Rebirth In Hollywood

"What are you so happy about?"

Taking Natalie into his makeup trailer, Ryan pushed the chair over and pressed her on it, "Let me see, my eyes are smiling."

"Is it that obvious?" Natalie turned to look in the mirror.

"The complexion is normal, others and yourself can't see it."

Pulling over another chair, Ryan sat opposite Natalie and touched her forehead, "Don't forget, Nat, I know you best."

"Okay, I admit it." Before Ryan's head was retracted, Natalie gave him a hard push. After a slight noise, the two guys couldn't help covering their foreheads at the same time, but Natalie laughed. , "I'm really happy, very, very happy."

"Let me guess." Ryan snapped his fingers. "127 Hours is a big hit? Isn't it?"

He scratched his head deliberately, "The movie has already been offline, and the North American box office is only more than 30 million US dollars, ah..."

"I figured it out." Ryan patted his forehead and leaned into Natalie's ear, "Nate, aren't you pregnant and want to be a mother?"

"Ryan!" Natalie's eyes widened, her two rows of white teeth kept grinding, and she had the attitude of biting him hard, "Don't tell me you can't guess."

"Alright alright."

Raising his hands, Ryan quickly moved away from Natalie, he didn't want to be bitten fiercely, "The seventy-eighth Oscar nominee luncheon should have ended yesterday, Nat, how many nominations did we get? "

"Not much, only five."

Despite what she said, Natalie smiled brightly, "Best Picture, Best Editing, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Original Song."

"Oh, congratulations, dear." Ryan understood how to behave now, reached out and hugged Natalie, and gave her a hard kiss on the forehead, "My Miss Best Director."

"Just a nomination."

Hearing Natalie's whisper, Ryan pinched her high nose, "Now that you have accumulated qualifications, there is always a chance to get it."

It is much more difficult for female directors to get the same treatment as male directors in Hollywood than for actresses to male actors. Directing is definitely a male-dominated industry.

Even now that new feminism is on the rise, the price paid for Natalie to win the Oscar for best director at the first nomination is probably far less than the gain.

After the opportunity, the script of Ryan's "Black Swan" is about to be completed. After Natalie finishes filming "The Hunger Games 2", it can be handed over to her. This kind of cold theme is better than "127 Hours" is even more popular with the Oscars.

"Come on, Nat."

It's not yet ten o'clock in the morning, and Ryan pulls Natalie out of the makeup trailer, "I'll take you to visit the Hoover Dam and watch the filming by the way."

"Is there an explosion scene here?" Natalie took Ryan and walked towards the dam where the crew was located. "I would love to see Michael blow up the Hoover Dam."

"Then the federal government is going to go crazy."

Walking to the dam guardrail not far from the crew, Ryan glanced down and quickly retracted his gaze, "There are some plots of Starscream attacking the dam power plant in the script, but they can only be generated by computer."

"Is that a bumblebee model?" Natalie asked, pointing to the front.

"That's right."

The scene where the Hornet was caught in the dam was being filmed over there, and Ryan was standing beside Natalie, "That's the same scale model, and over there, that's the Bumblebee Camaro sports car that Chevrolet built for the crew, Counting these two, there are only six of the same configuration in the world, my dear, if you are interested, I can save one for you."

"The other one you're collecting?" Natalie asked.

"Alison has pre-ordered." Ryan gave her a look you knew. "You know, she likes to collect these unique movie props since she was a child."

"I went to see her collection." Natalie is obviously not very interested in cars. "Alison's collection of movie memorabilia will definitely surprise everyone."

There is no water in these words. Taylor collects not only limited edition dolls and souvenirs from the movie, but also many original props from the movie, such as Hermione's wand in "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", such as Ryan's In the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, the holy sword of Nasir who slaughtered the Quartet.

Ryan's role ended yesterday, and the two of them didn't have any intentions of the past. They just watched the filming crew from a distance, especially Natalie, who spent a lot of time focusing on Michael Bay, watching him direct and dispatch .

"There is always a group of directors in Hollywood." She said, looking at Michael Bay from a distance, "Never liked by Oscar."

"It's normal, no one can make their movie liked by everyone." Ryan simply gave a few examples, "Stephen Sommers, Roland Emmerich, they never entertain the Oscars. "

"It's the darling of Hollywood studios," Natalie added.

