Lan Li gave a solution, but Joel Cohen showed a look of disgust, his eyes fell on Andy lightly, without much emotion, and then dodged and looked at Lan Li again.

Needless to say, a look, an expression, this is vivid enough to vividly show Joel's resistance.

Andy, who was standing on the side with an innocent face, spread his hands to show his innocence.

Ethan Cohen is still a bit better at dealing with interpersonal relationships, noticing Joel's gaze, and quickly adding, "We're more inclined to talk to you face-to-face." You know, a lot of things start to get complicated and simple after going through the broker. ”

The so-called complexity, the so-called simplicity, in fact, all mean the same thing: profit first.

After all, the agent's thinking angle is still different from that of the actor and director, so the Coen brothers are obviously resistant to communicating with the agent, and then relay the news, and the originally clear things may also breed variables, and the originally simple things may also become complicated.

This explains why the Coen brothers have always refused to communicate with Andy. These two directors who are enough to make a name for themselves at independent film festivals have a truly unique style, but it's not unusual, and their films speak for themselves.

Further, Ethan's words also reveal a message: not a private matter, but a public matter.

"It's not as good as this. Joel is still the one with an impulsive personality, and after the idea popped up in his head, he immediately expressed it, "We will talk in the car and go to the airport together, not only will we not delay your time, but we can also complete the conversation by the way." ”

Ethan immediately added, "If you don't mind." We promise that by the time we get to JFK Airport, our conversation will be over. Hopefully it won't be too rude. ”

Things started to get interesting, Lan Li showed a big smile, nodded, and politely extended the invitation, "Of course, welcome, it's my pleasure." ”

……

The black van car moved slowly through the Manhattan formation, and there was a quiet silence in the spacious interior space, Roy and Nathan sat in the back row, Andy sat in the passenger seat, and the eyes of the three of them all invariably projected towards the three people in the middle—

In the row of seats facing the door, Lan Li was on the right and Ethan was on the left, while Joel sat behind Ethan, but his whole body leaned out, his hands on his knees, and his eyes were burning at Lan Li, the whole posture was very aggressive.

However, no one in the entire carriage spoke, including Joel, who seemed to be caught in an awkward predicament, everyone was looking for an opportunity to speak, but they never took the first step, and the jerky atmosphere was quietly spreading. Even Andy and Roy are full of question marks and are getting more and more confused.

At this moment, the most comfortable and comfortable person is estimated to be the only one who is Lan Li.

"So, which beauty is in the car today who is preparing to participate in the beauty pageant?" Lan Li said lightly and calmly, pretending to be calm, but the faint smile hidden in his voice still couldn't help but overflow.

Such an inexplicable sentence made everyone look at each other, looking at Lan Li with question marks on their heads, and they didn't understand the meaning at all, and only one person was an exception: Ethan Cohen.

Ethan was stunned, the smile stayed at the corner of his mouth for a moment, and then he didn't hold back after all, he laughed out loud after a puff, and then turned to point at Joel, "He." He looked up and down, and deliberately brushed Joel's curly hair hanging on his shoulder with his left hand, "How is it, the qualifications are not bad, right?"

"Unfortunately, he's not blonde. Lan Li said with a smothered expression.

In 2006, a "Little Sunshine Beauty" was born, which truly changed the weak position of independent films in the awards season, wrote countless miracles, and paved the way for the rise of films such as "Juno" and "Blood is Coming" as a trailblazer.

In this movie, the Hoover family of six has very strange personalities, each with their own problems, and quarrels are commonplace, like a powder keg, but one day, the youngest member of the family, the seven-year-old daughter, wants to participate in a beauty contest called "Little Sunshine Beauty", and then the whole family has to unite and embark on a journey to the competition.

In the movie, the youngest daughter is blonde, and their car is a lemon-yellow van. When the family sat in the car, the atmosphere was awkward and stiff, and everyone was immersed in their own thoughts, filled with sparks of discord.

This is the source of Lan Li's sentence just now.

But the meme was so esoteric and cold that Ethan was the only one who understood it, and even Joel didn't follow for a while, and then, Ethan sacrificed Joel and joined the ridicule. Between the back and forth between the two people, the deadlock was suddenly broken.

