Hollywood Domination Chapter 199: The storm is dangerous

Although after watching "Michael Clayton", Jenny also admitted that this is a good script, and Karen is a character with a lot of room for development. She can be said to be the dark version of Miranda, and she has completely paid for her work. Everything about her, private life, personal conscience, and respect for the law were all bought out by the pharmaceutical company with a huge amount of money. When she was about to become the company's legal director and reached the pinnacle of her career, Karen's last humanity Dying, reminding Karen through various signs that her ego is about to be completely killed-if "The Devil Wears Prada" wants to win an Oscar, then Miranda may also face these problems, yes, Karen is a very A tough character, although she doesn't have too many roles, compared to George Clooney, she can only be regarded as a supporting role, but several scenes are very brilliant, showing her skills.

However, recognizing that Karen is interesting and that the script is excellent does not mean that Jenny really has a resonance with Karen from the bottom of her heart, and she is really eager to play this role. To be honest, she has a vague fear of difficulty for this role, just like she played Andy at the time. Without the finished product to refer to and empathize with, she is indeed a little afraid of entering the filming group. Looking back now, she can understand why she stepped in to embarrass George Clooney. On the one hand, of course it was because she didn't like him, but on the other hand, there was also some secret psychology, hoping that there would be some twists and turns in this film, so that she would not have to face herself and admit that she dared not join the group just like this, because she There's no guarantee of being able to play Karen well -- although on a psychological level, she doesn't admit to this problem, and even overconfidently believes that she can suppress George Clooney's scene with Goldfinger's help.

This may be the problem she has to deal with in her future development. Jenny can't help but regret her "vulgarity" in her previous life. The influence of the Oscar and the commercial mainstream is drifting away, and there is a slight dislike for the Austrian films. After "Avatar" lost the Oscar, all kinds of award-winning films, in addition to favorite actors, and won heavyweight awards Those, otherwise he and she are almost indifferent and unimpressed. And this has resulted in her being able to use her golden finger to empathize with those commercial blockbusters, and to perform these roles that are not difficult to perform vividly and brilliantly, but in the art films that really need a golden finger, she is a little helpless. Help——this may be the best commentary for 'young people don't work hard, the boss is sad', or to use some Western expressions, that is, her laziness back then finally bit her back...

A role in an art film is often unique. Unless she will only act in new biopics of old characters in the future, she will definitely have to overcome the challenge of acting in difficult roles by herself. No matter how much she wanted to escape, she had to force herself to face it. Although Jenny hadn't noticed her fear of difficulties before, she didn't slack off her practice. However, it wasn't until her outlook on life was hit again that she suddenly found Kay. Lun's feelings—or, she suddenly found pleasure in playing Karen...

"I'm honored, I'm honored, it's my honor to be here today." In the pale scene simulated in the space, Jenny wiped her face in front of the misty mirror. It's a little blurry, because the space doesn't know how the image designer will deal with her hairstyle and figure, but her expression is very clear in the mirror—it's a pale and bewildered face, without makeup, The eye circles are red, and the eyes are staring unnaturally, like a rabbit hit by the headlights, and the unreasonable despair is unnaturally revealed in the eyes, as if the intuition tells her that the end of her life is coming—this is a For no reason, a very desperate woman who could even be said to be going through a nervous breakdown.

Jenny took a deep breath, "I am honored to be here, as we all know, the company is a huge pharmaceutical company with a huge scale."

She adjusted the word order meaninglessly, looking for a better way of expression, and forced herself to focus on the selection of words and sentences, so as to avoid the real thing to do next. Karen is about to get promoted, she will become the legal director of this great pharmaceutical company, which is the pinnacle of her career, but she is obviously not ready for this, and she even tries everything to avoid the final The moment to talk about it directly, because she knows what it means: the dirty work, picking the right people for the company, niping threats in the bud, weeding out the risk factors that can jeopardize the interests of the company and cost the company profits people. The company would rather pay the law firm than the plaintiffs, and Karen's job was to pick the right law firm and do anything for the company that CEOs were too cautious to do. She has taken risks every day of her career, she has done countless illegal things, countless even criminal things, just like the CEO is hiding behind her, through numerous documents and leather bag companies, she also Hidden behind those thugs, she's an important part of a crime in progress, she's the petty ringleader. And Karen is terrified of what she has done every day. She can't be happy about her promotion, but she can't help but fight for it.

