'Hollywood Manor': the ending at a glance

Ruthe 2022-02-28 08:02:06

(Written by Zhi Ning on February 13, 2007)
Seeing the "problem man" played by actor Andrea Brody, private detective Louis Seamo began to investigate the first TV "Superman" George Reeve Because of the mysterious cause of death, I guessed that director Alan Coulter wanted to let the fictional character private detective Seamus complete his search and return through the investigation process, and finally let him return to the family-the idea of ​​returning to the family is watching. It came out when Seamus, who was a dick, went to visit his ex-wife and son. No, the ending of the movie "Hollywood Manor" is really like this. This may be because he has watched too many HBO dramas directed by Alan Colter, and he can actually guess his intention-through the tracing of the dead by the living, to complete the cognition and thinking of the living on life.
In 2006, Alan Coulter (representative of "X-Files", "Sex and the City", "The Sopranos", etc.), who had been filming TV dramas for 20 years and won the Emmy Award softly, began to devote himself to the screen, and his debut was an old bottle. New Vinegar's "Hollywood Manor". Speaking of the old bottle, it is because Coulter’s camera is aimed at the mysterious suicide of “Superman” in 1959, which has passed nearly half a century; speaking of the new vinegar, it is Coulter’s conjecture about the death of Reeves. Screen reproduction was performed. Of course, Coulter has also put a lot of thought into this new vinegar, which can be seen in the selection of actors: George Reeves from Ben Affleck, Detective Seamus from Andrea Brody , Diane Lane's Mrs. Mannix, Bob Hoskins' MGM owner Eddie Mannix...
To a certain extent, Suicide Superman is harder to play than the chicken thief detective. Ben Affleck is quite good in this film. It can be said that he played George Reeves, who has successfully starred in the series "Superman Adventures". He also became the best actor in Venice for this role. Perhaps Affleck, who has won the "Golden Raspberry", has made progress in his mentality and acting skills after "washing away the lead", marrying a wife and having children, and being content with being an ordinary man in life. Therefore, he has well grasped the mentality of George Reeves and reproduced the situation of Reeves: from the obscure trick to the "Mrs. MGM", from the superman image that won the hearts of the people to the self-tiredness and denial, From trying to break through to being lonely after a failure, from being a wife's lover to a series of agreements to being banned after leaving his wife... When he finally stopped singing, put down his guitar, went upstairs to the bedroom, and took off his pajamas silently. , When sitting alone, the naked figure seemed to be full of lines, filled with the helplessness and utter sadness of men, and then, the life of "Superman" came to an abrupt end...
Private detective Seamus is a lost man, He was a soldier and a film studio worker and even went on strike. He seemed cynical, and he kept two things in his mouth every day - chewing gum and dirty words. Being a private detective doesn't care, his assistant is his bed partner, and he takes the principle of cheating and cheating customers. For money, a good car, and a good house, he can be unprincipled. But after one of his clients ends up killing his adulterous wife, he takes his job seriously, even after being brutally beaten, by Reeves' mother who asked him to investigate, and given a serious warning. He continued to track down the cause of Reeves' death. Reeves' agent gave him a film of the life of "Superman", so he saw Reeves in a white towel pajamas constantly rehearsing the embarrassing fall on the front lawn of the house, laughing and laughing at himself from time to time. ... He seems to have understood the bitter inner monologue of "Being Superman", so the life of "Superman" Reeves is over, and the life of mortal Seamus has just begun.
Diane Lane is getting more and more charming as she gets older. Following her extramarital affair with French hussar Olivier Martinez in "Infidelity", in this film, she is still sexy and charming, not only with her husband but also with lovers. Nothing, the husband was still seeing his wife suffering because Reeves had another new love, and a few phone calls ruined Reeves' director dream and fortune.
Where there is money, power, and beauty, there is a dark side. In Hollywood, which is full of scandals and impetuousness, there are many physical relationships based on the pursuit of fame and fortune. It seems that the unspoken rules seem to be clear rules in Hollywood in the 1950s. The invincible Superman Reeves on the screen also "can only sleep with an old woman, that's the best thing you can do". Therefore, the biggest adventure of "Superman Adventures" is to have an idea that shouldn't be there - I don't want to continue to play the idiot who wears pants, I want to be with a woman who makes her mentality younger. Although that woman is also a master who can be unprincipled in order to clarify the rules.
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  • Berneice 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    Smelly and long. There is no joy in the process. The director himself doesn't know how to end it.

  • Aletha 2022-03-25 09:01:22

    Through the tracing of the dead by the living, the cognition and thinking of the living by the living are completed.

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