Chapter 965 965 Self-Promotion

"I've never tried to sell my script, oh, that makes me a little nervous." Hugo tried to speak, but couldn't find an entry point, and it really wasn't that simple.

David completely enjoyed it. When he met Hugo, he was already after "Schindler's List". In his impression, Hugo was always calm and gentleman, gentle and clear, but he had never seen Hugo. At such a young and tense moment, such a Hugo exudes the dry taste of the sun, David couldn't help but wonder how Hugo persuaded his friend to give him the role of Amon Goss, David. Knows Steven's trouble better than anyone.

"Just treat it like an audition, as if you persuaded Steven to put you in his work; now you're trying to persuade me to invest in your work," David said with a smile.

Hugo shook his head gently, "It's different. Acting is what I'm good at. I can fully immerse myself in a character and let the director feel the power of the character; but the script, no, this is a completely different item. Work." Hugo felt that his palms had begun to sweat, and this feeling of nervousness was really long gone.

David was amused by Hugo's jerkyness, "It's no different. As a screenwriter, all you need is to put in your script and tell me how you understand it and how you look at it, as if you It's the same thing as being in a character. So, tell me how you came up with this... er, experimental script."

Hugo let out a sigh of relief, "Well, it's like this." Hugo calmly thought for a moment, "At first I just wanted to tell a simple story, maybe a man and a woman meet and spend their time together. A romantic evening."

"This is a good story, and I think many viewers will like it." David also whistled, causing Hugo to laugh. If it is about a night. The love story should indeed be interesting.

"Yes, I think so too." Hugo couldn't help but relax a little, "but the question is, how should we tell this night? There are many choices and many ways, and it suddenly occurred to me that maybe we can talk about it in detail. It's a night where people can appreciate love -- at least passion budding and erupting."

David's eyes lit up slightly, he nodded his chin in satisfaction, and motioned for Hugo to continue.

If you want to tell about one night. Love, as if there are indeed many, you can focus on the hot intersection, or you can focus on the wind in the night. The consequences of the flow, or a little more dramatic about the various dog blood that intersected this night. But almost all movies seem to ignore, how does the bud of love come about?

Some people who are willing to review the history of love movies can find that almost all movies ignore the process of love, whether it is love at first sight or a long-term relationship, or a friend becomes a lover, or else there is a spark after an unexpected outbreak of passion, But no matter what the method is, the germination and fermentation of the element of "love" itself has been ignored.

The movie is more willing to focus on the romance after the budding of love. Ignorance, sweetness, romance, or problems that arise after love occurs, the hero and heroine use love to overcome all difficulties and obstacles, overcome all setbacks and difficulties, and finally achieve a perfect happy ending.

Not only because movies need conflict and ups and downs, they need these fierce contradictions to stimulate and attract audiences; but also because of the "germination of love", which is almost an inexpressible process, it needs sudden explosive force, and it needs continuous continuity. For brewing and foreshadowing, what is needed is a strong chemical reaction, and what is needed is a delicate and real outline.

It's an almost impossible task to speak convincingly of "the buds of love." Occasionally, you can see such a process in TV dramas, showing the bud of love delicately and truly, which takes a long time; but more often, even TV dramas omit this step.

Therefore, Hugo's idea can indeed be said to be very experimental, because the idea itself goes against the commercial nature of the film industry. But David was even more curious about how Hugo wanted to perform and how he would show this process.

"It's like saying that many times people will tell that after two people fall in love at first sight, they have similar interests, and there are endless things to say. It's dawn when they talk, but what did they say?" Hugo also gradually entered at this time. When the state is over, the words naturally begin to flow endlessly. "How do the thoughts of two people collide, how do they generate sparks, and how do they attract each other? This process, from the conversation of words to the exchange of eyes, to the touch of eyes. Touching is actually very delicate. You must know that it takes at least six to eight hours to chat until dawn, and there are countless topics that can be talked about. After the passage of time, what kind of topic made two strangers get to know each other gradually, and then they were heartbroken."

