HOLLYWOOD—Stuntman
Cameron, a Vietnam veteran, is hiding from the police and joins a film crew that urgently needs a new stuntman to replace one who has been killed.
Agreeing out of desperation to fill the vacant position, the protagonist soon realizes that the job is much more dangerous than he thought, and the final stunt involving a car flying off a bridge, which led to the death of his predecessor, could cost him his own life.
The situation is exacerbated by a romance that Cameron manages to start right on set.
Lord of Speed and Time
Special effects master Mike Jittlow made only one feature film, which did not reach wide release and was never released on DVD, but this single film was more than enough to make the director-producer-screenwriter-animator-actor, etc. a cult figure.
After releasing a short film in 1979 about a wizard in a green robe running across America at the speed of wind and winning the admiration of festival audiences (no one could believe that just one person, even a very talented one, could accomplish such a titanic task), Jittlow was inspired to make a feature film about how this “short film” was created.
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The big picture
A situation familiar to many young directors: you are talented and ambitious, Hollywood bosses want to work with you, you have an idea for a film, and everything seems to be going well…
But any film is a product of collective creativity, and it is extremely difficult to withstand the pressure from the masses of interested parties who want to influence the final result. Film schools don’t teach this, and novice director Nick Chapman has to learn the painful truth for himself: making the film you dream of in Hollywood may only be possible at the cost of personal loss.
Ed Wood
Tim Burton did not always shoot dark fairy tales — in the mid-90s, he briefly returned to the real world and made a black-and-white biopic about the creative path of Ed Wood, whom many still consider the worst director of all time (despite the activities of such nimble competitors as Uwe Boll).
Transgender people, zombies, space aliens in hoodies, rubber octopuses, and flying saucers made from car hubcaps — all mixed together in the boiling cauldron of creativity of this hapless filmmaker, who recruited actors for his films almost off the street, wrote scripts on the fly, and resorted to the most ingenious tricks to find sponsors for his art.
Although the film depicts the 1950s, Hollywood’s inner workings have changed little since then, and the principle of “so bad it’s good” has given more than one generation of creative freaks their 15 minutes of fame.
Cool Guy
If you’re making a movie in Hollywood, be sure to get a star for your film — after all, audiences don’t want to see movies that don’t have big names on the posters. This was the principle followed by the main character of the comedy Cool Guy, director Bobby Bowfinger, when he launched a fantastic project about an alien invasion of Earth, starring the famous Kit Ramsey in the lead role.
However, there is one problem: Ramsey himself has no intention of starring in anything. But that doesn’t stop the cunning Bowfinger: he starts following the star everywhere with a movie camera, arranging situations that he needs for the script, and everything goes smoothly—especially since Ramsey soon discovers a much more accommodating twin brother who is willing to “sell his face” in particularly difficult scenes.
