The Goddess Shines on America

U.S. Western Time, February 25, 1986, Monday, the sixteenth day of the first lunar month.

Location, West Hollywood, Los Angeles, south end of Sunset Boulevard, DreamWorks headquarters.

The weather is sunny to cloudy and the temperature is low. It is suitable to wear autumn coats.

So when Cameron walked to the front desk of the company, he was indeed wearing a brown leather jacket.

"Hello, Mr. Cameron."

When Ai Meili at the front desk saw the person coming, she smiled and said, "Miss Wang has ordered you to take the elevator directly to the chairman's office on the top floor."

Cameron didn't even have time to say a word: "How do you know who I am?"

Ai Meili chuckled: "Miss Wang has already explained that as long as she sees a white-haired man in his early thirties with a rebellious face and handsome appearance, he will neither arrive at the company too early nor be too late, It must be you, Mr. Cameron."

"Tch, that girl's guess is quite accurate."

Cameron smiled sassyly, and took the elevator to the top floor as promised.

To say that the company's interior decoration is still very good, and the potted plants that can be seen everywhere are obviously the masterpieces of girls. Cameron strode all the way, and couldn't help but feel a little funny for Lawrence. The boss of a big company has to listen to the ideas of his daughter and girlfriends for the interior layout, which is really enough to pamper them.

Then, he directly pushed open the door of the chairman's office.

"Oh, Mr. Cameron!"

The first thing I saw in the house was naturally the well-dressed Lawrence: "Look, Alice, Mr. Cameron is here!"

"Well, come on James, let's talk directly."

The person in front of the reception sofa seemed to be Alice, but she knew that she never had to be polite to this studio tyrant.

Cameron really laughed: "Okay! Let's talk directly, Mr. Lawrence, do you have coffee here?"

Of course, Lawrence couldn't do the pouring of the coffee himself. After Cameron poured the coffee himself, he sat in the reception area with the other two.

Alice said bluntly: "My Uncle Roger will discuss the copyright of Alien with Fox, so we can just start talking about making a sequel."

That's right, the collaboration that allowed Cameron to go to DreamWorks in person the next morning after just meeting him once was, of course, to buy Alien, the copyright for Alice at a large price, and shoot the second sequel!

"I thought about it all night last night."

Then I had to find someone to talk to someone after holding back the words all night, and Cameron couldn't wait to say: "The sequel must not be in the same style as the first one. "Alien" is about what happened in a limited space like a spaceship. Traditional monster-killing-human thriller. If the sequel is just like Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, just find a random reason, and then put a group of people and aliens together, it will be rubbish!"

"Indeed, although that kind of film can guarantee a certain box office, it will definitely not become a film and television classic."

Alice was very satisfied to realize that Cameron had the right idea from the beginning: "The subject of aliens has great potential for exploration. It would be too wasteful if it were reduced to a general monster movie."

After finishing speaking, she took a sip of milk tea, and then said: "I've been thinking about it all night, should I have more than this idea? Do you have any ideas for the script?"

"First of all, we have to change places, definitely not another spaceship."

Cameron obviously had an idea: "Actually, the movie gave us a good place, that is, the unstarred planet where the merchant ship landed. At the beginning, Ridley placed thousands of alien eggs there. If Wouldn't it be a pity not to have a thrilling battle!?"

Good guy, seeing Cameron's excited look, Alice really doubted, isn't this guy really a time traveler?

Cameron's production must be a high-quality product, which has been verified by the market. Back then, he wrote and directed "Alien 2". As a sequel to the prequel, the biggest difference of the second part is that it completely abandons the essence of the previous horror film, that is, the sneak attack of monsters in a small space, and turns it into a down-to-earth action film.

Didn't the former director Ridley arrange an alien?

Well, I Cameron came to thousands of them!

Didn't you Ridley lock the filming location in the spaceship?

Alright, I will let the space version of the American soldier, on the small planet you prepared for me, fight head-on with the alien army!

To be reasonable, Cameron is Cameron, and you can't accept it. This kind of thinking is really subversive.

What's the meaning?

Think about it, the "Scream" series, the "Death Comes" series, the "Chain Saw" series, the "Fatal Turn" series, and the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" series are all countless directors who directly follow the A rhythmic, step-by-step horror series?

