The Best Director

"Jessica, I want to be a director, I want to make a movie, I've been thinking about it since I was very young. And now, I've decided, I'm going to act, not just thinking, I'm going to make a movie! Indie Movies!"

Hearing Wang Yang's categorical statement, Jessica was stunned: "Making a movie?" She realized that she could only think of one possibility, and asked, "You mean, write a good script and then find investment funds?" Is Shangla investing in the filming?"

To her surprise, Wang Yang shook his head immediately: "No, I'm not going to solicit investment, and with my current resume, I can't do so. So, I invest myself!" He took a sip of the newly handed investment from the waiter. With a goal in mind, the coffee is not so bitter anymore, and said with a smile: "I am not an actor, I will do all the other work. Of course, I will talk about the release later. I don't want to think so much now. I want to Make the movie first!"

"Do you invest by yourself?" Jessica was stunned. In her impression, shooting a movie, even a low-cost independent movie, would cost millions or hundreds of thousands, right? She remembered that Wang Yang's family owned a restaurant and was not considered rich, so where would he find money for filming? Confused, she asked, "Yang, can you tell me, what's your budget?"

Wang Yang showed a mysterious smile, raised a finger, and said, "Ten thousand dollars! Jessica, my budget is only ten thousand dollars." He laughed, and spread his hands and said, "That's all my net worth. .”

Jessica was stunned again unexpectedly, ten thousand dollars? How much film is enough to buy? How long is enough for a movie? She didn't understand and said: "Yang, are you kidding? How can you make a movie with $10,000?"

"It's very simple. I shoot DV movies." Wang Yang revealed the answer with a smile. DV movies are a new way of filming. Using digital features, there is no need to burn expensive film, a huge shooting crew, and It gave many young people like Wang Yang who lacked funds the opportunity to display their talents. He said confidently: "I haven't figured out the script of the movie, but I already have an idea."

Seeing Jessica still looking confused and suspicious, he couldn't help asking, "What? Jessica, don't you believe it?"

"Oh, no no..." Jessica quickly denied it, and said with a serious face: "Yang, if you want to make a movie, I absolutely support you, and I want to help you as much as I can! Good friends should help each other, Isn't it? But your plan..." She frowned, shook her head and said, "I don't understand, how to make a movie with ten thousand dollars? Maybe I don't have that concept in my mind yet."

"Ten thousand dollars is enough, enough to make a good movie!" Wang Yang's expression became serious, and he said, "Jessica, trust me! You will see it, but I need your support!"

Jessica looked into his eyes, nodded solemnly, and said, "Yan, I believe in you, you will do it!"

"Thank you!" Wang Yang laughed. With the support of others, his heart, which had been oppressed by so many depressions in the past few days, finally felt a lot more comfortable. This feeling is very good.

At this time, the mobile phone rang suddenly. Jessica said "I'm sorry", and took out the mobile phone from her delicate leather bag to connect: "Mom? Oh, I know, I will go home for dinner. Um, I was going to go home after watching Titanic, but guess what happened!? I bumped into a classmate from San Francisco at the movie theater! Oh, he's different, he's a very good friend of mine. "

She smiled at Wang Yang and continued: "I'm in the coffee shop with him now. Well, I'll go back right away." After hanging up the phone, she shook the phone in her hand and said, "I have to go home."

Jessica's family believes in Catholicism, and her father was a soldier before, so her family education has been extremely strict since she was a child. Wang Yang knew this before, and besides, it's really late now, he nodded and said, "Well, then let's pay the bill."

"Jan, do you have a cell phone? This is my cell phone number, and this is my MSN number..." Jessica took out a piece of paper and a pen from her purse,

He quickly wrote down her mobile phone number and MSN number, and then pushed the paper and pen to Wang Yang's side.

"This is mine... but the place I rented has not yet installed the network." Wang Yang took the pen and paper, wrote his mobile phone number and MSN number on the blank space below the paper, then tore the paper in half, and put the The pen and paper pushed back: "Okay."

Jessica looked at the number on the paper, then put it back into her purse, and said happily: "Then if you need help with anything, please come to me; and if you want to make a movie, remember to tell me, I really I really want to know how to make a movie with $10,000.”

"Okay, I will." Wang Yang shook the paper in his hand and said with a smile, "I can't let Peter steal it this time."

"Then you have to keep it safe." Jessica also smiled sweetly.

The two bought a ticket and left the coffee shop. Wang Yang helped Jessica call a taxi. Jessica held the door, looked at Wang Yang and said softly, "Yang, I am really happy today. Thank God, we can see you again. Seeing you as a good friend." Wang Yang smiled and said, "Me too." Jessica bent into the car, made a phone call gesture, and said with a smile, "Keep in touch! I'm leaving, bye!"

"Bye!" Wang Yang waved his hand and watched the taxi leave.

