Hollywood Director 1992

【Movie production complete, box office subsidy system is calculating...】

【Host participation: 81.3%, Movie completion quality: 86.6%】

【Rewards: 3.2x box office subsidy; Director experience +20%; Director stamina +10%】

【Remaining newbie experience attempts: 1】

Participation decreased nearly 14 percentage points compared to 'Buried,' completion quality increased by 1 percentage point.

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In terms of rewards, box office subsidy decreased by 0.8, director experience decreased by 10 percentage points, director stamina reward remained the same.

A 'Remaining newbie experience attempts' has appeared below.

Does this mean there's a limit to the number of newbie experience attempts?

Will the system change after the newbie period is over?

Before he could figure it out, the system data flickered several times and disappeared before his eyes, like afterimages left after looking at the sun.

"Boss, the movie is very good, do you still want to recast and reshoot?"

Liu Xiaoli stood in front of him holding a file.

"Reshoot! Monica and I don't coordinate well as a couple. Let's try a European and American face."

"They are indeed not well-matched. Monica is older than you, and her face is more mature. The two of you playing a couple looks like half-siblings. It's a bit distracting."

"Are you getting used to living in the new apartment? Have you encountered any trouble?"

"It's very good. The apartment is very close to Walmart, Macy's, and the Metropolitan Center, so shopping is very convenient. I've also contacted several acquaintances from the mainland these past few days."

"Do you know Wang Ji from the 'A Native of Beijing in New York' crew? She also lives in Los Angeles, but in Irvine to the south;"

"And have you seen 'The Last Emperor'? Wu Junmei, who played Consort Wenxiu, is also in Los Angeles. She lives in the western San Gabriel Valley, as well as Chen Chong, who played Wanrong."

"We had a dinner party at 'Zhou's' restaurant last weekend. Do you want to meet them? I can introduce them to you. They know you're the director of 'Buried' and say you're very amazing."

Liu Xiaoli's tone was much more relaxed than before. It was obvious that she was very happy to be able to contact so many acquaintances in a foreign country.

"Sure, after I'm done with work, let's schedule a time for everyone to have dinner together."

"Okay, as long as you have time, leave the task of inviting them to me."

Liu Xiaoli patted her sizable chest, her face full of smiles.

Today, she was dressed very intellectually, wearing a milk-gray suit jacket with a white tube top underneath, revealing delicate collarbones and a thin necklace.

Compared to European and American women, her figure isn't particularly curvy, but the capable and intellectual temperament combined with the gentleness of a married woman is also very attractive.

"What are you looking at?"

"Stockings, cough, your shoes are very beautiful, they match your skirt very well."

"Pervert! I thought you had become serious, but you haven't changed at all. Your eyes still like to wander."

Liu Xiaoli raised her foot to kick him, but suddenly saw someone coming down the aisle, immediately became serious, handed over the folder, and said, 'Boss, please sign.'

After completing the first round of filming, Link didn't rest much and took the crew back to the N23 villa in San Diego's Mission Valley to shoot the movie again.

While he was shooting the second time, many news articles appeared in the media saying that his new movie's filming had failed and that he was recasting and reshooting.

Some filmmakers speculated that he didn't know how to be a director.

The last time he filmed 'Buried,' it was just him alone, and the crew was extremely small. Now that the new movie's crew has expanded, he probably can't control the crew, which is why this happened.

Some media also commented that after 'Buried' became a big hit, he probably wanted to show off his skills and shoot a heavyweight production to prove his strength, but his abilities were limited, the filming failed, and he had to reshoot.

There were even rumors that Link had invested millions of dollars in the new movie, and that this filming failure had caused millions of dollars in losses, and that the newly minted millionaire Link was facing bankruptcy.

After the rumors appeared, Michael Rison, the CEO of Guess What Pictures, took Link's place and accepted interviews with media reporters at the company.

During the interview, he stated that the rumors were all false, that the filming was very successful, and that the reason Link chose to recast the male lead after filming began was that he wanted to make the movie better and bring everyone a high-quality, high-level, creative movie.

Michael Rison also stated that Link had publicly said before filming began that this was a new type of experimental film.

