Spending Christmas, the last week of 1986 also slipped away.

In the blink of an eye, it was 1987.

At the beginning of the new year, the video and sound editing of "Lola Run" was successfully completed. Thanks to the excellent lens quality, Simon was able to color match the dailies in just one week.

Subsequently, "Lola Run" began the final printing process.

On the other hand, "The Butterfly Effect" was also completed in mid-December and entered the post-production stage.

Simon learned from David Giller and Brian de Palma that Fox had not yet finalized the schedule for "The Butterfly Effect" and needed to be decided based on the quality of the finished film.

However, the two most likely schedules are either summer or Easter.

In this era, the popularity of the Easter schedule in North America is far from being as high as it was later, and the most important schedules in Hollywood are still only the summer and the end of the year.

The box office success of "The Butterfly Effect" was crucial for Simon's subsequent development in Hollywood, and he naturally hoped that the film would be set for Easter. However, this is clearly not something he can decide.

Now, Simon can control the autonomy, and only "Lola Run".

Stuck in time, on January 13, Simon finally got the final copy of "Lola Run".

January 14th.

Fox Studios, it's afternoon.

In a screening room in the studio, David Giller and Brian de Palma entered the door together to find a large group of people gathered in the screening room, most of them members of the crew of "Lola Run" during the filming.

Noticing the arrival of the two, Simon, who was chatting with everyone, hurriedly got up to greet him, and the others also nodded their heads.

Because he is also busy with the later stages of "The Butterfly Effect", Simon has not met with the two many times these days, said hello, sat down and chatted for a while, David Giller said: "Simon, can you start?"

"I'm sorry, David, I'll have to wait," Simon shook his head and said, "Mr. Sanders promised to come over, but he hasn't arrived yet." ”

David Giller nodded in understanding.

Simon invited Peter Saunders, vice president of Fox Films, apparently in connection with the release of Lola Run. David Giller also pointed out the details of Simon's release a few days ago.

After Simon finished speaking, he raised his wrist and glanced at his watch, it was already past the appointed time, so he simply got up and planned to go outside the screening room to have a look.

After waiting for nearly ten minutes, Simon was already hesitant to go to the administration building to see it in person, and Peter Sanders's figure turned out of the corridor next to him. Seeing Simon waiting outside the screening room, Peter Sanders still had an apologetic look on his face, and reached over and said, "I'm really sorry, Simon, I just finished a meeting." ”

"It's okay," Simon shook his hand with a smile and said, "Then, Peter, let's go in." ”

"Of course, I'm looking forward to your movie. ”

The two walked into the screening room, and Peter Sanders greeted everyone warmly, looking left and right, there were six rows of seats in the screening room, separated from the left and right. David Giller and Brian de Palma sat on the left in the first row, Janet and Catherine on the right, and there was one empty seat on each side.

After a moment's hesitation, Peter Sanders sat down next to David Giller.

Simon stood beside Peter Saunders, noticing the details of the other man's hesitation, and only smiled.

Although he is sleek, judging from this detail, Peter Sanders is obviously not a big person.

As a senior executive at Fox Films in charge of the "Butterfly Effect" project, he obviously didn't want to sit with the two at this time, having been hanging out by David Giller and Brian De Palma during the film's production. However, Peter Sanders did not dare to show this contradiction publicly.

After Peter Sanders was seated, Simon instructed the screening room staff to sit down next to Janet.

The lights in the screening room quickly dimmed.

Although he had already watched the sample film in advance, he was busy for half a year and finally had to officially accept the test of the audience, Simon was still a little nervous at this time, and couldn't help but clench his fists.

A small, cool hand reached out in the darkness and patted the back of Simon's clenched fist.

Simon turned his head, noticed Janet's sparkling eyes, smiled at her, and in turn took the slightly cool little hand in his own big hand.

Because it was the first test screening of "Lola Run", Catherine, who was about to go to Arizona to shoot "Night of the Blood Corpse", still took the time to come over today.

At this time, sitting on the other side of Janet, Catherine noticed Simon's move of holding Janet's small hand in the palm of her hand, and her eyes couldn't help flashing a little bit of loneliness. Just after returning to Los Angeles after the New Year, Catherine clearly felt the further relationship between Simon and Janet.

