The Greatest Showman - Chapter 204

[203 New Work Invitation]

There was a lot of people in the coffee shop, and there were more than 20 people standing in line by the bar. They were talking loudly about how good the “King’s Speech” was and how wonderful Colin Firth’s performance was…

However, most people choose to take out. The Telluride Film Festival is so lively that no one wants to waste time sitting in a coffee shop and dazed, wishing to be able to rotate between the various cinemas 24 hours a day. Running back and forth. Therefore, there are still vacancies left in the surrounding seats, and they are not full.

“Latte, and a piece of black forest, thank you.” The curly-haired fat man returned the menu to the waiter, and then saw Renly’s piercing eyes, without special scrutiny or special scrutiny, calmly It’s like a clear spring, but the bottomless ink color makes people want to explore.

He grew up in Orange Town next to Los Angeles, which is a typical middle-class community. The residents are all elites such as lawyers, judges, doctors, fund managers, and government officials. He has seen a lot of them. The so-called high-level social elite and the condescending pride and conceit are really disgusting, which is why he escaped from Orange Town, got rid of all constraints, and pursued his movie dream wholeheartedly.

The sight of Renly in front of him made him curious. He could feel the detachment hidden beneath the gentlemanly demeanor in Renly, but he didn’t feel offended, not to mention the superior arrogance, the gentle yet tough, gentle yet sharp temperament, It actually made me feel a little better.

So, he showed a big smile and stretched out his right hand, “Look at my memory, until now, I still forgot to introduce myself, drake-doremus. Sorry. , disrupting your viewing plan today.”

After learning that Fat Curly was the director and sent a collaboration invitation to Renly, Rooney said goodbye, and she was going to watch “127 Hours”, which her sister participated in. The performance has yet to be seen. In the end, only Renly and the two of them came to the coffee house, found a place to sit down, and started a conversation.

“Renly Hall.” Renly held the other’s right hand and said calmly, “The charm of Telluride is that it’s all about movies. It’s also about now.” But there were a series of question marks in his mind. : Drake Doremus? who?

Renly didn’t dare to say that he knew all the movie works like the back of his hand. In the vast history of movies, there are more than thousands of movies, and works that can’t be named are like stars. But after entering the millennium, Renly has seen the most and the most complete works, and has seen almost all the works that can’t be named. However, the director’s name, Drake Doremus, is really not that impressive.

what does that mean? Means, Drake is not worth befriending? His works are anonymous? Maybe it’s just an independent work that nobody cares about? Should he turn and leave now?

No, Renly chose to sit still. This is Telluride, as he says, and even though Drake is a nobody, it’s a bonus to be able to make a movie lover as a friend. Besides, Renly wouldn’t be arrogant to think that he knows all the movies from the twenty-first century onwards.

“I like your answer.” Drake said with a smile, Renly’s ease and ease of advance and retreat once again strengthened Drake’s inner thoughts, “Actually, I am preparing my third film, and currently The preparatory work for the film has been completed and can be shot at any time, but the problem is: I haven’t found the male lead that I like.”

Drake is telling the truth, he has been going around for nearly 10 minutes for the new male lead. Three months later, still no suitable candidate has been found.

For an independent film produced at a low cost, any link is difficult. The actors he likes may be too expensive, or they may not be satisfied with the script; the actors he can find may not meet the expectations. Character setting, finding the right actor is like looking for a needle in a haystack, no one knows when the treasure will be found.

Therefore, many independent directors have their own fixed casts, which may be friends they know well in life. More likely, after a cooperation, the two sides find the cooperation happy, so the next time they make a film, they will find each other again. .

Drake believes Renly knows this all too well, since he just finished “Buried Alive,” also a low-budget independent work.

Sure enough, Renly chuckled, “I hope you’re not asking too much.”

Drake also smiled, “I did ask too much, and I’ve waited until now.” Without making a sound, he praised Renly. a handful. At this time, the two people’s coffee was brought up, and Drake pushed the coffee cup forward, leaning forward slightly, “I don’t know if you have seen Richard Linklater’s ‘Sunrise’ Before’ and ‘before sunset’?”

