"That's how it is in Film City, just like our original society, there are distinct classes. Those big directors who produce movie stars and queens, they have a lot of authority in the film city, they can select scripts, select actors and shoot complete blockbusters. We, the small directors at the bottom, can only shoot some meaningless temporary scenes." The director spat it out.
"It's their loss that they didn't choose your script. This kind of art grade work can't be appreciated by their mundane people. When I was portraying the character of Donner, along with those lines, the plot and the music, I really got into his mind, as if the whole person went back to that era." Mallory continued to lament.
"Well, you fit the person I had in mind for the role of Donner, so to speak, and it was a perfect match, and it was as if he was appearing before my eyes when you played him." The director was really emotionally engaged after talking about the plot.
"Yes, as handsome as I am, and full of wisdom, and integrity, honesty, sunshine, optimism, strong, courageous, full of sense of justice, and really with the setting of the role of Donna very well." Mallory nodded.
"No, I mean the point that Donner was scum in the original." The director corrected Mallory.
"Ahem ... Donner is scum? I don't think so! He was so in love with Anna that even after ten years, his love remained unchanged. That song "Ten Years" really matched them, especially after ten years, the moment he and Anna rubbed shoulders, it was as if I had traveled through time and space and completely merged with Donner in my soul. I could feel the pain, that aching pain in his heart at that time, it wasn't that he didn't love Anna, but that he had to give up something for the cause of the revolution."
"The soundtrack at the time, it was divine! When they rubbed shoulders, the music that went with it was 'After ten years, we are friends, we can still greet, just the kind of tenderness, no longer find a reason to embrace, lovers are inevitably reduced to friends in the end ...'"
"And when they rubbed shoulders after, with the music is 'embrace since you can not stay, why not enjoy while leaving, while tears flow ...' simply straight to the heart, touch the soul, so profound story, with on the revolutionary educational meaning, the screenwriter blends so perfectly, simply no one before or since."
"I don't know how to describe it anymore, I love this script so much! I wish it could be a real blockbuster someday, and it would be great to have me play Donner in it." Mallory continued to pat himself on the back without a trace.
"Maybe, to hear you say that, I will continue to ... I will let the writers continue to improve the script for that day it." The director's painstaking preparation of the script was recognized by the fruit of the heart is very happy.
"Last night the cold grasshopper could not stop singing, startled back to a thousand miles dream, has been three nights. I got up and walked around the steps alone. The people were quiet, and the moon was bright outside the curtain. The white head is for merit. The old mountains, pines and bamboo are so old that they prevent me from returning. I want to pay my heart to the zither. Who will listen to the broken strings?" Mallory hastened to strike while the iron was hot, saying that he was the director's soulmate.
The best way to deal with literary young women is poetry and faraway places.
"You seem to know a lot of poems by heart? Have you ever worked in literature before?" The director unconsciously shifted the topic to Mallory's body.
"I didn't memorize these poems on purpose, but after reading them, I felt that the mood was beautiful, so I read them a few more times, felt them a few more times, and unconsciously memorized them." Mallory laughed.
"Then you really have a talent for this, it's a pity to be a group actor." The director muttered.
"Are you short of screenwriters around you? After you leave this crew, why don't you take me with you? I'll give you a scriptwriter to play a hand or something." Mallory smoothly mentioned to the director.
"This ... I'm too low in rank to have that authority." The director shook his head, she reached for her cup of tea, suddenly remembered that she was still wearing a mask, had to put the cup of tea down again.
"Why do you keep wearing a mask? Is it a rule of Film City?" Mallory continued to get close.
"Because ... it's ugly." The director, of course, remembered what Mallory had said on the plane last time and was very impressed.
"How can that be? I can only see your eyes, your eyes look beautiful, let people see it and have a kind of heart-stopping vertigo, eyes look so beautiful, it is impossible to be ugly." Mallory continued to patronize the horse.
"You talk like that to every woman, don't you?" The director grunted.
"I've never said that to Anna, Aisha, Daisy and the others, I'm not the kind of person you think I am." Mallory looked a little sad.
"Indeed, what you have in mind for them ... is to trick them into buying you food with points, not that I've seen you think anything else about them." The director nodded.
"That's not cheating, I really have no points for the first few scenes, and I'm hungry, I can't help it." Mallory laughed awkwardly.
"Say, what do you want from me after all this half-day talk?" The director seemed ready to forcefully end the conversation with Mallory.
"No, I'm just a little worried that you'll be unhappy with the punishment, so I want to talk to you, after all, this all started because of me." Mallory shook his head.
"You don't have to blame yourself, the matter of me being punished has nothing to do with you, I just couldn't stand to see what that doctor did, that's why I spent points to help you exchange that companion card as your reward."
"The director can spend his own points to give the actor some special rewards?"
"Yes."
"You're spending your own points. ..."
"What do you think?"
"You really helped me this time, I don't know how I can thank you, anyway, I'll take this favor and as long as I'm not dead, I'll definitely repay you later." Mallory made a promise to the director.
"Do not need your repayment, I said, I do this thing has nothing to do with you, I was punished also has nothing to do with you." The director did not seem to care about that.
"I strive to live until the day I become a movie star, and if I become a movie star, I will ask you to be my director, and then shoot this script in its entirety and make this movie a classic in the film city." Mallory changed his words.
"I hope so." The director didn't refuse this time, and it looked like she did care about her work.
"By the way, how did you become a director in Film City? When you guys first came in, I don't think you appeared directly on top of Stonehenge like we did, right?" Mallory took the opportunity to ask a question that the ordinary group actors could never know the answer to, and through the answer to this question, it might be possible to get a glimpse of the huge tip of the iceberg that is the source of Film City.
"I appear directly in the director training school ... rules limit these are not to say, you do not ask." The director said half a sentence and stopped.
"Okay, the monitoring of the film city is estimated to be ubiquitous, random words may be recorded." Mallory took a look around to the left and right, then at the two expressionless bodyguards.
"It's late, I'm a little tired, you should go back to rest, you have a hell mode show to attend tomorrow." The director gave an eviction order, it looks like she should want to chat with Mallory for a while longer, but afraid of violating the rules of Film City after talking too much.
"Tomorrow, I may not be able to come back." Mallory sighed.
"Don't be so pessimistic."
"It's a miracle that I survived last time, and such a miracle can't happen a second time." Mallory was really not confident.
"It may not be a good thing to be relieved earlier." The director opened his mouth again after a moment of silence.
"You're right, that's what I advised Daisy. It was nice to talk to you and share some of our thoughts on the script. We're probably the same kind of people, which is why I get your script. Thanks again for all your help and I hope this isn't the last time we'll talk." Mallory stood up.
"Good night." The director didn't say anything more.
"Good night."