The birth of the "Players Behind the Scenes" in the 1990s is more proof of the power of the Hollywood system. It contains all the "necessary elements" for the promotion of the film on the market: suspense, jokes, violence, hope, love, nudity, sex, and happiness. The ending is mainly a happy ending. These elements are spoken by the movie protagonist Griffin, and also explain why the endings of Hollywood movies are so uniform. Griffin is the person responsible for reviewing whether a script has the potential to establish a project for it, that is to say, whether a film enters the shooting plan must obtain his permission, and therefore if the script lacks these elements (of course, the most important Still happy ending), he has reason to brush it off mercilessly. The story started to get out of control when Griffin received mysterious cards one after another. He found a screenwriter who had been declined by him. He was convinced that this was the person who kept sending threatening letters. Then an accident happened, and Griffin flopped and killed him. As a "loving" movie, of course it must arrange a redemption. When Griffin was troubled by the murder, they met two screenwriters. They told a story: a prosecutor suspected when investigating a murder case. The murderer was the deceased’s wife. As the investigation progressed, he fell in love with the woman, but all the evidence pointed to her helplessly. When he sent the woman to the gas chamber to execute him with great pain, he found that the husband was not in love with the woman. He didn't die, but it was too late that he had killed the lover with his own hands. The two screenwriters repeatedly emphasized that "resolutely do not use big stars" and "must end in tragedy", Griffin also awkwardly recognized this non-"happy ending" script for the first time. He recommended the script to Larry, a producer who has just quit from Fox. Larry thinks this script is very promising and promises that he will never use a big star or modify the ending. Here is another very interesting scene that corresponds to the subsequent plot: a secretary told Larry that this is the best script she has ever heard...
A year later, the relevant staff of the studio were watching the movie of the prosecutor killing the wrong person. We saw that Julia Roberts was playing the wife. When she walked into the gas chamber, when the gas was turned on , It seems that everything is going according to the original script, but then Bruce Willis, who plays the prosecutor, appears! Smashed the glass of the gas chamber and rescued the lover, the subtitles are played, happy ending! This reversal not only surprised Bonnie, who was in charge of adapting the script in the play, but also surprised me as an audience. Seeing Larry, who had always appeared in a truly straight image before, smiled slyly and satisfied, watching what the secretary said " You made an amazing movie, Larry," and watching the triumphant eyes of the screenwriter who always insisted on "no need for a big star" and "tragic ending", it suddenly became clear that a very subtle ending, "this is reality", This is Hollywood. At the end, the movie gave the possibility: Griffin drove this car to his mansion and received a call to discuss the script. This time he heard a story exactly the same as his experience, for himself The happy life in the future will not be disturbed. He hopes that this story will have a happy ending... If you look at it from this perspective, you can understand the producer’s pains and perhaps understand the reasons for so many happy endings. The whole film became a very ironic "defense" for Hollywood producers, and Griffin as a "positive image" was able to escape legal sanctions, which was obviously a standard Hollywood ending. I don't know if "The Player Behind the Scenes" is the first film made in this way, but the appearance of this film must have once again enriched Hollywood's filming formula table.
There will always be such anomalies in a mature system (perhaps it is through the methods described in this film that they can be seen in the cinema by overcoming the obstacles and using despicable means), but the "movie, first of all, a commodity" is a counterintuitive "DreamWorks" will still not change. In line with respect for investment funds and trust in the majority of consumer groups, they will definitely make "Pacific Rim 2" and "Justice League" more intense!
2013.11
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