305 [There are also Tang monks in the United States]
Los Angeles Airport, United States.
"Yo, King, here" Alley jumped and beckoned, and with him came a man and a nv.
Wang Zijun walked out quickly, and the two came to a bear hug.
After letting go, Eri pointed to the blonde beauty beside him and said, "King, this is Di Bōla. Harry (a translation is Debra. Harry), our lead singer. ”
Di bōla. Harry had blond hair and looked like a mess, with a black sè tight T-shirt on his top and a floor-mopping horn on his bottom. She smiled at Wang Zijun and said, "Hello, Wang, you can call me Tina." ”
"Hello." Wang Zijun said.
"This is our guitarist, Christopher. Stan. Harry suddenly smiled as he introduced him, "Chris is Tina's boyfriend, and Wang needs to get past him if he wants to pursue Tina." ”
Wang Zijun gave Harry a roll of his eyes, shook hands with Chris and said, "Hello, I'm Wang Zijun." ”
"Hello, you taught Harry a very bāng dance." Chris patted Wang Zijun on the shoulder and said.
Harry said to his two companions, "This is the king's assistant, Kyung-ho. Plum. ”
Li Jinghao nodded coolly at the few people.
The group walked towards the outside of the airport, and Wang Zijun asked, "Are there only three of you in the band?" ”
"No, there were six of them, Johnny and the three of them were preparing for the evening show and didn't come over." "Wang, thanks to your dancing, we had a lot of limelight at the festival last time, and now we've signed with Chrysalis to release our first band record. ”
chrysalis is a powerful old record label, and it was not until the 21st century that the record industry was sluggish, and chrysalis was acquired by BmG, one of the world's top five record labels.
"Congratulations." Wang Zijun said.
"Thank you, King," said Dibōla, "and Avery sang your you_are_beautiful, and we both liked it. ”
People like Dibōla and Chris, who have been hanging out in small local bars and nightclubs since 1968, have been unnoticed by record companies, and their meager income can barely make ends meet. After years of perseverance, I have finally gained something, which can be described as keeping the clouds open and seeing the moon.
Blondie are based in New York and came to California to promote their first record.
A few people took a taxi to Harry's temporary hotel, and just as they went upstairs, a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes complained to them with an ugly face, "Oh God, you still remember coming back, USC is about to start the show"
Chris asked, "Didn't you say night?" ”
"It's temporarily early, hell" The man took Ellie's hand and walked directly to the elevator, "Hurry up, the stage over there has been set up, and it's still too late to rush over." ”
Aili apologized to Wang Zijun and said, "I'm sorry, Wang, it seems that we have to go first." ”
Wang Zijun said: "I'll also go over and have a look." ”
"Absolutely." "Let's go down and wait for you in the car." ”
When Wang Zijun and Li Jinghao put down their luggage and came downstairs, the middle-aged man was already waiting impatiently.
After getting in the car, Avery introduced, "This is our agent, Mr. John. ”
"Hello." Wang Zijun took the initiative to say hello.
John asked Eli, "Is he the king of your mouth?" ”
"Yes." Ellie nodded.
John's eyes lit up when he heard this, because Eli had boasted that Wang Zijun's dancing talent was far better than him, and he just learned a little bit of Wang Zijun's skin máo.
looked at Wang Zijun, handsome appearance, chic temperament, fluent English, and all aspects of hardware facilities are good, which is worth cultivating. John shook hands with Wang Zijun with fiery eyes and said, "Oh, Asian, the dance you created is good, I think you must be a professional dancer." It's a shame to hear that this kind of dance is banned by the government in your place. Do you want to come to the U.S. this time? Maybe I can help you. You know, I'm an experienced celebrity agent, and I've been a big hit. As long as we work together, I can let you perform in some entertainment venues first, or I can recommend you to dance to a celebrity's concert. Yes, young people don't want to climb to the sky in one step, but take it slowly, start from the lowest position, as long as you are willing to work hard, you will become the future king of dance. ”
"Mr. John, I think you are indeed a very good agent, because you almost convinced me." Wang Zijun shrugged and said, "But I'm sorry, dancing is just one of my interests, I'm not a dancer." ”
"No, you don't have to say no so quickly." John continued, "When Harry said you created the moves, I knew you had to be a dance genius. Rest assured, even though you are Asian, I will do my best to make white people accept your ......",
I wiped it, and I met the American version of Tang Seng.
After getting in the car, this John took it for granted for more than ten minutes, and almost didn't break down Wang Zijun.
