King of Hollywood

If you are just a fan of American blockbusters, you will definitely not know what this name means, but Adrian, who has watched countless movies and American dramas, is not among them. Sarah Michelle Gellar, one of the few high-quality idols recognized in the United States in the mid-to-late 1990s. The so-called high-quality idol refers to the kind of young actress who is young, beautiful, full of vitality, healthy and has no negative scandals, so that parents and children like it.

Most of them starred in youth-type movies or TV series. The radiation may not be wide, and it is limited to North America, but they are quite popular. The movies Adrian remembers best about Sarah are Scream 2—yes, the sequel to the teen horror flick he sold to Universal—and I Know Last Year What did you do in the summer" - this is also a teen horror film, and the relationship with "Scream" is complicated.

But it was Buffy the Vampire Slayer, an X-Files-esque TV show that mixed teenage troubles with vampires, that made Shasa the most popular. Although it is not as popular as the vampire novel 20 years later, it is still one of the classic American dramas. As a high-quality idol, Sarah's beauty is unquestionable. She has an oval face that is rare for Westerners, and her facial features are quite delicate, but the eyebrows look a little gloomy.

Of course, she is only a 13-year-old girl now, with baby fat on her face, she looks cute and well-behaved, and she already has the embryonic form of the future, but she is not necessarily attractive, but the excitement in the restaurant The look is impressive.

Adrian, who was making preparations, glanced at Sarah, who was hurrying to speak with her mother. According to Laverne, Roselan, who is also an agent, hesitated after reading the script, because it was a cut movie, but Sarah persuaded her mother. Although he didn't know how she persuaded her, Adrian still guessed something. In his previous life, he knew something about Sarah's family.

Maybe I can help her. Adrian rubbed his chin and thought so. Although she is still a little loli, but loli will grow up, won't she? What's more, in my own plan...

Forget it, let's just leave it at that for now, it's still far from the popularity and fame I want. Adrian made a decision in his heart. In fact, it doesn't matter, at least now we know each other.

"Scene 178, Act 231." With the voice of the scene record, the shutter was snapped down, and the set entered the shooting state again.

Although Sarah's scene was temporarily added and will be discarded during post-editing, it does not mean that it can be sloppy during shooting. These are two different things. Adrian knows that what he needs is not just copying. The requirements can be relaxed, but perfunctory things are absolutely not allowed. Besides, he doesn't want Sarah to see anything at this time.

"Cut!" After another call to stop, Adrian gestured, "Sarah, you can rest now."

"Mr. Director, am I not doing well?" Sarah asked hastily, her little face was full of nervousness and uneasiness.

"Don't worry, don't worry, although it's not very good, it's already very good." Adrian raised his hands and pressed it, feeling a little funny in his heart. How many times is this already? It can be seen from this that she cares about this job very much. Yes, that's right, acting is just a job for her.

"Listen to me, Sarah, you are not fully familiar with this character yet, so you don't need to worry so much. Sometimes, the more you want to play her well, the easier it is to play her badly, understand?" Adrian comforted He said, he reached out and touched her head: "You have done a good job, let's reflect on it first, and continue tomorrow. You have also played a few roles, and you should know that you need to listen to the director on the set. "

When he first stretched out his hand, her body leaned back slightly, but when he really put his hand on her head, she didn't move.

"I see, Mr. Director." Sarah nodded and went to her mother.

"Okay, gentlemen and ladies, Sarah is resting, but you are still not good enough, continue in 15 minutes." Adrian said again at this time, and the news immediately attracted a lot of sighs. Of course, they knew that this would not change Adrian's decision, so they sighed and sighed, and those who should take the time to rest had to take the time to rest.

In fact, if Adrian wanted to, he could shoot most of Sarah's scenes on the first day, and then finish it on the second day. The role he added for her is Kate's younger sister, a little girl who is autistic under the care of her sister, because the scene that is left in the room is not finished yet, other than that it is related to Dennis Fragmentary shots.

But this is also good. Some shots have been filmed before Thanksgiving, and Adrian has more room to play when inserting new plots. In addition, he can’t use it in the later stage, so the shooting is not affected by the original plot and is more free. .

But the problem is that the time is too tight, two days is only enough for him to get the script out, and the shots and so on are not fully formed in his head, so after the first day of intermittent shooting, let Sarah rest and wait until the end After today's progress, I will find a way to complete this plot, anyway, it will only be an extra day.

