Jerome Bixby Bixby) is not an unknown figure, but the undisputed leader of American science fiction, who has been writing short stories since the late '40s, and the basic novels that have been published since have received great reviews. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info and his achievements in Hollywood are even more impressive, many of the scripts have been put on the big screen or small screen and have been successful, since 1966 in the StarTrek series of TV series, that is, the famous original "Star Voyage", the script was written by this old man.

The works written by a big-level screenwriter are never cheap, but the old man has been dead for many years, and the script of "Visitors from Earth" has been smashed in the hands of his son because of the anti-Christ problem, so Liang Baoguang bought out all the rights for only $50,000 when he took over, which is definitely the price of cabbage.

Evaluators at major companies are afraid that the filming of this film will cause dissatisfaction among the congregation, be attacked by public opinion, and even affect the development of the company, after all, in the United States, the church is more powerful than the donkey elephant and the two parties, and they will be unlucky if they don't like it. Liang Baoguang's scruples are much smaller, he just plays tickets in his personal capacity, and there will be no embarrassing situation of "the monk can't run the temple if he can run", and this is already 2006, and it is not a dark age like the Middle Ages.

"Hey my dear Paul, I'm so sorry I came here after buying something to eat on the way, so it's a bit late. Before a few people got the script and had time to turn a few pages, James King J. Kyn) walked in with his girlfriends, who were also working professors at Harvard. Although known as the Condor Heroes of the Academy of Humanities, Kim himself is too old-looking, and his girlfriend Oksana Neveselaya (Oksana Neveselaya) has a baby face, and she is always regarded as a match between young and old by others next year, and she is often ridiculed.

"Hey, I asked from afar, a smell of seafood, did I start it before dinner?" The exaggerated roar of the motorcycle came to an abrupt halt on the way to the door, and then everyone in the room heard Langley Pavey. Pavey's trademark loud voice rang out in the front yard.

"Of course not, it's all waiting for you, but the lobsters we just bought are still alive and well, how can you smell the seafood?" Okshana smiled as she picked up the bag in her hand and showed Langley the lobster inside.

"Don't underestimate the nose of an old Viking, I can smell crabs lying on the seabed from a boat a hundred yards away. Langley smugly pinched his beard, in fact, he just called casually, who knew there was really seafood, but as a specialty of Boston, it was okay, and the frequency of lobsters at parties was still very high.

"Come on, anyone who comes to see me looks more like a Viking than you, just by name. James King's surname is Kyn instead of King, which is a typical Viking spelling, while Langley Pavey, who calls himself a Viking, has a surname of Pavey instead of Pavie, which has a strong British flavor.

The three men at the door laughed and walked into the living room, hung up their clothes and squeezed in front of the fireplace to warm up.

Liang Baoguang was not dissatisfied with the tardiness of the three people behind, but happily hugged them and said hello, and took the initiative to take the bag handed by Okshana, "Make a salt-baked lobster today, you can read the script first, and discuss it after dinner." ”

Many people will boast that Americans are extremely punctual and lose their jobs, credits, faces, and heads as long as they are a second late, but in fact it is just a formal gesture. Americans tend to arrive later for private events such as dinners, and generally the more distant the relationship, the later they arrive, because this is the bare minimum of etiquette. If the more distant people arrive early in the morning, it will only add embarrassment to each other and trouble the host's family to distract and take care of them, so that the family can not concentrate on the preparations before the party. Of course, it's not okay to be too late, and it's not a good idea to be late for a wedding or funeral, because if you get too late, you might have already sprinkled rice on the bride or sprinkled dirt on the coffin board.

"I've wanted to see this script for a long time, and if you change it, it should be a considerable improvement over the original work. "Although everyone is a professor with a PHD, they don't mean to look down on Liang Baoguang, after all, there is a specialization in art, and everyone has already understood Liang Baoguang's knowledge level.

Because organizational behavior should be classified as anthropology more than economics, there are two anthropology professors, one theology professor, one biology professor, one art history PHD who teaches fine arts, one chemistry professor, and finally Liang Baoguang, a double MBA and MAP master's degree, all of which are from the three famous universities in Boston, which can be described as a powerful plastic surgery.

