[US Entertainment] Best Director

Juliet changed into a plain dress.

The brown red lipstick made her look very sad.

The prop master brought Juliet a Marlboro.

Juliet walked down the long corridor of the casino with Marlboro in her arms.

It wasn't until Pierre found the most beautiful shooting angle that he rested.

Prairie sits in front of the monitor.

Juliet walked to Prairis's side, and the makeup artist took out the toolbox and began to touch up her makeup.

"You seem to have been chatting for a long time." Juliet raised her eyebrows jokingly.

Prairie shrugged incredulously.

"Is he chasing you?" Juliet asked.

"No." Prairie replied.

Juliet took a puff of her cigarette and raised her eyebrows.

She'd bet that handsome boy was after Prairie.

Taking the phone from the assistant, she Googled Denis and found that, like his mother, he was also a writer.

Writer and director.

Seems like a good choice.

Juliet looked at Prairie playfully.

Prairis was a little embarrassed by her meaningful gaze.

He stroked his forehead helplessly.

"Hey, Juliet, it's really not what you think."

"Don't be so nervous. It's no big deal to admit it. Could it be that you haven't been in love before?" Juliet smiled and blew out smoke rings.

"..."

Prairie's fair face flushed red.

"...Have you really never been in love?"

"..."

Juliet looked at Prairie in disbelief.

It seemed that he had made up a hundred annual dramas in his head. After a long time, he patted Prairis on the shoulder seriously and seriously.

"Oh dear, you are so cute."

Makeup artist Anna suddenly felt as if she knew something extraordinary.

The next day, the news that the director had never been in love spread throughout the crew.

Even Luc Besson called, saying that there was a nice young man whom Prairie might meet.

And Juliette Binoche is firmly on the side of Denis.

Within a month, Denis was invited to visit the class six times.

"Juliet, maybe you can reduce the number of times you invite Denis?" While Denis was talking to Pierre, Prairis walked up to Juliet holding the sixth flavor of baked muffins that Denis brought this month. Side, said helplessly.

"Aren't muffins delicious?" Juliet blinked.

"good to eat……"

"That's it." Juliet interrupted Prairis, and then said, "Besides, Denis is also Sagan's son. It is normal to visit her mother's biographical film class."

It's normal for Denis to visit the class, but it's not normal to ask her shyly if she's free for a cup of coffee every time she comes...

It seemed that someone had mentioned him, Denis looked up, and happened to see Praris and Juliet looking in his direction, his ears turned red suddenly, and he waved his hand cutely.

"Could it be that you don't want Denis to visit the class?" Juliet nodded at Denis, then looked at Prairis beside her, and asked with interest.

After saying that, he deliberately raised his chin and pointed in the direction of Denis.

"........."

Although he really wanted to refuse, but looking at Denis's soft and harmless face, he couldn't say the words to refuse.

I had no choice but to turn around and chat with the lighting engineer.

And Juliet thinks that Prairis is shy when she sees this scene.

**

It didn't take long to finish shooting all the shots and copy all the materials to the editor, and Prairis started his vacation.

Spielberg's "Raiders of the Lost Ark 4" has also completed the first cut, and invited Prairis to see the effect.

As a matter of course, Prairis booked a plane ticket and returned to Hollywood.

"How?" Spielberg asked.

"It's a good commercial film." Prairis replied sincerely.

This is a good movie, even if the connotation and audio-visual language are not outstanding, it does not hinder the commercial excellence of the movie itself.

This is the most fundamental difference between Prairis and Spielberg, and it is also the fundamental difference between European directors and Hollywood directors.Pryris was able to make "Doctor Who" and get a good reputation in the UK, all because of the philosophical atmosphere of the "Doctor" series itself. If it is replaced by any other Hollywood series except DC, I am afraid it will have a good reputation at the box office. all lost.

But Spielberg is different. The "New Hollywood" generation headed by Spielberg has always adhered to the directing style of both refined and popular tastes. When making commercial films, the audio-visual effects are perfect, and when making literary films, they will also start from the perspective of the audience. , Make some well-organized literary films.

Literary films, well-organized, not ostentatious - this is almost impossible in Europe, especially in France.

