Chapter 103: Endless Scum

However, Spielberg's nightmare is not just about being blamed by a group of people related to the beach tourism industry.

Because the producer column can have multiple names, even though Alain Delon was listed as the nominal producer of "Léon", most of the actual preparation work for the film was handled by his agent Piero and his team.

In order to make this new movie, which may have problems in terms of box office and reputation but has absolutely classic characters, in addition to Alain Delon's dedication, Su Yun also tried her best to take time out of her busy schedule of preparing for the exams to contact people she knew for help.

So, when he heard that Su Yun was trying a new film and the director was Spielberg, whom he admired very much, Kubrick accepted Su Yun's invitation to be listed as one of the producers over the phone.

Su Yun was almost stunned when she heard that he actually agreed to it, thinking it was just a joke.

"It's a good thing that you have new ideas, but this challenge is indeed a bit difficult for you. It just so happens that I have some free time recently, so I want to help you." Although Kubrick's tyrannical state during filming can basically make the actors who have worked with him unforgettable or even become a lifelong shadow, in daily life, his personality is actually quite gentle and amiable - after all, how much evil can a super poop scooper who can raise seven cats at a time have?

With the help of Ku Shen, Su Yun breathed a sigh of relief: with the same plot, some people can shoot it in a way that makes the emotions surge and float, while others can interpret it in a fresh, natural, warm and hazy way; and the key to this, in large part, comes from the commander's ability to tell the story.

Kubrick's version of "Lolita" actually has some of the tone of a new movie. He offered his help not only because he really had some free time recently, but also because he was afraid that the two younger generations whom he admired would repeat the same mistake he suffered back then.

So although Kubrick said he was just putting his name on the project this time, he actually took the early preparations that a producer should do to heart - for this purpose, he specifically asked Spielberg, the director, to install a telegraph in the room so that he could text back and forth whenever he had an idea.

As we all know, there is a certain time difference between the UK and the US.

As a result of Kubrick's actions, Spielberg received telegrams from Britain every night...

"It's like there's a Kubrick living in my room! It's horrible!" Spielberg withstood the pressure of the unanimous boycott from tourism industry professionals but couldn't withstand the "concern" of Kubrick alone. Tortured to the point of mental weakness, Spielberg almost cried and complained to Su Yun.

Although he is one of the idols you admire, distance creates beauty, which is always the truth of life. When the idol becomes a factor that affects your life, even the most die-hard fans will feel tired.

Su Yun thought about the timeline and was somewhat helpless: Kubrick was probably about to start preparing for the classic horror film "The Shining" that has become a shadow in many people's childhood, adolescence and even adulthood. Spielberg happened to run into him at this moment. It was really tragic...

On the first day of July, Su Yun flew to Manhattan again.

Two months later, when she saw Alain Delon, she was quite surprised.

Because he was going to film "Zorro", he developed a traditional standard heroic body shape that looks thin when dressed and muscular when undressed. This body shape is very convincing when playing a masked hero, but it would be a bit too much if he played a lone killer.

To this end, Su Yun suggested that he lose as much weight as possible in the preparation time before filming. Moreover, this cannot be achieved simply by dieting, but requires high-intensity training and dietary adjustments.

Because the male protagonist of this movie needs to have a lean and strong physique, not a skinny guy who would fall down at the slightest breeze.

Alain Delon, who was quite ruthless with himself, agreed to Su Yun's suggestion immediately. After following the weight loss diet menu and training schedule she copied from the system for a period of time, he successfully lost a full ten kilograms.

Moreover, he seems to be in good spirits, without any signs of fatigue or exhaustion from excessive weight loss. It is obvious that he has carried out his training tasks seriously and is very self-disciplined.

"It is really hard to persevere, but I know it is worth it, so I am not afraid of the hard work." In response to Su Yun's recognition, Alain Delon responded with a tone that seemed both complaining and joking.

Su Yun smiled and nodded: "I was not idle at home. In addition to looking for people everywhere, I also designed a lot of character images, and made the costumes at my friend's garment factory in Hong Kong, which saved me a lot of money."

