The top of fame and fortune [Comprehensive British and American]

March 1996, 3, Dorothy Chandler Hall, Los Angeles

"The Academy Awards will go to—" Erica, as the queen of the previous film, presented the new Best Actor award, "Leaving Las Vegas, Nicolas Cage."

"Leaving Las Vegas" is a small-production film, and the whole film is filled with a kind of tragic and painful depression that is almost hopeless, and the suicide of the original author of the film two weeks before the filming seems to have aggravated this. Kind of sad.

"Congratulations!" Erika presented the gilded statue to Nicolas Cage, an actor she knew well. Cage was the nephew of director Coppola and a former producer of "The Godfather Part III."

Relationships in Hollywood are sometimes like cobwebs, as if 'everyone is related'. For example, Erica met an old acquaintance a few months ago when she was fighting for the right to adapt the story of Erin Brockovich - Lang Mayer, a former partner of CAA, is currently the president and chief operating officer of Universal Pictures.

Universal Pictures also tried to buy the right to adapt the story from Irene Brockovich. They offered a price of [-] U.S. dollars, which was neither high nor low, which was considered a reasonable price. Water Pollution Civil Litigation".

As the person in charge of Universal, Ron Meyer naturally didn't need to personally pay attention to the adaptation rights of a preparatory film. He only paid more attention to this female film after Erica became a competitor of Universal.

In Hollywood right now, Tom Hanks and Erica are recognized as actors who are the best at choosing scripts. Many films that were originally inconspicuous in the early stage of production have become stars of Hanks and Erica. Great sales, both awards and box office achieved extraordinary results.

For this reason, Universal Pictures became more and more willing to obtain the right to adapt Brockovich's story, but in the end, Irene Brockovich handed over the copyright to Erica Parker.

The outspoken, power-defying woman seemed confident in Erica when she learned she would be directing her story for the first time, "I love your films, and they all, without exception. To be successful. And the equal opportunity that you're giving female cast and crew on film crews, where they're paid the same as the men, and compete in the same arena."

"Irene, I promise you the respect and cherishment of this real film, you will not regret giving her to me." Erika's voice was quiet, but extremely convincing and convincing.

After she won the right to adapt the story of Erin Brockovich, she began to write the script of "Never Compromise", and it seems that the most surprising thing about Erica's attempt to become a screenwriter and director is her friend Sofia Coppola.

Not long ago, Sofia's first feature film "Death of a Virgin" was officially released, and she won the "Hollywood Best Young Director Award" and "MTV Film Production Best Newcomer Award".

"It's a really good story," Sofia flipped through Erica's first draft of "Never Compromise." "She even won an Academy Award for the lead actress."

Erica heard Sophia mention the female lead, but she still has a psychological candidate, "I'm going to invite Julia Roberts to play the role."

In today's Hollywood, Julia Roberts and Erica are the only female actresses among high-quality first-line stars. Whether it is box office appeal or global influence, they are not inferior to top male stars, and even faintly overwhelm male actors.

"Julia's screen image has always been kind, kind, determined, brave and fearless. The media called her a 'realistic Garbo'. She has the aura of a superstar, but she looks like an ordinary woman." Erica He and Julia Roberts have had the experience of sitting on the bench and accompanying them throughout the awards season several times. In the past few years, their friendship has never been interrupted.

Sofia listens to Erika's plans for her first feature film as a director, while at the same time thinking about the next film she hopes to direct, "Rika, I should have mentioned to you that I want to shoot Marie Antoinette, Queen of France. In fact, if I can convince the producers to make a project, I very much hope that you will be willing to consider playing this stunning queen."

"Marie Antoinette?" Erika recalled Sofia's hesitation when talking about this plan a few years ago. "This will indeed be a wonderful biographical subject, but the production difficulty may be very high."

Sophia's not long ago completed "The Virgin Death" is a typical independent film with a limited cost, and the biopic about Marie Antoinette obviously needs a high budget, "I need to convince the producer to approve the $5000 million budget. plan."

This may not be an easy task, and the rather high budget for a biopic may become the biggest obstacle for this film to be put on the agenda.

Even though Erika is equally interested in the subject matter of the Queen of the Severed Head, her studio has recently tightened its funds and is not suitable for high investment. Even the "Never Compromise" she plans to direct must Production plans cannot begin until Titanic is profitable.

Therefore, although Erica shared the same interest in Sophia's obsessed biography of Marie Antoinette, she could not provide her with generous financing at this time, and could only watch Sophia try to lobby the six major Hollywood producers , for film investment production.

Unlike Erica’s career constraints, her former partner, Michael Ovitz, seems to be going smoothly in recent days——

She looked at the blockbuster event being broadcast by the news station, "After becoming the president of Walt Disney, Ovitz once again exerted his strong skills and managed Disney to acquire ABC Group [ABC] at a sky-high price of US$190 billion, establishing its global media in one fell swoop. Industry giant status."

While her former partner Ovitz was making great strides, Erica was suffering from the "torture" James Cameron made for her. In July 1996, when the original official shooting date was approaching, "Titanic" "The full-scale model set was still unfinished.

"The right half is completely completed, and the left and right mirror images will be reversed later." Cameron explained his solution to Erica, "In this case, only two sets of text props need to be manufactured."

Erica has to admit that this is a good way, but even so, it can't calm down her irritability that the filming didn't go well. And that's just the beginning.

