Once Upon a Time In Hollywood

  Chapter 122 The Amazing Miracle

For the general public, the entertainment industry in 1993 was extremely boring. Since "HA2" caused a public backlash, the New Year's Eve award-winning movies have been more or less affected, because people feel that those film critics They like to rely on their own preferences to step on the highs and lows. This kind of asymmetrical guidance makes them disgusted. It is precisely because of this that the new movies released in 1993 basically hit the street—"Groundhog" released in February The Day, even with Bill Murray leading the way, it only won a box office of more than 70 million. In April, even with Robert Redford and Demi Moore, the box office of "Pleasure Deal" was only broken As for "President Foggy Water", which was released in May, after a month of screenings, the box office only received 63 million.

   And this is halfway through 1993, the top three box office in North America.

  That's right, the top three combined are only 230 million.

  Compared with previous years, this kind of achievement is simply written all over the thigh. How can it be described as miserable?

  As a result, those movie fans looking forward to excellent works and the media looking for topics all focused their attention on the summer archives.

  The first to bear the brunt of this is the movie "The Great Wind" starring Stallone, which will be released at the end of May. Next, there will be dinosaur movies.

  In fact, almost everyone in Amerika now has an illusion:

  ' Eyes closed and then opened, why is Roland's movie released again? '

Not half a year after "HA" exploded, "T2" exploded again; not half a year after "T2" exploded, this guy went to MJ's MV to paint his face again, and then many people went to "Hook" "Hook" was released for half a year, and it was news that "Jurassic" officially started filming. It didn't take long before there was a love affair, and "HA2" was boycotted by film critics. But with the support of loyal movie fans, the case was overturned on the spot, and now, half a year later, dinosaurs are attacking again.

Roland seems to be a tireless machine, shining brightly in front of the public. If all the movies are bad, the media can still criticize him for making money. But when the audience applauds and the movie is a big hit, the term model worker may be That's the best way to describe it.

Of course, these descriptions are for outsiders to see. Compared with the public who are looking forward to it, Hollywood is shocked by James Cameron and Steven Spielberg's turnaround. Who doesn't know That guy Cameron likes Spider-Man? But now, the copyright of Spider-Man has quietly come into Roland's hands, coupled with the exaggeration of the gossip: what did Spielberg think that Cameron couldn't make this kind of movie, so he snatched the copyright; What Cameron learned that Spielberg was going to grab the copyright, and then called Roland to his home and beat him up; what about Spielberg, after learning that Cameron beat Roland, asked Roland to beat Cameron Long called to his home and wanted to have a real hand-to-hand fight with him. Not to be outdone, Cameron fought back on the spot, but accidentally injured Roland's ass, which made him unable to get out of bed for a short time to film. In order to compensate for his fault, he blocked Roland's Mouth, the two talents reached an agreement and helped Roland get the copyright...

In short, no matter how the news spreads, the unlucky person inside will always be Roland. However, even if Roland is portrayed as extremely miserable, no one will feel sorry for him, because everyone knows that the copyright is in his hands, and whoever can take the picture That's all shooting.

Compared with other producers who are looking for a director desperately and eager to hand over the script, the Jewish gang is not afraid of finding someone to make a film. Even if they really disagree with Cameron, they can pull out a bunch of substitutes , the closest ones are Chris Columbus, Robert Zemeckis, and Ron Howard, and the ones a little further away are all A-listers. If they can’t find them, they can also end on their own. Greg himself, after "Schindler's List", had no plans for the first time. As a guy who knows how to make movies with his eyes closed, how can others sympathize with Roland if he is a substitute?

  They wish Roland could die!

   Don't jump around in front of them, it's annoying to watch!

But they are not happy, and they can't stop the vertical and horizontal Universal from advertising there, the 30-second preview of the Super Bowl final, the spray-painted signs on the bus, and the huge patterns on the landmark buildings... Although the "Jurassic" IP is tightly held by Spielberg, but Universal, which has a fixed investment share, has also invested heavily. After all, it is too rare for directors and leading actors to kill the lineup of all age groups. One of the people, at least they can earn millions more at the box office!

