Hollywood Domination Chapter 244: Dream

Since she was going to get up in a few hours and she was extremely awake, Jenny didn't try to go back to sleep, but simply got up, walked into the gym, turned on the elliptical machine, and sweated on the machine. During the more than a month of filming "Monroe", her body shape has been better maintained. The vest line that was originally looming has been completely solid now. If she didn't eat some high-protein food, maybe the little mouse Can be practiced - there is no way, now only exercise can help her get rid of the nightmare and return to reality in the shortest possible time.

In London, the sun rises very late in winter, and even though Jenny is sweating profusely from running, the sky is still dark and dark. She wipes off her sweat and replenishes water, and returns to her bedroom, turns on the computer to check. Work emails, sometimes replying one or two; Dameng is running healthy and efficiently, coupled with her current bad mental state, she simply handed over a lot of power to Cesare and Jim (mainly Cesare Lei) In this way, they will be more efficient in dealing with many things. Of course, Jenny is always in the palm of her hand when it comes to money-related matters. Although she is far away from abroad, she can still participate in the company through the electronic signature system In official documents, leave your own signature and seal.

"Woke up early today?" Cesare's account greeted Jenny's Skype after she sent the third email.

"Going to bed late today?" Jenny replied the same, she looked at the always on the bottom corner of the computer, and corrected her statement, "Oh, it's not too late, but you've been working late again. "

"It's a regular meal." Cesare typed quickly, "I'm about to go to rest—are you insomnia again?"

Although the two are separated from each other, he still can't hide the details of Jenny's situation from him. Among other things, the time she spends sending out emails every day has betrayed her deeply. Jenny could feel Cesare's concern looming behind the short words, which made her raise her lips, "It's an old problem, it's nothing serious, it's just a sequelae of entering the drama."

"You didn't have this problem before," Cesare replied without thinking. Judging from the speed of typing, he has been paying attention to Jenny's "old problem" for a long time, and he is familiar with some details. "This 'old' problem is very new, and it only started to appear after you officially filmed "Monroe."

He typed old in all capitals. For Cesare, whose grammar has always been very standard, this is a very rare expression. Jenny smiled silently, and hovered her fingers on the keyboard for a while before answering. Said, "Maybe the role of Marilyn is special. I don't know. However, I don't have any symptoms other than insomnia. Maybe it's because I haven't coordinated after my acting skills have improved. Don't worry about me too much."

She didn't talk about her nightmares, which, in fact, were the main cause of her insomnia—Jenny didn't know if it was because of her new technique, and she now feels that she really underestimated it. The complexity of the psychological barrier: this feeling of physical and mental disharmony is like a tide, maybe after being distracted by the outside news at that time, it ebbed, and she naively thought that she had found an anchor, problem solved. But in fact, once she started to concentrate on the show, the tide turned back, and the practical trivialities represented by Cesare, although useful in keeping her from thinking about these things in her waking hours, would be better mentally and not so much She is completely moody and loses self-control, but the sense of disorder is still waiting for an opportunity to find an exit. Since she is strictly guarded during the day, they will start to make trouble at night when she is unprepared. She is always chased by many illogical nightmares, and her sleep quality is so poor Once again, Jenny can only rely on the time flow of the performing arts space to recover her energy.

However, for this kind of obstacle that is not caused by mental imbalance, Cesare probably has nothing to do. He can't show her the way through one or two chats like before, because in fact, for Jenny, The path is clear: don't play Marilyn Monroe, and it will work out. All her incongruities can be solved with this trick, the method of casting actors is like forcing a bird to swim in the water, it is normal for the feathers to become wet and heavy, because the bird is not supposed to swim, a normal person You shouldn't have completely regarded yourself as another person.

Since this is the case, it is not a good idea to make Cesare more worried about her, and Jenny does not want to pretend to be strong, but she is now filming in London, and she willfully ignores the company, and the awards season is coming to an end Now, she should show some consideration to Cesare, lest he die of exhaustion in the office.

"Your current state makes it difficult to 'not worry'." Cesare used another uncommon single quotation mark, but fortunately, he did not choose to continue to ask the bottom line, but changed the topic, "and How about Salvi's cooperation? I heard he is not a very kind director."

