It was four o'clock in the morning, and Edward Norton was still at the scene of [Fight Club].
This is his 129th day working on the film, and after tonight, it will be completely finished.
He had never worked in a crew for that long before, and he wouldn't have since.
It was already so late in the night that Brad Pitt was still with him, and radiohead's OK Computer was in the room.
An album that, like [Fight Club], represents The Anxiety and Confusion of Generation X, rebelling against consumerism, decadent and manic like the layers of dark circles of Taylor in [Fight Club].
For the previous 129 days, he had come this way.
This is not common with other actors.
Most of the actors, at the beginning of the film, will also be so competitive.
Staying up late, but after repeated trials, exchanges, and conflicts, the requirements for the director and the tone of the film were at least understood.
After that, the way is right, the acting is comfortable, and there are no more questions and anxieties.
But Norton survived for 129 days, until the last day, and still fighting in the middle of the night.
Until four o'clock in the morning, he was still asking director David Finch: "Do you really think so?" ”
Finch certainly knew that Norton wasn't really confused about his ideas, but was too much of his own.
The sky is big, the biggest director on the set?
Norton didn't think so.
The hour hand is set back to the first few days of [Fight Club] boot.
People remember the scene:
Taylor was in the boss's office, beating himself to the point of bruising his nose and swollen face, and screaming and screaming, listening to the sound, Taylor was miserable and pitiful.
In the confined space covered by blinds and only Taylor and the boss, Taylor's scars made the boss unable to argue, and he could only agree to his unreasonable request-
Tyler, you don't have to work, and I'll pay you the same.
It's so funny and deflated that it's time to hang this still on each boss's wall to make an example.
The scene was filmed early in the middle and back of the film.
No one expected that during the filming of this scene, Norton's "fault" was committed.
Norton has an obsession with [Fight Club].
He thought it was a comedy.
Moreover, he always thought that this was the consensus of him and Finch.
Finch couldn't remember when he had said that.
Could it be that when you first talked about this project, you raised a sentence of approval?
There's certainly something wrong with a sense of humor, but strictly speaking, Finch doesn't want to make it easy for viewers to think it's comedy.
Norton clung to this argument.
This scene, in particular, was too mischievous, too comedic, and he hated to wink at the off-screen audience during the performance: Is this joke funny?
Finch could not accept the explicit blink of an eye.
The two men couldn't stand each other and debated on the spot.
Hut McCarrani is just an innocent actor in [Fight Club].
Like many innocent colleagues, I came to the set on time and prepared to shoot, but waited for half an hour, waiting for the lead actor and director to finish "arguing".
In half an hour, even the pattern of the floor was memorized.
What he couldn't understand even more was that these two people who were arguing endlessly were becoming more and more spiritual.
"Less Jerry's feeling, plus a little more Dean in."
Finch handed Norton such a code, and without any key, Norton could unlock the code and present a performance that balanced comedy and seriousness.
But at night, he would still ask Finch: Do you really think so?
Still not dead-hearted, want to wink at the audience.
Finch loved Norton like this, but he didn't know that the year before, there had been a director who hated Norton.
That was in 1998, when [the X-Files] was filmed.
At that time, Norton was the golden boy of Hollywood, the heart of the studio.
In this way, he has a little privilege: to be able to give advice to the script of the film.
Norton was serious and thoughtful, and he wrote a long list of opinions on the script in detail.
But the film's director, Tony Kaye, did not even accept the studio's proposal, let alone Norton's.
He made the wrong decision to finish [the X-Files] as he wanted.
Then disaster struck.
The studio stripped Kaye of editing rights.
Not only that, but they also included Norton in the editing team.
Have you ever seen such a sight?
The director of a film is desperate to enter the editing room of his own work, and the actor is in charge of the life and death of film.
After all the pleading, Kaye was finally allowed to enter the editing room.
However, he still has no right to decide where to stay in the footage he shot himself.
Directed by Tony Kaye
He could only watch as Norton retained a large part of his own scenes, and he argued that he could only scold Norton as a narcissistic mediocre.
A few years later, Norton also made a movie, and the unspeakable Kayer finally found evidence of Norton's incompetence.
In 2002, when the time passed but there was no circumstance, Kaiye, who was angry, wrote a column scolding Norton.
"Look, what Norton says is not useful for making a real movie."
"Look at what he did [as always], it's fucking horrible."
"The studio raped my film, and Norton was the incompetent accomplice."
Kayer said so.
Norton ignored that. He thought [the X-Files] ended up looking great.
Although the beginning is good, but in the end, the finished product has completely become an epic Shakespearean tragedy.
