Chapter 044

Simon drove to the restaurant near Brentwood country club.

After a while, Catherine and Janet came together.

Sitting down in the dining room, Simon looks at Catherine, who is obviously depressed today, and asks tentatively: "has the shooting of blood corpse night changed again?"

Before Katherine could speak, Janet said, "I'm afraid it's going to be a year later."

Simon recently saw some news about d'laurentius entertainment group, the production company of blood corpse night. Hearing the news, he was concerned and said, "how can this happen?"

At this time, the waiter came over, and the three stopped talking.

After ordering dinner, Catherine said, "producer Edward Feldman called me this afternoon. There is no money in d'laurentius entertainment. I have to wait until the end of the year to recover the share of several films released this year before my films can start shooting."

Simon was a little silent when he heard Catherine say so.

There are many examples of a movie that has been delayed for months or even years due to funds and creators. Catherine's experience is not surprising.

A moment later, Simon said, "so, Catherine, have you lost your job again?"

Catherine nodded absently and said, "yes."

Simon said, "in that case, why don't you help me?"

Katherine raised her head with some uncertainty

Simon said: "Lola Run, the film will start shooting next month."

"But I'll probably..."

Catherine raised her hand, but she couldn't find a good excuse, so she turned to Janet.

Janet's eyes began to blink and flicker when she heard what Simon had just said.

Simon also saw that Janet's eyelashes were very long. She didn't need to put on false eyelashes at all. Suddenly, they flashed very beautiful: "Jane, do you want to order another Foie Gras? People who blink often are lack of vitamin D. animal liver is rich in these."

Listening to Simon's teasing, Janet stopped blinking, grabbed her fork and poked at Simon.

Catherine looked at the interaction with a smile and said, "I don't think so."

"Why not?" Janet suddenly opened her mouth again, put her hand around Catherine's arm and said, "Kate, let's all go. I'm a big investor. If necessary, maybe I can fire the director and let you come. "

Simon listened to Janet's gnashing of teeth, put his hands together in fear, buried his head and begged for mercy. "Jennie, I'm wrong. Would you like to order two foie gras for you?"

Janet threw a pile of napkins over Simon's head and said, "little bastard, hit you."

So laughing for a while, with Janet's encouragement, Catherine agreed to come down after all and agreed to be Simon's deputy director. The final "reward" agreed upon was that Simon would also help the cast of blood dead night for a period of time.

Janet was not interested in the production of "Lola Run". Simon had also suggested that women should be producers together, not the nominal type. However, the lazy Janet just took the job of helping Simon draw a butterfly themed mural in the casino lens, which is one of the three "Butterfly Effect" theme hints in the film.

With Katherine's participation, Janet joined in.

Then.

Early the next morning, Janet came to work in high spirits.

It's eight o'clock in the morning.

Simon is used to getting up early, but he has just had breakfast.

Hearing the doorbell, Simon ran to open the door and saw Janet dressed as ol.

Seeing Simon's eyes sweeping to other places, a pair of cool hands stretched out directly, holding Simon's face to prevent him from turning away, and then Janet's fierce voice: "I'm really angry when you look like this again. The consequences are very serious."

Simon nodded stiffly under the woman's talons before Janet let go of his head.

Walking into the villa behind Simon, Janet can't wait to ask, "little boy, what are we doing today?"

Simon came to the kitchen, picked up the utensils and came to the sink. He said simply, "rest."

Janet came over and said, "how can this be done? As an ambitious person, you are really not motivated."

Simon didn't explain.

Although there is still more than a week to go before shooting, Simon will not have any leisure time from next Monday until the film is finished. This weekend is the only chance to rest in the next few months.

After washing the dishes, Simon left the kitchen and turned to the bedroom.

After keeping Janet out of the door, Simon changed his clothes and came out again. Then he said to the woman, "let's go.""What are you doing?"

"Shopping."

Janet was so excited that she didn't mention any more words about Simon's progress. She reached for Simon's arm and said, "do you want to buy clothes? I can just help you. Speaking of it, your level of choosing clothes is really poor. However, hee hee, the little boy looks good in any clothes. "

"Jane, may I have a different name?"

"Little bastard?"

"Forget it, when I didn't say it."

"Ha ha."

