Reborn Action Star: Starting in Hollywood

Chapter 46 Lin Yuan's Pursuit

Taylor felt mixed emotions of joy and sorrow when he saw the positive response to his new promotional video.

There is a saying: Others only care about how high you fly, but people who care about you care about whether you are tired from flying.

On the one hand, Taylor was happy for Lin Yuan. His career was becoming more and more stable, and he was not far from taking off again.

But on the other hand, it was also the first time she saw the price Lin Yuan paid for his career.

She first became a fan of Lin Yuan because of the sword dance in the promotional video of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". In the video, Lin Yuan was dressed in flowing white clothes, like a fairyland.

This is a very otherworldly image that only makes people feel pure beauty.

But this kind of beauty is built on illusion, and its essence is floating and not grounded.

But Lin Yuan's next two films showed his truest side:
The young man in white clothes who lived a peaceful life was not him. The one who risked his life and endured injuries during the filming of the movie was the real him.

If you want to be respected in front of others, you will suffer behind their backs.

How can anyone succeed easily?

Every time Taylor saw Lin Yuan fall heavily to the ground with bloodshot eyes in the video, his nose would feel sore and he had to force himself not to cry.

She would not be hypocritical and try to persuade Lin Yuan not to do this. That was the path he chose, and she chose to support him silently.

What she can do is to work harder in practice every day and make her debut as soon as possible to help Lin Yuan.

Taylor looked at the moon outside the window and couldn't help wondering: What is Lin Yuan doing now?

…(I am a dividing line)

Lin Yuan was looking out the window at the bustling New York night scene.

Tomorrow at midnight, "The Fast and the Furious" and "Jurassic Park 3" will premiere.

Under the marketing of the joint publicity and promotion plan, the two films received initial screening rates of 15% and 25% respectively.

Although it seems very low compared to the initial screening rate of 40% of "The Mummy Returns", Lin Yuan is very satisfied with the results of these two films with low publicity and promotion costs.

After all, this screening rate is just not top-notch, but it is definitely not low.

And this is just the initial screening rate, which will be gradually adjusted based on word of mouth and attendance rate.

Lin Yuan has made various contingency plans and is confident that box office and screening schedules will continue to rise.

He believes that with the success of these two films, his next acting career will be broadened and he will officially embark on the road to becoming a superstar.

In fact, since his rebirth, Lin Yuan has seriously thought many times about what kind of life he wants to live.

Rebirth is a gift from God. If you still go through it in a daze, it would be the greatest disrespect to life.

It is actually not that easy to understand what you really want.

What do you want most?
Many people’s first reaction to this question is: money!
Then a hateful sentence immediately popped up in my mind:
"I'm not interested in money."

This sentence is quite Versailles and gives people a sense of hypocrisy.

For the majority of people who are struggling to make a living, the first reaction to hearing this is to get furious:

You are not interested, but I am!

Why are you not interested in making so much money?
If you are not interested, why don’t you give it to me?

You've made all the money, and you still want to pretend to be nice?

Therefore, saying this in public will definitely be unpleasant and will only lead to ridicule.

But if we look at this matter from another angle, we can prove that he was not completely lying:
He is already the richest man. Is there anything more important and worth pursuing than money? Obviously there is.

When people have no money, they will make money their first pursuit.

But once they become truly rich, most people will begin to pursue higher levels.

When he stood at the forefront of the tide of the times as a reborn person, money, fame, women... these things that ordinary people longed for became readily available to him.

Too many choices will lead to confusion and bewilderment.

It’s not that money is not attractive, nor that beautiful women are not alluring, but that once you fall into it and lose yourself, you will regret wasting this precious rebirth when you are about to grow old.

He had also read many rebirth novels, and many of the ways in which the protagonists focused on making money were not suitable for Lin Yuan.

For example, if some protagonists are reborn, they will buy Bitcoin and then hold it for a few years to make tens of billions of dollars. Is it really that easy?

The world is not that simple. The reason why Bitcoin was able to rise to that price later was not only because of its essential function of confidential payment, but more because there were countless people behind the scenes pushing it forward.

Because if the price of Bitcoin is driven up, everyone will make a profit, so everyone is working together.

You have too few chips and don't care about the little profit.

But if you have taken most of the chips, will these people behind the scenes still try? They will just start another game and create another Litecoin, Ethereum, or something like that.

Do you have the ability to set up this game yourself?
Even if you have this ability, as a reborn person, would you spend your energy and advanced cognition just to do this?

For example, some protagonists are reborn, invest in real estate, and reap the dividends of the times.

Lin Yuan did not choose to go down this path either. Not to mention that the real estate bonus is inherently unjust and blood-sucking, he also really disliked the idea of ​​working on government resources all day long.

He didn't want to chat with a group of fat, middle-aged men, talking hypocritically, and engaging in dirty exchanges of interests. He rejected these things from the bottom of his heart.

Start an internet company? Join the high-tech industry?

If you want to control a company and get the biggest piece of the pie, you have to do it yourself. Expecting an early investment and then just sitting back and waiting for it to take off?
Which founding emperor did not conquer his own empire with his own hands?
If you don't have enough confidence to take a piece of the cake, being a hands-off boss will only lead to you being sidelined, having your equity diluted, and then being kicked out.

Moreover, for Lin Yuan, even if he is willing to work hard to build a company, there is still a ceiling.

In some cases, his Chinese identity allows him to play both sides between the two major countries and reap many benefits.

However, if one wants to get involved in areas that are related to the lifeline of the national economy and wants to control the ownership of the means of production, it will immediately become embarrassing.

It's hard for either side to truly consider him one of their own. And why do you, a Chinese, hold a sacred weapon?
What other options are left?

A career in politics? This is America. Does he, a Chinese American, want to ascend to heaven?
Fortunately, Lin Yuan was not blinded by various desires.

He knew very well what he wanted. Compared to money and power, he wanted fame more.

A hundred years later, his name is still a legend, and later generations are still passing on his name.

His achievements have become an immortal monument, admired by countless people.

This is the life Lin Yuan wants.

To achieve this, one must not only reach the extreme, but also break through the extreme and reach a level that ordinary people cannot imagine.

Fortunately, he has the support of a system, which makes this path to becoming a super action star feasible.

He will surpass Chen Long, Bruce Lee, and any other superstar in history to become the unique and incomparable superstar.

Among the five levels of needs proposed by Maslow, the highest one is self-actualization, which Lin Yuan deeply agrees with.

(End of this chapter)