Today we introduce a 2006 drama, suspense, thriller, crime, adventure, historical film: Hollywood Manor
Photographed by the United States. Directed by Alan Courtler
Starring: Adrian Brody
Diane Lane
Ben Affleck
joe spano
Dash Mihawk
Molly Parker
Bob Hoskins
Robin Tony
Royce Smith
Jeffrey DeMuen
Caroline Daphne
Catherine Robertson
gareth williams
Zach Mills
The death of Hollywood superstar George (Ben Affleck) leaves fiancée Leilor (Robin Tony robin tunney) and mother Helen (Lois Smith) cut off. In official reports, George died by suicide, however, Helen was full of doubts about this conclusion.
In order to find out the truth about her son's death, Helen hires private investigator Louis (Adrien Brody). As the investigation unfolds, Lewis discovers that George and MGM Productions president Eddie (Bob Hoskins) and his wife, Tony (Diane Lane, Diane Lane), the president of MGM Productions, have had an affair that seems to be the key to George's death. As Louis approached the truth, danger approached him, and in secret, there seemed to be some powerful and powerful people who did not want Louis to find the answer he wanted.
In the 1950s, the bizarre death of the film and television star George Reeves (Ben Alfrek) caused an uproar in the United States. The popular male star who played one of the Tarlton twins in "Gone with the Wind" and reached the top of his career as "Superman" Clark Kent in the TV series "The Adventures of Superman" from 1952 to 1957. Three days before his wedding to social girl Reno Lemmon, he was mysteriously shot in the head at his home in Los Angeles, and the forensic result was suicide, but many people, including his relatives and friends, thought it was a murder, and his secret relationship with Tony, the wife of MGM executive Eddie Mannix, was the source of everything. The final verdict of the police was "suicide on the outside", but soon the word about his murder spread instantly, and Reeves's mother was even more convinced of such a statement. And hired the famous private investigator Louis Seamus (Adrian Brody) to investigate the truth of the whole incident. As the investigation deepens, Seamus does indeed discover that Reeves and Eddie Mannix's wife, Tony Mannix (Diane Lane), have an underground relationship that lasted for eight years, and the secret relationship between the two seems to have become one of the biggest suspects of the "superman' "shooting"...
The film's title, "Hollywoodland," comes from the "hollywood" sign on a hilltop on the outskirts of Los Angeles. In 1923, in order to attract people to buy land and build homes, local real estate developers erected the "hollywoodland" sign on the hill, which was originally intended to be placed here for a year and a half, but for various reasons, the sign has been preserved. By 1949, the local chamber of commerce decided to remove the last four letters that were already dilapidated at the time, making it the "hollywood" we see today.
Average review score: 6.6
Awards:
Winner of the Venice Film Festival (2006; 63rd).
Volpi Cup - Best Actor Ben Affleck
nominate
Golden Lion Award Alan Coulter
Golden Globe Awards (2007; 64th)
Film - Best Supporting Actor Ben Affleck
Saturn Awards (2007; 33rd)
Winning
Saturn Award - Best Supporting Actor Ben Affleck
Shoot tidbits
Hugh Jackman was the original candidate to play George Rivers, while Benicio del Toro was the original candidate to play private detective Luis Seymour. Both were unable to star due to a clash of shooting plans. Joquinn Fenix had hoped to play Seymour, but was snatched away by Adrian Brody, who auditioned for exactly the opposite of 2004's The Mysterious Village.
George Rivers' biographer Jim Beevo served as the film's historical advisor.
The Avicles car in the film is indeed George Rivers's ride.
Because Warner Bros. refused to let the film crew use the title of that year's "Superman" TV series in the film, the crew could not help but reshoot.
The photograph of the female corpse presented in the film is a real photograph of the death of Hollywood actress Carlo Landis.
Behind the scenes
【About the script】
When you think of Superman, the first names to pop into your head are sure to be a whole bunch of names — the most frequent of all—the new "Superman" Brandon Rose, and, of course, Christopher Reeve, who died two years ago. However, there is a generation in us who were children in 1959 and are now moving towards middle age... In the minds of this generation, there is only one "Superman", irreplaceable, and that is George Rivers.
Therefore, it is not difficult to imagine that the death of George Rivers is equivalent to the destruction of this generation, and their soul world collapses in an instant due to the loss of the "load-bearing wall". Although the police have closed the case for George Rivers' death, the conclusion of "suicide" is really far-fetched. Moreover, various investigations organized by many fans since then have also shown that the truth is by no means so simple. For nearly 50 years, people have been searching for the so-called truth, but to this day, it is still an unsolvable mystery.
