Hollywood Lover

Chapter 71: do not accept?

  The movie has been carefully selected. It is a super good movie that won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and other awards at the 77th Academy Awards in 2005.

   "Million Dollar Baby"!

  Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) is an elderly boxing coach. He devoted almost his whole life to

   Boxing career. Many boxers who have dominated the boxing world have benefited from his promotion. In his life, the most important thing is never-ending boxing lessons and meticulous and rigorous boxing theory. And one of the most important of his theories is: self-protection always comes first.

  Being too obsessed with his career made the relationship between Frankie and his daughter like a passerby. At the same time, this has also become a lingering shadow in the heart of the old man. For a long time, he lived a life of extreme autism. Frankie's only friend Skype (Morgan Freeman) was also a boxer. For the past 23 years, they have been doing almost the same job every day. Apart from running Frankie's boxing gym, Skype is the person who knows him best. Only he knows that the fiery heart under Frankie's hard and cold appearance has always been looking forward to forgiveness and redemption.

  Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) is a strong-willed woman who knows her purpose and how to get there. The strong desire to prove her strength to the world prompted her to enter Frankie's boxing gym. The moment Maggie appeared, the fate of the two protagonists also began to reverse quietly. After the twists and turns, Maggie's innate talent and unshakable belief finally moved the stubborn Frankie, who decided to help Maggie become a female boxer at all costs...

  The day-to-day getting along during the training and the mutual enlightenment of each other's past encounters made the two masters and apprentices understand each other more tacitly. In the process of pursuing their dreams and surpassing themselves, they found a cure for the pain of the past together. What makes the two feel extremely gratified is that they have found the long-lost sense of belonging like relatives in each other. In this struggle of ethics and courage there will be no memory of defeat and pain.

The early stage of the film is high-spirited and upward, and the protagonist’s journey is quite smooth, but at the end of the film, a sad atmosphere is revealed. Due to the opponent’s surprise attack, the heroine is paralyzed in bed. , has a very good grasp of human nature.

  This film, with only an investment of 18 million US dollars, has achieved a global revenue of 210 million US dollars, more than ten times the revenue and won four of the most important Oscars in a row!

   Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor!

  With a small investment, no need to rely on special effects to attract the judges, a dramatic and thought-provoking story, a super high box office and a burst of word of mouth, the Oscar is soft!

   Is all this not enough to impress Zhang Dongcheng?

  Excited, Zhang Dongcheng worked hard and wrote the storyboard script. He took it out with confidence, and Zhang Dongcheng even thought about who the heroine would be.

   Angelina Jolie, how are you?

When Zhang Dongcheng jumped into the car, his head was filled with the image of Angelina holding up the statuette at the Oscars. Although she is only 20 years old this year, Zhang Dongcheng, who is also 20 years old, feels that there is really nothing in this world that can stop him .

Really do not have?

  The first one to come was naturally the office of Mr. Thomas, the Columbia Film Company who favored him at the banquet.

   Zhang Dongcheng, who was so excited that he couldn't control himself, didn't realize that he hadn't considered many things until he faced the inquiry from Mr. Thomas's secretary.

   "Sir, who are you looking for?" The beautiful secretary stood in front of Zhang Dongcheng and asked suspiciously.

  Young face, or an oriental man, Zhang Dongcheng's age and appearance made Miss Secretary very uncomfortable.

"Oh, I'm so sorry. I'm Mr. Thomas's... Uh, I'm a friend. I have something important to talk to him about. Well, it's a movie about me. I'm Smith Zhang, and Mr. Thomas knows me." Zhang Dongcheng adjusted his black-rimmed glasses in embarrassment, and said with a smile.

   "Do you have an appointment?" Miss Secretary said politely.

   "This... no, can you please tell Mr. Thomas, let him decide whether to see or not?" Zhang Dongcheng also responded politely, hoping that Miss Secretary would give him face.

   "Okay. I'll make a phone call first." The secretary did not make things difficult for Zhang Dongcheng, perhaps because of the smile on his face, and quickly dialed the phone.

   "Mr. Thomas, a man named Smith came to see you. He said you knew him." The secretary asked into the microphone.

   "Oh, let him in."

   "Okay. I'll arrange for him to come in and see you."

  Miss Secretary put down the phone, put on a joke on her face, and brought Zhang Dongcheng to Thomas' office.

"Haha, my little friend, why did you come to me? Do you have any good ideas to talk to me?" Although Thomas is old, his eyes are still very sharp, and he saw Zhang Dongcheng holding a document in his hand at a glance Bao, couldn't help standing up, welcoming Zhang Dongcheng to sit down.

"Yes, Mr. Thomas. Ever since I achieved certain results in England, I want to prove myself in Hollywood. I have an idea for a new movie. The script is here, and I will let Mr. Thomas read it." Zhang Dongcheng said with confidence Said, then opened the briefcase and handed the script to Thomas.

   "Sure enough, he is a young man, very aggressive!" Thomas smiled kindly, and took the script casually, and the title of "Million Dollar Baby" came into view.

   "Million Dollar Baby? Hey, the name seems to be good, quite attractive." Thomas praised, and then carefully flipped through it.

   And Zhang Dongcheng sat upright, hoping to get a good news from him.

   "The theme of female boxers?" After watching for a while, Thomas seemed to see something, and raised his head to glance at Zhang Dongcheng.

   "Yes, but this is not a real boxing story, but a story about love." Zhang Dongcheng smiled and motioned Thomas to continue reading.

At the beginning, Thomas' brows were stretched, and half of the movie moved him very much. This movie has the usual impact of sports inspirational movies, just like the 1976 "Rocky" that triggered a nationwide movie craze, and has a box office hit. Shed potential.

But at the end, as the script took a sharp turn, the heroine Mashi was paralyzed on the bed, unable to even move a finger, and then her coach pulled out the ventilator tube on Maggie's neck after struggling painfully. Inject her with a large amount of insulin, let her sleep in the warmest and deepest love, let her sleep behind the gate of dreams.

What? Euthanasia? Thomas frowned tightly, put down the script, stared at Zhang Dongcheng's young face, moved his lips, but didn't say anything, just sighed heavily.

   "Mr. Thomas? What's the matter?" Zhang Dongcheng felt a little nervous.

"Mr. Smith, I am a devout Christian. Suicide is definitely not allowed by God... Absolutely not. Because human life is given by God... and death is also determined by God, not human beings. Yes, That's right, people can choose to die and not listen to God's words, but the price after death is going to hell." Thomas spoke slowly, pushing the script back to Zhang Dongcheng.

"However, my film does not mean that euthanasia is right. It is about people's family affection. Many people think before they die that their dreams have not been realized. But Maggie, it has been realized. This is the most shocking part .” Zhang Dongcheng tried to explain.

"I understand. I can even imagine that if this movie of yours is put on the big screen, not to mention making money, it should be no problem. And this kind of movie with a violent collision of human nature, the Oscars will like it very much. But for me personally Said, I can't do anything for this movie. This is the principle of a believer." Thomas fell on the sofa very tiredly, pressing his temples hard.

   "But..." Zhang Dongcheng still wanted to say something.

   "Maybe you will impress other film companies. I'm sorry Mr. Smith. Your movie is a good movie, I can confirm it." Thomas stood up, with the intention of serving tea to see off the guests.

   And Zhang Dongcheng stood up in a daze, looked at Thomas' eyes, finally nodded, shook hands with him, and left.

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