I’m in Hollywood Chapter 1014: Are you going to challenge?
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Waking up early in the morning, three people sitting together on the hillside mansion cliffside breakfast, Los Angeles summer is not hot, but only in the early morning period is more suitable for sunbathing.
"I recently found a script Oh, a biographical film for Julia, telling the story of a female lawyer who won hundreds of millions of USD civil compensation for her client. This is the largest civil compensation in federal history."
Eric heard Elizabeth say this and looked up: "Eileen Brockovich?"
Elizabeth expression is very surprised: "How do you know?"
Julia, who was silently beside Eric, also looked up curiously.
Irene Brockovic represented a resident of Hinckley Township in California in 1993 in a lawsuit against United States Pacific Electric Company, alleging that the other party illegally discharged heavy metal pollutants, causing a large number of residents in the town to get cancer. Therefore, they claimed 30billion USD The female lawyer sued the United States corporate giant. This lawsuit initially seemed to many people like a joke.
However, after three years of unremitting litigation, in 1996, United States Pacific Electric Company finally lost the lawsuit, so the compensation was 3.3.3 billion USD for the town residents. Although the compensation was a hundred times less than the amount originally requested, In fact, it is also the largest civil lawsuit in federal history.
"I happened to have read the report related to Irene Brockovich two years ago," Eric replied casually. Although this lawsuit was deliberately low-keyed by Pacific Electric, it did not cause too much impact, but With a little attention, it is still easy to see a lot of related news reports: "So, do you plan to let Julia go to the Olympics?"
Elizabeth did not doubt Eric ’s remarks, and nodded: "Yes, Oscar judges like this type of film very much, we have Weinstein Brothers to help."
Although Julia won the best Heroine of Oscar with "Erin Brockovich", Eric does not remember what other nominations and awards this film has received.
Thinking in my heart, Eric said: "Basically speaking, the topic of environmental pollution in North America does not cause too profound social impact. Therefore, I think that film, except the best Heroine, may be awarded other awards. Sex is not big, but with Julia, Box Office can still be guaranteed. "
Compared with some developing countries, North America's environmental protection system is very perfect. Enterprises dare to maliciously pollute the environment in fact very few, more accidental environmental accidents. Living in such a social environment, environmental protection issues are not as profound as ethnic issues.
"That ’s not necessarily true," Elizabeth said: "However, this role has a lot of room to play. At least, the possibility of Julia getting the best Heroine is still very large. If Julia gets the Xiaojin, you can just I ca n’t control the money that Julia used to have, and the plane we have ordered still has a large sum of money to be paid. "
Eric nodded with a smile and said, "Okay, but I have exchanged that money for Firefly Group stocks. You are short of money. In fact, you can use these stocks as mortgages. It is a pity to sell them directly. "
In order to make Julia no longer lazy, Eric took all the 30 million USD small vaults after Julia sold TGFilm Studio shares at that time, and converted them into Firefly Group stocks during the reorganization process after Firefly Group acquired ABC Group.
Eric is naturally impossible to swallow the Julia's money. In recent years, it has even forgotten this matter. The original stock was still placed under the name of Julia, but it was invested by Firefly for custody. Next, the stock should have more than tripled in value. According to the current market value of Firefly Group, the value is at least 100 million USD.
Because of optimism about the development potential of Firefly Group, and Firefly Group will distribute a considerable dividend every year, since the merger of ABC Group, few investors will be willing to take off the stock of Firefly Group. In recent years, the shareholding of Firefly Group large and small shareholders has been almost It has changed.
Elizabeth naturally knows how popular Firefly Group stock is, saying: "Then we will mortgage it to you, and I will let Boeing ask you for the last Boeing 747."
"Amount, how much of your remaining balance has not been paid yet?"
Elizabeth smiled slyly and said, "We just paid the deposit of 10 million USD."
"Okay," Eric nodded briskly, and then shook the small pot, saying: "You can discuss this with Drew, she is my little housekeeper."
"Hum, I am not sincere."