Marie... Jenny had no doubts about who his sources would be, she guessed Marie would even tell Cesare about her MC cycle if he asked. Especially these days, the two of them must have joined forces to do a lot of things that she doesn't know about, just to let her have a good rest, such as refusing interviews, filtering some requests from sponsors - in normal times, she would be very controlling She wanted to figure it out, but now she only felt a vague displeasure, like a child's dissatisfaction when his parents manipulated him, but besides dissatisfaction, he was generally grateful.

"It's pretty good..." She stared at the letters in the dialog box, and then deleted them one by one, "Very good, Salvi and I get along well—in fact, maybe a little too much— "

Before sending out the news, she deleted the last sentence and added another paragraph, "Maybe it is because of such a co-production that the impact of being in the show will expand, but this is not bad news. The shooting progress is under control, and we can wrap it up in March, and the sooner the filming is finished, the better we can return to normal.”

Such a rational inference really pleased Cesare: Since everything needs to be filmed, and if it is to be filmed, it must be a high-quality product, it is better to tolerate it for the time being than to fight against this influence and prolong the whole thing. This kind of situation, try to get rid of it after finishing the shooting early. ——This decision can also show that Jenny's sanity is still within the normal range.

"You are right, but you still need to pay attention to rest," he said. "Lack of sleep will make people age faster, and you have reached the age of thinking about anti-aging, Jefferson, now go to sleep. Well, it's still early in London, you have enough time to take a nap."

He even sent an emoji to say good night. I'm worried, otherwise, Cesare wouldn't put down his body to enliven the atmosphere and make her happy.

Browing her cheeks and browsing through the email again, Jenny stood up and lingered for a while. She stood by the window, looking at the Hyde Park with the dawn gradually emerging, and pressed her hand to the somewhat cool floor-to-ceiling window, and her tiredness slowly climbed up. , but she doesn't want to sleep too much—in fact, she hasn't been completely honest with Cesare, and what is bothering her now, besides the problem of entering the play, is that there is another important problem—no, in fact, this problem It should be said that the problem of entering the play is one and two sides, and it is difficult to separate them...

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"My Week with Monroe" is a typical studio film, only some scenes of natural scenery need to be shot in the countryside. London no longer exists, but in the studio, there has always been a similar set for the film crew of the era. And this also makes it easy for the crew to adopt a timeline-based shooting method, which makes it easier for Jenny to use new techniques to enter the play, and also allows Simon to better adapt to the shooting work. After nearly a month of filming, the plot is close to the middle: During the filming, Marilyn and Colin gradually became curious about each other, and the conflict between her and Miller also gradually emerged. The two had a dispute, and Miller Le returned to the United States.

For the original version of "My Week with Marilyn Monroe", Jenny felt some shortcomings. In addition to Michelle's lack of appearance, there was also the big problem of the film's meek temperament. She didn't know how the director communicated during the filming. However, in some intense conflict scenes, the director's shots were not in place, and the editing can only be said to have occasional bright spots. His intention may be to make the movie subtle and elegant, with a long aftertaste, but with Michelle's sometimes outrageous looks, the whole movie feels a bit dull for most of the time, which is not good by the standards of art movies. As for the boring, but not to the point of touching - considering that this film has gathered almost the best actors in England, Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, even the actor who played Marilyn's agent had to be To win the Tony Award, it can only be said that the director's skills are indeed insufficient, and such a cast was wasted, so the original film cannot be said to shine during the awards season. Michelle consumed a lot of public relations resources, and finally rushed to an Olympic Having said that, I don't have the slightest competitiveness in winning the award. Thinking about how many famous British stars starred in this film, and the number of judges of the British Academy Film Awards and the Oscar judges overlapped by more than a thousand, it can be seen that Otili has How many favors are there, and what is the quality of the movie itself. ——What really shows the problem is that it has never won an award at the British Academy of Film Awards, which are relatively less competitive, and all received consolation nominations.

