Chapter 673 The 673rd event is in Cambridge
As soon as he went out, Leigh Canon, who had been holding back for a long time, raised his foot and kicked the wall hard, and couldn't help but get angry and scolded: "Hardy, this old immortal idiot!! ”
"Shut up, don't you think you caused enough trouble today?" Kolk Corkrian looked at him coldly.
"Cork~~ You promised, MGM...... MGM ...... It's mine~~It's mine~~! But now there's nothing~!! Hardy's old fool simply let Li Xiaole hit us! He just wants to get us out~~! Leigh Canon said that later, his voice was full of tears, for so many years, he bowed his head and endured for so many years, and when he finally wanted to control the overall situation by himself, he suddenly killed Li Xiaole, so that his efforts for more than ten years were ruined! How could he not be angry!?
"You're a real idiot...... Colk Corkerie shook his head in disappointment, "Do you think Hardy is as stupid as you?" What you can think of, he can't even think of? Hardy even DreamWorks can be sorted out, not to mention this little black pearl, with his means, he must have prepared everything a long time ago, haven't you noticed? I just reminded him that Li Xiaole's harm to Hollywood in the future is by no means alarmist, but he didn't even frown, so we don't have to worry about Li Xiaole. ”
"Then what if Li Xiaole is worried about becoming an American citizen? Then we don't get nothing," Leigh Canon said with gritted teeth.
"If Li Xiaole bows his head so easily, he still needs to wait until today? With his talent, will he nest in your little MGM? You see that people have more brains than brains, how did I teach you before? Looking at Leigh Canon, who was out of control, Colk Corkerian became more and more disappointed, he didn't understand how his son-in-law, who used to be calm and shrewd, had recently changed as if he had changed a person.
He didn't understand the huge gap in Leigh Canon's heart at all, it was Leigh Canon himself who recruited Li Xiaole to MGM, but he didn't expect that he originally wanted to knock on this nouveau riche from China, but now it will be a devastating blow to his life's work......
And during the period from June 7th to June 14th, in the tragic box office war of this blockbuster-packed summer file, "Hulk" did not have a huge decline after the first week as expected, and still got a good result of 73.81 million, looking at this trend, there is no problem with the North American market exceeding 200 million, and the global box office is also very likely to exceed 400 million US dollars, although this result cannot catch up with the global box office approaching 600 million "Pirates of the Caribbean 3: The End of the World" and "" that has just broken through the global 700 million US dollar mark Spider-Man 3", but compared to other movies, they have been left far behind.
If Black Pearl has the same level of distribution capacity as the Big Six, what will be the result? Will "The Incredible Hulk" surpass "Pirates of the Caribbean 3", which has a billion box office power?
Black Pearl's competitors, just imagining this scene, all feel a little frightened, a year ago the Black Pearl Company was just a small company that no one could afford, so in a blink of an eye, when everyone began to pay attention to it, turned their heads and found that it had become a real behemoth, even the dream factory of the year did not give people this unstoppable feeling.
As the helmsman of this high-spirited film and television company, Li Xiaole did not feel the smoke of the North American film battlefield at the moment, but came to the famous Cambridge University in order to participate in an academic event.
Although it is still in the summer vacation, St. Catherine's College is particularly lively, many students and young people in Cambridgeshire have poured in, and the security guards are also tightly guarding the school gates, blocking a large number of young fans and media reporters.
On the way to the campus of the main teaching building, Li Xiaole was surrounded by a large group of people, surrounded by temporary bodyguards from the actors of the Drama Council, and in front of him was a thin middle-aged white man in a white shirt and a thin figure was Winston, the vice president of the School of Dramatic Arts.
This is the second time Li Xiaole has come to the university to give a speech, the last time was in Beiying, the scene seems to be vivid, but in a blink of an eye, he arrived in Cambridge again, this wonderful feeling of time and space jumping, so that Li Xiaole couldn't help but float in the air, if it weren't for the loud voices of those British students screaming around, I'm afraid he would have reminisced this beautiful feeling for a long time.
It turned out that in his imagination, Cambridge, a world-class school, should be a rigorous school spirit, British students do not smile, in fact, the British people are indeed as indifferent as rumored, but I never expected that it would be such a lively situation today.
