Brentwood, under the dark night, Ye Wei nodded to her, got into the car and drove away. After driving a short distance, he suddenly punched the steering wheel, then another, and then another. He stepped on the accelerator and accelerated, and the Volkswagen sped away.
If you want to take a picture, take it, if you don¡¯t want to take it, don¡¯t take it, who cares!
I don¡¯t have time to talk to you, so don¡¯t bother me!
Ye Wei did not drive home. He drove all the way to the parking lot on the beach in West Santa Monica and sent a text message to his parents, "I'm not going back for dinner."
Through the windshield, he looked at the dark sea ahead. Under the reflection of various lights and starlight, the sea surface was shining with hazy and sparkling waves, boundless. He got out of the car and walked to the beach. The cold sea breeze blew against him, just like his mood at this time.
Why? The results of "Little Miss Sunshine" are very good, and it has great hope of performing in the awards season. I have the opportunity to become the youngest Oscar nominee for Best Director.
The director's microphone for "Fantasy Elf" is right there. Regardless of whether he accepts it or not, and whether he cooperates with a major studio or not, his future is bright and his career is already on a high road. Moreover, this is his biggest hobby. This is my dream. It's really awesome to succeed with your dreams.
But why, at this moment, it feels like I have not won anything, but instead lost everything
"You are so contradictory." Thinking of this, Ye Wei scolded himself, think about your own affairs, and don't bother her anymore.
He took his mobile phone and flipped through the address book. He didn¡¯t want to call any girls, so he called Lev. After a few beeps, he was connected, ¡°Big Nose, where are you?¡±
"At home, I was just getting ready to solve today's homework. Brother Wei, what's wrong?" Lev asked.
"How many more are there? Can you go out and play tonight? I'm at Santa Monica Beach, can you come?"
"I can't do it tonight." Lev sighed with a headache. "I still have more than an hour of homework, and I still have to review it. The autumn semester is coming to an end, and I can't do it without studying recently."
"Forget it, I'm going to call some pretty girls" Ye Weixiao said, and then heard Lev shouting, "Where am I going!?" Ye Weiha said with a smile: "Your home. Just joking, Go ahead and be a nerd, I'll ask someone else."
After hanging up, he asked Bud and the others again, no matter what ethnic group they were, they were not allowed to come out, "He's so damn Harvard-Westlake."
Even if he wanted to call his best friend to come out to play, Ye Wei couldn't help but kick the sand a few times, "Come on! Come on!!" Suddenly he remembered "Fight Club", and then punched his chest and shoulders with a bang. "Come on!!" Punch out again
There is still a faint shadow on the tattoo stickers on both fists, l, n
Fighting with myself on the beach, falling to the ground, rolling, boxing, sweating all over despite the cold wind. He knocked himself over with a kick and fell down on the beach. He was panting heavily and suddenly became happy and laughed. "It's interesting, Ye Wei, you are really funny I'll spend the night here," You vagabond! ''Call me Governor!'"
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The next day, Wednesday, the weather in Los Angeles was very sunny. There was no rain in the forecast. It did not rain for most of the day. The bright sunshine also brought people a good mood.
However, Ye Wei¡¯s career fog has not diminished, but has become more foggy, because yesterday there was another invitation for a project from a major studio. Among the mainstream film studios, it is not just Paramount that is contacting him. In fact, six major studios, including Universal Pictures, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, Sony, and yesterday Disney, have all issued different invitations.
? It was nearly four o'clock in the afternoon, and school had already ended. After Ye Wei, Lev and others held a club activity, they were going to go bowling together at a nearby bowling alley.
¡°Brother Wei, you don¡¯t know how far Bud flew himself last time!¡±
"Shut up, I got them all!"
"Haha! It's been a while since we went bowling together."
Everyone was laughing and talking in the parking lot outside the school and walking to the car. Kerwin, Bud and Chen Nuo wanted to take Ye Wei's car. At this time, a text message came from Ye Wei's mobile phone. When he saw it, his footsteps suddenly stopped. It was from Lily: "I heard that someone is very confused? ^_^"
He shook his head and smiled. Lily is a kind girl. She probably felt sorry for what happened last night, as if there was something wrong, so she wanted him to be wordy. He pressed his phone and replied: "It's okay, I solved it through meditation. Thank you for your patience yesterday, lol."
Lily quickly replied: "Want to talk more? I'm free."
