The Birth of the Best Director

Chapter 112: Cézanne's famous painting "Mont Sainte-Victoire" and the awakening place of the Qin Palace Guards

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Huayi is going public and wants to hold a super large celebration banquet at the Aman Hotel next to the Summer Palace.

This is the biggest event in the entertainment industry in early November.

Almost all the bigwigs in the circle received invitations, and Lu Zhiyuan also received a gold-plated invitation letter.

However, Lu Zhiyuan had no interest at all and didn't want to join in the fun at all.

Because he is very busy.

For him, the movie "Upgrade" is almost finished, and the rest is no longer his responsibility.

Things like publicity, scheduling releases, hiring internet trolls to hype the film, and selling copyrights... these things will naturally be done by publicity and distribution companies.

For domestic ones, we can do it with Starlight.

For overseas ones, Universal Pictures will handle it.

As a director, he has done his best. At most, he will talk about his experience in making this movie in a later interview program.

But not many viewers would be interested in this kind of thing, right?
Unless he kneels down and kowtows to everyone.

The Palme d'Or director begs the audience to come and see his movie, to give him a chance... This gimmick might attract some kind-hearted audiences to buy tickets.

Of course, he would never do such a thing.

It's not necessary.

He has confidence in himself.

However, after the movie "Upgrade" was completed, the next question arose.

The "Real Steel" project started to give him a headache again.

Lu Zhiyuan carefully recalled the original plot... Sorry, it has been too long and my memory is a little fuzzy.

Lu Zhiyuan only remembered that Hugh Jackman seemed to be the male lead.

The character he plays seems to be a scumbag father who does nothing all day and relies on robots to box and gamble.

And, I lose every time.

Later, he suddenly learned that his ex-girlfriend, with whom he had broken up for more than ten years, had given birth to a son.

This is not critical.

The key point is that this ex-girlfriend has a younger sister who really wants to adopt her son, and her husband is very rich.

So, this weird male protagonist had an idea in court and wanted to sell his son to his sister-in-law, and then use the money to buy a robot.

But my sister-in-law's family is also quite weird.

She clearly wanted custody of her son, but in order to go on vacation to France, she suddenly had to leave her son with the unreliable and scumbag old father to raise him for two months.

What kind of divine operation is this?

You know that the other party is a scumbag, but you still leave your eldest nephew to him. Aren't you afraid that he will sell your nephew again?

In the end, with the help of the robot, this brainless and unhappy father and son reconciled.

In fact, if you analyze it carefully, you will find that the father-son relationship in this story is completely untenable.

Even a little abstract.

Lu Zhiyuan imagined, if his father sold him out for tens of thousands of dollars, what would his father do to make him forgive the other party after a few months?

is it possible?

Unless his dad makes him lose his memory or become mentally retarded.

Last month you wanted to sell me out, and this month you want me to have a deep father-son relationship with you, and to put aside all grudges by just smiling when we meet?

You're really overthinking it.

If I didn't stab you to death, we would be considered a loving father and a filial son.

Therefore, the plot of this movie needs to be changed!

Of course, the core of this movie is mainly the robot fighting competition... This heartwarming plot of a scumbag old father reconciling with his innocent young son cannot attract too many young people.

Maybe girls like it.

But as a boy, Lu Zhiyuan felt nothing at all.

He just wanted to watch robots fighting.

"As usual, I'll have Sister Shanshan pay me to find a script studio to write a dozen scripts. Then I'll pick one I'm satisfied with and have someone revise it."

Hollywood stories are really old-fashioned and very abstract. As a Chinese, Lu Zhiyuan completely cannot understand the way the father and son get along with each other.

Anyway, Lu Zhiyuan felt uncomfortable reading this story.

However, their special effects are really cool.

This has to be acknowledged.

"But, what visual style should I adopt?"

Obviously, the coldness, loneliness and desolation in "Upgrade" are not in line with the passionate fighting style of "Real Steel".

In contrast, Upgrade is a science fiction philosophical fable.

Mechanical cyborgs and AI will eventually replace humans. This dystopian narrative sounds profound and meaningful.

Real Steel is completely different.

This is a science fiction action film for children and teenagers. It does not need to tell any profound truths or explore grand issues about human destiny.

The key to this movie is to be entertaining!

Let the children cry out when they see this.

