Chinese Entertainment: Academic Director

Chapter 111 The twists and turns of the male protagonist
Cao Yang looked at the information in his hand and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Tim Robbins was one of the stars who contacted Behrman and expressed a strong desire to star in Cao Yang's new film.

He is also a big star. He takes on both art films and commercial films. He also likes to be a director. He has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Director, won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival, and won the Best Actor Award at the Golden Globe Awards.

For domestic audiences, he is probably best known for starring in "The Shawshank Redemption".

Tim Robbins can also be classified as a Hollywood arty guy. His box office ability is not very strong, and he is certainly not comparable to the current mainstream superstars in the 20 million club, but he is also considered a first-line star.

It was difficult for him to make further progress in commercial films, so winning awards, especially major awards at the Oscars, became an obsession.

Maybe it's a way to go a step further.

When he got the news that Cao Yang was going to make a biographical film, he thought it was a good opportunity.

As an artistic person and winner of the Best Actor Award at the 92th Cannes Film Festival in 45, Tim Robbins must know Cao Yang.

As a Golden Lion-winning director, he has produced three of Europe's top three film actresses in three consecutive films. This is extremely shocking and incredible to Tim Robbins.

It is a good opportunity for every actor who wants to win an award if a director like this comes to Hollywood to make a movie.

The only question is whether Cao Yang can adapt to Hollywood, or whether he will suffer from acclimatization problems like other directors who came to Hollywood after winning the three major awards in Europe.

So for Cao Yang's first movie, some people are still waiting and watching, while some people are starting to try to get in touch with it.

In fact, if Cao Yang's first film was a female film, many Hollywood actresses would have taken action long ago.

Now, those who come into contact with Berman are either long-established stars who are in urgent need of awards, or young and middle-aged literary people with artistic pursuits, or little Karami who want to become famous quickly.

As for the latter, Berman simply ignored it and just compiled a list. After confirming the male lead, he would see what Cao Yang thought about whether to look for a few supporting roles from it.

As for artistic men and big stars, Berman also compiled a list for Cao Yang to refer to and choose from.

The people that Berman is now promoting to Cao Yang are all the big stars that he has come into contact with, as well as a person who is even more famous than Tim Robbins, Sean Penn.

At least in the field of art films, Sean Penn has a bigger status.

This guy was like crazy in the past few years, winning the three major European actor awards continuously and being nominated for the Best Actor at the Oscars. He is simply a man of luck.

In 1996, he won the Best Actor Award at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival for his role in the prison film "A Man Walking".

In 1997, he won the Best Actor Award at the 50th Cannes International Film Festival for his role in the romance film "She's So Cute".

In 1998, he won the Best Actor Award at the 55th Venice International Film Festival for his role in the film "Floating World Men and Women".

In 1999, he played a ruthless guitarist in the musical comedy "Sweet and Mean" and was nominated for the Best Actor at the 72nd Academy Awards.

In 2001, he played the mentally retarded father in "I Am Sam" and was once again nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Well, not to mention Sean Penn's two experiences of being a runner-up at the Oscars, just the fact that he won the Best Actor Award at the Berlin Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, and Venice Film Festival for three consecutive years is an achievement that is jaw-dropping.

Compared with Cao Yang, who won the Best Actress award at three different film festivals with three movies, it is not much inferior.

I guess Sean Penn’s only obsession now is winning the Oscar for Best Actor.

So when he learned that Cao Yang was going to make a biographical film, he specifically asked someone for information and learned that the film Cao Yang was going to make was a biographical film about a prototype person, a homosexual, the first politician to openly identify as gay, and then died of shooting.

Sean Penn was tempted. He had been nominated for the Best Actor Oscar twice, but failed twice, which gave him enough experience.

When you are famous enough, the quality of the movies meets the requirements, and your acting skills reach a sufficient level, when everyone is working hard, the competition begins in other aspects, such as political correctness.

The gay rights movement in recent years has made this politically correct in Hollywood.

If you don't give an award to a movie about homosexuality even though it meets the award requirements, are you discriminating against homosexuals?

What's more, this is a biographical film, and the prototype character is a politician who died of shooting, which makes it even more politically correct.

Cao Yang is still very satisfied with Sean Penn. He starred in the original version, which won him the Best Actor Oscar for the second time.

Looking at it this way, Cao Yang began to wonder whether Sean Penn also had a system.

Cao Yang remembered that this guy would win the Best Actor Award at the Venice Film Festival again next year with "21 Grams".

That is to say, in terms of international awards, Sean Penn has won a Berlin Best Actor Award, a Cannes Best Actor Award, two Venice Best Actor Awards, two Oscars Best Actor Award, and a Golden Globe Best Actor Award.

In terms of personal artistic achievements, it's like he's cheating, it's outrageous.

Cao Yang met with Sean Penn, and the two had a good chat. They roughly decided that he would star in "Milk", and the only thing left was the final signing.

Signing an actor contract in Hollywood cannot be done privately. Even if the contract has been negotiated, one has to pretend to be unaware of it, go through a series of procedures, and sign a formal actor employment contract under the witness of the union.

Behrman was also very happy. Sean Penn had great appeal. With him joining the team, he could negotiate terms with the studio more calmly.

Bellman even made a bold statement in front of Cao Yang, "My dear director, with Sean Penn joining us, it will be very easy to get an investment of around 30 million. And no one can take control of the film away from you."

A few days later, when Berman was still negotiating terms with the film company, something unexpected happened.

Cao Yang received a call from Sean Penn, who asked Cao Yang if the filming of the movie could be postponed.

postpone?

Cao Yang was a little confused. After asking, he found out that Sean Penn had received an invitation from Clint Eastwood, who wanted to adapt the novel of American writer Dennis Lehane into a movie.

Although Sean Penn did not say it explicitly, since he proposed to postpone the film, the result is simple. His first choice is Clint Eastwood, who has won the Oscar for Best Director.

Compared with Cao Yang, Sean Penn is more willing to believe Clint Eastwood.

What else is there to say? Postponing the filming is impossible, so we can only choose another actor. Tim Robbins is also a good choice.

Someone stood me up.

Berman was very angry when he heard the news, and cursed Sean Penn for going back on his word and having no sense of contract, saying that he was a disgrace to an actor and a damn domestic violence man.

Then, Berman did some research and told Cao Yang that the novel that Clint Eastwood was going to adapt was called "Mystic River", a crime-solving suspense novel.

"Mystic River"?
Cao Yang was surprised and seemed to realize that he knew this movie. It had won two Oscars, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor.

Coincidentally, the winners were Sean Penn and Tim Robbins.

I don't know if Tim Robbins has received an invitation from Clint Eastwood.

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