Chapter 202 Can't understand script

The screenwriter of the editorial department left with doubts and confusion. Why would Director Miracle want to write a script that no one can understand?

But this did not prevent him from taking the script back and quickly sorting it out for Adrian.

All the screenwriters in the editorial department of Bosworth Films know that this is a bad guy, and the signed screenwriters from the other two film companies and even other major companies are envious of them.

There are generally two situations. Adrian gives an outline, and then fills it in detail and then reviews it by him. He repeatedly knows that the modification is to look satisfactory.

One type is written by him, but because he is too eager to finish it as soon as possible, it is more complicated, so they have to organize it into a standard script format.

But no matter which one is, you can make sure to make a profit. The scripts filled according to the outline either sell well or have a good reputation. As for those who help organize, Adrian is not hesitant to write their names in the screenwriter's column.

Not to mention there are also great rewards, and the Bosworth screenwriters have been exploited a lot and have other ways to make stories. Several of them left Bosworth were favored by many producers, which is enough for others to be jealous.

Speaking of which, the movie screenwriter's status in Hollywood is not as good as that of a TV screenwriter. The movie screenwriter either completes the script and sells it to a producer or a film company, or signs a contract to complete the prescribed script. After the movie is produced, there is no longer any of them.

But TV drama screenwriters are different. Many popular TV dramas are filmed and written while filming, and the wishes of the audience must be taken into account.

Not long ago, ABC conducted a survey on the website whether Raymond should break up with his current girlfriend, and the approval rating was as high as 73%, so the remaining three episodes of the supporting actress were cut.

In addition, they still have some copyright, so the screenwriter of TV series has relatively greater power, and many young actors will find ways to let the screenwriter write more scenes for their own.

Okay, let’s not talk about this topic, and after sorting out the script, we are ready to select actors to start work. Adrian will complete it within two months.

There is no such thing in this year's plan. He made a decision completely temporary. In addition to the ones who are still busy, he has already completed most of the "Shapes' Love History" and "Elizabeth" that will be released in the second half of the year, there are also "The Matrix" waiting for the summer vacation and the movies that Monica has prepared for a long time after the summer vacation.

The reason why I suddenly wrote a new script and was about to start filming immediately was that in addition to my previous encounter, some people started to talk again.

The 70th Academy Awards ceremony is approaching, and the most popular one is undoubtedly the super masterpiece "Titanic". With nearly 300 million investment back to 2 billion in the global box office and 15 unprecedented nominations, no one will underestimate James Cameron anymore, let alone Adrian, who is an investor and involved in the screenwriter and production.

With such a huge box office, even if all the share and expenditures are deducted, there is at least a net profit of hundreds of millions. No one has ridiculed him for having too much money and there is no place to burn it. What's more, because of the heart-warming agent for the Oscar nomination, the big ship that has reached the end has caused another wave. Although it is not big, it is enough to make many people envy, jealous and hate it.

Some people like it and some people hate it. Although Adrian once again established his accurate vision because of "Titanic", this year's Oscars were not available. You should know that there was at least a nomination for the Screenwriter Award last year.

This is not surprising. He only had one movie released last year, which was to take over Stanley Kubrick's "The Eye Opening Ring". Kubrick's movie was not favored by the Film Academy. In addition, the screenwriter who participated in "Titanic" refused to sign his name, so it is natural that there was nomination.

So there are people who hate him who take this opportunity to criticize him. Some say that Oscar can finally be more fair, some say that he has exhausted his talents and is about to go downhill, and some say that Adrian deserves to carefully analyze Kubrick's works and learnt a lot even if he can't get the nomination.

The previous ones don’t matter. They are all eye-catching exaggerated techniques used by some media, but in the end this view attracted a lot of comments.

As time goes by, "The Eye Opening Ring" has been repeatedly compared and analyzed by many people with Kubrick's previous works. Like those movies, the more the movie goes to the future, the more it praises it, at least it is almost the same in terms of color and soundtrack.

If this is Kubrick's work, people will just give it all kinds of praise, but the problem is that Adrian, a person who won the Oscar for Best Director at the age of 30, is overly young in the director industry.

What's more, he has made considerable achievements in screenwriting and production, and is also a super rich man and a newcomer in the media industry.

In this way, a person can make big-name movies and movies that the film academy likes, but to make Kubrick-like movies that deeply explore human nature, system anti-humanity and other movies. Many critics who think that the art of film is sacred and inviolable are unwilling to believe in it.

Even after the movie was released, Kubrick, who was rumored and confirmed to be paralyzed, gave the film a thumbs up at the time of the show, there were still many people who were reluctant to believe it.

Adrian can completely modify this movie, without being so awkward, just click it, so that you won’t be able to get a nomination.

