Raising Dragons in Hollywood

[[-]] Choose Difficult Mage Dragon

Compared with the little round-faced humans who are always thinking about themselves, and even the Michelon who does not hesitate to follow and peep.

Sammy's performance undoubtedly seemed a little 'cold-blooded', he didn't think of Mikey for a minute, no, not even a second.

He bid farewell to Ms. Selina, and the first thing he did after returning home was to dig out a bunch of occult materials and reinvest in the research on "The Exorcist". He planned to take the camera and find a place to Find a way to shoot a few good samples, and strive to get this hard-won opportunity of "slaying the dragon on the big screen".

As for Mai Qilong's hasty proposal?

Isn't that a joke?

Sammy apparently thought so.

But, what's worse is...

This joking process was seen by the two older brothers in the family and led to a not-so-good misunderstanding.

Especially when the big mouth of the second brother Dunbar quickly exposed the whole thing to the other brothers.

This misunderstanding becomes more difficult to explain.

On that day, even the always stable eldest brother Duke began to look at him with a very tolerant gaze, trying to comfort him and said, "Don't worry, Sammy. Regardless of gender, race, or appearance, as long as you like it, I will try my best to adapt to it." Yes, it just takes a little time. But you have to believe that Big Brother will always stand behind you."

It sounds so touching!

But it only takes a few seconds to be moved, if you don't watch the chat group.

In the chat group belonging to the younger generation of Griffin family brothers and sisters, the eight brothers in the family, plus a few distant cousins ​​and cousins, had already targeted the "youngest brother in the family suspected of finding a gay man" that night. The topic of conversation was in full swing.

Because they chatted so happily that Sammy’s words [that’s not real, it’s just a joke] were quickly overwhelmed by countless swiping messages, and no one paid attention to them in the end.

During this discussion, this group of boring people also divided into three factions, and they started the Three Kingdoms debate lively.

One faction is more old-fashioned and rigid, and insists: [Our little Sa can still like girls. After a while, I will introduce some beautiful girls to him. What does it look like when he is with men?Outrageous, opposed, resolutely opposed];

The other school thinks: [In modern society, it is free to like men and women, don't be old-fashioned.Look at Sami, Sami has the right to choose the person he likes, support, firmly support];

The last faction's opinion is: [For Sammy's choice of whoever he likes, but against the guy named Mikey. ]

Because, [This guy looks unreliable. He has been eating Sami, drinking Sami, living in Sami, and letting Sami support him. Now that he has just become famous, he proposes again. What is he doing?This is going to depend on our little Sa for the rest of his life (Mai Qi was surprised: amazing, it has all been seen)! ]

These people are arguing in the group every day, and they even pull Sami to give them a reason:

[Sammy, tell me, who is right? ]

Sami, who was forced to come out, blocked the whole group tiredly.

The unreliability of the brothers and sisters almost broke his heart: "You don't really want to care about me at all, you just find an excuse to fight! You don't care whether I like men or women, what you care about is... who I can win this debate."

The Griffins had countless children, each with at least a dozen cousins.

People who have lived in groups all the year round will more or less learn a little bit, that is, don't worry too much, and don't pay too much attention, otherwise, all kinds of trivial things will annoy you to death.

So, Sammy put the matter aside heartily.

As for the question of coming out of the closet, he didn't bother to distinguish: "Why should I justify myself like a erroneous elementary school student, whether I like men? Or women? Childish! Isn't dragon slaying fun?"

It would definitely not be fun if Mai Qilong said it.

But now he almost didn't know what to do with Sammy.

Sammy Griffin, a great friend (he is willing to share everything with friends), a terrible colleague (perennial overtime and all-out work mode often forces everyone to want to kill him and then commit suicide every day), And, pretty badass racist (every time he talks about dragon slaying, he gets excited like a genocidal Nazi).

On the last point, Mikey was often so angry that he wanted to break up with him.

