"Carol. Lan Li gave his opinion.

Rooney raised her eyebrows slightly, and asked curiously, "Oh?

"Because it's suitable. Lan Li gave his professional advice.

"The character of 'Carol' is a young girl full of uncertainties, in the context of the fifties, she has her own dreams, but she is forced by social pressure to choose a job to make ends meet, but the flame in her heart has never been extinguished. Her doubts, her struggles, and her confusion come more from the shackles given by the entire era and the whole society. It's a very intricate and delicate emotion, and even love aside, she's a character with a story. ”

"The character in 'Brooklyn' is a quiet young girl who has a beautiful vision of life whether she is going to New York or returning to Ireland. chose to stay and choose to go back, in the final analysis, because she was looking forward to happiness, and nostalgia and love were her different interpretations of life. Personally, I think there's less room for the role to play. Of course, this also means that the difficulty of the performance may be relatively less multi-layered and complex. ”

Then, Lan Li raised his gaze and looked at Rooney quietly, "I think you can play two roles, and you can interpret the difference between these two roles, but the point is that your temperament and image are more suitable for the former." At the same time, you are the only young actor who can interpret the former with that unique temperament. ”

The corners of Rooney's mouth rose slightly, but she still maintained an objective and professional posture, "I thought you would use the agitation method and then guide me to choose the former." ”

"No, it's not necessary. Lan Li smiled dumbly, "If the performance can continue to challenge the peak, it will naturally be great." But at the end of the day, acting should be a process of enjoyment, just a challenge for the sake of a challenge, and even if you break through, there's nothing to be happy about, isn't it?"

Rooney didn't speak, but savored it.

To be honest, Lan Li has gone farther than Rooney on the road of exploration and exploration of acting, and even farther than most actors, but they are still immersed in the stage of self-breakthrough and self-exploration to challenge the role, but Lan Li has already seen a higher level of performance soul. This really inspired Rooney.

However, Rooney could not fully understand Lan Li's perspective, after all, she had not yet reached Lan Li's heights, but Lan Li's words brought inspiration, which made Rooney eager to try. It's just that Rooney didn't blindly follow Lan Li's advice, but lowered her head and began to read the script in her hand and study it seriously.

She needs to choose her works according to her own understanding and perception, rather than simply following Lan Li's arrangement. Lan Li can give advice and guidance, but she can't stand in front of the camera to complete the performance for her, not to mention, Rooney herself is always groping for the path of acting, and she hopes that she can create a world of her own.

Whether it's "Carol" or "Brooklyn", that's her decision.

So, halfway through the conversation, it was abruptly interrupted, and Rooney did not give any response, leaving a blank space, and thus entered the world of the script, and Lan Li seemed unsurprised, watching Rooney start reading the script, and then picking up another script again and continuing to read it.

The sound of discussion in the room only sounded for a moment, and finally it was calm again, only the jazz notes of saxophone and clarinet flowing slowly in the late night air, but filled with a faint warmth, which made people feel comfortable and comfortable to immerse themselves in it.

Flipping through the script mountain is a very, very huge project, which cannot be completed in just one week or two, not to mention, Lan Li also has to participate in the dubbing work of the "Super Marines" during the day, leaving only time for the script to read at night, and the progress is even slower. Fortunately, things are not in a hurry for the time being, Andre is still busy, and there are still a lot of things to be done in the early stage of Sisyphus Pictures.

Arthur has arrived in Los Angeles.

Lan Li personally called Arthur, briefly sketched out the blueprint for Sisyphus Pictures, and made a formal request for help.

Arthur agreed.

Later, Edith made a special call to Lan Li and gloated, "Hahahaha, my father is mad!" After Arthur left London, their parties and banquets suddenly became a mess, not to mention holding private parties, even normal socialization has become a problem. Oops, what to do, it's so funny. ”

The daily life of the aristocracy, a breakfast, an afternoon tea, a drama performance, these small gatherings are social occasions, so in these gatherings, the selection of tea sets, the arrangement of activities, meal arrangement, seating arrangements, leisure activities, venue cleaning, furniture layout and other details of the party, all are a science, how much aristocratic education has been received, how much cultural knowledge is there, and how much culture and wealth accumulated by the family are all inadvertently exposed.

