"Memory Fragments", this is Adrian's new work. After Guy Ritchie, he stretched his hand to Christopher Nolan, the most storytelling director of the 21st century!
This movie produced by Nolan in 2000 burned many fans' brain cells at that time. The whole story is actually not complicated or too outstanding, but it turned into a movie that makes people recall it under Nolan's editing.
There are two clues in the movie, one flashback, told with a colored lens; one by one, told with a black and white lens.
The two lenses will appear every 5 minutes, and they will be told along the way and merged together at the end, which shows that the beginning is both the end and the beginning.
Such a dazzling expression technique, and each shot has many details. For example, when Leonard is telling a insurance client with the same brief amnesia, the person sitting in the wheelchair is a slightly fat middle-aged man in the wheelchair. But when the nurse walks past the patient and the camera switches, the person sitting in the wheelchair becomes Leonard himself!
Adrian didn't notice this when he first watched it. The camera switched too quickly, and there were many clues that made him unable to analyze. Finally, he watched it twice or three times before he noticed it, so he was very impressed by this movie.
In short, people are amazed by this. Although the complex clues made the movie only earn about 40 million in the end, the box office was still a big profit, but it won a very high reputation. Nolan also established his position in Hollywood.
Adrian had heard such an evaluation in his previous life. If Spielberg was the most storytelling director at the end of the 20th century, then the most storytelling director at the beginning of the 21st century was undoubtedly Nolan!
As mentioned before, the quality of the story itself is important, but the way of telling the story is also important.
Therefore, Adrian chose this movie as his second work without hesitation. As for Nolan, he can only say sorry.
Making this decision did not make him feel uneasy or anything else, as he said at the beginning of copying the script, he no longer cared about it after experiencing too many things.
Adrian knew very well that if 99% of people in this world had a movie library in their minds when facing their current situation, they had certain shooting and production skills, knew many things in the future, and had the start-up capital to make the same choices as themselves.
Soon, Halloween in 1990 was over, and "Two Big Blows", which attracted much attention in the film market, was launched, and the box office of more than $40 million was taken away.
Three days later, the UK also went offline, with a box office of around £30 million, almost setting a UK box office record. In addition, several other European countries that have just been released, the global box office may be close to 100 million!
This is when the US dollar was much more valuable than 20 years later. Although Hollywood has many small-cost and high-box movies, there are very few works with returns of 1:90.
This is a result that surprised many people. Even Adrian was surprised at the beginning. Since he chose this movie as his debut work, he naturally recalled the relevant information very clearly. The box office of this movie in the UK was almost 20 million, but in the United States, it was only a few million. The box office in North America has increased by almost 100 times, which is really incredible.
After thinking about it carefully, he felt relieved. The United States has a very interesting feature. Most non-North American films will not have too high box office here. Americans seem to be not interested in movies from other countries.
This is not surprising. As early as the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the North American film market was occupied by European films, and people went to pursue French and Italian films.
The US government finally had to issue laws prohibiting theaters from playing European movies and then vigorously supporting local movies, which led to the rise of Hollywood.
Over the past century, with the continuous growth of national strength and the development of Hollywood's film industry, Americans naturally began to become proud and did not take movies from other countries seriously.
This is what Adrian has the biggest advantage over Guy Ritchie. He is an American, he has his own film company, he also has a very outstanding general manager, not to mention he also participated in the Venice Film Festival and won the Best debut award.
In addition, there is another important thing, now it is 1990!
This kind of film with a lot of information and multi-line narrative but not complicated is much more attractive to the public than it will be in 9 years later. What's more, this is a good story, and it doesn't exist because of the different time or environment.
Combined with these factors, it is normal to get such a high box office.
After all, except for all the cost, issuance fees, theater sharing, tax payment, etc., Adrian can get at least about $20 million, which directly doubles his personal property. No wonder Claude said that this is a huge profit.
Because of this, Adrian, who had faded out of the sight of the executives of the film company after the Venice Film Festival, returned to their eyes again. People in the circle were also full of interest in this young director and would occasionally mention it during parties and chats.
