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On the way back from Kleif Company, both Lu Ze and Mickey were a little silent. Elena saw that both of them were not in a good mood, so they did not dare to speak and kept playing with their mobile phones in the back seat.

Lu Ze also understood what the business was that Mickey was talking about this morning. It was to discuss the issue of the movie's release with Clelev's boss, Sol. Originally, Mickey thought that based on his reputation, it would be better to talk to Sol.

He accepted the share-sharing contract, even if he gave up part of the profits. After all, this time it was for revenge, not profit. As long as this movie became popular, he was not afraid that the next part would not make money.

He can't talk to the publishing company now. After all, he once had trouble with the publisher when he was young and frivolous. He only has one connection in the industry, so the only person who can help him is Saul.

But unfortunately, because Klelov Film Company has not produced good movies in the past few years, it can only go to the video tape and Internet market. However, the revenue from the video tape and Internet market is not enough to equal the shooting cost. To put it simply,

Losing money caused the capital chain to break, and the filming costs could only be reduced again and again. In the end, they could only make a living by relying on vulgar movies such as Category III films, and ultimately lost their only voice in distributors and theaters.

It has been three years since Clive's movie hit the cinema market. Distributors and theater bosses basically regard Thor as a poor guy. Even if he uses Mickey's name, it won't be enough to impress those bosses.

, after all, Mickey’s last movie was a loss to his grandma’s family. To put it bluntly, the bosses don’t believe in a director who has made bad movies and is now on drugs. Besides, it is unknown whether the audience will pay for it.

These capitalists are only willing to do things that are sure to make a profit without losing money. Instead of giving Mickey, a director who is full of uncertainty, a movie schedule, they might as well give the movie schedule to those popular movies. Even if Mickey really avenges his shame, this movie will be a big hit.

Even if it's a success, they don't regret it. Their income is still the same anyway, and Mickey will still come to them in the next movie.

Foreign markets really only value money and not people. Unlike in China, sometimes favors are more important than money. The advantage is that you can't get the kind of thing where all the director's works can be released online. The disadvantage is that

It is more difficult to find talented directors and actors than in China.

So Mickey had no choice but to accept the reality, and started again in the video tape market like he did back then, and signed a contract with Sol, giving Sol, who did not invest in movies, but only invested in distribution and online sales, a 45% share.

This share is quite high, but it’s the only one that you can’t get enough of.

Although Lu Ze was a little melancholy, he still signed the contract with Mickey. He had no choice. Now that he was here, he couldn't leave empty-handed, right? Although the video tape market is no longer as glorious as it was in the past, but now is the Internet age.

Going into the online movie market is still a bit confusing.

The three of them arrived home in silence. The contracts were all signed and they were definitely going to start studying the script. Elena followed them upstairs, but when Mickey opened the door, he was a little surprised to see someone sitting on the sofa.

An old yellow man.

"Dad, what are you doing here?"

"Me? I'm here to take back my house! Look what you've done to the room! I really don't understand why you still want to make a movie after you got out of jail?"

"Stop, please calm down. I also brought a friend. You know Yi Lian. This is Lu Ze. He came from China. Do you feel very friendly to your compatriots? Lu Ze, you take Yi Lian first.

Na went back to her room to study the script, teach her how to film, and come out later."

Lu Ze looked at Mickey's father. The old man had quite a personality. Even when he saw Lu Ze, a compatriot, he didn't give a good look. Maybe it's because there are many Chinese people in Britain now, and they are not like the kind of people they met thirty or fifty years ago.

It's an age when yellow people are friendly. Seeing his father like this, Lu Ze was helpless. He took the script that Mickey had printed, took out a third of it, took it in his hand, and took Elena into the guest bedroom.

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This is also a rule set by Mickey. Except for Lu Ze, no one else can see the complete script. He will only give out the next part of the given script when it is almost finished. This is a kind of protection for the script, but it is also

It can be seen from this that Mickey is possessive of the script.

"Okay, you've never been an actor, so we have to start with the basics first. Do you know what the most basic aspects of movies are..."

"Make a movie! Do you want to go to jail for filming again? You are so persistent that you are stupid, Mickey! I know you have talent! But talent cannot pave all the way for you and solve all your troubles!"

