Chapter 19—This Man Comes from Earth (2)

"This Man Comes from Earth" is a novel written by Jerome_Bixby before his death in 1998 about a novel written by history professor John Brown. After Oldman's surprise resignation from college, his colleagues come to his home to throw him a farewell party and want John to explain why he left. The professor claims that he is a Cromanon who does not age and has lived for more than 14,000 years so far. He resigned and chose to leave because the fact that he did not age if he stayed in one place for more than ten years would arouse suspicion there. The story begins with some exasperation and scrambling to debunk this lame excuse, but soon they discover that they cannot be falsified by John's words, just as John cannot be proved by what he claims. Originally, the farewell party began to become very different, and the whole movie has two intertwined main lines, one is the narration of the male protagonist John, which is related to the subversion of some past events, and also related to the evolution of human history, and the other is whether these professors believe what John said in reality, and whether they believe that there is really such a person who has survived for 14,000 years against common sense? The two main lines are cleverly connected by something called questioning, and this questioning is used to continuously move the story forward until this questioning overthrows the entire Western culture and pushes the whole story to its peak.

David. Xiu Meng opened the door and saw Jerry and Stephen standing outside the door. Spielberg, James. Cameron and George. Lucas, took him into the room, as for Carlos? The guy had already sent Jerry away. After Carlos and Jerry mingled for a long time, they enjoyed life more and more, and before they even arrived in Palm Springs, they were already clamoring about the famous hot springs in Palm Springs. It seems that the jackal is spoiled by the hot springs and ** in Japan, this guy has collapsed for several days in Japan during the New Year, and when he arrived in the United States, he actually wanted to ride a large ocean horse. Jerry can't do anything about this. The bird is his, can he take care of it? James. Cameron and Stephen. The reason why Spielberg came to Palm Springs at the same time was not because they also wanted the whole city of Palm City to spend the vacation like the six stars of "Friends", but because after this busy period, Jerry was going to fly to the other side of the United States, and the vacation time of Long Island High School was coming to an end. As for the details of scripts such as "Titanic", "Star Wars" prequels, and "Band of Brothers", the three big directors still need to discuss with Jerry. Therefore, in order to cooperate with Jerry's schedule, the main script creators of the three major film crews all gathered in the whole city of Palm. Among them, there is also Billy who came along the coast of California. Mr. and Mrs. Swan, Mr. and Mrs. Robert. Mr. Rodat and Gary. Mr. Levinson. When he arrived at Zuihou, Jerry, who didn't want to pay out of his pocket, could only helplessly take out a copper plate from his pocket, which made Jennifer and a group of people laugh and scold him for being a grande

Jerry hadn't thought of the three directors coming to Palm Springs with a large number of people, but he turned his head and thought, well, actually, that's not bad. "This Man is from Earth" is just short of actors, and with only six young leading actors, this movie can't hold up. In addition to being the David of the Krumanans. In addition to Shumon, he needed "anthropologists", "psychiatrists", "archaeologists", "historians", and so on. Three directors? You have cast yourself in the net

Although in this way, "This Man is from Earth", which exists in the form of a pseudo-documentary, loses his original propaganda means, and Jerry is not worried if it is not enough, after all, with the six leading actors of "Friends" here, he can use the mysterious journey of Palm Springs City by the six leading actors of "Friends" as a gimmick. Are there still fewer people who like Rachel's Rose? Somewhat neurotic Phoebe. Buffy's popularity is high.

Or, maybe it's not bad to use Rose's shocking secrets as a publicity stunt.

The script is also negotiable

After all, Ross is inherently connected to history and archaeology in Friends, yes, a very knowledgeable person

Who says he can't be a Krumana who has lived for 140 million years?

His solid acting skills fit perfectly

What's more, he himself wants to get rid of his identity as a sitcom and try another style.

After greeting each other, a group of people took their seats in the room. Jerry and David. Xiu Meng asked for the script, and then threw them to the three big directors, according to what he meant, you are usually used to watching people perform behind the camera, this time, let you also be on camera, let others know how your acting skills are? Paid? $1. Jerry just "coaxed, deceived and threatened" to pull the three big directors into the water. ,

The three directors were not interested in making cameo appearances in a movie per se, but after reading the script that Jerry handed them, their attitudes changed.

Especially James. Cameron.

