Chapter 1978 1980 [Mulholland Road]
The reason why MaggieQ can succeed in Hong Kong and the United States is due to her beautiful face of mixed blood.
Hong Kong people see her as a foreigner, and foreigners see her as Asian. Catch up with the 2000s, mixed-race faces in the Hong Kong entertainment industry are popular, and Hollywood is also pursuing diversity and is willing to use minorities, so MaggieQ has caught up with the good times.
In the 1980s, when Xiangjiang and Hollywood were conservative, a mixed-race person like her would not be able to please both sides.
"Miss Li, hello~" Xiang Nan shook hands with MaggieQ, nodded with a smile.
MaggieQ in real life is more beautiful than her on the screen, with a variety of charms, which makes Xiang Nan very happy.
"Hi Charles, it's really an honor to meet you." MaggieQ also said with a smile, but she spoke English, not Cantonese.
After all, she has only been in Xiangjiang for two years, and she hasn't learned Cantonese yet. Usually filming is also in English, and then dubbed into Cantonese, Mandarin.
"You're welcome." Xiang Nan waved his hand and smiled, "I'm asking you to meet this time mainly to find suitable actors for my new film "Mission: Impossible 3."
"Mission: Impossible 3?" MaggieQ was very excited when she heard it.
The first two "Mission: Impossible" films have achieved extremely high box office worldwide, and are the pinnacle of Hollywood action films, with big investment, big scenes, and big cast.
Being able to act in this movie, even if it is only a small role, may attract the attention of the industry, and thus enter Hollywood smoothly.
For her who is very enterprising, this is of course great news.
"Then do you think I'm suitable?" She asked immediately.
"Looking at the appearance alone, it's suitable." Xiang Nan nodded and said, "However, I still need to further investigate how the acting skills are and how good the skills are."
"Okay, I will cooperate with any investigation you want." MaggieQ said immediately.
Xiang Nan nodded in satisfaction.
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After staying in Xiangjiang for half a month, Xiang Nan conducted a comprehensive investigation of MaggieQ, and finally decided to hand over the role of Mei Ling in "Mission: Impossible 3" to her.
Xiang Nan then returned to Hollywood with his family.
At this time, the movies that Universal Pictures is releasing are "The Princess Diaries" and "Listen to Women's Hearts".
"Princess Diaries" was released in January, and it's not out yet because it's doing well at the box office. The global box office of this film has accumulated 120 million US dollars, and the final box office is expected to be around 180 million US dollars.
And it cost less than $40 million, so it was a huge success.
The reason why it can be successful, on the one hand, is because the identity of the heroine is set to cater to the tastes of young people. According to the setting, the heroine is a sixteen-year-old female high school student, at the age of cardamom years, the beginning of love, and the age of fantasies. Who doesn't desire to fly on the branches and become a phoenix. Therefore, the story of the heroine turning from a sparrow to a phoenix is naturally attractive to them.
On the one hand, the story is solid and interesting. Although it is an old routine that a sparrow turns into a phoenix, after careful arrangement, the whole story is not too old-fashioned at all. On the contrary, it is full of fun, relaxed and happy, and gives people a very good movie-watching experience.
Therefore, it is not surprising that "Princess Diaries" has naturally captured the hearts of the audience and achieved such a good box office result.
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"Listening to Women's Hearts" was released on Valentine's Day in February. The film stars Brad Pitt and Nicole Kidman.
Talking about the male protagonist who is an advertisement designer, he is always made things difficult by his female boss. An accidental electric shock gained a special function, and he was able to read a woman's heart ever since.
In this way, he was able to understand the real thoughts of users, so the advertising designs launched perfectly catered to the needs of customers, and thus achieved great success.
And he found out that the female boss liked him, so he tried to take revenge. In the end, he fell in love...
This is a romantic comedy with fantasy, humorous and fresh, funny and romantic. Paired with the impeccable performances of Brad Pitt and Nicole Kidman, the film is a natural hit.
The final North American box office was 180 million US dollars, and the global box office was 370 million US dollars. It broke the box office record of a romance film created by "Pretty Woman".
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Entering March, the suspenseful thriller "Mulholland Drive" directed by David Lynch.
This movie is really brain-burning in terms of plot. After watching this film, many viewers complained that they could not understand it. But many viewers, after watching this film, call it the most exciting movie of this century.
Actually, the reason why the audience will not understand. It's because "Mulholland Drive" was originally a TV series, just like David Lynch's previous work "Twin Peaks".
But unexpectedly, after he finished filming the first episode sample, he handed it over to ABC TV station for viewing, but ABC TV station didn't buy it at all. I thought his filming pace was too slow, and after watching for half an hour, I didn't know what the plot was about, so I withdrew from the next investment.
David Lynch was helpless, neither wanting to compromise with ABC, nor giving up the project. In the end, he changed "Mulholland Drive" into a movie.
In this way, with the remaining funds, the filming of "Mulholland Drive" was just finished. But because the content of an American TV series, more than ten hours, is compressed into two and a half hours, there are many places that cannot be explained in depth, which naturally makes people look confused and unclear.
But this is also a mistake. Because of this, this film has won the love of lovers of literary and artistic films and gained an excellent reputation.
However, because the plot is really obscure and difficult to understand, the box office was high and few. In the end, it only received tens of millions of dollars at the box office, and the global box office was only more than 20 million dollars.
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At the end of March, the Academy Awards were held as usual.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon starring Xiang Nan was shortlisted for ten awards including Best Foreign Language Film, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, and Best Soundtrack. It is one of the most popular Oscars this year.
Xiang Nan personally attended the awards ceremony, and also invited Naomi Watts to walk the red carpet together.
Naomi Watts is one of the heroines of "Mulholland Drive". She was born in 1968 and was once a classmate of an opera school with Nicole Kidman, and they also worked together in a movie.
But her stardom is far behind Nicole Kidman. Since Nicole Kidman met Xiang Nan, she quickly became famous with "Ghostbusters 2", "Emergency Tracking Order", "Cocktail", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" series, "Pretty Woman", "Silent "Lamb" quickly became popular and became a top Hollywood star.
Although Naomi Watts also came to Hollywood to make a living, she couldn't even get a serious role, and lived a life of poverty and poverty for a long time.
In "Mulholland Drive", the poor female artist she played is a true portrayal of her.
(end of this chapter)