At this year's Sundance Film Festival, although a large group of famous filmmakers in memory fell into Simon's sight, except for attending several premieres and chatting with the Wachowski brothers at a film festival theme party in the evening, Simon did not have too much contact with the others.

Whether it is Christopher Nolan, Doug Liman and others, they are still just rookies at the moment.

The results of pulling seedlings to encourage growth are often not very good.

Just like Jon Favreau, a very important reason why this grassroots filmmaker from the bottom of Hollywood has become one of the core creators of the Marvel Cinema Universe is that he has been in this circle for more than ten years and has accumulated a deep film foundation for a long time. His sufficient experience allows Jon Favreau to be at ease in both director, actor, screenwriter, and production.

Not only Jon Favreau, but also said that at this Sundance Film Festival, Christopher Nolan, Doug Liman, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, these people are actually climbing up from the bottom step by step. Therefore, they are familiar with all aspects of film production and have a solid foundation to stay longer in the film industry.

The Wachowski brothers are a counterexample.

In history, after the Wachowski brothers completed their debut work "The Matrix", their second work "The Matrix" began to become a big hit.

It is undeniable that the classics and greatness of "The Matrix" are of course, but there is no doubt that the quality of the two parts of the last two "The Matrix" trilogy is also severely reduced. A large part of this is that the Wachowski brothers' control over the project has increased significantly after the success of the first song, while the two of them have not improved rapidly.

After the "Matrix" series, the two brothers started to make ends meet.

Daenerys Entertainment won the distribution rights of "The Mad Flower" directed by the Wachowski brothers this time, and also bought the script of "The Matrix" that the two had already conceived.

However, Simon does not intend to start this project in the short term, nor does he think of handing it over to others.

At the evening party, Simon personally discussed with the two of them the arrangement after "The Matrix". While promised that the two brothers could direct the "Matrix" series and provide sufficient budget, Simon's request was that they must direct at least another low-cost movie to accumulate experience. They also planned to join the upcoming "One Day" as deputy directors in order to be familiar with the production process of the bombshell movie.

Continue to complete a movie and participate in a big project, two or three years will pass.

As long as you are interested, this time is enough for the brothers to go to the next level, especially participating in "One Day", which not only allows the two to familiarize themselves with the production process of the bombshell, but also allows the two to learn other people's movie styles through the eyes.

This is the right time to start the Matrix series.

Moreover, after the end of the "Matrix" series, with a certain amount of accumulation, the Wachowski brothers may not have fallen directly into a state of relying on their old capital.

Except for the Wachowski brothers, Simon made arrangements.

After expressing recognition of the short film "Ant Ridge", Gaomen Pictures provided Christopher Nolan with the opportunity to produce a feature film. Simon personally arranged for the British tentative film team that included films such as "Four Weddings and One Funeral" two years ago to follow up. Nolan also came up with the script for the new project, called "Following".

This is already a typical Nolan style interlocking suspense story.

The story tells the story of a writer who likes to follow others for inspiration. Bill meets a thief named Cobb. Driven by curiosity, Bill begins to join forces with Cobb and break into strangers' homes to inquire about other people's privacy. During this process, Bill meets a woman and falls in love with the other party. The woman says that she is the mistress of the gang boss and wants to get rid of the other party's control, but the gang boss holds her private photos in his hand.

Bill, who was trapped in love, used Professor Cobb's theft technique to break into the gangsters.

As a result, nothing was found.

Bill then discovered that he had been fooled, and the woman led him into the gangsters just to make him a scapegoat for another theft case.

Bill, who understood, surrendered himself to the police.

Of course things won't end.

After Bill surrendered, the police began to investigate and found that the woman had died and Cobb disappeared. Instead, Bill was suspected of murder.

It turned out that all this was a case made by the gangster boss behind the scenes, because it was not that the gangster boss had his own mistress in his hands, but the facts were exactly the opposite. So the boss sent his subordinate Cobb to seduce his mistress. The woman who believed Cobb's lies set up a trap with him to let the writer Bill fall into the trap, in order to find a scapegoat to get Cobb out of a theft case.

After succeeding, Cobb killed the woman, Bill became a scapegoat, and the boss got out completely.

This is the storyline that Simon draws from Nolan's "Following" script. Nolan, who is still a newcomer, not only sets up such an interlocking story, but also plans to use misalignment techniques such as multi-line narrative and flashbacks.

