Backtracking to the Age of Literature and Art

Chapter 647 Who will act?
As soon as Yu Dong reached the hotel room, Jimmy ran over.

After entering the room, Jimmy grabbed Yu Dong's arm and dragged it out, "Mr. Cheng, lend him a hand."

Cheng Yanqiu, who was packing the suitcase, said with a smile, "Just take it and use it."

Yu Dong rolled his eyes, "I didn't bring the list of poems and the script, why are you dragging me out?"

"Oh, that's right, then you go and take these things with you."

Yu Dong sighed, went to get the script and so on, and followed Jimmy to his room.

After entering the room, Yu Dong handed the list of poems to Jimmy and said, "Now tell me, what are you doing with these things?"

Jimmy took the list and looked at it, and said with a smile: "The thing is very simple, because you wrote a lot of poems at the signing, which caused readers to become interested in ancient Chinese poetry, which led to..."

After Jimmy had roughly finished talking, Yu Dong nodded, "So, you asked me if there are any experts in ancient poetry for this purpose?"

"Well, my idea is that if you want to do it, you must do it well, and you must find an authoritative expert."

"Well, I agree with this matter, so how about it, I will contact Teacher Yang and Teacher Cheng Huichang later to ask their opinions. If possible, I certainly hope that both of them can agree."

Jimmy said with a smile: "Actually, I don't think it's difficult. Regardless of the reward, this is also a good opportunity to promote Chinese traditional culture to the outside world. They will definitely be very interested. By the way, apart from these experts who study ancient poetry, there are also You have to find a translator who is proficient in this. No matter how good Teacher Yang and his explanations are, if the translation can't keep up, it will be in vain."

Speaking of the translation, Yu Dong was not worried at all, "Don't worry about the translation, there will be no mistakes."

Jimmy raised his eyebrows and said in surprise, "Why, do you already have someone in mind?"

Yu Dong smiled, "There is no need to find another person. Teacher Yang is proficient in both English and Russian. It is no problem for her to annotate and then translate."

"So that's the case, that's really good. Don't waste your time, just tonight, when it's dawn in China, you can call the two gentlemen and tell them about the matter. If they agree , Amazon will give you the things that need to be annotated, and they can send them after they are done, and as for the contract, you can sign it while you are doing it, so that you don't waste time." Jimmy said.

"That's fine, special matters, I'll call them tonight."

"By the way, let Liu Changmin and the others cooperate to make some pictures. These annotations can't attract people with words alone. They must be well written and pictures."

"No problem, I'll call Lao Liu later."

After the matter was finalized, Jimmy looked at Yu Dong from top to bottom and bottom to top several times with a smile on his face.

"Tsk tsk, you must have written so many ancient poems on purpose. I didn't expect it to be really effective."

Yu Dong looked at Jimmy's eyes and laughed, "It's intentional, but the effect is so good that I didn't expect it. I did it at the beginning because I really want more people to be interested in traditional Chinese culture. At least Because I wrote a few more characters, they were interested in Chinese characters and didn't think too much about it, which affected one by one."

Jimmy smiled and shook his head: "My Dong, you, you, since you have such an idea and plan, tell me in advance, and I can prepare well. What do you think is the reason for achieving such a good effect this time?" Occasionally, but if we make preparations in advance and do a good job of publicity in the later stage, this accident will become inevitable."

"Okay, if you have any ideas next time, I will tell you in advance."

"That's right." Jimmy laughed, and then said, "Where is the script of "Pirates of the Caribbean", show it to me."

"Hey." Yu Dong handed over the script.

Jimmy took the script, first flipped through it briefly, muttered "it's not too thick", and then said to Dong: "I'll read the script, why don't you go back and accompany Teacher Cheng for a while? You just arrived at the hotel, and It's a bit inappropriate to leave her alone in the room to pack her luggage."

"..."

Yu Dong clenched his fist, he really had the urge to punch Jimmy on the forehead.

"Let's go." Yu Dong rolled his eyes, "Don't look for me after you finish watching, wait for me to finish eating, and come to you at about 07:30."

"Well, no problem."

Jimmy read the script carefully, Yu Dong turned and left.

