British 1986

Although the emotions on her face are in place, in the face of these professional actors, no matter what kind of emotions she expresses, Ellen always feels a little conflicted in her heart. Who knows if she is acting?

"Why are you writing to him? Didn't I ask you to study hard in London?"

"you"

Kate looked at the indifferent Allen and became even more angry. She took Allen's left hand and shook it vigorously. She said half coquettishly and half aggrievedly: "Some time ago, wasn't he going to make a new movie? I heard he was going to Pick an actor”

As Kate Winslet narrated, Allen finally understood the purpose of her visit today.

Cameron was preparing a new movie some time ago, which required selecting actors and arranging preliminary preparations.

Because he wants to make a project document.

21st Century Earl Pictures (Sony) can be understood as Allen's royal and private film and television company. Although it has a joint venture with Sony, Sony people have no management rights at all.

Allen's habit for film and television projects is to prepare the preliminary work first, and then, according to the situation, make reports on the funds, personnel, etc. required for the project while working.

Because here, as long as he decides on a project, he doesn’t have to ask anyone for review or approval. He himself is the boss, so who dares to give him a no?

In this way, Allen's model is completely different from the Hollywood model, which first develops projects and budget plans, then raises funds, reviews, and finally officially launches preparations for the project.

Both methods have their own advantages. Hollywood's is more formalized and professional.

But if you like this model, it saves time and effort, and it seems very humane.

Therefore, Cameron made changes according to his model. Since he followed Allen, he has learned this model that is different from Hollywood.

After using it, I realized how easy it is.

As long as he gets a rough plan in the early stage and explains the general situation of the project to Allen, and Allen nods in agreement, he can arrange for people from the company to prepare and make a budget plan while preparing.

Once the preliminary preparations have started, the plan has been prepared, and as soon as the follow-up funds are in place, filming can begin!

Don't ask them why they can start preliminary preparations before they get the money.

Theoretically speaking, for all the employees in the entire company, the relationship between them and Allen is not a simple boss-employee relationship, but a master-servant relationship!

They do not accept external work. Regardless of whether the crew is filming or not, these people are paid all year round. Now they are only asked to prepare for the preliminary work, and they are just working as usual. This is very different from the Hollywood operation model. .

And because Kate has been with Allen for a long time, she is also very familiar with the company and crew members. This girl is still a social worker and has a very cheerful personality. She is not shy or anything.

In this way, as soon as the company's movie project was approved, she received the news, and then

She wrote a letter of recommendation to Cameron, asking him for a role!

She wrote the first letter, and then Cameron ignored her. Kate was not discouraged and wrote a second letter, but after the second letter was sent, Cameron still ignored her. This time Kate became anxious. Got it!

Then she rushed to the castle and came directly to Allen.

Allen took half a step back and looked Kate Winslet up and down.

This girl is wearing a very ordinary short skirt and short sleeves today. She is pure and innocent, but she does not fit the character image.

Allen has seen the general plot of Cameron's new movie. One of the main female characters who appears is Arnold's wife.

But this is a middle-aged housewife, and she needs to look older. She also needs to look as ordinary as possible, not too beautiful.

The other female character is a female agent. This one should have a more seductive look. It is best to be seductive with a bit of sex appeal, which is to say, coquettish.

And he shouldn't be too young, at least in his twenties or thirties, a little more mature.

But neither of the two main characters seems to be suitable for the Kate in front of her.

This girl will only be seventeen in October. How can she play a mature-looking role at this age?

The hardware conditions were not up to standard, no wonder Cameron ignored her.

"Have you read the script?"

"No."

Kate shook her head blankly. She just heard about the project and started to apply for the role eagerly. Otherwise, she would wait until she finished reading the script? If the fries weren't all cold, how could it be her turn?

"You are not suitable for the role required in the movie. Your appearance is not mature enough."

Allen pinched Kate's chin and looked at her face. The girl still had some baby fat on her face. She knew that Allen liked her to have some flesh. She had been keeping in shape for a while, like a little meat bomb. .

