Chapter 522 The Key to Success (7,000 Words Updated!)

Man is really an emotional animal.

Lu Yanhe really didn't think much about China before, nor did he feel much lonely in a "foreign land".

Yan Liang suddenly mentioned "Young Days", and Lu Yanhe suddenly became melancholy when he thought of playing with everyone.

At this time, the phone suddenly rang.

When he saw it, it was Arne Bogut calling.

Lu Yanhe answered the phone suspiciously.

Arne Bogut asked him to go to the bar for a drink.

"Simon, Lily, and I are here. Do you want to come with us?"

Lu Yanhe thought for a while and said, "I'm a little tired, Arne, I won't go, you guys have fun."

Arne Bogut seemed a little disappointed, muttered "Okay" and hung up the phone.

"Isn't he coming?" Seeing Arne Bogut's expression, Simon Schmid guessed the outcome of the call. He curled his lips and showed an expression that he had known for a long time, "I told you a long time ago. If you tell me, he will definitely not come out. You are still wasting your time making this call. Those Asians are different from us. "

Arne Bogut looked at Simon suspiciously and said, "Simon, why do I think you are hostile to Lu? Is there any conflict between you two?"

Simon Schmid: "I just don't like him, there is no contradiction."

"Why don't you like him?" Lily Williams asked doubtfully.

"There is no reason. Do I need a reason for not liking him?" Simon Schmid shrugged, "Let's go directly."

So Simon Schmid drove and set off with two people.

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It's not that Lu Yanhe is unsociable or unwilling to drink, but he was brought into the second floor of Liu Zhen's house by Zhong Benshuo in Korea before and was almost tricked.

Therefore, in an unfamiliar environment, he would rather be cautious. Otherwise, if we go to a bar together late at night, if something happens, we will be in a lot of trouble because we are unfamiliar with the place.

However, Lu Yanhe did not expect that his concerns would be answered accurately.

The next day, he went to the set to do special effects makeup in the morning. As soon as he entered his lounge, he saw the makeup artist and her assistant discussing something with serious expressions.

Lu Yanhe asked what happened, and the makeup artist said that Simon Schmid was caught driving drunk last night by the local police, and he is still being detained and has not been released. Also in the car were Arne Bogut and Lily Williams.

This matter was not hidden at all, and was reported by the local tabloid on the front page early in the morning.

The title is also a direct reference to a Hollywood film crew.

Although there is no situation where a foreign film will be hidden and unable to be released because it uses a bad artist, scandals are always bad.

Drunk driving is not a big deal in foreign countries, nor is it a small matter in a small way.

Lu Yanhe sighed.

He didn't quite understand. They were all artists. Why didn't they ask the driver to pick them up after they drank? Do you have to drive yourself?

This is a sure shot.

Halfway through Lu Yanhe's special effects makeup, someone came in to communicate with Lu Yanhe, saying that the filming time would be moved forward later.

Because Simon can't shoot today.

The makeup artists were all whispering, curious about where this matter would go.

Simon is not a big actor, but if there is a scandal like drunk driving, if the public's opposition lasts for a long time, maybe the crew will fire him directly.

Lu Yanhe put on special effects makeup, and after leaving the dressing room, he found that the atmosphere on the scene was also very strange.

Everyone was in a state of whispering and speaking cautiously.

Everyone is using a "pretend that nothing happened" attitude, tacitly and eloquently conveying the atmosphere of "this is worth seeing".

Arne and Lily, who were in the same car with Simon last night, were not detained. They were just drunk passengers. No matter how much they were arrested, they could not be caught.

However, at this moment, they were in a state like headless chickens, restless. Even if they were on the set, it could be seen at a glance that their minds were not here.

Lu Yanhe thought for a while and took the initiative to say hello to them.

"Hey, are you guys okay?"

The moment Arne saw Lu Yanhe, his expression was a little unnatural.

Last night, Lu Yanhe almost got in that car.

"You're so lucky that you didn't go with us yesterday." Lily raised her head and glanced at Lu Yanhe, which almost made Lu Yanhe think that she was being weird, but Lily's frustrated tone showed that she didn't actually mean it.

Lu Yanhe asked: "You guys were drinking, why did Simon still drive by himself?"

Lily said: "We also advised him not to drive by himself, but he insisted that it was okay and said that it was very remote and there would be no police investigation."

