Chapter 95 Another Year
After confirming that Alain Delon was unaware of his mischief, and watching him still speaking to Ovitz in a gentle and kind voice, Su Yun breathed a sigh of relief: The underdeveloped communications really makes people lag behind the world.
Unlike the convenience of later generations where one can surf the Internet with a smartphone and see news from thousands of miles away, in this era when long-distance calls are rare, if one does not get the news at the corresponding time, it seems that one will simply skip the past and focus on the present.
Seriously speaking, Su Yun only started to emerge in Hollywood in late 1973, and then moved to Hong Kong, Japan, and the United States. Even though she won an Oscar for Best Youngest Supporting Actress, many people in the three places still didn't recognize her.
Not to mention Alain Delon, who has basically been staying in Europe and just recently came to Santa Barbara for a visit.
Those who know her are either those who follow entertainment news or like movies, but movies are not as popular as television, and many people miss the release and promotion period of movies. Therefore, this one year or so is really not enough for Su Yun's name to spread all over the world.
While Su Yun was watching the situation, Ovitz avoided Alain Delon's flattery with a bit of embarrassment: "Please, I'm really not the author of this script!"
"Then could you please recommend it to me? I really want to acquire it." Alain Delon's tone became softer.
So Ovitz secretly glanced at Su Yun, and after seeing her nod slightly, he continued, "The author of this script... is her."
Alain Delon looked down suddenly.
The confident look that was originally determined to win had some invisible cracks when he saw Su Yun looking up at him.
"Are you sure you're not kidding me?" Alain Delon asked back.
"Yes, no joke - our Mary is a little genius, her brain is more powerful than her looks." Ovitz decisively praised the first contracted artist under his company.
"Why did you write this?" Alain Delon couldn't help asking.
"There are no movies on the market with people of my age as the main characters, so of course I have to make a living on my own." Su Yun said as if it was a matter of course.
"So what do you mean?" After confirming the author of the script, Alain Delon asked again, although it was a little different from what he had imagined.
"I wrote this movie for myself, don't you understand?" Su Yun asked back.
Hearing this, Alain Delon lowered his head and looked at Su Yun carefully before continuing, "You can play Matilda in this play."
Su Yun shook her head: "I want more than just the role of Matilda. I also want the director, the casting rights for several leading roles, and other things."
"Your request is too high." Alain Delon's face changed a little when he heard Su Yun's high demands for bundled sales. "I can guarantee the box office revenue in Japan."
"I can, too." "Memoirs of a Geisha" is still very popular in Japan. Su Yun, the rising star, really has the momentum to go head-to-head with Alain Delon, who is considered a bit "outdated" in Japan.
Especially since she has so many beautiful women at her disposal, and "Memoirs of a Geisha" has a super high national popularity. Given the national confidence that is ingrained in the Japanese, "Memoirs of a Geisha" has no rivals in Japan!
"But this movie might lose money," Alain Delon added.
"Whatever. It's not like I can't afford to make this movie. Anyway, my recent movies have made a lot of money, and Warner should be willing to invest." Anyway, both sides are looking at the other person's dish. It's not bad to let Kai Tzuhua, who has a lot of money, bear the box office losses...
"I need some time to think about it." Faced with the stubborn Su Yun, Alain Delon finally gave in.
"Okay, I'll come back here in mid-February, and I hope to get your reply then." Su Yun waved goodbye to Alain Delon, then turned to look at Ovitz who was lost in thought.
"What are you thinking about?" Su Yun asked curiously.
"After thinking about the company's development plan and analyzing the script, Alain Delon is a good choice overall," Ovitz replied.
Su Yun waved her hands in disdain: "Come on, he's so expensive - if you add a little more money you can hire Marlon Brando, but unfortunately his image doesn't quite fit the role, so it's hard to hire him."
Yes, that’s right. The reason why Su Yun “made things difficult” for him was that Alain Delon was more expensive than all the male actors she had used before!
A lot more expensive!
Even if you have money, you don't have to spend it like this. Wouldn't it be more cost-effective to use the cheat code to explore the memory and replace it with an actor who is not very famous now but will have good acting skills and many awards in the future?
After all, the goal is to win with less loss.
Unless he was willing to lower the price, she would never consider spending such a huge sum of money to hire this big shot for this film. When Alain Delon found the wrong person to please Ovitz, she took the opportunity to search for his movies in the system, and found that this guy's acting skills were just enough...
