Chapter 2026: 2026 City of Friendship

Philadelphia has always been a very important city. This is one of the oldest and most historic cities in the United States. The Declaration of Independence was passed here. Before Washington was founded, Philadelphia was the capital of the United States and is now the fifth in the United States. It is a large city, second only to New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Houston; it is also the fourth largest metropolitan area in the United States, second only to New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.

However, whenever people mention Philadelphia, they always treat it as a backcountry. When people mention the East Coast, people can think of New York, Washington, Miami, and even Boston, but few people will mention Philadelphia. Permanent residents of the New York and Washington areas, in particular, think of Philadelphia as the country—just as New Jersey is a suburb of New York.

This is really a dumbfounding situation. It is precisely because of this special situation that many special stories have been born in the city of Philadelphia. For example, in 2005, a comedy called "It's. Always. Sunny. In. Philadelphia" was directly born. , with strong self-deprecation and banter, has won the love of countless people; another example, the "Philadelphia Story", which made Tom Hanks the first actor, also took place in this area.

Philadelphia has a rich cultural heritage and historical trajectory, and it is a city that has accumulated time; at the same time, it is less than three hours' drive from Washington DC and two hours from New York. In addition, it also has one of the world's largest The estuary port, which makes Philadelphia mixed with many different elements such as politics, economy, and culture.

In order to attract more economy and population, Pennsylvania, where Philadelphia is located, has also set up a large number of different tax exemption policies, including the tolerant tax exemption policy for film shooting. This also makes many film companies willing to pull the crew to Pennsylvania to start shooting.

Hugo has been to Philadelphia many times, and met Cameron Diaz for the first time here. In fact, it was because a film company was recruiting actors here, and at the same time, many film crews were busy working here , Cameron came to Philadelphia to seek opportunities.

Such a policy later proved to be effective. After Canada pasted and copied, this also made the filming locations of the North American film industry gradually move north.

This time, the crew of "The Sixth Sense of the Spirit" chose Philadelphia as their shooting base. In fact, when setting the story, M-Nate Shyamalan planned to set the story in Seattle or Chicago, because these two cities have a relatively more gloomy atmosphere, but they are not as crowded as New York. It is also more atmospheric than Boston.

But Hugo expressed different opinions on Knight's idea. The overall atmosphere of Seattle is too bright, and the lush green makes the whole city have a kind of freshness; Chicago would be more suitable, because the whole city is full of a medium. The gray tone between black and white, and it is a clear gray tone, will not appear to deliberately create a scary atmosphere, nor will it appear to be out of place with the story.

Now many film companies are willing to shoot in Chicago, in fact, because of the relevant tax exemption policies in Illinois, including "My Best Friend's Wedding", "The Devil's Advocate" and so on. However, after careful investigation, I still felt that Chicago was not suitable enough. In the end, Katherine Kennedy mentioned Philadelphia, which attracted everyone's attention.

Philadelphia is a very special city. It is the fifth largest city in the United States, but in fact the high-rise buildings in the urban area are not too dense, and it does not bring people a sense of overcrowded oppression, and even has a sense of The taste of retro cities in the 1960s and 1970s, coupled with the lazy and casual style permeated in the urban air, and the cultural heritage precipitated by history, make Philadelphia full of a unique but moderate family atmosphere. It coincides with the requirements of the "sixth sense of spirituality".

In addition, the weather in Philadelphia is not good. "Philadelphia is always sunny" actually describes the mentality of the people of Philadelphia. The weather here is similar to that of New York and Washington. Even in midsummer, there is always a gray and gloomy atmosphere, not to mention rainy It's been a long, snowy winter.

The dim direct light fits perfectly with the "Sixth Sense of the Spirit". You only need to use natural light without deliberately changing it to achieve that kind of gloomy but not dark atmosphere, which integrates the psychology of family and affection in the story. Fear is perfectly on display.

In the past, Hugo never knew that there are so many mysteries in shooting cities, including the choice of atmosphere and culture, including the influence of weather and light, as well as taxes and government support. This is really a brand new experience.

When we arrived in Philadelphia, autumn had already quietly arrived. In fact, "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" had already signed a contract in May, and the entire crew had been formed, but it was still delayed, but it was not started. The time was pushed back and forth, and several months passed in the blink of an eye.