Ye Wei thought for a while, and pressed the reply while walking: "Thank you, no need, it's really okay, a group of us are getting ready to go bowling."
?"Can I come with you?" Lily's clear voice sounded.
how! Ye Wei looked up and saw Lily standing next to the Volkswagen less than ten steps ahead, wearing an autumn and winter white coat and jeans, carrying a light blue crossbody bag, her beautiful face smiling, and raising her hand in gesture. in mobile phone.
"Uh, Brother Wei, let's go first. If you want to come, come" Lev and the others walked away wisely, while Kerwin and the others took someone else's car.
"I'll be here soon." Ye Wei responded and walked towards Lily. She looked in high spirits and her eyes were bright and moving. It seemed that she was very happy on yesterday's date. He wanted to smile, but his face was calm and he said: "Lily, I'm sorry for yesterday. We are really fine. You don't need to be like this."
"No, I have to do this, I'm very curious about your career." Lily's tone was very unobjectionable, "Talk about "Fantasy Elf Events"?"
"It won't annoy you, right?" Ye Wei shrugged and smiled, "Because I talk a lot."
"Then you try to make it more interesting, so you won't annoy me." Lily put the phone back in her crossbody bag and decided, "I really want to laugh now."
"Okay" Ye Wei nodded, "Let's talk while bowling?"
"I don't know, I didn't drive here today, so you have to arrange it. After all, this is your talk show, bro." At the end of the sentence, Lily made a bunny ear gesture with her hands.
"You got me." Ye Wei couldn't help but laugh and said, bro (brother) is actually Bother (annoying person). At that moment, he walked towards the Coldwater Canyon open area opposite the school, raised his fist and shouted: "Go-to-hill!"
Looking at his back, Lily rolled her eyes with laughter, but it was not because of the second part of the sentence
Within a few minutes, the two of them were walking on the mountain road. The park area where celebrities usually hang out is far away, so there is no need to worry about paparazzi. The woods in winter were desolate, and the surrounding area was gradually deserted, but Ye Wei only told anecdotes and didn't say anything more like "I'm confused."
"Have you seen "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"? It's pretty good"
"Hey!" Lily interrupted him from starting another unrelated topic, frowning, "I just scolded you a few times, are you so stingy? Tell me."
"Lily, you know." Ye Wei looked at her bright eyes that were willing to listen. It wasn't stinginess, it was suitability. Then he thought about it, don't complicate things, it's a conversation between good friends. He started talking: "My career has reached a watershed. These two decisions will have a great impact. I don't want to mess them up."
Lily raised her head slightly and stared at him, her eyes unblinking, as if she was observing something.
"What?" Ye Wei was confused.
"I'm looking to see if you are viy or not." Lily tilted her head, "Because viy told me the answer a long time ago." He raised the corner of his mouth, and she smiled: "Be yourself. Bro, treat you like you are nothing. At that time, you had the courage to be yourself, why not now? I have always admired your courage, because not everyone has it.¡±
Ye Wei smiled and sighed, and said openly: "Jane, I can't say that fame and fortune have no impact on me, I just don't know what I want to do! I am an independent filmmaker and I am a Hollywood person. They are fighting against each other. I have many The contradictions are all fighting"
"When you have something, you're afraid of losing it. When you make a decision, you're afraid of regret. I'm the same way." Lily said softly, "Maybe everyone is like this."
"Everyone." Ye Wei nodded, "I'm not afraid of failure. If you fail, you can try again. I'm afraid what kind of person I will become." He looked up at the still bright sky, "And What filmmaking would be like for me.¡±
"You told me." Lily's eyes flickered, "Even if we are knocked down by this world again and again, don't despise those childish things in the past."
Ye Wei grinned when he heard this, as if he said it when he was dating her a few days before "Wedding Day" was released. He didn't even remember it, but she still remembered it.
"Others often advise you to be more mature, but, Wei, I advise you to be childish." Lily reached out and patted his shoulder again, "It's just a suggestion. You have to make your own decision. I can't tell you what you should do. Yes, I don¡¯t know if you can do it. When you said you wanted to direct LMS yourself, I thought you were exaggerating at first.¡±
"No, your opinion is very important to me." Ye Wei couldn't help but say, "I don't want to become a person that someone as important to me as you doesn't like. I'm sorry! You know what I mean."