If you haven't watched this movie during the summer vacation, you won't even have anything to talk about with your classmates... It would be best to attract some female classmates to watch it together and join the discussion.

As long as you attract female classmates, why worry about not having male classmates?

"There is."

"The hero's child in the movie doesn't have to be a son; it can be a daughter."

"Who says girls can't control robots and compete in ring matches?"

“You don’t need to go on stage yourself!”

"We can even design a female robot specifically for the movie, just like Sailor Moon, beautiful and cool."

"Among the protagonist's rivals, there could also be a beautiful young lady controlling a robot to fight in the arena, if for no other reason than to prove that her robot modification skills are invincible."

This way, you get the best of both worlds.

Originally, Lu Zhiyuan complained that there were not enough roles in this movie.

If the heroine is given to Gao Yuanyuan, what will happen to his girlfriend, Miss Jing Tian?
That's it, perfect solution.

……

Lu Zhiyuan was in the room, slowly thinking about the plot and character settings.

But at this moment, Reba pushed the door open and came in with a smile.

She was tall and wearing a sexy dress. She leaned against Lu Zhiyuan's door, stretched out a finger, curled up the ends of her hair charmingly, and blew it gently.

"Brother, is my [Empress Hancock] hairstyle handsome? Can it blow up the whole audience tonight?"

As she spoke, Reba's eyes flashed, like a Persian cat, and she looked at Lu Zhiyuan, emitting a seductive aura.

Lu Zhiyuan took a look and looked a little helpless: "Reba, what's wrong with you today? You are so young, why are you wearing such revealing clothes? Go change into something more conservative."

"Got it! I'll be right there!"

Reba deliberately wore a very revealing evening dress, and the area below her neck was as white as jade and smooth.

There are two straps like thin threads pulling up the thick skirt below, which makes people worry that these two straps will break at any time.

She deliberately left out a large area of ​​her back and chest.

Super sexy.

Although she is not very old, she has a great figure.

Maybe it was the racial advantage. Anyway, after a walk around Yanjing City, at the age of 17, she had never seen anyone with a better figure than her.

That female enchantress Zhang Tianai, let's just go 50-50 with her.

She did it on purpose!

Wear it at home and let Lu Zhiyuan feast her eyes on it. Don’t always treat her like a child.

Sure enough, I was taught a lesson.

What I want is his lecturing tone, which shows that he still cares about himself and doesn't want others to take advantage of him.

Hey!
"Brother, I heard that Sister Cha will also be there tonight. My sister-in-law told me that if I meet Sister Cha, I must not give her a good face."

Jing Tian is still filming in Dalian and is not planning to attend any celebration banquet held by Huayi.

What's there to participate in?
To Jing Tian, ​​this was completely meaningless.

This isn't Lu Zhiyuan's celebration party.

At this moment, Reba first pulled Jing Tian out and gave Lu Zhiyuan a serious warning.

After a while, Reba pretended to be weak and helpless, and added: "If I said anything unpleasant to Sister Cha tonight... Brother, let me be clear, I didn't mean it."

I did it on purpose!

I, Reba, swear to God, I will kill Gao Yuanyuan!
Because, although Lu Zhiyuan has not made a final decision on the new project "Real Steel", Jing Tian suddenly withdrew from the competition for the female lead.

Jing Tian was very worried that her performance would be poor and would bring bad reputation to Lu Zhiyuan, thus lowering the ratings of the entire movie.

However, after withdrawing from the competition for the leading female role, Jing Tian hoped that Lu Zhiyuan would design a handsome and stylish second female lead for her, just like in the movie "Upgrade".

There doesn't need to be too many scenes.

However, she must be photographed to look particularly beautiful.

Being the heroine, especially the heroine in Lu Zhiyuan's hands, Jing Tian felt a little too tired.

Lu Zhiyuan has now made two movies.

In "Maze of the Heart", he asked Liu Shishi, a young actress from Tangren, to go to the village to be a village girl, carrying a hoe to work in the fields... When Tangren found out, they almost exploded with rage.

Fortunately, the movie won an award later on, and Liu Shishi’s status soared.

Boss Cai said nothing.

If the movie flopped... Jing Tian would most likely see how Boss Cai treated Lu Zhiyuan in a sarcastic tone in the newspaper.

There is no need to say more about the movie "Upgrade".