Perhaps knowing that this year is over, Spielberg has the possibility of establishing his own company, so Universal's tolerance for the two films is quite different. It is different from the previous situation where the premiere was held in Los Angeles. Once, they directly moved the location of the premiere to the National Building Museum in Washington, and then in order to silence the critics, they also moved the honorary doctorate of the University of Montana, the paleontologist of the Rocky Mountain Museum of Montana Jack Horner, who has personally touched dinosaur fossils and is the dinosaur image technical consultant for the entire film, was invited to the scene.

  Hey, didn't you say that "HA2" is illogical?

  We don’t have to ask you to spray “Jurassic Park” this time, and we’ll just pull the academic bigwigs over to support the show. If you guys think there’s still something wrong, then come and spray him!

  Have you ever seen a dinosaur with your own eyes? Or has it been alive since the Jurassic period?

   This is the same as when Kip Thorne was moved out of "Interstellar" in the later generations. The mathematical black hole model given by others, and the physical principle black hole scene calculated by himself, even if some film critics want to complain, they have nowhere to write!

   How do you accuse? Do you understand?

   If you really understand, then you are still a fart film critic!

   As for whether there are any bugs?

   As long as it is a cultural work created by people, it is impossible to have bugs!

The most typical one is Xixia in "Tianlong Babu". Because it is in the west, Song people call it Xixia, and they call themselves Bangni Dingguo or Baigao Daxia Kingdom, Xichao, but in the book they say "I am Xixia" ’, which is the same as the phrase ‘I am Xiaozhuang’, which makes people’s scalps tingle when they hear it.

And this is because the threshold for reading literary works is low, so everyone can criticize, but if it rises to the height of mathematics, physics, and astronomy, film critics will not be easy to complain, regardless of whether those professors are wrong or not, as long as the reputation After that, the public will believe their words even more. As a result, Universal directly canceled the so-called film critic preview.

  From the core of archaeology, no film critic can understand better than Jack Horner, and from the analysis of film, none of those keyboard warriors can beat Spielberg...

In this way, a situation emerged. On the day of the premiere ceremony, outsiders knew nothing about the film and the main creative lineup, but they didn't know anything about it. In the case of what the movie is about', the data analysis agency still ranked this movie as the number one box office of the year, and the North American Theater Alliance directly gave more than 60% of the film schedule. If it weren't for Stallone's To save face, this data has to be pushed up.

   No way, when the film market has been cold for half a year, theaters are pointing to this movie for dinner!

   It doesn't matter whether it looks good or not in the end, anyway, the lineup exploded! Go get me some money first!

   This situation also made everyone in the circle amazed.

  They believe that as long as the quality of the movie is not bad, they will sit firmly at the top of the year, and Roland Allen will also reach the top for four consecutive years!

  Although it can’t be compared with the old and strong Clint Eastwood, reaching the top and entering the top ten are two different concepts!

  ...

   "Cole, we meet again..." Mike Mohamy, who was wearing a suit and combed his hair to look like an adult, opened his arms and hugged the oncoming guy forcefully, "When was the last time we met?"

"December 1991, the premiere of "Captain Hook." Cole Niederham, who was already balding, had a red nose and slapped Mohamy on the back with a big laugh. After parting, he hugged Alan Adham and Frank Pierce one by one, "Thank you for the invitation letter, oh no, you should thank your boss Roland..."

   "I heard that your company was acquired by him? How is it? Judging by your current state, you have given enough development funds!"

Although he has never been in touch with Cole Needham, Roland asked Mohamy to send out the invitation letter on the day of the premiere of "Jurassic Park". After receiving the transoceanic letter, this The guy who had to watch a movie every day jumped up excitedly, rushed into the boss's office with an invitation letter, and under the envious eyes of the other party, he got a leave of absence.

   "Yes, it was acquired."