At the beginning, the school originally arranged for him to take a straight route from the back door and directly enter the teaching building for the lecture, but Li Xiaole had the mentality that since he came to Cambridge, he wanted to go to the Kanghe River to see it, and wanted to board the "Kangqiao" and feel the freehand mood of the great poet Xu Zhimo here.
"Gently I go, just as I come gently, I gently beckon, as the clouds of the western sky, the golden willow on the riverside, is the bride in the sunset, the sparkling shadow, rippling in my heart ~ the green wattle on the soft mud, the oil is swaggering under the water......"
What a beautiful picture, before coming, he had fantasized countless times on the Cambridge to appreciate this poetic British elegance, but he didn't expect that he stood on the "Cambridge" today, only to see a black pressed person, he beckoned gently, a black pressed person screamed at him...... Where is half of Xu Zhimo's elegance back then.
And as soon as he stopped at Kangqiao, he found a serious problem, and their group was blocked by enthusiastic student fans before and after the bridge.
"Li~~Can you sign me a name~~ I've liked you for many years, I liked you when you filmed "Life Remote Control" in 2003~~" "Li~~Please take a photo with me~I am the president of the Cambridgeshire Li Xiaole Fan Club~~"
Hundreds of enthusiastic British students, either holding autographed books, or holding mobile phones and cameras, all handed over here, Li Xiaole was helpless, these students who couldn't even understand his movies for several years of filming, seemed to be the majority of the fun, but they could only squeeze out a smile at themselves, the British fans, which caused a scream from the girls.
In a recent issue of The Telegraph, he overtook Pierce Brosnan to become the second best man behind star David Beckham, much to the Victor Beckham's death.
Female fans commented on him: "Too cute, so talented, people want to pinch his face, and the market will be fascinated by his amazing talent." ”
In the face of the enthusiasm of the students, Li Xiaole, who was trapped in the center of the bridge, could only helplessly wait for the security guards to negotiate with the students, leaning on the side of the bridge pier by himself, looking at the sparkling blue water in the Sword River in a daze......
In fact, when he received this event, Li Xiaole was experiencing a very tangled thing, he was preparing everything for his ambitious new film "Slumdog Millionaire" that he was ambitious to conquer the Oscars, in this more than a month, the actors have been signed, the crew has almost been formed, and even the venue has been rented, but he still feels that something is missing.
Frankly speaking, he has always been very sensitive to public aesthetics, but what he is a little uncertain about now is the taste of the Oscar judges, who sometimes give awards to commercial blockbusters like "Titanic", and sometimes to niche themes like "The Godfather".
And the source of his confidence in winning the Oscar is that the movie "Slumdog Millionaire", which he is now planning, has won 8 awards in history, including Best Director and Best Picture, and is one of the few Oscar films that he can fully understand the core of the story.
On the surface, this movie is about the lucky story of an Indian teenager who won the lottery, but in fact this story is about everyone's fate.
Everyone is like a millionaire living in the slums in life, everyone learns in seemingly ordinary days, feels a lot of unique skills and experiences, as long as you live every day with your heart, there will always be an opportunity in life in front of you, and at that time, each of us is like an Indian teenager standing on the answering table, need to continue to solve difficult problems, so as to get the most reward.
We live in the "slums", every day in the past, is in preparation for this day to get "millions of dollars", if we waste those seemingly "useless" days, we will miss the best opportunity in life, only those who experience life with their hearts, will get the most "million dollars", this is the true meaning of life.
Yes, he completely grasped everything that the story wanted to say, but he always felt that there was something lacking, the director of the original version, Danny Boyle, shot it very well, he had no room for improvement at all, and when he faced this kind of story with a huge human core, he felt like he couldn't break through the original book for the first time.
A few years ago, he naively thought that the so-called "film art" was very good to film, that is, to tell the story well, express people's emotions, and use his own emotions to resonate with the audience, just like he felt when he made "Color is Empty", as for the award-winning films of Cannes, Venice, and Berlin Film Festival.
The only difference with the movies that the general public likes is that it is just the difference in the literary and artistic themes that those niche film elites like, to put it bluntly, it is just the disease-free moaning of some high-level intellectuals who moaned without disease.
Frankly speaking, Li Xiaole actually looks down on the so-called "art films" in his heart......