After returning to the previous movie theater to retrieve his cardboard box, Wang Yang also took the bus home. The place where he lives now is a relatively remote and backward community in Los Angeles. The apartment building he lives in is also very dilapidated, full of rusty iron stairs, and boxes of sundries are piled up in the aisles. Although it is dilapidated, the rent is cheap. It's only 800 a month, and the security is not bad.

Wang Yang's rented house is very simple, the white ash on the walls has fallen off, there are some furniture that is about to rot, and there are not many electrical appliances. As soon as he opened the door, he even saw a mouse sprinting past his eyes.

"Oh, my God! Brother Mouse, don't you ever eat my sandwich, that's my dinner!" Wang Yang shouted, put down the cardboard box in a hurry, walked quickly to the same simple kitchen, opened the pot Fortunately, the sandwich is still there!

He breathed a sigh of relief, he was already hungry after a busy day, so he took it out to eat. While eating, he sat down on the sofa with several big holes. Thinking about what happened today, he felt a little "reborn". Too many things happened today.

The encounters in life are really wonderful, he has forgotten about Jessica Alba, and he will meet her again today; also, after he was knocked down by a BB car, he miraculously saw the future movie...

Well, since God has given him this gift, he must take good care of it, and he can't let himself go with the flow! Wang Yang finished a sandwich in a few mouthfuls, leaned against the sofa in a comfortable posture, closed his eyes, and slowly entered the movie library in his mind.

What he needs is a low-cost movie, the lower the cost, the better! Thinking about it this way, a bunch of movies appeared in his mind, most of them were comedies, but looking at the cost, most of them cost millions of dollars in production costs, Wang Yang couldn't help muttering: "Let's go even lower... ..."

As a result, a lot of movies disappeared, and only a few remained. He checked carefully, and two of them were most suitable for his current situation. The first was "The Blair Witch", and the second was "Smart - Ghost Shadow Records".

These two movies are ultra-low-budget horror movies, and they were all shot with DV cameras. They used a pseudo-documentary shooting method, which is technically easy, and this method is the same as the "Blair Witch" movie. Created.

"The Blair Witch", the production cost of this film is only 60,000 US dollars. It roughly tells that in October 1994, three film students came to Bull Town with a DV camera to investigate the local legend about the Bull Witch. In order to find the Blair Witch, they came to the Black Mountain Forest near the town, but they disappeared soon after.

Later, people and the U.S. government searched for them, using helicopters and even satellites, but there was no trace of them, so people had to give up the search.

A year later, several students went to explore the Black Mountain Forest. They found a package in a very hidden cabin in the forest. The package contained the diary of one of the missing students, Haci, and a movie that had already been edited. A copy disc, which recorded all the horrific events that happened when the three of Haz disappeared a year ago.

This is the story of "The Blair Witch". When the film was promoted, it was said that the film was adapted and processed from that copy disc, which seemed to be a true story, but in fact everything was just a film.

However, this kind of propaganda method and the pseudo-documentary film technique have created a new situation. If there is no accident, "The Blair Witch" will be released next year, and then it will rake in 140 million box office in North America, plus 108 million overseas, and a global box office of 248 million US dollars! Look at its production cost, $60,000.

Another "Spiritual-Ghost Records" is about a young couple moving into a new home, a big house in the suburbs, but there seems to be something unclean in the house, and various supernatural phenomena often occur, and they don't know where they came from. Where did the sound come from. The couple decided to use a video camera instead of their sleeping selves to see what was really going on in the house. So, they installed video cameras in every corner of the house, hoping to capture the ghosts. However, this led to a dire end for them.

The production cost of this movie released in 2009 was even lower, only 11,000 US dollars! As for the box office, 107 million in North America, 85 million overseas, and 193 million worldwide.

Wang Yang chose "Spiritual-Ghost Records" almost without thinking about it. For several reasons, "The Blair Witch" was supposed to be released next year, so maybe it has already been filmed now, and even if it is not filmed, there is a risk of crashing later; There is no need to worry about crashing; the most important thing is that he only has 10,000 US dollars on hand now.

"Okay, let me see how this movie is..." Wang Yang selected "Spiritual-Ghost Story", and then "played" it in his mind. After an hour and a half, he suddenly stood up in cold sweat. He got up, took a long breath, panting undecidedly: "Although there was a long section in the middle that was very boring, but in the end I was almost scared to death..."

"Spiritual-Ghost Records...Spiritual-Ghost Records..." Wang Yang wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and muttered to himself. Although he hadn't seen many horror movies, he dared to say that this one is absolutely good. He looked around the house, as long as the house is refurbished, isn't it the scene in the movie? The shots of the movie are not difficult, of course he can shoot them...

Thinking of this, Wang Yang waved his fist and shouted: "Shoot it out!"

After confirming the movie to be shot, Wang Yang suddenly felt his blood boil. He walked around the house very excitedly, wanting to share the news with others! He thought of Jessica again, so he took out the piece of paper with her cell phone number on it and called her.

It was connected soon, and when he heard Jessica's voice "Hello" from over there, Wang Yang immediately said, "Jessica, it's me, Yang. Didn't bother you?"

