Chapter 430: Confidence
Chang'an is located in the middle of the Guanzhong Plain and is the ancient capital of the thirteen dynasties.
Compared with cities in coastal areas, Chang'an has a particularly strong Chinese characteristics. The plaque of a roadside handmade snack shop may be the inscription of an official in a certain dynasty. A couplet from a roadside pavilion may be the work of a scholar. A very inconspicuous small street may have traces of activities of historical celebrities.
Cultural relics everywhere, history everywhere.
Of course there are also high-rise buildings here, and some basic designs have been modernized, but this does not damage the heritage and atmosphere of Chang'an at all. Because this is a living ancient city.
People watch movies in cinemas, listen to books in buildings, watch dramas in theaters, and watch dramas in gardens. Everything is both close to the times and quaint. It blends with each other and does not appear abrupt.
Every day, there are groups of people who come to Chang'an through various channels with various purposes.
Xiaochi came to Chang'an once when he was very young and was deeply impressed by it. In addition to letting him linger because of the snack street, he almost exhausted him because he was riding a bicycle on the city wall.
This time he came to Chang'an to work.
Xiaochi talked to the camera: "Today is the second day of the opening of [Zhumen Film Festival]. The weather in Chang'an is really hot, my forehead is already sweating, I have to wipe the sweat." Xiaochi buried his face on the short-sleeved sleeves and wiped it all over, "Look, will the sweat disappear all of a sudden? This is because I use this xx brand short-sleeved sleeves to wipe it very clean! If you want to be as clean as me, just..."
Qianqian rushed up and punched Xiaochi.
Xiaoxia sighed and did not turn off the camera, but pointed the lens at Xiaochi who was covering her stomach.
Half a minute later.
"This video was sponsored by xx clothing. Yes, it's the one I'm wearing. Their brand recently jointly designed a series of summer clothes with a well-known French designer..." Xiaochi rubbed his belly and finished the advertisement in a normal manner, and then began to talk about today's shooting. "Yesterday was the opening of the [Zhumen Film Festival]. The opening video was OK, but I look forward to seeing Han Jue's movie. I didn't see Han Jue when I walked the red carpet yesterday. It's a pity, otherwise I would definitely get an exclusive interview with him and I could also hear many stories behind the scenes of the movie. It's a pity that everyone in front of the video was really bad."
Kochi looked at the camera with a pity.
"I bought tickets for two movies today. The directors are not very famous. I hope there will be surprises..."
Kochi chatted to the camera and suddenly noticed a group of foreigners in various suits and shiny leather shoes in front of him, which was very eye-catching.
"Huh? That man seems to look familiar?" Xiaochi frowned and was telling something. "Hmm? That woman looks familiar too. And that man. Where have you seen them?"
"Let's take a look," Qianqian turned around and saw a group of foreigners, "Hey, I can't recognize them, I feel they all look the same."
Among the foreigners, the person at the front had long curly hair, big sunglasses, and was thin.
Among the three giants, Xiaoxia is the only one who is reliable. She looked at the group of people and said, "They are actors in the Han Jue crew."
"Oh yes yes yes!" Kochi immediately remembered that he saw these people when the stars walked the red carpet yesterday.
"Is this your first time in Chang'an?"
"Yes."
This is Jennifer's first time coming to Chang'an. She has known all the impressions of Chang'an through textbooks and movies.
Although she arrived in the Magic City a few months ago in order to make a movie, she has been staying in a small area of the Magic City [Lincoln Street], communicating with Americans and seeing English. At this time, she felt this ancient city of Chang'an full of Chinese atmosphere, and Jennifer finally felt the reality of "Leaving America to come to China".
"How long have you been to China?"
"As soon as I arrived in China, I joined the crew. So far... it has been about five months."
"So this is you've been in America before?"
"Yes, but I haven't made a movie for a long time. This is my only work in the past two years."
"What kind of director do you think Han Jue is?"
"He is the best!" When talking about Han Jue, Jennifer's whole mood obviously improved to a higher level. "Of course he hasn't become the best in technology, but for me, he is the best! I am very glad that I participated in the first movie by Director Han, because if he shoots the movie next time, there will undoubtedly be hundreds of people rushing to be his heroine. In this movie, I almost didn't have much effort to become [Han Girl], lucky, haha~"
"It seems you have seized a good opportunity." Koike said with a smile.
Jennifer shook his head and said seriously: "No, it's not that I seized the opportunity, it's that the opportunity seized me."
Jennifer has not been in the film and television industry for a long time, but she is very talented. Like all talented actors, she has placed her eyes on China.
Jennifer has fantasized about how to log in to China.
For example, she first took the domestic Oka Little Golden Man, and then climbed Taurus bravely; or she participated in a gorgeous and co-produced film, entered the public eye of the Chinese public, and opened up the situation; or her movie was screened at the international film festival, and then was attracted by the Chinese director... Jennifer never thought that she would be forced to leave the United States and go to China to seek a glimmer of life.
At a dinner where her boyfriend took her to attend, she was held hands by industry giants sitting next to her, touched her thighs, and said dirty words with her ears. She was repeatedly sexually harassed. Jennifer couldn't bear it and kept giving her boyfriend a look, but her boyfriend asked her to bear it, "In order to keep her job," he said. Then she could bear it.
But after being drunk, she was almost taken to the hotel room to "discuss the movie", and she didn't want to bear it anymore.
People are often confused and don’t know how to be themselves. But American girls don’t need to be confused because everyone is teaching them how to be a woman.
[Girls are more important to reputation], [If you can tolerate this kind of thing, you should tolerate it. You are a woman, what can you do], [Girls should be gentle and don’t be too strong]…
Jennifer insisted on calling the police, but the American police said to forget it, but there was no loss anyway, and the surveillance "was just broken", so the case was not filed.
