It is said that without investigation, there is no right to speak, but in fact, if there is only investigation but no practice, where does it come from?

If you want to compare the difference between Japanese wives and Chinese wives, Li Lianjie is the most sympathetic. ex-wife Huang Wanqiu is not like his wife, but more like a daughter who is spoiled by herself, crying when she doesn't go her way, and just giving birth to a child, she is sloppy and nagging like a middle-aged woman; Today's wife, Miho, is like his wife, mother, and lover, virtuous and willing to be trivial. Every day he starts to take care of the housework before he wakes up, and the house is always spotless. She is also always delicate in makeup, showing him her most beautiful side.

In her career, her ex-wife not only wants Li Lianjie to become popular, but also thinks that he is too busy to spend time with her, and she is afraid that he will mess with flowers and grass outside, and she can't wait to stay under her nose every day. The current Miho Nakajima, but he told him that 'men should put their careers first', and never care how he is outside, as long as he doesn't forget to go home every day. When she was filming outside, no matter how late it was, she would wait in the living room and say, 'Jie, you've worked hard'.

Today, Director Sun came to the house and wanted him to star in "The Matrix", and Director Sun's movie that was so solemn must be a very great movie; And Director Sun has a great favor to himself, it is he who has promoted himself from an outdated star to a superstar and a Hollywood superstar. But thinking of his pregnant wife, Li Lianjie was very conflicted. He has been a husband and a father, and he knows the responsibilities and obligations.

Li Lianjie's distress and contradictions make Miho Nakajima, who has been paying attention to him, feel very sweet, her husband's personality is too clear to herself, and she is very satisfied to be able to do this for herself and her unborn child.

Waiting for Kayo Sato to leave with the tea and coffee she had made, Miho Nakajima walked up to Li Lianjie, who was standing by the window and was distressed, and said gently: "Jie, I heard my mother say that my father was on an ocean liner when I was born, and I was half a year old when he came home. I remember that my sister was also three months old before my father came back from overseas. ”

Li Lianjie didn't know how to say it for a while, so he had to hold his wife's already thick waist and look at the blue sea and blue sky outside the window together.

After saving for a while, Miho Nakajima pushed Li Lianjie away and said softly: "Jie, go and promise Sun Sang." Home is your harbor and shouldn't be a burden to you. The more successful you are, the prouder and better life will be for me and my children, and you are our hope! ”

"Thank you, Miho", Li Lianjie kissed his wife's smooth forehead lightly, and turned around to go to the screening room at home.

When Li Lianjie came to the screening room, Sun Zi Mingzheng was slowly analyzing "Amazing Flowers" for Andy Wachowski, and there was Chris Columbus next to him proposing suggestions for improvement, as if they were teaching students in class.

The film is a very subjective work of the director, and if you think it is good, it does not mean that it will be successful, and it does not mean that the audience will approve of it. The Wachowski brothers thought their debut film was good, but in front of great directors like Sun Ziming and Chris Columbus, who usually looked up to them, they were like two schoolboys. It's not that they are not confident, it's that the people who help them analyze the film are too big, not only are they reasonable, but they are sincere in tone, not the vitriol of the critics.

However, James Cameron, who asked Sun Ziming to call from the special effects company, finally couldn't bear to listen to him verbosity, and interrupted bluntly: "Andy, Larry, right, I just read your script, and I also read Ming's revised script." You have a good idea, but you can only call it great if you change it! We also watched your movie just now, and your level is not enough to shoot Ming's script, so the director of "The Matrix" will arrange another person. Of course, Ming has always been generous, and will let you sign the screenwriter and get the due rights and interests of the screenwriter. ”

'Ahem, cough, cough', Sun Zi Ming saw that the two of them were very embarrassed, and couldn't help coughing a few times to remind this guy to pay attention, but James was dissatisfied: "Go to the doctor if you have a cold, I can't get used to your hypocrisy." Obviously, I can make it clear in a few words, but it would be a waste of my time to show your superior and noble character! ”

Sun Ziming, who was down, turned his face away, pretending not to know this guy, and Chris and Roland next to him were not happy, and sneered at each other: "The boss is very hypocritical, so his assistant director will become a real director in the end." You are very sincere, so your assistant director will always be an assistant director! ”

"Shit!Is Stuart a director? Doesn't Douglas only have to be an assistant director? ”

"Forget it, Douglas, tell me, how did the boss teach you in the first place?"

Douglas, who was pouring coffee for everyone on the side, hurriedly said: "It's just that I have no talent, the boss taught me by hand, and I can't even write a qualified script." ”

"Shit, according to you, am I going to quit Stewart and replace him with an assistant director with a talent for directing? What kind of/fart logic is this? ”

The commonplace quarrel started again, and Sun Ziming beckoned to Andy's brothers, signaling to go out to talk to him, and gave it to a few guys who didn't quarrel for half an hour and would never stop.

A few people came out of the screening room, and when they were isolated behind the door by the noise behind them, Sun Zi Mingcai joked: "Brother Jie, let my sister-in-law convince you?" ”

"Hey, I'm smiling you."

