This star is from the earth

When the alarm clock rang, Nicole closed her eyes and subconsciously pushed the people around her. However, it wasn't until her arms stretched out that she didn't touch anything other than the sheets that Nicole realized that she was divorced, and she had to take care of the children alone.

Fortunately, the child is already in the second grade of elementary school. As a parent, the most difficult period of raising a child has passed.

Nicole turned off the alarm clock, got dressed, brushed her messy hair, and went to the children's room to wake people up. Bedridden people are always racing against the clock and are willing to do anything to get more sleep. After getting a "one more minute" plea from the kids, Nicole then headed to the kitchen to prepare breakfast. Toasted toast, soaked milk, fried eggs and bacon, these are not difficult to prepare. Whenever they are done, Nicole will urge the children to get up. When everything is ready, the child's mind is almost clear.

At the dining table, the child swallowed a big mouthful of toast to drive away sleepiness, and asked hopefully: "Why haven't we gone to Huaxia yet. I heard that there is no need to get up so early to study in Huaxia. I really want to go there soon."

Nicole read the book last night and saw it late at night. At this time, her face was still tired. She said: "Don't think too beautifully. You are not good at Chinese language. When you get there, no matter whether there is class or not, you must get up early. Do some homework."

The child screamed "Ah--", but the sadness in his voice was just pretending. He was full of curiosity and eager to try the country of Huaxia, and he wished to fly to Huaxia immediately today. He was no longer in the mood to study the lessons at the school, but he was very active in the Huaxia language training class after school. The students already knew that he was going to live in Huaxia, and they were all very envious. But in fact, this is not the place that students envy the most.

"Mom, can we see Han Jue often in Huaxia?" The child was full of energy, and the sleepiness on his face was completely gone.

Children have no concept of the difference between actors and directors. Regarding the selection that his mother risked everything to participate in a few months ago, he didn't know what it meant. Until a month ago, my mother's friends and my father's friends came to the house one after another, congratulated my mother with a smile on my face, and said some jokes like don't forget them when I become a big director in the future. The child can't understand [Huomiao] or [American Film and Television Circle]. The only thing he can understand is [Han Jue]. Knowing that his mother was about to become Han Jue's colleague, and even wanted to make a movie under Han Jue's guidance, the child suddenly realized what a great thing his mother had done.

That's Han Jue!

Although he is only in the second grade of elementary school, he is no stranger to Han Jue. In the past, it was common for classmates to be hostile to each other because of the different stars they supported, but since Han Jue became famous in the United States, such things have rarely happened. Han Jue became the forefront of popular culture, everyone was captured by him, and they all became their own people, and there was no quarrel at all. Even if a few students expressed their dislike for Han Jue and contempt for everyone's admiration of beauty and foreignness, others were not angry about it, but pitifully advised that person to "listen to more good music", "don't be so narrow-minded", "nationalism, etc. It will imprison your ability to feel about art"... Higher and lower grades, male and female students, many of them are fans of Han Jue. When the school has a party, there are always several programs in succession, performing Han Jue's dance, singing Han Jue's song, or playing Han Jue's piano music.

Han Jue is as far away from them as a mythical figure. But he can be closer to Han Jue than anyone else.

"Will I be able to see Han Jue in person then?" Seeing that his mother was silent, the child asked again.

"able."

"Will he sign it for me then?"

Nicole took the napkin and wiped her mouth, thought for a while, and nodded: "Yes." Then she asked the child to finish breakfast quickly.

The child cheered, buried his head and quickly finished his breakfast, then ran into the room, put his schoolbag behind his back, and couldn't wait to go to school to reap fresh envious eyes from his friends.

Nicole drove the child to school, and after returning home and clearing away the dinner plates, she made a cup of coffee and went to the study to continue reading the book she hadn't finished last night. The book was recommended by Han Jue a month ago. There are several books. She is reading the last one now.

It was this book list that allowed Nicole to give an affirmative answer to the question of whether the child could meet Han Jue and get his signature.

In the past month, Nicole has seen Han Jue twice. One is the final round of selection, and the other is signing.

