Dominating Hollywood: Starting with Scarlett

Chapter 233 Two red lines
Avril Lavigne's concert will start soon.

Amidst the explosive rock music, she appeared on the stage in a sparkling sequined outfit, took a microphone and started singing.

The audience in the audience shook their heads and started singing along after cheering, and Taylor and Carmela finally stopped chatting and started listening to the song.

The two little guys next to Tang De swung their butts and shook their heads excitedly when they heard the music. Normally, their mother would scold them for wandering around like this at home, but at the concert, they could release themselves to their heart's content.

When the opening song ended, Avril walked to the side of the stage to talk to the audience. As she spoke, her eyes glanced at the Tangde family and Taylor.

However, because Carmella was between the two of them, she took it for granted that the two had nothing to do with each other. She smiled at Tang De and continued to sing.

The entire concert lasted for nearly three hours, with Avril singing and dancing, full of energy.

It can be said that the audience was indeed worth the ticket price.

When the concert was over, Taylor planned to leave with Tang De, but found that Tang De beside Carmela was missing.

She asked Carmela with some confusion: "Auntie, where is Don?"

"Tang De took the initiative to send me a message."

"Take it easy...yes, that's it, uh..."

"I hope you have a good night, I have some shooting to do."

Taylor pursed his lips and felt his mood suddenly improved.

"Hiss!" Tang De immediately stepped on the brakes and pressed his head against the back of the car.

"Okay." Taylor was a little disappointed. Although she was happy to meet Carmela, she actually wanted to sit next to Tang De and watch the concert. And now that Tang De has left, even leaving the concert together becomes The extravagant hope.

When Avril saw him, she ran over without even putting down her guitar and hugged Tang De like a koala.

Fifteen minutes later, Avril finally opened the bottle cap and drank the water inside.

She didn't stop until there was a knock on the door.

"This thing should make a loud noise when it moves." Downey looked at the giant thing in front of him: "But it does fit in with Fisher's inner world."

She left the concert with her brother Austin and friends in a cheerful mood.

That's right, in the very center of the casino, there is a huge elevator, and above it is a silver vault, which is filled with various gold bars and cash. It looks particularly shocking through the tempered glass.

Once a crisis occurs, the elevator will immediately rise and transfer the vault to the interior of the lighthouse.

Oh, and Cameron, who insists that more powerful and expensive special effects are the future development of movies, spends far more money on researching technology than other filmmakers.

"Oh, I mean the guitar is heavy." Tang De changed his words, and Avril immediately lowered her head and started to kiss him.

"To him, money is just a tool, and what's inside is what he must protect."

At the same time, Tang De also saw Avril Lavigne walking tiredly in the dressing room backstage.

But the next second she suddenly felt her phone vibrating. After opening it, she saw the text message Tang De sent her.

"Really? How about this? Doesn't it feel better if you spin it?"

"Oh, I think he left early. He just received a call, it seems to be work-related." Carmela lied to her son.

"That's a big project... Tang, I didn't expect you to be so good at spending money." Emma was really helpless. Other film directors can accept special effects, but Tang De and Nolan are different and must be shot in real scenes. I find it enjoyable.

Twenty minutes later, Avril took off her makeup, changed her clothes, and walked to the underground parking lot when she saw Tang De's car parked at the door.

After everyone finished watching the scene, the official shooting began.

"Wow...it's really cool. Have you taken further training?"

One month later, the entire scene was completed, and a lighthouse building was erected behind the Golden California Casino. Inside it was the bank's vault.

"Don." Avril kissed him again after getting in the car and hugged him tightly, as if she wanted to crush herself into pieces and throw him into Tang De's arms.

What he was talking about was the closed door in the vault, which was the key to the dream.

It took about a week to shoot the entire drama. As for the explosion scene, it had to be completed in one go, so a lot of preparation work was done.

"Las Vegas, the Golden California Casino is going to be renovated?" Tang De looked at Emma in front of him: "Then can we blow it up?"

Tang De stayed with him throughout the whole process, supervising the entire project to ensure that it would be what he wanted.

"Wow... you are so heavy." Tang De exclaimed exaggeratedly, and Avril immediately raised her head and stared at him: "Who is heavier?"

The money out there is just to protect it.

