Become Famous Another Day

Man is really an emotional animal.

Lu Yanhe really didn't think much about China before, nor did he feel much lonely in a "foreign land".

Yan Liang suddenly mentioned "Young Days", and Lu Yanhe suddenly became melancholy when he thought of playing with everyone.

At this time, the phone suddenly rang.

When he saw it, it was Arne Bogut calling.

Lu Yanhe answered the phone suspiciously.

Arne Bogut asked him to go to the bar for a drink.

"Simon, Lily, and I are here. Do you want to come with us?"

Lu Yanhe thought for a while and said, "I'm a little tired, Arne, I won't go, you guys have fun."

Arne Bogut seemed a little disappointed, muttered "Okay" and hung up the phone.

"Isn't he coming?" Seeing Arne Bogut's expression, Simon Schmid guessed the outcome of the call. He curled his lips and showed an expression that he had known for a long time, "I told you a long time ago. If you tell me, he will definitely not come out. You are still wasting your time making this call. Those Asians are different from us. "

Arne Bogut looked at Simon suspiciously and said, "Simon, why do I think you are hostile to Lu? Is there any conflict between you two?"

Simon Schmid: "I just don't like him, there is no contradiction."

"Why don't you like him?" Lily Williams asked doubtfully.

"There is no reason. Do I need a reason for not liking him?" Simon Schmid shrugged, "Let's go directly."

So Simon Schmid drove and set off with two people.

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It's not that Lu Yanhe is unsociable or unwilling to drink, but he was brought into the second floor of Liu Zhen's house by Zhong Benshuo in Korea before and was almost tricked.

Therefore, in an unfamiliar environment, he would rather be cautious. Otherwise, if we go to a bar together late at night, if something happens, we will be in a lot of trouble because we are unfamiliar with the place.

However, Lu Yanhe did not expect that his concerns would be answered accurately.

The next day, he went to the set to do special effects makeup in the morning. As soon as he entered his lounge, he saw the makeup artist and her assistant discussing something with serious expressions.

Lu Yanhe asked what happened, and the makeup artist said that Simon Schmid was caught driving drunk last night by the local police and is still being detained and has not been released. Also in the car were Arne Bogut and Lily Williams.

This matter was not hidden at all, and was reported by the local tabloid on the front page early in the morning.

The title is also a direct reference to a Hollywood film crew.

Although there is no situation where a foreign film will be hidden and unable to be released because it uses a bad artist, scandals are always bad.

Drunk driving is not a big deal in foreign countries, nor is it a small matter in a small way.

Lu Yanhe sighed.

He didn't quite understand. They were all artists. Why didn't they ask the driver to pick them up after they drank? Do you have to drive yourself?

This is a sure shot.

Halfway through Lu Yanhe's special effects makeup, someone came in to communicate with Lu Yanhe, saying that the filming time would be moved forward later.

Because Simon can't shoot today.

The makeup artists were all whispering, curious about where this matter would go.

Simon is not a big actor, but if there is a scandal like drunk driving, if the public's opposition lasts for a long time, maybe the crew will fire him directly.

Lu Yanhe put on special effects makeup, and after leaving the dressing room, he found that the atmosphere on the scene was also very strange.

Everyone was in a state of whispering and speaking carefully.

Everyone is using a "pretend that nothing happened" attitude, tacitly and eloquently conveying the atmosphere of "this is worth seeing".

Arne and Lily, who were in the same car with Simon last night, were not detained. They were just drunk passengers. No matter how much they were arrested, they could not be caught.

However, at this moment, they were in a state like headless chickens, restless. Even if they were on the set, it could be seen at a glance that their minds were not here.

Lu Yanhe thought for a while and took the initiative to say hello to them.

"Hey, are you guys okay?"

The moment Arne saw Lu Yanhe, his expression was a little unnatural.

Last night, Lu Yanhe almost got in that car.

"You're so lucky that you didn't go with us yesterday." Lily raised her head and glanced at Lu Yanhe, which almost made Lu Yanhe think that she was being weird, but Lily's frustrated tone showed that she didn't actually mean it.

Lu Yanhe asked: "You guys were drinking, why did Simon still drive by himself?"

Lily said: "We also advised him not to drive by himself, but he insisted that it was okay and said that it was very remote and there would be no police investigation."

Lu Yanhe: "..."