On July 7, it was the last day of July before the movie officially started shooting. Leonardo DiCaprio, who had questioned the role of Jack Dawson as "a little light", finally agreed to play, and Carl · Hockley fell to Billy Zane.

"I am the king of the world!" Jack stood on the bow of the Titanic and shouted, and the camera slowly zoomed up to overlook the entire Titanic.And this short ten-second video will cost millions of dollars in computer production.

The character image of "Titanic" is not complicated. When Erika played the role of Ruth, she didn't have any problems in acting, which can be called handy.Cameron seems to be very satisfied with her performance. Whether it is Erica's European-style appearance and precise and elegant Oxford accent, they all perfectly fit Ruth, a British noble lady.

"Good!" Cameron looked at the shooting screen. Erica is a girlish and subtle when she has no makeup and light makeup, while the heavy makeup and red lips are the glamorous beauty of a woman in an oil painting.

What surprised him even more was the romantic chemical reaction between Erica and Leonardo in the rivalry scene. Cameron often praised him, "Two very beautiful young people with great acting talent."

In fact, when Erica cooperated with this handsome gentleman with blond hair and blue eyes, he felt somewhat strange because of the similar appearance between the other party and Osborn.

But she soon lost the mood to think about these things. At the shooting scene of the shipwreck scene, Erica was soaked in the sea water, which was actually sea water from the Pacific Ocean. It was extremely cold. rapid.

Regarding the shooting of the disaster scene, many actors, including Erica, suffered from colds, flu and even kidney infections due to prolonged immersion in cold sea water.

At this time, in the shooting base of the water storage tank, hundreds of tons of seawater three times more than the original plan were released, and Erica was directly slammed into the cabin under the impact.

Everyone was terrified, stopped filming immediately, and rushed towards her. Erica groaned in pain, "My arm seems to be dislocated."

If she hadn't adjusted the direction of the impact just now, her bones might have been broken at this time, Erica was sent to the medical room immediately, and besides her in the medical room, Leonardo was also trying to save the body that was hit. Shoulder dressing.

"Is this the first time your arm has been dislocated?" the medical doctor asked her while treating the injury.

"Once, about ten years ago," Erica replied, Harry Osborn had accidentally fallen from the top of the stairs, and she fell to the ground trying to hold him, dislocating her arm.

The physician told her, "Recurrent dislocations need to be avoided."

In addition to the dislocated arm, she caused many bruises on her body. Leonardo was naturally not much better than her, but after simple treatment of the injuries, in order to avoid delays in the shooting plan, the two had to devote themselves to the film. Shot of the Peak Segment - Titanic disintegrates in its horrific split in two before sinking.

In a scene involving hundreds of extras and stuntmen, Cameron actually tried to shoot dangerous stunts on a sloping deck hundreds of feet long. Many people were injured, and the actors even broke their bones!"

In the crew, Cameron’s many demanding demands and threats are almost ‘notorious’, while Erica is unwilling to back down on safety issues. Due to her injury, she looks pale but refuses to budge. “Using computer-generated To deal with dangerous falls, as a producer, I ask you to do this!"

Cameron had to stop her more dangerous attempts, bowing to her series of demands on security issues, due to Erica's strong objections.

But even so, the "suffering" of the "Titanic" crew still did not stop. When the filming base in Rosarito, Mexico, was transferred to Nova Scotia, Canada for filming, on the last night, some criminals took The hallucinogen pentachlorophenol was mixed into the crew's clam chowder, sickening 80 people and hospitalizing more than 50.

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Harry Osborn almost rushed into the ward like a hurricane. On the bed, Erica was so pale that it seemed to melt into the white sheets. Her eyes were tightly closed. Even after gastric lavage, the damn drug hallucinogen was still there. After affecting her, it takes eight days or even longer to metabolize before the drug effect disappears.

Harry's expression was so gloomy that it was almost violent. He would definitely find out the criminal who poisoned him and let him try a hundred times more intense pain than this.

Numerous vicious thoughts flashed through the young blond man's mind, but his steps towards Erica were subtle and unnoticeable, lest he wake her up, she looked as if she hadn't rested in months.

He sat down beside the hospital bed, and gently touched Erica's face with his palm. She had been having a fever, and when he realized this, his eyes were almost red and moist.

At this time, Erica seemed to have noticed something, and opened her closed eyes tiredly. She didn't seem to be able to regain consciousness at first, and it was only after a few seconds that she recognized the person in front of her, "Harry, why-" will be here.

"It's not important, you look tired, there's no need to care about these things," he repeated softly, stroking Erika's forehead with his fingers, "I'll stay with you, go on sleeping, honey."

Erica held his other hand, his eyes gradually closed again due to sleepiness and exhaustion, but his expression still looked uncomfortable due to his body, Harry kissed her lightly on the face, his voice seemed to be so soft before, he whispered Lull her to sleep with a lullaby, "Goodnight, myangel, Time to close your eyes."

"And save these questions for another day

save those questions for the next day

I think I know what you've been asking me

i think i know what you want to ask me

I think you know what I've been trying to say

i think you understand what i'm trying to say

IpromisedIwouldneverleaveyou

I promise never to leave you"

Harry watched her wet blue eyes, a tear fall on Erica's face.

"And you should always know

please always remember

Wherever you may go

wherever you go

No matter where you are

No matter where you are

Inever will be faraway

I will never stay away"