Chapter 6: Warner's Surveillance

After receiving the new chopsticks from the Chinese waitress and changing the chopsticks, Bruce Lee and Walter started chatting again, and it seemed that the unpleasant thing just now did not happen at all.

Until the two finished their meal with a smile and a smile, they only ate and drank and talked about interesting things on the distant side of the continent, and there was no intention of discussing the intention of co-making a movie at all, which must be quite strange if others saw such a scene.

After all, it is clear that one of the two is an actor from Hong Kong who is ready to create his own world in the United States, and the other is a producer who has memories of later generations and wants to win over each other with a well-known purpose.

No, next door to the bag where the two were eating, two white men in black casual suits had very bad faces, and they took people to follow Bruce Lee all the way after he went out in secret, for fear that Bruce Lee would be abducted by other Hollywood companies.

Now I see Bruce Lee and Disney's live-action filmmaking assistant director Walter Volt getting together, and Bruce Lee and Walter are still talking and laughing at dinner, although there is no discussion about the intention of filming the film in the words, but who knows if there is a secret agreement between the two before they arrive? If that happens, it will be tantamount to disaster for them, after all, they have been preparing for this project for a long time.

The two people who were watching Walter and Bruce Lee eating and chatting privately were none other than Fred Winterdul, the vice president of Warners who invited Bruce Lee to the United States to discuss the co-production of the movie, Fred Winterdul, and Paul Hiller, the props and art designer invited by Winterdour, Paul Shearer, who is familiar with Winterdürth and has a good relationship with Warner, but the two are the main figures in the negotiations between Warner and Bruce Lee in the past few days.

"Fred, what now? Is Bruce going to work with Disney?" a middle-aged white man with a literary and artistic atmosphere, ignoring the table of dishes in front of him that was about to be cold, said to the middle-aged white man with a gloomy face next to him.

"I don't know, I can't help it, I can only wait, wait until Bruce returns to the hotel, and then we will discuss film cooperation with him, and we will agree to all his requests. Although the white man opposite had a bad face, he still replied calmly, neither of them moved the Chinese food they ordered on the table in front of them, the food was already cold, not that the steaming aroma of oriental food was bad, but because they didn't have the appetite to eat the food at all.

"But do you really want to make a movie with them? What qualifications do the Chinese in Hong Kong have to make a movie? Just because they can make a good movie? A movie worth hundreds of thousands of dollars can be called a big production, which is really laughing to death." ”

"So what? Do you want other companies to poach Bruce? You also know the potential of the kung fu fever caused by Bruce, if it weren't for the failure of "The Silent Flute", I can't say that we can make Hollywood famous by now, and we will take him down this time. ”

"I agree with Bruce, but what is the magic of this Disney assistant director that makes Bruce so happy? ”

"Who knows? Maybe it's our conditions, Bruce can't accept it, or maybe it's because the deputy director of Disney is a half-race, don't forget, he and Bruce are both half-breeds with Oriental yellow blood. ”

"Ok! I hope so, otherwise our negotiations will be even more difficult. ”

"Yes, and I'm more concerned about what the two of them said between each other, damn Chinese, can't it be simpler?"

Emmmmmm……

The middle-aged white man full of literary and artistic atmosphere is naturally Paul Shearer, the props and art designer from New York, who was a lecturer and stage artist at New York University's film school. Later, he came to Hollywood to develop, in addition to his old profession as an artist, he also served as a producer of "The Taming of the Shrew", because after watching Bruce Lee's films shot in Hong Kong, and Winterdur, who was also optimistic about Bruce Lee, were optimistic about Bruce Lee's kung fu prospects, and the two were like-minded and came together to promote this cooperation with Bruce Lee.

After a simple conversation, the scene fell into a low calm for a while, for these two people who were deeply affected by Bruce Lee's choice, at this moment they really hated to have to listen to the conversation and laughter of the two people next door, and rushed into the next room now, brought Bruce Lee out, and then fully met the various conditions put forward by Bruce Lee in the past few days when they negotiated with Bruce Lee to shoot the movie "Blood and Steel".

Rare is expensive, when a thing is sought after by various characters, it will naturally enhance his value, with the past few days Warner received a variety of news about the contact of major Hollywood film companies with Bruce Lee, they can no longer sit still, with Bruce Lee's few steps of the movie Kung Fu fever spread to Europe and the United States, they have to re-examine Bruce Lee, they can no longer treat Bruce Lee with ordinary discrimination against Asian yellow people.

Although Bruce Lee was born in the United States and is still a quarter of German ancestry, his basic and yellow appearance, as well as his own constant claim that he is Chinese and constantly admires Chinese kung fu culture, made Fred Winterdur and Paul Shearer never treat Bruce Lee as an American.

Of course, it is precisely because of this understanding that Walter dared to meet Bruce Lee alone this time, and he did not believe that if there was a better choice, Bruce Lee would choose Warner Bros.

After all, in real history, although the two are optimistic about Bruce Lee's kung fu prospects, they have always been prejudiced against him because of his skin color. At this point, if it weren't for the fact that other Hollywood companies were competing for Bruce Lee at this time, the Warner Bros. executives decided to give in and agree to Bruce Lee's conditions in an all-round way, maybe the future "Enter the Dragon" would have a different prospect in North America.

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