“……”

Yang Qiu took the coffee in his hand, looked at the ghost in front of him in a daze, and asked unconfidently, "Mr. York wants to see my "Funny Times"?"

After listening to the interpreter's words, York spread his hands and said, "Yes." ”

Well, this sentence is in English, Yang Qiu understood it, but he was obviously more puzzled, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Can I take the liberty of asking, why did Mr. York watch my movie?"

"Yang Qiu, Mr. Yorke is an outsourcing manager for the Sinady Film Distribution Company in France. Zhang Shankun suddenly interjected next to him: "He made a special trip from France this time, and he also heard from an old friend of mine that someone in Xiangjiang made a movie that looked like Chaplin, so he came to see it first." ”

Film Distribution Company ......

Did they fall in love with "Funny Times"!

Is it possible, though?

Yang Qiu's heart was full of suspicion and asked, "Mr. York, is your company trying to release "Funny Times"?"

"No, I want to see it first, and if the quality is not satisfied, I will refuse the film. After listening to the translator's words, York replied directly.

“……”

This ghost guy really doesn't give people face, but think about it, there is really no need to give Yang Qiu face.

If you want to ask where the second largest box office of world films in the 21st century is, many people know, but where is the second largest box office of world movies in 1951, it is estimated that many people will guess wildly.

Neither England nor neon, but the birthplace of cinema - France!

Before the Second World War, there were more than 2,100 cinemas in a region as large as France, and after the Second World War, cinemas did not suffer much damage because of the rapid decline in France.

With this large number of cinemas, France has always firmly held the position of the second largest box office in the world.

Now that the people in this second box office have seen your movie, and if they want to buy it, they can afford you and give you so much face!

In fact, regarding the income of movies in the white area, Yang Qiu really didn't think about it before.

Why? Because there is little money.

There are very few theaters in Europe and the United States that show Chinese films, and they are basically concentrated in various Chinatowns, and the number of moviegoers is not as good as that of a dignified Philippine region, so naturally they can't sell at a high price.

In the past, Chinese films were sold to the Philippines, Thailand, Europe and the United States and other places, and they were basically bought out directly.

For example, the Philippines sells for 3,000, Thailand sells for 4,000, and North America sells for 5,000...... , the combined income is estimated to be more than 30,000, pure labor and labor, how can people be willing to think about the distribution of movies in these places.

Therefore, as mentioned above, Li Xing acted as an agent for the release of "The Woman and the Tiger" in these places, but he has been delaying payment, and after Taishan chased it two or three times, he will be too lazy to chase, and this is the reason.

Yang Qiu is naturally too lazy to consider the release of "Funny Times" in these places for the time being......

But I didn't expect that a French publisher would come to the door now.

People are the second largest box office in the world, so if you want to watch the film first, you can watch it, not to mention that Zhang Shankun brought it over.

Yang Qiu was helpless, hurriedly drank coffee, ran back to the Youqiao studio, found the film warehouse dedicated to rent, took a set of "Funny Times" film, and went to the Huada studio.

Zhang Shankun's Far East Pictures is located there.

"Don't go!"

"Don't let him run. ”

"Catch him!"

"You didn't fall, did you?"

"Stop!"

“……”

In the test room of Far Eastern Pictures, the big screen was showing the picture of the actor walking in circles, and York, a Frenchman, naturally couldn't understand a word, so busy that Wang Yiyi next to him was sweating profusely.

It's rare, Yang Qiu is quite interested in watching this movie at York......

"Boss Zhang, what is the origin of this Sinai company? Are you sure?" Seeing that York's spirit was no longer outside the movie, Yang Qiu asked Zhang Shankun quietly.

"Ahem—"

Zhang Shankun coughed twice in a muffled voice, and explained: "My old friend told me that this Sinai is a French family...... Well...... A small independent distribution company, certainly not a scammer. ”

"How small, how small?" Yang Qiu asked with an eyebrow.

"You can get more than 100 theaters. ”

More than 100 cinemas...... Still young......

However, for the scale of the French cinema chain, it is really a little small.