A critic wrote this, as if he was kind to think about him, but in fact, what he was talking about was a discerning person who could tell at a glance that the inexplicableness of these people could be seen from it.

Adrian originally ignored it. These people were just trying to speak with pleasure. They spared no effort to protect their idols. They could not listen to any bad words, and they could not mention them even if they were replaced by anyone.

Although this is quite naive, this is not the patent of young people after all, and not every critic can look at things objectively.

He was too lazy to respond and refused all visits, and the remarks would disappear soon until he met Naomi Watts.

Speaking of which, this beautiful woman born in the UK and raised in Australia is really bumpy. She has worked as a model and worked as a small staff member. She has never been able to find her position. She finally seized an opportunity to become an actor. She came to Hollywood for a few years but achieved nothing. She could only play the role of a passerby in various TV series or movies. She almost collapsed. It was not until she played the heroine in David Lynch's "Mulholland Road" that she became famous and became the best example of late success.

Yes, Lynch, not David Fincher.

Different surnames, the director's style is also completely different. Although Finch likes to shoot some movies with profound themes and the editing is sharp and impactful, it can basically be understood by people.

Lynch, who became famous earlier than him, was different. His earliest work "Eraser Head" was an inexplicable and difficult-to-understand movie. That is, "Shuangfeng Town", which changed from a movie to a TV series, after many twists and turns, can make people understand it slightly, and other things such as "Blue Velvet" or "My Heart is Wild" with Cage's participation are all things that make people feel tooth-paining.

Moreover, in recent years, the film "Lost Expressway" last year has made many critics who originally supported him unable to stand it, and he has strongly criticized him.

David Lynch also reflected on this, so a few years later, he had the "Mulholland Road", which was said to have to have a very high IQ, but unfortunately he doesn't have this opportunity now.

That's right, the script that Adrian has written is "Mulholland Road". It is completed within two months just in time for the Cannes Film Festival. Don't they like to talk, so tell them with facts that I can shoot any subject.

This is not for fighting spirit, it just happened to meet it, and then I thought of a lot of interesting things.

To be honest, despite the many beautiful women in Hollywood and Naomi Watts is still a top player. If she is willing to do so, she might not have fallen into the way Adrian looked when she saw her, and it was precisely because of this that made him think.

Even if there are people who persist, they will change after constantly hitting the wall, and then lend a helping hand when she is most vulnerable and needs help. It is easy to conquer her. Therefore, Adrian behind her that night performed a pretty good drama.

It's not entirely acting. Adrian's words are sincere. He believes that she is excellent. A woman who can keep insisting is always attractive, making people want to write it in their palms and train it to what they want to see.

In addition, he did see her videotape in auditions for several supporting actresses in "Monday of Killing", but he didn't care at the time. When he saw her for the first time that night, he felt familiar. Although he had memories of his past life, his impression of this life was also quite good.

If that's the case, is there any problem with "Mulholland Road" to make it famous and then slap some people in the face?

What's more, it can...

He quickly conceived a good thing to kill several birds with one stone.

As for David Lynch, who cares about his ideas? Anyway, after copying so many, he doesn't care about another one, not to mention that Adrian really doesn't have a good impression of him.

The characteristics of this guy have been mentioned earlier. He is weird and likes to go astray. The editing of each movie is quite messy, so messy that people can't tell what the story is.

Although Adrian doesn't like Kubrick, he still maintains respect. Although Kubrick's story is slow, long, and has a lot of inexplicable dialogues, there is at least a complete story and it also plays a significant role in promoting the film technology. For example, the special effects of "Space Odyssey 2001" caused a lot of sensation at the time, and Lucas and Cameron were both influenced by this movie.

But Lynch completely abandoned the logic of the story. The original work also had a story framework, and later it was to cut some irrelevant pictures into everything, just like disrupting all the sentences in a novel and reorganizing them irregularly. Each word is known, but when you are connected, you don’t know what you are talking about.

However, the movie is not a novel after all, and the movie has pictures and sounds, so Lynch's movie is full of curious and bloody erotic images. It is well known that the brain is powerful. The audience will always supplement the incomplete story in the direction they think and circle it, and no one will think they can't understand it, just like the emperor's new outfit.

This is what Adrian hates the most, especially after making or plagiarizing so many movies, he has become more and more persistent in his own point of view: a good movie must first have an attractive story.

Whether it is a movie, whether it is painting or music, the first purpose is entertainment. Only by meeting the needs of entertainment will we sublimate and talk about art. Going beyond entertainment to talk about art is just to lose the foundation and go to the end.

So although Lynch did not give up his tricks in "Mulholland Road", he just added a plausible main content, and immediately received a cheerful voice.

