On the edge of the coming astronomical tide in Australia, Johnny lets go of Bowty, and when he hears his colleagues vow that Bowty will be arrested when he returns, Johnny mutters to himself, 'he won't come back'.
After finding Baoti, Johnny also completed the first and last mission of his fbi career, fulfilled the wish of the dead Angelo, then threw away the fbi badge, and began to search for himself, or go to confusion.
Unlike Johnny, Bowty knew his goal from the very beginning. He took his friends all over the world, looking for higher, bigger and more dangerous waves, burning his passion, and pursuing the most natural wildness.
They live unscrupulously, do not obey the power system, and do not follow moral common sense. In this world that kills the spirit, they have created a system of their own. But this kind of system is destined not to be allowed by the real world. The moment Johnny Utah, who represents the rules of reality, breaks into their lives, it is doomed to their destruction.
The moment he finished reading the script, Eric understood why he hadn't watched this movie in his previous life. The free and rebellious views expressed in "Point of Destruction" are incompatible with the conservative life concepts of most oriental people. It is doomed that this movie will not be recognized by too many people, and it will be difficult to spread without recognition. It can only be regarded as a classic in small circles.
Seeing Eric put down the script, Catherine Bigelow immediately cheered up and prepared to deal with all kinds of problems that Eric might have about the script, but Eric didn't do that. Instead, he picked up the budget sheet and continued to read it .
"Twenty million dollars is not enough," Eric said after reading the budget sheet. He raised his head and said to Catherine Bigelow: "If the plot of the script is completely followed, a large number of skydiving shots and surfing stunts will definitely increase the cost to 30 million U.S. dollars, plus the cost of publicity and distribution in the later stage. 80 million to recover the cost."
80 million
Catherine Bigelow was stunned. The total box office of her last movie "Blue Angel" was only over 8 million. Although compared to the cost of "Blue Angel" which was less than 3 million, that movie was also invested. The business made money, but at this time, when she heard that her film needed a box office of 80 million US dollars to fully recover the cost, Catherine Bigelow felt uneasy.
After all, she is just a woman, without the crazy and desperate character of Cameron. What's more, even Cameron has a moment on the verge of collapse. As soon as the filming starts, it will bear the task of box office of 80 million US dollars. Not everyone can bear this kind of pressure. It is only 1990 now. In this era, Hollywood produces hundreds of movies every year, but there are often no more than 10 movies with a box office of more than 100 million U.S. dollars, and no more than 20 movies with a box office of more than 80 million U.S. dollars.
What's more, Catherine Bigelow is very clear that "Point Delight" is not considered a Hollywood commercial film. This made her subconsciously glance at Cameron. She originally wanted to shoot an art film that satirizes the federal system and exposes human nature. There were not many surfing and skydiving shots in it. In that case, the cost would not even exceed 10 million US dollars.
But the script in front of him was made under the advice of Cameron. There is no doubt that those big scenes were added under Cameron's instigation.
Eric had a panoramic view of Catherine Bigelow's small movements of glancing at Cameron, and at the same time confirmed his guess more.
He had watched Catherine Bigelow's "Blood Corpse Night" and "Thunderbolt Blue Angel" before, and he knew the style of Catherine Bigelow's works very well. So, when just reading the script. Basically, you can guess which plots were inserted by Cameron.
"Eric, some adjustments can be made to the script to reduce some unnecessary scenes. In this case, 20 million dollars is enough," Catherine Bigelow said, slightly lowering her head and picking up the script in front of Eric. It flipped over a few times, and quickly put it down again.
I don't know if it's an illusion, but Eric seems to have seen Catherine Bigelow's face turn slightly red when he spoke, remembering the woman's little movement of flipping the script just now, Eric made sure he read it right, Catherine Bigelow just Blushed.
Apparently, the woman is using Cameron's old trick, to finalize the movie first, and then start filming later, let the investors figure it out after the money is spent, but Catherine Bigelow is obviously not as thick-skinned as Cameron , so there will be that unnatural expression.
"But I think this script is very good and doesn't need any revisions," Eric took the script back, imitating Catherine Bigelow's movements, flipping through it a few times.
