The Best Director

In front of the gate of Flames Films, Wang Yang looked up at the "Flames-Films" sign hanging on it and the company logo next to it, and said with a soft smile, "This is my company."

Harry George, who was wearing a peaked cap, also looked up, and said, "I know, I knew it a long time ago. But..." His fat face was full of seriousness, and he said, "Dude, from the perspective of a photographer like me, Look, your company logo sucks, you just need a flame, why add a moth and a butterfly? It's too incomprehensible!" He spread his hands, frowned and said, "It's like someone lit a There are french fries, but there are hamburgers and Coke on the plate! It's too exaggerated!"

"It seems that you miss McDonald's a lot!" Wang Yang shrugged his shoulders with a sullen expression on his face: "And isn't that very good? You can buy French fries and get a hamburger and Coke as a gift." Harry shook his head in disgust: "A little bit It’s not good, it’s those coupons that made me a fat man.” Wang Yang rolled his eyes and said, “You’re also a fat man without coupons. Well, forget about the logo, come with me!” After that, he went to the company go inside.

Harry followed behind, looking around curiously, and said incessantly, "Hey, what did you bring me here for? Tell me..."

"Mr. Wang, good afternoon." Olo Larry, the front desk lady of the company saw Wang Yang walking in, and greeted with a smile. Wang Yang nodded and smiled at her and said, "Good afternoon, Olo." When Harry saw the beautiful Olo Larry, his eyes lit up immediately, he walked over and stretched out his hand and said, "Oh, hello, my name is Harry George , can I know you?" Olo-Larry shook hands with him and said with a smile, "Olo-Larry."

"Hey, fat guy!" Wang Yang shouted in front. Harry reluctantly let go of Olo-Larry's hand, ran to follow, the fat on his cheeks trembled, and asked doubtfully, "Where are you going?"

Wang Yang led the fat man around the busy office, passed a corridor, and came to a storage room. Wang Yang took out the key and opened the door, the room was dark, he walked in, and said to Harry George behind him with a smile: "Harry, watch!" With a click, he turned on the power of the light tube , the storage room is filled with light.

Harry's eyes widened suddenly, he looked at the things in the room, and let out a dull expression: "Wow..."

"Wow..." Wang Yang also said softly, his eyes full of satisfaction.

This storage room is specially used by the company to store photographic equipment, and the basic equipment needed for "High School Musical" has been leased back by the company, and they are all placed here and neatly arranged. A pitch-black 35mm film camera, a track car for recording microphones, a diffuser, a reflector... There are also boxes of blank films stacked in the corner, ready to be turned into a scene of a movie at any time.

"Have you seen it?" Wang Yang looked at Harry, walked towards the film camera, and said, "Everything is ready, the actors have been found, the crew has been set up, and the equipment is ready. In a few days, wait for the venue As soon as we get in touch and Thanksgiving is over, we will start filming "High School Musical." He fiddled with the film camera in his hand, and put his eyes on the viewfinder of the camera, he felt a fire in his heart, and sighed Authentic: "Harry, this is not a DV movie, this is a real film movie! I'm about to become a real director, and my dream is about to come true."

Harry George nodded silently, with a congratulatory smile on Fatty's face, and said, "You are doing well, Jan."

"Thank you." Wang Yang laughed and shouted to him: "Dude, come here! What are you doing standing there, come here." Harry looked at the camera, his heart was beating fast, and he walked over slowly. Wang Yang patted the film camera in front of him, smiled at the fat man, "Don't touch it?"

"Can I touch it?!" Harry widened his eyes, seeing Wang Yang smiling and nodding,

He was at a loss for a moment, rubbed his right hand on the T-shirt several times, and then stretched out towards the body of the film camera tremblingly. As soon as his hand touched the camera, he retracted like an electric shock, gasping for air: " Oh my god, my god..."

He stretched out his hand tremblingly again, touching the lens hood of the camera, the film supply box and other places, his face was flushed, as if he was stroking a lover, and he murmured to the camera: "God, oh crazy... little Baby, why are you so cute, my God..."

