Hollywood Hunter

Leaving the convenience store, Simon did not immediately return to the motel, but shuttled between the streets of Santa Monica, in advance for the first film he planned to view.

The first movie Simon intends to make is "Rola Run".

Although the shooting location of the original "Rola Run" is not in Los Angeles, Simon does not have enough capital to pick and choose.Since the person is in Santa Monica, he will directly confirm the location of the new version of the film here.

Choosing "Rola Run" is also the result of Simon's deliberations.

In the final analysis, this body is now only 18 years old.

Under normal circumstances, Hollywood's slightly sensible film companies will not use millions of dollars to let a young man under 20 years old take risks. Now Simon does not have the capital to personally make commercial films.

Therefore, he must show enough strength to at least to a certain extent dispel Hollywood's concerns about his age.

It is actually simpler to achieve this, but it is proved by works.

Although some changes have taken place on the WMA side, the benefits of the "Butterfly Effect" script can already be expected.This is Simon's first capital, he must also use these to knock on the door of Hollywood.

Of course, the price of a script cannot be too high no matter how high it is.Therefore, Simon has little choice and can only make an ultra-low-cost movie.Moreover, this movie must also show enough value, either at the box office or an award.

At the box office, Simon’s memory simply created a low-cost high box office miracle. In fact, there are many movies, such as "Witch Blair", such as "Ghost Record".

But in the final analysis, more than 90% of the success of these films is based on luck and the right commercial operation, which has nothing to do with the quality of the film itself.

The obvious evidence is that after the success of these films, the directors of the films did not show much presence in Hollywood.

Therefore, when these movies are made at this time, Simon has a 99% chance that the bamboo basket will be empty. Even if there is a 1% chance of gaining some benefits, Simon’s own ability in film production will not be affected by Hollywood. Recognition.

As for awards, this thing undoubtedly places more emphasis on seniority.

Moreover, it is just as difficult to make an excellent artistic film that can achieve the award-winning level of several major film festivals just by selling the money earned from a script.

After repeated selections, the alternative and avant-garde experimental film "Roller Run" is more suitable for Simon.

"Rola Run" also has a very low production cost. In memory, it is 350,000 German marks, which is roughly equivalent to 180,000 US dollars, but this is more than ten years later.

Now, as long as some savings are made, Simon feels that $100,000 can basically be done.

Although it is a low-cost production, "Rola Run" also has sufficient artistic value and commercial value. The film has not only won many awards, but also formed a trend among young people in Germany.

Of course, for Simon, these are not the most important.

Simon's most important point is the perfect demonstration of the film's ability to direct the film.

After the birth of "Rola Run" in 1998, the film dazzled the use of techniques in editing, soundtrack, color, montage, lens manipulation, etc., which soon made it a classic teaching case for film academies around the world, and was well-known to many The directors have had a very profound impact.

The director of the classic Hollywood spy film "The Spy" series has publicly admitted that the unique shooting style of "The Spy" is inspired by "Roller Run". Doug Liman For this reason, Mann also specially invited the heroine of "Rola Run" Franca Potante to be the female number one of "Spy".

Therefore, choose "Rola Run", even in the worst case, the film will be unsatisfactory in the awards and box office in the future, Simon is also enough to get a chance to show his filmmaking skills to major Hollywood studios.

Hollywood has its extremely conservative side, but at the same time it is a circle of adoration of genius and miracle.

As long as a person can prove his strength and bring benefits to the film company, not many people will care whether the person is an angel or a devil. The issue of age is naturally not a problem.

On HSD Avenue north of downtown Santa Monica.

Simon passed by this intersection and saw at one glance the dark gray castle-like building across the street. This was a club.The architectural tones of Los Angeles are generally dominated by light tones such as white, which makes people feel monotonous and boring.

As a result, such an alternative dark gray building became very conspicuous, and Simon quickly made a decision to make this dark gray building one of the quickly passing street scenes during Lola's running.

