Chapter 262: Lolita
Downing's words are not modest, he does admire Chaplin's achievements and skills in comedy films, and to be honest, the Berlin Wall is just his whim, it is best to shoot naturally, and it is nothing if he can't shoot it, and now since Chaplin is interested, he can entrust this matter to the other party.
Chaplin was very satisfied with Downing's carte blanche attitude, because he began to shoot his own films independently since 1919, and he hated others to criticize his films, and later established the United States Film Company with several big directors such as Fan Punk, Bikfu, Griffith, etc., the original purpose was to make the films of the four founders without restraint, and later for their own reasons, they all sold their shares, and now United States has belonged to MGM.
One likes to monopolize power, and the other is used to being the shopkeeper, so the two naturally cooperate very happily, and after talking about the cooperation in the movie, Chaplin was very happy to praise another achievement of Downing: "Tony, there is one thing I have to praise you, the strongman kidney treasure produced by your company is simply the gospel of all men in the world, with him, even at my current age, I can still make Una pregnant with a child." ”
Downing knew that Chaplin was referring to his current wife Una O'Neill, and the combination of the two was also a very interesting thing, Chaplin was 54 years old when he married her, and Una was only 18 years old, but the relationship between the two was very good, even after Chaplin suffered the biggest low point in his career, Una has always been by his side, and gave birth to eight children, which shows the depth of the relationship (well, it can also be seen that Chaplin's body is very good, Even if it's one a year. He also persevered until he was sixty-two years old).
This is really not an easy thing for Chaplin, who has always been affectionate, because before that, he had as many as six official girlfriends or wives (respectively, his queen heroine Edna Pvins; Mildred Harris, who married him at the age of 16; the only public mistress, the Polish beauty Paula Nagri; Litai Gray, who married Chaplin at the age of 16, paid nearly one million dollars when he divorced, which was a million dollars in that era. What's even more amazing is that the now influential novel "Lolita" is written according to the relationship between the two as the basic framework, that is to say, the origin of Lolita is Chaplin; Paulette Goddard, who played the lead role in Modern Times and The Great Dictator, and Joan Barry, who took Chaplin to court. To put it simply, Chaplin is a lolita above women, and Una is his seventh wife. But now that he is seventy years old, he still eats a small blue pill to do such a thing, and he is not afraid of stimulating his heart, what will happen?
So Tang Ning cautiously persuaded him: "That, sir, although the strongman kidney treasure is indeed very effective, he also has side effects. It is easy to stimulate the heart and aggravate the attachment of the heart, so it is better to eat less as much as possible. ”
Chaplin said nonchalantly: "It's okay, my body is fine, Emily was born when I was 65 years old, but since I was 68 years old, I began to become powerless, fortunately, your strongman kidney treasure appeared." It solves one of my big problems, but there are too many fake medicines. I still use these from the Okinawa main factory. ”
Originally, Tang Ning was still amazed that Chaplin could play at the age of 65, but in turn, he looked at himself for more than ten years, more than ten women, and only one child, but when he heard "too many fake drugs", he couldn't help frowning and asked: "Fake medicine?" How. Could it be that my strongman kidney treasure still has fake medicine? ”
Chaplin was very surprised and asked, "Why don't you know about Tony?" It's not just fake drugs, almost all of them are fake drugs on the market nowadays, and it's hard to find real drugs, not to mention in the United States, even in Japan and Tokyo. That is, you can still buy real things in your Okinawa. ”
This news really shocked Tang Ning, although he knew that no matter in which country, no matter what era, it was impossible to completely eliminate such a thing as fakes, but he never expected that the fakes of the strongman kidney treasure were so arrogant, it was difficult to buy real medicine in Tokyo, I really don't know what this guy did when he went back, he had to clean him up when he went back, so that this guy was always pretentious.
Chaplin also saw that Tang Ning was annoyed by the appearance of counterfeit products in the strongman kidney treasure, so he persuaded: "Tony, don't look like this, it's a good thing to have fakes, it means that your products are very popular." Take me as an example, over the years I have seen hundreds of people imitate me, and some of them even imitate me more than myself, and I'm sure you've heard of a joke where I went to a contest to imitate me and only finished third, right? ”
Not to mention this joke in this era, even in later generations Downing has heard it many times, and even used it as an argument in high school essays, but he always thinks that this is a game that is being manipulated by a behind-the-scenes mastermind, otherwise no matter how vivid the imitator is, it is not as good as the deity, but I didn't expect that after he said his thoughts, Chaplin shook his head: "Tony, you're wrong, there are no prizes in this competition, so they don't need to go behind the scenes, And those guys imitated my characters in the modern era really vividly, a lot of the movements and demeanor I have forgotten, but they imitated it perfectly. ”
Speaking of this, Chaplin seemed to think of something, and suddenly asked: "Tony, if this film you invested in is entrusted to me with carte blanche, then all the cast and crew will also be decided by me, right?" ”
Tang Ning nodded and said: "That's natural, since it's carte blanche, then naturally everything is up to you, as long as you don't make additional investments to chase me bankrupt." ”
Chaplin waved his hand: "Tony, you don't have to worry about controlling costs, but you seem to have misunderstood what I mean, in fact, I want to say that I recently met a very beautiful girl and wanted her to be the heroine of this new play, but I want you, the investment boss, to tell her personally, maybe there will be a romantic story because of it." (To be continued......)