King of Hollywood

With the official opening of the Cannes Film Festival on 12 May, the beachfront town became more lively, with journalists running back and forth with cameras at press outlets, tirelessly collecting news, gossip and anecdotes that could attract attention. And men and women from all over the world are rarely generous enough to shoot, ask questions, and promote themselves or their filmmakers.

Adrian has a smaller reputation in Europe than in the United States. After all, in addition to "Two Big Smoke Guns," two of the three pieces have their stories in the United States. Normal Europeans prefer commercially flavoured American films, while critics of artistic self-labeling believe that neither film is artistic enough.

However, it is only a little smaller, and there are a few viewers who like cl-style, suspicious, and bizarre ideas, and the ideology shown by Memory Shards and Shawshenk's Redemption, or in the eyes of critics, is commendable. Thus, on 16 May, when the Low Vulgar Novel premiered at the Kapa Theatre on Mesden Avenue, a number of European journalists arrived despite the number of American journalists.

“According to the current presentation, Mr. Adrian, your new film is still a CL type and seems to be narrated in three segments, so is it like" Memory Shards "again?” Outside the railing, in a clicking photo shoot, a French journalist stretched out his microphone and asked out loud.

However, his English was a bit bad, and Adrian could basically understand it if he spoke French, but unfortunately in this noisy situation he had no idea what he was talking about.

“Can you repeat that?” Adrian asked in French.

The journalist immediately realized his question and asked it again in French, but Adrian's answer made him cry: "I'm sorry, I can't answer that. The movie is about to go on air, but watch it with my own eyes. Of course, I promise, this is an interesting movie. ”

It was easy to grasp the opportunity to ask your own questions, and repeatedly to make each other understand, but I didn't expect to get such an answer, anyone else would feel depressed. And he wanted to keep asking, unfortunately, the American journalist next to him had already taken the opportunity: "Mr. Adrian, is it because your fifth film is still the type of CL that you chose, because the fourth film is not good enough? ”

Journalists from other surrounding countries also suddenly raised their ears, and the news reached Europe long ago. Unfortunately, Adrian did not answer positively, but smiled slightly: "I'm sorry, today is the premiere of the Lowlife, so I'm not answering any questions unrelated to the film. ”

“Can I take that as your default?” American journalists are unwilling to ask.

Adrian didn't answer, looking around to show others, an Italian journalist immediately asked: "Mr. Adrian, can you tell us why Monica was chosen? Miss Belucci, the actress in this movie? ”

'Cause she's the best fit. ”Adrian said that she held Monica, who had been around her all day, wore a sleeveless, low-chest dress today, and supported her fine figure with a slim reveal, murdering many films.

“The actress, as the mistress of the gangster, needed to make people feel sexy and jump off the rules, for which I selected a number of actresses, who never found the best fit until Monica took part in the audition.” Adrian said he looked at Monica around him with an amazing eye, "Although she didn't have much experience, I knew she was the character I was looking for when I did a little show, so I didn't hesitate to pick Monica. ”

Monica didn't speak, she just looked at the reporters with a light smile, and although her aura was far less intense than it was a few years later, it also made many people's eyes lit up - especially Italian journalists.

“My decision proved to be quite correct, and Monica's performance in the film was almost perfect, and she was like my muse, adding a lot of inspiration along the way.” Adrian went on to say that after two or three seconds of inactivity, some of the journalists around him became obscure.

Generally, when a director calls her film's actress her muse, that can only mean one thing. Of course, no one would be foolish enough to stab that layer of paper, and the tabloids could be written casually because everyone knew that 90 per cent of what they said was untrustworthy, whereas the well-known newspapers had to abide by such subordinate rules unless there was conclusive evidence, but it was also a reminder that they had news to dig.

After watching the entrance to the theatre not far away, Adrian grabbed Monica's arm and walked inside, and the journalists who wanted to keep asking had to do just that, then took the camera and slapped it against their background.

“Are you serious, Ed?” After entering the front hall of the theatre, Monica suddenly whispered.

