Chapter Forty-Seven: Emerging Famous
After the trial day, a movie review of "Raiders of the Lost Ark 2" appeared in major newspapers the next day.
A movie that will make you involuntarily clench your arms, and when the film is over, your arms will still be bruised for a week – (Chicago Sun-Times)
While these reports reported on the film's critical acclaim, the film's dark plot drew a lot of criticism.
Conservative columnist George W. F. Weir said that "one of the scenes in which a living human heart is taken out is "extremism that is shocking to popular entertainment," and the Christian Science Monitor called the film "trivial and ugly."
Because there are far more violent scenes in the film than PG rating, and it is not enough to be rated R, many parents don't know what to think of this film and whether they should take their children to watch it.
It also had to be adjusted for the sake of the box office. Spielberg proposed a "PG-13 rating", meaning that children under the age of 13 would need to be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
As a result, this film directly gave birth to the PG-13 classification standard.
"Raiders of the Lost Ark 2" was labeled as a Pg-13 film by the Film Association, which refers to the special tutoring level and is set for children under the age of 13.
On May 23, "Raiders of the Lost Ark 2" was released in major movie theaters across the United States, and it seems to be Spielberg's Pg-13 film rating, and "Raiders of the Lost Ark 2" finally set a box office record for the first weekend of release with $25 million.
After the end of North America, "Raiders of the Lost Ark 2" is heading towards the national movie.
The most prominent in the film is the character of Short Round played by Lester, who was welcomed by many people, and the kind of elegant and fluttering clean and neat action scenes made their eyes shine, and as the film played, the witty and brave performance was well received.
At the British premiere, Lester was praised by Princess Diana for acting fantastic.
Leicester entered everyone's attention for the first time because of the role of Shortlande.
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In the conference room of the CAA Innovation Elite Culture Agency, a group of brokers sat on stools, a long table separated the two sides, and their leader: Michael Ovitz, with his four good brothers at hand.
The conference room is quiet, no one speaks, if you want to say that there is a sound, it is estimated that there is only a reception room, and the TV set is played, which plays the trailer of "Raiders of the Lost Ark 2", especially the trailer played on VCD, stop and rewind, repeatedly, and it happens to be Lester in the trailer who is watching back and forth.
On the conference table, Lester's birth dates and home situation are displayed.
Michael Ovitz took the remote control and pressed the pause button.
The TV screen stopped at Leicester's eyes in the play, and although the agent present was not an actor, he could see that there was a character in the script's eyes.
Putting the remote control on the table, Michael Ovitz sat in the swivel chair and turned to face the agent below, and said under their gaze: "The information on the desktop was brought by me and Spielberg, and everyone evaluated his potential, whether it is worth training in our agency." ”
A group of agents were slightly surprised to be able to get Michael Ovitz to get the information from Spielberg himself, which seemed to arouse his interest, and everyone picked up Lester's information and looked at it.
In the information, only Lester's date of birth and address are written, as well as his sister Mokconie Wright.
The popularity of "Raiders of the Lost Ark 2" made Lester enter the eyes of the audience for the first time, and also made Michael Ovitz notice Lester, asked Spielberg about Lester, and returned to the company with the information and had a small meeting.
It's just that what Spielberg didn't say is that in addition to joining their crew, Lester is now a film and television company owner and today's hottest author: Lesterlore.
Spielberg had just signed a director signed by the CAA agency, and the leader asked Lester for information, and he felt the need to tell Michael Ovitz about Lester's background, but he suddenly shut up just about to speak, he felt that it was a little rude to talk about other things about Lester Jr. without his authorization, so he didn't tell Michael Ovitz about other things about Lester.
"I think it can be assessed as A-level potential and deserves to be signed. ”
David Moria's eyes flashed with a fine light, put down the information in his hand, looked at the TV, Lester's acting skills in his eyes and said;
"David's agent is right, and I think it can be assessed as A-level potential and worth signing. ”
Michael Owitz's four brothers agreed to say what they meant.
The brokers at the bottom saw that the four founders of the previous company and the top brokers all said this, and they also echoed it.
Michael Ovitz got everyone's opinion, his eyes were contemplative, and he said finally: "In this way, David's agent will come forward to sign a contract with him, and if he can sign into our company, I don't think any new actor will refuse." ”
"Okay, Mr. Ovitz, the grip will bring back good news. ”
David Moria said confidently, got up and walked out of the conference room to inform Lester of the meeting.
The meeting was dismissed, "After the matter was discussed, Michael Ovitz asked everyone to go down to work, picked up the remote control to turn off the TV, looked at Lester's eyes, a strange feeling rose in his heart, the hand that wanted to turn off the phone paused, and looked at the freeze-frame Lester picture with some puzzled eyes, trying to find out how the weirdness came from, but it disappeared, shook his head and thought, "It seems that I should take a good rest" raised his hand and turned off the TV.
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In the dining room of the Century City Hotel in Los Angeles, because the box office of "Raiders of the Lost Ark 2" continued to rise, George Lucas invited the main creators who were promoting it to dinner.
Lester sat with Harrison Ford, Spielberg and others to eat and chat.
Cheers to the box office success of Raiders of the Lost Ark 2!
George Lucas happily raised his glass of red wine and shouted happily to everyone:
Cheers!
Everyone picked up the glass with the red wine and drank it into their stomachs with a happy face.
The people at the table drank red wine, and only Leicester drank the juice.
As soon as his shoulders sank, Lester felt someone pat him, turned his head and saw a hesitation, looked at the person who patted him, and said with a smile: "Mr. Spielberg, what's wrong." ”
The head of the CAA brokerage company asked me for your information. Spielberg said with some hesitation;
Hearing this, Lester's smiling face gradually became expressionless, and his brows furrowed slightly.
Seeing that Lester seemed to be a little angry, Spielberg chuckled in his heart, and thought: Little Lester won't be angry, after all, it is not right to give the information to others without his consent, and hurriedly said: "I'm really sorry, I only gave Ovitz ordinary information, and didn't say that you are the author of the "Twilight" series and the owner of the film and television company. ”
Explaining eagerly, Lester said with some resignation: "Mr. Spielberg, I don't blame you, I'm just curious what they want me to do!"
Hearing that Lester didn't blame him, Spielberg breathed a sigh of relief and explained: "I listened to Michael Ovitz and seemed to want to sign you!"
"Sign me and be their pawn," Lester felt a little disgusted, and opened his mouth to speak, when the sound of a mobile phone ringing "Dididi" sounded in the black leather bag next to him.
A group of people chatting looked at the place where the mobile phone rang, Lester got up and took out his Motorola big brother mobile phone, and apologized to everyone: "It's my mobile phone ringing, everyone eat first, I'll answer the phone." ”
George Lucas was not disturbed by the ringing of Lester's mobile phone, and told Lester: "Go and come back quickly." ”
Thank you!
Lester pressed the connect button and walked out of the private room.
"Mr. Lester, I'm a David agent at CAA's brokerage and would like to sign you to our firm. ”
As soon as it was connected, with a natural tone, it rang in Lester's ears.