Chapter 315 Future Promise

After finding a restaurant that was still open and sitting down with the green-eyed handsome boy, Su Yun used some skills to get a lot of information from him while waiting for the food.

For example, this handsome little green-eyed boy is really young.

Although he is estimated to be 1.8 meters tall, he is only 15 years old this year and is still in the typical rebellious period. Because he wanted to pursue his dream of becoming an actor, he ran away from home with his friends and went to Paris to try his luck.

Unfortunately, in this world, even close relatives like a married couple can experience the helplessness of a poor couple, let alone good friends.

Hearing him talking in a dull voice about how he was betrayed by his friends, Su Yun sighed softly and said nothing. She just listened quietly, acting as a perfect trash can for her mood.

By the way, let's also appreciate the appearance of this handsome Italian boy named "Jim Ross Stewart": he really has a rare fairy-like style among Western facial features. If there is a role of a white moonlight who dies early in the future, he will definitely be the first choice...

And he looks a bit like a new generation actor nicknamed "Sweetie Chalamet" in later generations - of course, if we judge strictly by the era, it is Sweetie Chalamet who looks like him.

However, compared to Jim in front of us, the appearance of Sweet Tea is more childish and rough and natural in American style; while Jim is a typical European style with subtlety, refinement and a more youthful style.

To put it simply, Timothée Chalamet is the younger brother type, while Jim is the older brother type who is transitioning from youth to maturity.

While Su Yun was looking at each other, Jim, who was sitting opposite her, was also eating while quietly looking at her out of the corner of his eye.

"You look... a little familiar." Jim murmured softly.

"Maybe you're not mistaken, you may have met me before." Although most of Zhao's theaters are concentrated in Hong Kong, Southeast Asia and North America, there are also some cooperative channels in Europe that can distribute video discs. Maybe Jim has seen her movies before.

"That's impossible. You're much more beautiful than the actress in the movie." Jim said with certainty. "I prefer art films, and most of the heroines in art films are not the beautiful types in the conventional aesthetics. For example, in the movie The Postman I watched, the heroine's acting is very good, but her appearance is somewhat different from yours - and your eyes are completely different in color."

Su Yun was silent for a while, and finally chuckled: "Well, you are right."

Although young Jim looks literary, he is quite lively when he starts talking. He is familiar with many literary masterpieces, but he does not look down on Su Yun, a typical workaholic with a science and engineering mindset. Instead, he starts from the simplest and progresses step by step, helping Su Yun understand a lot of things.

After the two happily chatted all night, Su Yun took him to a hotel and booked a single room for him.

Facing Jim's doubts, Su Yun smiled and said, "Everyone has bad times. We Chinese have a saying that goes 'When we meet, we are destined to meet'. This is my way of thanking you for your previous explanation."

After much persuasion, Su Yun managed to coax the homeless teenager into a quiet room. Although she had previously agreed with Zha Lan to do a "test", the situation had changed. Before she could figure out everything, she would not go back to Zha Lan's house full of dogs.

The next day, before Su Yun took the initiative to look for him, Jim had already knocked on the door and invited her out for lunch.

"Where did you get the money?" Su Yun asked curiously.

"I went to find my friends. They had given up the room and were about to run away, so I asked for back part of the rent I had paid for them." He went back to the slum house early this morning to inquire about the news, only to run into the two brothers who had cheated him and were about to run away.

He had carried a lot of money with him when he ran away from home. After arriving in Paris, he naively helped his friend's brother pay the rent that he owed for several months. At that time, he just felt that he was asking for help and since he was his friend's brother, he didn't care - now that they had fallen out, he naturally had to get the money back.

Hearing that Su Yun was here for vacation, Jim felt that he needed to repay Su Yun for her previous help, so he took the initiative to act as a "tour guide": although it was his first time in Paris, he had been here for more than two months and was definitely more familiar with the place than Su Yun, who had just arrived.

The two of them traveled to all the famous places of interest and scenic spots in Paris within a few days. Along the way, their mood seemed to be broadened a lot with the historical sedimentation and natural vitality.

