"I know Billy Wilder, and I almost bought the house next door to him." Ronald arrived at the airport and said to Cameron Crowe, who was returning to Los Angeles with him, "The Directors Guild will meet tomorrow to discuss the current situation for screenwriters.

The deadlock of the union strike, if he comes, I will introduce you..."

Crowe was very happy. He was a big fan of Billy Wilder and dreamed that one day he could make a movie as well-conceived as Wilder's.

"Mr. Li, I have your phone number. It's urgent..." A stewardess in the terminal came over and interrupted the two of them.

"Who is it? Did you say your name?" Ronald asked. He was about to take a business jet back and he didn't want to answer the phone anymore.

"He said his name is Mr. Yan, do you want to answer his call?"

"Okay." Ronald thought it might be Xiao Yan, who was studying in college in Staten Island. He took the long phone and put it to his ear, "Hello?"

"Brother Luo? I'm Xiao Yan. I know from my aunt that you are at the airport. I have something urgent to do with you. It's not convenient for my aunt to know."

"whats the matter?"

"Work on your garden site has been suspended. Today a group of people claiming to be from the New York City Parks and Recreation Department came and said that your garden violated the original state of the New York City Hall Reserve and seemed to have affected the migration of some migratory birds. Lao Wang

They were almost finished, and now they were in a hurry and almost had a fight with the Parks Department people. Fortunately, I was there to stop them from fighting. America's Park Management Department has law enforcement officers."

"You did a good job..." Ronald was confused. Didn't the garden outside the house pass the assessment? Why is it now being harassed by migratory birds? Why is the garden still in the way of the birds?

"You were right not to let Aunt Karen know about this. Do you have my cousin Donna's phone number here? Yes... you go to her, tell her what happened, and then ask Donna to call my personal attorney -

—Lindsay Dole.

She will have full authority to handle my affairs. I will fly to Los Angeles soon and I will contact you when I arrive."

After calling Richard in New York again, Ronald got on the plane and took out the eye mask and put it on, hoping to enter Heitian's dream without being disturbed.

However, this kind of messy things still affected his rest. Ronald's mind was filled with messy things like migratory birds, migration, gardens, and parks. Coupled with the low engine sound of the business jet, he was half asleep...

"We don't want real estate, we want wetlands..." The shot on the screen in the dream seemed to be taken from an excavator. In the frame were various people holding signs opposing the construction of houses.

"Is it too much? I'm not building a house, I'm also building a garden and making wetlands and lakes that won't affect you." Ronald thought to himself that this dream was as realistic as a movie.

"I am reporting for you at the scene. Now many local residents are moved by the story of Amy and Dayan and come to support. But we have not seen Amy or Dayan yet. They seem to have disappeared."

Is it really a movie? Ronald recognized the clips in the footage and they were not news. Fortunately, his house and garden were not shown on TV. Otherwise, if it was exposed and caused trouble, would he still want to live there?

"According to zoning regulations, it's past five o'clock and the geese haven't migrated back yet. This place has become private property. Please leave immediately!"

A man with a thick neck who looked like a real estate developer stood on a forklift and announced with a loudspeaker to the protesting crowd below.

The worker behind him, prompted by him, turned on the engine of the excavator, moved the joystick up and down, the excavator began to roar, and the tipping bucket began to move up and down repeatedly, intimidating the residents at the scene.

Suddenly, the excavator began to move in, its tipping bucket gently lifted up the soil, and the protestors began to loudly object.

"Please be gentle, otherwise we won't be able to hear the sound of the little girl and the geese... The engine of the glider is very quiet..." A bearded man shouted to everyone. As expected, everyone was silent, and the excavator also stopped temporarily.

.

"Buzz..." A soft engine sound came, and everyone looked up to the sky.

A glider that looked very much like wild geese, and a row of wild geese arranged in a herringbone shape, flew slowly over the lake and wetland.

This aerial shot from above is impressive and beautiful.

"Ronald, Ronald..."

"Ah? Are the migratory birds here?" Ronald was pushed awake by Cameron Crowe. It turned out that the engine sound came from his business jet, which was about to descend in altitude.

"What migratory bird?"

"Nothing. There is a lake near my new house. They say that migratory birds and geese fly here every year."

…

The plane landed in Los Angeles, and not only Richard but also the producer of "Die Hard" Joel Silver came to pick him up.

"We might actually come up with something good," Silver said, taking Ronald with him to look at the rough cut that had just been produced.

The action scenes in "Die Hard" were incredibly complex to shoot, having shut down just two weeks before Ronald's own "Working Girl," and are just now finishing up rough editing and synchronization of audio and video.

"This is Cameron Crowe, my earliest movie partner." Ronald introduced Crowe to Joel Silver, saying that he was his friend, and they went to the editing room together.

"This is the real Bruce Willis sitting on top of the elevator car."

Ronald didn't have time to read all the samples, so he just picked out some action scenes and took a rough look at them.

"The fireball in the elevator shaft was also shot on location?" Ronald saw an interesting scene. The bomb was ignited in the elevator shaft, and the flames caught up with the protagonist Bruce Willis from below, and almost caught up with him.

