Chapter 51 "Spoiler"

Whether a person can get the support of "love" as the confidence in life, the difference is really huge.

Jane Fonda resented her mother mainly because she thought her mother did not love her and her brother, and cruelly abandoned them when they needed her love the most.

Now, knowing that my mother was struggling to fight the disease while still trying her best to use her rare lucid time to record her deep love, all the resentment and hatred from childhood till now have turned into heartache and guilt...

At the same time, you also have to feel proud and honored to receive deep love.

"Are you feeling better?" Su Yun held a cup of hot cocoa and looked up at her.

"Thank you, I really don't know how to thank you..." Jane Fonda looked down at the child beside her who was only a few years older than her daughter, feeling half grateful and half guilty: she, as an adult, should have been the one taking care of Su Yun.

Unexpectedly, although this child looks young, he is actually very strong mentally.

"Because many people love me." Su Yun counted on her fingers and told Jane Fonda the relatives and friends she had in Hong Kong, from Grandma Su who doted on her unconditionally to the Wang family who got along well with her, from the Xu family who loved her very much to Lu Shaolong's family, and all kinds of neighbors in the housing estate who usually gossiped but were very reliable at critical moments...

"You are such a lucky child." Jane Fonda was fascinated and exclaimed sincerely.

"It's not just about luck. The most important thing is to be able to identify by yourself which people are worth associating with and which are not." Su Yun said.

Those beautiful eyes, a mixture of gray, blue and purple, revealed a fusion of a child's innocence and an adult's calm rationality.

Jane Fonda looked at Su Yun quietly: They both had unfortunate childhoods, but because of the love of those around her and her own independence, she became a little angel that even she herself would envy.

Yes, a little angel who is so well-behaved and smart that people can’t help but like her.

Especially when she was interacting with another young actor named Tom, their heads, one black and one gold, leaned against each other to read the script, just like two little cats huddling together - it is said that the young actor named Tom had a strange dyslexia, so Su Yun, as the screenwriter and main antagonist, always paid more attention to him.

"If you were in China and learned Chinese, maybe it wouldn't be so difficult." Seeing Tom having a hard time reading the script, Su Yun, who was helping him, sighed: the problem with dyslexia is that people have different experiences from normal people in terms of reading, comprehension, spelling and writing. According to Tom himself, he has trouble recognizing words, confusing letters, and always feels that words are of different sizes and in reversed order, making it difficult to read. He also has a lot of problems when he finally understands what he reads... It's thanks to him that he has persisted in going to school until today.

Compared to English letters and words, Chinese characters are inherently easier to recognize and do not require strict order to understand the meaning of the characters. Although the Chinese language has been used to a great extent by our ancestors, it is still easy to understand the reading and writing of common characters as long as you can get started.

If it were in the future when technology is much more developed, it would not be a problem to give Tom a few smart reading pens that support the point-to-read function - this mode of reading wherever you point is very suitable as a reading and writing aid for dyslexic patients like Tom.

Unfortunately, it was only the early 1970s. Even though Su Yun roughly knew the corresponding ideas and had the theoretical basis provided by the system, if he wanted to make it, he still lacked the core raw materials and chips.

"When there's a chance in the future, I'll give you a gift that can help you read and write." Looking at the naive Ah Tang now, and thinking about how he will be dissed in various ways in the future because of his religious beliefs, Su Yun felt helpless and couldn't bear it.

Isn't it good to believe in Buddha or Jesus? Just because that messy little sect says it cured his dyslexia, he becomes devoted to it or something... The suffix "sweet" in the attribute can be removed.

Silly and stupid.

However, Su Yun did not show her inner grumbling, so Tom was deeply moved by her words.

But although he was moved, he thought he was self-aware and did not really take Su Yun's words to heart.

Su Yun could see it, but she didn't say anything: before the actual results came out, no matter how much she said, it would be in vain.

It is better to wait quietly and finally come up with results to dazzle everyone's eyes.

