Chapter 273 of the main text, Avenue of Fame

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The Walk of Fame is one of Hollywood's most famous icons, a kilometer-long shopping street. Here, countless Hollywood stores attract attention, clothes, shoes and pants, postcards, movie posters, and even realistic Oscar statuettes, everything about Hollywood can be bought here.

It is no exaggeration to say that tourists who have walked through here can be regarded as truly coming to this star-studded world-class movie city.

The students of Zhang Ran's class, like countless tourists, are full of expectations for this street, and the legendary Avenue of Stars is quite tall in everyone's hearts, but they are really a little disappointed when they arrive at the Avenue of Stars. I thought it would be very big and luxurious, but it turned out to be not as spacious as Nanjing Road in the magic capital.

The most important thing when you arrive at the Avenue of Stars is to find the stars of each star on the ground, and the students have their own idols, and they are still interested in finding the stars while being disappointed.

The Walk of Fame began with the placement of the first star in 1960 and has grown at a rate of one to two per month, and now there are more than 2,000 stars. Each star has a light red five-pointed star with a copper rim and the name of the star on it, and a symbol in the middle of the five-pointed star, some with two masks, some with a television set, and some with a camera. The symbols represent different meanings, the camera represents a contribution to the film industry, the television represents a contribution to the television industry, the gramophone record is a contribution to the recording industry, the radio microphone is a contribution to the broadcasting industry, and the tragedy mask is a contribution to the theater.

Zhang Ran became a free tour guide and told the students that there were three stars of Chinese actors on the Avenue of Stars, Huang Liushuang, Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan. The students knew very little about Huang Liushuang, and they were not interested in her, but they were very interested in Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, and asked Zhang Ran where the stars of these two superstars were.

Zhang Ran had looked for Bruce Lee's star before, and knew where it was, so he brought the students to Bruce Lee's star and let everyone take a group photo. Jackie Chan's star was only left last year, and Zhang Ran didn't know the specific location. I can only look for it with everyone.

In the process of searching, the students saw many familiar names, Michael Jackson, Hepburn, Monroe, and so on. When they meet their favorite stars, students will immediately crouch down. Ask your companion to take a good picture of yourself.

As he was walking, someone shouted: "Marlon Brando's star!"

Hearing Marlon-Brando's star, the students rushed over. Marlon Brando is a representative of Zhang Ran's faction, and he belongs to the master according to the generation of martial arts novels. The students had a special affection for him and took photos together.

After a group photo. Zhang Xinyi asked, "Teacher Zhang, where are Stella's stars?"

Hearing this, the students all came back to their senses, they learned the Stella technique, and belonged to her junior disciples, and they should pay tribute to her old man's star when they arrived at the Avenue of Stars, and they all said: "Yes, where are Stella's stars?"

Zhang Ran smiled and shook his head: "Without her stars, in fact, there are no stars for many great characters, none of De Niro, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, and neither are directors like Lucas and Coppola!"

The students were a little puzzled. Many actors who are not as famous and contributed as De Niro have stars, how could they not have them, and asked, "Why?"

Zhang Ran explained with a smile: "The Avenue of Stars committee meets every year to select the next year's awardees, and the awardees must agree to attend the award ceremony within five years of the selection and pay $15,000 for security maintenance and other work. Many superstars were not interested in this, such as Al Pacino, who was originally drafted, but he refused to attend the ceremony and was canceled. For a true artist, the stars don't matter, and the awards don't matter. Important to have good works!"

The students nodded silently, and everyone liked De Niro and Al Pacino because of their work, and nothing else.

After searching for a while, the students finally found Jackie Chan's star. Everyone took turns to step forward, squatting or standing, and took a group photo.

Next, Zhang Ran led the students to the Chinese Theater. The closer you get to the Chinese cinema, the more tourists there are, and there are plenty of people in movie costumes to take a group photo. They are a symbol of Hollywood, and tourists from all over the world must visit the attractions when they arrive in Los Angeles. Zhang Ran told the students that there is a fee for taking pictures with these people, which is normally one dollar, but there are also extortionists who charge one or twenty dollars.

There are a lot of scammers on the Avenue of Fame, and it is not uncommon for people to stuff things into the hands of tourists, and if you accept them, you will have to pay for them. For example, someone says that they are into music, and they give CDs to tourists, and if you take them, they sign your name, and then they make an offer of $10 or $20. The year before last, Zhang Ran took Huang Lei and Sun Lidao to visit the Avenue of Stars, and they were stuffed with CDs for a while. Huang Lei: They have money, and they think that twenty is twenty! As a result, when they returned to China, it turned out to be a blank CD, and there was no woolen music. Huang Lei was depressed and scolded, the **** Yankee!

When they arrived at the door of the Chinese Theater, the students commented on the theater, they felt that the two stone lions at the door had a bit of a Chinese flavor, and the rest were just nonsense, just like Chinese food in the United States, and the taste was not right at all, nondescript.

At the entrance of the Chinese Theater, students saw John Woo's handprints and footprints and ran over to take a group photo. However, Zhang Ran doesn't like John Woo very much, this person is pro-Taiwan and has more contempt for the mainland in his bones.