Sun Ziming laughed a few times and quipped: "You should feel lucky, Japanese wife, Chinese food, this is a wise saying." ”

Now Li Lianjie has also begun to have a superstar demeanor, no longer the wooden martial artist he used to be, leading a few people to sit on the balcony, brewing two cups of tea and two cups of coffee, and echoing: "I'm lucky!" You talk, I'll listen to the quarrel and play. ”

After taking a sip of hot tea, the grandson glanced at the Andy Wachowski brothers, who were still lucky, and sighed secretly. If you don't want to cherish your feathers, why waste your time here.

After pondering for a while, Sun Ziming said patiently: "You also heard James's words just now, although the words are difficult to hear, but this is the reality." Those three scripts are expected to invest between 250 million and 300 million, and we can't take such a big risk and hand over the film to you to direct. Do you understand that when I explain this? ”

The brothers lamented and finally accepted the cruel reality: their children have been cultivated by the family, and they have finally become other people's children. Blame it for trusting people too much, believing too much in strong promises and China's reputation, and did not find a lawyer to sign an agreement, but directly signed Douglas's standard agreement. If I knew this, I should have stipulated in the agreement that I could only direct by my brother.

Sun Ziming's face was a little unbearable when he said this, knocked on the glass coffee table, and reminded: "Gentlemen, you just provided an idea, and we paid $700,000 for this idea, and we will pay tens of millions of dollars in the future!" ”

The words are not speculative, more than half a sentence.

Larry Wachowski, who had a stronger temper, heard Sun Ziming say this, and he was not to be outdone: "Ok, we will pay you back $700,000, and you will return the script to us, okay?" ”

Sun Ziming laughed angrily and mocked: "According to what you said, I changed it in vain? Mr. Larry, do you know that I help someone revise a script, or review a script? I'll give you back the script, are you willing to pay 20 million? It's not me bragging, in Hollywood, there are definitely not a few people who are willing to pay 20 million dollars to ask me to revise the script! ”

Andy, who hadn't spoken much, seemed to have caught some loophole, and just wanted to speak, Sun Ziming blocked his words in his mouth again.

"You want to take my revised script and then pull for funds, right? Think about it, how many of those scripts are mine and how much are yours? Note: The copyright of the script is under the premise that we acquired it, and I will revise it a second time. In other words, my revisions are agreed to by you, and even if you are asked to get the script back now, we have the right to start filming the revised script. And all we need to pay is the screenwriting fee for the proportion of your creativity in the script.

I think the price of $700,000 for a script will be considered very fair by the judges. ”

"Shame on you!"

Sun Ziming's face was hot, and he picked up the teacup on the coffee table in annoyance, poured all the half-cold tea on Larry's face, and said gloomily: "Boy, discussing with you is to respect you, not to accommodate you!" ”

Liu Weiqiang, who had been silent, also stood up, glared at the brothers who were still in a daze, and said in a deep voice: "Larry, speak reasonably!" Even if it's wrong, it's me, not my boss! ”

Larry Wachowski, who was splashed with tea and had a hot brain, finally woke up, the script had been sold to someone else, that is, someone else's, and he didn't have a reason to go anywhere. It's like buying a box of eggs in the supermarket, whether people want to cook or fry them is their freedom.

Larry Wachowski, who figured it out, got up and left, and his brother Andy hurriedly followed.

Embarrassed, Larry drove away from Marbury Beach at a brisk pace, and suddenly stopped on the side of the road with a squeak.

After a moment of silence, Larry Wachowski suddenly asked, "Andy, are we lucky or unlucky?" ”

Andy, who has a more calm personality, let go of his grip on the handle, stuffed a 'Marlboro' into his brother's mouth, smoked one himself, took a few deep breaths and said quietly: "Larry, in fact, no one is wrong about this." Qiang likes our script and wants to help us, because the light and shadow company gives the best treatment to screenwriters and directors; China Ming is not wrong to give an investment of two or three hundred million dollars to two directors who have only made one movie, and in their eyes have more shortcomings than advantages, unless they are all crazy! ”

"So we're wrong?"

Andy shook his head again and thought for a while before replying: "Larry, we wanted to be directors because of the box office fiasco of "Assassin's Battlegrounds", which tarnished the script we carefully wrote, and also attracted harsh criticism from film critics, so we wanted to take Yiqiē into our own hands and make the movie we wanted."

China Ming's revised script, you have also read it, and the level is indeed much higher than ours. The light and shadow company does not make bad movies, and I am very relieved that the script is handed over to them. ”

Larry was also completely awake, sighed, and finally accepted the reality, "Hey, forget it, when you meet Qiang, let him apologize to China Ming on my behalf." ”

A few days later, when Sun Ziming, who was preparing to return to Hong Kong to attend the engagement ceremony of his sister-in-law Li Jiaxin, heard Liu Weiqiang's apology, he suddenly felt that the world was ridiculous. After thinking about it, I thought about the phrase 'meanness is the pass of the mean'. However, the current Sun Ziming doesn't have any sense of moral guilt, the world is always the law of the jungle, is this bit of a fart for me?