King of Hollywood Chapter 111: 1 game 1 game

>A woman in her thirties, with long dark hair, gives her a mysterious temperament, but some tough facial features are also sharp, especially the pair of eyebrows, slender but straight, as if telling all People, she never refuses to lose. She did not wear a skirt like other women, but a black suit and a neutral dress with long trousers, which suddenly made her look outstanding and very handsome.

"Hi Sophie," Adrian immediately responded with a smile. How could he not know the woman in front of him, "It's great to see you here."

Following, he began to introduce: "Scar, this is Sophie, Sofia Coppola, the famous female director; Sophie, this is Scarlett, Scarlett Johansson, the future star."

"Hello, Scarlett, nice to meet you, oh, I remember you starred in "The Horse Whisperer" right? It is indeed a very good actor."

"Thank you, Sofia, I am also very happy to meet you. I have watched the "Girl Suicide" directed by you, it is really easy to touch the inner weakness."

They just talked to each other, but Sofia's eyes looked between Scarlett and Adrian from time to time, and her eyes were very meaningful. But she soon became a little uncomfortable, because Scarlett also looked back and forth between her and Adrian, and it was equally meaningful. Following that, Scarlett also saw Sophia's gaze, and the two suddenly became embarrassed.

"Speaking of this, Sophie, what advice can you give to the premiere at this day's premiere?" Adrian, who was laughing in his stomach, was busy to ease the atmosphere.

"Nothing, I just came with my dad." Sophia Coppola raised her face and made a look that she didn't care about. But this only makes Adrian laugh more intensely.

"Okay, so what does the respected Director Coppola have to teach?" Adrian asked seriously, "I just greeted him before."

"Nothing, he just told me. Let me stay away from you." Sophia said expressionlessly. Unfortunately, even Scarlett couldn't help but whisper after listening to this sentence.

Of course, she also noticed that she was too pretentious, so she coughed and said: "But I have something to find you, so I have to put this sentence behind my head."

"Oh, what's the matter?" Adrian raised an eyebrow and gave up the idea of ​​chasing after the phrase "I just came with my dad."

"Have you... watched my script?" Hesitated for two seconds. Sophia still asked, and his expression changed a little bit, like he wanted to be recognized but didn't want to be recognized by him.

"Of course," Adrian's eyes suddenly brightened. He is waiting for this topic, "A good script, very good, fully showing the delicate thoughts of women, except for a few details, there is basically no need to modify."

"Is it?" Sofia's face suddenly smiled. The original tough facial features have also softened a lot, and they look quite happy.

"I believe that Mr. Coppola will get such a conclusion when he sees it. Tokyo must have given you a deep impression," Adrian said with admiration. "When are you going to start shooting?"

"January next year, it will be December. Christmas is just around the corner. If you go to Japan, you will be delayed. I am not like you. I don’t have as much money to spend." Sofia shrugged.

"If this is the case, it will probably not be able to keep up with next year's Cannes Film Festival." Adrian reminded.

"Why do you have to attend the Cannes Film Festival?" Sophia frowned, "Why can't you still attend the Venice Film Festival? I think they are more relaxed."

Adrian smiled, and did not break her mind, just said: "Frankly, Sophie, if you want to compete next year's Oscar, it is the best way to attend the Cannes Film Festival."

"There is no best practice... wait, are you saying that you are competing for an Oscar?!" Sofia looked surprised in disbelief.

"Of course, don’t forget what kind of eyes I have," Adrian said with some playfulness, "I have read the script carefully, and I believe that as long as you can maintain the consistent level and the excellent performance of the actors, this will be It is a good story that shows the loneliness of people in a foreign country, and it will also be the top level of female directors. It just happens that the film school is also trying to find new and change, they will definitely not want to be compared with Cannes. So why not try to fight once? You are not without conditions."

Sophia is a bit dazed, obviously shocked by his thoughts, but it is still possible to think about it. As Adrian said, in the first half of the year, the Film Academy announced that it will develop a new group of members, and they are all relatively young film practitioners. Although they actually do not play a decisive role in the selection, at least this is a gesture . To ensure this, the film academy does not mind launching the first best female director.

The ability Sofia has, the two films before and after have proved her talents as a director, the media no longer grasps her stiff posture as an actor, and the Coppola family has a good network in Hollywood. , And since Adrian has said so, she should also support her, just...

"Just..." Sophia wanted to say something.

"Don’t just, Sophie, yes, it needs a little luck. For you, next year is the best time. If you miss it, you will have to wait for several years. Because, in those years, all luck Will only stand on my side." Adrian said unkindly with his hands raised.

Very arrogant words, but he said it, no one would feel wrong, Adrian has created too many miracles, and it seems not difficult to create a few more. Of course, neither Sophia nor Scarlett understood the true meaning of Adrian.

