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The 'Save Lives' concert is over, but the sensation caused by this concert has not disappeared because of this, and all countries are reporting on this concert.

Even Huaxia, as far away as the East, reported the concert.

"People's X" also published an article on this concert, but in another time and space, because there were no Chinese people participating in this concert, it only introduced a few hundred words.

But it is different now, because Wu Jianye will participate in this concert.

After "People's X" received the news, they couldn't believe it. They were naturally familiar with Wu Jianye. When Wu Jianye won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, they had already reported the news about Wu Jianye.

But this time is different!
Wu Jianye’s impression in China has always been that he was a film director and a film actor, but now he suddenly became a singer, and he also participated in such an important concert. At this time, "People's The X newspaper couldn't believe it.

But the photo of Wu Jianye singing that day was actually sent back from the front, so they couldn't help but believe it.

Now is the time when the country is seeking development and seeking recognition from the outside world. Wu Jianye has suddenly made such an achievement, so they will naturally increase their efforts to report it.

"Chinese director Wu Jianye is on the world's greatest concert!" "

... At noon on the 13th, the concert first opened at London's Wimbly Stadium, and more than 72000 listeners attended the concert.Two hours later, a concert at John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia attended by 9 people was also announced. …

Among the singers who participated in the concert, there was a figure of Chinese director Wu Jianye. His appearance made the world see Huaxia.
Afterwards, "People's X" introduced the glory of Wu Jianye's album "Born Out" in Europe, America and other places, and Wu Jianye's name was flooded in domestic newspapers and media.

Wu Jianye, who had been silent for more than half a year in China, reappeared in the field of vision of domestic audiences. At this moment, all Chinese people knew that Wu Jianye was not only a director, but also an excellent singer. His music album has actually defeated many foreigners and dominated their sales charts for such a long time.

Wu Jianye's reputation once again surpassed the previous peak in the country and reached another high point.

Now many people in China are already looking for Wu Jianye's album, but unfortunately there is no one for sale in China, only some friends who have a relationship, and through the relationship, they bought Wu Jianye's "Born Out of the Sky" album overseas.

For example, Cui Jian, the lead singer of the first rock band in China established last year, the seven-plywood band, is later known as the godfather of Chinese rock.

But soon, Yanjing, Shanghai and other big cities have pirated tapes of this album. As for the source, it is impossible to test, but many dealers say that they got the goods from Pengcheng.
However, Wu Jianye was still far away in the United States at this time, and did not know what was happening in China.

As for the follow-up of the "Save Lives" concert, it is not over yet, the donation activity is still going on, and the number on the special account keeps rising day by day.

A newlyweds in London have decided to sell their house and donate their money to Africa.

Many old Irish women came to the post office and asked to donate their only possessions - wedding rings.Because they have been worn on their hands for too many years, those rings can no longer be removed.They can only buy a bar of soap first, and soak their hands in the soapy water for a while.

At the London show, the Irish accounted for the lion's share of donations on the day.And not just because both Geldof and U2 are from Ireland.

In the middle of the 19th century, there was a famine in Ireland, and a quarter of the population either starved to death or fled to the United States.Today, Ireland's population is only one-twentieth that of England.

As a side note: Ireland was under British rule during the famine.

Even when Gildorf was out on the street, people would keep feeding him money, from a few pence to hundreds of pounds.He told them to deposit the money in the account at the post office, but people said: Bob, we'll be more assured of you.

This is the glory of humanity!

However, human nature has never been just brilliant. Human nature is very complicated, and you cannot define it in terms of good and evil.

Someone donated all his belongings of 3000 pounds in one breath, but regretted it half a month later and wrote to Geldof:
Can you give me some money back?I was impulsive at the time, and I really didn't have the ability to donate so much.

Reagan, then President of the United States, signed a bill announcing that July 7 will be the National Memorial Day of the United States, and at the same time, he will consider revising the African aid plan.

The Queen of England awarded Sir Gildorf the title.The Norwegian, British and Irish parliaments jointly nominated him for the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize.

The national airline of Mauritius called, and they offered two round-trip first-class tickets and two weeks in a five-star hotel, all they needed to do was take a photo for publicity: Geldof was on vacation in Mauritius.

Geldof was moved.Because he has been playing rock and roll these years, he is really poor and has never lived in such a good hotel, let alone travelling.

But he was also worried about revenge from the media he had just slaughtered in 'Proof of Salvation'.

It turned out that Geldof had gotten into a fight with a reporter during his trip to Ethiopia.This time, he avenged his personal revenge publicly and raised the price for the media:
The reporter's seat ticket is twice as expensive as that of the general audience, 50 pounds; if you want to walk around, you have to pay another 100 pounds to buy a special pass.

If this big news breaks out now.

The headline of the news, he can think of it himself:

Gildorf is basking in the sun on the beach, and tens of millions of people in Africa behind him are starving!

The United States was the country that raised the most funds, raising 50% of the total donations.Therefore, 10% of the final donation is used to relieve homeless Americans.

See how Americans are also grabbing food from Ethiopian refugees
To avoid VAT on sales of 'Save Lives' fundraiser albums, Geldof approached the British Prime Minister, Iron Lady.

The Iron Lady initially disagreed with the tax exemption, and domestic public opinion was in an uproar.The Iron Lady had to make concessions, abolished the value-added tax, and apologized to the people of the whole country on TV.

After all, in such a big England, donations are not as much as Ireland.From this point of view, Daying will end sooner or later.

'Saving Lives' ended up raising $1.27 million for African countries.

Paradoxically, such a large sum of money donated by the whole world did not save Ethiopia from famine.

The splendor of some stories is revealed on the stage, while the splendor of some stories is revealed after the curtain ends on the stage.