Cow Dafa!
The Academy felt the same way.
The following year's Oscars, Norton was nominated for Best Actor for the first and only time.
When he appeared at the awards ceremony, Kaye did not appear. He didn't even watch that year's awards ceremony.
Norton attended the 1999 Oscars
[The X-Files] Even if he takes more box office and wins more awards, what does it have to do with him?
That movie was the masterpiece of the man he hated the most, Edward Norton.
Others, for Norton, love or hate.
They just can't tell if this person has a problem with his mental system or if he's really a strange person.
[Red Dragon] director Brett Ratner may have a feel for it.
Counting forward, he has filmed the [Rush Hour] series, and looking back, he also has [X-Men 3], american drama [Prison Break], and the wind and waves are not unseen.
But Norton? I will never meet a second such person.
On the first day of filming, Norton came to the set on time.
But it wasn't just him who came to the set, but he also rewrote a new script for [Red Dragon].
No one knew that Norton had brought such a guy with him.
When he arrived, he gave the script to Brett Ratner and asked him to shoot it according to a new idea.
Even laymen know that making a movie is not a job that can be taken with a script.
With the script, you have to draw a storyboard, and a director who is very experienced and knows what to shoot can skip this step.
Not to mention that Ratner didn't know anything about what Norton wanted to shoot, and even if Norton sat in the director's chair, the other actors had to familiarize themselves with the script.
Even if you want to break your head, you can't figure out why Norton, who has been filming for several years and has a directorial work, would do such a thing.
This nonsensical request, of course, cannot be implemented.
Ratner wasn't annoyed, he saw something about this yale high-achieving student.
"He likes to question the director and initiate intellectual debates. He always intuitively wants to 'save' a movie, which is a blessing and a curse. ”
It's just, are those people really willing to be "saved" for those things?
Can Norton really be the savior who "saves" everything?
At least, for the studios that are rich and have the power to kill, Norton's small shrimp wants to save them, as if he is talking crazy.
Paramount initially paid homage to Norton.
Norton's debut novel, and also famous, is Paramount's [First Degree Fear]. The two have deep roots.
For promising newcomers, the studio will sometimes place heavy bets and sign a packaging contract with them, stipulating that the newcomers should shoot a certain number of films for the studio within a certain period of time, at a fixed price.
Norton is a newcomer to Paramount's radar.
According to the contract, after [First Level Fear], he also had to shoot three more films for Paramount.
Paramount wins the bet, and [Level 1 Fear] makes Norton a hit.
But then came the problem, Norton was too red, too busy.
[Sex Book Tycoon], [Everybody Says I Love You], [American X-Files], piece by piece, one after another, to fulfill the packaging contract, the schedule must be queued until the Year of the Monkey.
Paramount is also very flexible, reducing the original three movies to one.
However, both parties must determine the specific project in 18 months, otherwise Paramount will unilaterally designate a movie for Norton within 24 months.
[Sex Book Tycoon]
When Norton heard this clause, his heart was also muttering.
Although it is a popular fried chicken, it also has to cherish the feathers.
In particular, Norton's temperament refuses to make movies that he does not approve of.
But then-Paramount CEO Shirley Lansing verbally promised, "I'll never force you to make a movie you don't want to make." ”
I believe in your evil.
Norton is not unpretentious. He offered to participate in [Genius Ripley] and also expressed interest in [Mission Impossible 3].
But Paramount has other plans for these films.
Norton recommended Spike Lee's [25th hour] to Paramount, but the other party was not optimistic about the film's market film and refused to participate.
In the spring of 2002, Paramount came up with "Stealing the Day".
[Stealing the Day], led by Mark Wahlberg and Charlize Theron
Norton didn't take the movie seriously, saying only that it was an option given by Paramount.
And this option is obviously not suitable for him.
The star-studded big productions, speeding cars, beautiful women, big thieves, these keywords are far from the movies he wants to make.
He refused.
Unexpectedly, within a few months, Paramount told him that [Stealing the Day] was our designated filming schedule.
Norton was mad.
He called CEO Shirley and yelled angrily, reminding her that you said you wouldn't use strong, now?
Angry words are always just angry words.
Norton is reluctant to make [Stealing Days], but if he gets into a lawsuit with Paramount because of this, he will miss more movies he wants to make.
He finished the film in a bad mood, refused to attend the promotion, and then publicly shouted to the fans: "My real fans should ignore this movie." ”
In Hollywood, it's one thing that you don't take the director seriously, and it's another thing to bump into the studio executives and disregard the rules of business.
As for what kind of "bluffing" did "crazy" Norton do later?
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