Xiangjiang old events [entertainment circle]

If it were someone else, Su Yun probably wouldn't engage in such a tricky game - but the person she wants to "deal with" is Stanley Kubrick whose psychological quality cannot be measured by ordinary people's standards.

Maybe many people who eat eggs and don’t watch hens don’t know this famous name in the history of movies, but when the name of his work comes out, someone will suddenly realize it and shoot it: "Full Metal Jacket", "2001 A Space Odyssey" , "A Clockwork Orange"...and the well-known spooky horror masterpiece "The Shining" that has become the shadow of many people's childhood and even adulthood.

Su Yun, who used to be a child, is one of the "victims" of this masterpiece...

Thinking of those years when she was so scared by this movie that she could not sleep with the lights on, Su Yun played a big game with Kubrick just to avenge her childhood shadow.

For this reason, she also specially referred to the classic scene in the equally famous horror film "The Exorcist", where the little girl turned her body backwards and climbed the stairs. With the cover of a large floral dress, she hid the folded paper under the clothes. Balls and wigs.

It’s no different than when you need to dig out the details when shooting a movie. The light in the wooden house is already weak. Once the paper ball opens the wig and puts on a pair of socks, it crawls down. turned back.

So there was the scene where Kubrick just saw her turn her body backwards and climb the stairs.

This can be regarded as Kubrick's psychological quality is strong enough, he was so shocked that he was paralyzed on the ground and was reluctant to run away. Instead, he paralyzed there for inspiration and continued to observe.If it's someone else, it's a normal reaction to turn around and run, to be too scared to run, or to faint on the spot, etc...

Maybe it's because he just finished shooting "A Clockwork Orange", and he still has a strong ability to bear it.

So Su Yun, the Pippi Shrimp, crawled up in front of him like this, and sang such a ridiculous lyrics.

The phrase "Do You Want to Build a Snowman" was originally the lyrics of a classic episode in the Disney movie "Frozen". The tone is light and simple, which is very suitable for children's voices.But what Su Yun wanted to do was a robot, so "Snowman" was not suitable, so she changed her mind to "Iron Man"...

By the way, I also played with Iron Man's stalk, after all, the English literal translation of Iron Man is Iron Man.

In order to accommodate the rhythm, she did not change the previous "a" to "an": because regardless of Chinese or English, in spoken language and lyrics, she does not pay much attention to grammatical issues, sometimes in order to adapt to the tone or to rhyme, flip the , inflection, inflection, etc. will be used.

Anyway, it's enough to make sense of it.

Apparently, after being amazed for so long, Kubrick was finally pulled back from his thoughts of where he was going by her libretto: "You are..."

"Mary Su, from Huaxia Xiangjiang." Su Yun stood up and replied while pulling the socks in her hand.

"Good idea." After seeing the paper balls, wig and socks on the ground clearly, Kubrick quickly understood what was going on with Su Yun's weird gesture just now, "How did you come up with this idea?"

Su Yun was silent for a moment: Well, it must be said that sand sculpture netizens are much happier.

Since the development of smartphones and various short video media, sand sculpture netizens all over the world have started the prelude to the joint carnival-all kinds of tricky videos relying on makeup, props and acting skills appear from time to time, and are always new. In short, only you can’t think of it , there is nothing they can't do...

There are many short videos that imitate the classic upside-down stairs of "The Exorcist". She also referred to the original movie and some imitation short videos, and then improved it according to her actual situation. big drama.

After briefly explaining the principle to Kubrick, Su Yun went straight to the point: "I have a script about robots that I want to ask you to shoot."

After receiving the proposal handed over by Su Yun, Kubrick quickly glanced at the script, and immediately found that this story was quite similar to his recent inspiration.

But the difference is that compared to the scattered ideas in his mind, the story in Su Yun's script is already very complete.

However, it may be because the author is a child, and the final ending is also inclined to the style of a commercial fairy tale, which has the warm flavor of a child's bedtime story.

