Chapter 1184? The Vulnerability of Kindness

Independent production is not difficult. In the past, some low-budget black-themed films were independently produced by A+ film studios. Now in Hollywood, most film companies are in the nature of leather bags. Studios, locations, etc. can be rented. , The provision of equipment, special effects, etc. are contracted to professional companies, and the cast and crew sign contracts for each film according to the project.

Then it is a snake-like way and a mouse-like way to go to all over the country and even abroad to attract investment and tax reduction policies and cultural subsidies for the film industry. This is an industry that is pollution-free, can provide high-end employment, and can also promote local tourism and other businesses. The support is great. Some people in Hollywood are good at killing 'stupid German money', some people master the resources of Britain, France and other countries, and some people run to lower costs. Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand, which are also English-speaking countries and have no cultural barriers, first use local government subsidies, After getting the tax rebate, there are fewer and fewer production crews who really stay in the local traditional studios in Los Angeles.

The same is true for the girl next door project. The start date is summer, and it happens to go to Song Ya’s hometown of Chicago to shoot. The governor will allocate some counterpart subsidies and tax rebates from Illinois.

"In addition, Xiao Lizi's salary is not high, the cost can be kept very low, and independent production is more convenient for accounting, perfect."

Due to the foresight of the apocalypse, in Song Ya's Hollywood affairs, the project of the girl next door who holds the appointment of Xiao Lizi is progressing rapidly. After talking carefully with Yeremov in the car, he thinks that the prospect is very good. DreamWorks The reluctance to release is definitely their own loss. "Where's Cold Mountain? How's it going?" he asked about another project.

"Not yet."

Yeremov replied: "The Atlantic Monthly's parent company Grove Publishing's rejection of Universal Pictures is only temporary. Whether it is cooperation with Ms. Sloan's station or Cold Mountain's adaptation rights, they have not yet made a final decision. .Daniel thinks they probably want to see how Universal's other Southern perspective film works out."

"Hmm." Song Ya nodded and pondered.

"Universal Pictures still has an advantage. During the filming of the Chinese-American director Ang Lee's Ride with the Devil, the location of the props and the like can be seamlessly transferred to Leng Shan. The sincerity of the president Ron Meyer is also very good. But The Atlantic Monthly and Charles Fraser have doubts about the heroine of Ride with the Devil, quasi-diva Pearl, you know that a singer who has no acting experience and directly plays the leading role in such a big-budget drama will usually end badly. "

Yeremov added.

"Then just wait, you and Daniel need to be patient, and let Xuelin participate more and show up more."

If someone is fighting for it, it can be sold for a price. Now, whether it is the Atlantic Monthly, Charles Fraser or Grove Press, they must know that there is no need to rush.

"Jodie Foster wants to see you."

Yeremov answered the phone and reported.

"Her? What's the matter?" Song Ya asked.

"Her egg film industry is under Polygram Films, and now because Polygram is about to be sold as a whole, the Anna and the King project, which she put a lot of effort into, was suddenly stopped midway, and now she is looking for someone to take over all over the world." Ye Lemov replied: "And she may also be interested in competing for the heroine of Cold Mountain.

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"Egg Films..."

Song Ya will always be amused by the company name of the Oscar double actress, but Jodie Foster is old, and she is also a lesbian, and she is too short, which is no match for the original actress Nicole Kidman , "I don't have time... Wait, you mentioned Polygram just now?"

"Yes, a film distribution company under Polygram."

"Then let's talk, uh..." My schedule is very tight, "Call her to Xuelin."

"ok."

The car stopped in front of Xuelinfen's mansion in San Marino, "Halley!?" Song Ya was pleasantly surprised to see Halle Berry lying by the swimming pool with Xuelinfen basking in the sun for some reason, with two bikinis in one black and one white Beauty glistens in the sun.

He looked back at Yeremov, who smiled and said nothing.

