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Chapter 592

Many years later, the soldier Ryan, who was already in his twilight years, once again came to the Normandy Memorial Cemetery where 120,000 lives were buried, stroking the name on the white tombstone that impressed him, as if he had returned to that year.

The sound of the waves around the landing craft was like the Nà shouting at the bottom of the soldier ’s heart before the war. The trembling fingers unscrewed the aluminum kettle. Captain Miller poured a sip of water. Everyone is trying to keep himself calm.

As the helmsman was about to land, Captain Miller and his deputy Horvath began to remind the soldiers of the precautions when they landed again. However, these words did not seem to have any effect. The hatch opened and hurried The sound of machine gun fire immediately made the soldiers in the cabin too late to fall down.

This tragic scene that did n’t give any buffer at all caused a lot of viewers in the projection room to take a breath. The lens of the hand-held camera shaking constantly gave the illusion of being immersive.

The next picture is even more tense.

Someone struggled to jump off the sea, but was hit by a bullet, and never came to the surface; some people struggled to the shore, but before approaching the beach, they fell on the way; some people did not leave the ground After dragging the injured comrades, after the sound of the gun sounded, only half of the body was left in his hands ...

Eric saw that a senior woman in the issuing department sitting not far from her left had covered her eyes, and most of them showed a dignified look.

Looking at the Kathryn next to her eyes, the woman's fingers were holding the armrest of the seat tightly, and she was obviously not in a good mood.

After the 20-minute Normandy landing battle, as the lens cut into the mail room, Eric clearly felt that everyone in the auditorium was greatly relieved. Someone raised their hands and seemed to want to just Applauded the successful war scene, but soon realized that the movie of this theme was not suitable for such a response, so he let it go.

Eric looked at Kathryn without any relaxation, and patted her hand. Let's go and whisper: "Shall we go out for a walk?"

This is also the first internal audition meeting after the final cut of "Saving Private Ryan", Kathryn shook his head and said: "Isn't this good?"

Eric stretched out his hand and drew a straight down, whispered: "Your back is so straight that you are blocking the sight of others."

The mood of Kathryn is already extremely disturbed. I heard Eric's slightly joking words, and relaxed a lot. I felt that Eric directly took her hand and wanted to pull up to leave together. Kathryn quickly broke free, but the whole person has already left the seat. I had to walk out of the screening room with Eric.

The screening room is on the first floor of the administrative building of Firefly Studios. The two left the opening screening room and closed the door to isolate the sound of the movie. The surroundings immediately became quiet.

Because it is Saturday, although there are still a lot of crews working on the studio, there are not many people working overtime on the administrative building. Eric put his hands in his pockets and looked at him wearing a black leather jacket and jeans. The slender Kathryn said, "Shall we go to my office for a cup of coffee? Anyway, we have read it many times. Come back after they finish watching us."

Kathryn dare to be alone with this little man who always distracts himself, pointing to the cement shaft outside the floor-to-ceiling glass window and saying, "Go outside and walk."

"OK," Eric took the lead in taking steps.

The park of Playa Vista Cinema is generally rectangular in the northeast direction, parallel to the Bellona channel flowing through the Culver City area.

Eric looked out of the administrative building, still looking back at Kathryn with some concern, and found a topic, saying: "Kathryn, I have always been curious. The" Ballona "in the name of the Bellona canal next to the studio is What do you mean. Do you know? "

Because he has a deep understanding of classical oil painting, Kathryn is very familiar with some of the Western mythological figures involved. Although some are absent-minded, he blurted out without hesitation: "That was a beautiful Goddess of War of tall and slender in ancient Rome ... … "After saying this, the woman immediately realized what. He glared at Eric, but there was no slight annoyance in his eyes, but there was a hint of shyness that was hard to detect.

Eric laughed: "I think the name Bellona is pretty good, and it suits you very well. The name Kathryn is too popular."

"Then you know that Bellona's corresponding Goddess of War Enyo in Greek mythology is a very **** and cruel woman, after the legendary Trojan slaughtered the city. Troy blood flowed into the river, but she drank the city full of blood while drunk." /

Eric innocently spread his hands: "This kind of thing, don't need to study so deeply, I haven't heard of such a popular branch plot."

Kathryn smiled at the corner of her mouth, with a faint smile, saying: "It is you who started this topic first."

"Okay, my fault," Eric shook his head with a smile: "Then say something else, what are you going to do next?"

Kathryn said: "Resume for a while, walk around, then come back to work, remember Becky, she said that Columbia University is going to hold a pop art exhibition next week, I plan to visit."

Eric only vaguely knows that some pop art is a representative of pop culture, and what is specifically has not been studied in depth.

"Maybe I ’m going to New York recently, will you still stay at that hotel in Soho?"

Kathryn remembered the time when the two spent time at the Soho Hotel 60 years ago. Everything seemed as clear as yesterday, and they could n’t help saying, “Maybe, but, maybe ... may live at Becky ’s house.”

"How bad it is to disturb others, I have a high-rise apartment at the 6th Avenue exit, you can see Central Park, maybe you can live there."

Kathryn stopped and stared fixedly at Eric for a few seconds. Seeing that the little man had no guilty look, he was embarrassed: "You, I still want to live, I still go to the hotel Well, no one will bother. "

Eric still has a faint smile on his face, and he said calmly: "OK, call me after you stay, maybe we can still be neighbors."

Kathryn feels like he has an impulse to run away. How can this little **** be so desperate?

