Three Hundred and Fifty-Three - Ambition

For a person with Wayne's personality, the crazy discussion in the media not long ago did not make him sad because of all kinds of smears. He still has a lot of work to be busy with. Regarding the huge film project to be implemented in the future, Now at most it can be considered a small beginning.

This year is already his sixth year in Hollywood. After these years of continuous accumulation of success, he has gained wealth that no one else can earn in a lifetime, and he has also gained top rights and treatment in the industry.

The foundation laid over the years has fully given him the freedom to realize his ideals. There will no longer be a situation where he will hold a copy and show it everywhere, just asking for a distribution contract, let alone the day when the director contract will be given up.

When Wayne was very young, he hoped to become a police uncle. However, after graduating from college, he impulsively became a movie projectionist because of the movie "Cinema Paradiso". Faced with the increasing pressure of life in the capital, , he chose to escape reality and immerse himself in the world of movies every day.

After being sent to this world due to a sudden serious illness, he felt that God had given him a chance to restart and arranged an extremely happy family. This was like a hint to him that as long as you take good care of yourself Learn to struggle and move forward towards your ideal goal without any worries.

So he has not lived like a child since elementary school. He has been studying for more than ten years with the self-discipline that even adults don't have.

After entering college, faced with the incomprehension of most teachers and professors, he always believed that his choice was right. Those people would one day be impressed by his achievements.

With the million dollars he received from his father, he built a small workshop-style crew and took his first step with full hope. He stumbled and learned in actual combat while filming.

When the filming and production of the film was completed, a change occurred in his heart, as if after so many years of hard study, he was just waiting to take a copy to the Saint-Denis Film Festival and reap the success he expected.

Then at the Saint-Denis Film Festival, I was slapped twice by reality, and I returned to Los Angeles in despair with a copy of the movie.

After the film was finally released by 20th Century Fox, Wayne felt that he had obtained a pass to Hollywood. However, no matter how good the results of the first film were, 20th Century Fox did not give him the credit he deserved.

When he learned that everything he gained came from the support of his parents, his heart changed again, and he fully understood the reality, which made him cherish the Hollywood ticket in his hand even more.

After that, Wayne became a complete workaholic, producing four hugely successful films in four consecutive years, and embarked on a path that no one else could imitate.

Until now, when the film "Batman Begins" was officially released, he not only received the top 20+20 salary in the industry in this project, but also officially established his status as the pioneer of superhero movies. Most people Only Wayne Greenberg's Batman will be remembered, and Tim Burton will be selectively ignored.

No matter how much cheating is involved in his current great success, it ultimately gave him greater ambition and aggressiveness.

In 1975, when Steven Spielberg directed "Jaws", he must have never imagined that the film would earn $470 million at the global box office.

In 1971, when George Lucas directed his first film "THX-1138" with the assistance of Francis Ford Coppola, he never expected that he would later make a movie called "Star Wars" "movie, I would never have expected that it would become the memory of countless people in North America until it became a cultural symbol.

These people have worked hard for a long time, and then succeeded again and again. As their abilities become stronger and stronger, their goals gradually become more ambitious, and eventually they became unavoidable masters in the history of film.

As for Wayne, although he has always had memories of cheating in his past life, he is actually going through this process.

When filming "Happy Death Day", he himself would not have thought that he would be able to establish a foothold in the industry so quickly. Even when he was eager for quick success and wanted to quickly establish his position, he was not sure when he decided to film "Joker". Whether a film with extremely powerful provocative power can adapt to this era.

With each success, he would adjust his goals. When the first Batman movie was completely accepted by movie fans and opened up the superhero movie genre in North America, his ambitions continued to expand and reached their maximum.

The previous golden age of Hollywood gave birth to Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Hitchcock and other great directors who will be remembered in film history.

Then he thought that twenty years later, when people mentioned Hollywood after the 1990s, there was a director who was also unavoidable and had an alternative style, and charted another golden age of movies. His ambition is so great that he wants to be deeply engraved in film history like the great directors above.

Therefore, for those current rumors and all kinds of dirty water, it is impossible for him to distract him. Wayne knows very well that only by continuing to produce successful films is the best way to fight back against those people's hopes, and it is also his own. The best way to move forward with a huge film project.

