King of Hollywood

"Memory Fragments", this is Adrian's new work. After Guy Ritchie, he extended his black hand to the director who has the most storytelling ability in the 21st century-Christopher Nolan!

This film produced by Nolan in 2000 burned the brain cells of many fans at the time. The whole story is actually not complicated and not too brilliant, but under Nolan's editing, it becomes a film that makes people feel in every possible way. Aftertaste movie.

There are two clues in the movie, one flashback, told with color lens; The two shots will be exchanged every 5 minutes, telling all the way down and merging together at the end, which shows that the beginning is both the end and the beginning. Such intertwining and dizzying performance techniques, plus each shot has a lot of details-for example, when Leonard is describing an insurance client with the same short-term amnesia, the shot is in a wheelchair. A fat middle-aged man, but when the nurse walked past the patient and the camera cut, the man in the wheelchair turned into Leonard himself!

Adrian didn't notice this when he watched it for the first time. The camera cuts were too fast, and there were so many clues that he didn't have time to analyze it. In the end, he didn't notice it after watching it two or three times. very impressed.

In short, people are amazed by this. Although the complicated clues made the film only get a box office of about 40 million in the end-compared to a cost of 5 million, it is still a big profit-but it has won a very high reputation. Therefore, he established his position in Hollywood. Adrian had heard such a comment in his previous life. If Spielberg was the best storyteller at the end of the 20th century, then Nolan was undoubtedly the best storyteller at the beginning of the 21st century! As I said before, the quality of the story itself is very important, but the method of telling the story is also very important.

Therefore, Adrian did not hesitate to choose this movie as his second work. As for Nolan, he can only say sorry. Making that decision didn't upset him or anything, like he said when he first wrote the script, he's been through so much that he doesn't care anymore. Adrian is very clear that if 99% of the people in this world face their current situation - they have a movie library in their heads, they have certain shooting and production skills, they know many things about the future, and they have start-up funds - — will make the same choices as myself.

Soon, Halloween in 1990 passed, and "Two Smoking Barrels", which had attracted much attention in the film market, went offline, taking away with it a box office of just over $40 million. Three days later, the UK also went offline, and the box office was around 30 million pounds, which almost broke the UK box office record. Coupled with the just-released other countries in Europe, the global box office may be close to 100 million!

This was the early 1990s, and the dollar was far more valuable than 20 years later. Although there are many low-budget and high-grossing movies in Hollywood, there are very few works with a return ratio of 1:90 like this. This is a result that surprised many people. Even Adrian was surprised at first. Since he chose this movie as his debut, he naturally recalled the relevant information clearly. The box office of this movie in the UK is almost two times. The box office is more than tens of millions, but it is only a few million in the United States. Now the North American box office has almost doubled by more than 100 times, which is really unbelievable.

After thinking about it, he was relieved. The United States has a very interesting feature. Most of the movies that are not produced in North America will not have a high box office here. Americans seem not interested in movies from other countries. This is not surprising. As early as the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the North American film market was dominated by European films, and people went after French and Italian films. In the end, the U.S. government had to promulgate a decree to prohibit theaters from showing European movies and then vigorously support local movies. This is the rise of Hollywood. Over the past century, with the continuous growth of national power and the development of Hollywood's film industry, Americans naturally began to be proud, so they did not pay attention to films from other countries.

This is where Adrian has the biggest advantage over Guy Ritchie. He is an American, he has his own film company, and he has a very good general manager, not to mention that he participated in the Venice Film Festival and won the best award. Best Debut Award. In addition to this, it is also very important that it is 1990! This kind of movie with a lot of information and multi-line narrative but not complicated is far more attractive to the public than 9 years later, not to mention that it is a very good story, and there is no reason why it is unacceptable because of the time or the environment. . Combining all these factors, it is normal to get such a high box office.

Calculated, excluding all expenses-costs, distribution fees, theater share, and taxes, etc., Adrian can get at least about 20 million US dollars, which directly doubles his personal wealth. It is no wonder that Claude I'd say it's profiteering. Because of this, Adrian, who had faded out of the sight of film company executives after the Venice Film Festival, came back to their eyes again. People in the circle were also full of interest in this young director, and they would also be interested in this young director during parties and chats. will be brought up occasionally.