The nobility is made by showing off, and the aristocracy is precipitated and confined beneath the surface.

After the absence of Arthur, the Hall family can now only rely on the housekeeper Philip Demba to arrange, but Philip's connections and abilities are limited after all, which immediately restricts the hands and feet of the Hall couple.

Although Arthur's scope of activities has begun to expand in the past year, gradually opening up the situation, his base has always been in London, which also makes the Hall couple turn a blind eye, occasionally have some conflicts, or in the range of control, this time Arthur left Europe directly for North America, the nature of the matter is obviously different.

"They can call me to protest. Lan Li said lightly, he believed that George must have coerced and seduced Arthur, and the scene would not be too good, but Arthur never mentioned it, if it wasn't for Edith's impatience, it is estimated that Lan Li would still be kept in the dark.

Edith was still overjoyed, "He didn't dare." He's a smart man, and he's never going to humiliate himself in front of you. Edith's voice was cheerful, "Well, honestly, I really wish he had called you, it must have been a wonderful scene." If he's really that stupid, you're going to have to tell me what's going on and what happened, okay?"

"Edith, being with Mr. Evans has made you bold. "Dare to spy on gossip so blatantly, at least pretend to pretend before.

Edith could hear the ridicule in Lan Li's words, and that sense of crisis immediately stimulated her animal instincts/abilities, trembling and vigilant, and secretly exclaimed Oops, how could she forget that this was a big demon king of the mixed world, "Ahem!" Edith cleared her throat and directly changed the topic, "Is there anything you need my help with?" You know, I know a lot of people in Hollywood. ”

"Hmm. Good. Andrei will contact you. Without any politeness, Lan Li responded directly.

Because it was so crisp and neat, Edith couldn't help choking, "...... You're just waiting for me to step on the trap, aren't you?"

Lan Li raised an eyebrow, "What, you don't want to help? When did you start using social polite words?"

Edith grinded her teeth secretly, "Sebastian, you're a demon!" After saying that, Edith hung up the phone directly, threw the phone to the side, and shook Lan Li away from the level of physical distance before she completely lost her temper.

Arthur, who arrived in Los Angeles, did not meet Lan Li directly, not even by phone, but joined Andre's ranks and started to get busy directly.

Arthur and Lan Li's way of getting along is still different from Edith after all.

At the same time, Lan Li quietly flew to Berlin.

After finishing the dubbing work for "Super Marines", Lan Li went to Berlin to participate in the film festival, accompanied by Matthew Dunlop.

At this time, all eyes were focused on the excitement of the awards season, and Lan Li's actions were also under the surveillance of many paparazzi, but Lan Li and Matthew's joint trip seemed to be completely friends going to the film festival together, without too much abnormality, and the news report paid attention to it, but the follow-up did not follow.

Even when he went to the Berlin Film Festival, he still carried a large number of script projects in his suitcase, and he still did not forget the difficult task during his overseas travel, but he also had other main tasks on this trip to Berlin, and he wanted to meet Dieter Koslick face-to-face and exchange ideas.

It would be great if he could win Dieter's support and create more possibilities for building a streaming platform in the future, and even if he can't get Dieter's full help, Lan Li is looking forward to the Berlinale production one day landing on Sisyphus Films' streaming platform.

Unfortunately, neither thing went well.

Dieter also represents the conservative wing of the film industry today, who have always believed that movies should belong to the big screen, not online streaming.

Even though Lan Li repeatedly emphasized that he did not want the film to leave the big screen, but hoped that those independent artworks that could not find distributors could get a platform to show themselves, but Dieter still maintained his opinion, he still insisted that the Berlinale is a platform to show works, if you can find a distributor, it is naturally great, but if not, it also means that those works still have not been able to find Bole, and there will not be much change on the streaming platform.

At the end of the day, Dieter is still leaning towards a conservative strategy, refusing to let the streaming format undermine the Berlinale tradition.

Berlin is still the same Berlin.

Sisyphus Pictures' ambition blueprint has just started to encounter its first small setback, which at least proves that Lan Li's idea is still too idealistic, and the problems that need to be faced in the actual operation process are far more than that.

During the trip to Berlin, Lan Li and Matthew could only return empty-handed in the end, without advancing at all.