Chapter 40: Maple Avenue and the Cocktail Party

The Maple Avenue stretches through Ontario and Quebec from Quebec, southwest through Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, and finally to Niagara Falls, with a total length of 900 kilometers, passing through canyons, rivers, mountains and lakes along the way, red maples everywhere, the scenery is extraordinary, every September and October, the entire area is dyed a brilliant red by maple leaves and variegated wood, and the colors are thrilling.

The premiere of "Killer" is over, but there are still a few days before the film festival ends, Zhou Xiaoxun is once again 'forced' to fall into the distress of textbooks, he is in the hotel, but he can't keep his heart, and he keeps wandering in the colorful world outside the window.

couldn't bear her resentful eyes, Xu Jing simply fulfilled her, anyway, leaving her in the store to review her was just for show, so he called Lin Jianguo and Zhao Xiaojun to play on Maple Avenue together, for which Lin Jianguo also specially bought a camera.

"Hurry up, barley, hurry up!" As soon as he came to Maple Leaf Avenue, looking at the colorful forests dyed in autumn in the distance and the red and yellow maple trees on both sides of the avenue, Zhou Xiaoxun sa girl carnivaled: "Uncle Lin, Lao Zhao, you should hurry up!"

Looking at Zhou Xiaoxun, who seemed to have taken off the reins, several people couldn't help but smile. Xu Jing opened the camera lens cover and pressed the shutter several times to freeze the elf-like girl on the film.

"Big Mac, take a picture for me, I'm going to take a picture here and send it to my parents. Zhou Xiaoxun stood straight under the maple tree, as if standing upright, and said to Xu Jing.

“。。。。 Xu Jing looked at her stupid posture, how to look at it, how to twist, so he had to speak: "Hey, it's ugly, you change your posture, open your hands and turn in a circle in place, I'll capture it." ”

"Is that so?" Zhou Xiaoxun heard this, stretched out his hands, raised his head slightly, and turned on the spot, a light breeze blew, and the red and yellow maple leaves fell, like a maple rain, Xu Jing hurriedly pressed the shutter.

"Big Mac, are you alright? I'm a little dizzy. Xu Jing snapped several photos and still didn't shout to stop, so Zhou Xiaoxun had to continue to spin.

"Bang~" But before Xu Jing could reply, she fell to the ground with a 'snap'.

"Ouch~" Zhou Xiaoxun rubbed his ass and wanted to stand up, but he couldn't stand steadily.

"Hehe, stupid!" Xu Jing smiled and went over to hold her.

"You're stupid!" Zhou Xiaoxun said with some annoyance.

"Uncle Lin, come and help us take pictures, I want to take pictures with Damai!" Zhou Xiaoxun shouted at Lin Jianguo, and then turned to Xu Jing: "Damai, you squat down!"

"Squat, what are you going to do?" Xu Jinghu asked.

"Oh, you don't care, hurry up and squat!" Zhou Xiaoxun urged.

Xu Jing had no choice but to hand over the camera to Lin Jianguo and squatted down as Zhou Xiaoxun said. As soon as he squatted down, Xu Jing felt a heavy pressure on his back, but it was Zhou Xiaoxun who came up.

"Hahaha~ Uncle Lin, hurry! Hurry up and take a picture of us!" Zhou Xiaoxun poked his head out of Xu Jing's head and shouted at Lin Jianguo. Xu Jing was helpless for a while, so she had to hold up her little fart and take several pictures.

"Uncle, let's take a few pictures together. When he and Zhou Xiaoxun had enough, Xu Jing said to Lin Jianguo. Lin Jianguo regards him as his own, but since he grew up, he has hardly taken a group photo, so he wants to take advantage of this beautiful scenery to leave a souvenir.

"Alas, if only the old man were still around, we could also take him around the world to see, he has never been abroad in his life, except for once in 50 years on the Korean Peninsula. When the two finished taking photos, Lin Jianguo couldn't help but think of the late Yang Laosan, and said a little sadly. It can be seen that his feelings for Yang Laosan are very deep.

