"Who asked you to stand here today?" I smiled.


    "Boss!" James came up to me, choked up for a moment, pointed to the people in the corridor and shouted: "They are the same as us. After finishing their work these days, they don''t go anywhere and the first place they come to is this corridor. You are editing day and night inside, and we are waiting day and night outside! There is never a moment when there is no one outside the office for 24 hours a day. Everyone says that this small room breeds the hope of all of us. For this hope, we are willing to die of exhaustion and wait to death. Boss, look!"


    James pulled me to the balcony and pointed outside and roared.


    The moment I opened my eyes, tears gushed out!


    The yard was full of a dense crowd! Old people, children, small shopkeepers, women... The crowd stretched from the yard all the way to Harvey Street. They looked up at me in the strong wind, looking at my office, just like cold people looking forward to heaven with full of hope, praying that there would be light coming out there. Even if it was just a little light, it could make them feel warm.


    "Since they knew that you started editing, they have gathered here spontaneously. Among them, there are white - haired old people and children who can''t even talk yet. In order to protect the film from being stolen and robbed, they specially set up a patrol team. Whether it is day or night, their figures can be seen around DreamWorks. Boss, I, James, have been in Hollywood for so many years, and I have never seen any movie that can make the common people so emotional! Boss!"


    James choked up and couldn''t say anything more.


    My tears blurred my eyes. Looking at the people on Harvey Street whose hair was blown messy in the strong wind downstairs, looking at the children who were babbling, looking at the old people whose teeth were almost falling out, I grabbed the guardrail on the balcony tightly, and my heart was surging like being in the sea waves!


    Looking at these lovely people on Harvey Street and then looking at those employees behind me with red - rimmed eyes, what else could I do? The only thing I could do was to try my best to complete this movie. This would be their greatest comfort.


    "Employees! The elders and fellow villagers of Harvey Street! I have finished editing the movie! Successfully edited! What you need to do next is to go back and have a good sleep, and then wait for the day when it is released. On the premiere day, the people of Harvey Street can enter the cinema for free!" I shouted loudly.


    The crowd was surging violently like the sea before a storm, and smiles climbed onto everyone''s face. They smiled at me and waved to me.


    "Long live DreamWorks!" I don''t know who shouted.


    "Long live DreamWorks!"


    "Long live DreamWorks!"


    The shouts of the crowd made my eardrums buzz.


    At eight o''clock in the evening, the gate of DreamWorks was closed early. There was no one in the yard, and more than 40 people were all squeezed in a small room in the factory shed, staring at the silver screen in front of them in dead silence. The first preview of "Lust, Caution" was carried out in this room.


    In the center of the room, there was a projector, and I personally served as the projectionist.


    "Boss, shall we start now?" Berg glanced at me.


    "Start." Although I had edited this movie for a week, I hadn''t watched the complete version myself, so I was a little nervous and my palms were all sweaty.


    Fatty took the film out of the suitcase and put it on the projector. After fiddling with it for a while, he solemnly said to me: "Boss, it''s ready!"


    This book''s true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience.


    "Turn off the lights!" I waved to Gans beside me, and Gans nimbly turned off the only big lamp in the room.


    Darkness immediately swallowed every corner. I felt as if I was alone in the depths of a dark forest. It was so quiet around me that it made me panic, and even the hand holding the projector switch trembled slightly.


    Snap! After a faint sound, a beam of light was projected onto the top of the silver screen. Under the weak light, there were more than forty heads sticking together.


    The silver screen was a sheet of white at first, and then a dot of ink appeared in the middle. The dot of ink expanded little by little and finally expanded to the whole silver screen. A red dragon roared out, hovered and landed in the center of the silver screen, and the words "DreamWorks" rose like flames under its sharp claws.


    This was the opening title of DreamWorks.


    Then there were the subtitles.


