Chapter 489 Scene 489 You have to listen to me
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Jobs looked at Li Xiaole for a long time and showed a very appreciative gaze, nodded and smiled: "Okay, I think you should hurry back to shoot the movie now, so you can stay at my house for one night now, and then go back to Los Angeles tomorrow with the equipment, Li, I still have a lot of questions for you, if you don't mind, how about you rest in my room?" After Jobs finished speaking, he didn't give Li Xiaole a chance to refuse, and directly hugged his shoulders: "You said that I don't understand the principle of the operation of the gyroscope, can you tell me more carefully......
Li Xiaole looked at Jobs helplessly, and even felt the stubble in his face stabbing his face, and wanted to ask a line like "let the bullets fly": "Steve, what are you going to ask me...... Or do you want to sleep with me? But he was afraid that Jobs would humor him: "I'll ask you first, and then I'll sleep with you." β
Watching Jobs and Li Xiaole hook shoulders and look familiar, Wu Wei and Xu Zhen followed behind and walked with blank minds, before coming to the United States this time, they had more or less fantasized about meeting a sexy foreign girl on the street of Los Angeles to have an affair, but they didn't expect that the first time they were invited to their home was a big man with a long beard...... What's even more strange is that they know that they will feel so excited to go to this man's house~...... Go to Steve Jobs' house, oh my goodness
A day later, when Li Xiaole and the three returned to the Los Angeles filming location, it was already evening, and all kinds of technological machinery wrapped in three sealed trucks rumbled next to the crew.
Whether it was the actors on the scene, the Tom Cruise filming team who was used to seeing big scenes, or the insurance manager Miller, everyone gathered and was stunned by the various futuristic machines that were half-off from the car, especially the solar-powered tram that looked like a sailboat, it was simply amazing......
"Director Li, you ...... Where are things rented? Miller looked at the various high-tech devices in front of him, his mind was buzzing, he couldn't understand what was going on. Hasn't Li Xiaole been tinkering with the design of props by himself? How did all this stuff come out of thin air?
What's going on with so many people who maintain the equipment? 21, 22, 23, 24 people ......? With so much manpower, could it be that Li Xiaole borrowed a huge amount of money in the name of the crew by himself!?
Miller looked at the quality of these technological equipment, and estimated in his heart that it would at least cost millions of dollars, and this little director seemed to be really desperate......
"Borrow it from a friend." Li Xiaole said casually, he didn't want to explain what happened to everyone.
Scarlett's eyes also lit up, she held a remote control that had just been removed from the car, controlling a white flying machine with 4 propellers, having a lot of fun, and asked Li Xiaole excitedly: "What kind of friend are you, this thing is so cool~~~ Can you sell me a piece and talk to your friend...... I'm going to put this thing on top of my Chevrolet, it's going to be a good match. β
Before Li Xiaole could speak, the Indian employee of Apple next to him, who was responsible for maintaining these devices, glared at Scarlett angrily and snorted: "Sell one?" The remote control you have in your hand is more expensive than your Chevrolet. β
"Where did you find such an Indian with such a sense of humor......" Scarlett squinted her eyes and felt that this Indian was a little too arrogant, tilting her head and asking Li Xiaole.
"It's really expensive, look at the ...... on the back of the remote control," Li Xiaole shrugged her shoulders and reminded her.
"Apple's in-house development......" Scarlett flipped the remote control, saw the words next to the missing Apple logo, and turned her head to ask for some reason: "What brand is this?" It's so remarkable~ I thought it was produced by Ferrari......"
I said...... Scarlett, don't you usually care about anything other than acting...... Don't watch TV either? Don't need a computer either? Li Xiaole looked at her with the eyes of an alien creature, does this woman have common sense? Even if women are not interested in the IT industry, they have more or less heard of Apple, and Ferrari ......? I'm still in the sea of silk!!
"In addition to studying acting, the rest of my time is to exercise, and buy some useless luxuries to have fun~" Scarlett turned her head to look at him and replied very seriously: "Thinking about my life, it's really boring, weishenme I don't even like to watch TV?" Because I turned on the TV, I saw that the actors in it were so bad that I wanted to vomit......"
