how i bought the whole world

35. Alfonso's documentary

I always thought that my affair with Clausine would be forgotten in a few days, but it turns out that this is just wishful thinking on my part.

For two months in a row, newspapers and the Internet were raging about this matter. Clausine was already a popular actress, and he used this scandal to defeat actress Claudia.Schiffer and Lili.Donaldson's rumors have created another hype for her. The media has taken the trouble to count her various boyfriends. My face and company are frequently listed in these tabloids, and major entertainment news also get involved. I don't know her Have you tried to contact me, anyway, my public phone is controlled by Brandon, and I have told him not to contact me for any personal calls unless it is urgent.

I expressed my attitude very positively, but Brandon, I don't know if he has a problem with EQ or he doesn't think so at all, he behaved very flatly, he performed the duties of a good secretary well-behaved, other than that Besides, he only cares about his dog named Jude Law.

People are not as good as dogs ==.

In June, cbs TV's prime-time TV series "Cold Case" started broadcasting. Leo Burnett's commercial "Secret Land" appeared in the first two minutes of its broadcast. The screen was in a gloomy and misty forest at the beginning. The branches of the trees cover the entire sky, layer upon layer, so dark that the sun cannot be seen.Suddenly the camera flickered, and a light source like a firefly flashed by. A beautiful woman in a light gauze green dress appeared in front of the camera. She looked around in confusion at first. She saw the flashing light just now, and hurriedly followed that ray of light, her footsteps were light, like a colorful butterfly, stepping over the intertwined rattan branches, towards the depths of the seemingly bottomless forest Walking, with her steps, the picture became colorful, a quiet lake appeared in the middle of the forest, and fairies the size of a palm were flying above it, with transparent wings trembling slightly, they noticed the woman and chirped to ask her Accompanied by her, the woman stopped for a moment, with a look of curiosity and joy on her face, but she didn't stop, and continued to move forward. The elk jumped and ran past her, flowers bloomed all over the ground, and colorful lights surrounded her. In the forest Everything in the forest has changed, it is no longer the menacing and daunting darkness, but a colorful, dreamlike fairyland. The woman is fascinated by this forest, and she wants to know what else is waiting for her inside. After experiencing all kinds of dreamy and wonderful scenes, the woman finally stopped in front of a throne, and she bent down to pick up something, which was a crystal crown, shining with charming light.

The screen stopped abruptly, leaving a line of text, "Discover your secret treasure." Then the logo of the Atlantic website appeared.

Seeing this, I have to admit that Daphne Clausing is indeed an ethereal beauty with a mysterious temperament, and this advertisement is more vivid and brilliant under her interpretation.After the ratings came out this week, the audience rating of "Cold Case" was 13.8%, while the ratings of our advertisement was 12.3%, that is to say, there are tens of millions of cbs TV station users who were waiting to watch "Cold Case" and saw it at the same time Our ad, it has to be said that it was a successful start, and in the following days, as the ratings of "Cold Case" increased, the ratings of our ad also continued to increase.Especially after the major video sites also started broadcasting the advertisement of "Secret Land of Immortals", Atlantic's popularity suddenly rose several steps.

However, there are good and bad. At the same time that Leo Burnett's ad for us was a big success, the scandal between me and Clausine has been rampant again. The enthusiasm for this scandal in the entertainment newspapers has been reduced. , but since June, they suddenly became keen to pay attention to the relationship between me and Clausine. The reporters described the two of us as ambiguous/ambiguous, as if those people had seen me accompany Clausine to the hotel with their own eyes It’s the same as opening a house. If I didn’t know that I would go home on time every day, I would really mistakenly think that the rich fool in the newspaper who is willing to spend a lot of money for a beautiful woman is me.

Alfonso called me.

"Brother, it looks like you have a lot of sex." He said jokingly.Even though he was far away in Los Angeles, Alfonso, who was working in Hollywood, easily knew about the affair between me and Clausine. After all, this is now one of the events that tabloids are accustomed to tracking.

I snorted, "Don't you know that there are two types of people in the world who love to make up things? One is liars, the other is the media, and I happened to be plotted against by the latter."

"It sounds very complaining. Daphne is a great beauty. Are you really not attracted to her?"

"No, she is old enough to be my mother."

My rude words made Alfonso laugh out loud. He knew that I must have been angry and said that, otherwise I would seldom use particularly strong words to comment on a woman.When he had had enough laughing at the other end, he said to me again, "You are so unkind, she is only five or six years older than you, how come you are an old woman who takes advantage of you? ? If you know how to use the advantage of public opinion to contact her a few times, you may have a chance to embrace the beauty."