"Business is the foundation of Hollywood."

The two turned to the guardrail and looked at the scenery in the distance. Ryan continued, "Hollywood prefers directors like them to Sam Mendes, the Coen brothers, and Roman Polanski."

"Nate..." Ryan suddenly said, "If I use "Transformers" to help Michael win an Oscar nomination for Best Director, what do you think?"

"Do you think this is very likely?" Natalie knew that Ryan was joking, and shrugged playfully, "He is one of Oscar's least favorite directors."

"How do you know if you don't try?" Ryan's tone still seemed to be joking.

Although the Oscars are also full of a strong commercial atmosphere and will be affected by a series of factors such as public relations, in key awards such as the four major awards, the type of film is still very important.

In other words, Oscar will always release a 'noble' and 'cold' attitude to show his authority and distinction.

Even now, the Oscar jury still selects some 'special' films as candidates for the Best Picture and Best Director awards. Quite a few of these films will be out of the mainstream commercial market and are often called strange and unpopular by ordinary audiences.

To this day, Ryan still remembers that before a certain Oscar in his previous life, the films that might be nominated were extremely rare, and many media have issued ridicule, suggesting that Paramount should nominate for the best film for "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" and for Michael? Bay is nominated for Best Film and Best Screenplay for Iron Kruger, because "Transformers 3" is not only better known, but also not inferior in content, compared to those films that might be nominated.

This move has attracted a lot of heated discussions among ordinary movie fans, and ridiculed that "I just like explosions" Michael Bay is indeed more qualified to win awards than those rare movies.

Of course, Michael Bay is loved by ordinary audiences, and naturally he will not attract those glamorous and noble eyes.

Even with Ryan's current status, after the film was released, it really declared the best picture and best director for "Transformers", this film is still infinitely far away from the Oscars.

Fortunately, there are some directors who don't need Oscar to admit that Michael Bay's status in Hollywood may not be comparable to that of James Cameron or Steven Spielberg, but like George Lucas, he can basically be crushed Ninety-nine percent of the directors of theatrical films.

After all, this is Hollywood with the most important business, not the European film industry that takes pornography and boredom as art.

"Nate." Ryan turned to Natalie, "are you interested in directing commercial films in the future?"

"Commercial film?" Natalie frowned and thought, "Can you know the theme and genre?"

"For example, a big fantasy production."

Hearing Ryan's words, Natalie said directly, "With my current ability, I'm afraid it will be difficult to control such a movie."

"Future!" Ryan deliberately emphasized the word.

"Then wait until you come up with the script." Natalie didn't fall for him, and then said deliberately, "I will make your magical script into a romance film!"

The two looked at each other and laughed at the same time.

The time is gradually approaching the end of February. After the film crew ended the Hoover Dam scene, they moved to Los Angeles again to continue the shooting of the final battle. Gun smoke, explosions and crashes once again became the themes of the shooting. Ryan was holding the source of fire. Running around has become the norm, sometimes even in a detonating cord.

On this street full of rubbish and props, Ryan ended his role smoothly.

Although he is the male lead, strictly speaking, his role is not too much. Compared with the supporting actor Josh Duhamel, he is not much heavier. It can be said that everyone is also deforming a group of people. King Kong soy sauce.

Similarly, Ryan is also very satisfied with Michael Bay's shooting. Although he used an imax3d camera, his shooting budget showed no signs of overspending, especially the filming time of the crew was strictly controlled within the plan for post-production. Allow enough time.

Although Industrial Light \u0026 Magic has already started the production of Transformers, it takes a lot of time and energy to replace them into the shots.

In a word, under the premise that there is no overrun and time-out, Michael Bay is about to successfully complete the filming of the film. Exploding Bay is flawed, but also has his own strengths, and what he is good at is extremely popular with the market. Otherwise, whether in the past or this life, he will Nor will it be so taken seriously by the big Hollywood production houses.

For Ryan, the work on "Transformers" has come to an end temporarily, and he will turn more energy to the upcoming seventy-eighth Academy Awards. The various companies affiliated to Walt Disney, few films have been shortlisted. In the race for several key awards, Disney has basically given up on PR for most of the awards since the Oscar nominations were announced.

The only thing that focused resources on was the Best Original Song nomination for "127 Hours". r1152 ()