Filming begins.
Joaquin Phoenix plays the film's protagonist, a man with amnesia, a man with only 10 minutes of memory.
Well, he is the kind of man who forgets what happened before after ten minutes!
The beautiful Jennifer Connelly naturally plays the heroine of this film, a barmaid who uses, deceives and helps the male protagonist.
Kyle looked at the beautiful Jennifer Connelly. He would never admit that he gave the heroine role to her for some special reason.
Today, Jennifer Connelly gave birth to her first child with her photographer boyfriend a year ago, and in the future, she will marry British actor Paul Bettany (the voice of Jarvis in the "Iron Man" series).
It is said that in the early 2000s, Jennifer Connelly went to court with her photographer boyfriend over issues of scumbag men, scumbag women, cheating, and the custody of their children.
Well, it's quite lively.
Being a producer is quite hard work.
Well, even if it's just a nominal one!
After several days of filming, director Christopher Nolan was full of energy and high morale, and he wanted to keep filming, while Kyle was also constantly learning and supplementing his meagre production experience.
Memento is progressing very smoothly.
Maybe we can complete the shooting plan a few days in advance.
30 days, is it short?
Man, you have to know that in the original time and space, Nolan completed the entire filming of "Memento" in less than 25 days without strong support.
Now, under the intimidation of Kyle, all departments, including the production team, lighting team, props team, film crew, etc., have exerted 120% of their energy and fully cooperated with Nolan's filming. How can the speed not be fast?
However...
On the ninth day of filming Memento, Kyle was absent from the on-set production.
Instead, he accepted Bezos's invitation and went to the Venetian Theatre in Los Angeles to watch a stage play.
Venali Grand Stage.
"Hi, Jeff!"
"Hey, Kyle!"
Before the play even began, Kyle chatted with Jeff Bezos.
"Kyle, ICQ will be listed on the Nasdaq on the 28th of this month. We are old friends and partners on Amazon. Tell me the truth, how much money do you plan to cash out?"
Bezos asked in a deep voice.
"Who told you that I would choose to sell ICQ shares and withdraw cash from the stock market?" Kyle said with a smile on his face.
"Snort!"
Hearing this, Bezos snorted coldly, "Kyle, we have known each other for many years. You are such a cunning guy, how can I not guess your plan?"
"That's not necessarily true." Kyle teased.
Bezos suppressed his anger and said, "No matter what you think, I plan to withdraw from the ICQ board of directors after ICQ goes public.
And gradually sell off your shares and cash out. I don't believe you have seen Microsoft's strength. Once Microsoft's instant messaging is launched on the market, do you think ICQ can win this battle?"
"Who can be sure?" Kyle shook his head.
"Hey, man, are you sure you don't want to tell me the truth? Don't regret it later!" Bezos's voice became a little heavier.
Having said that, Kyle couldn't beat around the bush any further.
In fact, Bezos was right!
Kyle did plan to gradually sell his shares after ICQ went public.
Of course, this is not because Kyle is completely pessimistic about ICQ and does not think it will definitely lose to Microsoft's MSN!
You have to remember that thanks to the butterfly effect, the development it gained a few months earlier, and Kyle's clever advice, it avoided many mistakes, making ICQ much more powerful today than it was in its original time and space. If a real instant messaging war with Microsoft really started, it wouldn't necessarily lose.
However, Kyle didn't want to play with Weisger and other founding team members anymore.
It's so fucking disgusting!
Kyle didn't care that he had lost the position of Chief Creative Officer of ICQ. After all, they were the ones who would suffer the loss!
However, Kyle is now being ostracised by many shareholders on the ICQ board of directors, especially the founding team, including Weisger. They think that Kyle, who got a bargain, is not worthy of working with such great people as they are. They are determined to kick Kyle out of the board of directors and dilute his shares.
"Haha, you can!"
"I don't want to play anymore!"
"You really think I'm a lucky guy! If I leave, you'll be the ones who regret it in the future!"
For several nights, Kyle cursed Weisger and others for their stupidity in his sleep.
Soon.
Kyle and Bezos reached a consensus on the sale of ICQ shares to avoid excessive sales of shares, which would cause the stock price to fall and cause financial losses to both of them.
"Is it a deal then?" Bezos asked again.
"It's a deal, whoever lies is a bastard!" Kyle said gritting his teeth.
After the matter was preliminarily settled, Bezos and Kyle returned to their relaxed and happy state and began to look forward to the performance of the stage play.
Well, because it wasn't the weekend, and the Venali Grand Stage wasn't a well-known theatre, and the actors performing the play weren't famous either, there weren't many people here today.
The large venue can accommodate 1,500 people, but only about 200 people are sitting there, making the venue look very empty.
"Please enjoy the stage play 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding'!"
With the host's announcement, today's stage play performance began.
Regardless of whether the audience liked it or not, they all gave applause immediately.
"Huh?"
Suddenly, Kyle let out a sound of surprise.
"What's up, man?" Bezos frowned.
Kyle shook his head and did not answer, but wanted to confirm further.
Really!
Just 30 minutes into the performance, Kyle finally confirmed a fact.
The stage play performed today, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", is the Hollywood movie of the same name "My Big Fat Greek Wedding".
Audiences who don't like Hollywood romantic comedies may not know it, but the film is indeed very legendary!
In 2002, the film "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", with a production cost of only 5 million US dollars, created a box office of 2.4 billion US dollars in North America and a global box office of nearly 3.7 billion US dollars, breaking the box office record of the highest-grossing romantic comedy in North American film history.
It is not a movie like "The Blair Witch Project" that relies on false viral publicity to achieve high box office with a low budget. It is a movie that actually set a high box office record!
How could Kyle, who always likes to pick up bargains, let it go?