Hollywood Director 1992

Happy times always fly by quickly. After more than half an hour, Sofia finally came downstairs.

Looking at her flushed cheeks, slow steps, and satisfied expression, the uncles and aunts in the hall didn't need to think much to know what good things they had done upstairs.

Director Coppola glanced at her, walked over with a dark face, and asked through gritted teeth, "Where's Link?"

"He's gone! Do you need him for something?"

Sofia asked. Link was too embarrassed to walk down the stairs through the hall, so he went downstairs from the outside stairs after finishing.

Director Coppola glared at her, pulled Sofia's arm to the aisle, "Look at the way you are, don't you know Link is a playboy? Why do you still hang out with him? What future is there in hanging out with him?"

Sofia shrugged, "What future? Like Mom and many other women, giving up their skilled jobs and staying at home as housewives? Or marrying an older billionaire and becoming a rich widow when he dies? Or finding a talented young man to fall in love with, get married, and spend the rest of your life and energy maintaining a seemingly happy relationship? Is that considered a future?"

Director Coppola frowned, "These don't mean anything to you? Does messing around with a playboy like Link count as a future?"

"I don't know, and I haven't thought about these things. I'm only 23 years old, not the time to consider those things. Besides, you men often dream of dating the sexiest woman in the world, and we women are the same. In my eyes, Link is the most outstanding, coolest, and most powerful man in the world. I'm very happy and satisfied dating him. Dad, don't you want to see me happy?"

Director Coppola snorted, "You're just happy now, you can't be happy every day. You should find someone who truly loves you."

"No need. I'm happy dating Link, and I'm also happy doing the work I love every day. Dad, you don't need to interfere in my personal affairs. I'm an adult and know what I should and shouldn't do."

Sofia waved her hand and returned to the crew to prepare for filming.

Director Coppola sighed, holding his waist. A daughter, once grown, is beyond her father's control.

After reviewing the filming progress of several crews, Link took the crew to Vancouver, Canada, to film a new movie.

Vancouver is the third largest city in Canada and the political, cultural, tourism, and transportation center of the western region. Because of its developed entertainment industry, it is also known as 'Hollywood North'.

Link is filming 'The Butterfly Effect' here, which has been in preparation for more than three months.

"Scene 1, Take 1, Action!"

The clapperboard hit, and the crew began filming.

Because the plot of 'The Butterfly Effect' is relatively complex, filming according to the order of movie playback would make the plot seem scattered and difficult to understand.

When filming, Link followed the chronological order, starting from the childhood of the four main characters, to their teenage years, the male lead going to college, and then to the mental hospital, making the entire plot clearer.

"Evan!"

The male lead, Evan, was playing with a puppy on the lawn in front of the door when his mother, Andrea, called out to him.

Evan dropped the puppy and quickly ran to the car, seeing his mother repairing it, "Are we going to be late again?"

"Since when did you start caring about being late for school?"

Julianne Moore, playing Andrea, smiled while tightening a screw.

"Our school is hanging up photos from Parents' Night today."

Evan said.

"Don't worry, there's still time."

Andrea put down the screwdriver, took off her work clothes, revealing the waitress uniform underneath, showing that her job was just an ordinary waitress.

"Will Dad come today?"

"Honey, you know the answer."

"Can't he come out for even one day?"

"We've said countless times, it's too dangerous for him."

"But Lenny said his dad is going, and so are Tommy and Kelly's dads."

"Okay, I understand what you mean."

Andrea got into the car and said, "But me going isn't so bad, right?"

"Yes!"

Evan nodded, his expression somewhat disappointed.

"Cut!"

Link reviewed the shot and approved it.

The actor playing young Evan was a ten-year-old with little acting experience, but the crew had rehearsed many times before filming. This time, the young actor performed very well, and Julianne Moore also acted excellently.

In addition, this movie is a suspense thriller, and the highlight lies in its unique time travel concept and the impact of complex cause-and-effect relationships in life on everyone's real life.

When filming, there is no need to pay too much attention to acting skills. The key is to break the original logical chain of the story during film editing and re-edit and combine it to make a simple story complex and brain-burning.

This type of movie tests the director's directing ability and the editor's skills.