    Screenwriter: Andrei Corleone, Photographer: Berg, Leading actors: James, Julie, Actors: Howard, Tim, Valente, Catherine, Director: Andrei Corleone... (Proposed by James. Except that I used my full name, everyone else only used their own names instead of surnames. They said it was to show respect for me.)


    The projector made a whooshing sound. As the subtitles emerged, the people who saw their own names showed a hint of smile on their faces.


    After the subtitles were finished, the silver screen was pitch - black, and a passage of text appeared. Generally speaking, it introduced the history of the Civil War and then told the audience about the identity of George Bosh.


    The first shot. The sky. A clear sky, vast and boundless. The camera slowly moved down, the flying flag, and then the medium - shot of the two armies (I didn''t foolishly use a panoramic shot. After all, there were only 400 extras, and no matter how sparsely they were arranged, they couldn''t show the momentum of a battle.) Close - ups of the generals in the troops. Hands grasping the command knife. Round - opened eyes. Sweat on the cheeks. Smoke of gunpowder.


    The mouth of a soldier shouting. Medium shot. The two troops began to charge. The second, third and fourth cameras reproduced at the same time. The yellow soil and smoke of gunpowder raised by the explosion. The slow - motion shot of the moment when the two troops collided. The fallen soldiers. The small flowers dyed red by blood.


    The camera pulled away from the face of a soldier who was chopped. It stretched all the way to the medium shot, and then a horse ran up on the left side of the lens. The person on the horse was Bosh. They appeared on the hillside. An upward - looking shot. First, only Bosh appeared on the arc of the hillside, then several subordinates, then a team, and finally the whole team appeared.


    The subjective shot, showing the troops of the North and the South fighting each other from Bosh''s perspective. Bosh drew out the command knife and led the troops from the top of the hill to charge at the southern troops (this shot is in "The Lord of the Rings"). The army was like a flood breaking through the dike, sweeping towards the enemy. Finally, the three troops merged together. People fell off their horses and cannons roared.


    Everyone in the room was stunned. There were only 400 people during the shooting, sparsely arranged, and it was finished unconsciously as if playing. But on the silver screen, where it seemed that there were only 400 people in the battle, it was simply a magnificent battle with thousands of troops. Fatty and Gans beside me opened their eyes wide, and their mouths were wider than basins. Even the leading actor James couldn''t believe that this movie was the one we had made.


    "Boss... Your editing... is simply amazing! Shocking! I''ve never seen such an editing technique before!" James gave me two thumbs up exaggeratedly.


    Howard, Valente, Catherine, Tim, these people were also dumbfounded. When the fifth scene came, the doorman played by Giss appeared. The old man''s natural performance in it was extremely excellent, making everyone laugh heartily.


    "Mr. Corleone! That''s me! That''s me! I didn''t expect that I, Giss, who was about to meet God, could actually be in a movie!" Giss grabbed the corner of my clothes and bounced up like a child, extremely excited.


    The love scene between Julie and James. At first, some people were still dumbfounded, and some even screamed, and even some covered their own eyes. But as the plot progressed, they gradually understood that there seemed to be something more than the physical stimulation they imagined between the love scenes. This kind of thing made all the seemingly erotic shots become extremely heavy. They began to sympathize with Bosh, and began to worry about the ending of Dietrich and Bosh. Several women even held each other''s hands tightly, shivering nervously.


    The whole movie was 63 minutes long. When the last scene ended, there seemed to be a magical atmosphere in the air of the room. Under this atmosphere, everyone forgot where they were. They forgot that they were watching a movie, but felt that they were Dietrich or James in the movie. They listened to the silver screen with misty eyes, sometimes smiling, sometimes crying. When Dietrich chose to go to death with Bosh, they didn''t feel sad, but a hint of satisfied and relieved smile appeared on their faces. After "the end" appeared, there was a dead silence in the room. People looked at the snow - white silver screen and couldn''t wake up from the movie for a long time. They stood there dumbfounded, as if sleepwalking.