Chapter 1175 The trouble caused by polygamy Chapter 1176 The storm caused by a photo(1/2)
The film made by Columbia Films has a very imaginative name "Polygamy". The name of this film is easily reminded of the film "The Eighth Wife of Bluebeard" that Billy Wilder started filming not long ago.
Such a movie is a low-cost movie, which should be nothing, but when I saw this movie in bed, I was sweating coldly.
The content of this movie is actually very simple. It means that a man has an emotional entanglement with a few women around him. A few women are jealous and even fight for the sake of men. It is a completely comedy film, but in this comedy film, it is obviously a manifestation in this complex society. The helplessness of a man and the current situation of living like a dog that is overwhelmed by life. It can be said that it is still good in terms of idea. Moreover, the movie has a very good way to portray the helplessness of this man, and it completely uses the struggle of several women to express his helplessness and loneliness.
For the male protagonist, society does not recognize him. He lives like a dog and has almost no dignity. He is squeezed by his superiors. Others are nothing. Although several women like him, they are quarrels with each other and completely drag him into a huge whirlpool. It is impossible to marry any of them because the remaining women will not agree. In this way, the best way is to marry them all. At the end of the movie, there is a very beautiful scene: the male protagonist with his hair as messy as a chicken coop is sitting at the door of his house, wearing pajamas and looking haggard and numb in his expression, and behind him, several women waved their pillows and beat them up, and the room was filled with goose feathers filled with pillows.
The male protagonist looked at the camera and suddenly had hallucinations: several women wearing wedding dresses walked over with a smile, and they returned to peace and became his wives.
Such a movie is a completely excellent work from the conception of the entire movie and the ideological level of the whole movie. Although it is a small-cost movie, it is extremely successful. To a certain extent, such a movie even has many blockbusters that need to be powerful and thought-provoking.
I like this director's technique very much, and I also like the content of this movie. Especially at the end, I think it's a masterpiece. But for some reason, when I was watching this movie, I was sweating coldly.
Lenny and others watched with relish, and did not burst into laughter.
This movie is definitely a model of success. On the one hand, it has all the factors of a commercial movie: unexpected themes, wonderful comedy performances, tense and tortuous plots. At the same time, this movie also has the basic qualities of an artistic movie. This movie looks like a comedy movie on the surface, but when people finish watching it and when people laugh, what is left in their hearts is an unexplainable shock and sadness. Anyone who has lived in this society, whether it is a man or a woman, whether it is a profession, or the status of the hero, can empathize with it. It is also for this reason that this movie will definitely not be the kind of movie that smiles after watching it. It is a movie that can make people think about it.
For a movie, no matter how much it invests, no matter how much box office it earns, if the audience can reminisce after watching it, sit in their seats and stare blankly, think about some profound things in the movie, or simply do nothing, just think it's not in vain, this movie is a good movie.
On the contrary, no matter how high a movie has a box office, people feel as calm as a lake after the show ends, leaving only some simple visual recollections, and the movie will soon be forgotten.
And the low-cost movie I saw was obviously a good movie.
"Andre. What's wrong with you? Why are you sweating so much?" Lenny glanced at me and took out a handkerchief to wipe my sweat.
"The weather is a bit hot." Gans walked to the window and opened it. Then the guy turned around and pointed to the screen and said to me: "Boss, this movie is definitely a dark horse in this year's movie. A movie with an investment of only 150,000 US dollars, earned more than 3 million in just two days of release! And Hollywood filmmakers are praised! Great!"
Gans praised the movie and I nodded repeatedly.
"Who is the director of this movie?" I asked.
"Director? Haha, we all know this director, it's that Orson Wells."
"Who!?" I opened my eyes wide.
"Oson Wells." Gans repeated.
I was stunned: "Isn't Orson Wells in Leidianhua? Why did you run to Colombia?"
Although Orson Wells is young, he is also well-known in Hollywood and is generally favored by Hollywood filmmakers. He believes that this little guy will definitely have the potential to become a movie master when he grows up. Although he is not yet twenty years old, Orson Wells has his own unique set of views, whether in terms of personal experience or the way he looks at the world.
