The venue of the public relations reception was in the mansion area northwest of the Hollywood Bowl in Beverly Hills, Eric had just arrived outside a mansion by car, and saw the familiar white BMW sedan in front of him, Catherine Bigelow had just handed over the car keys to the parking boy, and was about to walk into the mansion, when he saw a black Rolls-Royce driving over, he subconsciously glanced at it a few times, Eric pressed the window and beckoned outward, Catherine smiled and nodded, stopped and waited for Eric to get out of the car.

"Carter, you can get off work, you don't have to stay here and wait for me," Eric explained to the driver before getting out of the car, and got out of the car with a box.

Catherine stepped forward and hugged Eric gently, and when she saw Eric's car leaving directly, she flashed a trace of doubt, but she didn't say anything, just looked at the square box that Eric carried in her hand curiously: "Do you still want to bring a gift, it's too bad, I thought I didn't need it, so I didn't bring it." ”

"Of course not," Eric shook his head, looking Catherine up and down at this time, the last time the two met was last year's project discussion on "Band of Brothers", but unfortunately because the project budget of "Band of Brothers" was too high, and the subject matter was not suitable for public TV stations like ABC, in the end, most of the executives were opposed, and Eric did not insist, so he could only put it on hold for the time being. He had been so busy these months that he had only occasionally spoken on the phone with Catherine a few times.

I haven't seen her for a few months, Catherine still hasn't changed anything, wearing a simple black tunic dress, black high heels, and a simple red rope tied around her wrist, just standing there, she can still give people a quiet and restrained feeling.

Feel the change in Eric's eyes. Although she hadn't seen her for a long time, after many experiences, Catherine had almost formed a kind of conditioned reflex. Subconsciously make a defensive stance. However, Catherine quickly noticed that Eric's eyes at this time did not have the aggressiveness that she remembered, and her mood relaxed slightly, but she inexplicably felt a faint loss.

He is such an excellent man, what kind of woman can't find it, he must have ...... to himself

Such a thought involuntarily popped into my heart, but it was only halfway through the thought. Catherine hurriedly extinguished her thoughts completely, a trace of imperceptible panic flashed in her expression, and her eyes dodged. He said to Eric, "Let's go inside." ”

Eric raised the box in his hand, "Don't you want to know what's inside?"

"What is it?"

"I'll tell you after the reception, but I can reveal a little bit first, it's a gift for you. ”

"Gift?" Catherine paused and looked at Eric, "for me...... Gifts?"

Eric just smiled faintly. Raised his arm slightly: "Okay." Let me sell a little bit first, let's go inside. ”

Catherine looked at Eric's raised arm, hesitating to make a move.

"You won't even give this little face, I'm a man, and it hurts my self-esteem. ”

Catherine finally reached out and grabbed Eric, but seemed to be a little unwilling to add in a low voice: "Little man." ”

After Catherine finished speaking, she couldn't help but chuckle at first, feeling as if she had gone back to a few years ago. The time when the two spent time together at the Sixty Soho Hotel in Manhattan, New York, then Catherine thought of the white scarf.

It turned out that he had already given himself a gift.

The scarf was still sitting quietly in her closet. Occasionally, when she goes to some cold places, she will take them with her, but she rarely realizes that it is a gift from someone to her, as if it has become an inconspicuous part of her life.

Eric felt the woman leaning slightly against him relax, and joked, "You know, Catherine, in some stories, the woman who often calls a man next to her 'little man' often ends up miserable. ”

Catherine's personality is destined not to be interested in certain types of film and television literature, and when she heard Eric's words, she asked seriously, "Miserable, why?"

Eric felt the woman's innocent gaze, coughed dryly, did not answer directly, nodded again to himself, and said firmly: "Well, very miserable." ”

It may be that Eric's expression is too serious, Catherine didn't think about it at all, just pouted her lips and said, "I don't know what you're talking about, machismo." ”

The people in the villa were notified and greeted out, and Eric and Catherine stopped chatting and concentrated on dealing with these people, but it was mainly Eric who took Catherine to socialize, and Catherine had no experience in this kind of party-type occasion, and even had an obvious uncomfortable expression when surrounded by too many people.

This reception was contacted by Eric to Francis Coppola, and through many cooperations, Eric and Coppola's family have maintained a very good connection.

Since it is a public relations reception, of course, it is impossible to carry out it with great fanfare, there are only more than 20 guests scattered inside and outside this mansion on the mountainside, many of them are middle-aged and elderly people of the same age as Coppola, the aging of the Oscar jury is already a well-known thing, of course, the guests are not all directors, actors, producers and people outside Hollywood. There was no music in the venue, there were not too many waiters shuttling back and forth, several long tables on the lawn were full of buffet meals and drinks, and everyone just gathered in groups to chat in low voices.

Eric took Catherine through the crowd, went to the long table on the lawn to get some food and rested for a while, and was chatting in a low voice, when Coppola came over with a bearded middle-aged man of about fifty years old.

"Eric, Catherine, let me introduce you, this is Terrence Malik, Taryn, this is Eric, and Catherine. ”

"Hello, Mr. Malik, just call me Eric," Eric raised an eyebrow slightly and shook his hand quietly.

Several people greeted each other, and Coppola pointed to the round table next to the pool of the mansion and said, "Eric, shall we go over there and talk?"

"Of course," Eric smiled and nodded, and couldn't help but look at Terrence Malik again, and had some guesses in his heart, Terrence Malik was once one of the famous directors of the seventies, and his "Day in Paradise" also won the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival, but Terrence Malik suddenly stopped filming for some reason after "Day in Heaven", and it has been almost twenty years now.

In the original time and space, Terrence Malick would make a comeback in 1998 and direct a war film released in the same year as "Saving Private Ryan", the title of this war film has two common translations, the literary one is called "The Thin Red Line", and the popular one is called "Red Alert". (To be continued.) )