On the day of the selection, Han Jue left Nicole with a demonic and terrifying impression, but on the day of signing the contract, Han Jue gave her another feeling.

On the day of signing the contract, a group of them waited nervously for Han Jue. While checking the contract, they carefully threw the questions they had accumulated for a long time to Han Jue. Han Jue answered everyone's doubts one by one. There was no bureaucratic accent or Tai Chi, and all questions were answered positively.

"After arriving in China, how often can I go back to the United States?"

"Your holidays are the same as those of school students. You can arrange the legal holidays by yourself. You can go back to the United States or stay in Huaxia."

"..."

"Who do we want to teach us in Huaxia?"

"When we get there, the training and internship will be carried out together. The lectures will be taught by professors from the Shanghai Film Academy, and some directors will also be found to communicate. The internship is an internship in our [Tinder] crew."

"..."

"If the children go to Huaxia together, how will the school environment be like?"

"The school is a private elementary school with good hardware facilities and teachers, and there are many foreign children in it, which minimizes the possibility of being discriminated against. Of course, the tuition fees will be provided by the company."

"..."

After about twenty minutes the questioning ended.

Most of the questions raised by people have been answered satisfactorily, even if a small number of people asked "When can we start directing our own movies?" "This is not sure, I have the final say on the specific standards." I was dissatisfied with the answer, but there was no room for bargaining, so I finally signed my name.

After signing the contract, Han Jue didn't stay long, bid farewell to everyone and left.

The short twenty minutes actually didn't make Nicole feel that she had drawn closer to Han Jue, and Han Jue's aura was still chilling. But that afternoon, when she got home, she received a call from Han Jue. On the phone, Han Jue talked to her in more detail about her entry about marriage, pointed out her characteristics and advantages as a director, and also pointed out some shortcomings, and finally suggested that if she wanted to make a feature-length debut, she could use This short film expands. The call lasted nearly two hours.

Nicole took Han Jue's advice seriously. After hanging up the phone for a while, Han Jue sent a book list, which included reference books, memoirs of female directors, and some literary works about marriage between the sexes. Obviously, this is Han Jue's personal book list. Nicole was full of gratitude in her heart, and keenly discovered Han Jue's cold outside and hot inside, and gained a more three-dimensional understanding of Han Jue, the "star among the stars".

She didn't think that Han Jue's actions were interesting to her. After all, Zhang Yiman was like a mountain in front of any woman who coveted Han Jue. She didn't think she could shake Zhang Yiman's position, nor did she think People like Han Jue will be emotionally disappointing.

"Jingle jingle jingle—"

The ringing of the phone brought Nicole back from the book to reality.

Nicole frowned. Half of the dissatisfaction was because she was interrupted from reading, and the other half was that she had received a lot of calls during this period, and the conditioned reflex began to feel bored in advance.

After [Huo Miao] was over, the media had already focused on the sixteen people in the first issue, saying that each of them was like the future of the American film and television industry. It's so exaggerated that it's scary. And the crowd was also extremely enthusiastic, like watching a talent show, they each found someone to support.

Nicole is obviously just a potential director with no works, but she already has a lot of fans, and even many insiders have come to her. Some people want to catch up with Han Jue through her, some people want to book roles in her works, and some people are optimistic about her future and want to bet in advance. Before the divorce, Nicole was ready for drastic changes in her life, but she did not expect the direction of the drastic changes to be so dreamy and gratifying. When she signed up for this new director selection program, she actually didn't have much hope for it. She thought that she had nothing to lose since she lost her career and marriage, so she worked hard and finally reaped unexpected results. His career has not yet started, but he has enjoyed the taste of fame in advance. If it weren't for Jennifer's blunt reminder, Nicole would almost lose herself in the false hallucinations.

"Dingling--" Nicole picked up the phone and found that it was Jennifer calling.

Nicole breathed a sigh of relief and connected the phone.

