The foreigner's Chinese is not bad, and he also recognizes He Mu, "He Mu is, I often see you these days, I used to hear Xuan talk about you, please come in, we are making dumplings." ”

He Mu noticed that Jeff was wearing an apron and had a lot of noodles on his hands, looking like he was living at home.

After entering the door, He Mu's fourth aunt, fourth uncle and Song Xuan's cousin also came out, and they were very happy to see He Mu and Xiao Nan, He Mu indicated that he was here to eat tonight, and tomorrow he was going to pass the Olympic torch in Shicheng.

The fourth aunt praised He Mu for his prowess, which was the pride of the old He family, but if you want to rub the rice, you have to do it yourself, haven't you seen that the future son-in-law has started to roll out dumpling skins? He Mu said that there is no problem at all, he makes dumplings very quickly, he can make about 20 dumplings in a minute, and he can almost meet the needs of a family in ten minutes.

In the kitchen, Song Xuan Why Mu Xiaonan officially introduced her boyfriend Jeff. Stark, with the same surname as Iron Man, who has recently become popular in the United States. Originally working at MGM, he saw that MGM was weak and difficult to come back to life, so he recently jumped to Lionsgate, which is the largest independent film company in the United States after MGM was acquired, that is, a film company without the support of a big consortium behind it.

Because of his good resume, Jeff is now a high-ranking leader at Lionsgate, with an annual salary of one million dollars and a dividend at the end of the year, and he is less than forty years old, even in the United States, he is a very popular and successful person among women.

Then Song Xuan briefly introduced her cousin and niece to her boyfriend, and she often talked about this cousin with her boyfriend when she was in the United States before. said how popular he was in China, he didn't feel anything at first, but when he came to China, he found that He Mu was really too popular. It's far redder than he imagined.

"We are on the road from the airport to here, on both sides of the road, on one side is 'Hengshui Laobai dry drink manly', and on the other hand, 'happy Olympics, welcome the Olympics', it's all your face, oh my God. It's incredible, when you enter the city, it's almost the same on the bus stop sign. In the United States, I am afraid that only Pete and Tom have this kind of influence! Jeff lamented that his speech speed is very fast, and sometimes Chinese can't keep up with English and pop out.

Listening to Jeff's words, He Mu smiled and said nothing. In fact, this situation is only in the province. Outside the province, the advertising investment of Lao Baigan and Xiao is weaker, but it is also slowly increasing, and both brands are now well-known domestic brands and can be bought all over the country.

After a brief introduction and conversation, He Muzhi said that his cousin brought her boyfriend back this time, firstly, to let her parents meet Jeff, although she had received several years of American education. However, she also maintains a very good Chinese tradition, and her other half will definitely be tested by her parents. After passing it, it can be further developed, and the fourth aunt and his wife have reluctantly agreed to Song Xuan to find a foreigner, so they didn't reject Jeff's visit much, so they treated it as a son-in-law who came to entertain him.

Another reason for them to come back this time is to go north. Watch the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing, and at the same time go to some of the competition venues to feel the atmosphere of the scene. He Mu asked them if they had tickets for the opening ceremony, the two showed sadness, they thought that as long as they had money, they could buy it, now it seems that it is not so easy, there are too many Chinese, there are too many people who want to see the opening ceremony, just tens of thousands of tickets, now this time is almost sold out, where can I still buy tickets.

"Well, I'll see if I can get you tickets." He Mu has a big package, and sometimes it is necessary to buy a ticket in China. One of the singers of "Welcome to Beijing", a star who actively participates in the promotion of the Olympic Games, it is nothing to ask for two tickets directly from the organizing committee. The singers of "Welcome to Beijing" are all getting tickets, if it weren't for the fact that he didn't want to delay the progress of filming, I'm afraid he would also choose to take Zilin to the scene to watch, He Mu is still full of expectations for Lao Mouzi's work.

Hearing He Mu's promise, Jeff smiled happily, but He Mu stopped what he was doing and looked at him, and everyone else looked at him.

"Why do you think of me like that?"

"Because there are no dumpling skins."

He Mu's addition made the dumpling wrappers consume too fast, and Jeff's speed couldn't keep up at all, so the Song family had to roll all the dumpling wrappers, which barely supplied He Mu's speed.

When eating dumplings in the evening, He Mu got to know Jeff, the future brother-in-law, who graduated from the University of Southern California and has more than ten years of experience in the film industry.

Although Jeff didn't know much about Chinese culture before, but since he made Song Xuan, a Chinese girlfriend, a few years ago, he was deeply captured by the oriental beauty in her, and since then he has begun to learn Chinese, learn Chinese cultural knowledge, and now he seems to be half a Chinese expert, and he treats some domestic problems more than He Mu, the authorities, of course, there are some inherent prejudices in Americans, He Mu can see that these prejudices are almost all straightened by Song Xuan, but when chatting with He Mu, he can still faintly feel it, Maybe he will have to wait for a while to stay in China before he can feel that the real China is not the same as what their media say.

