Chapter 381: Pompous Filming and the DreamWorks Crisis
At the end of '98 and the beginning of '99, when discussing the director of the Harry Potter series, the old man joked with Roland, saying that the whole series would be the easiest project he had ever worked on since he entered the industry, because he could run away halfway through the filming.
At that time, Roland was simply cute, and asked 'why' without understanding it, and the result was:
"Won't you and Kate run away when you get married? Then when you're in the UK, I'll be able to leave the job to you. ”
The whimsical answer was regarded by Roland as a joke among friends, but it didn't come to pass, and when he was about to return to Los Angeles after the wedding, the old man really pushed the details of the arrangement in front of him.
Such a situation made Roland cry and laugh.
Because after deciding to retire, he didn't want to do everything himself, not only that, but directing traffic without touching the guide tube for a long time, the probability of overturning is much greater than the probability of Neymar spraying feces in his mouth.
But even so, he came, because—
The little beaver in his memory is really cute!
That's right, even with Roland's involvement, the production team of "Harry Potter" has changed from Warner to Warcraft Films, but Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley, and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger have not changed, because the original film directed by Chris Columbus was full of Jewish people.
This time, the executive producer Duncan Hudson, who was chosen by Katherine Kennedy, is the assistant director + producer of the original version.
And he himself is actually Paul Schrader's assistant.
Paul Schrader is a Jewish screenwriter, who wrote scripts for Sidney Polllack when he debuted, and then wrote "Taxi Driver", "Raging Bull", "Crossing the Yin and Yang World" for Martin Scorsese, not only that, Brian Palma's "Lost Love", Harrison Ford's "Mosquito Coast", and Al Pacino's "Three-dimensional Lies" are all from him.
Therefore, his assistant must have the mark of Judaism on his body.
In addition, the original casting director either worked for Francis Coppola or hugged George Lucas's thigh, and the original VFX props were either employees of ILM or Weta Digital's makeup, in this case, Rowling dared to use the contract to force Warner to squeeze out Steven Spielberg, the guy who avenged the old man, can also be put up in the air in an instant.
It is precisely because most of Hollywood's popular projects are handled by the Jewish gang, so no matter how Roland intervenes, the butterfly wings can't be fanned, and the original candidate is their will, and now, the old man is just looking at his students' faces, too lazy to worry about the dead woman who will be expelled from the author by "Harry Potter" fans in the future.
In this way, when Roland saw the familiar list, he wanted to come and see it.
Yes, it's just a serious appreciation.
But after reading it......
He realized that these guys acted pretty well!
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"Attention, Scene 47, Act 6, Shot 1, Action!"
As soon as the words of the field attendant fell, in the train car, Hermione, who was wearing a Hogwarts school uniform, had already emerged from the place where the camera could not photograph, while holding on to the door frame, she swept lightly towards the unmanned seat, and found that there was nothing, she sighed and turned her head, and asked Ron who wanted to perform magic on Harry, "Did anyone see a toad?" ”
"A boy named Neville lost one."
“No。” Ron frowned and shook his head, shrugging his shoulders.
In this way, Hermione noticed the wand in Ron's hand, and the little girl with long hair and shawl did not continue to look for her target while receiving a negative answer, but grew her mouth, stared at the other party's wand, and said to herself:
"Oh, you're working magic? Come on, let's open our eyes! ”
As she spoke, she raised her head and looked down at Ron at an angle of forty-five degrees.
Spontaneous scrutiny means giving people the illusion of pride, as if they look down on each other from the bottom of their hearts.
Although Ron didn't cast a spell, she seemed to have seen the end of the other party's defeat.
And that look really has a bit of a high taste.
In this case, Ron clenched his left fist, cleared his throat, and then waved his wand and chanted to cast spells.
"Whipped yellow, sweet cream and sunshine."
"Turn this stupid fat rat yellow."
Unfortunately, when he waved his wand, the unresponsive rat confirmed Hermione's suspicions, and made Ron look at Harry helplessly, while the friend he had just met pursed his lips and shrugged his shoulders regretfully to comfort him.