Since becoming famous at the Harvey Awards with short films, Orson Wells has been attracted by Lei Dianhua's attention. At Hitchcock's suggestion, he was trained by Lei Dianhua Film Company as the future director. Not only did he learn from such great people as Hitchcock, Sisidimille, and Chaplin, he also participated in almost all the shootings of Lei Dianhua Film Company to learn on-site experience. It can be said that this young man's talent is dazzling.
But Leidianhua Film Company has always regarded him as a treasure, so how could he let him go to Colombia to shoot a movie? And it was such a low-cost movie with an investment of only US$150,000. Such a thing is really a bit strange.
"I still know a little about this." Gans said to me with a smile: "Boss, the last time the theaters were separated. Those bitches did not get any cheaper, but instead made Columbia and Fox have a lot of opinions about them. After Columbia and Fox lost their cinema chains, they were very disgusted with Leidianhua Film Company. Not only did they terminate their cooperation, but they even canceled some businesses outside the movies, which caused extremely tense relationships between them."
"In order to ease this tension and to be able to re-exchange Fox and Colombian support, Thunderbolt Film Company has made many good intentions. Didn't Colombia Film Company have many movies to shoot? Thunderbolt helped them in this regard, not only to help them configure crew members, but also to invest."
"The little guy Orson Wells happened to have a script on hand and kept yelling to shoot it, but it was obviously impossible to shoot it on Lei Dianhua. On the one hand, Lei Dianhua was worried that if the movie failed, it would affect Lei Dianhua's reputation. It would be detrimental to Orson Wells' growth, so he refused."
"This time, for Orson Wells, the opportunity came. On Thunderbolt, his movie could not be made at all, because in the eyes of Hitchcock and others, Orson Wells' movie was simply nonsense. But on Columbia Film Company, the situation was different. Frank Capra was very interested in Orson Wells' script and brought George Stevens to protect it. With these two old guys, the senior executives of Columbia Film Company naturally had nothing to say. They agreed to invest in the filming of Orson Wells' script, but were unwilling to invest more money. In the end, they only invested 200,000 US dollars. It is estimated that the senior executives of those film companies rewarded Orson Wells for the sake of Frank Capra and George Stevens, and probably didn't want to recover the money at all."
"Thunder Dianhua Film Company has nothing to say about such a move. This will bring them closer to the tension between them and Colombia, and also train Orson Wells. Why not do such a good thing?"
"So, the movie was filmed. It is said that when Orson Wells filmed this movie, it took only one and a half months to start filming to finishing and editing. The investment of 200,000 yuan was only 10,000 yuan. After the movie was released, the situation was beyond everyone's expectations. This small-cost movie suddenly achieved great success, and almost everyone in the United States is watching it now! The senior executives of Columbia were very happy. After investing 200,000 yuan, they made millions. How could they be unhappy with such good things? Carey Rockefeller is probably smashing the table now and it is a good deal for Columbia for no reason. But they can't do anything about it, but one thing is still good. It's because of this. The originally stiff relationship between Columbia Film Company and Leidianhua Film Company has become more and more relaxed."
Gans talked. But I listened very seriously.
This Orson Wells, who is young, can make such a movie by the time he is young. Apart from being described as genius, I can no longer find better words.
"What I worry most now is that those guys Lei Ding Huadi should not destroy this genius." I let out a long sigh.
Because my foot injury was not very serious and I didn't like the hospital, I decided to go to the company to recuperate. After all, I could still work. However, the filming of "The Godfather 2" was affected. I could not act for the time being. I could not limp on the screen, so I could only shoot those scenes without my role. At this time, Stiller and Bresson completely took the lead. The two worked together to continue shooting under my guidance. The crew's work did not stop due to my injury.
Meanwhile, Hollywood people are talking about a movie, which Orson Wells spent 150,000 yuan to tinker with.
This movie attracted the attention of many filmmakers, and many film researchers also loved this movie very much.
"It is amazing that Orson Wells, who is young, can shoot such a mature film. Because only those who are in the grade can understand the situation of the hero in the movie. Although Wells said that he was filming his parents, I want to say that Little Wells has done a very successful job in monetizing the characters' psychology."
"The biggest success of this movie is the display of the hero's situation under the social pressure, which is shocking. The exaggerated expression of polygamy is even more eye-catching, because no one has dealt with such a subject before."
