Producer [American Entertainment]

After recognizing his "friend", Sabatino asked William again: "Are you bored? The ceremony will begin soon."

William shook his head. He pushed his light purple Ray-Ban sunglasses and gave an ambiguous answer: "It's quite interesting."

Originally, William was still hesitating whether it would be disrespectful to wear sunglasses on such an occasion, but he didn't realize until the church that everyone loves to wear sunglasses to wear X.He also followed the crowd, driving the 2B250 cheating device, watching it with great joy, and actively looking for people with evil intentions for his cousin and grandfather.

Of course, only a few can really be found.

Because 2B250 can only analyze people who are hostile to William, unless that person already hates his grandfather and cousin to the extent that they also hate the people around them, otherwise he really can't find any "enemies".The amazing thing is, there really is a madman who hates his grandfather and cousin to the bone, and wants to kill him together by the way.

But these people didn't need William's reminder, Sabatino had already warned William in advance: "Stay away from those people, they have bad intentions."

_(:з)∠)_My cousin is too versatile, my golden finger is useless, so sad. BY: William.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the "funeral" began on time.

William and Sabatino are sitting in the first row on the left, and in the same row is William's bodyguard captain Shirley. As long as William is in New York, Shirley will protect him personally. This is what William promised Sabatino .Especially today, when there is no distinction between the enemy and the enemy, Shirley is almost inseparable from William. Her eyes are always accurate, and her eyes are fixed on several dangerous elements marked as "high risk" by 2B250.

William is completely helpless. On this earth where even bodyguards are more effective than 2B250, how can aliens mess around? !

The second boss, the Bayer family, also sat in the same row as William.Henry hugged a Latina beauty, who had a devil figure with protruding front and back. She wore a black tube top dress, which looked like a uniform and seductive. Many people (including women) couldn't help looking at her. This made Henry, who brought her here, feel very honored.

The pastor came to the stage and began to preside over the prayer. It is said that the other party was a well-known religious leader of the Orthodox sect, but William didn't care too much.After the hymns and eulogies, it was the turn of the family to speak.

William did what he said, and he refused to go on stage to recall his grandfather's "lifetime" with others, because his grandfather did not die.At this time, the other party was happily lying in the half-open coffin, listening soberly to other people saying good things about him.

If the "funeral" is not held, William will probably never know how many members of the Bernstein family there are, and how many of these members have the acting potential to win Oscars.There is no doubt, he was just making fun of it. During the speaking session, someone actually burst into tears!That is a strong black man who is taller than Sabatino!

Interspersed in the speech is the "biography" of the elder Bernstein.

This time, the funeral planner ingeniously adopted high-tech, played a slide show, accompanied by a huge organ accompaniment, and briefly reviewed the magnificent life of the old Bernstein for everyone present.

William clearly heard a certain boss behind him bewildered: "I didn't seem to have seen this photo when I showed it in kind the year before last."

The director of NYPD spoke up and replied: "It was used four years ago."

So, how familiar are you with this "funeral"?

The "funeral" of William's grandfather, in addition to scaring William a lot at first, actually played some magical effects on William's career, other than getting to know people.

The major newspapers that are only allowed to report in writing, because of the identity of the grandson of William Sr. Bernstein, and the mysterious past that has nothing to write about, can only truthfully report William’s current occupation and his role as the producer. The movie "Blood Red Splashing White Gauze" once again created a sense of presence in front of the whole United States.

That's a movie made by the godfather's grandson!

And when Sabatino led William to say hello to the "uncles", they inevitably asked what William was doing, whether he was going to school, or working with Sabatino or Old Bernstein.

Sabatino replied for his cousin: "I have already graduated with a master's degree, and I am studying film production with MGM."

"Hey, you're still an artist?" Everyone would always compliment him against their will, "Do you have any works? I'll definitely ask my brothers to join in."

""Blood Red Splashed White Gauze", a low-budget horror film." William refused to cooperate with any artistic atmosphere.

But the "uncles" can still open their eyes and talk nonsense, saying that horror movies are good and have depth!Although they are just showing courtesy, they will definitely arrange for the people below to support the box office intentionally. These are all real money.Between different families, it is only a question of the number of people, and no matter how many people there are, it is not a small number when they add up.

Even Henry took people to watch several shows, although he said very cheaply that he just felt sorry for his nephew and didn't want William's box office to be too ugly.

It is said that the FBI is also planning to organize a look, or buy a video tape for storage, because they want to study William's character from the movie.

"..." William was speechless.

William thought his grandfather's hobby of holding "funerals" for himself was weird, but probably in the eyes of others, William, the godfather's grandson who cast a good baby but used it to make movies, was also weird.

Shirley swears to William afterwards that she saw many people shake their heads at William behind their backs with the eyes of "prodigal sons who are not doing business properly".

"It's just the pursuit of being different." William was a little angry. He didn't say that those people had bad careers. What position did they have to accuse him of making a wrong choice?Can't we all respect each other?

