Near ten o'clock, James Mangold and his party of five rushed from the hotel where they lived to the Egyptian Theater in Park City, and were really shocked to see the dense crowd outside the theater.

The road outside the Egyptian Theater, which was not very wide, was almost completely blocked at this time, and some vehicles could only stop in place in a dejected manner, and the most noticeable thing in the dense crowd of people was probably the many signs holding high for tickets.

Seeing Mangold and the others approaching, it seemed that they were about to enter the Egyptian theater, and a young man in a black jacket immediately approached, followed by his girlfriend.

"Hey, man, is there a ticket for 'This Man is from Earth', how about selling it to us, two, I'll pay $1,500. ”

Hearing the young man's offer, James Mangold, whose life is actually not very rich, couldn't help but feel a little moved, but quickly suppressed his thoughts and shook his head to refuse, and pulled his girlfriend next to him to go around the other party and continue forward: "Sorry, buddy, we don't buy tickets." ”

The young man seemed to notice Mangold's intention, and the dollar gave up, and immediately said: "$2,000, man, this is the highest price, my girlfriend and I can only stay in Park City for one weekend, that's why I want to see the new film in Westeros today, with two thousand dollars, you can wait until the other weekday screenings, right?"

James Mangold didn't stop, just shook his head and said, "I'm sorry for that, buddy, but I really can't sell it." ”

Seeing Mangold's resolute attitude, the young man turned to the other three people who were with him, but to no avail, and could only look for other targets.

After a short distance of more than ten meters, James Mangold and his party finally entered the Egyptian Theater.

Unlike several screenings in previous days, today's Egyptian theater also has a security check, and audiences who enter with tickets not only have to pass through the security gate, but are also subjected to the sharp eyes of security personnel who are obviously not ordinary bodyguards. In addition, spectators with backpacks will be politely asked to leave their packages on the side, and they are not allowed to bring them in at all.

Presumably to appease the resentment that may arise from the security check, today's audience can receive a free snack and drink.

James Mangold and several people passed through the security check and received free popcorn and Coke, thinking about the $2,000 he just gave up, he still feels a little painful. However, from the details of the security check just now, everyone can be sure that Simon Westeros will definitely attend today.

This is even more exciting than today's movies.

James Mangold is not a pure spectator, he is a director, and this time he comes with his own work.

Feature film debut.

Before that, the 31-year-old Mangaard had been in the film industry for ten years, graduating from the California Institute of the Arts, Mangaard joined Disney, and participated in the screenwriting of the Disney animation "The Adventures of Olive", and left Disney a few years later and moved to New York, while studying at Columbia University Film School, while continuing to look for various opportunities.

In recent years, the film industry has become more and more prosperous, and Daenerys Entertainment's Gaomen Pictures has continued to make many capitals interested in the entertainment industry see opportunities to enter the market, so that many filmmakers with shallow qualifications can show their talents.

It was against this backdrop that James Mangold was fortunate enough to get the investment in his first feature film "Unspeakable Love Words", and then went all the way to the main competition unit of Sundance.

It seems to start from here.

The film will not premiere until next Wednesday, but a person in charge of Gaomen Pictures, who has seen the finished film in advance, is already in contact with them, trying to buy the distribution rights of "Unspeakable Love Words" in advance, and at the same time, he also directly hopes to sign a contract with Mangold for the next three films.

When a new filmmaker is taken a fancy to the circle, he will often only cautiously sign a two-film contract to test the waters.

Goron Pictures tried to sign Mangold to a three-film contract at once, and even those who did not react well could feel the unusual.

Not only that, but Mangold also received an invitation to the Simon Westeros Hilltop Villa party tonight.

Although the reply to Gaomen Pictures is that he needs to think about it again, James Mangold has decided to agree, maybe after the news comes out, other film companies will offer higher prices to woo him, but he knows that no matter how you look at it, cooperating with Daenerys Entertainment, which has been the most powerful in recent years, is his best choice.

Because Daenerys Entertainment provides not only treatment, but more importantly, career development prospects. The new directors discovered by Daenerys Entertainment over the years can almost be described as soaring.

