no chair on the ground, maybe it's just a pair of slippers that tripped her up, who knows what's going on? But I call that 'cute'." The brown-haired girl smiled gratefully, and wowed in her heart, Fan Yang was just as she imagined before, so considerate. The girl stepped forward and handed the document to Wang Yang, and said with a smile: "Thank you , My name is Anne Hathaway."

"Annie, hello." Wang Yang took her file, sat down and looked through her resume first. Anne Hathaway was born on November 12, 1982. She will be 18 years old after her birthday this year. She is M in height and is The New Jersey native made his screen debut last year on the TV show "Get-Real" and was nominated for a Young Artist Award this year.

"Get-Real"? Wang Yang had no impression that he had watched this TV series. He picked up Hathaway's photo album and looked at it, thinking of the name "Anne-Hathaway?" Suddenly, several images flashed clearly in his mind. Immediately understand why I feel familiar, Anne-Hathaway, Lu Ling in "Brokeback Mountain", the White Queen in "Alice in Wonderland", and the heroine Cammy in "Rachel's Wedding", she For this role, she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress in 2009.

But obviously she is still a little-known rookie actor, and her current acting skills need to be seen. After all, "Rachel's Wedding" was in 2008. Even so, Wang Yang couldn't help muttering: "Dude." Although the information about her in his mind started from "Brokeback Mountain", but since she won the best Oscar earlier than Natalie. The nomination of the leading actress shows that her acting ability is very high, and her appearance and temperament are very suitable for Leah.

"OK, let's start the audition." Wang Yang put down the document in his hand, got up and walked behind the camera. Hathaway over there also stood up from her chair and looked towards the camera with a smile on her face. After the basic front and side shot auditions, Wang Yang said: "Give me a few expressions, then I am Juno now, and you are facing your best friend, then, surprise." Hathaway stared She squinted her eyes, which made her already large eyes appear more rounded. Wang Yang said again: "Well, here is a disdainful expression."

Her expression is neither too calm nor too exaggerated. If she plays a good friend with Natalie, it will not conflict with others; Ya, she seems to be very capable, when he said that he should feel like "harming friends", her playful eyes and big grinning smirk towards her good sister made him very satisfied.

"Well, Annie..." Wang Yang nodded silently, stopped the camera, and was about to say something when the face with freckles on the nose suddenly appeared in front of him. Annie...he looked at the brown-haired girl over there, Said: "Hathaway, it says on your resume that you are a vegetarian?" Hathaway nodded and said with a smile, "Yes," Wang Yang also smiled slightly, and said, "That's good, I still know you." A vegetarian, maybe you can really become good friends." Hathaway blinked with some doubts, Wang Yang smiled and said: "She is the actor of Juno, so Hathaway, your performance is great, It's perfectly fine to play Leah."

"What?" Hathaway gasped, took two steps back, covered her mouth with her hands and said, "Really? I can play Leah?" Wang Yang nodded and said, "I'm not joking about this." Hathaway let out a wow of surprise, covered her mouth and walked around the room excitedly, saying, "Oh my god, I can make a movie, I can act in an amazing Young movie, oh my god, it's crazy Today is my lucky day"

Ms. Lucy smiled and glanced at Wang Yang, her expression seemed to say "she is your fan", Wang Yang walked over to Jiang Ye and stretched out her hand to Hathaway, and said with a smile, "Welcome to "Juno". Servi looked at him with excitement and joy, she suddenly spread her arms and hugged him, and said excitedly: "Thank you, I will definitely perform well, thank you" Wang Yang was stunned, retracted his outstretched hand and hugged her , then pushed her away with a smile, and said, "Then I thank you too."

It was confirmed that Anne Hathaway will play "Leah", and this day's work was also declared over, but all the audition work took more than ten days to get it all done, and the candidates for the roles found were all cheap and very suitable , so there are no big stars in the supporting cast, and if "future Oscar nominee" counts as one, it's another matter.

During this period, "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" also passed its third and fourth weeks of screenings. During the week from June 2nd to 8th, its number of screening theaters increased. 120, the total number reached 3540, almost any city on the map of North America, it will be screened in it, this warm and inspirational film did not disappoint theater companies and movie theater owners, media fans like to call that young man "" "Magic Yang", they like to call it "Grab Money Yang", this week "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" "robbed" a total of 39.4852 million box office, not only the total box office exceeded 100 million, but also became the North American weekly box office champion again after a week

In the second week of screening, "Mission: Impossible 2" received 3,653 theaters. The third place was the newly released funny film "Undercover Fat Mom", and it also had the fourth place with "Dinosaur" with 16.81 million.

