Once Upon a Time In Hollywood

  Chapter 89 Sweepstakes Sales Growth

The opening shot, which is very similar to the first one, made Johnny Olesinski, a columnist for the New York Post, raise his eyebrows. In his opinion, James Cameron is a very talented director. The big sales of "Terminator" and the popularity of "Alien 2" can prove that he has a very high attainment in the field of commercial films, and the sharp editing and tense rhythm in it cannot be called a showmanship, but he wants to let him It is really difficult for people to pick out faults.

The perfect integration of the whole, details, logic, and rhythm makes many people think that the truck driver has the possibility of hitting the box office and breaking the monopoly of Spielberg and Lucas. Even if the last movie "The Abyss" rushed, There are also many investors who are willing to believe him again. Because of this, before the news of computer special effects, something they don't understand, is released, many people are still very optimistic about this sequel, even if the sequels of Hollywood movies are basically It's gone, but some film critics are still looking forward to the fact that Truck Driver can dedicate a movie that surpasses its predecessor.

   But the problem is, a few minutes after the opening, something unexpected happened to them—

  What the **** am I copying myself? ! !

  In the first fifteen minutes of the opening, Johnny Olesinski and other film critics were stunned.

From the reappearance of the T-800 across time and space, to the skilled and experienced robbery of clothing and guns, to the hidden assassination of the T-1000, and 'John Connor, male, white, biological mother: Sarah Connor, biological father: unknown , Address: No. 19828, South Xingren Road, etc. When a series of information such as 'continuously appeared, the film critics, invited guests, and media reporters present were actually bewildered, because everything in front of them seemed to be no different from "Terminator". !

  Although it has been seven years since the first film was released, basically everyone who came here has watched it.

   And it’s these homework before arrival that makes these guys feel as uncomfortable as eating flies. They feel that they are not watching a movie sequel, but watching a remake movie...

  A remake of a movie that didn't even change the outline, but the shots are very similar, and it seems that there is no intention!

   "In the first part, Arnold robbed street gangsters. In the second part, he upgraded and robbed a bar?"

   "In the first part, Arnold fought hand-to-hand with the gangsters. In the second part, he upgraded a bit and used his body to block bullets?"

   "In the first part, Michael, who comes from the future, protects Sarah and fights against the police in order to avoid it. In the second part, this new robot from the future directly imitates the police?"

  If it is the general public, then they will certainly not be full of doubts like the audience at the scene.

   Isn’t Schwarzenegger handsome?

   That head-on feeling is the romance of a man!

   Wouldn’t liquid metal robots be cool?

  The sudden change without flaws is the highlight of that scene!

   But the problem is, the guys who can participate in the premiere are all insiders!

   Of course they can see the bright spots!

  But the defect that exists at the same time is like an old groove, stuck in their throats, making them feel uncomfortable.

For them, this high degree of overlap in plots is no longer plagiarism, or if Johnny Olesinski knows the three major comics of migrant workers eight years later, he will even doubt whether the truck driver is cheating or not. Seeing the 50-50 open eyes of the ninja world, I directly copied my previous script...

  Where is this new movie!

   This is simply a waste of money!

   "Desperate! Desperate!"

   "Such a movie can invest 100 million yuan? Isn't it really money laundering?"

   "Haven't even changed the script? Isn't this too disgusting?"

As a film critic who lives by pen, Johnny has already thought about how to criticize this movie when he goes back. Even if Carolco Pictures gives him more money, he will not violate his conscience To tout it all.

   It's not that he doesn't love money, but that this thing really can't be boasted!

  The audience is not blind!

  After the movie is released, they will naturally see whether the plot of the movie has been cloned!

  Although plagiarism itself is considered plagiarism, there is no public opinion in the film industry, but in the academic field, it can be regarded as "multiple submissions of one manuscript", which can be called academic misconduct.

   "I didn't expect James to do such a thing."

   “It’s really a joke about my own career.”

   "Not only that, the word of mouth that Arnold has managed to accumulate will be ruined, right?"

   "And perhaps the most unlucky one is Roland?"