While sitting on a grassy field in the countryside for a picnic, Jim suddenly asked, "Why are you here?"

The previous reason for the vacation had already begun to seem a bit strange during these days of getting along. Jim, who had realized that he had told all his information to this new friend, began to want to know more about this new friend.

"To be precise, I came here to relax because there are some things I can't figure out." Su Yun looked at the distant skyline. The green of the grass and the blue of the sky complemented each other. It was a highly saturated color combination, but because of this natural vitality, it made people feel that their mood seemed to brighten with such a picture.

After hearing Su Yun's confession, Jim immediately relaxed a lot. He simply lay down on the grass, looked at the changes in the blue sky and white clouds, and whispered his plan to go home.

"Aren't you going to pursue your acting dream anymore?" Su Yun glanced at him.

"Of course I am pursuing it, but after this experience, I know I can't fight a battle I'm not prepared for, so I plan to go home and talk to my parents about it and ask them to support me..." Jim explained ramblingly, "Just wait and see, I will definitely become an outstanding actor in the future!"

"By the way, your appearance is not inferior to mine, so do you want to act in a movie?"

Su Yun looked up at the sky and said, "Actually, I'm already filming a movie."

"Oh... then there will definitely be opportunities in the future. Don't worry, you have very good conditions." Thinking that Su Yun was just a small supporting role who was struggling like himself, Jim quickly added.

"Then we have a deal. See you on the screen in the future." Su Yun smiled slightly.

However, it was this light smile that made Jim a little dazed: the appearance of the person in front of him was so gifted that even without looking at her and smiling, just standing quietly by the side was enough to become an extremely perfect and vivid scene.

And when she looks at you and smiles, her smile is brighter than the weather at that moment.

In the bright spring sunshine, the fifteen-year-old boy lowered his eyes slightly, hiding the complex and obscure green in his eyes: Sometimes, meeting is so wonderful that even if you know that it will be difficult for both parties to meet again in the future, you will still be nostalgic for many years because of the heart-throb at that moment.

Of course, for a young man who has already decided on his next step, this unexpected meeting is ultimately just an encounter without an ending.

After returning home, Jim, who had experienced a growth disaster in Paris, dug out his favorite movie "The Rooftop Postman" and put it in the DVD player to watch.

At first, he was attracted by the packaging of the disc: the cover showed a man running with hope in the sunset, while the back cover showed a man sitting quietly with nowhere to escape in the dark blue night. The plot of the movie was also unique, with the intersection of several lines creating a story in which everyone was working hard, but no one had a good ending.

After all, he was at an age when his mind was extremely active and he was always trying to come up with new words to express his sorrow. To a young literary man of this age, this plot, which threw all his efforts into oblivion in the end, was simply a death sentence.

However, after returning to Paris, Jim lost the pretentiousness brought by his previous stable life and experienced the life of the underworld himself. When he read this story again, his feelings were completely different from before.

This time, what he saw was no longer the intricate conspiracy, the inevitable betrayal and the unexpressible love; on the contrary, those places that he had never noticed before, now seemed to him to reveal the silent cruelty of sucking the marrow out of people's bones.

Poverty, backwardness, struggle, negative and positive responses to disasters, and the fateful cycle of reincarnation... His focus is no longer limited to the superficial fate of the characters, but he has a deeper understanding of the dilemma that people can only be pushed forward helplessly under the promotion of the times and social forms.

What you consider to be hell may be someone else's heaven.

It was not until he experienced and saw it with his own eyes that he understood the true meaning of the words on the poster and the horror and profound implication of the story.

After watching the movie again and taking the disc out of the DVD player, Jim suddenly remembered the eyes of the heroine in the movie, which were filled with complex emotions.

Obviously, the two people are so different, but for some reason, while watching the movie, he always substituted the heroine of this movie for the beautiful girl he met in Paris.

But there is such a big difference between the two, especially the color of their eyes: the movie heroine has typical Chinese brown eyes, while the beautiful girl he met in Paris has a pair of stunning purple eyes comparable to Elizabeth Taylor...

