1381. Chapter 1381 - A New Script
Cameron sat cross-legged opposite Hugo, quietly looking at Hugo, at this time Hugo was looking down to read a large book, Cameron could clearly see a shadow cast by the bridge of his straight nose, making his facial features look more profound, the eyes hidden in the shadows flickering slightly like a river bathed in the moonlight flowing quietly. Eyes fell slightly, and you could see the pair of cherry-colored lip flaps, surrounded by green stubble, which made the lip flaps look so soft, with a thin halo on them, people couldn't help but want to touch them.
Cameron sat up slightly, raised his hand and touched the corner of Hugo's mouth lightly, touching the hard stubble, Hugo's head was slightly off, but there was no other reaction, which made Cameron chuckle, raised his index finger again, slowly climbed up along the stubble, gently stroked Hugo's cheek, felt the temperature of the skin with his fingertips, and finally stopped at Hugo's sideburns, playing with it for a while.
"Sweetheart, I'm going to itch like this." Hugo raised his hand and grabbed Cameron's right hand, a helpless smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then raised his eyes and glared at Cameron gently, but Cameron was naughty, and jumped suddenly, and the whole person fell into Hugo's arms, holding Hugo's neck with both hands, "You can wait and read it later, you can go out for a walk with me, or...... Or go golfing. ”
"Again?" Hugo smiled dumbly, he only went to golf with Cameron yesterday, and the day before yesterday he went shopping, and now it seems that Cameron is completely addicted, "Have you had lunch in a while, okay?" Hugo smiled and said, "I'm going to finish the script now." ”
A look of disappointment appeared on Cameron's face, he pursed his lips, sat up again with a look of interest, and then leaned on Hugo's shoulder, "Can't you wait until you come back in the evening?" ”
Hugo couldn't help choking and patiently explained, "Rick asked me to reply to him yesterday, have you forgotten?" I'm late, I'm reading it now, I'll get back to Rick at noon, and then the rest will be fine. "Yesterday Hugo was also reading the script, but he was dragged out by Cameron to play golf, but he didn't finish reading the script in time.
Thinking of this, Cameron pouted, did not speak again, and lay on Hugo's shoulder with a dejected expression. Since she was in the back, Hugo couldn't see Cameron's expression, Hugo thought for a moment, instead of saying some empty words now, it would be better to read the script quickly, and then go to lunch together. Therefore, Hugo lowered his head and read the script quickly.
This is the third version of the script of "The End of the World", but in fact it is far from the "Independence Day" that Hugo remembers.
In this version of the script, the entire branch line of David, a computer expert who played a crucial role, was directly canceled, including his ex-wife and his father, and a female character was added to the unification, Jia Siming, who is the assistant to the president's first secretary, at the beginning of the story, Jia Siming was on a business trip in Los Angeles, and it was she who interpreted the aliens' countdown signals and sensed that the aliens were coming over the major cities to destroy the intentions of these cities, which made the president and others leave the White House in time.
And Jia Simin is the girlfriend of the actor Steve, although Jia Simin let the president leave the White House in time, but due to the time difference, she missed it with Steve, who is the pilot captain, has responded to the emergency call to the base. Jasmin finds Steve's son with his ex-girlfriend, rescues him, and then takes him to the base to find Steve.
At the same time, Steve had the first round of confrontation with the aliens, and all of his teammates were unfortunately wiped out, and he was the only one who survived and destroyed an alien combat plane, and Steve captured a prisoner of war and came to the 51st District, where the president and others were.
Since Steve is currently the only person to have survived the confrontation with the aliens, he has a conversation with the president, and Steve encourages the president not to lose faith, which gives the president the courage to decide to use all his forces to strike at the aliens - including nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, Steve returns to his original base and rescues Jasmin.
After returning to Area 51, Steve stumbles upon the ship's secrets, and he can use a computer virus to disable the ship's protective systems, which can open the alien ship's shield and make their weapons work. But the only requirement is that he must personally enter the alien homeship to implant the virus. Since Steve is the only one who knows about computer viruses and he's also a pilot, he has to put on a trap.
Before setting off, Steve gave an emotional speech that got everyone up arms and joined the fight, including the much-inspired president, who was a pilot by turn but hadn't flown in years since entering politics. In the end, Steve single-handedly broke into the spaceship and implanted the virus, while the pilots led by the president on Earth inflicted a thrashing on the alien spacecraft and won the final victory.