"The passport has been issued, is it convenient for you to get it now?" Jennifer asked Nicole on the phone. Jack and Jennifer are now in a detached position in the United States, and the coffee position is another class. In addition to participating in various activities, they also take time to act as the counselors of [Phase 1] in their spare time and take care of some matters.

Nicole only met Jennifer once, and was briefly explained about going abroad. When I saw Jennifer again, it was all on TV. Nicole thought to herself, if she had been making movies after her debut instead of acting in dramas halfway through, then her popularity and popularity might still not be as good as Jennifer's. With only two movies and one TV series, Jennifer has surpassed the half-life struggle of most actresses in the United States.

Nicole didn't dare to direct Jennifer to run errands, so she said, "Don't bother, I'm free now, just go get it now."

Unexpectedly, Jennifer said: "I have nothing to do now anyway, I'll take it to your house along the way."

Nicole didn't hold back, she hung up the phone after thanking her, and sat on the sofa to take a deep breath. Now that the passport is issued, it means that the days to go to China are just a few days away. Nicole let out a deep breath, a little nervous and a little bit looking forward. She didn't know whether she would conquer the Chinese audience as an American like Jennifer after she got there, or come back disheartened as one of the countless people who were not acclimatized.

Within twenty minutes, Jennifer arrived at Nicole's door. After entering, he handed over his passport and sat down on the sofa, as if he planned to have a meal here.

Seeing Nicole dig out a bunch of takeout orders, pick out one, and call for takeout according to the number on it, Jennifer couldn't help shaking her head and sighing: "It's too old-fashioned."

Nicole finished ordering lunch, hung up the phone, and smiled at Jennifer, "You've only been there for two years." It meant not to act like a foreign guest.

"It only takes one year to experience some good things, and then I will not be used to the bad ones when I go back to the United States." Jennifer's words seem to refer to more than just takeaways.

Nicole heard it, but she didn't have a position to refute it. After all, Jennifer had heard about the injustice at the time, and she had heard about it, and she felt sorry for it.

"However, I was a little surprised when I returned to China this time. The songs I heard recently are a little different from before." Speaking of this, Jennifer's face was a little relieved, as if all the previous anger was just anger. "Making music is the same as making movies. If you don't find your own cultural characteristics and blindly imitate and curry favor, you will always be left behind."

"Let's put it the other way around. It should be that making movies is the same as making music." Nicole corrected her mistake and said, "Music changes first, and movies follow."

"Wrong," Jennifer said, ""Time Traveler" came out before "When Our Stars Shine."

Nicole raised her eyebrows.

Jennifer has already analyzed her own movie layer by layer, and it is effortless to say it now: "The concept of family and love shown in "Time and Space Traveler" is different from the Confucian culture of China. For example, the protagonist wants to let When a child grows up healthy, he has to make up his mind to say goodbye to his father, and he did in the end. In Confucian culture, "filial piety" to the elders is the most important thing. Besides, the hero and heroine decide to get married, and then go to Inform parents. In the culture of our country, the new family formed after children get married is often more important than the original family, so even if the elders don’t like the other half of their children, they actually have no right to interfere too much. But in Confucian culture, Without the permission of the elders, it will be very difficult for children to get married.

The boss moved a foreign story to China, but in fact the core is still an out-and-out core of foreign culture. It is precisely because the boss boldly displayed foreign cultural characteristics and did not overly please Chinese audiences that the movie was successful and the box office exploded. Oh, of course, reliable producer, directing technique, story selling point, narrative rhythm and actor performance are also the reasons for the success of the work. "

Nicole understood. I understand the meaning of [Tinder], I also understand how I should work hard when I make movies in China in the future, and I understand what Han Jue said to her on the phone [the most personal thing is the most creative thing] . Nicole has a little more confidence in her trip to China.

"Ding dong."

The takeaway has arrived.

Nicole paid cash and took home a box of pizza. Jennifer tore off a corner of the pizza, and while eating, told Nicole about her orders, and imparted some experience as a senior:

"Although Boss Jia is a shareholder, he is actually the company's mascot. No one can control him, and he can't control anyone. If he wants to give you advice, you don't listen to a word. If he wants to change your book , you ignore him, if he yells and threatens to fire you, you can tell Producer Xia, Producer Xia will deal with him."