"Who said that, just put on makeup and set an image and I'll be mature!"

Kate's eyes widened when she heard Allen's question. She understood one thing at a very young age. Opportunities must be earned by oneself, and there is no such thing as pie in the sky.

This was also the reason why she took the bait as soon as Allen seduced her. She wanted to climb up so much that she never let go of any opportunity to climb up.

"Wait a minute! I'm going to change my clothes and put on makeup. What image do I need in the movie?"

"Housewife, or female agent"

Allen looked at Kate with a smile, and randomly found a rough plot that he still remembered and told her about it.

"Okay, just wait, I'll clean it up!"

Due to the architectural design, Allen's bedroom never had good lighting, which was the main reason why he sold iron and steel to build a new castle.

There was no light on in the bedroom at this time, and a ray of moonlight could only shine at the door of the bedroom. With this ray of moonlight, the room didn't look so dark.

But his vision was only able to see clearly around the moonlight, which seemed a bit hazy.

A sound suddenly came from the record player outside, and a piece of pure music with a strong rhythm slowly flowed.

The wooden door of the bedroom was slowly pushed open with a soft sound.

A pair of legs wearing flesh-colored high-transparent stockings, with only one exposed, slowly stretched out from the door.

Under the moonlight.

The movement of the flesh-colored socks is very tempting, bending, straightening the instep, slowly lifting it up, and then putting it down again.

In keeping with the rhythm of the music.

Kate, wearing a beige suit and skirt suit that looked like a company clerk, slowly moved into the bedroom.

With his upper hand, he grabbed the post bracket that used to hold the mosquito net on the bed.

At the base of the flesh-colored stockings, there is a lace edge about a hand-width wide. It has no elasticity and the style looks a bit old.

Allen curled his lips. Is this to show that middle-aged and elderly housewives are not fashionable, so they dug out the old stockings at home?

Not to mention, coupled with the clerk suit she is wearing, it is still a bit tempting, and it has a bit of that flavor.

Although Kate's pole dance was a bit stiff, Allen was successfully aroused by her interest.

This girl even had a mole on her face at the corner of her eye, which made her look a little mature.

However, no matter how she dressed up to look old-fashioned, her age was still here. Allen looked at her image, feeling happy and hard at the same time.

At noon the next day, Allen just opened his eyes and turned his head, just in time to see Kate staring at him angrily.

"Can I do it?"

Allen knew she was still hungry for roles, but

When Cameron and the others make movies, Allen usually doesn't care about so much. He will give his subordinates full freedom. Cameron was very moved by his way of fully delegating power to the situation, and he was also very careful when doing things.

Allen not only gave him a director's fee, but also gave him a certain share of every movie shot by him after it was released. This reward is quite a lot even compared to Hollywood!

The boss gave him many benefits and status. He was now loyal to Allen and had never thought about changing jobs.

That's it. Faced with Kate's letter, Cameron ignored her. There are many women around the boss. You want the role?

If he meets someone who is just right, or if Allen greets him specially, he can still be given a role. Now that Allen has not told him, then Cameron will make his own decision, and will not give Kate any face.

"You are not suitable for the role required in that movie. You cannot play the role at your age."

"You!.That's not what you said last night!"

Kate's eye circles were red again. Who said last night that she could consider it as long as she behaved well?

Hmm. After working hard all night, I ended up with an unsuitable one?

So isn't this all hard work in vain?

It’s a waste of time to learn dance.

The more Kate thought about it, the more angry she became. Just when she was about to quibble again, Allen sat up directly, pulled the rattle, called the maid, took the mouthwash and rinsed his mouth first, then took the water glass and drank some water, stretching his feet. After the servant put on his slippers, he stood up and said: "Okay, if I say it's not suitable, it's not suitable. Why do you say so much? I don't know how to consider you if there is a suitable role? I will be busy for a while, and I will call you for a while. I'm sending you back to London, study hard, and don't run around!"

