Japanese Entertainment: From special effects actor to action superstar

Chapter 575 The French Rose

Of course, the bullet-time footage couldn't be sent back, but Gu Ming still took a photo on set and sent it back to Japan first.

These are all valuable first-hand materials from the set.

Rare video of Dan beating a sandbag!

Gu Ming now has a pretty clear understanding of the things related to the movie.

The existence of this new technology is certainly real, but the audience is unaware of it. Therefore, it's necessary to conduct some marketing, both praising and criticizing it, ultimately luring the audience into the cinema out of curiosity about the new technology.

Once they see the true imagery in the film and are deeply moved, all the initial marketing efforts will naturally come true.

However, there are naturally people in Japan who are responsible for this kind of thing, so Gu Ming doesn't need to go back and deal with it one by one.

Everything needed here has been sent to France, and the location has been found. We will be filming in Nice, France, and we will rent an office building as the filming location, which will serve as the headquarters of the villainous Italians.

From here, you can also photograph Nice Airport, which can be considered an iconic building in France.

Nice naturally welcomes filming.

After all, Nice is one of France's most popular tourist destinations, so having the opportunity to appear in a movie is something they couldn't ask for.

However, the venue fee still needs to be paid, and the city government will also have to pay for the filming of the crowd evacuation.

Feelings are feelings, but money is equally important!

"I don't care about spending money, as long as it doesn't cost extra."

Gu Ming glanced at his wristwatch.

By now, the French actress he asked someone to find should have arrived by now.

Although she can't compare to Spanish beauty queens like Laura Forner, she can still be called the Rose of France!
In particular, she is an actress with exceptionally superb acting skills.

You could call her Maru Hiroko, the little French pharmacist!

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Before filming even started, many of the action actors, who were always busy and couldn't go out for a stroll, played cards, chatted, and rode bikes around the set.

Watching Mars perform acrobatics on a bicycle, Zhen Zidan sighed.

That's nothing! He rides a motorcycle!

Of course, it's gone now. That heavy motorcycle was impounded after the accident, and Gu Ming repeatedly forbade him from riding it out again.

This left Zhen Zidan feeling quite regretful.

Riding a motorcycle is so much fun!

"How about that, aren't I awesome!" Mars had just lifted the handlebars of his bicycle and taken his hands off the handlebars to show off his cycling skills to everyone when he saw a taxi parked outside the film set. The girl in front was walking very fast, and the agent behind was following closely behind, trying to catch up with her no matter how hard he tried.

"Ouch……"

Mars fell headfirst to the ground, but thankfully he was unharmed. He quickly dusted himself off and kept glancing towards the film set.

"Stop looking, they've already gone far away!"

"Well, I didn't really look at it, I just glanced at it!"

Mars was a little embarrassed, but upon closer inspection, he realized that everyone else was in no better shape than him, and he burst into laughter.

You guys are making fun of me even after all this!

After a while of frolicking, the martial arts masters quickly put women out of their minds. Women were boring; making money was much better!
Zhen Zidan, however, fell into deep thought.

So, this is the actress who came to act alongside me?
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Sophie Marceau, a French actress, was born in 1966 and just turned eighteen this year. Similar to her neighbor Hiroko Yakushimaru, she debuted as a child star, acting before reaching adulthood and earning the nickname "French Rose." She later co-starred with Tony Leung Ka-fai in a film, playing a wealthy colonial heiress, while Leung played her lover.

Tony Leung Ka-fai even showed his buttocks in the story, which the French talked about for half their lives.

Gu Ming is certainly not Tony Leung Ka-fai; he doesn't show even half of his buttocks.

Therefore, he will not film "The Lover" with Sophie Marceau.

However, this did not prevent Gu Ming from casting Sophie Marceau in this film.

"Foreigners, how rare!"

Sophie Marceau took off her sunglasses and sat opposite Gu Ming. Her agent arrived late behind her, but kept bowing to Gu Ming and speaking in Japanese that she had just learned.

“Private Marseille!”

"Yeah, Marseille, Marseille," Gu Ming replied casually.

Gu Ming brought a translator with him, since the French speak French and not English, and Gu Ming's English on the construction site would be of no use here.

“Miss Sophie Marceau, right? Let’s get straight to the point. This is an action movie, and I’m looking for a French actress to star in it. After asking around, I think you are the most suitable choice.”

Before Sophie Marceau could speak after the translator finished speaking, her agent frowned.

“Excuse me, let me double-check. An action movie, right? That’s impossible.” He stood up and put away his briefcase.

“Sophie won’t make those kinds of vulgar films. This is Europe, this is France! What we need is art, humanistic care, and…”

Gu Ming said, "What kind of art is taking off clothes?"

The agent hesitated for a moment, but still firmly waved his hand: "In short, it's impossible."

Art films! Sophie Marceau can only make art films!

This left Gu Ming speechless.

"I thought it was raining," Gu Ming muttered.

The agent was still rambling on.

"You said they were filmmakers from Asia, and I thought it would be the kind of film with Asian characteristics, something more restrained, more beautiful, and then..."

"Stop for a minute. I don't want to hear you French people's discussions about art. If you want to talk about art, I also have my awards, and I believe I am more qualified than you to talk about art."

Gu Ming didn't bring the awards with him, but he could still recount them with great familiarity.

"I've been to the Cannes Film Festival before, and I've won awards before. Even a film I recommended this year won the Palme d'Or. When it comes to artistry, I think you're still a bit lacking."

The agent was stumped again, and only then did he belatedly remember something.

The Asian in front of me is not a complete outsider who knows nothing about Europe, but a regular at the Cannes Film Festival.

If we're talking about art, no one is more qualified to discuss it than Cannes!

Gu Ming glanced at his watch again; it was almost time, and he had lost interest in talking.

"You mentioned art films, right? Of course, I also enjoy artistic films, but acting in one of those is enough. As for making money, how much would I actually earn? You don't think money is vulgar, do you? Tell me, which is noble and which is vulgar: the francs earned from art films or the francs earned from commercial films?"

Gu Ming stood up and waved casually.

"France doesn't only have one actor. Stop talking to me about artistry. That's all for today. If you want to act, double the agent's fee. If you don't want to act, turn left and ask the finance department for transportation expenses. Goodbye."

Seeing that Gu Mingzhen had really left, the agent quickly followed.

“Wait a minute! Mr. Furia…”

As you said.

The franc is never vulgar!

(End of this chapter)