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In the end, "Pulp" still failed to beat "Forrest Gump", the king of the magic film. Even if there is no failure on the Oscars, only one trophy for best original screenplay is enough to make fans of countless movies cry. runny nose.Of course, fans of "The Shawshank Redemption" cried worse than them. At least "Pulp" made a lot of money at the box office. No loss.

"We still need to continue to promote it." Diana clicked her tongue when she saw the disappointing remarks in the newspaper.

To a certain extent, the public relations of the film "The Shawshank Redemption" is still good. So many awards were mentioned, but none of them won, which is also a level.

And the title of the uncrowned king, Miss Morgan snorted, wanting to be the uncrowned king depends on whether others are willing or not!

"The core of the content is that even "Forrest Gump" can't suppress the light of "Pulp", and let it take away a trophy from the Oscar." Diana instructed her little assistant.

"The Shawshank Redemption" is good, but is it better than groundbreaking films like "Citizen Kane" or better than Kubrick's few truly perfect masterpieces?Blowing like this is not afraid of flashing to the waist!

Isn't that PR marketing?Even for the future profits of the movie, Diana had to grit her teeth and do it.Since Quentin himself is unwilling to take part in public relations, Mae Coffey will come out for him. They are not trying to create another Spielberg, but just a king of cult movies. The difficulty is actually not that high.

As for Quentin himself, although he is too lazy to go out and chat with various reporters, he has no objection to being praised by others. Who doesn't have a little vanity?Anyway, he doesn't need to work hard on his own, so just sit and enjoy it.

Compared to the previous situation where he was always suspected and looked down upon, and couldn't even direct his own hard-fought scripts, his life now is simply not too easy.Proposing a project, making a schedule, approving a project, making money, preparing, filming, editing, and showing it, this is how he gets along with May Coffey.

From "Reservoir Dogs" to "Pulp" to the current "Four Rooms", as long as he proposes a project, it will be given the green light all the way. He questioned his casting, let alone his final cut.In his project, he is the king. He wants money for money and people for people. He just needs to make a good movie according to his own interests. He doesn’t have to pat the table with the producer and the boss to make money. What else? Is it more suitable for him than this kind of life focusing on his hobbies?

So Quentin had a great time staying in Mae Kefei, even though so many bigwigs came to poach the wall, it didn't make him shake his will.

"Can you remain invisible in my filmmaking?" That's what Quentin the haughty ruffian told the poachers.

The behavior of Diana's rich cash machine has spoiled the director, and he can't get used to the working state where things can't be controlled by himself.And he is actually not a particularly ambitious director, which can be seen from the movies he shoots. If he is really that kind of ambitious director, he will not always shoot movies according to his own interests. For him It is enough to say that the current state is satisfactory.

Moreover, this Mr. director who is very satisfied with Diana also helped Makofera to bring in another director who also loves cult movies deeply, Robert Rodriguez, the two are co-directing a movie, by the way , preparing another movie about bloody killings.

However, the successful binding of two cult films, Morgan Chick, was not happy because the company had no shortage of directors at this time, because there was a little problem with an investment she made before.

Her agent sent a message that Seagram Group intends to acquire Universal, and she needs to attend the next shareholder meeting to vote on it.

When Diana heard the news, she was stunned and felt as if she had an auditory hallucination.

Are you just a drunk to buy a movie company, or is this huge movie company just kidding?Isn't this what media companies should do?

"Because the performance has been very good in recent years, right?" Mr. Agent replied in this way.

In recent years, thanks to the rapid development of the global economy, the wine industry is also making rapid progress. Seagram Group is one of them. Its performance is growing rapidly almost every year. It is not surprising to want to expand things.

"But it's strange to expand to movies, right?" Diana was speechless.

Expansion is inevitable after the group becomes bigger, but everyone is expanding upstream and downstream. It is really weird for you to expand into an unknown field so suddenly.

"This is a matter of decision-making, so I don't know." Mr. Agent shook his head.

Diana's stock purchases at the beginning were more or more, but not too much.Compared with some small shareholders, she holds a lot of shares, but this amount has not yet reached the point of controlling, and usually only retains a director's seat in the group, and does not participate in the daily operation, which is very important for obtaining information It's not very convenient.

