If everything goes well, this is indeed something to celebrate, but sometimes there are still some bumps and bumps. Although the tail of "The God of Death" does not need her to take care of it, just ask a few words immediately, but After getting good reviews at the preview, it's time to start a large-scale publicity and prepare for release. Since she has her own label on the producer and screenwriter, and even has a cameo role, her publicity work is indispensable.
Even if Angela is the boss and has another movie to supervise, at least she has to attend the premiere. Besides, this is the first time Jessica has played the leading role, and she has to climb to the stadium even if she is climbing, right
"Have you heard their discussion? Your performance is still very good." Angela looked at the people who got up after the lights were turned on, and whispered in Jessica's ear, to be honest, she must play that TV series for her. I feel puzzled, although Jessica's explanation moved her, why should she go to the small screen when she can have a better development in the movie
Of course, Angela didn't make it clear, after all, this is Jessica's own decision, maybe she thinks she can get more exercise on the small screen? However, Angela still couldn't help but secretly complained in her words, and contacted Cameron privately to ask for help. The guy promised to agree, but according to his temper... Well, at least he Not the director, and Jessica worked with him.
"Okay, I heard it, but I also heard them say your performance is the best part of the whole movie." Jessica shrugged with a smile and whispered back in her ear.
"What are you talking about?" Kate's voice came.
Angela couldn't help sighing in her stomach. After all, this is her work. How could Kate not come to support her, with a faint smile still on her face: "We are discussing who has the best performance, what do you think?"
"My opinion?" Kate looked at Angela and Jessica with a clear look, frowned deliberately and thought for a few minutes: "Of course you are the best, followed by Edward, Jesse should be the first three."
"Did you hear that? This is your affirmation," Angela immediately patted Jessica. "Don't say that Kate is not a professional critic. How many of those who go to the theater to watch the movie are professional?"
"Okay, Angie," Jessica rolled her eyes amusedly. "Although I know I can't catch up with you, I don't even have that confidence." She reached out and gently swept Angela's forehead. long hair.
"Okay, I see." Angela shook her head, glanced at the crowd that had already walked out, and then grabbed Jessica's hand: "Let's go, there's a press conference next, we'll wait a while. See you, Kate."
After saying hello to Kate, Angela took Jessica and walked out together, and although Kate watched them leave with a smile, her eyes were always locked on the holding hands, and finally she couldn't help but sighed in a low voice. tone.
Although similar press conferences have been experienced countless times, Angela still has a feeling of being overwhelmed, and various issues are pouring in like a tide. First of all, this is the first time that she only serves as a film producer, and it is a B-level film with an investment of more than 10 million yuan; secondly, the content of the film really makes viewers shudder, and she can't help but resist flying. Angela herself also said something half-covered on her blog at the beginning, I hope the airlines don't blame her and other people's appetites: again, the film critics who have seen it after the trial screening did not disclose the plot. Put forward a sharp criticism, thinking that the horror film of Miss Genius has begun to return to the blood from the psychological, and has lost the previous humanistic care and has been exhausted. All of this made the reporters excited, focusing their energy on Angela desperately trying to dig something out.
Fortunately, there were director James Huang, Jessica, Edward and a bunch of actors at the press conference, so after disrupting, parrying, parrying, and dodging various skill CDs, they finally managed to escape.
"I can't believe that they asked me if I had a nightmare because of such a terrifying idea!" Angela continued to complain non-stop until she got into the car, "If it wasn't in public, I'd have to throw the microphone away. Not in the past!"
"That's because you said before that this is not a plasma tablet, and a plasma tablet will not make people sleepless." Jessica shook her head.
"This is not a plasma film in the first place. I have told James to try not to have so many bloody scenes when shooting. Essentially, the horror lies in the mysterious fatalism, which should also belong to the category of psychological horror." said In the end, Angela had some strong words.
"However, no one said that this is not a thriller. The words horror and thriller are always linked, don't they?" Jessica reassured with a smile.
"I bet that after tomorrow's comments come out, the word "plasma tablet" will definitely be indispensable." Angela still snorted angrily and said, a bright light flashed in the rear-view mirror in front of her, which made her notice it in astonishment. At the same time there was a hint of apprehension that Kate's crimson Chevrolet had just left the back.
