After the filming of the movie was completed, the celebration party followed, and John was not stingy, and after cleaning the theater, he directly chartered a scene at the Hilton Hotel for celebration.

As a leader in the hotel chain, Hilton has a very wide range of business, eating, drinking and having fun, here there is only what you can't think of, there is nothing it doesn't have, but the premise is money.

The mood of everyone at the celebration was extremely excited, and the filming for half a year was transferred to various parts of the United States, which made everyone a little tired, and now suddenly the burden was lifted, and these people will naturally go crazy for a while.

As a director, it is naturally impossible for John to go crazy with everyone, and he still has to maintain the director's prestige, otherwise how will he manage the crew on the set in the future.

In the second half, after everyone's excitement passed, the private hall gradually returned to normal, and acquaintances got together to chat about life and interesting things in the crew.

The first person he called was Zack Schneider, the assistant director of the crew.

"The filming of the movie is over, and you don't need to participate in the post-production, you take the crew to continue filming the second season of "Friends", and I have already written the script, and I will come to the company tomorrow to get it. ”

The TV series "Friends" was used by John to train Zack Snyder, and his current qualifications are not enough to make movies, so he can only start with TV series, but this is also much higher than the starting point of his previous life, in which he only entered the film industry after more than ten years of filming commercials and MTV.

So don't watch the TV series have a lower level than the movie, but it's not just a casual person, like if you want to sit in this position, you have to have connections and strength.

And what about those who don't have the connections and the strength?

Then you can only slowly accumulate contacts and learn skills from other types of work, such as assistant directors, assistant directors, or other industries, such as shooting commercials on MTV, and finally have the opportunity to become a director.

And many people are reluctant to be assistant directors or assistant directors, because this position is, to put it bluntly, to do chores, serving tea and water to see people's faces, so those who can't stand serving tea and water will choose to go to the advertising industry to slowly accumulate experience and contacts before entering the film industry.

Like David Fincher, Tony Scott, Ridley Scott, Michael Bay, Guy Ritchie...... Wait. These film directors who would later become famous in Hollywood all climbed out of the advertising world.

As for which of these two paths is better?

The disadvantage of taking the road of assistant director and assistant is to have patience, and the advantage is convenience, and this position can contact many industry insiders, such as brokerage companies, production companies, and distribution companies...... After a long time, after a few years of resources and strength, it is natural to become a director.

As for taking the road of the advertising company MTV, although the advantage is that you don't have to swallow your anger to look at people's faces, the disadvantage is that shooting commercials and MTV are too far away from the film industry, and you have to take time to slowly accumulate network resources and increase professional skills, until one day the bigwigs think you can, you may have the opportunity to become a film director.

Of course, if you can be as rich as John, you can also take the third way, pay for it yourself, and wear many hats, that is, you don't have to whisper to serve tea and water, and you don't have to waste time. But the most important thing is that what you shoot must be recognized by the distribution company in the end, otherwise you can only take it home and enjoy it yourself.

Zack Snyder, who was sitting on the side, was excited after hearing that John asked him to continue filming "Friends", filming "Friends" was a pleasure for him, and the addition of the first season of "Friends" made him an Emmy nomination, which made him even more full of expectations for the second season.

You know, if he can successfully get an Emmy Award, then he will have more seniority than many people, and he will be more likely to succeed than many people.

When a production company looks for a director to shoot a movie, the most important thing is to review the director's qualifications, and the more senior the seniority, the greater the chance of being selected by the production company.

But if you don't have any qualifications at all, the production company will definitely not choose you.

In fact, this is normal, not to mention a movie with an investment of tens of millions of dollars, that is, a company recruits technicians for thousands of dollars a month, and all that people need are skilled hands, and new hands can only start as apprentices, slowly boiling up qualifications and learning technology, and Zack Schneider is now a new hand.

"Remember what I told you, don't show off, what you're going to do is how to tell the story well, understand?"

John looked at the excited Zack Schneider and said repeatedly. He was most afraid that Zacksh Neder would show off his skills and forget how to tell a story.

If a movie can't even tell the story well, what's the use of special effects alone, and it will inevitably hit the street in the end.

When special effects were rampant in later generations, John saw many directors who sacrificed their roots to blindly pursue special effects, thinking that the audience would be able to buy it, but reality and ideals were often far from ideals.

The sad thing is that after these people failed, they couldn't see the real reason, and attributed the box office to the fact that the special effects were not good enough and the scenes were not big enough, so when it came to the next movie, they hired a first-class Hollywood special effects company to help, naively thinking that the audience would definitely buy it this time, but the result was very cruel.

The cruel result also indirectly illustrates one thing, a movie that only focuses on special effects and ignores the story is not a movie, at most it is just an extended version of the commercial, people will get bored watching 120-second commercials, and you still expect everyone to like this 120-minute commercial?

And what makes John feel the saddest thing is that after the movie hit the street, these directors didn't panic at all, the director took the fee, and the movies were still filmed one after another, no matter how much they lost, it had nothing to do with them, and in the end it was all the investors who were unlucky.

This is their fate, not born in North America to be a director, otherwise they would have been shot by investors and collapsed, and it would have given them the opportunity to put the responsibility on the audience with their faces.

John felt sick at the thought of these people's faces, but he was reborn in the United States in this life, and he had no chance to see these people again, and even if he did, it could only be a hurry.

Zack Schneider, who was on the side, nodded seriously when he heard John's advice, and patted his chest at the same time.

"Boss, don't worry, I will definitely work the story of this season of "Friends" and strive to tell the story well. ”

The longer Zacksh Neid and John worked together, the more he admired John's directing ability, especially the filming of "Forrest Gump", which made him see the gap between himself and John, so he usually listened to what John said in his heart and then remembered it firmly.