"This time, it is mainly because Panasonic Group can't go on, and it has let the wind out to the outside world, and it is preparing to sell its shares in Global." He went on to say.

As an agent, he may not have many sources of intelligence within the company, so he cannot understand what prompted the management to have such an idea, and he is not clear enough about how the specific decision is made.However, they are still very sensitive to external news, such as things about Universal.

"In the '90s, MCA (Music Corporation of America) was looking for a partner to expand its business. You know at that time the Japanese were so rich that they wanted to buy the whole of the United States, so Matsushita became the new boss of MCA, but obviously, just Like Sony, they are not acclimatized, but Sony has Norio Oga, backed by the predator Akio Morita, and Panasonic does not have such a genius who can stabilize the entire enterprise, so after they swallowed Universal It can only cause indigestion, causing frequent problems, and the company has stagnated. Now that I can't stand it anymore, of course I will sell this company. Seagram probably wants to increase his influence and diversification, so he wants to Acquire the shares of Panasonic. As far as I know, if this resolution is passed by the board of directors, then the group will sell a part of the shares of DuPont to raise funds. If you have spare funds, I suggest you buy this part of the stock, it has a very high-quality preservation value." After finishing a lot of things in one breath, the agent Mr. poured himself half a glass of mineral water to moisten his throat.

He is an excellent lawyer and a qualified agent. He can't interfere with what has happened, but he can sort out the context of the matter and inform his employer clearly.After getting the news from the meeting, he conducted a series of investigations on the matter, including what would happen if the company made the acquisition, and his understanding of the previous history and current situation of Universal Pictures.

To say that this film company is also miserable enough, it can probably be regarded as a giant company that has changed hands the most times in Hollywood. Deca Records went to MCA and continued to Panasonic. This old film company was sold five times, and the sad listeners were crying.In particular, the company will change owners almost every time it reaches the stage of development and expansion, because they can no longer support the company's capital flow, which is also the first time in Hollywood.

As for Panasonic, which wants to sell Universal now, the agent said, who knows if the US government is responsible for this. After all, the Japanese have already eaten Colombia. In order to prevent the industry of one's own country from being controlled by the son of Japan, it is not impossible to make some small moves behind the scenes.There is still a conspiracy theory circulating among Sony Columbia, and adding another one will not kill people.

Diana: "..."

If I had known that I would time travel, I would definitely have done Hollywood gossip incidents as homework every day, so that I would not know anything when something happened!

It's okay if you ask her to gossip about a celebrity once in a while. After all, some things are too widely spread, but the film company?Who the hell goes back to pay attention to which company produced this movie when watching a movie?Even if you pay attention, who would have nothing to do to dig into the history of this company and learn more about those outdated things?Not to mention ordinary people, even the current president of Universal may not know how many times the company he works for has been sold, right?

Now it is suddenly difficult for her to recall what happened to the acquisition case. Is it torture or torture?

Chick Morgan felt a kind of sadness flowing from the top of her head. When the book was used up, she hated less and regretted being young and gossiping more!

However, even if the sadness flows upstream, she can only bite the bullet and continue. As a shareholder who is not a controlling shareholder, even if she opposes the acquisition, it is useless!Depressed, Diana scratched the back of the sofa twice, and decided on the future flow of the money she earned during the European currency crisis.

The author has something to say:

The film "Pulp" may not be as famous in China as "Forrest Gump", but its influence in the United States is actually not small at all. 1994 is known as the year of the god movie, and it is recognized as the year of the Oscars. If it weren't for "Forrest Gump", an anti-intellectual film that is politically correct for all people, "The Shawshank Redemption" would have been rubbed on the ground by it. This is the first independent film to exceed [-] million box office. It can be said that It was a constant booster in the Hollywood independent film industry at that time. Aside from its resonance with the American people in terms of culture and times, and the impact of the structure of the film itself, in terms of the influence of the film in the circle alone, this film made Travor Ta Xianyu turned around and made Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson popular. Of course, the most important thing is to make the Weinstein Brothers officially become the big players in the industry. It can be said that the legend surrounding this movie is stronger than that of "Ah There are a lot of Gan Zhengzheng. In terms of the core of the movie, this movie is far more exciting than the former. Many people in China are now talking about "The Shawshank Redemption", but in fact, the real war that year took place between "Pulp" and "Forrest Gump". Between "The True Story", the theme of "Shawshank" itself is not liked by Oscar, nor does it conform to mainstream values.

