My Hong Kong Island Filmmaker

Chapter 950 Circle Communication and Small Cards

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The hotel's cigar room.

A standing lamp with a hanging lampshade is erected between two brown single-person leather sofas. On the wooden cabinets on both sides are collections of red wine. The warm-colored spotlights shine on it, reflecting a soft halo.

The dim yellow light and shadow above the head shines on the face, creating the effect of top light.

A black porcelain cigar ashtray with the Hermès logo is placed on the solid wood table between the two sofas, and there are several bottles of champagne, white and red wine in the iron ice bucket next to it.

"I didn't expect you to know each other?"

On the sofa, Stallone, with broad shoulders and broad back, is wearing a vest with two bare arms on his shoulders. His muscles are knotted like fine steel, his blood vessels are protruding, showing the beauty of strength, and his chest is bulging.

It looks like a big muscle bully, although this big muscle bully is only 178CM...it can't stand it!
Sitting next to him, the thick-backed director Wu was obviously a size smaller.

Fortunately, Wu Xiaozu is really pretty, and just using his face can dim the light of Stallone, a big muscular tyrant, a lot.After several years of maturity, his charm has greatly increased, and with the addition of his aura and raising his body, his whole aura has also changed greatly.

With semi-long hair and stubble, he looks like an enhanced enhanced version of 'Lao Li'.

Well, this 'Lee' is Keanu Reeves and Leonardo DiCaprio's 'Lee', definitely not 'Lee' Lee...

The name of Liangzu is well-deserved.

Half bald and strong Emperor Kai... Nicholas Cage was sitting on the opposite sofa, with a long mound between his fingers and two or three centimeters of eggplant ash remaining. He pursed his lips and showed a very friendly smile. With a deep voice, he smiled and said with a very magnetic voice: "Sylvie, I have known John for a long time. You may not understand that the "Sex, Lies, and Videotapes" I acted in before was invested and produced by John. of……"

"John has been active in North America for a long time (the company was founded in Chapter 802), and he even had a small production company of his own in Burbank very early." Harvey Weinstein slumped on the sofa, buttoning his shirt Forcibly pulled apart, exposing the fat on the stomach.

Zhang Jiazhen took a hippocampus knife and unscrewed a bottle of red wine in a gentle manner. Hearing Harvey's words, he looked at Mr. Wu intentionally or unintentionally.

Although they all knew that the Jew was ambitious, the passage just now really showed his familiarity with "Emotional Intelligence".

Another way to put the sentence just now is: Although Jiewei John is an Asian director, he is actually half a Hollywood person.

This is simply too important for an outsider.

Not to mention transnationality, if you go to work in a different place, you may still be ostracized by the locals, right?What's more, it's this kind of going to other people's territory to seek to enter a circle?

Why was Wu Zhagou qualified to negotiate conditions with Wanwan's capital Cai Songlin, and then became a "leading party"?
One of the big reasons is that Wu Xiaozu was a member of the Hong Kong circle at that time.

The three words "insider" are of no use to insiders, but to outsiders... they are so important! ! ! !

Everyone who goes to Hollywood to develop, from European directors to the three Mexican masters, is trying their best to integrate into the mainstream circle of Hollywood.

For example, Li An, if he is not a Hollywood insider, he will be so smooth?

No, that's for sure.

Regardless of the purpose of Harvey's words, or whether this person will receive rave reviews in later generations, but being able to stand in the Hollywood circle with independent films is enough to show that he is not just a rude, irritable, brainless, and emotionally intelligent bastard !

If this later villain hadn't touched the interests of Hollywood's Big Six, coupled with the growing political correctness of the affirmative action movement in Hollywood... maybe Harvey can continue to go on.

Stallone took a puff of his cigar, and the dark light hit his face, not knowing why.

This big muscle tyrant is not someone with strong limbs and a simple mind. Otherwise, there are muscle clubs everywhere in Hollywood, so why can he stand out?

This is a talented big muscle bully who has an IQ of 160 and can write and act on his own!
Did he and Wu Xiaozu meet by chance today? Was it really a chance encounter?
Just look at the live lineup.

This is absolutely waiting.

"Dum—" Zhang Jiazhen pulled out the cork with a smile, and poured it into a decanter, "This 45-year-old red wine is really rare."

"I know that John has a lot of good vintage red wine in his estate in Santa Barbara, but I didn't expect to be able to drink this kind of superb wine in Cannes." Harvey smiled and helped, and the flesh in the shirt gap trembled wildly with a smile.

He is not yet the "red sofa boss" of later generations, he is just on his way to success, and he is actually still thinking about Wu Xiaozu's "capital" in his heart.After all, financing channels is also a science when making movies in Hollywood.

"Oh? You also live in Santa Barbara?" Stallone twitched the corner of his left eye and squeezed out a 'sneer' smile to Wu Xiaozu.

It's no wonder the film critics haven't waited to see him.

The films he starred in have never been nominated for mainstream American film awards. The most glorious experience may be that he won two Golden Globe nominations for "Rocky" in 1977.But the Golden Globes don't represent the mainstream view of American movies...that was held by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association...

"It's a nice place, I like that kind of quiet atmosphere." Wu Xiaozu rolled a cigar in his hand and said with a chuckle, "After all, there are far fewer paparazzi there than in Beverly and Santa Monica..."

