Rebirth of the Tech Madman

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Although there are a lot of soft advertisements that serve the Down industry in Who I am, the film critics in the United States still give a lot of affirmation seriously.

For example, James Platinari, a film critic and novelist who has begun to use the latest interactive means of the World Wide Web to publish film reviews, paid special attention to who I am. Minutes, it brought out the hard-won excitement of the whole movie.

For another example, Richard Harrington of the Washington Post pointed out that Jackie’s stunts and Hollywood’s stunts are obviously different in style; he even made a metaphor for who I am better than those in the 007 series that I have seen. Murder at dawn is energetic.

I have to say that Cheng Long is now at its peak. The quality of the movie starring in is hard enough, and the audience is also easy to buy it. I received Tang Huan’s plan to make a film the year before. Until now, he still has spare time for other things. The production project is busy.

Take this year's Cheng Long, in order to raise funds for the Hong Kong Directors Guild, with the concerted efforts of 100 directors, the impromptu performance of the Ssangyong Club, which was released in the highly competitive Lunar New Year festival, won more than 33 million Hong Kong dollars. Hong Kong’s box office in Hong Kong.

You know, at this stage, the reference standard for the big selling of Hong Kong commercial films is at this level.

It is completely conceivable that as the richest man invests in who I am, and the global release and operation of films with Jiahe and Cheng Long have been filmed, such as the second sequel of Police Story 3, it must be a ride. It is one of the great benefits of following Tang Huan's mix.

I don't know whose success I am, will it affect the movie that Li Lianjie is filming with the same protagonist's amnesia.

Compared with these two action stars, Lin Qingxian is naturally more recognized in Hollywood. Following Hua Mulan’s heroic and saucy female dressing up as a man, this year’s Swordsman ii Undefeated Oriental is the coexistence of evil and beauty. , It’s so amazing that there is no need to repeat the word “Oriental Undefeated” has quickly become a symbol.

With these three successful examples, Tang Huan became more and more familiar with Zhou Runfa's creation, and directly matched him with two Oscar actress Judy Foster, who chose the works of Anna and the King.

Of course, this subject matter has been rigorously argued and adapted from the famous works Anna and the King of Siam by the American female writer Margaret Langdon. This biographical novel is derived from a British travel writer, educator, and social activist, and was born in England. Memoirs written by Anna Leonovens from India.

Anna Leonovens, widow with two children, went to Siam from Singapore at the invitation of the Siamese royal family in 1862 and worked as a tutor for King Rama IV until she moved to Canada in 1867. So far, there has been a memoir based on this experience, Anna and the King: A Memoir of Six Years at the Bangkok Palace.

Due to the practical needs of life, this memoir must have many inaccuracies, such as Anna Leonovens deliberately raising her position in Siam, and claiming that she had an influence on the royal family because she was speaking for the little prince of Siam. Uncle Tom’s cabin, in turn, allowed Siam to abolish slavery 40 years later. However, her description of the life of the Siamese royal family is undoubtedly in place.

Furthermore, according to Anna and the King: Six-year Memoirs of the Bangkok Palace, a fictional novel Anna and Margaret Langdon of the King of Siam was created. In 1927, she went to Siam as missionaries with her husband Kenneth Langdon to manage the mission school. , And then had the opportunity to read a lot of books about Siam and learn about Anna Leo Novens' deeds.

By 1937, Margaret Langdon, who had already had three children in Siam, followed her husband and the family returned to the United States, and at the same time began to write about Anna and the King of Siam.

Now, Margaret Langdon is still alive, living in Alexandria, Virginia, very close to the US capital, and is eighty-nine years old.

This old lady, in her life, became a popular book, Anna and King of Siam published in 1944. Because the "abolition of slavery concept" catered to the mainstream American values ​​at the time, it became a bestseller; It was put on the big screen by Twentieth Century Fox in 1946.

So far, based on Margaret Langdon's Anna and King of Siam, a total of one movie, two musicals, and one TV series have been adapted.

However, the 1972 TV series was a failure, and because of differences in creation, 20th Century Fox and Margaret Langdon filed a lawsuit. In the end, the parties chose to settle out of court.

Just like the world of Madame Butterfly, Suzie Wong, and Miss Saigon currently performing at the Broadway Opera House in New York, this type of Western men went to Asia and staged lingering, romantic tragedies with Eastern women. They represented advanced Westerners. Anna and King of Siam at the center have always been favored by the American media, and they don’t hesitate to use words such as “exotic” praised by the New York Times, “amazing talents” praised by The Atlantic Monthly, and so on.

All in all, the subject of Anna and the King of Siam is promising, and it's time to follow the trend and launch it.

Of course, Anna and the King of Siam also have a tricky point, that is, although the original author of Margaret Langdon had a good talk, but the King of Siam Rama IV in it is a direct line of the King of Siam. The ancestors, and the Siamese royal family was dissatisfied with the description of King Rama IV in this work, and thus has been forbidden to screen adapted films in Siam.

This is in sharp contrast to Madame Butterfly, who tells the love story of a beautiful official and a Japanese geisha, who is very popular in Japan and even in Hong Kong.

In order to come to Hollywood to develop, Zhou Runfa has adapted to the language and work style for a long time. The richest man took advantage of this gap and through his personal connections, he had discussed Anna and the King of Siam with the Siamese side, but the plan to go there to make a movie was basically impossible to achieve; there is little hope for future releases; At most, the two parties have reached a private understanding.

Now, time is waiting. Anyway, the box office value of the Siam market is dispensable. The richest man decided to start the filming plan and not be able to shoot on-site in Siam, so he would go to Funan, which is adjacent to Siam, on his own site.