Speaking of "Pulp" itself, the concept of this film was actually earlier than "Reservoir Dogs", but he came up with the idea of ​​"Reservoir Dogs" during the writing of the script, so the film was ahead of schedule, and in the creation of the script he used his cooperation The author Roger Avary kicked out the list of script collaborators. It is said that Quentin paid 2.5 yuan for this, but it remains to be verified.But Avary did give up his status as a collaborator later, and got a part of the movie dividends. His work is the core of that paragraph, the story of the boxer, and the rest of Quentin's stories are written around it. of.

Later, the script was sent to a script reviewer at Miramax. It is said that Harvey complained that the script was as thick as a phone book, because normally, the script is 119 pages, and "Pulp" has 159 pages. In the middle, he yelled at Quentin for being sick and wrote the actor to death, but after reading the whole script, he decided to cast this movie again, which is typical and really fragrant.

Then there was the filming of this movie. At that time, Miramax had just been acquired by Disney. At that time, the president of Disney was still Jeffrey Katzenberg. Because he was too shocked by the script, this man who has always been strict with his company management The future DreamWorks giant actually asked not to be too sloppy in the drug scene, which shows how excellent the script is.

The next step is the most important actor part. At that time, Quentin still had a script, which was "Killing Dawn". He invited Travolta and asked him to choose. As a result, the latter said that he was not playing a vampire. Played "Pulp", and this role was originally given to Michael Madsen, the sadist in "Reservoir Dogs", but at that time Madsen missed it because he had already signed "Yihai Qingqing", so he finally became John.But this is one-sided, because apart from Quentin, no one wants John, he is so confused that everyone thinks that if there is such a leading actor, the movie will follow, but the one who signed the contract at the beginning It was stipulated that Quentin had the final editing rights and the final casting rights, so Harvey began to seduce Quentin. Uncle Liu, William Hunter and Sean Penn were all on the list of roles. Uncle Liu and Lao Bu both agreed to play the role. Waiting to sign the contract, but Quentin really wanted John, and then Harvey chose the latter between losing the movie and a hero who hit the street. After watching the finished movie, he said before the movie was officially released. He said, "The idea that I let John play the role is really great", and he kept slapping his face with real fragrance.

But Bruce Willis had already been eyeing this role before. Lao Bu is a fan of "Reservoir Dogs".He can only play Butch, but Quentin told Matt Dillon that the role of Butch was tailor-made for him, and he couldn't take it for granted, so he showed Dillon the script. After reading it, Dillon said that he had to think about it. What a proud person Quentin was, and he immediately kicked him out, although he might not be able to act even if he didn't kick him out, and then Butch's role fell on Old Bu's head. , or the kind of self-decreasing pay.Even because of Lao Bu’s starring role, 1100 million overseas copyrights have been sold before the film was shot. It can be said that Wei Fat Brothers have already recovered their investment at this time, because the total investment of this film is only 850 million.

As for the heroine, Michelle Pfeiffer, Meg Ryan, Holly Hunter and Rosanna Arquette were all candidates at the time. On the contrary, Uma was not very cold about the role, but Later, he was persuaded, and then became popular because of this film.

Jackson was the only one who actually got the role through the audition, but there were many twists and turns, because Quentin, a guy who liked the new and hated the old, thought it was very good when he met another actor, so he arranged another audition. As a result, Jackson was so hungry that he ate a hamburger while Drinking drinks, looking fierce, re-conquering Quentin ==

Then there are some weird behaviors of Quentin. The scene of directing drug use shows that he is acting as a school friend, a real drug addict. After correcting a grammatical error, he will correct it back.This lady is also very interesting. She was originally Rob Donner’s script doctor, and then she was abducted by Quentin. She worked for "Pulp" for free, and the condition was that Quentin helped her take care of the rabbit when she was out. The ruffian Ting refused, and then the rabbit named HoneyBunny died, and then he named the characters in the movie ==

By the way, "Pulp" really stunned an audience, causing the screening to be interrupted for 9 minutes.

There are still many stories behind "Pulp", but it is really close to catching up with the thesis when it is written. Interested little angels can read the articles on this aspect, not discussing character, Quentin is still very strong in the works . quite

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