"Ah, then..." Catherine Bigelow raised her head with joy. Eric is very satisfied with the script, so there must be no problem with the investment. However, when the woman looked up, she saw Eric imitating herself just flipping the script With this movement, there was an obvious blush on her face, she realized that Eric did it on purpose, this little guy clearly saw through the intention in what she just said.
Eric originally wanted to joke a few more words, but seeing Catherine Bigelow's slightly embarrassed appearance, he swallowed what he was going to say. Anyway, he has already got the initiative, not to mention, Catherine Bigelow looks Doesn't sound as strong as James Cameron.
"Okay, Kate, we will make appropriate adjustments to the budget when we shoot in the future, let's talk about the script first, I want to know, what is your positioning for "Scary Point", or in other words, What do you want to express?"
If you are a sophisticated person, you should understand that what Eric just said about the budget just wanted to take the initiative in the negotiation, but Catherine Bigelow, who is usually very unsociable, didn't realize this. At one point, after hearing Eric's words, the woman quickly lifted her spirits and said: "I prefer this to be a sports movie, a story about the pursuit of freedom. At the end of the story, the characters in the play have their own belongings. Taylor forgave Johnny, Angelo died under the robber's wall, Johnny left the FBI, and Bowie lost all his partners. He rushed to the sea without hesitation."
Eric nodded slightly: "What about the robbery with the president's portrait?"
"Eric, first of all, I want to declare that describing this kind of behavior does not mean that I approve of this kind of behavior."
"Of course, I can understand this, otherwise those directors who made movies about perverted killers should be jailed."
"No, it's not the same. The directors of the films who shoot those subjects are using bloody shots to satisfy the perverted desires deep in the human heart, but I just want to convey my point of view to people."
Well, she is still a literary young woman. A beautiful, introverted, unsociable literary and artistic young woman, so loving.
When Eric heard the woman's sincerity, he couldn't help but have this thought in his heart. Then he said: "Kate, it can be seen from some lines that what I want to convey should be a satire on the federal system. But have you ever thought about it. The audience hates preaching the most, so, We just need to express these morals in the plot of the story. It would be inferior to say it directly. Look here... "
After Eric finished speaking, he opened the script and quickly found a certain page, and spread the script on the coffee table between the two of them.
Catherine Bigelow leaned forward slightly, and finally knelt on the ground with her head tilted to listen to Eric's point of view. Famke Jansen, who had been sitting quietly next to him, gradually noticed the two people getting together. But subconsciously looked towards Cameron, and saw that Cameron was sitting on the executive chair Eric used to sit with his back facing them. Flipping through the script in front of him.
Although we haven't been together for a long time, Famke Jansen thinks he has a certain understanding of Eric. At this time, he noticed that Eric seemed to be unconsciously getting together with Catherine Bigelow, and he felt keenly It turned out that this little bastard must be tempted by the woman opposite, because Famke knew that the more serious Eric was, the more bad thoughts might be brewing in his heart.
It's really bold, the husband is sitting in the house, not to mention the age of this woman, tsk tsk.
Famke Jansen watched with great interest for a while, then raised his wrist and pretended to look at his watch, and said, "Eric, it's already eleven o'clock, do you want me to prepare lunch?"
Eric, who was suddenly interrupted, didn't show any displeasure, but said to Catherine Bigelow: "Kate, what do you and Jim like to eat, I'll let Fami prepare it."
Sure enough, Famke Jansen thought with certainty in his heart that if Eric was really focused on discussing the script with Catherine Bigelow, and he suddenly interrupted, with Eric's temper, it would definitely be very annoying. Not happy, but there was no displeasure on the little bastard's face at this moment.
On the contrary, Catherine Bigelow was discussing the script with Eric. When she was suddenly interrupted, her face was a little unnatural, but she didn't show any displeasure. Hearing Eric's question, Catherine Bigelow Gro said, "Anything is fine, Jim and I don't care about that."
Only then did Eric say to Famke Jansen: "Then call and order some takeaway, follow the recipe we often order, by the way, bring us two pens first."
