Rebirth starts with small money

Chapter 655 "Experimental Product"

The Phantom of the Opera is said to be the longest-running musical on Broadway.

Things like musicals have always given people the feeling that they are somewhat "tall".

For Chen Li, who was just an ordinary person in his previous life, he basically had no fate with this kind of thing.

To put it bluntly~ At that time, he couldn't understand this thing at all!

At that time, when he watched similar musicals and musicals, he mainly watched the stage special effects and the stage performance of the actors.

The domestic ones are better, at least I can understand~ I can roughly understand what the meaning is, and I can even guess the meaning that the performance wants to express.

As for the foreign ones, he is basically a blind man feeling an elephant.

So ~ At that time, Chen Li basically didn't come to see this kind of musical, but to watch this stuff. He felt that he might as well go to the Moulin Rouge cabaret show in Paris.

Speaking of it~ When Chen Li saw the Moulin Rouge song and dance performance for the first time, he was really shocked.

No way~ This is a cultural difference. After all, if a singing and dancing performance of that level is in China, there is no way to perform it.

And the musical The Phantom of the Opera brought Chen Li another extreme.

First of all~Because the language problem was solved, Chen Li must be able to understand what the story is about.

To be honest~ If you really want to say that Chen Li read or listened to it, that would not be the case.

Although his singing level is actually not bad~ but this thing is actually a skill that Chen Li was born with, and it was also one of his cooking skills in his previous life, but in fact Chen Li has very few artistic bacteria.

In his previous life, Chen Li watched movies~ he never watched any literary films, unless there were scenes or actors in those films that were worthy of his special attention.

Chen Li prefers popcorn-style commercial films to those literary films that tend to become dull and depressing the more he watches them.

Life is already depressing enough, why bother to depress yourself again when you are relaxing?
Wouldn't it be nice to watch a comedy or something?How good is it to make yourself happy?
There's no way~ Chen Li doesn't have that artistic talent, just with his personality that he doesn't even watch literary films~ It would be nonsense to expect him to have a deep understanding of musicals.

But there is one thing to say, the theater on Broadway has indeed played out a stage special effect.

In addition, the actors in those musicals were an eye-opener for Chen Li.

To sum it up briefly, even though Chen Li didn't understand it very well~ but he was very shocked!
But~ that's all, after all~ the main reason why I watched "The Phantom of the Opera" is because the reputation of this musical is too great, it can be regarded as an eye-opener.

After reading it~ Chen Li's reaction is... well-deserved reputation!

At the very least, Chen Li didn't think the ticket money for tonight was wasted.

But~ In the interval of this musical, there was actually a small episode.

The episode did not come from the theater or the musical itself, but from Monica Bellucci who was sitting beside Chen Li.

This eldest sister went to the restroom during the interval of the musical performance. Of course, the point is not what restroom she went to, but when she was about to go. When she got up from sitting, she pressed Chen Li's thigh. one time.

From the perspective of a bystander~ Monica seemed to use Chen Li's legs to support her when she got up.

On the surface, it seemed that there was nothing wrong with it~ but in fact, it made Chen Li speechless.

First of all~ With the seat design of this theater, no matter who is there, he can get up by himself without any help.

So ~ if there is a joking tone to describe this Monica is actually deliberately taking advantage of Chen Li.

Of course~ In fact, Monica did it on purpose, but she didn't want to take advantage of Chen Li, but wanted to be taken advantage of by Chen Li.

Because the position of Monica's pressing on Chen Li's leg was a bit wrong, Chen Li, who was watching the musical seriously before, was shocked.

After being stimulated, people will subconsciously react defensively, so Chen Li bowed and clamped Monica's hand.

This... is actually a bit embarrassing.But who is Monica?She could deliberately "support" Chen Li's legs, so naturally she didn't care about being pinched.

Not only did she not mind, the elder sister even scratched Chen Li's leg.

Let me talk about it, just this one. Chen Li felt as if his whole body had been electrified.

Later, Chen Li quickly let go of Monica's hand, and the elder sister went to the bathroom like a normal person, and smiled at Chen Li when she came back.