Entering the screening hall, the Egyptian theater, with more than five hundred seats, was almost full.

Tickets to the old-fashioned theater are not yet restricted, and there are some empty seats in the front row, but they are clearly for today's important guests. Mangold and his party could only find the last few positions, and they could not be connected, only Mangold and his girlfriend Cathy sat together, and the other three friends had to go to other scattered locations.

After taking his seat, feeling the heated atmosphere of discussion in the theater, James Mangold inevitably felt a little anticipation.

It's hard to expect to be on a par with Simon Westeros, but at the very least, he hopes that one day his film premiere will be as highly sought-after.

Really distracted, his girlfriend Cathy patted him and reminded, "Look, Westeros." ”

In the atmosphere of sudden silence in the theater, James Mangold hurriedly looked up.

Simon Westeros and Robert Redford walked out of the backstage side by side, accompanied by some other quite familiar celebrities, and the remaining empty seats in the front row were quickly occupied by these big names.

His girlfriend Cathy was still whispering in his ear: "That's Nicolas Cage, so handsome." And Quentin, it's ugly. Quess Gauff doesn't seem to be that tall, and is clearly suppressed by Cindy Crawford, hey, Jim, you see, they seem to be vying for favor around Westeros. The Coen brothers are also here, their "Money Empire" last year lost so badly, but they didn't expect to be able to cooperate with Daenerys Entertainment again immediately, and the new film should return to the genre they are good at. Whit Stillman, his "Metropoliser" is very interesting, and last year's "Barcelona" was a lot worse. Nicole Kidman, wow, I didn't expect her to come over, this woman was really beautiful last year, and she made three big movies in a row. I heard that she recently joined Gus Van Sant's new film, and she is very smart, and she knows that she can take the initiative to participate in literary films to improve her style, but she can't sit next to Westeros, it seems that she has fallen out of favor. Hey, Jim, look, isn't that Steven Soderbergh, the director of "Sex, Lies, and Tapes," going to join Daenerys as well, right?"

James Mangold was actually looking at a series of big names in the front row, and when he heard his girlfriend asking, he followed her guidance, he and Soderbergh were not familiar with each other, so he could only roughly judge and nodded: "It should be." ”

Cathy Conrad fell back into position and suddenly lowered her voice again: "So many big names are under Daenerys, Jim, do you think it's a good idea to join this company again?"

It's not like James Mangold hasn't thought about it.

Daenerys Entertainment is now almost half of Hollywood, and in recent years, it has also produced many good films. However, correspondingly, because of the participation of a large number of top filmmakers, the competition for internal resources will also be very fierce.

However, it was only slightly loosened, and James Mangold paid attention again and said to his girlfriend: "If Daenerys only signed a film contract with me, maybe I would hesitate, now it is three at once, which shows that some people in Daenerys Entertainment are very optimistic about me, and it would be foolish to miss this opportunity." ”

Cathy Conrad heard her boyfriend say this, thought about it, nodded her head, and said: "You say, is Simon Westeros himself optimistic about you, otherwise he wouldn't have signed three at once." ”

Of course, James Mangold thought about it, but he didn't dare to expect too much, and said, "I think there will be an answer tonight." ”

At Simon Westeros' Hilltop Villa party in the evening, if a young super-tycoon treats him differently, something will probably be certain. Even if he doesn't, though, James Mangold won't change his mind.

After Simon and his party took their seats, the time quickly came to ten o'clock in the morning.

Robert Redford personally walked up to the stage with the microphone, glanced at everyone in the screening room with a smile, and said: "This is a very interesting movie, I just asked Simon, why did he have such an idea, and it is a small film with a production cost of only 1.5 million US dollars, which is really insignificant for him now?" He said that he hopes that everyone can see a possibility, a possibility that movies have unlimited creativity, as long as everyone exerts their creativity, any other external factors are insignificant. So, let's enjoy this "This Man is from Earth" together. ”

Amid the applause of the crowd, Robert Redford stepped off the stage, and the lights in the screening room dimmed.

Since the film was established, Simon Westeros's new film has been the focus of many media outlets, but before this premiere, no other information was released except for various speculations caused by the name of the film, and the curiosity of the media and fans was therefore brought to the top.

