Chapter 62: The First Intimate Encounter

Ask for recommendations! Collect!

"Tell me about it, Duke."

Charles Rowan still made a gesture of please, after all, it is one thing for Duke to build yì, and it is another thing for Warnata not to adopt it.

"Halftime ad for the Super Bowl!" "Putting a short 30-second trailer for the film into the halftime commercial of the Super Bowl, which was the No. 1 rated show in the U.S., was ...... effective," Duke said quickly.

"That would be a huge publicity expense." Charles Rowan interrupted, "30 seconds of advertising costs $1 million!" ”

"But more than 50 million people across the U.S. can see this trailer!" Duke answered.

Since the mid-80s, manufacturers who want to get into it will create a short commercial for the Super Bowl, which will bring together the best ideas, the most gorgeous graphics and the biggest celebrity models, even if many viewers who are not interested in the Super Bowl itself, will switch to the intermission to watch the advertising campaign and halftime show.

So, the Super Bowl is also a very strangely watched event, and the ratings at halftime tend to outweigh the game itself.

Of course, its advertising costs are expensive, and Duke has paid a little attention to it in the last few years, when the advertising per second has reached $100,000, and the 30-second ad does not have 3 million dollars, and it has become the norm for major films to advertise in it.

As Charles Rowan mentions the Super Bowl, some of the memories that have faded away because of time have slowly returned to Duke's mind, if memory serves, in this era of low publicity costs, there has been no film to advertise for the Super Bowl, and the first person to eat crabs seems to be "Independence Day", the global publicity cost of this super blockbuster is only 24 million US dollars, and the future is unimaginable.

As for the promotional effect of the Super Bowl, "Independence Day" can also be a reference, and it is the super hit of this film that has made it a common practice for Hollywood to include Super Bowl ads.

In North America, the Super Bowl has the strength to crush all games and TV shows, like the NBA Finals and the World Cup Finals, which cannot be compared at all, and its influence is also huge.

Duke knows this, and Rowan knows it.

However, this involves a lot of publicity spending, and the Super Bowl is just around the corner, neither of them has the right to decide, Rowan can only say that he will feed Duke's proposal back to Warner, and whether to adopt it or not depends on Warner's decision.

Super Bowl ads are just icing on the cake, not the determining factor of the film's success, and "Death Island" is not a summer super vulgar collection like "Independence Day", even if it is on the Super Bowl, it will not sweep the world like "Independence Day".

The key to the success or failure of the film is also the excellent production, and Duke then throws the Super Bowl thing aside and continues with the long post-production zuò.

However, what Duke didn't expect was that a few days later, Charles Rowan brought good news, Warner Bros. reviewers saw the first cut of "Death Island", and Warner Bros. executives decided to run an ad at the Super Bowl.

The news also lifted Duke's spirit that was a little sluggish because of his heavy work, and it took only one day to cut out a 30-second highlight trailer, the most of which were of course the most popular scenes of the summer audience, such as speeding cars, explosions and fights.

In addition, he deliberately put the bomb perspective into the trailer, this is not the bullet time that was born in the 80s, and there is no such movie scene in Hollywood or even in the world.

The trailer can't just have pictures without a soundtrack, so Hans Zimmer, who is still immersed in writing, is called to the Rock Studios by Duke.

Sitting in his chair, Duke's eyes were off Hans Zimmer as the orchestral music sounded, and his attention was all on the piece being played, allowing him to do the soundtrack himself, something Duke could not do, but Duke still had a clear judgment on whether a piece was suitable for a movie.

This piece is generally very appropriate, but Duke's brows have been slightly wrinkled, and the song is plausible to the classic soundtrack of his previous life, or perhaps because of his preconceived ideas, he always feels that it is half a notch behind.

His gaze swept over the stern Hans Zimmer again, and Duke suddenly understood that any star, director, soundtrack, etc., like Naomi Watts and Zack Schneider now, always has a long-term accumulation process before it completely shines.

There is no doubt that Hans Zimmer after "The Lion King" is a supermaster of soundtracks, but now, at best, he is a craftsman.

After a few minutes of playing, Hans Zimmer looked at Duke and asked tentatively, "Not satisfied?" ”

"It's not." Duke shook his head and thought for a moment before saying, "Hans, I want the music to be more powerful. ”

Although he can read some simple scores, Duke can't compose, and he once tried to hum that soundtrack, but his knowledge of rhythm is too poor, and the only listener Sophia directly said that what he hummed was noise, and after Duke listened to Sophia's specially recorded humming, he was also sure that it was noise.

