Chapter 15: New Friends
Lin Yueran is pursuing the release of the movie, Thomas wants to gamble, maybe he can earn it, and the effort can be almost ignored, maybe there will be something in the video tape market, after all, there are still some fans who have alternative tastes. There was no conflict between the goals of the two parties, so the contract was signed quickly, and Lin Yueran still had a lot of homework on his own, and if he took too long of leave, he was afraid that it would be recorded.
"Ek, Lucia, maybe we'll succeed, maybe we'll fail, leave it all to God and the audience" Back in Canada, just in time for Alex and Lucia to leave school, one undergraduates and the other with a master's degree, this good news should be a gift for them.
"Aiwen, I really didn't expect you to do it, what a persistent cute child" Lucia was originally going to Hollywood to develop, having her own work on the big screen can definitely make her resume more beautiful, and when she knew the news, she kissed Lin Yueran a few times.
After participating in the celebration of the two of them, Lin Yueran helped Alex move, this is a collection control, from old record players to vinyl records, from Celine Dion to Michael Jackson, and many superhero models of Marvel, which made Lin Xu, who came to work together, greedy. Although he lives a rich life, the older generation is very disgusted with these things, thinking that they are playthings and can only be secretly collected, how can Alex be so rich.
In Lin Xu's expectant eyes, Alex packed these treasures and took them away, and did not politely give him two, but left the record player and a box of vinyl records to Lin Yueran, anyway, Lin Yueran is also his friend and cheap teacher, and he is still counting on learning more kung fu, thinking that one day he can be majestic, maybe he can be a hero and save the beauty.
Although Alex was a little noisy when he was there, but now that it is quiet, Lin Yueran is really a little unaccustomed to it, he just finished the homework assigned by the teacher, and went to the United States for a lot of time and had to make up for some homework. Closing the book, Lin Yueran stood up and stretched out his medicine, and made himself a cup of tea by the way, maybe he felt a little quiet, because today was Saturday, and there were not many people in the whole building. But when he saw the record player, he suddenly had an idea, and he heard that the sound quality of vinyl records was the best, so let's give it a try, and he should relax, and he turned out Celine Dion's "My Heart is Eternal".
is worthy of being a diva-level singer, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is touching to enjoy the scenes as if you can see the movie when you close your eyes. The knock on the door interrupted Lin Yueran's enjoyment of the music, who was so disturbing the scenery, "You are?" When I opened the door, I found that I didn't know each other, but the other party should be Chinese, so I asked politely, the most difficult thing to distinguish between Asians is China, Japan and South Korea, but Chinese Americans can generally accurately distinguish those who are their compatriots, maybe some inductions in the bloodline.
"I'm sorry to bother you, I just heard the song and came over involuntarily, I like this song very much" The person who came was about twenty-four or five years old, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, looking a little decadent but still maintaining his due cultivation, some literary temperament.
"If you don't mind, let's enjoy it together" Anyway, I don't have anything to do in the afternoon, and it's quite boring to be alone, since someone appreciates my own things, Lin Yueran also shared, "Thank you, your record player and records are out of print, no wonder the sound quality is so good" As soon as he entered the room, the person's eyes looked at the record player, and he really liked it, and he had a bit of a temperament.
"Lin Yueran, Chinese, a mechanical student, just immigrated here not long ago" Lin Yueran stretched out his hand to introduce himself, "Zhang Mingfeng, a Chinese student, from the Department of Finance" The two shook hands, but they felt a little awkward, was it too formal? But after a cup of tea, the atmosphere immediately improved, this Zhang Mingfeng really likes music, and when it comes to it, he is like a literary young man, who can't see the shrewdness and rationality that finance students should have.
An afternoon passed in music like this, although Lin Yueran didn't understand music, he had read a lot of theories, so he and Zhang Mingfeng could also chat, of course, they also talked a lot about domestic and school things, and the two got along quite happily. "Brother Zhang, no matter what you encounter, don't touch that thing" Finding that it was almost six o'clock, Zhang Mingfeng said goodbye embarrassedly, and when he was sent out, Lin Yueran still gave advice, looking at his appearance made people think of drugs.
There are many international students who come into contact with that stuff for the so-called lame reason of mingling with foreign friends, and the final result is self-evident, let themselves suffer and make their parents sad, Lin Yueran doesn't want this compatriot who has a good time with him to be ruined by that damn drug.
Zhang Mingfeng first paused for a moment, "Thank you, I have the opportunity to come upstairs as a guest, I invite you to dinner, my craftsmanship is still good" When people are lost or when they are hit, maybe a kind look from others and a warm word will arouse his inner fighting spirit. Zhang Mingfeng was originally going to go out to buy drunk, but he didn't expect to chat with a strange compatriot about music for an afternoon, and they became friends with each other, and now he wants to go back and make a delicious meal to treat himself.