Lu Zhiyuan, such a cruel man, actually had someone throw such a cute girl like Reba into the sea.

When Jing Tian heard the news, she felt so heartbroken for Reba.

She thought that this scene should be performed by a stand-in, but who knew that Lu Zhiyuan was serious!
Jing Tian could imagine what would happen if she became Lu Zhiyuan's heroine... What if Lu Zhiyuan had his old illness and threw her into the sea as well?

She felt that this relationship might not be able to continue.

In order to avoid breaking up, it’s better to abandon Gao Yuanyuan.

I guess after being thrown into the cold sea and calming down, Gao Yuanyuan's love brain will be cleansed.

"Reba, please give me some face and don't call Gao Yuanyuan Tea Sister. Don't think I don't know what Tea Sister means."

Gao Yuanyuan's elder brother works like a slave in the company [Yuan Gao Technology], developing their first generation of quadruped robots.

Brother Gao didn't have any requirements for Lu Zhiyuan. He just hoped that as a director, he could protect his sister, Gao Yuanyuan, a little more in the entertainment industry.

It’s such a small matter, Lu Zhiyuan must help.

We are all working on robots together, so we are brothers and sisters. Your sister is my sister, and I will definitely take good care of her for you!
"Brother, I promise you. I won't call her Sister Cha anymore."

Reba nodded obediently.

After leaving Lu Zhiyuan's room, Reba turned around and called Gao Yuanyuan: "Sister Cha Cha, you must use the bottle of perfume I gave you tonight."

"Reba, are you sure you didn't lie to me?"

Gao Yuanyuan was a little hesitant. Looking at the perfume in her hand, she really couldn't spray it.

After much thought, Gao Yuanyuan couldn't help but ask again, "Would someone with Zhiyuan's personality like this smoky chocolate perfume?"

The smell of this perfume is really weird.

It is completely inconsistent with Gao Yuanyuan's previous style.

She likes light flavors.

She was also very sure that Lu Zhiyuan should like that taste as well.

"I am sure!"

Reba said firmly.

After a while, she couldn't help but use a provocation: "Sister Cha Cha, if you didn't believe me, why did you spend money to buy my perfume before?" That's right!

All the money was spent.

If you don't try, you will never give up.

"Okay, I'll give it a try then."

Gao Yuanyuan agreed, but suddenly felt something was odd. "By the way, Reba, why do you call me Sister Chacha? Does that extra word have any special meaning?"

That damn girl Reba called herself Sister Tea. Gao Yuanyuan knew that this was not a nice name.

But it doesn't matter.

Let Reba call herself whatever she wants, and I will have to smile and say, "Your name is quite interesting, I like it very much."

She just needs to stop saying bad things about herself in front of Lu Zhiyuan.

"Sister Cha Cha, congratulations! Your perseverance has paid off."

Reba sighed and said helplessly, "My brother just lectured me and told me not to call you Sister Cha. He said he knew what that meant and that it seemed like I was disrespecting you."

"I've already promised my brother not to call you Sister Cha. So, from now on, I'll call you Sister Cha Cha. Doesn't that sound more intimate?"

After showing off for a while, Reba forced an explanation: "Isn't your name Gao Yuanyuan? Isn't Yuanyuan the same as Circle? And doesn't Circle have to be paired with a Cross? Look, if I call you Sister Cha Cha, isn't that the same as calling you Sister Yuanyuan?"

You have a really poisonous mouth!

Can you still say that?
Circles and crosses?

Sister Yuanyuan is the same as Sister Chacha?

Gao Yuanyuan couldn't help but take a deep breath and silently recited the mantra: "If your heart is as still as water, you won't be startled even if the sky falls. Don't bother with the little girl."

Otherwise, you will be angry to death sooner or later.

……

Aman Summer Palace Hotel.

This place was once a royal garden courtyard.

In the late Qing Dynasty, ministers would wait for an audience with Empress Dowager Cixi right here under their feet.

Blue bricks and gray tiles, carved beams and painted buildings, and hanging flower gates are matched with golden nanmu furniture, palace lanterns, lacquer screens and other palace furnishings.

It is indeed unique, luxurious yet understated.

"These people at Huayi are so fucking rich!"

Xin Yukun came along, dressed in a suit and tie, looking very respectable.

He asked around and secretly clicked his tongue: "Brother, I asked the waiter, guess how much it costs to stay here for one night? A standard suite, 12000!"

