Chapter 788: Ancestor's Diary
"What happened?" Because it was just an unimportant scene, Cameron, who had been staying up late, directly handed over the task of on-site director to the assistant director, and ran to the cabin to sleep a little.
As a result, I didn't expect to sleep this night, and something went wrong.
In fact, the assistant director at the scene knew the identity of Boss Jia, knew that this was the financial owner of the crew, and he was a person who could really speak, but most of the crew members on the scene didn't know it.
Therefore, most of the crew members glared angrily at Boss Jia after the incident, and stood with the seven actors, ready to denounce Boss Jia together.
The assistant director couldn't see it, and while he tried to restrain the crew members, he sent someone to invite Director Cameron over to deal with this problem.
Then Cameron, who was staring at a pair of red eyes, appeared at the scene, and the assistant director hurriedly went up and gave a general explanation of the whole thing.
"Mr. Jia, I can understand your feelings for your nation, but your ancestors came to Europe and the United States with money pigtails, this is history, please don't disrupt the normal filming of the crew, otherwise I will be very embarrassed!" Cameron is also very tough, and in the face of the super owner of the crew, Cameron also said unceremoniously.
Well, after all, Boss Jia's hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent, and the movie is almost done, does Boss Jia have the courage to give up all this money.
"Director Cameron!" Boss Jia knew that for people like Cameron, he had to use another way to convince him.
"I won't talk to you about the national feelings of the Chinese people, let's talk about the historical facts in history!" Boss Jia was shirtless and said lightly, "Historically, Huaxia was the Xinhai Revolution that occurred in 1911, and in February 1912, the Qing government announced its abdication. And the Titanic sank in April 1912, at this time China had entered the era of the Republic of China, and all the Chinese people had cut off the damn money rattail on the back of their heads, this is the historical fact, shouldn't you admit it? ”
In fact, it is problematic for Boss Jia to say this, after all, there were still many old and young people in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and even some ordinary Chinese people, out of concern about whether the Qing government could be restored at any time, and the inertia that they have been wearing a srattail for a lifetime, in fact, there was no large-scale shaving after the Xinhai Revolution.
After that, more than 10 years passed one after another, and the common people lost the braid on the back of their head.
Of course, Cameron couldn't have known so much about the history of China, especially the history of shaving and cutting braids, and he was fooled by Boss Jia very smoothly, nodded, and admitted Boss Jia's words.
However, Cameron continued, "Even if you Chinese people have removed the money rattail on the back of their heads since February 1912, but this news has been transmitted from China to Europe, even the fastest cruise ship will take more than three months, I think it is impossible for the eight Chinese shipwrights on the ship at that time to know the news of the success of the Xinhai Revolution so quickly, and they should still have money rattails behind them!" ”
"......" Boss Jia didn't expect Cameron's thinking to be so strange, which made Boss Jia a little speechless, and he said everything about Cameron, but Cameron still insisted on the existence of the money rat braid, because in his opinion, this was the characteristic of the Chinese people at that time, and it was also the truth of history, which could never be given up, and everything must be exactly the same as in history.
"If you have to have this money rat tail, then I won't shoot this scene! There is no need to shoot the content of the entire Chinese people! Boss Jia said lightly, instead of the damn money pigtail on the movie, it is better to keep everything as it is, and there is no need to shoot any Chinese stories.
"It's good!" Seeing Boss Jia's tough attitude, Cameron was not to be outdone and said that he still had his own persistence.
Seeing that things were about to go in the worst direction, Jon Landau, the producer on the set, showed up just in time, gasped and said, "Found it, I found it!" ”
"Mr. Landau, what did you find?" Boss Jia hurriedly asked curiously.
"Are you...... Mr. Jia!! At this time, Boss Jia was still wearing makeup, revealing a bronzed upper body muscle, which startled Jon Landau, a person who didn't know the truth, and didn't understand why the dignified Boss Jia suddenly became like this.
"Leave me alone, what did you find?" Boss Jia waved his hand.
"Oh, I've found a relative of one of the six Chinese survivors!" Jon Landau gasped and said, "One of the Chinese survivors later returned to the United States from Cuba and opened a Zuo Zongtang Chicken restaurant in Los Angeles. ”
"Really!" Boss Jia was taken aback at first, and then asked a little strangely, "Mr. Landau, why did you go specifically to find these survivors?" ”
"It's not our Cameron director's request yet!" Jon Landau touched his old waist and said with a wry smile, "Our great director has to pursue the authenticity of history, although we have collected a large number of information about the 6 survivors at that time, but he still insists on hoping to find the descendants of the survivors and get more detailed information from them, so I went to find these descendants!" ”
"I see!" Boss Jia glanced at Director Cameron deeply, and then said, "Mr. Landau, did you bring that diary?" Can you show me? ”
"The original diary, those relatives refused to give it to me, but they agreed to let me take a photo version of the diary, I washed it out, it's all here!" Jon Landau took out a large number of photos and handed them to our Boss Jia, who took them in his hands for the first time and began to review them one by one.
I saw that although this laborer could write, the writing was very ugly, and the number of words was very small, basically just to record some transactions that happened every day.
But soon, Boss Jia found an interesting record in this diary.
"On the sixth day of the third month of the second year of Xuantong in the Qing Dynasty, three of us fellow villagers were sold to the shipyard as boiler workers, hoping that this job could make more money and let us live a good life!"
"On the seventh day of the fourth month of the second year of Xuantong of the Qing Dynasty, an extremely painful thing happened today, when the second six sons were burning the boiler, their hair was ignited by sparks, and half of their scalp was burned, and the foreign doctor said that he only had a 20% chance of surviving, and may the Buddha bless him!"
"On April 19 of the second year of Xuantong in the Qing Dynasty, the twenty-sixth son survived for more than ten days, but he still died, and he had no money to buy a coffin and a cemetery, so he just threw it into the sea, but the remaining two of our fellow villagers, and the other six people fell into depression and entanglement, should we cut off the braids on the back?"
"May 22 of the second year of Xuantong of the Qing Dynasty, today my braid was also ignited, so everyone was prepared, and it was extinguished without burning the scalp, but this also strengthened everyone's determination, and the eight of us cut the braid behind the back together, hoping that the ancestors forgive us!"
Seeing this, Boss Jia felt both sad and pitiful in his heart, was this how his ancestors lived in the era of 100 years ago? It was indeed an extremely humiliating era for the Chinese!
But in this way, the argument between himself and Cameron can also come to an end.
Boss Jia put this diary in front of Cameron, and then personally translated the days just now for him, and finally Boss Jia said, "Mr. Cameron, this braid has nothing to do with history, any worker who works in the boiler room, they will not grow long hair, because it is too dangerous for their work, all the workers in the boiler room are basically bald!" ”
"This is evident in the diary, and my ancestors paid with their lives to prove it, so if you still have any doubts, ask the other workers in the boiler room to see if they have long hair!" Boss Jia said lightly.
"No need!" Cameron shook his head, looked at Boss Jia with an apologetic face and said, "This time it is thoughtful, the workers working in the boiler room, they really shouldn't have braids, this is not in line with history and reality, I admit my mistake." ”
"Come on, inform the drama and put away all the braids for me, we don't need this thing!" Cameron commanded quickly.
"Wait!" Boss Jia suddenly said, "In addition to putting away all the braids, I have one more request." ”
"What requirements?"
"That's to fire all 7 guys from me!" Boss Jia said coldly, "Director Cameron, since you are here to film Chinese laborers, you should naturally invite 8 real Chinese people to star, instead of finding three Fuso, two Koreans, one Thai, and a guy who is not even a human being!" ”