If the star does not listen to the agency and has too much of his own personality, how will he be dealt with?
The movie "Francis" proves that even the most popular female stars will be "hidden" if they disobey.
They need to be obedient, not someone who is beautiful and has his own ideas.
Show business has never lacked beauty, what is lacking is beautiful and obedient.
Francis is such a beautiful but rebellious existence, she is very promising, acting seriously, but unwilling to become a money-making machine, and gradually move towards a tragic life.
The film Francis is based on a true story, and Francis was born in 1913 to a middle-class family in Seattle, USA.
The father was an alcoholic, and the mother was selfish and paranoid and extremely controlling.
During Francis' time as a movie star, it was Francis's mother who acted as an agent.
Her mother also joined forces with the film company to force Francis to take on some bad films, just to make money.
Francis resisted, it can be said that she has been resisting, and she did not hesitate to argue with the staff and boss who were present.
Whether it is a tour or a performance, only to have a shooting, Franssy's mother is dressed up to accompany Francis around, as if everyone is paying attention to her rather than Francis.
Although he switched to theater in his sophomore year, Fransea was more outstanding than the original theater students.
At the age of 22, Francis performed a lot of plays, so he was favored by Paramount and signed a 7-year contract.
Franssi's mother was very satisfied with Francis's job, because she had a dream of stardom from an early age, and her daughter became a star, just in time to complete her unfulfilled dreams.
Therefore, the mother naturally became Frances's agent, and all advertising and performance companies were negotiated by the mother to communicate with the agency.
Francis is an actor who eats and eats, has a talent for acting, and a proud beauty, and soon after entering the industry, she participated in the play "Golden Boy" created by a famous Hollywood screenwriter.
With her outstanding performance, Francis became a hit and became a hot new generation of actresses at that time.
As Francis grew redder, the company's claws squeezing her stretched longer.
Everyone thinks that Francis is so popular, there should be a lot of money, but in fact, all the money Francis earns is controlled by her mother, who usually only gives Francis a pitiful living expense.
But in the face of heavy contracts and huge compensation, Francis could not change anything.
Everything is fake, acting, life, all hypocritical people, chasing money and profits annoys Francis, who wants to chase the really deductive spiritual world, not the current Hollywood movie star life.
The mother was bent on making a lot of money from Francis and getting the attention of the crowd, making her feel like a real female star.
His father was an alcoholic, often drunk, and cowardly, and although he was also distressed by Francis, he could not decide.
From 1939 onwards, Francis's behavior was somewhat eccentric, disobeying shooting requirements and having a strong resistance to filming work, which made fans' love for her decline.
Paramount was furious at the "disobedient" Francis and hid her in the snow.
After hiding in the snow, Francis became increasingly depressed and depressed, and became a regular visitor to the police station because of his frequent alcoholism.
Later, although he gradually returned to the show business, the limelight was no longer in the limelight, and the contradictions between the producer and the agency were even worse, and in a series of bad lives, Franssi finally began to be abandoned by the agency.
The repressed life made Francis's mood more unstable, and she broke down repeatedly during her work and fought with people many times. In 1943, Francis was arrested for assaulting a police officer.
In order to allow her daughter to escape from prison and continue to control her daughter, Francis's almost paranoid mother did not hesitate to bribe the hospital to let the hospital identify Francis as mentally ill and forcibly send Francis to a mental hospital.
In this way, Franssi endured 11 years of torture in a mental hospital, and she became a "slave" to some people and forced to eat spoiled food. Years later, she described in her autobiography: "I was tied up in a padded cell, tied in a restraint coat, and half drowned in an ice bath. ”
Even after being so physically and mentally tortured, Francis insisted that she was not mentally ill, and her paranoid mother saw her so disobedient that she begged the doctor to cut off the frontal lobe of Francis's brain.
After losing the prefrontal lobe, Francis finally stopped struggling, no longer resisted, and even though he had his own consciousness, he was like a walking dead, and Francis finally became his mother's marionette.
However, the persecution of Francis by the people around him never stopped, because Francis was already a disabled person with no ability to resist, so he was clearly marked, as long as whoever gave her $20 could sleep with her for one night.
It was also a joke at the time, and everyone thought it was the best deal to sleep with a movie star for $20.
She did not choose to retaliate against her parents, but chose to forgive them, and she did not give up her dream, and there are still people in the industry who find her to cooperate in filming.
Later Francis also had a period of glory, but in the end she chose to say goodbye to the stage.
The last performance on the farewell stage was applauded on the spot.
The Los Angeles Weekly at the time said, "People saluted her with the warmest applause, to her despair, to her struggles, to her defiance, to the indomitable soul that was once alive." ”
After saying goodbye to the stage, Fransea chose a peaceful country life, writing poetry, painting, and doing what he liked to do.
In 1970, she died in hospital with esophageal cancer at the age of 57.
This stubborn, indomitable soul eventually dissipated into the world.
Although Francis died, it also allows us to see her lifelong struggle, even if we can't defeat those who oppress her and persecute her, at least what she shows to everyone is a real, absolutely disobedient and kind soul.
This film recreates the life experience of the tragic character Frances, as a very promising actress, she is not willing to be at the mercy of the boss, unwilling to act as a machine to make money for the Hollywood boss, so she was beaten into the cold palace, not even a small role can not play. The many tribulations of life made her personality change greatly, and she was eventually forcibly sent to an insane asylum in a conflict with the police, and endured for 8 years in that inhuman place. She resisted and shouted, but in exchange for the pituitary gland being removed. In 1970, she died of cancer.
After watching the movie "Francis", I gradually began to think about the practices of some stars in the entertainment industry, which may not be their own willing choice in many cases.
As mentioned by one of the debaters in Stranger Things, actors are commodities.
But actors who obey the arrangement are the commodity, and actors who disobey I would like to call artists.