Eric does n’t care too. Elizabeth is actually very strong, so it ’s impossible for him to pay the money. In the past few years, the two women have invested in foreign exchange and technology stocks under his guidance, and it is more than enough to pay for a Boeing 747. Slowly eating his own breakfast, Eric continued to return to the topic just now and asked, "That script, who are you going to direct?"
"We are in contact with Martin Scorsese, you know, he is better at playing real-life themes with realistic documentary mode."
"Martin is not suitable," Eric shook his head and said: "Although what you just said is correct, the Martin film gives a third-person perspective. It is too strong. Since it is a Julia's unicorn, the style of this film should be More inclined to the first-person perspective, you can try Steven Soderbergh. "
"The Director of" Sex, Lies and Videotapes "?" Elizabeth replied, and then said: "It seems that since the original" Sex, Lies and Videotapes ", Soderbergh hasn't had any more in these years What a great work. "
Eric explained: "The ability to get the Palme de Cannes with the first part feature film, Soderberg's talent is unquestionable. Moreover, he is not as big as Martin, and the slightly weaker Director can also give Julia More room to play. If you let Martin to shoot, it must be a standard Martin Scorsese movie. Although he is often nominated, the college has never liked him very much. "
Elizabeth was a little moved, and she was still very convinced by the Eric ’s suggestion in the movie, saying: “Then I let Harvey contact Soderbergh and listen to the other party ’s ideas first. Speaking of that, the original "The Lies and Video Tape" is still operated by Harvey, otherwise he is unlikely to get Golden Palm. "
After breakfast, Eric said goodbye to the two women and rushed to work at Firefly Studios.
Today's audition for "Spider-Man" still continues, but the object is only some supporting roles, and naturally Eric does not need to appear in person.
As for the few Gwen Stacey ’s alternative girls identified yesterday, the crew will also conduct detailed analysis and evaluation of their audition tapes and other information. The follow-up process is very trivial and the final round of small-scale Auditions have to wait at least a week or two.
In the morning, we discussed with Joss Whedon an hour later of "Iron Man", and Eric got into the studio of "Gravity".
From last year's plan to finalize shoots "Gravity" to now, all aspects have been prepared for almost a year, and the film has decided to start shooting next week.
The only change in the plan is that Eric found that if he wanted to flexibly mobilize the entire crew and control all the details in real time during the shoots process, it was impossible for him to be a photographer himself. This job will eventually have to work with him for many years. Nickel.Frank.
Eric ’s ambitions for Oscar can only be adjusted temporarily, unfortunately starting with awards such as the most difficult best film and the best Director.
In the dedicated studio for "Gravity", Nickel.Frank is demonstrating a difficult scene he just set up to Eric.
After many videos, Nickel is already one of the best photographers of Hollywood. In fact, photographers are similar to snipers. Except for some basic talents, excellent snipers are fed with bullets. Photographers The same is true.
After giving up the idea of being a photographer in person, Eric described his shoots idea to Nickel in detail. Nickel heard the idea of Eric, and also raised a heart of challenge that has not been seen for a long time.
Over the past few months, Nickel ’s thoughts have basically been placed on the shoots method of “Gravity”. He is now as skilled in operating the two high-precision robots from KUKA as in some car assembly. Factory engineers can even say that, because the robot engineers in the assembly shop usually only need to set a fixed operating program, Nickel needs to operate two robots to make kaleidoscopic movements according to the needs of the lens.
In the background light box, the mechanical arm of the professional 35mm camera has been installed and it quickly approaches another dummy on the rotating mechanical arm at a high speed of nearly 50 meters per second.
However, the relative running distance between the lens and the target is actually only three meters. With the high-speed operation of the robot arm, the camera stopped at a place where the glass cover of the dummy helmet is only one centimeter. This scene caused several other crews on the scene. The personnel were a little shocked. They realized that if they were sitting in the position of the dummy, they saw a cold metal mechanical arm hitting their faces against a camera weighing more than ten kilograms, even if they were scared on the spot. possible.
