I am a literary giant in Europe

Chapter 486 What kind of nonsense is this?

Before we know it, the year is coming to an end.

On the 20th, Lao Zhang and his group were the first to leave Barcelona for Paris.

Liu Jin took leave from school and went directly to Normandy to attend Joey Green's wedding.

Alizee, on the other hand, will return to Ajaccio and then meet up with Liu Jin and the others in Paris to attend the M6 ​​New Year's Eve party.

The school did not make things difficult for Liu Jin.

Arnaud approved a month-long vacation with a stroke of his pen.

After the New Year, Liu Jin will need to go to America to check on the progress of "Life Is Beautiful".

Although he trusted Sofia and wasn't worried about her adopting a Western perspective, Sofia was uneasy and had already called three times, urging him to come over. If everything went smoothly, it needed to be submitted to the Cannes Film Festival at the end of February.

The jury for the 58th Cannes Film Festival has not yet been announced.

However, Liu Jin remembers that John Woo was the only Chinese judge on the jury this year.

It was precisely this role as a judge that solidified Han Shanping's belief in John Woo's influence overseas, leading to the famous gangster film, *Xiao Qiao's Swordsmanship*. It's said that China Film Group was also badly affected.

Liu Jin and Gilles Jacob were not very familiar with each other.

However, he has extensive connections in the French film industry.

He made a phone call to Patrick Schauer and subtly recommended a Chinese judge to Schauer: Leslie Cheung.

Patrick agreed with this.

Leslie Cheung was also a long-time friend of the Cannes Film Festival!

Back then, regardless of whether Liu Jin liked it or not, Leslie Cheung's portrayal of Cheng Dieyi in "Farewell My Concubine" was a sensation at Cannes.

As for John Woo...

Okay, he was quite famous in Hollywood, but that was in the past.

Two films, *Windtalkers*, which crushed MGM, and *Paycheck*, which had a budget of nearly $100 million but only grossed $33 million worldwide, also flopped. John Woo is now utterly discredited in Hollywood.

Moreover, to be honest, commercial film directors don't really meet the standards of French directors.

Weighing the two, Xiahou preferred Leslie Cheung to John Woo.

“I will suggest to Chairman Jacob that you are right, we should not let commerce tarnish the pure land of Cannes.”

Therefore, it all comes down to human relationships and social customs.

Xiahou still has a significant influence in the French film industry.

If he intervenes and persuades, Jacob will surely give Xiahou some face...

Liu Jin finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The next day, he met Eva and her family.

However, Eva's father didn't seem to like him much and never gave him a friendly look.

Eva's mother, however, was very affectionate towards Liu Jin.

Eva's mother was Jewish.

Her father, a Swedish-French man, somewhat like an older white man, was a dentist with a high income.

Liu Jin understood Eva's father's thoughts.

You've been flirting with my daughter and going around having affairs with other women... You're not a good person.

If it were Liu Jin, he might have already come out with a hunting rifle!
But Eva didn't care!

She went to great lengths to protect Liu Jin, leaving Mr. Green quite helpless.

Liu Jin felt a little awkward at the wedding.

Fortunately, it didn't last long. On their wedding day, Joey and her husband went on their honeymoon, while Eva and Liu Jin fled Normandy as if they were escaping, returning to Paris overnight.

After a shameless day in Paris, Eva flew back to America.

Filming for "007" has begun!

She had taken leave to leave the film crew, so she needed to get back as soon as possible.

Paramount is currently in chaos... Former president Shirley Lansing has resigned, leaving Paramount leaderless.

The key point is that Eva was chosen by Shirley Lansing.

Thinking about it, she really was a bit unlucky.

Unfortunately, they found themselves in a very awkward situation.

Therefore, she was very careful.

If Joey hadn't gotten married, she wouldn't have dared to leave the film crew so easily, lest others find fault with her and cause her trouble.

"Amos, film crews are so complicated!"

At Charles de Gaulle Airport, Eva, wearing sunglasses, nestled in Liu Jin's arms.

"I really miss the atmosphere on the set of 'Before Sunrise'."

Liu Jin couldn't help laughing.

That is!

Don't dismiss "Love Before" as a Searchlight Investment; in reality, the entire production team was controlled by Liu Jin.

The book is his book, the producer and director are his people, and even the cameo actors are all people he found. How could it be complicated?
In comparison, the atmosphere during the filming of "Life Is Beautiful" was not as good as that of "Before"!

"After the New Year, I will go to America to visit the set."

"really?"

Eva looked pleasantly surprised.

But then she became depressed again, saying, "We might be going to Venice to film in January."

"That's even closer. If I have time, I'll go there."

"It's a deal?"

"A word is settled!"

Eva's mood then improved somewhat.

……

Eva left on December 26th.

After meeting up with Leslie Cheung and others in Paris, Liu Jin informed Leslie Cheung that he had recommended him to be a judge.

Old Zhang was taken aback for a moment, then his face lit up with a smile.

"Old Jiang was right, this guy is having a blast in France now!"

Maggie and Anita Mui couldn't help but laugh.

The next day, Alizee arrived from Ajaccio.

