Jason Retman's Profile

Advertisers' dreams-

underage girls, pregnancy, giving birth, seeing these words will only make people associate with the words of erosion, depravity, darkness and so on. If such serious social problems are put on the big screen, they will only be realistic dramas, ethical dramas or downright tragedies. Except for jason reitman, probably no one dares to make a comedy.

Maybe you are really unfamiliar with the name of this 31-year-old Canadian director, but when it comes to his father, ivan reitman, who directed the films "Brothers and Mice", "Ghostbusters 2" and "kindergarten cop", you can understand where the funny talent of this unremarkable young director came from. It is said that Jason Reitman was born only 11 days ago and was taken to the set. Comedy movies accompanied him through his childhood. At the age of 1, Jason imitated his father's posture and picked up the family camera, which finally achieved his favorite direction. When ivan reitman filmed "kindergarten cop", his son, jason reitman, began to try to be the studio assistant of the film. At the age of 15, Jason made a public service advertisement about AIDS and won a small prize, which was enough to make young people ecstatic. After entering the university, Jason first joined the school's performance club, but jason reitman was obviously more qualified for the role of director. His personality was extremely cheerful, and he especially liked to tell jokes. When he talked about the beauty, he was very happy and laughed loudly.

In order to raise funds for filming Operation, Jason Retman started a small business in his sophomore year. When he stood at Sundance Film Festival in 1998 with his first short comedy, he was only 19 years old and was the youngest director at the film festival.

In the years after graduating from college, jason reitman was the most famous advertising producer. His commercial advertisements included Heineken, Honda, BMW, General Motors and many other world-class brands, but the advertisements could only be a springboard to his dream country.

Come to the movie-

Jason Retman is sitting in a friend's living room, and he is bored to open a novel by Buckley. He sees a sentence on the title page of the book: "Nick Naylor has been called by many names since he became the chief spokesman of the Tobacco Research Association, but until now no one has compared him with Satan." This sarcastic and humorous remark made Jason burst out laughing. After reading humorous story, a "drama of sentient beings" which revolves around the "tobacco problem", Jason felt that the author's thoughts of this book were in good agreement with his own movie ideas, so he came up with the idea of adapting the novel into a movie. His idea was finally supported by David Sachs of independent filmmakers. This movie is the 25 movie "Thank you for smoking".

when filming "thank you for smoking", jason reitman's choice of actors can be described as harsh. He insisted that the actor who best fits the character's image and personality should play it. For this reason, he wrote a letter to each invited actor, explaining the characteristics and personality of the role in detail. Jason's insistence on the script was so harsh that no matter how small the objection, it was impossible to get support from him. He insisted on shooting according to every scene in the script. He even spent three weeks explaining to sam elliott why his character had to accept the money.

Different from the action comedy style that his father ivan reitman is good at, jason reitman's favorite movie language is more stereoscopic and modern. The sharp perspective of analyzing reality, clever and funny teasing, and the low-key and ordinary characters themselves are compared with the language full of machine front and super-fast speech speed, which makes people laugh and make people think.

Juno-

The style of the movie Juno in 27 is obviously a continuation of the style in Thank You for Smoking, and this unique style has been branded as jason reitman's own. Taking unmarried pregnancy as the theme of the film, an originally heavy story is told in a relaxed and alternative way. People will find from this film that perhaps there is no thoroughness in life. There are exceptions to the end of any bad thing. The little girl in the film is not as depraved and dirty as the bad girl people think. She is still a sunny, rebellious, naive and lovely girl with a unique personality.

The story of getting pregnant before marriage is a somewhat old-fashioned theme, but the best thing about Juno is that it never tries to influence the behavior of movie characters with the restriction and criticism from the perspective of social morality. What it tells is just a unique spiritual growth history of a girl, showing a world that belongs to me. It tries to tell the existence of warmth and tolerance through the inner growth of such a girl. This is the most touching thing about this film, as the commentary said: "Everyone has a criterion of right and wrong in his heart, but the film has let everything get a good vent, which is the reason for its success." Jason reitman's unique comedy style makes the audience laugh, with almost no exaggerated movements. He only uses humorous language dialogue and sharp contrast with low-key and restrained action expressions to make jokes, and the jokes in the film are shaken in place. Juno caught people's eyes at the Toronto Film Festival, and won a prize of 2, euros at the Rome Film Festival. Then it won three nominations for best musical comedy film, best screenwriter and best actress at the 65th Golden Globe Awards, and even occupied three nominations for best director, best film and best actress at the 8th Oscar Awards.

Life is endless, comedy is endless-

A 12-year-old boy once asked his father as a director such a question: "Why haven't you been to the Oscar?" Father said that you can only go if you are nominated. In fact, Oscar rarely extends its olive branch to comedy movies that seem to be difficult to appeal to the public. In the minds of many comedy movie directors and even actors, this is a great pain. When the teenager finally got a chance to stand on the Oscar podium, his father was speechless on the phone, his wife began to cry, and his heart was filled with pride. The happiest thing for jason reitman was that he could finally buy a dress for the Oscar ceremony with his father.

main works:

Thank you for smoking in p>25

Juno

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In the air in 29

Teenagers in p>211.