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Time unknowingly has come to the end of July.

Today is Monday, July 28th.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Simon arrived on time at Fox Studios in Century City, Beverly Hills.

Since the injury on his body has not fully recovered, Simon did not ride a bike again today, but made an appointment for a rental.

Arriving at Fox Studios, Simon realized that he did not have a pass. The doorman looked suspiciously at the young man who claimed to be coming to the film production meeting, and after a while he agreed to make a phone call for him.

A few minutes later, the assistant of "Butterfly Effect" producer David Giller arrived at the gate and brought Simon inside.

Simon followed the assistant to David Giller's office, and Brian de Palma had arrived early, which made Simon feel a little embarrassed. However, David Giller and Brian de Palma didn't care much, and asked with concern how Simon's injury was recovering.

After a brief chat, Peter Sanders, a vice president of Fox Pictures, and Vincent Hill, another professional script analyst under Fox, also arrived one after another, and today's meeting officially started.

In a small conference room in the administration building of Fox Studios, three filmmakers, David Giller, Brian De Palma, and Simon, and two others were sitting around a conference table, and the secretary put copies of the script and A memo was distributed.

The previous "Butterfly Effect" script has been polished for 7 years and has been very perfect. Simon didn't think there was much room for modification in the script he took out according to the final theatrical version of the film.

However, when Simon opened the memo made by the script analyst named Vincent Hill in the room, he felt that he wanted to get the remaining $60,000 in the next payment, and obviously did not Not so easy.

Simon received his first $140,000 paycheck from Fox's contract last Thursday, while he was still in the hospital.

On the memo in front of me, from the title of the script to the final story ending, Vincent Hill has put forward a very detailed assessment and corresponding revision suggestions. Simon flipped through it roughly and found that there were more than 50 annotations, which was almost equivalent to one revision opinion for every two pages of the script.

Putting down the memorandum in his hand, Simon looked up and glanced at the other people. Except for Vincent Hill, the other three were also reading the memo. David Giller and Peter Sanders were expressionless. Ryan de Palma frowned slightly.

As a screenwriter who has just debuted, Simon is very clear that he does not have much say in script revision. If he wants to get the follow-up $60,000 final payment, he can only honestly revise the script according to the requirements of the film company, or give up this power and let Fox hire other screenwriters.

With that in mind, Simon turned his attention back to the memo in front of him.

Even without much say, Simon made up his mind to maintain the integrity of the script as much as possible.

After a while, Brian De Palma spoke first, with obvious dissatisfaction in his tone, and asked Fox Vice President Peter Sanders directly: "Peter, you want to make this film a pg- Level 13, right?"

Hearing Brian de Palma speak, Simon raised his head again.

After carefully reading the memo in his hand, Simon also discovered Fox's intentions.

The first version of the "Butterfly Effect" script has too many adult elements, and the tone of the film tends to be dark, and it will easily be rated R in the future. This means that teens under the age of 17 must be accompanied by an adult to watch, which effectively blocks a large portion of the teenage audience from the theater.

At this point, Simon realized, based on the advice in the memo in his hand, that Fox clearly wanted to overturn most of the plots that could affect the movie's ratings.

As the world's largest film market, the United States has long adopted a mature film rating system.

According to the Motion Picture Association of America (mpaa), theatrical films in North America are divided into five grades: G, pg, pg-13, r and nc-17. Of these, the g-grade is the loosest mass-grade, meaning it can be viewed by all ages. The nc-17 level is the most restrictive level, and children under the age of 17 are not allowed to watch it. In addition to the three levels, the closer to the nc-17 level, the narrower the audience.

From a purely commercial point of view, Fox's behavior is actually understandable.

If the film can be adjusted from the r level to the pg-13 level, which only requires parents to watch under the age of 13, then the market audience of the film will expand a lot in the future.

However, from the perspective of the "Butterfly Effect" story itself, it is very unwise for Fox to do so.

"Brian, you have to know that the investment in this movie is 10 million US dollars," Peter Sanders replied unchanged after hearing Brian De Palma's questioning: "So, we have to Consider the commercial prospects of the film."

Brian de Palma shook his head and said: "In my opinion, the script of "The Butterfly Effect" is quite perfect. If you do this, you will only destroy the overall structure of the script. Moreover, starting from "Witch Carrie" , The films I directed have always been R-rated. As long as they are good films, they will get enough commercial returns, so I don’t think there is anything wrong with this.”

"Since Simon can write a perfect script, he can also revise a more perfect script according to our requirements.

Ben," Peter Sanders responded to Brian De Palma, but turned to Simon, and said quite familiarly: "So, Simon, do you have this confidence? "

Although Peter Sanders' tone was very gentle, with elder-like encouragement, Simon clearly felt that the other party's words were somewhat aimed at him.

Even though he knew that he didn't have much say in this matter, Simon didn't intend to be an answering worm. Feeling the faint targeting of the other party, Simon was a little more polite: "Mr. Sanders, with all due respect, "Butterfly" "Effect" itself is already a very tightly interlocking story script, like a big net, plucking any one of the threads may involve the whole situation. If you modify it according to the requirements of this memorandum, it is very likely that you will get the final result. It's a completely different story. So if Fox wants a pg-13, maybe I can rewrite the script."

Peter Sanders didn't expect Simon to speak so sharply, remembering the fact that the young man had just broken five young men's leg bones last week, subconsciously suppressed the refutation he wanted to blurt out, raised his eyebrows, turned to David Giller: "David, what do you mean?"

With a half-smiling expression on his face, David Giller raised the memo in his hand and said, "Peter, the result of my communication with Ronald last week was not like this. Speaking of grading, Fox is this summer. The two films released, "Space Station" in early June, pg-rated, with a budget of 18 million US dollars, ended up with a meager $9 million at the box office. Last month's "Alien 2", R-rated, a similar 18.5 million Dollar budget, just two weeks after its release, it has already reached $25 million at the box office, so I don't see any problem with "The Butterfly Effect" being rated R in the future. If you insist that today's meeting proceed according to this memo, I only Can choose to cancel today's meeting and go back to talk to Ronald."

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