As expected by Angela, many film critics were lamenting that Miss Genius had fallen the next day. How about the movie? It's really good. Everyone who watched the movie felt a chill on the back of their neck and was a little scared. Maybe if they were careless, they would let themselves go to heaven. From a horror perspective, "Death Is Coming" was indeed very successful, but—
"Well, the concept of "Death is Coming" is indeed very unique. There are not many violent scenes, but it makes people feel cool from the bottom of my heart. Angela once again shows people the ideas that can be conceived in her unique head , but the problem is also here, this film lacks the humanistic care in "The Sixth Sense" and "Cry on the Island", it is simply scary for the sake of scaring, the whole movie is full of fatalism and mysticism, in terms of conception It's not even as good as "Hide and Seek", it must be said that it is a pity, maybe Miss Genius should spend her energy on the script, not the producer."
Angela was very helpless about this. She put a lot of effort into editing, and tried to avoid bugs in her memory, such as the water flowing out and back in Todd's bathroom. She is still very qualified as a producer. Yes, her efforts can't be denied for any other reason, right? And the so-called humanistic care, another ending has a taste of humanistic care, but it was given up for commercial reasons. After a few years of DVD popularization, it will be included in it and then distributed.
As for the actor's acting skills, Edward has won many praises, Jessica has a lot of criticism but also has a lot of praise, and Angela herself... It is most suitable to use a fan's description:
"I have to say that I decided to watch this movie after I saw Angela in the cast list, but I was immediately attracted by the plot after entering the movie theater. I watched it in one breath and felt very exciting, and I didn't remember it until it was over. Why didn't I see Angela's character, she stayed where she was for a long time and patted her head, she played the employee of the funeral home! I can't believe it, I didn't notice it at all, she is so amazing, I will definitely want to Just watch it again."
This is an investigation of Angela's role by The Hollywood Reporter, because many people are surprised to find that the maturity of Angela, who only appears in the movie, is completely unexpected, as long as you don't deliberately pick on the critics Acknowledging that Angela's performance is the highlight of the whole film, the mature, mysterious and vaguely eerie atmosphere is just right for her, "You absolutely can't tell that it's a girl who is only 18 years old." A film critic This is how he commented in his column.
So even if the movie was both praised and belittled because of Angela, it could not stop the upward momentum of the box office. It took away 7 million on the first day of its premiere, and more than 25 million in the first week. , Shortly after Long Beach Airport formally protested to the Pixar film department, because the air crash in the opening of "Death Is Coming" was filmed there. As a result, the passengers were cut in half after the film was released, and the other half were over and over again before the ride. There are even a lot of suspicious passengers who refuse to take those planes that are only slightly worn out, making the cheap Long Beach Airport feel a little worse.
"This is just a commercial film. The so-called commercial film is of course shot as it looks and is exciting. I never want to promote fatalism. This is just an interesting story idea, so don't worry too much. I will consider releasing a re-edit in the future. The videotape of the ending, that is the ending, as for the current one, it is out of commercial considerations, so everyone should stop asking questions about the ending of the hero and heroine.”
After leaving such a paragraph on her blog, Angela irresponsibly threw all aspects related to "Death is Coming" to the department manager McKinley, and hid aside, well, it can't be said to hide Away, she has other things to do after all - the post-production of "The Matrix" and the script for "Never Compromise."
The melodious sound of the violin reverberated in the garden, sometimes melodious and sometimes violent ups and downs, making people want to dance with the music, and after the end of the sound, Angela finally stopped playing, put the violin from her shoulders and raised her head to meet Breeze took a breath, then put the musical instrument in the box and stretched comfortably before walking briskly to the coffee table.
After relaxing her head, it was much clearer. Angela flipped through the information on the coffee table and looked at it. This was all the materials provided by Irene for handling the case at that time, and many were written by Irene. These things made Angela can think better.
Up to now, she has only drawn up an outline, and "50 First Loves" is half completed. One of the reasons why "50 First Loves" can be so fast is that the book of the story in the "Treasure Box" is relatively complete: Another reason is that it was originally a work on the Hollywood film industry assembly line. Except for the idea of amnesia every day, most of the scenes can be found in various comedy movies, so if you recall a little, the speed of writing will naturally be faster. . Sometimes, Angela felt like she was part of the assembly line.
In fact, "Never Compromise" can be written a long time ago. With so many materials and aunt dangling in front of her every day, Angela is enough to recall a lot of things. The reason why she is still perfecting the outline without officially writing, The main thing is to learn.
Through the information Irene gave her, Angela learned a lot of things that were not expressed in the movie or expressed very simply. For example, the Pacific Power Company definitely not only blocked their investigation by threatening phone calls, or accompanied her at the time. The boyfriend who got through those tough times didn't end up with her, and it definitely didn't go so well when she and the Ed family persuaded the victim's family to sign.