Famke Jansen stood up and walked to the desk, took out two ballpoint pens from the pen holder, and glanced at Cameron at the same time. Cameron was staring at the script with a slight frown, with a pensive expression on his face, as if he was thinking about something. How to realize this shot, obviously I don't have any feeling for the girl appearing around me.
Famke really wanted to remind Cameron something, but she didn't know anything about Cameron. The great director was said to have been married three times, and he was obviously a playboy. In this case, Famke just Some of the thoughts that arose suddenly dissipated.
Pass the ballpoint pen to Eric and Catherine, the two took the pen, and quickly began to write and draw on the script.
Famke looked at it for a while, then shrugged slightly, and walked out of the study.
James Cameron and Catherine Bigelow stayed in Eric's villa for a whole day. Eric and Katherine Bigelow discussed in detail the shooting details of "Point of Horror". At the same time, Came Long also read several of Eric's disaster movie scripts. In the end, Cameron became very interested in the script "Independence Day", but he did not decide on it. The script of "Independence Day" is indeed very suitable. Cameron, the way of multi-line narrative is very similar to the "Terminator" series. Eric believes that Cameron will definitely be able to make this movie more exciting than Roland Emmerich.
However, Eric is not without worries. As a special effects blockbuster, "Independence Day" has an amazing budget even without Cameron. If Cameron is allowed to take over, Eric is sure that the film's The budget will at least be doubled, possibly even closer to 200 million.
In my memory, the North American box office of "Terminator 2" is only 200 million US dollars. "Independence Day", like "Terminator 2", does not have much connotation. It is just a pure popcorn movie, which obviously does not have "Titanic" Without absolute certainty about the potential of a blockbuster movie like this, Eric would not rush to hand over "Independence Day" to Cameron, because Firefly's status in Hollywood has just been confirmed, and the $200 million If you fail to invest in the box office, it will definitely hurt your muscles and bones. After all, Cameron is not omnipotent. Just like "The Abyss", the investment is 80 million, and the box office is only 80 million. Although the follow-up overseas and DVD releases can recover the cost, the profit is destined to not be too much.
In the next few days, Eric discussed with Catherine Bigelow some things about "Point Horror", and the preparations for "Terminator 2" were also proceeding in an orderly manner. At that time, there were also some situations. Although Schwarzenegger is also an artist of icm, he obviously has no friendship with Eric. For the invitation of "Terminator 2", the other party's agent offered 15 million US dollars sky-high price.
It is indeed a sky-high price. You must know that the usual salary of top Hollywood male stars in this era is only about 5 million US dollars. Schwarzenegger has tripled the average price in one go. Of course, Eric cannot agree.
The two sides fell into a stalemate. Although under Cameron's mediation, Schwarzenegger himself let go, but there are still not many concessions. Moreover, Schwarzenegger is not even interested in starring in "Terminator 2". too high.
Eric asked someone to investigate in detail before he understood the truth of the matter. It turned out that the root cause was the Germans.
Germans, yes.
However, speaking of it, it is not something that can be explained clearly in a few sentences. There are many things involved, even starting with the merger of East and West Germany.
It turns out that since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the merger of East and West Germany, in order to integrate the two countries economically as soon as possible, the German government has inevitably issued a large amount of currency, which has caused a certain degree of inflation, and the Deutsche Mark has appreciated, just like The appreciation of the yen will definitely lead to the flow of domestic capital to the international market.
Of course, this is only the root cause. The next step is the tax reform. The personal income tax of high-income people in Germany is as high as 51%. , as long as the Germans invest their income in movies, then not only do they not need to pay personal income tax for the income of the year, but they will have a certain percentage of tax rebates. Moreover, it is different from other countries that have to film scenes in their own country and hire their own film practitioners. , Germany's policy stipulates that movies do not even need to be shot in Germany.
Inspired by this policy, large sums of money from Germany quickly flowed to Hollywood, and these investors also thought they were not stupid. They were not interested in those independent films at all, but only aimed at those with big investment, big production and big stars. Affiliated movies.
Under the matchmaking of some powerful producers in Hollywood, the Germans quickly took aim at the stars of Stallone and Schwarzenegger. A whopping $15 million in remuneration. "Terminator 2" just hit this trend of price increases. (To be continued..)
ps: A few new pictures were posted on the blog