Lily added: "It would have been better if we had held on a little longer yesterday."

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Because of Simon's accident, the atmosphere at today's filming scene was a bit low-pressure, including Director Mu Ken's mood.

It wasn't until the evening, when work was about to end, that news came that Simon was finally taken out of the police station by his agent.

Xinalin also disappeared for a day today, busy with this matter.

Early the next morning, Simon made a public apology outside the studio, admitting that he had drunk driving, accepting all criticism, and would correct himself in the future.

His attitude was very upright. In addition, Simon was actually a big star who had just debuted and was somewhat famous but not well-known. The incident caused not a big stir. After the public apology, Simon returned to the crew. , continue filming.

However, this incident obviously also gave him a little blow.

He was usually very active and talkative on the set, but suddenly he became a lot quieter.

Moreover, Lu Yanhe didn't know if it was his own imagination. He always felt that Simon seemed a little awkward towards him, as if his drunk driving incident had taken his anger out on him.

This feeling spans between them, making their already not close relationship even more distant.

However, the good thing is that no matter what happens in private, when filming, I can still play the opposite role normally.

In fact, Lu Yanhe's relationship with other actors in the movie is that of the avenger and the avenged, and there is no need to have a good relationship with others in the movie. They don't have a good relationship in real life, but it actually helps them in acting. It seems a bit unkind to say this, but it is the truth.

However, no one expected that almost halfway through the filming of the film, Simon would commit another crime.

This time it wasn't a drunk driving, but a fight, a fight in a bar.

The fight started because Simon fell in love with a girl, so he went to strike up a conversation with her. It turned out that the girl came with her boyfriend. Her boyfriend saw his girlfriend being struck up by someone, and he spoke in a rude and unclean manner. I greeted Simon a few words. Simon himself was in a bad mood, so he drank again and started to choke with the other party. This choking was so good that the two of them became furious and started to fight.

Others score twice on the football field, but Simon scored twice in the scandal den.

This time, the news about Simon's fight with someone made more noise than the last drunk driving incident.

We can allow people to make mistakes, but if they make mistakes in a short period of time without showing any sincerity in repentance, they will be somewhat disappointed, and they may even feel that their previous tolerance has been betrayed and let down, so they become even more angry and annoyed with this person. exuberant.

Simon has become a hot search topic.

He is not very famous, so many media introduced him as the starring role in the new film of the horror film director Mu Ken.

"The Mist" became known to many people in a way they didn't expect.

Xinalin's face was particularly ugly, and she led Simon to record another apology video.

But this time the public didn't buy it very much.

Simon was scolded very harshly.

Even the crew of "The Mist" were scolded.

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"I didn't expect that this was my first time filming abroad, and I would encounter such a situation." Lu Yanhe was also helpless on the phone, "Besides, this is not a Sanwu production. It is also a new film directed by Mu Ken. We encountered this situation.”

Chen Siqi: "It's okay. You have to be lucky. Simon doesn't play a good person in the movie, so when the audience sees this movie, they won't feel bad."

"When such things happen, I don't know how many viewers are willing to go into the cinema." Lu Yanhe sighed helplessly, "It's quite passive. I don't know how the crew will solve this matter."

"The simplest and crudest way is to fire Simon and replace him with another actor." Chen Siqi said, "But in this case, many scenes will have to be reshot, and your movie may be ruined. After all, you don't always My next schedule is free here, so I can accompany the crew to reshoot.”

Lu Yanhe: "I guess the crew will not fire Simon. These two things are both big and small. Foreign countries are not like us in China. Once actors break the law, it is basically difficult to come out for public activities. Everyone Although the scolding of Simon is harsh, compared with the cost of changing actors and reshooting, the risks and losses of the former may be bearable. "

Chen Siqi: "Oh, yes."

If a film that has already been filmed in the middle is suddenly reshot, it is very likely that the film will have an additional budget of several million dollars.

That puts a lot of pressure on the film to recoup its costs.

"Dong dong." Someone suddenly knocked on the door of Lu Yanhe's lounge.

Wang Biao went to open the door.

Someone came to remind Lu Yanhe that he was about to start filming his next scene and needed to go over.

Lu Yanhe had no choice but to speak to Chen Siqi and hang up the phone first.

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After talking to Lu Yanhe on the phone, Chen Siqi seriously thought about the situation that the movie "The Mist" is currently encountering and what breakthrough points it can have.

