King of Hollywood Chapter 117: Publicity plan

As the Cannes Film Festival officially opened on May 12, this small seaside town became more lively. Journalists held cameras against the camera and ran back and forth at various news points, collecting tirelessly those Eye-catching news, gossip and anecdotes. And male and female celebrities from all over the world are rare and generous to let them take pictures, ask questions, and promote themselves or the film authors they star in.

Compared to the United States, Adrian is less famous in Europe. After all, apart from "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" among the three works, the other two stories all happened in the United States. Ordinary people in Europe prefer American movies with strong commercial taste, while critics who advertise themselves as artistic think that the artistic quality of these two films is not enough.

However, it is just a little bit more. There are also a few audiences who like cult style, suspense, and weird thinking, and the thoughtfulness of Memento and Shawshank’s Salvation, or in The ideological nature of critics is also commendable. Therefore, on May 16, when "Pulp Fiction" premiered at the Capa Theater on Maiden Avenue, although American journalists accounted for a lot, European journalists also came a lot.

"According to the current plot introduction, Mr. Adrian, your new movie is still a cult type, and it seems to be narrated in three paragraphs, so this time is it like working on the editing like "Memento"?" Outside the railing, a French reporter asked loudly with a microphone in the click sound.

It's just that his English is really awful. If you change the French, Adrian can basically understand it. Unfortunately, in this noisy situation, you don't understand what he is talking about.

"Can it be repeated?" Adrian asked in French.

The reporter immediately realized his question, and immediately changed it to French and asked the question just now, but Adrian's answer made him cry and laugh: "I'm sorry, I can't answer about this, the movie will be broadcast soon, or Observe with your own eyes. Of course, I promise, this very interesting movie."

Sometimes, I took the opportunity to ask my own question, and repeated it to make the other party understand, but I didn’t expect to get such an answer, and anyone would feel depressed if they changed. He also wanted to continue to ask, but unfortunately the American reporter next to him took the opportunity: "Mr. Adrian, the reason why your fifth movie is still the cult type you chose, is it because the fourth movie is not satisfactory?"

Reporters from other countries around the world suddenly raised their ears. This news has long been circulating in Europe. It's a pity that Adrian didn't answer positively, just smiled slightly: "I'm sorry, today is the premiere of "Pulp Fiction", so I don't answer questions that have nothing to do with this movie."

"Then I can regard it as your default?" the American reporter asked unwillingly.

Adrian did not answer, looked around and signaled others to ask questions, an Italian reporter immediately said: "Mr. Adrian, can you tell us why we chose Monica? Miss Bellucci as the female in this movie The protagonist?"

"Because she is the most suitable." Adrian said, holding Monica who was always around, she was wearing a low-cut evening dress with a sleeve color today, and set off the graceful figure to reveal the slender figure, murder A lot of film.

"The heroine, as the mistress of the gangster, needs to give people a **** and sensational feeling and escape the unruly feeling. I have selected a lot of actresses for this, and I have not found the most suitable until Moni Ka participated in the audition.” Adrian said with amazement and looked at Monica around her. “Although she doesn’t have much experience, I know that she’s the character I’m looking for after a little acting, so I don’t hesitate. Selected Monica."

Monica did not speak, just looked at the reporters with a smile, although her aura is far less intense than a few years later, but it also made many people's eyes bright-especially Italian journalists.

"Facts have proved that my decision is very correct. Monica's performance in the movie is almost perfect. She is like my muse, which made me add a lot of inspiration halfway through the shooting." Adrian continued, Some reporters around for a while froze for two or three seconds, then their expressions became ambiguous.

Generally speaking, when a director refers to the heroine in her movie as her muse, that can only explain one thing. Of course, no one would be so stupid as to poke through that layer of paper. Tabloids can be written casually because everyone knows that 90% of their words are untrustworthy, and those famous newspapers must obey such unspoken rules, unless there are certain Evidence, but this is also a reminder that there is news to dig between them.

Looking at the entrance of the theater where I can’t see it far away, Adrian immediately took his Monica’s arm and walked inside, and the reporters who wanted to continue asking could only stop, and then took the camera against their background for a while. beat.

"Are you serious, Ed?" Monica asked suddenly when she entered the theater's front hall.

