King of Hollywood

"Hey, Emma, ​​that's not okay, don't laugh, be serious and serious, the lady with your name is a lady. If you can't, you can take Keira for Mr. Knightley, she has the same name as him anyway. "Adrian looked at the two girls in front of him, although he kept making gestures and commands, his tone seemed quite leisurely.

"It's too troublesome, is acting so troublesome?" The little guy pouted and complained, holding the script with a depressed expression on his face.

"This is your request, my dear." Adrian smiled and spread his hands, "You said you want to read the script, you said you want to learn to act, and you specially asked Keira to play against you, and now you are talking about trouble. "

"But...but..." Emma felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't tell, so her mouth couldn't help pouting even higher.

"It's okay, Emma, ​​let's come again, as long as we try a few more times, we will definitely master it." Keira said comfortingly at the side at this time, and at the same time glanced at Adrian with a disapproving look.

Adrian, who noticed this, couldn't help raising his eyebrows, and looked at Keira Knightley again. She cut her hair short and wore neutral clothes. If it wasn't for her facial features and immature, she would look more like a boy , which also made her eyes look provocative just now.

But Adrian didn't take it seriously. He knew it was just a subconscious action of Keira. When she visited the crew of "Braveheart", she would also show this look when she said some negative opinions. It seems to be repelling everything around. With his ability to observe women, how could he fail to see the strong inferiority complex hidden in Keira's heart.

When he first came to this conclusion, Adrian still couldn't believe it. As far as appearance alone is concerned, Keira does have some shortcomings, such as the facial lines are a bit hard now, but overall she is still a very soft girl, which is completely different from some tomboys. For example, Julis, who is currently the head of the editorial department of Bosworth Films, her daughter is a standard tomboy. Unless she has long hair and makeup, anyone will think that she is a handsome boy.

Moreover, Keira's parents also love her very much, and their family relationship is very good. Adrian really can't think of what she has to feel inferior to. This doubt was not resolved until Shawen told him that Keira suffered from severe dyslexia.

Think about it, reading books is already one of the most basic and important skills of human beings. When peers read fluently and get praise from teachers and parents, but I can’t understand the meaning of those strange words , Such a blow is undoubtedly very huge for a child whose three views have not yet been established.

No wonder her verbal skills will not be very good in the future, just look at those interviews, almost all of them rely on relatively out-of-the-ordinary remarks to attract attention. Coupled with the embarrassing figure, it is also expected that she will feel inferior - don't take her statement that she is satisfied with her figure as an issue, which woman would not want to have a devilish figure? It's just that these shortcomings became her characteristics after she became famous and began to be sought after. How could she be so stupid to deny and avoid them? Her somewhat arrogant, eccentric personality who looked down on everything but seemed anxious was probably also developed in this way.

Flaws are normal human beings, and I'm happy to help people correct them. Seeing Keira talking and laughing with Emma, ​​Adrian with a smile on his face said this in his heart.

"Ed, do you need to see it now?" Keira's mother, Shawen, came over at this time.

"Already finished?" Adrian was a little surprised and took the paper she handed over, "Your efficiency is really fast enough."

"Just make adjustments on the original basis." Shawen shrugged after greeting her daughter.

"You are too modest, I thought it would take another two days for you to finish the revision." Adrian smiled and opened the paper, and this subtle compliment immediately made Shawen smile.

He finished reading it in a few minutes, and it wasn't a big change, otherwise he wouldn't have put Shavon alone in charge.

"Very good, that's what I want, thank you, Shawn." Adrian nodded.

"I'm glad to satisfy you, but Ed, please allow me to mention that this passage is quite important to the whole novel, and it played a part in Emma's transformation." Shawen said again.

"I know, so this content will be shown in the conversation between Mr. Knightley's brother and Miss Emma," Adrian explained, "In short, I want to downplay the content as much as possible, after all This is a romantic comedy movie, romance, love and comedy are the main elements, and other things can be included, but these three points cannot be affected."

"Of course, you have your own considerations." Shawen didn't say anything more, nodded and went to chat with her daughter.

Adrian stretched comfortably, and continued to read the revised scripts in his hand. Although many people say that Jane Austen likes to ridicule the view of "good match" in her works, in fact she herself more or less agrees with this view.

There are few completely tragic characters in Austen’s novels, but there is such a pair in Emma, ​​a certain noble lady, despite the opposition of her family, commits herself to marrying an officer for a great love, but after marriage, she still Continuing the luxurious life back then caused the family to be heavily in debt and suffered physically and mentally. His son died of illness before he was three years old. Compared with the other four couples in the original book, their identities and status are all matched. Mr. Knightley is the owner of the manor, while Emma has a dowry of 30,000 pounds. Even in several other novels, it is rich men who bring happiness to female characters.

