Ask for commuter passes and recommended tickets!

After receiving the invitation, Matthew made a point to show Helen Herman, who told him that this was a very reliable art exhibition, and that Wells Gallery's investment consultants had recently been around Los Angeles looking for potential buyers for the exhibition's works, and that a rich and famous Hollywood star like him was undoubtedly the best and most easily fooled customer resource.

Helen Herman also told him that if you are interested, you can go and have a look and cultivate your artistic sentiments, but if you want to bid, you must be cautious and cautious, and it is best to say hello to her in advance, the water in this line is very deep.

Matthew heard her say that it was a very formal art exhibition, and he also planned to go and see it, and Helen Herman also supported this, although she was a commercial film star, but she also had to show some high style.

Of course, Matthew would certainly be cautious about what he doesn't understand.

He didn't know about Lao Mei's side, but when he was on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, he had suffered too much.

At that time, it was common to see on the Internet some news similar to the discovery of the wrong version of the renminbi, the discovery of a family heirloom at home, and the value of hundreds of thousands or even millions after identification.

He had just left school, and when he was most short of money, he happened to have an old-fashioned porcelain pot at home, and he was stimulated by the news of these overnight riches, so he took a photo and found the so-called art company in the city where he worked, and went to find someone to identify it.

Until now, Matthew remembers very clearly, and after carefully looking at the photos, the person who received him gave an estimate of up to 800,000!

It was definitely a huge surprise at that time, the excited Matthew rushed home overnight and took the porcelain pot, his idea was very simple, not 800,000, even if 300,000 was sold, it could solve the family's urgent needs.

In those two years, art investment was at its hottest, and programs such as identifying family heirlooms could be seen everywhere on TV, which seemed to have led to a boom in collecting and searching for heirlooms in the whole society.

Affected by the general environment, coupled with the lack of experience when he just left school, Matthew is bent on selling for a lot of money, and he often looks at a certain point, isn't there such an example of picking up leaks and making a fortune?

But the reality is not TV and after all.

Matthew took the porcelain pot to the art investment company, and the other party found a gray-haired old expert with a long list of titles to identify him, which required a lot of appraisal fees.

At that time, Matthew had no money, so he only gave 300 yuan, and the other party said that he should help because the object was very valuable.

After the appraisal, the porcelain pot was worth a lot of money, and Matthew was full of joy, so he waited for the auction to change money, but the other party said that the auction required exhibition fees, publicity fees and insurance fees, which had to be paid in advance.

Hearing what the other party said, Matthew was poured cold water, and his mind that was carried away by money gradually sobered up, so he made an excuse and temporarily left the art investment company, and then inquired in many ways, and finally figured out that this was all a routine.

The boss on the construction site where he carried the work was cheated in a similar way, and a lot of appraisal fees and exhibition fees and publicity fees were paid, and the results were also auctioned, but the so-called auction was to find a few people to sit there and mess around, and the objects of the art investment company were "successfully sold", and the client's artwork was unexpectedly unsold.

Everyone has held an auction, and the fees paid in advance are naturally gone, even if you go to the police, the police can't do anything, and the art company is completely acting according to the contract.

This incident can be said to have given Matthew a wake-up call, coupled with a series of bad things such as salary arrears and salary demands encountered in the next few years, the whole person quickly matured.

Although limited to the general environment and platform, he is still wielding a sledgehammer, but he is no longer a simple-minded young man.

When he heard about art investment, Matthew unconsciously became vigilant, and he wanted to see if the art company on Lao Mei's side would also play such wonderful tricks.

In the next two days, news came from the crew of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" that Charlize Theron unsurprisingly passed the audition for the role of Jane Smith, and her agent was ready to start negotiations with the crew.

Matthew called Charlize Theron, but it was Stuart Townsend who answered, and he had to simply say a few words of congratulations to Charlize Theron for getting the lead actress, and hung up.

The scene he saw in front of Depp's Black Mamba Bar made him have a very bad impression of Stuart Townsend, but Charlize Theron is obviously deliberately trying to cover it up, even today, the news about her and Stuart Townsend that can be seen in the media is all in love, and there is almost no negative news.

Charlize Theron's agency team is still in talks with the crew of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and Matthew has entered the crew's studio at Warner Studios to prepare for the film.