"Since Wright dug me into this company, I have dedicated my life to Green Leaf, and I am honored, no, I am honored to repeat." Because of Karen's obvious loss of control and irritability, Jenny paced back and forth in the scene, whispering nervously, immersed in Karen's spiritual world, she understood Karen, she now understands Karen's panic very well: just be with her Like her predecessor, she got a promotion, one day she'll be on the board, maybe she'll be the ceo, and that's the day she'll be really safe, the ceo doesn't have to do the dirty work, and if she doesn't want to be scared like this anymore, then the only The solution is to keep wiping Luye's dirty **** clean, fast and good, and pray that nothing goes wrong, that it doesn't bite her back, that she doesn't get dumped by the company--keep living in fear, lingering brazenly, waiting She was promoted to a position high enough to get out of the mud for a day. Although that day was far away, she was not completely hopeless.

This is her only exit, there is no second way, she has gone too far, and can no longer turn back.

Karen took a deep breath and brushed her hair away from her cheeks. She turned her head and sniffed her underarms in disgust. She hated the smell of her own sweat. Karen's body odor was not very strong, but she felt The fact that she was sweating showed how weak she was, weak, a word she hated.

"Personal life? I don't need a personal life, I mean, I love my job, I give it everything, oh, give it again," Karen said, looking at herself in the mirror: you do The most important thing is the industry practice. Without you, someone else will do it. Everyone lives like this. This is the social reality, but what are you afraid of? Technically speaking, you have never broken the law, and all the illegal things are done by others. You just transferred some money to some suspicious accounts through secret channels. There is nothing that cannot be explained. You fix everything, you can't go to jail, it's not out of control, it's not out of control.

"As I said." She babbled legal jargon, precise, but meaningless, "well, as it stands, we can assume that... oh, crap, this is all **** .”

Karen clutches her forehead and falls back on the soft goose down comforter Karen is sure to sleep in, she spends money lavishly despite all the information that the more prudent choice is for retirement Saving money, but she always couldn't help it. Karen is like a person about to drown. In the eyes of everyone, her swimming style is very beautiful, but only she knows that her lungs have been filled with cold and salty sea water, and she is as heavy as a stone. It can only sink, sink, sink in the sea water.

She curled up in the shape of a baby on the large kingsize mattress, and in the center of this restless posture, the low and chattering voice continued, "The significance of a suitable legal advisor to the company is self-evident Metaphor. Needless to say, proper legal counsel will help Luye better develop new drugs and relieve pain for the normal development of company affairs..."

This is Karen's first appearance in "Michael Clayton". Most of her lines are muttering like this. Her performance conveys information to the audience in terms of facial expressions, body language, and even her temperament. The script of "Michael" is very restrained, there are no long monologues, no inner drama, the role of dialogue in shaping characters and conflicts is very low, it can even be said to be somewhat poetic, and the truly cruel confrontation is through a lot of body language The performance was shaped quietly and completed in the minds of the audience, like a charade. The audience and the director reached a tacit understanding while watching the movie, but no one expressed it. This restrained silence was maintained until the end of the script. one page. This is especially true for Karen's role. Unlike the protagonist Michael, the director can use key props, dialogue echoes and small plots to shape his character. Karen's first scene must be explosive, and her character must be in the first scene. The scene is full, and the limited and meaningless dialogue conveys enough complex information to allow the audience to achieve a preliminary understanding of her situation.

