Hollywood Domination Chapter 266: Zhou Yu beats the yellow cover

“…so Catherine said, ‘Can’t there be one more song?’” Rob smiled, taking a sip of gin and tonic. The song is the treatment of the heroine, even Jennifer only has one singing, I can't decide whether to dance or not...'”

He glanced at Jenny, as if expecting her reaction, and Jenny smiled accordingly, "Rob, you shouldn't provoke her like this—what did Catherine say?"

"Catherine hung up on me." Rob shrugged, "Then I found Penelope, look, the key is that I'm telling the truth, isn't it?"

After "Chicago", Catherine hasn't made a new hit for several years. Of course, she can't compare with Jenny who is in full swing, and the world line seems to have shifted here. Jenny watched this movie in her previous life. And she also likes the singing and dancing in it, so she still vaguely remembers that Catherine was originally going to play the star Claudia, but later she temporarily quit the crew because of conflicts with adding dramas, so Rob invited Nicole Kidman to save her. field. And in this world line, Jenny agreed to play Claudia, which made no actress want to compete with her for the role. Catherine instead agreed to play the mistress Carla, and then there was a dispute over adding scenes. Nellope saved the field and entered the game-this is also a pity. Jenny is really curious about what kind of performance Katherine's seductive and charming eyes will play in Kara.

Of course, from Catherine's point of view, the little guy who was supporting her 5 years ago and promoted by her has now played the role of the most noble muse among the supporting roles, and she wants to Conversely, when playing a mistress, in the case that the two roles are equal, Catherine may not be able to accept this fact, and it is not incomprehensible to quit the crew when she is slightly stimulated. ——It’s fine if Rob doesn’t say that. If he said that, maybe Catherine didn’t want to leave, but now she has to.

However, the friendship in the entertainment industry is like this. When Rob and Catherine worked together to tear Renee apart, Rob and she were indeed in harmony, but now the two have fallen out publicly, and Jenny can't see that Rob has any regrets After all, objectively speaking, everyone in this industry is flying around, and it is simply impossible to have a regular party. Even like her and Chris, it is difficult to connect on the phone when they are in different time zones. . Friendship is not as good as love, and few people will deliberately maintain it carefully. Even if a friendship is formed because of filming, it is easy to gradually become alienated as the film is completed. If the friendship is built on common interests, it is easy to change due to changes in the relationship of interests.

Just like Catherine, she must hate Jenny very much now, and Jenny is not the Virgin—she has to admit to herself that although Catherine supported her at the time, to be honest, she really doesn't care about the relationship between the two Why do you care? Even when she told Rob this interesting story, the strongest feeling is still worrying about whether the relationship between her and Rob will become weaker than she thought due to the long-term loss of contact...

"You seem to be very preoccupied tonight," Rob's words woke her up from her contemplation—his brows were already furrowed, and his tone became formal. Obviously, Rob's words were held in his heart for a while up. "You look like the family doctor who is going to tell the patient that he has three months to live, Jennifer, Jennifer, don't tell me you are quitting the show too."

"Of course not!" Jenny said angrily and amusedly, but since the words came to this point, she simply let go of all worries and directly expressed her truest thoughts, "Of course this sentence It's not so easy for me to say, like what you said to Catherine, I fear it will have serious consequences - but I have to say it, because it - like you just said ——It’s the truth: Rob, I want to ask you, this question has been settled in my mind for a long time... I want to know, are you really sure about "Nine"? You are sure you can control the whole film Is it? Because in my opinion..."

Jenny shrugged, "I don't think you've fully found your groove... Well, to be honest, I don't think you know what you're doing at all."

You don't need to be in the entertainment industry to know what such a questioning means to a director, which is why Jenny has repeatedly flinched - I can't find any more euphemistic way to say this sentence, as long as They express similar meanings, and they are all strong provocations to Rob, and it can even be said to be a face-to-face humiliation—Rob immediately flew into a rage, and Jenny would not be surprised if he turned against her, as if she didn’t like watching it very much. No director would like to hear that from a film critic saying 'Jennifer doesn't know what she's doing'.