Leonardo and Downey walked inside the casino and couldn't help but admire the spatial layout after being transformed by the crew: "This is really spectacular."

Now that the actual shooting location has been determined, the prop team and workers quickly joined the team and started construction.

"Then blow it up!" Tang De said without any hesitation: "Embed the banks first, then blow them up."

Tang De immediately waved his hand and left through the other door.

When they returned to the high-rise apartment that night, the two of them changed places in the room seven times. It wasn't until three o'clock in the morning the next day that they lay down tiredly on the bed and fell asleep -
Two days later, the new budget for "Inception" was in place, and the casino Emma contacted also had an idea.

"Watch the video and learn a bit... Hmm."

Emma spread her hands and shrugged: "Yes, yes...but you have to pay money."

"Your skills have improved again." After feeling it for a while, Tang De couldn't help but praise.

"Let's go home." Tang De was about to drive, but saw Avril put her head over, holding the water bottle and trying to drink water.

After everything was ready, they demonstrated the explosion process on a small model and simulated it several times in computer software.

It wasn't until Tang De felt there was no problem at all that they finally started filming.

"The explosives department is ready!"

"Lighthouse blasting point A is ok!"

"Lighthouse blasting point B is ok!"

"Bank vault blasting point A is ok!"

"..."

Tang De, Nolan and the rest of the crew were far away from the casino at this time. In order to reduce the impact of the explosion, they also set up a vigil within 100 meters of the surrounding area and called in the police department for assistance.

Just to avoid running over or hitting anyone.

As time passed, and seeing all the blasting work completed, Tang De picked up the pager: "Okay, let's start detonating."

"The detonation of lighthouse point A is completed!"

"The detonation at bank point A is complete!"

"..."

After all the detonation work was completed, Tang De stared at the monitor screen closely. Not long after, he saw sparks coming from the lighthouse.

"Boom!" First, various flames spurted out from all over the casino, and then accompanied by huge smoke rising, a loud noise came.

The lighthouse broke into two pieces in front of everyone's eyes, like a mountain collapsing, scaring everyone back a few steps.

Fortunately, the lighthouse was made of special materials and was very light. Even if it fell on the casino, it was not destroyed.

However, this kind of detail cannot be seen on the screen, because more fire explosions cover it all up, and with the blessing of post-production special effects, the audience will only see a shocking and violent explosion.

"Very good!" Tang De waved his fist. This was also his first time to shoot an explosion of such a scale, but the result was a success.

I remember that the explosion scene of the snow mountain fortress in "Inception" was filmed twice in the previous life. Because some shots were missing the first time, Tang De learned his lesson and used all the shots he could this time. There were even two helicopters in the sky to coordinate the filming.

Nolan on the side was fascinated by the explosion footage and seemed to be very interested in this form.

Men all like explosions.

After the filming of this scene was completed, the other scenes in "Inception" were no longer difficult.

In December, "Inception" was officially announced to be finished.
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"Don, I see you are in a good mood. Is "Juno" doing well at the global box office?" On the golf course, Anne Hathaway was playing golf with Don De.

Tang De stood behind her, with his legs spread apart, and his two hands went from her back to the front of her body to hold her hands and help her get the feeling of hitting the ball: "Yes, it's pretty good."

"Let me guess..." Anne Hathaway smiled and looked at the hole in the distance: "3 million?"

"That's not true, 2.5 million." Tang took her hand and swung the club hard.

"Bang!" The golf ball flew out immediately.

Tang De hugged Anne Hathaway and looked at the trajectory of the golf ball: "How is it? It's very simple, isn't it."

"Indeed." Anne Hathaway nodded: "I already know how to do it."

"Then let's compete?" Tang De raised the corner of his mouth.

"Compared to what?" Anne Hathaway wore a short skirt and gray top today, looking sporty and beautiful.

"It's just like who's up and who's down at night?" Tang De hugged her waist and whispered.

"You are such a gangster..." The smile on Anne Hathaway's face grew stronger: "But I will definitely win."

Although Anne Hathaway always said that she was very confident, in fact, if Tang De did not let go in the end, she would definitely lose.

But when she won, she suddenly came to her senses and rolled her eyes at Tang De: "Whether I'm on top or below, you are the one who enjoys it."