Lu Yanhe: "..."

Lily added: "It would have been better if we had held on a little longer yesterday."

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Because of Simon's accident, the atmosphere at today's filming scene was a bit low-pressure, including Director Mu Ken's mood.

It wasn't until the evening, when work was about to end, that news came that Simon was finally taken out of the police station by his agent.

Xinalin also disappeared for a day today and was busy working on this matter.

Early the next morning, Simon made a public apology outside the studio, admitting that he had drunk driving, accepting all criticism, and would correct himself in the future.

His attitude was very correct. In addition, Simon was actually a big star who had just debuted and was a little famous but not well-known. The incident did not cause much waves. After publicly apologizing, Simon returned to the crew and continued filming.

However, this incident obviously brought him a little blow.

He was usually very active and talkative on the set, but suddenly he became much quieter.

Moreover, Lu Yanhe didn't know if it was his illusion. He always felt that Simon seemed a little awkward with him, as if he was angry about his drunk driving.

This feeling was between them, making their already not close relationship even more distant.

However, fortunately, no matter what happened in private, they could still play opposite roles normally during filming.

In fact, Lu Yanhe and other actors in the play were originally in a relationship of avenger and avenged, so he didn't need to have a good relationship with others in the movie. Their relationship in real life was not very good, which was actually a help to their acting. It seems a bit unkind to say this, but it is the fact.

However, no one expected that when the film was almost halfway through, Simon would get into trouble again.

This time it was not drunk driving, but fighting, fighting with someone in a bar.

The cause of the fight was that Simon fell in love with a girl, so he went to chat with her, but the girl came with her boyfriend. When her boyfriend saw his girlfriend being chatted with, he was not polite and greeted Simon in a very dirty way. Simon was in a bad mood and had drunk alcohol, so he started to quarrel with the other party. This quarrel was good, and the two of them were furious and started fighting.

Others scored twice on the football field, but Simon scored twice in the scandal.

This time, the news of Simon's fight with others was much more than the last drunk driving.

Everyone can allow people to make mistakes, but if they make mistakes in a short period of time and show no sincerity in repentance, it will disappoint everyone to some extent, and even feel that their previous tolerance has been betrayed and failed, so the anger and annoyance towards this person will be more vigorous.

Simon became a hot search.

He is not very famous, so many media introduced him as the leading actor of the new film by horror director Muken.

"The Mist" was known to many people in an undesirable way.

Xin Nalin looked very unhappy, and took Simon to record another apology video.

But this time the public was not very convinced.

Simon was scolded very harshly.

The crew of "The Mist" was also scolded.

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"I didn't expect that I would encounter this situation when I went abroad to shoot a film for the first time." Lu Yanhe was also helpless on the phone, "Besides, this is not a three-no production. It is at least a new film directed by Muken, but it encountered this situation."

Chen Siqi: "It's okay. You should be thankful that Simon is not a good person in the movie. This way, when the audience sees this movie, they will not feel uncomfortable."

"After so many things happened, I don't know how many audiences are willing to go to the cinema." Lu Yanhe sighed helplessly, "It's quite passive. I don't know how the crew will solve this matter."

"The simplest and crudest way is to fire Simon and replace him with another actor." Chen Siqi said, "But if this happens, a lot of scenes will have to be reshot, and your movie may be ruined. After all, not everyone has a free schedule to accompany the crew to reshoot the scenes."

Lu Yanhe: "I don't think the crew will fire Simon. These two things are big and small. Unlike our country, foreign countries are basically difficult for actors to come out for public activities once they violate the law. Although everyone scolds Simon fiercely, compared with the cost of changing actors and reshooting, the risks and losses of the former may be bearable."

Chen Siqi: "Ah, that's right."

If a movie that has been shot halfway suddenly changes actors to reshoot, it is very likely that the movie will directly add millions of dollars to the budget.

For this movie, the pressure to make a profit is great.

"Knock knock." Someone suddenly knocked on the door of Lu Yanhe's lounge.

Wang Biao went to open the door.

Someone came to remind Lu Yanhe that the next scene was about to start shooting and he needed to go over.

Lu Yanhe had to say goodbye to Chen Siqi and hung up the phone first.

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After talking to Lu Yanhe on the phone, Chen Siqi thought seriously about what kind of breakthrough the movie "The Mist" is facing now.

