Chapter 429 We want to make a romance movie (please vote!)
Boy!
Little John’s cub actually brought a handle
“It’s unbelievable, how could this happen? I really can’t figure it out.”
Opening the envelope in his hand, Xiang Yang looked at it several times. After reading it again and again, I confirmed that I had read it correctly.
On the side, Liu Qianqian snorted and spoke to Xiangyang in a somewhat angry tone: "You also said that you don't favor boys over girls. Look, this is the truth."
"How could I? ." Xiangyang grinned gloomily.
"Why are you grinning?" Liu Qianqian complained in a low voice with great interest: "Are you deliberately bullying us, mother and daughter? I'll tell you."
That's it. Before she could finish speaking, her mouth was blocked by Xiang Yang.
“Don’t talk nonsense, I’m just worried that this kid will be as annoying as Little John when he grows up.”
"Haha, that's possible."
The relationship between the two is very close. Little John and Xiang Yang want to be together every day. It's hard to say whether their children will often play together in the future.
Little John is a nice guy, but everyone knows what his temper is like.
If there were another Little John, most people would really not be able to bear it.
“Hey, let’s take it one step at a time.”
Xiangyang also has this kind of worry.
But after all, children need playmates. All he can do is to stand up and protect his two daughters as much as possible when little John bullies his daughter.
If he didn't see it, he would vent his anger on Little John afterwards.
“Hahahaha, mine is my son!”
“Hahahahaha, Xiang, did you see it? My baby is a boy!”
Little John's behavior surprised no one when he learned that Laura had a baby in her belly.
He was so happy that he didn’t even bother to kiss Laura, so he jumped up from the sofa and hugged Xiang Yang. While smiling exaggeratedly in his friend’s ear, he also gave him a cordial kiss as a gift. .
"Laura, congratulations." Liu Qianqian glared at him angrily, took out the gift she had prepared in advance and handed it to Laura.
“Thank you, Liu.”
Laura took the gift and glanced at Little John with disgust. How could he hug his best friend and chew on it like this?
The old couple at JCE also smiled happily.
"Okay, don't be sad. In fact, I like my daughter." Little John said, patting Xiang Yang on the shoulder, trying to calm down the joyful mood.
But the smug look at the corner of his mouth is very small.
"Which of your eyes can see that I am sad?" Xiang Yang glanced at his friend in surprise.
You can’t say this nonsense.
Besides, what happened to the little cotton-padded jacket?
I can even make clothes for little cotton-padded jackets in the future.
Uh, Little John was born in men's clothing
Well, it turns out that everything was doomed from the beginning.
After Little John made a fuss for a while, everyone started to prepare for dinner amidst joyful laughter.
Liu Qianqian and Laura sat together and ate a nutritious meal carefully prepared by Little John's mother. As for Xiang Yang, Little John and JCE, the celebration drinks were indispensable.
Perhaps because he felt that he had won over his friend, Little John drank too much.
After drinking too much, he stopped clinging to Laura, but kept occupying Xiangyang. While murmuring endlessly with his friend, he was still reluctant to let Xiangyang follow Liu Qianqian home.
This made everyone's happy atmosphere very awkward, and made Xiangyang feel aggrieved.
After leaving Little John's house and getting on the car home, Xiang Yang quickly expressed his stance to Liu Qianqian: "Wife, you have to believe me."
"Believe it, how could you not believe it?" Liu Qianqian's tone made people want to savor it carefully.
"From your tone, I know you are jealous." Xiang Yang said seriously, "I'm not the one who has the right to speak."
"I did before, but not recently."
Xiang Yang, who had also drank some wine, leaned towards Liu Qianqian and whispered: "There may be some recently."
"Huh?" Liu Qianqian frowned and said coldly. Said:
"You have a beautiful thought."
"I Tiantian"
Just as he was about to continue his nonsense, Xiangyang felt something gently caressing the flesh on his waist, and he immediately stopped. Liu Qianqian paused and sat back down before she could make her next move.
"From now on, drink less and talk nonsense if you drink too much." Liu Qianqian said very seriously.
After she finished speaking, she first glanced at Xiang Yang with a scrutinizing gaze, then slowly lowered her hand to hold his.
"I don't want to drink either."
Xiang Yang sighed with a bitter look on his face, "I guess when my parents come, they will have to drink again."
