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I touched the alarm clock on the bedside table and took a look, it was eight fifty.

This alarm clock should be fine, right?

He shook it in his hand, and stuck it to his ear again.

click, click, click...

So he buried his head back in the pillow dejectedly, struggled for a while, and still had to face the reality.

Picking up the phone by the bedside and dialing a series of numbers, he put on a sleepy tone and claimed that he was not feeling well.

I escaped work smoothly, and my mood became very good.

Still can't help but think.

It would be better if it could continue like this.

There is such a chance.

It's just that what she wants is real freedom, not becoming a man's private possession.

He sighed secretly.

The changing mood went down again in a blink of an eye.

Some mechanically dressed and washed, left the bedroom, and happened to meet the girl who liked to wear a ponytail coming out of a room holding a stack of documents when she went downstairs. When she saw her, the girl greeted her very politely: "Ms. Kinski ,Good morning."

Glancing at the door behind Jennifer, she nodded: "Good morning, where is Jennifer?"

Jennifer came over and said, "She went shopping and will be back around noon. Do you want breakfast?"

"Well, thank you."

"follow me."

When I came downstairs and sat down in a small dining room, Jennifer brought a breakfast over and put it in front of her and said, "Ms. Kinski, just put the tableware here later, and you can call me if you need something. "

Watching Jennifer leave, Natasha Kinski picked up the tableware and began to eat slowly.The villa seemed very quiet, but she inexplicably enjoyed this feeling.

of course.

It seems to be better if there are butlers and maids.

That man, who can buy such a big house at will without hiring a servant, is really a weird guy.

There is also the matter of lodging.

I don't know how to make him let go, alas, troublesome.

Now that the morning work has been turned off, naturally there is no need to rush to leave.After filling her stomach, Natasha Kinski remembered the situation when she went downstairs, so she came to the door of a room on the second floor and raised her hand to knock.

Received a response, opened the door and walked in.

A large study room is more than 200 square meters. There are many easels in the room, so it looks a bit like those art classrooms in universities.

Seeing her coming in, the man behind the desk who was typing on the keyboard just nodded, and then turned his attention to the computer screen again, and she didn't make a sound, pacing like a cat, admiring the movie concepts on the easel one by one picture.

batman.

She still knows this.

just.

Burning bat patterns, overturned heavy trucks, exploding buildings, ruined cities... Can all these be realized in the movie?

Unknowingly, she came to the opposite side of his desk, and glanced at the man who was concentrating on his work. She dragged a chair, turned it upside down and lay down on the back of the chair, looked at him curiously for a while, and finally said: "This study of yours is not good. So unique."

Without raising his head, Simon continued to type a series of words on the keyboard, saying: "The benefits of being rich, I said I wanted some easels, and they sent a cart, and this study is big enough, so I will keep them all. By the way, as a film festival judge, don't you have something to do?"

"I was supposed to attend a premiere in the morning, but I got up late, so I turned it down."

"The organizer will definitely consider a judge like you carefully next time."

"It doesn't matter," she reached out to pick up a few pages of drawings from the desk and flipped through them, "Is there really such a good billionaire who doesn't go out to fight criminals every night?"

"In reality, probably not."

"Certainly not, just like the "Patty Hearst" we watched when we reviewed the film, the girl was kidnapped, not only did she not become a hero, but was assimilated by the kidnapper. She is already an adult. By comparison, I don't think a kid who sees his parents killed would aspire to be a vigilante, unless he's out of order."

Simon raised his eyes to look at the woman opposite, and said, "Your judgment is very accurate. I also think that Gotham is a lunatic asylum, whether it is Batman or the Joker. The difference is that Batman can't help himself. What people think is right, clowns can't help but do what people think is wrong."

"Oh."

Natasha Kinski responded casually, apparently not very interested in Simon's point of view.Simon didn't care, and continued typing characters on the keyboard.

