hollywood melon man

Chapter 7 Quality Old Gilbert
  The approval of a movie project goes through a very complicated process in Hollywood.

Take Universal Pictures as an example. Generally speaking, after the script reaches Universal Pictures, the script will be reviewed. Seven people will cross-review the script and then vote.

If the number of votes exceeds five, the script will be passed to the eighth person for review. If the eighth person approves the review, the script will be handed over to the market research department.

The market research department began to focus on this script and analyze the market performance of similar movies in the past three years.

If movies of the same type perform well, the script will be submitted to senior management for discussion, and then the project approval process will begin.

However, most scripts have not even reached this stage, and have already flown to the script library to eat dust.

Other Hollywood corporate systems vary, but generally they are the same.

The purpose of this is to avoid risks as much as possible and increase the possibility of profitability for each film project.

Of course, the system is not omnipotent. There are many factors that affect a movie. Otherwise, there would not be so many failed movies.

The script "Shark Tank" was a special case. Spielberg did not submit the script to the review team and directly brought it to the high-level meeting for discussion, which was equivalent to skipping the first two steps.

This essentially circumvents the system and is an act of randomness.

But because he is Spielberg, whatever he does makes sense.

It’s nothing. It can be discussed in high-level meetings. The script of “Shark Tank” has already reached a place where 99% of Hollywood scripts have never reached.

Not to mention the bizarre story that this script was directly approved by Universal Pictures because of the new president of Universal Pictures, Akio Tanii, to win over Spielberg.

There is no airtight wall in the world, and the commercial spies installed by other companies at Universal Pictures quickly revealed the news.

However, the matter of "Shark Beach" is incidental, mainly to report on the status of the "Jurassic Park" project.

While other studio executives were paying attention to "Jurassic Park", they laughed off the "Shark Tank" incident.

Similar to the thoughts of Universal executives, most people believe that this is just a means for Akio Tanii to win over Spielberg.

However, when they heard that the director of this film was actually only 21 years old, many film company executives were stunned.

It’s not that there are no young Hollywood directors, but such a young director has never been seen before.

After being stunned, everyone also laughed at Akio Tanii. In order to please Spielberg, he let a 21-year-old young man be the director. He was simply out of his mind.

Although this young man is said to be the son of old Gilbert Landrini, old Gilbert himself is a fool, so what kind of waves can his son make?
  In short, Universal Pictures plans to invest in "Shark Tank" and let a 21-year-old young man take on the director's job, making it a Hollywood after-dinner joke.

It’s not that the script of “Shark Tank” is not good, and Spielberg also agreed to be the producer.

But the director is unreliable. What can a young man who has just left school do?
  The Los Angeles Times said of Hollywood: "This is a movie club composed of old people and conservative people. It is lifeless, lifeless and mechanical."

It can be seen from this sentence that Hollywood's discrimination against young people is even greater than the halo of Spielberg's production.

That's right, if the film was directed by Spielberg himself, "Shark Tank" would immediately become one of the hottest projects in Hollywood.

Of course, Spielberg is not free. He is also busy with the post-production of "Captain Hook" and the pre-production preparations of "Jurassic Park".

While writing the project plan, little Gilbert also took time to go back home.

Ever since little Gilbert graduated, old Gilbert kicked him out and called him self-reliant.

What feeds itself? The old man was just afraid that little Gilbert would still be at home and he would have to take care of the food.

It was just a good time for little Gilbert to go out. He had enough to eat and the whole family was not hungry.

Although the elder Gilbert was like an unscrupulous father, given that he recommended him to join Spielberg's crew, the younger Gilbert would still go back to see him from time to time and have a meal with him.

The Landrini family has few assets, and the only thing of some value may be this house in the Bel Air neighborhood on Sunset Boulevard, near the University of California, Los Angeles.

The real estate market in the United States is pretty good now, and this house is worth some money. If you want to transfer it, it's not a problem to exchange it for hundreds of thousands of dollars. In fact, old Gilbert had long wanted to sell the house because he paid a lot of property taxes and fees every year.

But Gilbert Sr.'s sister-in-law, who was also the sister-in-law of Gilbert Sr., stopped this act. She believed that the house could not be sold and that something had to be left for little Gilbert to inherit.

If he sold it to pay back the money, old Gilbert would probably drink it all up again.

However, the old man now regrets that he doesn't smoke much anymore, but he still has the ability and goes to bars and clubs from time to time.

Old Gilbert was deeply influenced by the Beatles culture and believed that life requires timely enjoyment and that he lived a more fancy life.

However, it seems that he was unlucky and did not produce any illegitimate children, leaving only little Gilbert as an only child.

When little Gilbert arrived home, a bar girl was preparing to leave, carrying her high heels and stuffing hundreds of dollars between the V-shaped neckline of her upper body.

When she saw little Gilbert, the bar girl was stunned. She had never seen this handsome boy before!

As a professional habit, the bar girl winked and said hello: "Hi, handsome guy..."

Little Gilbert nodded, not intending to answer.
  But the bar girl didn't want to let him go, so she walked over and stuffed a contact information into his hand. Then he gave me a knowing look, then a wink, and walked away with his butt twisted.

Little Gilbert threw the contact information into the trash can and found Old Gilbert who was puffing away on a lounge chair by the swimming pool in the backyard.

Judging by the shape and smell of the mist, this is a normal cigarette.

Old Gilbert looked back and saw that it was little Gilbert. The old man snorted and said in disgust: "I didn't ask you to come back, what are you doing here? I don't care about the food."

"Look what you said, I'll treat you to it." As he said, little Gilbert put the fried chicken in his hand on the table: "Fried chicken, and your favorite donuts."

"That's not bad. I originally planned not to eat today." Old Gilbert stubbed out the half-smoked cigarette without throwing it away.

There is no way, I am so poor recently that I can't even afford cigarettes.

Looking at the fragrant fried chicken, old Gilbert picked it up and gnawed it, devouring it.

"Eat slowly, no one will compete with you." Little Gilbert complained: "It's true, if you have money to be passionate about the bar girl, but don't have money to buy something to eat, you really only feed your lower body and not the upper body. !”

"What do you know?" Old Gilbert responded while eating: "I am completing the task assigned to me by God. What does it matter whether I eat or not?"

"Eh!" Little Gilbert looked disgusted. His cheap father was simply a lustful man who would rather be hungry than hungry.

The key point is that the old man is in great physical condition and can still exert strength despite his age. If you don't believe it, just look at the satisfied look on the face of the bar girl who just left.

Old Gilbert asked while eating fried chicken: "I heard that you got the opportunity to direct?"

"Did this news spread so quickly?"

"Nonsense, nothing can be hidden in Hollywood. After the meeting in the morning, all of Hollywood will know about it in the afternoon."

"Good guy, this Universal Pictures studio is really leaking." Little Gilbert joked, and then said seriously: "Indeed, Uncle Steven asked me to write a project plan, and I have almost completed it."

Concerned about his son's future, old Gilbert warned: "This is a good opportunity. Since Steven is the producer, according to his character, he will definitely get involved in this project.

You should seize the opportunity and learn more from him. The important task of reviving the Landrini family will be left to you. "

"Are you going to put so much pressure on me?" Little Gilbert didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but he still nodded solemnly: "Of course, I will seize this opportunity."

I added silently in my heart: It doesn't matter whether the family will be revived or not, but since we are here, wouldn't it be a pity not to make a name for ourselves...

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