Acting with two-time Oscar actress Judy Foster, the shooting budget is as high as 70 million US dollars, and the follow-up report of the entertainment media Zhou Runfa is really a bit too much to bear such a heavy pressure.

Tang Huan couldn't help being funny, so he called to encourage him alone: ​​"From Xiao Ma to the king, the style span is really a bit big, but I believe it can't help you. As long as you pass this level, you will continue to mix in Hollywood. Capital."

Although these matters were complicated to deal with, they were all done step by step. Tang Huan just moved his lips, and the specific work was done by his subordinates. He didn't need to hurt his mind. However, the newly released candidates for the Hong Kong Governor inevitably made the richest man frown.

The following is the anti-d part, update it tomorrow morning, just ignore it.

On Christmas Eve, Warner released a film The Assassination of Kennedy directed by Oliver Stone, the two-time Oscar Award for Best Director. It was adapted from Jim Garrison's novel Tracking Assassination and Jim Mars's novel Dilemma: Killing Kennedy. The conspiracy describes the whole story of the New Orleans prosecutor Jim Garrison's investigation of Kennedy's assassination, and the facts later discovered.

Oliver Stone’s excellent works in recent years have continued. These films such as Field Platoon, Wall Street, and Born on July 4 can be described as fame and fortune, so Warner trusts him to invest $40 million; in turn, Oliver Stone wants to make this investment. It seems worth the money, and invited the director and star Kevin Costner, who dances with wolves, to play the protagonist, New Orleans prosecutor Jim Garrison.

It is conceivable that it is not so easy to put such a sensitive subject as the assassination of Kennedy on the big screen.

After the first draft of the script came out, the assassination of Kennedy was severely criticized by George Radner, a national security correspondent for the Washington Post, and has since been embroiled in a fierce debate.

After the assassination of Kennedy was released, many major newspapers in the United States wrote editorials, criticizing Oliver Stone for blaspheming history and disrespecting historical facts, as well as his involvement in the assassination of Lyndon Johnson, who was then vice president and later president, as well. The accusation of Kennedy's conspiracy.

For example, Bernard Venro of the New York Times slammed that if Warner could make the assassination of Kennedy go far, it would be a miracle in Hollywood; he also called on Warner to conduct a self-examination in the article.

For another example, the newspaper’s Vincent Camby criticized in a review of the film itself: “Oliver Stone’s style of film production is very casual, many of them are short and frequent. I don’t know. All that is said, one shot after another, mixed with background music, noise, dialogue, and more noise, more dialogue, like a sandwich."

There are even media directly posting "Resist the facts fabricated by Oliver Stone" to attack and assassinate Kennedy.

Of course, there are also media people who appreciate the assassination of Kennedy, such as Pete Dowell, a senior film critic of Washington Magazine, but when he submitted his comment, he was rejected by the editor-in-chief, John Rimbert, on the grounds that he did not want to see the film positive. In his comments, he and the editors of other magazines agreed that the film was absurd; for this reason, Pat Deauville immediately resigned.

In contrast, Roger Libert, who is more prestigious, can make a sound. He praised the assassination of Kennedy in the Chicago Sun. "The achievement of this film is not that it solved the secret of Kennedy's assassination, but that it is trying to awaken the national spirit that has been fading in people's hearts since 1963. "

As a director, Oliver Stone is naturally under great personal pressure, and even after receiving a television interview, he received a death threatening letter.

To sort out the criticism of the assassination of Kennedy, it mainly focuses on the accuracy of the description of New Orleans prosecutor Jim Garrison in two aspects, and the inclusion of artificially mixed fragments in the adaptation of the historical information film.

In response to these criticisms, Oliver Stone wrote a 593-page book The Assassination of Kennedy-a book about the movie, which includes all the notes on the script, plus 97 comments from supporters and critics, and 340 research records.

In this overwhelming sound of controversy, Warner’s support for the assassination of Kennedy can be described as "supporting ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ only means that the number of screens will inevitably suffer due to the length of the movie, which lasts as long as three hours. influences.

The richest man sitting on the sidelines, while listening to the work report of his subordinates, by the way, he inquired about relevant details. Warner invested 15 million US dollars in marketing for the assassination of Kennedy; and the film was released in the first week of the show, and Beauty and the Beast Tied for the fifth place in the US box office. Until the first week of January 1992, there was a real breakthrough. The global box office, which was slowly rising, reached 50 million US dollars. At the same time, the positive reviews showed an upward trend, and even won 8 Oscar nominations.

In Tang Huan’s view, regardless of the number of conspiracies involved in the Kennedy assassination, as far as the movie itself is concerned, Oliver Stone’s directorial skills are unquestionable, bringing such a multitude of historical events to the big screen and dying under the light. Kung fu is not enough, otherwise, it will not attract the audience to sit in the cinema for that long.

However, having said that, no matter how talented Oliver Stone is, it would be impossible to make a movie without financial support; without a more powerful invisible hand, the movie would have been drowned in saliva as soon as it was released.

Just as on December 25, 1991, Soviet President Gerbachev announced his resignation and handed over state power to Russian President Karma Chin. At 9:38 that day, the Soviet flag slowly lowered over the Kremlin and was replaced by the Russian flag. There is a step-by-step process, if there is no tricky, who is willing to believe it.

Anyway, after watching the movie The Assassination of Kennedy, the richest man has a psychological shadow about going back to Texas, the headquarters of the Republican Party, but the "Silicon Hill" that echoes California's "Silicon Valley" is located in it. In Austin, the capital, it’s really impossible not to inspect it several times a year.

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