Regarding the noble lady, there was originally a ten-minute discussion plot, which was also mixed with friends' advice to Emma (Note), but this was obviously too long, and it was suspected of overwhelming the main topic. After thinking about it for a long time, Adrian decided to remove this section. Firstly, the movie can last up to 120 minutes. It is impossible to put all the content of the original book on the screen, so it must be discarded; secondly, as mentioned before, the theme of the movie It's a rom-com and can't let the other things dilute the theme.

The original "Emma" probably won word of mouth but lost box office because of this and some other factors. Adrian doesn't intend to let this version of himself do the same. He is a miracle director after all, and this halo must be maintained. Even if the box office is really not good when the time comes, at least he must be able to earn back the cost.

Of course, just modifying such a plot is not guaranteed, so Adrian also thought of many ways to reduce costs, such as filming "Emma" after "Braveheart", with most of the manpower and a few props It can be used universally, which is equivalent to apportioning the cost.

As for the possibility of self-defeating after the modification, Adrian didn't take it to heart. Although he had to maintain his aura, he couldn't tolerate one or two failures. It's not a bad thing to take advantage of this opportunity to exercise, even if he had already planned The future, but it does not mean that he intends to plagiarize from beginning to end.

"Mr. Director, everything is ready." An assistant ran over at this moment.

"Very well, then hurry up," Adrian jumped up immediately, "The weather forecast says there may be rain in the afternoon."

"Emma" also has a lot of location scenes. Although many problems can be overcome, the camera lens can be adjusted when the weather is dark, and the light can be used instead of the sun, but there is no way to do it when it rains. For the film crew, the biggest problem with the British weather is that they don’t know when it will rain. Adrian had already suffered enough when filming "Howard End" and "Braveheart", so when he heard Get moving as soon as the message is ready.

"Hurry up guys hurry up and hurry up" he yelled as he walked back and forth, patting and yelling "Kayla, go get changed and make up, even if you're just swaying in the camera and doing your best"

As early as two years ago, in order to find a way to treat her dyslexia, Shawen took Keira to play cameo roles in various studios. Although many of them were in the background of a flash, Keira enjoyed it very much. Obstacles have been somewhat improved.

Now that it is rare to work in the crew of Miracle Director, Shawen will naturally not let go of the opportunity. Adrian is also very refreshing. Although there are very few child characters in "Emma", she is still given a character with a line. That's why, Kayla plays show games with the little ones.

Just when all the staff were about to be in place, Gwyneth walked in front of Adrian in style. She was dressed in a dark green lace-trimmed British classical lady's dress and couldn't help but make his eyes shine: "You are so beautiful , Gwynnie."

"Thank you." Gwyneth gracefully lifted the hem of her skirt and bowed her body, with a little charm in her beauty.

"Are you free tonight?" She immediately asked with a smile, "It's rare that there are no paparazzi, I want to take a walk around."

"Tonight?" Adrian couldn't help but sighed, "Unfortunately, the little guy wants me to accompany her tonight."

"Emma wants you to accompany him?" Gwyneth raised her eyebrows, then glanced at Charlize who was talking with someone in the distance, "You just stayed with her all night yesterday, didn't you?"

"You know, I was tired yesterday and couldn't tell her a story, so she insisted on making it up today." Adrian shrugged, "It would be nice if you said it earlier, and I have promised her now."

"It's a pity, I intended to impress you deeply." Gwyneth sighed exaggeratedly, still glanced at Charlize in the distance from time to time, and the look of unwillingness to be outdone was fleeting in her eyes.

These did not escape Adrian's gaze, and he couldn't help but feel a little strange. During this time, Gwyneth and Charlize hadn't had much to do with each other. Although he had made out with Charlize, he avoided Gwyneth. She knows and pretends not to know, but it's really strange to see her like this.

He didn't think too much, let's do the most important thing first.

"Okay, the filming will start right away, hurry up and get ready, beware of continuous NG." Adrian said half-coaxingly.

To be honest, when Gwyneth said "impressed" just now, it really aroused his curiosity, and she said the same thing that night. But this didn't make him change his mind. He had to count on what he said, and he wasn't the one who was in a hurry. Appropriate posturing would bring more gains.

Sure enough, after hearing what he said, although Gwyneth walked to the set as promised, her disappointment was so obvious that the first simple shot had to be NGed twice before being adjusted.

What kind of surprise will you bring, Gwynnie? Adrian, who was looking at the monitor, thought so in his heart.

The cool wind blows, the leaves flutter with the wind, there is a rustling sound, and the afternoon sun shines on the woodland. The young women sitting cross-legged on the ground are chatting happily. Wearing classical clothes, their every move looks very elegant, like Tranquil still life. Even if the sunlight is artificially produced, it cannot change the beautiful atmosphere.

