Chapter two hundred and sixty-eight. [Who competes with]
That morning, Yi Feiyang led the crew into this familiar yet unfamiliar black neighborhood.
Far away, I saw a black father and a large group of people waiting anxiously not far ahead.
Yi Feiyang didn't dare to make excuses, so he immediately got out of the car and walked up to greet the black dad and his group: "Hey, are you all okay?"
As soon as they heard what Yi Feiyang said, everyone was inexplicably excited. Look, dear Yi Feiyang has not forgotten us. Yes, he has not forgotten us.
"Tom, you seem to have gained a lot of weight. Haha, you used to be a skinny monkey!"
"Jim, what happened to the scars on your face? Are you being bullied by your wife again?"
"Ha, little Peter, you've grown a lot taller, you've almost caught up with me!"
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When Yi Feiyang sees someone, he calls them by name and talks to them cordially.
People who were originally excited now became moved.
Tom, Jim and others gathered around Yi Feiyang, their eyes almost wet, "Yi, you are back, you are finally back! Haha, you haven't forgotten us poor people yet!"
"You are my friends, how could I forget you?" Yi Feiyang said emotionally.
"We knew you were loyal! That bastard Tudou even said that you would definitely forget about us and wouldn't even look at us!"
The black man who was called "Potato" touched his head in embarrassment and said, "I was just guessing too! Can't I apologize?!"
"I can't apologize, I have to let him treat me!"
"Yes. Otherwise, tell his mother-in-law about this and ask her to deal with him! His mother-in-law is Yi's loyal fan!"
"Hahaha!" The crowd burst into laughter.
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Here, the black dad saw that Yi Feiyang was surrounded by big guys and couldn't even walk, so he had to step forward to get rid of the crowd and said: "Okay, everyone, stop making trouble, my dear Yi needs to prepare for the premiere right away!"
"Well, let us all come together to help him!" Someone shouted.
"Yes, I have strength!"
"I'm a plumber!"
"I can hand out flyers!"
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Everyone immediately became lively, and they were all vying to help Yi Feiyang's premiere.
Yi Feiyang smiled. He didn't expect that he was so loved by everyone. "Okay, let's do it together!" He roared happily.
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There is strength in numbers.
In a short period of time, Yi Feiyang had prepared everything perfectly. The only flaw was that not many reporters came, and there were only a few behind the entrance of the cinema where the premiere was held. No need to guess, most reporters were
The big and loud premiere in Colombia attracted me.
I heard that Colombia even gave red envelopes to reporters who attended the premiere in order to suppress the momentum of Yi Feiyang's premiere...
It is conceivable that there is breaking news and generous red envelopes to be received. As long as they are not fools, those reporters will know how to choose.
"Damn bastard, you are going to kill us all!" Gao Jiabao, the fat man next to Yi Feiyang, said angrily.
Even Dures, who never likes to use foul language, couldn't help but said: "Oh hell! Colombia's move is too poisonous!"
Looking around the deserted red carpet, looking at the media reporters who were distracted and rushed to Colombia after interviewing a few people, Yi Feiyang rubbed his nose and said: "It's going to rain, and my mother wants to get married, let them do it."
!" Then he added, "We just need to do our part well."
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Not far away, a white reporter yawned. Looking at the deserted red carpet, he said: "God, why did the editor-in-chief send me here to interview? Did you see that this place is lifeless, neither grand nor exciting?
Until now, there hasn’t even been a ghost!”
"Be patient, man!" said an old reporter, "Will Smith and former President Clinton will definitely show up later!"
"So what? There is Denzel Washington in Colombia, as well as two great movie stars, Marlon Brando, and Al Pacino!"
"That being said, at least we didn't come here in vain."
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"Hey, man, which drama do you think will be a big hit after this premiere?" Another small reporter asked the tall reporter next to him.
"Needless to say, just look at the premiere scene and you will know that the drama "Happiness" has lost its momentum. The biggest seller must be "Muhammad Ali"!"
"That's not necessarily true. China Yi Ke has a nickname called 'Miracle Worker' and is called 'Miracle Yang' and 'Son of God'. Maybe he can turn the situation around!" the little man said unconvinced.
"Haha, reverse the situation? You really think of him as the son of God!" the tall reporter said disdainfully, "If he can really reverse the situation, then I will help you lick the soles of your shoes clean, yes, man, I
no sooner said than done!"
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Time passes slowly.
At about 7 o'clock that night, the originally deserted red carpet finally had people. There were not many people, they were the stars of the drama "Happiness Knocks on the Door". Will Smith was holding his baby son Jaden, beside him.
His wife Jada, Clinton, his daughter Chelsea, and other actors from the show were all present.
