Liu Jingting's successful cooperation with WB is obvious to everyone, and now he suddenly visited Hollywood in a low-key manner with a new project, and avoided WB to ask other companies to discuss cooperation, it is impossible not to be suspicious.

Therefore, it is understandable that Frank has that kind of doubt, but for Liu Jingting, who already has a plan, he is not willing to reveal the information of the other two movies, nor does he want to make up any rhetoric to prevaricate, so he has to stop the negotiation and save their own time, which is not exactly the game skill of the negotiation table.

Frank's main task this time is to win Liu Jingting's partner in order to capture the old man, but the other party didn't play his cards according to common sense at all, and he said that he would go, and there were still many people lining up behind him.

"Mr. Frank?"

Liu Jingting didn't sit down immediately, and said in a slightly questioning tone.

Frank smiled helplessly and said, "Yes, please take a seat." ”

Liu Jingting nodded to Yang Lilu, then sat back down, paused, and said: "Mr. Frank, I understand your doubts, I have a word to say, whether it is WB or PLM, my attitude towards cooperation is the same, and there is no priority. ”

Liu Jingting suddenly laughed at himself and continued: "And I believe you also participated in this year's Oscars." ”

Frank smiled and said, "I understand." ”

"So ......"

"Please tell me your story. ”

This time, Liu Jingting did not continue to have any reservations, and described the outline of "Shawshank", focusing on the "institutionalization" of another core of the film.

"At first you hate the walls around you, slowly. You get used to living in it, and eventually you find yourself having to live on it. This is called 'institutionalization'. ”

This is an extremely profound metaphor, and this passage and the content of the story it represents chisel the film into another depth. 'Institutionalization' superficially refers to prisons, but in fact encompasses all aspects of social life.

The rules that a person hates are often the last ones he relies on the most.

Liu Jingting spoke for about half an hour, Frank listened very carefully, and occasionally asked a few more targeted questions, and finally Liu Jingting concluded again: "Most of the content of the movie is carried out in prison, but this time the prison is no longer completely filled with violent fighting as in the past." Rather, it is an attempt to build a shrinking society. ”

Frank groaned, his eyes fixed on the table, a minute later. Stretched out his hand and said, "I'm sorry Mr. Liu Jingting, I apologize for my behavior just now, and we will take this movie." ”

And Liu Jingting expected basically the same day, one day. Two families. Three scripts, all done.

……

"I sometimes think you're horrible. ”

After Frank left, Yang Lilu looked at Liu Jingting and suddenly said such a sentence.

"What do you mean by that?"

"You can always figure out what other people think, and you are only in your twenties, how can you look like an old wizard. ”

"I'm not only mentally old, but besides, are you afraid I'll guess what you're thinking?"

"What I'm afraid of, you can guess what I'm thinking. ”

Liu Jingting reached out to hold Yang Lilu's hand. said: "I wasn't like this before, but I became like this when I read too many books." ”

"It's the same old again. ”

Liu Jingting smiled and nodded. Said: "Not everyone has a sound cognitive system in the body, either you have rich life experience, or you have read a lot of books, otherwise it is difficult to form a personal independent cognitive logic, and after a long time, it is easy to become a parrot that goes with the flow and follows the crowd." ”

Yang Lilu asked, "Then guess what I'm thinking now?"

Liu Jingting looked at Yang Lilu's eyes, suddenly smiled weirdly, and said, "You are wondering why you don't bring that glass jar with you." ”

Yang Lilu waved her hand and hit it.

……

In the following period, the two became more and more busy, and the three Hollywood professional teams had a long and continuous discussion and finalization of the script, due to Liu Jingting's advocacy and insistence, the content of the script was almost determined point by story, and the serious and persistent attitude left a deep impression on the partners.

With the gradual enrichment of the story of the script of "Shawshank" and the professional attitude shown by Liu Jingting, Frank, who was in charge of the matter, finally put his mind at ease - there is absolutely no trickery in this, and Liu Jingting brings a valuable work.

The complexity of the project exceeded Liu Jingting's expectations in advance, and the consumption of energy was not weaker than the original "seven openings".

Half a month has passed, and the three scripts are only half completed, under the premise of having a script outline and most of the plot points, this speed is not fast, and due to Liu Jingting's strong insistence on the main story line of the script, some people from the three teams have left one after another.

This time the work is to polish the details of the script, and the main story is only nominally taken out for everyone to discuss and discuss, in fact, it is impossible and unnecessary to make unnecessary changes.

In any case, these disagreements more or less delayed the time of work, or rather, it was also part of the work, at the cost of Liu Jingting's return to China was delayed again and again, and finally he had to hand over the publication of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to Chang Youdao and Wang Jianshan, and at the same time invited his father to Jianghai to sign various contracts.

Fortunately, Liu's father has been in charge of the work of the cultural station for a long time, and he is very careful in doing things, and he will never put on the posture of "boss and his son" to yell at the editors of "Craftsman Record", which is also a reason why Liu Jingting dares to bother his father.

It took almost 36 days before and after the revision of the three scripts, and it was already April when Liu Jingting and Yang Lilu returned to China, at this time "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" had been sold nationwide, and the listing of the whole book once again set off a wave of Three Kingdoms fever.

The gathering place of literary and artistic youth-bean sprouts reading, gave "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" a high score of 9.5.

In addition, under the operation of Chang Youdao, the free book giveaway activity has attracted more than 200,000 registered members for the "Huashan Forum", and the "Comment and Send Books" micro-blog has received more than 700,000 comments.

500,000 novels were delivered without a problem.

Liu Jingting and Yang Lilu returned to Jianghai in the dust, and received a piece of good news, but just as everyone was scrambling to report to work, Liu Jingting's eyes suddenly went dark, and he fell on Xu Qing slowly, and the office was suddenly in chaos.

Xu Qing turned around and held Liu Jingting in his arms, and shouted urgently: "120!

……

Overwork combined with more than a dozen hours of plane jolting, and then when I returned home, my nerves suddenly relaxed, causing this fainting.

In fact, before everyone arrived at the hospital, Liu Jingting woke up, looked at the scene in front of him, was confused for a while, and then understood, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, everyone, I'm fine." ”

Yang Lilu, who had been sitting next to Liu Jingting and holding his left hand with both hands, suddenly burst out of two strings of tears in her eyes, put Liu Jingting's hand on her face, and said, "If something happens to you, I won't be able to live anymore." ”

Su Jin and Qingjiao girls instantly turned red, and Kang Lingyue, who had been silent like a rock on the moon, also secretly breathed a sigh of relief at this time, and her tightly clenched fists slowly loosened, and her palms were full of sweat.

Xu Qing asked, "What are you doing in the United States?" (To be continued......)