During the simple conversation, Kubrick has already learned a lot of information about Su Yun—her father is unknown, her mother died early, and she can only live with her grandmother, her talent for computers and electronic appliances, her luck in stock trading made a lot of money; and then took some of the children's stories I wrote to make a commercial film with a good box office reputation...

Until recently, her teacher was bedridden with a sudden illness, and she used this small body to hold up the sky that was about to collapse.

In this chaotic era, there has never been a shortage of geniuses.

But behind the genius, there are usually all kinds of misfortunes chasing after them, forcing them to reveal themselves in advance helplessly.

Su Yun, a little girl from an ancient foreign country, is very interesting and thoughtful, but that's all.

Kubrick shook his head very positively: "I have also imagined such a story, but to shoot it ... the requirements for actors and financial requirements are too high."

"Aren't my acting skills good enough?" Su Yun raised her head and asked.

"This is not just your problem." Perhaps thinking of himself from Su Yun, Kubrick patiently explained, "Your acting skills are good enough for the little robot girl in the story, but the other actors are A problem, and computer animation technology production is a big problem."

"Movies can't be fooled by visual difference and people's fear like you just did. If you want to show the special features of simulated robots, you have to rely on computer animation technology to make them-this is already a huge sum of money. Expenditures, not to mention the super big scene of flooding the city in your storyboard..."

"But this is based on the picture I made, and I drew it according to the drawing." Su Yun continued to raise her head, and took out a video tape from the pocket of the floral dress, with an expression on her face. A bit of a child's pride, "I relied on it to conquer Warner's people and got a week."

Confused, but determined to give it a try, Kubrick set off to put the tape in the living room projector.

As soon as the shocking picture of the great flood submerging most of the city and the Statue of Liberty sinking into the water came out, Kubrick's originally half-dream look was shocked.

In just a few minutes of video, he played it over and over again.

The pair of eyes shining with wisdom behind the glasses stared at the screen like the most critical quality appraiser, trying to find the slightest flaw——

No, no, no... still no.

From the sky to the ocean, from the whole to the details, they are all so vivid and real.

If Su Yun hadn't said at the beginning that this was a picture she made, he might have believed that it was a real news aerial video.

"How did you do it? How much time and cost did you spend?" For a long time, Kubrick still couldn't bear to take his eyes off the screen, gritted his teeth and uttered a sentence.

Even one of the great directors who have been leading the innovation of film technology, when faced with the dimensionality reduction blow from the black technology of later generations, he finally showed a look of shock and fascination.

But it's definitely better than the two Warner employees who jumped up in fright... Su Yun glanced at Kubrick: He was sitting very firmly, and he didn't intend to move at all.

"The cost is actually not too much, but it is time-consuming to make it, and it also consumes a lot of computers and accessories. In just a few minutes, I have already used up the computer that I managed to put together. I am currently buying a batch of computer accessories. plan—if the film can be approved successfully." Su Yun thought about her words and tried to explain to Kubrick in the simplest words.

"The agreed release time is November 11?" Kubrick glanced at the plan.

"Yes, it's my master's birthday - his share of the film was originally his, but you know the reason for the change." Su Yun replied.

"That time is very rushed." Today is already August 8st.

"And the investment is still not enough." Su Yun's script is to replace the half-filmed "Game of Death", and half of the initial investment of 100 million US dollars has been used by the original film crew.

"Have you talked about the follow-up additional investment?" After Kubrick said these few words, Su Yun immediately understood what he meant.

She finally abducted the movie god to make her movie!

"I plan to negotiate with Warner for additional investment after I have confirmed the director candidate." Su Yun showed a smile, "You probably understand that Warner is famous for 'seeing people's dishes'—— This is a proverb in my hometown, which means that they need to look at the applicant's reputation and status to make an investment."

"Of course I understand that their company is also very 'interesting'." Kubrick also worked with Warner, not to mention the extremely fierce internal struggles in this company, and the management is also chaotic.

There is not much concept of macro-control planning, just the idea of ​​wanting to spend money indiscriminately: those who are famous will invest more, and the generosity cannot be more generous, which can be regarded as a model of people who are stupid and have a lot of money; Soso is as stingy as a classic miser like Grandet.

