Making movies is very expensive.
If you can't make ends meet, you can mean the direct shattering of the movie dream (unless, of course, you have a mine at home).
Especially for newcomer directors.
How to save money is a university question.
The best films in film history that are ultra-low cost have been touted as rare.
"This Man from Earth", a brain-burning masterpiece, costing $200,000;
"The Night the Comet Came", Schrödinger's house, costing $50,000;
"Ghost Shadow Record", the whole team is a couple, the cost is 15,000 US dollars;
"Follow", Nolan's debut, $6,000.
Today, Uncle Fish wants to introduce such an "extremely economical" film -
Peanut Butter Falcon
<h1>The Peanut Butter Falcon</h1>
It's a small-budget road movie.
How small is it?
The initial production budget was only $20,000.
Directors Taylor Nelson and Mike Schwartz are both newcomers.
The two directors of the Day of The Green Day
Peanut Butter Falcon is their feature film debut.
With Hollywood's business style, they certainly can't get any big investment without fame.
The subject matter is also very unpopular.
It features people with Down syndrome.
Down syndrome, a congenital disorder caused by structural aberrations in chromosomes.
Intellectual disabilities and special facial features are common clinical features.
In past Hollywood movies, we can hardly see down syndrome patients.
After the two directors sent the script to several producers, none of them were stoned.
But fortunately, Shea LaBeouf (the male protagonist of the "Transformers" trilogy) is interested in this project.
In his view, the film contains a rich American culture:
"The script reads like a pillow embroidered with beautiful American scenery."
It is because of his joining.
The crew followed up with Dakota Johnson ("Fifty Shades of Grey"), Bruce Dunn ("Nebraska"), John Hulks ("Three Billboards") and many other well-known actors.
They are all very low-paid friendship starring.
At this year's South by Southwest Film Festival, the film won Best Picture in the Spotlight Unit.
It grossed tens of millions of dollars at a very small cost and became a small hit in North American theaters this summer.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the scores are surprisingly higher.
Both film critics and audiences have given super high evaluations.
It is one of the best rated films in the United States this year.
The fate of a movie can be so reversed before and after.
The answer is often in the story.
The protagonist, Zach, is a Down syndrome patient.
Because of this "no future" disease, his family left him in a nursing home.
There, Zack had access to only two kinds of people.
One is to blatantly insult him as "mentally retarded."
The other is overly protective of him.
But either way, it wasn't what Zach wanted.
Like all young people out there, Zach has a heart that desires to achieve.
His dream is to become a professional wrestler.
To that end, Zach watches the same wrestling video every day.
Fantasizing about going to the wrestling school mentioned in the video one day, learning the art from a teacher, and being a big hero.
On this goal, Zach tried several times to escape from the nursing home.
Finally, on a dark night, the light slipped out of the window.
No money, no family, no idea how to survive in this world.
With only his yearning for his destination, he embarked on an adventurous journey.
As a "fugitive", Zach coincidentally meets another "fugitive", that is, Taylor, on the way to escape.
Taylor (Shea LaBeouf) is probably the bereaved man in everyone's mouth.
He was originally an ordinary fisherman, because of a drunk driving, unfortunately killed his brother in the passenger seat.
Since then, he has begun a life of self-abandonment.
In an argument with others, Taylor set a fire out of revenge.
As a result, the big basket was stabbed, and the damage caused far exceeded the estimate.
On the way to escape, I accidentally got stuck with Zack's brown candy.
Seeing that Zach was confused, Taylor decided to send him a kind heart and send him to the wrestling school of his dreams.
Of course, it is also because it is just the right way.
A pair of "brainless" and "unhappy" were on the road.
To put it bluntly, this is actually a somewhat clichéd story.
Zach, who is looked down upon by the world, wants to prove himself.
The devastated Taylor needs spiritual redemption.
Such a combination of protagonists, coupled with the road movie genre.
In the past "Flying House Tour" and "Little Beauty of the Sunshine", you can find shadows.
But that doesn't stop the movie from looking good.
North Carolina's beautiful riverbank scenery and fresh and natural folk song minor tunes make it easy to immerse yourself in it.
Speaking of which, the protagonist has not encountered any ups and downs, thrilling events.
Small fights, easy to resolve.
Relaxed, witty, simple and innocent.
Inexplicably with a bit of fairy tale meaning.
Like Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Regarding the plot, Uncle Fish is not going to say too much.
But it must be mentioned that the story behind the scenes of this movie resonates with the plot very surprisingly.
The life of Zach and Taylor in the film is actually a true portrayal of the two actors.
Let's start with Zach.
The actor who plays him is a real Down syndrome sufferer, whose real name is Zach Gauchagen.
About six years ago, Zach Gauchagan performed at a summer camp for people with disabilities in California.
There, he attracted the attention of the two directors of Peanut Butter Falcon.
Zach told them that he wanted to make a movie and be an actor.
