Best Actor

"I can't do it, can I? Not even Sean, let alone a little assistant like me, so I can only sneak here, there are many actors under the age of 21 in Hollywood Yes, the conditions for selling alcohol in bars are relatively loose." Sanders described the reason why he went to the bars in Hollywood to drink alone.

"Why didn't you say that before?" a middle-aged man asked curiously.

"Don't you think that's too embarrassing, Sid?" Sanders looked helpless. Before passing, his performance marks are not so heavy now.

"That's true, but not even Sean?" Another middle-aged man took over and looked at Sean, "The bar should be more tolerant to stars like you, right?"

"The bars farthest from our Malibu house are fine, but the ones closest are not allowed at all." Sean also shrugged helplessly. .

"I heard that Malibu has stricter supervision on this kind of thing, and it is normal not to sell alcoholic beverages to you," Larry Cohen interjected at this time, "but don't worry, next year this Then you won't have this trouble anymore."

Several people immediately laughed, Sean and Sanders looked at each other, and both smiled and shrugged, and then set their eyes on Cohen.

Although he is in his fifties, his hair is still thick and his eyebrows are thick, and his words are humorous, but Sean always feels that he is testing something , so hesitant.

But Sanders doesn't think so. He spent a lot of effort to create this situation tonight, how can it be wasted? Already kicked Sean under the bar several times.

"By the way, Larry, you just said that you are a screenwriter and director, do you have any masterpieces?" Sean finally asked, and then added, "I didn't mean to offend you. , but I always feel like I've heard your name somewhere."

"Don't you know, Sean, the famous "Violent Police" trilogy is all Larry's script." Sanders said immediately.

"Hey, Sandy," Cohen called immediately, "we all agreed at the beginning, just have a drink together, don't ask each other's work, we all only found out today that you are Sean's assistant, it's a little unfair for you to inquire about my details."

"It's none of my business, Larry," Sanders quickly defended, "I heard Sid accidentally mention that you wrote the script for "Violent Police", so I I rented all the videotapes of the trilogy and recollected them once.”

"This..." The middle-aged man named Sid scratched his head in embarrassment, "I seem to have said... but I didn't seem to say..."

"Don't try to deny it, Sid, we all know that you are the most uncontrollable." Another middle-aged man said coquettishly.

"No," Sean, who had been holding his chin in thought, said at this time, he raised his head and looked at Larry Cohen's eyes, "Larry, I recently I got a script, a very interesting script called "Sniper Phone Booth", it seems to be your work!"

Cohen raised his eyebrows, his expression became subtle, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, as if he wanted to laugh.

Sean looking in his eyes didn't feel very good. It seemed that the other party guessed something, but on the surface he still looked calm, looking at him, waiting for him to answer.

"Sniper Phone Booth? What is that?"

"Sounds odd, can you elaborate?"

The other two immediately asked with interest, and Sanders didn't lose the opportunity, pretending to be surprised to add: "Is that the script you were talking about recently? That what... hope A script that Chi Kirk is very interested in?"

"Yeah, that's the one. It is said that it was conceived very early. It was shown to Hitchcock, and the other party was also very interested. Unfortunately, it was not solved until the end of the 1990s. The problem of people staying in the phone booth for 80 minutes." Sean nodded, then looked at Sanders with a look of interest: "Frankly, Sandy, are you still my assistant? Are these you? Shouldn't you have known it earlier?"

"Um..." Sanders was stunned, this was not a good line, but his response was not slow, and he immediately squeezed a sneering expression, "You know, I am only responsible for Schedule your work, and you're not interested in things like talking about the plot."

Unfortunately, he is still a bit blunt. After all, he is not a real actor. Fortunately, most of the attention of several people is elsewhere, so it should not be exposed.

"Tell me about it, Larry, let's hear it." There are Sid and the others, but don't worry about Cohen's lack of pressure.

"Okay, I can tell you, but don't show it." Cohen quickly relaxed, glanced at Sean and then started talking.

The general content is similar, the salesman who wants to have an extramarital affair starts a thrilling journey after no doubt receiving a call from the phone booth. Although many times, people who write stories well are not necessarily good at telling stories, but Cohen is obviously not among them. In his descriptions, short stories are accompanied by various gestures, which makes it a bit like watching a movie.