""When Happiness Knocks on the Door" regained the weekly champion and Miracle Yang had the last laugh." This is the title of the weekly box office review of "Film Weekly", which reads: "This week's box office total has dropped compared with last week. 32.4%, last week's champion "Mission Impossible 2" dropped 55%; what is surprising is that "When Happiness Comes Knocking" only dropped 17.4%, with sufficient stamina, it also beat the big guy "Mission Impossible" 2", regained the championship. After "Dinosaur", "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" made the second taste. We can't know their final box office now, but considering the cost of the movie, the person who laughs last, Almost certainly Miracle Young."

Seeing this situation, Will Smith's fans were overjoyed: "To hell with the Golden Raspberry worst actor, now we should look forward to next year's Oscar, will Will get the statuette?" ?”, “Thanks to Yang Fan, I solemnly apologize for being indifferent to him before, Will didn’t pick up the wrong movie, it’s great, "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" is his masterpiece"

However, many Tom Cruise fans feel very angry. "Mission: Impossible" is only the second week, and it can't win the weekly box office championship. What are you kidding?

The market is not joking, and the new week's box office rankings have verified this. In the fourth week of screening, "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" received another 27.687 million box office in 3,610 theaters. Although the percentage dropped by more than 30%, this figure Still making it number two this week. The film that took the top spot was the newly released "In 60 Seconds" starring Nicolas Cage. It received fourth place in 3,006 theaters, followed by "Mission: Impossible 2" with 21.38 million and 17.645 million. "Undercover Fat Mom".

"When Happiness Comes Knocking" lost the championship again, but no one and no media will laugh at it, because it swept 155.7012 million in four weeks, which is 155 million US dollars. Even if the box office percentage dropped seriously, it rushed to 2 A box office of 100 million is also a matter of high probability. A biopic with a cost of 32 million is likely to receive 200 million in North America alone. It will be released in various countries around the world in July. According to market laws, its overseas The box office will definitely not be a complete failure, accepting 100 million US dollars? 150 million dollars? 200 million dollars? This is all possible. You must know that Magic Yang has a large number of fans overseas, especially in Asia, especially in Hong Kong, Taiwan and other Greater China regions. He is more popular than James Cameron.

"Miracle" seems to be a rotten word for Wang Yang, and the media have no choice but to continue to use it. Otherwise, what other words can be used to describe all this? The global box office of the first film and the third one is currently 155 million. He already has a global box office of 876 million. It is only a matter of time before he breaks through to 1 billion. This time will not exceed this year, that is, when he is 20 years old.

This situation made Wang Yang a hot topic again, and many newspapers and magazines launched special reports on characters, "It only took him two years to go from a DV boy to the best director in the future", "Amazing, still amazing"... This time, even some parents who have always been unfavorable to Wang Yang gave a thumbs up. On the "Latest Parents Recommended Movies Ranking" on the Internet, "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" ranked first. The middle-aged male parent commented: "This is a touching and meaningful movie. It made my little boy ask me 'what is a dream' for the first time? The first time he asked me about the difficulty of life, the first time he praised me. I'm 'you're a good dad too', I'm planning to take my kids to the cinema to watch it again on Father's Day on the 19th, I need that compliment."

But since Wang Yang revealed that "Juno" is a movie about teenage pregnancy, many parents have expressed concern that Magic Yang's movie has a great influence among young people. Will he bring What bad culture? One matriarch wrote just one sentence: "With great power comes great responsibility."

Just when Wang Yang's popularity reached its peak, Flame Films suddenly announced the entire cast of "Juno" on the official website, and media fans flocked to see how amazing Yang interviewed thousands of girls. Who will be the missing "Juno"?

Pauly is played by Michael Pitt, like Tom Welling, he is a newcomer introduced by Fantastic Young, oh, this is not his big screen debut, he previously played "genius hacker" in "High School Musical" ", a small role that is close to a side role; the supporting roles are all unknown people, like Anne Hazel... and the heroine Juno, Natalie...Natalie Portman?

is this real? Whether it's ordinary entertainment media or entertainment tabloids that sell gossip; whether it's Wang Yang's, Natalie's, or Jessica's movie fans, they are all taken aback. Almost their first reaction is to think of the incident last year. "Gossip", did Wang Yang and Natalie finish playing with Jessica? Look at the time, it is exactly one year, and it is also the breakup time predicted by "Entertainment Daily"