[American Entertainment] The road to becoming a god

At the end of March and the beginning of April, the filming tasks of "Interview with the Vampire 2" were all completed. Although the atmosphere between the two leading actors was quite awkward, and they were accompanied by other people's visits, fortunately, both of them are actors with professional qualities. The description of the plot in the script was completed at the request of the director.

During this period, Leonardo kept in touch with Gaspar, except that he went to shoot Woody Allen's "Celebrity" in the middle, and he went to the crew almost every other day. He even made a guest appearance in Interview with the Vampire 2, a passerby whose blood was sucked dry by Gaspar's Armand.

"Let's go for a ride on the sea, Gaspar, rent a yacht or something." After the last day of the party, Leonardo picked up Gaspar in his car, and he pushed his sunglasses on top of his head and asked, "Is the sun still shining today?" Not great, but I checked and the sun is going to be really nice in two days."

Gaspar said goodbye to the crew and sat in Leonardo's co-pilot. He took out his own sunglasses from the drawer and put them on, and then rejected Leonardo's proposal.

"I have a very important job to do today, and the holidays have to be postponed for a while," he said. "Remember the game at Christmas, Gerald kept his word, he really gave The check that gave me 2 million let me spend it."

Leonardo raised an eyebrow.

"Do you have to talk about it today?" He knocked on the steering wheel with some dissatisfaction, "I finally waited until you finished that damn movie."

Gasper is happy with his use of 'fucking' to describe the film that just wrapped, but obviously, more importantly, he has to talk about the project today, and if it's later, I'm afraid it won't be theirs up.

He nodded slightly: "Gossip, what we are looking for today is a script that will explode in the future, Leo, do you know that someone is going to put Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" on the screen, and he is looking for it? He is the person I want to talk about the project."

Gaspar fastened his seat belt and raised his chin to direct Leonardo to drive. At the same time, he said lightly: "Whether it is from an artistic or commercial point of view, this is an opportunity I cannot miss."

"Okay, follow orders, let's start now—" Leonardo rolled his eyes as if accepting his fate, and then started the car. He gritted his teeth and said sweetly: "But after this, you have to pay I'm on vacation."

"Of course." Gaspar promised not very sincerely, "If we can sign the contract today, we will be able to enjoy the beautiful exotic scenery next year. The world described by Tolkien will definitely not be filmed in the beautiful country, maybe Going somewhere off the beaten track in Europe."

"Oh, wait, I thought you were going to talk about the project as a producer, not as an actor in it." Leonardo held the steering wheel with one hand and put the other on the window frame. The head took off the sunglasses and said, "Or do you want to work part-time, producer and starring?"

Gaspar snapped his fingers and looked at Leonardo with admiring eyes through the sunglasses.

Leonardo expressed his incomprehension.

"Well, which character do you want? Vatican?" he asked, "If my memory is not wrong, Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" is almost a history book, and the time span is very large. , I want to put it on the big screen—"

The second half of the sentence is properly left blank, because they all know what he wants to say. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" is indeed very beautiful, perfectly presenting all aspects of another fantasy world, and its most powerful point is It is that its text perfectly fits everyone's imagination, but you must know that everyone's imagination is different, and it is the most difficult part to unify them visually.

Gaspar shrugged.

"That depends on how our big director will arrange it." He said with the corners of his lips curled up.

Seeing that Gaspar seemed very confident about the person he was about to meet, Leonardo became curious about him.

Leonardo: "How did you notice him?"

Gaspar: "He solicited investment everywhere and went to Mirax, but was severely humiliated by the other party. It was quite a big deal at the time."

"I have a little impression." Leonardo nodded, thought for a while, and then asked, "What's his name?"

"Peter," Gaspar replied, "Peter Jackson."

……

Peter Jackson hit a wall for a whole month. Every producer and investor he met thought he was crazy. They thought it was impossible for him to shoot the effect he described, so the project could not be profitable. money.

The most excessive one was Hakien Mirax, that guy was so angry that it made people's teeth itch.Even though it's been almost a month, when Jackson recalled the day when he was thrown out of the office building with a belt by the security guard, he still can't help feeling angry.

