Hollywood Director 1992

Knock, knock, knock!

"Come in!"

In the office, Link put down the pen in his hand, rubbed his wrist, and looked at the person standing at the office door. It was Sofia Coppola, wearing a Chanel dress, walking in gracefully.

"Sofia, what brings you here?"

"Just checking on you, workaholic."

Sofia stepped forward and hugged him.

"I'm not a workaholic. When I'm free, I go to bars, play golf, and watch movies. Which workaholic is as leisurely as I am?"

"I bet you go to bars, play golf, and even watch movies for work?"

Sofia said with a smile.

"...Alright, it does have a certain work-related aspect. It's quite boring if I just go to a bar to drink."

"That's it. Every time Monica and I talk about you, she says you're working, from nine to six every day, and sometimes you even work overtime at night. You're the most diligent guy I know."

"I have been busier recently. 'Final Destination' is about to be released, and the new movie 'Seven' is about to start filming. There are other things to be busy with at the company. I can't relax for the time being."

Link and Sofia sat in the coffee room chatting, and the new assistant Annie brought two cups of coffee.

Sofia said, "You're a strange guy. Someone your age, if they were as successful as you, would definitely be eating, drinking, and having fun, enjoying life."

Link smiled and said, "I like movies. I'm busy with movie-related things every day, which is similar to a drug addict taking drugs. This is how I enjoy life."

"What about your rumored girlfriends? You're so busy every day, you don't have time to spend with them. Aren't you worried they'll fall for someone else?"

"Have you fallen for someone else? If that's true, I'll be very sad."

"I'm not one of your rumored girlfriends. I'm your good friend, a working partner. I'm different from them, right?"

Sofia said with a smile.

"Okay, that's right. They understand me as much as you do. I don't need to be with them every day, and I don't have to worry about them falling for someone else."

Link shrugged.

His purpose in finding a girlfriend is to enjoy himself, not to find a few locks to lock himself up, increasing his burden. If someone wants to fall for someone else, he won't try to keep them.

In America, as long as you have money and status, even if you're seventy or eighty, you won't lack beautiful women.

However, with his current status and position, being by his side can get a lot of free resources. Leaving him will get you nothing.

Not to mention he's young, handsome, and generous.

No one should take the initiative to leave at this time.

Link chatted with Sofia about the filming plan for 'Seven'.

Sofia is still serving as an assistant director in this movie.

Sometimes when Link is too busy, Sofia will also manage the work of the crew on his behalf.

Therefore, before filming, some work-related matters need to be explained to her clearly.

Sofia arrived at more than ten o'clock in the morning. The two of them were too engrossed in talking about work and didn't realize they were chatting until more than five o'clock in the afternoon.

Sofia complained that he was too engrossed in his work and infected her with his workaholic disease, demanding compensation.

Link invited her to dinner, but Sofia said it wasn't enough and dragged him to her apartment for the night. As it happened, Milla Jovovich was also there.

He and the two of them played a 'guess what' game.

The game was quite difficult and physically demanding.

However, after multiple enhancements, his body had become very strong.

The next day, he got up and went to work as usual.

In October, the first trailer for 'Final Destination' was released, and Link also brought the directing team to New York to film.

New York is a city of crime. Beneath its glamorous exterior lies deep-seated sin and ugliness, making it very suitable as a backdrop for crime movies. In addition, New York is relatively humid this season, with many graffiti on the streets, dark corners, and chaotic blocks.

It fits the setting of the movie story very well.

This movie tells the story of William Somerset, an old detective who is 7 days away from retirement, and David Mills, a new detective who has only been on the job for 1 day.

When they first met, a murder occurred in a residential area of New York City. A fat man weighing more than 400 pounds was tied up, constantly eating Italian meat sauce, and finally suffocated to death.

Before the two could find out the truth, a second murder occurred. A wealthy defense lawyer was killed, and the murderer drained the lawyer's blood, using it to write the word 'Greed'.

When the old detective returned to the fat man's residence to investigate, he also found the word 'Gluttony' behind the refrigerator.

Based on these two words, the old detective William immediately thought of the famous quote in 'Paradise Lost': the seven deadly sins of Christianity - gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, pride, lust, and envy.

He believes that there will be 5 more murders in the future, each linked to the other commandments, but the new detective Mills does not believe it.

During the continued investigation, the two found many fingerprints on the wall based on the traces of the hanging paintings being moved in the lawyer's office. These fingerprints formed the word 'Help'.

After fingerprint comparison, the police found that the owner of the fingerprints was a drug dealer named Victor, who had committed many crimes and suffered from mental illness, which best matched the murderer's situation.

The police immediately dispatched people to surround the drug dealer Victor's apartment. After breaking into the apartment, they found a person being abused beyond recognition on the bed in the bedroom. It was the drug dealer Victor.

Without exception, one first one internal one appearance one existence one look!

According to the doctor's examination, Victor had been imprisoned and abused for up to a year, suffering all kinds of cruel tortures, but still did not die.

There was also a word 'Sloth' on the wall of Victor's apartment.

This time, everyone began to believe the old detective William's speculation that the murderer was a perverted religious fanatic who was carrying out some kind of religious ritual through murder.

After understanding this, the old William and the new detective Mills locked their target on the reporter John Doe through library research.

John Doe is also the murderer of the three murders. The two sides broke out in an ambush war in front of John Doe's apartment.

Mills was injured, and John Doe successfully escaped.

Old William and Mills found photos of a blonde woman in the murderer's apartment, believing that she would be the murderer's next target. However, when they found the blonde woman, she was already dead, tied to a chair by the murderer, and raped to death with a barbed dagger.

The word 'Lust' was written next to it.

On the old William's retirement day, the murderer called and told the two that he had killed another person.

When the police arrived, a young and beautiful woman was killed on the bed, holding a mobile phone in one hand and sleeping pills in the other. The woman's face was slashed.

The word 'Pride' was written on the wall.

Old William decided to finish this case before retiring. On this day, the murderer John Doe came to the police station to surrender, covered in blood, with all the fingerprints on his fingers peeled off.

Although the police caught the murderer, they could not convict him because there were no fingerprints, and the murderer's modus operandi was like a psychopath, even if he was caught, he would be released by the court as a mentally ill person.

The murderer proposed a condition that he would confess to all the crimes as long as Old William and Mills agreed.

Old William and Mills agreed. Under John Doe's guidance, they came to the suburbs. Just as they arrived, a Huolala driver delivered a box.

After Old William opened the box, he found that it contained the head of Mills' wife, Tracy, and Mills and his wife were very much in love, and his wife was pregnant.

When Old William opened the box, John Doe told Mills the truth, saying that he killed his wife because he was jealous that he had a good wife and a happy family.

In a rage, Mills shot and killed John Doe several times.

John Doe died for committing 'Envy' among the seven deadly sins, and Mills was arrested and imprisoned for 'Wrath', living in pain for the rest of his life.

The murderer John Doe finally used his life to complete the 'Seven Deadly Sins of Christianity' - Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Pride, Lust, and Envy.

At this moment, it has become art.

The director of 'Seven' is Link, and the screenwriters include him and the original scriptwriter Andrew Kevin Walker.

The main actors include Morgan Freeman, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Connelly, Kevin Spacey, etc. Except for Ben Affleck and Jennifer Connelly, almost all of them are the original actors.

The reason for choosing Ben Affleck as one of the male protagonists is because he has a more outstanding appearance. After filming 'Final Destination', his acting skills are also okay, and it is easier to use him.

He also considered Brad Pitt, but Pitt is now an artist under CAA, and it is not convenient to use him.