Liu Jin contacted Valentino Sean-Singra, the brother of Mela who had been transferred back to M6 as president, and asked him to help find a small theater. Small theaters are plentiful in Paris.

If the business is well-run, customers will flock to it.

Poorly managed... a cloudless sky.

When Sean heard that Liu Jin was rehearsing for the New Year's Eve party, he immediately found a small theater in the Mahai District.

Liu Jin then spent 30,000 euros to rent the theater.

A group of people began rehearsing in the small theater...

During this time, Mr. An called.

Liu Jin was invited to a banquet hosted by the French Chinese Business Association.

As it turned out, it was also the 31st... Liu Jin refused without hesitation.

"I promised Melissa Trio I'd perform at the M6 ​​New Year's Eve party..."

"You? Performing?"

"is it not OK?"

"No, it's just a rumor that you're tone-deaf. How dare M6 let someone as tone-deaf as you go on stage?"

Mr. An and Liu Jin were already acquainted, so he joked.

"I'm not the lead singer, I'm only responsible for writing lyrics, composing music, and playing instruments..."

"band?"

"Yes, the band!"

"Who are they? Let me hear it."

"Old Zhang, that's Leslie Cheung, Anita Mui, Maggie Cheung and Alizee... We were just joking around."

On the other hand, Melissa called me several times to invite me to participate, and I really couldn't refuse.

"You're so cocky!"

Those are Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui!

Mr. An couldn't help but swear on the phone.

Although Mr. An and Liu Jin are more than ten years apart, it doesn't hinder their generation's familiarity with Hong Kong and Taiwan singers.

"Damn it, you tone-deaf guy, what makes you think you're qualified to form a band with my brother?"

"Hey, what are you saying... I'm even working with Shakira."

"What does this have to do with me!"

Mr. An couldn't help but complain, "You like foreign girls, but I don't."

"When did I say I liked foreign women?"

Liu Jin couldn't help but angrily say, "You surnamed An, be careful, or I'll sue you for defamation."

Mr. An said in a disdainful tone, "All your messy scandals involve foreign women, and you still say they aren't."

Liu Jin was speechless for a moment.

……

After hanging up the phone, Mr. An reported the news directly to his supervisor.

The leaders also found it amusing.

"I told you, this kid isn't one to stay put."

This guy's really making a fuss, even more so than those cultural and entertainment professionals back home! He's even taking this to the New Year's Eve gala stage… Xiao An, this is a significant achievement of this year's Sino-French cultural exchange. Find out more about it and get to the bottom of it! Then I need to report back to the country. Xiao Liu is certainly a handful, but it's a good thing he's making a fuss!

At the beginning of the new millennium, China was making efforts to strengthen its cultural exports.

In the future, Mr. An will preside over the Confucius Institute.

But how to say it?

It seems that true cultural export started with Tiktak, which truly allowed overseas communities to begin to understand China.

Of course, it was from that time that China truly began to understand the overseas world!
It can't be said that the country's cultural exports have yielded no results, but...

The real masters are always among the common people!
Mr. An felt that this was not a good idea.

But he also knew that he couldn't stop this kind of thing.

Back in his office, he sat blankly at his desk for a while.

Then he picked up the phone and dialed a number in China.

"Xiaoli, have you rested yet?"

A cold voice came from the other end of the phone: "Ankang, is something the matter?"

"So, on December 31st, Xiao Liu... no, I mean Amos, the person you asked me to contact last time, do you remember him?"

On the other end of the phone, Liu Xiaoli was on set with her daughter filming.

A few days ago, my daughter almost had an accident while filming, which scared her so much that she dared not leave the set again.

"Amos?"

Liu Xiaoli was taken aback and immediately remembered having dinner with Ms. Cai from Tangren at the beginning of the year.

Afterwards, she contacted An Kang, hoping he could use his connections to help her daughter.

Ankang is the one they're looking for, Amos.

Shortly after the filming of The Return of the Condor Heroes began, Lao Jiang visited the set, as did Chairman Han of China Film Group and Chairman Ren of Magic Film Group.

Intentionally or unintentionally, she mentioned her daughter to the bearded man.

From then on, the bearded man's attitude toward his daughter, or rather the entire crew's attitude toward his daughter, became somewhat different!

In the words of the bearded man in private, "Yifei's future acting career will definitely be very smooth."

The bearded man wanted to find out who Liu Xiaoli had connections with.

But Liu Xiaoli didn't say...

On the one hand, she didn't want anyone to know; on the other hand, she wasn't quite sure if Liu Jin could actually have such great power.

After that, Liu Jin was shot.

He also served as a jury member at the Venice Film Festival.

It is said that Liu Jin gave Director Hou from Taiwan a push behind the scenes to win the Asian Exchange Award.

She thought for a moment and said, "Mr. Amos, of course I remember."

"At this year's M6 New Year's Eve party in France, Amos has formed a band with Leslie Cheung, Anita Mui, Maggie Cheung, and the popular French pop star Alizee, and they will be performing at the party... If Xiaofeng isn't busy, could she come and relax?"

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(End of this chapter)