King of Hollywood Chapter 33: approaching
It seems that everything is under control. Adrian knows the exact time of the attack by the US military, and uses its old-fashioned uncle’s name to persuade Claude with excellent talent and technology, then this is almost a profit. Uncompensated trading.
But in fact this is still a gamble, at best it is just a gamble with a higher win rate, because Adrian does not know what butterfly effect will be brought about by his rebirth. Perhaps a stone was accidentally kicked while walking on the streets of New York, and then the stone caused a woman who should have returned to Washington DC to fall and hit her head, then the woman’s general husband hurried over, and then He was in a state of anger all day long because of his wife’s affairs, and then the Ministry of Defence had to replace the general who was supposed to go to Kuwait, and then made several adjustments, etc., and finally delayed to 20th. Or the attack was launched on the 15th ahead of time, so... you can imagine.
From the perspective of an ordinary person, what Claude said is undoubtedly correct, that 50 million yuan is enough for anyone to start a business. But Adrian is not an ordinary person after all, and he still has huge ambitions. The success of the first movie and Claude's excellent completion requirements have contributed to this ambition.
Of course, he is not a mindless person. He has been revising his plan repeatedly from the beginning. The crux of the problem is that although there were many opportunities in the early 1990s, a lot of money was needed to seize it, and if you wanted to use accumulated time to minimize it, you had to turn your eyes to futures like profits and high risks. Things above.
Adrian had complained in his heart that if he was reborn for another 5 years, the situation would be much better now, not to mention that Microsoft and Cisco shares at the same price as Chinese cabbage, only the stock market disaster in 1987. And the collapse of the Japanese economy in 1989 would allow him to get enough money-if Claude was still willing to help him.
However, these thoughts will be thrown out at most once in the head. Adrian knows that he can be reborn to 90 years is already very lucky, he has no time to complain, grasping everything in front of him is the most important .
In short, he has to bet on this one, and if he wins, he will get a lot of liquidity-the initial estimate is that it can be at least 3 to 4 times, that is more than 200 million US dollars! If you lose, it is just to start from scratch. Anyway, he still has a set of properties in Marbury and Orange County, plus the one he is currently living in, it should be no problem to keep the film company.
After a fairly decent Christmas at the godfather’s house and once again received Claude’s promise, Adrian took a rest at home for a few days, wrote novels, exercised, and occasionally went shopping, Then he went to London when the new year came.
Although it was less than a month apart, Cate was still ecstatic about his arrival. The woman in love always wanted to be with her lover every day. She had even asked Adrian to live at home, but she was rejected by Adrian. Of course, she must do it when she visits.
In addition to her mother and stepfather, Cate also has a half-sister and two unrelated elder brothers at home. She and her sister don’t like their stepfather but they have a good relationship with the two brothers.
All of these Adrians have been heard by Cate, so I made a special preparation when I went to her house. After a dinner, he showed his style and humor that won the Cate family a lot of favors.
"He is very good, without the rudeness of ordinary Americans, decent manners, humorous, like an English gentleman." This is Cate's stepfather Robert's private evaluation of Adrian.
"Not particularly handsome, but charming, with an indescribable temperament that makes people want to be close." This is the sense of Cate's sister Samantha.
Even the mother who has always been worried, has to admit that this young man is very good.
For this, Cate is both happy and depressed. What makes her happy is that her family loves her lover. What makes her depressed is that... because everyone likes Adrian, she has turned out a lot of her previous mischief. For example, I don’t like to wear fat shorts. I have been grumpy and reticent for a long time. I have the nickname "Boggy No. 6" in the school. Cate didn't know how much to roll his eyes to his family this evening, but unfortunately ignored.
"Actually it's nothing," Adrian comforted her afterwards, "Everyone will do something stupid and don't want others to know when they grow up. Don't care so much, these are your own growth trajectories, if you still don't think To be fair, I can also tell you something stupid when I was a kid."
admits that Adrian is very good at coaxing women, but this time it seems to have no effect, because the response of Cate is to grab his collar and say fiercely: "Unless I say it myself, no matter who treats me Mentioned that I will not be polite!"
is very imposing, even more arrogant than when he first met him to provoke him. It's a pity that it's two different things now and then, so soon she lay on the floor-to-ceiling glass window of the hotel room and mourned softly.
