Global Movie Emperor

Lu Ze and Mickey were a little silent on the way back from Klelev's company. Irina saw that they were both in a bad mood, did not dare to speak, and kept playing with their mobile phones in the back seat.

Lu Ze also understood that the business that Mickey was talking about this morning was to solve the problem of the movie release. He discussed with Kleev’s boss Sol. Originally, Mickey felt that he would talk to Sol according to his reputation. After a share contract, even if he gave up a part of the benefits, he recognized it. After all, this time it was for shame, not for profit. As long as the film became popular, he was not afraid that the lower part would not make money.

He can't talk to the publishing company now. After all, it was not very pleasant to have trouble with the publisher when he was young and frivolous. He only has such a personal relationship in the circle, so the only person who can help him is Sol.

Unfortunately, because of the lack of production of good films in the past few years, the Klelev Film Company can only use the video tape and Internet market, but the revenue of the video tape and Internet market is not enough to equal the shooting cost. In short, it is Losing money, leading to a break in the capital chain, can only reduce the cost of shooting again, and ultimately rely on vulgar movies such as tertiary films to make a living, and eventually lose the only right to speak in the distributors and theaters.

It hasn’t been a movie in the cinema market for three years since Klelev. Distributors and the big guys in the theater basically regard Sol as a poor bug. Even if he moved out of Mickey’s name, he wouldn’t be enough to impress those big guys. , After all, Mickey’s last movie lost to his grandmother’s house. To put it bluntly, those big guys don’t believe in directors who have made bad films and are now drugged, and it is unknown whether the audience will pay.

This group of capitalists are only willing to do things that make money without losing money. Instead of arranging the film for Mickey, a director who is full of uncertainty, it is better to give up the film to those big-fire movies, even if Mickey is really shameful, this movie is big They won't regret it, anyway, their income is still the same, and Mickey will still look for them in the next movie.

The foreign market really only recognizes money but not people. Unlike the domestic market, sometimes favors are more important than money. The advantage is that there is no such thing as a movie director’s work that can be launched online. The disadvantage is It is more difficult for talented directors and actors than in China.

So Mickey had no choice but to accept the reality. Just like the previous year, he started again in the video tape market and signed a contract with Sol, giving Sol, who does not invest in movies, but only invests in distribution and online sales, with a 45 percent share, although This division is quite high, but this is the only one, and you don’t want to divide it.

Although Lu Ze was a little melancholy, he still signed a contract with Mickey. He had no choice. Since he is here, he can't go empty, right? Although the video tape market is no longer as brilliant as it was in the past, it is now in the Internet age, and it is still a bit of a head start in the online movie market.

The three of them were silent all the way home, and the contracts were signed. They must have started to study the script. Elena followed them upstairs, but when Mickey opened the door, they were a little surprised to see sitting on the sofa. An old man of yellow race.

"Dad, what are you doing?"

"Me? I'll take back my house! See what you made the room look like! I really don't understand why you came out of jail and thought about making a movie?"

"Stop, you calm down, I also brought a friend, Irina, you know, this is Lu Ze, from China, does your compatriot feel very kind? Lu Ze, you take Elaine first Na went back to the room to study and study the script, teach her how to film, and come out later."

Lu Ze looked at Mickey’s father. The old man was quite personal. Even if he saw a compatriot like Lu Ze, he didn’t give a good expression. Maybe it’s because there are many Chinese people in the UK now. It’s not like seeing him 30 or 50 years ago. It’s a kind age for the yellow race. Seeing his father like this, Lu Ze was helpless. He took the script printed by Mickey, took a third of it out of it, took it in his hand, and took Elena into the guest bedroom. .

This is also the rule set by Mickey. Except for Lu Ze, it is impossible for anyone to see the complete script. Only when the given script is almost finished, he will give the next part. This is a kind of protection for the script, but also Can see Mickey's possessiveness for the script.

"OK, you have never been an actor, so we must first learn from the basics. Do you know what is the most basic of movies..."