But they didn't find the opportunity to contact Adrian for the time being, because he had already brought his team to a small town in the suburbs of Los Angeles to start shooting a new movie before "Two Smoke Bowls" was launched.
I need you to have a feeling of tolerance, do you understand, Dan?
At the entrance of the town motel, Adrian explained what to do for Dennis, you think you already know who the murderer of your wife is, and you just want to kill him now.Of course, when he calls you, you still have to keep calm and lightly friendly. It would be even better if a trace of gloom flashed in your eyes when you look at him.
After saying that, he turned his head and looked at the short man beside him: Joe, as for you, I need you to have a little implicit anxiety. You have realized that something is wrong, but you cannot be sure that it will be bad. I hope to continue to coax Leonard like before.
Simply put, this character is hesitant and lucky. Is that true?Joe Pantoriano, who was holding his chin, replied after thinking about it.
That's it.Adrian nodded, if there is no problem, let's start, by the way, Bowen?
The photographer quickly came over: I am here, Mr. Director.
I want you to go from here later... Adrian put a box in his hand to explain to the photographer, and then opened up the full body images of the two. Do you understand?
After the photographer nodded, he clapped his hands and looked around: Everyone, take action, and, dear gentlemen and ladies, please give us some space?
The people watching around the door of the motel laughed and then scattered in groups of three or three.
"Memory Fragments", scene 24, act 112.With the sound of the scene recording, the camera began to operate.
……
Have I mentioned my illness to you... Leonard gestured to the administrator behind the window.
It's mentioned every day.The administrator shrugged and looked at him with a funny expression.
Leonard was obviously used to this situation and directly put a photo in front of him: Is this person here?
Just arrived.The administrator looked at his hands carefully and said, as if he was responding to his words. A passionate voice came from the other side of the door: Hey, Lenny.
Leonard turned his head and a short man in glasses looked at him with a smile on his face half open the glass door.
It's Reiner.Leonard corrected his mistake with a blank expression, and he walked over quickly: I think I should have mentioned my illness.
It will be mentioned every time.The short man still had a smile on his face.
……
Cut!Adrian, who was standing behind the camera and watching the set, screamed loudly.
Dan, your expression is still lacking.He looked at Dennis and said loudly, "Leonard is not simply without expressions, he just hid all his emotions below and started again!"
Then in less than three minutes he called and stopped again: Cut!Tolerance!Where has your tolerance gone?Start again!
Cut!I have endured enough, but the haze in my eyes has passed, it is too straightforward, let's start over!
Cut!You have to doubt, understand?Because of memory, you have doubts about the things around you, and start over!
Cut!Start again!
Cut!
At the beginning, Adrian would try his best to explain to Dennis, but after several NGs, he did not do this again, just kept shouting Actin repeatedly!
and Cut .
In the end, even Joe felt a little over the role, but Dennis always kept calm and had no extra expression except for filming again and again.
Finally, after the 76th consecutive NG, Adrian finally announced that it had passed. However, without waiting for everyone to breathe a sigh of relief, he immediately took the camera from Bowen: Let's do it again, this time I will take the camera myself.
This decision almost made everyone present fall down, but seeing Dennis and Joe, who are the main supporting roles, quickly return to their positions, the staff had to force themselves to continue working.
Fortunately, because Dennis maintained the successful state just now, the shooting did not take much effort, and it passed in one go, and from the corner of Adrian's smiley mouth, the effect this time was still good.
Now take a 30-minute break.
This wonderful words finally rang out, and almost at the same time, a long vent of breath sounded at the scene, and even Dennis, who had been calm, showed a tired look after sitting down.
After all, anyone who takes a shot repeatedly and repeats it for nearly a hundred times will not be able to bear it.
Why is Eder today much more severe than the previous few days?Is this the same thing in your previous movie?
Joe Pantoriano then walked to Dennis with a plastic water bottle.
After he agreed to appear, he conducted a small investigation into Adrian. After joining the crew, he also had a good relationship with everyone. As an actor who has been in the entertainment industry for 10 years and has played many supporting roles, although he is a little tired, he is much better than Dennis.
