Now Simon no longer has the need to always explain his intentions to others. When he heard Marvin Josephson's question, he shook his head directly and said: "Marvin, I don't want to waste time on this kind of issue. You and Julia can Think about it and give me a reply tomorrow morning. So, any other questions?"
Courteney Cox waited in the lounge anxiously for less than ten minutes when Simon's office door opened again. After seeing off Marvin Josephson and Julia Roberts, Simon waved Courteney in.
After sitting down behind his desk, Simon opened a budget document for "Scream" and said to Courtney opposite: "Kurt, I've seen your audition tape. Are you going to play "Scream"?" The heroine of "Scream" is very suitable. However, this movie will not help your acting career much. Instead, it will label you a teenage star, making it difficult to transform in the future."
Courteney naturally took Simon's words as rejection, bit her lip with dark eyes, and said softly: "Simon, you still hold grudge against me for rejecting you, right?"
Simon was stunned for a moment, looked up at Courteney, shook his head and said: "Kurt, I have experienced too many things. Your rejection is not enough to make me hold a grudge. I am just talking about the matter."
"So, can I get the heroine of "Scream"?" Courteney Cox stared at Simon closely and said: "I don't care about the impact on my acting career, Simon, my acting career is... It’s not as smooth sailing as Sandra Bullock.”
"Okay, Curt, if you insist. But Scream is actually a series, and you need to sign a three-part deal."
Courteney Cox said without hesitation: "No problem."
Simon put down the pencil he just picked up, stood up and said, "In that case, you can go back first, and I will contact Jonathan."
Courteney Cox didn't expect things to go so smoothly, but she was not happy at all, and even vaguely felt that she might have missed something. Seeing Simon reaching out to her across the desk, Courteney hesitated, stood up, but turned behind the desk, opened her arms and hugged the man.
Simon felt Courteney pressing against him, stretched out his hand and patted her waist, saying, "Kurt, it's time for you to go."
Courteney Cox hugged Simon tightly and said, "Simon, I can go to your place tonight."
Simon chuckled, shook his head and said, "That's impossible. I don't want to be on the gossip headlines tomorrow."
"Then," Courteney Cox glanced around, her voice lowered, and said, "It's okay here."
Simon remembered the almost identical hint given by Julia Roberts when she was leaving just now. He grabbed Courteney Cox's hand that was touching his belt and said in a serious tone: "Curt, it's time for you to go."
Courteney Cox wanted to say something else, but there was a sudden knock on the office door. She then returned to the other side of the desk with some reluctance, took out a business card from her bag and handed it over, saying: "Simon, you You can call me anytime.”
Simon knew that the only people who could knock on the door without Susan's notification were Amy and Jennifer. He took Courteney's business card and answered the door casually. Jennifer pushed the door open and walked in with a folder in her arms. Seeing Courteney, Jennifer was obviously a little surprised, but she still nodded politely to her and said to Simon: "Boss, I'll come back later."
"No, Curt is leaving."
Hearing what Jennifer said, Courteney Cox had to take the initiative to leave.
Simon watched Courteney leave, then sat down again and looked at the female assistant: "What's going on?"
"Dad has negotiated an acquisition plan with the digital special effects company in Toronto and just sent the information." Jennifer handed the folder over, waited for Simon to open it, paused briefly, and said, "Susan When I wasn’t outside, I heard the previous guest leaving and thought you were the only one.”
Simon raised his eyes and noticed the expression on the female assistant's side as she spoke. He smiled and said, "You ruined a good thing. Do you want to make it up to me?"
"Never."
Simon opened the document and said, "Then don't feel guilty."
Jennifer also felt that something was wrong. Women are very sensitive to certain things. She noticed something strange between Simon and Courteney just after entering the door.
only.
I really shouldn’t feel guilty, it’s some bad guy who should feel guilty, so I mustered up the courage to condemn: “It’s obviously you who did the bad thing, I, I will tell Jenny.”
Simon didn't seem to hear Jennifer's threat, and suddenly looked at the document in front of him with a puzzled expression: "Is this a mistake? How could it be this company?"