There is no way to save Jane Fonda's mother from a mental illness that is still almost unsolvable, but it is really a pity that dyslexia, which can be improved through targeted training and changes in learning strategies, is not handled properly due to the times, resulting in bad consequences.

If she can't be touched, it's fine to just ignore her, but if she is touched, she can help but doesn't. This is definitely not Su Yun's style.

Just like she tried her best to save her master Lu Shaolong, why not help when accidents and problems can be avoided?

Perhaps she was really influenced by Hong Kong and its people, who still had a bit of unbridled chivalry in this era. When encountering things, she no longer had the moral decline and people's hearts were no longer as they used to be in later generations. So she forgot the idea of ​​keeping a distance and protecting herself. Instead, the idea of ​​being kind-hearted and generous, that the first thing that came to her mind was whether she could help, was deeply engraved in her bones.

While the busy filming was going on intensively, Kubrick also contacted some media through Warner and his previous relationship, preparing to take the first step of "clarifying" the rumor that Jane Fonda abandoned her adopted daughter.

The nature of their crew naturally carries the labels of the weak that seem to be easy to bully in this era: women, children, the elderly, Chinese, grassroots workers, those who "abandon" their hometowns...

Therefore, those who have darkness in their hearts will chase after the bloody storm caused by gossip and rumors like a shark smelling blood.

Many times, these bloody rumors also come from the hands of these people.

That's why Kubrick left here: the main reason was that he, a man of worldly wisdom but not worldly wisdom, couldn't stand those people who said one thing and did another.

It's not that he can't afford to offend him, but he doesn't want to waste his time and life by competing with a moron - he could have used that time to prepare and shoot a new movie...

But this time when he came back to shoot a new movie, he was always being bullied. If the tiger doesn't show its might, will these rubbish really think he is the seven cats he raised in the UK? !

"You actually have seven cats?!" Su Yun was very surprised when she heard Kubrick say that he was going to hold a small press conference tomorrow: with so many cats at home, he couldn't stop himself from becoming a cat shoveler halfway through his business. It turned out that Kubrick truly loves movies.

"I've said so much, and you only remember the little thing I said at the end?" Kubrick's face was already showing signs of turning into a tyrant.

"Is there any problem with this? Generally speaking, it's the same no matter who you talk to." Su Yun said as if it was a matter of course.

So Kubrick, who didn't believe Su Yun's evil intentions, actually turned around and found the other three people who were going to attend the event with him tomorrow, and repeated what he had said to Su Yun to Jane Fonda, Zhuang Long and Hoffman.

"You actually have seven cats?!" the three of them said in unison, "If you're filming here, who's going to take care of them?"

Kubrick rolled his eyes with thick dark circles under them. "Don't worry, I left a fifteen-page care guide for you before I came to New Jersey."

Good guys, one cat comes with two pages of care instructions and still has one page left!

Hearing this, Su Yun could almost imagine the speechless feeling of Kubrick's wife and daughters who stayed in England when they received this thick care guide...

The adult world is really scary.

Su Yun, who has a middle-aged and second-year syndrome and always thinks she is still a baby, thought so.

But she is a real baby now, so she should be able to be casual at tomorrow's small press conference, right?

Watching Kubrick instructing the three protagonists on how to respond to questions tomorrow, Su Yun leaned her head on Tom's shoulder, looking like two curious little kittens, using their actions to express the "let me see" expression...

The next day came in a blink of an eye.

Because Kubrick has been keeping the details of his new movie almost airtight, quite a few reporters came today: if it weren't for the news and photos of Jane Fonda abandoning her adopted daughter, it would be difficult for other media people to encounter Kubrick's active spoilers.

Now that you have the chance, hurry up and occupy the front row seats to get the "information"!

However, what Su Yun did not expect was that Jane Fonda's current husband Hayden also came to the reception with their adopted African-American daughter Lulu.

Seeing Hayden stepping forward and attracting most of the reporters' attention, and not forgetting to take care of his wife and comfort his adopted daughter at the same time, combined with his books she had read before, Su Yun finally understood why Jane Fonda liked Hayden.

