Chapter 111. [It's okay to find a draw type]
As a director, you have to be good at observing others, and as a "ghost" director, Quentin is even more so.
"Juice, or soda?"
"Well, let's have a glass of juice." Jessica smiled, and couldn't help but glance at Yi Feiyang after speaking.
"Is there something wrong with you?" Quentin asked.
"Ah, what?"
"Your eyes are always looking that way, you know the way, and it seems to me that you are restless."
"What's the matter, hehe, I'm just...... Damn it! Jessica hurriedly bowed her head.
Over there, Yi Feiyang looked over.
"What?" Quentin didn't understand how this girl could act like a spy and hide from someone.
Quentin looked towards Jessica's evasive side, but saw that there was no sneaky person over there, oh no, there was a special person, that Chinese man who looked very temperamental, yes, although Quentin didn't know him, but that person gave people a feeling of standing out from the crowd.
"Are you hiding from that guy?"
"What?" Jessica asked in a low voice as she hid under the table.
"It's that handsome-looking young man, to be precise, he should be Chinese."
"Hey, how do you know the way?" Jessica was a little surprised.
"Because he's looking this way."
"Ah, did he see me?" Jessica asked hurriedly.
"Probably not, he turned around again, yes, he left, left." Quentin laughed.
"Whew, it's okay." Jessica sighed and looked up. "Damn it. Shocked. All messed up my beautiful hairstyle. ”
"Hi. Dear Miss, who is he, are you afraid of him? Is he a badass? Do you want me to call the security guard to help? Quentin asked with great concern.
"No, of course not! There's no need to bother those security guys, they're busy enough, there are so many people tonight, hehe...... I think I'll explain it to you. He's the guy you see, he's a friend of mine, it's just ...... It's just that I owe him a little money, yes, just a little...... You also know that it's still embarrassing to owe money to others, and I've been a little tight lately, so hehe, it's better to hide! Jessica explained in a rambling manner. It's embarrassing that Quentin can even understand.
"I understand what you mean, yes. It's really bad to owe people money and don't pay it back, and I used to do this a lot...... But hell, my friend hasn't ever been like that! ”
"That's because your friend is righteous enough, unlike me, do you know the way, he is a well-known stingy ghost, and he can chase debts from Hong Kong to the United States, and then from the United States here!" The more Jessica talked, the more addicted she became, and she was talking nonsense.
"Well, he's quite persistent, but I'm curious, how much do you owe him to make him chase you so hard?" Quentin couldn't help but ask.
"I said, just a little bit, yes, just a little bit." Jessica didn't expect Quentin to be so serious, "Of course, if you're willing to help me, maybe, things will turn around." ”
"What do you mean...... Borrow money from me? ”
"Oh no, how could I do that? We've just met...... Oh God, am I just going to borrow money from people everywhere? Jessica quickly explained.
"I'm sorry I misunderstood you, but how can you help you?" Quentin asked.
"Quite simply, I'm a person who likes to support myself, yes, to pay off this debt with all my might. You're a director, and I happen to be an actor......" Jessica looked at Quentin Tarantino with a look of "no need to say it so clearly".
Quentin suddenly laughed, "I have to admit, dear Miss Jessica, your acting skills are really good." ”
"Ah, yes, you don't know that my acting skills are good if you haven't seen it? Do you want me to tell me a few plays I've played, and you can go back and watch them? Perhaps, I'm really suitable for your new script......" Jessica is happy, let's see, or this genius director has "vision".
"No, you misunderstood me, I mean ...... You're pretending to be a debtor, great! ”
"What role do I pretend to be in debt ......?"
Quentin didn't speak, just shrugged his shoulders. "Well, well, I admit that everything I just said was a lie!" Jessica surrendered, how are these goddamn bastards so monkey-spirited?!
"Okay, now can you introduce me to who that gentleman is, and why are you avoiding him?" Quentin couldn't help but laugh.
"You say him, he is the boss of the dream studio, and the director of "Ghost Shadow", China Yi, Yi Feiyang!"
