"Mr. Capra, I am afraid that you have some misunderstanding of the current situation in China. You should ask your fellow countryman, Mr. Bertolucci, and he will tell you a new China that he has seen in the past two years. ”

"Crime rectification and economic liberalization are not contradictory, these are two completely unrelated areas. Every country has tricky people, doesn't it? ”

At a public welfare reception in Los Angeles, Gu Biao was obviously too drunk, but he still had to take the initiative to inadvertently pull up the senior bigwigs who had a lot of voice in the jury, and talked to them about the recent situation of China's opening up with a posture of never talking about movies, and desperately tried to eliminate the misunderstanding of these old-fashioned cultural figures.

At the same time, some souvenirs of cultural exchange will also be given.

For example, Mr. Frank Capra, who was caught by Gu Biao for an embarrassing chat just now, is a highly respected and retired Hollywood director, known as "the greatest Italian in Hollywood history". He will be the number one presenter at the Oscars this year.

In Gu Ao's casual conversation with him, the only point that mentioned the movie was the sentence "You can ask your compatriot Mr. Bertolucci about what China is like now", and he didn't say anything else that was suspected of canvassing.

This scale was undoubtedly taught to Gu Biao by Harvey Weinstein, the number one vote-worshipping demon in Hollywood in later generations. Harvey knows best that in Hollywood's disciplined situation, you are not allowed to give gifts, but there are still souvenirs that can be given. Obviously, I don't let you talk about movies, but you can still talk about what you want to talk about.

Although Gu Biao will not personally go down in the future to contribute to this kind of dirty things in the film industry, it is still very good to experience such a thing once in a while. He felt that he could learn a lot from Harvey, similar to the "Revolving Door Lobby" he learned in Georgetown.

And on such a day of "cultural exchange reception" every day, Gu Biao has passed nearly a week.

In addition to cultural exchanges, Gu also tried to invite people from the Motorola Galvin family to Los Angeles and have a big banquet, nominally to celebrate the success of the business cooperation between the two sides. In fact, they secretly carried private goods and invited many people in the media circles to participate in the fun.

Gu Biao's girlfriend Xiao Sui also came two days after he arrived in Los Angeles, but his public identity was one of the screenwriters of "The Last Emperor", and he came to Los Angeles in advance for the subsequent awards season, and accompanied Gu Biao to attend some activities.

Watching her boyfriend serve the country and the people every day, indulging in the drunken country of wine, she is also distressed, and she becomes more and more gentle and considerate and takes care of her every day after she goes back.

As an aside, Hollywood's rule for co-screenwriters is that "every person who is named 'screenwriter' must contribute more than 30% to the script".

As for how to determine this 30%, you can negotiate on your own, and if you are not satisfied, you can also submit it to the special committee of the industry association for review——

If the lawsuit goes to the court in the United States, the judge will not directly make a ruling on "who has reached 30% of the contribution", and the judge will also leave it to the professional industry association committee to decide.

Therefore, the contribution is by no means simply based on the number of words, such as a movie like "Groundhog Day", even if you only think of the idea of "waking up every day is the same day", you still belong to the contribution of more than 30%. So in Hollywood, it is very difficult to rely on plagiarism of ideas and modification of words to achieve some ulterior purposes in the field of scripts.

Because 30% of the lines are stuck, it means that there are only 3 people who co-write a movie under the name of a movie.

Although most of the text adaptation of "The Last Emperor" was completed by Xiao Sui, director Bertolucci himself and his text assistant Mark Pepro also did the work of outline and leadership, so that the rhythm of the script was more suitable for Hollywood's conflict conventions, so their names were hung in front of Xiao Sui when they were reported.

Gu Xiao and Xiao Sui don't think there's anything wrong with this, in fact, they all know that if the screenwriter is a Chinese, then the "Best Adapted Screenplay Award" doesn't even have a chance to be shortlisted, and if the Italians are hung in front, there is still a chance.

The quality of the work itself is not the decisive factor in this matter.

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"You can't drink anymore, tomorrow is the nominee's luncheon, and you can't bear it anymore. I think it's better to let the people sent by the ** chief to cooperate, they are the main ones. ”

At the end of the banquet, when Xiao Sui took Gu Biao back to the villa in Beverly Hills, he couldn't help but complain distressedly.

Oh, I forgot to mention that Gu Biao's original villa in California was bought in the San Francisco Bay Area, that is, Silicon Valley, in order to facilitate the handling of Tiankun's business.

But this time, he finally couldn't help but use Xiao Sui's name to buy a villa in Beverly Hills, Hollywood, the same acre and a half as Harvey. Six million dollars were spent.

In this way, he later had a place to stay in Southern California, and he no longer had to stay in a five-star hotel.

There is such a thing as a house, at the level of Gu Biao, it must be available all over the world.