"Ahem... Well, the most important thing you must remember is that no matter what the circumstances, don't look at the camera. Even if you accidentally fall, get injured, or forget your words, don't look at the camera. This is your point.

Always remember, you can’t stop until the director calls for stop.”

There were still quarrels outside the door. I had always heard that foreign families support and encourage their children's dreams, but it seems that is not the case now. Don't say that the old man is Chinese, he has been abroad for four or five years.

In ten years, even if you don't want to change your way of thinking, you will still be affected by the environment. In Lu Ze's view, this old man is just a big potato with yellow skin and white flesh.

And Elena seems to be more serious than Lu Ze imagined. Usually young girls cherish the dream of becoming a big star, but the dream is only limited to the brilliance in front of people, rather than the hard work behind the scenes. Domestic stars are very popular,

But in the few years since his debut, his acting skills have not improved, which may have something to do with this aspect.

But Elena is different. She seems to be very interested in the profession of acting. Lu Ze has taught many students over the years, but there is really no one as serious as her.

Knowing that Lu Ze, a powerful actor of the movie king's level, was giving her lessons today, he quickly and neatly recorded the key points that Lu Ze said in his notebook. It didn't matter even if he couldn't keep up. Her phone was still recording, and she was about to go back to sleep tonight.

Listen to it a few more times to consolidate your memory.

Lu Ze likes such students very much, and I guess no teacher would dislike him, so he doesn't mind teaching all his unique skills to others, and he doesn't worry about teaching his apprentices to starve the master to death. After all, Lu Ze has many unique skills.

, others can’t learn from it, and even if you are exhausted, you can’t learn from it either.

"Let's do a short practical exercise. There are only one, two, three... fifteen lines. There are no convoluted lines. I will give you five minutes to write them down. Then we will review the lines and you can show them to me. OK, then

Let's start...stop, this line is not about reciting poetry, don't hold your throat, it's like a big piece of phlegm is stuck in your throat. You know, some young people deliberately lower their voices in order to make their voices more magnetic.

, how do you feel about this."

"I feel... very childish and a bit... funny."

"This is the feeling you are giving me now. Don't be pretentious or coy. It is illegal to teach students corporal punishment in the UK, but in China, masters can teach students to beat them casually. If you don't want me to whip you with a branch, just press

Do what I say, continue...Stop, don't touch your pants line, is there any money in it? This is your subconscious action when you are nervous, you'd better turn it over and continue..."

In Elena's eyes, Lu Ze is definitely a strict teacher, but he looks a little lazy. At this moment, he is sitting on the sofa, with a cigarette in his mouth, playing with his mobile phone with his head down, and flicking water into the water bottle from time to time.

Soot, but even so, the lines he spoke were still so full of emotion, as if there was another person living in his body.

The most terrifying thing is that even if he is playing with his mobile phone with his head down, he can still point out his shortcomings, as if Tianling Gai's eyes are bulging. Every time he says stop, her heart trembles, and her whole body is like taking a driver's license test.

nervous.

Lu Ze is now able to concentrate on three tasks. He is paying attention to Elena's performance, and he has not stopped playing Xiaoxiao in his hand. He also has to eavesdrop on the quarrel between the father and son in the living room. It has been half an hour, and the two have not yet

After the quarrel, the situation became more and more intense.

"You are spending your only wealth to make movies now? Are you crazy? You can be a writer! Even if you like it, you can continue to be a screenwriter! As a father, I will support you, but the job of director is...

It’s too dangerous for someone with your personality! You offend people too easily, Mickey! This time you were wrongly accused and spent a year and a half in jail! What if you are killed next time?”

"You are trying to kill me by stopping me now! Your life has been fixed. You can continue to be your designer. After you retire, you can still receive subsidies and collect the rent of your house. Your life will be dull and comfortable, but what about me?

I'm only thirty! Why should I, at thirty, live the same life you lived when you were sixty? This is not comfortable for me! It's restrictive!"

"Am I going to kill you? I am your father, will I kill you? A Chinese idiom describes you as stubborn! I don't want to say anything else to you. I know you won't listen to me. Just go away.

Or give me rent, three thousand pounds a month."

"How many?"