He Mu and Jeff's favorite conversation is about movies, about Hollywood movies, and Chinese movies.

After all, He Mu is just an actor, and being a producer is only a recent thing, and it is also a TV series, although he has been secretly groping for movies, but after all, he is not as good as Jeff, a professional, but he still has a certain say in some topics of local movies.

Jeff first talked about the development trend of Hollywood movies in recent years, and he was also interested in He Mu, who wanted to understand the outside world.

Unlike the rapid development of the mainland film market, Hollywood movies have generally been relatively stable in recent years, and the North American box office has basically remained at about $10 billion.

Sometimes the local box office can no longer guarantee the profitability of a big-budget film, but with the help of Hollywood's influence in the global film market, they can easily sell Hollywood blockbusters to the whole world, and many times the overseas box office will exceed the local box office in North America, and now the box office generated by Hollywood movies every year accounts for nearly 80% of the global box office, of which Japan and China have contributed a lot of box office.

Hollywood movies in recent years, especially after the success of "Spider-Man", have become more and more fond of adapting and remaking hero comics, and they have achieved good results, and last year's annual box office champion was Spider-Man's last film, $330 million in North America and $890 million worldwide, plus spin-offs and other sales channels, making amazing profits.

This year is even more remarkable, so far, the North American box office champion is Nolan's "Batman Prequel 2: The Night Knight", the box office has just broken 500 million US dollars, and it is still being screened in theaters, the momentum is very strong, and the second place is the newcomer to superhero movies, Paramount and Marvel Comics jointly created "Iron Man", this film has reached a total of 310 million at the box office, and the success of this film brought Robert Downey Jr. back to the throne of a first-line star after ups and downs, saving the acting career of the prodigal son.

Batman and Iron Man is the top brand of DC Comics, and the other is a popular star of Marvel Comics, the two superheroes in the North American film market in 08 can be described as killing all sides, domineering, I believe that the follow-up works will soon be able to keep up, this is also the trend of Hollywood movies in recent years, after a movie is successful, it is not even so successful, as long as it does not lose too much, there will definitely be a sequel or prequel later, which has become the only way for Hollywood studios to attract money.

"Iron Man" He Mu has already seen it, high-tech is handsome to play, Donnie's performance is indeed charming, this is a very good commercial film in terms of entertainment and watchability, this film was originally released in the mainland two days earlier than North America, and the final mainland box office also exceeded 100 million, as for "Batman Prequel 2: Night Knight" He Mu has only heard of its name, "I don't know when the mainland will introduce this movie." ”

Jeff shook his head, "Your State Administration of Radio, Film and Television may not release this film into the mainland market, I heard that it seems to have touched some sensitive places of the authorities, so you may want to learn about this legendary film through a DVD." ”

When it comes to domestic radio and television, Jeff, a foreigner, is angry, and He Mu is also a little angry, but the reasons for their anger are different.

He Mu is because radio and television control mainland filmmakers are too serious, this one is not allowed to be filmed, that one is not allowed to be touched, filmmakers from other countries can shoot whatever they want, as long as there is no problem in the general direction, but they have set a lot of rules and regulations when making movies, sometimes the things that have been filmed hard cannot be shown to others, He Mu's biggest regret is that "The Devil is Coming" and "Alive" were banned, he feels that Zhang Yimou's later works have not surpassed "Alive", It is likely that this experience of being banned made him cautious and wise. From this point of view. It is much more difficult for Chinese filmmakers to create their own film prosperity than other countries.

Jeff's anger is more because radio and television have limited the number of imported films, so that Hollywood films cannot enter the Chinese market on a large scale, and after entering the mainland market, they will also be treated unfairly by schedules and film schedules, and they will make an unknown amount of money.

He Mu thought to himself that you just want to make money, but you never take into account the survival and development of Chinese films, it has not been a few years since Chinese films embarked on the road of commercialization, and rashly opening up and restricting Chinese commercial films when they are not yet mature will inevitably have a huge impact on Chinese films, in 2000, there were ten imported films in China that contributed two-thirds of the national box office, at this time, if there are no policy restrictions, I am afraid that the 8090 generation will become a generation that grew up watching American blockbusters, This is very terrible for the rise of a weak nation. (To be continued......)

PS: [ps: 2/3 ~ Lao Buddha has a headache for foreigners' dialogue methods, and he can't write well without experience, so he won't play that, and everyone will make up what Jeff said to their own brains into the kind they like~ What kind of thing you like~]