"Supervisor Xia is the head of the company's Big Three and also my idol. You can go to her to solve any problems you have, even some problems outside of work."

"Director Sun is the director who filmed "Mystery of the Internet". He is of a very high level. He is half of Boss Han's teacher. If you have any questions about directing, you can ask him."

"besides……"

"Finally, there is another person named Xiao Zhou in the company, who is Boss Han's big apprentice. He has been by Boss Han's side all the time. You should have seen him. Although he doesn't seem to be very smart, he is very talented and very talented. Comprehensive, capable of editing, directing, filming, editing, and even acting skills. Director Sun said that in addition to screenwriting, Xiao Zhou’s talents in other areas may surpass Boss Han. You [Huo Miao Phase 1] If no one If you can suppress him, he will be the leader of your current period."

Nicole was a little surprised when she heard that at the end. She really didn't expect that the assistant next to Han Jue, who was good-looking but joking with Jarrence and acting silly all over, had such abilities.

Nicole asked: "Does he have any works now?"

"Yes." Jennifer replied, "His short film has already entered the [Golden Bull Awards]."

Nicole rolled her eyes.

Although she was not interested in [Fire 1] leading the army or not, Nicole's fighting spirit was burning at the thought of being represented by such a person in the future.

Nicole asked Jennifer: "When are you going to Huaxia?"

"Get ready." Jennifer said, "It's only two days away."

...

...

two days later.

Nicole was holding the child's hand and walking in the Shanghai Airport, feeling quite refreshed. Take a deep breath, the air is full of the smell of socialist freedom.

The fellow young directors were very excited, some of them were excited, their faces were full of ambition to conquer this place, some of them looked uneasy, listening to the Huaxia language on the radio station, their hearts were full of nostalgia.

The line was moving, and Jack and Jennifer, like the guides of the elderly tour group, told everyone not to leave the line, not to take pictures suddenly, and not to slip away quietly.

While walking, someone in the crowd suddenly shouted: "It's the lady boss!"

Everyone followed the fingers on the shoehorn's face to look over, and found that there was a glamorous image of Zhang Yiman smearing lipstick on the billboard not far away. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time felt a little lost. But the male director cheered up quickly, made a lot of noise, and immediately started the little game of "Looking for the Boss Wife". Because of the airport environment visible to the naked eye, Zhang Yiman can be seen in many places.

Nicole took a casual look, and saw a little farther away, a large screen was silently playing the variety show "All the way with you", in which Zhang Yiman was wearing sportswear and tied with a ponytail, following a group of people in a hurry man playing football. And Zhang Yaohui walked behind like a walk, as if he was loudly cheering for his opponent and commanding on the spot, telling the opposite person to quickly guard against his daughter.

Not to be outdone, the female directors also started playing a small game of finding Han Jue at the airport. It's a pity that Han Jue's number of advertisements is really inferior to that of Zhang Yiman, and he was quickly exhausted.

Nicole walked up to the shoehorn face and asked why they called Zhang Yiman the proprietress.

The shoehorn said that he learned it from Jack. When Jack gave the [induction training] to the male directors, he first emphasized Zhang Yiman's detached status.

Nicole nodded, but had no intention of calling out.

Although the divorce has been several months ago, Nicole still has lingering fears about it. Divorced, her predictions about a relationship are always full of pessimistic uncertainty. After all, you can get divorced even if you are married, let alone two people who are unrestrained in love. The two people in love are the closest comrades-in-arms and the most cordial friends. After marriage, it is different. After marriage, the two are the most tolerant judges, the strictest teachers, and the front row audience in times of distress. Nicole looked at Zhang Yiman, as if seeing herself in the past tense.

Everyone walked while playing games, and quickly got their luggage.

Outside the airport, the bus sent by the company was already waiting for them.

The person who came to pick them up was Jalens, the soul of [Tinder] and also the mascot.