Without waiting for Catherine to ask, Janet took the initiative to tell her about Christmas Eve.

I don't know anything about the block.

It wasn't until Catherine couldn't stand it anymore and covered Janet's little mouth that she stopped Barra.

As much as possible, she tried to forget about Janet's various thoughts, but casually glancing at Simon's side of the face on the other side, Catherine still remembered that Janet dangled five white and tender fingers to describe the 'tragic experience' of being tossed all night for the first time in her life.

Her cheeks began to heat up unconsciously, and Catherine hurriedly focused her attention on the big screen in front of her.

Although with her understanding of the personalities of the two people around her, she thinks that it may be Jenny's marrow knowledge.

But.

Where do women need to be reasonable.

Well.

Says who?

With that in mind, Catherine's mind flashed back to a word Janet used to criticize a certain guy.

I followed a sentence in my heart with some resentment.

Livestock!

A small hand unconsciously touched it, trying to pull itself.

Open it.

It's really greedy, it's not enough to be held on the other side.

Watch a movie too.

On the big screen, wait for a moment, and with the slight sound of the projector running, the movie begins to play.

The first is a line of subtitles.

In the future, the term "Butterfly Effect" will appear at the beginning of "The Butterfly Effect", and Simon will not add such an opening to "Lola Run".

However, Simon still adjusted the opening subtitles of the original version, and only retained the English poet T· A quote from S. Eliot.

When the subtitles fell, the clicking second hand began to beat rapidly, and with the rotation of the silver pendulum, several lines of subtitles appeared one after another.

Production Company: Daenerys Pictures.

Executive Producers: Brian De Palma, David Giller, Robert Redford.

Director: Simon Westeros.

Since Brian and the others are willing to put their names on the table, Simon naturally will not pretend to be modest and hide it, and directly put the names of the three bigwigs in the most conspicuous place at the beginning.

As the pendulum stops, the camera pans to Simon's custom metal gear clock, and the fast-paced electronic music that is about to run through the film unfolds. The contagious music unconsciously guides the emotions of everyone in the screening room.

Then there's the walking dead crowd and the narration centered around the philosophical proposition 'Who am I, where am I, and what am I going to do?'

However, despite such a philosophical narration, the movie does not leave the audience any time to think.

Action-packed electronic music seems to be urging everyone to run wild.

Thereupon.

In the beginning of the cartoon, Lola starts running.

Until the beginning of the whole story.

In the lens that is pulled in quickly by inertia, the striking red phone rings.

The little gangster Manny received the transaction task entrusted by the boss, and everything went smoothly. When he returned, his agreed girlfriend Laura didn't come to pick him up on time, so he had to figure out his own way, and then lost the money for the transaction.

$100,000.

It was enough for the boss to burn him to ashes and sprinkle him into the sea.

In a panic, Manny tearfully complains to Lola on the phone.

In order to save her boyfriend's life, Laura had to raise $100,000 in a short period of time and deliver it to a phone booth in downtown Santa Monica.

She only had 20 minutes.

But he didn't hesitate and rushed out of the house without hesitation.

Run wild.

When he came to his father's office, who was a bank manager, instead of getting help, he was exposed.

I didn't get the money, but I still ran to the finish line.

The boyfriend had entered the supermarket with a gun.

Well, you insist on being Clyde, and I'm your Bonnie.

The robbery was successful.

Escape from failure.

Mistakenly shot by a stupid rookie cop.

Unwilling.

Let's do it all over again.

When the red phone falls, it starts again.

This time, I'm Bonnie, you don't have to be Clyde.

It seems to have worked.

Until the last moment.

God didn't seem to like the unearned man very much, so he took him.

Keep doing it all over again.

The ruffians and vicious dogs who tried to get in the way jumped in the hallway may have saved a second, or a second was wasted.

Who knows.

Anyway, I missed my father, but I ran into a casino.

And then.

Everything seems to be going well.

I earned $100,000 and made it to my destination.

The beggar who accidentally picked up the $100,000 got the thief's bicycle and also rushed to her boyfriend's side in advance to 'return' the money.

Perfect ending.