Chapter 200: The Ins and Outs (1 Million Words, Don't Raise It!)
"I want to meet the heroine today, have you checked her identity?"
Of course, Gu Biao can't leak the meeting with Li Gen, he still has this bit of proportion.
So he could only make secret visits on his own, starting with the interrogation of Cameron to be exact.
However, Cameron's answer surprised him: "Of course I checked, Princess Tiffany and Co. came to the state with Reinier III and Princess Kelly - don't you know that when Princess Kelly was in Hollywood, she and President Reagan were close friends?"
Therefore, after learning that President Reagan had won the election in November, the Monaco royal family came to visit the country earlier than other countries. At the end of the visit, His Royal Highness Prince Rainier III returned home. But Princess Kelly and Princess Tiffany stayed in California for a while.
I suspect that it was President Reegen's final canvassing stance of speaking out for the safety of the working environment of the cinematographers' union that caught the attention of his old friends. I thought you, as an investor, must have more inside information than I did. ”
"Well, I'll admit it, when I returned home, I was busy with other things, and I never took your situation seriously. Gu Biao shrugged helplessly, "But you too, you've been directing people to make movies for two months, haven't you asked her why and how she came?"
Cameron was innocent: "I've asked some, but the other party is noble, so I can't force me to ask too closely." ”
"Then arrange for me to meet her. ”
"As you wish. ”
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A few hours later, Gu Biao didn't contact the other party until dinner, and then rushed over to be a guest - because the crew was on vacation today, Princess Kelly took Princess Tiffany out on an outing, and it was not easy to get in touch with the era of no mobile phones.
The other party lives in a luxury manor villa in Beverly Hills, and looks a lot like a veteran insider.
"Her Royal Highness the Princess, this is the investor of this film, Gu from China. Cameron was uncomfortable with the introduction.
"Don't be so restrained, after all, I used to be an actor. Unexpectedly, now Chinese can shoot Hollywood movies and let Ronald stand on the platform, the world is really becoming more and more open, which is gratifying. An old woman in her 50s who still had charm was polite and polite.
The Ronald she mentioned in her mouth was naturally President Regen's nickname, which shows that the two had a good relationship back then.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, I don't mean anything, I just want to ensure the interests of the investment, so I would like to know what is the motivation for Ling Yan's participation in such a movie. ”
Gu Biao asked politely.
Before he came, he finally took the time to make up for some common sense, and roughly knew the origin of the other party:
First of all, Monaco needs no introduction, it is a "principality" of Europe, with a population of only a few tens of thousands, located on the Mediterranean coast of southern France, near the border with Italy, a small gambling city. That casino is the famous Monte Carlo-
As an aside, when deep learning artificial intelligence exploded in later generations, that is, when Google's Alpha Dog defeated Lee Sedol in Go, there were two concepts in the field of artificial intelligence that were very popular, namely "Monte Carlo Tree Structure" and "Convolutional Neural Network", saying that Alpha Dog was trained on these two conceptual architectures.
The "Monte Carlo" mentioned in the so-called "Monte Carlo tree" refers to Monte Carlo, the casino city of Monaco.
The reason why it is so named is because a series of big data training algorithms that start from the probability level, do not know the causal relationship, know what it is, and only have statistical laws, all of which are derived from a set of "Monte Carlo laws" summarized by a group of French mathematicians in the early years.
To put it bluntly, it can be roughly understood as a mathematical principle learned from gambling, and it can be written hundreds of thousands of words if you really want to expand it. Just know this conclusion, let's not water.
However, a casino can make a bunch of probability theory, statistical theory and big data artificial intelligence algorithms in later generations named after it, and it can also be seen from the side that this casino is well-known in the minds of Europeans.
Monaco's status in Europe is roughly equivalent to that of Australia in East Asia, Vegas in North America, and later Dubai in the Middle East, and is one of the world's four largest gambling cities.
Then, now the Prince of Monaco is Rainier III, his wife is Princess Grace Kelly, and he has a young daughter, Princess Tiffany.
(Historically, the monarch of the countries that have been retained from the "principality" level in Europe is not qualified to be called king, that is, KING.) Because his country is too small and too low-level. Therefore, the monarch of Monaco can only be called "prince", and the same is true of the "grand duke" of Luxembourg and Liechtenstein. )
And the Princess Grace Kelly in front of her, who was born as a Hollywood actress in her early years, was a hot face and popular in the late forties and mid-fifties, and was the two noble girls who were called Audrey Hepburn at that time.
Kelly and Hepburn are the same age, have worked together in many movies, and have a good personal relationship. Among them, Hepburn won the Oscar for "Roman Holiday" filmed in 53 years, and Kelly also won the Oscar in 55 years with "Country Girl" a year later, which can be described as a moment of brilliance.
And the reason why Hepburn was later known to the Chinese, Kelly did not seem to be so famous. It's just that in the second year after Kelly won the movie, she was married by Rainier III as a princess, so she quit the rivers and lakes.
This should be easy to understand, just like Zhong Chuhong's popularity when she was filming was actually no less than Maggie Cheung, but Zhong married someone and stopped filming, and her lifelong acting reputation was definitely not as good as Maggie Cheung.
