Chapter 176: Three thumbs up!

"Wentworth, when auditioning, you have to be natural and confident, don't be nervous! Do you understand?" In the corridor in front of the interview room, listening to Wang Yang's words, Miller, wearing a black suit, nodded expressionlessly, but Wang Yang still frowned slightly. He had done too many auditions, and there were more than 3,000 people in "Juno" alone, and he could see the emotions of the interviewees.

Wang Yang was not in a hurry to enter the interview room, called Miller aside, and looked at him and said calmly: "Yes, you are the only interviewer for this audition. The dozen or so interviewers in it were all called by me in the morning, specifically for you; there are more than a dozen interviewers who are not available in person, but you know, they will also watch your audition video."

"Well, Mr. Wang, thank you very much!" Miller's heartbeat still couldn't slow down. It was not his first time to audition, but of course this was his first time with such special treatment.

Wang Yang shook his head, he said that these were to make this guy face the pressure openly, knowing that there was no ng in the interview room, and continued: "Now is not a thank you moment. Don't be nervous, nervousness will ruin everything. To get a role, you have to convince us. I have eliminated many people because they are always timid and asked me, "Is this right?", "Are you satisfied with this or that?"

"The director is not God. The characters on the screen have to be shaped by actors and given them vitality. We can even modify the script for you, but you must have that charm and momentum. A successful salesman is always extremely confident. He will make the guests believe that the things in his basket are the best; even if the basket contains a bunch of shit, he will say that it is the best and coolest shit."

Wang Yang couldn't help but smile, just like the couple who sold a bad super eight camera to him, just like "Ghost Records"... He patted Miller's shoulder with a thoughtful face and said, "If you can't believe yourself, how can others believe you? How can you give that character to you with confidence? Think about it." After that, he took the lead in entering the interview room.

"Huh..." Miller nodded silently, and some new ideas emerged in his heart, as if he had been enlightened. Some things he had thought for a long time suddenly understood. He should have believed that he was that character from the beginning, and should not be careful about making mistakes or having any questions. Although in fact, he was the chosen party, he should act like a salesman, like a master, and greet the interviewers well.

He understood that in Hollywood, there were countless young people with "Tom Hanks" or "Tom Cruise" appearances. They could get some opportunities and favors at first, just like Fanqi Yang said in the morning, "You have a good appearance, you should appear on the big screen." He had heard a lot of such words, but in the end they all turned out to be: "You can't do it! You can go out now, it's not enough to have a face. Let's wait until you can create something new!"

You must have something that can convince and impress others, but if you can't believe in yourself, how can others believe in you?

Thinking of this, Miller took a deep breath, his heart slowly calmed down, and came to the door of the interview room with high confidence, knocked on the door and walked in. This time, he must succeed!

The spacious interview room was full of people, behind the long interview table, there were 6 or 7 interviewers in suits and ties, two people operating the camera, and 4 or 5 people sitting on the sofa, as if they were having a banquet. Miller recognized a few of them, the white man with a blue tie was Paul Jones from the production department of NBC TV; the middle-aged man with a bald forehead was director Dwight H-Ritt...

Miller couldn't help but think of Shenqiyang's importance to him. For a dog-slip man he met in the park, he called these dozen people over to audition for him alone. He was crazy! He smiled faintly and handed the resume photos and other items to the interview table, introducing himself: "Hello ladies and gentlemen, my name is Wentwash Earl Miller, I'm very happy to get this audition."

"Yang, his appearance is really good." "I have that kind of genius, Princeton graduate? Not bad." "I know him, he participated in my previous audition, and now I think he is really suitable for this role."...

The main creators behind the interview table either looked at Miller or looked at the materials and began to discuss softly. Wang Yang, who was sitting in the middle, kept responding: "Yes, this guy is very suitable, otherwise I wouldn't call you here." He looked at Miller who was calm over there, very happy that this guy didn't look much nervous.

Assistant Laser handed a page of paper to Miller, and saw the character descriptions of "A high-IQ genius, taciturn, calm, paranoid, because of the shadow of childhood, he had low-risk depression, and he attached the most importance to family affection..." Miller looked at these words intently, and slowly formed a vague image in his mind. His tone of speaking was light and soft, with no expressions, and his movements were gentle... Is that right? That's it!