Since we had chatted via email before, when facing this colleague who used to be a game maker, Alan Adhan didn't hide anything, and said with a smile: "The finances, management and various troubles that we didn't understand before Everything was taken over by the president who moved in, but he never cared about our research and development content. If we had an idea, we would call Roland directly. As long as we could convince him and make him find it interesting, the research and development funds would be in The next morning, it was in our hands."

   "Wow! Then this is much more cost-effective than selling to those big companies!" Cole Needham raised his eyebrows, very surprised.

"That's right, because he plays games, he understands that profit is not the first choice of game companies. As long as players find it fun, they will naturally support the company." Frank Pierce nodded in agreement, "Do you think it's great? How about you Quit your job at HP and come here together? Although our company is not as good as HP, we work for our hobby!"

"Oh, forget it." Although Cole Needham was very moved, he knew what he liked, "I used to write games because I needed money to buy storage devices to store data. Unlike you who like games, I like It's the movie..."

"Then you can also quit your job at HP and move everything to California!" Mike Mohamy didn't think there was any problem, "Watching movies in California is much more convenient than in England? If you and Roland Play for some time, maybe you can watch it on the set! And these, aren’t these things you have always wanted to know?”

While queuing up to check tickets, the Big Three of Blizzard are also constantly urging Cole Needham to move his movie database from the UK to Los Angeles. In their words, the behavior of eating big players is addictive. Working in a place where the boss says, "you can figure it out, as long as the public thinks the game is fun, then you can do it", the kind of life that turns on the computer and buryes your head in it for a day will make people feel extremely fulfilled.

The proposal of the three of them also made Cole Niederhan a little bit excited. In fact, after the tidbits, biography, and movie plots were launched one after another, he discovered that the use of love to generate electricity may not last long. If there is no funds Injection, these voluntary labor guys don’t even have the money to buy a server to store the database. Before he came to the premiere, he even thought about it. After returning, he would talk to the universities that cooperated with HP. See if you can rent a school server for free.

  He didn't want his interest to die, but if all interests in this world become bigger, they will cost money!

"There is no rush to resign, I have always lived in the UK, I have to go back and think about it." While showing his invitation card to the security personnel for inspection, Cole Niederham also changed the subject, "Let's go, let's see first Movie, I've been looking forward to dinosaurs for a long time."

   "Yes, today is the premiere after all, let's go see the dinosaurs first, and talk about other things later."

  The Big Three of Blizzard didn't object, but entered the venue with a smile.

  ...

In fact, Cole Needham's expectations for the movie "Jurassic Park" are very complicated. As a guy who is obsessed with movies because of "Jaws", he expects Spielberg to be in the movie more than anyone else. Produced a fascinating movie, his obsession with the picture is far beyond ordinary people, and the villains in "T2" who can be shaped, let him see the hope of the movie revolution.

Because of Roland's relationship, after meeting the master who used to think about it day and night, he included Roland's personal movies in his collection, but to be honest, after watching "HA2", he was very impressed with Roland He was a little disappointed. He really couldn't fall in love with the kind of book that was called a tribute but actually plagiarized, but he could also understand that under the kidnapping of capital, the group of guys like Roland didn't fumble on the old stalks. It's about refurbishing the jokes. This kind of change is really not easy.

It’s not easy to come back, and creative stagnation is not something that fans want to see. Even though "HA2" has brought countless laughs to people, Cole Niederham does not want him to bring this kind of helplessness into "Jurassic" Ji Park".

Because of this, after the boring speeches and speeches at the premiere, he took his seat in an orderly manner, and he immediately untied his tie—in a movie-watching mentality full of anticipation and fear of failure, the museum that temporarily serves as a screening hall, the lights dimmed Afterwards, the logo of Universal, which has not changed for hundreds of years, and the logo of Amblin Entertainment, which has no opening animation at all, also appeared one by one.

  Dinosaur-themed movies are not new in Hollywood, or in other words, they have long been badly shot.

But it's a pity that those movies are bad movies, and they belong to the dead in the survivor's bias, because most of the movies don't have dinosaurs at all, and the rest of them are also hand-painted freeze-frame pictures .

