and wrote: Zhong Bei
"Come on, it's good, let's play higher!" On the set, Tom Cruise posed a The stance of the deputy martial arts instructor, personally holding the flap and letting Cameron Diaz kick. In addition to rehearsing the action scenes in the play over and over again, she had to race on a motorcycle. Diaz, the big-mouthed beauty, had her legs crossed around Liang Tang's waist and shot at the target in the opposite direction. In the story, on the one hand, there is a fiery blasting scene behind them, and on the other hand, the two protagonists are bickering on a small island with blue sea and white sand. This is neither the situation in Mission: Impossible, nor the replay of Vanilla Sky, spectators. This is the new film "Knight and Day" co-produced by Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz.
Since "Assassination of Hitler" in 2008, Liangtang has not appeared on the big screen for more than a year. The rumors about him in the market focus on his mysterious beliefs. As for his acting career, "Mission Impossible 4" has not followed up. It is rare that this summer, "Dangerous Spy War", which Liangtang and his old partner Diaz collaborated on, seized the summer season.
Agent Roy Miller, played by Pretty Soup, meets June Havens, played by Diaz, at the airport. Since then, her life has begun to be extraordinary: first a plane crash, then an island chase, a hail of bullets in Boston, a high-altitude fall in Austria, or a bullfight in Seville, Spain. Everywhere June goes, her life is in danger. Later, she learned that all this was related to Agent Roy. Unfortunately, in the process of chasing, fleeing, fleeing, and chasing, June actually fell in love with Roy. The ending is very good, the lovers finally get married, and the bad guys disappear one by one by accident...
Plot-wise, does it sound familiar? Do you think you've seen the plot of agents traveling around and picking up girls by the way in "Mission Impossible 3"? Does the hero and heroine feel that they have the shadow of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" from hating each other to tacit cooperation? The difference is that there are a lot of comedy scenes in "Dangerous Spy", and the agent girl in her twenties has been replaced by a 38-year-old old lady. With these old tricks, can you expect the audience to pay for it? Summer time is always the war scene of Hollywood blockbusters, look at these menacing people: "Toy Story 3", "Shrek 4", "Twilight: Eclipse"... "Prince of Persia" released earlier , "How to Train Your Dragon" also knows to play 3D and game adaptation gimmicks, "Dangerous Spy War" can only consume the brand combination of beautiful soup and big mouth beauties again. But now the audience who have seen a lot of handsome guys and beauties are all philanderers, and it is really not an easy thing to ask them to pay for this pair of "grandpas and grandparents" who are over 80 years old together.
Liang Tang seems to be suffering from a secret agent addiction. It is said that he even considered two more terrifying spy films before taking on the "Dangerous Spy", because even he himself felt that the script was a bit like the "Mission Impossible" series of stories and gave up. But Liang Tang chose the script of the third secret agent film, and in an interview with "Weekend Pictorial", he said: "In 'Dangerous Spy', Roy Miller is special, and he is different from the previous ones. The FBI characters are different. It's a mix of action, comedy, and that's why I like it so much." "Dangerous Spy is less story-centric and more about the characters and Their adventures. And "Mission Impossible" is more about 'complex tasks'. If you see a lot of stars in a movie, the focus of the movie should be on building characters. The requirement for actors is to need them Go deep into the hearts of the characters." That's right, if the script is weak, the producers certainly hope to shift the audience's attention to the stars. Plus, the story feels like it was tailor-made for Soup and Diaz.
Producer Arnon Milkan said: "I hope this film will continue Tom Cruise's past on-screen spy image. Mission: Impossible's protagonist Ethan Hunt is the most successful on screen. One of the spy agents. So many viewers take this as the standard of espionage. I hope "Spy War" can remind the audience of Ethan Hunter again. Not only that, "Spy War" is better than "Mission Impossible" "More kindly, our protagonists are not defending the world this time, but only their own emotions. For Tom Cruise, it's also a return."