Of course, she didn't want to see Lu Yanhe's first English film fail.

While she was thinking, Linyu knocked on the door and entered her office.

"Siqi, this is my plan." Lin Yu handed Chen Siqi the plan she had drafted for the "Jump Up International Film Critics Film Festival".

Chen Siqi came to his senses and took it in his hand.

This is an idea that Lin Yu expanded based on last year’s International Film Critics Online Forum.

With their current strength, if they want to hold a serious film festival, it is actually not realistic at all. First, they have money, second, they have people, and third, they have no connections.

If you want to build your own international film festival, the above three points are indispensable.

But with steady development, I don’t know how long it will take to make a movie version of "Jump Up".

Therefore, after Linyu discussed with Chen Siqi, they decided to follow the format of last year's film critic online forum and do what they wanted to do as much as possible with the minimum cost.

Linyu told Chen Siqi: "We just invite film critics from all over the world to China to talk about movies, the latest award winners, the most popular movies in recent years, and classics, and then we specially come up with One day, watch the Chinese movies we selected, and after watching the movie, let’s talk about Chinese movies together.”

For such an event, there is no need for a star-studded red carpet, no need to organize various stars, and no need to go to great lengths to contact major production crews to attend.

They only need to find a venue that can accommodate film critics from all over the world to stay together, a cinema where they can sit together and watch movies, and then have a fund to pay for the transportation and accommodation costs for these invited film critics. Throw a few lively parties and have fun drinking and chatting.

Maybe based on this calculation, it only takes one million to two million to get it done.

For the current "Jump Up", even if they don't seek sponsorship, they can afford this money by themselves.

Not to mention, this event can actually be funded through Linyu and Yuehutai's film and television drama review columns and video platforms, or even by directly seeking sponsorship from brands. Chen Siqi spent twenty minutes reading Linyu's plan, nodded and said, "No problem, just do it. There is only one thing, Linyu, this is our first time, I suggest we control the scale." , we only invite the film critics we want to invite, and do not accept applications from others. We will do it once to gain experience, and then we can gradually expand the scale later. ”

Hearing this, Linyu agreed, nodded, and said yes.

"So this film festival really doesn't invite any actors?" Chen Siqi asked curiously.

Linyu said: "My idea is to either make it more star-studded, or not invite anyone at all, just invite film critics. In this way, we can ensure the style of this film festival. Although in reality The situation is that we don’t have that much money to organize a bigger film festival, but we can’t say that. It’s better to make this film festival niche, but with distinct characteristics. This is a film festival for film critics.”

"Okay." Chen Siqi also agreed with Linyu's idea.

Linyu finished talking to Chen Siqi about the matter, but did not leave immediately.

"Is there anything else?" Chen Siqi asked.

Linyu said: "When I came in just now, I saw you frowning. Did you encounter any problems? If you can, you can tell me. Maybe I can help you come up with some ideas."

"It's not me. I haven't encountered any problems. It's the movie Yan He is filming." Chen Siqi briefly told Lin Yu about the problems that Lu Yanhe's "The Mist" crew is currently facing.

Linyu pondered for a while and said: "Although this move is a bit damaging, if Simon accepts it, it may not be able to turn the crisis into an opportunity."

"Ah?" Chen Siqi didn't expect Linyu to have an idea so quickly.

"Didn't you tell me before that the crew wanted to promote the rumors of ghost possession on Yan He to gain attention?" Linyu said, "This is also true for Simon."

"You mean to let the crew market that Simon was possessed by a ghost and did so many outrageous things?"

"Of course not. Not many people would believe in the existence of ghosts at this time." Lin Yu smiled, "We are not fools, how can we be fooled by such a reason?"

Chen Siqi also laughed.

"What do you mean?"

"Isn't Simon in this movie just a person who did bad things and was avenged by a ghost?" Lin Yu said, "If the crew can use the image of Simon that has happened now to further ferment and spread the rumors about Simon's Li teamed up with actors Arne and Lily to isolate and exclude Yan He, an Asian actor, to shape the rumors of their racial discrimination, and then slowly released a little bit of the film's story outline and characters, provoking the public's response to The movie and the emotions towards these actors made everyone hate and hate Simon, and made everyone sympathize with Yan He. Then when the movie is released, who doesn’t want to see the three actors headed by Simon being played by Yan He as Asian ghosts? What about Revenge? The box office will definitely be a hit.”

