Hollywood Director 1992.

Chapter 216 Passion of the Crew

Happy times always fly quickly. After more than half an hour, Sophia came downstairs slowly.

Looking at her flushed cheeks, slow steps, and satisfied expression, the uncles and aunts in the hall knew what good things they had done upstairs without having to think too much.

Director Coppola took a look, walked over with a sullen face, and asked through gritted teeth, "Where's Link?"

"Let's go! What do you want with him?"

Sophia asked. Link was too embarrassed to use the hall stairs, so he went down the outside stairs when he was done.

Director Coppola glared at her and pulled Sofia's arm to the aisle. "Look at what you look like. Don't you know that Link is a playboy? Why do you still hang out with him? What future do you have if you hang out with him?"

Sophia shrugged. "What future? Is it better to give up the job you are good at and stay at home as a housewife like my mother and many other women? Or is it better to marry an old billionaire and become a rich widow when he dies? Or is it better to find a young talent, fall in love, marry him, and spend the rest of your life maintaining a seemingly happy relationship?"

Director Coppola frowned. "These are nothing to you. Do you think hanging out with a playboy like Link means you have a future?"

"I don't know, and I haven't thought about these things. I'm only 23 years old, and it's not the time to think about those things. Besides, you men often dream of dating the sexiest women in the world, and we women are the same. In my eyes, Link is the best, coolest, and most powerful man in the world. I'm very happy and satisfied to date him. Dad, don't you want to see me happy?"

Director Coppola snorted, "You are only happy now, you can't be happy every day, you should find someone who truly loves you."

"No need. I am very happy dating Link, and I am equally happy doing a job I like every day. Dad, you don't have to interfere in my personal affairs. I am an adult and I know what I should and shouldn't do."

Sophia waved her hand and returned to the crew to prepare for filming.

Director Coppola held his waist and sighed, saying that girls are no longer under the control of their fathers when they grow up.

After seeing the shooting progress of several crews, Link took the crew to Vancouver, Canada to shoot a new movie.

Vancouver is the third largest city in Canada and the political, cultural, tourist and transportation center of the western region. It is also known as the 'Hollywood of the North' because of its developed entertainment industry.

The film that Link shot here was "The Butterfly Effect", which he had been preparing for more than three months.

"Scene 1, 1st take, begins!"

The script supervisor clapped the clapboard and the crew began filming.

Because the plot of "The Butterfly Effect" is relatively complicated, if it were shot in the order in which the movies were broadcast, the plot would appear scattered and difficult to understand.

When filming, Link followed the chronological order, starting from the childhood of the four protagonists, to their adolescence, the male protagonist going to college, and then to his later admission to a mental hospital. This made the whole plot clearer.

"Evan!"

The protagonist Evan was playing with his puppy on the lawn in front of the door, and his mother Andrea called out to him.

Evan dropped the puppy and quickly ran to the car, where he saw his mother fixing it. "Are we going to be late again?"

"When did you start caring about being late for school?"

Julianne Moore, who plays Andrea, smiled as she twisted the screws.

"Our school is putting up pictures from Parents Night today."

Evan said.

"Don't worry, there's still time."

Andrea put down the screwdriver and took off her work clothes, revealing the waitress uniform underneath, showing that her job was just that of an ordinary waitress.

"Will Dad come today?"

"Baby, you know the answer."

"Can't he just come out for a day?"

"We've said it countless times, this is dangerous for him."

"But Lenny said his dad would be there, and Tommy and Kelly's dad, too."

"Okay, I get what you mean," Andrea said as she stepped into the car, "but it can't be that bad if I go, right?"

"Yes!"

Evan nodded, looking rather disappointed.

"cut!"

Link looked at the footage and gave it a pass.

The actor who played the childhood Evan was a ten-year-old boy with little acting experience, but the crew rehearsed many times before filming. The boy performed very well this time, and Julianne Moore also performed very well.

In addition, this movie is a suspense thriller, and its highlights lie in its unique concept of time travel and the impact of the complex cause and effect in life on everyone's real life.

You don't need to pay too much attention to acting when shooting a movie. The key is to break the original logical chain of the story when editing the movie, and re-edit and reorganize it to make an originally simple story become complicated and brain-burning.