A lesson from the past and a guide to the future, Jenny has always attached great importance to the conflicts in the script when she and Salvi were polishing the script through emails. Her biggest worry about Salvi is whether he will be calm Dealing with contradictory scenes, and finally bringing out a glass of lukewarm water that is not exciting at all, but this worry has gradually disappeared as the shooting progress has gradually extended. When dealing with the conflict between Lawrence Oliver and Marilyn, Salvi paid great attention to the drama of the scene, even if he sacrificed a certain amount of authenticity, he did not seem to have the awe of the original director for Lawrence and others. The real flaws of Lawrence, Vivien Leigh and others were handled with care and elegance, but Salvi didn't care about the reputation of his predecessors at all. For example, Vivien Leigh's scenes have been greatly changed. In the original work, Vivien Leigh and Marilyn have a one-way connection, which only shows Vivien Leigh's fear of Marilyn, but does not describe Marilyn's response to this. Didn't realize this at all - the original version didn't explain why Vivien Leigh was so unconfident, maybe it was to avoid Vivien Leigh's pain, but in fact it seemed a bit exaggerated Marilyn's beauty, and also wrote Lawrence as a philanderer On the contrary, it distorts and shallows the prototype of the characters, because in fact, anyone who knows a little about this celebrity couple knows that Vivien Leigh was already suffering from mental disorders at this time, the most outstanding actress in British history One of them has been completely dominated by bipolar disorder. She doubts every woman who can talk to Lawrence. The relationship between the two couples is almost completely broken. And this is also excusable to some extent, after all, Vivien Leigh had cheated a few years ago, and even said that the marriage between the two was not so normal from the beginning.

Regardless of whether the original director had his own considerations for avoiding these elements, in Jenny's opinion, if "My Week with Monroe" was simply made into a fantasy romance film, and all contradictions were lightly let go, it would be too much. Wasted, she neither thinks that the audience will be moved by this kind of ungodly romance, nor that the judges and film critics will like this too light taste, so here, she and Salvi's adaptation The idea is to hit it off. And Lawrence's adaptation of the love scene is entirely his own idea: he ignored the truthful confession in the original book-at the beginning, Monroe had nothing but occasional attention for Colin, until Miller Back in China, when Monroe needed support for his spirit, he came to the fore—Salvi must adapt the film into a movie that Monroe paid attention to Colin from the very beginning, and the spark between the two made others feel it. Le's return to China is not unrelated to this matter.

"Only in this way can the structure of the film be complete." He is extremely insistent on this point, "Only in this way can the film have a theme that can withstand scrutiny and aftertaste."

Jenny was persuaded by him, and Salvi, together with the screenwriter, made changes to the script, which also added another name to the screenwriter list of "Monroe"—and also made it difficult for the past few days. , Jenny filmed many intense conflict scenes, some of which she was a bystander and some of which she was a participant. In addition to this, she also took a lot of eye contact and conversation shots with Colin. She had a feeling that Monroe seemed to be either arguing or flirting with others, and it was this flirtatious shot that had a great impact on her. Formed... a certain amount of trouble.

"D!" Salvi picked up the loudspeaker and yelled. Although he was still in a suit and leather shoes, his sleeves had been rolled up to his elbows. In place, let's make up a few close-up shots, Simon, you can take a break, but don't go away."

Repeated reshoots of a scene are commonplace in filmmaking. For example, in this scene, the audience sees Colin and Monroe looking at each other. There is no problem for the audience to understand the detailed expressions of the actors, but in fact, in the close-up shot of Monroe and Colin looking at each other, both of them are looking at the camera, so they need to shoot the same scene repeatedly , The scene was filmed several times-every time a word was shot, and finally the editing connected these words into a complete sentence.

In order to help Jenny enter the scene, the actors stayed in their positions, and Simon also stood in the same position, maintaining a posture looking at Monroe: From the perspective of the plot, they just encountered difficulties in filming, Lawrence once again Unable to bear the anger, she taunted Marilyn, but Marilyn swallowed her anger abnormally, instead of quitting the shooting, she returned to her chair and began to touch up her makeup. Colin was worried about her state, so he stood on tiptoe and looked at her with concern. Marilyn was very depressed at first, but after seeing Colin's expression, she calmed down a lot. She slowly revealed a quiet and innocent smile - and this scene completely fell into the eyes of her husband, Arthur Miller.

