Sun Dahai did not expect that after investing in "The Last Emperor", history would undergo such a dramatic change.
In his previous life, the male protagonist of "The Last Emperor" was Zun Lung, a Chinese actor who came to the United States to act when he was a teenager. He has achieved good results in everything from stage plays to movies.
Perhaps it was this Westernized acting style and Zunlong's handsome mixed-race appearance that made Bertolucci choose him.
But this is actually a failure.
With Zun Long's appearance and acting style, there is no problem playing the founding king of the country. It can even be said that he is the best candidate to play the role of Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty. He is also young and heroic, equally high-spirited, and also of Hu origin...
However, what is needed in "The Last Emperor" is a performance that is weak on the outside, crazy on the inside, and even has a hint of self-destructive neurotic tendencies.
Zunlong's handsome and sunny appearance and his slightly exaggerated stage performance style make people always feel a bit out of character when watching the film.
Sun Dahai doesn't understand movies, he just watches the fun. These are posts he saw in a forum. Whether this kind of analysis is professional or not, he doesn't know whether it is true or false, so just take it as it is.
Now that Simon Yam actually stepped in, this surprised Sun Dahai. But since Simon Yam has been chosen, let's go for it. Men can't give in.
Simon Yam did not wait for Sun Dahai. After his audition, he hurried back to Xiangjiang to make preparations. Because the leading role was changed, the filming time of the movie was pushed back a month, and the filming would not start until the end of the year.
After Simon Yam returns from handling the affairs in Hong Kong, the crew still needs to finalize his makeup and make some adjustments to costumes and props. Time is still very tight.
Yang Xufei has also returned to the Capital Youth Team. His father has privately approached the team leader and coach. He has a personal relationship, but the other party is too embarrassed to refuse, so he can only agree to Yang Xufei's application to leave the team at the end of the year.
According to the results of the discussion between Sun Dahai and Lenny, Yang Xufei will go to the football school affiliated with the Dutch club Ajax for six months of adaptive training after the Christmas vacation in Europe.
Lenny will then sign him up to participate in the selection for the Ajax youth academy in July this year.
So in the past few months before going to the Netherlands, Yang Xufei had to practice English hard while persisting in training.
When he arrives in Amsterdam, Yang Xufei will stay at the home of Mark's team doctor friend. Yang Xufei's family paid for the air ticket, and Sun Dahai temporarily lent him the boarding fees and football school fees.
Lenny and Yang Xufei signed a student contract. According to the contract, Lenny would give Yang Xufei a small amount of living expenses every month.
If Yang Xufei successfully joins the youth training camp in half a year, his salary will be greatly improved. This kind of student contract is prepared for young newcomers. As the students progress, the salary will also increase.
From this contract, we can also see Lenny's rigorous life. He did not agree to Sun Dahai's blanket offer, but clearly divided various expenses and responsibilities.
Sun Dahai was very satisfied with Lenny's meticulous style. He gave Lenny an extra list of players and asked him to observe these little monsters and don't let them go if he can sign them.
This list was written by Sun Dahai after hard thinking. Most of them are young players under the age of 18. If Sun Dahai hadn't had his memory strengthened a lot after his rebirth, he might not have been able to write this list.
The first one on the roster is Dennis Bergkamp of the Ajax youth team.
What Sun Dahai doesn't know is that Bergkamp has just been promoted to the first team by head coach Cruyff, but he is under 18 years old and under the age of a professional player, so he doesn't have an agent yet.
There are also several future stars on the list such as Czechoslovakia's Pavel Nedvěd. The players Sun Dahai asked Lenny to dig are all players with excellent character. But now there is no Internet and poor information. Lenny has
You may not be able to find anyone on the list.
It depends on luck, Sun Dahai will not force this. He puts Bergkamp first simply because Lenny is going to the Ajax football school soon to help Yang Xufei contact him about participating in training next semester.
He can help him contact Bergkamp to see if he can trick this future superstar into signing a contract with Nianhua Star Management Company.
There is another name at the end of the list, Roberto Baggio. Sun Dahai likes this melancholic prince very much. If he can sign him, Sun Dahai would rather invest his own money and agree.
At this time, Baggio should be about to make a short comeback. He was transferred to the Sampdoria team for 2.7 billion lire, and the transfer fee was approximately 1.3 million US dollars.
Baggio was seriously injured at the time and had been recuperating and did not play last season. This season's Serie A has begun and Baggio will appear in a few rounds, but the injury will soon relapse and he will miss most of the season.
When Sun Dahai thought of this, he told Lenny to go to the Netherlands first to deal with the affairs of Yang Xufei and Bergkamp. At the same time, he would pay attention to the situation of Serie A and Baggio.
Sun Dahai thought that when Baggio gets injured again, his agent will probably go crazy. At that time, it is the best opportunity for Lenny to help him and buy Baggio's agency contract from his original agent.
come over.
These are Sun Dahai's little thoughts. He has no way to tell Lenny directly. He can only tell him the general situation. Whether he can succeed in the end depends on luck.
Lenny was also puzzled at first. How could Sun Dahai know about these players from European countries who are not very eye-catching now when he is far away in China?
You know, he is a professional football agent, but except for Baggio, who has some impression of the names on Sun Dahai's list, he doesn't know the rest.
Sun Dahai had already thought of a way to fool Lenny. He put the blame on Huanyu Trading Company, saying that Huanyu Trading Company had an Eastern European client and that smuggling Su Bian was just a part-time job. His full-time job was to search for potential football players for several big clubs.
Newcomer.
Unlike regular brokers like Lenny, they trafficked people across the Berlin Wall, usually relying on kidnapping to complete their work.
Before the Berlin Wall was torn down, the ideological battle in Europe was very fierce, and the two camps were at war with each other. Third-party companies were making a lot of money.
Huanyu Trading Company is one of them, but they are engaged in legitimate trade. Although the underground transactions Sun Dahai mentioned are shady, they are special products of that period.
Lenny is a Swiss from a neutral country and knows these things better than Sun Dahai, so Lenny easily accepts Sun Dahai's excuse.
Lenny is gone, and with Yang Xufei's contract and Sun Dahai's roster, Sun Dahai doesn't know what changes will happen in football in the future.
However, the male protagonist of "The Last Emperor" can become Simon Yam, so Sun Dahai doesn't care about how the football world will change.