Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion

Chapter 115 Script Invitation

 “Link, you wrote these four songs?”

At Link Music Office, producer Graeme Goodall looked at Link in surprise when he saw the sheet music and lyrics in his hand.

"what do you think?"

"It's very good, especially this song "Chasing The Sun", which is very consistent with all the elements of popular songs in the current market. I can guarantee that the sales performance after it is released will not be worse than the sales of first-line singers' albums."

Graeme slapped the table and said excitedly.

 “How about this song “Neversaynever”?”

Link asked, pointing to the second song. This song was written and composed by rapper Travis Garland and sung by Justin Bieber. The phrase 'Neversaynever' became popular around the world after 2010. It's very popular and a hit song that can make people's ears tingle.

Graeme hummed a few lines according to the music score and shook his head, "The music style is a bit lively, and I feel it is not suitable for you. 伱 is more suitable for lyrical genres, song and dance genres, and rhythm and blues."

Link looked at Graeme and couldn't help but admire him. He could judge the style of the song based on just a few tunes. He was indeed very accomplished in music.

 “Take this one off?”

“No need, this song is also in line with the current popular trends. You can make some adjustments during recording, and maybe the effect will be good.”

Graeme looked at the score and said.

Link nodded. This song is relatively popular and is one of the songs in his music library that he remembers clearly. It shouldn't be a pity.

 “Graeme, how’s the song collection going?”

"I received more than a hundred songs, but the quality was not very good. I found a few old friends and asked them to tailor a few songs for you according to your style. I already have two songs, and there are still six more to go. It will almost be available by the end of the year.”

Graeme scratched his messy hair and said.

Link has no objection either.

The two are discussing his debut album.

After the single became a hit, it was natural to strike while the iron was hot and release his first album to expand his influence in the music scene.

The first release is themed "Inspirational" and plans to arrange 12 songs. There are relatively few such songs in Link's song library, and he can't put them all out at once, so he needs to spend money to book songs and let the musicians follow his instructions. His style tailor-made songs for him.

This kind of thing is very common in the music industry. Almost all popular singers have one or more creative teams behind them to create songs in line with the current market conditions according to their style.

 When releasing the song, add the singer's name to the composer and lyricist information to indicate that it was created by the singer, and to establish a label for the singer as being both good at singing and writing to attract fans to pay.

It is also true that singers affiliated with record companies are not eligible to obtain the copyright of songs.

Link’s situation is different from theirs. Link Music pays for the songs, and the creative copyright belongs to the company. Link is the major shareholder of Link Music, so he naturally does not have to worry about copyright disputes.

Link took a look at the two newly collected songs and found that there was nothing wrong with them. There were no familiar lyrics or tunes, so he didn’t comment much.

  —

 “Link, where are you going?”

 Leaving the company, Link walked into the business car, and Ms. Mandy asked.

Link looked at his watch, it was 11:30 in the morning, "Go to the boxing ring, you can still train for a few hours."

Ms. Mandy nodded, told the driver, took out a script and handed it to Link.

"This is from Simon. Someone sent the script to Dynasty Promotions and asked you to try out the role of the male protagonist. After Simon read the script, he thought you might be interested."

Link took the script and turned it over.

 After he became famous, there were many scripts that invited him to play supporting roles, mostly as killers, bodyguards, and policemen in commercial films, hoping to capitalize on his popularity.

 It’s just that those people’s offers were too low, unable to reach the US$1 million originally agreed upon with Simon, and the roles were too perfunctory. None of them were important roles in big productions, so he didn’t take any of them. Now a script for the male protagonist came. He opened it curiously and looked at it. The name of the script was "The Fighter", which was relatively ordinary, but the content of the script made his eyes light up.

　　The script is adapted from a true story and tells the story of a pair of professional boxer brothers.

The boss was once a boxing star. In 1978, he fought against the former middleweight star boxing champion Sugar Ray Leonard and knocked him out once in the game, becoming a local figure.

 After becoming famous, he became addicted to drugs, his career was ruined, and he was eventually imprisoned, becoming a negative example in HBO's anti-drug documentaries.

The second child is also a boxer. He takes his elder brother as an example and wants to learn from him and compete in the boxing ring. However, due to family reasons, his career is not going well.

Later, with the help of his girlfriend and brother, he returned to the boxing ring and defeated the then IBF flyweight champion Arturo Gatti, who was the most popular figure in the boxing world at that time, and became famous in one fell swoop.

After reading the script, Link found it very interesting. He had seen this movie before, and the translated film on Hong Kong Island was called "Boxing Brothers".

The brother is played by Christian Bale, an actor with very superb acting skills who has starred in "Batman Begins", "The Prestige", "The Thirteen Girls", etc.

Since the character he plays in the film is a drug addict with a thin figure, he lost 30 pounds before filming. Like Jia Ling, he is also a famous weight loss expert in the industry.

 The younger brother is played by Mark Wahlberg, who is also a famous actor, and the heroine is Amy Adams, who has starred in "Cat and Mouse" and "Junebug" and has been nominated for an Oscar for supporting actress. She is also a famous actor.

This film received multiple Oscar nominations at the 2010 Oscars, and Christian Bale also won the Best Supporting Actor Award for this film.

 The script is very good and the character is suitable, but Link is a little unsure whether he can take on the role of the younger brother.

This role is quite difficult, and it has to be played opposite Christian Bale, Amy Adams and others.

With the support of his opponents, he was worried that he would become the shortest board in the crew and suffer a critical blow from public opinion.

 But after hesitation, he chose to try again.

Stephen Herrick told him about the reverse plank theory when filming "Blue Sea 2". According to him, commercial films do not have high requirements for actors, while directors of artistic film crews will ask each actor to produce Best show ever.

 This movie has received multiple Oscar nominations, which shows that the quality is very good.

 Acting in this kind of crew, even if your performance is not good, you can improve your acting skills to a certain extent.

Link decided to accept this challenge and asked Mandy to contact the director of the show, who he needed to talk to.

“Link, will you be overwhelmed with so much work?”

Ms. Mandy put away her script and asked.

"It doesn't matter. After the fight with Tyson, there will be no matches scheduled for the first half of next year. You can use this time to film."

Link thought for a moment and said.

 The WBO-IBF super middleweight championship is still being held, the WBC championship has not yet started, the unification of the gold belts of the four major organizations will probably have to wait a few months, and the WBA championship challenge will also be after the year.

 You can use this time to expand your reputation and strive to get more than 10 million appearance fees in the next year's competition.

Ms. Mandy nodded, handed him the phone and said: "Taylor just called and said that he was going back to Los Angeles to promote the new album. It will take about two or three days. There was also a message from a contact named Gadot. Do you remember Call them back."

 “Gadot is my friend!”

Link said as he touched his forehead.

 “Understand, don’t worry, I won’t interfere in your private affairs.”

Ms. Mandy blinked and smiled as wickedly as Selena.

Link shook his head, took his cell phone to call Taylor, and sent a message to Gadot.

   Thanks to book friend SwiftVwing for the tip, and I wish you a happy New Year and good luck in the Year of the Dragon.

 (End of this chapter)