For this reason, he secretly wrote some letters of resignation in private, such as 'I am determined not to talk to you again, because you never respect dragons'; It has been driving me to leave you, that power is very strong, really strong'; and 'No matter how much you cry to keep me and apologize to me (never have), I will not forgive you easily'.

But in fact, these letters of severance will eventually be burned to ashes by him.

The next day, I followed Sammy around as usual, why broke up?Nothing at all.

The spineless Charmander was completely dazzled by his little round-faced humans.

This feels a bit like the sentence in the drawing fairy tale book "The Little Prince", "Maybe there are five thousand flowers in the world that are exactly like you, but only you are my unique rose".For Mikey, it's also like, 'Maybe there are 80 billion human beings in the world, but only you are my unique human being. '

So, he didn't want to work.

Every day, he wanders around the door of Sammy's house like a pervert.

The agent, Miss Brenda, is completely desperate.

She finally realized that she had made a super-losing deal, that the new actor, handsome, glamorous and seemingly promising, was actually a mentally ill psycho, and worse, a very scary neuropathy.

Although I don't understand how I was so frightened that day that I dared not move.

But Miss Brenda instinctively sensed a kind of danger based on her years of experience in the entertainment industry, so in the following days, she avoided disadvantages and no longer helped Mikey take any jobs, just being a subordinate No such person.

Although doing so gave Michelon more free time.

But his behavior really made Sammy speechless.

In Mikey's imagination, the appearance of himself standing at the door and guarding silently is as steady and reliable as a mountain.

But in Sami's view, a tall, handsome man stood sneakily at the door of his house all day long, and he was in a daze without speaking when meeting each other. No matter he opened the door or the window, he could always see him. Stare blankly, what the hell is this?

It took about a week or so, and I was overwhelmed by Mikey's patience (for a dragon, one week is not enough to sleep).

Sammy finally decided to say something.

Whether Mikey had been joking or not, he thought he needed to reiterate an important point.

That is: "I don't intend to marry, let alone marry you."

Michelon is very understanding.

He gave a standard answer full of sadness: "I understand, you just want to slay the dragon."

Check it out!

What is a bosom friend?What is a best friend?

This is it!

Before you take the initiative to say it, he will understand and understand everything!

Satisfied, Sammy nodded again and again.

Then, he continued to ask in a clearly relaxed tone: "Then what are you doing here? Haven't you worked recently?"

"No..." Mikey replied.

"Impossible!" Sami was stunned: "Aren't you very popular a while ago? Why didn't you have a job?"

Mai Qi resolutely dumped the blame on the innocent lady agent.

"Brenda didn't give me a job," he said.

"How could she do this?" Sammy suddenly became unhappy.

Mikey was not too wicked, and hastily added: "I don't want to work recently either."

Sammy's face softened a little.

But he still has a feeling of 'my friend is being bullied', the brotherhood in his bones reappeared, and his all-encompassing character surfaced again, although he didn't propose to let Mikey move back home , but the elder brother impulsively decided to take Mikey to play with him in the next sample filming.

Naturally, Mai Qilong would not object, and followed up happily on the spot.

Then, he met another dragon, a black dragon, fake.

Sammy is really ambitious this time and wants to make a big scene.

Therefore, he contacted the special effects artist he knew in his previous work, and tried to create a temporary animated short film of about ten minutes. The content was about a prophetic dream of the protagonist, the exorcist Albioni—a night of Halloween carnival. .

The streets and alleys were crowded with crowds, and there were monsters and demons who took the opportunity to mix in the crowd. Colorful lights shone on them. The monster, it seems that the whole picture is ghostly and lifeless.

And the only protagonist who didn't dress up as a monster, but just dressed up as an ordinary person, in the crowd, looked like a different kind.

He frantically weaves through the hordes of monsters, frightened and maliciously jostled until fireworks explode in the sky.

The shadows that had previously surrounded the city magically squirmed.

Then, a huge black dragon broke free from the shadows and rose into the sky, completely covering the whole city.

