"Dan. Brown? Leonardo da Vinci. The Password? ”

The day after Daniel's arrival in Nairobi, Simon took him to the premises of the British Mission in Kenya. Brown's phone.

"By the way, DD Pictures is trying to shoot "Leonardo da Vinci. Password", but it seems that Sony Colombia is progressing a little more? ”

Simon looked at Daniel and didn't hide dd and dan in front of him. Brown's communication is not too shy about talking about this topic.

The scramble for this bestseller went on for a long time, and Dan. Brown has been reluctant to relinquish the rights to the adaptation, and in fact, the price has not changed much, and both DD Pictures and Sony Columbia have fully considered what the novel can achieve when they first made an offer to Brown - after all, it has already shown its charm. So Brown obviously didn't make a decision because of the price, but because of other factors.

"He told me 'I'm sorry.'"

Simon's eyes widened, "So he gave up the adaptation rights to Sony Columbia?" ”

Daniel nodded, it was indeed one of the few notable failures he had experienced. He had hoped to adapt the highly anticipated novel into a series, inviting Peter Brown. Jackson and David. Fincher co-directed - a lavish idea for the lineup. And he had the confidence to make it happen. Peter is good at picture and world construction, while David is good at suspense deduction and atmosphere creation. The Finch Code needs to succeed on both fronts at the same time, so as not to be as successful as the original. Howard's hands were mediocre.

Unfortunately, this time Daniel couldn't get what he wanted.

"How serious are you about this project?"

"I can't talk about it, but it's always a bad thing to have my plans disrupted, isn't it? But now is not the time to think about that. The Immortal Gardener requires my concentration. ”

They were valued by the British Mission, Brown. Lyman greeted them personally. conAd1();

"You can come with me to some events," Brown — another Brown said. He looked well-maintained, even though there was already white in his hair. But his elegant temperament makes him look like he is only about 40 years old, "I know that you need to learn the image of a diplomat, so attending the event is undoubtedly the most suitable." Because I wasn't always that 'diplomat' in private. ”

Brown winked at them and smiled.

"Thank you very much for your help, in fact, except for the most important ones. I also like to know what you look like in life, and I know that although film is a performing art, sometimes you need to reconcile the sense of performance with the actual process, and if I keep acting like a diplomat, it may make people feel uncomfortable. ”

Daniel did not expect the exact opposite of what he had feared, and before he came, he thought that the mission might arrange a table for him in his office and let him sit there and watch—so that the mission staff was indeed "too undiplomatic". Unexpectedly, Brown was quite thoughtful for the crew, and promised to take him to foreign affairs activities.

"I see, no problem. If you have any needs, you can tell my assistant and we will try to help you. ”

……

There wasn't much time left for Daniel to prepare, and he traveled with the mission for a week, during which he needed to meet his own and Fernando's requests.

"That's enough," Fernando said with ease, "your public activities in social affairs have given you a lot of similar experience. In fact. That's not much different from the job of a diplomat. ”

Daniel never doubted his professional abilities.

Fernando, Jeffrey. Kane arranged his own filming in the civilian area of Kibera on the outskirts of Nairobi, with the support of a local school. In fact, it's really a very run-down school. The students come from the poor people in the slums of Kibera, who come to Nairobi for higher wages - the same is the case all over the world, where the poor converge on the rich. conAd2();

"It's hard to believe, isn't it? I thought the slums in Rio de Janeiro were surprising enough. Fernando and Jeffrey were stunned by Kibera's harsh living conditions. When Fernando filmed "City of God", he focused his lens on the slums of Brazil, which he thought were already the worst living conditions in the world, but this unequal world always "surprises".

"Daniel and Rachel, and Houston, when they see this, they might be even more surprised." Jeffrey is, after all, a veteran filmmaker, well-informed, and even if the poverty, dirtiness and disorder in front of him make it difficult for him to accept it, at least he understands the richness of the world.

The Houston in his mouth is Danny, who stayed at the mission with Daniel. Houston -- Sandy. Woodrow's actor, he is a key character in this story.

