Jason Reitman's biography

The dream of an advertiser——

Underage girls, pregnancy, and childbirth. Seeing these words will only make people think about corruption, depravity, darkness, etc. Lenovo, if such serious social issues were put on the big screen, it would only be a reality drama, an ethical drama, or a complete tragedy. Except for Jason Reitman, probably no one dares to make a comedy.

Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the name of this 31-year-old Canadian director, but when it comes to his father, he has directed the movies "Mouse and Dragons", "Ghostbusters 2", " Ivan Reitman of "Kindergarten Cop", you can understand where this young director's funny talent comes from. It is said that Jason Reitman was carried to the set when he was only 11 days old. Comedy movies accompanied him throughout his childhood. When he was 10 years old, Jason imitated his father's posture and picked up the family video camera. This posture eventually became his passion. direction. When Ivan Reitman was filming "Kindergarten", his son Jason Reitman had already begun to try to be a set assistant on the film. When he was 15 years old, Jason produced a public service announcement about AIDS and won a small award. , which is enough to make young people ecstatic. After entering college, Jason first joined the school's performance club, but Jason Reitman was obviously more qualified for the role of director. He had an extremely cheerful personality and especially liked to tell jokes. Loud laughter.

In order to raise funds for the filming of "Operation", Jason Reitman started a small business during his sophomore year. When he took his first comedy short film to the 1998 Sundance Film Festival At the time of the festival, he was only 19 years old and the youngest director at the festival.

In the years after graduating from college, Jason Reitman became the most famous advertising producer. The commercials he shot included Heineken, Honda, BMW, General Motors and many other world-class brands. Brand, but advertising can always only be a springboard to his dream country.

Come to the movie side -

Jason Reitman was sitting in a friend's living room, boredly opening a Buckley novel, and he saw There is a sentence on the title page of the book: "Nick Naylor has been called many names since he became the chief spokesman of the Tobacco Research Association, but until now no one has compared him with Satan." This ironic and humorous sentence made Jia Jason laughed loudly. After reading this humorous novel that revolved around the "tobacco issue" and carried out an ugly "drama", Jason felt that the author's ideas of this book were very consistent with his own movie ideas, so he came up with the idea. The idea of ??adapting the novel into a film. His idea was eventually supported by independent producer David Sacks. This movie is the 2005 movie "Thank You for Smoking."

When filming "Thank You for Smoking", Jason Reitman was very strict in selecting actors. He insisted on casting actors who best fit the character's image and personality in his mind. For this reason, he gave each actor The invited actor wrote a letter explaining the characteristics and personality of the character in detail, and Jason's insistence on the script was so strict that no matter how small his objections were, he would not be supported. . He insisted on filming every scene according to the script, and 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, the film language that Jason Reitman loves is more three-dimensional and more modern, with a sharp perspective that analyzes reality, and is smart and funny. The ridicule, the low-key ordinariness of the character itself is contrasted with the sharp language and super-fast speaking speed, which makes people laugh and think at the same time.

"Juno"——

The style of the 2007 movie "Juno" is obviously a continuation of the style in "Thank You for Smoking", and this unique style It has been marked by Jason Reitman's personal brand, using unwed pregnancy as the theme of the movie, and telling an originally heavy story in a relaxed and alternative way. People will find from this movie that maybe life There is no complete darkness in the film, and there are exceptions to the ending of any bad thing. The little girl in the film is not as depraved and dirty as people imagine the bad girl to be. She is still a sunny, rebellious, innocent and unique person. Cute girl with personality.

The story of unmarried pregnancy is a somewhat clichéd subject, but the best thing about "Juno" is that it never tries to use the limitations and criticisms of social morality to influence the character of the movie. Behavior, its eloquent narration, is just a unique spiritual growth history of a girl. What it shows is a world that belongs to the self. It attempts to tell the existence of warmth and tolerance through the inner growth of such a girl. , is both simple and unique, which is the most touching thing about this movie. As the review said: "Everyone has a standard of judgment of right and wrong deep in his heart, but the movie makes everything They are all well vented, which is the reason for its success. "And Jason Reitman's unique comedy style makes the audience laugh. There are almost no exaggerated actions, and only humorous dialogue and harmony are used. The sharp contrast of low-key and restrained movements and expressions creates jokes, and the film's joke baggage is very good. "Juno" made a splash at the Toronto Film Festival, won a 200,000-euro bonus at the Rome Film Festival, and then won the Best Musical/Comedy Film, Best Screenplay and Best Screenplay at the 65th Golden Globe Awards. There were three nominations for Best Actress, and on the list of winners of the 80th Academy Awards, it even occupied three nominations for Best Director, Best Picture and Best Actress.

Life is endless, comedy is endless -

A 12-year-old boy once asked his father, a director, this question: "Why haven't you been to the Oscars?" Father Said, you can only go if you are nominated. In fact, the Oscars rarely extend its olive branch to comedy films that seem to be unreliable. In the minds of many comedy film directors and even actors, this is a big pain. When this young boy finally had the opportunity 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, and Jason Ritter The happiest thing for Man is that he can finally go shopping with his father for a dress to attend the Oscars.

Main works:

Thank You for Smoking in 2005

Juno in 2007

2009 "In the Cloud"

"Teens" in 2011