"Wait! This coffee ......" Before Lin Mu's words were finished, Kuhler lifted the coffee and took a sip, but before he could swallow the coffee, he sprayed it out, which was obviously brewed with boiling water, "Where is the cold water, cold water?" He hurriedly dropped the coffee in his hand, and poured two large cups of cold water with a cold water kettle. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Looking at Kuler's still steaming tongue, Lin Mu shook his head helplessly, "It seems that you really haven't woken up yet!" ”

"The Chinese are not as unrighteous as you!" Kueller likes Chinese movies very much, and Bruce Lee is his idol, but after watching a lot of Chinese kung fu movies, he figured out two words, one is kung fu and the other is righteousness. "If you can't give me a satisfactory answer today, lunch will be yours!"

"Sadly, I do have good news for you!" Lin Mu put away the playful expression on his face, "I'm going to write a new script, a story about fools!" ”

"Fools?" Kuhler shook his head vigorously to make sure he heard correctly, "What does a fool have to write about?" ”

"This is a sage-level fool, an ordinary person beyond the real one, a little person who represents the national personality!" Lin Mu's words made Kueller confused, but he vaguely captured an indescribable confidence from Lin Mu's expression. It doesn't matter what script he is, as long as it can be sold at a good price, it is a good script. At this point, Lin Mu never let him down.

For every detail of the classic film "Forrest Gump", Lin Mu remembers it clearly. In the previous two scripts, he added some of his own things to the details, but only the perfection of this work made him unbearable to make any changes. It took him less than two days to complete the entire script. As Lin Mu's agent, Kuhler had the honor of being the first reader of this script.

"This is the third script, and maybe it's because of this script that I really started to get to know, and he made me understand that the quality of a script can't be measured by money. Compared with many subsequent works, "Forrest Gump" is not worth mentioning financially, but I think it is the best script. I still remember what Gan's mother said to Gan on her deathbed: 'Mom said, I just told myself that when I do something, I have to try my best to do it well, for example, I have been your mother in my life, this is something I can't choose, God gave you to me, my child, I must try my best to be your mother, I did it' That seemingly stupid and ridiculous attachment reveals the most simple and kind side of human nature, money cannot replace eternity, eternal life is only persistent faith! Many years later, Thomas was already gray-haired. Kuhler wrote about this in his memoirs. At that time, he read the script twice, which was also unique during his tenure as a forest agent.

"I'd like to hear what you think of this script!" On a leisurely afternoon, Kueller solemnly posed such a question to Lin Mu.

"How so?" Lin Mu keenly sensed that there was something abnormal about today's Kuler, and this change in Kuhler made him very happy, "At the beginning, I just wanted to create the image of a fool on the basis of the original book, and at this time I was the creator of this story, but as the plot unfolded, I found that I could no longer control the development of the whole story, at this time, I was more like a narrator of a story than an author. ”

"Sometimes life is like this story, you have to admit that in fact, the success of many things has its own accidental factors, it will not be closer to the end because of your intentions, but will give you the most appropriate reward for your efforts when you are not aware of it. He was loyal, so he ran back into the jungle to find his comrades when he was out of danger alone during the Vietnam War. He kept his word, he promised his comrades to buy a shrimp fishing boat, but when his comrades died, he fulfilled his last wish for him in the incredible eyes of others, and also won a huge fortune for himself. He's obsessive, so he'll run for three years after Jenny left, across the whole of America, all the time, and he'll tell you that he just wants to run, and he uses running to measure his life, and it doesn't need to be justified by peace and freedom or anything grandiose. He was friendly, and after he saved the lieutenant's life, the lieutenant, who had lost his legs, was always ashamed and angry that he could not die on the battlefield and still survive with a crippled body, because the lieutenant was the kind of person who valued honor above all else, and he could not endure the ordinary, and it was Forrest Gump who used friendliness to regain his confidence in life, so that he found that even without his legs, life could still be full of life. ”

Kuhler listened very carefully, and even Lin Mulai had never seen such a serious look on his face, so he went on to tell his creative feelings, "Forrest Gump didn't have big ideals, he lost a lot, he had few friends, he was always ridiculed by smart people, his favorite mother and Jenny left him one after another. But he didn't sink because of this, love continued, he still had his own child, a smart little Forrest Gump, his life went on, he wasn't smart, but he always knew how to make life hopeful. So he won honor, wealth, and love, things that ordinary people may never have both. ”

"It's a great work, and it also made me reacquaint myself!" Kuhler sighed softly after hearing this, "If only Jenny were still alive!" ”

"Kuller, mutilation is a beauty in itself!"

"You're right, Forrest Gump is already happier than many people!" Kuhler nodded, "For this reason, I also want to find a good home for this script!" ”

Kuhler did not break his promise, he was working very hard to find a suitable investor for "Forrest Gump", with the fame accumulated in "Smell the Woman", Lin Mu's new work still attracted the attention of many film companies, this time, Paramount Pictures extended an olive branch to him.

The two sides hit it off, neither Lin Mu nor Kuhler did not bother about the price of the script, and in the end the two sides closed the deal for $200,000. But Lin Mu made a request, the film had to be produced by Robert . Directed by Romiski, the lead actor had to be Tom. Hanks, a condition that was written into his contract at his insistence, came at the cost of losing $20,000 in earnings.

Robert. Romiski did not hesitate to take the film after reading the script, but the lead actor Tom. Hanks is in some trouble, and he has already taken another step in the film at this time. In desperation, Robert. Romiski himself went out and couldn't resist the temptation of directing and scripting. Hanks finally agreed to star, and Robert. Romiski's promise to him was an Oscar-winning statuette.