“If it’s just a funding issue, I can help solve it in my personal capacity. I have some relationships in Japan and can provide some of the scenes I need.” Adrian continued.

Sophia made a few meaningless gestures and saw that she was somewhat resistant to Adrian’s good intentions for some reason: "But... there are actors who need..."

"This is easier," Adrian answered quickly. There was a smile on the corner of his mouth, "It's perfect for an overwhelming American actor to let Bill Murray play. As for the young wife of the photographer, the future star standing in front of you can definitely grasp the character of this role."

"Me?" Scarlett's eyes widened in surprise as she kept listening to their conversation.

"Yes. It's you, Scarlett," Adrian nodded with a smile. "I've been trying to find you a role that can perform acting. This is just right. Although you are a little young, it is definitely suitable. "

"You're kidding, Ed!" Sophia finally shouted after she opened her mouth for a long while.

"No, no, dear Sophie," Adrian shook his finger up, "Don't say you didn't consider Scarlett, otherwise why didn't you just mention "The Expendables" instead of "X-Men"? Did you mention "The Horse Whisperer?"

Talked so much. Except for Sofia's competition for the best director, this is what he wants to say most. As Scarlett's best known and best-known character in her girlhood, of course, it should be her.

"Don't worry, Sophie. If you have time, we can talk about it carefully." He then laughed again, not caring about Sophia's frowning, even if she resisted for a while. But eventually he will be persuaded, and Scarlett next to him will look at Adrian and Sofia. Also frowned, showing a puzzled look.

Okay, just put this aside for now. As the time drew near, the guests who participated in the premiere entered the auditorium in preparation for enjoying this movie from the amazing group of superheroes that was moved to the screen again after "Blade Warrior" and "Spider-Man".

As far as the overall plot is concerned, there is not much change compared to the original version. The little naughty played by Scarlett began to absorb the vitality of her boyfriend because of the mutation. The Phoenix female played by Zeta Jones addressed the US Congress. Fighting for the right to speak for the mutants, and then listening to Professor X and Magneto talking, while the naughty met Wolverine, and was attacked by the Saber-toothed Tiger halfway along. It was easy to come to the mutant school, but Professor X side misunderstood the goal of Magneto because of Wolverine and Xiaonao together. Eventually Magneto captured the mischief and prepared to use her as the energy on the Statue of Liberty High-powered instruments turned everyone into mutants-of course, they were eventually defeated.

However, there are too many differences in the details. The easiest is that some of the original bugs caused by makeup are gone. For example, there was a scar on the Wolverine face in the previous shot, but the next shot did not. After that, or when Magneto was finally caught, when Professor X and he met in prison, the buttons on his body were still metal products and so on. Regarding this point, Adrian with memories of previous life has emphasized again and again, with the addition of "Spider-Man" Zhuyu in front, the production cycle of "X-Men" has also been extended a lot, so the bugs in this area are greatly reduced, allowing the audience Enjoy the plot better.

Further revisions and adjustments are the dialogue of the ambush pen for the entire series after resetting the world. For example, when Magneto and Professor X first met in the movie, Magneto once sighed and said: About your legs, I I'm always sorry. Professor X replied: I never thought about it, Marcos, that was just an accident.

The settings in "X-Men: Lesson 1" are used here. When the young Magneto and the young Professor X parted ways, a government agent on Professor X's side was killed because of his own person. Then angry shot at Magneto. Of course, this has no effect on Magneto. He blocked the bullet with one hand, and the agent knew that it was useless, still pouring the bullet, and the last bullet hit Professor X's lumbar spine.

Then, the Saber-toothed Tiger was also intriguing towards him when he first met Wolverine.

"Look, my brother, after so many years, you are still so...cowardly." After the first appearance and teaching the Wolverine, the saber-toothed tiger said in a relatively contemptuous tone, looks like Was fooling Wolverine.

There is no doubt that this setting comes from "Wolverine", where they are a pair of brothers, of course, it will certainly not be explicitly stated here, let the audience first guess. However, the relatives of the Saber-toothed Tiger have increased a lot. In the final battle, the Wolverine was rescued once. When the Wolverine asked him why he wanted to save himself--

"You should understand." Saber-toothed tiger replied, "You were not my opponent before. It is not now, even if you have Adman Metal."

As he said he left the battlefield, Wolverine chased and yelled, "How much do you know! About me!"

"Think about what we said at the beginning, Logan!" The Saber-Tooth Tiger left quickly with a laugh.

Everything is preparing for a separate series of characters. So the back two of the Saber-toothed Tiger had to show up, and the makeup was not as shaggy as the original version. I specially found a good-looking actor with a wild taste in front of the camera that was not lost to Jackman.

