Black satirical comedy.
Hollywood satirizes herself, and it's pretty good.
Starring Tim Robbins, once starred in "Shawshank's Redemption", acting online. The supporting roles are not ordinary people, including Oscar winners like Hubi Goldberg.
There are a total of 65 celebrities, such as Cher, Bruce Willis, Julia Roberts, Andy McDowell, etc. starring themselves, Susan Sarandon and others appearing in the film, and they don’t even have a name, but like Like the star gathering in the movie, "face is a business card, no ID card is needed."
The party invitation clearly stated that the dress requirement was "White or black", and Cher still wore a red dress, first satirizing the maverick in the show business. In real life, Cher has never worn red.
Hitchcock appears on the wall as a photo in this film.
There are also a large number of movie posters.
Many movies were also ridiculed in the lines. For example, a person claiming to be Joe Gillis called Mill.
Mill: Never heard of him. Anybody know who Joe Gillis is? 【Never heard of him. Who knows? 】
Levison: He's a character William Holden played in "Sunset Boulevard." The writer killed by a movie star. [Joe Gillis is William Holden's role in "Sunset Boulevard." That movie was about a movie star murdering a screenwriter. 】
Mill began to laugh: Oh, that guy. Last week he said he was Charles Foster Kane. A week before that it was Rhett Butler. Kane), who called himself Rhett Butler ("Gone with the Wind") last week. 】
It is the movies that people my age like. They are all familiar faces, and most of them are movies I have watched. They are quite nostalgic. Young people who are not familiar with the movies of that era will probably not like it. It is also reasonable. If there is a similar film co-produced by film stars in the 1950s and 1960s, I would probably yawn when I watch it.
The film satirizes the routine of film making. Mill, played by Tim Robbins, is responsible for reviewing the script. He listens to about 50,000 stories every year and selects twelve of them, which have the potential and hope to become good movies. Under the bombardment of fatigue, there is already a mature formula for whether the movie can be a hit. For example, in the following dialogue, Mill shot a story.
Mill: It lacked certain elements that we need to market a film successfully. [This story lacks elements of market success. 】
Joan: What elements? [What elements? 】
Mill: Suspense, laughter, violence. Hope, heart, nudity, sex. Happy endings. Mainly happy endings. [Suspense, laughter, violence. Hope, heart. Nudity, sex. Happy ending. Especially the happy ending. 】
Joan: What about reality? [What about reality? 】
Because countless scripts are shot every year, Mill has made countless enemies. He kept receiving threatening letters. In a panic, Mill mistakenly killed the screenwriter David and slowly developed a relationship with David's girlfriend June. In the end, he not only escaped the French Open, but also got married with June. This can be regarded as happy ending. The last script Mill heard in the film is his own story, which contains all the success factors he listed in the above dialogue-Suspense, laughter, violence. Hope, heart, nudity, sex. Happy endings.
In the film mentioned another script: the prosecutor finally failed to save the life of his sweetheart. A few people vowed to not use celebrities, but only talented people, and insisted on the tragedy ending. In the final film, the prosecutor was played by Bruce Willis, and the lover was Julia Roberts, and he rescued her in an emergency.
In reality, "The Life of David Gore" is a movie that failed at the box office due to a tragic ending. It's ironic indeed.
No formula will not survive.
At the end Mill returned home to meet June, and the dialogue between the two was exactly the same as in the formula movie:
June/Julia Roberts: What took you so long?
Mill/Willis: Traffic is a bitch.
This kind of movie in a movie, movie in a movie, smiles after watching it. June's surname and her other lines are also the source of Laughter, such as:
June: I don't go to movies.
Mill: Why not?
June: Life is too short.
The film begins with a long shot of 7 minutes and 47 seconds. Other comments have said enough. My suggestion is to take a look in person if you have the opportunity.
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