Chapter 34: Cooper Again
"I can't help but ask, what's wrong with the world? Is it true that movies with depth, connotation, and philosophy are no longer liked, and why is a movie that takes pleasure in frightening the audience have such an impact?"
"Throughout the history of cinema, countless excellent films have emerged one after another. What brings us to think, what makes us remember, what gives us spiritual strength, that's what movies should do, isn't it?"
"Some people may say, come on, this is a horror movie, does it need so much truth? I want to ask, don't you need it? Horror crime films can't make good work? David Fincher's "The Seven Deadly Sins" in '95, Luc Besson '94's "This Killer Is Not Too Cold", Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction", '91 "The Silence of the Lambs", etc., I can name countless examples to prove it. ”
So what is it that makes our young people fall into a movie that has nothing but screaming? ”
As soon as Cooper's comments came out, they sparked a small discussion. Because he has something to say many times, he still has a very high status in the film critic world, and there are many audiences who support him. This is also why he can make the films produced by the previous immortal birds be named "bad movies" by just commenting on the film reviews.
The same is true this time. There are not a few people who support him, who think that movies should have depth, soul, and educational value, like the witch Blair, who is simply trying to cheat money, and it can't be a movie at all.
But there are more opponents of him, and this part of the population is almost all young people.
They don't care about any educational value, they don't care about the depth of the soul, they just know that the adrenaline rush caused by fear when watching witches makes them feel good. Isn't a horror movie that can make people scared the best horror movie? If you really stuff a horror movie with didactic things, you will fall asleep before you finish watching it.
Leila saw the report at home, and it was Claire who brought her the newspaper.
In fact, Claire didn't approve of her making movies, and in her opinion, the work was too hard. It takes a long time just to write the script, prepare for the shooting task, find the actors, and coordinate the work of various departments. Not to mention the hard work of shooting, it is normal to shoot the same shot ten times or eight times.
And the completion of the shooting is not the end, post-production, editing, soundtrack, etc., each of which is inseparable from her instructions. Such a heavy workload is not suitable for a young girl who has just recovered from her body, and if it weren't for Leila's love for this work, she would have objected to her continuing to shoot.
It is very powerful to make one or two hundred million yuan in a movie, but no matter how powerful it is, can it be more important than a healthy body? That's why she put all kinds of bad comments in front of her at the first time, intentionally or unintentionally, hoping to dispel her interest in continuing to make movies through the words of others.
However, Claire doesn't know how enviable it is for a director to have so many rights. Leila, who knows this, is too late to be happy, so how can she be too much work?
"Leila, that's an exaggeration. But I think there's some truth in what he said, so how about going to school and learning something about it?"
Claire thinks that as long as she can leave the studio for a while, it won't be long before she helps her dilute her love for movies.
Not only did Lyla not get angry when she saw the report, but she smiled and carefully read it word by word, as if it wasn't her movie at all.
After reading it twice, she put down the newspaper: "Is what you learned in school really that useful?"
"Of course, if you don't study systematically, how can you understand it clearly? Don't you see that some of the most famous directors have graduated from excellent universities?"
Leila smiled, "Yes, you're right. But there are still a lot of directors who haven't studied at all and have made great works, aren't they?"
"Yes? I don't know. Claire doesn't have much research on the director's circle, so she doesn't know what the truth is. But even if he knew, or as Layla said, she wouldn't admit it.
Leila didn't argue with her, and patted the back of her hand comfortingly: "Don't worry, I know what to do." ”
"Alas. Claire sighed softly, and there was really nothing she could do: "What about this person? He has targeted you three times and twice, do you want me to do something to make him shut that hateful mouth?"
"No hassle. Leila waved her hand nonchalantly, "I don't really mind if he targets me. ”
"Why?" Claire thought incredulous, angry if she had been treated like this repeatedly. There's no reason why you can't stand up to an eighteen-year-old girl, right? Wouldn't anyone be angry that something they've worked so hard to build is sprayed all over the place?
Leila smiled and pointed to the newspaper, "Don't you think he's actually helping me?"
"Help, how is that possible!" Claire disagreed.
"Well, one is left behind, the other is noticed all day long, which do you think is better for a movie?"
"Of course it's being noticed. "Are there any movies that have been left behind at the box office?
"That's not it. Leila smiled and put the newspaper in her hand: "Isn't he helping us now to get more people to discuss our film, and let more people know that there is such a controversial but miraculous movie?"
Claire was a little dizzy: "Can you explain it like that?"
"Of course!" Leila pushed her back and pushed her out the door, "Don't worry. Such a person can't disturb my mood. Or do you think I'm someone who can easily be hit to give up?"
Claire was reluctantly pushed out of the room, and was locked out of the door with only a few words of "don't force yourself too hard, pay attention to your body".
Holding the newspaper in her hand and looking at Cooper's article on it with a large page, she shook her head angrily or amusefully: "If the person named Cooper knew that his article was regarded as an advertisement by Leila, I don't know what kind of expression it would be." ”
However, it also made her decide to investigate what happened, and she wanted to know why this guy named Cooper was targeting Layla and the Immortal Bird Company. Although it sounds like Leila lying down innocently once from the mouth of others, it is completely implicated by her father Reynolds.
It may be better to make a person hate the company to the extent that he has to repeatedly attack Leila despite Moran's surname.