"Oh, it was him!" Quentin Tarantino couldn't help but be amazed.
The reason why Quentin was surprised by Yi Feiyang is not that Yi Feiyang's wrist is big, but in terms of popularity, fame, reputation, and strength, today's Yi Feiyang is not at Quentin's level.
Quentin was surprised because of Yi Feiyang's unusual behavior. In Hollywood, Quentin feels that he is "alternative" enough, whether it is filming or background, it has surprised many people, but the China in front of him is even more awesome than himself, selling dramas can sell 200 million, filming can scare people to death, and now he is back, not taking advantage of the east wind to continue to make horror movies, he turned around and started pornography again!
God, what kind of freak is this?!
……
At this moment, Quentin Tarantino's "freak" Yi Feiyang has no leisure to stay here.
If it weren't for Gusta's promise to cash in 24 million box office dividends tonight, Yi Feiyang might have left this ghost place a long time ago.
Fortunately, over there, Frank Gusta was surrounded by a group of people for a while, and finally saw Yi Feiyang, who was standing in the distance and was idle.
Gusta was secretly amused in his heart, this Chinese Yi looked very unsociable, and he didn't know if he looked down on those people, or if those people refused to accept him...... Although he is very talented, he is a Chinese with black eyes and yellow skin after all, isn't he?!
"Well, just let him wait. Sharpen this guy's spirit! Gusta watched as he paced and tried to leave. But he couldn't bear to return empty-handed. Said to himself.
Another five or six minutes passed.
Gusta glanced at Yi Feiyang during the conversation, but unexpectedly, Yi Feiyang really couldn't wait and was about to turn around and leave.
"Alas, young man, patience is really poor." As he spoke, Gusta beckoned to Yi Feiyang, and then said, "Hi, dear Yi." I am here! ”
Yi Feiyang, who turned his back, turned his back and turned his mouth up, and said in his heart, "Nonsense, of course Lao Tzu knows that you are there, if you don't pretend to leave, I guess you old fox won't call me!" ”
Turning around slowly, Yi Feiyang made an expression that he had just discovered the New World, "Hey, Mr. Gusta, it turns out that you are here!" As he spoke, he walked towards Gusta.
Yi Feiyang's acting skills are really good, if Gusta hadn't already understood the mystery. I was really deceived by the illusion he made.
"Come, dear friends, let me introduce you to you, this is my friend - China Yi, Yi Feiyang! He has filmed a few very good scenes, you may have heard his name! Gusta introduced to the people around him.
Yi Feiyang, the people around Gusta, knew a few, such as Brad Pitt and Edward Norton, who had just met in the toilet and could be regarded as "friends"; As for the old movie star George Rooney with a pipe, Yi Feiyang certainly knows it; As for the female stars around these men, Yi Feiyang only knows two, one is the female star Famic who became popular with "Extreme Deep Cold"? Jensen, and the other is Milla Jovovich, the heroine of "Survival Crisis", whom Yi Feiyang liked very much in his previous life.
These people are either directors or stars, and they pay more attention to the understanding and politeness of the occasion than ordinary people, so when Gusta finished his introduction, he took the initiative to say, "Hello, nice to meet you." ”
No matter how disdainful he is for Yi Feiyang in his heart, he will not show it. But there is one exception here, and this person is Stephen Sommers, who directed the play "Extreme Cold".
I saw that after listening to Gusta's introduction, Stephen immediately sneered: "Oh, I thought it was Mr. Gusta who made him so interested, it turned out to be the Chinese director who made a fortune from the dead and is now making!" ”
Cacophony!
It's very harsh!
As the saying goes, you don't hit people in the face, and you don't expose your shortcomings when you scold people, this Stephen not only slapped Yi Feiyang's face in front of so many people, but also ruthlessly exposed his shortcomings, making it clear that he was finding fault......
Therefore, as soon as he said this, the surroundings immediately fell silent. Everyone looked at Yi Feiyang with strange eyes, looking at Stephen. Especially those who know Stephen, they can't help but mutter, what's wrong with this guy today?!