Robert. Romiski's self-confidence also gave Paramount Pictures a lot of confidence, so he was also generous in the budget for the film, and the film entered the preparation stage in mid-April '91.

After writing "Forrest Gump", Lin Mu's life returned to normal. Kuhler has also been getting busy lately, and the two rarely see each other except for classes and sleeping. Lin Mu didn't care about what Kuller was busy with, and in his opinion, the content in economics textbooks was much more interesting than what Kuhler was doing. A professor invited him to participate in a study on the topic of "investment strategic portfolio", and by the time the research had come to an end, most of May had passed.

Due to the delay in sorting out the materials, Lin Mu came to the school cafeteria and it was already past lunch time. At this time, those who remained in the cafeteria were all some Kan Dashan students. Lin Mu took his plate from the waiter's hand, but overheard the conversation of several male and female classmates at the adjacent table.

"Have you seen it? Yesterday's plot was fantastic, I watched it at home with my mom and she almost didn't laugh! "One boy described his mother to his friends loudly." My mom has always been a very old-fashioned person, and I've never seen her smile like that! ”

"I watched it too, and it's really interesting, our family is about to become loyal viewers of NBC!" The girl next to him also chimed in.

They were chatting happily on the side, sitting here, Lin Mu finally figured out that they were talking about a sitcom that was being broadcast on NBC TV, and Lin Mu, who didn't have any ideological consciousness at this time, didn't think that this TV series had a great relationship with him. He doesn't usually like to watch TV, but he was very busy for a while, and now he suddenly heard that there was a TV series that sounded good, which immediately caught his attention.

"I love Rachel. Green, but I forgot the name of the person who played her. A girl suddenly said this.

"It's Jennifer. Aniston, all the heroes and heroines of this TV series are newcomers! The other girl proudly said the name of the actor, who she obviously knew a lot. Most of them talk about some topics related to actors, but they have been ignoring an important question, who is the screenwriter of this TV series?

"Rachel. Green? Jennifer. Aniston! "Are they talking about Friends? Lin Mu suddenly woke up and calculated the time, the first season of "Friends" should have been filmed, and Warner Bros. really sold it to NBC. The only thing that surprised Lin Mu was that the popularity of "Friends" had exceeded his previous expectations.

"My dear fellow, you're finally back!" Kuller, who had not been seen for the past few days, had apparently been waiting in the living room for some time, and there were already several more cigarette butts in the ashtray in the living room, and there was a very choking smell of smoke in the room.

Lin Mu waved his hand dissatisfiedly, opening all the windows around him one by one, and seeing Kuller's excitement, he frowned, "How many cigarettes did you smoke?" ”

Kueller didn't pay attention to the dissatisfaction on Lin Mu's face at all, "I have good news for you!" ”

"The best news for me right now is that you unscrew the cigarette in your hand right away!" Lin Mu protested loudly.

"Oh, I'm sorry!" Kuhler threw the cigarette into the ashtray, "'Friends' is out!" ”

"I already know!"

"What, you already know, I thought you couldn't care about anything but research! But then again, how do you know? Kuhler asked curiously.

"I overheard someone talking about it in the restaurant."

"Is it just talking?" Kuhler pulled out a stack of newspapers from behind him as if by magic, "You see, last weekend during the broadcast of 'Friends,' NBC had reached 60 million viewers, my God, that number drove all the media crazy!" ”

Lin Mu listened to Kueller talking excitedly there, while flipping through the newspaper he brought, judging from the reaction of the media, "Friends" seemed to have caused quite a stir, "And then? ”

"Don't you see what that means?" Kuhler stared at Lin Mu like he was watching an alien, "That guy James just spoke to me on the phone this morning, and he told me that Warner was willing to buy all the remaining scripts of "Friends" for $100,000 per episode, 100,000 per episode, 200 episodes is 20 million, and we sent it this time!" ”

"But I haven't written the script yet!"

"It doesn't matter, they said they could shoot while writing, and the price was negotiable!" Kueller seemed to have seen the twenty million dollars beckoning to him.

"But my dear Thomas. Mr. Kuller, I'm not a printing press, and I'm not a newspaper, this thing can't be mass-produced! Lin Mu said very calmly and seriously.

His words were like a basin of cold water that extinguished the flame of desire burning in Kuler's heart. He sat down on the couch in a gloomy state, the interest made Cooler's head a little hot, and now he finally calmed down, "Oh, please forgive me, I was too anxious! ”

"It's okay, in fact, from your point of view, you're not wrong, $20 million is really tempting!" Lin Mu, in turn, began to comfort Kowler, "You can talk to James about the price of the sequel first, but don't promise him, I will consider starting to conceive a sequel to Friends, but I can't guarantee what will be done, maybe it's this holiday, maybe I'll have to wait until next year!" ”

Kuhler looked a little listless all afternoon, but Lin Mu took him with great interest to listen to a popular science lecture, and it was very interesting that the professor was talking about dinosaurs. Kuhler listened tastelessly and yawned, but Lin Mu was carefully recording something with relish. At the end of the lecture, he stood up and asked the professor a question that seemed funny to Kuhler: "Professor, do you think that if scientists extracted the DNA of dinosaurs from fossils, humans would be able to successfully replicate dinosaurs?" ”

"I think it is difficult to make substantial progress in this field of research in terms of gene technology that humans have mastered so far, but this is a direction that gene technology can choose in the future." After answering Lin Mu's question, the professor asked rhetorically, "Why do you have such an idea?" (To be continued.) )