Forced to calm down, Jackson packed his manuscripts into his briefcase and changed into the only suit he could afford.Today he is going to seek investment from the last film company (New Line Films), if he can't succeed today, he may really have to give up on this project.

Although he doesn't want to say this, but - the director also has to eat, now is not the time for him to spend 4 years with his friends making the vulgar and mindless cult film "Space Stranger", nor is it that they rely on cheating When you come to invest in a movie like "Crazy Fat Treasure Show".

I still remember that when people commented on the movies he directed: there was a sense of nausea that was funny, crazy and intoxicating at the same time.

He walked out of the house with his briefcase. He stood in front of the door to cheer himself up. He rehearsed the words of the producer of "Flicker" several times in his mind. Afterwards, he locked the door with the key, took a deep breath, and prepared to go to the garage to drive. .

However, just as he was about to open the garage door, he heard brakes behind him.

"Mr. Jackson?"

Hearing the inquiry, Peter Jackson looked back. It was a car that smelled of Hollywood from the tires to the paintwork. He couldn't think of what happened for a while.

"Mr. Jackson, Peter Jackson?"

The person on the co-pilot got off, and he asked again.

"I am." Jackson nodded in a daze, and he swallowed: "Excuse me—"

I saw the black-haired boy take off his sunglasses and reveal a delicate face. He walked over and extended his right hand to Jackson: "Hi, I'm Gaspar Cook, the person in charge of Red Shell Company, I want to Talk to you about the filming of "The Lord of the Rings."

Peter Jackson froze, blinking.

"What, what?"

……

Peter Jackson was sitting on the sofa with a dazed expression, and he couldn't be blamed for this, as anyone would have the same expression.Opposite him sat two future Hollywood stars, the golden-haired one was Leonardo, and the black-haired one was Gaspard. His mind was very slowly matching the achievements of the two in front of him with their faces. Number.

Was he smoking something without knowing it?

Jackson cast suspicious eyes on the empty takeaway box, perhaps because the fried noodles he ordered were not clean enough, which made him hallucinate in broad daylight.

Peter Jackson, who was wandering alone in Hollywood, knocked on his forehead, ready to ignore the illusion, stood up, and re-invested in the business of attracting investment.

……

"What's wrong with him? He's in a trance, as if he hasn't woken up." Gaspar looked at Jackson suspiciously, and asked Leonardo beside him softly, "Have you ever seen such a situation?"

Leonardo nodded seriously: "I know, he is going through three stages."

Gaspar: "Three stages?"

Leonardo: "That's right, when people encounter great joy or great sorrow, it will be like this. Simply put, it is-stage one: doubt the facts; stage two: deny the facts; stage three: accept the facts."

Gaspar seemed to understand, he nodded hesitantly: "So Jackson is now—"

Leonardo picks up the second half of Gaspar's sentence: "Phase One: Doubting the facts."

……

This can't be true, these two boys must have some kind of conspiracy.Peter Jackson squinted his eyes and stared at the two opposite, wildly guessing their purpose.

aha!Jackson clenched his right hand and slammed the palm of his left hand.

They must have come to steal the script!He thought, it was definitely that bastard Mirax who asked them to come, first let him relax his vigilance by talking about the project, and then when he took out the script, they would quickly snatch the script and take it back to Mirax. Lax.My own results for nearly a year will become someone else's, and that fellow Mirax has saved costs and gained fame.

Unmistakable, it must be.

There was a kind of naive ferocity in Jackson's eyes.

Leonardo noticed this, he leaned closer to Gaspar, and whispered in that 'look, I'll say' tone.

"See, it's the second stage."

God, I can't believe it.

Gaspar lowered his head, pinching the space between his brows in distress.

Leonardo patted him on the shoulder in relief: "Don't worry, we will enter the next stage soon, and he will accept the facts."

……

However, in fact, Jackson did not enter the third stage, and the degree of the second stage was more serious on him. He remembered the rumors in the circle that Mirax wanted to ban Gaspar and the like, so he denied that Gaspar was This thought was sent by Mirax.

In order to test this point, Peter Jackson came up with a bad trick: talk about the budget before coming up with the script, and deliberately said that the figure was too high, and at the same time said bluntly and extremely arrogantly that he would make a trilogy.

