Chatty Hollywood

Charlotte didn't get much advantage from Andrew Kevin Walker.

After all, Paramount was just a little guilty and apologetic for hiding the deal with Jodie Foster from him.

Legally speaking, he actually did nothing wrong.

In fact, if Charlotte were not a rising commercial film director, Paramount would not care about his mood at all.

In this case, even if he really opened his mouth, Andrew Kevin Walker would not be able to promise him too much.

Therefore, Charlotte simply gave up as soon as she could. He just asked Paramount to agree to two moderate conditions -

First, there’s no sniping at “The Sixth Sense,” which is scheduled to be released around Memorial Day.

After all, "Sleepy Hollow" is only Charlotte's past work, and the copyright is not in his hands. The success of "The Sixth Sense" will be the key to determining whether Charlotte can secure her position as a first-line director in the future.

In this case, it is naturally a good choice to exchange the gone past for a promising future.

For Paramount, this condition is acceptable. After all, there are so many blockbuster movies in the summer, why focus on "The Sixth Sense"?

——Obviously, Andrew Kevin Walker, who reached an agreement with Charlotte on behalf of Paramount, did not expect what a terrifying movie "The Sixth Sense" would be...

Second, when "The Sixth Sense" competes for Oscars next year, Paramount will provide help.

After personally participating in an Oscar, Charlotte also had some thoughts about the statuette.

Although it is nowhere near as crazy as Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio in the future, Charlotte would definitely have no objection if she could have her own statuette.

Especially when he received the Best Picture trophy with Jodie Foster and Andrew Kevin Walker, he once again absorbed a lot of concentrated magic from it.

— just like at last year’s Saturn Awards.

After the Saturn Award, Charlotte studied the trophy she had won for a long time. Now he can confirm that if his own film wins an award, the trophy awarded to him will indeed contain magic power.

The amount of magic power contained is directly proportional to the importance of the award and the influence of the films he makes.

——Not to mention anything else, it is also a trophy from the Saturn Award. The mana provided by the trophy in "Fatal Turn" is far less than that in "Happy Death Day".

And this time the best movie statuette also confirmed Charlotte's suspicion once again.

After he digests the mana gained this time, his spell level can reach a higher level.

The only thing that makes him regretful is that the statuette for Best Picture is the honor of the entire crew and does not belong to him alone.

This makes him less likely to continue to use this trophy to absorb and increase mana in the future.

And the main reason why he wants a little golden man of his own is also for cultivation——

Charlotte has discovered that the reason why these trophies can provide him with mana is not because of their abnormal materials.

These trophies are not so much natural artifacts as they are passages - passages connecting him to the movies he shot.

Just like Charlotte discovered before, in this world, some movies with great influence and content that can mobilize the audience's emotions can precipitate or condense magic.

These magic powers are the favorites of many ghosts, which is why he encountered so many ghosts in Hollywood, the birthplace of many movies.

As a living person, Charlotte is not unable to absorb these magic powers and convert them into her own mana.

However, the only movies that can absorb his magic are those that he has personally participated in filming.

After all, the magic of movies comes from the human heart, invisible and intangible.

Ghosts can be absorbed often because the content of the movie resonates with their essence.

And if Charlotte wants to absorb,

But there must be a basis - that is, he must have participated in the production of a movie.

Especially movies produced under his own leadership can provide more magic.

Of course, this "more" is only a relative term.

In fact, the process of converting the magic accumulated in the movie into one's own mana is very long and very inefficient.

But because we are still in the Age of Ending Dharma, spiritual energy is thin, and ordinary cultivation methods that rely on spiritual energy progress even more slowly——

This method of converting movie magic into mana without relying on aura seems to be relatively fast.

This is also the reason why his training speed has increased significantly after the release of his previous film "Fatal Turn".

——That was the result of his unconscious transformation after absorbing the magic power accumulated in "Deadly Bend".

After that, after more than a year of research, Charlotte finally understood the relationship between the magic and mana precipitated in the movie.

This is also thanks to the two trophies of the Saturn Award——

He placed the trophy at home, and every time he practiced near the trophy, he could feel his cultivation speed improving slightly. Over time, he finally discovered the secret.

And he called the trophy he won a passage for the same reason——

Somehow, the connection between him and the magic accumulated in the movies he made is very weak. The award he received could strengthen this connection and speed up his ability to absorb transformation magic.

Just like the recognition of a highly credible award, it can make the public believe that the success of the movie comes from him, making the magic in the vast world more compatible with him.

This is in line with Charlotte's theory that all the magic and ghosts come from the human heart, but if we want to confirm this conjecture, we still need to continue to work hard.

However, Charlotte feels that in order to further improve the speed of cultivation, it seems to be a good choice to make a few movies that can both be a box office hit and win consecutive awards.

After all, box office success can increase the influence of a movie, thereby increasing its accumulated magic.

But if you want to quickly absorb and convert these magic powers into mana, you need the help of heavyweight awards.

——Like Oscar.

From this perspective, Charlotte's desire for the statuette is no different from her colleagues in the Hollywood circle.

— though the reasons for his desire were entirely different.

As a representative of Paramount, although he could not imagine the reason why Charlotte wanted the statuette, Andrew Kevin Walker still said he could help.

Of course, what neither of them said clearly was that there had to be no conflict of interest between them.

In fact, Charlotte knew very well that Paramount's ability to agree to these two conditions was based on the success of "The Sixth Sense" and the continued advancement of his directorial career.

If he encounters Waterloo, it's hard to say what happens next.

Praising the high and suppressing the low is the survival logic of Hollywood.

While Charlotte was thinking about it, she suddenly received an alarm in her heart——

It turns out that the Irish leprechaun sent to Charlize by Charlotte sent the alarm.

"Did Sally come across something weird again?"

Because she had something to discuss with Andrew Kevin Walker, Charlotte did not take Charlize to accompany her. But when he turned around to look, he couldn't help but become nervous.

PS1: "Mysterious Passage" is a thriller film released in Canada in 2007. PS2: The third update is completed today, please express your condolences!