Chapter 220 Legally Blonde
Since Su Yun flew to New York from Japan, Ovitz handed her resident filming contracts from the University of California, Los Angeles and Harvard Law School.
"As expected, you and I are the best match!" Su Yun said with satisfaction, holding the two contracts.
After all, they are good friends who have been working together and supporting each other since their humble beginnings. This time, Su Yun's idea of trying a new style was once again strongly supported by Ovitz.
Of course, in addition to the good relationship between the two, Su Yun's vision and accuracy in catching trendy hot spots are also first-class. The last time "Brucet's Billions" was able to stand out among many blockbusters, it was inseparable from Su Yun's exquisite grasp of the current situation and opportunity.
"By the way, how is Meg's course going now?" Because the professional vocabulary of law is numerous and complex, playing a Harvard Law School student is not as simple as playing a legal assistant before, so Su Yun asked Ovitz to arrange for Meg to audit law school courses.
"Not bad, just like the heroine you want - although she is a typical 'blonde', she is actually not as dumb as people think." Ovitz admired Meg's efforts. "She knew that this was a rare opportunity, so she didn't need anyone to urge her. On the contrary, she would ask me from time to time to strengthen the course schedule."
"Very good." Su Yun nodded, and then said, "The casting of those supporting roles will be handed over to you. I have to invite the male lead and the second female lead of this play, and go back to school to handle the formalities."
"No problem, go ahead and don't worry. I will also complete the other preliminary preparations as soon as possible so that you can start shooting as soon as you return from California." Ovitz picked up the plan marked "Legally Blonde" on the table.
The plot of this movie is actually very simple. Elle Woods, the president of her sorority, is about to graduate, so she is looking forward to her long-time boyfriend Warren, who comes from an East Coast family, proposing to her on her birthday. However, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. Her boyfriend, who is about to attend Harvard Law School, thinks she is just a big-breasted, brainless blonde, so he breaks up with her on the beautiful night she has always dreamed of.
In order to win back her boyfriend, Ellie resolutely decided to apply to Harvard Law School to prove that she was not a stupid blonde, but a smart girl worthy of her boyfriend.
Unfortunately, when Ellie passed the exam with great difficulty and came to Harvard with the acceptance letter, her boyfriend already had a new, smart girlfriend in the same college, and the two were engaged.
Therefore, in addition to emotional hurt, Ellie also suffered a blow in her professional studies - she previously majored in fashion design, and she changed her major to enter law school in order to win back her boyfriend. When she lost her interest and drive, and did not have the solid foundation of others, she seemed so out of place in the course and could not keep up with the progress of the majority.
Fortunately, the heroine Ellie is indeed a very smart and outstanding girl. After some adjustments and the help of her friends, she not only successfully kept up with the learning progress, but also became an excellent student in her major.
At the same time, during this hard work, she also fell in love with the profession of law, and on this basis, she found her future life goal.
The actress was chosen to play the sweet-smiling Meg, and the actor, Su Yun, thought of Tom Hanks, who once came over to say hello to her after class.
At this time, "Forrest Gump" was not the chubby middle-aged man who impressed the public later, but a young, handsome young man. Su Yunshi had no worries about letting him play the role of the senior male protagonist who guides the heroine: Meg and Hanks, the best screen couple, dominated an era in Hollywood movies.
What's more, Hanks is still a super newcomer now. He has low pay, good acting skills, and high enthusiasm. The cost-effectiveness is simply too good.
However, things never happen as planned. Just when Su Yun hurried to California to settle the school matters and then go to make the most of the money, she heard from the sad-looking Ho Ping-si a piece of news that was enough to shock both Hong Kong and Macau: Ho Yau-kang, the eldest son of the Ho family in Macau, and his wife had suffered a serious car accident in Portugal. They died prematurely after failed rescue efforts. They were only 33 years old.
"Is it really just an accident?" Su Yun asked in a low voice.
"It's not an accident." He Pingsi shook her head slightly. "Do you still remember that Sister Hong and I were arranged to go to TBB for training? In the past few years, my father and eldest brother wanted to do everything and wanted to get involved in everything. They were too involved and made people hate them."
"Those people originally just wanted to warn them not to go too far, but such "accidents" are difficult to control. I think the water situation in Hong Kong and Macau will become more and more chaotic in the near future." He Pingsi sighed.