Simon still had no intention of boosting the seedlings and encouraged the growth. This time he only gave Nolan a budget of $3 million and asked for the script to be revised.

Simon likes this interlocking story, but those multi-line narratives and flashbacks are avoided. These are usually some routines that newcomers in the movie have limited resources. Therefore, Simon's requirement is to remove those mysterious misalignment techniques without changing the suspense of the story, and ultimately reach the point where they can surprise the audience without playing the routine.

This is actually the most powerful skill of a director in telling stories.

There is also a story plot.

Nolan's original idea was to continue to use private time and friends to help turn "Follow" into an ultra-low-cost experimental movie after "Ant Ridge", so he did not consider the story idea. In the end, the villain behind the scenes became the biggest winner.

Now that I have obtained the investment, I can't do this anymore.

Simon does not force good people to defeat bad guys, but the ending cannot be the male protagonist who is substituted by the audience and becomes a scapegoat.

In addition to Nolan's "Following", Doug Reeman and Jon Favreau also received new film contracts with Daenerys Entertainment. The budgets given were not high, but they both had considerable creative freedom.

After finishing the day's work, Simon returned to the mountain villa southeast of Parker City, which was already past ten o'clock in the evening.

There is no party tonight, and the villa is still brightly lit.

The women who stayed here last night were still there and had no rest. They were scattered in groups of three or three around the villa, obviously waiting for Simon.

The living room that everyone's favorite on the east side of the villa lobby is still occupied by four big fairies, who are chatting and watching TV, looking very leisurely.

Simon, who took off his coat and was casual, came here, stopped Cindy Crawford and others from trying to get up and greet him, and sat down on the side of the couch occupied by Cara Bruni and Cindy Crawford, next to him was a banshee.

Just as she sat down, A followed in, handed over a document to Simon, poured coffee for the man, and left quietly.

The documentary is about the results of the Golden Globe Awards ceremony that just ended tonight in Los Angeles.

Simon opened the document and a faint fragrance approached. He glanced at Cara Bruni who was sticking over and asked with a smile: "Isn't your career centered on Europe? Why did you come to the United States?"

Carla Bruni's right leg was casually crossed on his left leg, and his body naturally began to lean to the left, touching Simon, and laughed: "I'll please Grey, otherwise it will be difficult to get a job in the future. Of course, you, the boss behind the scenes, have to curry favor with him."

These words are half joking and half true.

After taking over Elite last year, Grace has been gaining power from the model agency industry giant. Many executives of the John Casablanca era who were unwilling to let go were swept out, and the results were also very significant. At the end of last year, an article in VOGUE magazine began to call Grace the new queen in the field of model agency, which was higher than John Casablanca's original model godfather.

Grace deserves it now.

Backed by the support of the Westeros system, Grace not only personally seized the top clients of Elite, including Cindy Crawford, Linda Ivangolinsta, Claudia Shiver, etc., but also successfully reformed Elite's architecture. Even those who are not familiar with the modeling agency industry know how difficult it is to innovate a company that is already too big to lose.

Grace succeeded in doing this.

Now Elite is a model similar to Hollywood CAA.

This is also the result of Simon's personal push.

In order to help Grace reform the structure, Simon also introduced Michael Orwitz to the other party. For Simon's sake, Orwitz spared no effort to guide Grace, and the two companies also established some cooperative relationships.

Therefore, with continuous operation, Elite now has transferred the contracts from a separate agent to the company. No matter who leaves in the future, even Grace herself will not be able to take away a large number of customers like other model agencies.

It seems that power is dispersed, but in fact, as long as Grace does not leave Elite, she will be the well-deserved queen of this model agent giant.

Because as Elite president, she has absolute power, including deciding to hire or fire any Elite agent or model. If other agents want to do this, they need to get approval from Grace. This is more reliable than holding a large number of model contracts in her hands when Grace first started to gather power, and it will not cause a strong backlash from other agents under the company.

The new contract has added many restrictive terms, increased the amount of default, and made it significantly more difficult for models to change jobs.

After the integration was completed, Grace's position in the modeling agency industry was exactly the same as Michael Orwitz, who ranked first in the Hollywood power list for many years in the original time and space.