Hayden's excessive idealism is indeed unrealistic, so when bystanders first saw him in the shabby house, the way he was so focused on reading that he ignored everything else made them very angry.

But in the field of public speaking, this man absolutely shines.

As expected of someone who once interviewed Martin Luther King, his anti-war ideas are correct, and his reservations and respect for the system are also correct, but they are not suitable for Jane Fonda, whose ideas are more inclined towards rebellion and resistance.

Just like the old saying that you can share adversity but not wealth, people with basically incompatible values ​​may come together by chance because of their interactions. Eventually, when conflicts arise and the gap between them becomes larger and larger, the two will inevitably embark on a path of gradually drifting apart.

But not yet.

The main reason why Su Yun was so idle looking at others was probably because those reporters saw her as a little girl with an oriental face and thought that they might not be able to communicate with her in the language and that they could not get any information out of her, so they left her, the "big boss" who knew most of the inside information, on the bench.

So Su Yun calmly watched the reporters asking follow-up questions and the "spoiler" answers they received:

Reporter: "You have invited Jane Fonda and other Asian actors. Are you planning to make a war film like Dr. Strangelove?"

Kubrick: "No, I will not be dealing with war head-on in this film."

Because in the future world in the movie, the war had already ended.

Reporter: "If it's not a war film, then it's mainly about emotions? Will the Chinese guy named John have a rivalry with you?"

Jane Fonda: "This is a film based on 'emotion'. Mr. Zhuang Long is a very good new actor. I am looking forward to working with him."

Of course I'm looking forward to working with them, since their characters have never met each other in the movie.

Reporter: "So who is the little Chinese girl who is suspected to be playing the role of Jian's daughter?"

Dustin Hoffman: "It's her daughter, yes, but I have a son too!"

As he said this, he patted Tom, who was beside him and looked confused by the shock of the scene.

Reporter: "What role do you play?"

After receiving a hint from Kubrick, Zhuang Long told both Kubrick's original character design and Su Yun's character design: "He used to be a soldier, but now he is a gigolo."

Through a series of questions, the reporters, who were highly skilled in brainstorming, automatically integrated the responses they received and pieced together their understanding of the film's plot: Kubrick's new film should be a film about the Vietnam War, so there are two Asian faces in it.

Moreover, it is very likely that the film uses the method of seeing the big from the small to show the cruelty of war through the life of ordinary people: this also explains why Jane Fonda would shoot the plot of abandoning the Chinese girl - probably Jane Fonda's character fell in love with the other soldier and gave birth to a child, but the war made it impossible for the two to be together, so Jane Fonda's character left the battlefield and returned home to marry Hoffman's character, and Zhuang Long's character also became homeless with the end of the war, and finally because of the post-war economic recession, he could only rely on selling sex to make a living...

Although anti-war films of this type are not new, a director of Kubrick's caliber should be able to make a good movie with good ratings.

It happened to be the "good" time when the war ended, no wonder Warner dared to invest in this seemingly risky subject.

Unless something too sudden happens again, even if this movie doesn't make a huge profit at the box office, it will definitely not lose money.

The reporters left with great satisfaction, waving their pens and typing furiously, scrambling to write in their own newspapers and magazines how they had obtained inside information about Kubrick's new anti-war film, codenamed "A1"...

In the evening, after reading the latest issue of newspapers and magazines in the cabin, Su Yun suggested to Kubrick helplessly: "Why don't we not use the abbreviation for the name of this movie..."

Although the term artificial intelligence (AI) has not yet become popular in thousands of households, it is fascinating that all reporters mistook the abbreviation of "AI" as "A1".

"OK, when we publish the poster, we can use the official spelling of the suffix, "AI Artificial Intelligence." Kubrick nodded.

After tricking reporters from all walks of life, it’s time to leak some accurate information - it will be fun if they are “surprised”.

“I wonder what their expressions will be when they find out the true story of this movie?” Kubrick laughed.

However, before Su Yun and his team could prepare for the new surprise, the media had already sent them a surprising news:

"Batman v. Dragon" grossed over 8 million U.S. dollars in North America in its first week!