King of Hollywood

Chapter 306: Maintaining Influence

“It's very unfair of you to accuse me of this, dear Scarlett, first of all, I've seen Dead Girl, though in the studio; secondly, I've been to Toronto, though I'll be leaving soon; and again, I have a lot of work to do.” In the sunny garden, Adrian sat on a chair with sunglasses on, laughing and talking on the phone.

“It's a good reason, but the truth is, when Dead Girl came out, you left and you didn't show up in the studio.” Scarlett is over there, and accompanied by a snapping sound, seemingly eating.

Adrian couldn't help but grab his head. He had a headache when she grabbed a problem like this. Every time Scarlett went into this state, it was difficult to calm her down. Fortunately, the phone rang again.

“Sorry, just a moment. Someone called again.” Adrian said and pressed the answer button, "Hey, Sophie, how you feeling? I read the commentary, the Toronto Film Festival special issue, although not much, but basically thought it was good... No, no, no, I swear, definitely not what I was looking for... Yes, I know it's in good shape, there's not a lot of investment in huge commercial films in October, and ordinary production can get more attention... Oh, honey, now you don't have to think about it so much, being able to show it is a very good start, you did a great job, Sophie, I'm sorry I didn't show it in Toronto... Thank you, honey, thank you for your understanding, you know Scarlett is online and she just accused me of not being there... Yes, I know, I'll reassure her... No problem, I'll have someone arrange to say hello to Monica and the kids for me. ”

Look, Sophie, it's easier to calm down than Scarlett.

“Hi, Scarlett, hope I didn't keep you waiting too long.” After finishing the conversation with Sophie, Adrian moved on to the previous call.

“Fine.” Sounds relaxed, but unpleasant, because she chews snacks so loud, “whose phone? Let me guess... Spider-Man's girlfriend? Or the idiot who thinks his chest is big? Or Spider-Man's girlfriend's little follower, and the new Oscar you're working on? ”

“Tsk, I think I heard something different.” Adrian said in a joke, “I remember someone saying...”

“Don't forget, everything is relative!” There's an immediate threat.

“All right, all right, no kidding. It was Sophie's call, about the Dead Girl period,” Adrian closed his smile, "and Sophie was much more than you. ”

And instead of waiting for Scarlett to talk, he shifted the subject: "Are you eating potato chips again? Oh, I can almost outline in my head the seductive look of you chewing slowly in the entrance with your chips in tomato sauce, but... be careful getting fat, darling. Last time I saw you, your belly seemed a little bigger. ”

“I love snacks!” Scarlett's voice rose a few points from time to time and she didn't like the topic. “I don't care what my body is, what I want to eat, what I want to do is my business, you have no right to ask, this is what we agreed! ”

“I think you're mistaken, darling," Adrian said with a lousy slob that sounded horrible, "I just wanted to see what you look like now. By the way, compared to Kelly, you know, it's the norm every month. ”

He obviously heard grinding his teeth over there: "Of course. Since you can't make it right now, just give me a picture, and I'll take whatever phone you want. ”

“Do you want to wear clothes or not?” Scarlett hummed over there.

“I can, of course, personally choose not to wear clothes.” Adrian Haha laughed, “But let me remind you that if you shoot with your phone, remember to delete it after it's sent out, otherwise if the phone drops...”

“You don't have to teach me!” Scarlett shouted angrily.

“You know, poor Gilly, because that new movie had to wrap her full breasts around me, she complained a couple of times in front of me, and she was probably going to walk away, so don't worry," Adrian said to herself, "and then I saved your picture now, and it's going to be fun to see it compared next year after the movie she starred in with you. ”

“Yeah, it's funny... it'll satisfy your... perverted hobbies!” Scarlett hummed one more time, pausing deliberately before the word pervert, and Adrian could almost outline her white-eyed appearance.

“Thank you." He smiled softly as he was about to end the call and suddenly thought of something like “pets” climbing to his feet.

Perhaps he noticed his eyes and the pet raised his head to reveal a delightful smile, then rubbed it beneath him, shaking his tail.

“By the way, Scarlett, one more thing," Adrian poured a small plate of milk in front of the pet, watched it happily lick it, and said to him, “A new movie, it's about fashion, and I want you to be the actress, and you can wear a lot of beautiful clothes on the big screen to show your style, and you can still play with Julie, how about that? ”

“Julia? Roberts?” Scarlett seemed to sigh, "Gilly first, then Julia, looks...”

