King of Hollywood

“I'm so sorry, Ed, something went wrong on the way, that's why I'm here.” Finally, Tom from the studio? Cruz greeted Adrian with a smile, but the smile didn't seem sincere.

“It doesn't matter. Anyone has an unexpected situation to deal with, doesn't it?” Adrian shrugged her shoulders and didn't seem to be paying attention, "as long as it didn't take too long to shoot. ”

But then he taped Cruz's arm, and his expression got a little deeper: “But I still hope there won't be another time, okay? ”

Cruz's face was stiff, but he nodded with a smile: "Okay, I get it. ”

The big director and the big star are on the set because of a long-standing clash of voice, and Kubrick was with Marlon? Brando had an unpleasant time. Since Cruz has never had a good impression of Adrian, and this time he came to Kubrick's name, and suffered a loss while preparing Mr. Sweetheart, even if he was persuaded by Adrian, he inevitably did not have the idea of showing his power by playing cards.

But that's all he can do, and Cruz's occasional stupidity doesn't mean he's always so stupid. After being persuaded and reminded by Kingsley last time, he understood more or less Adrian's strength, so even if he wasn't happy, he had to honestly converge after being warned.

A lot of people think big stars are more powerful on the set, but otherwise, there's this illusion because big stars are far more famous than big directors. In fact, the key to deciding where the voice belongs is to see who combines the role of producer and director and producer. If a star wants to continue filming, he must listen honestly. If a star combines the role of producer, then the director must consider the requirements of the star. No exceptions, except Adrian.

As for the reason, it's very simple that no big director, like Adrian, has had such great success in filmmaking and is also the chairman of the board of directors of a major emerging media company. Although Lucas' Industrial Light Demon occupies most of the market for special effects, Spielberg, though one of the three giants of Dream Factory, is still incomparable with Adrian.

Not to mention that over the years, Adrian has had more or less that much to do with selling movies and TV dramas; not to mention that his gaze was unusually accurate, and that the actors and directors he had singled out had greatly. With TBS and ABC, it's enough to sit flat with Murdoch, Lei Shidong and others. With such strength, even being a red star won't dare to show his face. Catherine Hepburn was also largely cheap on the media in the '50s and' 60s, and if placed in the current environment, she was categorically afraid to refuse to attend the Oscar Awards ceremony four times.

“And your wife, by the way?” Adrian asked immediately.

“She has other things to take care of, and she can't really take up time today, but I'm sure there won't be another time.” Cruz replied, blinking and staring at Adrian.

“Well, let's film the part where Dr. William solved his boss's obscenity at the bar, and we'll try that again just before you get here. If it goes well, we shoot it in the billiards room, and we wait till tomorrow to get to know the script.” Adrian replied carelessly, as if he had just asked.

“No problem." Cruz nodded, greeting his assistant as he took the script and walked to his place. A few steps later, he turned around to see Adrian and saw him busy with the rest before moving on.

“Note that Sidney is going to walk from here and take a step bigger to reflect your mood at this moment, and beyond that, you are still free to play, just be careful not to exceed your mood at the fifth test. As for you, Tommy, pausing when you get here, having a less obvious surprise, and not staying too long, how much time you need to grasp…" In a small lounge set up on the set, Adrian explains this to the two actors, and he says that framing with his hands is equivalent to explaining the scope of the shooting to the photographer.

“Well, that's it, brew it, and we'll start shooting right away.” Adrian said, sitting back in the chair.

The story of Big Eyed Ring is also very simple: couples who have been married for several years are starting to get tired of marriage because there were some misunderstandings at the party, such as when Dr. William, the hero, solved the problem for the boss, and his wife Alice misunderstood him for cheating on another woman, almost hooked up with an old man.

Alice then revealed her former sexual fantasies to her husband with the excitement of smoking marijuana, and the troubled Dr. William had many bad associations, and happened to encounter a classmate playing the piano in a bar who, at his instigation, blended into a special party like a religious ceremony held by some upscale person, causing a bigger wind wave.

There was a comment in my memory that Kubrick wanted to discuss marriage here, but no one knew how the old man would never tell anyone what his movie was trying to say, maybe to him, just to make a * * blue movie. Adrian understands, at least, that some people in the upper echelons of society do host such parties, but not only rarely, but rather secretly, and not on the scale of the film.

