On the edge of Australia's impending astronomical tide, Johnny let Botie go, and when he heard his colleague swear that Bowty would be arrested when he returned, Johnny muttered to himself 'he won't be coming back'.

Finding Botty, Johnny also completed the first and last task of his F-Force career, ending the wish of the dead Angelo, and then casually throwing away the F-Force badge and starting to pursue himself, or go to confusion.

Unlike Johnny, Bowty knew his goal from the start, and he traveled the world with his companions in search of higher, bigger and more dangerous waves, burning his passion and pursuing the wildest of nature.

They live unscrupulously, do not obey the system of power, do not follow moral common sense, and in this world that stifles the spirit, they have created a system of their own. But this system is not destined to be tolerated by the real world, and the moment Johnny Utah, who represents the rules of reality, intrudes into their lives, it dooms them to ruin.

The moment he finished reading the script, Eric understood why he hadn't been able to watch this movie in his previous life, and the liberal and rebellious views expressed in "Shocking Point" were incompatible with the conservative concept of life of most Oriental people, which doomed this movie to not be recognized by too many people, and it was difficult to spread without recognition, and it could only ∝be regarded as a classic in a small circle.

Seeing Eric put down the script, Catherine Bigelow immediately cheered up and prepared to deal with all kinds of problems that Eric might have about the script, but Eric didn't do it, but picked up the budget sheet and continued to read.

"$20 million isn't enough," Eric said, reading the budget sheet. Raising his head and saying to Kathryn Bigelow, "If it were filmed exactly according to the plot of the script, a lot of skydiving footage and surfing stunts would definitely raise the cost to $30 million, plus the cost of post-production." The film had to get 80 million to recoup its cost. ”

80 million?

Kathryn Bigelow was stunned, the total box office of her last movie "Thunderbolt Blue Angel" was only more than 8 million, although compared to the cost of "Thunderbolt Blue Angel" was less than 3 million, and that movie also made money for investors, but at this time, hearing that her film needed $80 million at the box office to fully recover the cost, Catherine Bigelow was apprehensive.

She's just a woman after all, and she doesn't have Cameron's crazy personality. What's more, even Cameron has moments on the verge of collapse. As soon as the film started shooting, it had to carry a box office task of 80 million US dollars, and this kind of pressure was not borne by everyone, and it was only 1990. In this era, Hollywood produces hundreds of movies a year, but there are often no more than 10 movies that grossed more than $100 million a year, and no more than 20 movies that exceed $80 million.

What's more, Kathryn Bigelow knows very well that "Shocking Point" is not a Hollywood commercial film. This made her subconsciously glance at Cameron. Originally, she just wanted to make an art film that satirized the federal system and exposed human nature, and there were not many surfing scenes and skydiving scenes in it, in which case, the cost would not even exceed $10 million.

But the script in front of him was made under the staff of Cameron, and there is no doubt that those big scenes were added under Cameron's prodding.

Eric took in the small movements of Catherine Bigelow glancing at Cameron, and confirmed his guess even more.

He had watched Catherine Bigelow's previous films "Night of the Bloody Corpse" and "Thunderbolt Blue Angels", and he was very clear about the style of Catherine Bigelow's works. So, just when I read the script. You can basically guess which episodes Cameron stuffed into.

"Eric, the script can also be adjusted to reduce some unnecessary scenes, in this case, $20 million is enough," Catherine Bigelow said, bowing her head slightly, picking up the script in front of Eric and flipping through it a few times, and quickly put it down again.

I don't know if it's an illusion, Eric seems to have seen Catherine Bigelow's face flush slightly when she spoke, remembering the small action of the woman just flipping the script, Eric was sure that he was not mistaken, Catherine Bigelow had just blushed.

Obviously, the woman is using Cameron's old trick to determine the movie first, and as for the filming later, the money is spent and the investors are left to watch it themselves, but Catherine Bigelow is obviously not as cheeky as Cameron, so there is that unnatural expression.

"But I think it's a good script, and it doesn't need any revision," Eric said, taking it back and flipping through it a few times, learning from Kathryn Bigelow's movements.