Even, Duke even tried whistling, and the effect was extremely unsatisfactory, maybe he could distinguish some rhythms from the whistle, but it didn't mean that others could make his ideal tune based on the running whistle.

When Hans Zimmer first arrived in the morning, Duke also let him listen to the recording of the whistle, and the other party shook his head.

Finding a composer who can hum a piece of music and then reproduce a song or soundtrack is simply unrealistic and purely cranky.

It can't be helped, the soundtrack can only be so temporarily, although it is different from the previous life, it is difficult to say that it will not become a classic in the future, and Hans Zimmer will also make adjustments, this is not the final version of the soundtrack.

While the soundtrack was still being discussed, Shania Towne also came to Rock Studios and brought a master tape of the film's theme song composed by Hans Zimmer, which Duke listened to a few times, although it was not comparable to Shania Towne's works at his peak, but it was enough for the film, except for some adjustments to some details, and basically agreed with the use of this song.

With a 30-second trailer featuring Hans Zimmer's soundtrack and a handful of songs by Shania Towne, Duke completed the film's Super Bowl commercial, and the recent intense work could come to an end.

"You look more confident."

In the quiet dining room, Duke looked at Shania Donn opposite, she had a completely different temperament from Naomi Watts, with high eyebrows and slightly scattered curls, reflecting a bit of the wildness of the Canadian countryside, her shining eyes were full of confidence and determination, and her body was sexy and enchanting set off by a tight crop top.

"My first record is already finished." Shania Towne ate only a small amount of food, "The company invited a lot of radio DJs and music critics to audition, and they all gave good reviews. ”

"Good luck with your record." Duke raised his glass to her.

"Good luck with your movie." Shania Towne replied.

"Shania, I think we have some similar traits." Duke put down his glass, and Shania Towne tilted his head to look at him, "Do you use this kind of language to coax women?" Or do you want to pursue me? ”

"I've never liked to coax women." Duke wasn't embarrassed either, "I just feel like I'm in love with you." ”

Shania Donn didn't say anything, just tilted her head to look at Duke, who looked at her, their eyes meeting in the air and laughing at the same time.

"Someone from a background like you can't imagine my life at all." Shania Towne suddenly moved on to something else, "I vowed to get out of poverty, I vowed to make my younger siblings into high society, I vowed to be the best singer in the world." ”

She raised an eyebrow, "What about you, Duke?" ”

"Director." Duke shrugged, "The best director." ”

"So, we're not going to stop moving forward."

This woman's experience is far more complicated than Naomi Watts's, and working from the lowest level of society to the present has also made her mind more rational, "I need someone who can help me enough with music." ”

Her words were very direct, "As far as I know, you're not that kind of person. ”

Hearing these words, Duke laughed, regardless of the others, this was a relatively straightforward woman, vaguely remembering that her first husband was the famous musician who helped her take her career to the peak, and when the press and the public compared her to the likes of Madonna and Mariah Carey, she divorced and married a wealthy businessman.

After dinner, the two went out of the restaurant, tacitly got into the same car, Duke drove directly to a famous hotel nearby, Shania Towne just took his arm, and never said anything until the two entered the suite and kissed each other fiercely.

This is the first intimate contact between the two, and it may be the only one, both of them burst out with the greatest enthusiasm, Duke is even more varied, Shania Donn, who has a strong and sexy body, is obviously more bearable than Naomi Watts, as long as it is not an over-the-top move, basically no one refuses.

When Duke pressed her against the carpet and launched a wild charge from behind, slapping her hips hard, Shania Downe almost screamed excitedly, seemingly slightly affected. Sadistic tendencies.

"I like you like this, Duke Rosenberg!" She turned her head, her high-pitched voice full of excitement, "I really like you!" ”

Duke responded with an even more violent impact.

The night cleared the hustle and bustle of Burbank, and the streets ushered in a rare calm, Duke and Shania Towne sat on the balcony facing the street, wrapped in a large thick blanket, slowly sipping their glasses of red wine.

"You are a perfect bed. Accompany. Duke touched her glass.

"So are you."

Shania Don took a sip of red wine, leaned over and kissed him, and only after half a ring did she distance herself and wipe the red liquid lying on the corner of her lips, "I'm leaving Los Angeles next month and moving to Nashville, where I'll settle down, and if you pass by, you can call me." ”

"I wish you a speedy realization of your dreams."

Holding up the face that looked even wilder in the red, Duke kissed it the smooth forehead.