"Of course," Adrian replied without thinking, "When shooting "Pulp Fiction", you are indeed my muse, otherwise I will not spend so much attention on you."

"Not now?" Monica's face flashed a complex look.

"Frankly speaking, I can't be sure," Adrian stopped and looked at her. The serious look made him look sincere. "However, my obsession with you will never be adulterated, Monica."

Monica remained silent for a few seconds, and then said provocatively: "You said in front of the reporter that I am your muse, are you not afraid of your little girlfriend being jealous?"

"What is what, you are indeed my muse when shooting, why can't I admit this?" Adrian shrugged and seemed quite free and easy.

Monica's look is more complicated. She opened her mouth and seemed to want to say something, but in the end she just sighed. Adrian smiled slightly, squeezed her hips gently, and took her to go inside.

"Hey, Ed, oh, and Monica." John Travolta, who had already come to the screening room early, greeted with a smile, and Samuel Jackson and Dennis and Lavern also He was together, in addition to Bruce Willis and his wife Demi Moore.

"You guys can run really fast, throw all the reporters to me and Muni to deal with." Adrian came to them and said teasingly.

"As directors and producers, you should take more responsibility than us, don't you? Let's talk about you..." Tara Volta, who was joking, was talking, suddenly realized what he was, and laughed and spread out. The show of hands did not continue.

Basically, everyone knows what is happening between Adrian and Monica, and more or less knows that he still has a girlfriend, but no one says more about it-Dennis the clearest Close your mouth even more. Everyone is a man and understands the situation very well, even if Willis and Tara Volta are married.

Say a few words to each other, and Adrian chatted with Willis and his wife for a while, and everyone was seated waiting for the movie to be released.

"How is it going?" Adrian whispered and asked Laffern, who was sitting on his right.

"Not very good, you know, we spent at least a few years before, although you started to reorganize your network after you bought the company, but once this thing is abandoned, if you want to pick it up again, sometimes it will It’s more difficult than building a brand new one. More importantly, this is Europe.” Lavonne said softly, but he seemed calm.

"It doesn't matter, there is still time anyway." Adrian also noticed this, "Try your best, as long as you try your best, it doesn't matter if you lose."

"I will." Lavern nodded.

Naturally, the two discussed the Golden Palm Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Although the original "Pulp Fiction" won the Golden Palm, Adrian is confident that this version will not be worse than the original, but can you get the Golden Palm but not? 100% sure.

As I said a long time ago, these film festivals are essentially divided into cakes, but Oscar has a mainstream value standard anyway. The closer it is to this standard, the easier it is to get favored, while the European Film Festival is only The brand of art is held high, so it is more confusing than the Oscar rule, so if you can't divide it into cakes, you have to look at the PR.

Because of this, when Adrian acquired the film company, it chose Bosworth Films. Subsequent facts also proved that his choice was not wrong. Laffern and his agent Roger successfully won an Oscar nomination for Best Director.

No matter how the cake is divided, the quality of the movie still has a very high proportion. Adrian believes that ``Pulp Fiction'' is no problem, so now it is up to Laffern to be like the two bosses of Miramax, I got Golden Palm for "Pulp Fiction"~IndoMTL.com~ Of course, it doesn't matter if it doesn't work.Although Golden Palm has a high international honor, it has far less influence in the United States than Oscar, so it is natural to get it. It doesn't matter if you don't get it.

"So, how is the publicity work of "Scent of a Woman"?" Adrian asked another question.

"It is currently within the grasp, but I think it can be temporarily slowed down. With the release of "Pulp Fiction" ​​in Cannes, it is bound to receive a lot of attention." Laffern said in retrospect.

"I'm afraid not," Adrian shook his head after thinking for a while, "You know, the first thing they caught was that the fourth film was different from the previous three styles, and now the fifth film is still cult type. The film must be compared with the fourth film that has not been disclosed so far, and it is claimed that the fourth film is a failure. If "Pulp Fiction" is very popular, this situation may be more serious. In this case, think It is very difficult to deal with cold, so someone needs appropriate guidance, as we decided at the time, to use this matter to hang out the public's appetite, not only to make them feel curious but also prevent them from losing confidence."