Raising Dragons in Hollywood

"Are you fucking kidding me??"

Sammy said incredulously, "Is this the first movie premiere I've ever done?"

In the bathroom, Mai Qilong held back his smile, and wiped his human face with a tissue.

At the just-concluded premiere of the film, the 'enthusiastic' audience not only threw their shoes over, but also threw away their unfinished beer, juice, and Coke...

The poor newcomer director died before he was able to finish his job, and was poured a messy drink over his head.

The title of the most unlucky director of this film festival has probably been booked in advance.

Moreover, if it hadn't been for Mai Qilong seeing that the situation was not good, holding him with one hand would be a 500-meter sprint.

Maybe he will be surrounded by a group of aggressive and indignant audience (audience: we just want to be reasonable and not hit people).

But who can blame this?

Who told him to mess around with false advertisements to deceive people, and make the movie so scary.

Sammy pushed away Micky's hand sullenly, turned on the faucet on the sink without saying a word, and began to wash his face.

But the extremely depressing depression around him clearly showed that he didn't care about the audience's reaction at all.

Mikey looked at him a little amusedly, a person who was always alive and kicking and energetic in everything, now looks like a dog that no one is playing with, with his ears drooping and frustrated.

"There's no need to be angry with the audience." He couldn't help comforting him: "Anyway, I think your shots are super beautiful."

"But they don't like it." Sammy said aggrievedly.

Although he doesn't require everyone to like it, and there are too many times when he is not liked since he was a child, but it doesn't matter even if he scolds behind his back. Hurtful.

Especially for a new director who is proud, full of anticipation, and waiting for praise...

It was also a bit frustrating.

Mikey didn't know what to say for a moment.

Although in his opinion, it is enough for one's own human beings to have their own favorites, what do you need so many other people's favorites?But humans seem to be very troubled by this matter?

"Mike...maybe, maybe I'm kind of..."

Sammy stammered, "But I mean no harm."

'Hey?Is this the beginning of reflection? '

Mai Qi opened his eyes wide, looking at the little round-faced human being in front of him with some novelty, thinking: 'Isn't it too rare?Usually so stubborn! '

"I shouldn't make false advertisements in a fit of anger. I only care about my own happiness every time, ignoring other people's thoughts...Although the movie is mine, the audience is really not in my consideration..."

(audience:……??)

"However, if it wasn't for your help, I would have been miserable just now. You, you always accompany me and save me from the crowd..."

Sammy raised his eyes a little embarrassedly, glanced at Mikey's handsome face, which hadn't reacted due to surprise, and said awkwardly, "You helped me so, so much, I shouldn't... I shouldn't have been ignoring you all the time. It really shouldn't be... But, I don't know how to thank you... Actually, my brother told me before that I can't stay in my own world all the time, I have to look at what's around me So, I want to say, I really want to say... thank you, Mikey."

While thanking him sincerely, he looked at Mikey stupidly.

That look is too much like a simple and enthusiastic puppy.

There is all unreserved trust in the eyes, and it also clearly reflects his own figure...

The underage Charmander felt as if his heart was about to stop suddenly from being stared at.

Then, he was so moved that his heart was full of joy, and he wished that immediately a great roc would spread its wings and transform into a prototype, carrying his human being directly to the sky in a spiral manner.

'How could anyone hate Sammy like this? '

The inexperienced little charmander was completely confused by the sweet words of human beings, and had completely forgotten the warrior in front of him who kept saying he wanted to "slay the dragon". Instead, he liked this little human with a round face more and more.

He couldn't help feeling dizzy and began to think about all kinds of things for the better: "It's good to be full of whimsical ideas, my human beings are so simple and innocent; good to have a weird sense of humor that is so weird, it's okay to experience it." It’s very funny haha; what? Dragon Slaying Dreams… It’s okay, it’s okay, my scales are very thick, and I can’t cut them if I stand still! Anyway… Anyway, he is cute, so cute that the dragon is willing to forgive His everything!"

"Mike, thank you, I'm so glad you came to me." Sammy said seriously.

So, the underage Charmander lowered his head shyly, and gave a small answer: "No, no thanks, I'm willing to do anything."

On the other end, Sammy finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He doesn't care much about the audience's emotions (audience: ???), but he cares about the feelings of his friends.

Although, he was the one who took in the 'homeless' Mikey in the first place.

But in the daily relationship, Mai Qi did give himself too much, too much support, and this time he took the "dangerous" to save himself from the crowd. If he kept pretending to be deaf and dumb and said nothing, even Not even a verbal thank you is too much.That's why he said his thanks so directly.

But after this somewhat straightforward conversation,

After one person and one dragon looked at each other, they all looked away embarrassedly.

Sammy's ears were red and he thought: "Did I say it a little too sensational? Gay in Gay?"