Liang Baoguang first met Professor John in a class on organizational behavior, but once they met in an antique shop in Boston's Chinatown, when Liang Baoguang called him MR. Reading, but there he saw through the fake "Ming Dynasty snuff bottle" that the shopkeeper insisted was genuine, and after an afternoon of talking about cultural relics and art, the relationship between the two became friends, and he shocked this professor with super professional knowledge.

Later, John asked Liang Baoguang to accompany him to play a few "leaks", and when he became familiar, he would also call him to play ball, fish, play board games or something, and gradually he integrated into this small circle of professors. The film project was just a drunken and boring bet, Liang Baoguang expected this story that not many people were familiar with, and thought that he could make this story acceptable to Americans, while Theology Professor Barbara insisted that it was impossible, and then the seven of them stood in two camps and could not distinguish between winners and losers, and finally decided to make it into a finished product to see the reaction.

Making a movie without saying a word is obviously very child's play, but since it has been decided, Liang Baoguang will not be fooled by the past, and has done a semester of preparations. At the beginning, when a few professors showed that he let him make money alone, he was quite grateful, and felt that these professors did not take advantage of him, but they were a model for others, but after he really started to prepare, he realized that making movies really burned money.

Those who say that a movie costs $10,000 are all scumbags who touch the hair of the girls in the front row in elementary school math class, and they don't even know basic multiplication. The movie is known as "24 frames of truth", in fact, 24 frames is just a guarantee, and there are many directors who pursue quality with 30 frames or even 48 frames, just 24 frames are counted as a 90-minute "shrinking movie" is also 5400 seconds, and 36 frames of film cost two dollars, not counting the editing loss, not counting the opening and ending credits, not counting the NG rearrangement, it will cost at least 7200 US dollars.

The filming location found a corner of the back mountain, the actors all performed without paying, the camera hit the roadside and picked up one, the lighting was made with a bundle of flashlights, the recording took the latest music mobile phone, and the lunch box of two chicken legs went to the relief station to receive the ...... No matter how thick-skinned Liang Baoguang is, he can't make a movie with $10,000, it's too ridiculous.

The copyright of a script alone cost Liang Baoguang 50,000 US dollars, and he still couldn't get rid of it, half sold and half sent over, and the rent of the camera and the rent of the cabin for filming next to Walden Lake were also at his own expense. If it weren't for the Steadicam that pulled the camera was sponsored by Langley, the ambulance and paramedics who would appear in the movie were also helped by Michelle's friends, and he was ready to sell his 650i for filming funds.

In this way, Liang Baoguang has been worried about the props, and a "real Van Gogh" is used in the movie, not to mention that the truth must at least have a bit of Van Gogh's meaning, just find a pair of ironclad goofs, but he found someone to order such a painting, and the least price was 300 US dollars, which was a robbery.

"No, it's not good at the beginning, you're writing this too slowly, isn't it?According to your budget, the movie is only 90 minutes in total, isn't it too extravagant to use ten minutes to set the stage?" Langley is not the main character, so he has this to say, the slower the movie enters the main topic, the less he will play. Although he is not a professional actor and needs to rely on his role to gain popularity, everyone is making a movie for the first time, and it is likely to be the last time to make a movie, of course he wants to show his face more.

"Anyway, in addition to dialogue, it is dialogue, and the audience will have a real feeling when the foreshadowing is longer. "Because the film doesn't test acting at all, and the focus is on what people are talking about rather than the plot, it's very important to create a suitable situation, and Michelle Herzfield, although not a professional, understands how to communicate with a possible audience, and as a Harvard professor who teaches anthropology, these are the most basic things.

"The setting of the Kro-Manu is awesome, and there won't be much of a problem with connecting the front and back in series, even if there is a bug, it can be solved. James King nodded approvingly, even if he did the setting, he wouldn't have done better, Liang Baoguang's eyes impressed him, "Just follow the story." ”

There is no big problem with the script, after dinner, everyone took the time to go through it and directly set the final version, it is almost impossible to perfect such a theme, because the story itself is made up, and the version taken out by Liang Baoguang is quite complete, so everyone has to look up to him.

"In that case, let's go to Walden Lake tomorrow to shoot, I rented a cabin there for filming, and the scenery is good. Liang Baoguang put the twenty-sided dice into the box, ready to drive away this group of unscrupulous professors who came to play board games in the name of revision, "My car can't hold too many things, and I want you to help carry the lighting fixtures, John, you drive a pickup truck, come to me early." ”

"No problem, wait...... Walden?" John Redding was stunned.