The explosive atmosphere rushing towards your face is very shocking. I have never seen a shot like this before.

"We hired a pyrotechnician and then asked the photographer to shoot on top. Because we didn't know how fast the lens should be, we asked the poor director of photography, De Bont, to lie on top of the elevator car many times before we finally found the right one.

"

Joel Silver was very excited about the movie. He didn't expect it to be so exciting. Bruce Willis acted in most of the action scenes himself, which added a lot of excitement to the movie. The villain Alan Lee

Kerman is also very enjoyable, playing a unique and highly intelligent crime boss.

Looking at four or five explosion shots from almost the same angle, but with different explosion speeds, Cameron Crowe, who came along, was eye-opening and excitedly jotting down something in his notebook.

"It's interesting, isn't it? Film shooting is like this. Many times we don't need to study in advance. Instead, in order to complete a certain shot, we try to invent ways to complete it."

Ronald patted Crowe on the shoulder. Directing techniques are not learned from textbooks and cases like in college. Many techniques are not used and there is no need to learn them. There are many great directors in Hollywood who set up cameras to shoot still shots.

There are also many masterpieces.

For example, Howard Hawks, the great director who is as famous as Billy Wilder, does not have many technical breakthroughs in his movies. He relies entirely on the actors' positioning and exquisite design. He can also produce different types of movies and box office hits.

A masterpiece that was a success with both reviews and reviews.

…

"Mr. Wilder, is it true that Howard Hawks only shoots ordinary shots in mid-range shots?"

The next day, Ronald took Cameron Crowe with him to attend the meeting of the Directors Guild. Billy Wilder happened to also take the time to come, and he was caught by the fan Crowe and surrounded him.

Asked a lot of questions.

"Howard, oh, he is a genius. Before filming, he designed the actors' movements and reactions to each other in each scene. In addition, every time he casts the most accurate and suitable actors,

So in fact, the filming expenses left to him are not the most, and many times it is to save filming costs."

Billy Wilder was very happy to be consulted by such a young fan. He was not an actor and usually did not have many fans coming up to ask for autographs. Only his peers in the industry respected him. But that was twenty years ago.

Now that he has retired, Wilder still misses this kind of moment of being surrounded and praised by his peers in the industry.

"Mr. Wilder, what are you talking about about Lubitsch's brushwork?"

Rona shook his head. Cameron Crowe still had many unrealistic illusions about making movies. In fact, a new director needs those basic techniques, not the advanced techniques used by such master directors.

But having passion is also a good thing. See if you have any low-cost scripts that are suitable for him to practice.

Ronald turned around and greeted Spielberg who had just entered.

"Ronald, what is the decision of the Directors Guild?" Spielberg asked when he came up. He was also a busy man.

"Continue to cooperate with the Producers Guild and will not cooperate with the Writers Guild, but they will remain silent and not speak publicly about this strike." Ronald whispered to Spielberg.

"Very good, I just came from Nick Kuant, the president of the Producers Guild. Now the negotiator of the Writers Guild, that Brian Walton... has tended to accept our offer, which is about five thousand

Ten thousand dollars to settle this negotiation.”

"Huh... we finally have a deal... My aunt called me and complained that the TV series tonight were all reruns of old dramas and it was really boring."

"And talk shows and stand-up comedy..." Spielberg also laughed.

The pressure from the public is the greatest. Everyone is very frustrated that they cannot watch new TV series. Now the Producers Guild has put forward similar conditions to the original ones, and the pressure is all on the side of the Writers Guild.

"I haven't congratulated you on your Oscar nomination yet. Did you know that this year, apart from you, all foreign directors have been nominated for the Best Director Award?" Spielberg seemed dissatisfied that his "Empire of the Sun" had failed to win most of the heavyweight awards.

So worried.

When Ronald thought about it, it was true.

In addition to himself, Bertolucci, the director of The Last Emperor, is Italian, Adrian Lyne, the director of Fatal Attraction, John Bowman, the director of Hope and Glory, two British directors, and the Swedish director of Dog Face Years

Lasse Hallström.

"If it weren't for me, this would be the best foreign language film," Ronald joked.

"Hahaha..." Spielberg was amused. Those Jewish senior officials had gone too far. In order to suppress him, no one could do anything so ugly.

"However, they won't give me the award for this reason." Ronald also laughed. Spielberg is a liberal Jew who integrates mainstream values. He doesn't respect Jewish customs too much. Many of his ways of doing things are still inappropriate.

Suitable for those people's tastes.

Spielberg got the news he wanted and stood up to leave. Ronald saw him out.

"By the way," Spielberg remembered something, "You haven't met the members of The Last Emperor's crew this time, right?"

"No, I just arrived last night." Ronald didn't understand why he mentioned this movie. Speaking of Spielberg's "Empire of the Sun", in fact, the subject matter is a bit similar to "The Last Emperor", and many judges paid attention to it.

, were all attracted by the more powerful movie.

"I remind you, anyone who sees their crew at the party should be careful, especially the producer Jeremy Thomas."

"Ah? Why?" Ronald didn't know what was going on.

"You will find out the reason..." Spielberg patted him on the shoulder. This kid got a nomination for best director at such a young age, breaking his own record.
To be continued...