If Angela just wanted to get the script out of the way, this material plus what she had recalled would suffice, but the problem was she wanted to figure out what she was doing downplaying these things for. Yes, she knows that to shorten the movie time, but why choose these instead of the other clips? Why should the overall atmosphere be compressed like this? And how to make real things more artistic, these are all things Angela needs to think about.
"Your coffee, Angie." Annie brought a cup of coffee in a very thoughtful and timely manner.
"Thank you, I can always have a lot less trouble with you." Angela took it with a smile, then took a sip, and then smacked her mouth, "It's really good, I'll just say it."
Annie smiled lightly, and then became serious: "By the way, Jesse called just now, hoping to ask you out tomorrow, and Kate called two minutes later, hoping to go shopping with you tomorrow."
"God!" Angela closed her eyes in distress, and only opened them for a long time: "Don't tell me, Nat called later."
"She doesn't, but there is a letter from her." Annie said and put a letter on the coffee table conjuringly.
After calling God again, Angela put her head on the coffee table, and after a long while she raised her head to look at Annie: "Is there any way?"
"I'm sorry, Angie, it's not within my purview." Annie shrugged playfully.
"Hey, don't be like this, I just praised you for making me less troublesome." Angela shouted with half-truth dissatisfaction.
"There are many decisions that others can't make for you," Annie's tone became serious. "If you choose, you have to face it yourself."
"Yes, I know." Angela sighed while holding her cheeks.
"But..." Annie suddenly took her hand, "no matter what you do, I'm on your side."
Angela was slightly surprised, but then moved a little bit. She squeezed Annie's hand and blurted out, "Are you interested in acting in a movie, Annie?"
"Acting in a movie?" Annie blinked her eyes somewhat inexplicably, but jumped here while talking
"Yes, acting in a movie, I think there is a role that suits you very well, how about it? Give it a try?" Angela said with a smile.
"This... is not suitable, right?" Annie said hesitantly, as if a little moved.
"I'm not kidding, dear," Angela said seriously, "I can make a script for you, and I remember your mother seems to be an actress too."
However, Annie's face immediately turned ugly, and she turned her head away. This action made Angela slightly startled, but she didn't know where she said the wrong thing. Fortunately, Annie turned her head back immediately, her face was calm: "No. , I'm not going to act in a movie."
"I don't want to hide from you, Angie, I hate my mother, I hate everything about her! Don't make me say more and don't make me recall those things, okay?" Annie took a deep breath and seemed very excited, and stabilized her emotions after a while Then he shook his head and wanted to leave.
But she took two steps and stopped, turned to look at Angela and said seriously: "I'm just your shadow, Angie, always."
Angela opened her mouth to say something, but she finally sighed as she watched the other person leave: "Is that so? Then I can only give you a gift, a gift that you may never know. ."
But when she looked at the information on the coffee table, she couldn't help but have a headache. Well, I don't have time now, but there will always be time. Thinking of this, she looked at the laptop next to her, and rolled her eyes, because the computer is unfortunate. blue screen.
"Damn get win95, damn Microsoft, damn Bill Gates hasn't released win98 yet, fortunately I haven't written anything yet." Angela complained and restarted the laptop, "Maybe I should change Apple's computer and install a new one. mac os system."
To be honest, Jobs complained a lot about this in front of her. As a public figure and one of Apple's shareholders, he actually used IBM's computer and Microsoft's operating system. If you let the media know, then it really doesn't matter. How beautiful.
So Angela usually uses two laptops, one from Apple to show off, and one from IBM to keep at home for her own use. There is no way anyone can make her get used to using it in her previous life, but it seems that it is really necessary to change it now, no If you know the mac os system, you will learn it well, and you will get used to it.
While waiting for the computer to restart, Angela suddenly noticed a guy in the distance walking around with his hands behind his back, as if he was anxious about something, and this situation had been going on for several days.
Looking at the restarted computer that didn't move, Angela rolled her eyes again, turned it off, and looked at the guy who was walking around. She simply stood up and walked over to him.
"What are you thinking?" Angela greeted from a distance.
"Ah? Oh, nothing?" Pu Guanshui shook his head, but the movement of stretching his forehead did not escape Angela's eyes.
"Really? I see you've been dangling in the garden these days, what's the problem?" Angela, who walked in front of him, folded her arms, "I quarreled with Lily because I didn't give you a vacation when I returned to London. Now? But she didn't say it in my letter."
Seeing that the other party didn't speak, she stretched out her hand and waved in front of him: "Hey, let me ask you something, if you are like this at work, then I have to consider letting Dad fire you.
"Actually," Pu Guanshui took a deep breath and looked up at Angela: "I'm about to resign."