A small town on the southern coast of Florida, USA.

George Simmons walked all the way by, and people kept greeting him and asking him how his trip was going, Simmons replied with a smile, but he didn't stop until he walked to the producer's office that was temporarily set up here, and then he got dressed and knocked on the door - "IN!" said inside.

Simmons pushed the door in, and the person behind the desk was answering the phone, but when he looked up to see the person, he still said, "Oh, George, sit!"

Simmons sat down on the couch, placed the briefcase he had brought with him on the coffee table, and waited patiently for the other person to finish the call. But this phone call seems to be unusually long, Simmons sat there for more than ten minutes, and he could hear producer John hissing and arguing with the phone side of the phone, and then, he finally hung up the phone with a snap, "****!"

Simmons quickly straightened his back, and then stood up very consciously, "BOSS, do you need me to make you a cup of coffee?"

"Oh, come-on, George......" he slumped limply in his chair, his hand touching his forehead.

Simmons shrugged, then leaned over to open the briefcase, took out a can of "Zhengshan Xiaozhong" that looked quite high-end packaging, and said, "A gift for you, BOSS!"

"Tea?" John opened his eyes and suddenly laughed, "Oh, hahaha, George...... China-Tea！”

He finally got up and walked over, took it, and sat down next to Simmons, "Good gift!" He said this, he picked up the iron jar, looked at the strange brush Chinese characters for a while, and said, "You know, China-is-China! Isn't it?"

As he spoke, he put down the tea leaves, but suddenly cursed, "Fuck!"

After a pause, he complained, "If only James were as sensible as you...... Fuck！Fuck！Fuck！”

A subtle expression flashed across Simmons' face, but he didn't say a word.

I just sat here and listened to the phone call for so long. In addition, he has been working in this crew for a year, so of course he understands - Mr. Directors, the director of this movie, has run out of money again!

Of course, the shooting budget should be in the hands of the producer, but James Cameron is not an ordinary small director, he will not let the studio rub it casually, so in this film, which has invested as much as 170 million US dollars so far, James Cameron himself is also one of the producers. And, you know, he has a glorious resume.

In the more than ten years since his debut, he has directed only five films with various production costs, large and small, but each of them is a box office bomb with an amazing return on investment, so it is difficult for John, the big fat man sitting in front of him, to really restrain him!

Thereupon. He became one of Hollywood's famous bitter producers.

In the face of James Cameron, he basically couldn't get up. can only coax and persuade and try his best to cut back on food and clothing, so that James Cameron can shoot as many shots as possible, and in the face of the studio executives, he can only pat his chest to ensure that he and Cameron have not wasted every dollar of investors, and then help Cameron beg his grandfather and grandmother everywhere to pull investment!

But you know. Even now in 1998, there are two or three movies with an investment of more than 100 million dollars in Hollywood almost every year, but the problem is that their current film is so far. $170 million has already been burned, and it's only half made -- even Wall Street, which doesn't know anything about movies, won't invest in such a money-burning movie.

It can support filming until now, firstly, because the producers have already smashed a large amount of money, and they really don't want to watch such a large sum of money go down the drain, so they can only choose to continue to believe in James Cameron, and secondly, in the final analysis, James Cameron's past box office results have made the best endorsement for him, making everyone still have certain box office fantasies about this surprisingly money-burning film.

Of course, Simmons is a salaried assistant producer, so he only does what his boss tells him to do.

So, when John vented for a while, he took out a folder from his briefcase, took out a contract, and said, "BOSS, the matter is done." ”

John took it and looked at it, and put it on the coffee table, but after thinking about it, he picked it up again, looked at it from the beginning, and waited until he had finished reading the two pages of the contract before and after, and then he asked, "Li-qian?

Simmons replied, "Yes, boss, but in fact he is not a singer, as far as I know, he is the owner of a record company, and he is also the most famous songwriter and music producer in China, and of course, he has his own band." The female singer we need, Liao, is his lover, and their relationship is public. Oh, and by the way, I also learned when I got to China that he was also a film screenwriter. ”

"Interesting!" John didn't care, just glanced at the contract again, and then put it down, "Half a million dollars, that's a good deal, George!" After a pause, he said proudly, "He and his female companion have the energy to bring us at least a few million box office bonuses!"

Simmons shrugged, then took out a box of CDs in simple packaging from his briefcase, "Boss, this is what Lee gave me after the contract was signed, and I asked me to pass it on to you." ”

John took it and asked, "What's it?" Glancing at the tape attached to the CD case, he raised his eyebrows, "My-heart-well-go-on?what?"