It's just that they haven't found a chance to get in touch with Adrian for the time being, because before "Two Smoking Barrels" was offline, he had brought his team to a small town on the outskirts of Los Angeles to start filming a new movie.

"I need you to have a forbearance, understand, Dan?" At the door of the small town motel, Adrian explained to Dennis what to shoot, "You think you already know who killed your wife Your murderer, you just want to kill him now. Of course, when he stops you, you still have to remain calm and slightly friendly. It would be even better if you could see a glint of haze in your eyes when you look at him. "

After he finished speaking, he turned his head and looked at the short man beside him: "Joe, as for you, I need you to have a little hidden anxiety. You have already noticed that something is wrong, but you are not sure how bad it will be. Since the expectation can continue to coax Leonard like before."

"To put it simply, the current state of this character is hesitation and luck, isn't that true?" Joe Pantoliano, pinching his chin, replied after thinking about it.

"That's right," Adrian nodded. "If it's all right, let's get started—oh, right, Bowen?"

The cameraman quickly came over: "I'm here, Mr. Director."

"I want you to turn from here to here later..." Adrian explained to the photographer by making a square frame with his hands, "...then pull it out to reveal a full-body portrait of the two, understand?"

After the photographer nodded, he clapped his hands and looked around: "Everyone pay attention, take action. Also, ladies and gentlemen who are watching, please give us a little space?"

The people watching around the door of the motel laughed, and then dispersed in twos and threes.

"Memory Fragments, Scene 24, Scene 112." With the voice of the scene record, the camera began to rotate.

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"Did I mention my illness to you..." Leonard said to the administrator behind the window while gesturing.

"Stop every day." The administrator shrugged and looked at him with a funny expression.

Leonard was obviously used to this kind of situation, and directly pushed a photo in front of him: "Is this person here?"

"Just arrived." The administrator looked at his hand carefully and said, as if responding to his words, an enthusiastic voice came from the door: "Hey, Lenny."

Leonard turned his head, and a short man wearing glasses was looking at him with a half-open glass door and a smile.

"It's Reiner." Leonard corrected with a blank expression, and he walked over quickly: "I think I should have mentioned my illness."

"I will mention it every time." The short man was still smiling.

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"Cut!" Adrian, standing behind the camera watching the set, yelled loudly.

"Dan, your expression is still lacking," he looked at Dennis and said loudly, "Leonard didn't simply have no expression, he just hid his emotions underneath, start again!"

Then in less than three minutes he stopped again: "Cut! Forbearance! Where is your forbearance? Do it again!"

"Cut! I've had enough forbearance, but the haze in my eyes has passed, it's too straightforward, start again!"

"Cut! You have to doubt, understand? Because of your memory problem, you have doubts about everything around you. Start again!"

"Cut! Do it again!"

"Cut!"

At the beginning, Adrian would try his best to explain to Dennis, but after several NGs, he didn't do this again, and just kept chanting "Action!" and "Cut" repeatedly. In the end, even Joe, who played the role, felt that it was a bit too much, but Dennis remained calm all the time, and there was no unnecessary expression except for shooting again and again.

Finally, after the 76th consecutive NG, Adrian finally announced that it had passed, but before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief, he immediately took the camera from Bowen: "Let's do it again, this time I will take the camera personally."

This decision almost didn't make everyone present fall down, but seeing Dennis and Joe, who were the leading and supporting roles, quickly returned to their positions, the staff had no choice but to work hard and continue working.

Fortunately, because Dennis maintained the successful state just now, this shooting didn't take too much effort, it was over in one go, and judging from Adrian's slightly smiling mouth, the effect this time was pretty good.

"Rest for 30 minutes now." These beautiful words finally rang out, and almost at the same time, there was a long breath of air at the scene, and even Dennis, who had kept calm all this time, showed a tired look after sitting down. After all, no one can bear to shoot a scene repeatedly for nearly a hundred times.

"Why is Ed so much stricter today than a few days ago? Could it be the same in your previous movie?" Joe Pantoliano walked up to Dennis with a plastic water bottle at this time. After he agreed to act in the role, he did a small investigation on Adrian, and he had a good relationship with everyone after joining the crew. As an actor who has been in the showbiz for 10 years and played many supporting roles, although he has Tired but much better than Dennis.