Chapter 125: A Letter from a Strange Woman

Mary Bikfu screened "Shanghai Holiday" to prove her innocence, and she bought the screening rights and remake rights of this Chinese film, which was not plagiarism.

Plagiarism is a scandal, and remakes are just borrowing.

She hopes that by comparing the two films, she will let the American media know that her remake is far better than the original.

This is for the sake of her fame.

"Shanghai Holiday" was only screened once in the theater, and the audience was mostly journalists, with only a very small number of ordinary audiences.

Mary Beck was very depressed, she originally wanted to win the Best Actress at the end of the year with "New York Holiday", but now that the remake has been revealed, the chances of winning the award will be reduced a lot.

Maybe she has to take extraordinary measures, she is not a person who gives up easily.

This is the first Hollywood Film Awards, everything is in the initial stage, the selection criteria are not complicated, the judges are all people she is familiar with, as long as she can attract a group of acquaintances......

No matter what Mary Beck Fu plans in her heart, the American media will inevitably make comparisons after watching "Shanghai Holiday".

Although the two films tell the same story, they still look very different.

"Shanghai Holiday" cannot be compared with "New York Holiday" in terms of shooting techniques and scenes, only slightly better in composition.

Chinese movies are more subtle in expression and do not quite meet the taste of Americans, but the heroine's performance is remarkable, and Princess Anne played by Yin Mingzhu is more princess-like.

Mary Beck's face was too sweet and not noble and elegant enough.

You can't see it without comparison, and once you have a comparison, you will find the gap between the two movies.

Lin Zixuan's "Shanghai Holiday" was filmed by him personally and paid great attention to details, while "New York Holiday" mainly imitated the plot and did not grasp the details well, and many plot twists were slightly stiff.

"Shanghai Holiday" is integrated with the city of Shanghai, just like a cityscape painting.

"New York Holiday" is more like a walk-in, focusing on the love affair between the hero and heroine.

There's no way, who made the two of them big stars, the shots are all heroes and heroines, and they rarely show the human geography and scenic spots of New York.

Lin Zixuan made a lot of suggestions at the beginning, but they were all given up by later directors.

The director didn't grasp the essence of "New York Holiday", which is not only about a love story, but also about the human history of the city.

The U.S. media rediscovered China through "Shanghai Holiday".

The Shanghai in "Shanghai Holiday" is prosperous and open, and people have smiles on their faces, rather than the constant wars, poverty and backwardness, numbness and hardship of the people, struggling to survive as they used to think.

This is natural, this movie is supposed to show the best side of Shanghai, full of positive energy.

Some New York media also found that the actor in "Shanghai Holiday" seems to be a little familiar.

They asked Mr. Peterson, Lin Zixuan's agent in the United States, to confirm that the actor was the author of "Gone with the Wind".

Moreover, they also learned that the famous writer was the direct heir to a large family in China, a banker, a film company owner, and had his own newspaper and publishing house, and even a record label and radio station.

Is this China's media tycoon?

They don't know how much Lin Zixuan's total assets are, but according to the analogy of the situation in the United States, they directly put Lin Zixuan in the same position as the heir of the Rockefeller family.

I have to say that this is a huge misunderstanding.

So, the New York Times gave a detailed introduction to Lin Zixuan on the eighth page.

Characterizing Lin Zixuan as a combination of industrialist and artist, he believes that Lin, who is highly educated in the United States, has achieved great success in the East, has been involved in many fields, and is a genius.

This made Lin Zixuan a little popular in the United States, but this report did not cause much repercussions among Americans.

After all, he is only a Chinese, and he is best known in the United States as the author of "Gone with the Wind."

But it has caused a lot of impact among the Chinese in the United States, and even Zhang Kangren, who had a relationship with Lin Zixuan, was confused, and sent this newspaper to Lin Zixuan.

This is actually a small trick played by lawyer Peterson, who only introduced Lin Zixuan's industries, but vaguely blurred the scale of these industries, creating an illusion for reporters.

This little old man is very shrewd, as Lin Zixuan's agent in the United States, the more famous Lin Zixuan is in the United States, the better he will be in the future, he is not lying, but he is very selective.

This is a tactic commonly used by lawyers.

Among the dozens of ordinary viewers who watched "Shanghai Holiday", there was a Chinese girl named Huang Liushuang.

She was born in 1905 and her ancestral home is Taishan, Guangdong.

Her grandfather was one of the first generation of Chinese laborers to come to California to pan for gold, and later the Huang family opened a laundry shop in Chinatown to make ends meet.

When she was in elementary school, it was the rise of Hollywood movies, and watching movies became a fashionable thing, and she often skipped class and slipped into the theater, and loved movies very much.

One day in 1919, a film called "Red Lantern" was on location in Chinatown, and an oriental face was needed to play a supporting role.

In the past few years, she has been playing tricks in Hollywood, and when she heard that the theater was going to show Chinese movies, she asked someone to enter the theater.

She was surprised when she saw "Shanghai Holiday", but she did not expect that the movies made by the Chinese themselves could already be comparable to Hollywood movies, and even Hollywood had to remake Chinese movies.

This made Huang Liushuang very proud, she couldn't hold back her excitement and wrote a letter to Lin Zixuan.

Huang Liushuang, who is only 17 years old, wrote in the letter about her experience in Hollywood, her love for movies, her love for "Shanghai Holiday", her thoughts about China, and when she saves enough money, she will go back to see it.

She didn't write this letter for any purpose, but she was usually treated unfairly in Hollywood, and she wanted to pour out her emotions, and then sent it to the other side of the ocean.

She didn't know Lin Zixuan's exact address, and the envelope was written on the Shanghai Star Film Company.

Lin Zixuan miraculously received the letter, thanks to his fame in Shanghai, and at the same time, he also received the New York Times from Zhang Kangren.

He laughed at the exaggerated reports in the newspapers, but he had to be cautious about the girl's letter.

From the content of the letter, it can be seen that this girl is not his fan or admirer, and it seems that she just wants to vent her feelings and find someone to confide in.

This is similar to the drifting bottle on the Internet in later generations.

Perhaps she sent the letter and felt so relieved that she forgot about it, not expecting a reply.

But Lin Zixuan didn't think so, he felt that writing a reply could bring a little surprise to the girl's life, and that was enough.