Chapter 301: Browsing Cardiff
After returning to the Cambridge Film and Television Company's residence, after having lunch with Lin Zixu and Baozi and others after the meeting, Li Mudi went to the hotel room with his girlfriend to rest for a while (of course, it was two rooms). At half past two in the afternoon, a black nanny car picked up two people and went to a studio outside the Fifth Ring Road, and the Turin coach's big-screen electrocution debut was about to begin.
"Iron Fist of Shame" is the third film work of the Happy Twist team, and the content of the story is not much nonsense here, it is still adapted from the drama of the same name, and has a good audience base. The only thing that worries the producer is that because of the positioning of the role, the actor this time is not Shen Teng, the first brother of twist, but Allen, who has been playing a supporting role before. Although the latter's acting skills and funny ability are beyond doubt, whether he can shoulder the responsibility of starring in a movie still needs to be tested by the market and the audience.
In order to attract the public's attention to the greatest extent, the original three production and distribution companies of this film, Happy Twist Pictures, Xinli Films and Maoyan Pictures, decided to pull Li Muddy into the pit, and invited Lin Li CP, who is popular all over East Asia, to make a cameo, and also gave Cambridge Film and Television the opportunity to share investment.
The film has actually been completed in early May, and it has been scheduled to be released on September 30, which happened to be the day when "Charlotte's Troubles" was released two years ago, which can be regarded as a good luck. However, it is said that it is finished, but in fact, there is still one scene that has not been completed, that is, the scene where Li Mudi and Lin Yuner made cameos. Previously, due to time reasons, Li Mudi could not come back in the middle of the season, so the schedule was postponed to today. Fortunately, the filming process can be carried out in the form of cutouts, and you only need to do a good job of styling in the city, posing according to the script, and saying two lines.
As soon as the two of them got out of the car, they were greeted by several people, and Shen Teng and Ma Li, as old acquaintances, made introductions for both parties. In terms of actors, there are Tian Yu and other members of the Happy Twist team, and the identity of the director surprised the Turin coach, Song Yang, who played the role of Zhang Yang in "Charlotte", actually played the core creator of this new movie, which is indeed unbelievable! The last to appear was Ms. Tian Tian, a famous domestic producer, chief operating officer of Xinli Pictures, and the housekeeper of "Iron Fist of Shame".
After a brief greeting, everyone dispersed and went about their jobs, and the two guest actors listened to the director's instructions while receiving makeup, and after seeing the footage that the rest of the actors had already completed, they began to prepare for practice and rehearsal. Yes, there is no other person to interact with this scene, due to the script arrangement and the choice of shooting angles, so that the whole party of the leading actor and the two people who make cameos will not appear in the same shot, and they can be filmed separately. Considering the schedules of those actors, the film crew decided to do this, and then edited and recombined together.
Although no one played the scene, the plot of this scene is still very simple, with Lin Yun'er, who has rich acting experience, Li Mudi still successfully completed this set of plots that were only less than a minute in the film, and finally took two hours.
I took a few photos with makeup and kept them to help promote the film in the future, and then I discussed the possibility of cooperation with these people. After politely rejecting the producer Ms. Tian Tian's proposal to have dinner together, leaving Lin Zixu to continue to communicate with them, Lin Li CP returned to the hotel first. After a night's rest, the two of them will fly to England tomorrow morning to watch this season's Champions League final live.
After the company reached a new contract, it was given a vacation period of about half a month, as long as it returned to Kimchi Country by June 15 to attend the business events that had been booked, and then made the final preparations for the 10-year return album of Girls' Generation. And Li Mudi can also take advantage of this time period to return to Italy to deal with the affairs left over from the previous team, and then the two of them can travel together.
At 16 o'clock in the afternoon of June 2, London time, after a long flight of nearly 12 hours, the Turin coach and his girlfriend arrived at Heathrow Airport. However, for the two tired people, they couldn't care about the fact that it was the most suitable time for going out, so they hurried to the hotel that had been booked before, and after a little tidying up, they fell asleep on the bed until more than eight o'clock in the morning of the next day.
It is worth mentioning that due to the shortage of housing caused by the Champions League final, Li Mudi only grabbed one room, which also caused the historical event of the couple resting in the same room for the first time. Although there is only a large bed in the guest room, Li Mudi obviously does not have the courage of the thief, and he is all in order all night, and he does not dare to make any overstepping moves. Fortunately, the atmospheric Lin Yuner was not pretentious, and the two spent the first night of "living together" very peacefully.
In fact, the man's mood is still very uneasy, after all, it is the first time to share a bed with his girlfriend, and it is too unrealistic to say that he has no ideas. And he has some bed recognition, and it is generally difficult to rest well on the first night when he changes to a new environment. But this time he was so tired, and the fatigue overwhelmed the problems, so he fell asleep soon after lying down. Originally, after waking up in the morning, I was worried about whether I would snore and interfere with Lin Yun'er's rest, but I found that the other party also fell asleep with a pillow, and the quality of sleep was very good, so I was relieved.
The time of the match is set for 19:45 on the evening of the 3rd, and the audience can enter three hours early, but the Torino coach is not in a hurry to check in the tickets, he plans to enter about half an hour early, just in time for the pre-match guest performer, the famous band Black Eyed Peas. Even if you miss a few hours in line and don't make it to the show, it doesn't matter, because neither of them has a special preference for this band that is famous all over the world, and it won't be too sorry to miss it. It's better than standing in line for dozens of minutes to get in and then sitting there all the time.
