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Chapter 16 Media Attention
  Without the interference of Paul Collins, the younger Gilbert was able to edit the film the way he envisioned.

He is full of confidence that the version of the film he edited will be favored by Universal Pictures.

At this time, outside, because Spielberg supervised the production of this film, coupled with the superposition of factors such as shark movies, this "Shark Tank" actually still has a certain degree of attention.

Several media outlets reported on some interesting things that happened during the filming of "Shark Beach", and the image of little Gilbert's stupidity, arrogance and arrogance was naturally publicized by the media.

Some of this is a smokescreen put up by Universal Pictures to draw public attention to the film.

"During the filming of "Shark Beach", according to relevant sources, the 21-year-old director Gilbert Landrini Jr. was arbitrary and arrogant.

Universal Pictures is considering a risk assessment and has decided not to release the film. ”—Los Angeles City Paper.

“As a new director, little Gilberte Landrini, full of rebellious genes, interfered with the studio’s editing rights and made a lot of noise about it.

Although this is the attitude of young people, movies are not a job that can be solved with attitude.

The movie "Shark Tank" has a worrying future and may not be released in theaters. ” — Santa Monica Morning News.

"It is reported that Universal Pictures has decided to separate Gilbert Jr. and the editor. The two will edit one version each. Universal Pictures wants to see who has better results before making a decision." - "Burbank Honest News" .

Little Gilbert was very happy to see his name mentioned repeatedly in the newspaper. Although they don't have a good reputation, what does it matter.

Thirty years later, those traffic stars would first become popular and then clear their name through certain events!

As long as "Shark Tank" is successfully released, all the bad reputation, criticism and abuse will be replaced by praise and praise.

The urinary nature of the media has been the same for decades, and little Gilbert knows it all too well.

It is a pity that the top media outlets such as the Los Angeles Times, Time Magazine, and Vanity Fair in Los Angeles did not participate in the report.

Otherwise, little Gilbert's bad reputation would not be limited to Los Angeles and nearby areas, but could spread throughout the United States.

But you have to be content. These second- and third-tier local media reports can be regarded as a little bit more famous for little Gilbert.

On the contrary, Paul Collins was furious when he saw the report. The report criticized Little Gilbert, but it didn't mention his name!
  I just use an editor as a title, who knows who he is!

But there is no way, the media is beyond his control. Unless he is willing to spend money to bribe the media, he will not gain anything by watching little Gilbert get scolded.

In 1991, the means of media information were still quite limited, including media such as television media and newspapers.

If there were online media, such as Twitter, Paul Collins could have tweeted that the editor was him.

It's a pity that the Internet is not very developed now, let alone Twitter.

Little Gilbert is no Tom Cruise. The media has no interest in his enemies, they just want to scold him.

As a result, the unlucky Paul Collins was ignored and could only edit the film silently in the editing room.

If you get closer, you can still hear Paul Collins yelling: "You are the one who should go to the San Fernando Valley to film. Your whole family should go to the San Fernando Valley to film..."

Needless to say, this is definitely a scolding of Little Gilbert. It seems that Paul Collins still has not been able to forgive Little Gilbert.

Not to mention, with little Gilbert’s qualities, he would definitely be very popular in the San Fernando Valley, but he definitely wouldn’t want to go.

However, this media report also made some ordinary movie fans pay attention to the fact that a shark movie produced by Spielberg is in production.

All of a sudden, the sense of anticipation came up instantly.

Spielberg's "Jaws" in 1975 earned a global box office of $4.7 million with a production cost of $ million.

The film became the global box office champion at the time and the first in film history until it was replaced by "Star Wars" two years later.

It is worth mentioning that "Jaws" was originally planned to be released during the Christmas period of 1974, but was later postponed to the summer of 1975.

At that time, the distributor was worried that the film would fail miserably at the box office, but they did not expect that it would achieve such a high box office in the end. Also starting from "Jaws", the summer schedule has gradually become the most important schedule of the year.

So you can even say that Spielberg is the pioneer of summer movies in North America. That was in 1975. You can imagine how valuable this is.

Since then, Spielberg has continued to create box office myths one after another, but for Spielberg's fans, "Jaws" has always had an irreplaceable status.

And this "Shark Beach" produced by Spielberg has become a substitute for this nostalgia.

As Gilbert Jr. said before, "Shark Beach" can be called the spiritual sequel to "Jaws" in some respects.

It's good to use Spielberg's banner, but now Universal Pictures has decided internally that it still needs to watch the finished film before deciding on its distribution strategy.

After all, the lineup of Gilbert Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow doesn't look like it will be a hit.

In addition to the fact that Gilbert is too young and untrustworthy, another reason for the contempt for this film within Universal is Gwyneth Paltrow.

Simply because Gwyneth Paltrow is an actress.

In Hollywood in the 1990s, the status of actresses was far inferior to that of actors.

At this time, most of the actresses played a role as a vase. Unless there were films dedicated to women, only independent films competing for awards could have actresses as the first protagonists.

Of course, there are exceptions. For example, the first protagonist of the 1979 classic science fiction movie "Alien" was Sigourney Weaver.

Or Julia Roberts, who takes the silly big sister route, plays some romantic movies and comedies, and becomes America's sweetheart.

But those are Sigourney Weaver and Julia Roberts. Gwyneth Paltrow is also Spielberg's goddaughter. How can she compare with these two top Hollywood actresses.

That's why Paul Collins focused his editing on Gwyneth Paltrow's figure.

In the opinion of some Universal insiders, apart from the sharks, Gwyneth Paltrow's body is the only attraction in "Shark Tank", which is commonly known as a meat-selling movie.

If it weren't for Spielberg and "Jurassic Park," Universal Pictures would never have invested in releasing this movie.

But it's too late to say anything now, the money has been spent and the film has been shot. Even if it is not optimistic at this time, the work that needs to be done still needs to be done.

As the film's producer, Thomas Blake is very concerned about the post-production of the film. He has gone to see the versions edited by Paul Collins and Gilbert Jr. respectively.

Paul Collins's side is just as Thomas Blake expected, it's a very ordinary film, with a thrilling plot, but overall it's smooth.

But the editing on Little Gilbert's side was beyond Thomas Blake's expectations.

First of all, Little Gilbert greatly shortened the length of the film. The main film is only 81 minutes, and even with the end credits, it is less than 85 minutes.

A normal movie usually has ninety minutes of content, which is one and a half hours.

In order for the film to tell the story as much as possible, all films have tacitly agreed to increase the duration, and films of more than 120 minutes have become commonplace.

But little Gilbert did the opposite, much to the surprise of Thomas Blake.

Regarding this, little Gilbert explained: "In order to arouse the audience's emotions as much as possible and prevent them from resting for a minute, I deleted a large number of meaningless empty scenes.

Tight rhythm is one of the magic weapons to arouse the audience's emotions. "

Thomas Blake was speechless. He had seen the version edited by Paul Collins. To be honest, Little Gilbert's version was much better than Paul Collins.

Could it be that some people are really born to be film geniuses?
  Thomas Blake felt as if he had witnessed the rise of another Spielberg. As soon as the idea came up, he was quickly thrown away.

It was too exaggerated, he didn't dare to think about it.

(End of this chapter)