Chapter 12: Freaks and Nerds
Kevin Thomas posted the $50,000,000 and $1 compensation before dusk on Wednesday, and the scammer had to do this in order to save his reputation.
With these changes in the company, the three theater stores became one, and the other five limited partners were puzzled, but they couldn't learn the truth for the time being, otherwise they would also mess up. All they know is that Kevin Thomas was fired because of his negligence in the film industry, and the company will be fine.
On Thursday, it was one day closer to the release of "The Wedding is Coming".
Ye Wei continued to get up early in the morning to go to school, but he brought some things to school today to prepare for busy work, the latest edition of the "Hollywood Creative Industries Guide"!
The Hollywood Creative Industries Guide is an important reference for anyone in the film industry, it is not a journal and is updated three times a year and lists all the projects that various Hollywood studios and producers have undertaken in the past and currently, including The Wedding Is Coming.
There are so many uses for this guide, whether it is the producer setting up a project, the screenwriter submitting the script, or the actor finding a play and choosing a play...... You can find the market you need.
This is what he bought at the movie bookstore after school yesterday, and he also bought the latest "Variety Daily", "Behind the Scenes", "Film Producer Zuò Special Issue", etc., these industry information is like a desert buried with gold, and he wants to dig out some valuable rough stones from it.
Today is the activity day of the Dream Chaser Alliance Club, but at 9:25, Ye Wei did not go to the utility room of the academic center where the activity was held, and sent a text message to Lev and them, "I have other things to do today, you guys play, don't come to me." ”
Holding a large bag of magazines, he sat in a quiet corner of the campus in the shade, ignoring the laughing students walking around in the distance, and read them carefully.
Last night, Ye Wei had already watched some of them, but all the projects were like a sky full of stars, mainstream studios, mini-mainstream, and independent film companies......
Hundreds of projects are in progress, some are still in the planning stage, some are in the preliminary preparation, some are in the process of filming, post-production, and publicity......
Some projects cost as low as only tens of thousands, while others are as high as the sky, such as the budget of "Spider-Man 2" in the post-production is $2oo, ooo, ooo, 200 million US dollars!
With $200 million, you can build a luxurious high-rise building anywhere in the world, or you can make a two-hour Hollywood blockbuster, this is the film industry.
Ye Wei looked at this guide and couldn't help but sigh, among these projects, how many of them will end up in a mess, and how many will stage miracles? Which one will lose and which one will earn?
"Primitive tribes respect the storyteller, but if his story is not told well, they will kill him and eat it for dinner. ”
This is a famous saying in Hollywood, the motto of many filmmakers, and the reason why fame is important.
No one knows the future, only the past.
Fame here does not refer to the morality of your private life, as long as you are valuable, no filmmaker will care if you are a drug dealer or a pervert who peeps at your grandmother in the bath, it refers to professionalism, earning power, and what impact your behavior will have on the movie itself.
Filmmakers are not lawyers, doctors, athletes, there will be ups and downs in their state, being good once does not mean that they will always be, and falling once does not mean that they will not be able to stand up.
Therefore, there is an unwritten "strikeout out" rule in the industry: producers, directors, leading actors, and screenwriters, whoever fails three times in a row must be eliminated.
Regardless of the reason behind the failure, no one cares, the industry will only recognize one thing: "Now you are an unlucky person, whoever gets your bad luck will die." ”
This rule is especially strict for foreign filmmakers and those on the fringes of the industry.
Like John Woo, a series of successes such as "Changing Face" and "Mission Impossible 2" have made him famous and wealthy in Hollywood, and he does not worry about making new films, but with the two failures of "Wind Talker" and "Bulletproof Monk", he has stood on the edge of the cliff, if "Memory Rift" released next month is messed up again...... Strikeouts out.
To get back up is a thousand or ten thousand times more difficult than a newcomer to Hollywood.
And Ang Lee, "Hulk", which was released this summer, failed miserably, for the first time.
What will happen to their future, Ye Wei doesn't know very well, that dream is only clear through his own experience, but he has a feeling that Ang Lee will stand up again, and it will definitely be like this, commercial films are raised like a bitch, but literary films respect their skills, Ang Lee's literary and artistic skills are there, as long as they make literary films, it will be fine.
Even the situation of the Chinese directors he cares about the most is vague, and the others are so good, so Ye Wei turned through the pages of the magazine, and it was difficult to have much clear information.
He wanted to find a project that was deliberately abandoned, but it was actually very good, with his own professional judgment, with the clues in his dreams. It's just that so far, I haven't found anything particularly interesting, and I will circle it and mark it if it looks more interesting, so that it is easy to contact in the future......
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"Hahaha!"
"Guys, look what this is, oh yes, I'm going to blow it up-"
At the same time, the utility room on the first floor of the academic center was bursting with bursts of crazy laughter, as well as the sound of TV and conversation......
In the hallway outside, Lily Collins frowned, raising her hand to knock on the door but couldn't knock on it.
It really sucks! Here's the thing, after yesterday's Operation Cuttlefish, the braided rope bracelet she was wearing was gone! It was given to her by her father, and it was just a worthless rope bracelet to others, but it meant a lot to her.
She was in a hurry, but she couldn't find it, and in the end there was only one possibility: the bracelet was lost during Operation Cuttlefish.
So she called and asked Trist, Babu, and even the two overseers, and everyone said they hadn't seen it, and there was only one person left in the team yesterday who didn't ask......
Babu wanted to give her the man's cell phone number, but she refused, and she had to say it to the man's face to make sure that what he said was true or false, and yes, she didn't trust him.