The reporters who were yawning all over the place finally regained their spirits and started snapping photos of the celebrities on the red carpet.
After these people walked on the red carpet, the reporters were still waiting with some unfulfilled interest, waiting for China Yi Zai to do some stunts, miracles, etc. Didn't he often do this in the past?!
However, it is strange that Yi Feiyang did not invite any relatives or friends to join him this time. There was no Gusta from Lions Gate, no Ramon from Paramount, no real estate tycoon Trump, no hotel king Richard Hilton...
So after Clinton, Will and others walked across the red carpet, Yi Feiyang directly ordered: "Put the red carpet away!"
So, in full public view, the red carpet was put away, and the reporters who had originally hoped for follow-up footage were completely dumbfounded.
They don't understand, is China Yi confident? Or is it just keeping a low profile knowing that it is not Colombia's opponent?!
The red carpet show is just gone? What the hell, do we still need interviews?!
Just when the reporters were confused, Yi Feiyang smiled and said to them: "Dear reporter friends, if you are interested, you can go to the cinema and watch this drama I filmed. Yes, you are all welcome. Please give me your advice!
"After saying this, Yi Feiyang led the team into the cinema without looking back.
The reporters who thought they were the masters were left stunned. Damn it, is this the end?! Don’t even try to save us!
In the eyes of these reporters, as Yi Feiyang, who competes in the ring with "Muhammad Ali", he should pay more attention to reporters like them who "come from afar". Things are rare and valuable. Many reporters went to support "Muhammad Ali".
Being able to come here is enough to give Yi Feiyang face. You, the boss, should support and carry you... But I didn't expect that they would not look down on me at all!
God!
How shameless!
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Yi Feiyang's disdain for these reporters made these reporters extremely curious. They couldn't help but walked into the cinema one by one. According to their wishes, "Why are you pulling? I want to see how exciting your show is!"
When the reporters just walked in, they were stopped by someone. They thought they were ticket inspectors. Unexpectedly, the other party handed over some tissues and said, "Here you go, buddy, maybe you can use it later."
"What do you mean? Give me tissues? Do you want me to wipe my nose?" a reporter said with a strange smile.
"No, I think it's for us to wipe our tears. Haha, this Chinese Yi Huan is really interesting. Do you really think your movie can impress people?"
"Stop talking, let's go in and take a look. Maybe you don't need to wipe your tears and nose for a while, but wiping your shoes will still be useful!"
The reporters took the tissues and walked into the cinema with disdainful expressions. Looking up, they saw that the entire cinema was almost full of people.
However, what surprised those reporters was that almost all the people sitting there were black people. In addition, compared to other movie premieres, the entire large cinema was completely silent.
Solemn!
Yes, that's what it feels like.
For the first time, those reporters felt that they were not watching a movie, but attending a unique memorial service.
As the boss and director, Yi Feiyang did not do anything new this time. According to the reporters, "Yi Feiyang in China is very honest this time, so honest that it makes people feel awkward. He did not play any tricks to announce the movie."
The premiere officially begins."
On the big screen, as before, the logo of Dream Company appeared, but it was different from before. After the mermaid jumped out of the water, the words that appeared were no longer "Dream Film Company", but "Dream Entertainment Company"
”.
Entertainment includes many more projects and types than the film industry. This also makes people realize for the first time that today's Dream Company is no longer the small company that could not even afford to rent a movie theater. It seems that it has
Became one of the most powerful rising stars in Hollywood.
After the Fantasy Entertainment Company logo is released, important information such as the movie's opening subtitles, actors, director, etc. appears.
As the letters gradually fade, a gray-white sky appears on the screen, and then the character monologues: "This part of my life is called 'taking the bus'..."
With the appearance of this sentence, the male protagonist played by Will Smith appeared on the big screen, with gray temples and a tired expression, holding a briefcase in his hand, while his five-year-old son followed him eating a sandwich, two
The individual crosses several streets.
Close-up shot, while crossing the street, Will squatted down and held his son in his arms. His son Jaden handed the sandwich to his mouth, "Hey, Dad, you can have a bite too."
"I'm not hungry, I've already eaten." Will said this, but his stomach growled a few times.
"Don't lie to me, your stomach is protesting." Little Jaden said with a smile.
"Then I'll take one bite, just one bite!" Will opened his mouth and took a big bite of the sandwich.
In just a few shots and a few dialogues, the deep love between father and son was directly displayed on the big screen.
The scene changes and after sending his son to school, Gardner, played by Will, cheers up and steps onto the crowded bus stop.
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"God, just reading the beginning makes people feel quite sad, yes. What a pitiful father and son!" A black aunt couldn't help but mutter.
