Hollywood Secret Garden

Chapter 638 Revised Script

"2000 million... salary?" The old man raised his eyebrows in surprise.

"That's right." Angela said with a smile.

If it is only estimated based on the status of an actor, even if she played the reverse role of Legolas in "The Lord of the Rings", and played a lot of guest roles in "The Matrix" as a guardian angel, and won the Oscar for best performance again. For a supporting actress, $1500 million is enough.But the problem is, if it is estimated from other identities - a well-known director, an outstanding singer, a national idol and a billionaire - even if she is offered a salary of 5000 million, she may not be able to impress her.

So Angela was actually joking, isn't there a 2000 million club in Hollywood?How about walking in?In a sense, though, she was rejecting Spielberg.Since the release of "The Lord of the Rings", film dealers have been coming to her door, and she fought lively in the last two "Matrix", and now she is playing in "Star Wars Episode 2" released in the summer vacation. A lightsaber.Although most of the box office of these films is earned by their own reputation and charm, it cannot conceal the appeal she played in them.

She is the most popular member of the Fellowship of the Ring team, "Angela's bow is so handsome"; she is the guardian angel who has been pondered over and over again, "She plays really well, but we want to know what it means" ; She is the unforgettable female Jedi master, "this is definitely Lucas's best idea."

Even if these films only show half of her potential value as an actor, it is enough for the filmmakers to still want to see her as a moth when they know that she has her own company and she is also a great director. Invite her to play a role in a movie.

Of course, they also knew that it was impossible to impress her with money, so they lobbied in various ways through many relationships.Angela was both annoyed and helpless about this. Those who acted as lobbyists and middlemen were basically high-level executives of various film companies, and they couldn't do it hard if they wanted to refuse, so they simply took this opportunity to send an accurate signal to those film producers.

"This is really a..." Spielberg made a few gestures, his eyes behind the lens narrowed slightly, and then he let out a long breath: "Anything else you want? Let me hear it together, Angie."

"Nothing else." Angela shrugged, "Just this one request."

"Really?" The old man's eyebrows suddenly raised again.

"Really!" Angela nodded very seriously.

"Okay, when do you plan to sign the contract?" Spielberg showed a satisfied look.

"If there is nothing else... Wait, what is signing a contract?" Angela looked at the old man in astonishment.

"Now that we have initially reached an agreement, the next step is naturally to sign the film contract, isn't it?" Spielberg said with a smile, "I agree to your request for a salary of 2000 million yuan."

"Um... ah... this..." Angela rolled her eyes, feeling a little annoyed.But before she could speak, the other party had already raised her finger and shook it: "Don't tell me, Miss Angel is planning to backtrack."

Speaking of this, the old man laughed meaningfully: "There are many ways to express your opinion, and you don't have to contact me—or the same sentence, are you really not interested in this movie?"

Angela opened her mouth to say something else, but then closed it again.Damn it, if I knew it, I should have extorted a lot of money... It was so cunning for him to hear it.

How could you not be interested? First of all, the screenwriter is Andrew Nicholl, an old acquaintance who once wrote "The Truman Show". In addition, he also played against Tom Hanks-the latter alone is enough to attract people.Andrew has written an interesting story this time, based on the true story of an exile who was stranded at Charles de Gaulle airport in France and could not leave.

The general content of the script is: when Victor played by Hanks stepped into New York's Kennedy Airport, a coup took place in his home country, so his passport and other identification documents all became waste paper.He can only stay in the airport and can't go anywhere, sleep on a chair in the hall, take a shower in the bathroom, and then make a living by serving the passing passengers.This kind of life lasted for several months, and Victor also fully experienced American culture in the limited space of the airport.

Yes, that's right, this is the script of "The End of Happiness".But what's interesting is that in Angela's memory, the heroine of the movie should be a flight attendant who is almost 40 years old, but the script in her hand is a kind and optimistic young girl in her early twenties who has only been a flight attendant for a few months.

"You know, Angie, when I was discussing with Andrew and several other screenwriters about adding a flight attendant to Victor to guide him into American culture, I thought of you first." Spielberg continued. , "We have gradually integrated your personality into this role. There is no one more suitable than you - you have tailored roles for many people, this time you might as well try others for you. How about tailor-made?"

"It sounds like I should be honored, shouldn't I?" Angela replied with a smile, and after knocking casually on the table, she was slightly lost in thought, as if she was thinking about something.The old man didn't say much, he just sipped the black tea in his cup and waited for the other party's answer.

