Compared with Hitchcock's "A Generation of Beauty", Cissidimil's "Cleopatra" unexpectedly gained widespread praise from people. This movie, which was almost a battle against the enemy, miraculously achieved a breakthrough and became an obvious dark horse.

The movie is not only loved by the audience, but also praised by Hollywood filmmakers. When people evaluate this movie, they always compare Hitchcock's "A Generation Beauty".

In the eyes of Hollywood filmmakers, a consensus formed is that in the process of shooting these two movies, Hitchcock's purpose was not as pure as Sisse Dimil.

"Hitchcock has begun to become more secular and more utilitarian. And Sissy Dimil, an old Hollywood director like this, has become more pure in his attitude towards the movie after countless twists and turns. The reason why "Cleopatra" can achieve a breakthrough and is more touching than "A Generation of Beauty" is originally due to the attitudes of the two people and their attitudes towards the movie. This is also what should be aroused to our thinking."

"Movie Manual" made objective comments on these two movies and these two people.

In August, with the shooting and premiering of a series of Hollywood movies, Hollywood became popular, every film company began to be busy, and filmmakers also began to work hard.

This is a season of hard work. If there is a mistake, it will inevitably affect the harvest of the year-end movie schedule, which everyone understands.

But despite the tension, most filmmakers are still very excited because they are very confident in their movies. No one will think that their movies will fail. On the contrary, they almost firmly believe that their movies can win big and soar into the sky.

DreamWorks people are even more energetic. Not only Griffith's "Titanic" makes everyone excited, but in addition, the DreamWorks director team is also beginning to carefully plan the scripts and prepare for launching more film works.

At such a nervous and excited moment, a piece of news made me feel depressed.

And this news also made Hollywood filmmakers at a loss.

That afternoon, I watched Griffith filming on the set of the Los Angeles Pier. The set of the "Titanic" chose the wide waters on the Los Angeles Pier. The shooting was very difficult. The entire Los Angeles Pier had been completely rowed into the set. The sea was full of boats.

"Boss. This movie is probably the biggest movie I have ever filmed." Looking at the huge oil tanker among the many small boats, Griffith laughed while sitting on the chair.

The oil tanker on the sea surface can be compared with the Titanic. This is one of the largest oil tankers in Lockettec Transportation Company. There are many reasons why this tanker was chosen. First of all, the time of the construction of this tanker is almost the same as that of the Titanic. It is just that the specifications may be slightly inferior. However, after a simple transformation, it can fully show the style of the Titanic back then. After all, the age is similar and the overall structure is similar. Using this ship, there is no need to make too much effort to modify it.

The second reason for choosing this ship is because the collection is also one of the oldest ships in Lockettec Transportation Company. After so many years of use, this ship is obviously a bit out of date compared to the new ships in other places. Therefore, using this ship for shooting and finally blowing it up is also a feasible option to reduce the shooting cost.

But despite this, when I decided to use this ship to shoot and finally blow it to the ground, the dreamworks group and the second brother who was a transportation company were a little unbearable. Although it was a little old, it was worth at least US$3 million. It was gone just like this. It was a pity. I rarely asked my second brother. This time I asked me if I could use some alternative methods, such as shooting with a special stunt model.

Some people in the director team also mentioned this method, but I rejected it. Although the earth scene can also be displayed through special-stunt models, it is completely incomparable in terms of effect and reality.

Since I have made up my mind to shoot a blockbuster, don’t care about spending money. This is my attitude.

I even told Griffith not to worry about bombing the ship. If we find that the wreck is not effective at the last shooting, then we are blowing one. We know that the effect is satisfactory.

When Griffith was filming, I had already instructed my second brother to prepare another large tanker for use. This made my second brother feel very distressed. He even specially invited Griffith to drink, so that he must pass at one time, but don’t blow up two ships.

I was amused and laughed at my second brother's attitude. There was no way, he was like this.

In the afternoon, the weather was very good, and the golden sunlight spread on the sea surface, and the sea breeze blew towards us, which was very cool.

Griffith and I sat there talking and laughing, and then saw a car coming and stopping in front of us.

The car door opened and Darren walked out of it.

"Boss, boss!" Darren shouted to me as he ran.

"Boss, it seems that something is wrong again." Looking at Darren's appearance, Griffith sat upright.

My heart suddenly became nervous. There were so many things happening in DreamWorks.

Hopefully this time is not bad news.

"Darren, you're in a hurry. Is there anything wrong?" I asked.