That is to say, from this moment, Chen Li's attention was divided into two halves, one half was on the stage, and the other half was on Monica beside him.

Mainly, he was worried that the elder sister would suddenly come to him again. Although the theater was dimly lit, it was still a public place. If there was something ugly in the back, it would be a big embarrassment.

It’s okay~ Monica didn’t do anything out of the ordinary to Chen Li until the end of the musical.

This made Chen Li heave a sigh of relief. At the same time, he still felt a little lost in his heart.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Li realized that his state of mind was not right, and this reaction was not right.

In the circle of online literature~ the reaction he has at this moment should be a kind of psychological emotion that the heroine will only have when facing the hero.

But now it is Chen Li who has such emotions out of nowhere. I have to say that this future earth ball flower~ is really too charming.

Even Chen Li was considered a "well-informed" person in his previous life, but when he faced a stunner like Monica, he really couldn't stand it.

To be honest~ Since he was reborn, especially after Chen Li became rich and became a rich man, he has experienced similar temptations many times.

But the previous temptations were really nothing to Chen Li.

Even in the island country, Chen Li felt a little itchy when faced with Yu Yamamoto who had a foul figure, but in the end he happily rejected him.

Temptation is certainly attractive, but Chen Li's rationality is still enough to keep him awake.

But this time. To be honest, Chen Li really couldn't bear it.

Let's just put it this way~ If this Monica is not a married woman, then Chen Li might do some outrageous things tonight.

Yes~ under such a temptation from Monica, Chen Li really couldn't hold on any longer.

The only thing that can keep him awake is that the eldest sister is now a married person.

And even so, after the end of the musical, Chen Li bid farewell to Monica as quickly as possible, and then almost left the theater in a way of "escaping".

After returning to the hotel room, Chen Li immediately called his girlfriend Liu Qingqing.

At this time, only Miss Liu could calm down Chen Li's restless heart.

Of course~ he still has to do what he promised Monica, after all, it was just introducing Monica and Thomas, which is not a big deal.

And in all fairness, although this eldest sister is infinitely charming, her acting skills are also very good.

I can't say anything about actress-level acting skills, but at least Monica's acting skills are definitely not inferior to some Hollywood female stars.

So. It seems that there is no problem in helping to lead a thread.

It's just that Chen Li knows very well that even if he helps Monica connect, it is estimated that the possibility of the two parties finally reaching a cooperation is not very high.

To be honest~ Chen Li doesn't have the memory of Monica working with Legendary Pictures.

This is not to say that the two sides did not cooperate, but that it was impossible for Chen Li in his previous life to pay attention to such things.

Because he didn't pay attention, it's normal that Chen Li doesn't have relevant impressions in his memory.

But even so~ Chen Li still doesn't think there is any chance for the two sides to cooperate.

The reason is also very simple. Don't look at Thomas's awesome talk about building a new production company that can compete with established production companies.

But in fact, today's Legendary Pictures doesn't have the strength to independently produce big movies.

Rather than saying that the current Legendary Pictures is a production company, it is better to say that they are a film and television investment company.

That's right ~ it is film and television investment.

Today's Legendary Pictures has not yet become the capital of a giant in the production industry.

But~ Anyway, Thomas is not an incompetent person, so although he can't make a big movie independently, he still has the ability to barely get a share of the pie.

In today's film and television industry, as production costs continue to rise, the risk of having a company independently produce a certain film and television work as in the past has increased.

After all, the investment for a good film and television production these days ranges from tens of millions of dollars to hundreds of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars. If the box office is not good, the production company will definitely lose a lot of money.

And such things are actually not uncommon. Once there are more times, the investors of the production company will probably have to drink the Northwest Wind.

So ~ working together is the biggest opportunity!

It should be noted that the purpose of joint cooperation here is not to earn money together.

Because if a certain film and television work is sure to make money, I believe that no production company is willing to distribute its own benefits to others.

But the fact is that this kind of thing is almost unpredictable, so the so-called joint cooperation is actually for everyone to take risks together.

