Chapter 81 Slipped Away

She was caught red-handed. It would be a lie to say she wasn't panicked - she had just used sweet words to coax the man a few hours ago. Although she didn't promise not to call again, she should at least show an attitude.

Alas, I got so used to making the daily phone call that I forgot about this.

Although Su Yun was still a little annoyed in her heart, she still looked righteous on the surface: "Tom, do you want some water again this time? I remember there are hot and cold water in the kettle in my room."

Compared to the habit of drinking water by pouring a cup from the tap, Su Yun is accustomed to the traditional Chinese practice of boiling water before drinking. She can be regarded as a delicate girl.

"I found that you were not in the room, so I came out to look for you." Although he was still angry, seeing Su Yun's concerned look, Tom had to reply in a calm and muffled voice.

"Then how long have you been standing there?" Su Yun asked again.

"Are you thinking that Tom won't understand anyway, so just fool around?" Tom didn't answer Su Yun's second question directly, but took two steps forward, "I tell you, you should be grateful to your compatriots all over the world - I heard you make a phone call before and wrote down a few words, and then asked the Chinese who run a Chinese restaurant here, and they said that it means good friends."

That resentful look in his eyes was filled with anger and grievance after being deceived time and time again.

Su Yun sighed deeply: "It's not easy to talk here, let's go back to the room and talk."

Tom hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded.

The two of them walked lightly and quietly back to the room. After Su Yun closed the door, she turned back and looked at him calmly: "What are you thinking about? You have to believe me, you have always been my best friend."

"I don't believe it! You always remember that place!" Tom bit his lower lip.

"Come on, everyone in Hong Kong is my family. I remember I told you that there is only my grandma at home, right?" Su Yun touched his forehead.

"Of course I won't force you to talk about your sadness, but when you called, it didn't seem like you were just talking to your grandmother..." The microphone of the hotel's landline phone was quite loud, and Tom caught the occasional leaked sound.

The voice on the other end of the phone was often that of a boy who sounded about his age!

After hearing Tom's aggrieved accusation, Su Yun was really helpless: she never thought that Tom, a naive boy who seemed to have no problem with his looks but actually had a rather low IQ, could be so observant and capture those small details that were not noticed by others.

No wonder this guy would later become a spy in a movie and stay in the role for many years...

"That boy is my good brother - do you understand what good brother means? Even though he and I have different fathers and mothers, our relationship is as good as that of brothers and sisters." Su Yun thought of an explanation, "The houses in Hong Kong are called 'housing estates' and the neighbors nearby are like a big family. He and I grew up together, so he is like my brother."

Seeing Tom's confused look, Su Yun quickly added: "Do you think that I don't value me as a good friend just because you are closer to Ann, Cassie or Marian than I am?"

"My relationship with that boy is the same as your relationship with An and the others." Su Yun blinked her eyes sincerely, "That's why I said you are my best friend, because he is my family."

Tom nodded, not quite understanding. "So, your phone calls every night are equivalent to calling your family to report the situation?"

"That's right. If you don't have enough extra money, I can also pay your phone bill so you can call home." Su Yun's tone became more sincere and affectionate.

Hearing this, Tom's expression finally brightened up: "No need, Seth will pick me up tomorrow."

"So, maybe we won't be able to see each other for a while in the future, why should we get angry with each other over these little things?" Su Yun took advantage of the situation and began to take the initiative.

"I, I'm not!" Tom blushed as he thought of his behavior today, "I just value our friendship! So...so I'm a little nervous..."

In the past, his family would occasionally tease him that he and Su Yun were in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship. But after Su Yun made a lot of money and won awards from filming, his family stopped teasing him about this and instead encouraged him to learn more from Su Yun, the "other people's child".

But... Su Yun is still the same Su Yun, and he doesn't feel that their friendship has changed, but why does everyone think that their relationship has changed?

"That's why I always consider you and your family as my good friends." Facing Tom's doubts, Su Yun sat next to him and patted him comfortingly, "If you become more enthusiastic because I won the award and made money, that's what I would avoid."

"To give an analogy, it's like in school, those powerful people are always surrounded by people who are keen to please them, but these people don't really want to be good to them." Su Yun tried to use the most understandable way to make the analogy.

Tom thought for a moment and said, "I think I understand what you mean."

He also saw those people who followed the school's celebrities. Even when his knee was not injured, there were some people who wanted to join the school wrestling team to please him, the main player of the wrestling team - but after he was accidentally injured, these people disappeared.

A "friend" who comes to you just for the sake of gaining benefits from you is definitely not a true friend.

