Chapter 95 Potential Actor

"Oh-ah-wow-drink-"

In the auditorium, there was a loud, maddening shout. This voice was extremely heroic and majestic, full of indomitable momentum, just like the legendary Leonidas who stood at the Hot Spring Pass.

Of course, this was Matthew's idea, because the one who howled was the barbarian leader he played!

The picture on the screen is zoomed in from far away, and the barbarian warrior community in the background is blurred, and only the barbarian leader stands out in the whole shot.

The camera changes from a long shot to a close-up, with the focus entirely on Matthew's character, and the barbarian leader raises his totemed warhammer high and roars in anger again.

"Oh-ah-wow-drink-"

Matthew didn't know how others felt, and he himself felt that the roar was quite ecstasy.

Compared to the flash in "The Soul Shifting Girl", the character's close-up shot is more than five seconds!

Matthew looked to both sides subconsciously. Both sides were actors from the crew, and he didn't know any of them. He sighed secretly. In fact, what he wanted to do most now was to point to the barbarian leader on the screen and say to others--I see. Well, this is what I did!

However, this kind of thing is just thinking about it in his head, he won't really do it, it's too shameful.

Matthew licked his lips and continued to look down, and soon there was a close-up of him, the barbarian leader being honorably killed under the siege of the Roman legions.

At this point, his role has completely withdrawn from the film.

Matthew made his own calculations, and with two close-ups and other miscellaneous appearances, the character's presence in the film should be between four and five minutes.

"The first film was played for less than five seconds, and the second film was played for more than four minutes." He thought to himself, "It's already very good."

While he's envious of a star actor like Joaquin Phoenix on the red carpet, Matthew is well aware that he's definitely one of the lucky ones compared to the vast majority of the average person entering Hollywood.

In the later time, Matthew watched the movie attentively, especially for the performances of the two leading actors Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix, betting the greatest attention.

For actors who can reach their level, just luck is not enough, their own strength must be above the horizontal line.

Russell Crowe in particular, according to Helen Herman, the Australian actor is a representative of Hollywood expressionism, and "Gladiator" is his pinnacle.

Whether it is an expressionist or a method school, Matthew believes that there is something worth learning from himself if he can become a big star.

As far as he knows, Russell Crowe has problems all over his body. Even Ridley Scott has a headache when he plays big names. He is a very difficult star to serve, but when he enters the working state, it is like a different person. Fully invested in it, most of the action scenes in the film are played in person.

It is said that he also suffered a broken bone in a fight scene.

Of course, this is what Matthew heard, and it does not rule out the possibility that the crew or people from Russell Crowe deliberately released false news in order to make false claims.

Having participated in the media news and publicity activities of "Band of Brothers", Matthew gradually understood that there is too much water in the behind-the-scenes footage used for publicity in many films. I'm afraid it's a common phenomenon in Hollywood crews.

The film is very exciting, at least Matthew looks good, there is an epic and tragic feeling.

After the show, the main cast and crew of the crew were going to hold a press conference. Matthew was not eligible to participate, so he called the Cadillac and drove straight home.

The next day, he went to the clothing rental company to return the clothes, and settled the accounts with the three companies. After finishing this, it was noon. He went to the newsstand to buy a bunch of newspapers and magazines, found a McDonald's, and asked for a hamburger and fries. ,

Find a quiet corner, ready to eat and read the newspaper.

After eating a hamburger, Matthew did not read the newspaper immediately. Instead, he sorted out the entertainment pages of all the newspapers and put them together, and put the other pages in a tote bag and read them when he got home at night.

As a super production that began to be released in the summer of 2000, "Gladiator" was not unexpectedly on the front page of many newspaper entertainment pages.

""Gladiator" not only presents the competition of the cold weapon war in the light and shadow of the past, but what is even more rare is that this is a unique epic blockbuster, it does not focus on the long history, but on the The dramatic technique and tragic foundation perfectly shaped Maximus, played by Russell Crowe. The movie not only allows the audience to deeply appreciate the inner endurance, loneliness and courage of the protagonist, but also at the end of the film. Sublimating the content of the film to a love and death..."

At the beginning of this review, Matthew began to look at ten lines. The focus of the review was on the director Ridley Scott and the actor Russell Crowe. Joaquin Phoenix was also mentioned. As for the others Actors, let alone Matthew, not even the heroine Connie Nielsen.

