"Okay, no problem!"

The ex-girlfriend didn't expect Li Tang to be so cheerful, and when she was surprised, she couldn't help but say, "True or fake, you're not joking with me, are you?" ”

I saw Li Tang smile slightly, looked at his ex-girlfriend's wonderful expression, and said, "Didn't you joke with me first." ”

"Uh......"

The ex-girlfriend was speechless for a while, and while secretly breathing a sigh of relief, it was inevitable that she would feel a sense of loss in her heart.

If everything had gone according to her own heart, she would not have taken the initiative to break up back then, maybe now the two have already been married and even have children.

But everything is not smooth, especially for children from ordinary families like her, who came out of a small county town in Northeast China, with no background, no backer, and has come to this day step by step with her own efforts. She felt that she had made the right choice.

It is said that you can't have both fish and bear's paws, and now that you are famous and rich, some things are long gone, so why should you be demanding? What's more, if Li Tang is really willing to get back together, how should he choose? To be honest, she was really unwilling.

It was precisely because of such ambivalence that his ex-girlfriend snorted and glanced at Li Tang, and said with little confidence: "You know how to bully me!" ”

Li Tang smiled and didn't quarrel with her anymore.

In fact, from Li Tang's point of view, he still understands his ex-girlfriend. If you want to mix in this industry, you have to mix your head, not everything can be done at will.

At this point, the waiter brought the siphon coffee machine, fruit bowl and a small cube of cream. When the coffee was boiled, without Li Tang's hands, his ex-girlfriend quickly helped him take a cup with his hands and feet, and added milk and sugar cubes.

Then she took a small spoon and dug up the small piece of fresh milk to eat, she liked to eat the white cream on it, but she was reluctant to eat it all at once, and carefully dug the soft cake under the cream, always trying to save the delicious food to the end.

Li Tang took a sip of coffee, and when he saw this scene, he couldn't stand it, or he couldn't bear it, so he couldn't help but say, "Do you want to have another whipped cream?" ”

Whipped cream is pure whipped cream.

"No, a small cube of cream is enough."

The ex-girlfriend raised her head and looked at Li Tang and said, "Actually, I'm not afraid of your jokes, I only ate this kind of cream cake for the first time after I came here to go to school, that kind of taste...... Really, I will never forget it. ”

said with a smile: "I still remember the first time I ate this kind of fresh milk cake or you bought it for me!" ”

"Really? I don't even remember. ”

"Of course, I remember it clearly, it was a small cube of fresh milk with a red cherry on top. At that time, I remember that when I took a bite into it, I didn't know how to describe the feeling, but I finally knew that the kind of cream cake I used to eat at home during the Chinese New Year was fake. ”

"So what you're eating now isn't a cream cake, it's feelings!"

The ex-girlfriend's eyes lit up, and she nodded violently: "Yes, yes, yes, it's feelings!" ”

In fact, Li Tang also felt deeply about the fake cream cake that his ex-girlfriend said he ate during the New Year. When I was a child, when I visited relatives and friends during festivals, the most poignant (the most noodle) souvenir was the cream decorated cake.

The earliest cream decorating cake is called butter cream cake, butter is the transliteration of butter (Butter), in fact, it is not real butter, but fake butter whipped with egg white and sugar, the taste is hard, also called hard cream.

Later, it slowly evolved into the yellow-colored malice cream cake, which is a little more advanced than buttercream, but it is also fake butter.

It wasn't until the early nineties that real fresh milk cakes became popular in Shanghai. Li Tang still clearly remembers that when he celebrated his ex-girlfriend's birthday for the first time, he went to the boss's room to order a twelve-inch fresh milk cake, which cost more than eighty yuan in ninety-four years. And the ruby fresh milk in his ex-girlfriend's mouth is very small, very small, at most two or three mouthfuls of two and five cents a piece, which is equivalent to a guest meal with a large row.

After expressing her feelings for a while, her ex-girlfriend asked again: "By the way, this time I worked with director Zhang Yimou, how does it feel?" ”

"It's good, it's just that the requirements are too high, there are too many ideas, and a fight scene has been filmed for almost a month."

The ex-girlfriend said with envy: "People are big directors, of course they have to keep improving!" ”

As she spoke, she looked at Li Tang and asked tentatively, "Director Lou Ye is going to make a new movie, do you know?" ”

As an ex-girlfriend, she knows too well the relationship between Li Tang and Lou Ye.

Maybe the two are too familiar, Li Tang suddenly smelled what his ex-girlfriend wanted to do, and naturally said: "I know, the preparations have been almost half a year." ”

The ex-girlfriend hurriedly asked again: "What is the new movie, have you seen the script?" ”

"Well, I've seen it, it's an anti-Japanese theme."