Alain Delon glanced at her small head that had been cut short into a bob, and then recalled the time when she pressed him to the ground and fanned him and saw her long black hair flying in the wind. He felt very satisfied, but also a little regretful.

However, after Su Yun changed into a punk lolita outfit, the slight regret in his heart disappeared.

The reason is simple. Su Yun, who wore heavy makeup, deepened the contours of her facial features and looked more and more like a mixed-race girl. This also happened to echo the plot in which the young heroine Matilda pretended to be the hero's daughter to the old man who managed the apartment in order to rent an apartment.

Only this kind of beautiful "mixed-blood" is the descendant who inherited his appearance!

After hearing this news from Alain Delon's sigh, Su Yun was speechless for a moment: Should she thank him for his recognition of her appearance, or should she accuse him of being a Narcissus-type person and ask him to be less narcissistic?

Don’t you even look at how much different you look after you make yourself look ugly?

Yes, considering that the killer usually does not have a good-looking face like Alain Delon, Su Yun intended to let him destroy his own image.

It is much easier to lower one's appearance than to improve it. No matter how outstanding a beauty is, if she puts on ugly or old makeup, has a little stubble, and looks listless from staying up late, her beauty will be reduced to three or four points.

Fortunately, Alain Delon followed the instructions and made himself rough, which concealed most of the impact of his appearance. Otherwise, Su Yun might have considered persuading him to shave his excellent hairline into the most typical early M-shaped baldness of middle-aged men...

After finally putting on their makeup, both of them transformed themselves into completely different people.

"It's really good. If you two can keep it up, this new image should broaden your acting range." After looking at the makeup photos, Spielberg sighed sincerely: Su Yun used to be a well-behaved little beauty, and her label was the typical little angel white moonlight; and Alain Delon, no matter whether he played a femme fatale, a fool beauty or a two-faced beauty, no matter how the role changed, the adjective "incomparably handsome" was enough to encompass it all.

Now, the little angel Bai Yueguang has become a rebellious punk lolita, and the handsome sun god has turned into a well-maintained old man. If people who are familiar with them see them, they will definitely be shocked.

After the filming started, Su Yun discovered another thing: compared to the male protagonist Leon, played by Alain Delon, his favorite character was actually the little heroine Matilda - in his words, Leon's character was actually too passive; on the contrary, it was Matilda's character who clearly knew what she wanted and what she wanted to do, and would work hard to achieve her goals, which made him admire the most.

Just like him when he was young!

Su Yun recalled the first draft of the autobiography that left both her and Ovitz speechless, and then recalled Alain Delon's operation of using his reputation to rise to the top and using any means to achieve his goals. She couldn't help but sigh in her heart that this guy is really narcissistic to the extreme.

Maybe the reason for his numerous romantic affairs is that he couldn't find a partner who was like him enough, so he tried to be a scumbag in the eyes of the world by using the "Wan Wan Lei Qing" method...

Deducing this point, Su Yun simply changed the way she addressed him in her mind from the normal mode to "Zhalan".

A small nickname to show "respect".

I don't know why Su Yun dared to work with them and complain about them in her heart. Zha Lan, who was officially defined as "Zha Lan (male)" by Su Yun, took the latest version of the script with many details modified and said dissatisfiedly: "Why change it? I think Leon and Matilda are true love, and true love knows no age!"

The love-brain thinking in his genes at that moment made him feel very fond of this paper man CP. He said frankly that the two must have feelings for each other. If Matilda was not so young now, the two would definitely be a very suitable couple.

Su Yun stared at him silently, and it took a lot of effort to suppress the urge to burst out: Shut up, you love-brained French guy, I still plan to revise it more and then strive for the age rating!

As for why Su Yun had to hold back from complaining, it was not entirely because the two of them were now officially working together in harmony.

It’s because Zha Lan’s acting skills are so fluctuating!

