Chapter 118 (1/2)

As the summer season, which had a weak box office performance in 1987, came to an end, two films related to Simon came to an end one after another.

On August 6, after 17 weeks of screening, ”Butterfly Effect” was officially launched in underground stores in North America, with the final box office figure of $116.95 million.

Then, in order to free up more screen resources for the new movie ”soul of the spy navy”, Orion pictures also dropped the whole line of ”Lola Run” on August 13. From February 13 to August 13, ”Lola Run” was just released in North American Theaters for half a year, and finally the cumulative box office reached $223.77 million.

As of August, there are only three films in North America that have achieved a domestic box office of more than 100 million this year, two of which are from a young man who has just been on the market for one year, which is a miracle. Just as the two films broke through the billion yuan mark in June, when the two films went down in turn, Simon's news in the media once again ushered in a small peak.

Simon, however, has no regard for these media discussions about himself.

While shooting ”vulgar novel”, Simon has to take into account the later stage of ”death is coming” and the preparation of ”when Harry meets Sally”. At the same time, the operation of the stock index futures market also affected him too much.

Most of the tense August has passed unconsciously in this busy time.

Robert De Niro's part was finished in early August, and the guest roles of Robert Redford and Nicole Kidman came to an end one after another. Originally, he thought everything would be so smooth. In the last week of August, Simon finally met the hardest bone to chew after shooting, Madonna.

On August 7, Madonna's second film, who's that girl, was just released in North America.

If Madonna is still trying to perform seriously in last year's magic wonder, Queen Mai in who is that girl has completely given up treatment, and all kinds of pretentious performances almost lock in her next year's golden sour plum heroine award.

When it comes to vulgar novel, the Queen's grandiosity has not completely subsided. Therefore, the shooting originally scheduled for only three days was delayed for five days.

Simon was very satisfied with the performances of Janet, Nicole and several other female characters. He didn't want to lower his demands on the role of ”little rabbit” that would appear at the beginning of the film. As a result, Simon has been completely involved with the queen in recent days.

Don't mess with Simon westero if you don't have a good upbringing.

Today is Friday, August 28th.

In a fast food restaurant in the south of Santa Monica.

In these five days, some of the crew members who have been involved in Simon's film production since the beginning of ”Lola Run” have finally seen the ”manic” side of the director. However, this kind of mania has nothing to do with the bad shooting of the film. Instead, the director himself is helping Madonna demonstrate how to play ”Bunny” one scene at a time.

Tall and handsome, the director who can be called the dream lover of all the female employees of the crew, plays the female role in person, and is also a manic female robber. You can imagine how funny the picture will be.

At the counter in the fast food restaurant.

At this time, everyone in the crew gathered around, patiently waiting for Simon to speak to Madonna in person. Even Sean pan stood beside him with great interest and noticed Simon's little gesture of graciously handing his wife a bottle of pure water, but he was not jealous. After reading the script carefully, he was very clear about Simon's intention of doing this, but he felt that someone had to do everything to make the final scene.

A moment later.

In recent days, we have been talking about the scene happened again.

Simon finished talking to Madonna in a row, took the prop left wheel in her hand, jumped onto the counter in a few seconds, and without any scruples, screamed at the air where there was no actor buried: ”you let him go, you let him go, or I'll kill you, let him go...”

After the performance, Simon still stood on the counter and said to Madonna, ”Maggie, do you see that? That's it. You have to squat down. If you fail to rob, you are afraid and even collapse. So, it's better to shake your legs a little bit more, like this. ”

After a serious demonstration, Simon jumped off the counter.

Madonna was a little dissatisfied at the beginning with her role as a crazy woman. However, Simon did not pay attention to the image to demonstrate for her. She admired the young director who had created two box office miracles in a row before she was 20 years old. In recent days, she let go completely.

After all, it's just a role.

What's more, it's not that no one calls himself a crazy woman, so be crazy.

When Simon came down from the counter, Madonna took the left wheel of the props he handed over. She felt a little emotional and jumped on the counter: ”you let him go, you let him go, or I'll kill you, let him go...”

”Legs, shake It's too obvious. Take some All right, come down first, ”Simon said, waiting for Madonna to come down from the counter, take the woman's left wheel again and demonstrate it again.After tossing about for several times, Simon saw the effect almost the same. Without any trace, he handed Madonna a bottle of pure water again: ”come on, Maggie, have some more water, and then we'll start shooting.”

Madonna took the water bottle and gave Simon a slanting look. Her eyes were full of banter: ”little guy, is that how you treat women? I have to say, it's stupid.”

Even so, Madonna looked up and drank half a bottle of pure water.

Simon then conjured up a bottle of water again, but instead of rushing to give it to Madonna, he ordered Sean pan, Samuel Jackson and the crowd to start burying their seats.

As long as the play can be successfully completed today, the scene about the queen will also end smoothly.

With this kind of expectation, everyone in the crew is in high spirits.

Several attempts in a row naturally failed to meet Simon's requirements, during which Madonna was once again filled with a bottle of water by Simon.

More than half an hour later, Madonna jumped off the counter and was about to walk straight to the toilet, but Simon stopped her.

”Hey, kid, I'm going to the bathroom. Are you going to come with me?” Picking an eyebrow to make a joke, Madonna suddenly understood, glared at Simon and said, ”you mean it?”

Simon neither admitted nor denied it. He said, ”Maggie, how about insisting on finishing this scene and inviting you and Sean to dinner in the evening?”

Madonna covered her belly and her eyes began to turn: ”I'm in a hurry, little guy. Do you want to see me make a fool of myself?”

”All right,” Simon surrendered directly, ”the terms are yours.”

Madonna put up two fingers: ”two more songs.”