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- "On February 19, 1988, a third-generation Chinese immigrant male was born in Los Angeles. His name was Vigor-Ivan-Yeah, and his Chinese name Ye Wei means only. Who was he at that time? No one would know that 15 years later, this boy would shock the world.
Everything started with an amazing idea. Ye Wei, who was 15 years old at the time, wanted to make a movie, either in the future or now. "
With the narration of a rich middle-aged male voice, the documentary began to play, and the TV screen showed Ye Wei¡¯s childhood family images.
As a movie fan, Ye Haogen took a lot of childhood images of his son, which gave screenwriter and director Nanette Postern a lot of room for development.
At this time, the audience saw Ye Wei, a baby learning to crawl, then a toddler, then a two- or three-year-old child running on the grass, a three- or four-year-old child playing with building blocks and building a castle, and holding a water pipe. A five or six-year-old child squirted water at a yellow Labrador. He laughed happily while squirting, and the Labrador also spun around happily.
"Hahaha!" VIY's relatives, friends, and fans all laughed. It was the first time for most of them to see these childhood images of Ye Wei. It was so interesting!
Lily was also laughing. It was around that time that she and her mother moved from the UK to Los Angeles. They lived not far away and went to school even closer. It was amazing that they only met after ten years.
"Look at him, he has been so bad since he was a child!" Nina was laughing, picking up Miss Gu and rubbing her cool and wet nose with her cheek, as if she was being kissed by him.
¡°Who is that?¡± Duoduo asked in surprise, she had never seen that dog before. Toto opened his eyes and glanced at it, but he didn't recognize it either!
"That's Lacey." Ye Haogen sighed softly. Gu Qiao's eyes also revealed some memories, "Lacie was the first dog member of our family. She went to heaven when she was eleven years old and passed away peacefully. Your brother was probably seven years old at the time. He couldn't accept it. Lacey¡¯s departure, so we don¡¯t mention it much.¡±
"I miss Lacey" A voice came from behind the sofa, "My old buddy, my Tooth Fairy, my Superman, childhood"
The documentary doesn¡¯t pay much attention to Ye Wei¡¯s childhood. After the introduction at the beginning, it enters his teenage years and the beginning of the story of chasing dreams.
On the TV screen, an empty shot of the junior high school of Harvard-Westlake School appeared, and the narration said: "Ye Wei's middle school went to Harvard-Westlake School, a prestigious private school with a long history. 'VIY is a unique student, a different person "Extraordinary prickly head", this is the collective evaluation of him by the teachers. "
A middle-aged and elderly woman in black business attire appeared, with the introductory text "Principal of Harvard-Westlake Junior High School, Jenny Hebrechts" in the lower left corner of the screen. She smiled: "That day, he suddenly burst into my office and said, ' For the sake of my own health, I have a serious request to the school. What am I asking? 'The cafeteria must add a Chinese cook!'"
Heibrechts looked surprised, "He gathered hundreds of students' signatures to support him. We had to pay attention to the students' needs and hired a cook."
"Haha!" Looking at the helpless and emotional look of the female principal, there was another burst of laughter from the audience in front of the TV.
The living room of Coppola's villa was full of young people shouting excitedly: "I'm participating!", "Me too, it's in seventh grade, haha!" Lev shouted: "Everything that can be eaten in the junior high school Anyone who loves delicious Chinese food should thank Brother Wei for bringing it back! ¡±
¡°It¡¯s really a thorn in the side!¡± Many people said so.
The narration said: "Ye Wei is good at uniting people to do something together."
"He is a leader." A middle-aged man in sportswear appeared on the TV, the coach of the Harvard-Westlake football team, Madio Carerioni. He said: "The team will be different if it has Ye Wei or without Ye Wei." He infects his teammates with his fighting spirit. As long as he is here, the team will never give up.¡±
"To tell Ye Wei's amazing story, we have to talk about his family first"
Along with the narration, the images on the TV briefly and accurately explained the Ye family, Wei Duo's image, "The Wedding is Coming" and other matters. The box office dropped by $2,370 a week. This middle-class family fell into the crisis of bankruptcy because of their movie dream. , Ye Wei's life suddenly changed dramatically.
The narrator said: "Ye Wei said this in an interview, 'I used to be a pampered boy who didn't understand the hardships of the world. I never seemed to know what annoyance was, and I didn't care about many things. When I saw My mom is looking for a job, my dad is frowning, and there¡¯s a lot of laughter missing from the house, and I get it.
I also know that I must stand up and do something, for my family and myself. ¡¯
15-year-old Ye Wei thought about it, and then he thought, since he wanted to do something, why not do it himself?What you like and are good at, why don't you touch your dream? "
At this moment, the audience in front of the TV was quiet, something was stirring in their hearts.
The girl holding the remote control didn't press the turntable, which seemed interesting. Let's watch it for a while. I still don't know how he did it. Then gradually, Ye Wei tried to find a movie script, and when he came across "Little Miss Sunshine", he was shocked and determined to buy it, but the bid from Focus Movies was US$500,000.