The two were silent for a moment, and Natasha Kinski looked at the man across the desk, and suddenly said: "What about you? Westeros, what kind of person are you? I heard you once interrupted The legs of five people."

"justifiable defense."

"I'm not asking that."

"I refuse to answer that kind of question."

"Okay," Natasha Kinski still looked at Simon and said, "Then, what kind of person do you think I am?"

"Is there a reward for the correct answer?"

"If the answer is wrong, you can lend me this place to live in."

Simon glanced at Natasha Kinski's glamorous face, which was at the peak of a woman's appearance, and said casually, "You are an insecure person."

"Ah."

"Because of the lack of security, you like men who are older than you. You want to be attached, but you pursue independence, and you fear becoming a vassal."

Natasha Kinski's eyes froze for a moment, and then said indifferently: "What else?"

"You want to be noticed, but you feel that you don't care about it. Therefore, when you really become the center of attention, you will become very anxious and often make some inappropriate actions. So in the eyes of many people, you His temper seems a bit withdrawn and weird."

Natasha Kinski stared at Simon and said nothing.

Simon didn't stop, and continued: "This is actually a self-destructive tendency, maybe it's a childhood experience, you feel that you are an unfortunate person, you feel that the whole world is not worth cherishing, even if it is destroyed, it doesn't matter. You are too Small, you can't destroy the world, you can only destroy yourself. If I'm right, you like to steal things, even after becoming famous, you still haven't given up this habit."

Sensing the playful smile on the corner of Simon's mouth, Natasha Kinski pursed her lips, took out the pen from her trouser pocket and threw it in front of Simon: "Okay, you caught me , what are you going to do?"

"Well, your skills are pretty good. I just guessed and didn't catch it." Simon pushed the pen back with a smile, and said, "You can take it away if you like it. I rarely use pens."

Natasha Kinski picked up the pen and threw it directly at Simon, a little annoyed and said: "Westeros, you are such a bastard."

Simon caught the flying pen and said helplessly, "Ms. Kinski, maybe you should leave. I'll send you back."

Natasha Kinski sat still, still staring at Simon, and said, "You guessed everything right, so, what reward do you want, do you want me to sleep with you?"

"Unfortunately, I'm not interested in a woman who is in a self-destructive state."

"Oh, are you really not interested?"

Natasha Kinski said, stood up and began to unbutton her shirt.

Seeing this situation, Simon calmly saved the manuscript he had just written and turned off the computer.

Then run away.

Crazy women can't be messed with.

Who knows if it will really bite at the critical moment.

第170章 闭幕（修）

Staying in the hilltop mansion in the small town of Cannes, Simon gradually sorted out the shooting ideas of "Batman" these days.

In the preliminary plan, the "Batman" single film trilogy will be produced first, with the name following Nolan's "Batman: Beginning of War", "Batman: The Dark Knight" and "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises".However, in terms of content, Simon intends to adopt a completely different plot setting, and through appropriate interspersion with the "Superman" series, pave the way for the prototype of the entire DC movie universe.

If you want to realize the movie universe plan, the beginning of the first part of "Batman" is very important.

In fact, Simon also has a very easy shortcut to success, which is to use the clown as the villain of the first episode.

As Batman's greatest enemy and the most popular villain in the Batman series, in the original time and space, Tim Burton and Christopher Nolan's two versions of the pinnacle of the "Batman" series both use the Joker as the anti No. The clown, Batman's lifelong enemy, does have an irreplaceable popularity and status both in comics and in reality.

However, after repeated consideration, Simon gave up this idea.

With the Joker enabled, the first episode must have an atmospheric pattern to match it.If the starting point of the story is too high, it will be difficult for the sequel to satisfy the appetite of the audience. Repeatedly saving Gotham and saving the world can easily cause aesthetic fatigue.Therefore, Simon intends to put the clown as the ultimate boss of the trilogy in the last episode.

As for the opening chapter at the moment, Simon does not intend to spend too much ink on the experience of Bruce Wayne's transformation into Batman, but intends to start with Batman's running-in process with the entire city after he started fighting for justice.