The atmosphere above the dining table seemed to be solidified. Rob's drinking action froze in the air. He looked at Jenny in amazement, just like when they met for the first time. Unavoidably a little uneasy, she didn't want to fight with Rob again, so as not to add to the excitement, so she could only smile awkwardly with her lips pursed, waiting for Rob's reply...

"So, why do you say that?" Rob's tone was calm after layers of restraint, as if he was wearing an inscrutable mask, "The filming has just started...you started Where can I get such a feeling?"

Of course, Jenny can only push the reason to her own intuition, but apart from this, she has nothing to say.

"Actually, I have had this feeling since the preparatory period, but I am more sure after seeing Daniel's shooting material today--Rob, you were always very dissatisfied when shooting "Chicago" , and while Renee and Catherine and Richard are great actors, you can always find areas for improvement. We retake it over and over again, remember Rob?" Jenny said sincerely, " Because you have so many ideas about the film, and you must achieve the effect you are satisfied with. Although the atmosphere on the set was really bad at that time, I think you were a very good director at that time, Rob, and you knew very well what you wanted to do. But now, in Nine, my feeling is that you don't even know what you want, you want some of this, you want some of that, but you have no idea how the finished product will be, give me The feeling is that you're resigning yourself to -- and that's the problem, isn't it? With a film like Nine, I don't think you just can't resign yourself to it, if you don't even know what the finished product is going to look like, you want to What kind of story line should be cut out, and how should the actors perform? At least, from the play you told me, I couldn’t find the character of Claudia, and today on the set, you praised Daniel’s performance It's more worrying to be proud, Daniel's performance is of course very good, but he didn't even have an ng? It's not like you, did he play Contini exactly as you want? Doesn't it need any fine-tuning? ——My feeling is that you are so overjoyed by his performance, it can only show that your personal image of Contini is also vague, as I said, you don’t know what you want at all.”

During her tirade, Rob remained silent, but Jenny became more and more determined. With Rob's temper, if he didn't approve of her, it was impossible for him to swallow his anger for so long. From this point of view, he She is also conscious of this problem, her words should more or less hit part of his hidden worries.

Rob seems to be trapped in his own inner world, and he seems to be observing Jenny's reaction calmly. For this reason, he deliberately creates a tense atmosphere, while Jenny is knowing and smiling. Looking back at him with a subtle expression, there was another period of heavy silence above the dining table, but this time, the atmosphere was a little more relaxed than before.

"You know," after a while, Rob shifted and finally said, "you're such a daring actor, Jennifer, who do you think you are, to put your hands on your hands? Have you entered the field of directing?"

Although the words were harsh, Rob's tone dispelled the meaning of attack and turned it into an intimate joke and ridicule, and Jenny was completely relaxed, showing a naughty smile, "Even So, didn't you still listen to my words?"

"Yeah, yeah." Rob muttered, raised his glass and touched Jenny Xu, he poured all the cocktail in the glass down his throat, and said reproachfully in a loving tone, "If you always do this, you will offend people, you know, Jennifer?"

"If the director wasn't you, I wouldn't join such a crew," Jenny said, and she smiled at Rob, feeling that the relationship between the two has deepened: Of course they had a good friendship before, but the relationship is not So personal. "Of course, you can easily reason to this conclusion: If the director wasn't you, I wouldn't have said it at all."

"Okay, stop teasing me, I'm not a three-year-old," Rob grimaced, "I'm brave enough to admit that I'm probably **** things up right now—not so badly Dare to face this point."

He called the waiter, asked him to remove the dishes, and ordered another cocktail. While waiting for the drink, Rob kept rubbing his hands, and Jenny waited patiently, giving him time to collect his thoughts.

"About this movie, my original idea was to make reality and the movie form a contrast and echo..." When another glass of gin and tonic was served, Rob took a sip and finally began his narrative, "In the film, Contini made very austere neorealist films, but he lived a very lavish life, and I wanted to do fancy things with the same austere neorealist themes, about Contini's Midlife crisis, his narcissism and panic as a director..."