Han Jue went to hold a concert in other places, Xia Yuan went to scout for "Black Mirror", Wang Zhi went to Beijing to deal with "Mystery of the Internet", the three giants were not in the company, and even Director Sun was called to give a lecture at his alma mater In the end, Jarrence had to come forward to receive everyone.

Jalens welcomed everyone loudly in the car, gave them cigarettes enthusiastically, and asked them if they had eaten. It showed [Chinese-style social interaction] in a warm way, as if hoping that they would start adapting to Chinese life from this moment.

The young directors were on the verge of a formidable enemy, and recalled the counselor's training one after another, and gave their own responses. Some people waved their hands and said they didn't know how to smoke, while some brought them to their ears, and some took out the lighters they had prepared in advance, cleverly trying to light a cigarette for Jarrence first.

Jack and Jennifer turned around and looked back in the front row, as if two teachers who watched the students enter the examination room secretly cheered for the students from the bottom of their hearts.

When Jarrence walked over to Nicole to pass cigarettes, Nicole waved her hand and said "no". Jarrence was about to leave, but Nicole's child stopped Jarrence with his hand and said, "Give me one."

Jalens stopped, looked at the child with a serious face, then looked at Nicole next to him, and shouted loudly: "Is this how you teach your child?"

Nicole felt ashamed and quickly apologized, saying that the child should be joking.

Jalens leaned down and stared at the child seriously and seriously through the eyes behind the dark glasses. The child was stared at furiously and was about to apologize. Jalens spoke slowly: "In the future, when you ask for something from a stranger you meet for the first time, first say 'excuse me', then 'please give me something', and finally say 'thank you'. Do you understand? "

The child blinked and replied in a daze, "Got it."

"Now say what you just said again."

"Excuse me, please give me a cigarette, thank you."

Jalens nodded in satisfaction, and generously handed the child a cigarette, as if he planned to light the cigarette for the child.

"Hey! Hey! Hey!" Seeing that the child was about to smoke a cigarette, everyone quickly recovered from their sluggishness and hurriedly stopped Jalens.

Jalens, who was hurriedly pulled away by Jack, didn't know why, and shouted, "What's the matter? What are you trying to do? Let me go!"

Nicole crushed the cigarette in the child's hand, loudly instilled correct values ​​and good habits in the child, and asked the child to stay away from Jalens in the future.

After the quarrel, everyone felt less nervous and more expectant.

Through the car window, everyone felt the magic city at close range. They saw the exquisite public sculptures, the buildings full of heritage and design sense, and the outrageous but unobtrusive costumes of the pedestrians on the street... For the prosperity and vigor hidden in every detail, the young directors of "Huo Miao Phase 1" feel that if they can, they must break out their own world here. They are very confident about it. After all, even people like Jalens have achieved success in China, isn't this the perfect embodiment of the [China Dream]?

The bus stopped at the downstairs of the [Tinder] company.

Everyone got out of the car and followed Jalens to the company with a pilgrimage.

At this time, it was nine o'clock in the morning, which was the time to go to work, and there were many people. However, I don’t know if it’s because of Jalens’ bad reputation, or because a group of foreigners walked over excitedly. The battle was very scary. In short, the employees in the same building who were rushing to work did not dare to stop them and gave way to the elevator. , watching them go up.

[What a face! 】In the elevator, everyone's eyes passed back and forth, and they all felt that [Tinder] was awesome. The calm look on Jalens' face made everyone yearn for [Tinder].

Once you get out of the elevator, you have arrived at the ultimate goal of this trip, 【Tinder Video】.

As soon as you enter the door, the first thing that catches your eyes is a portrait of Zhang Yiman with a nine-square grid. This painting has appeared in "Time and Space Traveler", and everyone did not expect to see it here. Looking at this painting, the male directors understood why Jack first emphasized Zhang Yiman during the [Induction Training].

Jack added that the painting "was here when it opened", and the directors were immediately in awe, and unconsciously shouted at the portrait: "Madam Boss!"

Nicole almost blurted out too. The previous pessimistic thoughts were almost shaken the moment he faced this painting.