   ""Home Alone" brought him a good reputation, but once "Terminator 2" comes out, will he be completely defeated?"

   Looking on the big screen, John Connor, who bent over to repair the motorcycle, then handsomely raised his head, shook off his bangs, and ignored the meaning of his adoptive mother's words at all, Johnny sighed regretfully.

Even though John Connor on the screen is handsome, he is fundamentally different from Kevin in "Home Alone", the kind of cool and unrestrained movements from being cute to being cool is enough to make the little girls who like him burst into pink bubbles Bubbles, but for a professional like Johnny, this kind of transformation that can be discerned by the naked eye is not enough to erase the anger caused by plagiarism.

  What—what does it have to do with the actors if the director copied it?

  What—you can shoot whatever you want with the copyright in hand?

  Yes, that’s right, that’s the reason!

  But the public opinion doesn’t think so!

  They only knew that they walked into the movie theater with anticipation, but they saw the same plot as the previous one!

   Type it again in another way?

   Do you think you are "Avengers 4"?

  Even though "Reunion 4" "copied" many previous works, there is still a plot in the opening title of "Several big men are extremely vicious, and honest fruit farmers died at home", but what about "Terminator 2"? Exactly the same!

  Can this special audience bear it?

  Johnny didn't know if the audience could bear it, but he knew he definitely couldn't.

   Moreover, in his opinion, if the current rhythm is followed, the subsequent plot will be very simple.

John Connor and his mother Sarah Connor were hunted down, and then a black sheriff who had a blood relationship with the Cheeks appeared. Under his agitation, the guy who protected the two started a battle with the Terminator robot fierce battle...

"I just don't know if Arnold in this movie is still the same as before. It's very funny to shoot..." Johnny no longer expects the plot of the movie to bring him a bright feeling. He only hopes that the plagiarized plot will continue to decrease. In some cases, there are some refreshing and entertaining scenes, "If even the action is copied from the previous one, and it looks like a hippie with a gun, then this movie is really worthless."

   There are many guys who have the same idea as him, or most of them don't even understand how such a similar movie got an investment of 100 million?

  If you can get investment by copying your own successful works, doesn't Spielberg have to make a lot of money?

  However, just when they were puzzled and wanted to figure out what happened, a different plot finally appeared.

After continuously explaining the three main characters, T-800, T-1000, and John Connor, like an endorsement, the camera on the screen suddenly flickered, and the signs of the California State Hospital and the Detention House for Mentally Disordered Criminals appeared on the screen. In front of the public.

  In the previous work, Sarah Connor, who was pregnant with John Connor, became a mentally disturbed criminal.

  The transformation from a mother to a criminal made everyone present frown slightly.

  What kind of medicine is sold in the gourd of the truck driver?

  The inexplicable setting is completely inconsistent with the previous work!

   Yes, it does not match.

   The reason why it does not match is that James Cameron will not plagiarize his own work.

In other words, the existence that really makes "Terminator 2" shine infinitely in the entire series is not the **** T-800 robot, nor is it the villain of the first liquid metal robot made with computer special effects in film history. It's not the fast-paced plot and the real guns and live ammunition, but—

Home.

If the first "Terminator" is the beginning of the entire series, it is a sci-fi action movie in the true sense, and the third one, 2018 and Genesis, which is not controlled by the truck driver, is a derivative money-making work after that, The second part is not actually a story about a robot from the future chasing and killing humans, but a typical American family under the cloak of science fiction.

   The divorce rate of Americans is very high.

  Whether it is data or film and television works, it can be reflected.

Just like in Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby", the heroine Markey's family is actually the epitome of an American family, a mother with several children, relying on government-issued Living on relief funds, they dare not collect those windfalls, because they are worried that getting rich for a short time will make them lose their subsistence allowances. Before there is no stable source of income, survival is the greatest guarantee, and children who grow up in this environment , will naturally have various problems.

   Those who are positive and upward may work hard to climb up like the heroine Ma Ji.

   Those who are decadent and depraved may just eat and wait to die, complaining about the injustice of heaven.