"Yes, it's cute, beautiful, and crazy." Wang Yang said sympathetically. He stepped aside and let Harry George walk behind the camera. Looking at the fuselage, his face full of obsession, as if he is shooting a movie now, and he is a photographer, he suddenly heard Wang Yang say: "My photography team needs a chore, and maybe I can do some assistant work, you come?"

Hearing this sentence, Harry trembled all over, turned his head to look at Wang Yang, pointed at himself in disbelief, and said, "God, I heard you right, did you invite me?!" Wang Yang shrugged and smiled, " I think you heard me right." Harry's breath became short of breath, and he said with a red face, "Man, can I do it?"

"Harry, never say no to yourself." Wang Yang said seriously, looked at Harry with a sluggish face, spread his hands and said with a smile: "Please! James Cameron can change from a truck driver to a Crazy directors all over the world, you ask yourself, why can't I go from being a McDonald's waiter to being a best cinematographer? Remember what it says on your business card? 'Photographer Harry George'! You're a photographer, It's already a change; you're going to be a cinematographer, it's man-made!"

Harry's breathing was getting heavier, the light in his eyes was getting brighter, Wang Yang said with a smile; "Harry, Wally Pfister will be the photographer of "High School Musical", and he said that your qualifications are very good , he has agreed to let you be his chore helper, but he said you need to lose weight."

"I'll cut it!" Harry jumped up suddenly, hugged Wang Yang, his eyes were red, and he shouted incoherently: "Yang, I love you to death, you are amazing, you are the best friend, you It's really good..."

Wang Yang hugged his fat body compulsively. Hearing the fat man's excited words, another voice full of resentment faintly sounded in his ears, "You will definitely fail! This is what we are, losers, failures! Failures! Failure..." He smiled in his heart, Harry, do you understand, that is the meaning of the sign, we are not born beautiful butterflies, we may have been losers once, but after we have undergone transformation and the baptism of fire, we will be better than others. Butterflies are even more beautiful!

"Harry, you are doing well too!" Wang Yang patted Harry on the shoulder with a happy smile on his face.

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After signing the contract, Walley Pfister officially became the photographer of "High School Musical", and George Harry also got a job as a camera crew chore. After the photographer was selected, the preparation of the crew was basically completed, and everything was ready; after a few days, the company also contacted the location needed for the shooting, "Salt Lake City East High School" in Salt Lake City, Utah.

It was the location where the original version was shot. Firstly, it was chosen because it was easy to design and master the lens; secondly, the school has a good geographical environment, surrounded by mountains, which can produce a good movie effect.

Flame Films has already arranged consignment of photographic equipment, scenery props and other things; but the crew will not leave for the time being, because Thanksgiving is coming soon, and the whole crew will leave for Salt Lake City to start filming after this big holiday.

On Thanksgiving Day, the family gathers together to enjoy family happiness, and naturally a sumptuous dinner and a delicious turkey are indispensable.

In the bright room, Jessica was lying on the bed humming a song while flipping through a cooking magazine, carefully reading the introduction of Thanksgiving food, and talking to herself from time to time: "What kind of food are you going to make? There must be turkey, pumpkin pie, bread..." She stopped suddenly, thinking to herself: "I don't know what Jan likes to eat?" After thinking for a while, she smiled and continued to turn to the next page.

"Ahem, Jessica, I have something to tell you!" At some point, Joshua stood in the corridor outside the room, and he knocked on the open door with a serious face. Jessica raised her head and glanced at him, and said, "Just tell me, I'm preparing Thanksgiving dinner." Joshua walked in with a straight face, pulled out a chair and sat down, and said in a deep voice : "After much deliberation, I think Young might be a...Ki."

Jessica glared at him, sat up with the magazine, and said, "Don't make such silly jokes, Joshua, it's not funny at all!"

"It's not a joke, I'm serious." Joshua scratched his hair and said with weird eyes: "Think about Rachel's birthday, Michael Pitt wore that T-shirt with stars, I remember it was Jan's. ..." He said unconvinced again: "And when playing cards, I can feel that the two of them are always flirting, so they can always win!"

Jessica curled her lips, and the reason came out. This guy lost from the beginning to the end of the poker game last time, and he kept thinking about it. Now he thinks that Yang belongs to Kei. She continued to look at the magazine, waved her hand and said, "Okay, don't talk about it. Anyway, I can be sure that Jan is not gay, and I can feel it." After a pause, she whispered again: "Besides, Jan had a daughter before. friend's."