Bypassing the portrait and entering the company, everyone saw a busy situation. The company has a lot of space, and it doesn't seem crowded when employees come and go. Many of the staff had faces of foreign origin. These people with different skin and hair colors lived in harmony with the Huaxia staff, which made Nicole and the others feel very at ease.

Passing through the corridor of works, you can see that there are only four huge posters on a large wall for the time being. Everyone walked slowly on the promenade, but their hearts beat fast. Because everyone is imagining that their own works can be posted here in the future.

When they arrived at the office area, everyone visited their future office environment, and then walked to a conference room with the word "Black Mirror" pasted on the door.

"If you do interns in the future, you will intern with this crew." Jalens pushed open the door and led everyone in.

After everyone entered, they looked around curiously.

The conference room is large, but feels cramped. It wasn't their numbers that made the room crowded, but what was already in the room made them feel uncomfortable. The meeting room was divided into several areas, each wall was covered with Han Jue's storyboard manuscripts, the table was covered with materials, the whiteboard was filled with the content of the meeting, and even on the floor, there were several workers who had arrived at the meeting. All night crew.

The directors tiptoed and scattered to various areas, staring at the manuscripts and materials with wide eyes.

Nicole stops in front of an area called "All Your History." She can understand Chinese.

[In the era when everyone is implanted with built-in chips, memory images can be searched at any time... The suspicious lawyer has repeatedly suspected that his wife is still in touch with her ex-boyfriend... He searched the memory of the three for evidence of his wife's infidelity, which finally led to a marriage Broken, his wife broke down and left. 】

Nicole looked at the synopsis of the story, and her heart was suddenly stabbed.

If she hadn't read the date of the material and knew that this story had been written a few months ago, she would have thought that Han Jue had processed her experience into the story in front of her. But Nicole thought about it, and felt that her idea was a bit ridiculous. There are only a few reasons for the breakdown of marriage, and she is just one of thousands of cases.

Jennifer told her before that although "Black Mirror" is a TV series, it is a unit drama with independent stories and different themes and styles. If they want to practice, they can choose the direction that suits them to join the group.

Nicole looked at the other materials of "All Your History" and quickly made a decision in her mind—she planned to practice in this story.

After making the decision, Nicole felt a little more relaxed. But she soon became uncomfortable again. Because when she moved on to the other stories, she found the other stories fascinating too!

[The royal princess was kidnapped, and the only condition for releasing the princess is that the prime minister broadcast live pigs on TV...]

[In the future world, uniformly dressed people only communicate through virtual networks, relying on riding bicycles day after day to earn consumption points for their livelihood...]

[A person wakes up from a coma, loses all memory, and finds that someone is chasing her, and someone is taking pictures of her with a mobile phone...]

[A young man who traveled around the world, in order to earn money for traveling home, he participated in a virtual reality horror game test, and died time and time again from what he feared most in his subconscious...]

【…】

In addition to these selected stories, the stories in the corner that were not selected by Han Jue are also surprisingly wonderful.

The more Nicole looked at it, the more incredible she became. Among these stories, sci-fi is actually only the carrier, and irony is the method. What really explores is the impact of technological development on human society—mostly negative impacts, which ultimately point to thinking about human nature. These thoughts may not be too deep, but they are enough for the general public, or just right.

Nicole has admiration for Han Jue in her heart, and then envy for China's creative environment. These stories are stories that the American film and television industry cannot create or film.

Nicole's thoughts are similar to everyone's. Everyone walked around the room with anticipation, lingering and wanting to participate in every story.

The shoehorn has a miserable face, and he can't read Chinese, so he can only be caught by Jalens. He heard that he has a copy of a police and gangster movie, which is very suitable for him to shoot. , sounds quite powerful, the shoehorn face is very excited.

Everyone was chatting and sharing in the meeting room, and suddenly someone restrained their excitement and shouted: "The lady boss is here!"

There were too many images of Zhang Yiman on the way, so they were stunned for a second before realizing that the proprietress who came this time was a real person, herself.