Hollywood legendary director

Jerry's full name is Jerry Boyd.

The collection of short stories "RopeBurns" was his first work when he was 30 years old.

His writing style is not good, and the subjects he tells are only ordinary people's stories. For 40 years after the work was completed, because of no market value, his collection of novels has been rejected by major publishing companies.

He did not give up, and in the end he saved a lot of money by himself. In 2000, he paid the cost to launch the market at his own expense, when he was 70 years old.

Unsurprisingly, those publishing companies with a keen market vision saw it so accurately that this novel could not be sold at all.

However, Jerry Boyd does not care. This is the literary dream in his heart. He has realized it. As for the success or failure, that is something God and his elderly should consider.

At least, he has taken action.

Nowadays, it is difficult for people to understand the word "feelings". Only in the era of change and legend can such idealists be born.

On the contrary, in a society with material stability and impetuous spirits, if you talk about feelings or the like, you are farting or deliberately pretending to be forced.

And like Jerry Boyd, he is a very sentimental person.

Just as he tells his own creative story, he is a person who has been engaged in the profession of "cutman" for more than ten years (the staff who dealt with the injuries for the boxers. During the break of the boxing match, he ran up to deal with the boxers briefly, so that the boxing Hand better game), he has experienced countless boxing matches and witnessed too many little-known bitterness under the ring.

People always pursue winners and pay too much attention and cheers to them. Everyone will remember boxing champion Ali, boxing champion Tyson, and Joe Louis, but who pays attention to those losers, those who love boxing, but What about the life of boxers who have never enjoyed glory, even because of long training and fierce competitions, their bodies are worn down?Who knows?

Therefore, he really feels that he wants to share with others, those people or things that are not as well known.

Therefore, he wrote this collection of novels with this original intention, not to describe the winners, but the true stories of the losers.

Of course, he also knows that such novels must have no money. He is not stupid, or that he knows that he is willing to invest most of his accumulated wealth to do such things without making money.

Because of this, when a producer ran over and told him that he wanted the right to edit, he also gave it out decisively.

In fact, he quite wanted his novel to appear on the big screen, which meant that more people would know about it.

And in order to make this thing more likely to work, this product took some buy-out fees, what box office share, what peripheral copyrights, did not ask, and did not mention any excessive requirements, such as participating in the adaptation, participating in the filming Up.

Therefore, in another time and space, apart from providing some material for the creation of this movie, he did not participate.

As for Warner, it was the top film company in the industry, and it was anxious that there would be no fiction writers to dictate, and would definitely not take the initiative to find any trouble, and decisively excluded Jerry Boyd.

When the film is released, the industry has a good reputation, and the media gossip, can I remember the original author.

In other words, it is more cruel.

Along the way, Lehman was still thinking about how to communicate, but now it's fine, and the chat atmosphere is excellent.

Jerry Boyd is quite talkative, humorous, and optimistic.

As he said, "He is also old, and some things are very open."

On the bar counter, Josh wanted to make fun.

Jerry Boyd ignored the goods, turned to Lyman, and said, "I watched the news some time ago and saw you. I didn't expect you to direct this work."

"Not satisfied?" Lehman picked up the glass and continued to touch it.

"No, I'm just thinking, it's kind of weird. Your investment in "Bad Guy" is over 100 million, right, can you still sink your heart to shoot such subjects and works?" Jerry Boyd curiously asked.

"Don't you think the directors are all looking at the investment budget? I'm not James Cameron. As long as it is a good story, I am willing to shoot." After speaking, he laughed himself.

A man like Uncle Cameron who has a higher production cost than a film also likes to spend money to research new technologies, which is indeed rare in the circle.

Jerry Boyd nodded. He is very strange to people like directors. After all, isn't he in a circle?But he now has a good sense of Lehman, and he can talk.

He glanced at Lehman, then asked: "Hey, who do you want to play in your role?"

"As for the heroine, I don't know who is right, but your archetype character, I want to find Father Eastwood to play it.

"Eastwood? Your vision is really good. I like to watch his trilogy of The Red Guardian very much. His temperament is like mine. They are all as handsome." The old man put gold on his face without any shyness. , Then, he thought of something, and asked with some worry: "But he hasn't acted for a long time. He is always a director. Would he be willing?"

"I don't know, but is it human? Anyway, ask first before talking." Lehman wasn't completely sure that Clint Eastwood was willing to play, but in his previous life, he took the initiative to act after reading the script. Thinking about it, he did not give up his desire to perform.

Also, from a good actor to a director, more of them are self-directed and self-acted (but most of the roles are suitable, if not appropriate, he will not insist on acting).

"Oh." Jerry Boyd continued to clink and drink, apparently approving of Lyman's casting ideas.

Today’s interview, although it was a bit inexplicable at first, things are still going very smoothly.Jerry Boyd is not as old as he looks. He is more like a young man with a passionate heart and full of action. He is also very concerned about his work, so all topics about shooting will always make him sensitive. stand up.

"However, I still need a little help." Lehman took the initiative to say: "I don't know the rules of boxing, and I don't know what the training of the boxing gym will be like. Even some of the scenes on the script I want to be more perfect. Meticulous, will you help me?"

In the previous life, Jerry Boyd was not invited by Warner to join the crew because they did not need such characters to interfere with the filming.Although Lyman is not sure what advice Jerry Boyd can give in terms of shooting, it is undeniable that as the author of the original novel, Jerry Boyd is undoubtedly the most profound of the plot structure of the story. It was what happened before him, and it was part of his life experience.

In today’s film industry, a large number of novel adaptations of movies emerge every year, but the author is usually separated from the specific shooting work, which also leads to a situation where many works are released, the market is very satisfied, but book fans and novel authors are not very satisfied. (The "Harry Potter" series is just a good testimony. Don't look at the extreme reduction of the stories in the novels, but they are the hard-core fans of the novels, and the voices of doubt and opposition are the biggest).

After such a conversation, Lyman realized that Jerry Boyd was not a pedantic person, and he didn't feel that he should shoot according to the story he wrote.

He even gave an opinion, saying that it is to make the "maggie" not so smooth, and it can be a failure at the beginning, the effect of wanting to promote and suppress may be better, and it can win the sympathy of the audience.

Yes, this is really what he said.Therefore, Lyman can be sure that he can indeed use Jerry Boyd's help.

"I don't just want to make this story very touching, I also hope that it can become an inspirational movie. Who stipulates that a failed life is a failure?" The words were somewhat contorted.

But Jerry Boyd understood, and this is exactly the original intention of his writing: is the success that is characterized by the public in the eyes of the world, the only success?

Those who challenge themselves and work hard, even if they fail to reach the top, can not only be summed up as a "loser".

Jerry Boyd was very happy and asked Josh to pour them a large glass of draft beer.

It is hard to meet a person who gets along well, which inevitably makes his alcoholism soar.

"So, Mr. Boyd, hiccup..." Lyman hiccuped and continued, "Would you like to finish this work with me?"