"Well, it looks like I can't refuse, but I have other requests besides that." Angela suddenly turned her head, looked at Spielberg without blinking and said.

"I knew that the previous conditions definitely don't count." The old man said teasingly, and then spread his hands: "Okay, what is it? The salary has risen to 2000 million pounds?"

"No nudity, no passionate scenes, no kissing scenes." Angela said bluntly.

"It sounds like you are going to play a lonely heroine?" Spielberg raised his eyebrows and asked jokingly.

"Listen to me, Steven," Angela shrugged. "If these two conditions are all right, let's talk about the most important one—leave the script with me, and I'll give it to you in a week."

"You want...to revise the script?" The old man showed a look of surprise.

"Yes, and——I guarantee you will be satisfied." Angela put her hands on the table with her hands crossed, and she told the other party clearly that if she didn't agree to this condition, nothing would be discussed.

Spielberg thought for a long time without speaking, but finally he nodded: "Okay, then let me see what a great screenwriter who has been nominated for the best screenplay for ten consecutive years and won the best screenplay for three consecutive years can bring What a surprise to me."

"Then just wait and see." Angela said with a long breath in her heart, and then jokingly reminded: "By the way, 2000 million salary, not a penny less."

Spielberg froze for a moment, then laughed.

Angela's decision may seem random, but in fact it can be said to be well thought out.Although it was only a few minutes, many things went through my mind like a movie, so making this decision seemed to be a natural thing.

It is not difficult to revise the script within a week. The animated version of "The Matrix" has basically been discussed. The film department and the animation department accepted her suggestion and will cooperate with different top Japanese animators. Angela Basically not involved in the production except to provide ideas and appropriate suggestions.

So currently there is only the post-production work of "The Queen". As for the promotion of "Star Wars Episode 2" and the invitations to various programs arising from it... Basically, you can decline if you can. back door.

Soon the revised script was sent to Spielberg, and then the surprised old man called immediately: "This is your revised script?! How did you add such a plot?"

"Is there any problem?" Angela on the other end of the phone asked lazily, "Is it ruining the overall plot or is the portrayal of the characters bad? Or it violates the main idea of ​​the script?"

"Of course not, you concentrated the stories of those minor characters on one person to make the plot more compact, but..." Spielberg over there seemed to smile wryly, "You know, you are heroine."

"Yes, of course I know," Angela said casually, "Or, do you think that I, who is only 23 years old, can't act like a 39-year-old woman, right?"

There was silence for a while, and the old man finally let out a long breath: "You have given me a problem, Angie. It is true from a common sense point of view, but we all know that common sense does not work on you."

"So, do you want to gamble, Steven?" Angela laughed.

"Frankly speaking, I really want to see how you interpret a 39-year-old mature woman, but..." There was a sudden silence here and there, and a few minutes later the old man's voice was full of courage: "Then take a gamble!"

"You won't regret it, Steven." Angela said as she turned off her phone, and then let out the same long breath.

In the script provided by Spielberg at the beginning, Emilia is a kind and optimistic young girl who just worked as a flight attendant. In a very accidental situation, she and Victor became friends and told each other their stories.Spielberg wants to use such a role to guide the male protagonist, telling a crash course in American culture at the airport, and the relationship between Emilia and Victor is just a relationship between innocent friends.

But Angela revised the script to the original one. Victor met a beautiful and sexy stewardess, and then the two fell in love.Victor began to look for a job so that he could have dinner with Emilia, but Emilia was confused because she had another side that she didn't know.

I'm already looking forward to it... Angela looked at the phone in her hand, and in a trance, her thoughts went back to the day when Spielberg came to find her, and many things flashed across her mind in just a few minutes.

At this moment, Jim's voice sounded: "Wow, it sounds like you're going to play a role that's older than your age?"

"Is there any problem?" Angela shrugged, "There are many people who play roles beyond their own age. Lindsay interpreted the image of middle-aged women very well in last year's "Hot Mom and Spice Girls."

"No, no, Angie, this is different," Jim shook his head like a rattle, "I've seen that movie, because the mother and daughter exchanged souls halfway, so this makes the audience have a contrast—— The image of the daughter before and the image of the daughter after - this kind of preconception will make them automatically add points in their hearts. This is similar to the role of a child playing a mature image. Because it is a child, it will naturally have bonus points. Unless you My new character also has a strong front-to-back contrast like "Hot Mom and Hot Girl", otherwise everyone's requirements will be much harsher."