"How could Simon agree to such a propaganda method that harms him? He will not cooperate, and his agency will immediately stand up and deny it."

"If Simon didn't drink and drive and didn't fight with others, he really wouldn't, but now these two things have caused great harm to his acting career. If he wants to reverse this situation, he can only continue to exclude Lu Yanhe. With this scandal, it turned out that all his actions were actually done under the arrangement of the crew to promote the movie," Linyu said, "The movie won the box office, and the producer came forward to explain the marketing plan, and Simon's team. Use this to clear him up, win-win."

Chen Siqi suddenly realized and looked at Linyu in surprise.

"Wow!"

Linyu: "It's true that Arne and Lily may not be willing to cooperate. This matter itself has nothing to do with them."

"Actually, their cooperation is not required," Chen Siqi said. "As long as Simon doesn't deny it, no one will believe it if the two of them stand up and deny it."

Linyu: "Yeah, but this method is really not very honorable."

Chen Siqi thought for a while and said: "We have given this idea that it is up to them to decide whether to do it or not. They are also responsible for whether it is honorable or not."

Linyu: "You should be careful about this matter. You are Yan He's girlfriend. If I say anything from you, if someone finds out and is exposed, the nature of the matter will change."

Chen Siqi: "Don't worry, this matter will never have anything to do with us."

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Simon's agent took the initiative to find Xinalin.

When Xinalin heard this solution from Simon's agent, her heart was actually shaken.

This risky approach may put Simon in a worse situation if he makes one mistake. If he fails to clear his name, he will still be stained with racial discrimination.

But Xinalin discovered that Simon's agent had made up his mind to do this.

In fact, Xinalin's eyes lit up as soon as she heard this plan and she was moved by it.

Xina Lin is a producer.

A producer's first priority is to make a movie that makes money, not a movie that loses money.

This is especially true for horror movies.

At least few people would say when making horror films, I am not making this film to make money, but to pursue art.

Therefore, if there is a good marketing method that can make "The Mist" a popular movie before it is released, and grab the audience's attention by relying on its extremely high topicality, she will definitely promote it.

Xinalin is not so pretentious and hesitant.

Her boyfriend Wendy even started working directly with the director because of the character styling. She could fire him if she wanted to for the stability of the crew and the smooth shooting. Of course, she would not worry about such a marketing method for this film. The specific impact of the film's cast.

Therefore, according to this consensus, Simon, who had just gotten into trouble twice, became the protagonist of racial discrimination this time.

Similarly, Lu Yanhe was completely in the dark and did not know the inside story. Just because of the image of such an innocent victim, he became known to many people following this incident.

Of course, the Chinese audience was most shocked by this incident.

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"Lu Yanhe actually acted in a horror movie?!"

"He was bullied by foreign actors on a foreign crew? He was ostracized? What a dog!"

"I don't understand. If Lu Yanhe is such a celebrity, why should he go abroad to suffer this? Are foreign movies so good? Isn't it good to film in China?"

"Isn't it said that Lu Yanhe has great influence internationally? He has a good relationship with top international film festivals. Why did he go abroad to shoot horror films instead of art films? It's very disappointing!"

"Don't you think it's a bad movie when you see a horror movie? Please see clearly. The director of "The Mist" is Mukken Sorge. Both the previous two movies have achieved great success at the box office! He is very popular in Europe and the United States. Famous horror film director!"

"That is, which famous foreign actor has not acted in a horror film? It seems that horror films are very cheap. Arne Bogut, Simon Schmid and Lily Williams are all rising stars in the United States. This movie also stars the famous British actor Jamie Wilson. It is a completely awesome production, and you are calling it a bad movie.”

"Have you understood the point? The question now is that Lu Yanhe was bullied on a foreign crew, okay? Damn it, these white-skinned pigs!"

"I'm so angry. Lu Yanhe is such an excellent actor and we value him so much. The crew of "The Mist" didn't protect him and let him be bullied. I will never contribute movie tickets to "The Mist"!"

"Where is Lu Yanhe's agent? What do you do for food?"

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This incident caused even greater shock in China than abroad.

And this means that soon, Lu Yanhe's army of fans jumped over the wall and came to overseas social media, where they crusaded against the crew of "The Mist" and Simon Schmid with righteous indignation.