Mikey is serious on the surface, but the dragon archetype in his inner world is excited and twists himself into a twist: "Humans like me! Absolutely like me! He only thanks me, and only talks to me like this (with red ears). "

After that, the film "Snake Wreck" was screened for another week.

Learning from the lesson of being almost beaten by the audience last time, Director Sami never went to the scene again.

He dumped Rosie there to work on the movie, and pulled Mikey around to watch other people's movies.

Rossi was a little resentful, but he was one of those enterprising types who knew exactly what he was going to do without ambiguity, so I left Sammy alone and focused on the film.

However, the magic is...

Even if the director is not present, the hatred is still firmly held.

Whenever new viewers watch the film "Snake Trouble", their first reaction is to roll up their sleeves and curse: "Is the director fucking out of his mind? What kind of crap is this? You made the python so tall and cool, people can't shoot it." Not to mention the rubbish, but still engage in group destruction?!!!”

As a result, the number of people following Sami's Twitter instantly increased.

But unfortunately, it's all black fans!

What's more interesting is that during the screening period of "Snake Curse", which was obviously criticized, the daily attendance rate was not low at all.

Moreover, at the end of the film festival, the film was lucky and won two awards smoothly, one was the best bloody award, and the other was the film critic award. Although they were not important awards, they could For a newcomer director, it is definitely a great achievement.

Moreover, Mr. Leontini, whom Rossi used to get in touch with in some way before.

That is, the member of the jury of this year's film festival specially wrote a recommendation for the film, in which he highly praised Sammy's directorial talent: [A restricted-rated film that looks a bit disgusting and bloody, but Everywhere is filled with the director's genius-like whimsy and lightning-like sparks of inspiration.Maybe it still has all kinds of shortcomings, but as the director's debut, it is enough to prove everything... cheers, gentlemen and ladies!There is no doubt that the film industry will usher in another talented young man! ]

But just as some people appreciate it inexplicably, there are also people who don't like this film.

The well-known film critic Bobby Hans wrote a review on the Internet after seeing the film, lashing out at the film.

He called the film [a poor and boring farce, the plot is as long as shit, the director thinks it is a wonderful twist, but it is just a high point, there is no need to exist at all, in the final analysis, the plot of almost two hours, It's just a low-IQ snake-eating game. ]

Moreover, he is also extremely dissatisfied with the bloody plot in the film: [Is plasma free?Grandstanding!To be honest, I was really scared by the bright red on the screen, no, it was disgusting, it really hurt me. ]

Then, another film critic refuted his opinion, thinking that the plot of this film is very meaningful: [The first half of the heroic battle between humans and snakes, and the second half, the infighting of humans on the way to escape, no matter which plot is Thought-provoking, how could it be meaningless?but……]

They also believe: [If those excessive and useless bloody plots are removed, the theme of the film should be deepened. ]

However, Sammy didn't give in to the critics just because he was a newcomer.

On the contrary, when the reporter asked what he thought of these remarks, he neither stood on the opposing side nor on the agreeing side. Instead, he stunned both sides with one sentence: [What’s so funny about eating snakes? ?Also, horror movies should start to talk about the principles of life and philosophy of life?Aren't they standing up and being funny? ]

——Shouldn’t a horror movie be, single-mindedly, single-mindedly scare people?I like plasma, nothing gross.

——Also, the plot you analyzed was actually just me and the screenwriter casually discussing and modifying it. My purpose is to scare people.

——If we say that the performance of the protagonist team of inspirational films should be 'let us unite and overcome difficulties together'.

——Then, the performance of the protagonist team in a horror film should have been "Damn it, die sooner or later, you will die sooner or later".Dying hurts for a while, not dying hurts forever.

— But don’t you think the latter would be cooler and more interesting?

- That's right!This is my creative concept!

What the hell creative idea!

So the protagonist group in the film is just like that?

All of a sudden, I understand how fans want to beat you to death.

The reporter who interviewed him was dumbfounded.

But probably it has been a long time since there has been such a director with such a strong personality and doing his own way in Hollywood.

For a moment, the media were full of strong interest in the interviewee Sami.

They even privately thought that as long as this young director doesn't die halfway, he might become a topical figure enough to support major newspapers in the future.

Under such circumstances, it is inevitable that a film like "Snake Wreck", which has already become famous in film festivals, will attract the attention of countless independent film distributors.

They contacted Rossi, the producer of the film, to discuss the purchase.

The career finally ushered in the second spring. Rossi was very excited, but he also knew that it was a critical moment, so he still tried to keep calm.

He didn't say yes to anyone right away, but shrewdly waited for their bids.

It was such a cool day.

Mai Qilong, who was born with a miserly nature of the dragon family, said later seriously: "A bunch of people are chasing after us, begging us to have breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper, whatever you want, order it for free! With this in mind, I have to persuade Sami and the others to think carefully! At least think about it for two or three weeks, no, two or three months!"