Chapter 90: Stirring up some mist
Su Changqing, Du Keke and Ding Jialuo arrived at the Beijing Hotel on time at 8 o'clock in the evening.
Foreigners who came to China in the early days had a stereotyped concept, and even more than ten years later, they were repeatedly reminded in various travel and business guides: East Asians love face, East Asians like to pull relationships, and people in this place care about red tape very much.
This is a ridiculous thing, don't they themselves be shameless and don't like to socialize?
In fact, the subtext of this reminder is: these people are different from us.
East Asians have similar travel business guides, but the reminders are: be punctual, Westerners are meticulous in what they do, and be honest and honest, Westerners don't like to lie and go around in circles.
This is also a ridiculous thing, and people on both sides don't seem to realize that humans are actually the same animal, but the habitat and coat color are different, similar to the situation of other species of earth mammals, because of the uneven distribution of food resources, which leads to different behavior patterns.
Fifteen minutes of meeting, the courtesy visit is too long, the business negotiation is too short, but the other party still agrees, which should be understood as trying to adapt to the so-called cultural differences.
David Landau was about forty years old, tall and muscular, with a beard, like a middle-aged version of Simon Male with albinism.
Although he was very polite when shaking hands, Su Changqing was even more sure from his eyes that this meeting was superfluous, and any idea of opening up Hollywood through cooperation at this stage was stupid.
Ding Jialuo spoke fluent English and introduced Su Changqing and Du Keke, and finally David Landau just nodded and said, "Well, well."
Su Changqing's English is not very good, he can listen to some but can't speak, and he understands that this word is quite perfunctory.
It's not much different from what I expected, and today is in vain.
This group of Hollywood producers came from far and wide to talk about the market at the level of China Film, and they are not willing to cooperate with any oriental director at all, the awards won by Su Changqing may be worth a look, and the commercial value of the film is not worth mentioning.
This is like later, some domestic film festivals will also give awards to Asian, African and Latin American films, but they will not introduce their films to death.
According to the 94 exchange rate, "My Sassy Girlfriend" invested 1.8 million US dollars, and the current box office is almost 5 million, which is not even a small-budget production in Hollywood.
For example, "True Lies" brought by David Landau this time was only released in North America last month, with an investment of 120 million US dollars, which is a huge gap of nearly 100 times.
In fact, the amount of money invested in film shooting in Asia throughout 94 is not as much as this film, and in Hollywood, "True Lies" is only a commercial film, and the investment and reputation are more than eight streets worse than "Forrest Gump", "The Redemption of Shojiak" and "This Killer Is Not Too Cold" co-produced by the United States and France in the same year.
Ninety-four years is magical, blockbusters are like clouds, and "My Sassy Girlfriend" is just churning in his own pond and stirring up some mist.
"Farewell My Concubine" is the domestic box office champion in 93 years, and it is also the first to open the Asian market, and the film entered Western theaters in 94 years, and finally calculated that the global box office is only 15 million US dollars, which is also a fraction.
Director Chen's morale was quite high, and later he broke into Hollywood with this achievement and the blessing of more than 30 awards, but he hit a wall and could only make a third-level film.
Su Changqing shouldn't even have a chance to make a tertiary film.
He wanted to shoot anywhere.
David Landau spent most of the rest of the day chatting with Ducoco.
Du Keke has the best English among the classmates, can have daily conversations, and Su Changqing, who can speak, can probably understand it, and basically doesn't talk about movies.
David Landau complimented Du Coco on her beauty, asked her if she had ever been to the United States and whether she liked it, and the only thing about movies was to ask her what Hollywood movies she had watched.
This kind of conversation is kindergarten level in terms of content and attitude.
Su Changqing sat on the side with a smile, a little unpleasant.
Ding Jialuo refused to waste the opportunity, and several times he brought up the topic of movies, but David Landau easily took it, and then continued to talk to Du Keco.
Su Changqing noticed that his pupils were green, wasn't this the same as a wolf?
Westerners have a peculiar aesthetic for East Asians, and they prefer girls with obvious Mongolian characteristics, preferably with slender and long single eyelids, which in their eyes is pure oriental beauty.
In this regard, Du Coco has an advantage over Ding Jialuo.
Su Changqing felt offended, Lao Tzu came to talk about movies and cooperation, not to send a girl.
Maybe it's a bit cautious to think so, no one said that you have to talk about cooperation when you meet, but their oriental guide doesn't remind you not to talk to East Asian girls casually?
Within a few minutes of sitting down, Su Changqing became impatient, and said to Ding Jialuo: "This fool didn't treat us as peers at all, don't come up and soak us if you don't want to cooperate, you don't have any professionalism, let's go." ”
Ding Jialuo glanced at Su Changqing: "Isn't it like this to seek cooperation, you have always ignored me so much." ”
It seems that Ding Jialuo has a long history of resentment.
"That's different, between us is the people, this is diplomacy, and besides, when did I treat you badly?"
Ding Jialuo pouted: "Don't come to this set, now you also know that it is difficult to ask for help." ”
"Let's go back to self-reliance and work hard, and if we talk any more, Du Keke will run away with others. ”
Du Keke stumbled in English to socialize, and said to Su Changqing with a smile: "Why don't you shut up for me!"
Su Changqing sat there bored, looking at David Landau's white lard face and coming up with a bad move.
"One day, when Lao Tzu was unhappy, he began to write novels, wrote stories such as "Titanic" and "Avatar", and published them in unknown newspapers and magazines in Europe and the United States. ”
Of course, this is nonsense, this kind of thing happens once is okay, two or three times is weird, the cultural industry accounts for nearly a quarter of the gross domestic product of the United States, and the chaos is like making trouble on Wall Street, it must be destroyed.
Fifteen minutes passed quickly, and the staff brought by David Landau came over to remind the three of them that it was time to leave, and that there were other guests later.
At this time, David Landau gentlemanly invited Du Coco to lunch tomorrow.
Ding Jialuo was also a little upset, but still smiled and asked, "Is this a working lunch?" ”
David Landau refused, offering to meet Du Coco alone.
Su Changqing turned around and left: "Let this grandson get a special calf, run this spring!"
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