Arranged? Very caring, swallowed and raised his feet to rush over there, huh? No, there are three, there is an unexpected guest, Quincy Jones' lover Natasha Kinski is lying beside Xue Linfen, and she didn't see it at first glance.

"Natasha brought little Kenya to play with Robb, just arrived."

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It was embarrassing to have outsiders around, Song Ya slammed on the brakes, Xue Linfen took off her sunglasses, and winked to explain.

"Hi, as." Natasha Kinski's back was clean and smooth, European women sunbathing would not bring too much burden.

"Hello."

The scenery is picturesque, and the eye-catching is indeed eye-catching. Song Ya almost scratched her scalp today, so she had no choice but to stand still and have nothing to say, "Harry, isn't the bragging customer you starred in coming out soon?"

"May fifteenth," Harry replied.

Then there is less than a month left, "What do you think will happen to the results of the painting?" Song Ya asked.

"Don't know, Warren Beatty is arrogant, but the movie itself should be interesting."

Harley commented, she pointed to the short dreadlocks all over her head, "This is my image in the play, have you seen anything?"

"e..."

The mixed-race Black Pearl is really a miracle of frozen age. This appearance is exactly the same as when she starred in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever in 1991. It seems that the passage of seven years does not exist on her body. Growing up tomboyish, "That is to say, in Warren Beatty's stereotype, you are still the actor with a similar image template in Jungle Fever?" Song Ya turned her head to analyze.

"Yes, a black girl on the street."

Halle complained, "Honestly, this role made me feel like I'd been stuck in the same place for seven years in Hollywood."

"Don't say that about Harley, you know Xuelin and I envy you." Natasha Kinski interjected.

"It's a pity, I thought Warren Beatty was going to take you to the prize."

With Warren Beatty's status in Hollywood, the films he wrote, directed and acted in at the age of 60 are undoubtedly going for awards.

"I thought so at first, but he didn't really care about my seven years of acting improvement. He only needs the stereotyped image of a black girl on the street."

Harley lazily changed her lying position, and her perfect body without a trace of fat could be seen under the three-point swimsuit. "I really regret that I voluntarily cut my salary to play..."

"No wonder you say he's arrogant. Forget it. Later, you can do me a favor by playing the female lead in an award-winning film. There aren't many roles, but it should be more room for play than Warren Beattina." Song Ya thought for a while , decided to give her the role of the heroine of miracles, that is, the wife of the hero.

"Help? How about the salary!?" Harley sat up with a sharp voice.

"Of course it's a friendly price."

I can't do it anymore, I can't help it anymore, the color is empty, and the eyes are pure, "I'll go to see the children, and Jodie Foster will come later." Song Ya turned and hid in the house without saying a word.

Robb was running wildly with Kenya Jones at home, and Little Jon was chasing after his brother like a follower, "Did you practice your writing, Robb?" Song Ya pulled his trousers to catch the two sons.

'I can't understand it, I really admit that I can't understand it, Yahoo's stock price has doubled again in just two months! As of the close of Nasdaq today, the market value is 32.3 billion knives? '

Played with my son for a long time. After three o'clock in the afternoon, when Song Ya carried little Sansa to the hall, Jodie Foster and her girlfriend had already arrived. The two were arguing fiercely with Yeremov. Li and Natasha Kinski have also changed into formal clothes. Xuelin Fen and Natasha Kinski curled up on the sofa and read a book together like best friends. news.

Xue Linfen and Natasha Kinski's looks are still the same, and Jodie Foster has a double actress halo bonus, which is almost the same as her girlfriend. The five people in the hall have different shapes and expressions, very vivid, and the scene is as beautiful as an old oil painting.

The stock market analyst on the TV put his head on his head in disbelief, "This Internet company with no profitability has already surpassed a large number of century-old multinational giants. I admit that my previous analysis was wrong. I and my Colleagues have been saying that this is impossible since last year, this is impossible, the bubble will burst sooner or later... But the reality is so ironic, we have been slapped in the face again and again! '

"Do you still insist on your opinion now?" the reporter asked.

