Hollywood Director 1992

When Link received Harvey's call, he was visiting the "Red Zone" set to check on the filming progress.

The background story of "Red Zone" takes place in New York, telling the story of truck driver Huang Jiaju who goes to New York to attend Uncle Piao's wedding and accidentally gets involved in the vortex of stolen diamond loot due to his chivalrous heart, and is hunted down by the Mafia.

To save expenses, the main filming locations are in Universal Studios, Hong Kong Island, and Toronto, Canada.

Guess Pictures' production department is responsible for overall coordination, and Golden Harvest Pictures is responsible for film shooting.

With the close cooperation of the two companies, the crew's filming is progressing smoothly and is expected to be completed before June.

Link listened to Harvey asking on the phone if he had any good strategies to promote "Pulp Fiction"?

Link thought for a while, and said no. This movie is too niche. Fans who like it will like it very much, and regard it as a classic of violent aesthetics. Those who don't like it won't watch it.

This kind of movie mainly relies on word-of-mouth to ferment and drive the box office to grow slowly. Other publicity does not need to be done too much.

However, considering that Quentin is a very individual director and also a director with a strong topic, he suggested arranging some TV interviews for Quentin during the promotion, so that Quentin can say some controversial topics in the interviews and hype the movie by hyping Quentin.

And Quentin's fame has greatly increased, which is also good for Miramax Films. In the future, when distributing Quentin's films, publicity expenses can be saved.

Harvey nodded after listening, and suddenly felt that Quentin was right. Link was indeed good at publicity. Even for a movie like "Pulp Fiction" that doesn't have any topicality, he can find something worth hyping.

He can't compare to this.

"Call an ambulance quickly, Jack fell from the shelf!"

The crew members suddenly shouted, and a group of people gathered around and saw Jackie Chan falling into a pile of wooden boxes.

Hearing the stage manager calling for an ambulance, Jackie Chan quickly waved his hand and said no, he just sprained his foot and scratched a little skin. It's not a serious injury and he can handle it himself.

Jackie Chan asked his assistant to bring his personal medical kit, wiped off the blood from the wound, applied medicinal powder, and continued filming in less than ten minutes.

Link found director Stanley Tong and asked them to pay attention during filming, make arrangements for dangerous action scenes in advance, check the props on site more, and try to reduce the injury rate.

In April last year, Bruce Lee's only son, Brandon Lee, accidentally shot a live bullet from a prop gun while filming "The Crow". He was shot in the abdomen and died of excessive blood loss at the age of 28.

Link felt very sorry after hearing this. If nothing had happened, he would not have thought of Brandon Lee at all.

Now that he is working with Chinese superstar Jackie Chan, it is better to be careful.

If an accident occurs during the filming of the main actor, it will not only delay the progress, but also increase many additional expenses for the crew, which is very uneconomical. It is better to do some safety preparations before filming.

"Mr. Link, good morning!"

While chatting with Director Tong, the heroine Vivian Chow walked over here at some point and greeted softly.

The woman was in her early twenties, with an oval face, delicate features, and skin that could be broken by a blow. She wore a pair of platinum-rimmed glasses, and her voice was soft and waxy, with the temperament of a glasses girl.

It's just that her eyes blinked when she spoke, revealing a bit of restraint.

Link nodded and replied, "Hello, Miss Chow."

"Red Zone" has two main female roles.

When casting the movie, out of respect for him, Golden Harvest sent information on ten actresses, including Anita Mui, Vivian Chow, Joey Wong, Michelle Reis, Chingmy Yau, and Ye Zimei, all of whom were Chinese beauties.

When Link looked at the information, he truly understood the embarrassment of the ancient emperors. The three palaces, six courtyards, and seventy-two concubines, it would be a pity to pick any one of them.

After he inquired about Director Stanley Tong's requirements for the heroine, he chose Vivian Chow.

There was no other meaning, mainly because she was suitable for the role. In addition, she is a famous singer and actress in Hong Kong Island and has a certain box office appeal in Asia.

"Miss Chow, is the work on the crew going smoothly?"

"Very smoothly, everyone takes good care of me."

Vivian Chow glanced at him, then lowered her head, and a blush appeared on her cheeks.

"This is my business card. If you encounter any difficulties, you can call me."

Assistant Annie took out a business card and handed it to Vivian Chow.

Vivian Chow thanked her with a red face.

While the two were talking, the surrounding staff turned their heads to look, with ambiguous expressions on their faces, as if they had seen an affair again.

Link chatted with Vivian Chow for a few words, said goodbye and left the crew, and continued to visit other crews to see if there were any difficulties.

The problem with the "Good Will Hunting" script has been solved. Matt Damon wrote a new script according to director Sant's requirements.

After director Sant read it, he felt that it was not as good as the previous revision, and decided to shoot according to the original script.

Before filming "The Man from Earth", Sofia invited several veteran actors to play professors in various professions and conducted three weeks of dialogue training for them.

In addition, director Francis Coppola heard that Sofia was going to make a movie and took the initiative to be the producer and artistic director, being a responsible good father.

The camera, sound recording, prop masters and other staff in the crew came from Link and Old Coppola's crews, all of whom were experienced technical backbones.

Sofia's crew lineup can be described as luxurious.

"You invited so many veteran actors to act, is the movie budget enough?"

No mistake, one first, one hair, one inside, one content, one in, one look!

Link looked at a large group of actors with not very big reputations but strong acting skills gathered in the small crew. The budget of $200,000 was only enough for one person's salary.

"Enough, completely enough. They took the initiative to join the crew and perform with zero pay."

Sofia was wearing the same director's vest and jeans as him, with a ponytail tied up, and her hands in her pockets, looking more capable than usual.

"There's no need for zero pay. We can increase the movie budget. Anything within 2 million is fine."

"No need. They are willing to act in this movie because the script is good enough and can arouse their interest. There is no need to increase additional expenses. Besides, you used $20,000 to shoot 'Buried' and 'Paranormal Activity', why can't I?"

Sofia glanced at him, with a high fighting spirit on her face, looking a bit cute.

"Yes, you can too. You will become the best female director in the world in the future."

Link laughed as he hugged her waist.

"Director is a director, why add a female?"

Sofia bumped his stomach with her arm.

"Because the most outstanding director in the future world must be me."

"You? Garbage movie director, Ed Wood the Second?"

Sofia laughed jokingly.

Link smiled and prepared to say goodbye and leave, because while chatting with Sofia, director Francis Coppola often stared at this side, with a long, old face and a very unhappy expression.

"Don't rush to leave. We'll be busy with our own things in the next few weeks, and I don't know when the next date will be. Since you're here today, let's have one first."

Sofia pulled him to the room upstairs.

"Here?"

"The Man from Earth" set is in an old-fashioned villa in the southern suburbs. Eight actors are reading the script and rehearsing their lines in the living room, including the great director Coppola. Is it appropriate to date here?

"Let's go! I know you can do it."

Sofia asked several uncles and aunts to continue practicing their lines and dragged him to the room upstairs for a date.

The great director Coppola stared at the backs of the two, his old face stretched even longer, just like his great-nephew Nicolas Cage's face.

Several uncles and aunts originally wanted to make a few jokes, but seeing his ugly face and his inability to take a joke, everyone wisely did not speak and continued to study the script.