What really pushed the blood-red box office to its peak was the Academy Awards ceremony held on April 4.

Uh, I also know that it is impossible for a pure popcorn movie like Blood Red to win any awards at the Oscars, not even to be nominated.But it became known to everyone because of the interview after the awards.

The cause also comes from Sally.Field, really by virtue of his role in "Norma.Speaking of the delicate acting skills in "Bud", he won the 52nd Oscar for Best Actress.

In front of the auditorium of the Los Angeles Music Center, facing countless cameras and flashing lights, Field, holding the statuette aloft, shed tears of excitement. She really succeeded.After sobbing and thanking the people around him routinely, Field deliberately mentioned a name that made everyone feel strange, William.

"Here, I must thank William, because you are the one who is most sure that I will win the award. I have never had any communication with a stranger before. Of course, I think we are friends now. But you don't know, in When I was at my lowest that day, your sudden appearance and your encouragement and affirmation played a role in me. Facing those blue eyes that can drown people, I feel that even if you tell me that you are God , I will believe it."

In the short interview after the award, the reporter asked Field specifically who William was.

"He is my friend. We met in a restaurant by chance. He was a young man with indescribable magical powers. He was a prophet, considerate and gentle. Oh, by the way, he is the producer of MGM. Just now I made my first film in my life, "Blood and White Gauze", I think many people should have heard of it, it was a miracle at the box office, as I said, William is a man with magical powers."

In many cases, it is always difficult to explain things like prophecy, who made who.

The most famous Greek tragic figure, Oedipus, prophesied that he would kill his father and marry his mother, so he was abandoned by his biological father when he was born. , In the end, he really killed his father and married his mother.

Field's statement that William has magical powers just so happens to confirm this.The audience walked into the theater with curiosity about William and his films, and when more and more people did so, the blood-red box office naturally doubled, so more people because of " "Miracle" came here especially, just like a rolling snow ball, getting bigger and bigger.

In the end, it really became a blood-red dark horse at the box office, and the investment and income increased by more than [-] times.

What is this concept?That is to say, with this money, MGM can make more than a dozen new low-cost movies, or make a normal movie seriously.

It's a pity that William no longer has time to pay attention to Blood Red.He only took the time to call Field to express his thanks. For the rest of the time, William basically spent the rest of the time with Wheeler's assistant director, Chapman, smashing the script breakdown table.

Wheeler took over the production of MGM's new movie, which has not yet been given a specific name, but is generally called the fifth script, or a crime comedy.When Sabatino gave the script, he also gave it a name, "Two Smoking Barrels", but Wheeler didn't seem to like this name very much. He wanted to change it, but to this day, he still doesn't like it. I didn't work together with the screenwriters around me to come up with a more suitable one.

Wheeler has always looked like he has nothing to do, but in fact, the pre-planning and production of the film have long been in intense preparations.

Since Sabatino gave a very mature script, Wheeler's early team skipped a lot of links, reducing at least a few months of preparation time.

William missed some due to illness and his grandfather's "funeral", but fortunately, he caught up with the production script breakdown.

The script decomposition table, as the name suggests, is to convert an excellent script with hundreds of pages into a several-month shooting schedule listed in the table.

The things involved in the script decomposition table are very complicated. Generally speaking, it is based on the plot arrangement, summarizing information such as character costumes, props, sets, special effects, etc., and then arrange as much as possible to shoot scenes with the same venue and costumes together. This can save the crew a lot of budget and labor costs.

The shooting content of the movie is never the chronological order of following the plot, but the unifying elements following the same props, costumes and backgrounds.

It is very likely that the actors are still acting at the beginning one moment, and will start to act the end at the next moment, just because the venue used in the two scenes is the same, they cannot rent it repeatedly, wasting time and money on the set.

Don't discuss with the director who is always struggling with funding, what actors to enter the play, that is what the actor needs to consider, not the director.If an actor can't handle this kind of span, why would the director use him?There are many actors. In Hollywood, it is rare that a certain role belongs to someone else.Even if it does exist, with the brilliant hands of the screenwriting team, it can quickly become non-existent.

Since he started working as a producer, William's previous inherent understanding of movies has been refreshed over and over again.

When William joined the new film, the script breakdown table was almost done.The job Wheeler assigned him was: "Give me a pre-budget estimate based on the script breakdown table."

"What about you?" William found that Wheeler is really a good producer. He managed to achieve the highest level of a big production as if he didn't do anything. He only needed to make a phone call.

"I wait for you to turn in an assignment that you think is perfect, and then deny it," Wheeler admitted with a smile.

"..."

The author has something to say: *In the early 80s, the Oscars held their awards ceremony in April.

*"Two Smoking Barrels" is actually a British movie in the 90s. When talking about black crime comedies, you must talk about it. It has created a new theme and is a benchmark.