After hearing this, Jennifer walked into Simon's desk, leaned forward and looked at the document slightly, and said firmly: "Alias-Research company, it is obviously this company, how could there be a mistake?"
Simon waited for Jennifer to come over, and suddenly raised his hand to hook the female assistant's delicate chin, and kissed her on the lips unceremoniously.
The moment Jennifer's chin was grabbed by Simon, her body suddenly froze. She just stared and passively responded to the man's kiss. It wasn't until Simon sat back on the chair that she realized what she was doing. She took a step back and threatened again with a blushing face. Said: “You, I will tell Jenny.”
Simon continued to ignore Jennifer's non-lethal threats, but smiled and said: "Jenny, help me think of a way to bring you home tonight without being discovered by outsiders. I think there will be a reward."
Jennifer suppressed the urge to run away and refused: "I won't go home with you."
"How about I go to your place?"
"Uncle will beat you out."
"Oh, I suddenly feel so pitiful."
"A philandering guy."
After a few brief words of bickering, Simon focused on the documents in front of him.
Alias-Research is a digital special effects software company in Toronto, Canada. It was established in 1983. It has developed a film and television post-production software called Alias.
No longer pinning all his hopes on the acquisition of Pixar, during this period, through the introduction of Silicon Graphics, Simon has taken a fancy to two companies, and another company called Wavefront-Technologies has also finalized an acquisition plan.
Both companies use Silicon Graphics' graphics workstations as hardware platforms. Alias-Research's Alias software is mainly used for the post-development of live-action movies, while Wavefront-Technologies' products tend to be 3D animation production. The effects that can be achieved by the software of the two companies are still rough in Simon's opinion, but they are not much worse than Pixar. In fact, Pixar's current technology is also very crude.
Simon selected these two companies from the information provided by Silicon Graphics because he happened to remember that the software of these two companies, especially Alias of Alias-Research, was involved in "Terminator 2" in the original time and space. ", "Jurassic Park", "Days of Independence" and a series of special effects blockbusters in the 1990s.
In the late 1990s, the two companies were acquired one after another, and their software was integrated and eventually developed into a three-dimensional animation software: Maya that was very popular in the 3D animation, CG special effects and video game industries.
Now that these two companies have been acquired, what Simon needs to do next is to promote the development of Maya software in advance.
In fact, although today's computers are still very backward compared to later computing capabilities, it is enough to achieve many blockbuster CG special effects on these hardware platforms.
The main reason why the development of digital special effects began to accelerate in the 1990s was due to financial constraints. Many special effects software and special effects companies are constantly improving from project to project. Simon is not short of funds right now, and Daenerys Films has enough film projects to offer.
Therefore, Simon is fully capable of promoting the development of digital special effects in advance, and the memory of the next thirty years can also ensure that he does not have to make too many detours in the process.
Today is March 11, Friday. "When Harry Met Sally" has officially started small-scale screenings in major major cities in North America.
It is afternoon on the west coast, but dusk has fallen on the east coast.
Janet was busy decorating the apartment all day, and met Catherine in the evening. The two made an appointment to watch the screening of "When Harry Met Sally" together tonight. "Blue Angel" has also begun preparations. The film will be shot in New York, and Catherine also came to Manhattan during this time.
The two women had dinner together, and it was already past seven o'clock.
When I arrived at a movie theater showing "When Harry Met Sally" in midtown Manhattan, there were only five minutes left before the movie started. Entering the screening hall, the hall, which can accommodate more than two hundred people, was almost full. Janet and Catherine only found two empty seats at the side.
"I picked out this script first. Simon also liked it very much and even participated in the soundtrack himself. Unfortunately, I couldn't see the finished film in advance when I was in Los Angeles." After sitting down, Janet held a bucket of popcorn and glanced at it. After taking a look at the crowd around him, he said with satisfaction: "It looks like the attendance rate is pretty good."
Catherine looked at the preview trailer being played on the big screen and said: "The attendance rate of the screening must be very high. A large part of the audience tonight are media reporters and film critics. The key is to watch the big movie in two weeks." Scale results."