Lily strode forward, not letting him see her painful frown, and took a deep breath, "You have to make your own decision, but you must ask me for my opinion I think what can be better than being happy? Be happy. How about making your own movies with a low budget?Is it really good? "
"You're right, you're right" Ye Wei thought thoughtfully, his eyes gradually clearing up, "What you said is so good. That's the truth. You are really a talented woman!"
"It's just a simple truth." Lily turned around and rolled her eyes at him, then used her right hand to pull the branches of the trees on the roadside, "I didn't say anything extraordinary."
"You can tell it's different, maybe it's the accent." Ye Wei smiled and said with a British accent: "Very good."
"What I just said was Meiyin!" Lily was really annoyed. There was something on her mind, but she definitely didn't know it. Suddenly there was a pain in her hand, and she screamed in pain, and the palm of her hand that was pulling the branch was pricked by a sharp thorn.
"Are you okay?" Ye Wei immediately ran up. Seeing that nothing was wrong, his expression immediately changed from nervous to funny, "Did you see what happened, Lily? This is why you provoked Branch-Bofu." Ugh, twig-big twig)¡¯s end! Hahaha!¡±
Lily opened her handbag unhappily, dug out a pack of tissues, took out a few pieces and wiped her palms, muttering: "Asshole"
Ye Wei shrugged, stopped laughing, and suddenly rushed towards the tree with overgrown branches and leaves viciously, kicked it, banged it several times, broke the offending branch again, and yelled: "See what happened?" What's up, Blanche Bove? This is what you get for messing with Lily! Say hello to ramet-twiggy!"
"Pfft, haha, what are you doing!" Seeing him acting crazy but looking so serious, Lily was struck by laughter and couldn't stop laughing.
The more he broke the tree crazily, the more she laughed uncontrollably, her stomach hurt, she burst into tears from laughter, but she still couldn't stop.
"Okay! I've avenged you." After almost destroying this innocent tree, Ye Weicai was finally willing to give up. Lily, who was bent over with a smile, stamped her feet and straightened up slowly, "Did you know that I am an environmentalist?" Ye Wei spread his hands: "I am the person who has done the most in the school for Operation Cuttlefish."
"You found it yourself." Lily smiled again.
The two of them continued walking towards the front of the woods, laughing and talking, as if what happened last night had never happened.
"Let me tell you another interesting thing. An invitation to star in "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End", this project invited me to play a supporting role."
"What's going on?" Lily was surprised, "Pirates? From the Black Pearl?"
"No, a large part of the story background of this episode will be set in Asia, Singapore." Ye Weixiao said, "They want me to play a supporting role, a role like a guard of the Asian captain, I don't know what it is. What. I told Brian that I would only consider it if it was a positive role."
Lily nodded in agreement, "That's reasonable, although you are pretty good at playing the villain."
"This difference is not something I would be interested in starring in. That Asian captain must be the villain, otherwise who would be Captain Jack and their enemies? There is a whole boat of people, including me. If I want to act, then I will bring something to Asia. "Good elements." Ye Wei said seriously, "We also need to consider the appearance. Even if it is a positive role, we will not act if the appearance is ugly."
Lily nodded again: "It's very reasonable, although you are quite ugly." Ye Wei continued: "But even if they all agree to me, I may not necessarily act in it. There are still many things to consider. You know the hostility between DreamWorks and Disney It depends on my schedule."
"Wow, it depends on the schedule! Like a superstar." Lily rolled her eyes and smiled sweetly.
"That's me!" Ye Wei turned around, "Scheduling is really a problem, Jane, you don't know how many projects I have been approached about recently, not just "Fantasy Elf", but also from the six major studios. I just thought about it." He said seriously: "I want the final editing rights. If anyone comes to talk to me about directing, give me the final editing rights first, and then talk about other things."
"It's hard to get, isn't it?" Lily knew it was hard to get the final right, but she didn't know how hard it was.
"There are only about a dozen people in Hollywood." Ye Wei stared blankly, "Anyway, I want the final editing rights. If anyone doesn't give it, we won't have to negotiate. I will produce independently. We will wait until the Golden Globe nominations are announced. If I were nominated, my voice would be greater.¡±
Speaking of this, Lily couldn't help but ask: "What's going on now? Golden Globe Awards?"
"The public relations department said the situation is not bad and it has been decided whether it will work or not. We will wait for the nominations to be announced."
¡°First of all, I wish you success in being nominated for Best Director!¡±
"I accept your good words!"
The two looked at each other, smiled, and walked away.