In the previous few auditions, Jenny was not very satisfied with her performance. She performed Karen's hesitation, with the help of some golden fingers from similar roles, but maybe she found it by referring to the role. Not good enough, Karen seemed a little too manic, she was too dangerous, too aggressive. And this is inconsistent with her own interpretation of the script. In fact, Karen is a weak and collapsed character. She has been completely killed by reality and just drifts with the tide. It's just inertia, but her spirituality has long since died. But in her performance, Karen is still alive - she can't grasp the feeling Karen makes her when reading the script.

However, this time, when she finished the performance and started playback, she began to watch the pale Karen ghostly wandering in the gray and white scene, adjusting the sequence of words with a slightly vague accent, and wiping her hair again and again. It was a mess, and when she went to the mirror to reorganize, Jenny finally felt Karen. She experienced Karen's despair, Karen's last struggle and her confusion: Everyone is doing this, successful people are doing this, I want to be successful, I must do this. What I don't understand is why this thing hurts me so much, makes me so... I don't know, I'm so numb, a piece of my brain seems to have been cut out that I can't even describe what I'm missing What, why am I desperate, what do I need.

Karen is fumbling with her hair, she's so attached to it and messes it up again and again, she's so desperate to escape, oh, she's so devastated. But she was so pitiful, and success made her so pitiful.

Watching Karen start her wandering again, Jenny touched her cheek unconsciously, and suddenly realized that she had been crying silently for a long time, and she didn't even realize it herself. In the performing arts space, she was already crying while watching her performance.

——these were not tired, angry, and sad tears, but they made Jenny feel relaxed and refreshed, as if her dusty heart had been washed. For herself——a problem she rarely considered, It seems that there is more understanding, a layer of feeling. Before she was really emotionally involved and started acting, she used to be very afraid of the role of Karen, just like "The Devil Wears Prada". She was afraid that she would become nervous, depressed and tired if she acted without the help of empathy, or Just like "The Fifth Sally", after the show, there is a kind of exhaustion from performing physical work, because Karen's depression is better than these two roles. But what she didn't expect was that playing the role of Karen gave her an indescribable pleasure, not to mention tired, but even moved.

Before this, of course she had moments of joy for her performance, but the joy for playing the role of Karen was pure. She was not happy because her performance conquered the audience, nor She is proud of her various amorous feelings in front of the camera, and she is delighted by the performance itself. Completing Karen is enough to move her. Jenny didn't know how to put it into words, but at this moment, she really felt the charm of acting—not because of the huge money, fame and influence it brought, but because of the performance itself, just because she abandoned herself to become Karen. A moment of joy. The joy seemed to satisfy the deepest hunger of her soul, to answer the unresolved questions in her life that she hadn't even realized existed. By becoming someone else, she recognized herself better——

Yes, after four years of studying in an acting school and five years of being an actress, Jenny finally realized this: she likes acting, it is not her tool, her shortcut. Acting itself is something she enjoys and loves.

She sniffed, turned off the picture on the screen, sat quietly for a while in absolute darkness, sorted out her messy thoughts, and reorganized some of her own thoughts. Jenny suddenly thanked the existence of the performing arts space . She's been in Hollywood for a few years and hasn't had a property of her own - the events of the last few days have also shattered her reliance on a particular location, but that doesn't mean she doesn't have a place to relax In fact, compared to golden fingers like empathy, the importance of the performing arts space should be played in these places in the coming years.

She sat in luxury for more than an hour before she exited the space and returned to reality. Jenny felt the pleasure of regaining her energy after a long rest, even if it was a strange room and messy and busy business affairs Unable to destroy the joy, she picked up the phone and dialed a familiar number, and Cesare answered it after the ring rang for a few seconds.

"Yes?" His tone was a bit puzzled, because he had just driven away less than two hours ago, and according to the traffic jam in Los Angeles, he might not have returned home.

"I just thought about it," Jenny said briskly, "we have to deal with the "Avatar" negotiations and the release of "Adrenaline" is scary enough, there is no need to press on "Michael" Forced, find trouble for yourself, since George has shown his sincerity, then we seem to be able to step aside, what do you think?"