After Miller thought for a while, Wang Yang signaled to the director Dwight H-Rite on the camera, and smiled and said, "Wentworth, let's start the audition." Dwight H-Rite took over and instructed Miller to complete the most basic audition content: "Front, side, turn..."

"If there was a time bomb about to explode in front of you, and there was only one minute left, and this was in a secret room, how would you behave?" After completing a series of shots and talking casually for a while, executive producer Marty Anderstein proposed a new performance question, and everyone in the interview room looked at Miller in the venue.

Regardless of whether the script has this paragraph or not, he wants to catch this scene! Time bomb, 1 minute, secret room... This situation represents extreme urgency, as if dead, but hope of rescue, because it is a time bomb, the protagonist with high IQ cannot sit and wait for death. He wants to find a way to stop the bomb or escape from the secret room, and what he wants is the nervous and exciting feeling...

Miller, sitting on the chair, breathed slightly heavier, with a calm expressionless face. He looked at the interviewers including Shen Qiyang in front of him, and his hands were doing bomb disposal. His eyes were condensing without blinking. He would have the tension of a normal human being, but he was absolutely calm enough.

"Well, you stopped it 10 seconds before the bomb exploded, and you can't let others discover it. At this time, a prison guard came over." Wang Yang took over the control of this performance question, and did not explain why there were prison guards in the secret room. He changed his tone and stared at his eyes and said with a rough voice: "What are you doing here!?"

Miller looked calm and composed, and said softly: "I didn't do anything, I just walked around casually, police officer." Wang Yang continued to say evilly: "Just go around casually? Don't you prisoners be allowed to come in?" Miller still had a expressionless face, but his eyes were a little confused, and said: "Police officer, I don't know, no one told me."

"Be honest!" Wang Yang picked up the stack of information on the interview table as a baton, and made Miller's movements and asked, "Say!" A pain flashed across Miller's face, and he sucked gently, but his eyes were still clear and firm, and he said in a deep voice: "It's really not, police officer." Wang Yang smiled with satisfaction and said casually: "It's really not!? Boy, if I find out that you lied to me, you will die miserably."

Paul Jones, Marty Anderstein, Dwight H. Ritter and more than a dozen people nodded silently, quite satisfied with Miller's performance. Perhaps the character's temperament was too consistent with him. His performance of this small scale was a good chemical reaction and he did not waste this special audition. Matt Bisley, the director who had auditioned for Miller several times, was a little surprised. This time Wentworth seemed to have changed someone else, and he became much more confident, at least he did not ask, "Is this OK?"

"At this time another bully from the prison came over. He asked you to pay the protection fee, otherwise he would ask someone to beat you up."

Hearing Wang Yang's words, Miller was silent and said nothing, but just got up from the chair and walked two steps, expressing his disregard for the bully.

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Miller was walking back and forth in the corridor, looking at the wooden door closed in the interview room from time to time. The audition had been over for 15 minutes. Shenqiyang told him not to go and wait for a while. He knew that the audition room must be discussing his performance. He had just asked himself to perform in a very certain and confident way, and it seemed that the interviewers were very satisfied. He saw a lot of praise smiles.

But is this right? Just as he was thinking, the door of the interview room was opened, and the interviewers in suits and tie laughed and walked out. Dwight H-Rit, who was the first to look at him and smiled, "It's very good!" Marty Anderstein also nodded and said, "It's not good, it's very suitable." Matt Bisley gave a thumbs up and smiled, "Winter, is this still you? Do it well!", "Yang, you didn't find the wrong person."...

Watching the interviewers walk past each other and listening to their praises, Miller's heart beats a little bit, and an unspeakable excitement gradually arises. Is it really... he tried hard to keep a calm smile and kept thanking: "Thank you, thank you."

"My man, I'll give you this one!" Wang Yang, who walked out at the end, also smiled and gave a thumbs up. Miller's confidence and excellent performance convinced them. The high fit of appearance and temperament was even more satisfying. Although the audition results were not sure, because the video was to be shown to some interviewers who were not present today, he had already decided, and the people present just now agreed.

