Chapter 416

Since the 1980s, Stallone and Schwarzenegger have been very popular as the two major muscle action male stars in Hollywood. At their peak, these two muscle men just caught up with the era of Hollywood industrial model transformation. The Hollywood film market began to expand globally. Action blockbusters with simple and rough plot and blindly focusing on visual stimulation swept the global film market.

Under the leadership of Stallone, the whole western world has set off a crazy wave of fitness. Everyone calls the muscle forging activity "bodybuilding". Men want to be the Rambo image with open chest muscles, heavy machine guns and rampant in the jungle, and some people even take steroids and inject silica gel.

But now the muscle man has been out of people's sight for a long time. The male stars who have been popular in recent decades have always been cream Xiaosheng, the thin and slender British men Hugh Grant and Jude Law, the little white faced Tom Cruise, and the new male favorites are Robert Patterson, a blood sucking beauty with whiter skin and weaker temperament, and xiaoza, a healthy and sunny man.

This "death squads" is a big selling work after Stallone's "Rocky" and "the first drop of blood". Stallone once again conquered the audience with hot-blooded courage and burst hormones, and saw them recall how excellent and brilliant the action film was.

In fact, unlike Stallone or other directors, mark doesn't care about the difference between action films and science fiction films, romance films and horror films. Films that can make money are good films. He doesn't have the same ambition as Stallone. He is in his 60s and has the ambition to revitalize this action film. He just wants to make more money. He doesn't mind making horror films, romance films and super movies Hero blockbuster, now is to put down his body to make idol films.

You see, Scorsese's "Infernal Affairs" is a little better at the box office. I'm afraid it's too commercialized and rejected by the Oscar.

Seeing that the death squads could still earn some money, mark sold the plan to Stallone and made an action blockbuster that gathered nine action stars and paid tribute to all the action films of the 1980s and 1990s. Only with Stallone's prestige can the death squads attract this audience and shoot the flavor of "old hope, ambition, and ambition in the twilight years of a strong man" , mark has also made action films. Now the audience's taste has become tricky. Action films can't sell at the box office just by fighting and killing. The selling point of death squads is emotion?

If an audience grew up watching the first drop of blood series all the way, he would be no stranger to the death squads. As a film focusing on muscle, explosion and gun battle, the death squads The greatest function of the story is to connect those action scenes, which is basically the same as those movies 20 years ago: the American hero alone, facing the challenge of the evil enemy, entered many crises, maintained the justice in his mind, saved his conscience, and saved a beautiful woman who needs the care of a man.

As an action film weakened to the maximum extent at the story level, the biggest selling point of the expendables this time is the collective nostalgia trip of the nine action stars, but in fact, it is impossible. Not only is Stallone no longer powerful, but the governor and Bruce Willis only made a guest appearance (their play was shot in only six hours) , even action star Li Lianlian is suspected of meddling in it. The actor in charge of the action scene is actually Jason stanson, the "king of Hollywood B-rated films" in recent years. He is the youngest actor in the film, but he is also 38 years old.

For a large number of male audiences over the age of 30, the main purpose of their influx into the cinema is estimated to be nostalgia and farewell. As a fixed viewing consumer group in the film market in the 1980s, this male audience group over the age of 30 is gradually retreating from the main group of younger and younger film consumers, but for the death squads For such a male hormone film focusing on nostalgia and farewell, the aging audience proudly told the critics and the media with the surprising box office figure of 270 million worldwide that old men will never die, they just go away quietly.

Only Stallone has this appeal. He can gather a large group of old ass under his banner at a relatively reasonable price and persuade those superstars to join the guest show, otherwise Mark would have left them alone.

Mark's proposal really hit Stallone's G-spot. He listened very well and was very interested. He was willing to take the job.