500,000 is neither too much nor too little. It depends on who it is. For VIY at that time, it was undoubtedly a huge sum of money.
The narrator said: "Ye Wei thought of his friends again. He knew that it was not just him who had the idea of ??doing something, they all had it."
"If you ask me, did I have absolute confidence that it would succeed? Wouldn't 500,000 become waste paper? No, I didn't. We just needed a chance."
Ye Wei's interview rang out, and a DV video was played on the TV. The audience saw that in a utility room that had been emptied of a large area, there were people sitting and standing crowded with young boys, mostly Asians but other races. There were also many Chinese people. Ye Wei stood at the front and gave a speech, which was so exciting!
There was a suppressed and excited silence in the Coppola house, and everyone in the Dream Chaser Alliance was in high spirits, as if they had returned to that day, crowded in that narrow but hopeful utility room, listening to that person's words that awakened their passion, He said time was precious, he called them nerds, and he let them choose their own answers.
"Movie! We fucking want to make a movie! This is the opportunity. It's up to you. You can choose to turn around and leave this room and continue your old life. It doesn't matter. I will tear your name off the ledger." Throw it in the trash; you can also choose to stay and do something big, do something right.¡±
After Ye Wei raised his fist and shouted, no one chose to leave. Everyone responded excitedly. Everyone must do something big and right!
"This company embodies our youth, hard work and dreams. Everyone here has the right to participate in its naming. So, what is the name of our company!?"
¡°Dream Chasing Alliance!!!¡±
"This is also my will, the Dream Alliance movie! I believe that our company, its light will shine across the United States and illuminate the world in the future! It will become a temple in the hearts of countless movie fans, and it will become a legend!!! "
Suddenly, a bright and bold soundtrack sounded, like a series of shocking thunder!
"Dream Chasing Alliance!!!" The Coppola family was immediately filled with unanimous shouts. Everyone was excited. Some people were shaking their fists, some were dancing, and Connie and other girls all smiled brightly. We have already Did it! Right now, at least millions of viewers across the United States are watching this moment!
This legend!
Master Jia let out an ooh, maybe because she was drunk or because she was excited, her face turned red, "If I were there at that time, I wouldn't be able to help but blow him, he's so cool"
"This idiot" Nina hugged Miss Gu tightly, her heart beating uncomfortably, and she moved a little helplessly. She was surprised, excited, infatuated, and even a little scared. She now fully knew "Let you give your soul to him." "What is VIY? He is a fireball that can burn everything"
"I knew I would go to Harvard-Westlake." Emma was excited and had this thought. Girls in an all-girls school really couldn't do such crazy things.
Lily clasped her hands and smiled. After their crowdfunding was exposed, the school really exploded and made a big fuss. Then she and he started dating soon
"It's great!", "It's really worth it, this part is worth watching this documentary!", "VIY's words are so classic!", "I think he will run for president in the future!"
There were countless excited young people in front of the TV. VIY¡¯s speech was cool, but the coolest thing was not how loud he said it at the time, but that he actually did it later! He took them on TV and told the world about their passion!
How many youthful dreams are behind "Little Miss Sunshine"?
"I know what to do. I want to pursue what I want. I want to be an actor." Kelsey Zhou suddenly made up her mind.
Bethenny looked at the family members around her and said decisively: "Isn't this God's instruction? We should make all our true thoughts clear to Ye Wei, he is that person! If my story has any motivational power, there is no There is no one better suited to tell the story than him." The family members nodded, that's right!
Girls are starting to understand, no wonderno wonder people like Lily Collins and Gia Coppola are joining the gangThey are not stupid, they are not crazy, they are just impressed
The documentary continues to be played on TV. After Ye Wei¡¯s crowdfunding was successful,The script was written down. But this was only the first step, and it was far from his goal of attracting stars to join the project. He needed to prove his ability, so he created "Dance of Angels".
"It was Thanksgiving, and we met at Disneyland." A smiling little blond girl, holding a white puppy in her arms, introduced "AnnaSophia Robb, the star of "Angel Dance", and her puppy Bella".
She laughed and said: "I was lost at the time. I thought he was a staff member. He was selling a lot of balloons. It turned out that he was just looking after a staff member who went to the bathroom."
The acquaintance process between Ye Wei and AnnaSophia was exposed, and how Ye Wei produced "Dance of Angels" at zero cost was exposed for the first time. Assistant director Darum Jenkins appeared on camera and laughed: "He taught us a lesson. We originally just wanted to keep our promise, but we didn't expect things to turn out like that."
A clip from "Dance of Angels" appeared on the screen, and the narration said: "Ye Wei led this team of USC students to complete the production of this miraculous short film. He needed to find people who appreciated him, but almost everyone They all rejected him, and he suffered setbacks one after another. The turning point came from one person, Tom Hanks."
