Everyone seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and they were also a little worried that Eric would stubbornly choose the best screenplay award, after all, Eric has now achieved something at the box office that most people can't achieve in a lifetime, so it will also make his desire for personal film awards a little stronger. If you win the Silver Lion Award, it will belong to the whole team, and if you win the best screenplay, it will definitely belong to Eric personally.

"Eric, it's nothing, I think the Oscars are your real stage. As if to appease Eric, Bill Garrot said this, and Jonathan Demmy nodded his head.

Eric shrugged noncommittally, "Thank you, Bill, if only those stubborn old men at film school thought so." ”

Several people laughed∴ ∴ ∴ Shu, □ ansh⊙uba., and talked about some more things before they separated, Eric returned to his room with the information about John Landis, this time in order to avoid suspicion, Virginia did not follow, and Alan lived in another suite downstairs from him.

There were still a few hours to go before the night in Venice, and it was still morning Eastern time, so despite spending more than ten hours on the plane, Eric was not tired at all from the fixed biological clock he had developed for a long time.

After reading John Landis's information, Eric stayed in the room until seven o'clock in the evening, before changing his clothes and going out alone, the agreed place was in a restaurant near the boutique hotel, Eric didn't need to be guided, and he didn't bring a female companion, Virginia is the heroine, in this case eating with the judges, being seen will definitely cause bad conjecture. comparatively. Eric's identity has less scruples in this regard. There are not too many people who can recognize him here.

John Landis was about forty years old, wore a pair of black-rimmed glasses, a large nose, a full beard, and a standard Jewish appearance.

Another Jew!

Eric sighed in his heart, the information showed that John Landis and Steven Spielberg were still good friends, and both of them had small cameo roles in each other's films.

And. John Landis is almost a director who became famous at the same time as Spielberg, in 1975 Spielberg became a top Hollywood director with a film, and three years later, John Landis filmed a box office of more than 100 million, more coincidentally, both of them became famous at the age of 28.

However, in Eric's analysis, John Landis's directorial career began to fall silent in the nineties, so Eric had no impression of this director in his previous life.

In the restaurant. John Landis ordered food and watched with interest as Eric exchanged words with the blonde waitress who happened to speak English. After the girl left with the menu, John Landis said, "Eric, you're familiar with Italian food." ”

Eric smiled and explained, "My father used to be an Italian chef. ”

"Oh," John Landis nodded, not further ado, apparently he wasn't ignorant of Eric, knowing that Eric's father had died.

While waiting for the food to be served, Eric and John Landis began to talk nonsensically, but of course, the theme was still on the movie.

"The reason why I find it strange is not that your film style is varied, but that it is the most difficult thing to understand that several of your films with very different styles have been successful at the box office. You know, I've tried all kinds of films, but the few of my better movies at the box office are satirical comedies. Even Steven, he has been trying to break through for so many years, but the most successful is only science fiction films, and so on. ”

Eric said: "It doesn't mean anything, John, maybe I'm lucky, I've only directed a few movies so far, and when I make a few more, I'm sure to fail, and then I'll realize what I'm best at." ”

John Landis listened to Eric's words, thought for a while, and suddenly shook his head and said: "It's different, you give me a very different feeling, Eric, can you tell me where you learned to make zuò movies? I'm very curious, after all, at your age, even such a simple movie is not so easy to make, and it took me several years to accumulate experience from entering the industry to shooting my first film." ”

Of course, Eric can't say that he has accumulated it in his last life, so he had to say: "Actually, I was lucky, I wrote the script, and then I was lucky to find a very good team, I just need to say what effect I want, so they helped me make it." If I hadn't met them, maybe there would have been no shadows. ”

John Landis had no doubts about Eric's words, and normally, Eric's personal experience could only be attributed to his good fortune.

