Chapter 207 Gain and Loss

Thinking about the interview time agreed with Romero which was 2:30 in the afternoon, Su Yun, who had just finished the day's daily training in the system's small dark room, looked at his watch: Great, there is still one hour.

Su Yun's current address is Zhao's business in New York, which is about half an hour's drive from the restaurant they agreed to meet. However, considering situations such as traffic jams on the way, Su Yun quickly packed herself up in five minutes, and then took her temporary assistant and got into the taxi that the staff helped to call and waited at the door.

Because the restaurant is located next to a park, it usually has quite a lot of traffic - of course, this restaurant also takes advantage of its proximity to the park and has a sales point with a view of the park.

After arriving near the park smoothly, Su Yun got out of the car. When she was about to look around as usual, a small figure on the iron fence on the other side of the park caught her attention.

"Hey! Kid, be careful!" An expert can tell whether a move is successful or not with just one move. Su Yun, who used to follow Lu Shaolong in the streets and alleys of Hong Kong under the cover of night for "training", can immediately judge the success rate of this behavior as soon as she sees the posture of the little figure climbing over the iron fence.

The awkward and clumsy posture and movements clearly proved that this figure was a novice in climbing over iron fences. Unfortunately, the iron fences in this park were of a hollow design. If one failed, it would be easy to be injured by the sharp points on them and then suffer injuries from falling from a high altitude.

In order to avoid any accidents, Su Yun shouted while running quickly to the iron fence and supported the boy who looked to be about twelve or thirteen years old.

The boy, whose originally swaying body had found a stable and solid support, and whose face had turned pale with fear, finally calmed down a little. After calming himself down, he climbed down from the iron fence with the help of Su Yun.

"Thank you..." The young man wiped the sweat off his face with the back of his hand, still in shock.

Su Yun, who was standing next to him, felt that the boy looked strangely familiar. When she was thinking about the reason, the boy saw Su Yun's face clearly and immediately screamed: "Mary Su?!"

"It's me, who are you?" Su Yun asked.

"My name is David, David Meien...Oh, you probably don't know me, but do you know my mother?" The boy named David added, "My mother's name is Romy Schneider."

"Oh, it's you!" Su Yun suddenly realized: when filming "Leon: The Professional" a few years ago, Romy and her son were traveling near the filming location, so they came to visit the set.

No wonder he looked familiar, it turns out this boy is the little guy who came to visit the set with Romy that year.

Although I haven't been in touch with Romy for a while, I remember hearing that David, who Romy spent half of her fortune to get custody of from her first ex-husband, later followed Romy's second ex-husband to settle in the United States...

For this reason, there were traces of tears in Romy's letter to Su Yun: the last few years have been a time of second spring for her career, and the constant awards and box office success have led to constant film contracts, leaving her with no time to take care of her children, so she had no choice but to let her eldest son live in the United States with her second ex-husband.

Fortunately, although this ex-husband also wanted her money, because they broke up peacefully, the second ex-husband was quite nice to David, the stepson, and their daughter who was born later. He just required her to send a large amount of child support regularly...

When Su Yun saw the letter at that time, she silently felt sorry for this friend who always met the wrong people. She could only reply with some encouraging words and some suggestions: It is better to have nothing than to have too much and don't look for a man in a garbage dump. These words are really hard to understand for a love-minded person.

No one knows what kind of vision and luck this actress, whose life is just like her classic role, Princess Sissi, has. Her first love was Zha Lan, who was known as the scumbag of the century, and her two subsequent husbands were both scumbags who were after her money. The worst thing is that even though Zha Lan was the least scumbag to her among the three men, she still failed to wake up after falling into three traps.

Thanks to her busy career, she has no time to be influenced by love. Otherwise, she might fall into another pit.

"So what's going on?" After finding out why David was here, Su Yun couldn't help but ask another question.

"My mother hasn't sent me any money recently. I heard that she had a kidney removal surgery due to health reasons... I want to go see her." David opened the small bag on his back with some trepidation. Inside was a pile of small banknotes. "I have been secretly doing work for the neighbors recently and saved enough money for the plane ticket, so I want to take the opportunity of going out to the park today to go to the airport..."

Su Yun touched his head and said, "Good boy, but you are still very dangerous alone, do you understand?"

"I understand..." Being caught on the spot, David naturally felt that he had no chance, but he still didn't want to give up in his heart, "I just want to go see her."

Su Yun was stunned by his desperate tone, but she immediately laughed again after she understood the situation: "Oh, do you think I will stop you?"

"Isn't it?" David's eyes widened.

"Of course not - I am planning to help you!" Su Yun looked back and took David to the taxi she had booked. "It's rare that you have this idea. As your mother's friend, I will definitely help you."

