Chapter 189: Sense of Ritual
Thanksgiving arrives as scheduled, and at Grandpa's estate, the family is happily — or so it seems — to share a roast turkey that has been lovingly cooked by the chef. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
At dinner, the focus was neither the parents of the old husband and wife, nor Eleanor, who was promoted to the editor-in-charge of the entertainment version, nor Li Xu, who went to the mainland in the middle of the year to stir up trouble and was ready to continue at the end of the year, but his quasi-fiancée Diana.
The family shushed her and asked for warmth, and her mother changed from the previous strong woman in Japan, just like a very ordinary mother-in-law, and she was homely, and even her grandfather rarely smiled all the way.
Well, they've all made her part of the family, after all, it's one thing to bring her back to meet, it's another thing to bring her back for an important holiday, but ......
"I'm not going to get engaged to Dinah yet. When the dinner was over and the women were chatting together, Li Xu, who was called to the study, replied to his father.
"Why?" Daddy raised an eyebrow, slightly puzzled.
"You know, my judgment of certain situations is accurate, so ......" Li Xu shrugged, "wait until next month, there should be a result on Christmas Eve, and if I judge correctly again, I will give a gift to Dinah." Then at that point, I would tell her that I wanted to be engaged to her. ”
"Can you tell me, what is the judgment?" the old man immediately became interested.
"Relax, Dad, whatever it is, it won't delay you, so wait until next month. Li Xu smiled and spread his hands.
"Okay," Daddy didn't pay attention, "Ford has already replied, and they're willing to join." ”
"That's great, and I'm certainly more willing to support American businesses. Li Xu's face was serious and happy, as if he really thought so.
Dad shook his head, and then looked at grandpa: "Dad, if it's okay......"
Before he finished speaking, he frowned slightly, and behind the desk, Grandpa was closing his eyes, and the hand that rested his arm on the arm of the chair was covering his forehead, as if he had fallen asleep.
"Daddy?" Daddy tried to scream again.
Grandpa didn't move, and Dad immediately called again: "Are you okay?"
This time Grandpa woke up and frowned: "What's wrong." ”
"I'm done with the second one, if it's all right...... Daddy explained.
"It's okay, you guys go out, I should ...... Rested. At this time, Grandpa stood up with a cane, and Li Xu hurriedly walked around and helped him up.
"I'll send you back, Grandpa. He said.
Grandpa didn't postpone it, and said a few words to his father, and left the study and went back to his bedroom with the support of Li Xu.
"Dinah is a good boy, and I know you don't put all your mind on her, even ......" Grandpa sighed as he leaned back on the bed, "but I want you to treat her well, Pipon." ”
"I will, Grandpa. Li Xu nodded.
"Alright, you go out, just let the servant come. Grandpa leaned against the head of the bed.
Then, when Li Xu was about to go out, he suddenly said again: "Pi Pang, what if...... If Dinah has something to do at Christmas......"
Speaking of this, he stopped, grandpa looked a little unspeakable, Li Xu understood it in a turn of his mind, and immediately said: "No problem, grandpa, I will arrange it." ”
Grandpa breathed a sigh of relief, nodded and closed his eyes, and Li Xu called the maid outside in and left the bedroom.
"He's rested?" Daddy asked in a low voice as he waited for him to come out.
"Yes, rested, what?" Li Xu asked rhetorically.
"How does he look?" said Daddy, faintly worried.
"It's okay," Li Xu shrugged, "Okay, Dad, Grandpa is just old and a little lacking in energy, and it's normal for him to get tired after he said so many things tonight." The doctor checked it before and said that there was no major problem with the grandfather, and the leg had fully recovered, but it was a little slower, which was normal. ”
"I know. Daddy shook his head, "Okay, go with your fiancée, but be careful when you take her around San Francisco and don't run into your lovers." ”
Li Xu immediately coughed a few times.
Well, Daddy was just kidding, San Francisco is so big, and Grandpa's estate is in the suburbs, how can it be so easy to bump into. And the women didn't all come back, except for Lin Fengjiao, Hu Huiyan, Wang Jixian, Li Jianqun, and Li Qi, only Deng Lijun, Zhao Yazhi, Guan Zhilin, and Lin Qingxia came back.
Zhong Yihong is still filming because "50 First Loves" is still filming, and he can't pull out, Wang Jing plans to shoot for two months this time, after all, the summer scenes will be filmed in the winter, and how to shoot well without spending some time.
When filming the rain scene before, she and Zhang Guorong almost caught a cold, but fortunately, Wang Jing remembered Li Xu's advice, the actors' health is the most important, and they were a little unwell, so they immediately interrupted filming and sent them to the hospital, and rested for two days before they recovered.
In comparison, Masako Natsume's environment is much better, the winter in Okinawa is not cold, and filming summer scenes is no problem at all, Li Xu has repeatedly told her not to be too tired, and Sayuri is still one of the producers.