Friends who have studied chemistry all know that it is normal to change experimental reagents when conducting experiments. I hope media friends will not make wild guesses and spread false information.

Despite this, there are still many rumors in the media.

"Scene 1, Take 1, Action!"

Inside the N23 villa in San Diego, the second round of filming for 'Paranormal Activity' began.

Since the male lead in the movie often holds a camera to film the female lead, the male lead's position is behind the camera, which is the position of the cameraman and director, so his role in the play is not much.

During the filming, many scenes where the female lead appeared alone did not need to be reshot, only the scenes where the male and female leads slept, ate, and the male lead pointed the camera at the mirror.

However, in order to ensure the quality of the movie, Link decided to spend more time reviewing the plot from beginning to end and filming the movie from an observer's perspective to see if the quality of the movie would improve.

When filming the second time, he only acted as a director and not as an actor, making the work much easier.

In fact, he doesn't really like being an actor. As an actor, the attention he receives as a star is relatively high, which not only increases his workload but also brings a lot of unnecessary trouble to the filming.

"Cut! Not good, let's do it again!"

Link didn't say who's performance was bad, he just asked the two to reflect and make their own adjustments.

In fact, Monica's performance was not good in this scene.

She wasn't as invested in the second filming as she was in the first, and she couldn't substitute herself into the role of the female lead, or rather, the new male lead's girlfriend. Her line delivery was mediocre.

Monica took the initiative to talk about this last night when sleeping, saying that filming the same plot a second time lacked novelty, and that she couldn't like Jeremy Northam as much as she liked him.

Link's opinion was that if she wanted to be a professional actress, she had to learn to adjust her state, and not be passive and not try to do her best because the difficulties were too great, as this would be detrimental to her development.

Also, in order to comfort her, Link not only worked hard in bed, exerting the newly added 10% director stamina, but also told her that it didn't matter if she couldn't perform as well as the first time, but she should try to do her best.

Her performance mainly supports the male lead, and if she performs too poorly, Jeremy Northam will not be able to perform better.

Monica agreed, hugged his neck, and praised him for being even more amazing.

One mistake one first one hair one inside one face one in one look!

After persuading Monica, Monica was also more attentive during the second filming, and the filming was relatively smooth.

"Cut! Good!"

"30-minute break, you guys practice your lines, we'll continue filming in 30 minutes."

Link put down the camera and wiped his hands with the towel on the table.

While they were filming, two tourists came to the villa, Quentin Tarantino and Steven Soderbergh. The two followed Chris Bauer to the villa and stood at the door watching.

"Link, this is the set? A villa, a big bed, two actors? Are you sure you're making a serious movie?"

Quentin Tarantino's way of speaking is the same as the characters in his scripts, he never stops talking once he starts.

"It's a serious movie, a new type of movie."

"Are you sure? You were just filming Monica's feet, and I even heard the male actor asking the female actor to do a striptease. Is this a serious movie?

Link, you're a very talented guy, especially in directing and screenwriting, with great potential. I hope you can take this job seriously and not be too capricious and go down a path of no return."

"No, you guys can come and watch the preview, zero pornography."

"Okay, we'll watch here, you guys continue filming, just pretend we don't exist."

Quentin folded his arms and sat down.

After Monica and Jeremy Northam were ready, Link carried the camera and continued filming.

"Scene 6, Take 3, Action!"

"Why did you take out the camera?"

In the bathroom, Monica was wearing a T-shirt and shorts, washing her face at the sink, speaking to the camera lens.

"We can use this to film some other stuff."

Jeremy Northam pointed the handheld camera at Monica, the mirror on the wall reflecting his movements.

"Be careful, you're about to bump into the showerhead."

"We can film some other stuff, I just mentioned it."

"We can, but we shouldn't."

Monica said.

"Cut!"

Link called a pause and walked into the bathroom.

"Monica, you need to relax a little more, you're a couple, and the current conversation is a joke.

You need to immerse yourself in this situation and feel what kind of emotional changes this joke will bring to the female lead.

You performed very well last time, you can carefully recall and think about how you performed then."

"I understand, I need to adjust."

"Okay, we'll continue filming in three minutes."