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Chapter 447: Not Reversing for the Sake of Reversal

Although it is still a bit early to talk about diversification, Gilbert Jr. needs to make plans early.

Why did most people in the world remain silent when these monsters and demons were rampant in public? At first, they were indeed afraid of being accused, but later they found that they could not speak at all.

Because of the right to speak, the media is all in the hands of groups that support diversity, and even the relatively free online public opinion is subject to control.

Little Gilbert felt that the first thing he had to do was to give normal people a chance to speak out.

Make Disney and Time Warner, two media companies, your supporters, and let the Los Angeles Times and ABC TV station cheer for normal people.

Competing with The New York Times, CNN and other TV stations.

Then he used his Italian ancestry to go to the Vatican to seek the Pope's support, allowing Catholics to speak out and spread God's will.

Finally, there are no restrictions on speech on Internet social platforms, allowing everyone to speak freely and allowing diversity to be submerged in the tide of public opinion.

This is a very simple and effective solution that Gilbert Jr. concluded after much thought and manipulation of public opinion over the years.

But doing so is somewhat dangerous, as it may push some people who originally supported him to the opposite side. Maybe they will give him a convertible and arrange for gunmen to assassinate him.

But after so many years as a director and reaching this level, Gilbert Jr. feels that he has a responsibility on his shoulders, like a superhero.

After all, he didn't want to see a scene of chaos at some sports event in the future, which would be too explosive.

One thing worth mentioning is that the Athens Olympics will open next year. The city of Athens also invited Gilbert Jr. to visit them and serve as a consultant to provide some designs for the opening ceremony.

Or simply serve as the director of the opening ceremony.

This is related to Gilbert Jr.'s age. He is considered young in the field of directors, while the Olympic Games have a history of more than 100 years. So letting Gilbert Jr. be the director represents the inheritance spirit of the Olympic Games.

But Gilbert Jr. declined, citing his busy work schedule. He was indeed very busy.

The black protest did not affect Gilbert's work progress. The first thing the "Wushuang" crew had to deal with was the filming of counterfeit money production.

There have been similar cases involving counterfeit money before, but those cases did not specifically show how to make counterfeit money. They usually focused on the battle of wits and courage between the police and criminal groups.

The protagonist of this movie has changed, and the focus is on the counterfeit money making gang, so it is necessary to show how to make counterfeit money.

To this end, at the beginning of preparation, the crew, with the help of the FBI, contacted several perpetrators of counterfeit money cases who were serving sentences.

The crew asked them in detail about their experience in making counterfeit money, the methods used, the materials used, etc., and then recorded it all.

The accompanying FBI agent even thought that the crew was going to make counterfeit money, otherwise why would he ask so many detailed questions.

In fact, the agent's guess was correct. After receiving the information he wanted, a dilapidated warehouse in Fox Studios became a base for producing counterfeit money.

Little Gilbert and the art team began to study how to make counterfeit money that was so realistic that the audience would believe it.

Sofia Coppola, who was promoting her new movie "Lost in Translation", happened to have some free time, so she came to visit the set of "The Invincible".

Seeing the crew making counterfeit money, she joked: "If I didn't know you were making a movie, I would have called the police and asked the FBI to arrest you."

Gilbert Jr. smiled and took Sofia on a tour of the set. He also introduced: "This will be the first time in the movie that we will show how to make counterfeit money. I think it will be a big surprise for the audience."

"I'm also looking forward to how you will tell this story." Sophia turned around and asked, "But I heard from Sally that your script is very brain-burning. I'm afraid the audience won't understand it."

"How could that be? The story isn't complicated. Don't listen to Sally. She never read it carefully." Little Gilbert complained.

Charlize Theron started her career as a model and learned dance when she was young. She pursued the artistic route, then came to Los Angeles at the age of 17 or 18 to pursue her dreams.

If you want to talk about the uneducated and unskilled representative of Hollywood, Charlize Theron is definitely not one of them. But if you want to talk about how educated she is, it doesn't match her either. In fact, most Hollywood stars have very low education, and basically have not attended college, or even finished high school.

But after entering Hollywood, stars will naturally learn everything there is to know about how to be a star.

Of course, this does not mean that there are no highly educated Hollywood stars. Natalie Portman and Matt Damon are both top students from Harvard University.

Jennifer Connelly graduated from Yale University and Cameron Diaz studied for an MBA.

Gilbert Jr. himself is an alumnus of the University of Southern California and a junior of George Lucas.

Sophia continued, “Little Gilbert, we are entering a stupid era, and movies like The Matrix may not be suitable for Hollywood anymore.

The audience doesn’t need to think, they just need to enjoy it.”

Little Gilbert shook his head and expressed his disagreement: "Sophia, I think what you said is wrong. I think the audience is unwilling to think, which is the director's problem.

If a movie wants to shock the audience, it must communicate with the audience, and the first thing is to make the audience understand it.”

Sophia said she was convinced: "You mean most directors are not as good as you?"

"That's right," Gilbert Jr. said confidently, "If most directors were like me, wouldn't Hollywood be in chaos?"

That's true, good movies need to be set off by bad movies.

It is because most Hollywood directors make shitty movies that the films of a few directors like Gilbert Jr. shine like gold.

As the leading actor, Tom Hanks also needed to learn painting. In the film, he was required to complete some painting scenes himself, including drawing counterfeit money.

Tom Hanks said that his hands were not steady and he could not draw well, but he persisted and practiced many times. Later, he could even draw a portrait of little Gilbert and US dollars.

In addition, the actors will also conduct script reading sessions to analyze their respective roles, including how to perform.

At the script reading session, Gilbert Jr. emphasized: "From the content of the script, the structure is somewhat similar to the 1995 movie The Usual Suspects.

But I think this movie is a reversal for the sake of reversal. On the contrary, I appreciate the design of Fight Club, where the reversal itself serves the story. "

"So when you designed the character of Ido Dash, you designed enough twists?" Tom Hanks asked.

"Yes," Little Gilbert nodded and said, "I take the reversal as the content. Ido Dash makes fake money, fake life, and fake women.

And these three fakes are all imitating the perfect image in his mind - what is a perfect relationship? What is a perfect counterfeit money? What is a perfect lover? What is a perfect life?

Thinking of this, the character of Iddo Dash came out, and the whole story came out. "

Tom Cruise laughed: "It looks like I'm a supporting actor."

"No, Cruise, you're important, you have a lot of action scenes," Gilbert Jr. said.

In fact, the roles of the two male protagonists are designed to be very balanced. The east wind cannot overwhelm the west wind, and the west wind cannot overwhelm the east wind.

Apart from work, the two Toms basically never communicate with each other in private, maintaining a certain tacit understanding of non-contact.

In fact, Hollywood superstars keep a distance from each other, and there is a tacit understanding that kings do not meet each other.

So it is rare to see Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise together in a film crew, except for Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise, otherwise the two would not cooperate.

(End of this chapter)