In addition to firearms and action training, Matthew has had enough conversations with director Doug Liman and screenwriter Simon Kinberg.

The exchange with Doug Liman, in particular, made him understand a lot of the special and metaphorical ideas that the director wanted outside of the shooting and script scenes.

Doug Liman told Matthew that his ideal film, especially the conflicts between the male and female protagonists, is an alternative interpretation of real married life.

After communicating with the director, Matthew re-read the script, perhaps influenced by Doug Liman and Simon Kinberg, a guy with a very limited level of education, combined with his past experience, seems to see something hidden behind the script.

For example, the two companies behind the hero and heroine in the script can be regarded as two families, not to mention the peaceful opposite side of the life they once lived, even in the United States, marriage in many places is often a matter of two families.

If you interpret the script with this as a premise, the first two years after the hero and heroine got married, they always lived under the orders of the family, loved each other very much, but they didn't show their true selves, so there was always a wall between the two, until one day, because the contradiction reached a peak and made a big move, they got to know each other more deeply.

This seems to be just their internal reconciliation, but things are often more complicated than imagined, because life will not always be as good as imagined, there is a scene in the script, the hero and heroine fight side by side for the common goal "tank", in fact, "tank" is understood from the perspective of Doug Liman, it can be regarded as a child in the family, and the couple will always fight side by side for the child's affairs, and there will be friction.

After the plot development of the script, things have obviously become a mess, marriage is a matter of two families, the turmoil has involved more people, and the hero and heroine must persevere to the end for love.

According to Doug Liman and Simon Kinberg, the choice of a home furnishings store for the shootout scene at the end of the script implies that "marriage is like a war".

The heroes and heroines hold all kinds of guns, and their tacit cooperation also reminds Matthew of the couple moves such as "Mandarin Duck Sword" and "Eyebrow Sword" in martial arts that he has read.

Only when the emotions of the two have reached a certain level of tacit understanding can they repel the enemy.

Judging by Matthew's exchanges with Doug Liman and Simon Kinberg, the real core of this film is family, and family is precisely one of the values that America likes to promote.

In this respect, the value orientation of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" is very correct.

In the past few years in Hollywood, in fact, Matthew has also seen that all the award-winning films and mainstream commercial films in Hollywood have extremely correct value orientations, and they will not even deviate by a cent.

This kind of Hollywood-style values profoundly affects most movies, and movies in turn affect society.

Therefore, the current Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, in addition to their own fans, are almost one-sided abuse among the media and the public.

But the cheeks of Hollywood stars are definitely thicker than the front armor of the US army's main battle tank, Matthew is like this, and Brad Pitt is also like this.

has not divorced Jennifer Aniston, the two parties are still husband and wife legally, but they are only temporarily separated, Brad Pitt took Angelina Jolie to Africa to recuperate under the attention of more than 120 cameras.

The big battle they made when they left made people who saw it subconsciously think that this was a newlywed celebrity couple who were about to go on their honeymoon......

It's clear that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, and the team behind them, know a lot about getting the word out of PR.

The event itself of such a sensational celebrity couple inevitably produces a kind of omnipresent viewing, as well as the phenomenon of being watched all the time, the viewer is pervasive, and today's developed media acts as the curious eyes of people.

In today's highly informational society, the viewer can never hide, not even in the poor quarters of Paris or in the deserts of Africa.

At the same time, the posture of the watched is also very ambiguous, and the watched stars express their distress, telling that they were persecuted by the media, and they have lost their original lives, but they are still glamorous together, performing their high-profile happy scenes, showing all the love that can be shown.

All this has become a game of desire and rejection, and the sincerity that love between lovers needs most is obliterated.

The mentality of the viewer is also very complex, they want them to be together, and at the same time they want them not to be together, they need to see them together to satisfy the desire to peep, and at the same time they need to see that they are not in a good situation, to satisfy the sour grape mentality of ordinary people.

Let's put it this way, both happy to see it happen and gloat.

What is it that has contributed to the so-called "celebrity couples"? Is it their own love, or is it the audience's strong expectations? Do they want to be watched or not? Is their high-profile love a need to express themselves from the heart, or is it a need for self-hype? Is it to be loved or looked down upon?

Matthew is in this circle, and he can't find the answer himself.