Reborn Hollywood Ladies

Chapter 257 Schadenfreude
Many Hollywood movie scripts are created in an assembly-line way, such as those who are good at writing funny plots are responsible for the funny part, and those who are good at love are responsible for the emotional part of the hero and heroine.

The advantage of this is to let the most suitable people go to the most suitable place, but the disadvantage is that it may cause a lot of weakening of the plot.After all, there are too many people, and the line that the previous person wants to bury cannot be too deep, otherwise the part written by others will not be easily integrated.They are all script writers, why should others write according to the lines you buried, right?
Laila still prefers the way that one screenwriter is in charge of one work. Although it requires more abilities of the editor, the written things are more coherent and smooth, and it is easy to express deeper things in it.

The script of "Rush Hour" has been changed a lot under her request, some of which are changes in the original version, and some are supplemented by her according to the shortcomings of the original version in her memory.It can be said that the version she shot is the most satisfactory one created by her comprehensive aspects.

The more than one-hour movie ended smoothly amidst cheers and applause.Some cut shots were placed at the end of the credits, all of which failed and were cut.Such a small detail made many people sit until the end of the movie, instead of leaving when the ending song was played like other movies.

Fans who couldn't get enough of the movie came out of the theater and immediately introduced the movie to their friends in various ways.Some call, some use the Internet, in short, if they don't talk to someone about the movie right away, they can't even sleep.

When Laila quietly left, she saw more than once someone holding a mobile phone and calling a friend, saying that the phone was really great and other compliments.It's reassuring for her, at least it looks good, doesn't it?
However, early the next morning, Demi gave Laila bad news when she came to work.

"The 'Waterloo' of a genius director, in fact, we have already guessed", the headline section of the entertainment section of the New York Post, the huge headline is full of gloating.

The title is catchy, and the content is so good that Lila and "Rush Hour" are worthless, and they almost point their noses and say that she made a bad movie.

"420 million is the first-day box office of the genius director's new movie. Compared with her previous works, it has been reduced by at least half. In fact, many people have already guessed such a result. Why? First of all, this is an action movie , and it’s still an unfamiliar oriental action movie, director Moran himself is not familiar with it at all, so how can he make an authentic movie?”

"Secondly, it's a comedy! Yes, a comedy! Do you expect a horror director to do anything funny? At least after watching the movie, I don't feel anything that would make me laugh at all. "

The wording of the article was very violent, as if the author and Laila had a hatred for killing their father and taking their wife.But this is actually a trick, a trick to get more people to buy their newspaper.It's not a big deal to watch the excitement, and readers like such fierce conflicts.

For the authors and the newspaper, it would be better if Leila could sue them so that their newspaper would generate more sales.

Leila looked at the above comments to her line by line, and finally couldn't help laughing out: "420 million, is it very little?"

"No less! Not less at all!" Demi was not flattering.When her boss was still Reynolds, the movies she shot were not even released, and they were all sold directly on CDs.

It's not that there are some particularly good ones that the company decides to screen, but those are basically on-demand screenings, and the highest screenings are only in a few dozen theaters.

It was only after Leila came to the company that the company's publishing department came into play.At least in Demi's view, the first-day box office of 420 million is really a lot.

More than 400 million a day, won't the cost be made back after the movie is released for a month or two?Judging from the rule that twice the box office of the production cost of the film can get revenue, it should not be difficult for "Rush Hour", which cost more than 3000 million, to get 6 to 7000 million box office, right?Not to mention there are other benefits.

Of course, that's not how the box office works.Generally, there will be a decline, the box office will decrease as the time goes on, and only 420 million movies will be received on the first day, which is basically the same.

In fact, Laila was a little surprised that the box office would be so low. In her imagination, it should be similar to her previous movies.It's a comedy and a kung fu movie, how could it be more popular than her R-rated horror movie?
The available box office made her see the inestimability of Hollywood and audiences again.If things go on like this, it may not take long for the movie to be completely offline, which is not a good thing for her.

What went wrong?Even though she got very good reviews at the premiere, why is the box office so low?Or is there some error in history because of her appearance, so that some places have formed a completely different development trend from the original?

Laila was thinking, and Demi was complaining about her boss.The reason is none other than the sharp reports in the newspapers.

"Boss, look at what they say is too much. They all think that you are pretending to understand when you don't understand, so you can make a bad film. They also think that it was the biggest mistake for New Line to hire you as the director. They also said that you made a mistake yourself. Only then will the money be invested in the rush hour, and it will all be thrown into it.”

At this time, Lila had thought through every plot of the movie in her mind, and after much deliberation, she couldn't find anything worse than the original version, so she finally let go of her restless heart.

After hearing what the secretary said, she smiled slightly: "If you want to say it, let them say it. Whether it is a mistake or not, God will tell them."

Demi can only comfort herself with "the boss's words are never wrong".

"Anyway, this Cooper is too annoying. After he reappeared, he said a lot of good things for you. I thought he had changed for the better. I didn't expect to say such bad things now."

"He's become smarter." Laila smiled meaningfully after reading the New York Post's article criticizing herself, the familiar words of Cooper.

Cooper has indeed become smarter. In order to get out of the mountain smoothly, he spoke good words for her against his will, with an image of being impartial and selfless.And secretly lurking, just wait for her to show her flaws and give her a thunderous blow.

It's really hard for him to wait for a few months before finding a chance to criticize her. I think he has waited very hard, right?

"Oh." She looked at the name on the newspaper, and sighed softly: "Why do some people just fail to learn well, and would rather suffer losses again and again than accept the reality?"

(End of this chapter)