Hollywood Director 1992.

Chapter 224: Filming Completed (Additional Update Request)
After the Cannes Film Festival awards ceremony, Link was invited to attend a cocktail party held at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes.

He was in attendance with the beauty Sophie Marceau.

At the party, Link also met several international filmmakers.

Including Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore, whose representative work is "Cinema Paradiso", Taiwanese director Edward Yang, famous French director Luc Besson, and famous actors Ge You, Catherine Deneuve, and Isabelle Adjani.

And Director Zhang, who was sullen and didn't like him very much.

He talked about cooperation with several international filmmakers. If their film projects lacked funds, they could try Guess Pictures. Guess Pictures would be happy to cooperate with everyone.

In addition to Director Zhang, several international filmmakers responded positively.

During the chat, I heard that director Luc Besson's new film "Léon: The Professional" also participated in the Cannes Film Festival, but did not participate in the film awards selection.

He heard about "Léon: The Professional" and expressed his desire to see it.

After seeing the film in a theater, he offered $450 million to buy the film's theatrical and video distribution rights in North America.

The film cost $1600 million to produce and has not yet been released, so its box office performance is unknown.

The $450 million offer for the copyright was the highest among all distribution companies, and director Luc Besson readily agreed to it.

After finalizing the cooperation, Link came to Paris to sign the copyright contract and stayed in Sophie Marceau's apartment for two days and two nights before flying back to the United States.

After the closing of the Cannes Film Festival, the news that Link's new film won the Palme d'Or for Best Picture was also widely reported by the American media.

It also caused heated discussions in the Hollywood film industry.

Many people don't understand how the film by the famous "trash film director" Link could be recognized by the Cannes Film Festival jury and win the most prestigious award.

This is very unscientific.

Some media people suspected that the selection standards of the Cannes Film Festival had been lowered, and Link won the Palme d'Or by chance.

Some people also speculated that Link spent a lot of money on public relations during the film festival and bought the Palme d'Or. After all, he is worth more than 1 billion and has no shortage of money.

Many people are curious about what Link’s new movie is about and why he won this award.

For this reason, many media reporters went to interview the chairman of the jury of this year's Cannes Film Festival, the famous American film actor and director Clint Eastwood.

Director Eastwood briefly answered reporters' questions during the interview.

He said that Link's new film is a classic, and that it has reached an extremely high level in terms of plot design, camera use, color, editing, visual effects, etc., and that awarding him the Palme d'Or is out of respect for film art.

Clint Eastwood won the Academy Award for Best Director in 1993 for "Unforgiven". He is a representative of Hollywood's powerful actors and directors. His fame and status in the entertainment industry are among the highest. He has a high reputation and prestige and will not speak carelessly.

Hearing Eastwood praising Link's new movie, everyone became more curious about the quality of his movie.
Even Quentin called Link and asked him what the movie was about and why it won the Palme d'Or?

Link said keep it secret.

Guess What Pictures has also duly announced the release date of Seven, which is July 7. Everyone is welcome to comment on this film and see if the Cannes Film Festival’s selection is fair and just.

After returning from France, Link continued filming "The Butterfly Effect" in Vancouver.

"Game 312, start!"

This scene was filmed when the male protagonist found Kelly again after his second time travel. His first love Kelly had become a prostitute with an ugly scar on her face and her life was very miserable.

In order to play the role of a prostitute well, Renée Zellweger found two low-level street prostitutes to help her during the filming. She learned about their lives, the way they spoke, their body shape, their walking posture, and their occupational diseases.

During the performance, Renee put on makeup, staggered from side to side, and twisted her butt, immediately transforming from a sunny and cheerful Texas girl into a low-class prostitute who was tortured and bruised by life.

"Are you sure you don't want the wallet?"

Kelly asked as she picked up Evan's wallet at the restaurant.

"No, I don't need a wallet where I go."

Evan said through tears.

"Why, you're going to change everyone's lives again, is that so?"

Kelly rudely left her wallet on the dining table and said loudly, "Maybe the next time you wake up you'll be in a mansion and I'll be working a lower-class business in Tijuana."

