After Christmas, the last week of 1986 also flew by.

In the blink of an eye, it was already 1987.

At the beginning of the new year, the image and sound editing work of "Run Lola Run" was successfully completed. Due to the excellent lens quality, Simon completed the color matching of the dailies in only one week.

Subsequently, "Run Lola Run" began the final printing process.

On the other hand, "The Butterfly Effect" was also completed in mid-December and entered the post-production stage.

Simon learned from David Giller and Brian De Palma that Fox has not yet completely finalized the schedule for "The Butterfly Effect" and needs to make a decision based on the quality of the finished film.

However, the two most likely dates are either summer or Easter.

In this era, the popularity of the Easter schedule in North America was far from as high as it was later, and the two most important schedules in Hollywood were still the summer and the end of the year.

The box office performance of "The Butterfly Effect" is crucial to Simon's subsequent development in Hollywood. Naturally, he hopes that the film will be scheduled to be released in the popular summer season. However, this is obviously not something he can decide.

Now, the only thing Simon can control his autonomy is "Lola Run".

Time was stuck, and on January 13th, Simon finally got the final copy of "Lola Run".

January 14th.

Fox Studios, time is afternoon.

In a screening room in the movie theater, David Giller and Brian De Palma walked in together and found that a large group of people had gathered in the screening room, basically all the crew members from the filming of "Lola Run"

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Noticing the arrival of the two men, Simon, who was chatting with everyone, quickly stood up and came over to greet them. Others also nodded in greeting.

Since he was also busy with the post-production of "The Butterfly Effect", Simon and the two of them didn't meet much these days. After saying hello and sitting down, they chatted for a while before David Giller said: "Simon, can we start now?"

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"Sorry, David, we have to wait," Simon shook his head and said, "Mr. Sanders also promised to come, but he hasn't arrived yet."

David Giller heard this and nodded in understanding.

Simon's invitation to Fox Film Vice President Peter Sanders is obviously related to the release of "Run Lola Run". David Giller also specifically pointed out the details of Simon's release a few days ago.

After Simon finished speaking, he raised his wrist and glanced at his watch. It was already past the appointed time, so he simply got up and planned to go to the screening room to have a look.

After continuing to wait for nearly ten minutes, Simon was already hesitating whether to go to the administration building to take a look in person. Peter Sanders' figure turned out from the nearby corridor. Seeing Simon waiting outside the screening room, Peter Sanders

With an apologetic look on his face, he reached out and said, "I'm so sorry, Simon, I just finished a meeting."

"It's okay," Simon shook hands with the other party without changing his smile and said, "Then, Peter, let's go in."

"Of course, I'm looking forward to your movie."

The two walked into the screening room. Peter Sanders greeted everyone warmly and looked around. There were six rows of seats in the screening room, separated from the left and right. David Gee sat on the left side of the first row.

Le and Brian De Palma, with Janet and Catherine on the right, leaving one empty seat on each side.

After a moment of hesitation, Peter Sanders sat down next to David Giller.

Simon stood next to Peter Sanders, noticed the details of the other person's hesitation, and just smiled slightly.

Although he is a smooth man, judging from this detail, Peter Sanders is obviously not a very generous person.

As a senior executive at Fox Pictures who is directly responsible for the "Butterfly Effect" project, since he has been ignored by David Giller and Brian De Palma during the production of the film, he obviously does not want to sit with them at this time.

However, Peter Sanders did not dare to express this contradiction publicly.

After Peter Sanders sat down, Simon gave some instructions to the staff in the screening room before sitting down next to Janet.

The lights in the screening room quickly dimmed.

Although he had already seen the sample film in advance, after half a year of work, he was finally about to be officially tested by the audience. Simon was still a little nervous at this time and couldn't help but clenched his fists.

A cold little hand reached out in the darkness and patted the back of Simon's fisted hand.

