Chapter 299

Cao Yang drove to the hotel where Lv Yi was staying, picked her up, and asked: "Why are you in Shanghai?"

Lv Yi also asked at the same time: "Why is Cao Dao in Shanghai?"

Alright, they asked the same thing.

Lv Yi laughed out loud and said: "We really have a tacit understanding."

Cao Yang drove while smiling and said: "Some private matters. I bought a house here when it opened in 2004. It has started to be delivered one after another recently, so I came to take a look."

Lv Yi nodded. She knew that Cao Yang must be very rich, and it was normal to buy a house in Shanghai, so he didn't have to stay in a hotel every time he came to Shanghai, which was quite good.

However, she subsequently had some thoughts. If the price was right, should she also buy a house in Cao Dao's community? Being close to the water gets the moon first.

"Where did Cao Dao buy the house?"

"Zhenyuan, in Gubei, Changning."

Cao Yang replied, and then followed the previous topic and asked: "Why are you also in Shanghai?"

Lv Yi secretly remembered it. Gubei Zhenyuan, right? I'll come to see it when the time comes. I hope it won't be too expensive. If it's expensive, I won't be able to afford it.

She smiled and explained: "Director Li An wants to film a novel adaptation, someone recommended me, so I came to take a look."

"Li An?"

Cao Yang frowned and asked: "Zhang Ailing's 'Yuan Nu' collection of novels? 'Lust, Caution'?"

Lv Yi thought for a while, then shook her head and said: "I haven't heard of the 'Yuan Nu' collection you mentioned, but it is indeed adapted from Zhang Ailing's short story."

Cao Yang's driving speed couldn't help but slow down. He was silent for a moment, but still asked: "Did you take it?"

Lv Yi had already been labeled as a "Cao Girl." If she took this film, it would indeed damage the name of "Cao Girl."

Lv Yi is not Tang Wei and doesn't need "sacrifice" to become famous. She has already become a hot new generation female star by virtue of 'Black Swan'.

Also, the values of 'Lust, Caution' are problematic. Praising the love with a traitor? Praising the Stockholm syndrome that comes from "long-term intercourse"?

Its core viewpoint is that national affairs are nonsense, and only personal feelings are real.

Damn!

This novel and film once again confirmed what Zhang Ailing herself said: The passage to a woman's soul is the vagina.

Alright, although films can let a hundred flowers bloom, they can't let underworld flowers bloom.

You can have pornography, and even violence, but your butt can't be crooked, right?

Some people say that the film and television field and the financial field are the places where those things are most common.

Cao Yang used to agree with the second point; those people really do anything for money, and he once reserved his opinion on the first point.

Now that he thinks about it, this sentence might be correct.

Not to mention anything else, the so-called "Pseudo-Manchukuo Association" destroyed in 2019 is the most typical example?

It is said that behind this, there is also the funding and power support of those South Korean sticks...

Cao Yang thought a bit too much; that organization hasn't been officially established yet, but there must have been a loose alliance long ago.

Parking the car on the side of the road, if Lv Yi hadn't mentioned 'Lust, Caution', Cao Yang would have forgotten about such a thing.

Then, he remembered again that after this film was filmed, there was actually a chorus of praise in the film and television circle, thinking that this was art?

Art has no borders, but directors and actors have borders.

It must be said that Old Mouzi must be criticized. It was he who, as the chairman of the Venice jury next year, joined forces with Old Ma to get the Golden Lion for 'Lust, Caution' in Venice!

"What's wrong? Did I say something wrong?"

Seeing Cao Yang frowning and stopping the car, Lv Yi's heart was beating like a drum. She didn't say anything, did she? What's going on?

Immediately, she remembered the question Cao Yang asked just now and hurriedly said:

"Cao Dao, don't worry, I didn't know at first that this film had passionate scenes. I talked to Director Li An today and only then did I know there were passionate scenes. I couldn't possibly accept it, and I've already pushed it away."

Cao Yang said "um" and first said to Lv Yi: "It's not your reason, I thought of something."

After thinking about it, he said to Lv Yi again: "You are right not to take this film. With your current fame, you don't need to film passionate scenes to hype it up."

"Um um."

Lv Yi nodded hurriedly, and also raised her hand as if swearing and said seriously: "Cao Dao, don't worry, I, Lv Yi, am not that kind of person, and I will definitely not take films with passionate scenes."

"I'll make a call first, and then take you to eat."

After Cao Yang finished speaking, he called Han Zong of China Film Group. It seemed that China Film Group also had a share in this film.

"Han Zong, consulting something."

Han Zong was originally having a meeting with the heads of several cinema chains related to China Film Group. Mainly because 'Inception' was too explosive and the word-of-mouth was good, he had to urge these heads to keep a close eye on the box office and must not mess around.

In this era, "stealing box office" is still a very common thing. Even if it is networked, it is useless. Printing other movie tickets and watching other movies is just a basic operation.

There are many other means.

Now that 'Inception' continues to be explosive, Han Zong is afraid that these cinema chain heads want to "make" extra money, so he must remind everyone.

Not only that, he also arranged many "inspectors" to go deep into every city, not asking to catch anything, but just to let people see the attitude and make them afraid to do such things blatantly.

Receiving Cao Yang's call and hearing this relatively formal tone from Cao Yang, not calling him Jiang Shixiong, Han Zong's heart skipped a beat. Did something bad happen?

"Little Junior Brother, what's wrong? If someone in the company who doesn't have eyes offended you, tell me, no matter who it is, I will find a way to deal with him."

He hurriedly expressed his position, thinking that someone inside the company offended Cao Yang, or someone "stealing box office" was caught by Cao Yang.

Cao Yang sighed secretly; he was still in a hurry.

So he adjusted his attitude and said with a smile:

"Jiang Shixiong, it's like this. I am now the vice chairman of the Director Association anyway. Someone wrote me an anonymous letter saying that recently some directors want to move traitor literature to the big screen.

I don't know the specific situation, and the person who wrote the anonymous letter doesn't know the Director Association either. He thought the Director Association manages this kind of thing?

The Director Association is just a social organization, with the purpose of uniting film workers, maintaining the dignity of directors, protecting the rights and interests of directors, improving the level of film and television culture, and promoting director art exchanges between international and cross-strait and Xiangjiang.

However, I thought about it repeatedly. As a director, as a Huaxia person, I think traitor literature should be spurned. How can it be praised instead? Don't you think so, Jiang Shixiong?"

Han Zong breathed a sigh of relief after hearing Cao Yang's words.

Scared the hell out of me, I thought someone inside the company offended Little Junior Brother.

It's good that it's not, it's good that it's not!

Then he reacted again, someone wants to film a traitor literature film? With a traitor as the protagonist?

Damn, these people are really bold, this needs to be investigated carefully.

(End of chapter)