Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio.
A series of movie names floated in his mind, Eric shook his head, threw those flying images into the corner, and continued to look down as if nothing had happened, except for these two superstars from the previous life, he saw nothing else. You are familiar with it, of course the original Chris O'Donnell was blown away by the fluttering butterfly wings.
Of course, even if it appears, Eric will not give this role to Chris again, because the presence of the other party in the original version is too weak. Although Al Pacino's performance is too eye-catching, but his own performance The lack of bright spots on the Internet is also an important reason.
Quickly looked through the 30 documents, Eric asked Martin Brest for a pen, ticked the names of Matt Damon and Xiao Lizi, hesitated for a while, Eric In the end, they decided to choose Matt Damon. Matt Damon is just eighteen years old this year, with a sunny and handsome appearance, which perfectly matches Charlie's image. In comparison, Xiao Lizi's current image is a bit more ruffian.
Drawing a circle on Matt Damon's name, Eric said to Martin Brest, who had been watching his actions & {}: "Martin, give the role of Charlie Simmons to Matt Damon." Mon, as for Leonardo DiCaprio, give him the role of Charlie’s classmate George. In addition, I don’t care if they have an agency or agent now, if they want to get the role, they must join UTA.”
"Eric, what if the two disagree to join uta?"
Eric gave Martin a strange look: "What qualifications do they have to disagree?"
When Martin heard Eric's tone of course, he was slightly taken aback, recalled the information on Matt Damon and Xiao Li, and quickly laughed: "Indeed, the two rookies have no reason to refuse.
So, in such a few words, the two roles were settled in this way. "Small Island" and "Scent of a Woman" are both Firefly's film projects, and the two crews also have contacts with each other, so Martin Bu Lester had already known Eric's procedure for determining the role of "Small Island Cry" before. He felt the same way as Jonathan Demme, and both believed that Eric just wanted to show his dominance over the movie, so he chose the final character. The decision is in your hands.
Although Martin felt that Eric's actions were sloppy and childish, he didn't refute anything. In the eyes of Martin, who was almost forty years old, Eric was indeed just a child, and there was nothing wrong with doing such a thing. And what he and Al can do is to carefully screen out suitable candidate actors, no matter which one Eric chooses, they will ensure that the other party is qualified for the role.
Eric didn't mean to make any excuses either, the reason he did this was indeed what Martin and others thought.
If he is a middle-aged man in his 40s or 50s, he may be able to show his mind by delegating power, and he can also gain the admiration of more people. But at the age of eighteen, if he does this, it will only make people think that he is young and easy to fool, so he has to show his strength everywhere, this is true for movies, and it is also true for women.
It took forty minutes from the studio in Columbia to Malibu, and Eric quickly circled all the cast lists, partly following Martin's advice and partly following the impressions of some of the actors in his head.
At an intersection on the Malibu coastal road, Martin's car stopped, Eric put on sunglasses and a baseball cap and got out of the car: "Thank you for taking me here, Martin, goodbye."
"Goodbye," Martin rolled down the window and smiled ambiguously at Eric, beckoned, and then told his assistant to drive away.
After Passat turned around and left, Eric turned and walked to the small villa not far away. When he came to Virginia's house, Eric took out a key to open the door and walked in.
It was already evening, and the lights in the villa were already on. Eric had just walked to the door, but the door of the villa opened first. Virginia, wearing casual home clothes, appeared in Eric’s room with two big bags. before.
"Ah!" Seeing Eric suddenly appearing in front of her, Virginia was obviously taken aback, and the bag in her hand fell to the ground with a clatter.
"Eric, you... why are you here?" The girl hurriedly picked up the trash bag that fell on the ground and put it next to the door, and opened the door a little to let Eric in.
Eric hugged the fragrant mature body with a smile, and kissed Virginia on the cheek: "Why are you so nervous, can't you hide a man at home?"
"I just didn't expect you to come to me these days." Virginia rolled her eyes slightly: "Even if I hide a man, what can you do to me?"
Eric pinched Virginia's face, and said solemnly: "Well, there are quite a lot of punishment methods. For women who have an affair, in some countries in the Middle East, they will be sentenced to stoning. Everyone works together to use stones Throwing women to death, in Eastern China, there was a kind of soaking in pig cages in ancient times, that is to strip women naked and put them in a big cage, then throw them into a pond and drown them."
"Ha, how could there be such a barbaric thing?" Virginia shivered slightly.
"So, I appreciate the way some places in India punish cheating women, it's very humane."
"Oh," Virginia said with a curious look.
Eric smirked: "In some places in India, if a woman is found to be having an affair, the village head will call up all the strong men in the village to serve that woman one by one, making sure that the woman being served will never come back for half her life. Miss a man."