After returning to the room, Cheng Yanqiu was still packing his luggage. When he saw Yu Dong came back, he asked strangely, "Why did you come back so soon?"

"Throw the script to him and let him read it by himself."

Cheng Yanqiu said with a smile: "I saw that he pulled you over in a hurry, thinking he was going to hold you for a long chat. By the way, when you were gone for a while, Yu Hua came and asked you where we are having dinner tonight .”

"Didn't you say it's good to eat in the restaurant of the hotel? Why did he ask again?"

"I think what he means is that he wants to go out to eat. I guess, these days he always eats in the restaurant in the hotel. He is a little tired and wants to eat something different."

"Then what did he say he wanted to eat?"

"What did he say? Wang Xiaobo thinks the food here is tasteless, and wants to eat shredded pork fried with pickled vegetables."

"Nonsense, I think he wants to eat it himself. Regardless of him, if he wants to eat it, he can find it by himself."

With that said, Yu Dong also knelt down to pack his luggage with Cheng Yanqiu.

……

During dinner, Yu Dong didn't see Yu Hua and Mo Yan, but everyone else was there.

"What about Yu Hua and the others?"

Chen Hong couldn't help but rolled her eyes, "She said she went out to find shredded pork with pickled cabbage."

Yu Dong glanced at Wang Xiaobo next to him, "Didn't you say you like shredded pork with pickled vegetables?"

Holding a piece of bread in his hand, Wang Xiaobo grinned and said, "You know me, I don't have any requirements for food. If I go out, I'm definitely not looking for shredded pork with pickled vegetables, but wine."

Bi Feiyu also took a piece of bread and nodded, "That's true, but if I have shredded pork with pickled cabbage at hand, I would prefer to pair the bread with shredded pickled cabbage and pork instead of just eating beef. By the way, Jimmy What? Isn't he here too, why doesn't he come to eat?"

"My script has been written, and he is reading it in the room right now."

"Really? Let's go and see later. Do you want to bring him something to eat?"

Yu Dong thought for a while and said, "Alright, bring some."

After eating, Yu Dong, Wang Xiaobo, and Bi Feiyu rushed to Jimmy's room with the packed dinner for Jimmy.

But as soon as he arrived at the door, when Yu Dong was about to knock on the door, he heard Mo Yan's deep voice from inside, "This shows one thing. The environment you are in is a very important thing. If this plate of dumplings is in my In my hometown of Gaomi, no dumpling shop has the nerve to sell it, and even if it sells it, no one will buy it, but now it has become an authentic Chinese delicacy in the United States and in Los Angeles. After taking this bite, we ran around the boss."

Yu Dong turned to look at Wang Xiaobo and Bi Feiyu, "Yes, these two came first."

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Yu Dong knocked on the door.

"coming."

Jimmy ran to open the door, saw Yu Dong and the others coming, and said with a smile, "It's just in time, we are having dinner."

Yu Dong raised the lunch box in his hand, "We ate it, and brought you some."

"You guys are late, Yu Hua and Mo Yan have already brought me food."

Yu Hua in the room corrected: "Wrong, you are the one who robbed us of our food."

Jimmy laughed, and took the lunch box from Yu Dong's hand and gave it to Yu Hua: "What are you talking about stealing, at most it's a loan, and I'll return it to you right now."

Then Jimmy explained: "I was going to the restaurant to eat just now, and I met two of them carrying a lunch box on the way. I heard that it was Chinese food, so I invited them to my place."

He bit the word "please" hard.

The three of Yu Dong and the others walked in, and when they saw several boxes on the table, they all showed surprised expressions.

There were two big boxes of dumplings, a box of black shredded pork with pickled vegetables, a box of mapo tofu, a box of braised beef, and a box of boiled fish fillets.

Wang Xiaobo looked at the box of black shredded pork with pickled vegetables and said with a smile: "In the United States, it seems that there is no way to open a Chinese restaurant unless the dishes are made ugly and unpalatable. Ugly, it’s the only thing I’ve seen in my life. When we went to the countryside, our chief secretary had the ability to make the dishes more unpalatable, but we couldn’t reach this level.”