Imagine, Schnitzler's Fantasy Story was written at the beginning of the 20th century, not to mention in what era it was too normal for this to happen in the upper echelons of Europe. But today, when the media is developed, it is absolutely a matter of death to hold such a party on such a large scale, so it is really very difficult for Kubrick to move the stage to modern New York. Of course, nobody knows what's going on in that half-barred head, and Adrian took it for something else.

“Don't be too deliberate, just live in your own home and forget about the camera and us, okay?” After three days of shooting shots of overdose prostitutes in the lounge, with Nicole? Kidman's coming to start shooting the doctor and his wife in part of the family.

After both Cruz and Nicole nodded their names, Adrian waved to the others and, as before, totally treated Nicole as a stranger. Fortunately, these lenses don't have a lot of lines and don't require a lot of acting. At last, it didn't take three days to complete the medical treatment.

Adrian is not Kubrick, he has his own criteria for judging performances, plus a habit of long-term cultivation, and he also has a nearly distorted quest for perfection like Kubrick. Ming has performed well, but he still shoots repeatedly. Even so, an uncomplicated cure took almost three days to film, wondering how bad Cruz was acting.

Even if there are some external factors, such as the poor condition of Cruz when he first started shooting, or there are always such minor problems, Cruz's acting is indeed an important reason for the slow pace. And that's why he had to dissolve the temporary actor he had hired to shoot at the party to concentrate on finishing the cure, so Nicole came and couldn't make it to the party.

Luckily, it went well, taking a day and a half to get those simpler life shots done, along with a few plays showcasing the work of the male lead physician.

“Very well, then, let's clear the scene.” After watching the video, and seeing that the break had arrived, Adrian said to the director's assistant, the staff moved quickly, and after the required lights and color debugging had been completed, all but a few key figures exited the scene in turn.

“You look a little nervous.” Adrian walked up to Nicole and she had changed the costume she needed.

A black thin shoulder evening outfit with most of the glossy backs on the outside, plus heels, not very convex in the front but nice in the back. Her hair is tied behind her head, revealing her fair neck, and her legs need to be fixed under the slit. If she doesn't show up, I have to say, she's the most fascinating moment.

“Fine, I'm perfectly fine.” Nicole simply replied, staring closely at him, but Adrian quickly removed his gaze and did not pay any attention.

“Are you all right, Tommy?” He asked, "Maybe we could do that, put Nicole in green underwear, and then synthesize it at a later stage. ”

“I think not at all.” Cruz hasn't spoken yet, and Nicole has answered first, and the unhappy look of God flashes from Cruz's face, but he eventually echoes his wife's words.

“Yes, no.” He said that in a tone of ease.

With a smile in his heart, Adrian still looks calm and cold: “Let's get started. ”

There are two shots to take. The first is Nicole? Kidman undresses in front of the camera -- just the back. That's why the scene was cleared, but in Adrian's view, this was simply the act of hiding the bell, and how many people would still see it after the movie was released.

Although it was with her back to the camera, although it was a movie, Nicole still looked incredibly attractive, especially when her back was bare a little bit, her clothes landed on the ground and took a step, her long and even right leg lifted slightly up and down, making Adrian hear several breathing rushes, after all, there are not many chances to look at this beauty wide clothes so bright.

“Good." Adrian yelled and stopped, waiting for the assistant next to her to put the towel on Nicole the first time. Adrian glanced at Cruz, and he stood not far away and looked at Nicole in the studio, looking like he didn't care, but he could still see the unhappiness in his eyes.

“Let them in and get ready for the second shot.” As soon as Cruise and Nicole returned to the dressing room, Adrian said, although he would love to see her take it off again, he also knew what the weight was, not to mention...

The next shot was the same type, so the staff spent tens of minutes changing the bathroom into a bedroom and walked out again, followed by Cruz and Nicole, who were also wearing white towels.

“Next I won't have to say anything more, just relax and pretend to be at home.” Adrian said so, and waved to get ready to begin.

The second lens is naturally the one that was cut off as a poster, * * when the couple kissed each other in front of the dresser, but the wife looked in the mirror with a ghost.

As the sound of ”" sounded, the two people who had removed the towel stood in position, and Adrian also found songs for the music to play live in order to ease the atmosphere on the set. Nicole, who was facing the mirror with her earrings, twisted her body gently with the music, and then Cruz walked in from behind and hugged her and started kissing her.