She felt wronged and exposed the matter online, hoping to gain public support. But within a day, the Internet was filled with netizens' slut humiliation, conspiracy theories, and she hyped up the position...
[I want her to be unable to survive!] This is what the big guy in the industry said.
Then Jennifer really couldn't make it. The project that had been negotiated was originally discussed, and the producers politely used various excuses to regret it. The company refused to give her resources and advised her to take a break. Even her boyfriend was very cautious and broke up with her.
Jennifer was stubborn and refused to lie down like this. The company did not give it to the resources, so she kept looking for opportunities to try to get up again.
But this is too difficult.
Here, if you don’t have the chance, it’s useless even if you have all your talents.
When he was struggling with walls around for nearly a year, Amanda, who was in the Chinese film and television industry, suddenly called her one day and said that a character was about to recommend her to an interview and asked her if she was interested.
"Go to China to make a movie? Haha, what kind of character is that? The vase character? Or the character who ugliness the American? Amanda, although I have no way out, I am not..."
"None aren't," Amanda said on the phone, "it's the heroine."
"…what?" Jennifer thought he had heard it wrong and wanted Amanda to say it again.
But Amanda bit a cigarette and continued to talk to himself: "This movie is not a big production, it is an independent film. The director, screenwriter, producer and investor are all cross-border."
Jennifer then calmed down.
"But the investor is American, this is an English movie. The script is good, the director and screenwriter are the same person. Although they are cross-border, they don't know anything. The producer is my friend, and I feel at ease with her ability. But what I want to make it clear to you is that this movie has a high chance of not being released."
"So, it's very likely that the movies I made will only become the collection of investors?"
"Yes. But there is also a very small chance to be released, because the director's life is just about to step on one small chance after another. This is a chance to turn things around, so are you here?"
Jennifer was silent. Although her career was hindered in the industry, if she wanted to be a heroine, she could downshift and shoot independent movies, online dramas and online movies. However, those good productions were greeted and she didn't need her. She really couldn't catch up with the poor crew and refused to give in.
The crossover crew in front of me belongs to the crew that Jennifer doesn't like.
But Jennifer suddenly discovered that Amanda didn't say who the photographer was.
“Where is the photographer?”
"I." Amanda smiled, and the cigarette in her mouth seemed to spray on Jennifer's face through her phone.
Jennifer smiled, and she made a decision in an instant: "I'll do it."
"Cool, then I'll wait for you."
The phone hung up.
[Anyway, no matter how bad the situation is, it will not be worse than mine now.] Jennifer thought to himself: [At worst, it’s a waste of time to act in a movie, just keep it in shape.]
The worst case did not happen.
The more you shoot the movie, the more Jennifer is more promising about the movie, and he is more and more like he is going for the [small probability].
She didn't know how to repay Han Jue, so she could only say, as Jack told her, "We must play the role seriously, so that we don't waste opportunities and will not let Director Han down." Then Jennifer and Jack became the two most serious actors on the crew. They always studied the script and discussed performances together. They never complained when Han Jue was the most irritable, and they only responded with performances one by one.
Now in the ancient city of Chang'an, Jennifer is extremely grateful to her friend Amanda for introducing her to her. She is extremely grateful to Han Jue for using her and guiding her without prejudice.
Looking at Jalens, who wanted to break free from his restraints and make his grand statements, Jennifer smiled.
Jennifer made up the unfinished words Jarens said to the camera: "We will win the big prize."
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Looking at the back of the crew of "Time and Space Love Traveler" that was gone, Koike recalled the content of the interview just now.
In addition to interviewing the male and female protagonists, he also interviewed several supporting roles who had not appeared in the trailer.
Some people are good at talking, while others are dull, but when talking about Han Jue, everyone becomes talkative, and talks about Han Jue in their minds. Some people think Han Jue is scary, some people think Han Jue is cruel, some people think Han Jue is the best director, and some people think Han Jue
When asked about their expectations for this movie, their answers were very similar.
Win big prizes, attract distribution companies, and then release them!
"Everyone is very confident." Xiaochi sighed.
"I'm getting more and more looking forward to it. Oh, it's so uncomfortable not to see it!" Xiao Xia narrowed her eyes and suppressed her cat-like expectation in her heart.
Suddenly, a foreigner called Xiaochi and the others and asked for help.
"Hello, how can I go to Cinema No. 7?" Foreigners were holding the "Zhumen Film Festival" event introduction booklet in their hands, and most of them couldn't understand the Chinese characters on it.
"No. 7?" Koike is very familiar with this number, ""Traveler Love in Time and Space"?"
The other party seemed very excited and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes! "about time"! "Traveler in Time and Space"!"
"In that direction, then this direction, and the last direction... By the way, tickets have not started to be sold today, so you can only buy them tomorrow."
"Oh, take a break!" The foreigner looked grateful. Afterwards, although the foreigner thanked him, he left, but the direction he was heading to was Cinema No. 7. It seemed that he wanted to confirm whether Kochi was tempting him so as to reduce a competitor.
Xiaochi and the other two walked all the way to the theater they wanted to go to and met a foreigner from the location of the theater No. 7.
There is no doubt that they are watching Han Jue movies.
Only then did Xiaochi realize that there were a lot more foreign faces at the [Zhumen Film Festival].
"Originally, the premiere of "Traveler Love in Time" was the Chinese Valentine's Day, so it was already difficult to grab tickets. Now there are a lot of foreigners, which is even harder to grab now." Xiaochi sighed.
"Don't you have a good relationship with Han Jue? Just ask for two." Qianqian said.
"I'm just talking..." Kochi smiled a few times and suddenly asked, "By the way, why are there two? There are obviously three people here."
Chapter completed!