Even if Hugo doesn't remember the detailed plot, it can be clearly found that the whole script has been greatly changed, due to the deletion of the two characters of David and his ex-wife at once, the direction of the entire story line has been redistributed, Steve's weight has been significantly strengthened, and the role of the president has also been weakened, Steve has directly become a lone hero who saves mankind and turns the tide - of course, the pilots who sacrifice their lives on the earth are indispensable, but because Steve's role is very prominent, these supporting roles not only did not take away the protagonist's light, instead, becomes the finishing touch, making the story full.
More importantly, after reducing the two roles, Steve's girlfriend Jia Siming was also given more content to delineate, and some ink was added to the emotional scenes between Steve and Jia Siming, as well as the family relationship between Steve and his biological son, making the characters three-dimensional.
In addition, to Hugo's surprise, the interaction between Steve and the president has also increased, making the whole story smooth and connected, and at the same time more prominent the connection between the military and the president - Hugo still has to admire Roland and Dean's proficiency in writing mainstream Hollywood patriotic scripts.
Although the current "Independence Day" is still the framework of the story in memory, due to the reduction of characters, the connection between each character has become tighter, and the plot progression has become more compact. Of course, the actor Steve inevitably became the lone hero of Hollywood genre films - this is the criticism part, but in this way, it also makes the plot focus on Steve, and purely from the perspective of storytelling, the watchability is much more.
Such a script, although it is not as fast as the speed of life and death, is comparable to "Terminator 2" and "True Lies", which is enough to raise the quality of the entire work of "Independence Day" to a higher level. Of course, the excellent script is only one aspect, and in the end, it depends on Roland's directing direction, whether he can adhere to the sharp and fast style of the script, and can maintain his original business sense.
Rick and Joseph did not tell Hugo the details of the entire negotiation process, so Hugo was quite puzzled at this time, "Are Roland and Dean obviously prepared?" So why is the quality of the previously revised script still not up to par? ”
If Roland and Dean heard Hugo's remarks, they would probably vomit blood directly.
At the end of the day, Kevin and Allen made a decision almost in a few words: they would not give up on Hugo, which meant that either Roland and Dean would compromise and revise the script within three days; Either Twentieth Century Fox will abandon this project and submit other projects to cooperate with Hugo, time is money, and Columbia Pictures, which is waiting for the opportunity, will not miss the opportunity.
As Kevin said, the weight of the "Hugo Lancaster" chip is too heavy, even if Roland wants to say "I don't care about Hugo, any actor can succeed in my work", but the words are stuck in his throat and never come out. Now in the whole of Hollywood, even directors like Steve Spielberg and George Lucas find it difficult to reject Hugo outright, and perhaps only someone like Woody Allen who unswervingly follows the literary line will disdain Hugo - but Roland suspects that even Woody will be impressed with Hugo, and no one will forget Jì's "Before Sunrise".
As a director, Roland's goal has always been clear: he aspires to be a commercial director who can orchestrate big scenes and create epic shocks, and to achieve this goal, he must win the box office and have the support of major studios. An actor like Hugo is not only a dream partner for a major film company, but also an irresistible temptation for Roland. Confuse.
So, Roland and Dean compromised. After returning that day, the two of them began to write the script all night, revising it according to Rick's opinion, but this is a very ambitious project, although the framework of the script is basically unchanged, but several clues must be overturned and rewritten.
After the two of them didn't sleep for thirty-six hours, Kevin finally couldn't stand it anymore and sent two screenwriters to help, but the four of them were busy for nearly thirty hours without sleep, and then it was announced that a new version of the script was released. This version of the script is unrecognizable, and completely different from what they originally conceived.
But even Roland and Dean themselves have to admit that after such a change, the whole plot seems compact, and the ideas have become much clearer.
Of course, Hugo did not know about these circumstances. It is undeniable that the "Independence Day" script in Hugo's memory is really not very good, except for the visual effects, he can't remember too much of the plot back then, but now the script in his hand is much more brilliant, even if it can't be said to be excellent, it is not bad, which also makes Hugo's interest in the "Independence Day" project rise directly from five to seven.