"I'm not commenting, I'm not going to comment on this stock anymore."

"I heard that many prominent short sellers have lost a lot in the past two months."

"There are also many people who have made a fortune. For example, without mentioning the founder of Yahoo, if the minority shareholder AS still owns the legendary 3.8%, then his assets alone are worth more than 1.2 billion... ...dolr!"

The lively hall suddenly fell silent, and the other women looked up at the TV.

That's it, the timing is just right, and the faint passive pretense is perfect, "What's the matter? What are you talking about?" Song Ya made a gorgeous appearance with her eldest daughter in her arms.

Harry looked at him wiping his saliva, Jodie Foster put down the foot that had been domineeringly on the coffee table, and Natasha Kinski's eyes were shining brightly, "Give it to me." Xue Linfen came over from him Picking up her daughter in her arms.

"Just cried a lot."

Song Ya handed little Sansa to her mother, "Welcome, Ms. Foster, this is..." Although he had seen it before, he couldn't remember the name of Jodie Foster's girlfriend.

"Sidney Bernard."

"Oh yes, hello."

Song Ya showed a calm and manly appearance, shaking hands with the two women, "I heard Yeremov say..."

Jodie Foster is having a hard time right now. Her personal film company, Egg Films, has launched the Anna and the King project with the help of Polygram Pictures. Everything is ready and ready to go. She herself just went to check out the location in Southeast Asia. When I came back, I didn’t expect to be hit by a bolt from the blue. Because of the decision to sell, the parent company, Polygram, suddenly stopped the financial support for Polygram’s big projects. , the project cannot continue, and there is a risk of bankruptcy.

"You a+ movie studios don't have a lot of projects this year, do you?" Jodie Foster asked.

The two sides took the opportunity to almost reach a cooperation on the Beloved project, but unfortunately lost to Oprah, who was super doubled. There was a little relationship, Jodie Foster wanted to change money, and rushing to visit may be a bit of an emergency.

"On the contrary, we will be very busy this year." Yeremov did not like the Anna and the King project.

Song Ya knows his position on this point. The historical background of Southeast Asia that Americans are completely unfamiliar with and disdain to understand, the love story of a yellow man and a white woman, and a jewel in the 1950s. Jodie Foster's appearance is no longer It's that year... She still has great ambitions. She bought the adaptation rights and participated in the investment to play the heroine. The production cost of the whole drama will be very high.

"Has Polygram Films stopped paying? What's their situation now?"

Without the apocalypse, Song Ya still tends to be conservative, and he is more interested in the recent situation of Polygram.

"I don't know, there's chaos and they're telling me a deal could be done in August, maybe even earlier."

Jodie Foster complained.

"Oh? I haven't heard of it, and there's no news from outside."

Song Ya raised her eyebrows, then only Universal was the only one, and the progress of other potential acquirers was not so fast.

"A certain high-level person revealed it to me." The double actress has her own way.

"Any other details?"

It seems that ten thousand Philips are willing to sell Polygram, and the sooner the better, according to Jodie Foster, Polygram is also very satisfied with Universal, and it is right, the difference is only in price, and how to handle the merger and acquisition Various regulatory and external pressures on listed companies.

"Hey, you have no sincerity at all." Jodie Foster quickly noticed that Song Ya's intentions were not with Anna and the king, "Don't inquire, I know you have conflicts with Universal, and now everyone in Hollywood has spread the word, if it wasn't because there was no way ..."

"What contradiction? I just found out that there are people spreading pirated songs on the American music website, and I asked them to delete them, but Littman Media didn't listen to me, and I can't help it. Blame me."

Song Ya and Sloan's double reeds are for this answer, and they are justified.

"hehe."

Jodie Foster sneered, she worked in Hollywood in 1962 and has been up and down in Hollywood for nearly 30 years, this kind of excuse can't deceive her.