"Film! Do you still want to shoot in jail again! You are so persistent that Mickey is stupid! I know you have talent! But talent can't pave all the way for you, solve all your troubles!"

"Ahem... Uh, the most important thing you must remember is that no matter what the situation is, don’t look at the camera, even if you accidentally fall, get hurt, forget your words, and don’t look at the camera. Always remember that you can’t stop unless the director calls stop."

There are still quarrels outside the door. I have always heard that foreign families support and encourage their children’s dreams, but now it doesn’t seem to be the case, let alone the old man is Chinese, so what happens, staying abroad for four or five For ten years, even if you don't want to change your way of thinking, you will still be affected by the environment. In Lu Ze's view, this old man is nothing but a big yellow-skinned potato.

And Jelena seems to be more serious than Lu Ze imagined. Usually girls have the dream of being a big star, but the dream is limited to the brilliance in front of people, not the hard work behind them, like domestic stars are very popular. But for a few years since his debut, his acting has not improved, which may also have something to do with this aspect.

But Irina is different. She seems to be very interested in the profession of acting. Lu Ze has taught many students for so many years, but she is not as serious as she is.

Knowing that today, Lu Ze, a talented actor at the actor level, gave her a lesson. The notebook quickly and neatly recorded the key points Lu Ze said. It doesn’t matter if you can’t keep up. The phone is still on for recording. She is going to go to bed tonight. Listen a few more times to consolidate the memory.

Lu Ze likes such students very much, and it is estimated that any teacher will not hate him, so he doesn't mind giving all his unique skills to him, and he doesn't worry about teaching his apprentice to starve the master to death. After all, Lu Ze has many unique skills. , Others can't learn it, and you can't learn it if you are exhausted.

"Let’s do a short actual combat exercise. There are only one, two, three... 15 lines without circumstance. I will give you five minutes to write it down. Then we will check the lines and show them to me. OK, then Let's start... Stop, the lines are not poems, don’t pinch your throat, like a large piece of sputum stuck in your throat, you know that some young people deliberately lower their voices to make their voices more magnetic. , How do you feel about it."

"I feel... naive, a little... funny."

"What you give me now is this feeling. Don't pretend to be pretentious, don't twitchy. It is illegal to teach students corporal punishment in the UK, but in China, the master teaches apprentices to fight casually. If you don't want me to slap you with branches, just press Do what I said, continue...Stop, don't touch your trousers, is there money in it? This is your subconscious movement when you are nervous, you better pull it over and continue..."

In Elena’s eyes, Lu Ze is definitely a stern teacher, but he looks a little lazy. At this moment, he is lying on the sofa with a cigarette in his mouth, playing with his mobile phone, and flicking into the water bottle from time to time. Soot, but even so, the lines he uttered were still so emotional, as if there was another person living in his body.

The most frightening thing is that even if he is looking down on his mobile phone, he can still point out his shortcomings, as if Tian Ling Gai has raised his eyes. Every time she says stop, her heart trembles, and the whole person is like a driver's license test. tension.

Lu Ze can now be considered as one-minded and three-minded. He paid attention to Elena’s performance, and the music in his hands didn’t stop. He had to eavesdrop on the quarrel between father and son in the living room. It’s been half an hour. After the quarrel, the posture intensified.

"You now take out your only possessions and go filming? Hell, are you crazy? You can be a writer! Even if you like, you can continue to be a screenwriter! As a father, I will support you, but the job of directing, It is too dangerous for a person of your character! You offend Mickey too easily! This time you were wronged to a year and a half in prison! What if you are killed next time?"

"You want to kill me if you stop me now! Your life has been fixed, you can continue to be your designer, and you can take subsidies after retirement and collect the rent of the house. Life is plain and comfortable, but what about me? I'm only thirty years old! Why should I be thirty years old to live the life you lived when you were sixty? This is not pleasant to me! It is restraint!"

"I killed you? I am your father, I will kill you? An idiom describes you, stubborn! I don't want to say anything to you anymore, I know you won't listen to me, you go, or Give me the rent, 3,000 pounds a month."

"How many?"

