Hollywood Secret Garden

Chapter 394

If everything is going well, this is indeed something worth celebrating, but sometimes it is still inevitable that there will be some bumps and bumps. Although the tail of "Death is Coming" does not need her to take care of it, just ask a few questions at once. But After getting a good evaluation at the preview, it is necessary to start a large-scale publicity and prepare for the release.Since she has her own label on the producer and screenwriter, and even played a cameo role, she is indispensable for publicity work.

Even if Angela is the boss and has another film to be supervised, at least the premiere must be attended. Besides, this is the first time Jessica has acted as a leading actress, even if it is climbing, she has to come to the baseball field, right?

"Have you heard their discussion? Your performance is still very good." After the lights were turned on, Angela looked at the people who got up one after another, and whispered in Jessica's ear. To be honest, she told her that she must go to act in that TV series. I am puzzled, although Jessica's explanation moved her, but why go to the small screen when she can have a better development in the movie?

Of course, Angela didn't make it clear, after all, it was Jessica's own decision, maybe she thought she could get more exercise on the small screen?But Angela still couldn't help but sneak a bit of complaint in her words, and even contacted Cameron in private to ask for help to take care of it. The guy promised to agree, but according to his temper... well, at least He's not a director, and Jessica has worked with him.

"Well, I heard it, but I also heard them say that your performance is the best part in the whole movie." Jessica shrugged with a smile, and whispered back in her ear.

"What are you talking about?" Kate's voice came over.

Angela couldn't help but sighed in her stomach. After all, this is her work. How could Kate not come to support her, with a faint smile on her face: "We are discussing who has the best performance, what do you think?"

"My opinion?" Kate looked at Angela and then Jessica, showing a clear look, frowning deliberately for a few minutes: "Of course you are the best, followed by Edward, Jesse should be the first three."

"Did you hear that? This is affirmation for you," Angela immediately patted Jessica, "Don't say that Kate is not a professional critic, how many of those who go to the theater to watch movies are professional?"

"Okay, Angie," Jessica rolled her eyes amusedly, "Although I know I can't catch up with you, it's not like I don't even have this little confidence." She stretched out her hand and gently brushed Angela's forehead long hair.

"Okay, I see." Angela shook her head, glanced at the crowd who had already gone out, and then grabbed Jessica's hand: "Let's go, there is still a press conference, we will wait See you, Kate."

After saying hello to Kate, Angela took Jessica and walked out together. Although Kate watched them leave with a smile, her eyes were always locked on the hands that were holding each other, and finally she couldn't help but sighed in a low voice tone.

Although similar press conferences have been experienced countless times, Angela still has a feeling that she can't bear it, and all kinds of problems come like a flood.First of all, this is the first time that she only acts as a producer of a film, and it is a B-grade film with an investment of more than [-] million yuan; secondly, the content of the film really makes the viewers shudder, and they can't help but have a kind of resistance to flying Angela herself said on her blog that she hoped that the airlines would not blame her for tantalizing people: once again, the film critics who had seen it after the trial screening did not disclose the plot. Put forward sharp criticism, thinking that the horror films of Miss Genius have begun to return to plasma from psychology, and have lost their previous humanistic care and are at the end of their ropes.All of this excited the reporters, concentrating their energy on Angela, desperately trying to dig out something.

Fortunately, there were director James Huang, Jessica, Edward and other actors at the press conference, so after disrupting, parrying, parrying, and dodging various skill CDs, they finally managed to escape.

"I can't believe it, they actually asked me if I had a nightmare because of such horrific thoughts!" Angela was still complaining endlessly after getting into the car, "If it wasn't in public, I would have to throw the microphone away The past is impossible!"

"That's because you said earlier that this is not a plasma tablet, and plasma tablets won't make people sleepless." Jessica shook her head.

"This is not a plasma film in the first place. I have asked James to try not to appear so many bloody scenes when shooting. Essentially speaking, the horror lies in the mysterious fatalism, and it should also belong to the category of psychological thrillers." Speaking of In the end, Angela was a little outrageous.

"But, no one said it wasn't a thriller. The two words horror and thriller are always linked together, aren't they?" Jessica comforted with a smile.

"I bet, after tomorrow's comments come out, the word plasma tablets will definitely be indispensable." Angela still snorted angrily and said, a bright light flashed in the front rearview mirror at this time, making her feel astonished when she noticed At the same time, there was a hint of worry. Kate's crimson Chevrolet had just passed behind.

