UCLA is located in the Westwood District of Los Angeles, built on the Mid-Hills, with beautiful natural scenery and quiet natural scenery, adjacent to Beverly Hills, a luxury residential area where Hollywood stars live. With a campus area of 1.7 square kilometers, it is the university with the largest number of applicants in the United States.

Zhang Ran parked the car in the parking lot outside the school, got out of the car with Huang Lei and Sun Li, and walked towards the south gate of the school.

Today, Huang Lei and Sun Li wore yellow couple clothes, which the couple seemed to be particularly fond of, while Zhang Ran wore a blue T-shirt with the ucLa school emblem and the word "u$c" written on it, satirizing that USC had nothing but money. Every year during the city war, students from both schools like to wear this kind of taunting opponent T-shirts, and some teachers even participate in the action.

The ucLa campus is relatively spacious and quiet, with nearly 100-year-old trees everywhere and Italian red brick buildings in a very uniform Renaissance style, giving the whole campus a heavy atmosphere. Zhang Ran and the others climbed a small slope and saw the student activity center, the gateway of the campus.

Walking to the square in front of the activity center, a huge wooden box three or four meters high caught the attention of Huang Lei and Sun Li, and the box read "Fairy Bear is hibernating".

Sun Li felt strange, pointed to the wooden box and asked, "Zhang Ran, what does this mean?"

Zhang Ran explained: "Inside is the school's mascot fairy bear, a bronze brown bear, every year at this time, the school will hide the fairy bear, lest the students of USC come to destroy it and splash paint on the fairy bear!"

Sun Li asked curiously: "Is it the same over there in USC, and you will also go over to cause sabotage?"

Zhang Ran smiled and nodded: "Yes, they are the same over there, the mascot of USC is a bronze statue of a Trojan warrior, relatively tall, there is no way to hide it in a box, at this time of year they will seal it tightly with tape paper, and send volunteers to guard it day and night, so as not to splash paint on the bronze statue." ”

At this moment, there was a sudden burst of violent boos behind him, and Zhang Ran looked back to see a group of students wearing uniform red T-shirts walking towards this side, both men and women, with the words "BeatucLa", "FucLa", "ucLagay" printed on their T-shirts.

Wearing such a T-shirt to swagger in ucLa, just like Nortel students wearing clothes of "Chinese opera are all sissies" and "Chinese opera is garbage" running around the campus of Chinese opera, it is definitely a provocation, and ucLa students naturally booed them mercilessly.

However, this group of students, both boys and girls, was relatively calm and seemed to be accustomed to this, and they walked briskly towards the North Campus like the wind.

Sun Li looked at the slogans on the group of students and asked in surprise: "These are the students of USC, how dare they come here in such clothes? Aren't they afraid of being beaten?"

Zhang Ran explained: "This is a tradition, everyone can laugh at each other, but they will not hit people. These people are supposed to go to the Royce Auditorium to watch the movie competition, and this year's competition is on our side, and it is an editing battle. ”

Although Huang Lei is an actor, he has the intention of being a director, has been practicing his directing skills, and is quite confident in his editing skills: "The editing battle sounds very interesting, let's go over and take a look!"

Zhang Ran said: "The Royce Auditorium is on the North Campus, let's finish shopping here, and then go over in the afternoon, there will be ten editing battles, and the winner can be determined in the afternoon!"

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The Reuss Auditorium is located on a hill with a north-facing entrance and is made of red brick, modeled after the church of St. Ambrose in Italy.

When Zhang Ran and the three of them walked into the Royce Auditorium, it was so crowded that there was almost no place to put their feet. The three of them pushed and squeezed through the crowd until they came to a stop near a corner of the stage.

At this moment, the stage is shrouded in warm orange light, and in the center are two electronic timers, one for ucLa and one for USC, the timer has been activated, and the numbers on it are changing rapidly. On either side of the timer, there are two contestants' chairs, and next to the chairs is a huge film editing machine, in front of which the two contestants are busy.

Huang Lei had never seen such a game, looked at the players on the stage, and asked, "What are the rules of this competition?"

Zhang Ran explained: "The rules are to edit according to the materials provided by the conference, one point for the shortest time, one point for the shortest clip, one point for the shortest clip of 3 minutes, and then the three judges will judge according to the content of the clip and choose the best clip they think, each judge will have one point, and the three will add up to a total of five points." Students from both schools and students within three years of graduation are eligible to participate. ”

Huang Lei immediately understood, and explained to Sun Li next to him: "This competition is compared to the speed, accuracy, and conception of editing, and the content of the inspection is very comprehensive!"

At this time, Zhang Ran saw the appearance of the USC representative on the stage, and his face sank: "Jason Reitman has already appeared on the stage, and USC directly sent the strongest player out!"

Huang Lei looked at the stage, the foreigner with long hair, tall and thin, and asked, "This person is very powerful?"

