Chapter 1070: The Characteristics Here and Movies

The Characteristics Here and Movies. The screams of pedestrians on the road, and the police sirens constantly pulling in. Barbara, who was talking to Lan in the back seat, also couldn't help but look toward Detelan Street.

"What happened?", she held her cheeks, and her face was somewhat hot.

In Patricia's eyes, Barbara has always been a brave, bold, avant-garde girl walking at the forefront of the trend.

But in reality, she is far from as... bold as she appears.

Lan also looked toward the street in the distance, and then in Barbara's shocked gaze, a small black dot fell from a building, and then the second one.

"My God, what happened?", Barbara was somewhat frightened. She leaned back and looked at Lan with an expression of disbelief.

Lan soon took back his gaze, "This is Detelan. Do you know this place?"

Barbara nodded, still somewhat frightened, "Yes, I know Detelan, but what does this have to do with it?"

She once was also considered a person on the edge of the financial industry, working as a staff member in a fundraising scam company. To say this counts as the financial industry.

It can indeed be related to finance. After all, it is purely playing with money.

But to say that fraud is a part of the financial industry, it seems to be... a joke again.

However, when they recruited people, they would tell others that they were the financial industry.

Anyone engaged in the financial industry, and those who think they are engaged in the financial industry, can hardly not understand this place—

The financial holy land in people's hearts, Detelan.

Here possess the best traders, investors, and capital crocodiles in the Federation and even the world.

Investors all over the world have heard of those things that happened here, to them, and yearn for this place deeply.

The "Financial Lady" Barbara of the past also heard of here, and also once yearned for here. If it weren't for her also becoming a part of the scam, and then becoming a female actor by chance, perhaps she would also come here one day to find another way out.

And this precisely also let "Detelan," this place, stay in her heart in a relatively holy and perfect way.

Facing her confused eyes, Lan didn't mind explaining for her, "Those people, they must be people who failed in investment."

"Facing the debts they are unable to repay, they finally chose to escape by ending their own lives."

"Such things might happen once or twice in a few years in other places, Jincheng, Likalai State."

"But here, almost every month, every week, it will be staged once."

"It's just that the number of people participating this time might be slightly more."

Barbara couldn't believe Lan's explanation, "They bought stocks, even if they lost money, just sell them. Why would they carry debts?"

Just after she finished speaking, she seemed to already know the answer, "Are they borrowing money to invest?"

"I'm afraid so!", Lan pursed his lips and showed a relatively regretful expression, "There are always some people who want to borrow other people's chickens to lay eggs. If they are lucky, this chicken will lay some eggs for them."

"After these eggs are hatched, they are raised by them, becoming chickens that continue to lay eggs for them."

"But there is also a possibility that the chickens they borrowed haven't laid eggs yet, and because of some other reasons, they ran away or died."

"They have to bear the responsibility and debt of repaying a chicken, which might be 3,000 or 5,000 yuan, but these...", Lan flipped his wrist, "might be 30,000 or 50,000, 300,000 or 500,000, or even more."

"Bank loans, usury, and even embezzled public funds."

"People's desires are endless, Barbara. Didn't you also once want to achieve financial freedom through some simple logic?"

Originally, Barbara was still sighing about these people and the things they encountered, somewhat sympathetic.

But Lan's last sentence made her somewhat ashamed. She rolled her eyes, "Please, don't say this, I am very embarrassed!"

She caused her and her family to lose a sum of money, and more than 20 years of hard work returned to the initial state overnight. She was also very guilty for this.

But it's better now, the change in emotions, because being a female star can still earn some money.

Lan is very generous. A movie can have a salary of several tens of thousands, which has already made her one of the highest-paid female stars in the Federation.

Those lost in investment have already come back.

Perhaps it is because there are more people jumping off the building today, the police began to direct traffic, and the congested streets quickly became smooth.

After leaving that lively and prosperous intersection, Barbara's mood gradually calmed down.

"I never thought that the first deep impression this city left on me, which I will never forget in my life, would be like this."

Lan appeared very ordinary, "As long as you live here for a long time, you will get used to everything that happens here."

"People always have to come, and they will always leave."

The motorcade quickly merged into the traffic and disappeared.

Barbara came this time to participate in the premiere. The company has high hopes for this movie. They hope that this movie can not only gain something in terms of awards but also hope that the box office can be better.

After all, this is related to the subsequent development of screenwriters, directors, and other actors.

The next evening, after Lan took Barbara around New Jincheng, he was invited to participate in today's premiere.

There are many celebrities in the movie circle participating in today's premiere, directors, producers, and some shareholders and board members of companies.

Wanli Pictures has a very heavy weight in the Federation at this time. They took out the work to fight in the summer file this year. Whether it is because of interpersonal relationships or to see the quality of this movie, they will all come to participate.

The premiere was placed in the largest cinema in New Jincheng. By 8 o'clock in the evening, stars gathered outside the cinema, and a large number of reporters were here to capture the celebrities participating in the premiere, which was very lively.

There are also many movie fans watching, accompanied by every celebrity getting off the limousine, the movie fans will call their names with the greatest enthusiasm!

Perhaps this is one of the

Real life tells us that this world does not revolve around us, but after becoming a star, when those fans are right beside you, you are the center of the world!

When Lanse's limousine arrived here, more reporters raised their cameras. The welcoming host knew Barbara; as a currently popular female star, who wouldn't know her? Not to mention that she was on the list of attendees for this premiere and was the female lead of this film.

