The party was already halfway through when Levi, Clark, and Jack arrived.
"How you want to play is your own business, just don't mess around too much."
Seeing Levi, Bruce told him that Adam had been here but had already left. After that, he no longer cared about Levi and let Levi and the others find their own fun.
This is not a remarkable gathering: before and after the Oscars every year, the influential media will hold a banquet to maintain their connections, saying that it is a celebration and prediction and it is more to inquire about the future of new trends, exchange with each other, to better development. It's just that many real Hollywood celebrities are participating in this banquet, which is grand enough and classy enough to look good.
Hollywood is a place that can be said to be very big but also said to be small. In terms of big, there are more than 50,000 actors, plus other professions, so there must be more than 100,000 people. Speaking of small, there are only so many top stars, and it is not difficult to invite almost every one of them to a banquet.
Jack has a high interest in such a banquet. As a young actor, he only wanted to become famous, so naturally, he also wanted to get to know more celebrities. Levi brought him into the banquet, and Jack and Clark also went around to strike up a conversation. Levi wanted to drink a few more, but who knew? He just drank too much.
When Levi vomited out all the contents of his stomach and let his drowsy head wake up a little with the help of cold water, he did not return to the banquet. He slipped to the back garden of the hotel by himself to have a little quiet.
'How long have I not experienced the feeling of drinking and vomiting?'
He still hasn't fully adapted to the time-traveling. He even forgot that the current body is no longer the alcohol-tested body of the past. Getting drunk after three glasses of wine was unbelievable to the previous self. Still, it is a real problem for the current self. But it's okay; If you can only drink less, it is better to drink less. Drinking is harmful to your body, after all.
At such a banquet, what he should do is find a beautiful woman, but all he did was drink.
Maybe he is too happy on this day - for Levi, the successful creation of the script and the opportunity to shoot a TV series are a firm step towards his dream. Such a step has never been completed in his two lifetimes.
Levi had always dreamed of becoming a great director in his previous life. He never had enough opportunities and abilities to try his dream at that time. To be a director, to shoot the stories he wants, to shoot the stories he likes - such a dream is so out of reach for him.
In his previous life, he had hit a wall several times. On the one hand, he didn't want to shoot nonsense scenes that were totally unreasonable and succumbed to actors and investors. On the other hand, he didn't want to shoot movies that could only win at film festivals but were not allowed to show to the public. He was not pleased with both ends, and he had paid enough for his ideas.
He never gave up and worked hard towards his dream. He has tried and worked hard. Although he has not been very successful, he has never given up. However, not giving up does not mean your dream will be realized.
If not for this time travel, his dream may still be so far away.
And now, he finally did something different from before. However, this success turned out to be so strange. He was reborn, crossed over, and became the second generation in the circle. Hence, success came easily - this subject matter that he didn't bother to use in movies in his previous life has now come true. Of course, this TV series is not something he particularly likes. In a sense, the filming of this TV series copied other people's ideas. It is not particularly glorious, nor can it be said that it is the realization of his dream. It's not plagiarism. But this gave him a chance to get closer to his dream. With enough money and enough status, he could shoot what he wanted, which was his accumulation. Maybe his means are despicable, but he will never forget his pursuit.
Everything has changed in the past and present life, but this idea remains the same in the two lives.
Moreover, even if he plagiarized himself, and maybe he was not worthy of talking about dreams, but Bob finally realized his idea. Look at Bob's happiness and people's excitement after realizing their dreams, and think about their own life; how could Levi be unhappy when he took this step?
Your dreams will come true one day.
A soft sound came from his ear, interrupting Levi's immersion in memories and dreams. He turned around and saw a woman with blond hair and a long pink dress. Unlike Levi, she seemed to have encountered something sad—her thick eye makeup had been messed up by crying so that Levi couldn't recognize what she looked like; he only saw a face full of crying makeup and a rather exquisite figure under the long skirt. Obviously, she also came to the garden to avoid the dinner party.
She is a very hot girl without looking at her face—maybe because of drinking, Levi found that not only is he sentimental today, but his thoughts are always quite divergent.
"Hello, miss." Seeing the other party crying as if she didn't see him, Levi had no choice but to say hello.