He looked at Miller who couldn't hide his excitement and smiled: "I think the hero is you, 99.9%. Unless Christopher Fosen comes back with the fleet tomorrow, I think there should be no possibility."

Miller was stunned, how could it be! It wasn't the saying "You can't", 99.9% was the male protagonist of a TV series... The heart that was so excited that it was about to explode suddenly became a little confused again. Really? Is this true? At this time, something quickly passed through his heart, like a plate of cold water that made his blood cool down halfway. Some things could not be concealed, but as long as it was explained clearly, it was fine.

"Mr. Wang, there is one thing I need to tell you." Miller's face was full of sincerity, and Wang Yang said in confusion: "Okay, what's the matter?"

Miller smiled a little self-deprecatingly and said, "I used to be a very extreme and evil person. Because I had suffered a lot of discrimination and hurt since I was a child, everyone called me stinky. I was a cynical person at that time, so I caused some trouble when I was studying at Princeton University. At that time, a black professor, Cornel-west, was poached by Harvard University. I was very angry, so I drew a comic to vote for Princeton Daily. I described Professor West as a 'new slave' at Harvard, and then things got big."

Black professor, newly bought slave... Wang Yang frowned immediately, racial discrimination!? The smile on his face disappeared and he said with a tense face: "What the hell is going on?" Suddenly, he thought of Miller's words, "Is he discriminated against since childhood," and he vaguely understood something, and said suspiciously: "What are you discriminating against? Are you not pure white? Are there black mixed races?"

"Well, I'm a multi-national mixed race." Miller nodded, knowing that Shenqiyan hated racial discrimination, of course he himself, and immediately explained clearly: "My father has African-American black, Jamaican, British, German Jewish descent; my mother has French, Dutch, Syrian, Lebanese descent. How could I racial discriminate against Professor West? That's just a sarcasm to my anger."

"I understand." After figuring out the reason, Wang Yang grinned again. He understood Miller's mood at that time and what cynicism was. Every child who had suffered that kind of injury would be somewhat, like Daniel Wu, like Joshua... He was impulsive before he was 18 years old, often got angry, fought desperately, was unwilling to coax his girlfriend, and then scolded the principal...the angry little boy!

Thinking of the past, he couldn't help but show his self-deprecating expressions. It's great to fight back against those bad guys, but it's bad to hurt himself and the ones he loves. He hit Miller's shoulder and smiled: "Winter, nothing is wrong, as long as you can prove your bloodline. This will not affect the audition results, but you need to provide me with a bloodline proof."

"No problem, no problem." Miller said twice in a row, and finally released the excitement in his heart, with a happy and grateful smile on his face: "Mr. Wang, thank you very much today!" Wang Yang shrugged and smiled: "No, you don't need this. For someone like you, you are either "Prison Break" or "FBI SWAT." He patted Miller on the shoulder again and walked towards the office.

Miller smiled at the young director's back, clenched his fists and said "yes" several times.

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The next day, Miller quickly provided a proof of family blood. Sure enough, there were mixed races in eight countries, including blacks. This cleared the concerns of the crew of "Prison Break" to choose him as the male lead; other interviewers had watched his excellent audition video, and Wang Yang said, "I chose him," and agreed to Wentworth Miller as the leading role.

In a busy situation, August 30th to September 5th also became history, and another screening week came to an end. This week, the total box office in North America was only 125 million yuan. The movie that ranked first on the weekly list is still "The Ninth District". It received 26.48 million box offices in 3,580 theaters this week, and continued to win the weekly box office championship for the fifth week since its release, constantly breaking Wang Yang's personal new record.

Another record that was set to be the highest box office in North America. "The Ninth District" took five weeks to reach a 300 million club (309 million yuan), becoming the third North American movie in 2002 to have a box office of more than 300 million US dollars. The other two are "Spider-Man" with a box office of 403 million yuan and "Star Wars Prequel 1" with a box office of 302 million yuan. In the overseas market, it also maintained a good closing momentum, with an additional 17.13 million yuan in a single week, with a total overseas box office of 416 million yuan, and a global box office of 725 million yuan.