Under such circumstances, the invited guests naturally wanted to know what Spielberg had come up with, and the director had already amplified his tricks at the beginning of the film: against the background of the dark moon and high wind and murderous night, , a container loaded with unknown creatures, naturally attracted everyone's attention; the workers with the Jurassic Park logo above their heads, holding stun guns, stared at the slowly falling box with apprehension on their faces, when the container landed Afterwards, the strange screams and the sound of metal collisions caused by the shaking made the workers on the side even more terrified, and under the guidance of the head, they pushed the box to the docking station.

   "Unlock! The unloading group retreats!"

   "Open the gate, hurry up!"

  Under the order of the boss, a black worker climbed to the top of the container.

When he pressed the unlock button and pulled open the gate vigorously, trying to open the connection between the container and the docking device, a sound similar to a thickened and pointed frog sound came suddenly, and the next second, Ben was still facing The camera of the gate-opening worker switched instantly, and an unexplainable but well-understood phantom suddenly struck from right to left, and as it moved, the container that was still attached to the docking point was suddenly crushed. It knocked away, and the worker on top of the container lost his center of gravity and fell directly. Before he could struggle and howl, the worker who fell on the ground seemed to be choked by the throat of fate, and the whole person jumped inward against common sense.

   "Block the door! Don't let it get out!"

With a nervous roar, the workers with stun guns stepped forward instantly. When they left or right, or front or back, they pushed the tip of the stun gun through the hole and stuffed it into the container, aiming at the 'monster' inside. During the 'Taming', the audience frowned because of the wail of pain, and when they guessed the director's intention for shooting this scene, the pictures on the screen, from left to right, surrounded The container walked around, and when the suddenly bursting electric light reflected the interior of the container like daylight, the lifelike face of the dinosaur appeared instantly, and the pupils that were looking forward seemed to have discovered the existence of the camera. And the natural staring of instinct transfer directly gives people an illusion of 'it found me'!

   "Fuck! Is this really a dinosaur?"

   "Whoah! Its eyes can turn?"

   "Oh, MyGod! How did this work!"

  Although the whole picture is only two seconds long, if you don’t concentrate, it is easy to miss this scene, but this short picture is amazing enough! No! It should be said that it exceeded everyone's expectations!

   Even if it was just a glimpse, the delicate skin texture was like a hammer, knocking the guests dizzy, and the moving eyeballs made them even more creepy!

  Before this, regardless of whether it was a dinosaur movie or a monster movie, even if it was a close-up, I didn’t dare to bring a real scene, because just a virtual scene would give people a feeling of patchwork, but now?

   Not only did it give a close-up, but the eyeballs also moved!

what does that mean?

   Does this mean that Hollywood's technical bottleneck has finally been overcome?

No!

  This means that the opening scene alone will make this movie explode!

   "It's really amazing. Like "T2", is this thing made with a computer?"

   "Who can tell me what technology Industrial Light and Magic has mastered?"

   "This is definitely a landmark movie, I don't think the next dinosaur picture will let me down!"

Regardless of whether it is an insider who was invited by Universal, or an outsider like Mohamy who got the invitation by virtue of his relationship, or those film critics who want to criticize but cannot criticize, at this moment, there is no one Guys can take such an opening with equanimity, because this scene, they have never heard of it! Never seen before!

  For them, everything shown on the screen is simply a miracle!

Compared with them, Cole Needham, who has watched thousands of movies, sat up straighter, his eyes widened, and even his breathing became short of breath. The excitement of " made him tighten his grip on the armrest beside him, and the touch when he first came into contact with the movie made his eyes moist. He who was still suspicious before, now only has amazement in his heart!

   "It's so beautiful, it's so beautiful..."

   "As beautiful as that shark, no! It's even more beautiful than a shark!"

Note: ①Before IMDb was registered as a commercial company, those guys were always generating electricity for love, and the server was used by Cardiff University. All the information was recorded by the maintenance staff with zero salary, including bandwidth, all of which are good intentions to check the information People donated, including after setting up a company, their profits were also used to update the server.

  (end of this chapter)