At this time, Marilyn and Colin seldom even talked. It was purely two individuals who noticed each other. Two lonely souls sparked a spark of goodwill. She was greatly moved by the peace gained, and Colin's pure and selfless concern. The chemical reaction between her and Colin, who cherished each other and knew each other, made her let go of all guards in front of Colin, and showed a sincere and soft smile. , This should be a smile that hits the heart directly, this should also be a smile from the bottom of Marilyn's heart, from the bottom of Jenny's heart-this is also a very difficult shot, for actors, especially experienced old actors, They can complete the technical movements meticulously. Complicated emotions, lengthy lines and changing positions are not difficult at all. The real difficulty lies in breaking the inner barriers and dedicating the most sincere and naked self to arouse The resonance of the audience is the dedication that any masterpiece requires, but it is also a risk that everyone instinctively avoids.

As far as Jenny herself feels, this kind of sincere attraction, heartbeat and empathy is a great difficulty for her. In Karen, she performed sincere fear and vulnerability, and she didn't care about presenting these in front of others. , which instead gave her a sense of catharsis, but what Monroe needs to show...

"!" Salvi yelled out the word before he even got his mood together, and Jenny could hardly resist the urge to be smart, she instinctively looked at the sound source behind the camera—but so Years of filming have already turned her response to this word into a conditioned reflex. Monroe, who has not completely left her, bent down again and hugged her into her arms. She looked at the cold black camera affectionately, as if It was a friendly, young, talented and personable boy who understood her... She had noticed him in the crowd, and they felt attracted to each other almost instinctively, with such beauty His spiritual resonance is so ecstatic that she let go of all her guard without hesitation, trusts him without hesitation, seeks his attention, and accepts her care with joy, she is like a flower , blooming in his eyes, even though they hardly talked deeply, but the spiritual connection they made was so obvious, she could feel his gaze, through the camera, like a pair of tangible hands embracing her, She could feel his affection, his unspoken love, and she readily responded——

"cut." Salvi said - after more than a month of shooting, Jenny is no longer so difficult to get out of the 'deep into the play', just like breaking free from the 'Monroe' Following Salvi's familiar words, she suddenly returned to reality.

Under the lighting of the studio, Salvi was just a tall and straight figure in front of the monitor. She couldn't see his expression clearly, and couldn't even tell whether he was looking at her. She retracted the stick in embarrassment. The look on him, secretly hoping that his colleagues won't find out: this is not the first time this has happened, and maybe someone has seen something, but even if they did, they were smart enough not to put it on their face.

"Good." As for Salvi, he didn't show anything wrong, but said smoothly, "The second machine goes to Simon's side, and the rest can rest, but don't go away."

Jennie quietly breathed a sigh of relief, she seized the opportunity, took a sip from the water glass beside the chair-Salvi may not have felt anything, maybe she felt when she entered the play-it was just her illusion, Or it was just Monroe's illusion.

Jenny has always been quite rational and perceptive. She usually does not pretend to be sentimental, but she does not deliberately deny some real signs. However, in terms of behavior, Salvi has always been quite normal, and their conversations are almost It is related to the movie and has never been involved in the private field. Said has been sending flowers to the set recently, and Salvi has never shown that he cares about it. So, the connection just now, that feeling... It should be her illusion. Although she has excellent conditions, she is not narcissistic enough to think that everyone must like her.

She glanced at Salvi again, and met his gaze. Of course she couldn't see Salvi's eyes clearly, but she could feel his expression—the British silence, from his In terms of expression, you can hardly feel his inner thoughts and emotions. This is Salvi’s usual expression when shooting. He is not an excited director. Put all your passion into the monitor in front of him.

Jenny forced a smile in his direction, and she firmly told herself: Yes, this is an illusion, don't be affected by your dream, it must be your illusion.

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"I want 60 million." A familiar voice came through the phone. Even though she hadn't heard it for many years, Jenny recognized the voice immediately. "Give me 60 million, take it to me immediately, and deliver it to my door in ten minutes."

