Raising Dragons in Hollywood

Although Sami chose to refuse indifferently at the first time.

But Rosie knew him well, and knew that although this little round face was eccentric, he was extremely loyal and never hardened his heart to his friends.

So, he ran to knock on the door of Sammy's house, with a pleading tone: "Come on, Sammy! Come on, let's play together!"

But just like Rossi knows him, Sammy also knows this friend who has known him for many years and has a super persistent personality. He knows that the other party will not give up until he achieves his goal, but he really has no interest in making other films, so he simply insists on not opening the door and seeing no one. policy, shouted out through the window: "You go, you go! I don't want to play with you."

Coincidentally, Mai Qilong is busy being the cover boy recently and is not at home.

Only Sammy was at home by himself, so if he didn't open the door, no one would really be able to open the door for Rosie.

So, Rossi pushed down his glasses in embarrassment, and continued to stand outside the door and shouted helplessly: "It's very fun, let's play together!"

Sammy continued to refuse: "Don't play, you go!"

——Come on, let's play together, it's really fun.

——Don’t play, don’t play, you go, you go!

Because the two just shouted at each other through the window and the door, endlessly, acting like Romeo and Juliet on the Broadway stage, this caused strong discomfort in the stomach and intestines of the neighbor next door.

So, the neighbor ran into the yard and shouted: "Hey! You two gays are enough! If you want to play, go out and play, flirting in the middle of the night, and no one else sleeps? It's disturbing, you know?"

The air was suddenly quiet.

Sammy didn't dare to continue shouting through the door and window, so he opened the door awkwardly and let Rosie in.

But once you put it in, it's over.

Rossi grabbed his arm sincerely and said, "Sammy, help me, come together."

In this face-to-face meeting, Sami was too embarrassed to refuse.

But he still wanted to struggle unwillingly: "But I don't have any other ideas except dragon slaying. If I don't have other ideas, I don't have a script. If I don't have a script, I can't shoot."

However, what he doesn't know is that...

After he wrote more than a dozen dragon-slaying stories, Rossi had long since despaired of his so-called creativity. He didn't even think about asking him to make any other books, but just wanted him to be a director.

"Don't worry! You don't need to think about ideas this time, I have a good idea."

As Rossi said, he was ready to take out a newspaper and pointed to a piece of news for him: "Look, is this a good ready-made subject?"

Sammy looked at the newspaper suspiciously, only to see the headline on it read: [Eighty eggs are laid at a time, pet snakes dominate the country of America! ]

For a moment, his head was full of black lines, and he thought: What kind of low news is this?It feels like some farms are advertising again.

But after a closer look, I found out that it was not a farm.

The specific things are probably like this:

There is a kind of non-venomous snake that was very cute when I was a child. It was introduced into the American pet market as a pet not long ago.

But who knows, this snake can eat and grow, and if you raise it, it will grow bigger and bigger...

In the end, the pet owner could hardly afford to keep it, so he kindly chose to release it.

(Sami: Can you eat and grow? Why does it sound familiar?)

But after they were released, the snakes still didn't stop growing, and they struggled to become giant pythons with a length of more than four meters.

Because they were imported from abroad, there were no natural enemies in the local area, so they ran amok and became a local tyrant.

However, that's not the worst.

The worst part is that this kind of pet snake has amazing fecundity and can lay more than 80 eggs in one brood. If it is not discovered in time and the government is so frightened that it rushes to find a way to do some artificial intervention, it will really be a flood.

So, Rosie knocked on the newspaper triumphantly and said, "How about it? I have a good eye, right? Ready-made monster movies, close to reality, and sensational gimmicks. If the speed is fast, we don't need to do it ourselves. Promoted."

I have to say that Sammy, who has always liked monsters, suddenly became interested.

He looked at the picture on the newspaper curiously and ecstatically, and couldn't help but muttered to himself: "The snake pattern is pretty pretty, it looks... um, she's a little beauty."

a snake?Little beauty?

Rossi, who can never agree on aesthetics with her friends: "..."

Fortunately, the two finally reached an agreement on the theme of the script, so they decided to make this film.

Sammy: I can't help it, I can't shoot a dragon, let's shoot a snake first!

But before shooting, it is more logical to come up with a script first.

After all, if you don't have money, you can delay your salary or be a rascal, but if you don't even have a script, you can't just throw a newspaper over when you recruit an actor to audition and let the other party watch the performance, right?

This time, Sammy wasn't going to get involved in writing the script.

Firstly, he is a director after all, so he can't grab the screenwriter's job every day; At that time, Rossi would probably be pissed off.

Anyway...

The old rules, professional things to professional people to do.

Immediately afterwards, the two of them got together and selected screenwriters who might agree to cooperate.

Among them, those who ask for too much remuneration cannot be accepted; those whose writing is too obscure cannot be accepted; those who are too stubborn and unwilling to cooperate with the director's requirements cannot be accepted...

Because the above conditions are too harsh.

They eventually screened out only one person - Hughes Humphrey.

This is a very high-level screenwriter, the asking price is not high, he has written a big-selling commercial movie script before, his temper is not bad, and he will not forcefully oppose the director. Logically speaking, such an excellent talent is not in the turn of Sammy. Their.

But this person has a very serious flaw, and this flaw alone makes it very difficult for him to get a job.

This defect is - delaying the draft!

For Hollywood, if a script is written for three years...

Then don't say anything, wash up and sleep as soon as possible!

But Rossi said, "I can handle him."

Because he was always reliable, Sammy believed it.

The next step is to attract investment, find actors, recruit staff, and find a shooting location...

