Entertainment tycoon who started out as a director

Chapter 99 Cooperation with Jiang Wen
Unfortunately, the club where Tony works will have to be renovated for two months.

He is temporarily unemployed.

Now he desperately needs an income to support his family.

For this reason, he was even introduced to a hot dog eating competition with a 260-pound fat man. He ate himself until he couldn't bend over and successfully won fifty dollars.

On this day, he received a job recommendation, which was to work as a driver for a "doctor" named Shelly.

The protagonist Tony thought this "doctor" was a doctor.

But when I got here, I discovered that there was a concert hall here.

And there was also an Asian face who applied.

Tony looked at him and felt even stranger.

It wasn't until he entered the room that Tony saw his employer, a doctor of music from Heyren. This suddenly made him discriminate against Heyren. Even when the maintenance man from Heyren used his own cup, he would use two of them in disgust. Throw the finger carefully into the trash.

Now he is actually being asked to drive for a guy.

It's just insulting.

but……

A penny stumps the hero.

This sentence is applicable at all times and in all countries.

Thinking of the bills at home, he had no choice. He suppressed the disgust in his heart with a bad expression and talked about this job.

A white man sits in a chair interviewing for a job.

Hey Man musician Shelly is dressed like a king and sits in a plush chair, lording it over him.

"Do you have any driving experience?"

"Of course." Tony mentioned all the cars he could drive and already worked in bars frequently. As for his job at the bar, "Public relations."

After some chatting.

Shelly made his final request.

"Let me make it clear first, I don't just hire a driver, I also need him to arrange travel, be my personal assistant, valet, wash my clothes and shine my shoes."

With that, the interview ends.

Tony slapped his knee, said "Then find someone else" and prepared to leave.

Shelly stopped Tony and said that he knew Tony. Several people said that Tony was a good handler of trouble.

The two continued to negotiate.

It was impossible for Tony to do a servant's job, and the salary had to be increased to $125 per week. The negotiations broke down completely, and the protagonist Tony left the interview location.

But there was still no money. The day after he rejected the invitation of the local gang and pawned a watch.

Shelly called and agreed to his request for $125 a week.

Tony's wife was also consulted.

The wife, who clearly didn't want Tony to leave, could only accept with tears her husband to take this job that would require him to be away from home for two months.

Tony got a green book from the record company guy.

This book says which hotels and bars people can go to.

It is an authentic guide for foreigners.

Because the place they are going to is the south of the United States.

Red Neck Base Camp.

Some states even practice racial segregation.

As for the car they drove, Sony found a green Cadillac from the 60s that was not even an antique. After it was repainted, it was used as a prop for this road movie. .

……

The indoor scenes at the beginning have basically been filmed, in order to allow the two actors to better embody the emotions.

The next scenes involving the two people were basically shot in order.

Because it is a road movie, each shooting location is different, and the budget will not exceed the standard too much.

Besides, it’s not your own money to exceed the standard. There is no need to save it. What you need is to take good pictures and achieve higher quality.

In the first scene in the car, Tony seemed very reserved, but Tony, the driver, was very relaxed, like a taxi driver, very talkative. When Shelly asked him not to smoke, he reluctantly threw it away. Cigarette butts.

When he stopped to pee, Tony, who had already gotten out of the car, had to come back and pick up the wallet that was left in the car.

Let Shelly feel it out: "My employees are afraid that I will steal his money."

There is still a gap between the two.

Constantly going to perform in various places, the two of them infected each other while getting along.

Tony was even able to hand fried chicken to Shelly in the car.

"Oh! No, no!" Gu Ming stopped the filming, "Tang, pay attention to your gestures when making fried chicken. You are a highly educated person and your manners are very elegant. You should be like this when making fried chicken."

Gu Ming only stretched out his index finger and thumb, and the other three fingers looked cautious to avoid getting a little oil on them.

After Gu Ming performed it once, Don Cheadle completed the filming easily.

Tony also gave Shelly a lesson.

"No matter what you do, give it 100 percent."

“When you go to work, work hard, and when you laugh, just laugh as hard as you can.”

“When you eat, enjoy it as if it were your last meal.”

"What to do with the bones?" asked Sherry.

"Let's do it!" Tony picked up the bone and threw it out of the window, and Shelly did the same. They both laughed at the same time. During the laughter, Tony threw out a plastic cup.

The smile disappeared from Shelly's face and she was strongly urged to pick up the plastic cup.

"No big deal, the squirrels will eat it anyway."

“Nature will take care of it.”

Tony muttered as he reversed the car and picked up the plastic cup.After Tony solved a lot of trouble.

The relationship between the two is one step closer.

On this day, Shelly read Tony's love letter to his wife and taught him step by step how to write one.

