Chapter 98 [Helping a Friend Spit Out]
After playing the Timberwolves, the Warriors players returned to Oakland for a day off.
Zhou Xuan called Nie Yuyan in the afternoon and wanted to ask her to go out to play and have dinner together. After school, the two met outside Oix University.
Nie Yuyan got into Zhou Xuan's car and asked with a smile, "Where are we going, aren't we going to your house to cook again?" ”
"I just came back in the morning and haven't thought about it yet...... Hold on. Zhou Xuan's mobile phone rang, and when he saw the number, he was a little surprised, it was a friend he met in Los Angeles calling. The man's name is Gilmour, and he is a Hollywood director.
The two met at a party, when Zhou Xuan was giving Colo? Moretz performs his "telepathy", guessing psychology and observing guests. It happened that Gilmour heard them talking on the side, thought it was interesting, and strongly asked to make friends with Zhou Xuan. And Gilmour wanted to befriend him because he thought he was weird, like the one with mysterious powers.
"Hello, Stephen."
"Hi Gilmour."
Gilmour got straight to the point: "Can you do me a little favor?" I want to talk to you about a movie. ”
Zhou Xuan was stunned. "This ...... I'm not very good at it. ”
"No, you have a good brain, you are very logical, I have seen it, I would like to ask you to take the time to watch a movie, and then tell me what you think......"
Gilmour explained the reasons in detail. He wanted Zhou Xuan to watch the thriller horror film "WhileSheWasOut", which had just been released for a week, and the director and screenwriter was Susan, the female partner producer Gilmour met in 2007? Montford.
Gilmour was courting Susan, so he became the producer of the film, and almost smashed his own sign. After the film was released, the box office reputation failed, and Gilmour said that Susan was not suitable to be a director and screenwriter, Susan was not convinced, and the two had a big fight.
Insisting on his own opinions, the competitive and stubborn Gilmour remembered Zhou Xuan and wanted him to evaluate the movie from the perspective of an ordinary audience.
"Can you help find fault with this bad movie? You're welcome, just slam this bad movie. Please! ”
"Okay. I'm going to watch this movie and call you later. Zhou Xuan agreed, anyway, there was nothing to do at this time, it was still early to eat, it was better to go to a movie, and Gilmour happened to give him a date offer.
"Thank you, thank you."
After hanging up the phone, Zhou Xuan looked at Nie Yuyan and asked, "How about we go to the movies?" A Hollywood friend recommended it, let me give him a review after reading it. ”
"Director friend? I just heard you call him Gilmour...... He's not going to be the 'magician' in Mexico, is he? Nie Yuyan took a deep breath and shook Zhou Xuan's arm excitedly.
"Well, he seems to have that nickname." Zhou Xuan thought about it and nodded.
"You know such a famous person? He also called you to recommend movies? My God. Nie Yuyan covered her mouth and shouted.
Nie Yuyan, who is often alone at home in China, likes to watch movies very much, "magical" Gilmour? Bender? Toro became famous in Hollywood.
In the early 80s, Gilmour, who had been a makeup supervisor for almost 10 years, set up his own company, and he was a film all-rounder, working as a director, actor, assistant director, screenwriter, producer, etc.
He has a highly imaginative brain, is a theist, loves magic, believes in psychics, and studies mystical powers. His masterpieces include "Hellboy", "Pan's Labyrinth", "Blade Warrior", etc., all of which are detached from reality.
Nie Yuyan has admired this person's name for a long time, and she likes "Pan Shen's Labyrinth". However, in Zhou Xuan's opinion, this guy is a 45-year-old fat otaku who is still single, with a somewhat eccentric personality, and he is an old naughty boy.
She shook Zhou Xuan again and asked, "What does he recommend?" Let's take a look. If you go to Los Angeles, can you take me to meet him? ”
"No problem, he also said that I would stay at his house for a few days during the holidays, he has his own estate."
Zhou Xuan's performance was very bland, Nie Yuyan admired him even more, but he didn't know the big man but didn't have the slightest intention of stammering, I'm afraid that only people who don't have much pursuit of money and fame can do it.
In fact, Zhou Xuan has pursuits, but the interlacing is like a mountain, and the friendship between him and Gilmour is as light as water.
"It's Gilmour's girlfriend movie, but it's a horror movie, if you're scared, you can put your arm around me." Zhou Xuan said with a smile.
"Cut ......" Nie Yuyan then remembered to let go of Zhou Xuan's arm, pretending to be displeased, and her heart was quite sweet.
The two went to a nearby theater, bought a drink of popcorn, and watched a recent show, "WhileSheWasOut."
The movie is not scary at all, nor is it thriller. Zhou Xuan watched it for a while and was happy, it was really a bad movie.
The movie is about Dala, a housewife who lives in the suburbs, who has a not happy life and often gets into quarrels with her husband. On Christmas night, she drove alone to the supermarket to buy Christmas gifts for her children. When picking up the car, there was an argument with a few hooligans. Just as a security guard came to intervene, a hooligan shot at the security guard, who died instantly. Della became the only witness at the scene. In order to be able to hide from the public, the four little hooligans decided to kill Della and kill her. She had no choice but to run away, and all she had was a toolbox.
Della then used the tools in her toolbox to kill the three hooligans one after the other. The last thug had a gun in his hand, and Della had to lure the other party, snatch the other man's gun and shoot him dead. When she returned home, she killed her husband again.