Actually, Jenny was the one who decided to crowd out Clooney by injecting capital. If Cesare had said it, he would never have made such a provocative decision. Cesare paused on the phone, as if thinking 'what's going on with her again', but finally replied, "No problem, you can talk to Clooney—"

"No, I don't want to talk to him, you can talk to him, as long as it is acceptable to you, I have no problem." Jenny said quickly, "I don't think Clooney wants to be with me either. Sit down and drink coffee so he doesn't mind who the **** is talking to him - because I still really hate him - can you? Cesare, please -"

"I'm your manager, theoretically, this is my job." Cesare's tone seemed a little helpless, but he replied calmly, "But why did you suddenly change so quickly? Got an idea?"

"I re-read the script," Jenny replied, and she said with real emotion, "It's a great role, and if excluding Clooney might cost me Karen, I'd rather put it for later. Do it.”

She really still hates Clooney, but Jenny has finally realized the feeling of 'big-name stars drop their pay and join the team with zero pay'. Now, her desire for Karen has overwhelmed everything, and she doesn't even care about the final The box office, the prospect of winning awards—it was like an addiction, and she couldn't stop playing Karen until she was done.

Perhaps he could hear her sincerity, although Cesare still kept an intriguing silence for a while, as if expressing his feelings for her fickle temper, but he still replied after a moment, "Okay, I'll talk about it for you—is there anything else?"

"Yes, in fact, yes." Jenny quickly said to the phone, she took a deep breath, sorted out her somewhat confused thoughts, and said what she thought of. "I'm very grateful that you got a private eye before I did, really, Cesare, and I even appreciate that you avoided some of the 'women' stuff' - but come to think of it, pretending not to know doesn't get me Security, I'm just -- I know we might have to face this one day, but we should wait until the day we have to, right? I don't want you to do it for me at this stage, I Don’t know how to put it, just — this is what the script told me, I don’t want to be Karen, the bottom line is very important to me.”

After a pause, she hurriedly added, "It's the same for you, even if some things are sold, they have to be sold at a good price - that stalker is just not worth it for you to do so."

Cesare was silent on the other end of the phone, and he said slowly, "OK, I understand what you mean."

"Would you--would you change your decision?" Jenny asked nervously, "I'm not against us dealing with him, we can do something legal, you know, but don't cross the line that far--"

"...This is your request, you are my client." Cesare said in a slightly strange tone, "It is my responsibility to meet your request, so I have no reason not to agree, right? "

This is a very rare statement for Cesare. Most of the time, what Jenny hears is 'you are my artist, so you'd better do what I suggest', and she wants to ask him Why is it so abnormal, but I vaguely realized something, and finally didn't ask, just said vaguely, "That's great, I-uh, I have nothing else to do, see you tomorrow."

She hung up the phone, staring at the screen of the phone slowly changing from light to black, thinking whether it was the first time for Cesare to deal with the gray area related to human life, whether she also secretly hoped that someone would come to help him—— Many times, she will forget that he is only five years older than her, but he has gone five years ahead of her in his career. Many times, she will forget that Cesare is also a human being who will be confused and hesitant. Hollywood is also a very dangerous amusement park for him.

"He must subconsciously hope that someone can stop him—oh, he absolutely does, otherwise how could he be more cooperative than what I said about "Michael" just now." Jenny thought affirmatively——Chesa Ray was usually only submissive when she made her own decisions that he liked.

She shivered suddenly, a little shivering. "What if I didn't stop him in time just now? Or, what if I didn't stop me in time just now? What will he become, what will I become, and what kind of path will we end up on?"

Since she entered the circle, she has never been short of people around her. For the news that she thinks is normal and ordinary, there are always people who overreact, screaming how big a thing it is for her to occasionally reveal her true feelings. Jenny's own flat reaction is often judged Being calm and elegant, however, the most absurd thing is that in this big crisis that they just passed by—Jenny thought it might be one of the biggest crises since she entered the industry, she was so calm from beginning to end, maybe except Other than the person involved, in the eyes of others, Cesare's decision just now is completely normal and not worth mentioning.