"In a few years, let's make a movie for my grandfather, and make those stories about him. Xu Jing didn't know what to say, so he was silent for a while before speaking.

Due to Zhou Xiaoxun's high interest, he almost couldn't stop, and several people played most of the day on Maple Leaf Avenue, during which Xu Jing was also driven by Zhou Xiaoxun's happy mood, and taught Zhou Xiaoxun several super era photo poses, what scissor hands, pouting and cuteness, and all kinds of ugly and funny poses almost all over again.

Of course, Xu Jing regretted it later, because he was forced by Zhou Xiaoxun to sell cute and ugly with her and take a lot of photos. Looking back on those images, he felt a chill in himself.

"Alas, I'm leaving so soon, it's the best scenery I've ever seen, and I don't know when I'll be here next time. When the group had had enough fun and was about to go back, Zhou Xiaoxun looked at the red maple leaves everywhere and the colorful mountains and forests in the distance.

"Some have the opportunity to come again, and there are many beautiful places in our country that are even more beautiful than here. Xu Jing said.

"Really? After that, let's go back to China and make movies there, okay? We can film and play again. Zhou Xiaoxun's eyes widened.

"Good. Xu Jing looked at Zhou Xiaoxun, whose eyes were full of hope, hesitated for a moment, and said.

On the 17th, the ten-day film festival finally came to an end, and the winner of the film festival's "People's Choice Award" was still the Spanish film "Woman on the Verge of Mental Collapse", which had been nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in the original time and space.

"Why didn't our 'Hitman' win any awards? Although Xu Jing had already said that it was unlikely to win the award, Zhou Xiaoxun was still extremely disappointed, and said a little unpleasantly.

"In the future, there will be a chance to win a prize, and I guarantee that the prize you get will circle the earth several times, hehe, let's go, let's go back. Xu Jing said with a smile.

"But, I'm just not happy!" Zhou Xiaoxun said with a grunken face, and then stomped on his heels.

If a Chinese-language film wants to sell overseas rights, it is not simply to participate in the screening and sell it, but usually to spend a lot of money to hold a sales meeting or auction to reach a deal. If the film can't be sold, it will waste a lot of money and lose face, which is also the reason why many Chinese-language films in the original time and space are shy away from overseas distribution.

Of course, those films with well-known directors and strong actor appeal naturally don't need to be like this.

"Xu, you're such a genius, "Hitman" is one of the best Xiangjiang movies I've ever seen, since Bruce Lee, no one in Xiangjiang has made North American audiences so loved, even if it's Asia's most popular Jackie Chan kung fu movies and Li Lianjie kung fu movies, you know, the North American box office is not very good. At the trade reception, a middle-aged man with a stage name bald raised his glass and said to Xu Jing.

At this time, Xu Jing was talking with the studios of The New Yorker Pictures, and the transaction of "Killer" was handed over to Lin Jianguo to negotiate with interested people.

"Thank you, Mr. Thompson, Jackie Chan and Lianjie Lee are great actors, and I think one day they will succeed in North America. In addition, I am actually from mainland China. Xu Jing also raised the wine glass in his hand and touched it lightly, and said.

"Oh God, is this true? I really didn't expect that a director from mainland China could make such a good commercial film. Thompson was surprised, then felt inappropriate: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean anything else, you know." In Berlin in February, I bought the North American distribution rights to Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum in your country, and it was a great work. ”

"Yes, it was a great work. As soon as Xu Jing finished speaking, he saw Lin Jianguo motioning for him to go over not far away, so he turned to Thompson and said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Thompson, we'll talk later." ”

"The North American copyright has been negotiated, how much do you guess?" Xu Jing heard Lin Jianguo say to him with a happy face as soon as he passed. Lin Jianguo had also dealt with foreigners earlier, and there was no big problem with basic communication, but he spoke English with a somewhat Chinese English flavor.

"How much?" Xu Jing was a little curious about how much it would take to make Lin Jianguo so happy.

"Five million dollars! It's more than three times more than the one and a half million dollars that Columbia Samsung's offer!" Lin Jianguo said with his eyebrows fluttering, and his face trembled a little.