Chapter 476: Nice Opening
As the three most well-known Mexican directors in Hollywood, just like the British gang, the Australian gang and the Canadian gang, they come together to support each other, so Gilmour? Bender? Toro invited Alfonso in the preparation of Pan's Labyrinth? Cuarón served as the producer, and Iñárritu tentatively brought it up to Sean after learning about their predicament.
At that time, Sean had not yet suffered the prosecution, and was preparing for "Babel", after hearing about the situation, although he didn't have much impression of the movie "Pan's Labyrinth", he knew the name of the Mexican Three Heroes, otherwise he wouldn't have thought about winning over Iñárritu.
Even if you don't know the exact names of the three masters, you can basically gamble if you look at the resumes of Iñárritu, Toro and Cuarón, after all, there are very few Mexican directors who can do their kind here.
So, after Sean made it clear that he would not interfere with the filming and that Toro would be in charge of everything, the other party accepted his investment - of course, the distribution rights and everything belong to Reincarnation Pictures. Then after a few months of filming in Madrid and a few months of post-production in Los Angeles, it finally made it to this year's Cannes Film Festival.
After chatting a few more words, Sean left first, beckoned Galen and them into the screening room, even if they had the intention to recruit the three Mexican heroes, it shouldn't be too obvious now, and they are used to making niche movies after all, and the value is not as high as imagined. Maintain a good relationship, invest a few from time to time, as long as you can earn it back, even if the profit is less, it doesn't matter, until Sean finds a movie directed by them that has a higher value that he can think of.
Straight to her own seat in the front rows, Emma was already sitting there, and was chatting perfunctorily with a man sitting next to her.
Sean, who saw it in his eyes, frowned slightly, and then walked over quietly: "How many times have I told you, Emma, although I have a good position, it is also my position!" ”
Emma paused for two seconds, and immediately stood up: "I'm sorry, I sat down when I saw the position, and I didn't pay attention to whose it was." ”
She got up and got out of the way as she spoke, Sean sat down, didn't wait for the man next to him to speak, and said, "What about the itinerary?" How many parties are there tonight? Who else is there to meet? What about the production company? ”
"There are no changes to the itinerary for the time being, but there may be some changes after the movie, and there is only one party, how many more do you want to attend? As for the people to meet, including the production company, there is no change...... Oh yes, Harvey wants you to call him back after the movie is over. Emma said quickly.
"Very well, I know." Sean nodded with a satisfied expression, "Remember what I said?" You're a great assistant, Emma - is there anything else to keep an eye on? ”
"Well, let me think about it again......" Emma looked thoughtful.
The man next to him tried to say something several times, but each time he was interrupted by Sean in a fast voice, and never looked at him as if he didn't exist. After a long time, the man also saw it, smiled bitterly, and then walked away a little gloomy.
"Finally gone, what a nasty fly." Although Emma had been answering Sean's questions, she had always kept an eye on the guy and was relieved to see him go.
Then she bumped Sean with her elbow: "Thank you." ”
"Don't be so polite, you're my assistant, and it's natural for the boss to solve some minor troubles for your assistant." Sean laughed, but unfortunately Emma rolled her eyes a little unappreciatively.
"By the way, who is that guy?" Sean immediately changed the subject.
"A producer at a film company, I don't know if it's French or Italian, or whatever, and his English is terrible," Emma shrugged, "and he asked me if I was interested in being an actor, and said a whole bunch of flowers like I was good for being an actor or something, like a fly buzzing in my ears." ”
"Don't you want to be an actor?" Sean asked with interest.
Emma narrowed her eyes when she heard this, and suddenly turned her head to Galen, who was two places away from her, and shouted, "Hey, Galen, how about we change positions?" ”
"No problem." Galen stood up without thinking about it, so much so that Sean didn't even have a chance to speak.
But immediately another person stood up: "Why don't you change with me." ”
"Okay." Emma didn't mind, and immediately got up and swapped places with Frederick.
"You're colluding, aren't you?" Sean shouted with some dissatisfaction.
It's a pity that a few of them didn't answer with a look of giggling and laughter, but Frederick pulled him by the arm: "Hey, Sean, let's talk, okay?" ”
"Do you have any scripts to recommend to me? Or what is scheduled to be on the show? "The mood is not very good, and the tone is still not very good.
