Chapter 50 Prelude to Battle

The summer in the south seems to always be hot enough to cheer people up. In Zhao's screening room, after watching the sample film of "Seventy-two Tenants" that their company spent a lot of effort to produce this year, Zhao Rifu and Fang Mona couldn't help but smile with satisfaction.

"As expected of Chu Yan, only he can capture this flavor." Zhao Rifu was very confident in this veteran of the Zhao family.

"The cast of artists from 'Happy Tonight' who played the roles of the tenants also performed very well," Fang Mona continued.

With the quality and appeal of "72 Tenants", it would have been able to compete for the box office championship even against the heyday of Chia-Ho, not to mention this year when the two "pillars", one big and one small, both encountered problems.

"Tiger Fights: Revenge of the Dragon" was first released in Hong Kong. I don't know if it was due to the misfortune of its owner, but this film, which Jiahe had high hopes for as the champion of the year, failed miserably at the box office. It is expected that the box office can exceed 3 million when it is released in Hong Kong.

If even Hong Kong, its home base, has failed so badly, then the markets in Europe and America can probably only sigh.

Compared to Jiahe's Fall from the Earth, Zhao's "72 Tenants" has the potential to surpass last year's "Enter the Dragon" which grossed 5.3 million yuan at the annual box office.

Lu Shaolong is still recuperating and has not appeared yet, and Su Yun, who is said to have used post-production special effects to trick Warner Bros. into continuing to invest in the film, is currently filming a new movie and a scandal involving the leading actress has also been reported...

Knowing Jane Fonda's story, it's really a pity that they dared to hire her - maybe the funds were too tight, so they had to take the risk, right?

After all, to use Jane Fonda's words, the inherent topicality of this woman is enough to trick some people who like her and some who hate her into going to the cinema.

It was also thanks to Jiahe that she was willing to give up Su Yun, a promising female lead in the future, to fill the hole left by Lu Shaolong.

However, Su Yun also relies on such a clever image-cutting special effect. If there is no substantial investment in training in the later stage, she will not be able to jump around for long.

If Su Yun wasn't Lu Shaolong's disciple, she would have wanted to wait for Su Yun to come back to Hong Kong after suffering a heavy loss in Hollywood, and then try to take advantage of her: Although Su Yun's character was indeed stubborn before, she has seen so many people recently who don't have her kind of spirit. If she is trained while she is still young, she may become a good chess piece who is obedient and obedient in the future.

In business, there are never permanent opponents.

Even if Su Yun fails at the box office, her experience in Hollywood is still a highlight. Anyway, neither Zhao nor Jiahe have been able to develop their careers in Hollywood. After Su Yun comes back, she will just be able to hone her skills in Zhao and TBB, which is enough for her.

Nowadays, no matter which film company, there are more men than women. There is no shortage of small-time actresses, but what is lacking are female artists like Chen Baoshi and Xiao Fenfen who can hold their own in big scenes.

On the other side of the world, Su Yun, who didn't know she was being targeted again, stared helplessly at Kubrick, who had a lot of demands: he was the one who first proposed the changes, and he was also the one who didn't want to change the original plot in the end. If he wasn't the client's father, she might have just quit and abandoned all the work...

But the idea of ​​selling it separately is a good one.

Unlike Su Yun's surprise and helplessness, Drake, assistant and deputy director, was quite calm about Kubrick's sudden change of mind: "Don't even mention selling the movie in parts. In 1964, Dr. Strangelove and another movie with a similar theme, Nuclear War, were both in the preparation stage. In order to let Dr. Strangelove seize the market opportunity, Mr. Kubrick took the producer of Nuclear War to court on the grounds that the original novel of Dr. Strangelove plagiarized the original novel of Dr. Strangelove..."

"As a result, Nuclear War was delayed for eight months before it could be re-shot, and Dr. Strangelove was a complete success."

Not only this kind of unethical and funny behavior, Drake even told Su Yun about Kubrick's "meticulous calculation" deeds of fearing that weather problems would increase the filming costs when filming the movie, so he specially signed a contract with the producer to state that the additional costs caused by weather problems would not be included in the account.

Su Yun was speechless for a while: No wonder Kubrick allowed the rumor of "abandoning his adopted daughter" to continue to spread, it turned out that he wanted to "save" some publicity costs.

Su Yun had thought of this idea, but...

Turning his head, he glanced at Jane Fonda, whose condition had been getting worse and worse recently. She was asked to start over again and again by Kubrick. She looked haggard, and there was no trace of the tired look she had when he talked to her before, but there was still light in her eyes.

The scenes shot recently are all about the little robot's initial awakening and its "honeymoon period" with its adoptive mother. Logically speaking, for a mother who lacks time to accompany her child, her acting skills should not have dropped to the point where the director frowned.

But now, in order to force Jane Fonda to cheer up, Kubrick began to treat her with the same tyrannical way he used to treat Su Yun.

Is it because of family reasons?

Jian Fangda went back home a few days ago, and he seemed to be a different person since then.

Thinking of this, Su Yun closed the book in her hand: This book was written by Jane Fonda's current husband Hayden. Although the ideas in the book are too idealistic and extreme, they are not entirely wrong.

The problem is that the sales of this book are very poor. Compared with Jane Fonda's bodybuilding tutorial book, which is in short supply, this book is the one that Zhuang Long took her to search for a long time in the slow-selling bookshelf...

Jane Fonda still worships her husband like an idol, and Hayden is busy running around for speaking engagements. For now, this gap is not enough to affect their relationship.

So, what exactly caused Jane Fonda's condition level to drop so drastically?

As Jane Fonda's performance got worse and worse, Kubrick's temper during the filming became more and more like a sun about to explode, making all the staff on the set tremble and dare not breathe...