She didn't go on, but Adrian understood what she meant and couldn't help laughing: "In that case, should you add Catherine? Zeta Jones," X-Men "is undoubtedly the most interesting thing to say about cosplay. ”

“Do you want Alan? I hear you seem to like her.” Scarlett said angrily, but sighed again: "Okay, I'll think about it, but I won't give any definitive answers until I get the script! ”

“No problem, then..." Adrian looked at the time, “That's it for today, go back to Los Angeles early, a few pictures won't send me away, I'm starting to miss you, Scar. ”

“You still want a lot of people.” After humming, Scarlett turned off her phone and judging by the chewing sound from the last minute, she must have a potato bag all around her.

Sitting quietly in the chair, Adrian reaches out to the side and after licking the milk, shrinks to the side of the "pet” as he leans over his head and slowly caresses it.

“This is gonna be a good movie. Are you interested in fashion? ”

“Wang!”

“Well, the film has two more actresses, and now it's given to Scarlett and Julia, so you play the actress. Is there a problem? ”

“Whoa, whoa! ”

“Very well, then give me a good performance and let me see the results of your reflections over time.” Adrian stood up. Grabbing the rope tied to the neck of "it" shivered, sneaking into the circle with “it” and allowing “it” under the tree for convenience before slowly entering the villa.

Picking a movie for your own woman is actually a very troubling thing, but Adrian has always loved it, it's like playing a puzzle game, and it's still a different puzzle game. Instead of putting pieces of pictures together to restore the original, he used them to spell out a completely different but equally beautiful picture, which was a hassle, but it felt pretty good to accomplish.

Like Scarlett and Gilly. Love Credits, originally a British film, is currently being filmed. But Adrian moved him to the United States and deliberately asked the writers to take fully into account his summary of Scarlett and Gilly's personality, such as The Queen in Prada, which was decided today.

Lauren Weissberg. Winter's assistant, it wasn't difficult to ask her how she was doing, so Adrian secretly offered her publishing and adapting a dragon. As one of the most expensive films ever made of clothing, there was a strong backlash and resonance. Nature has to hand it over to its own women.

Scarlett is undoubtedly best suited to the actress, Andy, by age, body and acting. Keira has always been better suited to British classics, while Jessica is still better suited to making a vase. Although the movie is actually a great fit for vases, it would undoubtedly be better to show the acting, and besides, Jessica's current commercial value is sufficient.

And Miranda, the mighty women, Julia, Zeta Jones, Nicole, Blanchett, are all fine, and Monica and Sophie are still a little soft. And one of them, Zeta Jones and Nicole, had just given birth, and Adrian had always insisted that women must rest long enough after giving birth, while the other was big, so they didn't think about it.

Of the remaining two, Blanchett's acting was undoubtedly better. Even if she had never played such an indifferent, silent voice before, the necessary moments would be extraordinarily harsh, but I'm sure it wouldn't be difficult for her to try a new type of character for the first time this year. But that's why Adrian chose Julia, and although she's now moving backstage, and she only showed a medium cost movie as a producer in August and achieved good results, it still takes quite a while, after all, before she needs some good characters and acts just a little worse than Blanchett, so now she also needs such a characteristic character, although it smells like a villain, it's good to try occasionally.

As for the other actress, give it to the original actress Annie? Hathaway, under Adrian's guidance, split herself in half very smoothly. She was the rising star of Hollywood, was she Audrey? Hepburn and Julia? Roberts' complex, after all...

If she does something wrong, she has to pay the price, not to mention she begs for another chance, and Adrian won't have any mercy. But this time Annie was very amused, completely handed herself over to him, and those means of heavy flavour were basically unopposed, but out of self-preservation instincts, she cut herself in half.

For all Annie's obedience, Adrian stopped being stingy - you know, she didn't have any work this year - and he deprived her of the opportunity to be Queen of Prada and gave her the character. Anyway, he wouldn't mind holding her up better if it suited him, and the higher Annie's reputation and popularity, the more satisfied Adrian would be walking.