On the one hand, the ability to continue to receive a good box office is due to the release of new films that are not competitive, but due to the premature release of the simultaneous release, it is difficult to make any achievements in the overseas ticket store, besides hoping to receive 5 million in mainland China in the future; on the other hand, it is global viral marketing, mysterious strategies before the release, and after the release and publicity department took advantage of the high praise from the media and public to launch the Internet "Do you want to miss a summer miracle?", the bombardment virus publicity of "great science fiction movies" to create a herd effect.

But in this week, films such as "My Grand Greek Wedding", "Omen of Heaven", and "Extreme Agents" did not have these tricks; even the blockbusters "Spider-Man" and "Star Wars Prequel 1" in the past few months were honestly promoted and disdained new viral marketing?

Now all the film companies understand that this is a trend. Flame movies are at the forefront. Now no one is competing with them for this market! Viral websites, three-dimensional posters, virus posters, and Internet trends... This complete set of virus propaganda made the film companies who suddenly wake up "shocking". The one that simply bragged about on the Internet has fallen behind. How can they remain indifferent when they see these new things?

But everyone knows that the end of rushing forward is that the audience will quickly get used to it and lose their excitement in the face of these tricks; this set of viral marketing will gradually become mediocre, but whoever wants to suffer losses is please leave on their own.

Of course, traditional publicity methods will never be eliminated, and another box office miracle is also in progress. The 20-week warm comedy "My Grand Greek Wedding" has gradually expanded the number of theaters and weekly box offices. After the second place in the week, the movie with a total cost of 5 million has already received 85.45 million in North America, which has also driven and revealed the market demand for wedding comedy movies and the strong hunger demand.

The fans and media naturally thought of a movie. The Hangover, which is scheduled to be released during this Christmas schedule, has been released. A pre-marriage carnival party caused the groom to disappear. If the wedding is to be held in one day, it will be found in the groom Doug, but the problem is that none of the three people can remember what happened last night.

Looking at the cute and vulgar fat man in the trailer, the pitiful and crazy dentist, the bad handsome teacher, the mysterious gangster girl like a tyrannosaurus... and O'Neal, who was guest starring, had not announced his approximate identity in the trailer, only half a second close-up, but the weird look is enough to make people laugh, Will Smith, Robert Downey Jr., and others, as well as the mysterious guest star at the gambling table...

Most fans immediately held great expectations and almost insisted on and believed what Shen Qiyang said, "This is a comedy that can make people laugh." Unless this director, who just gave a big gift of depression and sadness to fans around the world, put all the only laugh points of "Hangover" in the trailer. While looking forward to the release of "Hangover", they also guessed who the prototype of the character was.

The groom Doug is obviously Tom Willing, the teacher may be magical, and the dentist with a look of disgrace may be Zachary Levi, and what about the fat man? The gossip media has long revealed that there were not only three people that night. There is enough evidence to show that Yoppi Astronomy and other places left messages, and they all expressed their harm. Ted R said: "I won't watch "The Hangover" in the first week. I have to wait for a clear signal. Is it funny or sad? I don't think comedy movies are sad!" Karand D was much more excited: "I just realized that I'm fooled now, and "The Ninth District" is simply a bastard movie!"

"Before "When Happiness Comes Knocks on the Door", Shenqiyang said it was inspiring and touching, and it was indeed that way; "Juno" Shenqiyang said it was warm and humorous, and it was indeed like that; "Ninth District"? The cunning Shenqiyang did not define it, and she said that keeping my mind mysterious can get the best experience. It turned out that that experience made my heart hurt until now! He spoke again, "Hangover" would make everyone laugh, but I very doubt that he still had funny functions after "Ninth District"? I think the trailer is all about "Hangover"." - a message from Christina, who has supported many people.

With the increase in the number of viewers, the top 250 score of "The Ninth District" on imdb dropped to 8.7, and the audience liked by Rotten Tomatoes dropped to 89%; but it still steadily received a lot of applause and praise in the critics, a small amount of ridicule, the latest popular film critics' freshness is 92%, and the newest popular film critics' freshness is 95%.

