Introduction to Big Players

Tyreek 2021-12-22 08:01:22

Classic is enduring

Griffin Mill is a producer for a film company, and every day he selects a few of the many scripts to make a movie. When he arrived at the studio in the morning, he received a threatening postcard. In two weeks, he received a total of seven. Together with the competition between Fox Studios Larry Levy and him, he became uneasy. Griffin came to see his boss, and the boss hoped that he and Li Wei could become a team. After returning to the office, he received another postcard threatening to kill him. He started investigating and found that David Kahn, a screenwriter who was rejected by him six months ago, called him, but it was David’s girlfriend Joan who answered the call. Griffin learned that David was going to the movie So I went to the cinema to look for David. After finding David, David angered Griffin, and Griffin killed David. After Griffin went to work the next day, he found out that Li Wei had become his colleague. The security chief of the studio had an argument with him because of Griffin and David's death. Then Griffin went to David's funeral and was discovered by Joan. Griffin sent Joan home and returned to the studio. The police asked him about some things about him and David. Griffin received a phone call while watching the movie with his boss. He followed the instructions of the phone and came to the agreed place, but suddenly two screenwriters appeared to tell him the script. In the end, the person did not show up. Griffin drove away, but A snake was found in the car. Griffin killed the snake and went to Joan's house and confessed to her. After work, Griffin pushed the script he heard last night to Li Wei. In the evening, he took Joan to the film donation meeting, and the police had been monitoring him. Griffin sent Joan home and invited her to Mexico next week. Early the next morning, the police took Griffin to the police station. Griffin returned to the studio from the police station. The security officer advised him not to go to Mexico, but Griffin would not listen. Griffin found the police at the airport, so he changed his plan to take Joan to Desert Hot Springs. Griffin received a call from the lawyer Dick in Desert Hot Springs asking him to go to the police station to participate in the witness identification. Griffin was lucky because the witness identification was wrong. Escape.

A year later, Griffin received a call from Li Wei on his way off work, listened to the script "Big Player" introduced by the screenwriter recommended by Li Wei, and returned home.

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Extended Reading
  • Keith 2022-04-21 09:02:33

    There is a proverb in the Chinese "Xingshihengyan": A gentleman takes revenge and waits for three years (or no longer remembers his old evil), and a villain's revenge is only in front of his eyes. For the "upstart" Ultraman, who was once expelled from "Hollywood" and is now invited to "Gosford Manor", the 1990s seems to be the golden age of his "revenge". The "Hollywood" where the crowd gathers is obviously a place that "people" both love (cool) and hate (everywhere). Activating a "movie star" twice, the director wants to remind us that "Silver, Sex, Men and Women" that shows "chaos in the entertainment industry" and "Big Player" that reveals "celebrity mentality" require "Lianliankan" Companion. According to the hint, it is not difficult to find that the "producer" here is the same person as the "police" over there. This kind of "isomorphism" also seems to have established a "legitimate" behavior for holding the authority to despise the sacred daily life and even trample on the sacred human nature with the "general screenwriter" of "Spider's Strategy" network capital (Xian) and technology (Scholar). Sex” explanation: Since the entire industry does not treat people as human beings, as a “high-level network manager” in the power structure, they have to act according to “hidden rules”.

  • Ethan 2022-03-27 09:01:10

    For the movie, it gives a very strange feeling, like there is a loop within the play. The beginning is very dazzling, but I think...boring. It gradually becomes exciting. The disc is from FH, there is no translation of the commentary track Forgivable, but unfortunately the two documentaries of Method 2 are not integrated, but a DTS soundtrack and original sound are left, and my brain is flooded! The translation has occasional typos, and the level is average.

The Player quotes

  • [after watching The Bicycle Thief]

    Griffin Mill: Great movie, huh? So refreshing to see something like this after all these... cop movies and, you know, things we do. Maybe we'll do a remake of this!

  • Malcolm McDowell: If you've got something to say about me; say it to my face, not behind my back.