"Then tell me, why is he so nice to Michael Pitt? They are not relatives!" Joshua frowned, and said seriously: "Jessica, I read a book, it said that there are many homosexuals, He didn't even know he was gay at the beginning, but with time, he knew and would show it... Maybe the reason Yang broke up with his girlfriend is because he is gay!"

"You are the key!" Jessica rolled her eyes and explained: "Yang told me that he saw himself in Michael Pitt and felt that Michael's temperament is very suitable for a role. This is the reason!" She looked at Joshua, and said with a final word: "Stop talking about this, I know it, do you understand?!"

Joshua shrugged his shoulders, hugged the back of the chair with both hands, and said, "OK, then assume that Yang is not Kee, then why is he...you know." He laughed and said gloatingly: "Even a blind man can see you He is interested in Yang, it is impossible for Yang not to see it, but he is indifferent!" Jessica glared at him and gritted her teeth, and Joshua said proudly: "Jessica, I have too much experience in love, and Yang is so abnormal, There are only two reasons, one, he doesn't like you; two, he is a base."

Jessica laughed a few times, closed the cooking magazine in her hand, and said mockingly: "Oh, it's too rich, isn't it just once, and was dumped by others!" Joshua coughed: "Twice! Anyway! I'm not a rookie like you." Jessica raised her eyebrows and said nonchalantly, "That's because I don't want to, there are too many people who want to be my boyfriend." Joshua muttered, "Not including Yang? Jessica picked up a pillow and made a gesture to throw it on him, saying, "I don't want to talk about this, especially with you kid, get out of here."

Someone became angry... Joshua stood up and walked outside. When the word "boyfriend" was mentioned, Jessica suddenly remembered something, and called him, "Come back! Let me ask you, what happened to that Jack?" Joshua who turned around was stunned for a moment, and said in doubt: "Jack? What Jack?" Jessica frowned, with a puzzled look on her face, and said, "Jack-Frank? I don't know. That day Yang suddenly asked me 'how is Jack?' It's so strange."

"Jack-Frank? Jack?" Joshua muttered repeatedly, and there seemed to be a little clue in his mind. After thinking for a long time, he remembered it with an "oh", looked at Jessica with some embarrassment, and said: "Well...Maybe before, you know, in order to protect you, I seemed to tell Yang that Jack is your boyfriend."

"What!!?" Jessica suddenly screamed, jumped off the bed, her beautiful eyes were full of shock, and said, "Jack Frank? My boyfriend!? My boyfriend!? When will I Ever had a boyfriend? Damn it!" She remembered the way she hesitated to speak that day, did he misunderstand? Jessica walked a few steps anxiously, turned her head and glared at Joshua, and said angrily, "I really want to beat you up! Why are you so annoying?!"

Joshua raised his hands in surrender, and said, "I didn't mean it, I thought Yang was a bitch..." Seeing Jessica gnashing her teeth to find a weapon, he hurriedly said, "OK, OK, I understand What are you worried about, but I don't think Jan will misunderstand, he was at your birthday party, I remember Jack-Frank was there that day! Jan can see the way you treat Jack, he's not an idiot."

Jessica put down the pillow in her hand with a frown, Joshua was right, Jan should know... Does he not like me? Jessica immediately shook her head to interrupt this thought, she could feel something different, but could it be that she felt wrong...

Seeing her worrying about gains and losses, Joshua couldn't stand it any longer. He spread his hands and said, "Please, Jessica, confess directly! My two love affairs are directly confessed, and then it will be fine." He was full again With a serious face, he clenched his fists and said: "Don't you know? Some Chinese are so reserved, we should take the initiative!"

"Stupid!" Jessica flatly rejected the proposal. If Yang refused, what would happen? Thinking about it made her shudder, she didn't receive Yang's letter before, she thought she was rejected, that kind of frustration and pain, she didn't want to do it again! And "High School Musical" is about to start filming, if she is rejected, she might not be able to act well... Thinking about this, she shook her head and said, "No way!"

