"I don't like you, Mr. Williams. While his daughter went to the bathroom, John Aniston, who was sitting across from Eric, said with a slightly tense face.

Eric was a little speechless, and could only shrug his shoulders and say, "Can I know why, John?"

John Aniston said: "For so many years, Jenny has always hated me in my heart, and I feel guilty about what happened back then, and I have always hoped that she would forgive me. She called me last night, you know? She called me for the first time, and I almost jumped for joy. It turned out that the reason my daughter called turned out to be asking me to help her boyfriend, the guy who might have snatched my daughter away. ”

Well, this reason is very strong, the saying that the daughter is the lover of the father's previous life is not just talking, and usually, the relationship between the father-in-law and the son-in-law is not very good.

Eric could only shrug his shoulders again, and the two men suddenly fell into an awkward silence.

Aniston quickly returned from the bathroom and sat down next to Eric smiling, making John Aniston even more upset by his affectionate appearance. However, it is not easy for his daughter to take the initiative to reconcile, and he will not be stupid enough to attack on the spot.

Under Aniston's mediation, on the surface, the meal was quite pleasant, John Aniston just took the elder's shelf and counted a few words from Eric, and his daughter's angry eyes glared, and finally John Aniston agreed to help Eric contact the actor as much as possible.

With the help of John Aniston, who is well-connected in the TV industry, Eric quickly found actors for most of the roles, and because John Aniston mediated it, the salary was not high, which made Eric very relieved.

Only Marven of the stupid thief duo, Eric was a little hesitant about several candidate actors, until Aniston led his classmate and friend to Eric, looked at the face with natural decay, and just tried the camera slightly, Eric made a decision, because this guy's name is Matthew Perry, one of the six in his previous life.

Next, Eric and Jeffrey Hansen flew to Canada a few times, and finally found the filming location of Kevin's house in a small town, and he was busy day and night, which made Eric lose several pounds in just one week, and Aniston was distressed and envious when he learned this.

On October 17th, Eric's first directorial work after his rebirth officially started in Los Angeles, and the crew sent a few people to the selected Canadian town to set Kevin's family, and most of them stayed in Los Angeles to shoot scenes that did not need snow scenes such as airports and police stations, after all, it is the world's largest film base, and it is much more convenient to shoot.

The entire crew, from the lighting engineer to the actors, basically agreed to the filming of this movie based on money and the face of Jeffrey Hansen and John Aniston.

They all already understand the content, and they are glad that this young director who is a little too much does not make literary films like other young directors and play deeply, so I feel that the possibility of success is still relatively large, and the shooting cost of one million US dollars, relying on the aura brought by Eric now, may be able to make a small profit, and Eric may have promised when he started the film, and if the movie makes money, he will give everyone additional dividends.

After all, there was a job opportunity for the team left by his wife, and Jeffrey Hansen appeared on time every day after the filming of the movie started, and Jeffrey wanted to use his years of experience to provide some help to Eric, a 'newbie'. But a day later, Jeffrey directly began to doubt life, how unfair God really is.

From the moment the film was turned on, he was like a director with many years of shooting experience, methodically discussing the placement of props with the set designer, discussing the next shot with the cinematographer in very professional terms, directing the gaffer to produce the effect he wanted, and patiently telling the actress who played Kevin's mother, who was more than ten years older than himself......

Of course, when there are successive mistakes in some shots, it also shows the unique talent of the director's race: the director's roar!

"Ms. Leslie, I want a puzzled expression, a puzzled look, not a curiosity! According to my observations, you must have some obsessive-compulsive disorder, so this expression should be a breeze for you, imagine lying in bed at night, thinking that the door may have forgotten to lock, the kitchen faucet may have been dripping, but you are not sure what is wrong, so you fall into that feeling of conflict, imagine these scenes. Oh damn it, we can only rent this plane for three hours, three hours, well, all the personnel ready, one more time. Nikkle, do you want to see the clouds in the sky through the titanium ceiling of the plane, give me a serious moment, fuck!"

Due to Eric's previous excellent performance, everyone in the crew basically recognized Eric's directorial status for a short time. So when Ms. Leslie, who plays Kevin's mother, was on the plane and remembered that the shots where Kevin was forgotten at home were repeatedly wrong, Eric felt anxious because the shooting plan might be disrupted, and couldn't help but roar, and everyone unknowingly forgot Eric's age and became silent.