This movie produced by Nolan in 2000 burned many fans' brain cells at that time. The whole story is actually not complicated or too outstanding, but it turned into a movie that makes people recall it under Nolan's editing.
There are two clues in the movie, one flashback, told with a colored lens; one by one, told with a black and white lens.
The two lenses will appear every 5 minutes, and they will be told along the way and merged together at the end, which shows that the beginning is both the end and the beginning.
Such a dazzling expression technique, and each shot has many details. For example, when Leonard is telling a insurance client with the same brief amnesia, the person sitting in the wheelchair is a slightly fat middle-aged man in the wheelchair. But when the nurse walks past the patient and the camera switches, the person sitting in the wheelchair becomes Leonard himself!
Adrian didn't notice this when he first watched it. The camera switched too quickly, and there were many clues that made him unable to analyze. Finally, he watched it twice or three times before he noticed it, so he was very impressed by this movie.
In short, people are amazed by this. Although the complex clues made the movie only earn about 40 million in the end, the box office was still a big profit, but it won a very high reputation. Nolan also established his position in Hollywood.
Adrian had heard such an evaluation in his previous life. If Spielberg was the most storytelling director at the end of the 20th century, then the most storytelling director at the beginning of the 21st century was undoubtedly Nolan!
As mentioned before, the quality of the story itself is important, but the way of telling the story is also important.
Therefore, Adrian chose this movie as his second work without hesitation. As for Nolan, he can only say sorry.
Making this decision did not make him feel uneasy or anything else, as he said at the beginning of copying the script, he no longer cared about it after experiencing too many things.
Adrian knew very well that if 99% of people in this world had a movie library in their minds when facing their current situation, they had certain shooting and production skills, knew many things in the future, and had the start-up capital to make the same choices as themselves.
Soon, Halloween in 1990 was over, and "Two Big Blows", which attracted much attention in the film market, was launched, and the box office of more than $40 million was taken away.
Three days later, the UK also went offline, with a box office of around £30 million, almost setting a UK box office record. In addition, several other European countries that have just been released, the global box office may be close to 100 million!
This is when the US dollar was much more valuable than 20 years later. Although Hollywood has many small-cost and high-box movies, there are very few works with returns of 1:90.
This is a result that surprised many people. Even Adrian was surprised at the beginning. Since he chose this movie as his debut work, he naturally recalled the relevant information very clearly. The box office of this movie in the UK was almost 20 million, but in the United States, it was only a few million. The box office in North America has increased by almost 100 times, which is really incredible.
After thinking about it carefully, he felt relieved. The United States has a very interesting feature. Most non-North American films will not have too high box office here. Americans seem to be not interested in movies from other countries.
This is not surprising. As early as the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the North American film market was occupied by European films, and people went to pursue French and Italian films.
The US government finally had to issue laws prohibiting theaters from playing European movies and then vigorously supporting local movies, which led to the rise of Hollywood.
Over the past century, with the continuous growth of national strength and the development of Hollywood's film industry, Americans naturally began to become proud and did not take movies from other countries seriously.
This is what Adrian has the biggest advantage over Guy Ritchie. He is an American, he has his own film company, he also has a very outstanding general manager, not to mention he also participated in the Venice Film Festival and won the Best debut award.
In addition, there is another important thing, now it is 1990!
This kind of film with a lot of information and multi-line narrative but not complicated is much more attractive to the public than it will be in 9 years later. What's more, this is a good story, and it doesn't exist because of the different time or environment.
Combined with these factors, it is normal to get such a high box office.
After all, except for all the cost, issuance fees, theater sharing, tax payment, etc., Adrian can get at least about $20 million, which directly doubles his personal property. No wonder Claude said that this is a huge profit.
Because of this, Adrian, who had faded out of the sight of the executives of the film company after the Venice Film Festival, returned to their eyes again. People in the circle were also full of interest in this young director and would occasionally mention it during parties and chats.