On the set, Liang Tang was still desperate, jumping from more than 100 feet without even wearing a condom in order to achieve the realistic effect. He recalls: "I still remember watching where I was jumping off the roof and seeing the oversized steel beam I was jumping on. There was a thin cushion on the beam. O'Neal said: 'It does have a mat, but it must be painful to jump down.'" Tom Cruise jumped down just like that, and danced beautifully. Stunt supervisor Gregg Smrz joked that, no matter how dangerous it was, Liang Soup was in the fight himself, and that he was "growing white hair" in all the scenes.
In addition to the soup, please don't forget that there is also a big mouth beauty Cameron Diaz in the film only for entertainment. Back then, in "Vanilla Sky", Diaz, who could make men drool just by showing a little waist, even if he had the spirit of desperate Saburo, could not hide the beauty of his twilight. In the scene where Diaz was evading pursuit on the beach, Diaz was wearing a bright red bikini, Liang Tang was wearing beach shorts and showing off her tendon, and these are the corners of the eye that Diaz should do a facelift, and Stiff cheeks after botox. Liangtang said in a telephone interview: "Diaz works very hard, and I am willing to work with hard-working actors. And she also has a very good sense of humor. She is a natural comedian, very friendly, physical Not bad, otherwise she wouldn't be able to ride a motorcycle with me and shoot at the same time. She was on the set of "Gangs of New York" when she worked on "Vanilla Sky" last time, and even if she was so busy, she still came to the set every day, her work attitude It moved me. Diaz is like my family, and she's with my wife, my kids, and my siblings. She's a really sweet and sweet friend." mean. Think about the "Robin Hood" released not long ago. Didn't old partners Cate Blanchett and Riley Scott also praise Russell Crowe?
As for Liangtang, his face can't steal the spotlight, because it is so well maintained that it has been like a day for more than ten years. Those few crow's feet at the corners of the eyes that can't be concealed no matter how powdered it is are actually harmless. Compared to his bald, fat-bellied appearance in Tropic Thunder (2008), the crow's feet are much cuter and sexier.
This time, 20th Century Fox invested 110 million US dollars in the cost of "Dangerous Spy". Even so, it's hard to believe that North America's box office was bad, with its opening week at No. 3 on the weekend charts with just $20.5 million. The distributor even pushed the film forward to Wednesday in an effort to boost the box office, but it only grossed $3.8 million on its opening day. No matter how hard Liang Tang tried, he couldn't save the audience's heart.
Today, it is really hard for Liang Tang to continue his glory as a member of the 20 million club. Looking back at the 20 million members of the Hollywood club a few years ago, they have all changed their blood. Today, when the cost of film production is getting higher and higher, such as Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts... The ability to sell well is not as good as it used to be. Similarly, their remuneration has also shrunk. It seems that the former members of the 20 million club can form a retirement committee of 10 million or less. On the list of 20 million club members that year, Will Smith is still worth the money as always. Even so, Uncle Smith knew that he had to take precautions to raise his own "Second Star" Jaden Smith child. In case one day, I retire from the club, and there is fresh blood at home to make up for it. The old adage of raising children to prevent old age is actually quite applicable to the entertainment industry. It's a pity that the Liangtang family only has a 4-year-old daughter, Suri, who is not alive. She doesn't know what a movie is, let alone what her father beats and kicks on the screen every day.
He has lost his star style since jumping on the sofa on Oprah's talk show, and what should he do after being fired by the boss Paramount because of the poor box office of "Mission Impossible 3", he really needs to think about it . On the other end of the phone, Liang Tang said, "A lot of things just happened to come together. My partnership with Paramount Home Video was also terminated, not renewed. At first, hehe, I don't know why the public was so concerned about it. Lots of misunderstandings. Summer Redstone and I are still good friends. It's just work."
Luckily the nostalgic audience was full. The island drama of the blue sea and white sand is reminiscent of the original romance of Harrison Ford's "Six Days and Seven Nights", and the Running of the Bulls Festival in Spain also connects the old bridges with the local tourism features... Tom is still the same soup, Di Yaz is still that big mouth beauty with red lips and white teeth. Before the two protagonists got out of shape, everyone was finally able to feast their eyes and follow the two former idols to the end of the world.
Weekend Pictorial Issue 604
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