After flipping through the other pages, he threw this newspaper aside and went to read the second one. "Gladiator" was also the focus of the report, but like the previous newspaper, the focus was on Reid. On Leigh Scott and Russell Crowe.

Matthew shook his head, found nothing about himself, and changed another newspaper.

Yesterday, many reporters took photos of him on the red carpet, but they can't be published at all, right?

After flipping through the newspaper for four or five minutes, Matthew sighed. There were many newspapers and magazines that published photos, but he was nowhere to be seen.

Not to mention photos, no words, not even in the gossip tabloids such as "US News", there is no mention of him.

Matthew was depressed for a while, and gradually came to understand that the original scandal between him and Britney was outdated, and he was not famous enough.

The entertainment industry is a forgetful one.

Putting away the newspapers, Matthew picked up several entertainment magazines that were released this weekend. The first one he picked up was "Entertainment Weekly", a heavyweight entertainment publication owned by Warner Bros., which had a certain influence in the industry.

Not even a tabloid, this kind of heavyweight publication is even less likely, Matthew eats french fries dipped in ketchup in one hand, and quickly flips through the magazine in the other.

"This is……"

He seemed to see a familiar figure, and quickly stopped his hand flipping the magazine, turned back two pages, and a huge photo appeared in front of him.

That's a full body shot of him on the red carpet yesterday!

"I..." Matthew threw away the fries and scratched his head, "I'm on Entertainment Weekly?"

Looking at the photo again, he was sure that it was right. This was the scene when he walked the red carpet yesterday, and he vaguely remembered that it was not long after getting off the bus.

This photo is one of the photos in the horizontal row on this page. There is also a photo of him wearing a paratrooper uniform of the 101st Airborne Division. Matthew only glanced at it and remembered that it was a photo taken specially by the crew before shooting, except These two photos of him, as well as photos of two other actors in civilian and military uniforms on this page, are clearly two people who were interviewed together.

Matthew remembered that after the last interview, he paid special attention to it. The media that the crew mainly cooperated with only published the interview of Damian Lewis, but the interviews of the three people including him were missing. Now it seems that The crew did this on purpose, probably to maintain the popularity of "Band of Brothers" in the media with continuous publicity.

Below each actor's photo, is the corresponding report.

This is to promote "Band of Brothers", and the report must have good things to say about them.

"Hollywood's rising potential actor - Matthew Horner!"

Matthew saw this somewhat exaggerated caption underneath two of his photos.

In addition to the refined version of Matthew's interview with the following content, the reporter who wrote the report also rubbed off on the heat.

"At the age of 20, Matthew Horner has only been in Hollywood for a year, but he has already starred in the Oscar-winning film "Soul Shifting Girl", Universal Pictures invested $100 million and directed by Ridley Scott " Gladiator, starring Angelina Jolie, Renona Ryder and Russell Crowe, and now playing Ronald Spears in Band of Brothers , his career is developing smoothly, and people are full of expectations for his future..."

Then there are some compliments about how dedicated he is in "Band of Brothers."

Of course, these are all for the purpose of promoting the drama.

Even so, Matthew was in a good mood after watching it. Although the scandal with Britney caused by Irina Boyar was reported by the media, this is the first time it has been published in newspapers because of movies and roles. .

He flipped through the remaining magazines and saw that there was no other content related to him. Matthew put away this "Entertainment Weekly" separately. Like "Soul Shifting Girl" and "Gladiator", he thought that this magazine was also A memorable existence.

Back at the rented apartment, this magazine was put into a special suitcase by Matthew, and the things in the box were very meaningful to him, such as the first script and the first formal contract with the crew. .

In other words, this box records every important stage he has gone through.

In the following two days, in addition to paying proper attention to "Gladiator", Matthew basically repeated his planned life, and also called Helen Herman specifically, urging her to contact her new job for herself.

Although "Band of Brothers" is still far from being broadcast, it is already a thing of the past for him. Matthew will not wait to die. After all, it is still too far away from the goal of being a Hollywood star.

On a new Monday morning, he had just finished breakfast and was trying to write something with a pen when he got a call from Helen Herman.

"Matthew, come to the company this afternoon." Her voice was flat as always, "There are a few crews recruiting people, let's give it a try."