of the film's ending was unexpected, and it would have been beyond the imagination of many.
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is very similar to "No Reward", but the actors' performances are slightly more natural, and the sparks of the two protagonists are more frictional.
——Compared with "The Gossip Project", " The New York Times"
is a bit backwards, and the director failed to make a cliché story bright. — Behind the scenes
at The Hollywood Reporter The story of the novel sex comedy started with a simple idea from director Will Guler: He just wanted to get Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake to shoot A sex comedy. Then, based on the image of the two actors and the impressions they played in the past, Will Guller wrote a story about friends having sex and complicating friendships. Will Guller said: "I really wanted to make a movie with Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake, so I changed the original script to make the characters more fit their own temperament. What I wanted to do was a sex comedy -- a story about the relationship of people in friendship and lust. At first, the two were just a simple work relationship, and then the two became good friends, and then it was natural The physical contact occurred on the ground. But when Timberlake fell in love with Kunis, Kunis began to date others. This was originally a simple non-love story, but it turned out to be It's complicated by the emotional engagement of the characters."
In fact, such a story is not new, and Will Guller also admitted that the blueprint for this story comes from a series of comedy films cooperating with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn: such as "The Commonwealth, One State", "No Love" and Adam's Rib, among others. Will Guller said: "The story in this movie is a very ordinary old story, and it looks like it's like Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn going back to making movies in 2010. I see Dropped all the films these two actors worked on, and my actors were familiar with them, so I was able to start directing this film with ease. The story of the film is an old story, but this film is not one This is an old movie. In life, there are many fans who know what the director or screenwriter will say about the story, and they know how the story will develop. For example, a man meets a woman, and fans will know what story will happen between them. In order to avoid this common situation, I made a lot of revisions and changes in the texture and ending of the film, the purpose is to prevent the audience from feeling deja vu. And what I want to try to grasp is this paragraph A kind of feeling and ambiguous mystery in the story of love but not love."
As the director said, the film did not put all of its energy into the story of this "friend with guns", but drew a stroke to depict the A "group image" of men and women struggling with love and lust, and Will Guller put gay elements in the film. This makes the whole film very rich in point of view and content - and the "lower body relationship" revealed by the title has become a groundless gimmick. Justin Timberlake said: "It can be considered a nuisance-free film with very little to the title. It should be said that this is a film for everyone - not just adults. Movies.”
Actors are the main attraction .
Hollywood directors are very good at making sex comedies because they know how to avoid pornography and how to create jokes near high-voltage lines. But after so many years of filming sex comedies, almost every aspect of the relationship between men and women has been exhausted by Hollywood, and all kinds of gags have almost lost their comedic effect in the past. And sex comedy, a once brilliant genre, has also become a "marginal genre" that does not welcome directors.
In this regard, the film's director Will Guller also said that the plot and story of the film will inevitably overlap and repeat with previous films. He said: "For the past two decades, this romantic comedy has been telling the same story of what happens after a man meets a woman. The films have similar characters, similar plots and It's almost the end. But even so, this kind of movie still has a very good box office and market. Why is this? It can be seen that the story of the movie itself is not the point of interest, the biggest point of interest is the actors themselves. Audiences go to the cinema to watch such a movie , it's not the story, it's the actors. So I decided from the beginning to star Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake because these two actors are more interesting than the story. I ordered it. Moreover, I also hired old actors like Woody Harrelson and Patricia Clarkson to play supporting roles for them. Such a cast is enough to attract a large audience.”
Apart from the actors’ highlights In addition, Will Guller also believes that it is also a highlight of the film for the actors to show a "sense of joy" on the screen. He said: "The most important thing in a comedy film is to let the actors show a comedy effect on the screen. I told them that this is not about experiencing life, but acting, and many actions and tone must be exaggerated to have a good comedy effect. I think let the characters know that this is a comedy and show this comedy on the screen, and the film is almost done."
Justin, a singer-turned-singer, has frequently appeared on the screen in recent years, but the opportunity to play the leading role is not very good. many. This time, it is a big challenge for him to be the leading actor who has a tight role in the film. Justin said: "Although it was a bit difficult to play this role, but fortunately the other actors and directors took good care of me, so I didn't encounter too many problems during the filming process. Shooting such an exaggerated comedy is very interesting. ." The
film's heroine, Mila Kunis, is part of a generation that grew up watching sex comedies. And, before that, she had starred in a similar style of "After Sex." "It's fun, it's easy, and it's not too stressful to make a movie like this," Mila said. "Director Will is a fun guy, always reminding us on set to make our characters happy." The feeling is shown. Although Justin used to be a singer, his performance is also first-class, and I am very happy to work with them.”
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