Hollywood Hunter

For Hollywood, in the last week of January 1987, what attracted the most attention was no longer the new Golden Globe Awards ceremony, but a teenager and the first film directed by a teenager.

"The third Sundance successfully concluded, "Lola Run" returned with a full load."

This is an article published on the front page of the "Hollywood Reporter" on January 27th.

On January 26th, at the closing ceremony of the Sundance Film Festival founded by Hollywood superstar Robert Redford, "Run Lola" won the "Jury Award" and the "Photography Award" as everyone's hope.

In the ten days before that, due to the popularity, the Sundance Film Festival organizing committee had to temporarily double the number of screenings of "Lola Run", but the demand for screenings was still in short supply.

At the awards ceremony that day, it was obviously affected by "Lola Run", and the Egyptian theater in Park City was also full of seats.

only.

In any case, Sundance is just a film festival that has just started.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that during this period, not so much Sundance Film Festival has improved the reputation of "Lola Run", it is better to say that media coverage of "Lola Run" has in turn improved the Sundance Film Festival. Attention.

Under normal circumstances, after participating in this kind of film festival that is not so influential, everyone has been busy for a short time, and everything will soon return to calm.

however.

For Simon.

For "Lola Run".

Many things have just begun.

January 28.

on Wednesday.

An article in the "Los Angeles Times" completely lit up a certain name that always unknowingly appears in the corner of many people's eyes these days, making it so dazzling.

"18 years old"

The title is concise and even suspenseful.

The picture is a set shot during the shooting of the casino scene of "Lola Run". The young man with his hands on the side of the gambling table frowned slightly and stared at the roulette in front of him, obviously thinking about something. There are dozens of men and women standing or sitting or leaning against the wall or chatting around, but they are all obviously paying attention to the teenagers at the table.

The perfect capture shows a certain wonderful and strong dominance. Anyone who sees a photo can almost determine at a glance who is the center of the photo world.

Peter Butler is obviously also a very good photographer.

And an excellent writer.

"First of all, think back, what were you doing when you were 18?"

"Then, let's look at another person. He was 18 years old and started in a public mental hospital in Watsonville, San Francisco Bay. Dilapidated, cold, and deep cold, this is the most profound feeling when the author specially visited. However, he He completed another Nirvana in his life there. Why do you want to say another, because his life seems to be filled with countless unknown Nirvana. The author has visited many people around him, and everyone said that he is a People who work very hard."

"However, I will only say that he is 18 years old today."

"In the first four months of the age of 18, he recovered from a mental illness that fell from the sky, so he changed his surname, Westeros. Simon Westeros."

"I asked him what'Westero' meant? He said that he couldn't tell, and didn't want to make up a reason to lie to me. Then I asked him where you were from, but he told him all, even the mental hospital experience. Obviously,'Westero' is more important, but we may never know."

"In the fifth month of 18 years old, he came to Los Angeles with two scripts and successfully persuaded the WMA vice president to sign himself and become the only screenwriter client under the other's name."

"In the 6th month of 18 years old, he worked in a convenience store with an hourly salary of $3.50 and $140 a week. The owner of the convenience store said he was a promising cashier, but his salary was not enough to pay for the room. So he borrowed one. He made a few hundred dollars in the guitar in Venice Beach in the afternoon. The hotelier said he was a promising guitarist."

"In the 7th month at the age of 18, he successfully sold his first script for $200,000, which is equivalent to the ten years of most screenwriters."

"In the eighth month of 18 years old, he started shooting the first film in his life."

"So, he became a producer, director, screenwriter, photography, editing, lighting, soundtrack... Finally, it was the stunning of "Lola Run". Amazing, this is the most appropriate word I can think of."

"I saw him for the first time in the banquet hall of a hotel in Santa Monica. It was a casino scene. There is no casino in Santa Monica. I asked the producer of the film, Mr. Ron Macmillan. , Isn’t this a BUG? Ron was a little confused and gestured for a moment, seeming to imitate someone’s tone, telling me: The director said, there must be a casino, so there is a casino."

"This sentence is similar to a joke, but it makes me remember deeply. Now, I realize it more, it seems to be some kind of wonderful metaphor."

"Then, I stayed on his studio for an entire afternoon, watching him control the entire crew in a way completely different from other film directors. He doesn't yell or explain patiently. Like commands. It seems that the whole movie is firmly in his mind, and he only needs to copy it back to film. As for the others, they are just props."

"Even himself."

"The lighting engineer can't stand his harshness. After only working for three days, he resigned and left, and he took up the role of lighting engineer himself. Before that, he was already a producer, a screenwriter, and a director. After that, he again It’s a soundtrack, an editor, and a colorist. In Park City, I asked him: Isn’t it tired to do so much work? He said he’s not tired and can save money."

"Of course, he really saves money to make movies. With a budget cost of $650,000, he ended up spending only $597,000. Obviously, in Hollywood, where cost control is always unruly, all film company owners will absolutely I look forward to this type of director very much."

"However, I feel that this is even more because he is too proud and feels that other people's work is not as good as himself."

"Although everyone I asked thought he should be proud, including myself, but at the same time, it is difficult for everyone to feel any arrogance from him. He always seems to be a very ordinary and peaceful young man. For this, some words of his girlfriend Jenny seem to explain Pian Xu: He is a guy who is so proud that he disdains pride, like a **** from another world, suddenly descended into the world to conquer the world."

"At that time, we were in a small restaurant in Park City, and everyone had just attended the premiere of "Running Lola". I was so shocked by his movie that I doubted it was really an 18-year-old boy who could shoot it. Movie?"

"Then, the lunch was over, and I finally couldn't hold it back, so I asked him: Simon, are you a god?"

"He said no, he is human. A man who likes women."