She certainly didn't want to see Lu Yanhe's first English film fail.

While thinking, Lin Yu knocked on the door and entered her office.

"Siqi, this is my plan." Lin Yu handed her drafted "Jump Up International Film Critics Film Festival" plan to Chen Siqi.

Chen Siqi came back to her senses and took it in her hands.

This is an idea that Lin Yu expanded from last year's International Film Critics Online Forum.

With their current strength, if they want to hold a serious film festival, it is actually not realistic at all. First, money, second, people, and third, no connections.

If you want to organize an international film festival by yourself, the above three points are indispensable.

But if you want to develop steadily and steadily, you don't know when you will have to wait to make the movie version of "Jump Up".

Therefore, Linyu and Chen Siqi discussed it and decided to continue with the format of last year's online forum for film critics, doing what they wanted to do as much as possible with the lowest cost.

Linyu told Chen Siqi: "Just invite film critics from all over the world to come to China, talk about movies, the latest award winners, the most popular movies in recent years, and classics. Then, take a day to watch the Chinese-language movies we selected. After watching the movies, talk about Chinese-language movies together."

For such an event, there is no need to have a star-studded red carpet, organize various celebrities, or go to great lengths to contact major crews to attend.

They only need to find a venue that can accommodate film critics from all over the world to stay together, a cinema where they can sit together to watch movies, and then have a fund to pay for the transportation and accommodation expenses of these invited film critics, and hold a few lively parties to drink and chat happily.

Maybe it only takes one to two million to get it done.

For the current "Jump Up", even if they don't look for sponsors, they can afford this money by themselves.

Not to mention, this activity can actually be financed by buying broadcast rights through Linyu and Yuehu TV’s TV drama review column and video platform, or even directly looking for brands to sponsor.

Chen Siqi spent 20 minutes reading Linyu’s plan, nodded, and said, “No problem, let’s do it this way. There is only one thing, Linyu, this is our first time, I suggest that we control the scale, only invite the film critics we want to invite, and do not accept applications from others. Do it once to accumulate experience for us, and then slowly expand the scale later.”

Linyu heard this and agreed, nodded, and said yes.

“Then this film festival really won’t invite any actors?” Chen Siqi asked curiously.

Lin Yu said: "My idea is to either make it more star-studded, or simply not invite anyone, and only invite film critics, in this way, to ensure the style of this film festival. Although the actual situation is that we don't have so much money to hold a larger film festival, we can't say that, it's better to make this film festival niche, but with clear characteristics, this is a film festival for film critics."

"Okay." Chen Siqi also agreed with Lin Yu's idea.

Lin Yu told Chen Siqi about this matter, but did not leave immediately.

"Anything else?" Chen Siqi asked.

Lin Yu said: "When I came in just now, I saw you frowning. Did you encounter any problems? If you can, you can tell me, maybe I can help you come up with some ideas."

"It's not me, I didn't encounter any problems, it's the play that Yan He is filming." Chen Siqi briefly told Lin Yu about the problems that the crew of "The Mist" where Lu Yan He was currently in was facing.

Linyu pondered for a while and said, "Although this move is a bit damaging, if Simon accepts it, in fact, it may not be impossible to turn the crisis into an opportunity."

"Ah?" Chen Siqi didn't expect Linyu to have an idea so quickly.

"Didn't you tell me before that the crew wanted to market the rumor that Yan He was possessed by a ghost to attract attention?" Linyu said, "The same applies to Simon."

"You mean to let the crew market that Simon was possessed by a ghost and did so many outrageous things?"

"Of course not, at this time, few people will believe in the existence of ghosts." Linyu laughed, "Everyone is not stupid, can they be fooled by such a reason?"

Chen Siqi also laughed.

"So what do you mean?"

"Isn't Simon a person who did bad things in this movie and was avenged by ghosts?" Lin Yu said, "If the crew can use the image of Simon that has happened to him to further ferment and spread the rumor that Simon teamed up with Arne and Lily to isolate and exclude Yan He, an Asian actor, to create their racial discrimination, and then slowly release some of the story outline and character situations of the movie, stir up the public's emotions towards the movie and these actors, make everyone hate and hate Simon, and make everyone sympathize with Yan He, then when the movie is released, who doesn't want to see the three actors headed by Simon being hunted down and avenged by the Asian ghost played by Yan He? The box office will naturally explode. "

"How could Simon agree to such a promotional method that harms him? He will not cooperate, and his agency will immediately come out to deny it."