  Of course, "Terminator 2", a sci-fi action movie, will naturally not discuss life like "Million Dollar Baby", but the core of it is actually very similar...

  Sarah Connor, who lost her lover in the first part, is actually the embodiment of those single mothers living in America.

They may have mental illness, may be physically healthy, may have logical confusion, or may be rational, but no matter what state they are in, in Cameron's eyes, they will always love their children .

  Like Sarah in the movie, who is locked up in the detention center for mentally disturbed criminals, she can hide her true thoughts in the face of continuous interrogation and examination by doctors—in order to leave the hospital and protect her son.

  In the first part, John Connor, who only exists in the text, is the epitome of those children living in single-parent families.

  Without the discipline of their biological parents, they are rebellious and self-conscious, and they have learned some social vices. For them, stealing and stealing do not have the slightest psychological pressure, because these misbehaviors can make their lives better.

   When faced with threats, these seemingly evil, but just living guys will also be afraid.

  It was like when the T-1000 transformed into a policeman appeared in front of John, John's first reaction was to run away.

  What Terminator?

What does    have to do with him?

  He just doesn't want to be caught by the police like any kid who does something bad and wants to run away.

   As for the T-800 that broke out halfway, with a sprayer and sunglasses?

  This soldier from the future, who was ordered to protect the mother and child, isn’t that what these children from single-parent families hope for?

  They want to have a father like those normal families.

  They want to have an omnipotent father like those happy children.

  Even this father is not a human being.

   Even this father has to learn.

  ...

  After introducing the four protagonists one after another, the camera turned instantly.

  T-1000 chased and killed John Connor, and T-800 struggled to protect the fight, which made everyone at the scene very happy.

  And when the T-800 took John Connor out of pursuit and told the child all the truth—

John Connor, who was rescued by the T-800, sat on the hood of a car with his body slightly arched, his elbows on his legs, his eyes down, and his eyelids moved slightly. The slanted bangs are like miscellaneous hairs, hanging down carelessly. Even if they don't face the camera directly, the slack emotions in their eyes are like a bucket full of water, which is constantly overflowing.

   "Do you know her?"

   “We spent a lot of time in places like Nicaragua.”

   "For a while, she was like a crazy person, selling guns."

   "She lived with anyone who could teach her, just to teach me to be a military leader."

  “Later she was arrested, and I was told, ‘Your mother is crazy, don’t you know?’”

   “They overturned everything I ever believed in.”

   "I hate her for it, but everything she says is true."

   "But no one believed it."

"including me…"

When John Connor recalled his past in a retrospective tone to fill in the gaps that the film has not yet explained, as well as his unknown childhood life, the guys who were still dissing plagiarism before all closed themselves mouth.

   They feel their face, it hurts.

copy?

   Copy what?

  The identical appearance at the beginning of the chapter heralds an endless reincarnation!

  The T-800 in the first part is really a killing machine.

  The T-800 in the second part is the truck driver's thinking about artificial intelligence.

Now he will indeed only complete the order. After John Connor vented, he refused his act of going to the hospital to save his mother, but after John Connor discovered his operating mechanism, the devil terminator who obeyed the order, Then he officially embarked on the road of transformation, and at the same time, after discovering that this will never stop, never leave himself, never hurt himself, never yell at himself or beat himself when drunk, Or the robot who excuses that he is too busy to spend time with him is the only one who is qualified for the role of father among the many father roles he has been looking for over the years—

   This murderous guy became John Connor's best choice in this crazy world.

   "Wow... From this point of view, the most profitable person in the whole movie is Roland..."

"If it is said that "Home Alone" has made countless children realize their dreams, let them see the fun and danger of being alone at home, brought joyful emotions to everyone, and presented the harmonious family after the quarrel to the public. If it captures countless fans, then the movie "Terminator 2" will make all the children envious..."

  “There is no father who can make his children feel perfect.”

  “There is no father who can unconditionally meet all the needs of children like T-800.”

  “There is no father who can accompany the children forever like T-800…”

   "It is the wish of many children to have a father who can protect themselves from the wind and rain, grow up with them, and has no bad habits, and can obey what they say..."