Now he counts on his fingers: he has a Fang.Grand View Garden in the capital, a half-mountain lake-view manor on the north and south mountain roads in Qiantang, a hilltop mansion redesigned by I.M. Pei from the surname Kong in Xiangjiang, a villa on the banks of the Potomac River in Watsonton, a mansion in Hollywood in Silicon Valley in California in the north and south, and an island owner in Seattle......

He couldn't even remember it himself.

"How can you let them come forward, they will be taboo to come forward, this is what Xavi has emphasized to me. Only my identity is the most suitable, and the others can only fight. Otherwise, we'll completely contract Harvey and his Americans. ”

Gu Biao snorted wine and tried his best to respond to his girlfriend's pity.

Xiao Sui is also a person who knows the general situation, so he can only give up and pour some hot tea for Gu Biao with his own hands.

Because of a hangover, there was no word all night.

Xiao Sui and Gu Biao have been for several years, and they have gradually transformed from love to family affection, except for the reunion after a long absence, they are still as passionate as a newlywed. Usually, it is more of a calm and quiet tenderness, and it is not about pillows.

Whenever Gu Biao is overworked, Xiao Sui will tacitly not tease him.

The next day, Gu Biao was unwell and went to participate in a series of ceremonies before the nominee's luncheon - the luncheon itself, Gu Biao was not qualified to go, because "The Last Emperor" had nothing to do with him in theory, and his original investment was invested through the channels of the Monaco company, and he did not directly invest money himself.

At best, Miramax Company, of which Gu Biao is the majority shareholder, participated in the distribution of "The Last Emperor" in the United States. However, the Oscars have always been dominated by the producer, and the distributor has agreed to only allow representatives or specific executives to attend, and will not let shareholders come, so Miramax is Harvey in attendance this time.

For example, 35 years later, Ahri Pictures relied on some twists and turns in the distribution relationship, and finally got involved in "Green Book", which can only let Gao Dasong show his face, and will not let Ma Feng himself.

When the luncheon was about to enter, Gu Biao was about to send his girlfriend in, but at the door of the hotel, he saw Harvey bring a friend, who was the representative of the producer, Princess Caroline of Monaco.

"Your Highness, it's a pleasure to meet you here. I wish you all the best of luck today and enough nominations. Gu Biao shook hands with the other party very gentlemanly.

Suddenly, Princess Caroline was also 25 years old, one year older than Xiao Sui. She hadn't seen Gu Biao for a year, and she was very enthusiastic at the moment.

Of course, it's the kind of ceremonial enthusiasm that is purely business partners.

Oh, and as an aside, I haven't seen her for more than a year, but Princess Caroline has married another second marriage, to an old man in his 50s, the Duke of Hanover of Germany. But the old man actually couldn't, just to facilitate Princess Caroline's future children to inherit the title.

Anyway, the temper of the French is not particular about the second marriage.

Caroline: "What's the surprise? Shouldn't I have come?" Also, you seem to be more active than us as a producer the other day.

It seems that investing in those Chinese films that you have the desire to win awards is really a good deal. The money is our investment, we earn, and you will give so many off-board resources to help warm up the votes. ”

"It's nothing," Gu Biao smiled slightly: "The reason why I'm strange is that I just thought that Her Royal Highness the Princess would come in person, and I didn't see Tiffany." In any case, this shows that Her Royal Highness has great confidence in your abilities, and you should be congratulated. ”

At last year's Cannes Film Festival, Gu Biao also went to hang out at that time, and knew that the film company of the Monaco royal family at that time still dominated Princess Kelly on various ceremonial occasions.

In this year's Oscar, Princess Kelly gave power to her eldest daughter, which is also a kind of trust in the maturity of her eldest daughter.

Princess Caroline was praised by Gu Biao so indifferently, and she was still quite happy in her heart, and said frankly: "I accept your good words, we really have a lot of common interests, I hope there will be more good news today." By the way, Tiffany's business, I don't blame you.

It's because she's been fresh herself, so she doesn't bother to see you again, so she didn't come to the United States this time. If you can keep quiet and just act as if nothing happened, that's for the best. ”

When Gu Biao heard this, he had to sigh in his heart: The French are just easy to get along with, and they don't feel sticky at all.

He also hurriedly opened up: "Where to say, it's my problem, besides, I'm a person who has a girlfriend - oh yes, let me introduce you, this is actually my girlfriend, and one of the screenwriters of this film." ”

"Your Royal Highness, it's a pleasure to meet you. Let the past be passed. Xiao Sui also saluted appropriately, very nicely.

"That's the best, no one owes anyone in the future, and the sister is really reckless sometimes. Princess Caroline shook Xiao Sui's hand diplomatically, and then took them together and went in for luncheon.