Hollywood Hunter

The trial screening of Instinct was held in a theater in Century City, Beverly Hills. Simon and Janet set off from Malibu and looked at Sophia Fischer’s investigation report on the way.

There are too many cases of rich and famous celebrities in the memory because of the unlucky incidents encountered by people, and there are many people who have broken their families. The affairs that Sofia Fischer is responsible for are closely related to Simon's private life. He is very cautious in this matter.

Simon’s resume in the report makes Simon very satisfied.

The girl from the ordinary seaside town of Corsica, France, graduated from the tenth French public university, majoring in administration, and the woman’s achievements in the university in the data are amazing.After graduating at the age of 22 and working in an investment company in Paris for three years, he accidentally entered the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich to study business administration, but only dropped out of school a year later and married her former husband Paul Briney.

Paul Briney is a businessman who runs a wine business. The Brienne family has their own wineries in popular wine regions such as Bordeaux, Provence and Loire Valley.However, this marriage lasted only three years and ended in failure. Sophia Fissi obtained custody of a pair of children. In recent years, he was responsible for the luxury real estate agency in a top real estate agency in Nice, close to Cannes. The performance is excellent.

Simon paged through the materials in his hand, Janet leaned beside him and asked, "How's that interesting?"

In addition to the main curriculum vitae in the report, there are some narratives such as the marriage of Sophia Fischer and her ex-husband eleven years older than her, and the reasons for the divorce. The woman succeeded in the abuse of Paul Breni’s domestic violence during the divorce process Won the custody of a pair of children, but the price paid was only a one-time support of 5 million francs, which was little after the expensive litigation costs of up to one year.

Obviously, the businessman named Paul Briney was also a ruthless enough person.The data shows that Sofia Fissi's children are now only 7 and 5 years old.The Briney family has assets of more than 300 million francs, but Paul Briney has not paid a penny for his children in recent years.

Simon heard Janet’s question, reached out and pinched on the woman’s chin, and smiled: “You’re just too good to be born. I don’t know how easy it is for a helpless little woman to walk along the way, but finds it interesting. "

"That's not it," Janet shook Simon's hand in dissatisfaction, snatched the investigation report, turned over a few pages, and handed it over again: "Look, it's actually that businessman who recently wanted to retake those two young men. What about the custody of the guy. He had an accident when he was traveling on a yacht two years ago and should have lost his fertility. Looking at Sophia Fischer, it’s not accidental that she promised to work for you, she wants a Strong enough to protect yourself from losing custody."

Simon scanned the pages in front of him, but just smiled and said, "The boss should protect his employees. Since you are so interested in this matter, you can come forward when you need it."

Janet was really interested, nodding and humming with a small expression of evil energy.Seeing the woman was about to become fine, Simon quickly reached out to suppress it.Attacked under the ribs, Janet suddenly smiled and softened.

Starting at seven o'clock, Simon and Janet arrived outside a theater in Century City's AMC theater ten minutes early.

In order to make the most of the publicity as possible as possible, Fox made the audition quite loud, and arranged a red carpet specifically, and a large number of media reporters and enthusiastic fans holding various posters were also gathered outside the theater.

Simon and Janet got out of the car, and the otherwise orderly crowd suddenly rioted. If it wasn't for security guards, the crowd would almost rush to the two.Seeing this situation, Simon did not give an interview, but just took Janet and hurried into the theater after taking pictures.

The two were led by the staff to a lounge first. Barry Diller, chairman of Fox, and Ronald Goldberg, president of Fox Pictures, had arrived early.

The audition is about to start, everyone did not talk too much, and soon entered the auditorium to sit.

Simon took Janet, Barry Diller and others to sit down slightly forward and scanned the surroundings. The medium-sized theater with more than 200 people was almost full, all of them were media reporters and film critics from all over North America.This also shows that Fox Films spared no effort for this screening, because most of them spent on food, accommodation, travel and other expenses are borne by Fox.

In the dim light, the film's screening soon began.

After a short and psychedelic prologue, a red and passionate scene appeared in front of everyone, making many film critics a bit unprepared.

Although Simon's previous "Pulp Fiction" appeared very bloody and violent, there was no exposure from beginning to end.

However, this passionate scene is just the beginning. When the woman suddenly pulled out the ice cone and pierced mercilessly towards the man under him, blood was splattering. Some media reporters and film critics in the screening room were almost stunned.

Is this a play by Simon Westero?

Is this a script written by Simon Westero who created a series of "Rola Run", "Butterfly Effect", "The Grim Reaper" and even the recently stunning "Pulp Fiction"?

At a short distance from the screening room, the famous film critic Terence Lafferty from "The New Yorker" was about to end the opening plot, glancing at the figure of the young man not far away, and asked sideways that he was also frowning. Richard Schicker, chief film critic of Time Magazine, said: "Is it possible that someone else's script has Westeros' name?"

Richard Schicker also glanced in a certain direction and shook his head: "I think, if it were not for the contract with Fox Pictures, Westeros would not hang his name on this film at all. ."

Terrence Lafferty thought about it and couldn't help but nodded.

However, he soon felt that perhaps other well-known directors or screenwriters tried not to connect themselves with the controversial film as much as possible, but a young man like Westeros who did not play cards according to common sense may not care about these."Pulp Fiction" also caused great controversy during this period. A youth protection organization in New York State even protested to the state government for the straightforward description of drug injection in "Pulp Fiction", requesting the film to be blocked.

Now, Westeros has just splurged on violence with impunity, and has begun to show eroticism in a humble manner.

I really don't know what he will do next.

