However, for most people, they will face some major problems in life when they reach middle age. Otherwise, there will be no such sayings and countless examples as "middle-age crisis". Ben's story is such a case of a distressed middle-aged man.
In "What just happened?" "In this movie, the Hollywood producer has already experienced what may be the most embarrassing two weeks of his life. Ben’s production career is going downhill, and the new film just finished is not as expected. Director, big name, investor , The agent is asking him for trouble, and his personal life is also a mess. He tried to save himself with a new film, but the situation still happened constantly, as if it never ended. To be honest, watching this movie is very tiring. You can't help but sigh when you see that you are struggling in such a big trouble consisting of so many troubles. It's better to live so hard than to die.
These words sounded a bit cold-blooded and cruel, but in fact they still told the truth about life. Life is undoubtedly ruthless for a person who reciprocates words. Therefore, as the saying goes, drinking cold water will make your teeth stuffy.
Ben’s story has its roots. The prototype of this book is Art Linson, a famous Hollywood producer, and this story is adapted from Art Linson’s autobiographical novel "Happened: What Just Happened? The Forefront of Hollywood Insiders?" Bitter Hollywood Tales From the Front Line. When the novel was put on the screen, Art Linsen personally wrote the script and did some tricks. This is of course understandable. After all, this is a Hollywood movie. After all, everyone is mixed in Hollywood, and the inside story can be opened. The corner gives you a glimpse of the leopard, but the hole cards cannot be revealed. The rules and unspoken rules still need to be followed. Therefore, this typical individual can only be embarrassed.
There are some movies and some novels that not everyone can understand. Sometimes, they need the support of some experience and personal experience. "Happening Now" is like this. If you show it to some young people who are carefree or who are forced to talk about sorrows for new words, you may be uninterested. However, if you are a middle-aged person and go through some ups and downs in life, This movie should resonate with you.
In the song "Recently Annoying", Li Zongsheng sang, "Recently annoying and annoying, I don't see the shore in front of me, there is a group of geniuses chasing after that, oh, writing a song that everyone is happy about is It's getting harder and harder", and the embarrassment and exhaustion in career and life in the film happen to be the Hollywood version of these lyrics.
This movie, directed by Barry Levinson, should be regarded as a sharp and acrimonious comedy. However, it is also a serious realistic drama about middle-aged people and middle-aged crisis. Ben is a middle-aged man with multiple social roles. The people around him have one kind of expectation or desire for him. Everyone has a book they want, but no one knows this book. What does he want, or what kind of person he wants to be. To put it bluntly, Ben's life is a life "for others", and it is precisely this kind of life "for others" that makes his world fall into chaos. Living so hard, it seems that he did not choose to die because of this. Instead, he chose to live better than to die. This is precisely the normal state of life. All chaos and efforts to sort out these chaos are just our survival instinct. Or, in other words, we always think that life is hopeful, just like the movie "Forrest Gump" said, "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what the next one will taste." And the reason Ben endured the embarrassment in the chaos was nothing more than expecting the next chocolate to taste better.
I must admit that Robert De Niro, the actor of Ben, is indeed an old drama I have been following for more than 20 years. Ben experienced a purgatory life in two weeks, embarrassed and exhausted. However, Ben has been looking for a way to get rid of all these troubles, trying to sort out a clear clue from the mess to restore his life. normal. It should be said that such a character is complicated, and Robert De Niro is very familiar with his superb acting skills and is integrated with the book, so you have to believe that this is the book. It is an almost instinctive performance that truly shows a middle-aged man on the edge of a cliff in front of us, and this role has swept the "De Niro style" in some recent movies of Robert De Niro. There are At that moment, I even forgot that it was Robert De Niro, I only had Ben in my eyes.
The story behind the scenes tells us that, in fact, this movie was born under the leadership of Robert De Niro. De Niro kept persuading Art Linsen to adapt his novel into a movie, and when Linsen really started During the adaptation, De Niro persuaded Lin Sen to hand over the script to Barry Levinson to direct. In 1997, De Niro and Levinson had collaborated in "Wag the Dog", and Lai Vincent is also the gold director who directed the best Oscar film "Rain Man". As a result, the combination of these three people became the quality assurance of "Happening Now"; therefore, we saw a film that looked like a comedy but deeply analyzed the reality of human nature, and we also got a glimpse of the Hollywood film industry. Behind the corner of the curtain that we set off, there are little secrets and little truths that we usually can't know.
Survival is really difficult, especially if you are in middle age. This world is ridiculous and cruel, but it is also cute, and this little bit of cuteness may be a little reason to support people's continued survival.
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