The small movements of the two were seen by Hermione, and at the same time, she laughed and spoke, "Are you sure it's really a spell?" ”
"It doesn't seem to work, does it?" Hermione put away her previous overlook, reversed her tone, and said with a strange smile, "Of course, I've only tried a few simple ones myself, but they all succeeded. ”
At this point, she uncovered her school uniform, took out her wand from her pocket, walked into the carriage with a proud face, sat down opposite Harry, and then stared at Harry, raised her wand, and cast it on her own, "For example......
"The glasses are back to normal."
As soon as the words fell, Harry, who didn't have special effects, was startled.
Taking off his glasses, he looked at the new (broken) product with curiosity, and his face was full of surprise.
And at the same time as he sighed, without the cover of glasses, Hermione also recognized his identity, and the words like an endorsement appeared in an instant, "Oh! My God, you are Harry Potter! ”
Without giving Harry a chance to react, the next second, she began to introduce herself again, "My name is Hermione Granger. ”
In the next second, she turned her head to look at Ron, who had just failed to cast the spell, and asked, "May I ask ...... you are?"
As she spoke, she seemed to be spinning her brain, trying to find a match in her memory.
But unfortunately, it seems that the search failed, but it is more like that the boy in front of her is nameless, so in the process of inquiry, her face is once again unshaved, and her two thick eyebrows are like eight, and an embarrassing word is written on her immature face.
But no matter how arrogant she was, she couldn't make the nervous Ron feel uncomfortable.
While chewing on the cookies, Ron replied, "My name is Ron Weasley." ”
“Pleasure。” Hermione replied with a blank face, then resumed her usual look at Harry, and then suggested in a condescending tone, "You two should change into your robes, I guess it's almost there." ”
After saying that, he got up with his head held high and walked out of the carriage.
But as she was about to leave, as if she had thought of something unfinished, she didn't let go of her grip on the door frame, and she turned to look at Ron with a very contrived body, and said, "Do you know there's a dirty thing on your nose?" ”
"Right here."
As she spoke, she pointed to her nose.
This action caused Ron, who was snaking, to wipe the bridge of his nose, and when he wiped it, Hermione turned her head in a dashing manner, her brown hair waving in a flowing arc in the air, like the world's No. 1 princess, and walked away.
As Emma Watson disappeared, Steven Spielberg, who was sitting in front of the monitor, also laughed and clapped his hands.
“Cut! Good! ”
"Great! Great! ”
"You guys did a great job!"
"Especially Emma, who belongs to Hermione Granger, no one is shown well by you!"
Hearing his words, Emma Watson, who was still hiding in the shadows, laughed, and when she smiled and thanked him, Roland, who was sitting next to the old man, also smiled and applauded to cheer them up.
Yes, if you look at it from a professional point of view, they are indeed very twisted.
A series of labels that can kill an actor's career, such as 'exerting too much force', 'deliberately contrived', 'not showing the right expression', and 'the signs of reciting lines are very obvious', are all plastered all over the brain.
Compared with them, the Yellow Sect Master, who likes to smile evilly, can really be called the Hundred Flowers Actor.
But they're children!
For a child actor, memorizing an entire line without laughing is already a very good performance.
After all, in order for traffic idols to be able to film smoothly, many screenwriters in later generations no longer write more than two lines.
And in this case, a ten-year-old can play a long shot in one go......
Isn't that a supergod?
What's more, Hermione's strength, Harry and Ron's weakness, are all that. Rowling writes it clearly.
When the three first met, Rowling described Hermione as arrogant, unsightly, and with a pair of front teeth.
Not only that, but Hermione is also neurotic and asks Ron to perform magic, introducing herself in an exaggerated tone after discovering Harry's identity, and at the end of the day, she tells them to change into their school uniforms with a condescending attitude.
It is precisely because of the fit with the original that Emma Watson in front of the camera is exaggerating, and it can only be-
Good。
"Well, I said you could shoot it, right?" Let the three little guys take a break, and tell the staff to adjust the camera position, and ten minutes later, while keeping one, the old man also shrugged his shoulders at Roland and said: "I taught you before, the most important thing in making a commercial film is not to pick out your acting skills, you can see it at seventy or eighty points, but now ......"