"How can I put it this way, this scene is very good. It makes me feel the sadness of a man." Another black man said silently in his heart.
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The movie continues to show.
"I said, this stage of life is called 'stupid'".
It's still a monologue, and then the story unfolds.
The content of the story is very simple. The male protagonist Garner, played by Will, discovers that the hip-hop girl who took care of the scanner for him during his interview ran away with the instrument and chased her back.
This scene mainly tells about some things that happened to the protagonist during the interview. When seeing this scene, even some hard-hearted guys felt sad for the character in the play. He was really unlucky.
"This part of my life right now is called running around."
The camera changes again.
The story continues with this monologue.
The plot gradually unfolded, and at this time the audience had completely forgotten that the actor on the big screen was Will Smith. Instead, they truly regarded him as a living character---"Garner".
Gardner didn't study much, worked as a medical supplies salesman, and had to take care of his wife and Nian. However, once he was charged a $1,200 illegal parking fine by the police. Because he was unable to pay back the money, he was sentenced to jail until the next day.
He was released at nine o'clock in the morning.
But the nightmare was not over yet. After he was released from prison, he found that his wife and son had disappeared, leaving him with nothing.
Gardner found the child in the child's nursery and took him home. In order to raise the child, he could no longer live in a single dormitory, so he and the child were forced to live on the streets. Cheap hotels, parks, train station toilets, and office desks
The bottom has become a shelter for the two father and son...
It can be said that this approximately 23-minute scene is the main part of the entire play. It is also an important part that reflects the relationship between father and son.
Especially the scene where the male protagonist Garner and his son were forced to live on the streets. During the filming, Yi Feiyang interviewed many people living on the streets in order to pursue a real and significant effect, so that the filming had a strong sense of reality.
The performances of Will and his son have completely transformed into the characters. In the play, the father and son hugged each other for warmth, hugged and cried, and the detailed descriptions of comforting each other reached a shocking level.
Especially when the film was shown and the two fell asleep in the toilet, Will's image with tears and red eyes appeared in front of the audience, and little Jaden lay in his arms, sleeping peacefully.
Looking at the movie scenes, the whole cinema was instantly filled with tears. Especially the women who were full of emotions were touched by the content of the scene. They couldn't suppress their inner sorrow and choked up.
As soon as the first person starts crying, the people next to him will be infected immediately, and the sad feeling starts to spread throughout the cinema like a virus.
This situation is very strange, just like you are reading a very sad novel in the library, and then you can't help but cry and shed tears, but you are afraid of affecting the people around you, so you suppress it, cover your mouth and endure it,
But the tears still couldn't stop flowing out, and the sadness was still overwhelming...
This is the situation at the moment. Everyone who watched this play was moved by the delicate and touching father-son relationship in the play.
The reporters who were holding tissues and preparing to shine their shoes were stunned and dumbfounded. They wanted to wink and smile at these naive viewers, but all they gave was dry smiles, and then they felt something was wrong.
I want to burst out from the corners of my eyes...
Why is my heart so sad?
they ask themselves.
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Sitting in the back row of the cinema, Yi Feiyang watched this scene silently. In the past, he didn't quite understand why tragic films became so popular so easily, like "Gone with the Wind", "The Blue Bridge", "Titanic"...
Now I understand, it turns out that people are emotional animals after all. As long as you can impress them with your emotions, they will be like being stuck in a swamp, unable to extricate themselves!
As a director, if he can truly control the emotions of the audience, then he is a god! The god of directors! The god of movies!
Because only God can manipulate other people's emotions.
Now, Yi Feiyang feels this way. Looking at the audience who couldn't help crying silently, feeling the humid atmosphere of the entire cinema, Yi Feiyang feels that he has controlled everything, with the movie, the pictures, and the characters!
Yi Feiyang took a deep breath and looked at the work he had shot. He felt an uncontrollable sadness in his heart. If he cried while watching his own movie, it must be very funny.
Thinking of this, Yi Feiyang stood up and prepared to go to the balcony to relax.
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It was late at night, the moonlight was like water, and it was still a bit cool in Hollywood in mid-March. Yi Feiyang walked to the edge of the balcony, took out a cigarette, and was about to light it when he saw a man smoking gloomily.
Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be Dures.
Why did this guy come here? Yi Feiyang smiled and walked over, "Borrow me a fire!"
Dures raised his head, looked at him, and handed over the cigarette butt.
Yi Feiyang lit the cigarette with the butt of the cigarette, took a deep breath, and then looked at Dures, who was looking at the sky quietly, and couldn't help but ask: "Man, are you okay?"
Dures has always given people the impression of being steady and capable. He is not as sentimental as he is now, and he is so deep that people are not used to it.