Though * * wearing body, important areas are still covered, such as flesh-coloured triangles underneath Cruz and Nicole underneath, which also have a very similar chest patch, which is guaranteed to be slightly invisible at a later stage. After all, they cannot be allowed to truly and completely expose their bodies, even if it has a self-deluding smell.

Best of all, because of Cruz's height problems, the prop crew had to pad something a few feet taller on the ground, or he would be a little shorter in the lens than Nicole.

“Excellent!” Adrian clapped his hands, the camera was difficult to pass once, and a handful of people on the set were relieved by the fact that today's progress was complete.

“Well, after these days of grinding, we should all be more aware of each other's situation and hope that we can work together more smoothly and happily.” Adrian said after sending the Cruz couple outside the studio.

“I think so.” Cruz laughed, still smiling, and Nicole seemed to want to say something, but when she hesitated, Adrian had walked into the studio, as she always did when she was a passerby.

Looking at his back, Nicole subconsciously bit her lip, and Cruz called her a few times to react: “What? ”

“What's wrong with you? Is there a problem?” Cruz looked at her unhappily.

“No, nothing, I just...” Nicole took a deep breath and looked at the studio again, "I just didn't like him. ”

“I don't like him either," Cruz seemed glad she said, "but now that we have to continue working with him, he's still useful, so don't worry about him —— let's go. ”

Nicole glanced disappointingly at Cruz and apparently had heard enough of his arrogant words, so she followed him silently.

Adrian didn't know that, and even if he did, he wouldn't care because he knew something. He was already ready for repeated shooting, but he was never waterproof. At least by his standards, this lens was in place. When he pulled the lens closer to the kissing couple, his wife turned her head and looked in the mirror with some anxiety and resistance.

It took a lot of acting to show the feeling of inadvertence, which was a little difficult for Nicole now, but she did, because she looked in the mirror, but what she really looked at was Adrian in the mirror.

How could Adrian not have noticed when she seemed indifferent but actually focused on her? It's really interesting. It's enough to say a lot.

“Mr. Adrian!” As he walked to the parking lot, distant voices interrupted his thinking, and soon a white man appeared in front of him, a little fat, almost forty years old, wearing a baseball cap.

“Hello, Mr. Adrian. I'm a reporter for The Los Angeles Times. My name is Jeff? Harris, can I ask you a few questions?” Seeing him stop, he immediately introduced himself.

“I'm sorry, I'm not doing any interviews right now.” Adrian shook his head with a smile and stepped next to his car.

“Stanley? Director Kubrick couldn't finish the new one after the stroke, so you took over, right?” As if they had not heard, they continued to ask.

Adrian's body paused, but quickly turned around and looked at him with a smile: "Sorry, where did you hear that? ”

“So this is it? This is the movie you're working on right now, right?” Although the pause was brief, after all, the other party was a journalist through hundreds of wars, and any wind and grass blowing could not be hidden from his ears and eyes, plus he was prepared again, naturally he would not fail to notice, even asked like a bead cannon.

“Unfortunately, there is no comment.” Adrian shrugged and got in the car, "I'm sorry, I'm going home, please don't delay me, okay? ”

The car was driven out of the parking lot in defiance of each other's screams, and the breath grew long after it had been driven out: “It's surprising how quickly someone found out. ”

Although Kubrick stressed that Adrian could not be known to take over his new movie before making it, after all, the paper could not hold fire, so many people in a crew, so many people would inevitably send out the news, and wanted to keep the film confidential, but it was not easy to find out who the director of the film was. Not to mention the fact that Mr. and Mrs. Cruz were invited to perform Kubrick's new work, which is already well known in the circle, can be concluded with a little thought out.

The old man with the stroke knew it was impossible, so even if he insisted, it was not written in the contract. He probably hoped that the sooner the media found out about it, the better. Otherwise, even if he was not satisfied with the release of the film, his reputation would be spared.

The Warner side also knows that the news is delayed most of the time. It can't be unknown. Otherwise, why did you say yes? However, it is difficult to say whether the information was leaked by itself or deliberately disseminated by Warner.

Adrian thought for a moment and shook his head with a smile. Whatever. It's just a matter of time. It's not that big of an impact. We'll see what the media will do in a few days.