When a photographer in his thirties named Nikel Frank was reprimanded by Eric, he completely forgot that the young man in front of him was an eighteen-year-old hairy boy, and subconsciously apologized: "I'm sorry, director Williams, I'll pay attention." ”

Many years later, Nick Frank, who won the Oscar for Best Cinematography, stood on the podium at the Kodak Theater and recalled the scene in his first words: "At that moment, I subconsciously regarded Eric as an authoritative director, not an eighteen-year-old young man, as if he was born to lead the entire crew." ”

After another time, the shot finally passed, and Eric breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately regretted his gaffe just now, and took the initiative to apologize to Ms. Leslie: "I'm sorry, Leslie, my tone just now was a little heavy. ”

"It's okay, Director Williams, it's true that I didn't do well, and it's me who should apologize. Speaking of which, the way you just got angry is actually quite fascinating. ”

"Uh......" Eric would like to remind her that this is a precursor to Stockholm syndrome and needs to be treated.

Over the next few days, Eric discovered that the crew members who had called him Eric had unwittingly changed their names and called 'Director Williams', including Jeffrey Hansen. He knew that this was a sign that the crew members thoroughly recognized him as a director from the bottom of their hearts. Therefore, he commanded the crew to become more direct, and in just four days, the crew completed the scene of Los Angeles, and all of them moved to a small town in Canada.

Previously, the crew had sent several staff members to set up the Kevin's house, although it was only a telephone command, but Eric was very satisfied with the layout of the apartment after seeing it, and at the same time made up his mind to bring the team left by Jeffrey's wife under his command.

No one has ever come to make a movie in this small town in northern Canada, so the residents of the town are very enthusiastic and curious, and before Eric arrived, many people have already asked if the staff sent by Eric can make a cameo or something like this. Moreover, because the filming is a Christmas scene, all the residents of the town take the initiative to decorate their homes, and the whole town is full of festivity as if it is Christmas in advance.

In the face of these, Eric, of course, wanted to repay the favor by generously inviting a few children from the town to make cameos in the movie.

The main filming in the town is the life of the little protagonist Kevin and the process of spoofing the two stupid thieves, as a pure Christmas comedy, the film does not need any connotation at all, it just needs to be funny. Coupled with the fact that Stewart's performance was much better than that of Macaulay Culkin in his previous life, the filming process can only be described as rapid, and Eric was sure that all the shots could be shot within a week.

Another incident happened during this period, when Penny Marshall, who was working intensely in Los Angeles on post, needed Eric to dub some scenes in the movie, and suddenly found that they couldn't find Eric. The phone was not answered, and the door was closed when he went directly to Eric's house, which made Penny Marshall even have some bad associations, and when he was about to call the police, he contacted Aniston and learned about Eric's whereabouts.

On the phone, Penny Marshall was very complaining, limiting Eric to return to Los Angeles within a week, in addition to the dubbing of the movie, the promotion work is also inseparable from Eric's participation.

Of course, what Eric was filming was naturally exposed. In this regard, Penny Marshall naturally criticized Eric for some things such as being ambitious, but she didn't pay too much attention to Eric's movie, she didn't empathize with the staff in Eric's crew, and naturally felt that this was just a work of young people messing around.

Eric, who is caught up in the work, is basically two people in reality, and although he gets along well with the people in the crew, it is nothing more than that. Matthew Perry, who was introduced by Aniston, would get close to Eric from time to time, chatting or something. Eric was also very interested in Matthew Perry, but unfortunately at this time, he had a higher goal in mind, and of course he didn't have the opportunity to have a deep friendship with Matthew Pai for the time being.

A week later, the film was completed in the small town, and because of Jeffrey Hansen and Eric's reasonable planning, it only cost more than 600,000 yuan so far, and there are still more than 300,000 US dollars left, which is more than enough to complete the post-production.

So Eric generously opened a pie duì in the town, and invited the crew and everyone in the town to party all night. The next day, while many people were still in a hangover state, Eric had already taken the finished film and boarded the flight back to Los Angeles.

It took half a day to complete the dubbing, and Eric plunged headlong into the post-production studio introduced by Jeffrey and began to work frantically.

In the past few days, Eric has basically worked more than 16 hours a day, and it only took five days to complete the post-production work of the film in the amazement of everyone. Because all the qiē in his mind was ready-made, Eric was able to complete the qiē so quickly. It took less than a day to cut all the shots perfectly, so that the editor who cooperated with him now looked at him with admiration.

Five days later, on the morning, a modest screening room with only five or six seats was packed with more than a dozen people, most of whom were the crew, and Aniston had come to see Eric's directorial debut.

With the slight hum of the projector, the film begins with the blue silhouette of a house in the hazy moonlight......