"Mom." She said irritably, suddenly realizing that her mother had kidnapped her child, anger, despair, betrayal, and humiliation immediately rushed to her heart, and her voice trembled with intense emotions, "I Can't get 60 million! Don't joke with me, Mom! Mom!"

The phone was hung up, Chen Zhen jumped up from the bed, and hurried out of the dilapidated room that kept shaking. She quickly climbed up the low and cramped stairs of the tube building, looking for the house number of her hometown, baby Being kidnapped, she couldn't afford 60 million—how could she afford 60 million! She must take her son back.

Running tirelessly in her dream for a long time, at some point, the stairs under her feet turned into a mountain road, Chen Zhen found that she was running in Beverly Hills, which was the house she had rented for three years before She has always wanted to go out for a run in the morning on that mountain road, but this wish has never come true, there are always too many factors to fear, paparazzi, stalker——

She panicked suddenly, realizing that someone had been following her, not too fast, but not too far behind. Jenny didn't have the courage to turn back at all, she just quickened her pace and ran forward out of breath, she ran to the nearest building - the studio, she was already late.

"*." She was out of breath all the time, changing clothes quickly, her makeup seemed to be put on in an instant, she was still in a hurry when she ran into the studio, but quickly recovered her state - in fact, It's status that comes to her, she's such a great actress, of course it's status that always comes to her.

"Marilyn," cried her husband, and Chris's voice was always impatient, "It's time for you to play—!"

"Wait, I—" Marilyn turned around in panic, but she and Colin were the only ones in the scene.

She took a deep breath and walked towards her hero. The more she walked, the more joyful she was, and the more peaceful her breathing was. She had completely forgotten her panic and herself For the desperate need for attention, she can certainly master the desires of men all over the world, but right now, she only needs one person's understanding, he makes up for the missing piece in her soul, and makes her no longer so lonely——

"Colin," she said, and she smiled at him affectionately, and he, he returned a gentleman's restrained smile, so reserved, but his eyes said it all, Sal Wei is also obsessed with her, and she makes up for him, they are a match made in heaven——

A sound of 'didi' suddenly woke her up from her dream. Jenny turned over and sat up reflexively. The aftertaste of the dream was still vivid in her mind. The scars are still there—of course, she still remembers the last scene before waking up quite clearly.

"Do I need a boyfriend so much?" She asked herself softly with some self-mocking, "I'm not so desperate, am I?"

What answered her was silence in the room, only the electronic alarm clock next to the bed was flickering, as if it was a response to her, Jenny took a look-it was really great, it was 5:30, and it was early again one day.

Today she was not in the mood to exercise, so she went into the bathroom to freshen up, Jenny swayed in front of the window, and then sat down in front of the computer bored, she forgot to turn off the computer before going to bed, and the new email notification was just about to The sound of her waking up.

There are three or four new unread emails, Lilian forwarded a joke to her, Jim sent a report, Judy forwarded the latest list of sponsors, and the latest email was from Cesare, informing her that Reese's itinerary is finalized: he's heading to London for post-production on The Hurt Locker, the plane arrives tomorrow, and Chris will be free to meet her that evening so she doesn't have to fly back to Hollywood , as long as both parties confirm that they can appear in the same venue calmly and amicably, they can attend the Oscars at the same time.

Because both of them were too busy, this meeting was rescheduled at least four times, and it was not really confirmed until this time. Before that, Jenny was not sure when she would see Chris again, of course she knew This day will come sooner or later, but I always subconsciously avoid facing it——

Thinking of the dream just now, a bitter smile appeared on her lips. Jenny muttered softly, "It's a mess", and stopped talking. She stared at the screen with an almost sad expression , But in the end, she still took a deep breath, raised her slumped shoulders, regained her spiritual sitting posture, pulled out the keyboard tray, opened the document, and started typing on the keyboard.

'Dear Chris,' she wrote, 'I'm so sorry I didn't have the courage to say this to my face, but I have to say sorry to you, I'm sorry I hurt you that day, I'm sorry I I have been hurting you, maybe your feeling is right, to some extent, I have been using you...'