Without a camera, Simon could only use the most stupid way to write down the location of the scene through painting.

Standing on the street curb with a hand-bound hard leather notebook, Simon first wrote down the most basic street information, re-examined the street scene in front of him, and then began to quickly draw in the form of a split-lens script.

A few minutes later, focusing on the work in his hand, Simon suddenly felt that his shoulder was photographed.

Turning his head doubtfully, he didn't know when the two girls were standing behind him.

One of them is Courteney Cox, and the other blonde girl is also pretty, but Simon does not know it.

At this time, Courteney was watching him cautiously, not speaking, as if waiting for Simon to take the initiative to explain.

Simon turned around and looked around, only to find that he was standing right in front of a five-story apartment building, and Courtenay and the blonde girl should have lived here.

Sensing Courtenay's eyes, Simon immediately understood.

Ok.

People are regarded as followers.

With a bitter smile, Simon closed the notebook and explained: "Curt, if I said it was a coincidence, do you believe it?"

"Unbelief," Courteney shook his head immediately, but still said: "So, what are you doing here?"

"I told you this afternoon, I'm preparing my own movie," Simon said, simply handing over the notebook in his hand.

Courteney suspiciously took over the thick sixteen hand-bound notebooks and opened them easily. The blonde girl next to her also joined in curiously.

Dozens of pages of sub-lens drawings based on various types of street scenes have been accumulated in the notebook. Although they are very brief sketches, whether it is Courtney or a blonde girl, you can easily experience Simon’s solid drawing skills. Most of the drawings A lot of professional notes such as lights and planes are also detailed on it.

After turning a few pages in a row, Courtenay's attention was quickly attracted by the running short-haired girl in the sketch, and suddenly she was embarrassed to look at Simon again.The blonde girl had no worries, sighed a few words, and then looked up to Simon: "You can paint really well, but is the girl in the sketch Kurt?"

Simon froze for a moment, and looked at Courtney's short hair style at this time, only to understand why the other party asked.

In all fairness, Simon did not think of a specific object when sketching the shape of Rolla, and he did not feel much about the original Rolla actor Franca Potente.

However, perhaps during this time in Los Angeles, Courtene was the only girl Simon knew and whose image was more in line with Laura’s settings, so he subconsciously put the other person’s figure up during the drawing process, which led to this time. Misunderstanding.

In fact, the sketch is actually very simple. If there are not enough prerequisites to imply, it is difficult for anyone to associate this aspect.But Courtney happened to be in front of Simon at this time, and with the minor misunderstanding, it was not surprising that the blonde girl would ask such questions.

Looking at Courteney, who turned down and looked at the draft without saying anything, the two girls in front of him apparently had already determined a certain fact, and Simon no longer refuted this small misunderstanding, simply nodded and admitted: "Yeah, I still have this afternoon Inviting Kurt to be my heroine, but unfortunately she doesn’t believe it."

"Oh, Kurt doesn't want it, or I'll take care of it. You change all the girls in the manuscript to mine," the blond girl laughed sarcastically and extended her hand to Simon: "Hello, I Christy Swanson."

Simon reached out and shook the girl, saying, "Simon Westeros."

The blonde girl heard the words and immediately showed a sudden expression: "Oh, you are what Kurt said recently..."

Before he finished speaking, Courtena reached out and stabs her friend's waist, let Christie close her mouth, and then handed the notebook to Simon, saying, "Okay, you're passing."

"So," Simon pointed his finger behind him: "Can I stay here and finish painting that?"

Christie suddenly laughed.

Courteney blushed slightly and gave Simon a sullen look: "You are just casual, this is a public place."

Simon also felt that his question was stupid, smiled, reopened the notebook, and turned to the last page.

Looking again at the dark gray building opposite, Simon raised the pen and began to draw. Seeing that the two girls did not leave immediately, they casually said: "Are you going to dinner?"