"It's not too good..." Dures said, "Your play touched me too deeply... To be precise, it reminded me of my daughter..."
Yi Feiyang was stunned. You must know that Dures always only talked about work. He never took the initiative to talk about family matters, so that until now, Yi Feiyang didn't even know whether he was married or not. He didn't expect that he even had a daughter.
"I'm sorry, I really didn't know... you have a daughter." Yi Feiyang handed the cigarette back.
"Her name is Aaliya." Dures took the cigarette and took a long drag. He said with some sadness: "Aaliya looks like her mother, which always reminds me of those things. I feel like I owe
I have hurt her a lot, but I want to make up for it but I can’t. God, if Aaliyah can accept me, I can give up everything!”
Yi Feiyang was silent. How could he have any opinions at this time? Besides, he didn't know much about other people's family affairs.
After half the payment, Dures said slowly: "You won't understand how it feels when you lose everything and have a child to take care of, and you can't even give her a place to live.
A painful feeling."
Wow, isn't this the plot in my movie? Could it be that Dures has also experienced it?! Yi Feiyang became even more curious, and the fire of gossip was burning brightly.
From the moment Dures said this sentence, Yi Feiyang knew that he would probably start talking about it soon. For Dures, who always cherished words like gold, this was the first time, thinking about Yi Feiyang
I felt relieved and listened carefully to Dures' narration.
At this moment, Dures seemed to have started talking, and then said: "My wife and I got married. Little Aaliyah is very beautiful and cute. However, three years after we got married, I found out that my wife was actually married to an Italian."
The chef had an affair, so I beat the guy immediately and was detained later... When I came back from the police station, I found that my wife had left our daughter and went to Italy with the chef, and all the valuables in the house were taken away.
Walk."
"That moment was the lowest moment in my life. I felt like I was an inexplicable victim. Yes, I was hurt. I started drinking, started borrowing money from my family, and started... decadence and degradation."
"At that time, I was living a very depressed life every day. I was afraid that I would suddenly collapse under the pressure of that damn life. I didn't know if I had the courage to face everything. Would I give up everything about me, including my life?
life……"
Yi Feiyang put away his previous smile, then nodded slightly, and said seriously: "I don't have children, so I don't quite understand what it feels like, but I have also been desperate. Don't look at the pain on my body now.
It’s a halo, but behind it is the accumulation of countless struggles and hard work.”
When he first came to the United States, Yi Feiyang was in the same state as Dures before. There was no hope, and he had to face the pressure of not having a green card and being arrested by the police at any time. If he were a pessimist, he would be under such huge pressure.
I could really collapse at any time, but fortunately, I survived.
Until today, when I look back at the road I have traveled, Yi Feiyang can tell others with a smile that there is nothing to be afraid of. The key lies in the choice between giving up and persevering. Yi Feiyang and
Like Chris, they all chose to persevere.
"But I know that when facing these hardships, I can't give up, not for me, but for my daughter. She is still so young, and she has not even experienced many things in this world." At this point,
Dures's mood swings gradually expanded, and his eyes slowly began to turn red. He stamped out the cigarette butts on the ground, and then continued: "At that time, I often left my daughter at home, often alone.
I was drunk in bars and pubs... Whenever I woke up, I saw little Alia standing next to me, touching my cheek with her soft little hands. At that moment, I felt that I was still alive.
Yes, I started to get excited and wanted to be a good father, but it was over. Then her damn mother came back from Italy to fight for the custody of her daughter. I had no job, unstable income, and even no place to live, but
One can only imagine the final verdict pronounced by the court..."
"I lost my daughter and owed a lot of debt. In order to repay the debt, I was forced to join the TOP "sequin" film company. You probably know what happened next..."
Dures wiped his eyes gently, "Do you know why I have to work so hard now? The reason why I want to do this is to forget the pain of the past, and on the other hand I want to save enough capital.
, get my daughter back! Yes, I am willing no matter how much it costs! She was three years old when she left me, and she is almost six years old now. God, I haven’t given her a birthday for three years.
, I didn’t hear her call me daddy, and I don’t know how tall or how old she is now. If possible, I am willing to use everything I have to exchange for her love, as long as she can say "daddy" to me.
,I love you', I'm satisfied!"
Seeing Dures constantly wiping his tears, a grown man burst into tears. Yi Feiyang couldn't help but sympathized: "Okay, man, don't be sad anymore, I promise, you will see your daughter soon.
Yes, definitely!"
Dures nodded, choked with sobs and said nothing.
"Let's go in and take a look at the scene together. The play should be over soon!" Yi Feiyang patted Dures on the shoulder.
Yes, it's almost time to test the results. Whether this drama wins or loses is in one fell swoop!