"If Simon had not drunk driving or fought with others, he would not have done so. But now these two things have caused great harm to his acting career. If he wants to reverse this situation, he can only include the scandal of excluding Lu Yanhe, and make it appear that all his actions were arranged by the crew for the promotion of the movie. "Lin Yu said, "The movie got the box office, the producer came out to explain the marketing plan, and Simon's team used this to whitewash him. It's a win-win situation."

Chen Siqi suddenly realized and looked at Lin Yu in surprise.

"Wow!"

Linyu: "It's true that Arne and Lily may not be willing to cooperate. This matter itself has nothing to do with them."

"In fact, they don't need to cooperate." Chen Siqi said, "As long as Simon doesn't deny it, no one will believe them if they stand up to deny it."

Linyu: "Well, but this method is indeed not very glorious."

Chen Siqi thought about it and said: "We give such an idea. It's up to them to decide whether to do it or not. Whether it's glorious or not is also their own responsibility."

Lin Yu: "You have to be careful about this matter. You are Yan He's girlfriend. If you say something, if it is known and exposed, the nature of this matter will change."

Chen Siqi: "Don't worry, this matter will never have anything to do with us."

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Simon's agent took the initiative to find Xin Nalin.

When Xin Nalin heard this solution from Simon's agent, she was actually shocked.

This risky way, if not careful, may put Simon in a worse situation. If he fails to whitewash, he will be stained with the stain of racial discrimination.

But Xin Nalin found that Simon's agent was determined to do this.

In fact, Xin Nalin's eyes lit up when she heard this plan for the first time, and she was moved by this plan.

Xin Nalin is a producer.

The first priority of a producer is to make a profitable movie, not a losing movie.

This is especially true for horror movies.

At least few people will say when making horror movies that I am not making this movie to make money, but to pursue art.

Therefore, if there is a good marketing method that can make "The Mist" a popular movie before it is released, relying on the extremely high topic and grabbing the audience's attention, she will definitely promote it.

Xin Nalin does not have so many pretentious thoughts.

Her boyfriend Wendy even directly fought with the director because of the character modeling. She can fire him for the stability of the crew and the smooth filming. Of course, she will not worry about the specific impact of such a marketing method on the actors of this movie.

So, according to such a consensus, Simon, who had just caused trouble twice, became the protagonist of racial discrimination this time.

Similarly, Lu Yanhe was completely in the dark and didn't know the inside story. Just because of such an innocent victim image, he was recognized by many people after this incident.

Of course, the most shocked people in this incident were the Chinese audience.

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"Lu Yanhe actually went to act in a horror film?!"

"He was bullied by foreign actors in a foreign crew? He was excluded? What a dog!"

"I don't understand. Lu Yanhe is such a big star, why does he have to go abroad to suffer this? Are foreign movies so popular? Isn't it better to film in China?"

"Isn't it said that Lu Yanhe has a great influence internationally? He has a good relationship with the top international film festivals. Why did he go abroad to shoot horror films instead of art films? It's disappointing!"

"Don't think horror films are bad movies, okay? Please look carefully. The director of "The Mist" is Muken Sorge, and the previous two films have achieved huge box office success! He is a very famous horror film director in Europe and the United States!"

"That's right, which famous foreign actor "Has the cast never acted in a horror movie? You're making it sound like horror movies are cheap. Arne Bogut, Simon Schmid and Lily Williams are all rising stars in the United States. This movie also stars the famous British actor Jamie Wilson. It's a really awesome production, but you're making it sound like a bad movie."

"Did you get the point? The problem now is that Lu Yanhe was bullied by people in a foreign crew! Damn, these white pigs!"

"I'm so angry. Lu Yanhe is such an excellent actor. We cherish him so much. The crew of "The Mist" didn't protect him and let him be bullied. I will never contribute movie tickets to "The Mist"!"

"Where is Lu Yanhe's agent? What does he do?"

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The shock caused by this incident in China is even greater than that abroad.

And this means that soon, Lu Yanhe's fans climbed over the wall and came to overseas social media, indignantly attacking the crew of "The Mist" and Simon Schmid.

