Hollywood Hunter

Simon pushed the "Hollywood Reporter" in his hand towards Catherine and smiled: "Someone has brought together Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep to shoot a romantic comedy and made this decision. What a'genius'."

Catherine listened to Simon's mocking tone and imagined the scene where Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep were in love, and inexplicably felt a little funny.

Curious, Catherine simply pulled the newspaper in front of her and found that Simon had just read a piece of news about Paramount Pictures' upcoming video of Heart of Fire movie.

"Heartfire" is a romantic comedy starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, released this summer.The film invested 20 million US dollars, but only recovered 25 million US dollars at the box office. In order to return funds as soon as possible, Paramount plans to release video tapes at the end of November.

This article on "Hollywood Reporter", after making a simple comment on "Heartfire", mainly discusses the issues of the film window period that the industry is concerned about.

After browsing the news, Catherine discovered that the sign Simon had just made was just a name mentioned casually in the article.

This is the screenwriter of "Heartfire" named Nora Efron.

Raising his head again, Catherine wondered: "Simon, what's wrong with Nora Efron?"

Simon finished the rest of the milk, put down the glass, and said: "I watched the movie review of "Heartfire" a few months ago and was very interested in the plot of this movie. So, if you have the opportunity in the future, you may be able to The other party cooperates."

For Nora Efron, there may not be too many people who know.But if "Sleepless Night in Seattle" is mentioned, it must be familiar.

Nora Efron is the director and screenwriter of Sleepless in Seattle.

Of course, this movie has not yet appeared.Moreover, in Nora Efron's work, Simon's favorite is not "Sleepless in Seattle", but another lesser-known movie called "When Harry Meets Sally".

Simon has always felt that "When Harry Meets Sally" should be the pinnacle of Nora Efron's romance.

As it happens, "When Harry Meets Sally" is about to be released in recent years, Simon just thought about whether he could have the opportunity to cut this movie, so he made a mark on Nora Efron's name .

It's just that there was no way to explain this to Catherine, so he ridiculed casually.

In any case, letting Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep make love films is indeed too messy.

From the perspective of the main lineup, this is obviously another CAA packaging project.

Catherine could feel Simon's reservation, but did not ask.In fact, she also quite agrees with Janet's point of view. The little boy in front of her definitely has a lot of unknown secrets in her mind.

Thinking of Janet, the situation in the bedroom last night couldn't help but glance at Simon who had finished the breakfast. The woman's mood suddenly became scattered again, and she quickly dropped her gaze and took up a knife and fork to pretend to deal with a fried egg.

Simon packed the utensils and said to the woman with her head down: "Catherine, please eat slowly. I will go to Fox Studios first."

Catherine yelled, noticed Simon's movements, and said: "Simon, wait for me to clean up, anyway, um, and Jenny."

Simon nodded with a smile and said, "Okay."

With that said, Simon still sent his tableware to the kitchen sink before he came out.

Catherine saw Simon leave the restaurant, thought about it, put down the knife and fork, and followed.

The time is already in November. Although it is the season of Los Angeles, the weather is a bit cold.

Simon took off his coat from the hanger, followed by Catherine naturally, and started to help Simon put it on,

Catherine felt Simon's tentative look with temptation, but suddenly Janet's brilliant eyes appeared in her mind, and she took a step back slightly, pretending to look at Simon's clothes if there was no problem, and smiled casually, saying: "Goodbye."

Simon did not reluctantly, nodded, and left the house.

In order to ensure more abundant late time as much as possible, Simon's basic work rhythm this month is to shoot videos on weekdays, rough cut samples on the weekends, sort out various shooting plans at night, and also take the time to write some soundtracks.

The shooting of "Laura Run" has been completed by two thirds, and the shots from the beginning of the film to the first run of Laura have been completed. Simon's work on these weekends has been focused on the first paragraph Rough cut of the running plot.

The development of movie editing is basically a small cycle from'non-linear editing' to'linear editing' to'non-linear editing'.

The earliest movie editing was entirely directed at film operations.

The editor can arbitrarily remove, reduce and replace the film, so it belongs to a non-linear editing.

But the workload of this original non-linear editing is not so large.