"Very good!" Adrian, who was looking at the monitor screen, shouted, and then several assistants quickly came forward with their coats to put on the ladies. Although it has entered May, there are still some people in the woodland. cold.

"Thank God, the weather has been fine these two days, and everything has been going well, so let's get here today." He immediately announced that it was already the second day, but fortunately it hasn't rained, and the weather forecast is really unreliable.

After explaining a few words to the people around, Adrian walked towards Shawen's mother and daughter. Keira had finished her shot, and Shawen's script had passed. It was enough to stay in the town for another night. up.

"Then be careful on the road," he said while hugging Emma, ​​and then looked at Keira specifically, "Work hard, Keira, I believe that as long as you are willing to become an actor and work hard for it, you will be very good."

"Do you really think so, Ed?" Shawen was a little excited, the name of the director of Miracle was placed there.

"Yes," Adrian nodded, "I think Kayla has some potential, but the most important thing is to look at herself."

Speaking of this, he purposely squatted down in front of the girl, looking directly into her eyes: "Well, how about making an agreement with me, Keira, if you can meet my requirements after three years, I will send you a role."

"Then... what is your request?" Keira rolled her eyes and asked after a while.

"I'll know when the time comes," Adrian smiled, "Yes, this is an unequal treaty. I think it's easy to break the contract, such as asking a difficult question or saying that you didn't meet my requirements, so you have the courage agree?"

"Then it's settled." The girl immediately puffed up her chest and looked at him with haughty eyes. Her mother didn't even have time to interrupt, and the provocative method was indeed very useful.

"Kayla..." Shawen finally sighed, touching her daughter's head.

"Don't worry, mom, I think, as a well-known miracle director, he wouldn't use this method to deceive a little girl, right?" After comforting her mother, Keira raised her eyebrows and looked at Adri install.

"I have to say, your daughter is really smart, Shawn." Adrian laughed, and Emma in his arms laughed too, although she didn't understand why.

"Emma, ​​how about having Charlie accompany you today." After watching Shawen's mother and daughter leave, and looking at the crew that was packing up, Adrian said to the little guy in his arms.

The little guy turned his head to look at him for a long time before making a grimace: "Got it."

The day's work is over, and the rest is naturally the rest time. Adrian accompanied Gwyneth to walk around the town, which he promised yesterday. Frankly speaking, it is also very pleasant to walk in this quaint town with an elegant woman without paparazzi.

"You know, being an actor is really enjoyable sometimes, because you can do things in movies that you have thought about but dare not do." Gwyneth, who didn't let her hair down after filming like usual She said this while walking, with a slight smile on the corner of her mouth, her gray-green eyes were very bright, and there was a special charm in it. The performance during this period seemed to allow her to integrate the elegant temperament of British women into her bones.

"This is the charm of movies. Many things that are impossible in reality can be expressed in movies." Adrian replied with a smile.

"So I like to act in different images, experience different stories, and then..." She stopped here, her throat moved slightly, and then she looked at Adrian without blinking, "Accept everyone's cheers and praise."

Gwyneth's demeanor suddenly changed, her chin was raised high, giving a feeling of recklessness, her breathing was slightly short, she seemed calm but her hands had already clenched into fists.

Adrian raised her eyebrows for Unerasable. It's really interesting that she expressed her attitude in a disguised form. What did Charlize say to Gwyneth to make her make such an expression? It seems that I have to find an opportunity to talk to Charlize, and of course, I should "reward" her well by the way.

"Everyone will cheer and praise you, Gwynnie, I promise." Adrian said in an unquestionable tone.

After looking at each other for a while, a smile emerged from Gwyneth's face again, and the previous elegance returned to her body, and she reached out to hold Adrian's arm: "Let's go back."

In the following time, the two didn't talk about this topic anymore. They had meals, chatted, watched movies, and played small games. Gwyneth finally recovered the character of an American woman, laughing and laughing in the word guessing game. .

"Leave your hair loose, Gwyneth, it's already loose." Smiling and throwing away the list of words in his hand, Adrian said, pointing to Gwyneth's hair.

"The hair is going to fall apart?" Gwyneth, whose face was flushed and her eyes were smiling like crescent moons, immediately showed a concerned look, and after touching the top of her head to make sure, she breathed a sigh of relief: "It's okay, just a little, if It's troublesome to loosen it completely, and I can't do that by myself."

"What's the matter?" Adrian asked puzzled, "Today's scene is over, why do you keep this hairstyle?"

Gwyneth, who was arranging her hair, turned her head and gave him a charming look, her eyes suddenly became a little watery: "I said, I want to impress you."\u003c/p\u003e