If Gaspar had come with sincerity, he would have shown at least a little conflict, and if he had been sent, he would have been furious.

"How about it, can you accept it?" He folded his hands and leaned on the sofa and raised one leg, "A budget of 1 million, trilogy, I mean each one needs 1 million, doesn't it mean A total of 1 million will be needed to make three films."

After speaking, Jackson thought a little proudly, he is really amazing, he came up with such a wonderful idea, he deserves to be the man who will shoot "Lord of the Rings".

However, what he didn't expect was that Gaspar Cook agreed without batting an eye when faced with the sky-high budget.

He didn't see Gaspar's surprised and angry expressions, he miscalculated.

In a way, he also won.

And what surprised him even more was yet to come.

Gaspar Cook thought for a while, then frowned and said to him: "I can give you a budget of 1 million, but—"

The word 'but' reassured Jackson a lot, because it showed that the other party's investment was conditional, not a pie that fell from the sky, which was more real and more like a negotiation.

He thought, let him hear what the conditions are first, if the other party just brings in a few young actors, then he can accept it, after all, this is Hollywood, and Hollywood does not engage in charity.

However, when Gaspar followed the 'but', it was supposed to be a turning point, but he didn't want to put any conditions.

"——I think 1 million is probably not enough. Tolkien's scene is very grand, and there are still many buildings that cannot find prototypes at all. We need to ask a concept designer to design first and then build it." Gaspar expressed very Seriously, really thinking that the art concept designer in the industry is competent, he looked at Jackson: "Investment is not a problem, as long as you can seriously restore the scenes in the novel, we can add up to 2 million."

After thinking for a while, Gaspar added: "I mean, each movie will be added to 2 million, not a total of 2 million, is that okay?"

Peter Jackson was almost paralyzed on the sofa, his bones seemed to melt away.

Is this person crazy? How did he say 2 million as simple as a few million? No, a few million is still too much. According to Gaspar, the budget has increased from 1 million to 2 million, just like today's Broccoli is as simple as $1 more than it was yesterday.

"Mr. Jackson?"

Gasper's voice brought the New Zealander back to reality. He forced himself to be calm, wiped the sweat from his brow, and cleared his throat again.

"I want to know—" he loosened his neckline, "you really want to provide investment and not some weird prank show, right?"

"Of course," Gaspar blinked, "we can sign the contract now if you want—do you have a fax machine here, I have to get Gerald, my partner, to actually give you The investment guy faxed the contract."

Seeing Gaspar's action of making a phone call, Jackson really believed it now.

Leonardo jumped up from the couch to applaud.

"Look at Gaspar, Phase Three!"

Gaspar smiled reservedly at the dumbfounded Jackson, and then twisted Leonardo's lower back in a gentle manner.

"Never mind him," he said. "The contract is ready. Where's the fax machine?"

……

After a pleasant two and a half hours, Jackson signed his name on the contract smartly. After signing almost all the papers and pressing his fingerprints, Jackson called everyone to inform everyone of the good news, including that he had three children. Dad's elementary school classmate and the mean neighbor granny who had tapped his calf with a cane years before.

After that, he waved the check to recruit troops, and Gaspar and Leonardo also boarded the plane non-stop. Of course, this time it was no longer Gerald's private jet, because the place they were going to The Thales family has not yet been able to expand their business there.

In the first-class cabin, Gaspar smiled and took the black tea handed by the stewardess. It tasted a little sour, and he took a sip before putting it down.Leonardo, sitting to his left, was poring over brochures of destinations like a child traveling by air for the first time.

"Hey Gaspar, look at this!" Leonardo brought one side of the album under Gasper's nose, and then pointed to one of the attractions on it, "Let's go here while you're filming ,So beautiful!"

Gaspar tilted his head to look over.

On the few lines of English that Leonardo read, a few Chinese characters were written squarely.

"Lamma Island."

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The author has something to say:

Waving the check to subdue Peter the Great, the next stop—hey, Hong Kong (you will meet a lot of big shots)

And, yesterday I watched the second season of "Excitement", listened to "Lostin the Fire" in potted plants, and rewatched "Damn Tenderness", which led to the birth of dog blood 2333

But the main purpose is to let Leo come out, and the trip to Hong Kong will warm up the feelings.

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