When the "Los Angeles Times" columnist Kenneth Turan couldn't contain his surprise, he watched John Connor on the screen with complicated eyes to prevent his mother from destroying the T-800 robot. When the chip was released, an unspeakable emotion had seized his heart...

   Is Schwarzenegger good at playing the Terminator who is learning to be a father?

No-

   Is Linda Hamilton the mother-guy great?

No-

  Is the movie made by James Cameron very powerful, the picture is exciting, and the story is excellent?

No-

  It is Roland Allen, John Connor in this movie, and the "oil bottle" in the current story.

Youdao is for laymen to watch the excitement, and for experts to see the way. As a professional film critic, Kenneth naturally understands how correct it is to choose Roland for the movie "Terminator 2", or in other words, Roland participated in this movie , It's a fairy-like selection... This is not to say that the whole movie will definitely be a hit, but that the role played by Roland has completely made up for his personal shortcomings. If "Home Alone" makes children in harmonious families Falling in love with this Roland who is about the same age as himself, then "Terminator 2" is trying to please the children in single-parent families that "Home Alone" may not be able to win over.

  What happened to John Connor on the screen is the situation of most children born in single-parent families.

  John Connor prevented his mother from destroying the T-800, more like those children saw their favorite 'father', but were strongly opposed by their own mother, violent confrontation...

  Adults don't understand the world of children. They think that they can give children everything they want by themselves.

  As everyone knows, most of the time, what children want is to be accompanied and listened to.

   And now—

   Roland has already brought the desire of these children to the show.

   "As expected of being a child of the Jewish gang, this is the resource that many child stars dream of... Everyone knows that cuteness alone will ruin the clock. Only when children can empathize with you will they truly fall in love with you."

   ""Home Alone" made happy families fall in love with Roland, and "Terminator 2" is reaping the desire of single-parent families..."

   "And once these two groups of people find their shadows in Roland's role and let them see their own growth, then who else can shake Roland's position in their hearts?"

"Disney has always wanted to create a dream, it wants to let itself live around children forever, and what about Roland? He may not be able to harvest wave after wave of children like Disney, but he can definitely surpass Disney and be the same age Children, catch them all."

"As long as his movies are always centered around the theme of growing up, when the current batch of children grow up with him, which movie star can overwhelm him? People of this generation watch his movies and live with him. If he grows up a little bit, as long as he is not stupid, whoever steps on him in the future will be against this generation?"

"Roland wants to be the perfect incarnation in the minds of his generation. He is working hard to create dreams for these children. Once his dreams are violated, what will happen to those children who don't feel that there is anything on weekdays? ?”

  Kenneth…

   Didn't dare to continue thinking about it.

  Because everything that is shown now is scary enough.

  Sometimes, film selection is really more important than acting skills, but more often than not, actors don’t actually know where their selling points are.

  Yes, just like movies have selling points, actors also have selling points, or in other words, it is character design.

  What foodies, what funny beeps, what icebergs, what cuteness, but no one has ever dared to sell and grow.

   No one dares to use the work to sell and grow.

   Not only because growth is not a human design at all, but also because people don’t know how to sell it in the process of growth!

  Especially in many cases, it is not easy for an actor to shoot a scene, but to try to use two movies like Roland is doing now, to wipe out a generation of people, it is simply a dream.

   Regardless of whether it is Lucas, Spielberg, or other masters, no one has ever dared to say that his target fan base is the generation of his own age, but now, Roland is doing all of this.

  Kenneth didn't know if he would succeed, but he knew that the only one who could stop Roland now was himself.

  Under the protection of the Jewish gang, all books related to growth on the market will become his possessions.

  As long as he acts well, plus some luck to avoid bad movies, and have innocent children, he will always be captured by him.

   In terms of luck, Kenneth dare not guarantee it, but if he plays this aspect well, he believes that Roland will do better than anyone else.

because-

   Roland on the screen started flirting with the governor.

   Note: ① The first fifteen minutes of "Terminator" and "Terminator 2" are extremely similar, which has been criticized by film critics.

  (end of this chapter)