Five years ago, "City of Philharmonic", starring Emma Stone and written and directed by Damien Chazere, must have poked a lot of audience tears.
The former also won the Academy Award for Best Actress because of the perfect interpretation of the glittering role of Mia on the road of chasing dreams, and the latter also won the Best Director Award, which is also a fairy cooperation.
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Now, foreign media reports say that the two may join forces again to collaborate on the new film "Babylon". This time, the story also focuses on Hollywood, but it is set in the 1920s.
It was the roaring Twenties, the new art represented by jazz was born, the film industry moved from silent film to sound film era, and countless modern women also met the world with a more confident appearance.
Clara Bow is one of the main characters, and she is also the heroine of the new film written and directed by Damien Chazelle.
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In addition to Sister Stone being the current hot starring candidate, the male lead actor's candidate has also been exposed to be Brad Pitt, and this lineup is very strong at first hearing.
According to people familiar with the matter, the script of the film is 180 pages long, which means that the film will last for three hours, the project budget will be between 80 million and 100 million US dollars, and the style will be more bold.
No wonder that at present, giants such as Netflix and Paramount are competing to be distributors and big productions.
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Moreover, although the lead actor has not yet been officially signed, and who the actor is has not been finalized, but just by virtue of the fact that the protagonist of the story is Clara, it has been fully anticipated, that is Clara eh!
With curly hair, slightly drooping eyebrows, big betty-like eyes with a little laziness, innocence, seductive charm, it is a delicate doll, but also a sexy little wild cat.
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Clara, the most famous modern girl of her time, Hollywood's first It girl, had a revolutionary influence on pop culture and female imagery, and her life itself was a black-and-white silent film that aired in a world of red and green.
Clara was born in 1905 in the slums of Brooklyn, New York City, where she lived in a cramped room above a dilapidated church.
All of God's concern for Clara seems to have been placed on carving out the perfect beauty for her, and no matter how much, there will be none. For example, the warmth from the family, we feel it every day, but for her, it is a luxury.
The pain of the family seemed to have come before she was born. Clara was her parents' third child, and in the first two years of her life, two older sisters were born, but both died tragically. Doctors told Clara's mother, Sarah, that she should avoid pregnancy to prevent the tragedy from happening again.
But Sarah didn't follow the doctor's advice, and she risked giving birth to Clara, where the mother and daughter were on the line several times in the 38-degree Celsius heat.
Little Clara breathed, continued to breathe, and survived strongly. From the beginning, even being born in this world was more difficult than others, and what did she bear was more than this?
After her mother, Sarah, was diagnosed with epilepsy and mental illness after falling from a second-floor window and causing a serious head injury, Clara learned at an early age how to care for her mother when she was ill, and how to face the meanness, hostility and violence from her mother.
For example, when she later said that she wanted to become an actress, she was exchanged for a sentence from her mother: You might as well die.
For example, when she was 17 years old, she woke up to find her mother holding a knife to her throat. Although her mother didn't remember anything afterwards, how could Clara forget the panic and pain at that time?
We see that at an age when she should be taken care of by an adult, she strives to play the role of caring for others.
As for his father, Clara was unemployed when he was four and a half years old, and the family was displaced, changing 14 residences in 18 years, and a stable life was unimaginable. And in his family life, in Clara's upbringing, he was basically an alibi.
David Stenn, Clara's biographer, said that when she was 16 years old, the father, who did not give his daughter much love, raped her.
We see that in the flower season when she should be growing up happily, she is tormented by her loved ones.
In addition to the injuries she had suffered at her parents' place, Clara was also the one who was isolated among her peers, her worn-out clothes and turnip hair style, all of which were ridiculed by the other girls. So she would rather learn to be a tomboy than let herself hate being treated as a girl, so that she doesn't have to envy other people's beautiful little skirts.
"I don't have clothes to wear, and a lot of times I don't have anything to eat, I'm just alive." Years later, she remembered the little girl in her memory who was tugging at the corners of her clothes and hanging her face, and said so.
But not everyone was bullying Clara, and she had good friends, a little boy named Johnny who was her neighbor. Heart-wrenchingly, when Clara was nine years old, she witnessed an accident: Johnny was burned alive.
Many years later, when the director marveled at how contagious Clara's crying scenes were, Clara told everyone that all she needed to do was to think back to her childhood.
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It's just about bringing yourself back into that gray darkness.
But in that bleak life, Clara found the light of life.
The cinema became her last refuge, and from those films she learned for the first time that the world could be so beautiful. For the first time, she saw distant lands, she saw happy families, she saw romantic, noble, charming images, and she saw everything she could not touch in real life.
At the age of 16, it seemed to be the shock and turning point of Clara's life, that year, she made it clear that she wanted to become an actress and make movies, and she participated in a national performance competition sponsored by the magazine and won a prize.
One of the judges said that the young Clara was imbued with confidence, determination and ambition that did not match his age. She's not playing a role, she's like she's living in that role.