Simon Schmid's social media was flooded with comments in one day, and there was hardly any comment other than insulting him.

Arne Bogut and Lily Williams didn't even make it through the first day, and directly posted photos of themselves with Lu Yanhe on the set, saying that they had a good relationship with Lu Yanhe.

Lu Yanhe was stunned when he knew what happened.

What the hell?

He was acting well on the set, so why was he "racist"?

He really wasn't racially discriminated against on this set.

Except for Wendy, he really didn't meet another person who didn't take him seriously - Wendy didn't take him seriously either, she was so kind to the director, how could Lu Yanhe have the nerve to attribute him to racial discrimination.

On the set, Simon lowered his head expressionlessly.

Lu Yanhe looked at him like this and thought, no one did anything to him, they just don't talk much. Arne and Lily usually talked and laughed with him on the scene, how come Simon in the report joined Arne and Lily to exclude him?

Lu Yanhe wondered whether he should speak out to explain.

He also noticed that his fans are now fighting everywhere to vent their anger for him.

Lu Yanhe didn't want them to be misled by false information.

"I'll explain it later, Simon." Lu Yanhe took the initiative to tell him, "Although we don't talk much, you are not like those media reports."

Simon looked at him in surprise.

Lu Yanhe thought Simon was surprised that others were so nice.

Who knew that Simon laughed sarcastically.

"Don't you know anything?"

Lu Yanhe was stunned and looked at him in astonishment.

"What should I know?"

Ten minutes later, after learning that all this was actually a scene directed and acted by Simon and the crew, Lu Yanhe felt speechless and stunned for a moment.

He also didn't expect that after Xin Nalin tried to market "ghost possession" to him to no avail, she would use Simon's recent incident to play the "racial discrimination" card.

As long as it can be marketed and generate good box office, it seems that Xinalin can do anything.

Lu Yanhe was a little disillusioned, but felt that everything was reasonable.

Sure enough, a day later, people familiar with the matter began to reveal what kind of story "The Mist" was about.

This is not a simple horror film. This is a story about an Asian ghost who returns after three white men burn down his entire family, hunting him down and taking revenge.

——Don’t you want to see a racist like Simon being hunted down and avenged by an Asian like Lu Yanhe on the big screen?

The theme of the movie "The Mist" suddenly seemed to have hit the main artery of Internet sentiment. Various data indicators increased sharply, and the number of searches for this movie skyrocketed overnight.

For several days, while everyone was paying attention to the matter between Lu Yanhe and Simon, they also discussed the movie "The Mist".

Amid such discussions, the filming of "The Mist" has also come to an end.

Outside the studio, a group of paparazzi and self-media bloggers suddenly began to gather.

Lu Yanhe was almost slapped in the face with his cell phone, and was asked: "Were you really discriminated against on the set of "The Mist" because of your Asian identity?"

Lu Yanhe left without saying a word.

Of course, he couldn't be the one to reveal the secret that the entire crew was guarding.

He wouldn't be happy just asking him to lie to cooperate with this marketing. If Simon really did this bad thing, he would definitely be happy to see it come to fruition and even add insult to injury. But not.

This surprised Muken.

"Actually, if he cooperates at this time, he may even fail miserably. With such a huge amount of attention, he may become famous in Europe and the United States." Muken said, "Other actors encounter this kind of God-given opportunity. It must have climbed up along the pole.”

He heard his wife say confidently: "That's because they firmly seize every opportunity to become popular, no matter what kind of opportunity it is. But Lu Yanhe doesn't need to be known by everyone in this way, he can be upright and Be recognized by everyone and become popular openly.”

Mu Ken looked at his wife in surprise and asked, "Are you so confident in him?"

Hua Ruzhen said: "You are the director. You saw Lu Yanhe's performance in "The Mist". Don't you have the confidence?"

"I admit that his performance is indeed outstanding, but I have also seen too many actors with good acting skills who were not recognized."

"That's someone else." Hua Ruzhen said, "Dear, don't use your Hollywood thinking to see an actor like Lu Yanhe. He is not a newcomer who has just stepped into the film industry. He is famous in China and at international film festivals. He has achieved outstanding results. Just wait and see, the movie "The Mist" will bring him great attention in Europe and the United States, and he will be the key to the success of your movie."

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