"I've seen it several times, that ...... Stuart Runkel, the little guy is really good. If you have the chance...... Forget it, or don't. ”

Eric knows why John Landis said this from the information he has seen before, when he made a movie seven years ago, because of an accident that caused the death of several actors, including two underage actors, if it were not for minors, this incident is a very pure accident on the set, after all, Hollywood has many such accidents every year. However, because of his two children, he was dragged into the lawsuit for six years, and it was not until last year that he completely got rid of the lawsuit, so it is not difficult for John Landis to be frightened by the young actor. 、

"John, don't dwell too much on it, it's already in the past, isn't it? ”

John Landis took a sip of red wine before he said in a deep voice: "But they have to say that I am guilty of manslaughter, which is really too much, I am just a producer, and I was not even there when the accident happened." I apologized to the public, and I made enough compensation, but some people just held on to the matter, and it took me six years to get out. For a while, I was so devastated that I wanted to run away like Roman Polanski, and I didn't want to go to jail. ”

Eric remembered the incident mentioned in the source, and gradually sniffed something different from John Landis's tone.

Roman Polanski, whether he was tricked or not, really deserved it, after all, he was caught red-handed and violated minors.

However, the John Landis incident is full of some conspiracy, and some people may want to break him, maybe a competitor can empty a large piece of box office share. After all, although John Landis is not as famous as Spielberg, two of the films he has made over the years have exceeded 100 million at the box office, and some other films have also achieved good results.

Thinking of this, Eric couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, John Landis is a Jew, there must be a whole Jewish circle in Hollywood that will support him, such a person can be designed by someone to drag into a lawsuit for up to six years, not to mention himself, he is now alone in Hollywood, once someone wants to deal with him, it will be terrible.

Quickly shaking the worry out of his mind, Eric knew that now was not the time for unfounded worries, and said to John Landis: "Don't think about these things anymore, John, it's all over, isn't it? ”

John Landis also smiled when he heard Eric mention his proud work: "Indeed, soon after the release, that incident was completely over. However, if it doesn't work, I don't know how long I'll be delayed. ”

After this topic, John Landis also developed a sense of closeness to Eric: "Eric, I have seen it several times, whether it is the suspense setting or the final plot reversal, it is amazing, in May, Cannes has just selected the youngest best director, I believe that the Venice Film Festival will definitely not be too conservative." ”

Hearing John Landis say this, Eric knew that the other party might be inclined to help him lobby for the Best Screenplay Award, so he quickly shook his head and said, "John, I'm only nineteen years old now, and I haven't thought too much about honor, if I get recognition too early, I won't have much motivation to move forward in the future, what do you think?"

John Landis was stunned for a moment, then suddenly laughed, and then nodded: "I understand." ”

Eric also showed a smile, raised the red wine and gestured to the other party, John Landis knew that Eric was thanking himself, and also raised his glass to touch Eric, and said softly: "Don't worry, I will try my best." ”

Eric didn't reply, and drank the wine from his glass.

Putting down the goblet, Eric was about to continue chatting with John Landis about to talk about other topics, when he suddenly heard a somewhat familiar female voice not far behind him, faintly saying a few words: "Haha, that fat man just now was so funny, he actually said that I looked like ...... Hehe, he also said that he was a director...... But you...... It's too bad. ”

Raising his eyebrows, Eric couldn't help but glance at the source of the voice, the back of the brown curly hair appeared in the field of vision, a smile appeared on the corner of Eric's mouth, I didn't expect Julia to come to Venice, the girl sitting opposite her who was blocked must be the second lady of the Murdoch family, Elizabeth Murdoch.

"Why, did you meet an acquaintance?" John Landis followed Eric's gaze, but he was not familiar with Julia, and if he had met each other face-to-face, he might have known the girl, but he didn't recognize it by looking at a back.

Eric nodded, "Two acquaintances, but they probably don't want me to come over to say hello, just ignore them." ”

John Landis looked at the figures of the two girls not far away, and smiled ambiguously: "You always have to take the initiative to chase women, and there will definitely be no little girls sent to the door when you sit here." (To be continued......)