Hearing his sincere wishes, the two directors did not say anything good, but sincerely and bluntly:
"It's almost impossible, there are no job opportunities for down-disease actors in the film industry right now."
"A movie featuring Tang Shi'er is unlikely to be put in theaters."
The director poses with the actors
Hearing such a categorical denial, normal people, whether they accept it or not, may silently find a corner to get through.
But Zach is different.
After a moment of sadness, he said to the director:
"Then let's make a film together!"
Because of this sentence, everything is possible.
The two directors gladly accepted the offer.
But as mentioned earlier, they have no experience in making movies, and they don't have much roots and connections in Hollywood.
The director is on set
At the beginning, I even had to go to the library to go through the materials and study how to write the script first.
In the three years of preparation for the film, both directors went bankrupt.
For a while they slept in a tent directly in the forest, and they often didn't have enough to eat.
However, with the gradual fullness of the script, the two directors' running around has still reaped results.
More and more stars are touched by this kind and lovely story, and take the initiative to use their own starlight to illuminate Zach's movie dream.
Among them, the one who contributed the most was, of course, Shia LaBeouf.
When it comes to Shea LaBeouf, we have to mention his childhood and the environment in which he grew up.
He came from a poor and complex family.
My mother's profession was dancing, and she made a living by selling jewelry along the street.
His father was a retired Vietnam War veteran who was addicted to drugs and alcohol for many years.
Half interested and half helper, Shia did comedy warm-up performances in some cafes and bars when she was very young.
By chance, he later entered Hollywood.
With the "Transformers" trilogy, it quickly became a big hit.
When Green Onion was a teenager
But the fame and fortune that come to the fore, the complex interpersonal relationships and rules of the showbiz industry.
For someone like Shea LaBeouf, who had a bumpy and self-conscious childhood, a lot of times it wasn't a good thing.
Seeing that he was about to grow into a big star, he began to embark on the road of "self-destruction".
After filming "Female Addicts", Hiya announced that she was retiring from the entertainment industry.
After that, he put on a brown paper bag with the words "I'm no longer a celebrity" and walked the red carpet of the Berlin Film Festival.
This kind of shocking "performance art" has certainly attracted ridicule from the media and netizens.
Later, he became a regular visitor to the police station.
Because of all kinds of alcoholism, marijuana smoking and other things that disturb social order, they entered the bureau.
His reputation plummeted.
Listed as one of America's most hated stars.
Once spirited
Of the many farces that Hiya has broken out, the most astonishing is the one that took place during the filming of Peanut Butter Falcon.
It was early in the morning.
Drunk and wanting to get a cigarette from passers-by, he was arrested on the spot for making a gender and racial discrimination fallacy about a policeman of color.
After paying the bail and returning to the crew, he began to feel unspeakable shame.
"I don't dare look anyone in the eye, I can't stand it."
"Nobody talks to me, and I don't talk to anybody."
"I know my life is exploding again, and I'm so ashamed."
That out-of-the-box incident almost ruined the movie.
In the same crew, perhaps only Zach gave him the truest response.
He was both angry and upset and blamed Shea directly.
But then it comforted him.
In the movie, there is a scene where Zach and Taylor sit on a raft.
Zach, who seemed dazed, but actually knew everything and felt everything, suddenly hugged Taylor and said to him:
"Tyler, I promise you every wish for my birthday."
The tiger burst into tears
Birthday wishes are something zach values very much, and it's almost his most sincere concern.
In the play, Taylor blames himself for his brother's death.
Outside the play, Hiya is sad and ashamed of her out-of-the-box moves.
Unaware that the camera was already working on the camera, Zach hugged Hiya during the filming.
At that moment, Hiya's emotions collapsed and she curled up into Zach's arms.
Inside and outside the play, the mentality and emotions of the characters and actors are synchronized.
After that, Hiya promised Zach that he wouldn't drink for the rest of the film.
To this day, more than two years later, he still has no wine.
For a long time, Shea LaBeouf fought against inner anger and self-destruction.
Although I don't know how he will be in the future, I believe that meeting a little angel like Zach is a kind of luck in life.
In life, most of our encounters are not as dramatic as the two protagonists.
But being looked down upon, frustrated at work, and self-blamed after screwing up is something that most everyone will experience.
But the true meaning of life is to look forward.
If you still have desires, don't be defeated by fear and stereotypes.
I would rather run to the unknown without nothing, rather than give up the slight possibility of life.
Hopefully, there will always be a place for light to shine in in the long life.
Optimism and self-confidence are the things that support him to go on.
Uncle Yu knows that to take a difficult road, it is often time to be frustrated and frustrated, and to compete with himself.
But no matter how sad it is, there is nothing we can do more than move forward.
If you can take the initiative to live optimistically, why should you live passively and angrily?
Maybe life is all about fate.
No matter whether God gives you good cards or bad cards, calmly catch them and try to play them seriously.
No matter how much life is lost, don't be trapped in the same place.