A vigilante suddenly appeared in the city of sin, and the public, media, officials, criminals, etc. reacted and responded to it.At the same time, these subplots will revolve around a high-concept mode of good over evil storyline.The villain appears, Batman defeats the villain, begins to gain the city's approval, and the story ends.

Simon hid in Cannes to write the script of "Batman". In North America, this year's film summer file also officially opened in May.

On May 5, Paramount launched the seventh sequel of the classic horror film series "Friday NO.13", which made Simon envious of the scale of 13 opening screens, and earned $1796 million in the first week.Although the box office was far from meeting the expectations of the producer, Paramount recovered most of the production and publicity budget in the first week compared to the film's ultra-low production cost of only US$980 million.

The other two new films from independent film companies other than "NO.13 Friday 7" did not cause any waves. The No.2 is "When Harry Met Sally", which is also "When Harry Met Sally". After eight weeks of large-scale opening, it was officially squeezed out to be the box office champion next week.

In the tenth week of its release, "When Harry Met Sally" received another US$613 million, with a cumulative box office of US$9012 million, and continued to move towards the [-] million yuan mark without any suspense.

Although Hollywood has always envied Daenerys Pictures for producing the first movie with a box office of over 1988 million in [-], Simon was not satisfied with this result.

Paramount can arrange nearly 280 opening screens for a horror film with a production cost of only 1800 million US dollars. During the entire release process of "When Harry Met Sally", the number of screens failed to break through 1500. During the golden box office harvest period of the week, the number of screens of the film was only a little over 1000 yuan. This made Simon strongly feel the deep-rooted guard and constraints of Hollywood's traditional forces on latecomers.

If "When Harry Met Sally" can get enough screen resources, the box office of this movie must have exceeded the threshold of 9000 million yuan, instead of being stuck at the current embarrassing figure of [-] million US dollars.Although it will not be difficult to exceed [-] million in the future, with the arrival of a series of new films in the summer, the release scale and follow-up box office of "When Harry Met Sally" are bound to shrink rapidly.

Followed by.

On May 5th, the first big-budget film of the summer vacation, "Gathering the Wind and Cloud", hit North American theaters. This medieval fantasy film based on Western myths and stories was co-produced by MGM and Lucasfilm, using a large number of State-of-the-art special effects technology from Industrial Light and Magic Studios.

However, this $3500 million big-budget film received poor reviews, with "Variety" magazine evaluating it as "a medieval version of "Star Wars" mixed with a lot of myths and fables, with old-fashioned stories and a lack of innovation."

Due to the pessimistic view of the film's prospects, the distributor MGM only arranged 1024 opening screens for "The Gathering", which is not even as good as "NO.13 Friday 7", let alone the upcoming "Crocodile Dundee". 2" and "First Blood 3", according to the public data released by the distributors, the expected opening screens of these two heavyweight new films will reach 2800 and 2500 respectively. The complete arrival of the publishing era.

Regrettably, as the most watched new film of this summer, "Pulp Fiction" is expected to open only about 1500 screens, and Simon has nothing to do about it, because this is already the limit of resources that Orion Pictures can use.

Moreover, the critical reputation of "Pulp Fiction" has been changing during the period after its premiere in Cannes, especially in North America. Plagiarism of classic films.

The reason for this situation is actually obvious. Too many people don't want to see "Pulp Fiction" succeed.

Simon also had no way of finding out which side was obstructing it.

The release date of "Pulp Fiction" is June 6. Paramount Pictures' "Crocodile Dundee 3" and "Rambo 2" produced by Columbia Pictures' Samsung label were released in the previous week. There's Fox's "Futurama" and Warner's "Funny Farm," followed by Disney's "Four Girls and Two Moms," Paramount's "Pasidi's Base," and MGM's "Haunting 3" the following week. .