"Three thousand pounds! Get out if you can't afford it! Get out of my house with your friends! Get out of my house! I don't have any expectations for you anymore, you follow him, and get out as far as possible !"

The door was pulled open by the old man. He pointed to Lu Ze’s nose with an angry expression, and then pointed to the door. The meaning was very obvious. Lu Ze was stunned. If he was in China, even if he had a big disagreement with the child, Parents will be very friendly to their children's friends for the sake of their children and their own face. Even if the children's friends are gone and the quarrel is upset, they cannot show it in front of their children's friends.

This kind of thing is really rarely encountered in Lu Ze, and he was a little in a daze for a while, but Lu Ze understood that now it is definitely not a wise choice to fight with this big yellow-skinned potato seed. Lu Ze can only show him. Waved, got up and pulled up his suitcase.

"Jeff! It's five forty in the evening! We haven't eaten dinner yet! It's almost dark! Will you drive us away? Okay, I'll just pack up and leave, never come back, never!"

Mickey blushed too, his father stopped screaming, and he called Da Ming directly. This made Da Tuozai even more angry. He pushed the three of them out of the room, and then closed the door fiercely. Such a loud quarrel made the apartment. Many residents in the house came out to watch the excitement, and it was really a bit embarrassing for a while.

"I really hope he can feel the feeling of losing everything in an instant. Really, if he goes bankrupt, I see if he can be as open-minded as I am now."

The three of them didn't knock on the door, but listened to Mickey complaining while going downstairs. Lu Ze could only comfort him. Who could be so stupid as to blame the other's parents? Isn't that concrete in your head?

But let’s not say that although this old man is already a British way of thinking, he may be affected by the education he received as a child. The way he teaches his children is more Chinese, like being beaten by his parents when he was a child. Children, most parents will beat their children too, otherwise they feel that they are too bad as a child.

Until the three of them came downstairs and were about to drive away, Mickey's clothes kept falling upstairs, and many of them were smashed on the car glass. Who threw them... Isn't it obvious?

"I'm so mad at him! You still think he's just a little harsher, but it's actually for my sake, good for me? Look at what he did."

Lu Ze choked with comforting words, and finally shrugged his shoulders and replied: "Perhaps I am afraid that you have no clothes to wear. Although your attitude is not very good, you are also afraid that you can't afford clothes and you will catch a cold. "

Mickey picked up the clothes from the ground and shook them off at random without folding them up. They just crumpled them into a ball and stuffed them into the car. Lu Ze gave Lu Ze a blank look, without speaking, and drove away.

"We can only go to Il Klub in advance, otherwise we can only sleep on the street, I have no money to stay in a hotel."

At this time, Jelena, who has not expressed her thoughts, reminded in a low voice: "Actually, you can live in my house."

"Forget it, if the guy Depp knows that my director is so poor that he can only live in the actor's house, he will probably spit out the supper I had last night with a punch. How did you decide? Follow us to Iraq Krokburg, or go home?"

"I...let's go home. There is a night game tonight. I think it will be very busy. Then, I will go back and make arrangements for my own affairs. I will go to Irkutsk tomorrow to find you. Bye."

"Come tomorrow, remember to bring me two cases of beer! I don't know if I can go to the place before dark, is it really him?"

After Elena left, the two also drove to the destination of Li, or many people called Liverpool Li Village. After leaving the city center, some of the sceneries in front of them were rural sceneries. The environment and scenery were good, and they played in the car. While playing British rock, Lu Ze kept watching outside the car in a daze. The time spent on this journey was not as long as he imagined.

Compared with the suburbs of Liverpool, Il Kruborg is not like, but a rural village. There are only less than two thousand people in the village. Few outsiders drive over at night. The few pedestrians on the street see the vehicles coming in. The vehicle has been locked.

Driving to a small two-story building at the end of the village, Mickey parked the car and introduced Lu Ze to the house that carried his countless memories.

"This is my grandmother's house. When I was a child, I lived with my grandmother for a while. It was probably the best time in my life. I like to write stories to my grandmother. Only after her praise, I walked on it. Movies are the road, but since my grandmother passed away, I rarely come here, but occasionally pay for repairs, come in with me."