When they came to the villa, Simon pointed to the Chevrolet SUV parked in the open space. Janet turned to the co pilot and touched the hood of the SUV intimately, saying, "Hi, big man."

Simon pulls the door open and hears Janet's words, but stares at the woman on the other side.

It's very provocative.

After leaving his residence, Simon drove Janet around for a whole morning, but basically didn't leave Santa Monica. He just kept changing bookstores one by one.

After lunch downtown, back to Montana.

Next to the long table under the trellis in the backyard garden, Janet looked at dozens of books on film, such as the basics of directing, film shot design, and editing techniques. She looked at Simon and the books several times suspiciously, and then asked, "little boy, you, you don't want to tell me that the film is about to start shooting, do you Just thought of learning a little bit of these things? "

Simon picked up a Book casually, leaned comfortably on a reclining chair beside him, enjoying the afternoon sunshine from the vines on his head, nodded and said, "yes, how else can I make a movie?"

This is actually a small problem that Simon recently realized.

Simon plans to do a lot of the work in "Lola Run" by himself. In this way, he can't tell others that his film making skills are all from the sky.

Now, with this pile of books, we can give those curious people an excuse that they can barely handle.

Self taught.

More inspirational.

Janet is one of those women who are very respectable and, to put it bluntly, lazy. On weekdays, the little brain can turn half a circle, never a circle, but in fact it is extremely smart, which can be seen from the words Catherine had said to Simon.

So, as she continued to look between Simon and the book, she realized something.

And then I'm too lazy to think about it.

Looking at Simon's comfortable reclining on the reclining chair, he came close to him like a cat, squeezed and rubbed. He found that Simon didn't mean to squeeze a reclining chair with himself at all, and ran out angrily.

In less than half an hour, another set of reclining chairs was sent by the furniture store.

After a wonderful weekend of "Lu Xun", the shooting date of "Lola Run" is getting closer and closer.

At this time, the film's crew has also been set up.

Simon westero: Director, producer; Brian De Palma: executive producer; Ron McMillan: producer; Janet Johnston: producer; Katherine Bigelow: Associate Director; Linda Vargas: Casting Director.

Sandra Bullock: the heroine; Keanu Reeves: the hero.

Besides the main creator, after more than a month's busy work, a series of supporting roles and backstage staff of the film have been basically finalized.

So, September 30, a new Monday.

Although still not officially shooting, but Simon's work schedule has suddenly become tense.

In a week, Simon needs to identify too many things.

The main actor's make-up.

Communicate with the established animation studio about the production of insert animation.

Coordinate the script reading meeting of actors.

Officially submitted a series of street shooting applications to the city government of Santa Monica.

Rent shooting props.

Familiar with the people behind the scenes.

Wait, wait, wait.

So busy, Simon's daily break was compressed to six hours.

Until the weekend, the rest of the staff began to rest, and Simon was still personally setting Laura's room.

Simon's professionalism and devotion are increasingly felt, and the main creators of the cast have gradually developed a sense of identity with "Lola Run".

so Simon spent the weekend at the apartment building in the northwest corner of Montana, where the three rooms of Catherine, Janet and Sandra were all over. The producer Ron Macmillan also rushed over, claiming that he was too busy at weekends, but he did not need to pay him overtime.

To Simon's surprise, the hero, kenu Reeves, also came. These days, Simon also realized that Keanu Reeves was still interested in his movie because of the five legs Simon had broken.

Although two months have passed, the leg bones of the five youths still haven't recovered.Obviously in order to avoid too many people's attention, when Simon was still in UCLA Medical Center, five people rushed through the transfer procedures, and it is said that he was transferred to San Diego in Southern California.

However, this deliberate cover up made more people interested in what happened that day. Fox by Matthew Broderick starred in the "x plan" film conference, a reporter also boldly asked Matthew Broderick's views on the incident that day, the scene was very embarrassing.

Simon has completely ignored it.

After another weekend.

On Monday, October 7, "Butterfly Effect" officially opened shooting at Fox Studios.

Simon also specially attended the opening ceremony of the film on the same day.

Then, on Tuesday, Oct. 8, "Lola Run" was filmed in obscurity in an apartment near the sea northwest of Montana, Santa Monica.