Chapter 1758

Langley and Rooney sit cross legged in two corners of the dining room, their ears are surrounded by lazy and comfortable jazz, and piles of thick script projects are piled around them. They concentrate on entering the world woven by the screenwriter. It looks like two nerds are preparing for the exam, immersed in the sea of books and knowledge.

But the way the two read the script was very different.

Rooney likes to turn to a page of the script at will, and then browse the lines and dialogues carefully. If she can't arouse ideas or collide with inspiration, she will put the script down; Lan Li is used to reading the first and last pages of the script, watching the story structure of the beginning and ending, so as to explore the whole idea and intention of the screenwriter.

Of course, the two people's reading purposes are quite different, which also determines the difference in reading speed and way. Rooney is really reading the script, while lanli is digging the project. It is obvious that lanli's reading speed is very fast, and the scripts that can make him calm down and savor are rare.

It's not that Langley doesn't respect the hard work of the writers, but that the number of plays is too large——

Roughly speaking, there are at least 500 projects in front of us, which does not rule out the possibility that Andy will continue to add later, or that some script projects may only have a few pages of framework statements, which also means that the actual number may be more. If Langley wants to get the job done quickly, he has to speed up.

At the beginning, Lan Li would read it carefully. It took an average of three to five minutes for a script. But half an hour later, he found that the speed of "consumption" of his script was too slow. Then he looked up at the hill above the dining table... Lan Li decided to speed up.

Although it's a speed-up, the growth rate is really limited: this time, it's for Sisyphus pictures to select projects, not Langley; Moreover, it is the plan for independent films. Many strange projects have appeared in front of us, and the browsing speed has slowed down involuntarily. Some are famous, others are unheard of. But to be sure, these are all the fruits of the painstaking efforts of art creators, showing the remaining artistic cells behind the supremacy of Hollywood's interests.

There are many amazing works.

Like "Swiss saber man.".

This work tells a wonderful story: a man is living on a desert island. When he is about to despair, he finds a corpse, and then takes the corpse as his friend and names him; Later, the man found out that the corpse was able to speak. Although it was his illusion, the corpse was like a Swiss Army knife. It had all kinds of functions, and even could use farting as a driving force to drive on the water, which became his greatest hope to escape from the desert island.

It's no exaggeration to say that it's a neurotic story with a big brain hole. Not to mention the quality and effectiveness of the work, at least the writer's unrestrained style is worth affirming.

Or "party chat up tips.".

The story takes place in a small English town where punk has just risen in the 1970s. A group of middle-aged and young people wander around all day, pretending that they are the coolest group in the world, but they are actually a group of adolescent virgins. One day they learned that they thought punk spiritual leaders were going to hold a party. They decided to sneak into it to see if they could find a date, but they broke into an alien party and started a 48 hour chat up fight.

The seemingly common alien story is full of strange ideas. If he remembers correctly, the script is adapted from the novel. The original author is Neil Gaiman, and the representative works are sand man, American gods and stardust.

Through these bizarre works, we can get a glimpse of the current situation of American film production industry.

In fact, the activity of artistic creation still exists. Independent filmmakers still have many special ideas, but they are constrained by the shackles of two tights. In the era of interest first and entertainment to death, the ideas of film production companies are becoming more and more limited. Either actively or passively, they refuse to produce these unique works, and then David Finch Cohen brothers and other directors with unique styles have become more and more passive, and their creative inspiration has gradually faded in the years.

Sisyphus film is not a charity company. Even if Lan Li has a heart, he can't achieve it by his own efforts. He has never been a savior, and he doesn't want to be a savior.

If we can build a streaming media platform and find a small living space for these works through the online film library, so that they can continue to breathe freely and find like-minded friends, it would be like a fire to save the inspiration of artistic creation.

Before, when Langley and Andre mentioned these ideas, they were just a divergent thinking. They said it when they thought of it. There was not much strong drive in their heart; But now, Langley is really interested in the streaming media platform. He can leave a piece of paradise for don Quixotes within his ability. Why not?