Princess Kelly had a good relationship with the male star Li Gen, who was very good in Hollywood at that time, because she got married in 56 years. Although Li Gen is more than ten years older than the other party, men are still very attractive in their thirties, plus Li Gen was really handsome when he was young, and he became the leader of the actors' union, so it is very easy to make female friends.
After Li Gen's victory this time, the Prince and Princess of Monaco brought their youngest daughter, Princess Tiffany, to congratulate them. When Li Gen saw the old man, he was also very nostalgic.
However, this Tiffany is an out-and-out little devil, don't look at her at the age of 16, but she has not been doing business since she was a child, and after graduating from junior high school at the age of 14, she didn't want to study as formally as her eldest sister and second brother, so she chose an art school in Paris directly in high school.
It's just that her father and mother are too doting, and they don't need her to inherit the throne, so they are used to indulgence, and as a result, as a princess, they actually worked as a model, acted in stage plays, and made short films for a year...... Everything's been mixed.
She was not satisfied, she felt that the movie-making people she met in France were too literal, and they were all hypocritical to please her, not as wild and unrestrained as the Americans. After coming this time, he took advantage of the family banquet hosted by the president, coquettishly treated Li Gen, and even squeezed his parents with "What's wrong with an actor? Can't an actor be the president of the United States?" and said that he wanted to see and see in the United States.
Princess Kelly herself was from a bad background, and she was pestered as a Hollywood actress, so she had no choice but to promise to find a safe and secure crew and give her an experience.
Then, it caught up with Regen's last-minute stand before Election Day, just giving "The Terminator".
They felt that the production of a person with such prestige as Li Gen standing on the stage must be very serious, and there would be no filth. And after inquiring about the script, there was no emotional drama, it was completely a philosophical battle between humans and artificial intelligence, so I took it to deal with.
Princess Kelly may not have had the idea of "if she doesn't want to act, just take the opportunity to kill her" at first.
Who knew that she still underestimated the extent of this daughter's demon.
Princess Tiffany felt that this role was very spicy and flamboyant, so she asked for it. Princess Kelly had no choice but to revisit her old place, and after nearly 25 years away from Hollywood, she returned to her old home and stared at her daughter who was crazy about experiencing life.
In addition, the above content can also be known by Gu Biao through prior understanding and interrogation at this moment.
But there is also a little evidence of the extent of Princess Tiffany's demon, which no one on Earth knows today.
Including Gu Biao himself, he didn't pay attention to this kind of lace history in his previous life - that is, in the original history, two years later, on September 14, 1982, the Princess Kelly would die at the hands of her daughter Princess Tiffany.
The little devil was not yet 17 years old, and he drove his car to 110 miles per hour on the highway (note that it is miles not kilometers), and then he got into a car accident. The princess herself wore a seatbelt in the driver's seat, so it was only seriously injured. And her mother was not wearing a seat belt in the back row and was hit and killed on the spot.
So it's not surprising that such a princess N, who doesn't care about anything, makes no more crazy choice.
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“…… Gu, your crew, it is true that we asked someone to ask for help after listening to President Li Gen's introduction. I know my daughter may not be very good at acting. If this causes the movie to lose money at the box office, her father will pay for it, and I know the rules. We at the Royal Family of Monaco can afford this amount of money.
If it weren't for the fact that the rebellious girl was too rebellious and looked down on French and Italian directors, I would have paid for her to form a crew for her to play. But I know that if it can't be released, she will be unhappy. ”
After Princess Kelly told Gu Biao the ins and outs with a pleasant face, she finally had such a showdown.
Of course, Gu Biao knows that the Monaco royal family can afford to pay - Prince Rainier III's status in Europe is roughly equivalent to the status of Stanley Ho, the gambling king of Australian County, in Asia.
How rich can someone be to make Monaco's per capita GDP of 30,000 or 40,000 people reach $110,000 and $80,000 per capita?
However, since Gu Biao knew that "Terminator" could not be compensated, he would not accept an extra promise from the other party in vain:
"Your Royal Highness the Princess, you misunderstood, I came to visit in person today, not to have any doubts about Ling Yan's acting skills. I also believe that it is impossible for this film to lose money, it is just a matter of making more money and making less money. So you don't have to make a promise. ”
He has seen Cameron's NG just now, and he can see that Princess Tiffany's acting skills are still okay, and the kind of independent temperament that is most needed in the plot in the later stage of the film is used to it since childhood, and it is very similar without acting.
Gu Biao is not overly dependent on history like other rebirths or time-travelers, and feels that actors who have not left a reputation in history must have bad acting skills.
Put yourself in your shoes: The old lady is an Oscar-winning actress, genetics and exposure since childhood, how bad can her daughter be? Can she be worse than other newcomers?
"Since Mr. Gu is so open-minded, we won't insist on it. Because of your friendliness, I will give you a little souvenir. Princess Kelly saw that he was so talkative, and asked the maid to pull out an envelope containing a gold card.
"If you have the opportunity to play in France in the future, you can stop by Monaco to experience it. With this card, you'll be able to enjoy $1,000,000 in credit on board the Princess Caroline – everything you can think of that should be on board, there's it there. ”
"Thank you. Out of politeness, Gu Biao accepted this not very valuable thing.
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PS: Four shifts today, two shifts tomorrow, it's the same anyway. Let's rush to 1 million words first. 1,000,000 words!