"I don't need to embrace a beautiful woman." I said, "If Daphne Clausing is willing to clarify our relationship, of course I will be polite to her. But the current situation is that Clausing obviously has a boyfriend, but puts it I used it as a shield to connive at the media's random comments on various occasions... Don't think that I don't know what she is up to, once her contract with wfec expires, I will definitely not add any more topics to her!"

That's right, Clausing actually has another lover, and the opening records or candlelight dinners tracked by the tabloids are all written by that man, and I'm just an innocent person who lay a gun, but I was caught by the media.But Clausine also behaved very strangely. Although there is such a person, she seems to prefer to gossip with me. I think maybe apart from the need to hype the advertisement of "Secret Land Searching for Immortals", I look more male than her. One of the reasons is that friends are more attractive.

Alfonso couldn't help laughing again, and the two of us cursed at those irresponsible media outlets before we dismissed the matter, but in the ensuing chat, I felt that There was something wrong with Alfonso, he obviously wanted to tell me something, but chose not to talk about it in the end, this happened several times, when he changed the subject again poorly, I couldn't help but ask . "What's the matter with you? Alfonso, is there something wrong with you and you want to tell me?"

Alfonso paused and sighed, "William, I may be away from America for a while."

"Leaving?" I didn't know why, "Is it going back to Italy? You didn't live well in Los Angeles, why did you suddenly want to go back to Italy?"

"It's not Italy." Alfonso said, "I'm going to make a documentary in another country. The communication there is not convenient, and I may not be able to contact you in the next year. I'm calling today to say goodbye to you."

I paused for two seconds, and said blankly, "Which country can't even communicate easily? Is it a tropical jungle?"

"It's Iraq," he said.

At that moment, I didn't seem to hear what he said clearly, or the noise from the mobile phone blocked my thoughts, so I froze, "What did you say?"

Only Alfonso's voice continued on the other side. "Iraq, William, I'm going to Iraq. Well, although it's a bit dangerous there, this shooting is a good opportunity. I managed to win it. This opportunity was originally given by another director, but he was so scared. Refused, haha, he is such an idiot. So I told the directors association that I would like to go. The crew has plenty of funds, and there are anti-war organizations sponsoring us, but there is a shortage of personnel, so I have to prepare everything by myself... "

He paused, and pretended to smile relaxedly, "Just pretend I'm going to Hawaii..."

"Are you crazy?!" I interrupted Alfonso loudly. "You are going to Iraq! Do you know how many people escape from Iraq every day?!"

"..." Alfonso was silent for a moment, "Calm down."

I'm so pissed that this guy is telling me to calm down now, in this situation!Even if I don't watch the news, I know how dangerous Iraq is today.There was a lot of bullets and bullets there every day, countless people were in danger, and they lived a life with no tomorrow... Thinking of this, I wish I could fly to Los Angeles immediately and arrest Alfonso, so that he is not allowed to take risks in Iraq.

But Alfonso said to me very seriously, "William, I have to go. This opportunity is very important to me. You don't know what it means to me. Now I finally have the opportunity to direct a work with my own hands. We will shoot Quite a real picture came out. This is a very good documentary. I have made countless preparations for this. I have written a plan. I will go to Karbala first, and then follow the American soldiers there to break out of Baghdad. On the way I will Shooting the local people in the Iraq war, I want to present the real war to the audience, just like Schindler's list, which reflects the cruelty of war from various angles. Developed countries always infringe other countries for their own interests. But this is trampling on human dignity, war should not exist, I want to express this idea, I want people in the New York Film Association to look at me with admiration!"

I listened blankly to what he said.

"I've made an arrangement with the others. I have three guys, a cameraman, two camera assistants, and all four of us will go to Iraq. It's a small number, but we can do things for each other. We'll pretend we're journalists. , that's the best way to keep us safe, we try not to get close to al-Qaeda members, but when we get a chance we talk to the people there..."

can i stop himWatching Alfonso eloquently explain his ideas, I found that I can't do it. I know how much Alfonso wants to be successful, otherwise he would not abandon everything in New York and go to Los Angeles.He has always been a brave and decisive person, and I can't change his determination.But watching my good friend go to such a dangerous place, I feel that I am powerless.

"Will you support me?" Alfonso finally asked cautiously.

I take a deep breath.

"What answer would you like to hear from me, Alfonso?"

"William," he said softly, "please support me."

I closed my eyes, "No matter what you want to do I will always support you, my friend, just like you will always support me."

Alfonso laughed, "Thank you." He said, "That's enough, William."