The woman panicked in her heart and finally thought of a trick to "change the subject", saying: "When the movie kills, you let me save all the props to do. Those things are put in Ireland In the warehouse, what is the monthly storage fee? "

For shoots "Saving Private Ryan", the crew prepared thousands of sets of World War II, as well as different numbers of landing craft and off-road vehicles. There are countless other pieces of props, and these things cost tens of millions of USD. Of course, Eric cannot be handled like many movies after the film is finished.

Not to mention, he also has a better recycling method in mind.

Although it is very interesting to watch a woman change the subject awkwardly, Eric But did not continue to pick Kathryn . It ’s not good if you are scared away: “I ’m going to use these things to make a mini-series that reflects World War II movies, and Ryan 》 This story is in the same line and reflects World War II After the landing of Normandy, a story of a company going deep behind the enemy. Kathryn You have made so many preparations before, and you definitely know more about the history of World War II than I am. Are you interested in being the producer of this mini-series? "

Kathryn asked: "The cost of war dramas should be very high, how much do you plan to use to shoot?"

"With these props and" Ryan "production team, the production cost of each episode will not be higher than 10 million, I plan to produce ten episodes first."

"That is 100 million USD." Ryan "took 70 million. I am still worried about whether I can recover the cost, but you have to use 100 million to shoot TV series." Kathryn shook his head, then smiled and looked at Eric Tao: "I almost forgot, you are now the richest man in United States, and you are not short of money at all."

Eric has been accustomed to the words of those around him recently, laughing at him: "I am the richest man in United States, but not a fool. Rest assured, after" Ryan "is released, it will definitely cause a wave of war films. Take this opportunity to launch this There is no problem in recovering costs through a multi-channel operation for a mini-drama. I happen to want to acquire an TV Network. Using such a mini-drama can also enhance the brand effect of TV Network. "

Kathryn shook his head: "I don't understand these. But I have heard some news that I heard that your negotiation with ABC broke down?"

Eric said: "It doesn't break, but it's just at the last moment, it depends on whether ABC will take another step back. If it goes well, I will attend the signing ceremony next week when I go to New York."

"Today is the 12th. The Oscar Award Ceremony is held on the 21st," Kathryn said, suddenly he did not know whether it was easy or lost. If so, Eric must be back in New York for a few days and must come back: "Listen Say they invited you to award the best film this time, which has rarely happened before. "

Because of the butterfly effect, the "Schindler's List" that should have appeared this year is one year ahead of schedule. This year belongs to the Oscar small year. None of the well-known big Director has launched personal works.

For the sake of audience ratings, at the beginning of the year, the Oscar Organizing Committee Bamboo Mat personally invited Eric to participate in this awards ceremony. At first, they hoped that Eric would be the first to appear to boost the popularity of the awards ceremony, but in March After the release of magazine in the new issue of "Forbes", the other party changed their minds, hoping that Eric will finally appear and award the best heavyweight film. This kind of award is generally awarded by the Hollywood reputation, but Eric is now in Hollywood For his strength and fame, no one will feel that he is not qualified for the best film award.

"Speaking of Oscar, ICM will hold a warm-up party in Susnet Tower Hotel tonight. Kapoor calls to invite me to show up. Your brokerage contract is also in ICM. Would you like to go with me?"

Kathryn shook his head and said: "Still not, I plan to go home and rest in advance."

Eric saw the flickering heart flashing in the expression of Kathryn, but then refused again, and after thinking about it, he thought of the possible reason. Not only Kathryn, because of the cooperation with Firefly Pictures, the brokerage contract of Cameron is also in ICM, Kathryn obviously does not want to meet with Cameron, and Eric will not say anything.

The two of them walked around the park seriously and drank a cup of coffee in the cafe. They felt that "Saving Private Ryan" was about to finish playing before heading towards the administrative building.

When entering the screening room, the fluorescent lamp in the screening room was already on. The employees of the announcement department who participated in the internal screening were whispering. When they saw Eric and Kathryn walking in, everyone stopped and chatted in silence. After that, everyone applauded in unison.

Because the negotiation was suspended, Katzenberg who came back from New York just to participate in this internal audition came over and said: "Ms. Kathryn, congratulations shoots on a great movie. If it was not seen with my own eyes, I would definitely not I will believe it. "

Kathryn did n’t say everything about Katzenberg. What he meant was that he would never believe it was taken by a woman. However, Kathryn did not mind, smiled and shook hands with Katzenberg, said: "Thank you for your affirmation, Jeffrey."

Katzenberg nodded and said to Eric: "However, Eric, this film has two very important issues. One is the length, 170 minutes, which is close to three hours. I suggest that it is best to edit it again. In addition , Is a question of rating. If you cut out the excessively **** part of this film, although you will be able to get PG-13, it will lose the authenticity of the scene, but if you do not modify it, the R-level is positive. "

Eric knows the character of Katzenberg very well. As a workaholic, although Katzenberg has many executives who are sociable, he often becomes straightforward about his work, so he does n’t mind Katzenberg ’s confession, saying: “Jeffrey The rough cut version of this film is four and a half hours. Kathryn and I have already done the maximum trimming. I think it is impossible to shorten the market in front of 170 minutes. As for R-level, "The Terminator" has proved that R-level The film does not mean that Box Office failed, so there is nothing to care about. This is a war movie after all. "

Swiss, the rough cut version of this film is four and a half hours. Kathryn and I have already done the maximum trimming. I think it is impossible to shorten the market in front of 170 minutes. As for the R-level, "The Terminator" has proved that the R-level film does not mean that Box Office failed, so there is nothing to care about. This is after all a war movie. "(To be continued.)