At this time, the crew moved the filming location again and came to the rented building. The room here was decorated like an office by the set team and prop team.

Brad Pitt was sitting on a chair, with short hair and a suit. The scene being filmed is of his starring role, Bill, who has just left the police academy and wants to enter the police station.

Wayne sat behind the monitor and watched the performance of the three people. This was one of the few remaining scenes in "The Departed" and it was a long shot.

Perhaps it was because the scenes that were difficult to perform were put in front of the filming, and the upcoming vacation made the actor feel a little relaxed. When he was performing only a few literary dramas, he started to have sex frequently.

After being stopped from performing five times in a row and facing the director's increasingly tense expression, Brad Pitt finally adjusted his condition this time.

Unlike the directors he had worked with before, Wayne did not want to show his emotions like David Fincher. Even if the actors performed poorly or the staff made low-level mistakes, he had never lost his temper randomly.

However, the director who always has a cold face puts a lot of pressure on people.

"Your family has connections to the South Boston gang, right? Through your father? Tell us about your uncle Jesse."

Faced with his boss's unusual question, Brad Pitt paused and subconsciously stretched out his hand to straighten the tie around his neck. "He is George Martha's subordinate..."

"He's just a third-rate accountant who manages a small bar in Somerville." The boss put his hands on his hips and interrupted his narrative. "He was killed in 1993, and we found his body at the airport."

"That's right."

"I remember his funeral. It was nice. The coffin was covered, right?"

"That's right." Brad Pitt crossed his arms and looked at the other person and answered again.

"Tell everyone about how you beat up the teacher with a chair and how you were in prep school before you were expelled. Your uncle died like that? I have a question, how bad are you?"

Faced with constant questions, Brad Pitt said nothing, but looked at the other party with wide eyes and anger.

"OK, cut, this is no problem!"

The director's voice finally came from the loudspeaker, and the staff watching around them also gave the three people sparse applause.

After confirming that there was no problem with this shot, Wayne put a check mark with a pen on the last page of the notebook recording the shooting plan.

The on-site staff were busy cleaning up. After more than two months of continuous work, most of them were tired of the crew environment and wanted to end their semi-enclosed life in this city as soon as possible.

"Director Greenberg." Brad Pitt wiped his face with a towel and walked over and leaned on the table. "I heard that you are also rushing back to Los Angeles?"

Basically, his part is over, and the sparse applause just now was also a congratulation to him for completing his work.

"Hmm." Wayne looked away from the book and looked at the relaxed actor. "That's right, Gilmore will stay here for two more days to shoot the remaining cutscenes and some fragmented scenery. There are some activities at Warner Bros., and I have to rush back to participate. Anything?"

Brad Pitt puts down the towel. "I just wanted to say thank you for giving me this role."

This filming lasted for more than two months in Boston. There was not much communication between them. This is the relationship between normal Hollywood crews. We are just colleagues and basically do not have any intentional contact after work.

Brad Pitt's performance has always been good, and his interpretation of the character is quite good. There are rarely scenes of the director narrating his scenes. He is also different from other actors in that he has never lacked acting opportunities, so he did not deliberately contact Wayne.

"You're welcome. Remember to come to the shutdown party in a week. Warner Bros. has reserved a banquet hall."

Wayne stood up and smiled, the two shook hands, and the formal filming ended.

Since some of the behind-the-scenes staff would stay here for a few days, the shutdown party was postponed to a week later. Warner Bros. booked a hotel near its own studio, which gave them enough preparation time and could also invite some media. , promote the video in advance.

Compared with the carnival and indulgence parties when the crew disbanded, this kind of prepared shutdown party is more formal. Nowadays, Hollywood pays more and more attention to marketing, production companies and distribution companies, and will never miss any opportunity for publicity and hype. .

This time, unlike when filming ended before, Wayne did not make any speech, but sent Gilmore to inform everyone, and most of the crew quietly disbanded.

After another overnight stay in Boston that night, Wayne took Christian Bale and Jennifer Connelly, who were traveling with him, on a flight to Los Angeles early the next morning.