And his performance was fluctuating, some times he performed quite well, some times he performed poorly... Never mind, for the sake of his face, let's save some face for him.
The matter of the new movie was put on hold. After telling Ovitz about some other unimportant chores, Su Yun boarded a plane back to Hong Kong again.
There is not much to say about the days after returning to Hong Kong. Apart from the fact that I was finally able to drink Ai Xin soup and eat home-cooked meals, it was also a "leisurely" time with the two brothers Jia Ju and Jia Xiang howling with their guitars.
Now that the Wang family has moved next door, Su Yun's house was renovated on the second and third floors, while retaining the large living room on the first floor, Grandma Su's master bedroom, and the maid's small room.
The three vacant rooms on the second floor were converted into guest rooms, while on the third floor, while Su Yun's room was retained unchanged, the other two rooms were reconnected and renovated into a multi-functional room that can be used for a variety of purposes, including a study, studio, game room, and karaoke room.
Because there was a need to practice singing and playing musical instruments, we paid extra for the walls and floors, and hired someone to add a layer of soundproofing material, which was extremely rare and expensive in that era.
"Why are you practicing such an old song today?" It was a slow song.
Su Yun looked at Wang Jiaju, who was holding Martin D-35 and couldn't let it go, and took the initiative to explain: "Mr. Zheng called me yesterday and said that our school has contacted St. Paul's and asked me to go to St. Paul's classroom tomorrow to take a separate entrance test for me."
Logically speaking, it is winter vacation now, so the early entrance tests have already ended, and the late ones have not yet been held.
The period when Su Yun had time to return home was not a time for formal testing - but she had a lot of glory around her, and her grades were stable. The two combined made her the best among her peers in Hong Kong.
It was rare for such an outstanding student to apply to their school, so St. Paul's finally put aside its status as the top-notch high school. The well-known female principal in the education field, Luo Yiji, gave Su Yun an entrance test specifically to test her current level.
Hong Kong's education sector is truly a breath of fresh air in this era.
Not to mention that in that era when women were respected on the surface but were actually discriminated against in secret, many famous middle and primary schools were headed by women, and they produced a large number of outstanding students; each school also had a different focus, requiring students not to study hard but to pay equal attention to literature and art.
For example, St. Paul's, where Su Yun applied, is one of the middle schools that places great emphasis on music. Its elementary school students are even required to learn a musical instrument from a young age, so when they enter middle school, more than 70% of the students can reach level 7-8 or performance level in almost any instrument.
"Oh, then I understand - Hey, Silly Xiang, turn down the volume tonight, we are going to practice this song with Su Su." Upon hearing that Su Yun was practicing the song for tomorrow's entrance test, Wang Jia immediately called his younger brother Wang Jiaxiang to join them and temporarily changed the plan.
"In the new year, we'll be waiting for your good news!" The two brothers' transfers had already been arranged by their families. Currently, Su Yun was the only one among the three friends who had not found a school, so they both supported and encouraged Su Yun.
"Don't worry, I'm quite confident." Before coming back, Su Yun called and invited Lu Renjia, her former opponent who has now been confirmed to have stable grades and was admitted to the middle school department, to ask for a lot of "real questions". After spending several days and several rounds of practice, Su Yun now has a certain understanding of São Paulo's test questions.
As for the music performance that Saint Paul must have, it goes without saying that the singles she sang based on the movies became popular for a while. Maybe the teachers in the school are not as good as her in this aspect. In the future, they can mainly teach her classic knowledge and insights...
Therefore, Su Yun was not nervous about the academic knowledge test and the music test of St. Paul's, so she naturally continued to pluck the strings calmly.
Early the next morning, Su Yun, who was ready to go, arrived at the gate of St. Paul's Co-educational College in Central under the escort of her family.
After turning around and showing a confident smile to her supportive family, Su Yun walked into the campus alone, holding her guitar.
Because it is vacation time, it is very quiet inside. Occasionally, some teachers who stay on campus or overseas students walk quietly on the floor, which finally brings some movement to the quiet scene.
Winters in the Cantonese region are mostly mild, and it is the flowering season of the regional flower, Bauhinia dahurica. The pink and purple Bauhinia trees planted on the campus emit a fresh and sweet fragrance. Occasionally, a gust of wind blows, and the red flowers fall all over the ground like rain.