Yang Qiu didn't continue to ask questions about the small scale of Sinai, but touched his chin and asked, "Then how did this guy come all the way from France to Xiangjiang, is it really for me to make this movie?"

It's just so weird!

Don't talk about it now, let's just say that in the golden 80s of Xiangjiang movies, it is very rare to see Westerners who will go to Xiangjiang specifically for a movie.

Not to mention the time when many Westerners think that Chinese still have pig tails.

They are arrogant over there, such as the Chinese anti-Japanese movie "Dragon Species" made by Hollywood a few years ago, and a bunch of foreigners played a group of Chinese.

Could it be that Hollywood couldn't find Asian-American actors at that time?

Zhang Shankun didn't answer immediately, and after thinking about it carefully, he said slowly: "It should be true, do you know the recent situation of Mr. Chaplin?"

"Mr. Chaplin?" Yang Qiu was slightly stunned.

Mr. Charlie Chaplin has been in a bad mess lately, and of course, it all started a long, long time ago.

Ahem, let's make a long story short......

After the First World War, the United States, which was already the world's largest economy, made a fortune from the war, and its international status rose strongly, and even had a trace of the ability to compete with its old club, Britain.

And after World War II, the United States made a lot of war money and became one of the world's two powers!

As the saying goes, 'murder and arson set fire to the golden belt', the United States, especially Wall Street, after two world wars, has completely fallen into the desire to make war money.

There were people everywhere in the upper echelons who preached the benefits of war, and their power was extremely large.

For example, in the Northern Stick War in 1950, there were shadows of these people behind it.

Even Neon, which is still under the control of the US coalition forces, although it was only announced in the constitution two years ago that 'Neon will give up war forever', because of this force, a series of American war propaganda films such as "What We Fight", "Bloody War in the Philippines", "Battlefield", "Operation Zero" and so on were released.

In the skies over the United States, there is a shadow of advocating war.

Looking around blankly, after World War II, the United States, which was almost invincible in the world, found that there was only one Russia left that could fight with him at this time.

So the talk of launching a war against Russia was noisy in the United States at this time.

It just so happened that during World War II, Germany and Russia had a fight, and more importantly, in the United States, which pursued isolationism, Chaplin spoke for Russia when Germany and Russia were fighting.

At the time, it wasn't much of a problem.

But after World War II, the United States, which already regarded Russia as an adversary, turned this passage out again.

As the most famous actor in the United States at that time, this is worth it! Russia is the enemy, and since you speak for Russia, you are also the enemy!

The enemy is about to be destroyed!

So Chaplin was unlucky, not only was his private life completely exposed, and the newspapers scolded him every day, but even congressmen clamored to send him to prison or simply deport him from the United States.

And what had a deeper impact on Chaplin was that many theaters began to jointly ban the release of his films.

For example, MGM ......

Chaplin did not give in, but continued to help those who called for peace but were stigmatized, while saying, 'I'm just a peace monger'.

The struggle between the two sides is intensifying.

In contrast to the United States, it is France's attitude.

Maybe it was because it was destroyed by Germany, maybe it was because it was anti-war, maybe it was because it was because it was peace-loving, but at this time, France admired Chaplin very much.

Not only did the newspapers praise Chaplin, but some film associations wrote to Norway recommending that the Nobel Peace Prize be awarded to Chaplin.

And the French official directly expressed his willingness to award Chaplin a 'Medal of Honor'.

What's more important is the support of the people, the French re-screening of "City Lights" in 1950 was a great success, and it saved Chaplin, who almost had a poor cash flow due to making a new film.

Up and down France, the love for Chaplin at this time can be seen!

Kawakita was going to Europe to chat with some familiar filmmakers about Chaplin, and by the way, he talked about "Funny Times".

Those big cinema companies may not care about a Chinese movie, but Sinai, which is already a small shrimp, feels a little doorway, and in line with the principle of not caring about the catch of live fish or dead fish, they sent a manager to rush over.

Now it seems that York's viewing expression was so serious that he still caught a jump of live fish.