For a movie, based on 10 hours of footage, the cumulative length of all films is no longer many meters, but 20 kilometers.It is conceivable how complicated the whole process would be if you wanted to edit a movie from a film of tens of kilometers.

Then, the emergence of linear editing finally freed the editor from the tens of kilometers of film.

The principle of linear editing is to record the content of the film lens on the tape, and then transcribe the material on the tape to another tape according to the editing scheme.

This editing method greatly reduces the workload of the editor, and belongs to the WYSIWYG mode, which can monitor the editing results at any time, so it is quickly popularized.

However, the shortcomings of linear editing are also very obvious.The editor can only edit the picture on the tape in a linear order, with a slightly more flexible operation, but also only insert and replace on the tape of the same length.However, if you want to delete, reduce, and replace non-equal-length shots on the completed editing results, it is impossible.

This model is actually similar to a music tape. A five-minute song, if a person presses the record button and then howls, he can replace his own voice, but this song is still five minutes or five minutes. To make him a quarter and a half, you can only re-arrange and re-record.

After linear editing, more advanced nonlinear editing appeared in the late 1980s.

By transcribing the film image into a digital image, a non-linear operation similar to the original manual editing can be performed on the editing software.

It must be said that in the film age, whether it was original manual editing, or later linear editing, or even digital non-linear editing, it was actually just an editing method.After finishing a post-production process such as editing and soundtracking, a film still needs to manually edit the original film of the film according to the filming result, so as to obtain a copy of the film that can enter the cinema.

Now in 1986, digital non-linear editing is just budding, and the technology is far from mature. Simon can only perform the later part of "Roller Run" on a linear editing machine.

Although he has not been exposed to linear editing in his previous life, some other memories have these experiences. Simon hired an assistant on the first weekend to help him familiar with the linear editing machine of Fox Studios, and has been working alone for several weeks.

No matter what age, the editor is a very lonely profession that tests patience.

Fox Studios' linear editing equipment is billed on an hourly basis, and Simon is reluctant to waste time.

I rushed to Fox Studios, sat down in front of the editing desk, looked at the two old-fashioned CRT monitors in front of my eyes, listened to the click of the machine while running, and unknowingly passed a morning.

It was not until the staff reminded that Simon recovered from his concentrated work, remembering that he had agreed with the reporter of the Los Angeles Times yesterday for an interview at noon.

Hurrying to the gate of Fox Studios, Peter Butler had waited for a while, and apologized a few times. Simon did not take the other party into the studio, but chose a restaurant on the street outside the studio.

The two sat down in the restaurant and ordered lunch. Peter Butler turned on a recorder and placed it on the table, with a natural familiarity in his tone, saying, "So, are you still working on the weekend?"

"Yeah," Simon nodded. "Aren't you the same?"

Peter Butler smiled and said: "It seems that we already have one thing in common, which is very good."

Simon also smiled: "Speaking of course, why would Peter be interested in me? Compared to the "Los Angeles Times", am I still just a humble little person?"

Peter Butler shrugged and said, "Actually, in the Los Angeles Times, I am also a small person. This kind of interview with Spielberg is definitely not related to me."

"I understand that this is another thing in common."

"Unfortunately, there is no wine, or we can have a drink," Peter Butler smiled and continued: "However, Simon, to be fair, I don't think you are a humble little man at all."

Simon just smiled.

Peter Butler also said: "I did some research on you beforehand. You should have come to Los Angeles in June. Then, as a newcomer, you were surprised by WMA Vice President Jonathan. · Friedman signed and became the only scriptwriter client of the other party. Then, WMA broke out in an infighting incident, still related to you. Then, the incident that happened in Santa Monica at the end of July, although the newspaper talked about Rarely, but as far as I know, it’s just our Los Angeles Times that has suppressed two reports trying to investigate this matter. And, your $200,000 screenwriter contract with Fox Pictures, Simon, even Counting only screenwriter union members, the average annual salary of a Hollywood screenwriter is also less than $20,000. Then, less than half a year after entering Hollywood, you have already started directing your first movie, um, "Rola Run." Surprisingly, some of Hollywood’s big names, Brian de Palma, David Giller and Robert Redford all said they would name the film’s executive producer. Hollywood is very rare. So, Simon, no matter how you look at it, you can't be a small person. Small people can't do these things."