Relatively speaking, there are not so many interactions between the magical girl and Professor X and Magneto in details, but Professor X asked before Magneto's departure: Is Ruiwen okay recently? And the magical woman misled Xiao Naughty into an iceman, and then sneaked into the brain wave instrument room to pour the liquid into the instrument to let Professor X fall into a coma while searching for Xiao Naughty with the aid of the instrument. She asked Magneto: You promised that Eric would be fine, right?

Although these places are unremarkable, after the movie was released. There will be a lot of repercussions among comic fans.

"Professor X's paralysis was caused by Magneto? This is not scientific!"

"Aren’t Wolverine and Saber-toothed Tigers fighting against each other? How do they look like brothers!"

"Professor X has a love triangle with Magneto and the Magic Girl? God, this joke is too big!"

Such posts can be seen everywhere on the Internet, and the entertainment media immediately joined in to publish the settings of several characters in Marvel Comics, and then counted the various places that could not be matched. But it makes no sense. Whether it is a comic or a surprise comic, there are a lot of parallel universes, which use countless contradictory settings, this universe is a good person. But it may be a bad person in another universe. Magneto died in a universe because Professor X saved himself. So he inherited his legacy and created a mutant school. and so. This is not a loophole at all.

Sure enough, the content on the official website of Marvel is updated soon, indicating that the world where X-Men is located in the movie is a new parallel universe, so it has new settings. As for what the new setting is, I’m sorry, because spoilers are not available, so I can’t give a detailed explanation for now. I can only let everyone find the answer in the movie.

Although this speech was strongly protested by comic fans, it also attracted a large number of people into the cinema, so it reached the top of the North American box office list with 67 million box office in the first week.

As for movie critics, what more can be demanded for a superhero movie adapted from comics? Although the dispute between mutants and non-mutants will inevitably imply something like racism, after all, this is just comics and movies, as long as there is no obvious tendency, there will be no problem-this is why the film perspective is always from Professor X Starting with his students, and why the Magneto Wang Yingming in the comics is so idiotic in the movie.

So most of them are focused on special effects, plot frames and characterization, and these Adrians have been emphasized many times when they started shooting, just like he insisted on re-setting to suit the real world, plus The media is rich in resources, and the global operation is also very good, so most people praised it.

The criticism is relatively concentrated on the plot, which is very frustrating. As Adrian said at the premiere, the whole world of "X-Men" is too huge, plus there are many characters who can only choose from Take a story and transform it. But the movie is only about two hours at most, and no matter how it is reformed, it can't reflect all the details, so there are loopholes in the plot.

It is for this reason that when surprised, he told him that redo settings can be done, but according to these settings, such as a little ambiguity between the magic girl and Professor X, Magneto, such as Wolverine It is a brother and saber tooth tiger etc. to write a detailed story suitable for making a movie, that is a huge work that takes a long time to complete. So Adrian finally gave up the plan to set the whole world view and logic chain, and let them play freely on this basis.

Anyway, like "Spider-Man", although "X-Men" did not achieve the dazzling results of breaking the 100 million in the first week, it also achieved considerable success. Surprised superheroes were further optimistic and responsible The production of Universal is extremely happy. However, this joy has only just begun. After Thanksgiving, another movie premiered, the first part of the miracle director Adrian? Kewell's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy!

The premiere of "The Lord of the Rings" is the same grand in the same theater as "X-Men", although among the main actors, only Blanchett, the Oscar shadow, is the final weight-Ian? McLaren and Christopher Lee are also very famous~IndoMTL.com~ but they are old men after all-but Tolkien's fans are countless. This novel may seem a bit boring to many people, but in the eyes of more people, it is the ancestor and classic of fantasy literature, so Adrian caused a considerable discussion after it was officially producing the movie version of the novel. , Almost as much as they support.

After that, with the limited disclosure of some stills and tidbits, these debates gradually subsided. After all, the movie has already started shooting. After all, how to wait for the release will be known. If it is really bad, it is not too late to criticize or even criticize.

Who knows this is more than a year. Although I know that it takes time to shoot the three parts together, it also takes time to post-production after the filming, and then we need to arrange the schedule, but it is inevitable that people will be upset. Interestingly, very few people complain about this online, because once this is said in a popular forum and waits for the movie version of "The Lord of the Rings" to wait too long, a large number of "Matrix" fans will immediately come out and say that this is fundamental It's nothing.

"You just waited a year, and we waited three years before we saw the light!" They were both angry and bitter.

Now it’s finally going to premiere. Fans and fans will naturally go to the red carpet to watch the premiere, so the liveliness of the scene is not lost to "X-Men", letting Adrian take part in one after another With emotion. (To be continued...)