But they didn't find the opportunity to contact Adrian for the time being, because he had already brought his team to a small town in the suburbs of Los Angeles to start shooting a new movie before "Two Smoke Bowls" was launched.
I need you to have a feeling of tolerance, do you understand, Dan?
At the entrance of the town motel, Adrian explained what to do for Dennis, you think you already know who the murderer of your wife is, and you just want to kill him now.Of course, when he calls you, you still have to keep calm and lightly friendly. It would be even better if a trace of gloom flashed in your eyes when you look at him.
After saying that, he turned his head and looked at the short man beside him: Joe, as for you, I need you to have a little implicit anxiety. You have realized that something is wrong, but you cannot be sure that it will be bad. I hope to continue to coax Leonard like before.
Simply put, this character is hesitant and lucky. Is that true?Joe Pantoriano, who was holding his chin, replied after thinking about it.
That's it.Adrian nodded, if there is no problem, let's start, by the way, Bowen?
The photographer quickly came over: I am here, Mr. Director.
I want you to go from here later... Adrian put a box in his hand to explain to the photographer, and then opened up the full body images of the two. Do you understand?
After the photographer nodded, he clapped his hands and looked around: Everyone, take action, and, dear gentlemen and ladies, please give us some space?
The people watching around the door of the motel laughed and then scattered in groups of three or three.
"Memory Fragments", scene 24, act 112.With the sound of the scene recording, the camera began to operate.
……
Have I mentioned my illness to you... Leonard gestured to the administrator behind the window.
It's mentioned every day.The administrator shrugged and looked at him with a funny expression.
Leonard was obviously used to this situation and directly put a photo in front of him: Is this person here?
Just arrived.The administrator looked at his hands carefully and said, as if he was responding to his words. A passionate voice came from the other side of the door: Hey, Lenny.
Leonard turned his head and a short man in glasses looked at him with a smile on his face half open the glass door.
It's Reiner.Leonard corrected his mistake with a blank expression, and he walked over quickly: I think I should have mentioned my illness.
It will be mentioned every time.The short man still had a smile on his face.
……
Cut!Adrian, who was standing behind the camera and watching the set, screamed loudly.
Dan, your expression is still lacking.He looked at Dennis and said loudly, "Leonard is not simply without expressions, he just hid all his emotions below and started again!"
Then in less than three minutes he called and stopped again: Cut!Tolerance!Where has your tolerance gone?Start again!
Cut!I have endured enough, but the haze in my eyes has passed, it is too straightforward, let's start over!
Cut!You have to doubt, understand?Because of memory, you have doubts about the things around you, and start over!
Cut!Start again!
Cut!
At the beginning, Adrian would try his best to explain to Dennis, but after several NGs, he did not do this again, just kept shouting Actin repeatedly!
and Cut .
In the end, even Joe felt a little over the role, but Dennis always kept calm and had no extra expression except for filming again and again.
Finally, after the 76th consecutive NG, Adrian finally announced that it had passed. However, without waiting for everyone to breathe a sigh of relief, he immediately took the camera from Bowen: Let's do it again, this time I will take the camera myself.
This decision almost made everyone present fall down, but seeing Dennis and Joe, who are the main supporting roles, quickly return to their positions, the staff had to force themselves to continue working.
Fortunately, because Dennis maintained the successful state just now, the shooting did not take much effort, and it passed in one go, and from the corner of Adrian's smiley mouth, the effect this time was still good.
Now take a 30-minute break.
This wonderful words finally rang out, and almost at the same time, a long vent of breath sounded at the scene, and even Dennis, who had been calm, showed a tired look after sitting down.
After all, anyone who takes a shot repeatedly and repeats it for nearly a hundred times will not be able to bear it.
Why is Eder today much more severe than the previous few days?Is this the same thing in your previous movie?
Joe Pantoriano then walked to Dennis with a plastic water bottle.
After he agreed to appear, he conducted a small investigation into Adrian. After joining the crew, he also had a good relationship with everyone. As an actor who has been in the entertainment industry for 10 years and has played many supporting roles, although he is a little tired, he is much better than Dennis.