"Huh?"

Because Lou Ye's previous works were all about urban love, this time it was actually an anti-Japanese theme, and his ex-girlfriend was quite surprised, and then said: "So you can still play the male lead this time?" ”

"Not necessarily, this time I want to audition publicly."

"That's right...... Hey, are there so many female characters, uh...... Is there a role for me? "The ex-girlfriend finally got to the point.

This time, Lou Ye cooperated with Shanghai Film Studio, and it was also a big investment, and it was estimated that it had already spread all over the circle, and the purpose of his ex-girlfriend looking for him today was because of this incident.

When his ex-girlfriend just mentioned this topic, Li Tang quickly went through the characters in "Purple Butterfly". Lou Ye's consistent style is that there are very few characters in the movie, and all the plots revolve around three or four people, and all of them are big heroines, or the plot always revolves around female characters. This is true of "Suzhou Creek", and "Purple Butterfly" is no exception.

The most important characters in "Purple Butterfly" are naturally Ding Hui, the lover of the Japanese Hidehiko Itami, and Xin Xia, a member of the resistance, these two names are actually one person, a bit similar to the beauty and peony played by Zhou Xun in "Suzhou River".

With such an important role, the ex-girlfriend naturally has no hope, Lou Ye must choose an actress who is both well-known and acting, and the age must not be too big.

In addition to those famous female stars in Hong Kong and Taiwan, Li Tang in the mainland thinks that there are probably only Zhang Ziyi and Zhou Xun, as for the other two four little flowers, their acting skills are too poor, not to mention Lou Ye, even Li Tang can't look down on them. Of course, this is a conventional guess, and it depends on the actual situation, after all, Lou Ye is sometimes a master who does not play cards according to common sense.

However, there is also a role of Situ's girlfriend in it, Li Tang thinks it is quite suitable for his ex-girlfriend, this character does not have many scenes, and he was accidentally killed by Xin Xia, which involved the entanglement between Situ and Xin Xia.

Originally, Li Tang still wanted to let Xiaopang try this role, but now that his ex-girlfriend has proposed it first, uh...... First come, first served. Besides, Xiaopang has already acted in "The Third Man" before, and a bowl of water must always be even.

"There is a role that you may be suitable, you are the second female lead, but there are not too many scenes in the script, you ......"

Before Li Tang finished speaking, he saw his ex-girlfriend and said excitedly: "It doesn't matter, even if it's just a small supporting role, I'm willing." ”

The ex-girlfriend is very self-aware, and she didn't expect a female number one from the beginning. In recent years, except for last year, when she won a film at the Singapore International Film Festival, she has never had the opportunity to get a big screen.

Don't look at her TV series filming in the past two years, and she has also mixed up with the female number one, but most of them are vase roles. Although Sister Hua has reached a cooperation with Huayi Brothers, who are currently developing in the film field, they are limited to the coffee position, and Huayi Brothers also dare not bet on her, and they can't even mix up a supporting role.

This time, when she heard that Lou Ye was cooperating with Shanghai Film Studio to make a big-budget movie, she immediately thought of her ex-boyfriend, and just took the opportunity to come to Shanghai to film this time to come to the door to test it.

Li Tang didn't sell anything, just groaned a little, and said: "I can recommend it for you, but whether it will succeed or not can only depend on your own ability and luck, I don't dare to guarantee the ticket, after all, my own role has not yet been settled." ”

The ex-girlfriend nodded again and again: "I understand this, I just need a chance." ”

In addition to being excited, she also stood up and poked over half of the table, kissed Li Tang heavily on the face, and said with a flushed face: "Thank you!" ”

Along the way, she knows that opportunities are too important, in dramas, Chinese operas, Nortel, and those who are halfway monks, they pop up one after another every year, and too many actors don't even have the opportunity to audition.

On the one hand, there are endless threats from newcomers, and on the other hand, there is a bottleneck for breaking through in their own upward development. What's more important is that she is about to run for three, strictly speaking, in one month for the New Year, she should be thirty according to her age. It is said that women are thirty tofu scum, and the more they go on, the fewer opportunities they may have.

The coffee was drunk, eaten, and the business was discussed, and the next thing was, of course, to relive the old dreams.