The film's torture of human nature is chilling. - Bowen Hovans, "Movie Review"; shocking, exciting, sad, profound, these are not all of it, it's all called great. - Jonathan Rome, "Sunday"; this is just an ordinary bloody show, magical Young tries to tell us something, and the result is just as immature as his age. Maybe this is already amazing, but as far as matters are concerned, "The Ninth District" cannot be called great. - Kevin Hulcott, "The Boston Herald"...

But Roger Albert, the most popular film critic in the United States, scoffed at those who smashed the tomatoes. The old man who gave two thumbs up to four movies in a row, wrote a long and long compliment to "The Ninth District" in his usual relaxed style.

"I can only use one word to describe this movie, unbelievable. Let me say some off-topics first. I know Wang Yang in "The Ghost Record". To be honest, although I said he was magic-young at that time, who would believe that an 18-year-old guy could make anything else? I thought it would take at least 10 years before I could give him two thumbs up again. 28 years old still has a bright future.

Who knew that half a year later he came out again. He used "Singing and Dance" to make me want to return to school and dance with beautiful women. He incredibly created a phenomenon; then he wanted to make a middle-aged biopic? At that time, I thought this guy was still lost by people. Who did he think he was? He used "When Happiness Knocks the Door" and "Juno" to shut me up completely. They are really two classics. Two years later, he used "The Ninth District" as a masterpiece that shamed Hollywood summer blockbuster, which almost killed me due to heart infarction."

After Roger Albert agreed with the "shamed" remarks, he also commented on the content of the film: "This movie does not have a bikini beauty, but it will never let you fall asleep, because its shots are too shaking for an academic film movie, it is like sitting on a crazy taxi, but it is not meaningless. It is shaking in a pretentious manner, it makes you feel the immersive and strong substitution, and the nerves are slowly tense. This lens language is full of alternative charm."

"Subversive science fiction stories, allegoricals and profound... all these are right. If you see a cute puppy die and you cry, it is normal; when you see a poor man voluntarily sinking into the sea for a rich lady, the rich lady will live a happy life for the rest of your life, and you cry instead of anger, there is something wrong; when you see a shrimp insect man who is so ugly that people want to beat him sitting in a pile of garbage playing with toys, you actually cry, should you think of something big problem?"

"What are you crying? I'm crying that the Tenth District is built in the desert rather than on the beach." Roger Albert made a joke before commenting seriously: "They were isolated and abandoned in a pile of garbage; after completing the change of thought, Vigs, who awakened human nature, was abandoned in a pile of garbage, and he was scolded and struggled in despair. The beautiful human nature is regarded as worthless garbage by humans, but the ugly side is praised after the government's packaging and publicity, and the people are not aware of it. This is why I cry."

"Everyone is a human, and a shrimp insect. How we treat dissidents is how we treat ourselves. I even think this is an environmentally friendly movie because Wiggs uses garbage circulation to create beautiful bamboo dragonflies. Maybe I think too much, but the whole movie is to make you feel endless and never get tired of watching it. Of course you need a pacemaker."

"If there is an Oscar in the first half of the year, "The Ninth District" will sweep all awards; unfortunately, there will be a second half of the year, and there may be many excellent works, but if the Oscars' best film and the best director nomination list are not "The Ninth District" and Fantastic Yang, I will still only use one word to describe it, unbelievable."

At the end of the article, he came to his patented thumbs scoring system. This time, Roger Albert stunned "three-thumbs-up"!" Not to mention how a person has three thumbs, of course, if you count the feet, there are four. The problem is that this kind of thing has never happened. The old man seemed to realize that fans might regard him as Alzheimer's disease, so he explained: "No mistake! Two thumbs are given to "The Ninth District" and Super Magical Yang, and the other thumb is compensated to Wiggs!"

Many media fans sighed at this. Roger Albert is worthy of being a "hard fan" of Huanqi Yang, and he actually created three thumbs for him. Will the DVD cover of "Zone 9" really be played with three? What about Huanqi Yang's movies? Four thumbs? Five?
Chapter completed!