As Angela expected, many movie critics lamented that Miss Genius had fallen the next day. How was the movie?It's really good. Everyone who watched the movie felt chilly at the back of their necks and felt a little scared. Maybe if they were careless, they would go to heaven. From a horror point of view, "Death is Coming" is indeed very successful, but——

"Well, the idea of ​​"Reaper" is indeed very unique. There are not many violent scenes, but it makes people feel chilled from the bottom of their hearts. Angela once again showed people what ideas can be bred in her unique head , but the problem is also here, this movie lacks the humanistic care in "The Sixth Sense" and "Small Island", it is simply scary for the sake of scaring, the whole movie is full of fatalism and mysticism, in terms of conception It's not even as good as "Hide and Seek", it's a pity, maybe Miss Genius should spend her energy on the script, not the producer."

Angela was very helpless about this. She put in a lot of effort when editing, and tried to avoid the bugs in her memory, such as the water flowing out and back in Todd's bathroom. As a producer, she is still very qualified Yes, you can't deny her efforts for other reasons, right?And the so-called humanistic care, the other ending has a taste of humanistic care, but it was abandoned due to commercial considerations. After a few years of DVD popularity, it will be included in it and released.

As for the acting skills of the actors, Edward has received many praises, Jessica has a lot of criticism but also a lot of praise, and Angela herself... a fan's description is the most appropriate:

"I have to say that I decided to watch this movie after I saw Angela in the cast list, but I was quickly attracted by the plot after entering the movie theater. I watched it in one breath and found it very exciting. Why didn't I see Angela's character, I just patted my head after thinking about it for a long time, she played the funeral worker! I can't believe it, I didn't notice at all, she is so good, I will definitely have more Just watch it again."

This is a survey about Angela's role by "Hollywood Reporter", because many people are surprised to find that the maturity of Angela, who only appears in one side of the movie, is completely unexpected. Admitting that Angela's performance is the highlight of the whole movie, the mature, mysterious and vaguely weird atmosphere is just right by her, "You can never see that it is a girl who is only 18 years old." A certain film critic This is how he commented in his column.

So even though the movie was both praised and belittled because of Angela, it couldn't stop the rising momentum of the box office. It took away 700 million on the day of the premiere, and more than 2500 million in the first week, but it's a bit dumbfounding. , not long after, the Long Beach Airport formally lodged a protest with the Pixar film department, because the air crash at the beginning of "Death Comes" was filmed there. They asked if there was any problem with the plane, and even many suspicious passengers refused to take those slightly worn-out planes, which made the cheap Long Beach Airport even worse.

"This is just a commercial movie. Of course, the so-called commercial movie is as good as it is. Of course, it can be shot as it is. I never want to promote fatalism. It's just an interesting story idea, so don't worry too much. I will consider releasing a re-cut in the future." The videotape of the ending, that is the ending that should be, as for the current one, it is for commercial reasons, so please don’t ask about the ending of the male and female protagonists.”

After leaving such a paragraph on her blog, Angela irresponsibly dumped all aspects related to "Death is Coming" to the department manager McKinley, and hid away by herself. Well, it can't be said that she hid Besides, she has other things to attend to after all - the post-production of "The Matrix" and the script of "Never Compromise".

The melodious sound of the violin echoed in the garden, sometimes melodious and sometimes intense ups and downs, making people want to dance with the music. After the end, Angela finally stopped playing, lowered the violin from her shoulders and raised her head to meet the music. Breeze took a breath, then put the instrument into the box and stretched comfortably, before walking briskly to the coffee table.

After relaxing her head, it became much clearer. Angela flipped through the documents on the coffee table and looked at them. All of them were materials provided by Irene for handling the case at the time, and many of them were dictated by Irene. Angela can think better.

Until now, she still only drew up an outline, and "50 First Dates" is already half completed. One reason why "50 First Dates" is so fast is that the book of this story in the "treasure box" is relatively complete: Another reason is that it was originally a work on the Hollywood film industry assembly line. Except for the idea of ​​losing memory every day, most of the plots can be found in various comedy movies, so it is naturally faster to write after a little memory. up.Sometimes Angela felt like she was part of the assembly line.

In fact, "Never Compromise" can be written a long time ago. With so much information and my aunt dangling in front of her every day, it is enough for Angela to recall a lot of things. The reason why she is still perfecting the outline and not formally writing is that The main thing is to learn.

Through the information Irene gave her, Angela knew a lot of things that were not expressed in the movie or were expressed very simply. For example, Pacific Electric Company definitely didn’t just stop their investigation by threatening the phone, or accompanied her during the The boyfriend who went through those difficulties was not with her in the end, and it was definitely not so smooth when she and Ed's family persuaded the victim's family to sign.