“Of course.” Renly smiled, remembering the joke with Rooney last night. “You also plan to make a love movie like this?”

“Yes, and no.” Drake sold a pass, a glimmer of smugness in his eyes, “I want to tell such a story, two people from meeting to acquaintance and then again When they fell in love, they fell in love with each other madly like two flames, desperate and moths to the flames, so that they lost their minds. But at the moment of their love, they were forced to live in two places due to force majeure. The hot love poured a bucket of cold water on the head and faced the test of a long-distance relationship, so where will this relationship go in the end?”

Drake’s story awakened Renly’s memory, and he remembered a movie that tells the story of One such story is “Love Crazy”.

The film tells the story of two college students, Anna and Jacob, who fall in love as if they were crazy and carried away so much that Anna ignores her visa issues. She is an international student from the UK, and her visa expires after graduation. but did not leave the United States within the time limit. Later, because of a friend’s wedding, she had to go back to the UK. When she came back again, she suddenly found that she had been refused entry by the customs, and this love began to undergo a severe test.

This is one of Renly’s favorite romance movies.

For many, the film is about the pain and suffering of a long-distance relationship, but Renly sees it differently. He believes that “Love Crazy” really tells about the original appearance of love. The most real appearance is that from the moment of meeting, the chemical reaction of hormones is like a volcanic eruption. After all the reason, everything was so crazy, like a tornado meeting; then, they encountered ups and downs, encountered difficulties, encountered struggles, the temperature of love began to drop gradually, so love began to become a part of life, a Spend a little bit in the daily trivial things, and can’t find the original appearance again.

As Drake said just now, “Love Crazy” is actually a bit like the trilogy of “Before Sunrise”, “Before Sunset” and “Before Midnight”, showing the complete original appearance of love, from fermentation to death , from brewing to dissipating, true and cruel, beautiful and heartbreaking; but “Love Crazy” is different from Richard Linklater’s trilogy, which explores the essence of love is the collision of passion , or a long time together?

In daily life, it is impossible for love to maintain a boiling point of one hundred degrees all the time. It will always encounter peaks and troughs, but at a critical moment, the object of my deep love is not around, happiness and sadness, happiness and sadness, Joys and setbacks cannot be shared together, so is love still necessary? Especially when two people who love each other are forced to be separated from each other, and the shackles of time and space make them constantly miss each other, will they gradually fade out of each other’s life? At this moment, how should love go on?

Drake doesn’t give an answer directly in the film, leaving an open ending where every viewer will have their own ideas. That’s why Renly loved the movie so much.

An optimist will think that they have overcome all difficulties and finally come together; a pessimist will think that the passing of time has changed two people after all, and they can never go back to the past.

Renly is the latter.

The movie “Love Crazy” is very niche, because it is too real, too cruel, almost unbearable; at the same time, it is too delicate and too beautiful, and everyone who has truly loved can be in the movie Find your shadow. Therefore, the box office results of the film are unsatisfactory, and the publicity effect is also mediocre. However, the film was unanimously recognized by film critics and successfully won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

It is a pity that the publicity and distribution in the awards season was not strong enough, and the two works of “The Artist” and “Midnight in Paris” were fiercely attacked. In the end, they were not able to achieve anything in the awards season, not even bubbling. It’s too rare to know that the Sundance Jury Prize winner has been nominated for an Oscar three years in a row, and a Best Picture nomination two years in a row, before “Crazy.”

Even so, it still does not affect Renly’s love for “Crazy Love”.

However, Renly didn’t know that the director of “Crazy Love” was Derek Doremus. The works are difficult to compare with “Crazy Love”, including “The Same Group” in 2015. The quality is not satisfactory, so Renly gradually forgot about the director, so that when he heard the name just now, there was no reaction.

What makes “Crazy in Love” so good is that it’s based on the director’s own story, the true story of him and his wife, and every detail, every emotion in the movie is so empathetic. In the movie, Anna and Jacob end up together, hugging each other bruised; in real life, Drake and his wife divorced in 2008.

[End of this Chapter]