Steven Spielberg crossed his legs, looked high and arrogant, looked at Hugo in front of him with his eyes slanted, slowly picked up the coffee in front of him, and took a sip. Hugo couldn't help laughing, and the smile on the corner of his mouth was slightly outlined, but he didn't say anything, but raised his head and looked at Steven unmoved, staring unmoved.

Steven raised his eyebrows slightly and said in a disgusting tone, "Is it because I am already out of touch with the times? It turns out that you can be so arrogant when asking for help."

Hugo lowered his head and tidied up his smile slightly, trying to make a sincere gesture, "So, what do you want?"

Steven held his chin and thought seriously, "You can try it." Hugo was completely amused by Steven's seriousness, but Steven did not care about Hugo's smile at all, and added, "You can refer to the tone and posture I looked for you before."

"You mean... you have no posture at all?" Hugo's rebuttal made Steven speechless, and in the end he could only defeat Hugo's calmness.

Steven changed his seat again and finally returned to his usual posture. "At least you can tell me, did you really foresee the failure of 'Batman and Robin'? So you were indifferent to their provocations. Barry Mayer, a lucky bastard, everyone is looking forward to you to teach him a lesson. By the way, there is also 'Life and Death Speed ​​2'."

Hugo really laughed this time, "So what are you looking forward to? Am I going to give Barry a frontal uppercut?"

"That's a good idea." Steven shrugged, "but Schumacher and Clooney were obviously planning, you know, Tracy Jacobs, are you just letting them go?"

Facing Steven's curiosity, Hugo really felt helpless, "I thought you wouldn't be curious." Recently, my friends often discussed this in private. Everyone knows the jokes about the Avengers, but Hugo didn't expect that Steven was the same. "Steven, you should know that in this circle, it is in this society that competition always exists. If you want to defeat your opponent, the best way is to be yourself. Just like 'Batman and Robin', the limitations of their own works have led to such a result, and I don't need to take action at all."

Of course Steven understood this truth, but he looked disgusted, "I still like the Hugo who is facing the media reporter."

"Haha, you mean, the person who provoked your bottom line face to face." Hugo's words made Steven roll his eyes speechlessly.

"You haven't answered my question yet." Steven asked again, Hugo was stunned. Steven had to explain, "Did you foresee the failure of 'Batman and Robin'?"

"I'm not a prophet of the Indians, if you want to ask this." To be honest, Hugo didn't really pay much attention to "Batman and Robin". Although he did know that this movie had failed a long time ago, he didn't have much time to pay attention to other gossip news because of "Los Angeles Secret" and his own script.

Steven was also amused by Hugo, "Then, you can at least tell me, Heath Ledger, where did you find this little guy?" Hugo opened his mouth and wanted to defend himself, but Steven directly intercepted him, "Don't try to fool me, Rick told me, it was recommended by you."

"So, can I think this is good news?" Hugo did not answer, but asked back.

Steven did not joke anymore this time and nodded directly, "The role of James Ryan is confirmed to be played by Heath." This is the best news for the Endeavour Elite Agency, which also means that the biggest difficulty of "save Soldier Ryan" has been passed.

"I thought you would choose Russell, but I didn't expect it to be Heath." Hugo was indeed quite surprised. Heath, who was under twenty years old this year, has shown a jealous talent in performance. It is not an easy task to impress Steven, who has seen countless people. Hugo has experienced it himself.

Looking up, Hugo saw Steven's puzzled eyes, and he smiled, "In fact, it's just an accident, do you believe it?" Hugo simply told the story of how Samora met Heath, and Steven shook his head repeatedly when he heard it.

"That's why everyone said that Los Angeles is the capital of opportunity, right?" Steven sighed.

Hugo ignored Steven's feelings and leaned forward slightly, "So, are you interested?"

Steven finally became serious at this time, "Why did you think of creating such a script? Such a small-scale work explored such a serious and profound topic? And, did you also have such a ironic topic?" Steven looked at the script on his right hand and couldn't help laughing.

"Los Angeles Secret" was officially announced to be completed two weeks ago, ending the intensive and compact shooting. Now the entire crew is intensively conducting post-production. Hugo spent two weeks completing his own script and finally came up with a very subtle title. The three protagonists in the story "As.good.as.it.gets" all have their own quirks and persistences, and are almost marginalized by society, but they are trying their best to pursue the impossible perfection. All of these ideas are focused on this title.

As Steven said, full of irony.

A week ago, Hugo took the script to meet with the top Hollywood producers, directors and investors, and officially started the project. The first person he found was Steven, but Hugo did not directly talk about the project because he knew that it is not difficult to find investment by relying on his name now. He hoped to find someone who is really interested in the project and dig out the depth and thickness of the work. Therefore, Hugo still hopes that the other party can finish reading the script before having an interview.

Steven was the first one.

Facing Steven's question, Hugo thought for a while, "As long as you look at people for a longer time, you will find their humanity." This sentence of answering the question made Steven silent. Thinking about the three characters in the story carefully, you can taste the endless details.

As the top Hollywood actor at present, what Hugo is most well-known is not his personality, his achievements, or his charm, but his pickyness about his works. Almost no one can understand the taste of Hugo's choice of works, but there is no doubt that Hugo's requirements for scripts are extremely demanding.

Similarly, this requirement is also reflected in Hugo's screenwriter work. "Before Sunrise" is a vivid way for men and women to pull each other, guess each other, and spark sparks. It seems boring, ordinary, and cumbersome dialogues contain endless wisdom, bringing the charm of lines to the extreme.

This time, Hugo took his excavation of the characters to the extreme in the script "Excellent and Beautiful". When Steven reads the script, he felt this charm. At the beginning of the script, Hugo set up an almost unmediated contradiction for himself, and then as the story progresses, it is unraveled one after another. This process is completely different from ordinary love movies. It is a bit sour, a little astringent, a little spicy, and has no sweetness at all, but it makes people unable to help but indulge in it.

Those seemingly unintentional details make the character come true bit by bit. Even when Steven reads the script, he can outline the image completely clearly in his mind. The powerful sense of picture is amazing. But at the same time, Steven also clearly knows that this puts high demands on the actors. It is unimaginable to integrate Hugo into the script and truly integrate it into the role.

Steven nodded slightly. What he must admit is that as a screenwriter, Hugo's experienced and delicate style is very rare. The script "Excellent and Beautiful" is like a cup of coffee. Only by savoring it carefully can you appreciate the beauty. Similarly, as long as you taste it carefully, you can discover the deep foundation in it.

"Who are you going to use for the three protagonists?" This is also Steven's biggest worry after seeing the script. Because this script is actually not the biggest test for directors, the actors are. It is definitely not easy to meet the super high requirements of Hugo's script. Once the casting fails, such an excellent script will become a mess.

For a question, Hugo knew that Steven had thought about it seriously. "I planned to act on the male lead by myself. During the writing process, I largely built it on my own. I also hope to challenge myself again and challenge a comedy role." Hugo has never concealed his ambitions about comedy, so Steven is not unfamiliar with it. "The heroine's words... to be honest, I am still thinking, Nicole Kidman, Holly Hunter, Julia Roberts, and Emma Thompson are all thinking about it."

What Hugo didn't say is that he actually thought of Cate Blanchett, but after going to the Actors Union to investigate, he found out that Kate has just joined Hollywood and she has just appeared on the big screen in 1997. Hugo is not sure whether Kate now has enough deep skills to play the heroine.

"When that neighbor's words, I'm thinking about Edward.norton or John Cusack."
Chapter completed!