Mo Yan laughed and said, "You're blaming the chef of the restaurant. They don't have this dish on their menu. Yu Hua borrowed their kitchen to cook it."

Yu Hua just ate with his head down and didn't say a word. He wanted to argue, but the facts speak louder than words. The plate of pickled shredded pork in front of him was too ugly.

After a while, Yu Hua finally managed to say, "Actually, the taste is not bad."

Mo Yan also commented, "It's edible."

After they finished their meal, Jimmy did not avoid the others, took out the manuscript of "Pirates of the Caribbean" and said to Yu Dong: "This story is very good and very special. I talked with Michael about the "Pirates of the Caribbean" before. Things, they have indeed made some attempts, and among these attempts, the style is basically the same, and they are all the tune of a warrior saving the world. If you really want to use this story of yours, it will be a challenge for them.”

The Michael Jimmy refers to is Michael Eisner, CEO of Disney Pictures.

Michael Eisner was once the president of Paramount Pictures, and later Disney hired him as the company's CEO after experiencing Steinberg's hostile takeover.

In the past ten years, the good development of the Disney film company, he, the CEO, should take the lead.

Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for Michael Eisner to ask about project matters while the script is still being selected.

The Disney film company is developing very well, and there are many projects being done every year. As the CEO, Michael Eisner naturally cannot be involved in every project from beginning to end.

But after the screenwriter became Yu Dong, things became different.

After Eisner learned that Yu Dong was willing to help write the script, he attached great importance to the matter of "Pirates of the Caribbean". He took the initiative to call Jimmy first and talked about the movie.

"Does Michael Eisner also mean to make some changes?" Yu Dong asked.

Jimmy shook his head: "That's not true. He just told me about the situation, and didn't show any specific preferences. And even if he showed a preference, it has nothing to do with us. Could it be that I told you that people have preferences, you will listen?"

Yu Dong smiled and said, "It's not necessarily true. If the money is really enough, I don't mind being a screenwriter who is always admonishing."

Mo Yan glanced at the script in Jimmy's hand, and asked, "Is this the script you wrote a few days ago, and it's about pirates?"

These people are together every day, and they know more or less what Yu Dong writes.

"Well, Disney wanted to make a movie about pirates, so I took it." Yu Dong replied.

Jimmy handed Mo Yan the script in his hand, "You read it too."

Mo Yan nodded, took the manuscript, and read it.

The others also gathered around Mo Yan, watching the script with him.

Jimmy looked at Yu Dong, and continued: "But there is still a problem, which is the setting of Captain Jack. As the captain of the Black Pearl, his image is... a bit too coquettish."

Coquettish is the first word that pops up in Jimmy's mind after seeing the description of Jack in the script.

Yu Dong gave a very detailed description of Captain Jack's appearance, including clothes, hairstyle, makeup and even gait.

With smoky makeup, mustache, and enchanting steps, he doesn't look like a famous pirate leader at all. This image is too subversive for pirates.

Regarding the evaluation of coquettishness, Yu Dong did not deny it. He asked Jimmy, "Does this image make you feel disgusted?"

"I don't like it, but I don't like it in terms of appearance alone. Of course, apart from the appearance, the internal characteristics of this character are still very interesting. The character is complex enough and quite special."

Yu Dong said with a smile: "Since we are not trying to create a great and upright character, it would be a good thing to have more memorable characteristics."

"That's true." Jimmy also laughed, "If Disney doesn't want this script, we can shoot it ourselves. I think it's still very interesting. By the way, have you thought about who will play the role of Jack? What? After reading the script, I thought about it for a long time and couldn't think of a suitable candidate. How about Matthew McConaughey? Or Brad Pitt?"

"What do you think of Johnny Depp?"

"Johnny Depp?" Jimmy pondered, and after a while, a smile appeared on his face, "Don't tell me, Depp is indeed related to this character, his costume in "Edward Scissorhands" is special enough , and in "Ed Wood," he's pretty voluptuous, too."

Speaking of "Ed Wood", Yu Dong also laughed.

Depp's performance in this movie can naturally be described as enchanting. Ed Wood, who he plays, is keen on dressing up as a man, so there are many scenes of Depp in women's clothing in the movie.

(End of this chapter)