"Ah, that ......" Catherine Bigelow raised her head with a happy face, Eric was very satisfied with this script, then there must be no problem with the investment, however, the woman looked up and saw Eric imitating the action she had just flipped the script, and her face suddenly appeared obvious red, she realized that Eric did it on purpose, and the little guy obviously saw through the intention in what he had just said.

Eric wanted to tease a few more words, but when he saw Catherine Bigelow's slightly embarrassed appearance, he swallowed what he was about to say, anyway, he had already taken the initiative, not to mention, Catherine Bigelow didn't look as strong as James Cameron.

"Okay, Kate, we'll make appropriate adjustments to the budget when we shoot in the future, let's talk about the script first, I want to know, what is your positioning for "Shocking Point", or what do you want to express?"

If you are a sophisticated person, you should understand what Eric just said about the budget at this time, just want to take the initiative in the negotiation, but Catherine Bigelow, who is usually very unsociable, did not realize this, and when she heard Eric's words, the woman quickly cheered up and said: " I'm more inclined to this is a sports movie, a story about the quest for freedom, and at the end of the story, the characters in the play all get their belongings, Taylor forgives Johnny, Angelo dies under the robber wall, Johnny leaves the frew, and Bowty loses all his partners. Without hesitation, he rushed to the sea. ”

Eric nodded slightly: "What about the plot about the robbery with the president's avatar?"

"Eric, first of all, I want to state that this kind of behavior is described. It doesn't mean that I approve of it. ”

"Of course, I can understand this, otherwise those directors who shoot perverted murderer movies should be jailed. ”

"No, it's different, the filmmakers who shoot those subjects are using bloody shots to satisfy the perverted desires of human beings, but I just want to convey my own opinions to people. ”

Well, still a literary young woman. A beautiful introverted and unsociable literary young woman, too loving.

When Eric heard the woman's truthfulness, he couldn't help but think of it. Then he said: "Kate, you can see from some lines that what I want to convey should be a satire of the federal system." But have you ever thought about it. What the audience hates the most is preaching, so we just need to express these morals in the storyline, and it will be inferior to say it directly, you see here......"

After Eric finished speaking, he flipped through the script and quickly found a certain page, spreading the script on the coffee table between the two.

Kathryn Bigelow leaned forward slightly, and finally simply knelt on the ground and listened to Eric's point of view. Famick Jensen, who had been sitting quietly next to him, gradually noticed the two men coming together. But subconsciously looked towards Cameron, but saw Cameron sitting with his back to them on the chair where Eric often sits. Flipping through the script in front of you.

Although they didn't get along for a long time, Famick Jensen thought that he still knew a certain amount about Eric, and at this time, he noticed that Eric seemed to be unconsciously getting together with Kathryn Bigelow, and keenly felt that this little bastard must have been thinking about the woman opposite, because Famick knew that the more serious Eric was, the more bad thoughts might be brewing in his heart.

It's really bold enough, the husband is sitting in the house, not to mention the age of this woman, tsk.

Farmik Jensen watched with interest for a while, then raised his wrist and pretended to look at his watch, and said, "Eric, it's eleven o'clock, do you want me to prepare lunch?"

Eric, who was suddenly interrupted, did not show any displeasure, but said to Catherine Bigelow: "Kate, what you and Jim like to eat, I'll let Fami prepare." ”

Sure enough, Famick Jensen thought with certainty that if Eric was really discussing the script with Kathryn Bigelow, he suddenly interrupted, with Eric's temperament, he would definitely be very unhappy, but at this time, there was no displeasure on the little bastard's face.

Catherine Bigelow was discussing the script with Eric, and when she was suddenly interrupted, her face was a little unnatural, but she didn't show a look of displeasure, hearing Eric's question, Catherine Bigelow said: "Whatever you want, Jim and I don't pay attention to this." ”

Eric then said to Famick Jensen: "Then call and order a few takeouts, according to the recipes we often order, by the way, help us get two pens first." ”

Famick Jensen stood up and walked to the desk and pulled out two ballpoint pens from the pen holder, and at the same time glanced at Cameron, who was staring at the script with a slight frown, a pensive expression, as if thinking about how a certain shot should be realized, obviously not feeling anything about the girl who appeared next to him.