Angela couldn't help raising her eyebrows and was about to say a few words, when Jim suddenly smiled and showed her white teeth, watching her eyes widen and wide: "How is my analysis? I have been in Hollywood for the past two years. Not in vain."

Resisting the urge to hit him hard on the head, Angela gave him an angry and funny look: "Let's talk about your work first, how is the editing going?"

"Okay, okay," Jim shrugged helplessly, returned to his seat and adjusted the edited screen, "I selected about 30 minutes of clips from the documentary according to your instructions, and then edited them into four short clips. , you see if it fits."

Angela looked at the screen, and the smiles and frowns shown by Princess Diana were so familiar, everything seemed to happen yesterday.She wiped it on her face, then patted Jim on the shoulder: "That's it."

As she said that, she turned around and walked out, and the inexplicable Jim hurriedly stopped her: "Wait, Angie, is this the end?"

Angela turned her head and thought about it, then suddenly smiled and patted him again: "Good job."

"Hey, don't use such words to perfuse me, don't you have any opinion?" Jim said with some dissatisfaction, "This is not your style, Angie."

"What do you want me to say, that you have a problem here?" Angela looked at him a little funny, paused and then sighed: "Do you remember what I said when I was preparing? I can't put too much of my point of view and feelings in the production, otherwise it will be very bad. The reason why I let you edit the required footage of Princess Diana from the documentary is that I believe you can do it well , also because the relationship between me and the princess may affect my judgment. Do you understand now?"

Jim made a few gestures, and finally spread out to both sides: "Understood."

Following him, he put his feet together and held his head high, giving a standard military salute, and said confidently: "I promise to complete the task!"

Regarding this, Angela rolled her eyes with a smile as always.

All in all, the post-production of "The Queen" went smoothly. Angela, who was freed from her studies, was not in charge of supporting roles or theme songs, but the production and editing were of course a lot easier.Although the "Queen" she produced has made a lot of changes according to the actual situation compared to the movie in her memory, she has already conceived the picture in her head many times before, plus the editing that she has trained in the past few years The ability makes the post-production efficiency of this film no worse than the previous one.

Only after mid-August, the speed had to be reduced a lot, because the filming of "The End of Happiness" started.Obviously, the old man Spielberg was already ready to start the film as soon as she agreed to play the leading actress.

Although I have learned a lot from all aspects, Angela was still a little shocked when she came to the studio. Spielberg's team moved the entire Kennedy Airport to Los Angeles at a ratio of almost 1:1—no The method is that after 911/[-], all major airports have raised their security levels, and it is of course impossible to shoot on the spot.

If it's just like this, it's fine, at best, it will make people sigh his generosity.But in addition, Spielberg also invited those merchants who opened stores in the lobby of JFK Airport to open stores in this simulated airport. Before and after, there were almost thirty companies such as Burger King, Starbucks, and American Express. Came to this simulated airport.Some merchants even transferred their own employees to make a fake show and do business in a simulated airport.Even businesses that hire extras to act as shop assistants have given these extras professional training to try to make them act like real employees.

"Excellent, Steven, I have to admit, you guys are really brave." Angela looked at the built mock airport and said in admiration, then blinked narrowly, "Their advertising fees alone have been recovered Is it a lot of cost?"

"Basically, it's just that the rent for the big guy is there." Spielberg shrugged, then pointed to the 747 leased from Boeing parked outside.The old man had asked on the phone before if he could borrow Angela's private jet. Although she declined the request, he didn't expect that the other party would still get one.

Really worthy of Spielberg.Angela thought so in her heart while greeting the other actors under the introduction of the old man, but while she was thinking this way, others were also thinking the same way.

"As expected of Steven, he can invite the well-known Miss Angel to be the heroine." Tom Hanks teased Spielberg while shaking hands with Angela.

"When did the good guys in Hollywood start to be so humorous?" Angela teased Hanks. Although she had only met him on social occasions for so many years, it did not prevent her from expressing her affection.

"Mr. Nice and humor don't seem to conflict, do they?" Spielberg interjected again at this point.

The three laughed immediately, and then the old man waved his hands: "Okay, let's start officially, don't make everyone wait too long."

Both Angela and Hanks nodded, but while Hanks walked to the set, Angela sat in her chair and began to wait.Spielberg has told her before that her camera is generally set back.Angela understood this, and she understood that the old man wanted her to brew a good relationship, after all, this was a challenge.