"Three thousand pounds! Get out if you can't live here! Get out of my house and take your friends with you! Get out of my house! I no longer have any expectations for you. Follow him and get as far away as possible

!”

The door was opened by the old man. He pointed at Lu Ze's nose and the door with an angry look. The meaning was very obvious. Lu Ze was stunned at this. If he were in China, no matter how big the differences were with his children,

For the sake of their children's and their own face, parents will be very friendly to their children's friends. Even if they have a huge quarrel after their children's friends leave, they cannot show it in front of their children's friends.

This kind of thing rarely happened to Lu Ze. He was a little dazed for a moment. But Lu Ze understood that it would definitely not be a wise choice to fight with this big potato with yellow skin and white flesh. Lu Ze could only deal with him.

Waving his hands, he stood up and pulled up his suitcase.

"Jeff! It's 5:40 in the evening! We haven't had dinner yet! It's almost dark! You're driving us away? Okay, I'm going to pack up and leave and never come back, never!"

Mickey also blushed, and stopped calling Dad by name. This made Big Potato even more angry. He pushed the three of them out of the room, and then slammed the door. Such a loud quarrel filled the apartment.

Residents from many houses inside came out to watch the excitement, and it was really embarrassing for a while.

"I really hope he can experience the feeling of losing everything in an instant. Really, if he goes bankrupt, I wonder if he can still be as open-minded as he is trying to persuade me now."

The three of them did not knock on the door, but just listened to Mickey complaining as he went downstairs. Lu Ze could only comfort him. Who could be stupid enough to complain about the other person's parents? Isn't that just cement in the head?

But let’s not say it. Although this old man has a British way of thinking, he may be influenced by the education he received as a child. The way he educates his children is more Chinese-style, just like being beaten by his parents when he was a child.

Children, most parents would also beat their children, otherwise they would feel that they had suffered a lot as children.

Until the three of them went downstairs and prepared to drive away, Mickey's clothes kept falling upstairs, and many of them hit the car glass. Who threw it... Isn't it obvious?

"I'm so mad at him! You think he's just a little stricter, but actually he's thinking about me and is good for me? Look at what he did."

Lu Ze choked on his words of comfort, and finally could only shrug his shoulders and reply: "Maybe it's because I'm afraid that you won't have any clothes to wear. Although my attitude is not very good, I'm also afraid that you won't be able to afford clothes and will catch a cold again.

"

Mickey picked up the clothes from the ground, shook them off casually, without folding them, just crumpled them into a ball and stuffed them into the car. He rolled his eyes at Lu Ze, said nothing, and drove away.

"Now we can only go to Irkro Castle in advance, otherwise we will have to sleep on the street. I don't have money to stay in a hotel."

At this time, Elena, who had been silent, reminded her in a low voice: "Actually, you can stay at my house."

"Forget it, if that guy Depp knew that I, a director, was so poor that I could only live in an actor's home, he would probably punch me out and vomit out all the supper I had last night. How did you decide? Come with us to Iraq.

Erkluborg, or go home?”

"I... better go home. There is a night match tonight, so I'm probably going to be very busy. That's it. I'll go back and arrange my own affairs first. I'll go to Irkru Castle to see you tomorrow. Bye."

"Remember to bring me two boxes of beer when you come tomorrow! I don't know if I can get there before dark. Is it really him? Damn it."

After Elena left, the two of them drove to their destination. Otherwise, many people call Liverpool Village. After leaving the city center, what they saw in front of them were rural scenes. The environment and scenery were quite good. Playing in the car

Listening to British rock music, Lu Ze kept looking outside the car in a daze. The journey was not as long as he imagined.

Compared to the suburbs of Liverpool, Ilcroborg is not a village, but a rural area. It is a village with less than 2,000 people in total. Few outsiders drive over at night. The few pedestrians on the street look at the vehicles driving in.

The vehicle is always locked.

After driving to a two-story building at the end of the village, Mickey parked the car and introduced Lu Ze to this house that held countless memories for him.

"This is my grandmother's house. I lived with my grandmother for a while when I was a child. It was probably the best time in my life. I liked to write stories to my grandmother. With her praise, I started walking

This is the road of movies, but since my grandmother passed away, I rarely come here. I only occasionally use money to repair it. Come in with me."