"Okay, what is the funding gap between Anna and foreign countries?" Song Ya turned the topic back, at least giving a clear attitude.

"Fifty million."

Jodie Foster's answer made Yeremov laugh on the spot, and the number exceeded Song Ya's psychological bottom line, "So many?"

"Love, wars, courts, the disparity of identities between the king's male lead and the tutor's female lead, cultural conflicts in the context of the big era... a tragic ending."

Jodie Foster's girlfriend replied: "Is it like another Titanic?"

"Who is the hero?"

"Chow Yun-fat."

Brother Fa..."Forget it, I don't want to gamble again."

Song Ya glanced at Jodie Foster's face, and said in her heart that it's not that I don't support the fellow villagers. How can this middle-aged version of Jack and Rose be compared with Xiao Lizi and Fat Wen... Da Chuan's main moviegoers are young women. Individual color control.

"never mind."

Jodie Foster sighed in disappointment, and turned to Natasha Kinski, "Are you looking at Cold Mountain, right? Where did you see it?"

"Where? We've watched it countless times... I cry every time I see the ending."

Natasha Kinski held her hand in her arms and said: "Sometimes he was sober and sometimes unconscious. He had a brilliant dream, dreaming of his hometown. A cool spring gushed out from the cracks in the rocks, and the black land, Towering old tree. In his dreams, time seemed to appear at the same time, and all the seasons overlapped. The apple tree was full of fruit, but strangely, the tree was still blooming, the ice was frozen on the edge of the spring, and the okra was blooming. Yellow and sorrel flowers. Maple leaves as red as in October, spikes on corn-tips, overstuffed chairs dragged to the living room fireplace, pumpkins glistening in the row, laurel overgrown Hillsides, ditches lined with impatiens, dogwoods with white flowers, and redbuds quivering with purple florets. All together. And white oaks, and crows, or at least the souls of crows , they dance and sing on the high branches..."

"Charles Fraser's writing is so beautiful." She said with emotion, "The ending is also really regrettable. The male lead died in the arms of the female lead. They get together less and leave more. The love is poignant, loyal, and platonic... ..."

"It's an oriental style of love, 'the thin haze, the thick fog in the valley, the clouds hanging like rags on the mountainside of the cold mountain, and the gray rain that pours down all day long'... "

Judy Foster, who is a double actress and a Yale scholar, is much higher than European pornstars, so she casually recited a short passage from Leng Shan, "Does it look like a Huaguo ink painting? Compared with the famous novel 'Gone with the Wind' with the same background , it can be seen that the concept of the times, including the progress of the concept of race and love, and the reflection on the Civil War are more delicate..."

"Uh...you, your point of view makes sense."

Natasha Kinski felt that she was crushed, and immediately turned the book to open up the next battlefield.

The two actresses with very different status had a heated discussion, but Song Ya felt that the real target of each of their words was herself, and they were carefully designing to express their understanding of Leng Shan.

But if Jodie Foster wants to compete for the heroine, she has no competition with Natasha Kinski, who at most hopes to get a supporting role with a little weight? What's so good you come and I go...

He thought to himself with the mentality of chewing peonies, and his eyes happened to meet Harry's. Harry smiled and looked away from the two of them, and rolled his eyes.

"Do you know? I have discussed many times with the author Mr. Charles Fraser. In order to write this 300,000-word book, he spent seven years and neglected his family responsibilities. His wife finally left him... ..."

Xue Linfen likes this kind of literary discussion that hurts the spring and autumn the most, and excitedly joins in with her daughter in her arms, "It's like Lengshan, holding on for a long time, but it still ends in tragedy in the end."

"Balance career and love." Natasha Kinski said: "Most men can't do this." She complimented Jodie Foster and her girlfriend, "You two are role models in Hollywood, really enviable. "

"Well……"

This Song Ya has something to say, he inserted accurately, "In fact, the so-called balancing career and love is a false proposition, isn't it?"