"But you can choose, up or down?"

"It's better to go up there. I'm going to drain you dry and prevent you from having anyone else outside."

"What are you talking about?" Tang De was a little confused.

Anne Hathaway shook her head: "Nothing..."
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After spending time with Anne Hathaway, Tang De went to Jessica's house again.

Since filming "Inception", he hasn't spent time with these women for a long time. Fortunately, they traveled together before, otherwise they would have blamed him now.

Now that he has some time, of course he has to accompany them one by one.

Including Cindy and Kaiden, the two of them were accompanied by Tang De together, and spent a few days on the Hawaiian island without distinction between black and white.

It can only be said that if it were not for his good health, Tang De would really not be able to bear this intensity.

But when he arrived at Jessica's house, he found that she was still sleeping.

"My angel, why have you become Sleeping Beauty now?" Tang De looked at the sleepy Jessica, tightened the curtains, lay next to her, and touched her shoulders.

"I don't know... I like sleeping a lot lately." Jessica hugged Tang De's body and buried her head in his chest.

The familiar scent of orange made her feel peaceful.

But her heart was not as calm as it seemed.

"Tang, when do you think we can officially announce it?"

"Why do you say that?" Tang De hugged Jessica: "You know I hate the media."

"Yes... But if we don't announce it, won't there be no media?" Jessica seemed to be in a very depressed mood: "I've been resting these days, and I always feel like I can't get excited... Tang, I also had nightmares. , in the dream you had another woman and didn’t love me anymore.”

Tang De kissed Jessica's forehead: "Don't worry, my angel, I won't leave you."

"Really?" Among Tang De's women, Jessica is the most vulnerable.

"Of course...but why are you so depressed suddenly? Did something happen to you?"

"No...nothing." Jessica shook her head and rubbed Tang De's chest.

"Then you..." Tang De suddenly realized something: "Have you taken the test?"

"What are you testing?" Jessica was confused at first, but then she realized after seeing Tang De's eyes: "You mean I'm...pregnant?"

"Yes, that's it."

Tang De touched Jessica's belly: "Is it possible that there is already a little life?"

Jessica lowered her head and said in surprise: "I never thought about it, is it true?"

"I'll ask Tom to buy a test stick now."

Jessica nodded.

At the pharmacy, Tom expressionlessly picked up a few boxes of testing sticks and handed them to the clerk.

"Oh, sir, one is enough for a pregnancy test. Why did you buy so many?" The clerk looked at Tom with some confusion.

Tom responded in silence, thought for a moment and said, "The test may need to be repeated several times."

"Okay, okay, if you're so unsure, why don't you go to the hospital? Or do you have a lot of girlfriends to test?" The clerk complained a few words, making the corners of Tom's mouth twitch.

He is not like Tang De, who has so many girlfriends.

When he delivered the test stick to Tang De, Tang De immediately handed it to Jessica and asked her to go to the bathroom to take the test.

Tang De sat on the sofa nervously. This was the first time he had experienced this feeling in two lifetimes.

Although he was mentally prepared, when it came to this moment, he still felt a little nervous.

"Am I really going to be a father?" Tang De couldn't help but pick up an orange and start peeling it, and even the white orange veins were slowly peeled away.

Just as he was pacing back and forth in the room, Jessica came out of the bathroom.

"How is it?" Tang De looked at her.

She shook her head.

"No?" Tang De couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

Jessica shook her head again: "It will take fifteen minutes."

"Okay, you should tell the whole story." Tang De leaned on the sofa and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Haha, it's so rare to see you in this state." Jessica felt it was very refreshing. Tang De was usually calm, rational, and romantic, but he was not as nervous as he was today.

"Indeed..." Tang De also felt that he was not calm, but for him, his child was his most real blood connection with the world. Only by having a child could he prove that he was really alive in this world.

So it is understandable that he is different from usual.

Fifteen minutes passed little by little, and when Jessica walked into the bathroom again, Tang De's heart suddenly rose.

Not long after, Jessica walked out with her hands behind her back.

"How is it?" Tang De came to her.

Jessica looked at him a little shyly, but also a little expectantly, and then raised the testing stick in her hand.

There are two red bars on it, which are bright and eye-catching.

(End of this chapter)