Can you imagine an actor who has acted in more than 20 movies, but can't quickly change from one emotion to another at the beginning of acting, so he needs to waste time and film to shoot him repeatedly, and then rely on powerful post-production editing to edit and splice his shots? !

In the beginning, Su Yun, who always acted opposite movie stars with good acting skills, was often led by them and could not be excited about her current acting skills that surpassed those of her co-stars.

It's not that she is too good, but that the other party is too bad. There is no point in being happy about this.

Fortunately, Zha Lan gradually adjusted during the subsequent filming and managed to keep up with the progress, otherwise Spielberg, as the director, would probably have to make a cameo appearance as Su Yun's trash can for making fun of people.

Through this period of cooperation, Su Yun finally roughly understood why his acting skills would change with various factors: as long as it was a role or story that Zha Lan was interested in and liked, he would work very hard to interpret it, and the results were good films that he collaborated with well-known directors such as Visconti and Melville, and he did his homework conscientiously.

But if he is not interested in or does not like something, he will just muddle through and act casually, just to pass the test without even getting a single point. He will just use his barely adequate acting skills to get through the shoot, then turn around and take the money and leave...

This kind of behavior, which is similar to watching people's performance, reminds Su Yun of a male artist in later generations who has a hidden attribute of 50-50: he can steadily take over the roles of veteran actors on one hand, and can also compete with mediocre actors on the other hand... This hidden attribute of not wasting any acting skills is really magical.

But compared to Zha Lan, who is recognized by most people as a beauty, that person often jumps back and forth between beauty and slut. After playing a good and serious role, he will inevitably take on a greasy and handsome role, so that he has won the evaluation of "only one of him and the audience thinks he is handsome"...

However, compared to the other person who is suspected to be a passive type and does not waste his acting skills, Zha Lan is an active type who needs others to flatter and obey him.

Considering that his acting skills would be affected if he didn't follow Zha Lan's wishes, Su Yun thought about it carefully and then secretly agreed with Spielberg to do one thing on the surface and another in his inner thoughts.

The length of a movie is usually around 90 minutes or 120 minutes when it is released, and the longest is usually no more than 3 hours, but the footage used during filming is often far more than 200 hours. So, which footage will be used and which will not be used depends on those who have the editing rights.

Interestingly, Zha Lan's eyes will change color slightly depending on his mood. Normally they are typical lake blue, but when he gets angry they will turn gray. However, when he is overwhelmed with emotions, they will actually transition from blue to green.

When she discovered this miraculous phenomenon, Su Yun went out of her way to verify it. After confirming that it was not an illusion caused by the refraction of light, she could not help but feel jealous and envious of him. She did not know whether it was because of the psychological changes that led to the changes in physiological hormones, or whether God was too partial to him when he created him - if it were not for his handsome looks, he would have been punished by society for his unruly character.

But he just had a face that would blush no matter what he did. That weird look of being decent yet gorgeous was so striking that one could fall into the depths of his eyes at first sight.

If she wasn't young enough and therefore had enough "compassion", Su Yun might have fallen into his trap once if she hadn't always been acting opposite the green-eyed Zha Lan.

Of course, after the play, the deep affection in the play turned into a superficial plastic friendship. The two leading actors only liked each other's characters, not themselves.

However, although their friendship is quite superficial, the affectionate gaze recorded in the picture, which ignores the whole world and focuses on only one person, is simply the template for those villain male characters in later generations who do many evil things but only love one person, making people unable to help but love and hate him.

Su Yun, who was editing the early filming footage in a small dark room with Spielberg, sighed, and then without hesitation cut out the green-eyed scene where Zha Lan's acting was the most explosive and affectionate.

The emotional depth of the blue-green eyes is enough. They depend on each other like homeless stray animals and draw warmth from each other. This is the ultimate interpretation of the current relationship between Leon and Matilda.

A little more or a little less won't do.

Let him act as he wants, I will edit it anyway - after leaving the role of Matilda, Su Yun has become much worse than the scumbag who was obsessed with paper man for the first time and whose acting skills exploded.

The scumbag of the century stamped by the media?

But that's it, it's easy to deceive.