As time enters October, the movie slot completely fades, and the TV drama becomes hot, but the advantage of the movie over the TV drama is that the TV drama also has winter and summer recesses, which are almost four months in total. At this time, all TV dramas on public stations will stop - of course, cable stations still have episodes during the summer recess, but because there are relatively few episodes on cable, there is still no winter recess. And even in the off-season, movies will always show new works, such as the four films mentioned earlier in Toronto. Three of them were selected for screening in October.

Wine Life, Northern Wind Cloud and Dead Girl are all considered independent films, with little investment and little commercial value. Even with Adrian's support, the publicity will not be too strong, and it would be appropriate for them to be shown in the off-season. Arrogance and Prejudice is a little better, but it's just a little better, so it's scheduled for early November.

However, even the three films were well received at the Toronto Film Festival, especially Sophie's Dead Girl, which attracted a lot of attention as a post-Oscar director's first film. But in October, it wasn't the film that got the most attention, but... the work of a guy who offended most European filmmakers: The Pianist!

“Adrian used an extremely realistic technique to put that bloody history before us with a real pen, while another Adrian fully expressed it with a brilliant act. ”

“Visually and narratively very close to vintage films and generally quite restrained, but this explains exactly what happened during that dark period. ”

“Unlike the dramatic scene in Schindler's List, where you can't even shoot a few people to death. Here at Pianist, the Nazis did not hesitate to exchange guns to kill each other. No luck, no pity, nothing but cold cruelty, a totally real shock. ”

The long-awaited, long-awaited American media and film critics blew the film up vigorously for the first time by expressing their views through their channels. And of course, there are some hidden, malicious comments, like, "By comparison, Schindler's List is more like Spielberg being arrogant” or, “This is the best. Movies about the Holocaust” and so on, unfortunately neither of the parties cared.

“Adrian has undoubtedly done better than I did, and this is a real heartbreaking piece.” Spielberg wrote so in his column.

“Thanks to Steven's New Delhi List, I would not have made a film on the subject of the Holocaust if it had not been for his work, and to all those who supported it.” This is a statement from Adrian's office.

This poor means of divorce is terrible, after all Adrian had already said that he had ideas because of Spielberg's films, not to mention that he was an investor in the Schindler List.

Relative to the lively North American continent, this side of Europe is quiet, as if this year's Golden Palm Award-winning film had never been shown. Think about it. Adrian's previous remarks not only left them overwhelmed, but also indirectly divided the European cinematographer. It's so easy to calm down now. How can it be mentioned again? Isn't that enough scorched forehead?

At the time, no one noticed that the most lethal part of Adrian's speech was not to seize the right to speak to art, but to ferment slowly after he was on the Allen Show… As the world famous miracle director, there are countless classic works, Hacker Empire and King of the Rings, any of which is a palace-level series, as well as films of different styles, even he dared not say his work is art, even he had to climb in awe with a war, what makes you European directors say art?

This clap was so heavy that the French, who were complacent, also felt * * spicy, that European filmmakers quickly unified their opinions. Unfortunately, it was too late and European filmmakers had to dilute their treatment as much as possible. So Sophie hesitated repeatedly and eventually didn't bring "Dead Girl" to the Venice Film Festival, otherwise it might mean something.

Unfortunately, there are things that can be diluted simply by ignoring those Americans who think they have won the game, but Adrian will not allow this to happen. The reason he decided to let Pianist go live in October, instead of taking Gold Palm, and taking the box office when the subject was very popular, was to keep Pianist's influence going, and to take this opportunity to tell some people: Look, how much goodwill I have released, how many sacrifices I have made for you, shouldn't you show something?

Anyway, he had no intention of making money from the film. If the book was to look good, he had to throw in a few million to 10 million to put up the box office. Besides, he believed that Jews around the world would not let him lose money.

So it's bad luck for European cinematographers, who don't want to make any comments about the film or about the miracle director, but there are stories about him everywhere, the Internet, TV, newspapers and magazines, and he even shows up on sports channels, damn Chelsea!

That's the power of the media tycoon, not to mention the old Ras, who called himself "sympathy for the Nazis”? Von Thiel, besides being able to gather a group of followers on the Internet for a few shouts right now, nothing can be done. Being blocked by the European film industry is a sure thing. Who let him mess with that guy?

Even so, at the end of the day, European filmmakers had to respond, even though Adrian didn't say another word, but the online discussion was so heated, the Americans were so aggressive, and if they ignored it, they would unilaterally declare victory, could they not respond?