"Oh, come on, Mr. Cameron. I understand what you want to say, make use of the computer jishu and put all John. The scenes that Oldman experienced are fully displayed. I gotta say, it's really fascinating. However, for now, I think it's better to shoot in this way for the time being. First, I have a limited budget, how grand do you expect to be shot with $1W? If it's really as you say, I'm afraid that $100 million won't be enough. Moreover, I would not really invest more than $100 million in this script like I invested in "Titanic". Second, the content interspersed in the whole script is very huge. Think about it, the whole story has primitive societies (Crumanans), the late ice age and the late Pleistocian, the discovery of the New World in Colombia, the cultural changes in the two river basins, Van Gogh, Turner, Cézanne, Picasso, Belgium in 1862, the early Bronze Age, the Eastern trade routes, the Sumeranis, the Hamerrabi Code, the ancient Babylonians, the Phoenicians, the process of urban centralization, the time of the Buddha, Shakyamuni, smallpox, the Black Death, the nativity, etc., etc. It's a pity that you remove any part of the content. So, which one are you going to choose and which one to abandon? Look, Mr. Cameron, even you find it difficult. If this is the case, then using such a way of talking will be the most haode way. Sometimes, the induction of the subconscious will be more effective than the display of red fruit. Mr. Cameron, don't underestimate the human imagination. ”

After Jerry rejected his suggestion to make "This Man from Earth" a big production, James . Cameron can't help it. After all, this is not his script, but for being able to make a cameo in a movie like this, James . Cameron said he did have a bit of an anticipation.

It's a pity that his expectations eventually turned into David. Cut~Cut~Cut~Cut~

The old fellow was so angry that he wanted to pull his silver beard several times.

Seeing this, Jerry held his breath and couldn't hold back a laugh. Cameron, a tyrant on the set? NO~NO~NO~ He's more like an air bag now, but is there a gas bag that blows his beard and stares at his eyes?

Jerry didn't know.

Of course, by David. It's not just James who Humon and Jerry shout Cut~. Cameron, the other two, also suffered.

A successful director is not the same as a successful actor.

This situation has been fully reflected in the three great directors.

Self-directing and acting can be a trouble, and after every scene, David. Xiumeng always had to go to the front of the three cameras to check the shooting results, but fortunately, with the help of the three great directors, "This Man from Earth", which itself does not require much shooting time, is in David. Xiumeng's acceptance was completed within the scheduled time.

There is David. The mystery and depth of Xiumeng, there is Lisa. Kudrow's sudden collapse with Matthew. Perry's jokes and seriousness, one scene at a time, in exchange for a "This Man is from Earth".

David. Xiumeng is also NB, indeed, there are three famous directors who can help, and they can also help to help, who has ever done this.

The premise is that he has a name named Jerry. Rothscher's producer.

Just after the filming of the movie was completed, in addition to editing the heartfelt David. Xiu Meng returned to DreamWorks with the film crew, but the rest of the people remained in Palm Springs. When you come to Palm Springs, you can't experience the infinite scenery of Palm Springs without seeing the scenery of Palm Springs. The tourist city of Palm Springs is not just desert and hot, with the Aerie Art Garden, the Coachella Valley Museum and Cultural Center, the Macallan Theatre for the Performing Arts and the Palm Springs Air Museum, the Palm Springs Desert Museum and Palm Springs' Walk of Fame, Elvis Presley's Honeymoon Resort and Knott's Oasis Water Park, as well as the Alpine Gondola and Ski Resort. However, what attracted Jerry's attention more was the Indian Canyon and the Cabot Indian Tribal Museum.

Before the Spaniards arrived in North America, the city of Palm Springs was a paradise for the Cahuilla Indians of the Agua_Caliente tribe. And when the Spaniards arrived in this new continent, they drove the Indians out of their homeland with guns, blankets infected with the smallpox virus, and their lies. ,

Massacres, visible all the time

Blood, never stops

After more whites landed in the Americas, when the United States was born on this continent and began the country's famous westward expansion, the vast and rich land of North America was occupied by the new nation. At the same time, the Indians who had lived on this land for thousands of years, as well as those creatures (including yaks, wolves and other creatures) who had been with them for thousands of years, were also slaughtered in large numbers, and the few remaining Indians were driven into their own lands.

However, the history of the United States is the history of the blood and tears of the Indians.