Zhang Ran nodded solemnly: "Jason Reitman's father is Ivan Reitman, the director of "Dragon Brother and Mouse" and "Ghostbusters 2". When he was born 11 days ago, he was carried to the set, and the film accompanied him throughout his childhood. He picked up a home camera at the age of 10, worked as a film set assistant at the age of 12, and made a public service announcement about AIDS at the age of 15, which won an award. In '98, his short film was shortlisted for the Sundance Film Festival, making him the youngest director at the festival. In the two years after graduating from university, Jason was an advertising producer, and he shot commercials for many world-class brands such as BMW and General Motors, but everyone believed that advertising was just a springboard to his film country!

One thing Zhang Ran didn't say was that Jason Reitman would become famous a few years later with the low-budget independent film "Juno", and then shoot Oscar hits such as "In the Clouds" and "Teen" in a row. He is a real genius, proficient in directing, actor, screenwriter, and editor, and is Chu Qiao, a young independent filmmaker.

The theme of last year's film competition was photography, and Zhang Ran also participated, and finally lost miserably at the hands of Jason Reitman, who lost at that time without any temper and the difference in strength was too great.

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Jason Reitman, who finished editing, quickly ran to the timer and pressed the buzzer, and the time stopped at 25 minutes and 36 seconds. He handed the edited film to the judges, then returned to his place, clasped his hands to his chest, and looked at the ucaL contestants playfully.

It took five minutes for the ucaL contestants to finish editing, and then the film edited by the two began to play, and the three judges evaluated the film.

The length of the film, Jason won with 3 minutes and 3 seconds, and the votes of the three judges also went to Jason, and in the end, Jason finished the opponent 5-0.

The USC students in the audience stood up and celebrated the victory unscrupulously, and last year's UCAL students overwhelmed them in the USC temple auditorium.

The students of ucaL did not appear angry, their faces were very ugly, and they felt deeply humiliated by being slapped in the face, so they responded with boos.

The applause and boos echoed each other, and the entire auditorium seemed to be transformed into a lively football stadium, which made people feel like the scene of a football derby.

Bai Yunfei participated in the battle in the same city for the first time, and he didn't know much about the situation of the school's film school, and when he saw his school being humiliated, he couldn't help but ask: "What about the masters of our school? Why haven't the masters come out yet!"

A Chinese boy wearing a Nike T-shirt said depressedly: "The most powerful is Lin Yibin, who won USC at the USC Temple Auditorium last year and has no temper at all, but unfortunately he has graduated for three years and can't participate in this competition, otherwise it will be their turn to be arrogant." The best player in our school right now is Neil Blomkamp, but Neil Blomkamp has played Jason Reitman four times and lost each time, so it's unlikely that he will win this time!"

"If Lin Yibin is still here, which turn will it be the turn of these guys from USC to be arrogant!"

"Hey, let's take turns in feng shui, in the past two years, USC has been pressed by us and has no temper at all, and last year Lin Yibin even beat USC in the USC Temple Auditorium, and he lost his armor at all, and now it's their turn to be in the limelight. ”

Bai Yunfei heard several compatriots constantly mentioning the name Lin Yibin, and asked curiously: "Lin Yibin sounds Chinese, is he very powerful?"

"It's Chinese, Master of Arts from the Film Academy, he is really very good, directing, editing, cinematography, screenwriting is proficient in everything, when he graduated in 97, he made the movie "Strange Flowers of the Sea of People", and has been preparing for a new movie for the past two years, I heard that it has been filmed, and everyone believes that he will become famous in one fell swoop. ”

At this moment, there was a burst of cheers from ucaL, and everyone's eyes looked at the stage, only to see a ten-year-old young man walking onto the stage and sitting on the player's seat.

A USC student pouted disdainfully: "ucaL is declining more and more, and I can't find a powerful player, so I actually sent out all the freshmen, I think you can admit defeat directly!"

The UCAL student next to him immediately shot back: "You are less proud, this is Josh Trunk, a film genius who was admitted to our school last year, although he is relatively young, he may not lose! Even if he loses now, he will win it back in a year or two!"

"Hahaha, genius, you ucaL are all geniuses! It's a pity that you just can't compare to us, USC Film School has always been ranked first in the United States!"

UCAL students were choked and rolled their eyes, and it was a fact that USC Film School was ranked No. 1 in the United States, and it was impossible to argue with it. USC is richer, has better hardware, and is more connected to Hollywood, and even Spielberg comes every three years to teach a semester. This is really incomparable to ucaL.

Zhang Ran looked at Josh Trunk on the stage and shook his head gently, he had heard of this person and knew that Josh Trunk would become famous in the future with "Super Runaway". It's just that at the level of Josh Trunk's future performance, the chances of winning Jason Reitman are almost zero.

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