"Young Master Just drink, don't just drink it one glass at a time like you just did at the dinner table." Liu Qianqian's voice sounded slow, and her expression was pleasant but there was no room for negotiation.
"Okay, I understand." Xiangyang agreed.
The driver drove the car seriously and did not disturb the two people in the evening mist at all.
The next day, Xiang Yang discovered that the words spoken to him by his wife were minor.
The way Little John walks looks extremely weird.
"Fortunately, I know you drank too much at home yesterday." Xiang Yang snickered.
".", Little John rubbed his knees and muttered.
Xiang Yang: "Didn't you sneak out of the house and go to the bar after last night?"
Little John: "."
However, at the end of April, as Little John went to Cannes to meet the crew, such fun things were no longer available to Xiang Yang.
Little John was not the only one who left, he also took Laura with him.
The euphemistic claim is that this is to allow Laura to replace Liu Qianqian who is inconvenient to attend the Cannes Film Festival, but in fact it is Laura's request that Xiangyang and Liu Qianqian know best.
Whether it is the entertainment industry or the fashion industry, the water is very deep and turbid.
In large-scale film festivals, John Jr. has to attend countless public relations banquets.
If I wake up with an actress lying next to me, I will never live this day again.
As soon as they arrived in Cannes, the hotel where the crews of the two films "Legal Copy" and "Untouchable" stayed was immediately filled with guests. Everyone was very welcoming to the CEO of Hermès Film Investment Company.
In the crowd at the banquet, Little John also saw the cast members of "Rizhao Chongqing".
It’s not Qin Hao and Wang Xiaoshuai, but Fan Xiaopang.
After some inquiring, I learned that she was actually brought to the event by a senior executive from L'Oréal, and she nodded tacitly.
Earlier, I heard that L’Oréal was looking for an Asian spokesperson for its brands.
Now it seems that this matter is basically settled.
The L'Oreal group also has a low status in the luxury goods industry.
In 2010, its turnover was actually comparable to the Big Three.
However, it mainly produces skin care cosmetics. Among the many brands it owns, 'L'Oréal Paris' is only a third-tier brand.
The one who really took the initiative was HR (Helena).
Lancome and YSL cosmetics and skin care, which are more well-known in Canada, are only on the front line and are far from the top brands in the field of skin care and cosmetics.
Different from luxury brands that mainly focus on clothing and jewelry. L'Oréal Paris has actually begun to expand its market in China very early by hiring Chinese celebrities as spokespersons.
In the past, this brand has been cooperating with Gong Li, but now as Gong Li's reputation is getting bigger and bigger, L'Oreal Paris, a third-tier brand, naturally does not match Gong Li's status.
On the road of contempt, if you look down on your own brand, the fashion circle will not hide it.
Unfortunately, Little John's eyes rested on Fan Xiaopang and L'Oreal executives, and he was also noticed by others.
Bernard Yudong, who came to the banquet with him, came over with Wang Xiaoshuai and Qin Hao to greet them.
“Come on, Director Wang and Qin Hao, let me introduce you to you. This is the famous Mr. Rang.”
Little John smiled, shook hands with Yu Dong, and then greeted Wang Xiaoshuai and Qin Hao warmly.
As an old acquaintance in Cannes, Little John will not lack the respect he deserves.
Using Chinese with a strong accent, he introduced his partner: "Director Wang, Mr. Qin, this is my wife Laura, she participated in the production of "Legal Copy"."< br>
"Hello." Laura also smiled. After opening with a sentence in Chinese, she tried her best to use the language Liu Qianqian taught her and continued: "Welcome to Cannes."
"Hello, Hello." Wang Xiaoshuai and Qin Hao also greeted each other politely.
"Mr. Xiang didn't come today?" Yu Dong looked around.
Little John pursed his lips and said, "He is still busy working in Paris and will take a break soon. He can't get out yet."
In response, Yu Dong nodded with understanding. .
A few words of politeness, but since the translator was not present, they soon separated.
Putting down the champagne glass in her hand, Laura looked at Qin Hao leaving and whispered to Little John: "This actor Liu mentioned to me."
"Yes, I know him." Little John nodded.
He has been paying attention to the script Liu Qianqian is writing.
If actors are needed after the crew is officially formed, he wouldn't mind helping to invite them, after all, Laura is involved.
It’s good to make money, not shabby.
And the money you make makes you feel at ease, unlike buying stocks.