The exciting follow-up to the 'Save Lives' concert has only just begun.

From the moment the first batch of food arrived in Ethiopia, the people in Gildorf found that there was no way to transport it to the disaster area.

The railways were broken, the roads were impassable, and there were no cars.If you transport your car across the sea yourself, it will be confiscated by the military government who is red-eyed by the civil war.

In 1985, a large amount of food just rotted on the pier next to the Red Sea.

After utter desperation, Geldof and his team decided to buy a fleet of second-hand trucks in Sudan, Ethiopia's neighboring country. After repairs, they entered Ethiopia by land and forcibly transported food to the disaster area.

Five months were wasted before the 80 trucks could be purchased and repaired until they were operational.

The situation changed slightly until the convoy, which started from northern Sudan and forcibly crossed the line of fire between the two sides to deliver food to the disaster area in the north, was discovered by Colonel Mengistu.

At that time, Mengistu was facing the enemy in the war.The opposition "Tigray People's Liberation Front" in the northern Tigray Province and the armed forces in the northeastern Eritrean region are attacking him together.

The food and money donated by 'Saving Lives' just became his booster.

Mengistu agreed: the convoy could follow his army into a certain area and distribute food.

This is actually a plan by him to buy people's hearts, making the victims think that the food came from him.As long as they were on his side, there was food to eat.

At this moment, the good wishes of the whole world have become a bargaining chip in the civil war.

Doctors Without Borders had begged Geldof not to distribute relief money until there was a credible agency that could get the money to the victims, otherwise it would only exacerbate the civil war and death.But he went his own way and uttered a famous saying:
Our left hand will shake hands with the devil, and our right hand will donate to the disaster victims.

BBC reporter Michael Birke, who was the first to report to the world on the Ethiopian famine, said:

The Ethiopian famine changed everything and nothing.

It fundamentally changes the rich world's sense of responsibility for hunger and the poor, but it does nothing.

Ethiopia's civil war ended in 1991.Colonel Mengistu was overthrown.

If a friend Googles the name of Colonel Mengistu, he will find that his birth and death years are "1937-2008".Actually, actually, he's been alive and well.
Under Ethiopia's new constitution, Mengistu was sentenced to death in 2008.But this absentee sentence is doomed to fail.As early as 1991, he fled to Zimbabwe and successfully obtained political asylum from Mugabe.

In 2000, Wembley Stadium was closed for demolition. In 2003, the last Concorde was retired due to high cost and other reasons.

It's no longer possible to rush halfway around the world to attend two shows in one day like Phil Collins.

It seems to be the curtain call of a meteor-like gorgeous era.

As for how the money raised by the "Save Lives" concert was actually used, even after decades, Geldof has always refused to be interviewed on the issue of whether the donations from "Save Lives" were effectively used.

But these are all things for the aftermath. For Wu Jianye, his brilliance can only be left on the 'Save Lives' concert. As for the rest of the bullshit, it has nothing to do with him.

Now Wu Jianye has come to Los Angeles.

In a restaurant in Los Angeles, Wu Jianye met the elegant Zunlong.

"This film will be the most invested film in domestic history, and the Hall of Supreme Harmony will also be opened for the filming of this film. Zun Long, I hope you can return to China to participate in the film "The Last Emperor" Movie shooting!"

The appointment with Zun Long was naturally for the filming of "The Last Emperor".

Now that the preliminary preparations in China are almost ready, Wu Jianye came to the United States this time, so he naturally wanted to bring Zun Long back to China to participate in the filming of this movie.

Although Bertolucci's "The Last Emperor" has many slots, but I have to admit that Puyi, played by Zunlong, is born with nobleness, and Wu Jianye is also the best candidate for Puyi here.

Zunlong sat opposite Wu Jianye, wearing a simple T-shirt, jeans, and a handsome face, but some people are just like God for food. His appearance and temperament determine his status as an actor. It is more comfortable on this road.

Although he left few classic works in the domestic and international film circles in later generations, it does not mean that his acting skills are not good. It is because he left more performance opportunities to the stage, which also established his acting skills.

At this time, Zun Long was a little excited, not because of Wu Jianye's movie invitation, but because of Wu Jianye's change of identity.

He remembered that when he met Wu Jianye for the first time, he was a well-known writer. As a Chinese, he wrote science fiction novels that were popular in Europe and America.

Later, in a Hollywood film magazine, I learned that the first film directed by Wu Jianye actually won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival.

Immediately afterwards, at the just-concluded "Save Lives" concert, he discovered that Wu Jianye was still the Kun who attracted the hearts of countless fans.

Even though he had already been mentally prepared when he saw the name Kun, he still couldn't help being surprised when the reality was in front of him.

As for the script of the movie "The Last Emperor", although he has not read it, he has read the novel of the same name. Now that Wu Jianye found him personally and invited him to act in this movie, he just thought about it briefly. He immediately agreed to Wu Jianye's invitation.

"Thank you Director Wu for your trust, I will try my best not to let you down!"

After receiving Zun Long's affirmative reply, Wu Jianye seemed very happy, and then asked about Chen Chong's news. When Wu Jianye held the signing event in Los Angeles, the two got together and whispered. The two should have been in touch all along.

"Chen Chong, I can call her. I believe she will be very happy when she hears the news!"

After the two separated, Zun Long immediately called Chen Chong. After Chen Chong knew what happened, he agreed to go to Los Angeles to meet Wu Jianye immediately.

The meeting with Chen Chong also went very smoothly. The three of them just chatted briefly, and they agreed to follow Wu Jianye back to China to participate in the preliminary training of "The Last Emperor".

Although the matter looks very simple, in fact, it is only after Wu Jianye has made achievements. If this is Wu Jianye's first movie, it is unknown whether the two will agree so happily up.
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