Joshua frowned and tried hard to find a solution. He looked around, and suddenly saw the cover of the cooking magazine that said "What to Eat for Thanksgiving?" His eyes lit up immediately, and he said excitedly: "I have a good one. Idea! So, you invited Jan to our Thanksgiving dinner, the kind of family dinner. You specifically said that you only invited him alone! I don’t think he would understand the implication?”

"What's the difference between this and a confession?" Jessica looked at him and asked, and Joshua said confidently: "It's different, the reason for inviting him can be because of a good friend! Why only invite him? Think for yourself!" Jessica frowned, thinking about his words, waved her hand and said, "Go out, don't bother me."

Joshua shrugged and walked out of the room. As soon as he left, Jessica closed the door, sat on the edge of the bed with her mobile phone and thought for a long time, her heart was beating faster and faster. After a long time, she took a deep breath, dialed Wang Yang's number, and said with a smile: "Hi Jan, good evening!"

"Hi, Jessica." Wang Yang smiled into his mobile phone. He was sitting at the desk in his bedroom reading the book of the director's study. When Jessica called, he closed the book and chatted with her. stand up. After chatting for a few words, he heard Jessica laughing: "You know, Thanksgiving will be in two days. Will you go back to San Francisco?" Wang Yang shook his head and smiled: "No, I won't go back." He Going back when it's time to get ready for New Years and, of course, he'll call home for Thanksgiving.

Jessica pretended to be calm and said: "Oh, I'm preparing a big Thanksgiving dinner, and I want to invite you to my house that day, okay?"

"Wow, of course!" Wang Yang agreed with a smile, and happily said to the phone: "It's really exciting."

She took a deep breath secretly, but the beating frequency of her heart kept rising, and Jessica suddenly shouted: "Yan! Well..." Her voice was almost trembling: "It's just you coming alone... …sorry, my turkey wasn’t very big…”

"Oh!" Wang Yang's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately realized what she meant, and his heartbeat accelerated a little. Hearing Jessica's suppressed breathing, he nodded heavily and said, "I see." ,thank you for your invitation."

"Then, good night!" Upon hearing his promise, Jessica couldn't wait to hang up the call, as if afraid that he would suddenly change his mind and be unable to speak. She let out a breath, and fell on the bed weakly, looking at the ceiling, a sweet smile full of longing slowly bloomed on her face.

Hearing the beeping sound, Wang Yang put down his cell phone and said softly: "Good night." Is it a big Thanksgiving dinner... He sighed, picked up "Little Women" on the desk, He turned a page and took out the photo that was inside.

Looking at the blond girl in the photo, Wang Yang's face sank like water, and he remembered a lot of past events. He heard the crying voice vaguely in his ears: "Yang, you are a bastard! I hate you! Go to hell!" That was It was the first and only time he saw her weak side. She always had a personality, had her own opinions, and never lost her composure...Looking at the girl in the photo, he murmured, "You've been okay recently." ?"

He thought he had forgotten all about that sweet time, but he didn't. Why are you fighting? Their relationship is so good that they don’t need to hide themselves, so they all exposed their true selves. They began to ignore each other’s feelings, and began to demand each other in their own way, thinking that was good, and then Unfortunate things happened. They don't hate each other, they just care too much about each other...

Scenes of pictures seemed to appear in front of his eyes, and Wang Yang couldn't help but clutch the photos in his hands tightly.

"I will go to USC, and I tell you, I will become a director in the future." "I don't care about any director!" "Why don't you like me as a director? Why!?" "It's not that I don't like you as a director, But you know, I'm going to Stanford's business school, and you should be at Stanford, which is better!" "Fucking Stanford! What am I going to Stanford for? Going to business school with you!? Let alone I don't like whether they want to hire me! I want to be a director, I want to make movies, why don't you support me?!" "Jan! I beg you, for me, go to Stanford! Just for me! Do you understand, so we can continue to be together..."

"I'm waiting for you at Stanford..."

"No, I'm waiting for you in Los Angeles!"

Then, he went to USC, received that call, and saw her weak side.

Looking at the girl in the photo, Wang Yang gritted his teeth suddenly, tore the photo into two pieces, then into four pieces, smashed it on the ground, and cursed heavily, "Fuck Stanford! Fuck!"