"Rachel and Houston may be surprised, but Daniel isn't," Fernando sighed and greeted the Kenyan kids around them, "Don't forget, Daniel has been to the Dadaab refugee camp, and the refugee camp is supposed to be worse than the slums, right?" ”

"The Kenyan government will never show him the real refugee camps, otherwise the UNHCR will continue to send them large sums of money and money."

It is indeed sad to talk about these frustrating topics, and Kenya's establishment of the Dadaab refugee camp for Somali refugees is certainly not entirely humanitarian - in fact, it should be for a very small reason. Access to political capital is one, access to United Nations supplies and funding is another. The former emboldens Kenya to seek aid from many developed countries – which is why the Kenyan government has recently become more and more fond of talking about the fact that Dadaab is overwhelming them. It's basically the same as shouting to the world, "Give me a favor, or I'll pick on these refugees to get out of Kenya." ”

The darkness of Africa itself is no clearer than that of neocolonizers, such as the pharmaceutical companies in "The Immortal Gardener."

……

When you see poverty, helplessness, and despair that you have never seen before, whether you are a good person or an evil person, whether you are a strong person or a weak person, you will inevitably have some thoughts that you have never had. conAd3();

This is the baptism of the soul.

In comparison, the event that Daniel participated in was not at the same level at all.

Aid Attaché to the British Mission in Kenya Blair. Woolf is attending a public event - Daniel is not missing it, because of Blair's role and his role as Justin. Quay is exactly the same.

This is an event led by the UK Ministry of Health, with the participation of a number of academic institutions and medical institutions, to conduct research on the current situation of AIDS in Kenya - the Kenyan government generally welcomes such groups because their reports to the UK government, the United Nations, WHO, UNESCO tend to give Kenya more assistance - even if it is just medicines and hygiene products, it is profitable, Otherwise, these aids would not have appeared in large quantities on the black market, where mercenaries, rebels, and some African heads of state, whom the West has identified as non-partners, are buyers.

Blair had a speaking schedule, behind the group leader, an official from the UK Department of Health, and a professor at the University of Manchester.

"I know you've all seen that, yes, there's a guest here today, and he's Daniel Brown, the UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador and the leader of the Science for All Foundation. Mr. Sandler. ”

Blair took the initiative to introduce Daniel at the beginning - this would allow everyone to reduce the speculation and discussion, which was already a small disturbance to the normal order of the event.

Daniel greeted with a smile, the expression on his face was three points similar to Blair's, his demeanor was natural, and his aura was gentle.

This is his fifth day in the mission, and the results are obvious.

It was just a small episode, and Blair began his formal speech, with occasional movements, but they were all small and the tone did not fluctuate much, but it was easy to hear the point. Daniel thought about it for a moment, and Blair controlled the speed and stress of his speech very well, and most of his speech was a few clichés, but the wording was light and interesting, and it was obviously easier to attract people's attention than the professor who spoke a lot of technical vocabulary just now.

Daniel nodded, learning a lot.

In the middle of the activity, a half-hour tea party was arranged.

Daniel was able to travel through the crowd and experiment with what he had been learning for many days.

Blair took a cup of instant brewed coffee, and next to him stood his colleague, the British Health Department official.

"He's only been studying for 5 days, hasn't he?"

"Do you look like a veteran diplomat?"

"Very much like it, at least it looks very much like it."

"He just needs to look very similar, doesn't he?"

"Not necessarily, this gentleman's ambitions are not limited to Hollywood, and his foundation and the Ministry of Health recently entered into a partnership to conduct research on a flu virus." I wouldn't be surprised if Britain was the eighth or ninth country they worked with, and if one day he would be going to run for president or cabinet membership. ”

“…… We can't predict the future of a miracle man. ”

……

At the end of June, "The Endless Gardener" officially started filming in Nairobi, and at the same time, the crew announced on F2F, MB and the official website that the film crew included Daniel . Sandler and Rachel. A still from Vichy. (To be continued)

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