King of Hollywood

Although Kate is easy to NG when shooting long shots, after all, this movie is not composed of one or several long shots, so after shooting these scenes with bumps and bumps, she finally recovered.

In these short shots, Kate still performed well. She is originally British and has read these novels before, so she has a relatively accurate feeling for the characters. Of course, she is incomparable with experienced actors like Hopkins and Thompson. When she plays with other people, she still has one or two outstanding places, but once she is with the two of them, she will be completely overwhelmed. suppress.

However, Kate didn't take this matter to heart, and still worked hard to do her job well. In addition, Adrian has always controlled the rhythm of the shooting very well. For example, he has drawn every shot on paper—even if It's with simple lines—then explaining to the actors in detail before filming begins, and it's never broken.

So even if the crew had problems of one kind or another, for example, when shooting a driving scene on the small road outside the manor, the antique car almost turned over, which shocked the actors on the car; Problems, it did not match the style at the time and was sent back, causing the shooting to be interrupted for two days and so on. Still approaching the end of June, most of the shots at Howard End will be shot.

"You are an excellent director, Ed, and I think my previous decision was completely correct." Hopkins once said to Adrian in private, after seeing his long-rumored fast shooting technique and his attention to the scene After gaining control and understanding of novels, he strengthened his confidence in him.

However, some things are just so unsatisfactory. When Adrian brought the crew to the manor, in order to let everyone devote all their enthusiasm, he specially conducted a fully enclosed shooting. Newspapers are not allowed. Although some people will inevitably go out, and some scenes need to be filmed in the small town, but Adrian asked the staff of the crew not to discuss outside matters.

At the beginning, many people were dissatisfied, but they didn't say anything after getting used to it. Although Adrian made such a request, the implementation was not strict, and everyone still chatted a lot in private. As for the absence of TV sets and newspapers, it doesn’t matter, anyway, it’s only two or three weeks of work, and several old employees who have been following Adrian know that it will end as soon as the director says it will end, and the error is only two or three days That's all.

Therefore, the whole manor is peaceful and relaxed after shooting. However, on the last day of June, this tranquility was suddenly broken. Many reporters appeared around the manor early in the morning, waiting for Hopkins, Adrian Or after Thompson came out, he immediately swarmed up.

"Mr. Adrian, I'm William from the Daily Mirror. May I ask why you want to put Mr. Foster's novel "Howard End" on the big screen? Do you think you are very good? What kind of subject matter? Can you take pictures?"

"Why did you choose to cooperate with a director known for making cult genres on a literary drama film, and it is Foster's "Howards End", Ms. Thompson?"

"Mr. Hopkins, what makes you think it's the right thing to cooperate with Mr. Adrian in a literary drama movie? Are you sure he can grasp the context of the movie?"

These guys were like sharks that smelled blood, no matter what happened to Hopkins and the others, they rushed up desperately and surrounded them to grab the news. Fortunately, the rest of the crew came out immediately and drove the reporters out.

"What the hell, why did they come to the door so quickly?" After retreating into the room with several main actors, Adrian said a little depressed. He knew very well that these reporters would come sooner or later. Although he asked others not to contact the outside while they were in the manor, he kept in touch with Lavern, so the media's reaction was expected.

"Pulp Fiction" has collected more than 30 million box office in North America so far. Although this figure is not high, it is not as good as "Batman Returns" which was released at the same time. Stable, within a little more than 3 weeks of release, the weekly box office is around 10 million, and the range of ups and downs is not large.

Moreover, Adrian explained to Lavern at the beginning that he would use long-term screenings to recover the box office, so as long as this continues, it will definitely be no problem to "reproduce" the record of over 100 million in North America.

The honors this film has won - the Palme d'Or; and the current hits - for an R-rated and cult film, the current results are already quite good. It has caused a lot of cult-type movies to be produced, and it has also made many big filmmakers turn their attention to independent low-cost movies. Some critics even think that Hollywood independent filmmakers should thank Adrian, without him and his "Pulp Fiction", independent films would not receive such attention-although Adrian's works are not completely independent Movies, but this kind of trend is indeed caused by him.

