Chapter 51: The Distance of a Milky Way
Leila read Cooper's comments twice, and read the praise of other media outlets twice.
"It's really hard for him, and every time he has to rack his brains to figure out how to discredit my words. Leila sighed and handed the clippings back to Demi.
"What's that?" Roy got out of nowhere, took the clipping, and opened it to see Cooper's comment. After looking at it twice, his face darkened: "Who is this?
He hadn't seen the witch Blair, but it was also "her" work, and he still managed to find out about it in his free time from training.
An 18-year-old girl made a movie with 100,000 US dollars and quietly won a record 300 million US dollars, if this is still criticized and smeared, is there any reason?
"Where does this guy live?" Roy said, starting to roll up his sleeves.
Laila angrily snatched the clipping clip and patted him on the head: "What? You still want to beat people, don't you? You still don't think the police station is in enough, don't you? You still think my movie is not famous enough, do you?"
A series of "isn't it" made Roy roll his eyes: "When did I say that I was going to beat people, at most I was going to smash their glass, okay?"
"Look at your point!" Leila pushed him aside, "Alright, if you don't want to eat, go find something to do on your own." Before the movie was finished, the work in the crew couldn't be done. After saying that, he didn't look at the white eyes that were about to roll to the ceiling, and went to dinner with the beautiful blonde female secretary.
300 million is a box office result that surprised Leila a little. She can't remember exactly how much the witch took in her previous life, but she remembers that it was at least above 200 million. Now that it has received 300 million yuan before the full offline release, if it sells videos and CDs in the later stage, and authorizes cable radio broadcasts, how much revenue can the company make?
You must know that it is not like the box office, it will be fine if it is collected in the uproar, it is a gold mountain that can always produce income! Judging from the current box office, it can be expected that their company will at least get tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of follow-up income from this movie in the future.
Thinking of the money she could get later, the smile on the corner of Lyra's lips did not disappear when she ate. At the same time, she also felt a little emotional, because this is the United States, a country that cares a lot about copyright. In the country where the previous life was located, no matter how good the movie was, there would be a flood of all kinds of gun versions not long after it was released, and even the high-definition version would soon flow out.
After eating, Leila continued to engage in the intense and exciting filming.
"Roy, you're doing a good job. The emotions deepened a little more. ”
As the film progresses, Lyra rarely needs to mention Roy.
His talent skyrocketed through the film's shoot, leaving the rest of the crew amazed at his rapid progress.
"CUT! Michael, your eyes are a little more tangled. Leila called a timeout and walked over to Fassbinder. "You need to make a choice, either he dies or you die. You're struggling, you're not willing to kill someone else, and you're smart enough to get both of them out in your own way. I need you to play the inner struggle, OK?"
"OK! I'll try. Fassbinder closed his eyes and took two deep breaths, and when he opened them again, his eyes were already full of contradictions and struggles.
"That's right, that's it, don't forget how it feels right now. Attention Departments, action!" Leila hastened to include his performance on camera as if she was afraid of losing his gem-like expression.
She was very fortunate to be able to work with such a spiritual actor, and she also wondered why he didn't have the opportunity to stand in front of the camera until so late in his previous life. No matter what kind of expression you want, as long as you convey the request to him, you can get a perfect performance from him. may be more lacking than later generations, but it is more than enough to star in the horror movies she made at this time.
The same goes for Roy, it's hard to imagine that his first experience of making a movie can compete with the French shark, and it is not inferior.
After the makeup artist's makeup, his originally slightly immature face matured, making him look twenty-five or sixteen years old in front of the camera. He had seen too many people and things on the streets, and it was not difficult for him to play a role six or seven years older than himself.
Just looking at him in the camera, who can believe that he is still shooting a movie for the first time?
Another important role in the film is Charlize as Amanda, which is also her first official role that is not a vase since the film. In The Witch she played a small supporting role, just in a few shots. This time, Leila asked her to take on such an important role, in fact, she also had her own intentions.
Throughout the series of SAW movies, Amanda is an important presence. She survived the jigsaw game, but she got closer to the jigsaw because of it.
Leila knew before that Charlize's beauty would be a stumbling block in her acting path. It's not just her, everyone who eats movies in Hollywood knows this. In her film career, it wasn't until the appearance of the female devil that she abandoned the label of a vase.
This time she asked her to play Amanda not only because she liked her serious personality and wanted to pull her up, but also because she wanted to help her take off the label. Who said that a beautiful woman must be a vase? She not only wants her to brush off the label of the vase of shame, but also makes her be recognized by everyone that not only is that face beautiful, but she is also a person with real strength!
There is such an obsession, which is actually the reason for Leila herself. If you have to say it, she actually has a bit of femininism in her bones, and it is not difficult to see this from her personality in her previous life. Otherwise, she would not have remained single in her thirties, and fought for an "ideal" that wanted to become a film director until she was reborn in this era.
She loves movies, she loves Hollywood, but she hates Hollywood's sexism. is also a top actor, and the salary of a male actor is sometimes 5 to 10 times higher than that of an actress!
Is this fair?
NO!
Look at how many famous female directors are there in Hollywood?
At least none of the top ten directors!
Leila also knows very few female directors. There are Catherine Hardwick, the director of "The Twilight Zone", Nora Epron, the director of "Sleepless in Seattle", and Sophia Coppola, who won the Best Young Director Award in Hollywood, and so on......
The most noteworthy is James Cameron's ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow, who became the first female best director at the Oscars with a "Bomb Disposal Unit", defeated Avatar and won the 82nd Oscar for Best Picture that year. Therefore, some people say that Cameron defeated the whole world but lost to his ex-wife, which became a joke for a while.
But!
How much box office did the bomb disposal unit win?
If you compete with box office and influence, Catherine and Cameron are a galaxy apart.