After a month of being busy, it took me all the lessons I had pulled down before, and it seemed that the students still had to do what they were supposed to do, and they couldn't be distracted. At the beginning of the semester, I chose several courses I liked when I looked at the class schedule, thinking that I could easily do it as before, and I was also focused a lot with the deepening of my skills, and my memory and understanding have improved, but I couldn't stand him to choose more, and I pulled down a lot of them one at a time, and it really took several nights to make up for it.
"Aiwen, we're going to succeed, do you know what our box office is this month, 20 million" Inexplicably receiving a call from Lucia confused Lin Yueran, this eldest sister had some nerves early in the morning, "I know" Lin Yueran hung up the phone and continued to sleep, and called without looking at the time.
"Aven, don't sleep anymore, our movie is going to be a success" Lucia called her, she didn't sleep all night and was paying attention to the box office of the movie. When she saw the box office for a month on the official website, she immediately realized that she was really going to succeed, and her future was bright. Hollywood is also a hyper-realistic place, and it's not so easy for her to get a chance to learn as a rookie, so she has been following Lionsgate's actions.
However, Lionsgate had almost no publicity at the beginning, only arranging 10 theaters to be released during the night period, and the publicity paid was a poster, the content was simple and outrageous, with only one camera and a vague ghost, Lucia was also discouraged and continued to apply for the crew. But a week later, the situation changed, many young people bought tickets to enter the theater, the attendance rate was quite high, and the person in charge of Lionsgate also took advantage of the trend to increase the number of theater releases, and the second week was actually enthusiastic, and the situation was very good. At this time, the subordinate immediately reported to Thomas that the company seemed to have dug up the treasure.
Thomas immediately asked the people in the marketing department to do a survey, but he didn't expect everyone's evaluation of this film to be good, and many people also said that they also wanted to use the camera to experience it themselves to see if they could capture the supernatural event. Word of mouth, gimmicks, and young people like it are all elements of success, and Thomas immediately asked the publicity department to increase publicity and negotiate with the theater chain to increase the number of theaters screened.
With good word-of-mouth and increased publicity, theaters have also increased the number of films, and the box office reached $10 million in the third week. Thomas couldn't sit still, a gold mine, definitely a gold mine, he was going to be released in real North America, and Lucia finally didn't have to apply everywhere anymore, and was invited by Lionsgate to participate in the promotional event. The film really lived up to expectations, winning 10 million box office in the fourth week, with a total box office of 20 million, this is only the fourth week in name, in fact, in the first week, Thomas has begun to dream of the film breaking through 50 million.
Lin Yueran was a little surprised, is this time true? Will your own and your friends' games have such good market acceptance? But it's always a happy thing to succeed, and I don't want to be distracted anymore by these things, so I let Lucia have something to do and contact Thomas directly, and take full charge of everything about the movie.
Tomorrow is the National Day of China, I didn't expect such a happy thing, thank you for the blessing of the motherland, no matter how you say that you are still a Chinese in your heart, such an important festival and such a happy thing, how to buy a national flag and hang it back, show a child's heart.
"Get up, people who don't want to be slaves" accompanied by the sound of the national anthem and the newborn sunrise Lin Yueran hung a national flag out of the window, attracting many students to watch, and of course some scolded him for disturbing people's dreams early in the morning.
"Damn, Yueran, I feel ashamed compared to you" A hurried knock on the door came, Lin Yueran thought he was looking for trouble, but he didn't expect it to be Zhang Mingfeng, who drank tea with him last time. Originally, he was sleeping comfortably but was woken up by a friend next door, saying that someone was hanging his country's flag outside the window and still singing, he remembered that today was the National Day, it is estimated that it was made by Chinese students, and he looked downstairs curiously, but he was shocked.
More than 20 international students downstairs stood neatly under the bright national flag, singing loudly to the clear melody of the national anthem, although some were unkempt, some were sleepy-eyed, and even wore pajamas, but at this moment they were all facing the national flag seriously, and there were students nearby who joined one after another. Zhang Mingfeng couldn't sit still, he observed the position of the national flag, didn't care about not washing, and ran downstairs in slippers.
When he saw that it was Lin Yueran, he was stunned for a moment, and then bowed to him, "Brother Zhang, what are you doing" Lin Yueran was really moved to watch the international students go downstairs to salute the national flag, and he didn't expect it. "No, you deserve this, if it weren't for you, I'm afraid that few people remember what day it is, maybe they are all sleeping under the covers, you are a respectable person" Zhang Mingfeng said with a positive color.