Not far away from the operating table, Nickel expertly repeated the movements with the robot remote control PDA five times in a row, and then said to the Eric who had been staring at the monitor screen on the desktop: "How about? Kuka The accuracy of this machine is originally in the millimeter level, but I let KUKA engineers add two more insurance measures, which can definitely guarantee safety. "
In "Gravity", there are a lot of Actor quickly flying to another target or the lens close to Actor.
A camera weighing more than ten kilograms, a metal mechanical arm with a thick bowl mouth, and a relative speed of 50 meters per second. If it is out of control, Eric will not dare to think about the consequences. This is not allowed to make mistakes, even once. Will not work.
After hesitating for a while, Eric still said: "It ’s better to rub it in as far as possible at that time. If you ca n’t hide, try the slow-motion shoots."
Slow lens shoots, the film speed is several times slower, the relative running speed can also be slowed several times at the same time, and the high-speed relative movement effect can still be formed during normal projection. The slower the speed, the higher the degree of insurance.
"Eric, this is indeed safer, but if it is a frontal close-up, the facial expression of Actor is easy to wear."
Eric thought for a while and said: "Then another shoots emoticon close-up will be posted, we can't take risks."
"In this case, you do n’t need the slow shoots, just use a dummy."
Eric laughed and said: "How do the dummies do the action?"
"Then stand in."
Eric still shook his head: "The avatar is too dangerous."
Talking, the sound of crisp high heels came from my ears. Everyone looked around and saw Nicole Kidman wearing a black knee-length dress carrying a satchel came to Eric.
Hello to everyone, Nicole hugged Eric intimately, and then looked at the surrounding shoots props, with a little grudge in the tone, saying: "What a great look, you guy, but Don't ask me to act. "
Eric smiled and signaled Nicole to sit down in the chair next to him, jog the mouse to replay the side of the camera, and pointed to the mechanical arm not far away, threatening: "Dare you dare to play?"
Nicole placed the shoulder bag on the large operating table, sat next to Eric, watched the playback on the screen, and looked at the mechanical arm not far away, saying: "This is too dangerous, in case it hits, But it ’s life-threatening. Why do you want to take such a dangerous shot. And, where is just a dummy, if it is me, I will definitely subconsciously hide back, and you ca n’t take the shot just now. "
The next Nickel said: "Nicole, you ca n’t avoid it, the entire body of Actor is fixed on the bracket, and the headpiece is still wearing a one-piece helmet, only the limbs can move at will."
Nicole said: "Why don't you design a device that allows Actor to avoid during dangerous times?"
Nickel said: "These machines are very sophisticated, and it is impossible to move around at will. We thought about using bulletproof glass as a helmet, but if it really hits, the protection effect is not great."
Nicole think about the lens just now, and know that even if the mask glass is not smashed, the consequences are quite tragic, and even squeeze the head of Actor. She could not help standing, looked around, and suddenly pointed to the slide rail under the mechanical arm outside the light box: "Why not install the slide rail for the machine inside. If there is a collision, even if the Actor cannot move, just The machine inside can just go back. "
Eric just wanted to say that the space inside the light box was too small, but suddenly he suddenly realized, suddenly stood up, embraced the thin waist of Nicole and kissed fiercely on the lips of the girl: "You are really my little baby. "
Although Nicole does not conceal his relationship with Eric, he was suddenly kissed in the face of everyone in the studio, his face turned red, and he reached out and pushed Eric away.
Nickel also reacted at this time. The two of them have been trapped in the shackles of the photographer and Director, but Nicole has easily solved the problems that have troubled them for a long time from their own Actor perspective.
The space inside the light box is indeed not large, but as long as an accident occurs, Actor rebounds backwards even by two 30 centimeters, which is enough for the robot arm to complete emergency braking.
"Nà, come here in the morning, let the props come over and discuss with us in the afternoon." Figured this out, Eric told Nickel easily.
After all, if you can achieve perfection, Eric does not want to use special effects or other means.
Hello, Eric took Nicole to the restaurant for lunch.
After a few minutes, in the luxurious restaurant on the big ship, looking at a script handed over from Nicole, Eric was surprised and said: "Are you going to the Olympics too?"