Chapter 257: Schadenfreude

Many Hollywood movie scripts are created in an assembly-line way, such as those who are good at writing funny plots are responsible for the funny part, and those who are good at love are responsible for the emotional part of the male and female protagonists. 13579246810

The advantage of this is that the most suitable people go to the most suitable place, and the disadvantage is that it may cause a lot of weakening in the plot. After all, there are many people, and the thread that the previous person wants to bury can't be too deep, otherwise the part written by other people will not be easy to blend into. It's all about writing scripts, why should others write according to the thread you buried, right?

Leila still prefers the way that a screenwriter is in charge of a work, so that although the ability of the editor is more demanding, the things that can be written are more coherent and smooth, and it is easy to express deeper things in it.

The script of Rush Hour has changed a lot at her request, some of which are changes from the original version, and some of which she has supplemented according to the shortcomings of the original version in her memory. It can be said that the version she shot is the most satisfying for her to create by combining all aspects.

The film, which lasted for more than an hour, ended smoothly with applause and applause. There are some cut-out shots at the end of the film, all of which are failed and ut. Such a small detail makes many people sit until the end of the movie, instead of leaving when the ending song is played like other movies.

Fans who can't get enough of it leave the theater and immediately introduce the movie to their friends in various ways. Some of them make phone calls, some use the Internet, and if they don't immediately find someone to tell them about the content of the movie, it's as if they can't even sleep.

On more than one occasion when Leila quietly left, she saw someone holding her phone and talking to her friend on the phone, saying that the phone was really awesome and something like that. It puts her at ease, at least it looks pretty good, doesn't it?

However, early the next morning, Demi gives Layla bad news when she comes to work.

"The 'Waterloo' of a genius director, in fact, we have long guessed it", the headline of the entertainment section of the New York Post, the huge headline with a lot of schadenfreude.

The title is eye-catching, and the content even says that Leila and Rush Hour are useless, and almost points to her nose and says that she made a bad movie.

"4.2 million is the first-day box office of the genius director's new movie, which has shrunk by at least more than half compared with her previous works. In fact, many people have already guessed that there will be such a result, why? First of all, this is an action movie, and it is also an unfamiliar oriental action movie, director Moran himself is not familiar with this at all, how can he make an original film?"

"Secondly, it's a comedy! Yes, a comedy! Do you expect a horror director to make anything funny? At least after watching the movie, I don't feel anything that makes me laugh. ”

The article is very strongly worded, as if the author and Leila have a hatred for killing her father and taking her wife. But it's just a little trick, a small trick to get more people to buy their newspapers. It's not a big deal to watch the excitement, and readers like such fierce conflicts.

It would be better for the writer and the newspaper to get rid of Leila and sue them, so that their newspaper would generate more sales.

Leila and her entourage looked at the comments on themselves above, and finally couldn't help laughing out loud when they saw the end: "4.2 million, is it very little?"

"Not a lot! not a lot at all!" Demi wasn't flattering. When her boss was still Reynolds, the movies that were filmed would not even be released at all, and they were all sold directly.

It's not that there are some particularly good ones that the company decides to try to screen, but those are basically on-point screenings, and the highest screenings are only a few dozen theaters.

It was only after Leila came to the company that the company's distribution department came into use. At least in Demi's opinion, the first-day box office of 4.2 million is really a lot.

More than 4 million a day, won't the cost of the movie be earned back after a month or two? Judging from the rule that the box office can get income twice the cost of the film, it shouldn't be difficult to get a box office of 6 or 70 million at the peak moment when the cost is more than 30 million, right? Not to mention that there are other benefits.

Of course, that's not how the box office is counted. Generally, there will be a decline, and the further the box office goes, the less the box office will be, and the movie that only got 4.2 million on the first day is basically like that.

In fact, Leila was a little surprised that the box office would be so small, originally in her imagination, it should be similar to her previous movies. It's a comedy and a kung fu movie, how can it be more popular than her R-rated horror films, right?

The box office that can be obtained allows her to see the inestimability of Hollywood and the audience again. If this continues, it may not be long before the movie will be forced to go offline, which is not a good thing for her.

What went wrong? Obviously she received very good reviews at the premiere, why did the box office fall to this point? Or did history produce some errors because of her appearance, so that in some places there was a completely different development trend from the original?

Leila is thinking, and Demi is complaining about the boss. The reason for this is none other than the sharp reports in the newspapers.

"BSS, you see they're talking too much. I think you don't know how to pretend to understand, so you will shoot a four-way dislike. I also think that it was the biggest mistake for the new line to ask you to be a director. And say that you yourself made a wrong investment, so you will invest your money in the rush hour, and you will smash it all in. ”

Laila had already thought about every plot of the movie in her mind at this time, and after thinking about it, she couldn't find anything worse than the original, and her somewhat uneasy heart finally let go.

After hearing the secretary's words, she smiled slightly: "If you want to say it, let them say it." Whether it's a mistake or not, God will tell them. ”

Demi can only comfort herself with "there is nothing wrong with the boss's words".

"Anyway, this Cooper is too annoying. He reappeared and helped you say a lot of good things, I thought he had gotten better, but I didn't expect him to say so ugly now. ”

"He's getting smarter. Lyra looked at the New York Post's self-critical article, and the familiar word Cooper smiled meaningfully.

Cooper has indeed become wiser, and in order to get out of the mountain smoothly, he has spoken well for her against his will, and has the image of being selfless and selfless. And secretly lurking, just waiting for her to reveal a flaw and give her a thunderous blow.

It's hard for him to wait months to find an opportunity to lash out at her, and he has already waited hard, right?

"Alas. She looked at the name in the newspaper and sighed softly: "Why do some people just not learn well, and would rather suffer losses again and again than accept reality?"