Listening to Allen's somewhat harsh tone, Kate shrank her neck and didn't dare to continue to quibble. She heard it, and if she continued, Allen would probably be angry.

After taking a shower and changing into a set of loose home clothes, Allen twisted his neck and wandered to the library reference hall on the first floor.

This is the hall with the largest collection of books in the family. According to preliminary statistics, there are more than 20,000 books in it.

As soon as you enter the hall, you will find bookshelves on the four walls all around. Two inclined ladders with moving pulleys are placed aside. The top book is four or five meters high from the ground, so servants need to step on the ladder to get it.

In the middle of the hall, there is a conference table. On the table is a very historical sand table from the Welsh region.

There are also some small ornaments such as small flags and small castles on it. These things are all made of wood and have become very old in color over time.

In addition to this large table, there is also a reading table that is not too large in the corner. It is like a small desk, which is convenient for sitting when reading. There are several single sofas next to it.

In the library at this time, there were already several people waiting here in advance.

Allen's investment adviser Mattia, as well as several of Allen's secretarial assistants, and Hu Te, who also wore single-sided glasses, were directing several servants in charge of this hall to prepare corresponding books and materials.

When he came to sit down at the small reading table, Allen looked at the thick pile of information on the table and felt a little headache.

This is the financial statement for the first half of 1992. What is recorded in it is the financial information of all the family's businesses in the first half of the year.

Looking at these thick documents, Allen felt both headache and relief. This was the "family business" that he had worked hard for all these years.

Although some of the funds came from illegitimate sources and were made by him through crooked ways.

But now, as long as it appears in his information, it is all his family property that he can display openly. Mr. Allen only does serious business and does not engage in crooked ways!

I casually opened the thickest book at the top, and there was a label on it. This was the half-year financial report of 21st Century Earl Pictures.

In the first half of this year, only one movie was released, and it was the award-winning movie in which Allen stuffed a lot of personal stuff.

box office results

The global box office combined is less than 50 million pounds, which is as good as ever.

Just because of Allen's reputation, some fans who had high expectations for him walked into the theater. After watching the movie, they realized, what the hell is this? He didn't like to make exciting movies before, and his outlook on things was a little bit... A crooked movie?

Why did the style change this time and take a literary route?

Or is it a movie with an anti-war theme but no big scenes?

Looking at the disastrous financial report of Earl Pictures in the first half of the year, apart from the copyright income from old movies, the largest income was actually the profit contributed by the small American film and television studio from making pornographic films.

Allen flipped through it casually. After looking at the specific figures, he didn't care anymore. The income of film and television companies cannot be viewed with common sense. This is just an internal financial report. When it is made public to Sony, that financial report will be different from the current financial report. , different again!

These are all countermeasures that Allen has arranged before. This one of his is real. When the time comes to show the Sony people, he will lose more!

If the company loses money, there is no need to pay dividends. Since the establishment of the film and television company, Sony has received a pitiful dividend in the first year. Since then, the company has fallen into "consecutive losses" and has been losing money to this day. , which resulted in the entire company’s valuation being almost cut in half.

However, even if the company's performance is so poor, Sony has never complained. Instead, it sends people every year to encourage the big boss Allen, telling him not to be discouraged and keep working hard.

The main reason is that Allen gives Sony a share of a movie every year, and that movie is used by their executives to share the stolen goods and launder money.

They decide what to shoot and how much to take, and Allen is only responsible for helping them operate abroad and charging a market-rate handling fee.

Although the company is losing money on the surface, Sony's leaders involved in this matter are making money. Isn't this a good company?

Moreover, many of Allen's films and TV series also help advertise Sony's products. In this way, although the company loses money every year, the advertising effect is acceptable, and it is regarded as advertising expenses.

The senior personnel of both parties cooperate very well, and the film and television companies have been operating according to this model in recent years.

What is placed under the financial report of the film and television company is Allen's biggest revenue point now, the instant noodle factory and radio factory in China!