"Wow, what a disgusting, strong man, you are only eighteen years old, how did you learn so many messy things?"
"No way, I'm so knowledgeable by nature," Eric spread his hands and said truthfully.
"So, Mr. Erudite, do you have a way to punish a man who cheats on his girlfriend in your mind? Let me be the cruelest one?"
Eric was choked, coughed dryly twice, and said, "Ah... this is really not there."
"Cut," Virginia rolled her eyes and struggled out of Eric's arms: "Stop talking nonsense, you go in first, and I'll throw away the trash."
"Come on, it looks pretty heavy," Eric grabbed the plastic bag, not knowing what was in it, it was really heavy.
"Just throw it into the trash can at the door." Seeing that Eric had already grabbed the bag, Virginia did not stop her, and pointed to the gate.
Eric threw away the trash and went back to the house. He saw Virginia busy in the kitchen, walked in, hugged the girl from behind, and watched Virginia add sugar to the coffee cup. And milk powder: "Actually, I don't like drinking coffee very much. I would rather drink plain water. I heard that drinking plain water is one of the secrets of longevity."
Virginia smiled and continued to add coffee powder to the cup: "You are so young, how can you think of longevity, are you afraid of death?"
"Of course not, I'm not afraid of death, I'm just afraid of regret."
"Sorry, what are you sorry about?"
Yes, what regrets
Eric put his chin on the girl's shoulder and thought about it. His regret in his previous life was that he couldn't watch his children grow up, and that he couldn't make a movie of his own in the end. The one he was reborn At that time, China's film industry was in the stage of a big explosion. Although he is already in his fourth year, he still hasn't completely given up. He has also discussed with a few friends that the film world is so good, maybe it can take a few years to come up with a good book, and use the contacts accumulated over the years to make an investment. Make a movie of your own.
It's a pity that the plan has not been implemented yet, and it came to this time and space inexplicably. It is less than a year now, and the achievements he has made in his previous life are already a super winner in life, and it would be too hypocritical to talk about regrets.
"Why didn't you talk all of a sudden?" the girl carefully poured boiling water into the coffee cup, then turned her head and asked.
"It's okay, I'm just thinking about what regrets I will have if I die suddenly now."
Virginia put down the kettle, turned around and raised her face to look at Eric's expression seriously: "Eric, if you have been thinking about death recently, I suggest you find a psychological counselor as soon as possible. Doctor, are you under too much pressure?"
"Of course not," Eric saw the deep worry in the girl's eyes, and quickly denied it. He wanted to explain, but he didn't know where to start.
"Let's go to the living room and talk," Virginia handed a cup of coffee to Eric, picked up the cup herself, and the two walked to the living room together.
Sitting down on the sofa, Virginia asked, "Why did you come to my place today? Didn't you live with Aniston?"
Eric smiled bitterly: "It's no wonder Jane would have sex with me when such an embarrassing thing happened, and now she's gone to Burbank to rent a house by herself."
If it wasn't for the accidental fall from the stairs, Eric would have even more headaches on how to persuade the little girl back.
When he woke up from a coma that morning, taking advantage of Aniston's weak mind due to worry and sleepiness, Eric successfully tricked the little girl into the cast list of "Friends". But he made another big mistake later, he put Aniston and Drew together on both sides of his hospital bed to sleep.
As a result, at noon, he had dinner with Jeffrey and Kapoor, and when he returned to the ward, he found that both girls were awake. And the scene was quite chaotic, the pillow and quilt were kicked off the floor, and a scaffold for hanging a water bottle was also pushed down. The two girls were twisted together on the hospital bed like two wild cats, their clothes were messy, and the scenery was half hidden. While chattering and chattering, they pushed each other and wanted to drive each other out of the hospital bed. It seemed that it was not a bed, but Eric himself.
Eric persuaded the two baby bumps away after a good coaxing, and then Aniston wiped his tears and accused Eric of being biased, and Drew persuaded Aniston to break up with him with sharp teeth. The long-term pain is worse than the short-term pain So, after some rhetoric, Aniston's rebellious psychology was successfully aroused, and the little girl swore in public that she would never take advantage of Drew.
Seeing Aniston swearing, Eric was secretly happy for a while, but then Aniston didn't live in the villa, but rented an apartment in Burbank himself, although he didn't Mentioned any breakup, but had a cold war with Eric, and then "Dark War" started, Eric was busy running around, and he didn't have time to coax the girl, so he could only call the little girl a few times a day A harassing phone call to declare a sense of existence.
Hearing Eric's explanation, Virginia's face also turned red: "You should spend more time with her, the little girl should be coaxed more, and you don't always have to be so strong."
"Okay, let's not talk about this headache. You are going to England the day after tomorrow. I have to come and see you. I talked to Jonathan. As long as the production of "Small Island Cry" is completed before September, there will be no delay. The Venice Film Festival is good, so he will strive for excellence when filming, and it is estimated that you will have to stay in the UK for a long time."