Even John Ford loved the movie so much.
The Los Angeles Times, Hollywood Times, Movie Manuals and other media have published special reports on this movie, treating the movie as a text to study it, and their views and discussions on this movie are in full swing.
At the beginning, we discussed issues such as the art of movies and the essence of movies. Then we discussed the actors' performances and the movies' highlights, and finally we started talking about polygamy.
As a result, five days later, the discussion began to shift from discussing movies to discussing social ethics. As a result, more and more people joined the discussion, so that sociologists, anthropologists and other scholars also participated in the war. The issue they discussed was a very attractive question: Is polygamy good?
On this issue, it is a matter of opinion. Some people think that this system may be good, because in many countries in the world, such a system exists. Men have several wives and live very happily, while others obviously do not think so. They angrily condemn this system. They believe that this is unfair to women, and many people criticize it from a religious perspective. Americans have always had a monogamy ideological tradition in this regard, and believe that polygamy is very immoral.
As a result, the American media became in chaos and both sides had their own opinions. No one could convince anyone, and it was very lively.
As for this issue, most people in the United States do not agree with polygamy, whether emotionally or rationally.
Americans are descendants of Puritans. For Puritans, polygamy is a sin, and monogamy is worthy of advocacy. This tradition and this idea are deeply rooted in the minds of the American people, so those voices who criticize polygamy gradually took the initiative.
If you can't be true, you can only talk and laugh at it. However, what happened next shocked everyone and also made the debate worse again.
In this debate, the American media is naturally the most important position. In fact, many people involved in the debate are brought in by themselves. On this issue, because media executives and organizers, such as editors, have personal tendencies in dealing with this issue, they will naturally bring their own opinions when dealing with this debate. The people they bring in are naturally the people they can talk to.
As a result, there was a phenomenon that a newspaper had a vague attitude on this matter, but in the end, it became single, either supporting or opposing, with a very underground attitude.
In Los Angeles, newspapers were divided into two camps. The Los Angeles Tribune, Hollywood Times, Posts and other newspapers were extremely opposed to polygamy. However, the Los Angeles Times and the Citizens agreed with polygamy, and the two sides became very troubled. At the beginning, the two sides were still in a balanced position, but in the end, as different personnel joined and the discussion deepened, the situation changed, causing the Los Angeles Times and Citizens to fall into the joint siege of other media.
This situation does not have any problem with the Citizens. This newspaper is famous for being thick-skinned in the United States. The more you scold the people in the newspaper, the happier you will be. You want to attack more. But the Los Angeles Times is different. As one of the most important newspapers in Los Angeles and even the United States, public opinion and influence have always made them the greatest pursuit, and they do not want to have any losses or disadvantages in it. Compared with the Citizens' market route, the Los Angeles Times attaches more importance to reputation and authority.
Now he is in a state of being besieged, and the public also has objections to the Los Angeles Times argument, which makes a group of executives in the Los Angeles Times panic.
In order to maintain their authority and to fight back, they must find some ways to prove their views. Moreover, these methods or events must be able to be convincing enough so that they can block the mouths of those opponents.
On the one hand, a group of people from the Los Angeles Times began to look for more supporters and began to pull in more influential scholars. On the other hand, they also came up with a wonderful idea: Didn’t you say polygamy is not good? Didn’t you say polygamy will make couples’ lives unhappy, especially women’s lives? Okay, it’s not okay for me to find examples for you! I have found many examples of polygamy but very happy life, what else do you have to say!?
So, they started to work hard on this.
To be honest, it is not difficult to find examples of polygamy. The world is so big, and the customs of different countries are different. There are too many polygamy countries, and there have been more examples in this area throughout the ages.
As a result, a large number of examples appeared in the Los Angeles Times, and with the careful planning of these editors, each example made the opponent speechless like a bombshell. The Los Angeles Times was very satisfied with this method and decided to continue to work hard.
Logically speaking, there is nothing to say about this method. Just look for examples. But I don’t know which guy inside is so funny, so I found the example on my ground.
On this day, a huge photo was published on the second page of the Los Angeles Times. On the photo, I was lying on the bed. In my arms, I was holding my two sons, Heidi, Lenny, Holkina and others, standing next to me, with a very close attitude towards me.