The ex-girlfriend is still very thin, and she is still a certainty, and her sense of perception is definitely not as good as the small skeleton and fleshy sister Nianci,

……

During the intermission, Li Tang took a cigarette in his mouth and picked up the script of the new play that his ex-girlfriend was about to star in and looked at it, but when he looked at the first page, he couldn't help but sneer after just a few lines: "What kind of book, this is nonsense!" ”

"What's the matter?,How can there be any nonsense?,I think this book is very well written.。 Otherwise, director Wu Tiange would not have been able to direct it himself. ”

The ex-girlfriend came out of the bathroom wrapped in a bath towel and wiped her hair, and after the internal moisturization, her little face was flushed with steaming on the outside, and her complexion was excellent, and she couldn't see the person who was about to run for three at all, and it was similar to the appearance of the two in their early twenties when they first met.

"Besides, this is Huo Xin's book, don't talk nonsense."

"Really?"

Li Tang flipped to the cover, and sure enough, Huo Xin's name was written in the screenwriter column, but he didn't pay attention to it just now. Huo Xin is also an acquaintance, the girlfriend of his old classmate Liao Fu, and the screenwriter of the hit drama "Love to the End".

As for the director Wu Tiange just mentioned, he graduated from the Shanghai Opera Directing Department, and was once a famous young director of Shanghai Film Studio, and when he first debuted in the mid-90s, he independently directed and made many films produced by Shanghai Film Studio that received a good response. It's just that now that the major film studios are reforming their systems, and films are no longer funded by the public and purchased and sold in a unified manner, but have embarked on the road of marketization. Wu Tiange, a famous young film director who was once famous, now has to be reduced to making TV series.

In addition, Lu Yi, Ren Zhenquan, Geng Le and other popular students joined, this 30-episode TV series can be described as a strong lineup.

"But I'm not talking nonsense."

Li Tang opened the script and defended his ex-girlfriend: "You see that the background of this drama is Shanghai in the thirties, and the four of them actually set up a jazz band, isn't it taken for granted!" ”

The ex-girlfriend was puzzled: "Is there anything wrong with starting a jazz band?" ”

"Of course, there is a problem, jazz is black American music, and it really became popular in American society in the thirties and forties, how can it be that four young people in Shanghai set up a jazz band in the thirties."

"Hey, you know that, too?"

"Of course I know, if you don't believe it, you can check it on the Internet."

Now it is the age of the Internet, and it is convenient to check anything.

The ex-girlfriend attached great importance to this play, and still said strongly: "As you just said, jazz music also became popular in the thirties and forties in the United States. ”

"Yes, you can think so."

Li Tang didn't bother to talk to her, throughout the thirties, the so-called leased Shanghai was the world of the British and the French, and the Americans' sense of existence was very low, and it was not even as good as the small days entrenched in Hongkou. At that time, even if the young people in Shanghai were fashionable, they admired the culture of Britain and France, and Lao Mei was still synonymous with hillbillies among foreigners.

It's just that Lao Mei is extremely powerful now, and out of Mu Qiang's psychology, many scripts often highlight Lao Mei when describing foreigners and foreign culture. For example, when many TV dramas are filming Republic of China dramas in the twenties and thirties, they can't help but think about how the Americans or the dollar or something, you must know that the pound was the world currency in that era.

Li Tang is a bit detailed, especially in terms of treating scripts, and he feels uncomfortable when he sees a script like this that is taken for granted and has obvious loopholes.

What is the name of "In the Mood for Love", it is obviously rubbing the popularity of "In the Mood for Love" with Wang Sunglasses.

In fact, whether it is on Broadway or Hollywood, the control of this kind of detail is very strict, from the props and costumes to the characteristics of the era, and occasional negligence will directly affect the quality of the whole play.

As a man of two lifetimes, he deeply felt the weakness of the Chinese film industry.

This is also why in my previous life, as a Chinese-American, I knew almost nothing about Chinese movies in this era, to put it bluntly, because the presence of Chinese films overseas was too low, and they were not even as good as the Bollywood movies of Ah Sanjia next door.

From the seventies and eighties to the beginning of the twenty-first century, Japanese cinema has always been a representative of Asian cinema. That's why so many directors in Hollywood worship Akira Kurosawa.

Although there was a flash in the pan of Bruce Lee, and now there is the success of Cheng Long and Li Lian in Hollywood, but these have created the stereotype that Lao Mei has Chinese movies as kung fu films, just like the song and dance films of Ah Sanjia next door.

After entering the 10s of the 21st century, with the rise of stick movies, they gradually replaced Japanese films as the representative of Asian films. And throughout that period, the so-called Chinese film Li Tang can probably only recall "The Great Wall" directed by Zhang Yimou and "The Wandering Earth" with Lieutenant Colonel Liu Peiqiang.

(End of chapter)