Simmons shrugged, pointed to the CD, and said, "This is given to me by Lee himself, I want to bring it to you, it is said that this is one of his compositions, and it is also sung by his female companion, and it is said to be an English song." ”

John was stunned for a moment, then immediately lost his laughter, "Come-on!" paused, he pinched the CD case with two fingers with a disdainful expression, shook it, and said, "What we need is their popularity in China! Who cares?...... Chinese music ...... Oh, yes, I know Chinese kung fu and ...... jing-ju, then, porcelain, tea. But, Come-on, we don't need his English songs!"

After a pause, he vented: "Chinese can't understand English songs! Chinese can't write English songs! They need to read subtitles...... You-know-it。 ”

As he spoke, he threw the box of CDs on the coffee table and said, "George, tell him that I received the work for him." I personally extremely appreciate and thank him for the gift...... I'm going to find James, we're going to go back to Los Angeles together, damn James, ****!"

Simmons shrugged and stood up.

The gift he did bring it, didn't he?

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Monday, June 26. At 9:40 a.m., the last exam on the fundamentals of film and television management. It's over.

At the same time, it also means that Li Qian's sophomore year is over.

After walking out of the examination room, some people hurriedly put on their backpacks and dragged their suitcases to start catching the car, while others simply packed a small bag. Then he also left school, but the former was in a hurry to go home, and the latter was in a hurry to start what was probably his first part-time job experience in his life.

As everyone knows, we met again after two months, so I didn't even feel a little bit attached to it. It's easy to go your separate ways.

In Li Qian's dormitory, considering that Song Yupin is Sun Yuting's little follower, Sun Yuting has found a job, which basically means that Song Yupin also has work to do, and it is said that in this summer vacation, Sun Yuting is going to go to a film and television base in the south, of course, it is not a big job, drama, assistant, scene reporter...... A must-have experience for newcomers.

It is said that she has been pregnant for half a year, and the expected date of delivery is in August this year.

The third Lu Bin and the fifth Fu Xuelong, the former has always had the best relationship with Li Qian, he has a loose temperament, his family is not short of money, and he is not publicized, so he has always been the most popular among Li Qian's classmates at this level.

The latter is a technical student, who is quiet on weekdays, but when it comes to photography talent, he is the only one in the 96th level of the entire photography department who makes Li Qian feel ashamed.

This summer, the two of them also want to find a job, so Li Qian hesitated for a long time before deciding to introduce the two of them to Jin Han, and in the next ten days, "The Love of Green Onions" should be finished, after Jin Han frees up his hands, he will start filming MVs for Liao Liao and He Runqing, which will be a good opportunity for Lu Bin and Fu Xuelong to learn and practice.

In fact, whether to let his classmates work for him or not is something that Li Qian has been entangled in for a long time. Born in a film school, a large number of classmates around him are the most unique resources, and it is too wasteful not to get together to do something, but since Li Qian came to this time and space, he finally has a few good buddies who can chat and fart together, and he is really unwilling to become a boss and a part-time worker with them.

Therefore, although the plan to set up the imaging department of Minghu Culture Company has been wandering in Li Qian's heart for a long time, he has also aimed at Jin Han and is ready to invite him over to be the company's imaging director, but whether to pull his classmates over and enrich them, Li Qian has not considered it well, until the final exam, Sun Yuting said that she had found a crew willing to accept it, and Song Yupin and Xue Changlong hurriedly rushed to ask for "support" , and I don't know why, Lu Bin and Fu Xuelong didn't open their mouths, maybe they were embarrassed, or maybe they were afraid that too many people would open their mouths, which would make Sun Yuting embarrassed.

In short, Li Qian knew that they actually wanted to find a job, so he spoke very cautiously.

But what he didn't expect was that Lu Bin and Fu Xuelong agreed without thinking about it, Lu Bin smiled, he couldn't see anything, but Fu Xuelong, who had always talked little, took the initiative to speak: "You finally spoke, a few of us said in the dormitory a few days ago, the second child is so big, why can't you pull the brothers!"

Li Qian was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then couldn't help laughing.

I actually think too much about it!

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After the exam, Li Qian greeted Song Yupin, Xue Changlong, and Liu Xueyi, and told Lu Bin and Fu Xuelong to remember to get up early tomorrow morning, and he would send the two of them to the set of "Love of Green Onions", so that they could see the set first. Then he didn't wait to say hello to Sun Yuting and the others, so he left the school directly with his backpack.

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