Simon turned his head, noticed Janet's bright eyes, smiled at her, and in turn held the slightly cold little hand in his big hand.

Since it was the first test screening of "Run Lola Run", Catherine, who was about to go to Arizona to film "Night of the Dead", also took the time to come over today.

At this time, sitting on the other side of Janet, Catherine noticed Simon holding Janet's little hand in his hand, and a slight loneliness flashed in his eyes. After the New Year, just after returning to Los Angeles, Catherine clearly felt that Simon and Jenny

A further relationship between the two of them.

Without waiting for Catherine to ask, Janet took the initiative to tell her about Christmas Eve.

I don't know how to block it at all.

It wasn't until Catherine couldn't stand it anymore and she covered Janet's little mouth that the girl stopped.

She tried her best to forget Janet's talk, but when she inadvertently glanced at Simon's side face on the other side, Catherine still remembered Janet wagging her five white and tender fingers as she recounted the first time in her life.

It was a 'tragic experience' that lasted a whole night.

Her cheeks began to heat up unconsciously, and Catherine quickly focused her attention on the big screen in front of her.

Although based on her understanding of the personalities of the two people around her, she felt that it might be Jenny's taste.

but.

Why do women need to be reasonable?

Um.

Who said that?

Thinking like this, another word that Janet used when criticizing a certain guy flashed in Catherine's mind.

I muttered something in my heart with some resentment.

Livestock!

A small hand came over unconsciously, trying to pull me away.

Open.

It's so greedy, it's not enough to hold the other side.

Watching a movie.

On the big screen that lights up, wait for a moment, and with the slight sound of the projector running, the movie starts playing.

First there is a line of subtitles.

In the future, the term "butterfly effect" will appear at the beginning of "The Butterfly Effect", and Simon did not add such an opening to "Run Lola Run" again.

However, Simon still adjusted the opening subtitles of the original version, retaining only a passage from the British poet T. S. Eliot.

When the subtitles fell, the clicking sound of the second hand began to sound rapidly, and as the bright silver pendulum rotated, several lines of subtitles appeared one after another.

Production company: Daenerys Films.

Executive Producers: Brian De Palma, David Giller, Robert Redford.

Director: Simon Westeros.

Since Brian and the others were willing to put their names forward, Simon naturally did not pretend to be modest and secretive, and directly put the names of the three big guys in the most conspicuous place at the beginning.

As the pendulum stopped and the camera moved toward Simon's custom-made metal gear clock, the fast-paced electronic music that would run throughout the entire film also unfolded. The infectious music unknowingly guided the emotions of everyone in the screening room.

Then there are the zombie-like crowds, and the narration centered on the philosophical proposition of 'who am I, where am I, and what am I going to do'.

However, despite having such a philosophical narration, the movie leaves no time for the audience to think.

The dynamic electronic music seems to be urging everyone to run wildly.

then.

In the opening scene of the cartoon, Lola starts running.

Until the beginning of the whole story.

In the shot that zoomed in quickly with inertia, the eye-catching red phone rang.

The young gangster Manny received a trading task entrusted by his boss, and everything went smoothly. When he returned, his promised girlfriend Laura did not come to pick him up on time, so he had to find a way to return to the city by himself, and then lost the money for the transaction.

100,000.

Enough to make the boss burn him to ashes and throw them into the sea.

In panic, Manny complained to Laura on the phone in tears.

In order to save her boyfriend's life, Laura had to raise 100,000 US dollars in a short time and deliver it to a phone booth in downtown Santa Monica.

She only has 20 minutes.

But he didn't hesitate and rushed out of the house without any hesitation.

Running wildly all the way.

When I came to the office of my father, who was a bank manager, not only did I not receive help, but my background was revealed.

Even though I couldn't get the money, I still ran to the finish line without giving up.

The boyfriend has entered the supermarket with a gun.

Well, if you insist on being Clyde, I will be your Bonnie.
To be continued...