It turned out that this Stephen Sommers filmed the super blockbuster "Extreme Cold" this year. The film was filmed over 85 days and was filmed in and around Vancouver. Most of the scenes in the film are set at a shipyard on the north shore of Vancouver, where the crew built several major sets, including engine rooms, exterior locations for passenger ships, upper and lower decks, and two corridors that will be flooded by seawater, at a cost of $1 million for scaffolding alone. In a word, this drama is very money-burning.
originally thought that this sci-fi blockbuster, which burned countless banknotes and was created by Stephen Sommers with all his might, was both suspenseful and thrilling, and could be a big hit at the box office. But unexpectedly, the box office of this film in the first week of its release in North America was $4.73 million, ranking eighth. In the end, the box office received $11.2 million, and almost couldn't even recover the cost.
For a director, a poor box office is a deadly knife!
Stephen is like this, as a well-known director, this time he capsized in the gutter and was considered to have stepped on shit, and Bowei Pictures, which invested in the drama "Extreme Deep Cold", saw him as a god of decline, so to speak, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, Stephen's luck has been very bad.
With the precedent of failed directing, many film companies that were originally optimistic about him no longer dared to hand him an olive branch easily, let alone let him direct a drama with an investment of more than 10 million. In short, this year, Stephen is very idle, so idle that he can count the stars and watch the ants go up the trees......
But this is not the life he wants, yes, he is an idle person, a person who was born for movies!
When he was a little kid on a bicycle, his favorite thing to do was buy his pocket money into movie tickets and sit in the movie theater and watch his favorite movie while munching on popcorn.
Cinema is his soul and his life!
So he must find an opportunity to make a comeback and continue to be a director and make movies!
Finally, Stephen through his friend Famick? Jason...... That is, the heroine of her unlucky scene told her that after Christmas, Lionsgate will make big moves in filming, and it is likely to invest in a blockbuster film of about 10 million.
Originally, according to Stephen's big-name personality, he still looked down on medium-sized film companies like Lionsgate, he has always cooperated with big companies like Universal, Warner, and Fox, even if the last time he cooperated with Bowei Pictures, it was also supported by Universal Company.
However, he is unlucky now, and there is no room for picking, so he came to Lionsgate's Christmas party, and by the way, he found Mr. Gusta to communicate and see if he could hand over the company's drama next year to him to direct.
originally thought that as a big name in the director industry, if he pulled down his face like this, Lionsgate would definitely be able to catch the big productions in the future.
But he was wrong.
Gusta, the damn guy, actually played peek-a-boo with him. Whenever he mentioned it, the other party dodged left and right, or looked around left and right...... There is not the slightest sincerity.
Stephen felt that he was about to lose face, in the past, but the big bosses of many companies wrote the script, personally brought it to him, cried and begged to let him direct the shooting, and now he took the initiative to send it to the door, and he was actually played, which is so annoying!
Stephen was so angry that he had nowhere to vent. It just so happened that at this time, Gusta introduced Yi Feiyang over. Seeing that Gusta was so "enthusiastic" about Yi Feiyang, a small Chinese director, and compared with his "encounter" just now, Stephen suddenly felt that he had been greatly insulted.
Yes, it's too much!
How can this be?!
Stephen's anger in his stomach was directly vented at Yi Feiyang, and his words were mean, as if he was an enemy in another world.
Yi Feiyang was confused, he didn't seem to know this guy who suddenly came out, why did he hate himself so much?
In the face of Stephen's extremely mean words, Yi Feiyang had no choice but to say innocently: "I'm sorry, may I ask you ......"
"I'm Stephen Sommos, what, don't you know me?" Stephen tilted his nose and looked haughty.
Yi Feiyang smiled, looked at the guy in front of him who "has nothing to do to find a pump", and said in his heart, what is going on today, so many people ask themselves if they know each other, the Pars Hilton in front, and now this Stephen Sommers, these Yankees are too narcissistic, right?! (To be continued......)