While 'The Butterfly Effect' was being filmed, Guessing Game Films' second movie of the year, 'Dumb and Dumber', was released.

Unsurprisingly, it was another hit!

The film was co-produced by Guessing Game Films and New Line Cinema, with a production cost of $16 million. It was greenlit in August last year and wrapped up in November.

It tells the story of two stupid buddies who fall for a beautiful woman. In the process of pursuing the beauty, they are targeted by robbers. They are not very intelligent but are very lucky, often avoiding crises by accident, making the robbers unlucky, somewhat similar to the setting of 'Home Alone'.

In its opening weekend, the film grossed $16.36 million in 2,447 theaters in North America, taking the top spot at the box office.

The box office results were very good, but the word-of-mouth was terrible. Many film critics wrote articles accusing Guessing Game Films of only making low-IQ movies. From 'Ghost Shadow', 'The Witch' to 'Ace Ventura: Pet Detective', 'Dumb and Dumber', the intelligence of the movie protagonists is generally not high. You can watch it without thinking, but anyone with a little logic can't stand it.

Famous film critic Rudin Batchelor collectively calls these types of movies 'Link-style movies':

These types of movies generally have low costs, and the plot settings are relatively extreme. Horror movies only focus on horror effects, comedy has no bottom line, and there is no logic. Everything serves comedy; the audience has a lower level of education and a lower level of aesthetic appreciation; they focus on movie marketing and box office revenue, rather than movie art; and the box office revenue is relatively high.

Rudin Batchelor's 'Link-style movies' were recognized by many industry insiders, so that later movies that met these conditions were collectively called 'Link-style movies'.

Although 'Dumb and Dumber' received a lot of criticism after its release, the attendance rate remained high.

The second week's box office did not fall but rose, earning $24.39 million, with a cumulative North American box office of $40.75 million, surpassing 'Pulp Fiction', which was released two weeks earlier.

Quentin Tarantino was so angry when he saw the box office data that he yelled and screamed. He made a fuss in an interview program, saying that the audience who liked to watch 'Dumb and Dumber' were all fools, and that the current audience's appreciation ability in the industry was generally poor, liking bad movies instead of classic movies.

This news caused great controversy in the industry.

Some people supported Quentin's statement and criticized 'Link-style movies';

Others accused Quentin of not attacking the audience and demanded that he apologize to the audience.

Jim Carrey opposed Quentin's statement in an interview, believing that movies are a form of entertainment product, without distinction between elegance and vulgarity, or between high IQ and low IQ. People with high levels of artistic appreciation should not laugh at others, and Quentin should apologize.

Catherine Zeta-Jones, who played the female lead in 'Ace Ventura: Pet Detective', said that Quentin is a very good director, but his remarks this time were disappointing, and Quentin should apologize to the audience.

Quentin refused to apologize and publicly criticized 'Link-style movies' in an interview, saying that these types of movies are too low-level and are fooling the audience, like junk food. Jim Carrey and the 'Dumb and Dumber' crew should apologize.

Link, as a representative of this type of movie, should also stand up and apologize.

Link was filming a movie in Vancouver and had no time to pay attention to these disputes. The public relations department of Guessing Game Films represented Link and responded, claiming that movies are a popular entertainment culture, and their purpose is to entertain the public, not to entertain filmmakers themselves. Real filmmakers consider ordinary audiences when creating, rather than pleasing a small group of people and making movies to win awards.

Guessing Game Films believes that Link's movies and 'Dumb and Dumber' are all real good movies because the audience likes them.

Not long after Guessing Game Films spoke out, news appeared in the media that Quentin often went to strip clubs to watch performances and was a gold card member of a large strip club. There were also photos of Quentin laughing while watching 'Dumb and Dumber'.

Quentin was so angry when he saw these photos that he gritted his teeth and called Link, saying that he was not loyal enough. They had agreed to a joint hype and fake fight, so why did he expose those real materials? How would he face people in the future?

Link said that Harvey was in charge of the hype, and he should complain to Harvey.

Quentin was unhappy, saying that he had even contributed black material for the hype and suffered a great loss, and that he would also expose Link's black material, such as Link having many girlfriends.

Link said, "Whatever."