It is also based on this foundation that Thomas, relying on the [-] million US dollars he raised from Wall Street and his network resources in the film and television industry, gradually opened the curtain for the development of Legendary Pictures in the film and television industry.

To put it bluntly ~ today's Legendary Pictures is still in the stage of laying the foundation.

At this stage of Legendary Pictures, basically it is to see if someone is willing to share a piece of meat, and Thomas will go over and smell it to see if the piece of meat is good.

If it is~, then he will work with the other party to protect his right to eat this piece of good meat.

It's just that sometimes Thomas' nose is not very good, and sometimes there are some problems with the piece of meat itself, so...the knowledge in it is very deep, and even Thomas...he may not be able to grasp it.

And for the same reason, because Thomas is just a person who gets a share of the pie, it is destined that his right to speak cannot be too great.

Although today's Hollywood is regarded as the core of the producer, it also scores people.

Whether in the capital circle or in the entertainment circle, Thomas is actually not a top figure, at least he is not right now.

So ~ at this time, the power in Thomas' hands is actually not that great.

Of course, this is only relative, and the main reason is that Legendary Pictures has no way to create independently based on itself, so for the time being, he can only be the one who shares the meat, not the one who shares the meat with others. .

If all Monica wanted was a small role, then if Thomas wanted to... I guess it would be fine.

However, Monica has already become popular in Europe now. If she came to Hollywood just to play some small supporting roles with few lines, then she wouldn't have to work hard to get on line with Thomas.

So ~ in Chen Li's view, it is not very likely that the two can reach a cooperation.

But this is not something Chen Li needs to care about. After finishing the call with Liu Qingqing, Chen Li made a call with Howard Wise.

That's right~ Chen Li didn't call Thomas. Although he had Thomas' contact information, the relationship between the two of them didn't reach that level at all.

So Chen Li made a phone call to Howard Wise, for which he was teased by Howard Wise.

Chen Li didn't explain too much, because this kind of thing actually had nothing to explain in the eyes of others.

Just like in Howard Wise's eyes, that Monica must have paid a price to let Chen Li call him.

But in fact, nothing really happened between Chen Li and that Monica.

The reason why Chen Li would contact her for her was actually the simplest and most straightforward reason because he was willing!
Yes~ Just like Chen Li was willing to give Matsushima ~ Feng a job in Tokyo before, Chen Li is also willing to help Monica as a matchmaker now.

He didn't want to get a reward from Monica by virtue of this matter, it's just that he didn't resist doing it in his heart.

He's not a bad guy, he's just happy to do it.

In fact~ this can be regarded as Chen Li's bad taste, because he wants to see the difference between Monica in this life and even that Songdao~feng in this life with the help of his butterfly.

In other words, these two are actually Chen Li's "experiments". Of course, it may be too much to say so.

But the fact is that, Chen Li thought it was a good idea to do so, so he did it.

As for the reason, not everything needs a reason!

A few minutes later, Chen Li received a call from Thomas. The other party first expressed his dissatisfaction with Chen Li's "politeness", and said that Chen Li could call him directly for such trivial matters.

Then Thomas invited Chen Li to attend a party he hosted tonight, and it was said that most of the people present were from the entertainment industry.

Thomas even expressed to Chen Li in a somewhat obscene tone. This party was very fun.

Alright~ Chen Li was almost tempted, but in the end he rejected the other party.

Without him~ He still has business to do early in the morning, so there is nothing he can do.

Finally, when he was about to hang up the phone, Thomas told Chen Li a certain time and asked Monica to go to the company to find him tomorrow afternoon.

It can actually be seen from here~ What seems extremely difficult and solemn to Monica is not even a fart on Thomas' side.

But~ this has nothing to do with Chen Li.

After hanging up Thomas's phone, Chen Li edited a text message and sent it to Zhang Ruolan, asking her to notify the future earth flower.

As for the reason, well~ Chen Li was really afraid that if he went to inform Monica, maybe that eldest sister would come to his room tonight.

(End of this chapter)