Darren ran to me, nodded, then sat on the chair opposite me, and said, "Boss, hurry up and go to the nursing home."

"Go to the nursing home? What are you doing?" Darren's words stunned me.

"Darren, you guy is not so good. What's the boss doing when he goes to the nursing home? He's in good health." Griffith laughed. Darren Oliver did not bring any bad news, which made Griffith much easier.

Darren Oliver looked at me and said, "Boss, I just received news from the nursing home. Mr. Edison is afraid he won't do it."

"What!?" I stood up suddenly, grabbed Darren Oliver's clothes, and shouted: "Say it again! Say it in detail!"

In the eyes of some people, Edison is the largest inventor in the United States. With his inventions, he became the most famous person in the United States. At the same time, he also made huge wealth. In the eyes of others, there are many complaints about Edison's character. Many people think that Edison is a greedy person. He relies on his patents to monopolize and make money for it. Some people say that Edison is a poor person. Because he has been busy all his life, he becomes lonely in his later years.

Edison's first half of his life was successful, brilliant, and extremely glorious. Many inventions made him very prosperous. But in the second half of his life, Edison's life became dim.

Many of his invention patents have lost their patent rights. If they lose their patent rights, they will lose a lot of profits. In addition, with the development of the times, all the companies he built have gone bankrupt one after another, and the rest are just struggling to support them. This old man can no longer master the most advanced development technology in the United States like before. His era has passed, his stage has disappeared, and he has become a twilight old man, who can only live alone in a sanatorium.

At this time in the United States, Edison was almost forgotten by people. Although people may talk about him sometimes, in public life and in society, the name Edison is rarely seen in newspapers, and some even think that he has long been dead.

In the United States, Edison is generally not very high. Although he invented countless times in his life, people did not realize his value on the one hand, and on the other hand, people had no good impression of many things that the old man did in his first half of his life.

Especially in Hollywood, filmmakers' attitude towards Edison is surprisingly bad.

The reason why Hollywood was born was because of Edison's film patents. In the early days, Edison became a monopoly of American films with his film patents. The film company he established was the largest film company in the United States, and other film companies had to pay huge patent fees if they wanted to shoot or screen movies.

In order to avoid patent fees, the filmmakers fled to Hollywood and opened up their positions here. Senior leaders of major Hollywood film companies were so angry that they gritted their teeth when they mentioned Edison.

However, a few years ago, because of my reasons, Edison was introduced to Hollywood, and Hollywood's attitude towards this old man also changed. Not to mention anything else, he was awarded the Harvey Award for Lifetime Achievement, and he won a star on the Avenue of Stars. These actions all indicate that Hollywood has recognized the old man's contribution to the movie to a certain extent.

Although Hollywood filmmakers have no good feelings for Edison, it is undeniable that without Edison, there would be no American movies at all, and there would be no Hollywood. He is the pioneer of American movies and the creator of American movies. This cannot be erased by anyone.

Edison has gained some recognition in the film industry, but Hollywood filmmakers' attitude towards him has not changed completely. Over the years, Edison has lived in a nursing home outside Los Angeles. In the heart of the old man, the land of Hollywood has a special emotion for him. He is willing to contribute some effort to this place. Edison in his later years was very different from when he was young. He became less greedy, but instead began to reflect on the things he had done in his life. He realized that many things he had been wrong, so he wanted to make up for it.

At this time, he was already an old man, and the younger generations in Hollywood didn't buy his account at all.

Therefore, Edison's mood was very desolate in his later years.

He isolated himself, lived in a nursing home, and lived with ordinary elderly people, and he didn't even want to see his family.

Such an old man is actually very pitiful.

However, I respect Edison very much and have a lot of emotions.

Perhaps it was because when Edison was arrogant in his early years, I didn’t realize that the impression Edison left me was a kind old man. If others didn’t say it, at least he was sincere to me, and he helped me and DreamWorks many times. With this alone, he was enough to be the person I respect.

Over the past few years, I have had many conversations with Edison, and when I am free, I will drive to the sanatorium to see him. Edison usually doesn't see guests at all. But whenever I hear me coming, the old man will definitely come to greet me in person, and then happily show me his new strange inventions.

In his later years, Edison was still fiddling inventing, but for him, the meaning of invention was already fundamentally different from when he was young. When he was young, he made inventions to make money, but now, he made inventions entirely for self-entertainment.

I treat him as an old friend, and he also treats me as his own child.

