In the afternoon, Morgan and his mother left Highland Park to return to New York, and Mariah Carey had a showdown, he was naturally unhappy, and he didn't want to spend even one night in Chicago, but their mothers still approved the marriage, so now the only question is the marriage.

“I never would've believed you if three years ago you told me，I'd be here writing this song，But here I am， next to you，The sky is so blue in Malibu……”

Relieved, Mariah Carey quickly became optimistic, and in the evening, with the rattling of the shower, she happily sang the malibu that Song Ya had given her, "Ahhhh......h

"How? My dear? ”

After singing a song, she casually wrapped a bath towel, and happily threw herself into the arms of her fiancé, who was half-lying on the bed and talking on the phone.

"Okay...... Song Ya gestured to the microphone, "I'll go, huh...... Are there any scenes that need to be dubbed? Good...... I see, see you at Universal Studios. ”

Hang up the phone, "You're a great singer." He put his backhand around her in compliment.

"There's too much bass in this song......" she complained.

The original female singer's voice is a little hoarse, and she doesn't take the vocal route, "No way, I came to Mr. Geffen's private beach to be inspired and wrote it for you." Said with a heavy face.

"I like it very much, the lyrics are so sweet?" She was very helpful, "Are you really that attached to me?" ”

"Of course."

If you don't have a voice, the apocalypse won't come, and from this point of view, it's really your own voice.

She happily rubbed her face on Song Ya's chest, "Who were you talking to on the phone just now?" ”

"Larry, I'm going to Los Angeles in two days to shoot some dubbing, and by the way, see how they cut my film. Will you come with me? ”

I've used live sound for most of my life, but I've always found that a few passages aren't well recorded during the editing process, or that Larry Sr. wants to tweak his lines.

"You don't want to get rid of me......"

She's a haunting leprechaun now, and the next day, the two arrive at the Deep Sea studio together to work on the final recording of the soundtrack, Give It Up To Me.

This is a reggaeton-style hip-hop and rhythm-blues song, Song Ya naturally will not copy the original singer's Caribbean accent, but retains the other party's 'hot mouth' way of spitting words, so it will be very different from his previous singing style.

Maria Carey, who was preoccupied with her fiancé, took the initiative to take on a job of harmony and followed her into the recording studio.

"Haha, dear, this way of dealing with Latin is so Latin."

Her musical acumen is top-notch, and she can hear it in her ears when Song Ya sings the first two lines, which is often the tune spoken by native Latin speakers in English.

"Hey, backing vocals over there, pay attention to your identity and don't interfere with the lead singer!" Song Ya pretended to keep a straight face and made fun of her.

"I'm sorry, big singer." She pinched her throat and cosplayed.

"Remember the past? Mimi, when I Still Believe was recorded, it was the same as today, you helped me do the harmony. ”

Because it is a male and female singing song, Brenda, who has a serious arrears of emotional intelligence, is also in the recording studio, and she suddenly inserts the flirting between the two, recalling the past when Mariah Carey gave her a backing singer before she became popular.

"Of course I remember, I miss that time......"

Mariah Carey was still pinching her throat, and when Brenda turned her head, she rolled her eyes.

Song Ya shook his head and laughed, the song was recorded, he found an opportunity to ask Linda, "Did you and your husband emphasize it to Brenda?" I don't want her to break too much about Mimi's past in front of the media after she releases the song, so it's enough to occasionally mention it as a stalk, stir up some heat, and then add points to Mimi's good deeds. ”

"Don't worry, Brenda is indeed not very smart, but no matter how she says it, she has been packaged as a jade singer, and she knows what she can and can't say."

Linda replied, "You gave her the opportunity to be the envy of the entire music industry, and she is grateful to you. ”

"That's good."

With this in mind, he and Mariah Carey flew to Los Angeles on a private jet to meet with Larry Sr. and others in a professional viewing room at Universal Studios to watch the rough cut.

All the soundtrack songs have been recorded, and Dion Wilson will be sent in time for the post.

"It's a little rough."

After watching the three-hour movie, the editor opened the curtains, Song Ya squinted and said nonsense, the rough cut version was of course very rough and retained too much material, resulting in a huge slow pace of the whole movie, and Mariah Carey, who was watching the movie with her, had fallen asleep in her arms.

In order to make it easier for him and other stakeholders to watch the movie, a live audio track that has not been post-processed was added to the playback.

The color tone between the paragraphs of the film is not unified in the later stage, and the old Larry is an absolute mainstream when he shoots the MV, but in this movie, he uses a lot of the postmodern style composition of his old line of splicing movies, and Zack Schneider, who is in charge of the location team, has a more avant-garde image style, although it was successfully suppressed by the old Larry, but a faint comic style can still be seen in some exterior pictures.