The so-called "Smelly and Long" series is also ~

But Cameron's move is equivalent to abruptly removing "Alien" from the "Smelly and Long" series, and then shaping it into a classic. Because it was in this movie that Cameron brought out the concept of "Alien Queen"!

Isn't it great?

But the problem is, it's normal to think so. After all, Alice is now asking Cameron to shoot the film, which was originally written and directed by him.

However, this seems to be a day and night effort, right?

Figured out the most critical place so quickly! ?

"good idea!"

Alice's joy is really not just pretending: "Then since the location is chosen on that asteroid, what about the plot? The protagonist will definitely be Ripley, so why give her any reason to go back?"

A day and night is still short, Cameron said frankly: "I'm still making it up, do you have any good ideas?"

Alice said without thinking: "The asteroid has become a colony, and there are dozens of families living there. Ripley went back to rescue them. What's the reason?"

As soon as Cameron said this, Mr. Lawrence, who had been listening, couldn't help it: "Isn't that planet uninhabited? How could it become a colony in the blink of an eye?"

Cameron was just like the deputy waiting for Alice to give the answer.

"Well... at the end of "Alien", didn't Ripley have a fight with the alien that sneaked into the escape pod, and then wiped it out. Let's assume that she accidentally deviated from the channel while in hibernation , and drifted in the universe for more than fifty years before being discovered?"

With a relaxed expression on his face, Lawrence opened his mouth silently and choked hard: "Fifty...more than years!?"

Cameron said calmly, "You must have some purpose in setting it up like this?"

"More than fifty years is just enough for her child to die. We can assume that her child has never been married or married all her life because of the disappearance of her mother. Then you think about it, when the heroine wakes up, things are people No, my beloved son and daughter have just passed away, and I am alone in a strange world. Then at this moment, I learned that the original planet has become a colony, with dozens of families living here... Then what?"

Alice puts emphasis on the word "family".

This time, for a long time, the two adults in the room were silent.

"well……"

Finally, Lawrence sighed slowly: "Lonely hero, Cameron, if you describe the plot well in the early stage of the movie, and then echo back and forth. Then this alone will guarantee the box office of this movie gone."

In this way, more than half of the shooting details of "Alien 2" were quickly discussed, and Alice even mentioned the setting of the Alien Queen, not to mention a large number of quite critical plots. As a result, when it was close to noon, Cameron yelled angrily.

"Is it you or me!? There are so many wonderful settings, and even the idea of ​​the 'virtual environment system' has been revealed, you might as well shoot it yourself! Bastard! You big bastard! What are you doing to me? Idea!?"

Alice said quite innocently: "I never told you to write the script, I just asked you to film it."

As a result, Cameron suddenly lost his temper.

That's right, what Alice always said was to let him do the filming, and she only asked him what he thought, but she never said that he should write the script by himself...

"All right……"

He looked discouraged: "I have to admit, your idea is really great. Alien queen... To be honest, if someone gave me a script, I would have to scoff at it, but now you told me so many……"

Alice: "How about~?"

"It's so much fun!"

Cameron said quite straightforwardly: "I want to ask, Alice, are you sure you didn't come back from the future!?"

"Well... Actually, I'm pretty sure I am, what do you think?"

"I believe!"

"Oh yeah, Microsoft stock is about to go public, do you want to buy some? Buy some, trust me, you will definitely make a lot of money."

"Oh? Really? I know about Microsoft, are you sure its stock will make a lot of money?"

"I'm from the future = well...cough cough, I have inside information, look James..."

Well……

Lawrence, who was on the sidelines, said that the topic seemed to be off topic...

But this topic can't last long. The office phone that had been quiet for a long time suddenly rang, and Lawrence had to get up to answer it.

"Hi, I'm Roger Lawrence."

"Oh, Fleur? Are you looking for Alice?"

Lawrence smiled and looked at the girl who looked up: "It seems that you have made new friends, Alice and Fleur are complaining to me, saying that I forgot to ask for your home phone number yesterday."

"What did she want from me?"

Alice was somewhat strange, she answered the phone and said, "Hey Fleur, what do you need from me?"

On the other side of the phone, Fleur's voice was obviously a little nervous: "Um...Alice, are you free this afternoon?"

The girl's gentle voice was like that of a lark.