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Chapter 101 Looking for Actors
"Open your eyes and dream."

"I ask you, what's the point of sending me home?"

"Who knows your he is, silently loyal to you."

"Seeing you hide your ring makes me feel heavy..."

This is the "Angkor Wat" of the previous life. Because Huang Ze was worried about his life safety, he did not go to Angkor Wat to film "In the Mood for Love", so the song title was simply changed to the movie title.

Huang Ze quickly finished writing the song and pushed it to Chen Xing, "Take a look, is it ready?"

"Open your eyes..." After humming the song to the end, Chen Xing clapped his hands happily, "That's great, this song is absolutely amazing!"

"This song plus "I Like You" is definitely enough!"

"If you ask me for a song again, don't blame me for executing Ma Su with tears!"

"Haha, just this once, it's the first time, so it's more important." Chen Xing explained with a smile, "Let others know that our Xinghai Records has the ability to make celebrities famous, and let the fans know about Xinghai Records. If this first shot can be fired well, the road ahead will be much easier."

"Okay, I won't chat with you anymore, I have other things to do!"

After inspecting both companies, Huang Ze went home to enjoy life.

After resting for two days, I flew to the United States again with the lyrics and music scores of three songs.

……

In Hong Kong Island, Zhou Huimin is practicing with the lyrics and music score at home.

"God, you are fooling me time and again."

"I can hear the wind in my ears, but I can't escape your face."

“The more you want to withdraw, the more it moves toward your life.”

"Do I have the courage to celebrate the New Year with you..."

When she sang to this point, her eyes became wet.

She thought of the watch Huang Ze gave her on her last birthday.

The first expensive gift she had ever received in her life was a piano bought by her mother. Although her family lived frugally for several years afterwards and the piano was not even a fraction of the price of a watch, in her opinion, it was a priceless treasure.

The second most valuable item is Huang Ze’s watch.

Meeting in the elevator, buying a watch for your birthday, writing songs in the office, and spending time together in daily life.

Scenes flashed back in Zhou Huimin's mind.

"If you didn't have that girl, I wouldn't have to worry so much. Whether you agree or not, I will say those three words."

"But……"

I thought about the role I played in In the Mood for Love, then thought about the role played by Huang Ze, and Su Lizhen played by Gong Xing.

Two tears fell from Zhou Huimin's eyes.

Then he simply hid in the quilt, covered his head with the quilt, and the singing came out from under the quilt.

“The name should not be abused.”

"Being seduced by you, I have one more name."

"Identity is far away, memory is deep, floating dust drips into the Awakening Temple."

“Nothing happened in the smoke and mirrors!”

"Do I have the courage..."

……

new York.

Huang Ze arrived at the Warner Records headquarters and started recording songs the next day after a day of rest. This time, the same producer as last time was responsible for the overall planning.

As soon as the other party saw Huang Ze, he couldn't help rubbing his hands, "Huang, what about the song this time? Let me see it first."

"There are only three songs." Huang Ze handed the lyrics and music score to the other party.

Then the other person quickly took it, and started humming as he looked at it.

“Look into my eyes.”

“You will see.”

“What do you mean to me?”

"Search your heart..."

The other person became more and more devoted to the singing, and immediately turned to the next song after finishing one.

"I swear." "By the moon and the stars in the sky..."

After watching the two songs, the producer used a tactic to drink water, and the look in his eyes when he looked at Huang Ze changed.

"Huang, I really don't know how to describe you!"

"I think these two songs have the potential to enter the top five on the Billboard charts!"

"Keep up this form, and your goal should be second in history!"

"Three songs from your last album hit number one. If you keep it up, if Billboard doesn't suppress you, you might be able to get close to or even tie the Beatles' record in ten years!"

The producer didn't say break after all.

The Beatles, that was an era!
It was precisely he who witnessed that era with his own eyes, the era when the Beatles overshadowed all other singers of that era.

Even Elvis Presley was a bit behind in that decade.

From the time the band was formed to when it disbanded, it took ten years and had twenty number one singles. Even now, let alone twenty, there is only one singer who has had ten, and that is Steve Wonder, and he had just ten at that.

"Hey, let's not talk about this."

The producer bowed his head to watch the last song.

After reading it, he nodded with great satisfaction, "The quality is as good as ever! If I were to work with songwriters and singers like you, I would wake up laughing in my dreams!"

"Huang, cooperate sooner!"

"Pleasant to work with."

"Oh, I want to ask you something." The producer couldn't help but laugh, "Are you interested in directing your music video? The fans are very enthusiastic! They think that since you are such a good director, you should direct the music video yourself."

“To be honest, if you let a director shoot your music video now, he will be under a lot of pressure!”

MV director is the lowest-ranking person in the director circle, even lower than commercial director. After all, there are big directors shooting commercials. But if you let a big director shoot an MV, well, it's easy to offend people.

For TV directors, this is a whole new level.

The ultimate goal of the director circle is naturally to become a film director.

This is equivalent to waving a big axe in front of Lu Ban and brandishing a big sword in front of Guan Gong.

But Huang Ze doesn't care about that.

What does your stress have to do with me?

"Let someone else be the director. I will be responsible for making suggestions and the director will just do what I say."

"That's fine!" The producer didn't force it. "I'll contact the Political Order Propaganda Company and ask them to send an obedient director."

"Huang, shall we start making the song first?"

Huang Ze was very familiar with these three songs and had a general idea of ​​what instruments to use and how to arrange the music, so everything went smoothly. The finished product was ready in less than ten days.

While Warner was preparing for the MV, Huang Ze put his mind on the movie again. He called Susanna and asked, "Can you use your CAA connections to help me select an actor?"

"Any requests?"

"Of course, the requirement is that you must be a young person, between 35 and 40 years old, preferably with a lot of acting experience, but it can't be too expensive. If the salary is over 30,000 US dollars, you will be passed. If you want to play a supporting role, you need to go to Hong Kong Island for about three months."

There are still quite a few Indians and white people in Hong Kong Island, but hey, there are really not many people.

In addition, the role of the black leader still required good dialogue skills, so Huang Ze wanted to play it safe and secure the actor for the black leader in "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" while in the United States.

But this is a role that doesn't have too many scenes, so Huang Ze naturally doesn't want to spend a lot of money.

Just enough.

"Also, please send the files of qualified people to New York and I will select them."

"Okay." Huang Ze is now a high-quality client of CAA, so Susanna had no problem and agreed readily.

As for investigating these, it requires the use of the company's resources, in order to get closer to a big client like Huang Ze, it is not a problem, and CAA is happy to cooperate.

After all, every customer like Huang Ze is not just a simple commission for the company, but also a living advertisement.

It represents the choice of more people.

Less than a week.

Huang Ze, who was filming a MV, received a number of actor files sent by Susanna via plane.

There are more than a hundred of them.

Huang Ze was flipping through the files and saw a fierce and ugly face. He took another look at the name and directly pulled out the file. "Okay, this is the one. Is he still in New York? Then invite him over. I'll give him a simple audition."

(End of this chapter)