"Well, I agree with you."

Stallone shrugged, glanced at the other party's sincere face, lowered his head and took a sip of the cigar, his face flickered in the smoke, "However, excuse me, I seldom watch Asian movies... Before that, I didn't watch too much. know about you……"

"John is a great director and producer."

Cage smiled and said: "I didn't expect to meet in Cannes before. To be honest... I would have reminded David that there is a strong enemy here."

Everyone knows that David Fincher's "Wild at Heart" is the seed player for this Palme d'Or.

However, there is nothing wrong with it, Wu Xiaozu's reputation in Cannes is not small.

"Of course, the several screenings of "Seven Sins" turned out to be good. It received a lot of praise from film critics. It got a high score of 3.0 in the show magazine organized by "Daily Screen", compared with "I'm Crazy" The score of 2.6 in "Wild" is even slightly higher." Harvey smiled and took a sip of the red wine in his glass.

The scoring and judging team for the Cannes program comes from France, Italy, Germany, Britain and the United States, and most of them come from professional media such as "Time", "Daily Mail", "Los Angeles Times", "Sight and Sound" and "Feature Film".

In fact, under the premise of a full score of 4.0, the show catalog scores of the two films "Seven Sins" and "Wild at Heart" can be regarded as very good.After all, in the history of the program, there are a few tenths and one dots everywhere.

"Scores from the program are not counted."

Wu Xiaozu shook his head with a smile, "This score can only represent the personal tastes of these invited film critics, it does not represent whether the film is good or bad, and it cannot be an element to predict whether the film will win an award..."

He smiled and poured a third of the red wine for Stallone, jokingly said: "There is a 'non-linear relationship' between the book score and the final award, besides, I also like "My Heart is Wild" starring you, Cage." "."

"I think I should go see one tomorrow." Stallone smiled and nodded his thanks, and clinked a glass with him.

"That's my honor." Wu Xiaozu nodded slightly, and didn't say anything else.

He really wants to integrate into the circle urgently, especially the American independent film circle.

Don't think that the Stallone big muscle fighter in front of you is just an ordinary action superstar.

He himself has a very wide network of contacts in the American independent film circle.As for Nicolas Cage, he was also hanging out in the independent film circle at this time, and he didn't really go into the eyes of mainstream audiences.Not to mention the old pervert Harvey.

Again.

Wu Xiaozu intends to build his own network, but he still needs to prove himself to Big Seven for the time being.

In the 90s, the American independent film circle was a blue ocean.Before that, Woody Allen and his group of old guys just regarded independent films as a place to enjoy themselves, which was quite a niche...In the early 90s, independent films really started to make a fortune, showing their unique potential of "small fight big" .

This led to the emergence of Good Machine (the predecessor of Focus Films), Lakeshore Films, Lionsgate, Summit Entertainment, New Line Films, Relativity Entertainment and the famous DreamWorks!
Although they couldn't escape the claws of the giants later, they also proved the potential of independent films in the 90s.

The contact with Stallone this time means that everyone has formed a good relationship.

At the same time, this product has a good relationship with Italian and French filmmakers, and at the same time it is not so clear-cut.

The Australian gang and the British gang in Hollywood are all a few years old.

At this time, the Italian Gang, the Maple Leaf Gang, and the Jewish Gang were considered mainstream.

"How was your "Lover" filmed in Vietnam?" Nicolas Cage, a young literary and artistic youth, asked touchingly, "I love Duras's novel so much."

"I just received a call from Mr. Clodberry, urging me to return to Saigon as soon as possible." Wu Xiaozu asked knowingly: "Sylvie, your "First Blood 2" is in..."

"Oh, I've never been to Vietnam, my show was filmed in Canada... You know, it's not a good idea for us to go to Vietnam," Stallone said with a shrug.

A few people chatted a few words, and each had corresponding arrangements.

Even the red wine from 1945 went away without drinking.

"I'll help you say hello to Sylvie." Harvey took the initiative to whisper.

"Thank you, Harvey."

"We are partners, aren't you?" Harvey smiled very seriously.

Ok.

In fact, the US distribution of "The Seven Sins" was handed over to Miramax Films to operate.

Harvey naturally wanted the film to win an award.

Wu Xiaozu sent off these people one by one with a smile on his face, and Zhang Jiazhen who was next to him had already contacted other people.

During Cannes, Wu Xiaozu had to deal with several social interactions every day.

On the one hand, it is naturally for the operation of "Seven Sins", and on the other hand, it is also helping [-] sell the film.

Cannes is still the world's largest film market.

"People from MK2 will come in half an hour."

Zhang Jiazhen walked over with his big brother, "Sir Jiang is communicating with Village Roadshow Pictures in Australia to release..."

Village Roadshow Films is a well-known film company in Australia, also known as 'Country Roadshow Films'.The logo is a V letter like a nesting doll.It was established very early, but before the 70s, it mainly dealt with local films. At the end of the 80s, it began to seek international distribution, especially suspense and crime films...

"Seven Sins" is very in line with the other party's taste.

"Okay, I'm going to wash my face."

Wu Xiaozu rubbed his face, and walked towards the bathroom with his hands in his pockets——suddenly he stiffened.

The fingertips touched a square card.

How about... try? ?

　A cold is so uncomfortable... Every time I catch a cold, my throat hurts first.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)