Famick really wanted to remind Cameron of something, but she didn't know anything about Cameron, the great director is said to have been married three times, and is obviously a flowery guy, in this case, some of the thoughts that Famick had just raised suddenly dissipated.

He handed the ballpoint pen to Eric and Catherine, who took it and quickly began to write and draw on the script.

Famick looked at it for a moment, then shrugged his shoulders slightly and walked out of the study.

James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow stayed in Eric's villa for a whole day, Eric and Catherine Bigelow discussed in detail the details of the filming of "Shocking Point", and at the same time, Cameron also read several of Eric's disaster movie scripts, and finally, Cameron had a strong interest in the script of "Alone and Standing", but it was not determined, the script of "Day" is indeed very suitable for Cameron, and the way of multi-line narration is similar to that of "The Terminator" The series are very similar, and Eric believes that Cameron will definitely be able to make this movie even better than Roland Emmerich.

However, Eric is not without worries, "Day" as a special effects blockbuster, even without Cameron, the budget is very amazing, if Cameron is allowed to take over, Eric is sure that the budget of this film will at least double, and may even be close to 200 million.

In my memory, the North American box office of "Terminator 2" is only 200 million US dollars, "Day" and "Terminator 2" are the same, they do not have much connotation, just a pure popcorn movie, obviously do not have the potential of a box office hit like "Titanic", in the absence of absolute certainty, Eric will not rashly hand over "Day" to Cameron, because the status of Fireflies in Hollywood has just been determined, and if the 200 million dollar investment box office fails, it will definitely hurt the bones. After all, Cameron is not omnipotent, just like "The Abyss", with an investment of 80 million, and the box office is only 80 million, although the follow-up overseas and DVD releases can recover the cost, but the profit is destined not to be too much.

In the following days, Eric and Catherine Bigelow discussed some things about "Shocking Point", and the preparations for "Terminator 2" were also going on in an orderly manner, and when Schwarzenegger was invited to star, there were also some problems, although Schwarzenegger is also an ICM artist, however, he obviously has no friendship with Eric, and the other party's agent offered a sky-high price of $15 million for the invitation to "Terminator 2".

It is indeed sky-high, you must know that the usual salary of top Hollywood male stars in this era is only about 5 million US dollars, Schwarzenegger is equivalent to increasing the average price by three times in one go, and Eric is of course impossible to agree.

The two sides are in a stalemate, although under Cameron's mediation, Schwarzenegger himself is relieved, but there are still not many concessions, and Schwarzenegger is not even too interested in starring in "Terminator 2".

Eric asked people to investigate in detail before he understood the truth of the matter, and it turned out that the root cause was actually from the Germans.

Germans, that's right.

However, speaking of which, it is not something that can be explained in three or two sentences, and there are many things involved, even starting with the merger of East and West Germany.

It turned out that since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the merger of East Germany and West Germany, in order to integrate the two countries economically, the German government has inevitably issued a large amount of currency, resulting in a certain amount of inflation.

Of course, this is only the root cause, and the next step is the tax reform, which is as high as 51% of the personal income tax for high-income people in Germany In order to promote the development of the German film industry, the German government encourages Germans to invest in films, as long as Germans invest their income in films, then this income does not only do not need to pay personal income tax, but will have a certain percentage of tax refunds, and, unlike other countries that must be filmed in their own countries and must hire their own film practitioners, Germany's policy stipulates that films do not even need to be filmed in Germany.

Encouraged by this policy, large sums of money from Germany quickly flowed to Hollywood, and these investors did not think they were stupid, they were not interested in independent films at all, but only aimed at films with big investment and big stars.

Under the matchmaking of some powerful producers in Hollywood, the Germans quickly targeted the stars of Stallone and Schwarzenegger, and the salaries of Schwarzenegger and others also rose in response, and the Germans were quoted a sky-high salary of 15 million US dollars. "Terminator 2" just hit this wave of price increases. (To be continued.)

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