Directed by the new filmmaker Lee Toland Krieger (Lee Toland Krieger), "Hillest and Jesse" is based on Rashida Jones (Rashida Jones) and Will McCormack who are both actors. (Will McCormack) was adapted from a real experience. McCormack recalled: “In the late 1990s, I dated Jones for 3 weeks, and then we all realized that two people are the best Still maintaining the relationship of good friends, in the end, we became a pair of screenwriters. After most failed attempts, in the summer of 2008, Jones proposed an idea that everyone agreed with. We all thought it was for men and women. Make a frank and novel presentation of the relationship between them-if there is a couple who entered into marriage very early, after they have grown up together, they think it is best to divorce, but they do not want to lose each other, then they are Isn’t it possible to continue to be together as friends? Even after a failed love, can two people still maintain a friendship relationship? After completing a love experience, how do we deal with the worst part, and then Keep all the best memories? Soon, Jones and I inevitably realized that, especially among our generation, these are all common problems, including the two of us. Through the same questioning. In the end, we decided to create a comedy story from this, and then incorporate some of our personal life experience to describe in detail the heartbreak and sadness in a relationship, and when you have to bear the real When you are in pain, you may have a state of mind-the feeling is as if the whole world is coming to an end, with total destructiveness, but as we all know, the end of the world will not come, and you will not die. This is just a necessary stage of growth."
Between a pair of smart, interesting and attractive young men and women, no matter how many obstacles and struggles they have to go through, they will always create a light-hearted romantic comedy in the end-but if they If you are experiencing the sadness and pain of breaking up, this carefreeness is often added a slightly heavier weight. "Hillest and Jesse" is talking about this kind of opposite. The comedy story is intended to integrate the traditional romantic framework into the vividness and directness of real life. The result is not only a fun and humorous fable, but also deeply digs into the incomparably complicated existence and relationship between love and friendship. After completing the screenwriting work, Rashida Jones, who will also act as the starring role, said: "During the growth process of Will McCormack and I, we have watched countless similar romantic dramas, but we really like and long time. The unforgettable ones basically describe the unbearable sadness and disappointment. On the contrary, those works with happy endings will not impress us too deeply. So we tried to change everyone’s perception of this The views and expectations of the genre film-of course, the character prototypes, story structure and turning points in it are all familiar to us. They meet all the requirements of a romantic comedy. We just made some jumping ground and summary. , So that the audience can have some different new experiences while completing the regular emotional connection."
In the process of completing the script, Rashida Jones and Will McCormack combed their personal lives and history accordingly, and then extended the similar past that they had in the real world to In "Lust and Jesse", the collaboration has completed such a true love story that is more in line with the modern social background. McCormack said: "Although my love with Jones is quite short-lived, it is through such a In the process, we learned that we could be friends. We sat in front of the same computer and wrote the script of this movie side by side, including every word, and even punctuation. We worked together. As a result, since we have been good friends for many years, our relationship is very close, and we know each other in particular-we can always guess what each other will say or do next, so we collaborate to write something It’s an easy choice for us, and as newcomers in the screenwriting world, we can also encourage and cheer for each other. This is the first real script we have completed as actors, and I will also be in In the film plays a less important role, that is, a very funny companion character Skiltz."
This pair of screenwriter partners seems to have an urgent desire to confide in words, not only from the perspective of drama, but also from the perception of personal life. Will McCormack said: "Basically , Hillest and Jesse are the enlarged and exaggerated versions of me and Rashida Jones in the world of the big screen-the reason why this life journey put into by Hillest is so interesting is that At the beginning, she thought that she was able to overcome the pain of breaking up, and it felt as if it had happened to someone else. She would do everything possible to eliminate the discomfort that she might have. But she would soon realize that this The process is not as simple as she thought."