The two chatted casually, and the movie officially started soon.
On the big screen, after the studio's label animation and subtitles, the first thing that appeared in front of the audience was an old couple reminiscing about the past. This opening almost made all the audience stunned, and some even wondered whether I walked into the wrong screening room, or the film projectionist took the wrong copy.
Even Janet and Catherine looked at each other a little bit. Janet had read the script originally, but the version she had read did not have these plots.
Although they were very confused, everyone quickly calmed down.
The label animation and subtitles at the beginning of the film prove that the theater did not make any low-level mistakes such as misplaced copies.
After confirming this, many media reporters and film critics at the scene subconsciously lowered their evaluation of the film by a notch. This alternative but unspectacular opening will definitely make many viewers lose interest, especially young viewers during Easter.
After a different start, the male and female protagonists played by Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan appeared on camera.
On the campus of the University of Chicago, Harry reluctantly said goodbye to his girlfriend, and Sally showed up in a car. This was the first time the two met, and they made an appointment to carpool to New York together. During the 18-hour journey, through a series of interesting conversations, the completely different personalities of Harry and Sally came to life on the screen.
Harry is a pessimist at heart, funny, casual and cynical. Sally is a standard optimist who pursues a refined life.
In the first ten minutes, accompanied by nostalgic old-fashioned jazz, the seemingly plain plot immersed the audience in the screening hall unconsciously. Another old couple appeared in the camera, and many people no longer felt out of place.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye it is already five years later.
Harry is about to get married, and Sally is also in love with her boyfriend. The brief encounter during the business trip was still not pleasant. However, due to the increase in life experience, both Harry and Sally began to change some of the views they had when they just walked out of campus, and even no longer admitted that they had said certain things.
The years passed silently, and five years passed quietly again.
Harry and Sally each ended their last relationships and started single lives again.
In the autumn of New York, the scene of the falling yellow leaves in Central Park has an indescribable and intoxicating beauty, like the blazing bloom at the last moment of life. On a sunny afternoon, wandering in this intoxicating drifting, a man and a woman who each thought they had gotten over their last relationship decided to try a pure friendship that did not involve the love between men and women.
The friendship developed very smoothly, and in order to get each other out of their single status, they also tried to introduce their best friends of the same sex, Jesse and Mary, to each other.
Then.
Jesse and Mary spark something and begin preparing to get married.
Sincerely sending blessings to their best friends, during the preparations for Jesse and Mary's wedding, Harry and Sally unexpectedly broke through their original agreement to just be friends. As if it came naturally, they went to bed. Because neither of them had any psychological preparation, misunderstandings and cold wars would inevitably arise after breaking through this boundary.
Parallel lines generally passed for some time. On New Year's Eve, Harry, who realized his feelings for Sally, finally made a decision.
"I love that you still catch a cold when it's 71 degrees, I love that you spend half an hour ordering a sandwich, I love the little wrinkles on your nose when you look at me like I'm stupid, I love being with you I can still smell your fragrance on my clothes all day long. I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to bed every night. It's not because I'm lonely or because it's New Year's Eve. I'm now Come on over, just because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, you want that life sooner than later and you start dating.”
Confess.
Kiss.
On the couch where the older couples were being interviewed, they began to talk about their experiences, their weddings, and the inevitable little disagreements.
but.
This is life, this is love.
When the subtitles slowly rose along with the classic song "Let's-call-the-whole-thing-off", most of the audience in the screening room were still immersed in the aftertaste of the meaningful plot, as if they had just experienced a twelve-year-old drama. A dream that lasted for one year and three months. After waking up from the dream, life will continue.
Looking at the Coke and popcorn in their hands that were unknowingly left with most of the Coca-Cola and popcorn, some viewers just smiled and shook their heads. They realized that "When Harry Met Sally" is more suitable for a leisurely weekend night, making a cup of coffee and hugging your lover. A work to be savored slowly on the sofa.
Janet had this feeling in her heart right now.
After the movie ended, Janet took Catherine and went straight to the airport in a slightly crazy manner, returning to Los Angeles in the night on the West Coast.