Seeing his presence, the woman dodged a step back as if startled. After seeing clearly that it was just a thin man in a suit, the woman was relieved.
"I'm sorry, I lost my temper." The woman opened her mouth, her voice was still clear, and Levi could also recognize that she was not very old; maybe it was more appropriate to say a girl, "I thought there was no one in the garden."
"You can completely ignore my existence." Levi smiled, "I'm not an important person anyway." His words didn't make the girl feel better; instead, she trembled and lowered her head even more, "Is it more important than me? Any person is more important than me."
"What's the matter? What happened?" Levi added the second half of the sentence in his heart: 'You might as well say it and make me happy.'
Maybe he drank a little too much, and when he saw a woman, the first thing he thought of was to tease and have fun, but who would be interested in hooking up with this crying makeup?
"There's nothing to be unhappy about. What can I be unhappy about? I'm a model from New York. My agent told me that I could come here and try to be an actor, so I came here. But until now, I can only act in third-rate bad movies in Hollywood, and in those movies, I'm just a bad character who plays a minor part!" The blonde girl had entirely forgotten where she was when she was talking, and she was full of bitterness, "I am a model, and I am not short of opportunities in New York. I like acting. People who have seen my performance say that I am a genius. When I came to Hollywood, I thought I could be successful. But here, I am nothing. I feel like a bad actor playing a bad role in a bad movie."
"Welcome to Hollywood." Levi spread his hands and made a bowing motion. This is Hollywood. I don't know how many girls who have dreams, have performance experience, and are famous beauties in their hometown came to Hollywood. However, after these girls arrived here, they realized that the opportunity to become famous here was not easy to find. Their talents and beauty are not as extraordinary and refined as they imagined.
Excellent actors from all over the United States and even most of the world are gathered here. Here, there are all kinds of beauties and talents. Many people can be one in a million in their hometown, but when they come here, they are nothing. Getting ahead here is not easy. Looking at the girl in front of him, Levi felt somewhat fortunate: Compared with these women who needed to wear heavy makeup and go to the banquet to seek opportunities, although her creative process was a bit more complicated, at least she did not lose her dignity too much.
Standing beside the girl, Levi surprisingly didn't think about comforting her and taking the opportunity to get some benefits. At this moment, he looked at the hall in the distance and the girl there, but he was thinking about other things.
Success and failure in this place of Hollywood are too direct and too much—Different from the undercurrents of other industries, Hollywood filmmakers live inside and outside the camera, and successful people can enjoy everything under the camera. Those who fail can only look enviously outside the scope of the lens.
There are two worlds inside and outside the lens. Maybe it's just a wall, but the difference between the two is as big as a gap that cannot be crossed. All the lenses are aimed at the inside of the lens. Countless people want to squeeze into the lens. For them, taking a step out will change their whole life.
"You came here hoping to get a new opportunity to perform?" The girl could no longer control her emotions, and Levi wanted to comfort her, but the dizziness and brain swelling made him give up the idea. Comforting a woman is a meticulous job; as drunk as he was, Levi wouldn't try it. Besides, he didn't like to win women's favor by consoling.
"I came here just for a photo shoot in the magazine. Not the cover, not the center page. It's just an ordinary piece. As long as I have a single report, I can have the opportunity to act in a movie, and I can usher in the peak of my career, but I can't get it. I thought I was an attractive woman, but here, I can't attract anyone at all! The way they look at me is like looking at a fool."
A standard report on "Variety Show" is worth 300,000 dollars. With that amount, you can find any woman. She is not without charm, but her appeal is not worth an ordinary report.
However, it is tough to succeed with her psychological quality of crying like a mess after being rejected by someone.
Maybe he was too drunk, and his brain was burnt out, or perhaps seeing Bob's happiness in realizing his dream during the day or possibly seeing Jack's disappointment in waiting for his dream, looking at her, Levi suddenly felt sympathetic, waved to her, and said again, "What's the problem? You can wait here for a while. Don't worry, isn't it just getting published in a magazine? I'll help you to have a section in the magazine."