Having said this, a smile suddenly formed on the corner of Hugo's mouth. He recalled this idea again, and still felt very enlightened, "If we focus on this process and show it in 90 minutes, what will it be like? ?"

"Do you mean to condense the entire night of the encounter between two strangers into ninety minutes, and present it in complete and detailed manner?" David was quite surprised, this was really a bold and outrageous idea, "Then the whole Movies are full of dialogue, nothing but dialogue!”

"Yes, that's what I meant." Hugo's amber eyes shone with brilliance, clearly outlining his excitement and excitement, "Two strangers met unexpectedly on the road, in order to pass the time, chatting Get up, you know, men and women, young and energetic, full of sparks, and soon had a chemical reaction. I thought it was just a temporary passion, but it seemed like an ordinary journey. Yan. Yu, one night's After the romantic relationship, they returned to their respective lives. But surprisingly, with the deepening of the conversation, the collision of ideas made the two people more excited than the physical collision, so things began to become complicated. The conversations are also getting wider and deeper.”

Hugo took a sip of red wine, allowing his dry throat to feel the moisturization of the liquid, and then couldn't wait to add, "In the end, things actually return to the simple position, that is, they are attracted to each other, that strong chemical reaction. It spreads uncontrollably with the collision of thoughts. It's like... just like all love, it starts from simple, then gradually becomes complex, and then from complex to simple, to an end, love is love, no To love is not to love, and in the end, it will remain like this forever."

"Wow." David looked at Hugo, who was beaming in front of him. Apart from such a sigh, he couldn't say anything. Should he say that Hugo was too bold, or should he say that Hugo's ideas were novel and unique?

Hugo always seemed to give people a sense of novelty, different from his gentle gentleman's appearance, whether it was Glory to Death or his style of acting, with a strong personal style, and the same is true for this script today. David has been rolling in Hollywood for more than 20 years, but this is the first time he has heard such a script. The strong impact made David's exclamations come out involuntarily.

"It's really a script full of... surprises." David tried to find a suitable adjective to express his thoughts, but found it difficult to find a match in his mind, which made him a little funny, "I finally understand now. Why did you come to see me?"

It's not that Steven Spielberg or George Lucas are conservative. On the contrary, both of them are bold. Steven's "Jaws", "Jurassic Park", George's "Star Wars" is a work that breaks the inertia of the industry and creates a new genre.

But the problem is that these two people are indeed lacking in this experimental, literary, and delicately crafted subject matter. Steven's description of emotions has always been a weakness, and George is an absolute technical control. Relatively speaking, David is indeed the most suitable candidate.

Hugo didn't deny this either, he chuckled lightly, "In fact, the reason why I wanted to write this script was to tell a love story that would happen in real life, without coincidences, without drama, There is no conflict, it is like a stream flowing slowly, and the heartbeat spreads naturally. An unforgettable journey is like a fateful emotional collision, although it is shown through what happened overnight between a man and a woman, but It is telling everything about time and life. Natural, real, but moving."

Having said that, Hugo has also developed enough self-confidence, willing to directly praise his script, sell his script to David, and no longer be shy, because he believes that this script is worth investing in and trying, "so I impulsively Wrote the script, even though I didn't know anything about the screenwriter's job."

David was amused by Hugo's honesty, "So you need the help of a producer." At this time, David also understood that in such an experimental script, Hugo himself had enough funds to invest, but Hugo still I found myself because Hugo needed a professional to help steer, "I can be your first choice, I must admit, I feel honored at this moment."

Hugo scratched his head a little embarrassedly. In fact, he didn't choose producers or investors at all. David was just the most suitable person among the friends he knew. But now being ridiculed by David, it makes Hugo shy.

David chuckled, "So, what's the name of this script? It can't just be called 'One Night Chat' or 'The Germination of Love'. Such movies can't be sold."

"No, no..." Hugo waved his hands again and again, "The movie is called 'Before Sunrise'."