If Angela just wants to write the script out, these materials plus the content she recalled through her memories are enough, but the problem is that she wants to understand the purpose of understating these things.Yes, she knows that to shorten the movie, but why choose these instead of another segment?Why is the overall atmosphere compressed like this?And how to make real people more artistic, these are all Angela needs to think about.

"Your coffee, Angie." Annie thoughtfully brought a cup of coffee at the right time.

"Thank you, I can always save a lot of troubles with you here." Angela took it with a smile, then took a sip impatiently, and smacked her lips, "It's really good, let me just say it."

Annie smiled lightly, and then became serious: "By the way, just now Jessie called and hoped to ask you out tomorrow. Two minutes later, Kate also called and hoped to go shopping with you tomorrow."

"God!" Angela closed her eyes in distress, and it took a long time to open them: "Don't tell me, Nat also called later."

"She doesn't have one, but there is a letter from her." Annie said as she conjured a letter and put it on the coffee table.

After calling God again, Angela put her head on the coffee table, and looked up at Annie with a frowning face after a while: "Is there any way?"

"I'm sorry, Angie, this is not within the scope of my duties." Annie shrugged playfully.

"Hey, don't be like this, I just praised you for saving me a lot of trouble." Angela cried with half-truth and half-fake dissatisfaction.

"There are many decisions that no one else can make for you," Annie's tone became serious. "If you choose, you have to face it yourself."

"Yes, I know." Angela sighed, holding her cheek.

"But..." Annie suddenly held her hand, "No matter what you do, I will always be by your side."

Angela was a little surprised, but then she was a little moved. She squeezed Annie's hand and suddenly blurted out: "Are you interested in acting in a movie, Annie?"

"Acting in a movie?" Annie blinked her eyes, feeling a little bewildered, why did she jump here while talking?

"Yes, acting in a movie, I think there is a role that suits you very well, how about it? Give it a try?" Angela said with a smile.

"This...isn't appropriate?" Annie said hesitantly, seeming a little moved.

"I'm not joking, my dear," Angela said seriously, "I can tailor a script for you, and I remember that your mother seems to be an actress too."

However, Annie's complexion immediately became ugly, and she turned her head away. This action surprised Angela slightly, but she didn't know where she said something wrong. Fortunately, Annie turned her head back immediately, with a calm face: "No , I will not act in a movie."

"I don't want to hide it from you, Angie, I hate my mother, I hate everything about her! Don't make me talk too much and don't make me recall those things, okay?" Annie breathed heavily and seemed very excited, and after a while she calmed down Then he shook his head and wanted to leave.

But she stopped after taking two steps, turned her head to look at Angela and said seriously: "I'm just your shadow, Angie, I've always been."

Angela opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but seeing the other person's leaving back, she finally just sighed: "Is that so? Then I can only give you a gift, a gift that you may never know .”

But when she looked at the information on the coffee table, she couldn't help but have a headache. Well, I don't have time now but there will be time. Thinking of this, she looked at the laptop next to her and rolled her eyes, because the computer is very unfortunate. blue screen.

"Damn win95, damn Microsoft, damn Bill Gates hasn't released win98 yet, luckily I haven't written anything yet." Angela complained and restarted the laptop, "Maybe I should really change to an Apple computer and install a macos system."

To be honest, Jobs often complained about this matter in front of her. As a public figure and one of the shareholders of Apple, he actually used IBM computers and Microsoft operating systems. How wonderful.

So Angela usually uses two laptops, an Apple one to show off, and an IBM one to keep at home for her own use. There is no way for her to get used to it in her previous life, but now it seems that it is really necessary to change it. If you know the macos system, you can learn it well, and you can get used to it.

While waiting for the computer to restart, Angela suddenly noticed a guy walking around with his hands behind his back in the distance, as if he was anxious about something, and this situation had been going on for several days.

Looking at the computer that didn't move after restarting, Angela rolled her eyes again, turned it off, looked at the guy walking around, and simply stood up and walked over to him.

"What are you thinking?" Angela greeted from a distance.

"Ah? Oh, nothing?" Pu Guanshui shook his head after reacting, but the movement of stretching his forehead did not escape Angela's eyes.

"Really? I see you've been wandering around in the garden for the past few days. What's the problem?" Angela who walked up to him folded her arms, "Because I didn't take your leave when I returned to London, I had a fight with Lily Yes? But she didn’t mention it in my letter.”

Seeing that the other party didn't speak, she waved her hand in front of him: "Hey, I'm asking you something, if you are like this at work, then I have to consider asking Dad to fire you.

"Actually," Pu Guanshui took a deep breath, looked up at Angela, "I'm planning to resign."