*******
You can read advanced chapters on my Patreon account: https://www.patreon.com/Sayonara816
If found any issues, please let me know. I will update the chapter.
"Bruce, I need a section in the magazine."
Getting a section in a media magazine may be difficult for other women, but it is just talking to Bruce for Levi. However, when Levi found Bruce, things didn't go as smoothly as he had imagined.
"Nick, I thought your brain was improving a few days ago. But why is your brain getting worse and worse now? Even if you messed around in the past, at least you knew that film reviews are the basis of our family, so you didn't mess around with the magazine. Why do you want to take the panel from me to chase women? What are you thinking? You still need to use these methods to find a woman; you are worse than before. Don't you know how to cheat?" Looking at this brother who told him without hesitation that he should lie to women, Levi was also a little speechless.
However, the purpose Levi was looking for him was not for women, but more for being happy today and wanting to help others, so he was pretty persistent about it.
"It's just a section..."
"Our magazine, the price of a section is 300,000; how good is your girl? Can she be worth 300,000? Stop talking nonsense, Nick. Don't embarrass me. My work is also not easy, that you can do whatever you want."
"Your job is collecting money and writing reviews; what's so difficult?"
"Do you think reviews are easy to write? Besides, the most important thing about my job is maintaining the status of critics." Bruce was a little restless, "You also know that in recent years, with the rise of the Internet, the status of critics has declined. 'Variety Show' has just been acquired recently, and it didn't start very smoothly on the Internet. I have been in a lot of trouble recently. Don't add to the mess, okay?"
Levi looked at Bruce and realized something: Bruce was anxious because the print media seemed to be dying. Bruce has considerable status and influence among film critics. Perhaps, he should advise him to do something else.
"Bruce, I don't know much about the industry of film criticism. Some words may be wrong, but you can use them as a reference." Levi pondered for a while before speaking, "Since your paper media has come to an end, you also realize the future is the Internet age. Why not set up an online review agency directly?"
"Our magazine has online reviews."
"I'm not talking about the magazine's website, especially the 'Variety Show' that needs payment to read reviews. Fee-based websites are outdated; who would pay ten dollars to read a movie review?" Levi immediately pointed out the problem of his magazine, "The reason why the Internet age is more popular than paper media is that it is more free, everyone can talk nonsense irresponsibly, and everyone can express their opinions. In this era, insisting on charging a few high-end reviews will not succeed. Why don't you think about running a website where anyone can comment on movies? After the movie is released, if fans have a special place where they can write movie reviews, read other people's movie reviews, and rate movies, such a website will be very popular."
After the advent of the Internet age, Internet media quickly replaced other media and became people's favorite media model, which naturally has its reasons. When people search for reviews about a movie online, they naturally hope to see more different opinions, and, as movie fans, many people also want to express their views. Whether their opinions are professional or not, people are willing to share them anyway. Professional media has had the advantages of professional media for a long time. They are much better at understanding various shooting skills, acting skills, and technological means in movies than ordinary people.
Simply put, seeing Superman flying in the sky, ordinary people will think that it is good-looking, but professionals may be thinking, what kind of technology is used for this flight? As an actor, how long does it take to be suspended in mid-air if you want to shoot for such a scene? This seemingly simple thing is where professionals are proud. They understand movies better than others and hold the right to comment on films, making them even more influential in Hollywood.
Only now, that era is about to pass. The entertainment industry is always an industry that requires the audience's participation. When the Internet becomes popular and people can express their opinions more, this kind of online comment will inevitably become a future trend. Compared with professional magazines, such comments may not be professional enough, but a variety of opinions and attitudes will make this model popular. In addition, everyone can upload videos and pictures. It is a trend. If you want to rely on the Internet, there is no hope for paid websites, paid-to-read movie reviews, or hard photos to compete with this model.
IMDB, which was in operation in 1990, has now started to be commercialized. Levi knew this, and he knew how big the future of the web would be. He didn't come in time to catch up, so he perhaps wanted to take another review-based website, Rotten Tomatoes, into his own hands.
As a filmmaker, it never hurts to be on good terms with the critical press - look here at people who are trying frantically to please magazine editors for a cover for a short story, and tomorrow, when the Internet hits, they'll do the same. The owner of the network media will be infinitely flattered.
