061 18 Years Old

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For Hollywood, in the last week of January 1987, what attracted the most attention was no longer the new Golden Globe Awards ceremony, but a teenager and the first film directed by a teenager.

"The 3rd Sundance successfully concluded, and "Lola Run" came home with a full load."

This is an article published on the front page of The Hollywood Reporter on January 27th.

On January 26, at the closing ceremony of the Sundance Film Festival founded by Hollywood superstar Robert Redford, "Lola Run" won the "Jury Award" and "Photography Award" as expected.

Ten days before that, due to its popularity, the Sundance Film Festival Organizing Committee had to temporarily double the number of screenings of "Lola Run", but the movie tickets were still in short supply.

At the awards ceremony that day, it was obviously influenced by "Lola Run", and the Egyptian Cinema in Park City was also full.

only.

In any case, Sundance is still just a film festival just getting started.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that during this period, it is not so much that the Sundance Film Festival has improved the fame of "Lola Run", it is better to say that the media's coverage of "Lola Run" has in turn improved the Sundance Film Festival's reputation. Attention.

Under normal circumstances, after participating in such a film festival that is not very influential, everyone will be lively and beautiful for a short time, and everything will soon return to calm.

However.

For Simon.

For "Lola Run".

Many things are just beginning.

January 28.

Wednesday.

An article in the "Los Angeles Times" completely lit up a certain name that has always unknowingly appeared in the corner of many people's eyes these days, making it so dazzling.

"18 years old"

A title that is so concise that it is even a little suspenseful.

The accompanying picture is a set photo during the filming of the casino scene of "Lola Run". The young man with his hands resting at the gaming table stared at the roulette wheel in front of him with a slight frown, obviously thinking about something. Dozens of men and women around standing, sitting, leaning against the wall, or chatting in their spare time, were obviously paying some attention to the teenager at the table.

A perfect capture, showing some kind of wonderful strong dominance. Anyone who sees a photo can almost at a glance determine who is at the center of the photo world.

Peter Butler is obviously also a very good photographer.

and an excellent writer.

"First, think back, when you were 18, what were you doing?"

"Then, look at another person. His 18-year-old began in a public mental hospital in the small town of Watsonville on the San Francisco Bay. Dilapidated, gloomy, deep cold, this is the deepest feeling when the author specially visited. However, he He completed another nirvana in his life there. Why say it again, because his life seems to be filled with countless unknown nirvanas. The author visited many people who used to be around him, and everyone said that he was a A very hard worker."

"However, I'm only talking about his 18 today."

"In the first four months of age 18, he recovered from some sort of mental illness that fell from the sky and changed his last name to Westeros. Simon Westeros."

"I asked him what 'Westeros' meant? He said he couldn't tell, and he didn't want to make up a reason to lie to me. Then I asked him where you came from, but he told him all about it, not even hiding his experience in a mental hospital. Obviously, 'Westeros' is more important, but we'll probably never know."

"In the fifth month of the age of 18, he came to Los Angeles with two scripts and successfully persuaded the vice president of wma to sign him and become the only screenwriter client under the other party's name."

"In the sixth month of the age of 18, he was working in a convenience store with an hourly salary of $3.50 and $140 a week. The convenience store owner said he was a promising cashier, but his salary was not enough to pay the rent. So he borrowed a Got a guitar, made hundreds of dollars in an afternoon in Venice Beach, and the hotel owner said he was a promising guitarist."

"In the seventh month of the age of 18, he successfully sold his first screenplay for $200,000, which is equivalent to ten years for most screenwriters."

"In the eighth month of the age of 18, he started shooting his first film."

"So, he became a producer, director, screenwriter, photography, editing, lighting, soundtrack... Finally, "Lola Run" is amazing. Amazing, this is the most appropriate word I can think of."

"The first time I met him was in the ballroom of a hotel in Santa Monica. It was a casino scene, and Santa Monica doesn't have a casino. I asked Mr. Ron Macmillan, the film's producer. , isn't this a bug? Ron was a little speechless, gestured for a moment, as if imitating someone's tone, and told me: The director said that there is a casino, so there is a casino."

"This sentence, which is similar to a joke, has a deep memory in my memory, and now, I realize it more, it seems to be some kind of wonderful metaphor."

“Then I spent an entire afternoon on his set watching him run the set in a way that was totally different from other film directors. He didn’t shout or explain patiently, he was more Likes to order. It's like the whole movie is firmly in his head and he just needs to re-copy it on film. As for the rest, it's just props."

"Even himself."

"Gaffer

Unable to stand his harshness, he resigned after only three days of work, and he personally served as a lighting engineer. Before that, he was already a producer, a screenwriter, and a director. After that, he was a composer, an editor, and a colorist. When I was in Park City, I asked him: Isn't it tiring to do so much work? He said not tired, can save money. "

"Of course, he was really cheap to make the movie. With a budget of $650,000, he ended up spending only $597,000. Obviously, in Hollywood, where cost control is always out of order, all studio owners will absolutely Very much looking forward to this type of director.”

"However, I think this is more because he is too proud and feels that other people's work is inferior to himself."

"Although everyone I asked felt that he should be proud, including myself, but at the same time, it was difficult for everyone to feel any pride in him, and he always seemed to be a very ordinary and peaceful young man. For this, some words of his girlfriend Jenny seem to explain Xu: He is a guy who is so proud that he no longer disdains pride, like a god from another world, suddenly descended to the world to conquer the world."

"We were in a small restaurant in Park City, and everyone had just finished the premiere of 'Lola Run.' I was so shocked by his film that I questioned countless times that it was really something an 18-year-old could have made. Movie?"

"Then, as the lunch drew to a close, I finally couldn't hold back, so I asked him: Simon, are you a god?"

"He said no, he was human. A man who likes women."

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