Open the switch and turn on the electricity, the light in the room can still be bright, but it looks dim due to too much dust on it, the room is not too messy, the furniture is covered with newspapers, but there is a lot of dust.

There are two bedrooms on the second floor, but there are no mattresses, and the two big men don’t dislike them. They are ready to wipe the bedboards, put some clothes on the upper floor and sleep together, but just after finishing cleaning, they heard someone shouting in the yard downstairs. .

"Who is up! Down!"

"Hey Claire! Long time no see! How are you?"

"Mickey? When did you come? Oh my God, Judy! See who it is! Xiaomi! He's back."

Unsurprisingly, this man named Claire is Mickey’s former neighbor, and the relationship has always been very good, but since Mickey became famous, they have met very much. Claire invited the two to eat at his house, and he was hungry. The two people on the back naturally agreed, but originally thought it was going to someone's house for a meal, but it turned out to be a big gathering of dozens of people, which was extremely lively.

While chatting at the dinner table, Mickey also revealed that he came back for filming. This group of people has been paying attention to the great director who went out in Il Kruborg. They also know that he is now down. Everyone patted their chests and promised that they would come if they had any difficulties. they.

Lu Ze noticed Mickey’s smile at this moment. It was the most sincere and brilliant smile he showed since he came to Lu Hua to find him. Lu Ze also unconsciously recalled his own village, the villagers there. As enthusiastic and sincere as they are.

The trouble lasted until eleven o’clock in the evening, when everyone dispersed, and the two returned to the old house to wash and rest. At this moment, Mickey was like a chattering old man, telling Lu Ze the origins of all the items in the room until he was drinking. On top, each went back to the room to rest.

until……

"Boom!"

Lightning shining into the room through the window, awakened Lu Ze, who was already drowsy after receiving the play and was drowsy. He sat up and looked out the window. He could hear the sparse rain in his ears, thinking for a moment. , There seems to be something unexpected, suddenly!

"My grass! Props!"

"My grass! Props!"

The two rooms simultaneously yelled the same meaning in two languages. The door opened at the same time, and the two rushed downstairs. The rain was getting heavier and stronger. The two were even barefoot and quickly put the sunshade on the bird of prey. Bu opened up, carrying the shooting props that they had pulled back from Kleev.

This may be the first time that UU Read www.uukanshu.com cares so much about these cheap props in the two years of their entertainment careers. They use their bodies to block the rain that should have fallen on the props as much as possible, even their feet are covered. They didn’t pay attention to the scratches, because they both knew that the small pieces were okay. Once the big pieces were soaked, the entire funding chain of the crew would be broken, and the current crew of "Effect" couldn’t stand the wind and rain. .

When all the items were moved into the house, the two of them were wet and sitting on the ground breathing vigorously. The roads here have a lot of heavy things. Such rapid transportation will not affect the one who has given up exercise for a long time, and the other is not at all For a man who loves sports, his body is a bit unbearable.

"Say...to be honest, since I became famous...I have never...never cherished the props...this time it really scared me, shit, a few hundred pounds, it turned out I was not right at all What happened."

"I...Me too..."

"Take a bath and then go to bed. I hope I won't catch a cold tomorrow."

After taking a shower, the two returned to the room. Lu Ze lay down and listened to the sound of rain hitting the window. In the past, Lu Ze liked to listen to the sound of rain. He would get sleepy after a while, but today he can’t sleep. Li was always thinking about things, but finally couldn't help but get up and quietly went downstairs, only to find... the candlestick on the table was lit. In the dimly lit room, Mickey was sitting on the sofa, staring at just a few hundred pounds. Movie props.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, the two smiled at each other. Lu Ze sat next to Mickey in a quilt borrowed from Claire's house, gave Mickey a cigarette, and then lit the flame in the candlestick.

Maybe the two of them a few years ago would not have thought that things that they didn't care about were now like life-saving straws. On this night when the rainstorm came, they were so afraid that they couldn't sleep at all.

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