"It's even more expensive than the hotel we stayed in in Cannes!"

After complaining, Xin Yukun suddenly became excited.

After Lu Zhiyuan's [Yuan High-Tech] went public, he came here to play every day.

12000 is nothing!
They can make tens of thousands of dollars just by selling a robot!
As Mr. Gao's special consultant, I'll let Mr. Gao reimburse me for this small amount of money.

"Brother, President Gao is wearing a black dress today. She looks gentle and elegant, both beautiful and intelligent. It really fits the saying, 'If you want to compare West Lake to Xi Shi, light makeup or heavy makeup will always be suitable.'"

"I've never seen what Xi Shi looks like, but I have a feeling she should look like Mr. Gao."

Since becoming the special consultant of [Yuan Gao Technology], Xin Yukun has begun to clearly show his camp and regards himself as Gao Yuanyuan's lackey.

After all, although Miss Jing Tian was a great help to their careers, she mainly helped Lu Zhiyuan and did not give him any personal red envelopes.

Liu Shishi did give a personal red envelope.

But this little girl is useless. She is out on business every day and doesn’t even know her house has been robbed.

Gao Yuanyuan is still the best.

Once you have some money, you don’t need to go out to do business.

At home, he has his father and elder brother, two generations of Tsinghua academic masters, who helped Lu Zhiyuan make his robotics business a success.

She is so beautiful too.

He was generous in giving himself red envelopes, sometimes giving himself 1% of the company's shares.

That crappy company was only worth 30 million two days ago, but now its valuation has exceeded 100 million. I don’t know where the three private equity funds came from, but they are trying their best to squeeze 30 million into it.

This makes me feel very embarrassed.

The 1% stake in his hand was originally worth only 30, but a few days later, it soared to 100 million.

So exciting!
Xin Yukun has never received such a big red envelope in his life. He must serve Gao Yuanyuan, this rich woman, well!

"Zhiyuan, I saw you from a distance, why don't you come in?"

Gao Yuanyuan was chatting with someone in the banquet hall. When she saw Lu Zhiyuan, her eyes lit up and she walked towards him with a smile.

In addition to the dignified and beautiful yet lively and lovely oxygen goddess in a black evening gown, there is also a smoky smell of chocolate perfume.

When Lu Zhiyuan smelled this smell, his nose twitched and he wanted to turn his head away, as if he couldn't bear it.

Haha!

When Reba saw Lu Zhiyuan like this, she couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Sister Cha Cha, you’re done.

You fell into my trap!

"Zhiyuan, what's wrong with you?"

Gao Yuanyuan realized that something was wrong, her heart skipped a beat, and she glared at Reba fiercely.

This damn girl is so bad!
"You changed your perfume. This scent is so fresh and unforgettable."

While Lu Zhiyuan was speaking, he turned his head and glared at Reba. This girl sold the perfume she didn't want to Gao Yuanyuan.

Good for you.

Such a good business man!

"It's the kind that smells bad."

Gao Yuanyuan smiled awkwardly.

She is now quite familiar with Lu Zhiyuan, and she doesn't have to be cautious when speaking to him like before. She can just say whatever she wants to say.

What are you afraid of?
[Yuan High-Tech], she is the major shareholder, and Lu Zhiyuan is only the second largest shareholder.

If Lu Zhiyuan offended her and made her unhappy, believe it or not, she would smash all the robots in the company?
"When I first smelled it, it was a little hard to accept. But this perfume, like a mellow old wine, has a very long-lasting fragrance that lingers in the air."

"After smelling it for a long time, there's a word to describe it. How do you describe it? Intoxicated. Yes, that's the word!"

"This perfume makes me feel really drunk."

Lu Zhiyuan's helpless and collapsed look made Gao Yuanyuan cover her mouth and smile softly.

It was really hard for him.

I went through a lot of trouble just to say something decent.

I just want to say that the smell of my perfume makes him dizzy.

However, it is also a huge progress.

He didn't complain about himself mercilessly like last time.

According to Brother Kun's theory, Lu Zhiyuan has included himself in the scope of good friends and will never say anything bad about him.

Even if he smelled a perfume that he couldn't stand, he would try his best to make up for it and remind himself in a tactful tone.

That's it.

Such progress in less than a month!