Li Xiaole was completely speechless when she heard this, should she praise this arrogant and sexy actress for her single-mindedness, or sympathize with her life that she is so boring that she doesn't even have ordinary common sense? It's a bit pitiful to live a life where you don't even watch TV.
"Apple......? Director Li, how much money did you borrow......? Miller heard their conversation next to him, and gasped on the spot and asked softly, Apple is a company that dares to sell a personal computer for $20,000...... The price of these things in front of me must be more than Li Xiaole's production points!? In other words, the insurance company not only cannot take advantage, but also accompanies a huge amount of money.
"I don't need money, it's borrowed by a friend for free, don't worry, Miller, just use these shots." Li Xiaole calmly patted Miller, who was already in a cold sweat, and began to organize various departments of the crew to shoot several sets of shots.
With these things, "Life Remote Control" will no longer have shortcomings, and he is confident that this will be a much better movie than the original.
As the release date of "The Lion Enters the Sheep's Mouth" is approaching, Lianmei has entered an extremely busy season, and Li Xiaole's "Life Remote Control" also ended the post-editing as scheduled, and submitted it to Foday, who is MGM's highest position, for review......
However, this state did not last long, and he soon returned to the real Shijie and began to discuss the topic of the film with the head of the reviewer, Aiwen.
"The filming is much better than I imagined, this Li Xiaole has a bit of the delicacy of an Asian director, but I always feel that this plot is too heavy, it would be better if it was more relaxed." Foudy frowned and sighed, although he thought the movie was good, he still felt that this kind of loose and tight comedy was incompatible with Hollywood's entertainment-oriented atmosphere.
"But I think this movie is really good." Ai Wen, who was in charge of reviewing the film, was indeed contrary to Foday's opinion, and said excitedly:
"Mr. Foday, you may not have noticed the details of his picture, there are many scenes that can be passed by Director Li Xiaole took great care, especially those scenes in the future scenes, wow, it's so exquisite, I really can't imagine how he designed these things."
Although Evan is a veteran of experience, Foudy clearly distrusts the veteran who left behind in the bankrupt MGM company.
Foday's standard is very simple, comedy is to make people laugh, these 100 minutes are funny or not, as long as it makes people laugh, it is the most haode effect, the problem is that the first half of "Life Remote Control" is not bad, but the second third is a little too heavy.
He doesn't understand that Mike, the protagonist of Weishenme, after going through so much, has instead given up his career and focused on his family? Isn't this tantamount to a return to a failed and ordinary life? This is simply illogical~!
In comedy movies, the audience needs to be the thrill of the protagonist turning around the decline of life and winning big, not this kind of mild ending.
With this question, after Fody found Li Xiaole, he expressed his wishes: "Li, I expect you to change the ending, I think what the audience needs is a double harvest for the protagonist Mike's career and family, and he wants to win everything~ Believe me, this is what fans like." β
After Li Xiaole heard this, he just shook his head unusually calmly and explained:
"Foday, you don't understand, Mike was originally a very ordinary American white-collar worker, pursuing career success, hating parents' shortcomings, liking beautiful women and luxury cars, very self-conscious, independent, and beautiful as loving freedom, which is very close to ordinary audiences in reality.
But after passing through the remote control to live his life, he will begin to reflect on what he really wants, but this is not enough, just like a child if he falls but does not fall painfully, then he will not think that the path he has chosen is wrong.
Mike is essentially a child, only great pain will make him transform, this ending is in line with our Chinese Confucianism said the golden mean, the 'best' is not necessarily suitable for one's own life, and the 'balanced' life is the most haode state in life. β
Li Xiaole emphasized in an accentuated tone:
"I think the American audience can relate to the story, and we don't just want to make the audience feel good, but we want to move them and make them really like the story, and I don't want the film to become a clichΓ© comedy that you can forget after watching it."
But Li Xiaole's sincere point of view sounds ridiculous to Foudey, which is simply a fallacy of an artistic director! He impatiently warned Li Xiaole:
"Lee, I want to tell you, you are a thorough oriental thinking, you don't know what the American audience thinks, they are not those slow-paced people in your country, ordinary people in the United States are people with dreams and pursuits, he wants to look forward to the perfect victory!! I'll be honest with you, if you shoot like that, then the box office will be at least one-third less. β