So if he can invite a movie star to participate in the movie, he would be happy to see it happen.
It’s just that he doesn’t understand that some movie stars in China are worthless.
Qin Hao is the worthless kind.
"Jean, I finally saw you in Cannes." Not long after Yu Dong and the other three left, Gaumont's executives came over with champagne, and with him were representatives from Europe's largest theater chain. Executives.
Odeon&UCI cinema chain occupies 20% of the cinema chain share in Europe.
This market share is no longer small in fragmented Europe.
After another polite conversation, the conversation among several people turned to the movies at the film festival.
As the film festival approaches and more and more competition lists are revealed, the strategies of the two films participated by Hermès Film Investment Company have also changed.
Because "Legal Copy" is in the first batch of announced lists, it will participate in the competition for awards as usual.
"Untouchable", which was barely completed, immediately withdrew from the awards competition and was only used as the closing film of the film festival.
The reason is also very simple.
If you participate in the award competition, the next participating films will not be released in France within the next 3 months.
This does not have much impact on the purely literary film "Legal Copy".
But it will undoubtedly consume the box office potential of "Untouchable", a movie with a comedy and commercial tone.
For Gaumont's suggestion, Hermès Film Investment Company, China Film Group, and Anna Wintour, who participated in the film production, all expressed support.
Although such a decision makes people feel regretful.
But that’s how film festivals are, there are rules.
If you want to have fun in a circle, the first thing you have to do is follow the rules.
Moreover, Gaumont is also confident that "Untouchable" will achieve maximum publicity effect while not participating in awards competition. Winning the closing film for his film is the reward brought by public relations.
In this matter, actors and directors have very little say.
However, it is a consolation for them that "Untouchable" will compete for Toronto, Oscar and other awards.
It's just that "Untouchable" competed for other film awards, and the competition it faced was quite fierce. In the second half of 2010, many movies will be released one after another.
There are many movies that have attracted discussions among film producers even before they are released.
The executives of Odeon & UCI Cinemas came to Little John through Gaumont, mainly because they wanted to find out what he thought about "Inception", which will be released in July.
Little John has been to the set of "Inception" and has seen the production of the film up close. Many people know this.
"It's a very good movie."
Little John knows a lot about "Inception".
Musk’s girlfriend is on this crew, can he remember it?
Through this, I got to know Musk, and later introduced Musk to Xiang Yang to get to know each other. He became jealous because the two of them had too much to talk about.
“It just gives me the impression that it is very similar to Alain Resnais’s early work “Last Year at Marienbad.”
"But the photo is indeed very good."
After thinking about it for a while, Little John gave this evaluation.
Alain Resnais is a very representative director of the French New Wave, a Left Bank director, a leader of stream of consciousness, and a world-recognized director.
In addition to "Last Year at Marienbad", masterpieces such as "Hiroshima Mon Amour" and "My American Uncle" have won Cannes, Venice and Berlin in Europe.
His earliest film "Van Gogh" won the Academy Award for Best Live-Action Short Film.
This old man is still alive.
In 2009, "Weeds" was nominated and won awards again, and was named one of the top ten films of the year.
Hollywood directors like David Lynch and Nolan, who have become famous for their stream of consciousness (anti-traditional, non-linear narrative), are playing with what this old man played decades ago. .
"What are your plans next?"
"Yes, I'm waiting for a romance movie."
"Romance movie? Europe or Hollywood?"
Little John pretended to be mysterious and smiled slightly, and said: "It hasn't been decided yet."
"If there is a good script, it must be Contact us." The Gaumont executive said and shook hands with Little John.
The next day, word spread that Hermès Film Investment Company was looking for romance film scripts.
“When did I say we were short of scripts?”
Littlejohn was bewildered by the large number of scripts pouring into his mailbox.
This news spread quickly, and even Anna Wintour, who was in New York and preparing to leave for France, heard about it.
"Anna, Liu is writing a script for a romance film. Maybe others have misunderstood me." Little John explained to Anna Wintour on the phone.
“Bill told me about her.” Anna Wintour smiled.
Little John asked tentatively, "Are you also interested?"
"Of course."
Anna Wintour nodded. The cost of Chinese movies is not large, so it is not unreasonable to invest some money.
However, her focus on romance films is not with Liu Qianqian.
But another woman who once made her angry
(End of this chapter)