"What are you thinking about?" His father Giacomo pushed the door open and saw his child, who always looked depressed and lonely, immersed in his own world again. He couldn't help but ask softly.

"Oh... I was just thinking that the makeup in movies is really amazing. They can create such realistic burn scars..." Jim responded in a trance.

"The technology is very advanced now, and as an art of light and shadow, movies can often use people's illusions to create miracles of light and shadow." Giacomo chuckled. "Of course, apart from the creative ideas of the actors and staff, the progress of related technologies is also very great. For example, there is a lady named Mary Sue in Hong Kong, China. She and Johnson have developed a kind of colored contact lenses that can change the color of human pupils."

"Can you change the color of a person's pupils?!" Jim was stunned.

"Yes, in fact, this invention is not very helpful to Eastern actors except for patients. On the contrary, it is very helpful to us Western actors." Giacomo recalled, "Many times, when competing for movie roles adapted from famous literary masterpieces, actors are often politely dissuaded because their eye color does not match the description in the book. For example, one of my old friends, Alain Delon, had successfully auditioned for Lawrence of Arabia, but was replaced in the end because of his eye color. Lawrence of Arabia later became a global hit, what a pity..."

"What's wrong with you?" Seeing Jim's strange expression, Giacomo, as a father, asked with concern.

"Nothing... I just seem to have suddenly figured out some things." Jim shook his head and forced a smile to show that he was fine.

Seeing his father going to the stairs, Jim thought for a moment and finally couldn't help but ask, "Dad, do you know a young actress named 'Mary'? She has a pair of beautiful purple eyes..."

"Aren't you watching her movie?" Giacomo looked back at him curiously, and then said, "Besides, she is also a friend of Alain Delon, the friend I mentioned earlier. When you ran away from home to Paris, I asked Mr. Delon to help me and asked him to ask Miss Marie Sue, who was on vacation in Paris, to comfort you..."

"You are of the same age, and Miss Su is not only an actress, but also an excellent new director."

"I know you really like her movie The Postman, so I used my connections to introduce you to her..." Although it seems that Marie Sue didn't like her son enough to bring him to Hollywood, Giacomo was not surprised: Jim has always liked art films, while Marie Sue's works are mostly commercial films, and the styles are not very compatible.

The reason why he still sent his son to Marie Sue was because of the rumor that Marie Sue liked to promote newcomers with good looks. At present, whether in the European film industry, Hollywood or other places, the younger the male actor is, the smaller the chances are.

If your son wants to pursue his dream, as a father, you can only give him a helping hand - whether the outcome is what he wants or something else depends on his luck.

Unfortunately, the outcome this time was not what my son wanted, so he had no choice but to go home.

Seeing Jim's dazed look, Giacomo advised him again: "Don't worry, it's hard for newcomers to make a name for themselves in this circle. You are still young, and your mother and I will no longer stop your interest in acting like we did before. We will support you in learning these skills..."

"When you grow up a little more and your skills meet the requirements, you will definitely find an opportunity to act..."

"Yeah, I see." Jim responded vigorously, which scared Giacomo a little: When did his son with a weird temper become so easy to talk to?

"Because I have an appointment with someone, and we will see each other on the screen in the future." Seeing the expression in his father's eyes, Jim raised the corners of his mouth.

At this moment, he did not expect that the next time they would meet would not be on the screen, but on the set.

As his performance experience grew, Jim, who had become somewhat famous, suddenly received an invitation from China one day.

However, Jim, who was invited to come to mainland China to shoot a large-scale costume fantasy myth film "Kyushu Past", was undoubtedly dazed for a moment after seeing his old friend sitting in the director's chair.

Su Yun stood up gracefully and extended her hand to him in a friendly manner: "Welcome, actor of Rome, I am the personification of China, 'Zhong Yao'."

"And the story you are invited to star in is the first in the series 'Kyushu Past', with the subtitle: Old Dreams on the Silk Road."