In short, a bunch of messy things.

But to be honest, this kind of work of building a crew from scratch and doing everything personally is still very interesting.

Moreover, the good news will come soon - Rossi has successfully attracted investment by relying on the contacts he has accumulated over the years.

However, Sammy didn't pay much attention to what the investors did.

He only knew that if the film could make a profit, he and Rossi could only get [-]% each, and the rest would go to the investor.

Fair enough.

After all, investing in a new producer and director is definitely a risky investment, and if you are not careful, you will lose all.

Afterwards, Rossi recruited some friends and assembled a film crew.

After running around here and there, Sammy also saw a few locations suitable for shooting exterior scenes. After talking about it verbally, he felt that there would be no major problems.

It can be said that everything is ready, only the actors are not yet in place.

But if you want to invite actors to audition, you must first get the script.

So Rossi called the screenwriter they had been looking for: "Hey, Hughes, how's the script going?"

Hughes Humphrey replied in a natural tone: "Script, haven't I just returned from a trip? I haven't started writing yet."

What?travel?haven't started writing yet

Wait, we just signed the contract and paid $[-] for script processing.

result……

Why the hell did you go on a trip with the money and come back and tell us—the script hasn’t been written yet?

For the first time in my life, I met such a person who has no spirit of contract and is extremely irresponsible.

Sammy was dumbfounded by the side, with an extremely confused expression.

But although Rossi is a producer for the first time, he already has a calm and calm temperament in control of the overall situation.

Hearing such bad news, he didn't change his face, pushed down his glasses in a hurry, and asked simply: "Where are you now?"

Hughes Humphrey didn't mean to be irresponsible (it's really that kind of scoundrel, and he can't get along in the circle).

He is just by nature loose, and likes to pay attention to letting nature take its course and so-called inspiration in everything. Therefore, when he heard that the "creditor" first urged the manuscript and then asked where he was, he answered without any guilt or defensiveness at all. :"I just came home."

Rossi said, "Okay, I'll come and find you."

Half an hour later, he and Sammy knocked on the screenwriter's door together.

Mr. Screenwriter is eating lunch.

His steak was only half eaten when he opened the door for Rosie and Sammy.

However, as soon as Rossi entered the door, he rushed over aggressively.

He also took the knife that had just cut the steak from the table with local materials, and very naturally put the tip of the knife between the screenwriter's eyes, and asked earnestly and threateningly: "Can I finish writing the script today?" ?"

Caught off guard, Mr. Screenwriter was stunned.

He never thought that such a thing would happen to him in a legal society!

However, let's not talk about him...

Even Sami who followed was dumbfounded.

He thought bitterly: 'Rosie, you've changed!You are not reliable anymore!This is actually what you said can be done?Please, we are making movies, not gangsters!Also, I didn't do anything, it has nothing to do with me!The police are here, please do your best and don't arrest me! '

It's a joke if it gets out!

The producer finally couldn't bear the screenwriter's delay, and angrily pointed a knife at each other!

But even with such a ridiculous scene, the two of them were in a stalemate for quite a while.

Rossi is particularly like a skilled worker, her hands are steady, and she really doesn't shake at all.

Hughes Humphrey couldn't help it.

He was afraid that he would meet some kind of lunatic, and it would not be worthwhile to lose his life for a script fee of [-] US dollars, so he had to compromise: "I'll write it now, I just got an inspiration..."

Only then did Rossi take back the knife and sat down beside her with a cold face.

From this day on, he was not going anywhere, supervising Hughes until the script was completed.

There is no script.

Sammy couldn't do anything for the time being, so he had to join in the fun.

But this Mr. screenwriter is not a fuel-efficient lamp!

Before the script was finished, he was afraid that Rossi would really fight him hard; but after the script was finished, he estimated that Rossi would definitely not fight himself hard again, because after getting the script, it would not be worthwhile to work hard, so he started revenge !

After handing the script to Sammy, he jumped back and punched Rosie in revenge.

Rossi was also angry. Although he knew that this person liked to delay drafts, but he found such a bad screenwriter for a cheap price, what else could he do?Therefore, there was a backlog of various dissatisfaction in his heart, so he fought back neatly and hit back.

The two of them just started to fight like ping-pong-pong.

At first, Sami wanted to fight, but considering his small size, he probably couldn't beat anyone, so he wisely chose to give up.

So, he hid away and began to read the script.

It turned out that there are no worthless people under the fame.

Hughes Humphrey is really good, this script is well written!

Sammy became more and more excited the more he read it, so he just sat down and read each sentence carefully.

But because Hughes was threatened, the writing was naturally a bit hasty, and there were inevitably some omissions and mistakes in the script.He couldn't get enough of it, so he took out his pen, and like a primary school student doing homework, he marked the key points line by line, carefully corrected the marks next to him, and drew a few imaginary sub-shots according to the script from time to time sketch.

Not far ahead, Rossi and Hughes were still on the ground, you punched me, I kicked you, rolling around and wrestling endlessly.

However, due to Rossi's shady start, Hughes is now completely a bruised and swollen pig's head.

When Sammy bit his pen and continued to struggle with how to express a scene in the script...

Hughes fought back!

Rosie fell face-on in front of Sammy with a bang, her glasses flew far away, and her nosebleeds were bleeding!

However, hurt yourself and others!

Hughes staggered around in two circles, and he was staring at gold stars, as if he was about to die.

Sammy slapped the table, inspiration came!

Immediately, he followed the bad example of these two idiots, and drew three sketches of the shot in one go... in one go, heartily!