This photo was taken by the reporters who broke in when I was in the hospital.
The photo shooting level is not high, and the news that I was injured has lost its timeliness, so this photo is even more unlikely to be adopted as a news picture.
But this time, it appeared in the second edition of the Los Angeles Times. And it was so big that it was obviously not a news picture.
Almost every issue of the Los Angeles Times will find two or three polygamy cases to refute the opponent. This time, they targeted me.
"Those sociologists and anthropologists who criticize polygamy indiscriminately are very unreasonable, because in many cases, the specific situation must be treated specifically. If several women like a man, the man also loves these women deeply, and women can understand each other and be at ease. Polygamy is obviously the best choice, so that a happy family and a stable family can be formed. If polygamy is polygamy, it will definitely lead to the greatest tragedy! If others don't say it, Mr. Andre Corleon's life proves this very well."
Next, the Los Angeles Times conducted a detailed analysis of our life, showing the happy life of our family. Anyway, it’s just a sentence: polygamy is good, it’s good to come and it’s good!
To be honest, I can understand the editor's painstaking efforts. Under such pressure, he must list sufficiently heavyweight rebuttal cases and choose ordinary people's words. There is no impact or persuasion at all, but if you choose celebrities in society, especially those who seem to have high prestige among the people, the situation will be completely different.
Among these people, those who live in Los Angeles with several wives and have high prestige will probably involuntarily think of me.
But this editor didn't know that he did this, which undoubtedly helped him a lot, but caused me a lot of trouble.
"It's over! It's a disaster! Darren, find out the editor of this bitch for me, I must kick him out!" I was so angry that I jumped up, but the injured foot hit the chair, making me scream.
"Boss, what's going on!" Darren Oliver came in suddenly and was stunned when he saw me like this.
"Bitches keep the land! Bitches keep it! These have made me suffer!" My facial features twisted and the wolf howled.
In the United States, all the people who attended my wedding can count. Apart from the group of people inside DreamWorks, the rest are a group of friends from Hollywood.
The wedding was very hidden and no reporters were allowed to be present at all, so basically not many people witnessed the moment when I got married with their own eyes.
In fact, in recent years, reports on Andre Corleon's marital status in major newspapers have been endless, gossip is flying everywhere, some are not married, some say my child is already in elementary school, some reporters say Andre Corleon has more than a dozen illegitimate children in Poland, and they all say anything. For this statement, the people use it as a topic of conversation in their daily life, and basically there is no malicious intention. Moreover, the media that have such reports are all small media, and any media with a little reputation will not report it like this.
But this time, the situation is obviously different. The Los Angeles Times is one of the most important media in the United States. It has an unrivalled influence in the West, and its authority is well-known.
The photo that appeared on the Los Angeles Times, on which I was holding Agelo, Vapori and Lenny and others, I knew at a glance that the relationship was different. And with such a photo, with detailed reports, who would not believe it?!
The Los Angeles Times not only made a complete comeback this time, but it is estimated that the newspaper will be sold crazy this day!
But in this way, I'm in trouble.
When I shouted that Darren Oliver would find this editor of the Los Angeles Times for me to beat me, Coolidge and others also heard my roar and walked in.
When they saw the newspaper waving in my hand, all the people laughed.
"Not to say, it's such a happy family." Coolidge touched his chin and laughed.
"Calvin, what's so funny! You're not worried about me!" I opened my eyes wide.
"I'm anxious? Why is it urgent? It's just a photo, it's no big deal." Bresson took the newspaper and looked at it. He said, "Boss, don't say it, you're ugly on this photo."
"I feel so too." Everyone next to him looked worried.
I looked at these guys and couldn't laugh or cry.
"Everyone, I'm so angry. Don't joke with me. This photo has held me down." I sat on the sofa and shook my head.
"Boss, you mean, are you afraid that Americans know about your family and your marriage?" asked Bresson.
"I'm afraid!? Do I need to be afraid? I didn't steal or rob, nor did I abduct humans. What am I afraid of?! What I'm afraid of is that if this matter comes out, it will make others' shortcomings. Some people will definitely make a big fuss. Don't forget it. The law is definitely monogamous!"
My words finally made the hippie smiles disappear.^^^^^
To be continued...