"The Jerry Maguire" is a masterpiece filled with "love and trust" by Cameron Crowe, the extremely pure film director.

"Jerry's Proposal" that shows Cameron Crowe's ideals and beliefs

Now, what is it that makes Jerry, who has hit rock bottom, move toward rebirth and recovery? It's love and trust. Unlike `` Moneyball '' (11/Director: Bennett Miller), which depicts a major league general manager (GM), this film does not specifically depict the effective implementation of player support. It has overwhelmingly strong elements of a romantic comedy rather than a sports movie. And as a spiritual philosophy, he maintains a completely pure worldview that if you sincerely maintain ``love and trust,'' victory will surely await you someday.

Experiencing this sense of freshness and clarity through ``love and trust'' is one of the great pleasures of Cameron Crowe's films, which have continued since his feature-length directorial debut ` `Say Anything '' (1989). The mission statement that appears in The Jerry Maguire was actually written by Crowe (like Jerry) in one night. In other words, doesn't it really show the ideals and beliefs of his own work (= filmmaking)? It is now very surprising that the Japanese translation of this valuable text was titled ``Jerry's Proposal'' and was included in the theatrical pamphlet and Blu-ray disc of the 20th anniversary edition. thank you.

By the way, it seems that the role of Dickie Fox, who appears at key points as Jerry's spiritual mentor, was originally commissioned by director Billy Wilder, whom Crowe greatly admires. In the end, I didn't get the chance to appear, but the Contact I made at that time inspired me to write the famous master-pupil interview book , What Would Wilder Do? ``Conversation between Billy Wilder and Cameron Crowe '' (00/translator: Takaharu Miyamoto/published by Kinema Junposha).

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The director himself probably recognized ``The Jerry Maguire'' as a ``template for Cameron Croweism,'' as it was a work that well-balanced his own ideology. A similar ``play of the rebirth of a man who has hit rock bottom'' is first seen in voluminous variations in `` Elizabethtown '' (2005).

Drew (Orlando Bloom), a young man who makes a fatal mistake at a major shoe company, finds the light of self-renewal when he meets Flight attendant Claire (Kirsten Dunst). The scene where they first meet each other (or a similar scene) takes place on a plane, and the way the young man's ex-girlfriend is clearly imbued with worldly values ​​are similar to those in ``The Jerry Maguire.''

Also, Claire, who always wears a red hat, is a character with a somewhat poetic fantasy, and her romantic heroine image is portrayed by Penny Lane (Kate Hudson) in `` When I Almost Famous '' (00). ) reminds me of In other words, ``Elizabethtown'' is the ``extreme'' of Crowe's artistry, where his individuality is expressed in a special concentration.

Even after the aforementioned turning point in 2010, the ``play of recovery of a man who hit rock bottom'' continues. `` The Miracle for Happiness '' (11) is about a columnist who loses his wife and sets out to run an animal park. In `` Aloha '' (15), in which a military consultant who is stumbling in life finds new love in Hawaii, the first song that plays is The Who 's `` Magic Bus '' (68), just like in ``The Jerry Maguire.'' !

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