¡°At that time, he was sending DVDs everywhere, and one of them got into my hands.¡±
Tom Hanks appears! This gave the audience the urge to applaud and cheer. Hanks smiled and said: "The excellence of this short film made me unable to ignore its producer. I contacted Wei. His age and talent shocked me. I couldn't help but give him a chance."
"Documentaries that are subject to many restrictions on revelations may put it simply. The inside information may not be made public until many years later, or may never be made public.
"There is no old man." Ramo smiled disappointedly, "I thought I would see his bald head."
Lily thought of that night, when Wei suddenly came outside her house, hugging her with joy and shouting and jumping, telling her the good news first
"Lily, Lily, Lily, Lily", his excited cry was still in his ears. If she appeared on the scene, she would definitely laugh and say: "He's crazy, I'm blinded, we don't know what to do except shouting together, it's incredible."
What was played out was enough to keep the audience spellbound. Ye Wei's magical story, narrated by Nanette Bostern, restored its charm. Sometimes touching, sometimes passionate, sometimes miraculous.
"Angel Dance" attracted the attention and appreciation of Hanks and Spielberg, and Hanks decided to give Ye Wei a chance.
Playtone Company established the project for "Little Miss Sunshine" to meet Ye Wei's request to serve as producer and director. However, whether it will be aborted or put into production depends to a large extent on Ye Wei's performance - with the 20% invested by Playtone $10,000 to remake "Wedding Day is Coming". Once it is messed up, of course the LMS will not be able to shoot.
???????????????????? However, Pretone¡¯s expectation is not the subsequent results, it only wants the quality to be high enough to be used as a DVD.
From a romantic comedy to a spoof comedy, VIY personally wrote and rewritten the script, using only about 15% of the footage from Kevin Thomas's version. Except for a bit of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", the rest of the footage was all directed and shot by him. He also Starring in "The Wedding God" himself, this is his screen debut.
¡°Now, they really get their damn cake!¡±
A clip from "Wedding Day is Coming" played on the TV screen. The God of Wedding made a scene at the wedding, kicked the huge wedding cake away, walked to the microphone and said something cool.
"Hahaha!" Seeing this scene, the fans burst into laughter, those jokes, the joy of success!
Yunick did a great job! Nina was also laughing. She saw this movie for the first time and saw his on-screen performance. She decided to watch "Wedding Day is Coming" later before going to bed. She had already bought a set of DVDs and has not opened them. That¡¯s all.
With the pure music of "How-deep-is-your-love", the results of "Wedding Day is Coming" were introduced on the screen. This movie, which did not have any box office expectations, staged a shocking explosion. It was tested in 1,089 theaters and grossed $38.56 million at the North American box office! Critics exclaimed that this was a spoof, and it was also loved by the audience.
In fact, it was last summer when 16-year-old Ye Wei suddenly appeared like a supernova!
At this time, an image of Ye Wei appearing as a guest on "The Daily Show" appeared on the screen. He was sitting at the host table, chatting and laughing with Jon Stewart.
"How old are you?"
¡°16 years old, sexy teen.¡±
The audience burst into laughter and cheers. At this time, even if the audience had seen it before, they still couldn't help but laugh. Ye Wei seems to be born for talk shows, he is both classy and humorous, humorous and confident, confident and humble:
"Actually, IEveryone has their own talents. Sometimes, if you use your talents, you will be called a genius by others. I think the key is that you have the courage to show yourself. "
At that time, Ye Wei was like a ray of morning sunshine, shining on everyone, everything was so heart-warming.
But anyone who is familiar with Ye Wei knows that a period of dark days followed
Lily¡¯s smile gradually disappeared. She wanted to turn the channel. She wanted everything to stop at the beginning of summer, the happiest day in her life so far. Looking at the news pictures of Ye Wei fighting and being taken into a police car on the screen, she had no idea at all, and many memories and emotions came to her mind.
The narration said: "The success of "Wedding Day" made Ye Wei known across the United States. The praise of the movie prodigy began to accompany him. "Little Miss Sunshine" was confirmed to be produced, and he was on track. But not long after, Ye Wei With the continuous scandals, underage drinking and fights, he publicly stated that he had done nothing wrong and would never apologize. It seems that the bastard is back and has become bad. "
"It was at that time, he and Lily Collins broke up" Nina looked a little sullen, "It was at that time"
Many movie fans are only excited, "That statement is so cool!", "I love VIY!", "I already have my mind on apologizing, and I will never apologize for this!"
The documentary tried to figure out what happened and interviewed several people. Ye Wei's agent Brian Sborrel said seriously: "No one knows what exactly went wrong with Wei. I only know that the sudden huge The outside attention made him unable to adapt well."
There was no mention of Lily, not even the words "emotional frustration". He resisted it all by himself, preferring to let the audience think that it was just him who was briefly lost in fame and fortune.
"What a good boy, I should have been more decisive back then" Emma muttered as she looked at him.
What VIY went through during that time is still a mystery, but viewers know that VIY did not really fall!
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