The animation or something is not done yet.

But for the sake of personal preference, the dragon is done well.

Sami had contacted the prop master a long time ago to come up with a black dragon model that was not too big, but not too small.

This black dragon model has been made extremely ferocious and terrifying. It has long fangs and hard black scales that look like erected weapons. Its body is quite tall for a human being. The huge red longan seems to be staring at the ground, full of murderous intent.

Sami was so satisfied seeing this model, so excited, he couldn't wait to rush over, kiss, hug and ride.

Before that, he also handed the mobile phone to Mikey, instructing the other party to take a photo of himself and Heilong.

But the problem is...

——What's the difference between that and going out on the wall in front of me?

Although it is a fake dragon, there is no need to care about it.

But at any rate, make a red dragon!Why Black Dragon?

Mikey frowned, and the expression of the whole dragon was not good.

He didn't even want to take some shitty picture of Sammy.

If this kind of intimate group photo is taken, it will be seen by the dragons of the same clan in the future...

ah ah!He will definitely be ridiculed to death by the crowd! !

[Mai Qi, are you okay? Why would the lover you believe would rather kiss a fake dragon than play with you? ]

[God!It's a black dragon, from the black dragon clan!God of Dragons, Micky, you are too embarrassing for our fire dragons. ]

[Micky, are you a male fire dragon?Watching the lover kiss and hug a black dragon, but still helping to take pictures? ]

[Ah ah ah!You useless dragon, shame on you fire dragon clan! ]

"Micky, are you ready?"

At this time, Sammy, who had been holding the black dragon's neck for a long time, poked his head out impatiently and shouted.

The underage Charmander held the phone tightly.

His heart was getting heavier: "Tobeornottobe, that'saquestion."

[[-]] Best Special Effects Michelon

Under Sami's increasingly dissatisfied gaze, Mai Qilong still chose to take an 'intimate' photo for them.

This made his heart very tormented and painful, so that when he left the studio of the prop master, he frequently looked behind him, and with a pair of angry eyes, shot a (non-existent) death light wave towards the fake black dragon.

Sammy misunderstood his behavior and felt a sense of confidant again.

He patted Mikey on the shoulder and said, "You can't bear it, right? I know you're the same as me, this dragon did a great job! Look at that end, look at those wings, look at that huge body , XX (referring to the prop master) is really amazing, I love him so much."

——What are you looking at!

— so ugly!so ugly!

and……

——You love prop masters!

—You love that false dragon!

— But you never said you loved me!

Michelon was in more pain.

He was stimulated and felt that he had to do something, otherwise, this matter would be too aggrieved for Long from the beginning to the end.

Sammy was naturally very happy.

Because although the sample is simple, but after choosing Halloween as the background, it fully demonstrates the vivid charm of the various monsters and demons he designed with a lot of effort, and the picture is also full of Sammy Griffin's strong personal Style, a strange and magical world of exorcists, of course, the most brilliant thing is that it always hangs over the city, like a dragon born in the dark shadow, which is very oppressive.

"If this is the case, if you are still rejected, then there is nothing I can do." Sami said to himself.

Then, he stopped thinking about it and turned his attention to some trivial tasks.

After the success of the movie "Say Hello to the World", many co-actors sent text messages of 'Congratulations on the success of the film' and 'I hope to have the opportunity to cooperate in the future'.

For example, one of them, Walren, who likes to hug the thigh very much, and who is very successful in hugging the thigh, sends a greeting text message almost every day.

Facing these text messages, in order not to appear too cold, Sami picked and picked and replied as much as possible.

Although he is not good at this kind of social interaction, maintaining a good relationship with the actors will undoubtedly bring some help to his future work, so it is still necessary to do it.

In addition, there is a backlog of job invitations in the e-mail box.

Sammy also looked around, most of them were not very reliable, just seeing his popularity recently, they swarmed up: "Oh, there is nothing of value, it seems that I should find an assistant, there are so many rubbish mail."