As for the others, they were all confused and didn't understand what was going on, especially after seeing Joel's inexplicably confused face, Lan Li and Ethan both chuckled.

A little humor builds a bridge between strangers in the real situation, and the subtle atmosphere of "only we know" can always break the ice of conversation, although the atmosphere in the carriage is still a little rusty, but the exchange of eyes between Ethan and Lan Li is gradually beginning to become familiar.

"Why a ballad?" Ethan finally spoke.

In view of the special circumstances of their previous two meetings with Lan Li, he had been thinking about how to cut into the topic today, whether he should apologize again, whether he should simply ignore the previous unpleasantness and pretend that nothing had happened, or whether he should mention their unpleasant acquaintance again in a half-joking way. It's tricky.

However, the humor just now broke down the barrier and gave Ethan inspiration.

However, after saying this, Ethan also realized that he was a little clueless, so he had to add again, "I mean, you wrote the album 'Don Quixote' yourself, right?" 'Cleopatra', 'The Beast', 'Your Bones'...... All of these songs are your work, right? But why are they ballads?"

In the words, there is no positive praise, not even additional comments, just to verify a fact, but the excitement and curiosity between the lines reveal Ethan's inner affirmation.

"Why a movie?" Lan Li did not answer directly, but responded with a rhetorical question.

Ethan couldn't help but be stunned slightly, "The wave of folk songs has fallen silent thirty years ago, but the movie ......"

"No, the wave of movies has gradually fallen silent, and now is the era of television and the Internet. Lan Li interrupted Ethan's words and said with a smile, "Look at the movies that are flooding the big screen now, the future belongs to the era of comic book adaptations, in an atmosphere of profit first and entertainment to death, film art is dying, and those real artists are gathering towards TV and the Internet." ”

Strictly speaking, this is the status quo in 2017.

Streaming, led by Netflix and Amazon, is changing the landscape of the entire television and film industry, accompanied by the full rise of television productions, with a large number of talented directors, screenwriters and actors flocking to the television industry, and inevitably, the gradual silence of film productions, while the box office is rising, the number of moviegoers is declining, and the artistic nature of the work is dying.

Of course, when we dig deeper, the reasons are very complex, and they are all related to the composition of the whole society, the inheritance of art, the cultural environment, the historical causes, and so on.

However, it can be simply believed that this is because the film industry has gradually matured, and market feedback has formed a fixed model, and the emergence of streaming media has given art creators greater freedom and space, allowing more development and transformation of art, and the carrier of TV dramas is also broader and more inclusive than movies, which is also one of the destined products of content diversification in the Internet era.

In 2014, the Coen brothers returned to the small screen to create the "Ice Storm" series for FX TV, for which they swept the Emmys and Golden Globes.

Once upon a time, the film industry was high above and always despised and even despised the TV circle, but everything collapsed in front of Netflix under the support of the Internet age, and the status of TV works is rising steadily, not surpassing movies, but gradually becoming equal.

Movies are dying, and this is not alarmist.

At the moment in 2012, in fact, signs have gradually appeared, and the "House of Cards" that ushered in the Netflix era is now in full swing and will be officially broadcast in February next year. The discussion about the change of the times has sparked numerous controversies.

Lan Li's determination and perseverance made Ethan show a look of surprise, this maturity and wisdom, this profundity and professionalism, definitely not just any actor can have, however, Lan Li did not continue on this topic, after all, this is not the core of their discussion today.

"I mean, the reason why we insist on it, whether it's a ballad or a movie, is not because it's at the forefront of the trend, but because it's the carrier of our own artistic pursuits and the medium for realizing our self-worth. It's simple and pure. Lan Li returned to the topic and answered Ethan's initial question.

As Lan Li and Ethan were talking, a voice interjected from the side, "So we've arrived, a lonely place to which we can't go back." The two of them both turned their heads, and it was Joel who spoke, he muttered in a low voice, and then met Lan Li's gaze, the eyes hidden behind the lenses, a glint of light, "Is this why you created 'The Beast' in the first place?"

Lan Li was slightly surprised.

He could clearly feel Joel's enthusiasm, a moth-to-fire, oblivious paranoia, even madness, and his first formal conversation with the Coen brothers, not about movies, but about ballads, was a funny thing.