The main process of the whole movie is carried out in the black light, Zhou Xuan wonders if the crew forgot to bring the lights or lack of funds, many bridges don't even know what Lu Dao is playing, no lights, no matter how good the play is, it can't be performed, and it is useless to find an Oscar actor, it is better to listen to a radio drama, anyway, I can't see it.
No wonder Gilmour is going crazy, he is very demanding in making movies, and the producer of this movie feels like being cheated.
After dinner in the evening, Nie Yuyan followed Zhou Xuan back to the apartment, she wanted to hear how Zhou Xuan and Gilmour talked about the movie on the phone. Zhou Xuan dialed the number, both of them used hands-free, and Susan was also at Gilmer's house, waiting to hear the evaluation. Zhou Xuan couldn't have imagined that he had such a big face.
Originally, he didn't know anything about movies, but since he got acquainted with the Olsen sisters, he has watched a lot of movies. What a movie fails for, and what the audience doesn't buy for it, he can also analyze it. Especially the psychology of the characters in the movie, where there is discord and logic, he can see it clearly.
There are countless outstanding actors in Hollywood, even if you want to be unspoken rules, it is difficult to find a way. If he can give full play to his strengths and put forward opinions to satisfy Gilmour, a director friend, maybe he can help Colo? Moretz earns a role. So he boldly put forward his opinion, and did not find it difficult to speak.
Zhou Xuan said that this piece was quite nonsensical, and began to complain wildly.
Della always holds a treasure chest, and the highlight is how Della uses all kinds of tools in the treasure chest to kill a little ruffian. This reminded him of the box in Gu Long's novel "Heroes Without Tears......
When Della was chased by a group of men and could be raped and killed at any time, she was still in the mood to listen to the eulogies of the little ruffians; The film inadvertently reveals that the heroine's profession is actually a shaman, and after escaping from the little hooligans for a distance, she sacrifices a ritual by the river and calls God loudly, but unfortunately God does not appear, but the ruffian team follows.
The method of killing the ruffian with the gun in the last corner was extremely weird, and both of them went crazy. The ruffian incarnated as Shakespeare sang a beautiful poem for more than ten minutes, which almost touched Della, and the two began to have a love affair, and the heroine seized the opportunity to kill the hooligan. With so many brothers dead, even Takashi Kato shouldn't be able to get an erection, right? How much of a hooligan does this guy have to be to be seduced? He actually went to the wrong set to shoot an A-movie, right?
Seeing the middle of the film, Zhou Xuan said that he had guessed that at the end of the film, Della would definitely kill her husband when she came home, because she got a lot of experience points after killing so many people, and she also exploded a superb equipment - a gun! She has been upgraded, and she is no longer a scum with a combat power of only 5. Her husband's level couldn't compete with her at all, so he was killed naturally.
After Zhou Xuan finished complaining, Gilmour and Susan were dumbfounded. The difference is that Gilmore is overjoyed and happy, while Susan has an ugly face, and finally admits that the script is very unreasonable, and no one will think that this kind of thing will really happen.
Curious, Gilmour asked, "If it were you, how would you shoot it?" ”
"The heroine was abused by her husband, and then went out and was raped and killed by 4 men, and a policeman witnessed it but turned a blind eye because he knew the prisoner. The heroine's gift for the child has the power given by the devil.,After death, it becomes a ghost and goes back to take revenge.,The shooting technique is best to use flashbacks.,Use a bystander.,For example, the policeman's girlfriend is the perspective of shooting.,Starting from the death of several men one by one,Slowly lead to the reason for the female ghost's revenge.,After the most ugly kill the policeman.,The female ghost disappears.。 Zhou Xuan said casually, he thought this was called a horror movie.
After listening to this, Susan sighed: "I kind of want to blow myself in the head with the big gun of Hellboy, Gilmour, you are right, my movie sucks." ”
If you make a ghost movie according to what Zhou Xuan said casually, it will be more interesting than her. Gilmour felt that he had found a soulmate, and he liked magic the most, and praised: "Stephen, it seems that you have a talent for writing scripts." ”
Zhou Xuan's phone was also speakerphone-free, Nie Yuyan heard the conversation, looked at his side face on the side, and a thought popped up in her heart - isn't there anything he can't do?
Zhou Xuan smiled: "I can only say a structure, see it." In fact, this script is very good, but there are problems with the details and psychology of the characters, and if it is changed, it may be a good film.
Gilmore paused for a while, and then said: "I think you really should be a screenwriter, or you should learn photography and become a director after you retire, you must have talent." ”
"Dude, don't exalt me like this, I'll give you some advice, if you're not afraid that I'll smash the act, I can also make a few cameos in your movie for free."
"It's decided, I'll definitely call you for the next movie, and you can help me study the script when you have time, and look for me when you come to Los Angeles." Gilmour exuberantly.
Zhou Xuan made a request at the right time. "If there's a role that's suitable for kids, consider Kolo? Moretz, she's working hard, and she really wants to act in your movie. ”
"If there's a suitable role, I'll let her audition." Gilmour made a promise.
After chatting for a while, Zhou Xuan hung up the phone, and Nie Yuyan was still watching him distracted.
"What's wrong?"
"It's nothing ......" Nie Yuyan Xiafei lowered her cheeks, lowered her head, and gently drew circles on her toes on the ground, her heart was like a deer, and she knew that she really liked Zhou Xuan.
Zhou Xuan scratched his head, a little embarrassed to be looked at by the beauty, he knew that the two of them had a good impression of each other, but he didn't know how to confess appropriately?