Everything else is okay, basically, this movie will be much more refined than the original, for example, when the male protagonist first arrives at the art school in the original version, the scene where the crowd is so crowded that it looks like a public middle school will no longer appear, and it will be replaced by the corridors that really fit the good art college, those sculptures and paintings, and the students who dress and behave more 'artistically'......

The overall plot does not deviate too much from Song Ya's script, and several of the more exciting passages in the original version have been cut to see the prototype.

"One hundred minutes."

The head of global distribution, who sat in the back row of the viewing room, said: "The film can't be more than 100 minutes long, otherwise the theater will not do it, and it will also affect the viewing experience." ”

“OK。”

Old Larry agreed emotionally, as a director, every frame shot is like his child, so it will be a very difficult trade-off process for him to abandon those clips, which is why Hollywood has always been very cautious about handing over the final editing rights to the director himself, because you really can't still rely on the director to mess around according to his own ideas, there are too many lessons.

According to Amperin Entertainment's plan, when the final version was almost cut, Larry Sr. basically avoided it and left everything to the editors and Universal, who was in charge of distribution.

"There are a lot of scenes between the second female and her boyfriend, which need to be greatly cut, and the plot of their line in this drama is irrelevant."

Catherine's husband is also there, Catherine is biased towards production and management, he is biased towards distribution and grasping the general direction, "What do you think of APLUS?" ”

"Yes."

Song Ya nodded, the plot line is probably the development of the relationship between the second female and Terrence Howard played by Tarraghi, plus the two story lines of the heroine's white-faced boyfriend stealing Terrence Howard's song, the original movie handled this point well, and it was probably explained clearly in very little space, but Old Larry added some clearer and more logical scenes, "We just need to ......"

So he also made some comments based on the relevant clips in the original movie.

"I think so."

Catherine's husband looked at him in surprise, "APLUS, you've really thought it through. ”

"Okay." Old Larry discussed a few words with the editor and basically accepted Song Ya's suggestion.

"The host family drama of the second male should also be cut significantly." Another person from the world said.

This editing meeting has been going on for a long time, and the main tone is which one to cut, which one to keep all the other, the old Larry was easier to talk at first, and then suddenly couldn't hold back, and opened his mouth to argue with the people around the world.

"What do you think of APLUS?" The person in charge of global distribution didn't quarrel with him either, and asked Song Ya again.

"Our movies have to compress their viewing time, Larry." Song Ya persuaded Lao Larry that the original movie was exactly 100 minutes, and the rhythm was not tight, "For a commercial film with an investment of tens of millions, the theater will not take the risk of letting the audience sit in the theater for more than two hours, too long will definitely affect the film schedule." ”

"I know, I know."

Old Larry took off his glasses, "Although this movie is not an art or mainstream commercial blockbuster, there are many elements in it, singing and dancing, love, inspirational, sports ......"

"Don't exercise, don't exercise."

The people of Universal found another point that could be cut, "The scene of APLUS and the second male playing baseball should also be compressed, as long as the characters of the two can be explained." ”

"There can be more singing and dancing, people like to watch lively singing and dancing, APLUS dances beautifully, the heroine's skills are very good, but the expressiveness is actually not as good as APLUS......" Catherine's husband also saw the problem of Amy's dance expressiveness, although she was already very hardworking, "There can be more shots depicting the heroine's figure, but don't affect the rating." ”

Amy's figure is better than that of the original heroine, her breasts are not smaller than the original heroine, her waist is thinner, her costumes are more upscale, and there are slight bumps in the frontal shots after some dances, which makes her more seductive.

"First song and dance, then love, and finally inspirational, sporty? To hell with it. The head of global distribution complained: "There are too many sports inspirational films in these years, and there is a baseball angel in the same schedule in July, and we don't compare it with it." ”

"We're the only song and dance genre, right?" Song Ya asked.

"Yes, but this is not necessarily good news, the audience of the song and dance film in the United States has vomited, and it is precisely because of a series of box office failures that Hollywood has gradually rarely filmed." The head of global distribution explained.

"I understand." Song Ya also knew that this was the case.

"But you're the first to use hip-hop elements, so ...... Everything can only depend on the market reaction, and no one can 100% grasp the audience's taste. ”

There is no possibility of winning awards in my life, so I don't have a chance to rely on winning awards to affect the audience's desire to watch the movie.

"Okay, that's all for today."

The head of Universal Distribution got up and yawned, and left the viewing room with his men.

"Publishers are always so annoying." Someone in the front row complained, it was Larry Sr.'s friend Stan Bulak Hatch.

"Hehe, no way, they are naturally strong." Catherine's husband also took his leave.

"What? Finished with the movie? That's when Mariah Carey woke up, and she asked in a daze.