But luckily, it looks like a mess, but it can still persist. My favorite is to grab a profitable project and keep digging until there is no more profit.

Knowing Warner's virtues, after confirming his intention to cooperate with Su Yun, Kubrick, who never liked to go out, took the initiative to go to New York to discuss additional investment with Warner.

"The shooting time is very tight. You stay here and preliminarily screen your 'mother' and other characters. I will come back as soon as possible." There are too many things to prepare in the early stage, and Su Yun just got some parts and is building the machine. So Kubrick didn't intend to let Su Yun go with him.

It's only an hour's drive from here to New York. When he arrives in New York, he will send a message to the actors' union, and people who want to shoot will naturally come here to be selected.

Su Yun nodded.

However, haste makes waste in the world. At the end of the day, Su Yun couldn't find many actors she wanted, and Kubrick didn't negotiate with Warner on the amount of additional investment.

"I put you on the checklist for the role of gigolo 'Joe', you have to work hard!" Su Yun tiptoed and patted the shoulder of Zhuang Long who was supposed to come to help out.

Probably beautiful people are always similar, and Zhuang Long's appearance and temperament are a bit like the actor Qiu Hua who played the gigolo Joe in the original movie - of course, according to the age, Qiu Hua should be a bit like him.

It's a pity that the oriental charm is still obvious in the appearance, which is the biggest disadvantage.

There is already an oriental face like Su Yun in this movie, which is already difficult; if there is another one, it will be even more difficult.

At the beginning, Su Yun said to help him fight, but now she can only put him on the checklist; the final decision still has to be made by Kubrick.

However, Su Yun thinks that he still has a little hope - the price is cheap, the image is good, the acting skills are good, compared with the previous batch of interviews, the appearance is ordinary but quite confident, and the cost performance is much higher.

And "Joe" is a gigolo, and what he likes the most is his looks.

After telling Zhuang Long to work hard, Lin Jingying, who was waiting by the side, enthusiastically took the small note Su Yun gave her, and accompanied him to rehearse outside.

After working all afternoon, I finally selected a list of hopeless candidates, and the role of the heroine's son with a lot of roles didn't even have any young actors to audition. Su Yun was suffocated.

Most Europeans and Americans have hair that gradually turns from blond to darker as they grow older, so she understands the scarcity of adult golden hair—but isn’t there a lot of golden hair juveniles?

It turned out that it was so difficult for her to find a golden retriever wife? !

Depressed, Su Yun let out a long sigh, waved her hand and talked to the nanny and Vivienne, and then planned to go out to get some air.

When she walked all the way to the nearby grove, Su Yun was pleasantly surprised to find a group of familiar figures.

It's you bullies again!

It's just right, let her hit a few times to "breathe the air"!

It's a pity that when Su Yun looked excited and wanted to step forward, the group of bullying teenagers saw her familiar pink dress, and immediately ran away with a strange scream, as if they had seen a ghost.

Although I don't know what it means to wear more pink and beat people harder, but Su Yun's "Nine Yin White Bone Claws" that grabbed people's heads at the beginning has already left an indelible psychological shadow on them...

"Why were you beaten again?" Seeing that the golden retriever Tom couldn't stand up by himself this time, Su Yun had no choice but to step forward to help him.

Tom lowered his head: "The teacher praised me for my good performance during the rehearsal today..."

"Hey, you can't beat them by yourself. Be careful in the future, run away if you see them from a distance, and just go home and hide." Su Yun shook her head.

"Could you trouble me to take me home, my sister's birthday, it won't be good if it's later..." Tom looked over weakly, "My house is not far away."

"Okay, help people to the end, let's go!" Su Yun put his arm on her shoulder, supported him and followed his guidance.

It's really not far away. After walking for about ten minutes, I came to a well-kept hut.

It seems that the family relationship is quite warm, and there are a few cute signs standing on the lawn at the door, with a group of Q-version villains cuddling together drawn on them.

"This is your home, right? This sign is yours..." Su Yun said, subconsciously raised her eyes to look at the name on the sign——

So it was you, Tom Cruise.