"Zhiyuan, there's a famous painting over there. I heard someone say, 'Sai Shang?' I don't understand it either. Let me take you to see it."

Lu Zhiyuan's female companion is Reba.

But, that damn girl Reba deliberately wanted to watch the fun herself.

I originally wanted to get along with Reba gently, but now that things have come to this, there is no other way but to start a war directly.

At this moment, Gao Yuanyuan used the excuse that a painting appeared over there, and successfully attracted Lu Zhiyuan's attention.

After a few words of seduction, Lu Zhiyuan followed her.

As they walked, Gao Yuanyuan naturally put her arm around Lu Zhiyuan's arm.

"its mine!"

"It should be mine!"

As a female companion, today, Reba has been authorized by Miss Jing Tian to hold Lu Zhiyuan's arm.

This is fine.

It was snatched away by Sister Cha.

At this moment, Reba was really angry to death.

“Cézanne, indeed.”

Before coming to the painting, Lu Zhiyuan looked up.

Obviously, this is a forgery.

But the other party's imitation was so superb that it was almost indistinguishable from the real thing.

"Zhiyuan, this painting looks so strange."

"Although it's a mountain, it doesn't look natural at all. It feels a bit strange. But after looking at it for a long time, I feel an inexplicable sense of heaviness."

Gao Yuanyuan was pretending to be naive there.

In fact, she had just heard someone analyze it. This was the famous work "Mont Sainte-Victoire" by the post-Impressionist master Paul Cézanne in his later years.

In this painting, Cézanne abandoned traditional perspective and instead decomposed nature through geometric shapes.

The mountains, trees, and houses in the painting are simplified into a combination of cubes, cones, and cylinders, forming an abstract picture.

"This is a mountain landscape in Provence. The painting may seem strange at first glance, but it is actually a deconstruction of nature."

"World-class painters, representatives of Cubism, such as Picasso and Braque, were inspired by Cézanne, who even developed a more radical form of abstraction."

After Lu Zhiyuan chatted for a few sentences, he said no more.

He knew that saying this was just asking for trouble.

Gao Yuanyuan definitely didn't understand, and probably didn't like to talk about these things with him. Only Liu Yifei, the minotaur, seemed to like these things.

but……

"and many more."

"In the movie 'Real Steel,' the robot design should also emphasize geometric blocks and structural tension, with sharp corners at the joints and a sense of volume in the torso."

"This is exactly the same as Cézanne's concept of geometric decomposition of natural objects."

"The color blocks and lines reconstruct the spatial order, and the combination of metal blocks creates a sense of robot power."

"The structure of the robot competition scene should be similar to that of Mont Sainte-Victoire, pursuing a stable structure."

"And as the true protagonist of the entire film, the Qin Palace Guard, he should be slowly awakening at... the source of the myth, at the foot of Mount Kunlun."

"No need to say anything. Just from this image, everyone in the audience will understand that this robot has an extraordinary background and is a natural-born protagonist!"

Kunlun Mountain is so huge that it is very difficult to choose a peak.

But after looking at the painting "Mont Sainte-Victoire", a most appropriate scene suddenly emerged in Lu Zhiyuan's mind.

The magnificent glaciers and stable mountains are full of the beauty of structural symmetry.

Muztagh Ata Peak!
Think of the original’s waking place!
Landfill.

How can a place like this be worthy of being the birthplace of our first generation of robots [Qin Palace Guards]?

In the last era of time and space, the Cyber ​​Qin Empire expanded westward.

The first generation of war robots [Qin Palace Guards] have experienced countless battles, and their rusty armor is covered with traces of various wars.

He is too tired.

After the energy was exhausted, it was buried under the thousand-year-old iceberg.

After countless years, although the armor is rusty, its soul core is still there.

When a new energy battery was installed, black lightning once again bloomed from the laser eye, accompanied by the sound of an ancient and desolate horn...

Several years later, one afternoon, this mysterious war robot was successfully activated by an elf-like girl!
This is an era of peace.

The warriors' stage has changed from a battlefield to a ring.

Thus, this mysterious [Qin Palace Guard] challenged all the way from Tokyo, Singapore, Paris, London, and New York with his iron fists...

Just like the King of Boxing Championship, he defeated one powerful enemy after another, making the whole world cheer, until he stood on top of the world!
(End of this chapter)