Simon Schmid's social media was flooded with all comment sections within one day, and there was almost no words other than scolding him.

Arne Bogut and Lily Williams didn't even get close to each other on the first day. They directly posted photos of themselves with Lu Yanhe on the set, expressing that they had a good relationship with Lu Yanhe.

After Lu Yanhe knew what happened, everyone was stunned.

What the hell?

He was acting well on the set, so why was he being "racially discriminated against"?

He really wasn't racially profiled on this set.

Except for Wendy, he really hasn't met anyone else who doesn't take him seriously. It's not that Wendy doesn't take him seriously. He is so kind to the director. How can Lu Yanhe have the nerve to return him to the director? Because of racial discrimination.

On the set, Simon lowered his head expressionlessly.

Lu Yanhe looked at him like this and thought to himself, they didn't care about him, he just didn't talk much. Arne and Lily usually talked and laughed with him at the scene, so why did he become the Simon United Al in the report? What about squeezing him out with Lily?

Lu Yanhe thought about whether to speak up and explain.

He also noticed that his fans are now fighting everywhere to vent his anger.

Lu Yanhe didn't want them to be misled by wrong information.

"I'll explain it later, Simon." Lu Yanhe took the initiative to tell him, "Although we don't talk much, you are not as reported by the media."

Simon gave him a surprised look.

Lu Yanhe thought Simon was surprised that he was so good.

Who knew, Simon laughed mockingly.

"Don't you know anything?"

Lu Yanhe was stunned and looked at him in astonishment.

"What should I know?"

Ten minutes later, after learning that all this was actually a scene directed and performed by Simon and the crew, Lu Yanhe felt speechless and stunned for a moment.

He also didn't expect that after Xin Nalin tried to market "Ghost Possession" to him to no avail, she would use Simon's recent incident to play the "racial discrimination" card.

As long as it can be marketed and generate good box office, it seems that Xinalin can do anything.

Lu Yanhe was a little disillusioned, but felt that everything was reasonable.

Sure enough, a day later, people familiar with the matter began to reveal what kind of story "The Mist" was about.

This is not a simple horror film. This is a story about an Asian ghost who returns after three white men burn down his entire family, hunting him down and taking revenge.

— Don’t you want to see a racist like Simon being hunted down and avenged by an Asian like Lu Yanhe on the big screen?

The theme of the movie "The Fog" suddenly seemed to have hit the main artery of Internet sentiment. Various data indicators increased sharply, and the number of searches for this movie skyrocketed overnight.

For several days, while everyone was paying attention to the matter between Lu Yanhe and Simon, they also discussed the movie "The Mist".

Amid such discussions, the filming of "The Mist" has also come to an end.

Outside the studio, a group of paparazzi and self-media bloggers suddenly began to gather.

Lu Yanhe was almost slapped in the face with his cell phone, and was asked: "Were you really discriminated against on the set of "The Mist" because of your Asian identity?"

Lu Yanhe left without saying a word.

Of course, he couldn't be the one to expose the secret that the entire crew was guarding.

He wouldn't be happy just asking him to lie to cooperate with this marketing. If Simon really did this bad thing, he would definitely be happy to see it come to fruition and even add insult to injury. But not.

This surprised Muken.

"Actually, if he cooperates at this time, he may even fail miserably. With such a huge amount of attention, he may become famous in Europe and the United States." Mu Ken said, "Other actors encounter this kind of God-given opportunity. It must have climbed up along the pole.”

He heard his wife say confidently: "That's because they firmly seize every opportunity to become popular, no matter what kind of opportunity it is. But Lu Yanhe doesn't need to be known by everyone in this way, he can be upright and Be recognized by everyone and become popular openly.”

Mu Ken looked at his wife in surprise and asked, "Are you so confident in him?"

Hua Ruzhen said: "You are the director, and you saw Lu Yanhe's performance in "The Mist". Don't you have the confidence?"

"I admit that his performance is indeed outstanding, but I have also seen too many actors with good acting skills who were not recognized."

"That's someone else." Hua Ruzhen said, "Dear, don't use your Hollywood thinking to see an actor like Lu Yanhe. He is not a newcomer who has just stepped into the film industry. He is famous in China and at international film festivals. He has achieved outstanding results. Just wait and see, the movie "The Mist" will bring him great attention in Europe and the United States, and he will be the key to the success of your movie."

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