Unfortunately, Michael Orwitz made a wrong choice and voluntarily gave up his power and wanted to go further, but he lost everything after taking the opportunity. Later, he wanted to return to the brokerage industry and found that even he could not shake the CAA's position, so he could only retreat in disgrace.

Even two years ago, Grace never thought of having everything she has now, and women knew very well why she could get these things. Without Simon's strong support, the reform of Elite would not have been successful. In addition, she had private feelings for a small man, so she did not have the ambitions of Orwitz at all. She only planned to stick to the position of Elite president and carefully helped Simon manage the company.

Because of Elite's change, the Elite European team, which was once almost independent on the European hill, was completely in control of Grace.

The advent of the information age makes this kind of remote control very convenient.

After the reform, Elite's customers want to get more work, it is inevitable that they will have a good relationship with a female boss.

On the other hand, Simon himself happened to be the only one who could suppress Grace, and even Apollo Management, which nominally holds Elite shares, does not have such power.

Therefore, it is actually true that Carla Bruni said to curry favor with Simon.

As long as she gets the support of this man, the resources she can obtain will be far more than the Elite platform.

Simon did not answer Cara Bruni's words, and looked at the information in his hand and said, "Actually, you should understand that Elite's professional reform is beneficial to all of you. Just like the Hollywood CAA, the huge increase in celebrity pay in the 1980s, is that CAA, which is one of the top and bottom, has a stronger voice in front of studios."

Carla Bruni stroked Simon's calf and unknowingly got closer: "We know. Speaking of which, Simon, Elite targets many of the companies under the Westeros system, aren't you worried that our salary will rise too high?"

The woman said, her arm was already on Simon's shoulder, and the heat from the words plunged onto his cheek.

The other three girls in the living room saw that Kara Bruni was so blatant, of course they would not be willing to accept it. Eva Herzgova said at this time: "Kara, do you think Simon cares about the little money we make?"

Daniela Psteva followed suit and said: "Yes, speaking of it, a magazine recently said that Simon's net worth may reach 1 trillion US dollars this year, 1 trillion, which is really hard to imagine."

The two women made a joke and immediately snatched their attention.

Cindy Crawford, who was sitting next to Cara Bruni, did not miss this opportunity, pressed Cara Bruni over and took the initiative to raise another topic: "Simon, is this the result of the Golden Globe Award? We watched it just now. It's a pity that the Super Tyrant War was not nominated. Do you think it has a chance to hit the Oscar?"

Simon shook his head: "Maybe, but everyone will know soon."

Today is January 21st.

The Oscar has announced that it will announce the nomination for this Oscar on January 29.

Carla Bruni said at this time: "Actually not bad. Didn't "Reason and Emotion" win the Best Film Award in the Drama category? This should be the most valuable award in the Golden Globe Awards. Haha, I have also read Jane Austen's novel. Maybe I'll find a movie to watch when I have time."

At the Golden Globe Awards that just ended, "Reason and Emotion" directed by Ang Lee, produced by Gaomen Pictures, became one of the big winners and successfully won the Golden Globe Awards for Best Picture and Best Screenwriter.

The 3D animated film "Beauty and the Beast" of music comedy naturally failed.

In addition, Daenerys Entertainment's nominated films also won five other awards, including Best Director and Best Actress in the Drama category, which was a big win. Although Simon was not here, he should be holding a celebration party there now, and Ella Deutschman also returned to Los Angeles during the day.

Living room.

When Cindy Crawford heard Cara Bruni's words, his eyes flashed slightly and suddenly said, "Simon, I saw that there are also very good screening rooms in the villa, and there are so many copies of movies. Why don't we go to the movies?"

Compared with this brightly lit living room, the villa's private screening room can do a lot of things when the lights are dim.

Simon has already said that he will leave tomorrow. If he doesn't seize the opportunity tonight, this trip to Park City will be in vain. Cara Bruni just said that he would curry favor with Simon, which is true. Elite's slightly smart models understand that directly pleasing Simon Westeros is definitely ten times better than currying against Grace Spurt.

It’s just that most Elite’s customers have no chance to contact Simon Westeros.

Therefore, Cindy said this now, and several other girls agreed.

Simon did not object, hurriedly browsed the information in his hand, got up and hugged Cara Bruni who had been unknowingly attached to him, and left the living room and turned to the private screening room of the villa.

However, watching the movie is definitely more lively, so I called on other girls in the villa again.

The blurred Sundance night.
Chapter completed!