No wonder Su Yun didn't mind his attitude, but always regarded him as a true friend - thinking of this, the smile on Tom's face gradually widened.

"Alright, alright, stop laughing, it's late, go to bed!" Seeing Tom was about to show her that classic American smile that was about the same size as Zhuang Long's, Su Yun felt depressed: Tom was not like Zhuang Long, who still had the cool and noble temperament to support the situation, so if this naive face with a low IQ smiled so widely, it would be an exaggeration to say that he was mentally retarded...

This kind of grin with a full mouth of teeth showing would become a special filter for prank emoticons in later generations.

I also admire them for being able to laugh on their own without any APP.

After a few minutes of silence, Su Yun, who seemed to be a "good friend", finally secretly used the system camera to take a series of emoticons of Tom laughing like Tom the cat...

When Facebook, Space, Weibo, etc. come out in the future, their dark history that they cannot bear to look back on will be revealed to the world one by one.

This way, everyone can know that these big stars who are so glamorous on the stage actually have a down-to-earth side.

That would be great - Su Yun, the best friend who opened the black history chapter of the philatelic classification, was thinking with a sense of disgust.

The next day, after seeing Tom off, Su Yun followed Spielberg again and plunged into the intense filming work.

It's funny to say that Spielberg, who has filmed the deep-sea nightmares of generations, is actually a landlubber who doesn't like water. If he gets wet while fiddling with the model, he will work as hard as he can, just to get a break as soon as possible and get a towel to wipe off the water on his body.

However, it was this landlubber who filmed his fear of water to scare the whole world, and with this phenomenal movie, made many people have a psychological shadow on swimming in the beach.

There is really nothing that can compare to the expression and transmission of ideas through art forms such as text and images.

At this moment, Su Yun suddenly understood why Mr. Zhou, who was undoubtedly regarded as a "cancer of textbooks" for many years in the minds of later generations of students, gave up medicine to pursue literature.

The path she is taking now is actually somewhat similar: it’s just that she transforms those sharp words into colorful images.

From actor to director, and then from director to producer, I have made the progress step by step.

Then, she conveys the ideas she wants to convey to others in her own way, allowing people to see some stories and ideas in the stories she tells.

For example, the family relationships and land development in "The Perfect Match", the relationship between people and technology in "Artificial Intelligence", and the persistence for dreams and inheritance in "Memoirs of a Geisha"...

A good story is one that gives people different interpretations every time they watch it.

Su Yun knows her current situation, so she does not seek the kind of profound art film that would haunt people for years; instead, she only seeks a commercial film with a touch of artistry that can convey the most understandable ideas.

Who says that something that even children can understand is not art? It is precisely because we learned about light and the stories constructed by all the beautiful thoughts in the world during our ignorant years that we have the most sincere wishes and dreams, hoping to become the person we wanted to be when we were children in the future.

Therefore, her idea of ​​not aspiring to be a "Li Bai" but only wanting to be a "Bai Juyi" is completely consistent with Spielberg's, who has chosen the most moderate and practical path of combining business and art.

Even closer than her original teacher, Kubrick.

Because of these reasons, Spielberg, who had a capable assistant, became more and more adept during the filming. By mid-July, the material for the entire film had basically been shot.

After filming the ending footage of the shark being blown to death, the entire film was officially completed and the wrap-up ceremony could be held.

On a hot summer night, Spielberg, who was a little sleepless because the filming of his movie was about to be completed, was walking through the corridor when he suddenly heard faint voices coming from the crew's room.

"We've agreed that after we finish shooting tomorrow, we'll capture the director and throw him into the sea to celebrate!"

Spielberg, who was eavesdropping outside, was so frightened that he immediately leaned back tactically, and almost hit his typical Jewish big nose against the wall.

So, early the next morning, when the crew had packed up and were ready to start work, they only found a note left by Spielberg in the room.

In the note, Spielberg used simple but sincere words to tell everyone the reason why he left overnight: in order to complete the post-production of the film as soon as possible, he had returned to the Los Angeles studio last night; as for the shooting of the ending footage of the shark being blown to death, it would be handed over to the second filming unit.

Su Yun and the assistant directors and assistant directors of the second production unit stared at the note, speechless: Wouldn't it be nice to go to the sea to cool off on such a hot day? With so many good swimmers around, why would this landlubber have to rush to the point of packing up his suitcase and running away overnight?

Many years later, when the interviewer asked her when she started to think about changing from an actor to a director, Su Yun would always bring up Spielberg, who had run away overnight, and tease him: "It was because of a certain irresponsible old kid that I had to start the transition from actor to director too early!"