"Dear Dolores."

“When I think of you, I think of the beautiful plains of Iowa.”

"The fact that we are separated by two places makes me depressed."

"To me, time and experience are meaningless without you. I fall in love with you so much without any effort."

"Nothing is more important than you. I know this every day of my life. I fell in love with you when I first saw you. I still love you today and will love you forever."

……

The further south you go, the more serious the racial discrimination becomes.

Shirley was not even allowed to try on clothes. When he arrived in Sunset City, the American police saw that the car was driven by a white man and asked to check it. After learning that he was Italian, he said, "I finally know." Why did you take him for a ride? Because you are also half a ghost."

Tony backhanded him and was taken to the police station.

Shelly made a phone call, and the two of them were released because the person he called was named Bobby, whose surname was Qian Nidi, the younger brother of Melezong.

Soon, the last performance came. Shelly, who insisted on his dignity, and Tony, who protected Shelly's dignity, refused to perform after the other party continued to racially discriminate and left there.

When he came to a popular bar, Shelly played Chopin's "Winter Wind Etude" without using the Steinway piano.

After that, the two of them headed north.

A blizzard is coming.

It was difficult to get home before Christmas as promised.

Tony wanted to take a rest in the hotel, but Shelly knew that Tony loved her family very much, so she let him continue driving, and finally even drove himself back home, driving the sleeping Tony back home.

Tony catches up with Christmas Eve, but the rich Shelly stays at home alone.

Finally, Shelly thought of his friend Tony along the way. Having been changed by Tony, he came to Tony's house and attended the dinner of his family.

The two of them are like the keys on the piano played by Shirley, black and white, but intertwined and influencing each other.

Shelly learned to resist and lowered his stance.

Tony also became calmer and even improved his writing skills, making great progress in writing love letters.

……

Because Gu Ming had filmed this film many times in his previous life, most of the scenes were clearly imprinted in his mind. The shooting went smoothly, and there were no useless pens.

It took Gu Ming nearly a month and a half to finish shooting it.

Only the post-production work remains.

After all, it is his own film for the Olympics, so of course Gu Ming, who edits the soundtrack and other things, will also keep an eye on it.

But the next Oscars will be held in February or March next year anyway, so there is no need to rush.

In addition, it was already May, so he had to leave for a while.

The destination of this trip is Cannes!

……

Gu Changwei didn't look big-eyed.

With his reputation and Gu Ming as the producer and screenwriter, he was provided with such a script.

"Tuya's Marriage" was successfully shortlisted for Cannes!
As an honest and reliable young man, Gu Ming, who is always spitting and nailing, naturally has to fulfill his promise and go to Cannes for him to win the battle!

I haven’t been to the Venice Film Festival yet.

Golden Bear and Cannes are no different. It can be said that they are all familiar places to Gu Ming.

When Gu Ming got off the plane, it was the couple Gu Changwei and Jiang Wenli who picked him up.

Gu Changwei squinted his eyes, with two Chinese characters above his nose, and came over to slap Gu Ming on the shoulder.

"I thought you weren't coming?"

"The awards will begin in a few days."

"Isn't this an American movie? There's only a little bit left. I hurried over after filming." Gu Ming responded with two punches "Bang Bang", "Besides, if I don't come, do you have any confidence? ?”

"There are quite a few."

"Then shall I leave?" Gu Ming gestured to leave.

"Hey, you're just kidding." Gu Changwei grabbed Gu Ming, "The three major awards don't have the Best Cinematography Award. My face here is still not as good as you, a great Palme d'Or director, you have to be here!"

"If you're not here, I'll go find Lao Gu. Don't forget, we've worked together before!"

"You're awesome!" Gu Ming just made a joke and followed Gu Changwei with a smile.

There was no time to rest or watch other films in the exhibition.

Gu Ming spent most of his time in the screening room of "Tuya's Marriage", meeting all kinds of familiar "friends" whose names he couldn't even pronounce.

Oh, there is also an acquaintance from this session.

Ginger smells.

Banned from directing for five years, he was shortlisted for the Un Certain Regard category, the Prix Française – Foreign Filmmaker of the Year.

The work is "The Devil Is Coming" which also won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes last year.

"How's it going? Are there any new works?" Gu Ming asked.

"Stop talking about this." Jiang Wen curled his lips, "Someone has spread the word. If you can't direct a play for five years, what kind of work can you do? You haven't seen that I'm so idle that I'm almost going crazy."

"Haha, how about making a movie together?"

Gu Ming suggested, "I will recommend a new director to you, and you will be the starring role. Isn't this the same as being the director?"

"I have bought the copyright of the original novel. I bought it last year. It was a novel published in "October" in [-]."

(End of this chapter)