After realizing this, browsing script selection project has evolved from a job into a fun, and the mood and state become more and more positive. In this way, the action of browsing slows down again.

"Hey, look at the script." "I think you'll like it very much," he said, raising his head in the direction of Rooney

"Oh?" Rooney put the script on her lap and looked up at lenley.

Lan Li immediately began to recite, "she was standing in the counter, busy with her work. She unconsciously raised her head. In the vast crowd, she saw the woman with short golden hair, fur coat and elegant appearance. The woman's eyes inadvertently shifted. The two people's eyes touched each other, and then she also stopped... "

Lanli's elegant and deep voice is flowing slowly, just like the light rosemary fluttering in the warm milk yellow halo in the room. If there is a golden musical charm that sounds like jazz melody, the world will be so quiet, as if you are in the sea of people, but you can easily catch the sight, and time and space will slowly solidify.

Langley stopped reading and looked up at Rooney.

However, Rooney did not return to her senses. She was still savoring the rhythm between the lines. After a while, she returned to her senses and showed a shallow smile. "The last time I read the script, I didn't have the charm you recited."

Blue Li picked to pick eyebrow tail, "Oh? Have you ever been invited? "

"Yes, I got the script when I finished shooting the girl with the dragon tattoo." Lu Ni gently jaw head, "however, at that time after shooting that work, my whole person was exhausted, I need to rest for a period of time, so I refused, and then gave myself a period of vacation."

Her expression showed the appearance of thinking again. She seemed to be carefully recalling the feeling of reading the script at the beginning, and then she shook her head helplessly. "Now I only remember some fragments of the script, which are very retro in the 1950s and 1960s, but other specific contents have been lost. I couldn't help it. At that time, my whole body and mind were exhausted, and I didn't have any idea of entering a new job. "

"But I'm sure the texture of the script is not as glamorous as you're showing." Rooney looked at blue again and joked with a smile.

Lan Li raised his right hand and put it on his left shoulder. He made a gesture of thanks and said, "well, are you still interested in learning about it now? In my opinion, the character's temperament is very suitable for you, some chilly and some alienated, but only a few people can capture the tenderness and delicacy in the eyes

The ambiguous atmosphere is surging slowly in the air.

Rooney tilted her head and relaxed her muscles. "Isn't the script in production yet? It's almost two years. If my memory doesn't go wrong, I think the shooting should be finished. As I remember, Mia seems to have decided to play the leading lady With that, Rooney held out her right hand.

Lenley handed over the script. "I don't have any clue. But one thing is certain that it is not easy for such projects to find suitable investors. I looked at the director column, and now it's vacant. I don't know if I haven't found it yet or if I've changed it. "

"Oh, the previous director was... Er, the director who worked with Andrew Garfield on the boy's work. What's his name? Suddenly, his memory was broken." Rooney is still holding out her right hand, holding the script, but falling into the rut of her own thinking.

"... John Crowley?" Lanli also thought for a moment and gave an answer indefinitely.

"Yes, yes, John Crowley." Rooney nodded at once. "I thought he was definitely directing. Wow, now it seems that this project has become different. "

"John Crowley, er, now he's taking over another project. I just saw 'Brooklyn', but I haven't found any sponsorship yet." Lan Li also recalled later, looking around him, "eh, I just saw this project, I don't know where to put it."

"Ha ha." Rooney laughed happily. Lanli looked up and said, "my manager wants me to play in the Brooklyn project. I've met the producer several times and I think the script and the role are very interesting. Maybe I'll meet again the day after tomorrow to confirm my performance idea."

Lanli gently raised his jaw: Hollywood is like this. It can be very big or very small. Many projects are among familiar actors. On the one hand, the brokerage company controls most of the resources; on the other hand, the scripts are always gathered in the hands of the most popular actors in recent years.