"Please take this child to the nearest airport and buy him a direct flight to Paris." After Su Yun handed a wad of money to her temporary assistant, she stuffed David into the back seat of the taxi.

The temporary assistant was a Chinese lady who was born and raised in Chinatown. When she heard that David was going to Paris to visit his mother who was in the hospital, she nodded very moved and promised Su Yun that she would take him to the airport safely, and then she immediately asked the driver to come back to pick her up.

"Don't worry. I will probably talk to Mr. Romero for quite a while. Your most important thing is to get the child on the plane safely." Considering the current flight speed, it would take more than ten hours to fly from New York to Paris even if it was a direct flight without a transfer. Su Yun had plenty of time to call the people in France after the interview and ask them to pick him up at the airport.

After resolving this little episode, Su Yun hurried back to the restaurant, raised her hand and looked at her watch: Fortunately, I just caught up and was not late.

Seeing her anxious look, Romero, who was sitting in the chair, comforted her: "Don't worry, I'm not the kind of person who gets angry for no reason."

Looking at his smile that seemed very healing, Su Yun breathed a sigh of relief: I never thought that this famous father of modern horror movies and the father of zombies would not be a tyrant but a moderate.

She originally thought that this master who always liked to reflect and satirize social issues would have a relatively sharp personality.

"Of course I'm not easy to get along with. If I'm determined to do something, I will stick to it to the end." Romero saw Su Yun's thoughts and explained, "But I will be as tolerant as possible towards people who share the same ideals as me."

"I just saw you here that you didn't come earlier because you saved a boy. I think I wouldn't mind even if you were a little later." Romero gestured to Su Yun to look at the French window next to him: this window faced the iron fence of the park across the street.

"Then today is really my lucky day." Su Yun was in a good mood as she took a sip of coffee after being inadvertently appreciated by the master.

"But the main thing is that I'm interested in the ideas in your films," Romero continued. "In addition to Brewster's Billions, I re-watched your previous films, Artificial Intelligence, which you co-starred with Kubrick. I really liked the scene where the robot cleaned up the broken limbs."

"This is also inspired by your Night of the Living Dead." Su Yun decisively offered a wave of commercial praise, "I really like the zombie theme and key points you set. In addition to the part in Artificial Intelligence, the Resident Evil series of games also came from your inspiration."

"Well, I've also seen your plan. I have to say that the idea of ​​viral infection and mutation is indeed more scientific and reasonable than my previous infection cause. It also involves the key points of medical ethics. It is also a very good subject for the internal struggle of human beings." Romero looked very satisfied: After all, the reason why movies with the theme of zombies appeared in the world was to criticize the greed of capitalists.

Before the Living Dead series of zombie films that he improved and innovated, there was actually a black-and-white film called "White Zombie" produced in 1932, which is the world's earliest zombie-themed movie.

However, the story depicted in "White Zombie" is actually about the voodoo wizard and the resurrected corpse in Haitian folklore. The general idea is that a wizard uses witchcraft to awaken a large number of dead people as living dead, and then makes them operate machines in the factory day and night to work...

This kind of labor force that does not need to eat or receive wages is simply the ultimate dream of typical capitalists.

Later, he shot "Night of the Living Dead", which was based on the work of his predecessors. Through clear descriptions of violence and the cover of suspense and horror themes, it reflected and satirized the chaotic society at that time and the internal conflicts and struggles between people.

It can be said that the main theme of zombies is not horror, violence and bloodiness, but the internal struggles among people regarding interests and human nature that are hidden underneath.

Therefore, he began to recognize the creative thinking of Su Yun, a young successor, only after Brewster's Billions was published.

In this interview, Su Yun was also very satisfied with Romero, the horror master: If it was just a simple horror-themed commercial film, no matter how much money it made, it would only be a temporary glory.

Only by injecting it with a profound core that is sufficient to make the audience think and expressing it in a way that appeals to both the elite and the masses can a type of film become an eternal monument.

Although the "Resident Evil" movie series drastically changed the plot of the game version in the first two films, at least the core of people's struggle and hope in desperate situations did not deviate from the original.

Unfortunately, after the third film began to expand globally but no reasonable explanation could be given, this film series eventually became a journey of endless pretense by a cheating heroine. In addition, in order to complete the previous plot, one film after another continued to use the books and drag out the game protagonists to attract popularity... until the end, it completely deviated from the theme.

Of course, the plot of the movie series is completely capable of supporting and making a super heroine of an action movie popular, but what Su Yun wanted to shoot was still the plot of the game series - it was originally just a group portrait story of a group of people who still retained and nurtured the warmth of human nature in a sad and chaotic society.