Then, old acquaintances - the Kerry brothers.

The two brothers who were kicked out not long ago were very unwilling. They tried to re-establish a friendly and cooperative relationship with Sami, and sent more than 20 scripts in one go, allowing him to choose, and promised to definitely invest.

If you ignore the shameless behavior of the two brothers...

From the perspective of work alone, the more than 20 scripts they sent were of the highest quality among all the job invitations, and their attitude was also very good, which can be regarded as quite sincere invitations.

In addition, the two brothers did something that surprised Sammy.

Not long ago, they submitted the film "Say Hello to the World" to the Academy and participated in the Oscars.

The movie is a box office hit though.

But as we all know, Oscar has never had a good impression of high-grossing commercial films.Moreover, many people in the circle are not very optimistic about the selection of this film. As the film critic Bobby Hans said, the core and essence of this film are superficial and not worth thinking about.

Most people think that although Bobby Hans is mean, what he said is still a little unreasonable.If "the film finally came to the end, and the band was still unsuccessful", the depth of the film might be a little higher, but if it succeeds, it will become a clichéd happy ending that was badly filmed.

Sammy scoffed at that.

He said bluntly to reporters: "I don't think it's wrong to bring people's hopes and dreams on the screen. Are only those movies that make the audience cry are considered good movies?"

But rule out this little problem.

The performance of the Kerry brothers is really impressive.

They put all their efforts into promoting the Oscars, spending money to hold luxurious banquets one after another, and publicly screened the movie at these banquets to expand the popularity of the movie; Like some kind of vulture chasing its prey, it hovers over the list of judges every day, discussing all kinds of things: "Look, does anyone know this person?" "I think about it, he seems to have cooperated with XX. Contact XX to help us talk."

How to say this?

Marketing and operations have long since ceased to be a topic of shame in modern society.

However, it is not easy to be as shameless and stalking as the Kerry brothers.

For those directors who only want to chase fame and fortune, they will probably be moved by the hard work of the two brothers (after all, if they really win the award, it will be both fame and fortune), and they are willing to cooperate with everything to continue to persevere , until it really regained the alluring crown of Oscar.

Kosami is different.

It's not that he's so lofty that he doesn't care about fame and fortune.

Rather, compared to fame and fortune...

What he thought more about was a punk, cool and unrestrained life of [a little money, a little wine, and good friends around him, who can get in the car and leave at any time].

Thus……

The behavior of the Kerry brothers naturally only made him feel: uncool, embarrassing!

But Sami's IQ is online all year round.

I think so emotionally, but I can understand the 'normal' behavior of the Kerry brothers intellectually.

So, this matter made him very troubled for a while.

In the end, his performance was that he neither supported nor opposed it.

Although afterwards, he defined his actions as 'hypocrisy'.

But because 'I can't think of a better way, I can only let it go'.

The operation of the Kerry brothers helped Sami gain fame indirectly.

This gives him more advantages in his bid to direct "The Exorcist". The Disney company has given great hope to this well-known and thriving new-generation director, especially in the high-level meeting. Mr. Reese has also been actively supporting him, claiming several times that 'Sammy is the most suitable director for "The Exorcist".

From this point of view, Sammy, who clearly wanted to draw a line with the Kerry brothers, had to accept a favor from the two brothers.

It can only be said that these two brothers are so powerful, once they get on it, they can't be shaken off like brown sugar.

However, for the time being, the issue of whether to cooperate with the two brothers in the future is not considered.

When the situation is very good, Sammy's "The Exorcist" director qualification seems to be only a nod from the original author, Ms. Selena.

So, the two soon ushered in a second meeting.

The location of this meeting was simply arranged in Disney's screening room due to the need to broadcast the sample.

Sami returned to the old place and naturally met many acquaintances.

While greeting everyone, he ran to play the sample that he had prepared a long time ago.