Of course, adjectives such as irritable, willful, and having a weird temper are all one-sided ideas of people who are not familiar with him.

During filming, Kubrick is a tyrant on the set who is as fierce as the scorching sun; but in daily life, he is the moonlight in the quiet night that comforts people's souls in a warm and distant way.

"Someone is secretly targeting us." In the cabin, Kubrick said with certainty, "Some people in this world are so self-righteous."

After talking about those war-crazed lunatics and those idiots who would secretly attack those whom Tiemian disliked, Kubrick threw up his hands with a dark face in the face of everyone's sudden realization: "That's why I don't want to come back."

"Because you never know how bright and beautiful the skin of those people with dark hearts is."

"I took advantage of the break in filming to sneak a peek at the contents of that strange diary..." In fact, I used the system's cheat code to quickly flip through the pages and scan the contents back to study them slowly. "That diary is the diary of Jane's mother, Frances Seymour, when she was in the mental hospital."

"Jane never liked her and thought she had abandoned her and her siblings." Her father was a playboy who didn't care about the family, and her mother was a mentally ill woman obsessed with plastic surgery and pursuing beauty. How good could her childhood memories be?

But in fact, Jane Fonda's mother Frances also had a tragic life experience: she was sexually assaulted in her childhood and had an unhappy marriage. She suffered from mental illness in the midst of pain and despair, and finally chose to commit suicide because she could not bear it.

"There is an old saying in our country that the person who tied the bell must be the one to untie it." After hearing this, Lin Jingying said.

After Su Yun and Zhuang Long translated the meaning, Kubrick nodded and said, "Lin is right. So what are you going to do?"

"I will keep Jane company while they search the mental hospital to see if there is anything else that can be used." Su Yun replied.

They acted immediately and divided the troops into two groups in just one night and one morning. After Su Yun received the hidden paper from Zhuang Long, Kubrick quickly arranged a scene to show the "deep love between mother and daughter".

When her biological son Martin has not yet woken up and returned home, the little robot can sleep in a beautiful little bed, and her foster mother Monica will gently tell her a bedtime story - even though the robot does not need to sleep at all.

But at this time, in Monica's eyes, the little robot is just a "child".

Su Yun blinked her eyes and looked at Jane Fonda, who looked a little haggard: she had played the role of abandoning the little robot so well that Jane Fonda was immersed in the play, recalling the pain of being abandoned by her mother when she was a child.

Plus, some people are secretly helping...

The psychological shadow brought by the original family will accompany the "child" throughout his life.

"If, if I could be as brave as 'you', would she not have left so suddenly?" Jane Fonda looked at Su Yun and murmured, considering Su Yun's extraordinary performance and Kubrick's deliberate preference for a hypnotic setting.

The little robot in the story is willing to go through countless dangers for his mother, just to become her real child.

And she herself - after accidentally learning the truth that her mother's childhood was also abandoned and hurt like her own, and that she became addicted to plastic surgery and tried to please everyone as an adult...

Those years when she hated her mother for abandoning her so early, now that she has grown up, she has become another "mother" - recalling the hatred she had for so many years from her childhood to the time she learned the truth, she feels ashamed.

She hated her mother's irresponsible departure which left her with a painful childhood, but she did not realize that it was also due to her naivety and cruelty to herself at that time. Her "hatred" for her mother created a force that pushed and intensified the situation.

After her mother was admitted to the hospital, she and her brother were sent to boarding school. She did not want to visit her mother during the rare holidays, but would send a Christmas gift every year under the urging of her teacher.

The mother did not reply, and she and her brother became more and more lazy, and paid less attention to the gifts each time.

She has been living by drawing "love" from others, so when faced with someone who doesn't love her, she doesn't want to pay any attention to them and even wants to distance herself from them.

If we had been able to show selfless love like the little robot, wouldn’t things be completely different now?

"Adults always think they can protect children like a knight protects a king, but they don't know that at certain times, children are also adults' knights." Su Yun shook her head, "You did a good job at that time."

Adults can collapse in an instant, and mental illness can also have an impact. Who can be persuaded and who cannot have actually already been determined.

Jane Fonda felt that she was living by drawing "love" from others. In fact, while she was drawing love, she was also constantly outputting more "love" in response.

"I don't know what rumors you have heard, but I have something to give you." Su Yun said, and stuffed the small item that Zhuang Long and Lin Jingying had secretly searched for in the old site of the mental hospital room into her hand.

Jane Fonda's eyes widened when she saw what was in her hand.

In the diary she got, there was indeed a page torn out.

The diary contained a record of her mother's life's misfortunes, but the missing page was filled with a small list written in a crooked hand.

On it is a list of gifts that Jane Fonda and her brother Peter Fonda sent to their mother every year when they were children, from insignificant little things like "Peter called Mom for the first time in a letter", "Jane sent a warm scarf", "Peter sent a pair of gloves", "Jane's handmade cookies", "Peter sent candies", all were recorded in detail on this piece of paper.

The last sentence in the crooked handwriting, which showed how hard the writer struggled to fight the disease, was "For them, I want to get better as soon as possible..."

If the accident hadn't happened before tomorrow, perhaps everything would have been different.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry..." Holding Su Yun's small body, Jane Fonda seemed to have overlapped the roles of her childhood self and her deceased mother, and tears flowed like rain.

Perhaps the most difficult thing for a person to reconcile is with his past self.

But the warmth of a mother is the eternal home that everyone can never give up in their dreams.

"Mr. Kubrick, we're almost ready. Do you want to continue shooting?" Drake asked weakly.

"Of course we should take pictures, but not now." Kubrick waved his hand. "Have someone prepare two cups of hot cocoa for them."

"Next, we have to prepare for a battle." These real reasons that have caused problems for the crew and actors should have been confronted head-on long ago.