In this way, the two of them will have plenty of time to get from London to Cardiff City, and they will be able to wander around at a leisurely pace and enjoy the British atmosphere.
By train from London, it costs £30 (equivalent to 265 soft girls) and less than 140 minutes of journey time to reach Cardiff City, the capital of Wales, an important port and industrial and service center in the southwest of England. Nicknamed the "Red Dragon", the Principality of Wales is one of the most important freight transit points in Europe due to its convenient transportation and complete facilities. However, it still retains the original ancient natural scenery and classical architecture, and hundreds of castles in the territory have become the best choice for many film and television companies to shoot and tourists to visit, and some manors built four or five centuries ago are also important attractions that Orientals cannot miss.
When Lin Li CP got off the train and walked into Cardiff Railway Station, he felt a style that was far different from that in East Asia. The pale yellow walls and huge glass windows, the very high ceiling with two rows of lampshades with long hanging ropes, and the rows of telephone booths, ATMs and automatic ticket machines on both sides of the passage all look so old-fashioned, giving people the feeling of returning to the seventies and eighties of the last century.
After taking a few photos of the station, the two men walked out, went through the map of the city they had looked at during the train ride, determined their goals, and took a taxi to their next destination.
With an area of only 1.4 million square kilometres, less than a tenth of London's and a population of less than 4.5% of the British capital's population in its early 350,000s, it does look like a village. However, the small place naturally has a small advantage, that is, you don't have to worry about the traffic, and the location you want to go to is simple and clear, and you can basically get there within ten minutes.
After passing through several university campuses, the two men took a taxi to the National Museum of Wales. Since it was once the richest city in the world at the beginning of the last century, and had the world's largest coal export port, it is only natural that with such a strong financial backing, the museum's collection is very impressive. The works of Cézanne, Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh and other national treasures are all collected here, although the scale and popularity are not yet at the level of the Louvre, but it is also a rare palace of art.
However, these masterpieces are not a special existence in the minds of Li Mudi and the two people, and they can't see beauty and art at all, although Lin Yuner is somewhat related to the art circle, but there is still no cell to appreciate it. After pretending to walk around the famous painting exhibition area, the two hurriedly escaped from the area and headed for the history exhibition area. There are many objects about the Principality of Wales since the fifth and sixth centuries B.C., and various monumental antiques have been passed down in the course of history, telling the story of what happened in this land from beginning to end.
After an hour and a half in the museum, and it was just around noon, the couple walked out hand in hand and drove to the commercial center of the south. With a number of malls and shopping malls such as St David's, Capitor and Queen's Arcade, it is nowhere near as prosperous as big cities such as London, but it is also a famous shopping paradise in Europe, especially with its Victorian and Edwardian buildings, making it the perfect area to combine classical art with modern commerce.
Since the two of them did not carry large suitcases, they only enjoyed an English lunch here, and then walked around the shopping street for less than 40 minutes, bought some more commemorative objects and local specialties, and then went straight to the next stop, to the delight of the Turin manager.
The final attraction of the tour is the city park in the northwest of the town, which is home to several ancient castles, the oldest of which was built in the first century AD and is nearly 2,000 years old. The main object of this visit is the most famous Cardiff Castle, which was built here as a military fortress after the Roman Empire crossed the English Channel and conquered the island of Britain by force. The castle was expanded and renovated as the occupiers of the land changed hands in succession, until it passed into the hands of the Butes through marriage in 1766, when it was completely rebuilt in the dazzling Victorian style.
The castle is now open all year round for a fee of £12 per visitor, and after hiring a private guide, Limlee's CP embarks on this dream tour. Every room here is beautifully decorated, with rich frescoes, stained glass and exquisite gilding work. Maybe every romantic lady has a princess dream in her heart, and the castle and the prince are an indispensable part of this dream, Lin Yun'er, who can always stay calm in private, can't help but show envy and excitement when facing this kind of scene.
Seeing this, the Turin coach half-jokingly asked the guide about the price of the castle, and the answer he received was somewhat surprising. The current castles in the UK, with the exception of this Cardiff castle, are privately owned, but their value varies widely. Some are badly damaged, and they sell for around £1 million to £2 million.
Hutton Castle, the Sheriff of Yorkshire, once owned and inhabited by eight British monarchs, covers an area of 11.5 acres or 46,500 square meters, and contains a large castle tower and outbuildings, as well as a villa, as well as external defensive buildings and gardens. However, because it has not been repaired for a long time, it is more dilapidated, and it is currently priced at £1.1 million on the trading market, and it is still unwanted.
Some well-known and well-preserved castles are expensive, and there have been cases where the transaction price is more than 10 million pounds before, so it is difficult to buy an excellent castle without being a real tycoon. Even if you can afford it, the cost of maintenance can be a huge headache, with an annual expenditure of up to £50 to £1.5 million, which makes many castle owners miserable, and some people even move to a cowshed because they can't make ends meet.
Although they couldn't own a castle of their own, this visit made the two of them feel a different experience and have a certain level of understanding of the history of Western society, which is worth the trip.
At 3:50 p.m., Lin Li CP ended the trip to view the fort, and the two of them did not continue to move towards the Millennium Stadium not far away, but found a hotel nearby for temporary repairs. After dinner a little earlier than usual, I walked towards the stadium at 6:45 p.m., just in time to avoid the rush of congestion around the area.