Next, Zhang Ran took the students to the Kodak Theater, and the Oscar award venue did not need to be introduced at all. In 2002, it began to become the permanent venue of the Oscars, and at the same time, it also moved into the Oscar statuette for permanent display, which symbolizes that the Oscar statuette has a place to settle down after 70 years of wandering. The exterior of the Kodak Theater looks quite ordinary, but the fountain in the square in front of it is quite beautiful.

After strolling through the Avenue of Stars, Zhang Ran took the students in the direction of Universal Studios, which was the highlight of the day. The students were looking forward to Universal Studios, and as they walked, the line was long. Jia Milk Liang dragged at the end, looking around like a monkey.

Suddenly, an Asian girl rushed over and waved a piece of paper at Jia Niliang: "Please sign it!"

Jia Milk Liang was stunned, did she mistake me for a star? It seems that my image and temperament are really outstanding! He was secretly happy in his heart, and the girl said: "You are also Chinese, I won't have to speak English hard." That's it, we're making a movie!" Jia Niliang looked in the direction she pointed, and there was a group of people and a camera standing not far away. The girl explained, "We just slapped you in. So, we need you to sign this agreement to authorize your face to appear in our films!"

Jia Niliang didn't dare to sign randomly, Zhang Ran warned them that if someone stuffed something into your hand, don't accept it. As long as you take it, they will ask you for money. He shouted at Zhang Ran, "Teacher Zhang, come here!"

Zhang Ran came over and asked if he knew what was going on, there are many student movies in the United States. There are also independent films due to limited funds, and they cannot afford to clear the scenes on the street, so they can only start shooting directly on the street.

During the filming, someone in the crew was specifically responsible for staring at the camera, once the faces of the contracted actors were photographed. You have to rush forward immediately and ask the other party to sign a waiver agreement, if the other party doesn't agree, cry and beg, if you don't want to, you can only pay $20 to $50 for the appearance of the camera, if the other party still doesn't agree, then you have to delete the scene.

Zhang Ran looked at the girl, and then at the crew members, and found that they were all very young and should be students, and asked, "Are you students, which school are you from?"

The girl looked at Zhang Ran. He looked a little puzzled: "We are UCLA!"

Zhang Ran laughed: "If it's USC, we'll definitely charge for it; I'm also a ULCA graduate!" He turned to Jia Niliang and said, "It's the licensing agreement, sign it!"

When Jia Ran heard Zhang Ran say this, he took the pen and signed his name on the authorization agreement.

The girl looked at Zhang Ran and said tentatively: "You, you are Zhang Ran?"

She had always felt that this person was familiar from just now, and when Zhang Ran said that she was also a UCLA graduate, she immediately reacted, this person was similar to Zhang Ran.

Zhang Ran nodded and smiled, "Yes." I'm Zhang Ran. ”

The girl let out a cheer: "Wow, what a Zhang Ran. I watched your "Burst Drummer" during the Spring Festival, and it was really great! Please sign it for me!" As she spoke, she took out a notebook from her bag and handed the pen to Zhang Ran.

Zhang Ran took the pen. Signed the good name and returned the pen to the girl.

The students saw this in their eyes and admired it very much, wow, Mr. Zhang is so amazing, he can meet fans in the United States!

The girl thanked her. Put the book away, looked at Zhang Ran, and said regretfully: "It's a pity that you didn't come to participate in the city war last year, we lost so badly, we didn't win a game!"

Zhang Ran shook his head with a smile and said, "I want to participate, but I don't have time, I was busy with the financing of "Time and Space Warrior" at the time, and I couldn't leave at all!"

The girl asked, "Will you be there for this year's city war?"

Zhang Ran thought for a moment and said: "In October, I should be in the late stage of "Time and Space Warrior", and I want to run on both sides of China and Australia, so I don't necessarily have time." Of course, if I have time, I will definitely participate. After all, this is my last chance to participate in this event, and I will only be a spectator from now on!"

The girl said expectantly: "USC is too rampant, only you can kill their majesty!"

Zhang Ran smiled and said, "Jason has been participating for three years, and he can't participate this year." USC doesn't have anyone particularly powerful except for him, even if I don't participate in our school, I will definitely win!"

The girl shook her head and said: "No, Jason didn't play at all last year, and it was Jonas Cuarón who played for USC, he is the son of Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón, his situation is similar to Jason, he grew up on the set, he is a genius in everyone's mouth, very powerful." He won ten games alone, and we didn't get a point!"

Zhang Ran was stunned, he liked Alfonso Cuarón's movies quite a lot, "Children of Men" and "Gravity" are all particularly good works, especially the long shots are superb. Since the opponent is Alfonso Cuarón's son, it is not surprising that he has won ten games in a row. He didn't have much expectation for this year's city battle, but now he is a little more interested: "If I have time, I will definitely meet him!"

When the girl heard Zhang Ran say this, she said excitedly: "That's great, you can definitely beat him!"

Zhang Ran chatted with the girl, waved goodbye, and then continued to walk with the students.

There are a lot of large and small projects in Universal Studios, and it is not enough to play all of them for one day, so Zhang Ran chose a few key projects to take everyone to play.

The trip to the cinema is the most interesting of all the projects, watching the scenery streets of various movies, and the special effects of various movies, which is very traveling.

By six o'clock in the afternoon, the students were a little unsatisfied when they came out of Universal Studios.

Zhang Ran smiled and announced, "It's time to play, it's time to watch, starting tomorrow, you will be training with Keanu Reeves and them!" (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please visit wènhttp://mnet

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