Even if the status of Japanese women is not high enough, it is not difficult to make those in the crew respectful as a backer.
All in all, there are not all people in the villa here, and they are only Thanksgiving, so there is really no need to worry. What's more, Diana left on the third day, and after the festival here, there is still a greeting at home, so Li Xu can go over to accompany his lover in a grand manner.
"As for the winter sun, there is no harm in getting more sun, and you will have to give birth in two months, but you have to keep it up. In the garden of the villa, Lin Fengjiao, who was supporting her big belly, was sitting on a recliner, and Li Xu said very gently.
The bright sun was shining on the grass, the corners of the woman's mouth were smiling, touching her bulging belly, her face was full of maternal smiles, and the man sat beside her, hugged her gently, and kept saying thoughtful words, like an ordinary couple - if you ignore something.
So not far away, Li Jianqun sighed, took the paintbrush and continued to debug on the palette, and on the canvas in front of him, the outlines of the two people over there had been revealed.
In another time and space, at this time, she should go to the Ramen Military Region to be a soldier, and then worship Chen Yifei as a teacher, but now, Li Xu found her a more famous teacher: Richard Schimead.
Although Schimede, as a master of oil painting, only occasionally gave instruction, and he had to fly to Chicago. But with her foundation and studious spirit, coupled with enough investment, art and painting will only be better in this aspect.
Compared with Li Jianqun, who was painting Li Xu and Lin Fengjiao, the women sitting in the living room were a little depressed, whether it was Deng Lijun, Lin Qingxia, Zhao Yazhi, together with Guan Zhilin, Hu Huiyu and Wang Taoxian, they all held a piece of paper and a pen, or had a sad face, or a light breeze, or wrote and painted without care.
Well, the task that Li Xu gave was at least 500 words of "Officers and Gentlemen".
"The Officer and the Gentleman", which has been released for the second week, once again won more than 3 million at the box office and maintained the third place in the North American box office list.
That's right, that's it, the North American box office list of this era, the weekend box office of 3 million is already a relatively good result.
And the total box office has just entered 10 million, so in the third week, according to the contract, Paramount has begun to urge the theater chain to increase the number of theaters released.
According to the current situation, it should be no problem to break through $100 million after half a year-yes, that's right, not only is the box office not high, but the movies with good quality can generally be screened for more than half a year.
Not to mention anything else, "Raiders of the Lost Ark", which was released in June, is still being screened at this time, and there are eight or nine hundred theaters.
If Li Xu told Hollywood people that in 30 years, a commercial film with an investment of no more than 100 million yuan, and no more than 3,000 theaters released at the same time, would be embarrassed to call it a big production, and unless it was extremely popular, it would be offline in two or three months at most, they would definitely think he was crazy.
However, the Shaw Brothers should be relieved, they have invested $1 million, and according to this momentum, they should make money in the future. In addition, it is worth mentioning that "Blade Runner", which was thrown to Java by Shaw because of Li Xu, still pulled down the investment, and it seems that it was the money of the Germans - the money of West Germany - well, you can observe a moment of silence.
Therefore, when women rarely gathered, Li Xu asked them to take the time to watch "The Officer and the Gentleman" and sit together to write their feelings, and they had to write at least 500 words, even if it was 500 good words.
As for why, it's very simple, when there are more women, it is necessary to cultivate their centripetal force and cohesion, so the ritual is very important.
Whether it is a religion in the West or ancestor worship in the East, rituals are an important part. In the same scene, doing the same thing, that's your own people.
For example, there are people who consider themselves Jewish, but they are neither Hanukkah nor Yom Kippur, they do not fast with the Jewish team, they refuse to go hungry to show their sincerity in Judaism, etc., then how likely do you think it is that the Jewish community will agree?
Therefore, they not only have to write now, but also write in the future, as long as the movie invested by Li Xu is released, they will still have to write.
"Young Master, Miss Gong and Miss Xie are here. After sitting for a while, Yasuko Sawaguchi came over and said.
As she said before, she can complete her training at the end of November and come back, and now that she is the housekeeper, even if she has been away for almost half a year, the family is still much more organized.
"Okay, I'll do it. Li Xu nodded, comforted Lin Fengjiao a few more words, and then looked at Li Jianqun.
"Mr. Li can leave. Li Jianqun, who was drawing, nodded, not only using the honorific title, but also didn't dare to look at him.
Li Xu didn't care, got up and returned to the living room, and then saw Gong Jiuen and Xie Ning, who were sitting side by side on the sofa under the watchful eyes of Lin Qingxia and Zhao Yazhi, looking quite nervous.
"Have you already done it?" Li Xu asked in a pleasant tone as if he hadn't seen anything.
"Yes, Mr. Lee. The two girls nodded together, and both handed him the score.
This is the first test for them, sorting out the two songs of "50 First Loves", the lyrics and songs of "Dare to Love and Dare to Do" and "somewhere.overthe.rainbow".