Chapter 57: Common Problems of the Postal Party

“When the aircraft swept across the sea in the wind, it was the beginning of the end of an era - this is an amazing movie, a movie that is destined to become at least a science fiction classic!”

"No film like it has ever been seen on screen before - that's all I have to say."

"Humans' minds are selfish and fickle, but the love of the program is deep and eternal. The love of the little robot lasted for two thousand years, surpassing the lifespan of the entire human race after the apocalypse. I hope that after this day that she has waited for two thousand years, little Mary, who has received the only love, can see the other side of her beautiful dream while in hibernation."

"It's hard to believe that a co-production can achieve a box office record of 123 million. It has to be said that the old bastard Kubrick has successfully captured the characteristics of young people's love of visual enjoyment and sensational plots, just like he reversed the reputation of "A Clockwork Orange" by relying on the rise of hippie culture..."

"This is an intentional attack on the traditional way of making Hollywood films! The crew used the 'scandal' to gain attention and then clarified it themselves, and added Asian characters with important roles and likable personalities in the name of co-production. Is this squeezing out the living space of our films and actors?!"

"It refreshed the bottom line of special effects movies, using an overly absurd form to show the 'power' of the flood caused by rising sea levels - I couldn't help laughing when I saw that above the sea, there were no two towering buildings where the twin towers that were newly built and put into use this year were. ..."

Su Yun was speechless when she saw this comment: Not to mention that high-rise buildings will bend under the erosion of time and human maintenance and renovation, these two buildings are indeed gone after 9/11 in 2001.

The time point in the movie is still far away in the near future world after 2001.

The original movie was released just in time for the September accident, so the Twin Towers' silhouettes still existed when the aircraft flew over the sea and in the frozen world two thousand years later - just like the Statue of Liberty that sank into the sea with only the hand holding the torch left. It is a lens language that uses iconic buildings to demonstrate certain meanings that can be understood without words.

In Su Yun's past memories, the Twin Towers had already become part of people's memory along with the accident. Therefore, when she created these images, she decisively referred to the later timeline records, creating a New York without the "symbol" of the Twin Towers.

People in this world are always like this, bullying the weak and fearing the strong. Now that you are still unknown, they will make up stories with bad intentions. When you become successful and famous, no matter what you say or do, people will only think that you are a "prophet" with foresight and amazing vision.

During this time, Su Yun, in addition to following the crew to run some agreed promotional activities and helping with behind-the-scenes chores, was most interested in buying newspapers and magazines to read about the movie "Artificial Intelligence". The way she read the reviews in newspapers and magazines was exactly like those gossip enthusiasts in later generations who happily searched for their own information on the Internet...

Everyone likes to gossip and eat melons. Although you can't be an Internet addict now, it's also great to read newspapers, magazines and TV news.

You have to eat your own melon right away to ensure it’s fresh.

Anyway, because of her age, others would give her preferential treatment that adults don’t have, so although Su Yun is the protagonist, her workload is not as heavy as Jane Fonda, Hoffman, Zhuang Long and others, and she can occasionally take time to visit some "friends".

Just like when she and the crew passed through Connecticut, they stopped by to visit Meryl Streep, who dubbed the Blue Fairy special effects animation in the movie. At that time, Meryl Streep was not the "Oscar cancer" that later became, but a beautiful young lady who was working and studying part-time as a graduate student at a drama school.

Because Meryl was also born in New Jersey, and it was summer vacation when "Artificial Intelligence" was being filmed. When recruiting actors to voice the Blue Fairy, Su Yun immediately chose her who was back home for the summer vacation: the reason is of course not only that Meryl also voiced the original movie, but the most important reason is that Meryl, who now chooses to work part-time and study part-time, has a very high cost-effectiveness!

It is better to build relationships with big brands before they become popular so that it will be easier to get a "friendly price" in the future - isn't this one of the advantages of knowing the future?

Moreover, Su Yun is essentially a philatelist who loves collecting stamps. Subconsciously, she has a common problem among standard philatelists: no matter whether the stamps she encounters are good or ugly, she cannot live without them.

Of course, after collecting the mail, you can't just put it away. You have to take it out and let it air out from time to time to keep in touch. Even a warehouse manager can't be underestimated, let alone a super potential stock like Meryl.

Meryl was also very surprised by Su Yun's arrival: at this time, the reason why she participated in the dubbing work of "Artificial Intelligence", a movie that seemed to have nothing special except the director and the actress, was just to earn some tuition fees.

Unexpectedly, a few months later, this movie that seemed to have great potential to be a failure actually broke the box office record set by this year's "American Graffiti" and became a new box office dark horse.

Putting the work record of participating in "Artificial Intelligence" and the box office performance of this movie on the resume is obviously a highlight that can increase acting opportunities.

Moreover, when Su Yun passed by, she ran over with a basket of snacks, came up to her affectionately and said that she missed her - God, do such well-behaved and lovely little angels really exist?

Seeing that Meryl's favor towards her has increased a lot, Su Yun is also very satisfied: Although she was quite envious of the young girls laughing and playing in the front row when she went to the movies with Zhuang Long and Lin Jingying, now the cute little Lolita is the best weapon to win over adults.

Being cute is the greatest weapon that human cubs have against humans.

As long as a good-looking child is not naughty, he or she will definitely be the favorite of the adults.

This is a treatment that they will never get after they become adults - the beauty and cuteness of children will only steal the business of other child stars, and they are not a big threat to adults, so they are treated more preferentially. But even if beautiful girls and beautiful women have no special intentions, others will subconsciously look at them with either covetousness or caution.

As she can still be cute for a few more years at this age, Su Yun naturally plans to make the best use of it.

