Chapter 414: Playing Both Sides
After the New Year, the accumulated work could no longer be postponed, so no matter how reluctant he was, Zhuang Long had to say goodbye to Su Yun and then went north to prepare for the filming of "The Last Emperor".
Su Yun, who stayed in Hong Kong, did not stay for long. After handling some matters, she hurriedly said goodbye to Grandma Su and others, and then took a plane to Japan with Zhao Liying.
The company in Japan is managed by people promoted by my cousin Zhao Liying in the past. Although he flies here to guide the work whenever he is free, it is still not as glorious as when he was in power. As far as the current situation is concerned, it is more about maintaining the status quo than exploring new areas.
To be more strict, the companies here are already in a semi-free state.
After all, this small entertainment company was initially established to facilitate Su Yun's operations in Japan. Apart from the related operations when Su Yun's films were released in Japan, it basically guarded the classic IP of "The Thousand Faces Girl" and invested in some films and TV series that Su Yun approved and confirmed to be feasible, and then obtained certain profit returns.
Although Su Yun actually started her career in Hollywood and Japan, now that she is focusing on Hong Kong and Hollywood, she naturally needs to make some choices in her work focus.
For Su Yun and Zhao, on one side is their hometown of Hong Kong, and on the other side is Hollywood, the center of the global film and television industry. Compared with the relatively exclusive Japanese entertainment industry, these two are obviously more important.
Therefore, ever since Zhao Liying was transferred back to Hong Kong, Su Yun gradually shifted some of her focus on Japan, leaving only the irregular annual inspections and the game production in cooperation with Nintendo, and basically no longer paid too much attention to other miscellaneous matters.
However, the company in Japan still has the trump card of Akina Nakamori. Generally speaking, a skinny camel is still bigger than a horse.
Although Akina Nakamori was reluctant to see Su Yun's focus shift, after working in the circle for so long, she more or less understood the truth that love and interests cannot be achieved at the same time, so she could only work hard to keep the company that brought her out of her dark life.
To be honest, although many large companies wanted to recruit her in recent years, she refused all of them - not only because she was too sentimental, but also the degree of freedom of a small company was something that large companies could not provide.
Although this will to some extent affect the company's scale in terms of resources and exposure, she is no longer a small role that relies entirely on the company's resources, but a jewel in the music industry who can stand on her own and has begun to have many unique ideas of her own. Staying in Zhao Liying and Su Yun's "small" company can satisfy her true desire to make music.
Moreover, this description of "small" is also relative - these days, the Japanese entertainment circles and the Hong Kong entertainment circles have close interactions, and many Japanese artists will go to Hong Kong to make movies and earn money, thereby leveraging the influence of Hong Kong films in Asia to expand their own fame and build momentum for future record sales.
In this way, the "small" company she works for is backed by the Hong Kong Zhao family, a super famous tree in Asia.
It is precisely because of these reasons that Su Yun, an entertainment company that seems to be very low-key and non-competitive in Japan and just honestly guards its current small piece of land, can still stand firm under the double impact of the tide of the times and fierce competition.
This time Su Yun came to promote "Edge of Tomorrow" which will be released on Valentine's Day, February 14. Together with the global hit Tom, these two names and the recent events involving these two names have already made the Japanese people who are obsessed with CP very excited.
I don’t know if it’s because of the Japanese people’s inherent admiration for the strong and some excessive obsession, or maybe they just like those who are indifferent to them. The more Su Yun’s work focus is away from Japan, the more they have a special love for her that creates beauty from distance. Together with the traces of the stunning white moonlight in the past, it has become a kind of admiration that seems like faith...
Especially since the partner who was involved in the scandal with Su Yun this time was Tom, a young rising star from America's daddy country. For a while, the collaboration of this pair who could be described as the princess of the ancient superior country in the past and the rising star of today's superpower directly suppressed Su Yun and Zhuang Long, the "outdated" CP that once made the Japanese people obsessed with them.
That’s right, many CP fans who are obsessed with Genji really think that the “love” between Su Yun and Zhuang Long follows the same route from “Artificial Intelligence” to “Memoirs of a Geisha” and then to “Grave Robbers”. There are all kinds of superpositions of videos and news, plus the special status of the movie “Memoirs of a Geisha” in Japan. Isn’t it that the Japanese who love the subject of cultivation are so crazy that they exclaimed three times, “I finally got the real thing!”