French literary films often have a special quality, which may be bright and delicate colors, or tense and gloomy shots, or a delicate and sad overall atmosphere-but none of them are calm and steady, like Commercials before the climax.

This unique feature also makes French literary films stand out among the crowd, and they can be easily judged at a glance.

It's like "Rodin's Lover" and "Atonement" are put together with "The Shawshank Redemption" and "Girl Genius". You don't even need to turn on the music. You can easily know that the former is French, just by looking at the pictures and narrative. The latter is Hollywood.

This is a difference in temperament, but also a difference in conception.

French movies are works of art, so they have the courage to appreciate their own solitude, and often focus on the changes of "people". Hollywood movies are commodities, so they are famous for their concise and clear narratives, and put the main "literary points" on society, on a question.

The audience of artworks is limited, but the audience of commodities is unlimited, which is why Hollywood can surpass France, which used to be the number one in the world of movies, and occupy the title of the number one dream-making field of movies.

Prairis suddenly remembered a sentence that was widely circulated in his previous life.

"French films are for art, Chinese films are for preaching, and only Hollywood has made 'film' truly a worldwide industry."

Involuntarily, a little disappointed.

Spielberg seems to have seen her loss, and also guessed why she was lost.

Only he is different from Praris.

He is an American, a true "Hollywood kid", so when he chose his career direction, he chose "business" and "American literature and art" without hesitation. With European sensitivity and delicacy, she will never be able to truly be "commercial".

This is also the reason for Spielberg's hesitation. As early as the moment Theo mentioned Preris, Spielberg had the idea of ​​​​taking this girl as an apprentice, but this idea has never been said, even in the future. When his agent transferred the contract to this girl, he didn't reveal half of it, because he was not sure, whether he could teach this girl what she needed, and whether what he could teach would weaken the girl's fierceness with talent.

Spielberg has been hesitant.

Because in the final analysis, he and Preris are not in the same genre at all. As a European, the best and most ideal teachers should be Giuseppe Tonadore, Krzysztof The Kieslowski type, not the obvious Hollywood style of him.

But Spielberg's hesitation eventually succumbed to the girl's innate talent.

Spielberg remembers what old friend Martin Scorsese said that day.

"To be reasonable, Stephen, I really don't know what you are struggling with. Don't you have everything that this girl lacks, or what French movies lack? Since you have everything, why are you afraid that you have nothing to teach?" her?"

Since you have all of them, why are you afraid that you have nothing to teach her?

When Spielberg heard this sentence that day, his heart beat rapidly.

He seemed to see himself when he was young, young, passionate, full of yearning for art.

And the movies of that era were nothing, and the Hollywood movie market was at an all-time low.

Some people even say that if you want to be an artist, others will starve for your art.

So he chose commercial in the end, until the market gradually recovered, he filmed "Jaws" and got a little reputation, and then regained his artistic dream in his heart and filmed "Schindler's List".

The high cost of movies determines that movies can never be separated from capital.

——They in Hollywood realized this, which is why New Hollywood has truly become a movie dream.

And any one thing needs a balance of two aspects.

Their generation has truly brought film from art to the public, and the goal of their generation is to keep the film alive, and the people represented by Pryris just symbolize another type—another kind of people who are committed to A type of people with artistic feelings who bring movies back from "commodity" to art.

And the road leading to the avenue of art and the road far away from capital is destined to be uneasy, because it goes against the inevitability of the development of things.

And this kind of anxiety that must be passed on the way, he may be able to help her reduce it—even with her talent, she may be able to create a new film genre where art and commerce coexist—thinking of this, Spielberg's blood boiled, as if returning to the film. When I was young, I had that unrepentant love for movies.

So, that day, Spielberg called Praris and became her teacher.

Now that Prairis has returned from France, he visits himself as a "student" for the first time.

I think of the several literary films she has filmed since her debut, as well as that not-so-good commercial film with obvious European philosophy.

Spielberg suddenly felt a sense of responsibility that he had never felt before.

Put your hands together and look at the short-haired girl in front of you.

"Reith, maybe you can try a commercial film for your next movie?"