Seeing John's chatter, Harry finally couldn't help but pull his clothes and reminded: "Mr. John, Wang is a very famous singer in Asia, and he is indeed not a professional dancer. ”
"Singer? Oh, I know Asian music, it's terrible. I once heard a colleague say that in the Asian music scene, Japan copied Europe and the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan copied Japan, and Southeast Asia copied Hong Kong and Taiwan. John expressed his opinion.
Harry looked at Wang Zijun in embarrassment, and found that he was not angry, so he said, "John, that song "you_are_beautiful" was composed by Wang. ”
"Really?" John exclaimed in surprise and continued, "If that's the case, Wang, you should come to the United States to develop, and Asia will bury your musical talent." ”
Is this Nima a trafficker or a broker? Wang Zijun complained in his heart.
Well, sometimes celebrity agents equals traffickers.
Wang Zijun coughed and said: "Mr. John, I want to clarify one point, I didn't come to the United States to sing, I came to make movies." ”
"Making a movie?" John wondered, "You're an actor?" Oh, I remember, Bruce. Lee has been making a kung fu movie recently, and you must have come here to make a kung fu movie. Do you know kung fu? Oh, you sure are. Hear about Bruce. Lee's kung fu is good, and the media has introduced that he once exchanged a break dance jiāo for a martial artist's set of boxing techniques. I guess you must have come up with your dance moves when you were in kung fu. ”
Wang Zijun said weakly: "Mr. John, in fact, I am a director. ”
"Director, director?" John felt a little húnluàn in his head.
Alas, Wang Zijun couldn't help but sigh, it seems that his reputation is still too low in the United States.
After "Bloody Lonely City" was released in the United States, due to the support of the Chinese people and the strong sense of picture, it achieved a fairly good box office that year. It's a pity that the later "If the Wine Sells Nothing" will not work, only some Chinese will go to the cinema to cheer, because the attendance rate is too low, only one week forced to paint. Since then, American film distributors have not imported Wang's films.
It was Cheng Long's "Drunken Fist", which attracted many European and American filmmakers at the Cannes Film Festival this time, and now two companies have purchased the distribution rights, preparing to wait for Bruce Lee's new film to be screened for a while, and use that kung fu fever to release "Drunken Fist" to make money.
"Wang was the winner of last year's Critics' Week at the Cannes Film Festival. ”
As soon as these words came out, Di Bōla and Chris both looked at Wang Zijun in surprise, they knew about this award, and the weight was not light.
Seeing his partner's surprise, Avery couldn't help but help Wang Zijun boast: "Wang is in Asia, he is the king of the box office over there, and every movie is a blockbuster." He was also a businessman, owned several companies, and was a popular writer. John, I don't think you have to work in vain. ”
"No, it won't, right?" John looked at Wang Zijun like an alien, he originally thought that Wang Zijun was just an aspiring Asian singer and dancer, so he wanted to pull him over and squeeze his value well.
When Wang Zijun came to the United States this time, he did not plan to make a movie directly, but quickly let Americans know himself. After becoming famous, it is much simpler to do anything, such as the promotion of movies, it will get twice the result with half the effort. The reason why he informed Avery was to find out what is going on in the American music scene today. If you want to become famous quickly, the cycle of releasing a single can be much shorter than shooting a movie.
Moreover, Wang Zijun's main purpose in coming to the United States is to want to be a film special effects company.
What are Movie Special Effects? When people in later generations mentioned this word, the first thing that came to mind was all kinds of grand, fantasy, and incredible pictures made by computers, such as "2012" and "Avatar".
However, you must know that this era is still a few years before the birth of the world's first personal computer, and relying on computers to do special effects is pure nonsense.
Movie special effects are not the same as computer special effects, and all film techniques that are different from the current common sense can be called movie special effects.
Like 1902's "A Trip to the Moon", which was one of the earliest science fiction films in the history of cinema. The techniques used by the director, such as stopping, overprinting, and double exposure, are now common sense that skilled field workers know. But in 1902, these techniques were cinematic special effects, because no one had ever done them before.
Next year George. Lucas would start filming Star Wars, and due to the trouble of special effects production, he set up a film special effects company called Industrial Light & Magic.
At this time, Hollywood even saw very few special effects, and the original members of "Industrial Light and Magic" were five huāba mén, some were engaged in architecture, some were modeling, some were shooting commercials, some were playing mechanical design, and no one was engaged in movies anyway.
If Wang Zijun builds professional special effects in advance, when Lucas shoots "Star Wars" next year, he will definitely come to him to cooperate, instead of building a special effects company himself.
If Wang Zijun can release two singles, and then announce them to the media after becoming famous, say what talents he needs, maybe someone will recommend himself.