Reborn Action Star: Starting in Hollywood

Chapter 339: The Love-Hate Relationship of the Lin Yuan Couple

"Lin Yuan and His Wife" is the movie that Lin Yuan plans to shoot immediately.

Adapted from the previous life's "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

This is a film about a couple of agents who are loyal to a hostile intelligence company. While hiding their identities as agents from each other, they fall in love and get married.

But when the period of marital burnout comes, both parties begin to gradually discover each other's true identity. Where will the hostile stance lead their relationship?
In the previous life, "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" was released in 2005 and earned 4.87 million US dollars at the box office, ranking 7th on the global box office list that year.

It can be said to be a very successful commercial film.

However, the reputation of this movie is quite polarized.

There is a serious polarization not among the audience, but between professional film critics and the audience.

Professional film critics generally criticized the film for being too popcorn-y, lacking necessary logic, and many plot points being too deliberate and a bit frivolous.

Brad Pitt's performance, in particular, was criticized as being greasy and lacking depth, making this already frivolous film even more shallow.

It is worth mentioning that the famous Brad Pitt has never won an Oscar for Best Actor in his acting career.

Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Tom Cruise, three top Hollywood male stars known for their handsomeness, have been equally despised.

It was not until later that Leonardo DiCaprio destroyed his own image and successfully won the Best Actor award.

In this life, Lin Yuan is just as handsome, even more handsome than those three. Will his path to becoming a movie star be smooth?

Back to the movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith, although it did not receive any positive reviews from professional film critics, it received unanimous positive reviews from the audience.

Under normal circumstances, it is difficult for a commercial film to be liked by both male and female audiences.

Because the differences in preferences between men and women are so great, we want to please both male and female audiences at the same time, and make them both feel satisfied and give positive reviews.

This is a very difficult thing to do.

Even for the commercially successful "Lord of the Rings" and "Avengers", the audience is much more male than female.

Compared to these movies with fighting and killing, women prefer stories with emotional narrative as the main focus, but such stories are often boring and pretentious for men.

The movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith does this brilliantly:

The biggest selling point is the identity mismatch between the male and female protagonists. Both male and female audiences will like to see the tug-of-war between the male and female protagonists.

Because the feeling of pulling is the most interesting part of the interaction between men and women.

"Mr. and Mrs. Smith" provides male audiences with cool scenes and wonderful fighting performances, which make them feel refreshed.

In front of female audiences, the film also explores the honesty and ways of getting along between couples, allowing them to empathize.

This is why the audience gave unanimous positive reviews. As for the shortcomings mentioned by professional film critics, they may exist, but who cares?
That is why Lin Yuan chose "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" as a sample, slightly modified the plot, and prepared to launch "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" with his own characteristics.

The leading actors are naturally him and Liu Yufei.

Interestingly, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, who filmed "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" in their previous life, were a couple.

Lin Yuan and Liu Yufei are also a couple, and there is a high probability that they will become husband and wife in the future.

This arrangement of the protagonists' real-life relationships being completely consistent with their roles in the film creates a strange sense of dislocation for the audience, a feeling of reality shining through into the film. Lin Yuan is incredibly confident in the film, so naturally, Mr. Eisen wouldn't say much.

He simply inquired, "When can Ms. Liu join the crew? The film is on a tight schedule."

"Her domestic film was finished shooting yesterday, and she will fly to New York tonight," Lin Yuan replied.

At that time, Liu Yufei was filming a costume movie with a female lead in China. Lin Yuan helped her invite Mao Geping, a giant in the domestic makeup industry, to replicate her classic image in the TV series "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils".

Lin Yuan still hopes to present such a perfect image to the world, rather than completely disappearing without a trace.

I believe that with the release of this movie, Liu Yufei will also gain a lot of popularity in the country.

In this life, she walks on both domestic and Hollywood legs. With the help of Lin Yuan, she became the heroine of "Lin Yuan and His Wife".

This is a top-tier blockbuster with a production cost of over 1.1 million US dollars. Almost no domestic actors can obtain such resources.

As long as "Lin Yuan and His Wife" can be a great success, Liu Yufei can even surpass Zhang Ziyu, who is currently in the limelight, and step into the ranks of the top female stars.

"Okay, then I'm relieved. I am completely confident that Miss Liu will star in an action movie. She will be a good heroine. What about the director? Who do you want to use?" Mr. Eisen asked the next question.

"Director Cohen? He should be quite suitable." Lin Yuan's first reaction was Director Cohen.

The two had a very pleasant collaboration in "The King of Spy", and action movies are his specialty.

"I'm sorry, he probably couldn't make it. During the time you were in Japan, he re-contacted Universal Pictures and decided to direct Fast & Furious 3," Mr. Eisen replied.

"Ok?"

"Don't mind me, I agreed to this. After the failure of 2 Fast Furious, Universal Pictures came to us and wanted to work with us. I saw that Director Cohen was reluctant to part with this series, so I agreed to this cooperation." Mr. Eisen said.

"Why should I mind? It's a good thing. He has always wanted to take back the "Fast and Furious" series of movies to prove himself." Lin Yuan replied.

Mr. Eisen was worried that Lin Yuan would mind because Director Cohen is now a contracted director of Lin Yuan Film Company.

Therefore, if he wants to cooperate with other film companies, he must first obtain the company's consent.

The "Fast and Furious" film series has always been a passion of director Cohen.

He created this IP, but was kicked out after the movie became a success. It is human nature for him to want to regain what he lost and prove himself.

How could Lin Yuan stop it?

Universal Pictures and Disney are both his allies and targets that must be won over.

Having such a cooperation opportunity can not only help Director Cohen realize his dream, but also show goodwill to the allies, which is simply killing two birds with one stone.

"Since Director Coen is filming "Fast & Furious 3", Vin Diesel should also join that movie, right?" Lin Yuan asked.

Both of them are deeply obsessed with "Fast and Furious", and Lin Yuan doesn't believe that Vin Diesel will not participate.

"Yes, you guessed it right. But now we should decide on the director first," Mr. Eisen reminded.

"How's Director Johnston?"

(End of this chapter)