It was just that the welcoming host was a bit surprised that Barbara did not walk the red carpet with the male lead, which did not quite conform to the current procedural norms of premieres.

Cast members, the male and female leads, and if there are other relatively important supporting actors, they will walk together.

Of course, there is another possibility, which is the director walking with the female lead, but this pairing is relatively rare. If it happens, it often implies that the relationship between the director and the female lead might be somewhat unusual.

And just now, the male lead had entered the cinema alone; how could Barbara possibly be ranked behind the male lead?

This doesn't make sense! The welcoming host held the microphone, looked at the guest list, and said loudly, "Next, let us welcome the female lead of this film, and currently the hottest female star, Ms. Barbara, and..."

He paused for a moment, but quickly continued, "And the Honorary Chairman of the Board of Wanli Film Industry, Honorary Chairman of the Film Association, Mr. Lanse White!"

The limousine door opened. The moment the bright red high heels stepped out from inside, the fans began to scream and cheer wildly! Barbara revealed a charming smile and waved her arms at the people, which earned even crazier screams from the fans.

Sometimes Barbara also finds it hard to understand these people; some fans are too crazy, crazy to a degree that makes one unable to imagine.

She had heard before that outside the film set, some fans would rummage through the production crew's trash, looking for things from inside that might have been props used by some star to collect.

It sounds disgusting; one must know that there is everything in a trash bag.

Previously, someone even claimed to have found a blood-stained cotton pad used by an opera queen during her period and had even collected it.

Just this item, it is said, can sell for several hundred dollars in the fan trading market! These behaviors that make one unable to understand all happen here; one can only say that the mental state of the Federation people is just as... abstract and funny as the freedom they always boast about.

After Barbara came out, Lanse then stepped out of the car, and the flashes flickered even more crazily.

Although the fans did not know who Lanse was and were not very interested in that long string of titles just now, their focus was all on Barbara.

But the media reporters knew who Lanse was and understood his status in the film industry.

Being able to invite this big shot out shows that they are indeed very confident in this film this time.

Barbara held Lanse's arm and finished walking the red carpet. When a person has absolute confidence in their influence and status in this field, they will not linger on the red carpet for too long.

Soon, Lanse and Barbara arrived inside the cinema. At this time, some people took the initiative to approach, greet Lanse, and say a few words to him.

Some were people Lanse knew, and some were people Lanse did not know, but everyone wanted to know him.

The Film Association has developed very well in the past few years, and this is inseparable from the strong support of Lanse and Wanli Film Industry in all aspects—funds, influence, and even eliminating competitors and the like.

Although he rarely attends, almost never attends, the meetings of the Film Association, his influence is unmatched.

Being able to chat with him and get familiar might mean that in the future, there will be a time when one needs to rely on Lanse's face.

After Lanse dealt with them for a while, he was led by the host to the front-most seats.

Barbara was by his side throughout the entire process, including socializing with these people. She appeared to have more than enough energy and handled these social engagements very easily; this is where she is stronger than Patricia.

If it were Patricia, she might be relatively restrained and somewhat uncomfortable.

She is too simple; simple people cannot adapt to such complex occasions, which made Lanse involuntarily recall those words Barbara said to him in the car.

"Are you distracted?", the lights had already begun to dim. Barbara looked at Lanse, who was staring in a certain direction somewhat absent-mindedly, and asked.

Lanse turned his head to look at her, "Thinking about other things."

As he spoke, his attention was placed on the film.

The content of the film is actually very simple and straightforward. In this period, there were not many geniuses who emerged. If one were to use "realm" to describe the film content at this time, it would be "mountains are mountains, water is water"; everything is expressed in the most superficial places.

At a time when the level of education is not yet high, filming a movie too obscurely has no meaning.

It won't win awards, and it won't have box office, so every film is very straightforward.

Love is love, hate is hate.

The core main plot of the film is war—two, or rather more, people who had to be separated because of the war, constantly moving forward amidst war and pain.

Some people reunited in the end, but more people did not reunite in the end.

This kind of sad narrative is not a happy ending; precisely because of this regret, it can give people a more profound impact and memory.

The film is dominated by dark tones; in the dim trenches, armored vehicles and tanks are constantly speeding past overhead.

The soil kicked up by explosions falls like rain.

During this, some real footage filmed from the battlefield is interspersed. Under the exquisite technique of the editor, the people who were cut together cannot distinguish whether it is a movie or something that really happened, and can only constantly sigh and marvel.

With the advancement of the main plot, the young people who were once together become fewer and fewer, and everyone has injuries and disabilities on their bodies.

When the war ended, the male lead stood under the federal flag and, with a disabled hand, saluted the countless tombstones.

He placed the precious photo he held in his arms in front of the female lead's tombstone.

The camera finally gave a close-up of the photo. On the photo, twenty or thirty people stood together with smiles on their faces, their young faces full of unbridled youth and laughter.

The image shook slightly, and time seemed to travel back to before they rushed to the battlefield. The people in the photo all moved; they hugged each other and greeted each other, missing only the male lead.

They waved their arms at the male lead, and everyone said a farewell word to him.

Everyone "froze" there again, eventually turning into another photo.

The camera pulled back to the male lead. He turned and left this place, leaving behind only the tombstones covering the mountains and plains, and that flag constantly snapping in the wind.

As the list of cast and crew members began to appear, the lights in the cinema also began to brighten. Lanse held the armrest of the chair and stood up, beginning to applaud.

More and more people began to applaud for this film. From this film, they saw some things that they could not see in other films.

Cruel war brings more cruel and realistic thinking! A masterpiece! (End of this chapter)