In the three weeks before and after, only the new films were released, and the seven major film companies gathered six of them.No matter how popular the schedule is, the total box office in a single week actually has a fixed number. If you get more points, others will naturally get less.

In this case, "Pulp Fiction" just so happens to be the most notable entry in a long line of new releases, and even Simon himself wouldn't hesitate to beat the competition if he could.

Aware of this situation, Simon is no longer so optimistic about the results of the film festival awards.Whether it is Simon himself or Orion, it is obvious that they cannot compete with the entire Hollywood Seven in terms of network resources. Others may just make a phone call, and the award may disappear.

So until May 5, the day before the closing ceremony of the film festival, the organizer officially issued an invitation to the award-winning crew to stay. Simon was not completely relieved until he was notified by the organizer.

Monday, October 5.

On the last day of the festival, the main program of the day is the re-screening of all the films nominated in the main competition.At the same time, the information about the cast members who were detained also appeared in the local media in Cannes.

The crews of 21 films out of 5 in main competition were retained, namely Simon's "Pulp Fiction", Clint Eastwood's "Rookie Parker" and Kieslowski's "Killer". A Short Film," Fernando Solanas' "South" and Chris Menges' "A Quarantined World."

Among the five films, Kieslowski's "Murder Short Film" is the most popular for the Palme d'Or.Prior to this, the film had already won the FIPRESCI Award, the main competition unit, which is an award issued by the International Association of Film Critics that is completely independent of the organizer of the film festival, which is similar to an award vane.

As for "Pulp Fiction", among the six major awards of Palme d'Or, Jury Prize, Jury Prize, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Director, the outside world generally believes that the possibility of the Palme d'Or is unlikely, and performance awards are even more likely. There is no play, and the jury is unlikely to give the best director to Simon, a young man who is just 20 years old.

Then, the final result is likely to be either the Jury Prize or the Jury Prize.

It was nearly seven o'clock in the afternoon.

Outside the Palace of Films on the waterfront in Cannes, compared to the star-studded opening ceremony, the closing ceremony was much deserted.

The crew of "Pulp Fiction" received a notice of retention yesterday. John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, and Nicole Kidman, who had already left Cannes, flew over from the United States again.Others such as Robert De Niro, Robert Redford, Madonna and Sean Penn did not attend the closing ceremony for various reasons.

Speaking of which, the fundamental purpose of this is still for the itinerary of movie promotion, and Orion must bear the expenses. Simon's private jet bill will also be sent to Orion in the future.Of course, the hilltop mansion in Le Cannet is not something Orion can afford.

Simon and his group rushed outside the movie palace. The red carpet ceremony for the closing ceremony was drawing to a close. This time, everyone also quickly entered the Rubière Hall in the movie palace through the media channel.

Perhaps it was specially arranged by the organizers. The seats of the crew of "Pulp Fiction" are adjacent to the crew of "The Gathering". This special effects film led by Lucasfilm will be the closing film of this film festival.

However, Simon did not see George Lucas. Only the director of "The Gathering" Ron Howard and the leading actors and actresses Fang Kilmer and Joni Wiley attended the closing award ceremony.

After the filming started last Friday, due to the failure of word-of-mouth, "The Gathering of Wind and Cloud" only received 830 million US dollars in the box office in the first three days of the weekend, which was far lower than the producer's expectations.The film can only expect the subsequent distribution of various channels to recover expensive production and publicity costs.

In fact, Simon has always paid attention to "The Gathering". Such a movie that uses the most advanced special effects technology of this era can provide him with a lot of reference for making "Batman".

Moreover, Ron Howard, a commercial film director who was a grade behind Spielberg but very diverse, also interested Simon.The two chatted for a while before the ceremony, and even exchanged business cards.

Seven o'clock in the evening.

The closing ceremony of the 41st Cannes Film Festival officially began.

The host is still Matilda May at the opening ceremony, and the atmosphere of the awards ceremony is as meticulous as that at the opening ceremony.