Now, when I hear the news that he is not good, how could I not be in a hurry?

Edison, born in 1847, is so old. At the age of 85, he has already exhausted his energy. In the past few years, I have been with him. His health has never been good. Emergency rescue has happened many times. Although he can survive every time, everyone knows that this old man will be taken away by the god of death one day, and this day does not need to wait too long.

Although I have all thoughts like this, when I heard that Edison really couldn't do it, I still couldn't believe my ears.

If he dies, who else will tell me the interesting things in the American film industry decades ago? Who else can show me how he invented it and laughed happily with me?

"Boss, Mr. Edison's body has been getting worse since the beginning of this year. He fainted last month. Although he had been rescued, he had already suffered a stroke and half of his body could not move. You know that. Last week, his condition worsened and the doctor tried to maintain it. But there was no effect. The old man seemed to know that his deadline had come and refused to be transferred to a hospital in New York. He would die here even if he died. The hospital called just now and said that he was helpless about his condition. This morning, Edison fainted and the doctor performed an operation on him, but the effect was not ideal. It seems that he couldn't stand it this time." Darren looked at me, his voice was low.

"Drive! Let's go to the nursing home!" I stood up and shouted.

The car drove away from the Los Angeles Pier and drove to Edison's nursing home.

The nursing home was not very far from Los Angeles Pier, and we arrived twenty minutes later.

As soon as I entered the gate of the sanatorium, I could immediately feel that the atmosphere was a little different. In the past, I could see the elderly chatting and walking everywhere, but today, the surroundings were empty and there was no figure.

We came to the center of the sanatorium and came to the white building of Edison.

In front of the building, there were people from the sanatorium. Among those, there were friends from Edison here and staff from the sanatorium. The faces of these people were filled with sadness.

Edison is very popular in the nursing home. This old man did not regard himself as an amazing person, but was able to get along with the old men and ladies in the nursing home and become their leader. With him, there were constant laughter in the nursing home because he could always make a lot of fun things. So although Edison's evaluation was not high outside, Edison is the most popular person here.

Now, their old friends are leaving, and the people in the nursing home are naturally extremely sad.

In the small square in front of the building, we saw more than a dozen high-end cars. Needless to say, they must be senior executives of Edison's company. These people are usually missing Edison, but during this period of time, Edison probably has to instruct the funeral.

The atmosphere was a little solemn. I lowered my head and walked into the small building.

I often come to this small building. What Edison and I like most is to chat and play chess in the aisle of the small building. The scenery here is very good, and because it is on a high slope, you can see the beautiful scenery of Los Angeles from a high place.

Now, the chessboard in the corridor is empty, and no one can play chess with me again.

Thinking about it, this is a very sad thing.

"Mr. Corleon!" When I walked into the room, the person in charge of the sanatorium standing downstairs greeted him.

"How is Mr. Edison now?" I asked in a low voice, pulling him.

"Not really. It's probably difficult to see the sun tomorrow." The person in charge shook his head.

"Is there anyone upstairs now?" I pointed to the upstairs and asked.

"Yes, there are some senior executives in Edison's company and his family, but Mr. Edison was unwilling to see them. All the people were bombarded out of the room. Only Mr. Edison's granddaughter entered the room and was still talking. Mr. Corleon, Mr. Edison ordered, if you come, go in quickly." The person in charge said, pulling me upstairs.

Walking up to the second floor, the atmosphere suddenly became different. In the large living room, a group of people in suits and ties were filled with darkness. These people sat on the sofa, whispering to each other. There was not much sad expression on their faces, but they had more thoughts.

On the sofa in the middle were several children of Edison. They sat there, lowering their heads without a sound.

I waited outside for a few minutes and walked out of a girl in her twenties. The person in charge of the sanatorium told me that this girl was Edison's granddaughter and Edison's favorite family.

"Mr. Corleon, go in quickly." The person in charge pointed to the room.

I pushed open the door and walked in.

The room is not very big. However, it is fully equipped and elegantly decorated, which is the style Edison likes.

"Andre. Come here quickly." Edison leaned against the bed and smiled on his face when he saw me coming.

Edison was obviously much thinner than when I saw him last time, his face turned pale and an infusion tube was inserted into his arms.

I sat down next to him, and the two of them did not speak, but stared at each other for a while.

"Andre, I'm afraid I'm leaving." Edison looked at me and laughed.

He is already in his 80s and has long been indifferent to this world and is used to life and death, so he has no fear of death.
To be continued...