For Hollywood, in the last week of January 1987, the most attention was no longer the new Golden Globe Awards ceremony, but a teenager, and the first film directed by a teenager.

"The third edition of Sundance came to a successful conclusion, and "Lola Run" returned with a full load. ”

This is the article that appeared prominently on the front page of The Hollywood Reporter on January 27.

On January 26, at the closing ceremony of the Sundance Film Festival founded by Hollywood superstar Robert Redford, "Lola Run" won the "Grand Jury Prize" and "Photography Award" with great expectations.

Ten days before that, the Sundance Film Festival organizing committee had to temporarily double the number of screenings of "Lola Run" due to its popularity, but tickets for the screening were still in short supply.

At the awards ceremony that day, it was obviously influenced by "Lola Run", and the Egyptian theater in Park City was also full.

Merely.

In any case, Sundance is just a fledgling film festival after all.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that during this time, it is not so much the Sundance Film Festival that has increased the fame of "Lola Run", but the media coverage of "Lola Run" has in turn increased the attention of the Sundance Film Festival.

Normally, after participating in this kind of film festival that is not very influential, everyone has a short lively and beautiful scene, and everything will soon return to calm.

However.

For Simon.

For Lola Run.

A lot of things are just getting started.

January 28th.

Wednesday.

An article in the Los Angeles Times completely lit up a name that always appears in the afterglow of many people these days, and it became so dazzling.

18 Years Old

A title that is so concise that it is even somewhat suspenseful.

The accompanying picture is a set photo during the filming of the casino scene in "Lola Run". The young man with his hands propped up on the edge of the table stared at the roulette wheel in front of him with a slight frown, obviously thinking about something. Dozens of men and women were standing or sitting, leaning against the wall, or taking the time to chat, but they all clearly paid some attention to the teenager at the table.

The perfect capture, showing a certain strange and strong dominance. Almost everyone who sees a photo can determine at a glance who is at the center of the photo world.

Peter Butler is clearly a very good photographer as well.

As well as excellent copywriters.

"First of all, think back, what were you doing when you were 18?"

Then, look at another person. He was 18 years old and began his career in a public psychiatric hospital in the small town of Watsonville in San Francisco Bay. Dilapidated, cold, and cold, this is the deepest feeling when the author specially visited. There, however, he completed another nirvana in his life. Why do you say again, because, his life seems to be full of countless unknown nirvana. I have interviewed many people around him, and they all say that he is a very hard worker. ”

"I'm just talking about his 18 years old today, though. ”

"In the first four months of his 18th year, he recovered from some kind of mental illness that fell from the sky, so he changed his surname, Westeros. Simon Westeros. ”

"I asked him what 'Westeros' meant? He said he couldn't say it, and he didn't want to make up a reason to lie to me. Then I asked him where you came from, and he told him that he didn't even hide his experience in a mental hospital. Obviously, 'Westeros' is more important, but we will probably never know. ”

In the fifth month of his 18th year, he came to Los Angeles and successfully persuaded the vice president of WMA to sign him with two scripts, becoming the only screenwriter client under his name. ”

In the sixth month of 18, he worked at a convenience store for $3.5 an hour and $140 a week, and the owner said he was a promising cashier who was not paid enough to pay for his room. So he borrowed a guitar and made a few hundred dollars in an afternoon on Venice Beach, and the innkeeper said he was a promising guitarist. ”

In the seventh month of the age of 18, he managed to sell his first screenplay for $200,000, which is the equivalent of ten years for most screenwriters. ”

At the age of 18, in the eighth month, he began to make his first film. ”

So he became a producer, director, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, lighting, soundtrack...... Finally, there is the amazement of "Lola Run". Amazing, that's the most apt word I can think of. ”

"I met him for the first time, in the ballroom of a hotel in Santa Monica. It was a casino scene, there is no casino in Santa Monica, and I asked the film's producer, Mr. Ron Macmillan, isn't this a bug? Ron was a little speechless, and he gestured for a moment, as if mimicking someone's tone, and told me: The director said that there should be a casino, and there was a casino. ”

I remember this joke very well, and now I realize that this repetition is some kind of wonderful metaphor. ”

"Then I spent an entire afternoon on his set and watched him control the crew in a way that was completely different from that of other film directors. He doesn't shout or explain patiently, he prefers commands. It was as if the whole film was firmly in his head, and he just had to copy it back into film. As for the others, they're just props. ”

"Even himself. ”

The gaffer couldn't stand his harshness, and after only three days of work, he quit and left, and he took up the role of gaffer himself. Before that, he was already a producer, a screenwriter, and a director. After that, he was a soundtrack, an editor, and a colorist. When I was in Park City, I asked him, "Aren't you tired of doing so much work?" He said he wasn't tired, he could save money. ”

Of course, he did save money on making films, and he only spent $597,000 out of a budget of $650,000. Obviously, in Hollywood, where cost control is always unruly, all studio owners will definitely look forward to this type of director. ”

However, I think it's because he's too proud and thinks that other people's work is not as good as his own. ”

"Although everyone I asked thought he should be proud, including myself, at the same time, it was difficult for everyone to feel any pride in him, and he always seemed to be a very ordinary and peaceful young man. Some of the words of his girlfriend Jenny seem to explain this: he is a guy who is so proud that he has disdained pride, like a god from another world, who suddenly came to the world to conquer the world. ”

"So I asked him, Simon, are you a god?"

"He said no, he was human. A man who likes women. ”