Although her artistic vision may not be as good as Rob's, Jenny wins because she has seen the finished product and knows what Rob's thinking will lead to in the end-Rob, who has never played multiple narratives, has tried his best , but the result is obviously not very ideal. The clues of the whole story seem fragmented, the characters are superficial, there are too many things to express, and nothing is expressed well in the end. The audience must be very serious in order to extract the plot from the intervals of singing and dancing—of course, because the original work is extremely obscure, this report card cannot be said to be excellent, even if Jenny makes the adaptation herself, it is difficult for her to say how to adapt it better, What she can do is to discuss the structure of the film and the script with Rob, and suggest that he try to do subtraction, or figure out a detailed shooting idea, instead of pinning his hopes on a large amount of material and expecting that when shooting and editing, Ideas emerge naturally.

"If necessary, my singing and dancing can be cut, or the time can be lengthened, at least the exhibition version should be lengthened, otherwise the personalities of all the characters will not be clear and typical, making it almost impossible for the audience to substitute ’” Her discussion with Rob continued late into the night. Rob was a good drinker, and he was fine with a glass of gin and tonic. As for Jenny, she had already switched to soda, “Or you can make it with hues. After all, so many lines will be a burden for watching movies..."

"I have thought about making it more beautiful, I mean, the composition and costumes," said Rob, who was getting more and more excited as the two continued to brainstorm. , Compared with the previous "Xiao Fu Ji An", he appears to be more ambitious and dare to think. "Using black and white and saturated colors to deal with memories and hallucinations, and then using cool colors to transition and neutralize... And, to be honest, Sophia's singing and dancing are a bit unsatisfactory... Well, Jennifer, I have to say to you Admittedly, I am really not sure. This is the crew with the most famous names. You have all won Otis, and many of you have even won awards. You know, successful actors always have a distinctive style, and in their original performance It takes a lot of courage to correct them when they’re doing well—especially if you’re not sure yourself.”

"Then get mad at us," Jenny said, "get mad at me, if you need a decapitated hapless ass, get mad at me - like you did when you were making "Chicago" , keep ng, ng and then ng, until we give you the response you want..."

They stayed until the bar closed, and then they walked into the warm night of Los Angeles together. Jenny raised her hand and called a taxi for Rob: Fortunately, they were not squatted by the paparazzi tonight , or maintain some safety.

"Jennifer." Rob didn't go in immediately after opening the car door, but held the door and looked at Jenny.

"Huh?" Jenny put down her phone.

Rob hesitated to speak, but finally shook his head. He reached out and nodded to Jenny, and said with a smile, "I don't think we need to say this anymore, don't we? But anyway, we have to Thanks for dinner tonight."

Jenny also laughed. She is in a very good mood now—it seems that she has one more friend who will not need to be in constant contact in the future, and her friendship will not cool down.

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"D!"

"cut, ng!"

"cut!"

"cut!"

"cut!!" Rob threw the guide tube on the ground, "Jennifer, what happened? Why can't you dance the simplest dance steps well? If you are busy and don't have time to practice, then sign Told me before."

There was an embarrassing silence at the scene. Jenny stood on the ground with her lips pursed, looking at the ground without saying a word, as if she was a primary school student who made a mistake, accepting Rob's reprimand, Daniel, Marion, Penny Lopp and other actors stood aside, and Daniel seemed a little bit annoyed, but he didn't interrupt the director's temper: this wasn't his specialty, and he couldn't tell whether Jenny danced well or not.

"Do it again." In the dead silence, Rob picked up the guide tube and sat back on the director's chair again, "Get in place!"

This is a chorus of eight people, and all the important actors are here—these eight people have got four or five Oscar nominations together, and such a big-name actor, to a certain extent It will also create a sense of oppression for the director, especially since Rob has only directed two films so far. "Memoirs of a Geisha" is still a bit of a hit. It is said that a director with such a new experience will inevitably be a little bit overwhelmed, but The whole situation today was completely unexpected. The director's aura suppressed the actors to death, and made many staff members realize that the smooth shooting a few days ago was not because of Rob's good temper, but because Daniel really played the role. Well done, Rob has nothing to fault.