Blacks in the United States shout about racial discrimination all day long, and the yellow race and Latinos in the United States also complain, but the race that suffers the most racial discrimination is indeed the original inhabitants of the American continent, the Indians. They, discriminated against by whites, discriminated against by blacks, and even discriminated against by yellow people (Indians also belong to the yellow race), yes, they are racially discriminated against by all. However, because the U.S. government's public relations work is so good, and the influence of Hollywood Westerns, few people in the whole world know about the plight of this race that values nature and harmony. Even when it was released in 1990 and won multiple Oscars and Golden Globes in 1991, the famous movie star Kevin . Costner's "Dances with Wolves", directed and acted by himself, does not fully show the situation of the Indians. What he told was just a small fragment of the history of blood and tears

With a comprehensive perspective, do you want to show Shijie the current situation of the Indians?

After visiting the history of the Indians at the Cabot Indian Tribal Museum, such a thought inevitably crossed Jerry's mind. Yes, a race that has suffered a major catastrophe and is still living in the midst of a catastrophe, and they have suffered a "genocide" that no race on Shijie has ever experienced. The so-called barbaric naturalization of the Indians by the Caucasian race has caused the Indians to gradually lose their racial civilization. Today, many Americans have Indian blood in their veins, but sadly, they don't even know it, or they refuse to admit it.

Jerry wasn't alone.

Stephen, who is Jewish. After Spielberg finished filming "Schindler's List", he had already discussed with the directors of DreamWorks that all the revenue from the premiere of "Schindler's List" had been donated to the American Holocaust Museum. Spielberg paid special attention to peoples similar to what happened to the Jews in World War II, such as the Indians. The Indians are now in a far worse position than the Jews, who have gained considerable international influence after the establishment of Israel in 1948.

And the Indians? Since Indians do not have influential figures in mainstream society (blacks such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Michael the Flyer, etc.). Jordan, the king of pop Michael. Jackson and other famous people, black and Latinos in the field of sports, their influence has increased day by day, so they talk about racial discrimination at every turn), the Indians who admired the principles of nature and resisted the steel forest, are still regarded as primitive savages.

"Stephen, do you think we should do something?" Jerry turned his head and said this when Stephen. Spielberg didn't say anything, but the eyes hidden behind his glasses told Jerry everything he wanted.

And at the Cabot Indian Tribal Museum made a certain decision, except for Jerry and Stephen. In addition to Spielberg, there is also James. Cameron.

In 1995, just in James. While Cameron is busy on the road for "Titanic", Hollywood's most jishu-obsessed director is also conceiving another great movie. Yes, the highest-grossing movie of all time, Avatar, and today, in the Cabot Museum of Indian Tribes, he found the prototype of the race he called the Na'vi

The same admiration of nature, the same persecution, perhaps, they should have a more perfect ending Maybe Lieutenant Dunbar in "Dances with Wolves" should not leave the Sioux tribe with a "fist clenched", but should use everything he knows to help the Sioux people who have been regarded as his family, and this group of people who worship nature should get more results. Instead of gradually losing their culture, as is the case now,

Just those pictures of the Indians appeared one after another in James. Cameron's mind was spinning rapidly as the outline of a Na'vi began to grow clearer: primitive and natural, moxican-like hair, primitive animal bone hair ornaments, feathers, tattoos, and so on.

"Mr. Cameron, Mr. Cameron......" Jerry called him when James Brown. Cameron still didn't react, and it wasn't until Jerry stretched out his hand and dangled it in front of him for a long time that he dragged him back from his musings, "I'm leaving with Mr. Spielberg, are you together?" Or would you like to stay here longer? ”

James. Cameron didn't answer his question, instead pointing to Jerry's camera, "Is that okay?" ”

"Of course."

After taking the camera from Jerry's hand, James . Cameron started grabbing all the pictures he needed inside the museum, and he couldn't let that slip out of his mind.

"Looks like Mr. Cameron has a good idea"

Stephen. Spielberg smiled and didn't take over Jerry's topic, "I'll submit a film about the Indians to the board as soon as possible." ”

"There's no rush on this, Stephen. There's always a priority, and right now, your important work is the script adaptation of Private Ryan and Band of Brothers. Indian films, wait until you come back from Europe. ”

Stephen. Spielberg didn't say anything, just nodded slightly.

A "Schindler's List" had exhausted his efforts, and he now wondered if he could take on a thicker history of the Indians.

After visiting the Cabot Indian Tribe Museum, none of the three was in high spirits

Three of them, all thinking about the movie.

As a result, all three were absent from the rest of the Palm Springs Walk of Fame