In the past few months, Hugo was busy with the promotion of "The Truman Show". Due to the strong follow-up influence of the movie, Hugo had to go to Europe to cooperate with the promotion; after the promotion period ended, "Twisted World" The summer performance of "Tour" also kicked off again. Hugo joined the team of Glory to Death and started the third tour of Glory to Death—although it was only an informal tour and a non-ticketed tour, but It still attracted the attention of all young volcanoes and made the entire summer tour market boil.

Glory to Death is on the road from late July to September, and join the underground bands of the Twisted Tour for a midsummer revel, even as the two-year anniversary of the release of The Storm looms In the past two years, Glory to Death has not had many public activities, but their appeal has not weakened, on the contrary, it has gradually increased with the rise of the "Twisted Tour".

Even die-hard rock fans have changed their minds, maybe they still don't like Die Glory - it's a matter of faith - but they have supported the "Twisted Tour", which is indeed countless underground The rock band carnival stage made people discover many talented people who really made music, which really gave American rock music a shot in the arm.

In this way, when all Hugo's trips are over, September will also be over.

Prior to this, "The Truman Show" received an invitation, was shortlisted for the Venice Film Festival, entered the main competition unit, and joined the competition for awards. This made the media excited, because Hugo has already won Oscars and Cannes films. The three Best Actor trophies at the Film Festival and the Berlin Film Festival are only one Venice Film Festival trophy away from the Best Actor Grand Slam. In "The Truman Show", Hugo's outstanding performance is absolutely competitive.

It is a pity that Hugo missed the Venice Film Festival because of the "twisted tour" and did not attend in person-in fact, Hugo has never attended the Venice Film Festival. In the end, "The Truman Show" returned empty-handed with great regret, and did not get a single trophy.

The winner of Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival was the American actor Sean Penn, who won his first Best Actor trophy at a major film festival by relying on "Hurlyburly". This result made many media criticize, because "Floating World Man and Woman" is a group play, Robin White, Meg Ryan, Kevin Spacey, Anna Paquin and a group of people jointly starred, Sean's performance is good, but not up to the height of the award. Relatively speaking, Hugo of "The Truman Show" is far more worthy of a trophy.

But the result is the result. No matter how much the media complains, it cannot change the decision of the Venice Film Festival jury.

The media sighed there, expressing regret that Hugo missed his Best Actor Grand Slam, but Hugo devoted himself to the "twisted tour" and waited until the end of the tour in September before Hugo came to Philadelphia. Ready to put into the shooting of "The Sixth Sense of the Spirit".

When Hugo walked out of the Philadelphia International Airport, the cold air that hit his face made him shiver several times in a row. He was still feeling the strong tail of the hot summer in Los Angeles yesterday, and today he has experienced the prestige of the autumn tiger. Looking at the large expanse of gray in front of my eyes, the sun was amber, falling weakly, even cooler than New York.

The reporters rushed forward in a swarm. Looking at the more than one hundred reporters in front of him, Hugo couldn't help raising his eyebrows. He didn't expect that there were so many reporters in Philadelphia. However, the siege of reporters was expected. Whether it was the topic of the Venice Film Festival or the launch of the "Sixth Sense of the Spirit", it was enough to make the uncrowned kings excited.

Especially the latter.

When the box office of "The Truman Show" exceeded 300 million US dollars, Hugo's control over comedy movies has been proved. Although he is not an actor with a sense of humor like Jim Carrey and Eddie Murphy, he is The interpretation and display of humor has undoubtedly won the hearts of the audience. Under such circumstances, the prospect of "The Sixth Sense of the Spirit" makes people even more excited-what kind of quality and level will this horror movie show, it can be said to be the hottest topic recently.

The reporters surrounded Hugo at the first time and blocked Hugo completely. Facing such a scene, Hugo was relaxed and at ease. Ignoring it, she pushed aside the dense crowd in front of her, and quickly walked into the nanny car in front of her. Samora behind her skillfully snapped back and closed the car door, leaving all the noise and chaos behind her.

The reporters ran tirelessly behind the car, hoping to take a few more photos, but in the end they failed to do so, and could only watch Hugo walk away. A large group of people stood in the same place depressedly, muttering unwillingly: Anyway, the crew will be filming here for a long time, and if they run away from the monk, they will not be able to get away from the temple.