"This kind of PG-level movie for children, sixty or seventy points is enough."
Having said that, Roland still didn't want to shoot.
Feeling the noisy set, he shook his head and said, "Give my name away." ”
"Why?"
"Lazy."
The explanation that hit the soul made the old man stunned on the spot, and after looking at Roland's face that didn't seem to be lying, his eyes under the lenses were full of helplessness, "Alas, you are only in your twenties, if you don't find a hobby that can support you through your life......"
"And how are you going to spend the next few decades?"
"You can't really get tired of being with Kate every day, right?"
"One day you think it's fresh, one year you think it's okay, but what about ten, twenty, thirty years?"
"It's always going to get boring."
That's right, part of the reason why the old man turned the joke into reality was because he thought about his students.
He felt that Roland was too relaxed now, or rather, too indulgent.
Although eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling samples have nothing to do with Roland, but idleness every day is not a thing!
It is true that Roland is indeed rich now.
But without spiritual pursuit when you have a material foundation, isn't that just like the walking dead?
Everyone doesn't force you to do anything, but they also hope that you don't waste yourself.
To put it mildly, the old man now looks at Roland with the mentality of an old father.
A few decades ago, he felt that his father was in charge of too much, and decades later, he felt that Roland, who had grown up, was in too little control.
As soon as such an emotion came out, Roland, who was leaning on the director's chair, suddenly turned his head, and when he saw the gray-haired guy looking at him with a sincere face, he who was shaking his legs, smiled, "How do you know that I don't have spiritual pursuits?" ”
"If you had a spiritual pursuit, would you stay at home every day?"
"What if my spiritual quest could be achieved by staying at home?"
"What are you talking to me about here?!"
Hearing Roland say this, the old man immediately rolled his eyes.
Seeing that he was really angry, a warm current rose in Roland's heart.
Raised his elbow and pestle the other party, and said, "Okay, okay, I really have a spiritual pursuit." ”
"It's just that I can't talk to you for the time being."
"Hmph." The old man snorted lightly, a water of arrogance, and his face was full of disbelief.
But Roland really didn't lie, because his spiritual pursuit is to swallow Disney!
With such a huge spiritual pursuit ahead, what is filming?
It's a pity that this thing really can't be said, so Roland won't dwell on this trivial matter, but changes the topic, "Steven, you called me to the UK, it can't be just to give me a mental health education class, right?" ”
"If nothing else, you don't have to force me over."
As soon as these words came out, the old man's face also softened, and after looking around, and finding that the staff around him were not approaching, he put away the melancholy and dissatisfaction in his heart, and said, "I can't talk to you in Los Angeles about the reorganization of DreamWorks." ”
"Oh!" Roland knew it.
Take the initiative to get up and drill into the lounge with the script.
Seeing this, the old man told the staff to wait for him, and then followed.
By the time he entered the house and closed the door, Roland had already poured the water and motioned for him to speak.
The old man was not hypocritical, and said: "At present, there are five major shareholders in DreamWorks, me, Jeffrey, David, Paul and Li Meijing. ”
"Among them, Paul and Li Meijing hold nearly 20% of the shares, and the rest, the three of us share it equally."
"Now, David wants to withdraw his shares, and Microsoft wants to buy, in this case, if nearly 25% of his shares are bought by Microsoft, then with Paul's shares, he can instantly become the largest shareholder of the company."
"Holding more than 34 percent of the shares, enjoy a veto."
"Although Jeffrey and I hold more than 51% of the shares and have absolute control over the company, you know, I swallowed up a lot of his interests in the matter of DreamWorks Animation's separation from the DreamWorks Group by means of a technology merger, so I ......"
"It's hard for me to guarantee that he will stand firmly with me."
"It is precisely because of this situation that I will bring you to England after your wedding."
"Because if I go back to Los Angeles, David will definitely let me and Jeffrey sign an agreement with him to sell the shares."
"His collectibles company is short of money right now."
"But if I sign it, then Microsoft has the ability to join Jeffrey to override me."
"Do you understand?"