As for this kind of CP party that is almost crazy, Su Yun usually doesn't pay much attention to it unless they do something too weird: it's a double-edged sword, as long as they don't do weird things to hurt others or themselves, then they are the most useful tap water in publicity work.
Because the two protagonists are both very busy people, the schedule for promoting the movie in Japan was very tight, and they had to travel to several places in one day. Su Yun finally waved goodbye to a large group of fans who had turned into screaming chickens, and after closing the car window, she slumped over the backrest of the back seat, using her hands to massage her facial muscles that were about to freeze from laughing and her limbs that were about to fall apart.
In front of others, you appear bright and energetic, but behind others, you appear exhausted and paralyzed.
However, compared to Su Yun, who was able to let her subordinates share some of the work because of her high position, and who was actually taking some time off in the name of delegating power for exercise, Tom, who was in a period of rapid rise, was obviously more tired than her. After the twists and turns of the past few days, he was really like Tom the cat in the cartoon who was tormented by Jerry Mouse, and he almost died on the spot...
"Back to the topic, Dustin called you earlier and asked you to come over to discuss something. What did they talk about?" Su Yun asked curiously, "Is it true that he wanted to talk to you about your last little prank?"
Ever since they returned to Los Angeles after their vacation in Tom's hometown, Su Yun has had little time to contact Tom, who is also overwhelmed by work. When they finally squeezed out some time to have a meal together, it was always in a hurry.
This was undoubtedly a great torture for the young boy who finally got what he wanted but was unable to keep it for long.
The only two things that can comfort him are that he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, proving that he has made some progress in the circle; and the other is that many scripts that interest him have come to him one after another, and not only are the roles they offer challenging, but the money they pay is also quite good.
So after some detailed research with Ovitz, he selected some scripts and started contract negotiations.
After briefly explaining his recent actions to Su Yun, Tom answered the question Su Yun had asked earlier: "It's not because of a prank, but because he recently got a script that he thought was very interesting and challenging. It requires a young actor to play the younger brother of the autistic protagonist, so after screening some young people in the circle, he decided to ask me to play the role."
When he was filming a movie before, he and his partner and friend happened to pass by Dustin Hoffman's house on the street, and then the two young men couldn't control themselves and planned to knock on the door to play a little prank - however, both of them were cowardly but not brave enough, and after discussing it over and over, in the end no one dared to step forward, and they could only leave in shame.
When Su Yun heard this almost joking gossip from Tom, she laughed so hard that she felt that Tom was really a "son" who didn't have the courage to challenge his "father".
Knowing that Su Yun was joking about the old story when he and Dustin played father and son in "Artificial Intelligence", Tom laughed along, but his men took advantage of the situation and got a good revenge from Su Yun. Su Yun slept until noon the next day. After waking up, she beat him up repeatedly to get revenge for making her miss the plan to explore the beautiful mountains that was originally scheduled for the next morning.
Now, the people who played father and son are going to play brothers. I don’t know whether to say that the children have grown up too fast or that Dustin has taken good care of himself, as he still looks the same after ten years.
"Because I have already accepted a movie, I can't accept his invitation for the time being. However, Dustin said that he has no plans to shoot this movie so soon. Firstly, he needs to attract investment, and secondly, he needs to spend some time to get in touch with and observe the lives of autistic patients. So he just came to tell me in advance so that if I am interested, I can reserve a certain time in advance." Tom added.
Su Yun narrowed her eyes when she heard this: "Oh, does he still need investment for this movie? I'll ask Ovitz to contact him then."
"Are you also interested in this kind of subject?" Tom asked curiously.
"Of course. In my company in Hong Kong, there are also many directors who are fond of themes about special groups. Although I spend more time on commercial films with special effects, feature films of this kind are excellent candidates for awards." Su Yun has always known how to distinguish between films that make money and films that win awards.
Unless the script is so good that it can balance the needs of both parties and thus appeal to both types of audiences, Su Yun's films are clearly categorized, with each type of film targeting a corresponding type of target audience group.
After talking for a long time, she felt a little thirsty. Su Yun took the water that Tom handed to her and gulped down a few mouthfuls without any manner, then returned the cup to him.
"What did you put in it? It tastes quite good?" Su Yun couldn't help but ask, feeling the slight sweetness lingering in his mouth.
"I've been preparing to play the role of a bartender recently, so I learned some bartending techniques. Of course, there's no alcohol in it, just some herbs and honey." Facing Su Yun's interested look at this topic, Tom stared at her meaningfully, "The rest... I'll probably have to go back to the room before I can show you."