I turned on the switch and turned on the electricity. The lights in the room were still on, but they looked dim because there was too much dust on them. The room was not too messy. The furniture was covered with newspapers, but there was just a lot of dust.

There are two bedrooms on the second floor, but there are no mattresses. The two grown men didn't mind it. They were going to wipe the bed boards and put some clothes on them to sleep in. However, just after cleaning up, they heard someone shouting in the yard downstairs.

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"Who's up there! Come down!"

"Hey Claire! Long time no see! Are you okay?"

"Mickey? When did you get here? Oh my God, Judy! Look who it is! Little Mickey! He's back."

As expected by Lu Ze, this man named Claire was Mickey's former neighbor, and they had always had a good relationship. However, since Mickey became famous, they have seen each other very often. Claire invited the two of them to his house for dinner, and he was very hungry.

The two people at the back naturally agreed wholeheartedly, but originally they thought they were just going to someone's house for a meal, but it turned out to be a big party with dozens of people, which was extremely lively.

While chatting at the dinner table, Mickey also revealed that he came back just for filming. This group of people had been paying attention to the great director who walked out of Ilkroburg. They also knew that he was now in dire straits. Everyone patted their chests and promised that they would come to him if they had any difficulties.

them.

Lu Ze noticed Mickey's smile at this moment. It was the most sincere and brilliant smile he had shown since he came to Luhua to find him. Lu Ze also unconsciously recalled his own village and the villagers there.

They are also so enthusiastic and sincere.

The commotion lasted until after 11 o'clock in the evening, and everyone dispersed. The two of them also returned to the old house to wash up and rest. At this moment, Mickey was like a chattering old man, telling Lu Ze the origins of all the items in the room, until he was drunk.

Go back to your room and rest.

until……

"Boom!"

Lightning shined into the room through the window, waking up Lu Ze who was already drowsy after attending lectures due to the drama. He sat up and looked out the window. He could already hear the faint sound of rain in his ears. He thought for a while.

, it seems that something didn’t come to mind, suddenly!

"What a fool! Props!"

"What a fool! Props!"

Two languages ​​with the same meaning were shouted simultaneously in the two rooms. The doors opened at the same time. The two of them rushed downstairs. The rain was getting heavier and heavier. The two of them were even barefoot and quickly put on the sunshade on the raptor.

He opened the cloth and moved one by one the filming props that they had brought back from Clelev.

This may be the first time in their many years of entertainment career that the two of them have cared so much about these cheap props. They tried their best to block the rain that should have fallen on the props with their bodies, and did not even pay attention to their feet being scratched, because

Both of them know that small items are okay, but once the big items are damaged, the entire financial chain of the crew will be broken. The current "Effect" crew cannot withstand even a little bit of wind and rain.

When all the items were moved into the house, the two of them were as wet as drowned rats. They sat on the ground and breathed violently. There were a lot of heavy objects in the props here. Such rapid transportation made it difficult for one to give up exercise for a long time, and to the other who didn't want to move at all.

For a man who loves sports, his body can really be a bit unbearable.

"To be honest... since I became famous... I have... never cherished the props... This time it really scared me. Damn it, it's hundreds of pounds. It turns out that I don't care about it at all.

Something happened."

"I...me too..."

"Take a bath and then go to bed. I hope you don't catch a cold tomorrow."

After taking a shower, the two returned to the room. Lu Ze lay down and listened to the sound of raindrops hitting the window. In the past, Lu Ze liked to listen to the sound of rain and would get sleepy after a while, but today he couldn't fall asleep.

I kept thinking about things, but finally I couldn't help but get up and quietly went downstairs, only to find... The candlestick on the table was lit. In the dark room, Mickey was sitting on the sofa, his eyes always staring at this little thing of only a few hundred pounds.

movie props.

Hearing the footsteps, the two looked at each other and smiled. Lu Ze wore a quilt borrowed from Claire's house, sat next to Mickey, gave Mickey a cigarette, and then lit the flame of the candlestick.

Maybe a few years ago, the two of them would never have thought that something they once didn't care about was now like a life-saving straw. On this night of heavy rain, they were so scared that they couldn't sleep at all.

"..."

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