"No, I didn't go to bed that early. Ha!" Jessica laughed over there, and the smile must be very sweet.

Wang Yang said excitedly: "Jessica, I have good news for you. I have already decided what movie to make! I also have an idea for the script."

"Oh, so fast? Can you tell me something?" Jessica also said excitedly.

"It's a horror movie, probably about a couple moving to a new home..." Wang Yang told the story of "Spiritual-Ghost Story" over and over again, and finally said: "The key is this kind of 'pseudo-documentary' filming. Technique, this will be a pioneering work! I just need to renovate the house I live in now, and then rent some furniture and electrical appliances, and even rent a DV player, and then go to Hollywood to find actors. Haha, 10,000 US dollars is enough to shoot! "

But Jessica complained: "Jan, it's night now! Do you want to make me have nightmares?" Just after she finished speaking, she laughed again and said, "Sounds very interesting, then I can be the daughter of a movie." Is it the main character?"

This... Wang Yang thought for a while, then shook his head and said: "No, Jessica, you are not suitable for this role. I need a woman who looks about twenty-five years old, you are too young. And..." He joked Said: "You are too beautiful, which will distract the audience's attention and make them unable to feel the horror."

"Oh, that's it..." Although she was praised by Wang Yang, Jessica's tone was full of regret, and she said, "Then I can always help, right?"

Wang Yang said with a smile: "Of course, I will start working tomorrow. Are you free to help?"

"Well, I'm free." Only then did Jessica regain her laughter.

The two chatted for a while, agreed on what to do tomorrow, and then said good night to each other. After taking a shower and brushing his teeth, Wang Yang threw himself on the bed in the room. After a day of exhaustion, he wanted to sleep a long time ago, so he fell asleep quickly.

He had a dream, dreaming that at the annual Oscars ceremony, on the long red carpet, Jessica in a beautiful evening dress was holding his hand, and the two of them walked into the awards venue smiling, red The reporters on both sides of the carpet kept pressing the shutter of the camera, the sound of clicking, and the flashes emitted a dazzling light.

"Jessica, Jessica, look this way! Jan, Jan, this way, this way!" The reporters yelled, trying to attract their attention, another reporter asked loudly: "Jan, Jay! Sika, do you think the best director and best actress tonight will be you?"

"Yang, I heard that you and Jessica have known each other since they were very young and agreed to become directors and actors in the future. Is that true?" asked another reporter.

Just as Wang Yang was about to answer, he suddenly realized, why are the reporters and photographers holding DV cameras?

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At the same time, in an upscale residential area in Los Angeles, Jessica was also sleeping in a dream.

In her dream, she went back to the year when she was in the second grade of elementary school. She came to the new school that day and was led by the teacher to the classroom. Although it was early in the morning, the classroom was almost full of classmates.

The teacher clapped her hands to make everyone quiet, and said, "Guys, starting today, we have a new friend, and she is Jessica Alba, a transfer student. Welcome! Let's applaud! "

There were only a few lazy applause in the classroom, and the bad boy Peter even hissed. The teacher ignored him and said, "Now, Jessica, please introduce yourself."

Jessica was shy and shy for a while before she said, "Hi everyone, I'm Jessica Alba, I like dogs and movies..."

"I like dogs, haha..." At this moment, Peter laughed loudly, making Jessica afraid to continue. She felt uncomfortable, as if everyone in the audience was laughing at her, laughing at her buck teeth, Laughing at her braces, her accent...

The teacher glared at Peter and said seriously, "Peter, it's very impolite to interrupt others! Do you know that?" The teacher asked Jessica again, "Jessica, do you have anything else to tell everyone?" Jessica quickly shook her head vigorously, and the teacher said: "Okay, then Jessica, where can I let you sit?" He scanned the students below, but whoever he was looking at, that child turned his head away, all the time. The face was unwilling, only Wang Yang who sat at the back didn't tilt his head, the teacher said: "Then Jessica, you should sit next to Wang Yang, Yang, you have to take care of Jessica!"

"OK, no problem!" Xiao Wang Yang nodded with a smile.

Little Jessica walked down timidly with her head down, sat on her seat, and quietly put the textbooks and other things into the drawer. She found that the man named Wang Yang was staring at her with a smile, and she felt even more disturbed.

"Hi, my name is Wang Yang." At this time, Wang Yang introduced himself, and he said excitedly: "I also like movies, I think we will have a common topic. Have you seen "Paradise Cinema"? Wow, That movie was awesome! I love Efedo so much, he's so funny...too bad I never knew what film Efedo cut because my mom covered my eyes when I ended up watching it more , said that I can only watch it when I grow up... I think, is it because when I grow up, I have to become a director like Duoduo to be eligible to watch those films? You think, Efedo is a director, he can watch; Later, Duoduo became a director, and you can also watch..."

Jessica didn't say a word from the beginning to the end, but just quietly listened to Wang Yang's eloquent words, her body gradually relaxed, and her anxiety became less and less...

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