Time always flies by quickly, three days are gone in the blink of an eye, and Adrian's impromptu scenes are basically finished. Because the whole crew was very cooperative, nothing went wrong, and even used the interval to shoot several regular scenes.

"It's a pleasure to work with you, Sarah, you are a good actor." Adrian shook hands with the little girl, and then reached out to Roselan, "You have an excellent daughter, ma'am."

"Thank you, Mr. Director, Sarah is my pride." Roselan said excitedly with one arm around her daughter.

In the past three days, Sarah's performance can be described as outstanding. This does not mean that her acting skills are good, but that her attitude is very serious. Not only did I have no complaints about the repeated shooting, but I also did it meticulously every time. I even accidentally sprained my foot when I went downstairs and still endured the pain until the end of the shooting-fortunately, there was no serious problem.

In the end, everyone looked at her with admiration, and Kate privately praised the girl for being tough, and at the same time greatly changed her opinion. As for Adrian, it is natural to take good care of the little girl.

"It just so happens that Haggis and the others are going back to Los Angeles. I'll let them take you back." Adrian sent the mother and daughter to the door of the studio house, and then called the assistant Haggis, who was preparing the car, to come over.

Watching them walk to the front and back of the car, Adrian was about to go back, and Sarah, who had been looking back at him from time to time, suddenly broke free from her mother's hand and ran back like the wind.

"Did you forget something?" Adrian showed a surprised look.

"No... I just..." Sarah took a breath, looked at Adrian for a few seconds before bowing slightly: "I'm sorry, Mr. Adrian."

"Oh?" Adrian smiled. "If you are apologizing for what happened that day, I accept it. It's nothing, I can understand how you feel. Remember what I said to you? Things will always get better of."

Sarah opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but after hesitating for a while, she just said softly: "Thank you, you are a good person."

Oh hell, can't we change the word? Adrian felt depressed for a while, and then felt a pair of hands wrapped around his waist. Sarah suddenly stepped forward to hug him, and even buried her head in his lower abdomen!

After this state lasted for about 10 seconds, she let go of her hand, smiled at Adrian, then turned and ran to her mother. Adrian was stunned for a moment, then a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes, she... found out? !

How is that possible, she's only a 13 year old, and besides, everyone's covering it up well...well, it's not that good, but it shouldn't be anyway...well, maybe she's just guessing and not sure, But I still underestimated her, she is also a precocious child after all. Adrian shrugged, then put the matter behind him. Even if there is something, I will talk about it later, and now he has to continue to work hard.

After Sarah left, everything returned to the normal track. Because of the accumulation of the previous three days, it took one day and one and a half days respectively to finish filming the scenes of Dennis and Kate in the room, as well as those fragmentary shots. Then, Adrian's second work was successfully sealed.

The next step is naturally to disband the crew and take a good rest to prepare for the post-production work. Although everyone just passed Thanksgiving, they accompanied Adrian to compensate the little girl for three days of useless work, and they were still exhausted.

And it was time for Kate to return to London. She had been in Los Angeles for half a month. Although graduating from high school was not a problem, it did not mean that she could blatantly skip classes. Besides, she had decided to apply to CalArts, which was not an easy task.

Of course, before leaving, the two had to have a carnival in the villa like that time in Venice, and the young Kate, who was nourished by Adrian, became more and more fascinated in this regard. Especially when they made a small breakthrough last time when they took a bath together, the two of them played more happily this time. If it wasn't for the cold weather, they might try to experience it in the garden.

Well, let's not mention these, no matter how reluctant we are, we have to separate. After that, Adrian took a good rest for two or three days, and then plunged into the company's editing room to start post-editing.

Originally, he could have two months to slowly produce the post-production, but because Sarah was delayed for a few days, plus Christmas and New Year this month, and he had to apply to the Berlin Film Festival in advance, so he counted There is only one and a half months at most for post-production.

Some people may say that it took at least half a month longer than "Two Smoking Barrels", which should be enough, but the problem is that the later stage of "Memory Fragments" requires more effort than "Two Smoking Barrels" Much more, one and a half months is still not enough. What made Adrian even more annoying was that besides editing, he had to sit in front of a typewriter and type a manuscript for two or three hours after returning home every day, and this was voluntary and no one forced him.

I'm so fucking crazy. Adrian said this in his heart more than once. But every time is like drinking sweets.

Let's start with Christmas!

(Depressed, I finally uploaded the most exciting content of the chapter yesterday, but I didn't respond...)