This type of movie tests the director's directing ability and the editor's level.

When "The Butterfly Effect" began filming, Guess What Films' second film of the year, "Dumb and Dumber," was released.

The film was jointly produced by Guess What Films and New Line Cinema with a production cost of US$1600 million. The project was launched in August last year and completed in November.

It tells the story of a pair of stupid buddies who fall in love with a beautiful woman. While pursuing her, they are targeted by robbers. They are not very smart but very lucky. They often avoid crises by accident and make the robbers unlucky. It is a bit similar to the setting of "Home Alone".

The film grossed $2447 million in 1636 theaters in North America in its first week, winning the weekly box office championship.

The box office performance was very good, but the word of mouth was terrible. Many film critics wrote articles accusing Guess What Pictures of only making low IQ movies. From "Ghost" and "The Witch" to "Ace Ventura" and "Dumb and Dumber", the IQs of the protagonists in the movies are generally not high. You can watch them without thinking, but anyone with a bit of logic will not be able to watch them.

The famous film critic Rudin Batchelor refers to this type of film as "Linker-style films":
The cost of this type of movie is generally not high, the plot settings are relatively extreme, and horror movies only focus on the horror effect. There is no limit to the comedy, no logic, and everything is for the sake of comedy; the audience has a low level of education and a low aesthetic level; they focus on movie marketing and box office revenue rather than film art; and the box office revenue is relatively high.

The concept of 'Link-style films' proposed by Rudin Batchelor was recognized by many people in the industry, so much so that later films that met these conditions were collectively referred to as 'Link-style films'.

Although "Dumb and Dumber" received a lot of criticism after its release, the attendance rate remained high.

In the second week, the box office increased instead of decreasing, earning 2439 million U.S. dollars. The North American box office cumulatively reached 4075 million U.S. dollars, surpassing "Pulp Fiction" which was released two weeks earlier.

After seeing the box office data, Quentin was so angry that he yelled and made a fuss in an interview program, saying that the audience who likes to watch "Dumb and Dumber" are all fools. He also said that the current audience's appreciation ability is generally poor and they like bad movies rather than classic movies.

This news caused great controversy in the circle.

Some people supported Quentin's statement and criticized the 'Link-style film';
Some people also accused Quentin of attacking the audience and demanded that he apologize to them.

In an interview with the media, Jim Carrey opposed Quentin's statement, believing that movies are an entertainment product, without distinction between high and low, high IQ or low IQ, and that people with a high level of artistic appreciation should not laugh at others, and Quentin should apologize.

Catherine Zeta-Jones, who played the leading role in "Ace Ventura", said Quentin was a very good director, but his remarks this time were disappointing and director Quentin should apologize to the audience.

Quentin refused to apologize, and publicly criticized "Link-style movies" in an interview, saying that such movies are of too low a standard and are fooling the audience, like junk food, and that it is Jim Carrey and the "Dumb and Dumber" crew who should apologize.

As a representative of this type of film, Link should also come forward and apologize.

Link was filming a movie in Vancouver and had no time to pay attention to these disputes. The public relations department of Guess What Pictures responded on Link's behalf, claiming that movies are a form of popular entertainment culture that exists to entertain the public, not the filmmakers themselves. Real filmmakers will consider the ordinary audience when creating films, rather than trying to please a small group of people and making movies for the sake of awards.

Guess What Pictures thinks that Link's movies and Dumb and Dumber are really good movies because audiences like them.

Shortly after Guess What Pictures spoke out, the media reported that Quentin often went to strip clubs to watch performances and was a gold card member of a large strip club. There were also photos of Quentin laughing while watching "Dumb and Dumber".

When Quentin saw the photos, he was so angry that he gritted his teeth and called Link, saying that he was not kind enough. They had agreed to jointly hype and fake the fight, so why did he reveal the real stuff? How could he face people in the future?

Link said that Harvey was responsible for the hype and that the person he should blame was Harvey.

Quentin was unhappy and said that he had even contributed negative information for the sake of hype, and the loss was very great. He also said that he wanted to expose Link's negative information, such as the fact that Link had many girlfriends.

Link said casually.

(End of this chapter)