On the big screen, after the opening credits of Gaomen Pictures, the picture lights up.

It begins with a beautiful set of empty mirrors, and the cold atmosphere of the mountains in winter is accompanied by a light and ethereal soundtrack, which directly introduces the audience to some kind of inexplicable emotion.

Soon, the camera freezes on a white male carrying boxes onto a pickup truck.

Everyone recognized this at a glance as the male protagonist George Clooney.

The actor who has been in Hollywood for many years has also come and gone in the past year, first starring in the hit "ER" and becoming famous, and recently because of his role as the leading actor written by Westeros himself, his popularity has increased significantly, and there are faint signs of entering the first-line coffee position.

Moments later, other characters soon appeared.

After a simple conversation, the audience quickly understood the ins and outs of the matter.

A university professor named John Oldman resigns to leave, and a group of colleagues come to see him off.

At the same time, foreshadowing and suspense soon followed.

Everyone was surprised by John's sudden departure.

John and Elizabeth Perkins played a female colleague Sandy, who clearly had a spark before.

Another colleague, Edith, noticed a painting that John was about to load in the car, thought it might be Van Gogh's original handiwork, and recommended him to have it tested.

John seemed to be very concerned about the movements of his other colleague, Will, and seemed a little disappointed that Will did not appear, and was relieved to hear that the other party would arrive later.

Everyone chatted and entered John's cabin together.

The topic continues.

Everyone was reluctant to let John go, and they all got to the bottom of it.

And once again led to a suspense.

John's appearance has never changed in the past ten years, which is a talent that many female colleagues around him envy to the point of madness.

During the questioning and discussion, another colleague, Aite and Quss Gauff, played by Linda, a beautiful female student who talks about teacher-student love with her teacher, also appeared one after another.

In the face of everyone's relentless pursuit, John finally opened a topic very cautiously.

Is it possible for human beings to live forever?

Hearing this question, all university professors began to analyze the possibility of this matter from their own professional perspectives with great interest.

Until John inadvertently said that he almost had a chance to go on a great voyage with Columbus.

The scene was silent.

In the screening hall of the Egyptian Theater, the plot has progressed here, and the time has passed unconsciously, 20 minutes.

Simon has always believed that the highest standard of a good movie is to make the audience completely unable to feel the passage of time, and the current movie, although there is no crash explosion CG special effects, but only the slowly unfolding plot and the tacit performance between a group of actors, also successfully achieved this.

In 20 minutes, the first climax of the plot appeared, and the attention of the audience in the screening hall was once again focused.

At the same time, I am also vaguely aware of the core theme of the film.

The story of an eternal.

On the big screen, there was a moment of silence, and everyone's first reaction was that John was joking.

John also took the opportunity to let everyone discuss the topic in depth in a playful mentality, and as the topic deepened, John's argument that he was an immortal without flaws became more and more solid, and everyone began to have more and more shock and suspicion at the same time.

Everyone began to know that John was an eternal who had lived for about 14,000 years.

Knowing that John's body has a strong ability to recover, he has experienced various illnesses without any harm, and even the scar does not appear.

At the same time, I also know the reason why John is different from ordinary people, which is the accumulation of endless time.

In 50 minutes, the plot comes to the second climactic turn.

In everyone's shock, John easily drew a large ancient bow and shot the arrow accurately at a tree trunk outside the hut.

One of the recurve bows that appeared in the original film was just a pure prop, and the colleagues couldn't pull it, and John didn't get his hands on it. Simon made changes to this detail, abandoning the original recurve bow and finding a strong bow from China that was about five stones by ancient standards.

To pull this bow apart, it would take 300 pounds of arm strength by Western standards.

At that time, no one in the crew was able to pull away, including many stand-ins that were found. Therefore, this scene was actually done by Simon himself as a stand-in during the last visit.

It was very difficult, but it did pull away smoothly at the time.

And, after only five attempts, Simon accurately landed that arrow at the target tree trunk.

This small detail once again made the creators involved in "This Man from Earth" privately feel that this movie is Simon Westeros's 'personal biography'.