"Has the script been changed?" she asked Leonardo dryly.

Unexpectedly, she really asked the right question, and the script was in his hands.

Leonardo took out a printed script from his bag and handed it to her: "Take a look." I took a look at it first, and I feel that the places you marked have been well modified. If there's something wrong, let's talk about it. ”

Based on his opinion of the script, this one is obviously more exciting than the previous one. Removed a few abrupt places in the original script, and aggravated some conflicts. The story as a whole is still very complete, but the quality is not just a layer higher?

Leila took the script.

And when she watched, Andrew was so nervous that he couldn't breathe smoothly as if he was waiting for the execution.

Leonardo couldn't help but laugh when he looked at him: "What are you nervous about?"

"I—I'm nervous!" Andrew wiped a cold sweat from his mouth.

Leonardo took a few tissues from the table and handed them to him, "She won't eat you again, as for the sweat on this end?"

Andrew wiped his forehead silently, the soft tissue was instantly wet with sweat droplets, and he couldn't open his mouth even if he wanted to deny it. He didn't want to be so cowardly! But in front of him was Leila Moran! a living Hollywood legend, the kind of person destined to be missed by documentaries. It's a great honor for her to be able to read the script she wrote, okay?

In fact, if they had shown the script to Leila in advance, and then talked about the script-related things directly after they came, he wouldn't have been so nervous.

But now the situation is that they are waiting here, waiting for her to say something after reading it, and that would be a little too torturous.

Andrew really didn't want to hear from his idol that the script was poorly written, and he took so long to revise it that he thought he had done it perfectly. If this does not satisfy her, he doubts that he will have the confidence to continue on the road of screenwriting.

Leila didn't hear the conversation between them, and her attention was drawn to the script at the moment. She has read this script for a few months, and she has also marked it carefully, so she can be regarded as knowing the whole script very well.

And this time, when I look at it again, a deeper understanding also comes to my mind. For a director like her, the sentences she sees turn into images and appear in her head. Instead of simply reading a story, we construct a world so that the characters who are active on the paper are endowed with real souls.

A movie script actually does not have many words, and if it is changed to Chinese characters, it may be three to fifty thousand. English characters take up more space than Chinese, and the simplicity is also poor, probably the script will be one-third or even two-thirds thicker.

But even so, it won't take much time to read a script roughly.

Leila saw it quickly, and half an hour was almost enough time for her to sift through it carefully. And when she put down the script, she heard a gasp.

You don't look up to know whose voice is coming from. Leila politely didn't say anything about it, but if she didn't hear it, if you ignore Andrew's flushed face, the atmosphere in the conference room is quite good.

"How?" Leonardo desperately wanted to know what she thought.

Leila thought for a moment and mentally organized the language: "It's good

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Target. I wish the changes were good. ”

Andrew looked at her nervously, and did not let up because of her affirmation, because in his memory, such words are usually followed by a "but"!

However, the "but" did not follow Lyra's next words, but listened to her directly talk about the shortcomings or misunderstandings in the script.

"It's a bit blunt here. Leila used a pen to draw a plot out of the script: "If you do this, it can really make the conflict of the plot more serious, and at the same time, it will also cause a lot of unhappiness for moviegoers." ”

Andrew listened to her talk about the script, and the person finally broke free from the tension and was brought into the world of the script.

Her words puzzled him: "Our script is a story full of conflict, do we need to care about the audience's feelings?"

In his opinion, this is obviously an award-winning script, and a script like this can expose the dark side of the world and warn the world about all kinds of conflicts, no one should care about its box office, right? Or no one expects it to achieve much box office.

Lyra shook her head, "Of course it does. Don't forget who your movie is for, and if the audience is dissatisfied with the movie, do you think they will still like you? The same plot can be accepted by the audience in a different way, so why not do it? In my mind, there is no rule that art films don't need box office, and commercial films don't need word-of-mouth. Since I want to shoot, I want to shoot the best, that's what I'm all about. ”

Andrew looked at her, not even noticing that his mouth was subconsciously open. He seemed to understand a little bit why her movies would be liked by so many people, and why she could make any movie very profitable. What she said is not wrong, the same plot, as long as it is processed in different ways, can make the viewer have different feelings. Inevitably, why not think about it for the audience?

"Looks like you understand what I mean. Leila looked at him and continued: "You are a writer, don't you want your script to create better profits?

In Hollywood, there's no one who doesn't like scripts that make money. Even if it doesn't make a lot of money, as long as you can make a small amount of money, there will be a bunch of people rushing to go.

Andrew's heart was pounding at what she said. yes, he shouldn't have sold the script and was satisfied. The impact of a lost script is completely different from a money-making one!

What is the meaning of a good script? Not only a story with substance, but also a profit!

In other words, if it is a story with the same connotation, do you want to buy it at a low price that will not make money, or pay several times more to buy it that can have a good box office?

That's what Leila meant, and again, to write a story, without hurting the story line and theme, why not write a movie that makes the "customer" more satisfied?

"You're right!" Andrew nodded sharply. He believes that today's exchange will definitely have an extremely important role in his future creative life, and if he will become an excellent writer in the future, it must be the inspiration that Leila has given him!

"If you describe it in a different way, do you think it will work?" he said in another way, replacing the original uncomfortable parts of the audience with another narrative method without changing the plot.