Stallone's rocky was released by MGM, but the vulgar results of the subsequent films made him switch to carrock film. The first drop of blood and the majestic wind of the mountains were the works cooperated with carrock. Carrock film was the most vibrant and dynamic film company at that time, and the first work with a production cost of more than 100 million in the history, Terminator 2 It was made by them. James Cameron can be said to be popular with them and go to the world. The first drop of blood 2 was built by Stallone and Cameron. It is known as the top ten action films in history. With the real lie, Cameron won the reputation of the king of action.

However, the ambitious Carlock invested in the pirate blockbuster "cut throat island", which led to the tragedy at that time, leading to Carlock's bankruptcy. Its company was merged by MGM, and MGM itself was going downhill. Stallone's cooperation with him was not happy. However, after mm took over, MGM was the most popular and launched several popular works, "Rocky 6" The success of has restored Stallone's confidence in MGM, which has created conditions for bilateral cooperation.

Today's MGM has big selling series such as chainsaw, hangover and youth of song and dance. It is not the old lion who depended on 007, but full of vigor and vitality. Rocky and the first drop of blood, which used to be the Great Wall, are not as important as before. Stallone's action superstar is not as popular as before.

Stallone is unconvinced by this. He thinks he is still young and can play a classic action film for them at any time. These people know that they still have to watch them before they enter the nursing home.

In fact, this is just a vague idea in his heart and has not entered the plan on paper, but mark proposed that this is really scratching his itch. The support of the leaders of the media group means the possibility of success.

If it is prepared by him, the fund is the key. He has so much money himself, but Hollywood commercial film directors and producers have a rule that they will not invest money in their works. They will get a share of the film remuneration, but they will never invest money in their works.

Stallone was born in poverty, but his struggle to become a generation of action stars through unremitting efforts, like the protagonists in his masterpiece rocky series, is the most inspirational "American Dream", the unyielding representative of civilian heroes in the social evolution, and inspires people living in hardships to move forward bravely.

Even though the drooping eyes, dull expression and vague pronunciation caused by slight facial paralysis have brought Stallone the most negation of golden sour plum nomination and award-winning in history, Stallone is by no means an action star with "simple mind and developed limbs". He is versatile and is a representative of all-round filmmakers who can write, direct and act. He plays a role that film critics despise "Rambo", however, revealed the muscular male beauty to the American people for the first time, inspired the American people's suppressed aesthetic instinct for men for many years in a very overbearing way, and opened the trend of male bodybuilding in the 1980s.

In all his films, Stallone shows his personality of never bowing his head. His performance in the field of action films makes him a model of action stars and a landmark figure in contemporary American films.

Stallone created the brilliant achievements of action stars, followed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis and other action stars, which brought action films into the most prosperous 1980s.

Mark appreciates this action superstar very much. In fact, when he watched movies "before", he just watched action films such as Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Willis. He was really not interested in those award-winning literary and artistic films.

Now he has the opportunity to cooperate with the legend. He is very happy. He also hosted a luncheon with Giselle in his office apartment to talk about the project.

Now, the project "death squads" is an idea in Stallone. Mark has a paper plan here, but mark means that Colombia will provide funds for publicity and distribution.

As for production, Stallone's production company is responsible. He acts as a producer and director, is responsible for writing scripts, forming a crew and recruiting actors. Stallone and mark are responsible for the final editing. Colombia only sends financial personnel to supervise the use of funds and will not interfere with the daily operation of the crew.

Mark has the final editing right, which can prevent Stallone from acting as a demon and producing another version. Mark participates in the editing, and Stallone is also convinced. Mark's commercial film God's hand is well deserved. His six works, North meters, have an average of 220 million US dollars, the lowest of 30 million and the highest of 365 million. No one can deny that mark is the first in the world Spielberg, Lucas and Cameron are more powerful at the box office because they have worked for more than 20 years. Over time, mark will catch up.

Stallone is very satisfied with this condition, which should be the best condition. Spielberg is just like this. It is a big deal to let him make an action film for $80 million. Now he dares to spend so much money on an action film, and few people dare to do it. Since Stallone has this opportunity, he naturally gives it a go, and maybe he can make an excellent action film , make a way for the brothers.