However, because of this, Sean finally heard the full story, so he frowned quickly, and the ending seemed inappropriate.

"Is this ending appropriate?" After thinking for three or four minutes, Sean finally asked.

"Is there any problem?" I was still saying that this story was pretty good, but the two middle-aged people couldn't help but be stunned, and Cohen looked at Sean with interest .

"I think... this is sending the wrong message to the public." Sean carefully considered his words.

In fact, after hearing the name of "Sniper Phone Booth" at first, his intuitive reaction was that it should be good, but there are things that need attention. Sean has always been unclear about where to pay attention, and it was only after hearing about the ending from Cohen today that he realized something.

"Why?" Cohen didn't say anything, Sanders looked left and right, and finally didn't speak.

"In the end, the sniper committed suicide. It was the guy who delivered the pizza at the beginning, but in fact he was just a scapegoat. And the actor Stu was sent to the ambulance and given a shot After the sedative, the real sniper showed up at the door and warned him, he was watching him the whole time, if he was unfaithful to his wife, then it would happen again.” Sean repeated, “Isn’t that telling you Can the audience, if they have a seemingly lofty goal, trample on the law and their lives right away?"

"No no no, I don't think so, in fact this sniper is set by us as a person with a mental cleanliness," Cohen shook his head in denial, "He doesn't like some things , raised some issues that the law couldn't solve, and he had to solve it in his own way, just like the pedophile."

This situation is very normal. When everyone faces others questioning their works, especially if the other party is someone they don’t know, their first reaction must be to defend.

"But no matter what, he murdered, and he put himself above the law." Sean retorted, he knew that such bluntness might leave a bad impression on the other party, but Some words are unpleasant.

Saunders wanted to help ease a few words, but after thinking about it, he gave up. Anyway, the original plan was just to create opportunities. How Sean does it is his own business.

"We might as well put the camera to when Stu first entered the phone booth, the pimp didn't say anything for the time being, did the fat guy who delivered the pizza to Stu, did he do anything evil? The guy who promises to save the people and never expects thanks will use him as a scapegoat?" Sean spread his hands, "What's more, Stu is just trying to cheat, which is not qualified to be killed anyway, right?"

"Then why didn't he get the punishment he deserved? Even just a little punishment?" Sean immediately asked, "If there is no punishment, then it can be seen that the director and the screenwriter are acquiescent or even think that This behavior can be promoted, so after the movie is released, if someone imitates the shooting of innocent pedestrians with guns around high-rise buildings, then the public opinion can be very bad.”

"No one after watching "The Seven Deadly Sins" followed the example of Kevin Spacey to kill people everywhere." Cohen retorted somewhat lukewarmly, "I think, Who is right and who is wrong, the audience still has their own judgment."

Sean blinked, then smiled slightly, he had been paying attention to Cohen's expression, the other party was obviously a little moved just now, but now he said this kind of words, obviously still self-esteem is haunting, like A way to let him have a step down.

"I understand what you mean, Larry, and I understand and even agree with you to some extent, that movies do sometimes have a certain social responsibility, but it has to be right , for example, the characters who spread these views should be consistent with their words and deeds." Sean looked at Cohen and said in a very sincere tone, "Look, the criminal that Spacey played in "The Seven Deadly Sins" keeps claiming to be the spokesman of God. , to use that extreme method to awaken the numbness of the people, so how did he do it? When he realized that he had also committed one of the seven deadly sins, and became jealous, he did not hesitate to send himself on the altar."

What? With the self-proclaimed saving of life, but without hesitation to sacrifice the lives of innocents to cover themselves, in the end, there is no punishment, and the audience will never be happy. More importantly, this violates our country's long history The belief is that of the right to choose freely!"

If the previous ones were not enough to impress Cohen, when the "power of free choice" was thrown out, he had to be moved. Hollywood, or the media industry, is more politically correct than anywhere else. There can be no discrimination of any kind, and the government cannot trust it, but there are always a small group of people who play the conspiracy, and most of them are good. The United States and its opponents and even enemies It's always a superior blah blah blah.

And the power of free choice is one of them, even if it is actually only, to do certain free things within a specified time and range.