Now, no matter how close she is to people of the same or opposite sex, she will only receive doting looks; after a few years... with the beauty blessed by the system and the foundation built by her hard work over the years, if she gets close to anyone casually, it may cause some unnecessary misunderstandings.

Because she had made an agreement with the system to do her best for Eastern Hollywood, Su Yun had no intention of falling in love before returning in 1997. Having been single all her life, Su Yun still believes that falling in love is too time-consuming and emotional, and it would be better to focus on her career.

So, when she is nice to someone, she really has no ulterior motive. One reason is because she likes him/her and it is a "maintenance" behavior of stamp collectors. The second reason is that she wants to cultivate a good relationship so that she can make good use of him/her later.

For example, Tom is the big fat sheep of the future - there are too few male stars who are of the same age as her, have a good relationship and whose looks can remain the same for decades. If she takes good care of him, he will be her exclusive supporting actor in co-productions in the future.

Just like her master Lui Shao-lung likes to keep dedicated female supporting roles, who are familiar, easy to work with, and do not need to be found everywhere when performing.

Therefore, Tom, who didn't know that he was positioned as a big fat sheep, was very moved by Su Yunlin's heartwarming behavior of visiting him before returning to China. After receiving a call from his elder sister An, he immediately said that he would tell his teammates that he had something to do tonight and would not play basketball and go home early.

Father Seth and mother Mary were not at home, so Ann was a little overwhelmed when she met Su Yun: At first she thought Su Yun was Tom's new girlfriend, but after a few months, Su Yun had become a big star starring in a movie with a box office of over 100 million yuan...

"That's not necessary, Ann. I'm still the same Mary as before." Su Yun smiled.

This warm smile, like the first time they met, seemed to dispel An's confusion like sunshine. After unconsciously pulling at his sleeves, An took the initiative to open the conversation: "I went to the cinema to watch "Artificial Intelligence", you acted really well!"

"Thank you. Actually, Tom also acted very well." Su Yun said with a smile.

"Oh, he acted pretty well - it made me want to beat him up for bullying 'Mary' like that." Seeing Su Yun laugh out loud because of what she said, Ann described it again with an exaggerated expression, "When our family went to see a movie, Tom was sitting between Cassie and Marian..."

"Cassie is older, and she clenched her fists in anger when she knew we were watching a movie—" Ann couldn't help laughing when she thought of that scene. She patted her second sister Cassie on the shoulder and continued, "As for Marian, she is too young. When she saw Tom's character bullying you, she angrily picked up milk and poured it all over Tom...hahaha!"

From their gloating smiles, it was clear that they were brothers and sisters.

Suddenly there was a scream from outside the door.

Su Yun and Ann turned around and lay on the back of the sofa, and immediately saw the funny scene of Tom, who was returning home with a football, being pinned to the lawn and "whipped" by his youngest sister Marian.

"Hey! Come and help me!" Seeing the three people happily watching the show in the room through the transparent glass floor-to-ceiling window, Tom on the ground hurriedly asked for help.

However, no one paid any attention to him. In order to show that the three of them did not "see" this scene, An took out her latest favorite book and shared it with Su Yun: "Look, this is the most popular novel about the East in our school, "Memoirs of a Geisha". It is said that the author Gao Dun interviewed famous geishas in Japan before writing this story..."

It turns out that foreigners' cultural knowledge of East Asia is not that good, but considering that An was sharing with her with good intentions, Su Yun also started reading: Well, some parts are indeed well written, but for Su Yun, who used to be a 2D otaku and is proficient in Japanese and has some knowledge of Japanese culture, many plots in the book are compiled based on Westerners' curiosity.

Fortunately, the mountains are high and the waters are far away, otherwise if the original author saw this book, he would probably be very angry.

Outside on the lawn, seeing that no one came to stop her from using violence, Marian waved her fists even more vigorously.

Faced with this situation, Tom had no choice but to lie on the ground and let her continue waving her fists: it didn't hurt anyway, and he didn't want to hit his little sister - just let her be.

It was not until Tom's parents returned home that he was rescued from his violent little sister.

After dinner, at the request of Tom's family who were unaware of the situation, Tom "escorted" Su Yun back to the cabin.

"When are you going home?" Tom suddenly asked on the way.

"I'm taking a flight tomorrow morning. It's the end of the year now and I want to go back to Hong Kong to spend the New Year with my family." Su Yun answered casually.

Hearing this, Tom stopped and asked, "Will we... meet again in the future?"

Unlike the future era of the global village, even though we now have means of transportation such as airplanes, the distance between us is halfway around the world. Who can know whether our future self can cross this long distance after the person in our memory is gone?

Su Yun, who knew that with the development of technology, transportation would only get better and better and the distance between people would only get closer and closer, just smiled and said, "It will definitely happen."

"I will definitely come to you to film a movie in the future. Maybe the role I give you next time will be the male lead..."

"How much money do you have on you?" Tom looked over.

"It's quite a lot. What are you going to do..." Su Yuncai took out her wallet, and Tom suddenly snatched the wallet away. Without even looking at it, he took out all the banknotes in the largest compartment based on the feel of the hand.

"This money is your advance payment to me as a deposit for my film remuneration! If you don't come for too long, I will spend all the money!"

Perhaps thinking of the equation "the male lead in the movie needs to be a certain age = Su Yun may not come to the United States for a long time in the future", Tom made a move that he thought was pretty good, and then he ran away without a trace before Su Yun could react...

After pinching the US dollars in the zipper compartment of her wallet, Su Yun, who was left where she was, could only roll her eyes speechlessly at the night sky: This idiot can't even rob money!

I want to see how you can spend all my Hong Kong dollars in this shabby little place where it's hard to even exchange money!