Then all kinds of speculations and interpretations were released, which indicate what they meant and what they wanted to express, as if each shot had a deep meaning.

In his previous life, he has watched a lot of these film reviews, whether from China or the United States. What’s ridiculous is that these people with excessive superiority do not understand. Students who graduated from the director department can shoot such a movie, and Lynch can shoot as much as they want. When they talk about the meaning of this movie in the sun, Lynch is probably hiding in a corner, staring at them with pride or contempt.

Okay, let’s not talk about this anymore. The editorial department only took a day to sort it out, and Adrian also started to ask people to prepare. What this movie requires is too simple.

The knock on the door sounded, and then Charlize appeared at the door: Sir, there is a lady outside who wants to see you, and she said she had an appointment.

Actually you can say it on the phone, or let her in directly, Charlie.

Adrian raised his head and smiled slightly. Although Charlize formally called him Mr., the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, with a hint of teasing and helplessness, which made her look stubborn and cute.

I thought this was more formal.

Charlize shrugged, with a tone of mockery, but Adrian had no intention of arguing with her at this time, so he immediately went to: Okay, dear, please come in.

The beautiful assistant secretary snorted softly, turned around and left, as stubborn as ever.Soon, the knock sounded again, although Charlize walked the back door without closing.

Come in, Naomi, I'll wait for you for a while.Adrian stood up and made a gesture of invitation.

Naomi smiled a little reservedly, then came to the desk to sit down. She was wearing a white suit today, and she looked very energetic. Her slender eyebrows, high nose, and rosy lips all looked delicate. She obviously dressed up in detail, and with the big waves hanging softly on her shoulders, her slender legs were wearing flesh-colored stockings, and five-inch high heels, she exuded the sexy style that mature women would have.

Sorry, I was a few minutes late.She smiled apologetically.

It doesn't matter, waiting for a lady is a virtue.Adrian smiled, you are so beautiful today.

The undisguised appreciation in his tone made Naomi's mouth slightly bent: Thank you, you can call him Naomi, Ed.

OK, Nami.

Adrian nodded, a light flashed in his eyes, and then handed a document on the table to her: I have something to talk about today, so let's take a look at this first.

Naomi took it, and just glanced at the cover, her body trembled slightly. How could she not know what the other party gave her?

Fortunately, she quickly controlled her emotions, looked at Adrian deeply, and then started to read.

The office was quiet for the next few dozen minutes, and except for Charlize coming in with coffee once, Naomi was always reading the script.

She didn't read quickly and would turn the pages after experiencing it carefully. Although sometimes she would frown and show a puzzled look, she didn't look up and ask anything.

This made Adrian, who was sitting at the desk, who seemed to be reading the documents but was looking at her secretly.

I've finished reading it.

After closing the script and closing his eyes and breathing, Naomi said, "Sorry, Ed, I didn't understand this story, except that the heroine bought and killed her gay man.

It's normal, I didn't intend for people to understand it.

Adrian laughed, you can take it back and spend two days reading it carefully, I need you to carefully understand the heroine's mood, and then let's discuss this story.

You mean...you mean the heroine?Naomi said hesitantly, breathing a little more rapid.

Yes, I said, you are a very promising actor, so I arranged a script like this, you play the heroine, I directed it myself, completed the shooting and editing within two months, and then participated in the Cannes Film Festival in May, and maybe they would give me another Palme d'Or if they wanted.

When he said the last sentence, Adrian was quite understatement, but no one could question his current achievements.

So Naomi lowered her head and her shoulders trembled slightly. She couldn't blame her for losing her composure. However, in more than a week, her life had undergone earth-shaking changes. Now she has to play the leading role in the movie directed by Director Miracle herself. What this means is self-evident.

You won't let me down, right?Adrian asked softly at this time.

No, absolutely not.

Naomi raised her head and said in a very firm tone. Although her eyes were slightly red, she did not shed tears. Then she stood up: I will take it back and think about it carefully.

I look forward to your comments.Adrian then stood up and said in an encouraging tone.

Naomi hesitated for a moment and suddenly lowered her voice: By the way, Ed, I... can I invite you to dinner tonight?

Adrian raised his eyebrows in surprise without answering.

Just cooking some simple food in the apartment, you know I am... I just... want to express my gratitude... Naomi's voice became lower and lower, and her eyes looked elsewhere, and she showed a hint of shame.

I'm happy to agree.

Adrian smiled, and a light flashed in his eyes again, but sorry, I have a cocktail party to attend tonight, so why not wait until next time we discuss the script, it's only a few days.

Despite his disappointment, Naomi's mouth nodded slightly in his gentle gaze.