"No, no, no, of course not, I don't know that you are still staying in the crew of "Deadly Magic", and you have to rest in the second half of the year," the agent waved his hand a little exaggeratedly, "Of course, you still have to find time to be on the show after the release of "Babel". ”
"What the hell are you trying to say?" Sean asked with a sigh.
"I mean," Frederick chuckled, "have you considered releasing another single or two?" ”
Sean paused, then narrowed his eyes: "What do you mean, or what do you mean by the music studio?" ”
"Both," the agent shrugged, but didn't hide much, "You know, "BlurredLines" has a good number of downloads and the music video is quite popular, so why don't you release two more singles?" I'm not asking you to make music your main business, but there is one more aspect of development, and it's a good development, and it's also helpful to build your reputation, isn't it? ”
Sean couldn't help but raise an eyebrow, Frederick, as the only person who knew his secret, naturally knew something about his ultimate goal, although he had not fully said it in his heart.
But before he could continue to speak, the screening room darkened, and as the guests and audience took their seats, the movie was about to begin.
The opening scene is very simple, extreme simplicity, there is no superfluous effect at all, and the yellowish and gray picture fully shows the environment of a poor Moroccan family.
Then it all began, when the father took a shotgun given by a friend and gave it to his two sons, who were only a teenager, to use in order to prevent wolves from eating sheep while they were grazing. But the two teenagers were somewhat restless, and liked to shoot everywhere with their guns, one said that the range of the gun was too short to hit the wolf, and the other thought the gun was very reliable.
The two men argued, tried to fix things a few more times, and then saw a large bus approaching on a deserted road, so one of them pointed his gun at it.
The gun went off, but the bus didn't stop, so the one who fired the shot shrugged at his brother, meaning, look, missed. Then, the bus stopped, and the two brothers froze for a few seconds, exchanged glances, and then quickly began to run away.
This is the first paragraph, and then the second paragraph, in the story of the United States and Mexico, Iñárritu uses a clever cut, from the brothers running away, to move the camera to the little boy running in the American home, and simply draw the audience's attention from the northern tip of Africa to the southern tip of North America.
And the next little episode is about a Mexican nanny in an American family who receives a call from her host that they have an accident and can't get home on time, so she needs to continue to take care of their two children. But the nanny wanted to go back to Mexico to attend her nephew's wedding, and she had to go, so she got into a dilemma, and after several times of asking for help to no avail, she simply took her two children to Mexico and sent them back after the wedding.
This is the end of the second paragraph, and the third is back in Monaco, and Sean and Kate are also officially on the scene. To be honest, after seeing his appearance on the screen, Sean froze for at least a few seconds, after all, although he has played an older role, he has a snail like in the movie, with circles under his eyes, wrinkles everywhere, and the image of being very old is still the first time, so after he appeared, he couldn't help but see it himself.
Then, Sean quickly glanced around, some were engrossed, some were whispering, and some were absent-minded. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart, it was easy to see the image of himself on the big screen, and he also felt that he still had a good grasp of the role when shooting, and now that the movie is released, he naturally hopes to hear some praise and affirmation, but I didn't expect that many of them haven't been seen yet.
Fortunately, after a few minutes, the situation improved, and with a popping sound, a crack appeared in the window of the bus, and Kate, who was resting on it, also trembled.
Sean, who sensed that something was wrong, immediately hugged her and looked at it, and her shoulder was bleeding, and there was an obvious hole in her collarbone, which was combined with the previous first paragraph, and the bullets of the two children happened to hit the American woman in the car.
The story has thus entered a climax, and the audience's attention is naturally attracted to the past, wanting to know what will happen next, and it just so happens that Sean played well in this paragraph, interpreting a middle-aged man's Zhang Huang at a loss very realistically, although no one around made an exaggerated reaction of exclamation, but many people who were still inattentive before looked at the screen.
It's a pity that the picture changed at this time, it changed to the Japanese side, Rinko Kikuchi, who played the deaf and dumb girl, was playing volleyball, and as far as Sean could see, several people frowned, obviously not liking this kind of expression that suddenly changed the story line. However, there are also some people who have become more serious and seem to have been attracted to it, and it is not completely excluded to see this way of expression.
However, Sean felt that if Iñárritu's editing order could be adjusted a little, maybe there might be fewer people who didn't like it.