“Of course," Adrian answered without thinking, "you are indeed my muse when shooting The Lowlife, otherwise I would not have put so much thought into you. ”

“Not anymore?” Monica's face flashed with a complexity.

“Frankly, I can't be sure," Adrian stopped looking at her and made him look sincere, “but my obsession with you was never fake, Monica. ”

Monica was silent for a few seconds, and then a little provocative said, "You say I'm your muse in front of a reporter, and you're not afraid of your little girlfriend getting jealous? ”

“What is it, you were my muse at the time of the shoot, why can't I admit it?” Adrian shrugged his shoulders and seemed quite off.

Monica's complexity was even more complicated, and she opened her mouth and seemed to want to say something, but eventually she just sighed. Adrian smiled slightly, squeezed a handful on her buttocks and continued walking inside with her.

“Hey, Ed, oh, and Monica.” Already early in the studio, John? Travolta greets with a smile, and Samuel? Jackson and Dennis and LaVerne were with him, along with Bruce? Willis and his wife, Demi? Moore.

“You guys ran so fast, you threw all the reporters at me and Moni.” Adrian walked up to them and whispered.

“As a director and producer, you deserve more than we do, don't you? Besides, you...” The joking Tara Volta was saying, suddenly realizing what, laughing and stalling did not go on.

Basically, everyone knows what's going on between Adrian and Monica, and more or less he has a girlfriend, but nobody says much about it - most clearly Dennis shuts up. Everyone is a man and understands the situation very well, even married Willis and Tara Volta.

They chilled out, and Adrian laughed at Mr. and Mrs. Willis for a while, and everyone sat in waiting for the movie to show.

“How's it going?” Adrian whispered to LaVerne, sitting on his right.

“It's not very good, you know, we've been wasted for at least a few years now, and although you started to reconnect after you bought the company, it's sometimes harder than building a brand new one once it's wasted and you want to pick it up. More importantly, this is Europe.” LaVerne whispered, but he seemed calm.

“It's okay, there's still time. Adrian noticed this too," Do your best, do your best, it doesn't matter if you fail. ”

“I will.” LaVerne nodded.

Naturally, they were discussing the Golden Palm Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Although the original Low Volume Novel won gold palm, Adrian was confident that his edition would not be worse than the original, but he was not 100% sure if he could get gold palm.

As I said a long time ago, these festivals are essentially cake splitting, but Oscar still has a mainstream value as the standard, the closer it is to this standard, the easier it is to gain preference, while the European Film Festival only raises the brand of art higher, so the law is more confusing relative to Oscar, so if you can split the cake, you have to see the PR in place.

That's why, when Adrian acquired the film company, he chose the Bosworth Film Industry. Subsequent facts also proved that his choice was correct, and LaVerne, along with agent Roger, successfully received the nomination of an Oscar's best director.

Regardless of the cake division, the quality of the film still has to be quite high. Adrian believes that the Low Fiction is fine, so now see if LaVerne can get gold palms for the Low Fiction, like the two owners of Miramax. Of course, if it doesn't work, it doesn't matter that Gold Palm, although highly honored internationally, has far less influence in the United States than Oscar, so it's okay to get it naturally and not get it.

“So, how's the campaign for Smell the Fragrant Woman?” Adrian asked another question.

“It is within my grasp, but I think it can now be temporarily slowed down and will certainly receive a lot of attention with the screening of the Low Volume Novel in Cannes.” LaVerne recalled.

“I'm afraid not," Adrian shook his head after thinking, “you know, the first thing they caught was that the fourth movie was different from the previous three styles, and now the fifth movie is still a cl-type movie, so little had to be compared to the fourth movie that hasn't revealed much news so far, so that the fourth movie was widely claimed to be a failure, which could be worse if The Lowlife Novel were popular. In that case, cold handling is difficult, so it requires proper guidance, as we decided, to lift the public's appetite out of it, both to make them curious and to prevent them from losing confidence. ”