Su Yun nodded: No wonder she received a call from Zhao Liming when she was in Japan, telling her that "Sister Tuoqiang" had been postponed for a while. At that time, Zhao Liming vaguely said on the phone that there were some problems in Xiangjiang. So people don't pay much attention to the TV series... Now combined with the news of He Pingsi, it is clear where the focus of Hong Kong and Macao will be.
At a time like this when everyone is busy watching melons and has no interest in entertainment, it would be a mistake to release a highly anticipated drama on time. Therefore, Fang Mona will definitely arrange a few other less important dramas to fill this time slot that is difficult to get ratings, and then postpone the broadcast of the highly anticipated "Armored Sisters".
After comforting He Pingsi, Su Yun continued, "I have a new movie to shoot recently, and I probably won't be able to go back until the Lunar New Year. It seems like I can just avoid this flood."
"You're lucky then." He Pingsi forced a smile. "I originally wanted to go back to Macau to help, but I got a message from home saying that the situation is very complicated and asked us not to go back as much as possible."
Now they are all seniors, and there are actually not many courses left. He Pingsi originally wanted to go back to Macau when she had free time to take care of the business of the public relations company she and Su Yun had co-founded. Unfortunately, now that such a big change has happened at home, she cannot even go back, let alone manage the company's business.
"It's okay. You can look for opportunities to develop your business here." The Tianji Public Relations Company founded by He Pingsi would become the largest public relations company in Hong Kong in the future, and even the funeral of the gambling king was handled by this company. Su Yun naturally would not doubt He Pingsi's business ability.
"Why don't you go to CAA to learn if you have time?" Su Yun thought for a moment and asked again.
He Pingsi also thought for a while, and finally responded: "Okay, then I won't be polite, I will go over as soon as I have time."
"We are partners, it's fine for both of you." Su Yun patted her hands: Instead of leaving her here to let her think nonsense, it would be better to let work occupy her whole mind.
After solving He Pingsi's problem, Su Yun submitted her application to the school the next day.
St. Clair was not surprised by Su Yun, a special student who only appeared on campus during exam weeks. As far as Su Yun was concerned, she was already more successful than many others.
In addition, Su Yun's computer technology allowed her to study and exchange ideas with the school's professors, and the school also provided a number of graduate positions... With all these conditions added together, Su Yun's application for vacation this time was still very smooth.
After receiving the reply from the school, Su Yun went to the nearby University of California and picked up Tom Hanks, who had just graduated and was planning to pack his bags to go to New York to hang out.
After taking Hanks to New York without stopping and then throwing him in to audit a law course, Su Yun, who maintained the Hong Kong-style speed of filming, began to contact Brooke Shields, with whom she had worked before.
In the original "Falling in Love", Brooke played the role of Shirley, a high school beauty who was competing with Su Yun for men. She was also a typical blonde girl, just a younger version.
This girl, who was taken to film and have sex by her model mother who dreamed of becoming a star since she was a child, appeared on the cover of Playboy at a young age, and was criticized by the public for playing a prostitute, has reduced many rumors that she is nude and sexy because of the movie "The Coral Island". However, due to the scarcity of movie themes and related resources, most of her roles in recent years are still beautiful vase girls.
In order to change her image, her model mother not only reduced her work to allow her to study at university, but also tried hard to find relevant "smart" roles.
Therefore, although Su Yun is the second female lead, she has far more scenes than the male lead in the same drama, and her character image is that of a smart, academic and beautiful woman, which is like a pillow arriving at a sleepy moment: compared to the plot of the original drama in which a group of people go to find the heroine who resigns in anger due to workplace unspoken rules, Su Yun combines the plot of the musical and changes it to have the second female lead, who is a love rival but a very upright person, go to encourage and support the heroine to return to court, which is more in the spirit of girls helping girls.
After confirming that Brooke had accepted the invitation, Su Yun worked overtime with Ovitz to complete the preliminary preparations.
Soon, the new movie "Legally Blonde" officially started filming.
The main characters are all carefully selected "familiar people", and they are at an age where they can already attract people's attention with their overly brilliant youth. When Su Yun started filming, the foreign crew once again got on the plane of Hong Kong speed, and the filming progressed so smoothly that it couldn't be smoother.
It was not until one sunny morning that the rapid filming was stopped for a visitor.
"Oh, that's Michael, a very good friend of mine. There was a small problem with the new album "Thriller" he wanted to release, which made him very dissatisfied and unhappy, so he is now re-arranging and composing the music - but he has been too busy recently, and everyone wants him to come out and relax." Brooke glanced at the person who came, explained a few words to Su Yun, and then ran towards him.