"You know I'm tired of this, every time I try to help someone, everything goes wrong."

Evan said bitterly.

"Really? Don't give up so early. You've done so much to me. Why don't you go back in time and save Mrs. Haben and her baby?" Kelly said fiercely, "Maybe Lenny won't go crazy and kill Tommy, and my family won't be ruined. No, just go back to when I was 7 years old and do those things to me in front of my dad's camera. It would be better if you could just kill me." Kelly staggered to her feet, picked up her wallet and threw it on Evan, then turned and left the restaurant.

Evan covered his face with a painful expression.

"cut!"

"pass."

Even though he shouted, Leonardo still sat in his seat crying, looking depressed and painful.

It's like being trapped in the role and unable to extricate myself.

This is also the result of Link's deliberate guidance over the past month.

Under his guidance, Leonardo's leading actors have a deeper understanding of their roles, a deeper sense of immersion in their roles, and can express their emotions fully during their performances.

This state allows their performances to become more and more natural and smooth, their performance level to get higher and higher, and for many scenes, they can perform in one take with almost no problems.

However, there are also disadvantages. Several leading actors were too immersed in the film, which caused the atmosphere on the crew to become increasingly depressing. When communicating with them, it felt like communicating with movie characters.

This situation is particularly serious in Leonardo.

In the early stages of filming, Leonardo was the most active member of the crew, often joking around with the cast and crew, which made people very worried.

When the filming was one-third done, as the plot progressed, Leonardo gradually became depressed, and the situation became more and more serious in the end.

I heard from the second male lead Mark Wahlberg that sometimes Leonardo would be alone in the room, staring at the script, like Evan reading a diary, which was creepy.

For this reason, Link had to arrange a psychologist to supervise the situation of the main actors on the scene to prevent them from becoming overly involved.

Excessive involvement will make the actors' reactions slow, and it will take a long time to adjust when the plot changes, which is not conducive to the filming of the crew.

"Leon, are you okay?"

Link sat down in front of Leo to chat.

"I am fine."

Leonardo wiped his eyes.

"You should know that we are filming, right?"

Link poured a cup of hot cocoa and pushed it in front of Leo.

"I know."

Leonardo nodded, holding the hot coffee, staring at the hot mist coming out of the cup. "I just remembered that when I was eight years old, a very good friend of mine accidentally fell into the swimming pool and never got up again. I wondered if his death had anything to do with me. If I had been there that day and persuaded him not to go into the water, or called for help in time, he might not have died, and he would have gone to college, married, had children, and grown up happily."

"Your idea is wrong. Buddha said that life and death are impermanent, and everyone's life from birth to death is predetermined. Even if you can save him once, you can't save him a second time.

In addition, his death is also a warning to people around him to stay away from dangerous areas, not to do dangerous things, and to cherish life. If his death had not warned everyone, you and other friends would have taken risks in deep water and done things that risked your life. If you wanted to save him, you would have been murdering others. "

"Ah this."

Leonardo was stunned by his words and tried to retort but found that what he said made sense.

When he was a child, someone drowned in the swimming pool, so the community closed the public swimming pool. They lost a place to play in the water. At the same time, he began to be afraid of water and was afraid to swim in deep water. Other children also had the same situation.

If it weren't for the drowned friend, would they be afraid of water and would they venture into deep water?

"Let go of the desire to help others and respect the fate of others. This is the healthiest attitude towards life."

Link patted his shoulder.

Leonardo nodded silently and looked at Link's back as he left. He suddenly admired Link a little. This guy was only 22 years old, but he was as mature as a wise and knowledgeable elder. This kind of person is worth learning from.

After Leonardo adjusted himself, the crew continued filming.

Since this movie does not have many big scenes and involves few scenes and special effects, it is very easy to shoot for an old filmmaker like him.

Thanks to the great support of the crew and actors, Link finished shooting all the scenes of "The Butterfly Effect" in less than two months.

After filming the movie, Link returned to Los Angeles with the crew to rest for a few days and spend time with his girlfriends.

(End of this chapter)