George Rivers, who is "Superman", has tens of millions of fans, and screenwriter Paul Bernbaum is one of them, and half a century later, he has collected and sorted out all the known factual investigations, made bold speculations, and created an original screenplay called "Hollywood Manor". Although the final result is still like falling into the fog, the truth is about to come out. The sudden death of George Rivers in 1959 is puzzling, but the fall of a generation of idols has left many mysteries for the world to speculate. Birnbaum himself happened to be a teenager in the late 1950s, and it can be said that he grew up with George Rivers's TV series "The Adventures of Superman", and he still remembers everything at that time: "The Adventures of Superman was filmed in a total of 104 episodes, of which 52 were colored and 52 were black and white... Not only did I watch each episode, I watched each episode at least three times. In addition, all the comics and cartoons about 'Superman' are also my favorites. At that time, I thought willfully that if there really was a 'superman' in this world, he would be what George Rivers looked like - this idea has been with me until now, and I believe that other children who have watched this TV series should have the same idea as me. When I became an adult, I continued to worship The Adventures of Superman, my near-fanatical admiration for George Rivers, and even paid a high price at auction for one of his costumes from the series, which was so different for my generation. ”
That's why, when Bernbaum became a playwright, he wanted to bring everything about George Rivers to the big screen. He wants to show Theatrical way of George Rivers's short but colorful life, and he thinks that what ultimately kills George Rivers is the incredible influence of playing "Superman", and everyone demands him by the standards of "Superman", which makes him feel extremely uneasy... The main line of the story is very simple: an actor wants to become a star, but because the process comes too quickly and too quickly, it goes to the opposite ending. Even so, George Rivers still lived in the hearts of the tens of millions of people who were influenced by him at the time, for whom he never let them down, and he was "Superman", a hero of heroes.
Although the film is based on a true event, the script by Paul Bernbaum is 100% original. The whole story revolves around a fictional character, private detective Louis Seymour, and sometimes a person's profession and personality can reflect some of his strengths in life. This kind of expression makes the "truth" in the script created by Bernbaum, although it cannot be verified, but it has a very credible authority, and its biggest feature is that it allows you to unconsciously feel the causes and consequences of this mysterious event that occurred half a century ago, which is mixed with some human good and evil.
【Fame and Affection】
The script was completely completed in the fall of 2001, and given the peculiarities of the story itself, producer Glenn Williamson had already included it in the Miramax company, waiting for the director and actors to start work together. In fact, as early as the script revision stage, Williamson already had a full set of actor ideas, and was very confident that every expected actor would accept the invitation to appear in the film: ""Hollywood Manor" is concerned with an event that is very influential in the world, and the actor and director with a little brain are not looking forward to such a book..." Although a little self-confidence burst, the truth is like Williamson said, when Alan Colt, a very influential director in the television industry, saw the script, Always very cautious, he immediately decided to make "Hollywood Manor" his debut hit on the big screen. At the same time, Colt also agreed with Williamson on the priority of the film: "The protagonist here is not George Rivers, but Detective Louis Seymour. As he investigates the whole affair, he also reveals flaws in his own personality—Louis is the kind of person who is very focused on fame and fortune, which clashes with his emotional world, and his wife, son, and small house can no longer meet his needs. Therefore, the general direction of the story should still be attributed to the realization of the 'American Dream', there are many similar stories, but this film has a more tragic tone. The film's cast is even more star-studded, with Ben Affleck, Adrian Brody, Diane Lynn and Bob Hoskins either winning the Little Golden Man or being nominated.
In fact, many ordinary fans do not know that George Rivers, who was already engaged at the time, maintained an ambiguous relationship with Tony, the wife of MGM boss Eddie Mannix. And many of the investigations have pointed the finger at Eddie, believing that he should bear some degree of responsibility for George Rivers' death: Eddie will certainly be angry that his wife Tony is out of the wall, and as for Toni, it is not much better at this time, because George Rivers' other relationship is about to blossom - he has just been engaged to actress Leono Lemon. Therefore, Toni played a crucial turning point in George Rivers's life. Diane Lynn, who plays the film, made a lot of preparations for the film, which meant that she had to go into the past and find the facts under the surface: "This thing means a lot to me, although I was born in the era after George Rivers, but I was also deeply influenced by the 'superman' he played. I've always felt that George Rivers and 'Superman' are on par, and there was never the idea of comparing the differences between them, and George Rivers was as flawless to me as 'Superman'. When I was a child, although George Rivers had been saying goodbye to the world for a few years, he would still appear on the TV every day as a 'superman'... To have this opportunity to dig into many different aspects of George Rivers is a very interesting thing for me, and I can appear in the film as his lover, more like in a dream, because he is as high as God in my heart. Lynn had been wondering what Toni should look like in real life, especially in her position and state of mind in the late 1950s. Lynn felt that Toni should be a very aggressive woman in the first place, and it turned out that it was because of her strength that an irrevocable mistake was forged; secondly, Toni must be more mature than her actual age, which was the fundamental reason why she was able to attract George Rivers, not power, not money, but her age and charm, where time is no longer a natural enemy of women, but has become one of the most powerful weapons of women.