Terrence Lafferty is actually a fan of "Batman" comics, looking at some suggestive plots that can be seen everywhere on the big screen within half an hour. He even worried that Simon Westero would put "Batman" has also been made into an R-rated film not suitable for children.

God is so kind to the young man.

Perhaps, this time he should have suffered some setbacks.

With this idea in mind, Terrence Lafferty once again turned his attention to the big screen, and even if he wanted to criticize the film, he must still watch it seriously.

With energy put in, Terrence Lafferty soon noticed the performance of the actress Linda Fiorentino. He didn’t actually know the name of the actress, but remembered her in Martin Scorsese. In Sis's "After Work", he appeared as a weird artist.

Although very disgusted with the theme of this film, Terrence Lafferty has to admit that, like Sandra Bullock in "Rola Run" and Meg in "When Harry Meets Sally" · Ryan, like Nicole Kidman in "Pulp Fiction", Simon Westero once again chose the right heroine.

However, for the same reason, the actress may have a hard time getting rid of her position in Instinct.

In addition, the performance of the new actor Michael Douglas is also notable, and director Brian de Palma showed his preference for Hitchcock in the film.

Moreover, in addition to the ubiquitous sexual theme, the core of this film is also the same as its name "Instinct". In the final analysis, it shows the deep-rooted desire in human instincts to drive the behavior of a person. The heroine of the Viper is also using human nature. Instinct to manipulate the man around her, however, her behavior may also come from the dark instinct in human nature.

At the end of the screening, Terrence Lafferty unwittingly discovered that if the sex part of this film is removed, it is also a film worth savoring.But turning to think about it, if you really remove those elements, this movie, which was crowned with "Instinct", will eventually be too ecstatic.

This is a proposition that cannot be both.

The subtitles began to rise at the end of the film, and Terrence Lafferty was still reminiscing about the plot. Richard Schicker beside him suddenly came together and whispered: "Roger retired early."

Terrence Lafferty froze for a moment before thinking of it.

There may not be only one person named Roger in this auditorium, but the one who can be spotted by Richard Schicker without mentioning his surname can only be the famous Chicago film critic Roger Eber special.

Because of the preconceived notion, Terrence Lafferty still has some prejudices against the film I just watched, but in fact it is no longer so disgusting.Terrence Lafferty laughed a little ridiculously because of the idea that some literati were light, saying: "It's normal, Roger Albert has never liked this kind of suspense-thriller type movie ."

Terrence Lafferty said it was very euphemistic, but Richard Schicker smiled intently.

As one of the few top film critics in North America who can be called into the room, Roger Albert has always been known for his modest criticism, but only for certain types of films, that is the type of thriller and suspense.

There is a certain allusion in it. Many years ago, the young people who were full of enthusiasm planned to become a screenwriter and liked thrillers and suspense films. However, the scripts they created were rejected again and again. Film critic.Because of the "tragic encounter" when he was a screenwriter, the film critic who became a celebrity halfway became particularly harsh on thriller suspense-type films.

Talking and laughing, Richard Schicker saw the subtitles on the big screen coming to an end, and could not help asking Terrence Lafferty beside him: "Are you going to Fox's reception next?"

Terrence Lafferty was a little hesitant. He was still very interested in Simon Westero, and originally planned to take this opportunity to chat with each other.However, in this situation, Fox’s reception reception is obviously of a public relations nature. If he went to participate and was lobbied at the reception, Terrence Lafferty felt that it would be difficult for him to publish too much on Instinct. Harsh average.

Although, after watching the entire film, Terrence Lafferty's perception of "Instinct" is not too bad, but he is ultimately reluctant to be controlled by others.

Looking around, besides Roger Albert, there are obviously some other people in the auditorium who have already exited early. Obviously, although taking various entertainments of Fox Pictures, a large number of people still use this method Expressed his attitude, maybe those people will not accept Fox's return ticket in the future.

Looking back, Terrence Lafferty nodded: "Go, I'm still very curious about the young man, Charlie, how about you?"

Richard Schicker also nodded: "I plan to go too."

The film screening had not been accepted, and Ronald Goldberg kept hearing assistants reporting that someone was leaving early.Fox intends to adopt a controversial marketing strategy. This is true, but at the end of the matter, Ronald Goldberg is a little worried. If the reputation of Instinct is completely broken, then the next There is no'controversy' at all.

The reception was held at the nearby InterContinental Century City Hotel.

More than three of the more than two hundred film critics who attended this screening did not reappear after the screening, which cast a shadow on Ronald Goldberg again.Since last year's "Butterfly Effect", Fox's performance has suddenly improved, and this summer's summer season has appeared such an unexpected success as "Flying Over the Future."The company had high hopes for "Instinct". Ronald Goldberg also looked forward to earning a bonus by accumulating a seniority with "Instinct" before officially leaving this autumn. The new company has accumulated more capital.

But now, the situation suddenly became uncertain again.

After warmly chatting through the crowd, Ronald Goldberg also roughly saw the strong polarization of the film critics in general, but at the same time, due to the excessiveness of Simon Westeros I look forward to the fact that this polarized word of mouth is actually more critical.

Obviously, "Instinct" will definitely be controversial next, but the word of mouth may become very bad.

Ronald Goldberg wasn’t even sure whether the audience would pay for a highly controversial film with a bad reputation, even if it’s Simon Westero’s movie, or, especially because it’s Simon. Westeros movies.

With such anxious mood, Ronald Goldberg found Simon and Barry Diller walking next to each other, looking at the expression of laughter between the two, and couldn't help saying: "You don't seem to be worried at all. ."