Some people say that they can find him here, because today is the activity day of his club, "Dream Chasing League", which is so nice to say, who doesn't know that it is a freak concentrated ...... The activities of other clubs are generally in the classrooms of the academic center and Reynolds Hall, and the remote places are in the library, theater and other places......
Lily wandered a few steps and took a few breaths, like there were several monsters locked in the room, and if she accidentally opened this door, it would cause the evil consequences of destroying the miè world.
Reluctantly, but what could be done? She finally knocked on the door, "heLLo?"
"It's coming, it's coming—"
It wasn't Ye Wei's voice, when the door opened, it was really not him, it was a big-nosed boy with strange clothes and sticky beard, as soon as he saw her, he screamed: "Ah!!"
Lily felt a pain in her ears and couldn't help but take a step back, wondering, "Are you okay?"
"Oh my god! I'm right, I'm so right!" the boy shouted frantically, and when he looked back, he screamed again: "She's coming, Lily Collins!!"
"Hmm...... Hmmm......"
Lily felt speechless, looked into the room to find Ye Wei's figure, the utility room near the door was cleaned out, placed sand, TV and other things, like the hall at home, in addition to the madman at the door, there were three boys inside, there was no Ye Wei.
"Hello Hello, I'm Lev, that's Bard, Noah, Colwin...... Oh my God, Brother Wei, Brother Wei, where are you!?" Lev cried out frantically.
Bud was sitting on the sand with a large bucket of popcorn in his hands, watching "Friends" on TV, and when there were no special events, it was his pastime, watching an episode of "Friends" on a DVD. He was looking at the doorway, his mouth wide open stuffed with popcorn.
The little Chinese boy sitting at the coffee table next to him was named Chen Nuo, or Noah Chen, who was wearing a pair of thick black-rimmed glasses, and was playing Dungeons & Dragons alone, with maps and cards on the coffee table, when his face was sluggish, and the 12 dice in his hand fell......
In the corner, a pale white boy was about to burrow into the clutter, looking at a copy of National Geographic, glancing at the door, and immediately withdrew his gaze and continued to look down...... Colwin Reitt, guy with mild autism.
"But, Brother Wei!!"
"But something didn't come today. It was Colwin who spoke calmly.
"Uh...... That's right. Lev scratched his red nose, and suddenly, he noticed that Lily Collins glanced at his hand and remembered that he was playing with a condom...... Hurriedly stuffed back into his pocket, he smiled dryly......
Seeing this, Lily muttered to herself, she didn't want to stay any longer, the nasty cool kids and the nasty freaks were annoying......
However, she also had doubts, how could Ye Wei play with them?
It's weird, if he wants to be the man of the school and be pestered by some brainless girl all day long, then he shouldn't do it, the fact is that whoever plays with freaks is also defined as a freak by others, no popularity, no friends, no girlfriends...... Doesn't he know? He's a fool?
Hearing their words, she was immediately a little disappointed, but she still had to take a very reluctant step: "Then can you give me his mobile phone number? ”
Really...... Lev nodded frantically, and the more he looked at the other man, the more nervous he became, this was Lily Collins, the beautiful daughter of a rock star! God! His voice became stammering: "Of course, of course! We know best about my brother's affairs......
"Yes! Yes!" Bud swallowed his mouthful of popcorn with difficulty.
"He's about 17ocm tall now, more than 14o pounds, his birthday is February 19th, Pisces, so he's romantic by nature, he's very artistic, his blood type is aB, it's cool, and he's fluent in several languages, proficient in English, Chinese, and a little Spanish, French, Polish, and the lingua franca of Dungeons & Dragons......"
Bud hurriedly said loudly: "Also, he lives in Brentwood, he likes to eat Chinese food the most, but not fried food, there are a lot of exquisite things, all of them are the teachings of his grandfather, but he admires his grandfather, his grandfather is a Chinese World War II veteran! Unfortunately, the old man passed away a few years ago...... It's sad to be sad. ”
"I'll say it! Bard, it's up to me!" Lev was angry, turned his head and yelled at his partner, not noticing Lily's stunned appearance at all, and quickly became machine-gun-like: "Monroe and Hepburn, he likes Hepburn! Of course, he is also interested in Monroe, and Elizabeth Taylor, Greta Garbo, Ingrid Bergman...... My interests are very broad!"
Over there, Chen Nuo also said dumbfoundedly: "Yes, but his hobby of reading is also, he reads everything......
"By the way, he's wearing M size, and the style of his panties, he likes ......!" Bud said, thinking......
"Stop!!" Lily had to scream, the audience was silent, she felt like she was going crazy, crying and laughing: "I just want to get his mobile phone number......"
Both Lev and Bard had knowing expressions, and Lev smiled: "I understand, I understand, step by step, okay, Noah, give me pen and paper!"
Chen Nuo hurriedly acted, and when Lev took the pen and paper, he wrote while looking at his mobile phone: "This is Wei's mobile phone number, this is his home phone number, this is his email, this is his MSN number, this is his ......"
"Thank you, thank you......" Lily reached out and grabbed the mobile phone number as soon as she saw that there was already a mobile phone number on the paper, "That's enough, thank you!
With that, she hurried away, four weirdos! No, five!
It took a while for the utility room to regain movement.
"Wow......" Lev's round eyes have not yet recovered, and he said with a sigh: "The game is about to be 16 years old, and Brother Wei is finally going to score!"
Bade Le smirked: "She is still so beautiful, I really admire Brother Wei." Chen Nuo sighed: "Like an elven girl." Colwin, who had been reading with his head bored, suddenly said again: "Her English accent, I will like it." ”
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