Title: What Just Happened
Category: Foreign Language Movies (High Definition Subtitles)
Genre: Comedy
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Translated Name: What Just Happened / Upended Clouds / What Just Happened?
Movie Name: What Just Happened
Year: 2008
Country: United States
Category: Comedy/Drama
Language: English
Subtitles: Chinese
Running Time: 104 Minutes
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Robert De Niro as Ben
Sean Penn as Himself
Bruce Willis as Himself
Stanley Tucci as Scott Solomon
John Turturro as Dick Bell
Kristen Stewart as Zoe
Moon Bloodgood
Robin Wright Penn as Kelly
Catherine Keener as Lou Tarnow
Michael Wincott as Jeremy Brunell
Marin Hinkle as Annie
Dey Young as Marilyn
William Ragsdale as Agent #1
Peter Jacobson as Cal
Lu Johnson as Vanity Fair Set Dresser
Mark Ivanir as Johnny
Vincent De Paul as Jack L. McDonagh’s Brother
Introduction:
The protagonist of the story is a Hollywood producer whose career is in decline. He originally hoped to regain popularity with a new movie, but the filming process was fraught with problems. The director, big-name stars, investors, agents, and others continuously created trouble. Meanwhile, his second wife occasionally dragged him down. Making movies became his nightmare. Through the frazzled protagonist, the film reveals the rules of the game and interpersonal relationships within the Hollywood circle.
This is a movie about the story of a Hollywood producer. Hiring Sean Penn to star in the new film was an unsuccessful attempt by producer Ben, as this decision plunged Ben's life into chaos. The boss of the film company, Lu, strongly demanded cuts and adaptations to the script, especially the ending where a dog is shot dead. The British director Jerry showed extreme resistance to this, but eventually reluctantly accepted it, which left him deeply affected so much that he later had to rely heavily on drugs and alcohol to stay calm.
Meanwhile, new issues were threatening the production of Ben's next film, depending on whether star Bruce Willis would shave off his beard. The reason was that the agent of another male lead, Dick, strongly opposed Willis' participation in the movie, claiming that Willis' beard frightened him. He also claimed that his stomach illness after the start of the new film shooting proved this point.
Ben's personal family was also facing a crisis. After numerous well-intentioned lies and long journeys, he strove to reunite with his estranged wife Kelly. However, he unfortunately discovered that after receiving "separate treatment," only he still harbored fantasies about their relationship. At this time, the screenwriter Scott and Kelly seemed somewhat intimate, and he even attempted to get close to Ben's teenage daughter Zoe.
Fortunately, at the end of the story, nothing inappropriate happened between Ben's daughter and the lecherous editor, Willis' agent also realized that shaving off Willis' beard wasn't the end of the world, and the innocent dog sacrificed at the end of the film walked the red carpet at the premiere...
This is a semi-true, semi-fictional biographical character story, documenting everything experienced by middle-aged Hollywood producer Ben (Robert De Niro) during the most helpless, crisis-ridden, and emotionally turbulent two weeks of his life... In a comedy atmosphere filled with sharp satire, Ben gradually realizes that he is trying hard to tamper with a series of exceptionally cruel crises in his career, which will inevitably affect his family life.
Almost all of Ben's life has been lived for others. Everyone around him has various expectations and desires for him, designing how he should exist in this world and pulling him toward their own imaginations - from being a "money printer," lucky guy, successful artist, loyal husband, to an all-knowing father, yet no one ever asks what Ben truly wants. Surrounded by such people, although it may seem unreasonable or even absurd, Ben knows that these people are actually just like himself, just a group of clowns who pretend, using every possible means to merely continue surviving in this world.
Suddenly, Ben's world went haywire, starting with the box office failure of his recent bold dream project "Fierce" starring Sean Penn, and everything began to go downhill rapidly, bizarrely, and crazily. "Fierce" was undoubtedly a major blunder that greatly repulsed the audience, not only causing extraordinary anger from the head of the production company Lu (Catherine Keener), but also forcing Ben into arguments with the rebellious and drug-addicted director Jeremy (Michael Wincott)... His private life was also in disarray; his ex-wife Kelly (Robin Wright Penn) refused to accept him again, causing Ben immense frustration and confusion. His daughter Zoe's (Kristen Stewart) behavior was also perplexing to him because he found that she seemed to have grown up overnight. As for his screenwriter friend Scott (Stanley Tucci), he brought pure anger - someone who collaborates with him at work while flirting with his ex-wife, clearly a typical hypocrite who takes advantage of his friend's wife.
Two weeks, Lu gave Ben only two weeks to find a movie that could be smoothly submitted to the Cannes Film Festival. As if his life wasn't chaotic enough already, the male lead of Ben's new film as a producer, Bruce Willis, loved scaring people, whereas his agent Dick (John Turturro) was completely opposite, so timid that any slight disturbance might make him flee... Thus, amidst all the madness, betrayal, deception, loss of control, greed, and vulgarity, Ben endured two weeks of hellish pain, stumbling towards his goal through all the obstacles.