Ordinarily speaking, it is normal for Jennifer, who is not from a major, to not be able to satisfy the director in dancing. There's no need to be picky to this extent... But, of course, on the set, the director is everything, and the eight big-name actors are obediently accepted, what else can others say?

"Penelope, your dancing posture is too reserved, be more unrestrained, I want to see your wildness and greed."

"Cut, Daniel, your expression doesn't feel enough, I hope you..."

As if stimulated by Jennifer, Rob yelled cut again and again today. A song and dance was filmed all morning, and he didn't even shoot for five minutes, and many actors were surprisingly not angry, and They all listened carefully to Rob's guidance: Just kidding, even Jennifer Jefferson, the only crossover producer among the cast, who can be said to have the greatest energy, obediently listened to Rob's instructions like a primary school student. Blame, Penelope, Kate Hudson and others, how can they find trouble for themselves?

Of course, Sophia Loren has a high status, and Rob lowered his voice when guiding her, but even so, he didn't show mercy when he yelled ng. Sophia also showed her professional quality, and listened to it without saying a word, without any intention of putting on national treasure airs.

"cut," Rob finally shouted after the last shot of the morning, "good!"

However, before everyone was completely relieved, he looked at Jenny and added, "But your part is still not good, Jennifer, we will reshoot your one-man show later, this time You just need to stand, it shouldn’t take much time.”

Delete Claudia's dance... Marion couldn't help exchanging a look with Penelope: It seems that Rob is really dissatisfied with the quality of Jennifer's dance, and even deleted it directly The whole solo...

Although the libretto seems to be reserved, it is indeed too embarrassing for Jennifer. While feeling embarrassed for Jennifer, several actresses unknowingly stood up a little more straight: Although in Before that, they never thought of being lazy, but now they must be more motivated to work hard.

"But—" Jennifer didn't seem to expect Rob to be so ruthless, she argued, "Rob, but I—"

"This is the final decision." Rob said decisively with a livid face.

Jenny took a deep breath and took a deep look at Rob. She paused for a while, almost deliberately raising everyone's appetite to the highest level, and then nodded, "Okay, you are the director , this is your decision."

She took off the invisible headset she was wearing, turned around and walked out of the set - there is no doubt that she is definitely not in a good mood now.

On the set, it is normal for actors and directors to have conflicts, but Jennifer has been going smoothly since her debut, and no one knows if she will overreact. At noon that day, several people knocked on the door of the trailer: Daniel, who has always been introverted, and Judi Dench, who had just finished cooperating with Jenny on "Monroe", Penelope, who wanted to show his love, and even heard the news The dance teacher who came... When the filming started in the afternoon, when she appeared on the set as usual, everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief-this afternoon, although Rob still often shouted cards, his tone was much gentler , the actors are also relieved about this change. In the atmosphere of 'everyone wants to keep going', the progress of the afternoon's shooting will be much smoother...

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Although after the end of "Monroe", she has not confirmed her next movie, but Jenny can't say how leisurely she is at all. She has been on standby at the crew of "Nine" throughout June and July, and may be ready at any time according to the shooting. The progress goes to the set - Generally speaking, if a big name plays a supporting role, it is very likely that the crew will focus on filming her scenes, but "Nine" has too many big names, no one has this treatment, so she can only pass by from time to time a trip.

In addition, the tug-of-war with Warner is still ongoing. However, after Warner gave up letting Jenny play DC, what needs to be discussed is only the minutiae, and Dameng will start to endure Warner's inefficiency that makes people collapse. Yes: Compared with Marvel and Disney, Warner’s internal friction is indeed a bit serious. Although they also have their own unique advantages, this is just a stepping stone. Now that this case has been reduced to a pure investment case, Big Dream has to go back to the original point. Complete Party B's ninety-nine-eighty-one difficult path of learning from the scriptures.

When the time entered August, Jenny had given up hope of signing the contract before she went to China. After finishing all her roles in the crew of "Nine", she, Cesare and the bodyguard team also boarded the plane , embarked on a journey to China: This is also the first time that Jenny has taken the initiative to give herself a vacation. She has decided to stay in China for a while after participating in Olympic-related activities...