Virginia picked up the coffee and took a sip, blinking: "Will you come to the crew to watch... visit the set?"
Eric shook his head: "I'm not sure, "Dark War" is scheduled for July. If the shooting goes well and the filming can be closed in mid-May, I will go to the UK. If the shooting doesn't go well, I probably won't be able to go. .”
"Oh," Virginia nodded noncommittally.
After chatting casually for a few more words, Eric patted his stomach: "Well, Vicky, I'm hungry."
The girl stood up quickly: "What do you want to eat, can I drive to the supermarket?"
Eric stopped the girl's move: "Don't bother so much, just do something casually."
"Well, there's some pasta at home," said the girl as she headed for the kitchen.
After Virginia wore an apron and started working in the kitchen, Eric got up and walked to the second floor. When he came to the balcony, the sun had completely set and the sky was getting dark. Eric lay on the balcony railing and looked at the The sharp corner of Malibu in the distance, because of the sky, can only see some dim outlines, where construction has started and is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
In addition to imitating the super sea view mansion in "Iron Man", several other villas will be built in the manor of more than one hectare to entertain guests or hold banquets and the like.
Eric has seen the complete design draft of the entire manor. The cost of the other several villas is much lower than that of the mansion with sea view because they are located on a flat terrain. However, in the design draft provided by Frank Gehry, several buildings are very natural. Combined with the green belts, tennis courts, aprons and other facilities in the manor, it gives people a natural feeling.
Of course, correspondingly, the cost of the entire manor has also exceeded 20 million US dollars. Anyway, there is a special accounting firm to supervise the financial status of the project. Or other tricks, then you can spend it as extravagantly as possible, isn't making money just to spend it.
After dinner, although Eric was very tired, he patiently accompanied the girl on the sofa and watched soap operas for a while.
"Eric, I heard that Firefly is planning to shoot a TV series?"
"Yeah," Eric's big hand was moving on Virginia's chest: "By the way, this is a sitcom. In the future, many big stars will be needed to make guest appearances. Do you want to come?"
Virginia panted lightly, and replied with misty eyes: "I will go if you let me go."
Eric said: "Jenny is one of the protagonists."
Virginia smiled, and pressed Eric's big hand that was moving on her chest: "Oh, then I will go too, you are in charge of coordinating everything, anyway, it's all caused by you, a playboy. I want to see See if your girlfriend can't help bullying me in public, will you care?"
"I don't care," Eric said with a smile: "According to the ancient oriental tradition, your identity is a big maid, and it is only natural that you are bullied by your wife. Of course, if you have the ability to complete the maid's counterattack, I’m also happy to see it happen.”
Although Virginia didn't understand what was going on with the girl, it didn't prevent her from understanding Eric's words. She lightly bit Eric's arm, leaving a series of faint teeth marks: "You're such a bastard."
Having touched enough, Eric withdrew his hand and hugged the girl up: "Okay, don't watch it, let's go upstairs and do something happy."
Virginia only felt herself rising into the air, waving her little hands and said, "Well... ah, don't worry, turn off the TV first, really."
Eric grabbed the remote control and turned off the TV, picked up the girl and slapped her buttocks before walking upstairs.
After a ridiculous night, Eric got up refreshed at seven o'clock the next day, had a quick breakfast, and asked Virginia to drive him to the set.
Although it took one night, Cruise and Hanks quickly got into the mood after starting the rival scene that was not finished shooting yesterday, and the remaining few shots were all done in half an hour. Joe Pesci, who missed the bad news of "Home Alone", was also very eye-catching. When he heard Sean let Andy go, the excited look of shaking his head was almost the same as the image in his memory, and However, Joe Pesci's voice is more joyful than that of Huang Qifa in the original version. The crew members on the scene couldn't help laughing, and Hanks also clearly expressed his concern that he might be suppressed.
In the next period of time, the filming of "Dark War" is still slowly advancing according to the plan. A few days later, the crew of "Small Cry" set off to fly to the UK. In addition to the actors, the crew of "Small Cry" The staff was basically set up by Jonathan Demme alone, and Eric did not intervene. After all, Jonathan Demme has been in Hollywood for more than ten years, and he has more contacts in this area than Eric.
Eric didn't take the time to send them off, but Jeffrey, as one of the producers, went to the small island in the English Channel with the crew and stayed with the crew for a few days before returning.
In mid-April, "Scent of a Woman" was officially launched. At the same time, after more than ten days of filming, "Dark War" completed all the indoor scenes and started the most difficult outdoor scene. Although all scenes were installed in Eric in my mind, but when I was actually shooting, I found that it was not as easy as I imagined.