The written test did not consist of much content, including Chinese, English, Mathematics and Science. Apart from the fact that I had to convert traditional Chinese characters in my mind, which was a bit difficult, I passed the rest very smoothly.
After the written test, there is the interview. According to Lu Renjia, a senior who worked in the junior high school and witnessed the transfer exam, after passing the interview, the admission rate is actually 100%.
The interview was not like what Su Yun had imagined, a test of knowledge. Instead, the examiner and the candidate chatted about daily life, asking about her interests, activities, and how she balanced work and studies. Su Yun answered all the questions honestly according to the plan.
The examiner wrote down the conversation, and then asked a blond-haired, blue-eyed female teacher to take Su Yun to the classroom next door. Seeing that the classroom was filled with everything from pianos to triangles, Su Yun thought: This should be the final music test.
Feeling the beauty of the fragrance of flowers brought by the wind, Su Yun sat on the wooden bench on the stairs nearby, holding the guitar borrowed from Wang Jiaju, and began to tune and practice.
"You have fifteen minutes to prepare." The female teacher picked up a folder on the table, "I will first deliver this document to the office in the other building."
Su Yun nodded, thanked the teacher, and started practicing alone facing the open classroom door.
There seemed to be a slight strange noise outside.
It was not the wind or the swaying of the flowers, but the subtle sound of people's footsteps and the wheels of suitcases scraping across the ground.
However, the practice time was tight and Su Yun was too lazy to pay attention to them. As long as the person outside had nothing to do with the exam, she would just treat him as a passerby and ignore him.
But even though she was immersed in practice and didn't pay attention, the young man in a white shirt who was passing by with a suitcase outside stopped because of the music.
Having studied music in the United States, Chen Boyang actually recognizes which classic song Su Yun is performing now.
The theme song of the movie "The Graduate", adapted from the old English folk song "Scarborough Fair".
An old song with a tempo so slow that it seems as if time has stopped.
But compared to the sad and graceful tune sung by Simon and Garfunkel in "The Graduate", the chorus of the duet was removed in "The Lonely Girl". After weakening the anti-war sentiment of the song, it was reconstructed into a folk song with a bit of sadness and emptiness.
When the temperature was changing from warm to cold, the bauhinias were in full bloom and the petals were flying all over the sky. She sang in a clear, cool but warm voice.
It was an encounter on a warm winter day that he would never forget.
Unfortunately, before he could do anything, the teacher who had returned had already mercilessly closed the door of the music classroom. When he hurriedly turned to the blinds next to him, he came over and lowered the blinds to cover mode...
"You mean, when you came back to school to look for me and passed by the music classroom, you fell in love at first sight with a schoolgirl who was playing guitar inside?" Hearing this, my old friend Lin Wencong, who was still studying in St. Paul, frowned. "There are so many beautiful foreign girls in the United States, don't you like them?"
"What are you talking about? I'm from Taishan, so of course I like Chinese people!" Chen Boyang quickly refuted this old friend and nemesis whose thinking was so genius.
"Then do you know her name? What's her Chinese name?" Lin Wencong asked again.
"After MISS came back, she closed the doors and windows. The girl was sitting at the time. I couldn't tell her age from her height, but she looked very young. Maybe she was in the 2nd or 3rd year of junior high school?" Chen Boyang recalled and said.
"Okay, I'll try my best to find out for you - as long as you are sure that she is from our school." It was rare for his old friend with such high standards to become a mustard greens in October, Lin Wencong nodded righteously.
At that time, the two classmates, who were less than 17 years old, did not know that the topic they were discussing had actually gone astray due to information asymmetry.
This wonderful little misunderstanding was not revealed until Chen Boyang, according to the information collected by Lin Wencong, followed the St. Paul exchange student team to New York and unexpectedly found a movie theater poster nearby. He then learned that the girl who had been haunting him was actually a famous child star in Hong Kong. He also discovered her real age based on the information...
In a program many years later, Lin Wencong, who had already become a famous genius lyricist in the industry, broke the news and jokingly said that in fact, Danny Chan, the collective first love of a generation of Hong Kong girls, was also brave enough to pursue his schoolmate all the way to the United States - but in the end, for some unknown reason, he came back crying.