"What do you mean?" Jodie Foster asked.

"Generally speaking, our cultural traditions are required to weigh our responsibilities, and when I choose to devote myself to work or accomplish a career, and I want to manage my family and love at the same time, this is just him escaping from reality. "

Song Ya sold what she learned from listening to Martha Nussbaum, a blonde female professor in the law school, "There will also be conflicts between good wishes. You can either work hard, or manage your family and love well, just like ancient times. In the masterpiece "Agamemnon" written by the Greek tragedy master Aeschylus, Agamemnon is faced with the choice between appeasing the wrath of Artemis, the goddess of hunting, keeping the army alive, and sacrificing his favorite daughter, whom he loves. His soldiers love his daughter too, and he has to choose..."

"These two examples are completely incomparable!?" Harry interrupted loudly.

"Of course, Socrates said 'a good man cannot be harmed', which means that human virtue is guaranteed, so everything related to it is guaranteed, but what about conflicts between good wishes? When one does Are you doing evil when you make a choice? Everyone has to face this kind of 'fragility of goodness', and ask yourself on a true philosophical level." Song Ya talked eloquently.

"That's right, that's really good of you." Natasha Kinski nodded frequently, half understanding.

Jodie Foster and his girlfriend were thoughtful, Xue Linfen naturally admired, "It's like a scumbag is making excuses." Halle hit the nail on the head.

"hey-hey……"

Accidentally pretending again, Song Ya was very satisfied with the responses of the five women, "Boss." Yeremov also felt that he was almost in place, and handed him the phone at the right time to help him install it before running away, so as not to reveal his secrets because of the boss's lack of knowledge reserve.

"Um."

Song Ya glanced at the call, it was Amy Adams, "Sorry, I'll answer the call."

He bowed gracefully, left the hall, and went to meet him on the lawn.

"You went back to Los Angeles?" Amy asked right away, her voice tired.

"Uh...um."

"Tell me, how long do I have to wait?" Amy asked.

this problem……

Song Ya took a deep breath, "I don't know, Amy..."

"you do not know?"

"I really want to say something to coax you, but I... really don't know." Damn, I just talked about the fragility of kindness, and now I have to face this problem directly, Song Ya said guiltily: "Give me some time , answer next year?" Shakira's smiling face appeared in his mind again.

"After next year, we will be together, you only have me, only love me, from now on forever?" Amy asked.

"I...can't give you this promise, Amy." He answered truthfully.

Amy started sniffling and sobbing over the phone, "I'm so tired..." she cried.

"Then you have to make a decision, Amy, you are about to wake up from the dream of good wishes, it's good, be yourself, be strong, I... It's not worth waiting for you."

After finishing speaking, Song Ya wiped the corners of her eyes, turned her back to the direction of the wind, "after so many years, you should see my true face clearly."

"you are always like this……"

"What?"

"That kind of rational to cold thinking about me."

"Stop beautifying me with filters in your head, Amy! I'm a scumbag! You have the right, and you will definitely find someone who loves you and treats you better than me!" he growled.

"Woo woo woo..."

After chatting with Amy for a long time, I finally put down the hot phone in melancholy.

"Is there something wrong?" Turning around, he saw Yeremov standing in the distance waiting, pacing anxiously.

"Your lawyer Mrs. Alicia Flock is looking for you, but the line is busy..."

Yeremov said: "She asked me to tell that a small singer mutual aid foundation went to Delay today, and they seemed to be willing to subsidize his legal fees for the lawsuit. I heard that they found a good local law firm, which is not cheap. Mrs. Flock thinks the sudden appearance of this group of people is too weird."

Are the rich three generations playing tricks? "Dilai accepted?" Song Ya suddenly became murderous, maybe it should have been more ruthless.

"Mrs. Flock is waiting for the latest news, but she said that after Delay accepted the other party's initial visit, the two sides should not have reached an agreement."

Chicago 1990