As a result, the public and the media began to dig deeper into this talented director. Although his previous experiences have been known, people are still very curious about how a pampered guy can make this kind of gangster movie of? Even if he had fooled around for a while, there were some things that he would not see so clearly unless he had stayed at the bottom of society.

Whether it is Martin? Scorsese or Francis? Ford? Coppola, without those young experiences, can produce those famous gangster movies? But Adrian is a person from the upper class in every way, how did he grasp these things? Although he once said in Cannes that it was because he had watched a lot of gangster movies and videos, this explanation obviously did not satisfy the vast majority of people, so a new round of excavation and analysis is bound to be carried out.

In this way, there has been no pause, and the comparison between Adrian's new movie genre and the original style has been brought up again. It's just that since the release of "Pulp Fiction", the wizard director has disappeared from the public eye again. At the beginning, he also appeared in some promotional activities. After a few times, only the actors and other producers remained on such activities. up.

Although no one knew where he had gone, the reporters were reporters after all, especially the entertainment reporters. It was soon found out that he had brought the crew of the new movie to England, and he was accompanied by the new film star Anthony Huo Pukins

"Obviously, after he ruined Al Pacino, he set his sights on Anthony Hopkins again. If I were Anthony, I would definitely think about it and cooperate with Adrian in a literary drama movie." Is it the right choice." A newspaper wrote half-ridiculously and half-sarcastically.

"I very much doubt that Adrian claimed that he would shoot a literary drama movie in name, but he actually shot a thriller movie, otherwise why would he invite Anthony Hopkins in the title role?" said another paper.

The major media immediately sent reporters to London. Although Adrian vowed that the new film was a complete literary drama, he never disclosed the specific name. Now he actually took the crew to the UK, so does it mean that this film Will the movie be British? If that's the case, it's a lot of fun.

However, because Adrian had already made preparations, and the filming was closed in the suburbs, and he also specially urged the partners to keep secrets, so although these reporters got a lot of clues that he was indeed in London, they still didn't know where he was.

However, British reporters also joined in, and they have been paying attention to Adrian's new movie. With the help of these local snakes, they soon got a message from King's College, Cambridge University. More than a year ago, a Hollywood producer approached them and bought the right to adapt Foster's novel "Howard's End"

According to this news, the reporters continued to search, and the reporters finally found out that the person who bought the right to adapt and produce this novel was a producer from Bosworth Films. Thinking of Adrian's statement, what is his new movie? It goes without saying.

Of course, there are still many reporters who don't believe it. Although Adrian has successfully adapted Stephen King's novel before and won an Oscar nomination for best director, the style of this novel is completely different from his previous films. It's very different, if he really chooses to adapt this novel, there is only one explanation: his head is flooded

Unfortunately, after asking Bosworth Films, the answer they got shattered their illusions: Adrian's new movie is indeed "Howard End"

The North American media lost their voices for a while, while the British media began to criticize strongly after being stunned.

There was strong criticism: "What does he want to do? Whoever gave him the power to do so will destroy the novel"

There are sharp doubts: "Although Adrian has stayed in the UK, and the first film interpreted the British black humor properly, it does not mean that he can be arrogant and think that he has the ability to adapt Foster's novels. Fiction Does he understand what the novel is about? Does he understand what the novel stands for? God, this is a disaster"

Bitter jibes, too: "Obviously, in a few months' time, we could see on the big screen a foul-mouthed Henry and Margaret yelling at each other, a drugged-tart Helen, a reckless Family, expect a 'k' to appear every two or three minutes, maybe in the end Henry will try to kill Margaret and eat her, and Margaret and Helen will try to kill him, And so get Howards End - if I were Foster, I'd jump out of the grave and kill this American kid myself" ()