It is vital to have the right to speak. Now he is just a little director with nothing, but what's wrong with paving the way early and thinking about his future?
Levi's words made Bruce fall silent. He drank the wine in his hand, then licked his lips and thought carefully before speaking again.
"Such a website may be very popular, but what's the point?" Bruce didn't deny that such a model would indeed make more money. He knew that the more engaging entertainment, the more it would attract people to participate, "A website with a lot of page views, you don't have to worry about having no advertising fees to earn-but such a website is nothing to the professional film critics. There must be many idiots on websites expressing opinions, which means the industry will never look at this kind of shit website."
Bruce was keenly aware of the problem, making Levi admire him. Indeed, a website like Rotten Tomatoes is really easy to become popular, and it is easy to gain the popularity of the public. It is a perfect platform to promote a particular commercial movie. However, such a website also has a big problem: everyone can express their opinions, which can naturally attract customers, but it will also make professionals dismissive of it.
In Levi's memory, the correlation coefficient between Rotten Tomatoes and movie awards never seems to be high, not only Rotten Tomatoes but also IMDB. In the eyes of professionals, this kind of website has no weight at all. The taste of the public is very different from that of filmmakers. For example, on the IMDB list, all superhero movies have high scores, and these movies are no different from the dust in the eyes of Oscar judges.
Bruce is a professional film critic—spontaneous amateur film critics were not prominent in previous years—and he doesn't realize the significance of this private comment that has no place in the professional film critic circle.
However, this is not a problem at all.
"Bruce, is your brain really not working enough?" Levi sighed, "Whoever said that you need to use this kind of thing to maintain your status? This is just to make online comments flourish, and at the same time, it's just income. With this income, you can invite the most professional film critics to write articles for your website and expand your influence. When you have enough money and influence, you can start an online film critic award on the Internet—when you judge the awards, as long as you invite only professional film critics, won't your status be improved?"
Levi slightly disdained Bruce's dullness, "Every new media appears, there will be some people who will benefit from it. Just a few years ago, people did not have the concept of the North American Broadcast Film Critics Award, but now, it has become popular. After a few years, it may be able to compete with the national film critics. People choice award - this award is not transparent at all, there are no nominations, and it is awarded directly. If you can create an award for online film critics, who else do you need to look at that time?"
The best way is to have the right to speak. It is good to help others win awards, but it would be even better if it is fundamentally able to present awards by yourself. In Levi's memory, Rotten Tomatoes later organized the selection of the Golden Tomato Awards, but it was not very popular because of its low professionalism. However, if such a website is placed in the hands of a professional film critic like Bruce, it may be another matter.
If film critics can open up the network, they will help themselves even more.
Moreover, even if you fail, you have nothing to lose!
"Your idea may be right. I should consider whether I should make some articles from the Internet." Bruce's eyes lit up, and he nodded with satisfaction, very satisfied with Levi's approach, "Your idea is excellent... You have much bolder thinking and a clearer understanding than my group of men. Are you really sure you don't want to come and help me? If your film is a mess, come back and help me."
"My movie will get better and better." Levi rolled his eyes at him, "Even if I really can't get better, I won't need help from you. I have my ways."
"As you like. Oh, there are new guests here, and I'm going to entertain them. Anyway, I'm always happy to help you. Do you have anything else to do?"
"Of course, you forget my original purpose—give me a magazine section."
"Okay," Bruce replied immediately, "but is one section enough? I'll give you an inside page—you gave a good idea; what are these things worth?"
*********
You can read advanced chapters on my Patreon account: https://www.patreon.com/Sayonara816
If found any issues, please let me know. I will update the chapter.
ความคิดเห็นย่อย
คุณลักษณะความคิดเห็นย่อหน้าอยู่ในขณะนี้บนเว็บ! เลื่อนเมาส์ไปที่ย่อหน้าใดก็ได้แล้วคลิกไอคอนเพื่อเพิ่มความคิดเห็นของคุณ
นอกจากนี้คุณสามารถปิด / เปิดได้ตลอดเวลาในการตั้งค่า
เข้าใจแล้ว