Ms. Selena looked very serious.

She said to Sami privately: "I am very grateful for your love for my work, and I am also touched by your efforts, but if it does not meet my requirements, no matter how famous you are now, and no matter how the company imposes on me Pressure, I will not agree."

Sammy didn't mind what she said and acted confident.

He replied: "Try it, I will try my best, but don't discriminate against me just because I am famous."

Ms. Selena was amused.

Only then did the tense atmosphere relax again.

After the sample was played, the screening room was quiet.

That kind of strong personal style makes people unable to move their eyes away. In the prophetic dream of the protagonist, the exorcist Albioni, the Halloween carnival begins, and all kinds of strange and witty monsters and demons appear on the stage together. It looks dark, but it also reveals a kind of innocence. The protagonist fleeing in a panic in the crowd has an unhappy expression on his face, but also a sense of humor.

In the end, when Black Dragon Majestic came out...

A group of Disney managers watched the screen engrossed.

Although from their point of view, the quality of the temporary samples is still a bit low.

But miraculously, there is a powerful charm that makes people want to watch it with a smile.

Ms. Selena was also thinking deeply.

In her opinion, among all the directors she has seen in this period of time, Sami is the least qualified.

Because, he didn't mean to make a movie according to the original novel at all. Instead, based on the original novel, he gave full play to his imagination, unrestrained, and indulged in flying.

From a certain point of view, the original author does not like others to intervene in his own creation.

Therefore, Ms. Selena chose to reject Sammy at the beginning.

But what's interesting is that when she saw the samples, she found that these adaptations of Sammy did not make her feel disgusted.

The reason may be because of... the sincere emotion that Sammy invested in the dailies.

He didn't change it randomly to show off his talent, or out of any personal preference.

On the contrary, every frame he took is thoughtful and filled with a deep love. Even the most useless and wretched little monster in the book, under his camera, there is a kind of A kind of lively energy.

Ms. Selena couldn't help but hesitated.

She bowed her head and hesitated: "Should I choose a director who is well-behaved and follows the script? Or a director like Sammy who dares to make drastic changes? The former is better than nothing, but the resulting film may not be more brilliant; the latter ...Naturally, it is a huge risk investment of 'win or lose', but if the bet wins, the movie may be very exciting!"

When the screening of the samples came to an end, the room was quiet.

Sammy looked at everyone inexplicably, trying to read some clues from their faces.

But everyone was contemplating, and no one spoke yet.

"Well, actually, I still have a lot of ideas."

Sami took the initiative to stand up on a rare occasion, wanting to say a few good words for himself to fight for this rare opportunity.

But before he finished speaking,

Everyone in the screening room raised their heads again, with a look of astonishment on their faces.

Sammy turned around feeling strange, and also looked at the screen behind him.

I saw that there was an extra follow-up to the sample that was originally played...

A flame sprang out like a fiery snake, and with a crackling sound, sparks splashed and surrounded the black dragon on the screen in an instant, burning it up.

Amidst the vast expanse of flames, a clear dragon cry sounded, and the fire dragon, which shone with golden red light and was many times larger than the black dragon, waved its huge wings and leaped out from an unknown place on the ground, striking the black dragon fiercely. Stepping on his feet, on the screen, holding his head high, looking forward to flying, showing off his might!

What special effects!

How is this made?

So real!

It’s too shocking!

Before Sammy figured it out 'what the hell is this green?Where did that green dragon come from?

Ms. Selena was moved: "God, how much did this cost? It's just a sample! Oh my god, child, I can see your sincerity! Thank you for your love of my work, I have to say... God, I really didn't expect that you could do this!"

The Disney executives couldn't help but nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, I didn't expect you, Sammy, to take it so seriously."

They looked at Sammy with very gentle expressions, especially Mr. Norris, with a happy expression of 'you didn't embarrass me'.

Only Sammy was stunned.

He thought to himself: You won't believe me when I say it, but I didn't expect it either.