Adrian only stayed in London for three days and left, although some are reluctant to complete the latter quarter of "Memento", if you want to participate in the Berlin Film Festival, you have to speed up, and then he will have to make time Go to New York-since it is the new year, how can you not visit your uncle, and this is the "source" of the news.
However, there are his own reasons for making the time so tight. Because the film was always in the back of the film when I was making it, I unknowingly edited it smoothly according to the playback. The peculiarity of this film and the point of view are parallel to the two lines of narration and narration, and then exchanged every 5 minutes. Think about how troublesome it would be if you edited in this way.
When Adrian found something wrong, he had wasted four days, and he smiled bitterly for a long time. Originally, he only needed to cut to the end according to the narrative sequence of a line, and then divide it into a small segment every 5 minutes and then interspersed according to the idea, but he accidentally complicated it a lot.
Fortunately, it’s not too late to repair the sheep, plus this time the funds are sufficient, only editing is required for him, and the rest is left to other professionals, so before the Christmas and New Year holidays come, I finally completed a quarter One. Although the remedy was not enough, Adrian quickly rushed back to the studio of the film company after visiting his uncle.
probably because I took a good break during the Christmas and New Year holidays. After editing for a few days and getting familiar with it, Adrian suddenly broke out. He was already very familiar with the movie, and because of the "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" training, he has already integrated the experience of the previous life into it, so the progress has been accelerated a lot.
Adrian finally let out a little bit of relief. After stabilizing the editing progress, he started to free his hands to do something else, such as novels, scripts, etc., the adaptation script of Stephen King’s novel should also be put on the agenda. .
I hate the word accumulation! He always said this to himself in his heart.
In addition, he also took the time to transfer out the Sarah clip and tried to edit it. This clip, which was specially made to compensate the little girl, was not useless. Adrian had already thought about it when he decided to compensate this way. These seemingly scrapped shots can be used by him to practice editing.
The total length of the shots related to Sarah is about 20 minutes. Adrian can edit at will, or compress it to within 5 minutes, or use 20 minutes to fully show the character’s character, or try to edit Come up with a short story that has nothing to do with "Memento".
You must know that the successful replication of "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" is based on his abnormal memory, which does not help his skills and qualities in film production. Although there are still many movies that can be copied, this does not mean that he should leave these things behind.
The problem is that because of the tight time for each production, Adrian relied on its own abnormal memory to rigidly suppress the scrap rate of the film below 30%~IndoMTL.com~ and the lenses that are not used are quite scattered Even if he wanted to try to use these films to practice his hands during the break.
This set of shots lasted for 20 minutes, and the connection with "Memento" itself was not very close. When it was used for practice, it was naturally more arbitrary and not affected by the original work. Although the effect was not very big, Always better than, isn't it?
With the passage of time, the completion of "Memento" is getting higher and higher. If there is no accident and Adrian bursts from time to time, it is not impossible to complete it in advance. then. Adrian heard the good news that Congress officially authorized the President to use force to resolve the Gulf crisis when necessary!
This news caused huge waves as soon as it was announced. There were more supporters but more opposition. After all, it is less than 20 years before the end of the Vietnam War. God knows if there will be another Vietnam War? Moreover, the place where the conflict occurs is in the Persian Gulf, one of the most important places in the world where the poles are fighting.
But this is not what Adrian cares about. He already knows the result of this local war, and he does not think that the wings of this butterfly can make silly Oki win this war. What Adrian cares about is that with the announcement of this news, as long as the senior executives of large companies and big funds are not fools, they know that the local war in the Persian Gulf is inevitable, so it is inevitable to mobilize funds to enter the market, so they want to share a large In the case of cake, it depends on who can get the specific date for the US military to attack.
Although Congress did announce the authorization on January 13 as he remembers, this can only be regarded as a half-hearted pill, because it still does not mean that 100% of the US military will attack on the 17th.
(group, really there are...)