But after winning the award, the resources and roles promised by the sponsors were delayed, so Clara kept coming around their offices, squatting on them, urging them, and finally being introduced to a director and getting a role. But in the end, the scene was all cut off, which undoubtedly poured a basin of cold water on her, who had just ignited hope.
The competition didn't make Clara famous overnight, and the opportunity to shoot needed more effort, but Clara didn't back down, and since then she has firmly established her dream of filming, constantly tossing and turning between interviews, and she has heard all kinds of rejection reasons, either too young, too short, or too fat.
But persevering, Clara gradually gained some small roles, with a good appearance, delicate acting skills, unique style of character image, she got more and more opportunities, with 8 in 1924, 15 in 1925 labor model production, and in 1925, with "the Plastic Age", became a big hit star.
After becoming famous starring in silent films, Clara transitioned to sound films in 1927. That year, her role as a sexy and brave female clerk in the film "It" became a classic image. British writer Elinor Glyn also used the term "It girl" to describe her, and later, people began to use the word to refer to women who were confident, attractive and sexy, creative and unaffected by others.
Also in that year, she starred in the film Wings, which became the first Academy Award for Best Picture.
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How hot was Clara at that time? There is a saying in the jianghu: as long as there is a movie starring Clara, it will not be lost. It can be said that Clara was the box office elixir of that era.
The popularity of the fairy should not be underestimated, there are many die-hard fans, just in January 1929 this month, Clara received 45,000 fan letters, boys regard her as a goddess, girls worship her as a benchmark, countless people are crazy for her.
From hairstyles, dressing to makeup, Clara also became the fashion queen of the time, and her lip makeup that formed a perfect hyperbolic lip was imitated by many girls.
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Clara seems to have a very different life. But Clara, who became a big star, has been stuck in the slums of Brooklyn by the world and has never stepped out.
On set, she can skillfully control emotions, and some directors say that Clara can even shed tears the next moment he asks her to cry.
But he added: "She was radiant, full of nervous energy and energy, eager to please everyone." "Sincere simplicity, childishness, sentimentality, is what many people say about her.
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But Hollywood was extremely harsh on her.
While the media made a big fuss about her sexy role, they criticized her private life, and the boy who spread the gossip was not blamed, but she was rated as a "disgraceful" existence.
Not agreeing with her lifestyle, thinking she was unladylike and unruly, and the Hollywood elite thought she had a lot of influence, was still an inferior person.
Because the character is sexy, because she was born poor, because she is not like being a lady as everyone thinks, because she does not want to pretend to be noble or set up a perfect persona, her emotional life you ask me frankly, so in the eyes of many people, she is debauched, she is inferior, and she becomes "Clara who causes trouble every day".
Most of the roles given to her by the studio are sexy vases, restricting her development, and there are also reports that because of rumors and negative reports, economic companies will also "punish" her by taking back movies, deducting money, and asking her to pay for promotional photos.
Once exhausted, working 18 hours a day and then crying and falling asleep, it became Clara's daily routine. In the end, she had a hard time falling asleep, so she began to take a lot of medication to ensure that she could complete the company's schedule.
Although Clara's films have repeatedly sold well, the pressure of fame, rumors from the outside world, overloaded work, being scammed by the secretary, etc., eventually crushed her spirit, and at that time she became the "daily collapse Clara" in the mouth of her agent. Eventually, she was sent to a nursing home and gradually quit her job, and by the time she was 25, her career was essentially over.
In 1931, Clara married actor Rex Bell and had two sons. Two years later, she opted out of show business and lived with her husband on a farm in Nevada.
Clara's last film, Hoop-La, was released in 1933, when she was 28 years old.
Starring in a total of 46 silent films and 11 sound films, Clara is remembered as a new female figure.
But life is still so cruel to Clara, it starts and ends.
Married life is not sweet, there are often rifts in the relationship, and worse, after withdrawing from the public eye, Clara has not gained mental peace. She began to show symptoms of mental illness, increasingly difficult to socialize, and often refused to communicate with her husband or want him to leave the house alone. Later, she also tried to commit suicide.
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In 1949, Clara was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and some analysts associated her illness and insomnia with her mother's experience of holding a knife to her, but Clara refused to accept this psychological analysis and was later discharged from the hospital.
After being discharged from the hospital, she did not return to her home, but lived in a secluded hut under the care of a nurse and rarely went out on weekdays.
On September 27, 1965, Clara died of a heart attack at the age of 60.
The girl who grew up hard but has always shined has left the world forever, and many of the movies she has made have been lost, but fortunately, she is remembered by us.
I don't know that when this name is mentioned, people think of it, maybe the childish figure who leads her mother home with a turnip head, maybe the little girl who constantly runs into walls and constantly runs through various studios, or maybe it is the cold and feminine on the screen, becoming a generation of legendary It girl.
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If her story can be tinted again on the screen she loves, then who wouldn't expect it?
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