Chapter 200 Ins and Outs (1 million words, don't raise it!)
"I want to meet the heroine today. Have you checked her identity?"
Of course, Gu Ao cannot reveal his meeting with Li Gen, he still has this measure.
So he could only conduct an undercover investigation by himself, to be precise, starting with interrogating Cameron.
However, Cameron's answer surprised him: "Of course I checked that Princess Tiffany came to visit the state with Rainier III and Princess Kelly - don't you know, when Princess Kelly was in Hollywood, she was the best friend with President Li Gen?
So after learning that President Li Gen won the election in November, the Monaco royal family came to visit in a friendly manner than other countries. After the visit, His Highness Prince Rainier III returned to China. However, Princess Kelly and Princess Tiffany were stranded in California for a while.
I suspect that it is because President Li Gen stood up for the film's attitude of "voting for the safety of the working environment of the photographer union" in the final canvassing stage, so it attracted the attention of his old friends. I think you, as an investor, must have more inside information than me."
"Okay, I admit that after I returned to China, I was busy with other things and never took your situation seriously." Gu Ao shrugged helplessly, "But so too, you have directed others to make movies for two months, but I have never asked her why she came and why?"
Cameron was innocent: "I asked some questions, but the other party has a noble status, so I can't ask too much."
"Then arrange for me to see her."
“As you wish.”
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A few hours later, Gu Ao contacted the other party until dinner and rushed over to visit - because the crew was on holiday today, Princess Kelly took Princess Tiffany out for an outing. In the era without a cell phone, it was really not easy to contact him.
The other party lives in a luxurious manor villa on Beverly Hills and looks like a veteran insider.
"Your Highness, this is the investor of this film, Gu from China." Cameron introduced it uncomfortable.
"No need to be so restrained. After all, I was also an actor. I didn't expect that now Chinese people can invest in Hollywood movies and let Ronald stand on the stage. The world is becoming more and more open, which is worthy of gratitude." An old woman about 50 years old, who still has charm, was elegant and polite.
The Ronald mentioned in her mouth is naturally the nickname of President Li Gen, which shows that the two had a good relationship back then.
"I'm very happy to know you. I have no malicious intentions. I just want to guarantee the benefits of my investment. So I really want to know what motives I am using for such a movie."
Gu Ao asked politely.
Before he came, he finally took the time to make up for common sense and roughly knew the other party’s origin:
First of all, Monaco doesn't need to be introduced. This is a "principality" in Europe, with a population of only tens of thousands. It is located on the Mediterranean coast in southern France and a small casino country near the border with Italy. That casino is the famous Monte Carlo.
To put it bluntly, when deep learning artificial intelligence became popular in later generations, that is, when Google's AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol in Go, two concepts in the field of artificial intelligence were very popular, namely "Monte Carlo Tree Structure" and "Convolutional Neural Network". It is said that AlphaGo was trained through these two conceptual architectures.
The so-called "Monte Carlo tree structure" refers to Monte Carlo's Casino Monte Carlo.
The reason for this is that it is named because a series of big data training algorithms that start from the probability level, do not know the cause and effect, know the truth but not the reason. The only sources of statistical laws are all derived from a set of "Monte Carlo Laws" summarized by a group of French mathematicians in the early years.
To put it bluntly, it can be roughly understood as a mathematical principle learned from gambling. If you really want to explain it, you can write hundreds of thousands of words. Just watch the fun and know this conclusion, we won’t be able to do it anymore.
However, a casino can make future generations of probability theories, statistical theories and big data artificial intelligence algorithms named after it, and it can also indirectly show the popularity of this casino in the minds of Europeans. It can be said that when you think of probability and gambling, you mention this place name.
Monaco's status in Europe is roughly equivalent to Australia's county in East Asia, Vegas in North America, and later Dubai in the Middle East, and is the world's four major casinos.
Then, now the prince of Monaco is Rainier III, his wife is Princess Grace Kelly, and her little daughter Princess Tiffany,
(In history, the monarchs that remained from the "principality" level in Europe were not qualified to be called kings, that is, kings. Because their country was too small and had a low level, the monarchs of Monaco could only be called "prince", and similarly, there were "grand dukes" from Luxembourg and Liechtenstein.)
The Princess Grace Kelly, who was born in the early years as a Hollywood actress, was a popular actress in the late 1940s to mid-1950s. At that time, she was the two noble jade girls who were known as Audrey Hepburn.
Kelly and Hepburn are the same age as Hepburn has worked in many movies and have a good personal relationship. Among them, Hepburn won the Oscar for 54 years for "Roman Holiday" filmed in 1953, and Kelly won the Oscar for 55 years for "The Country Girl" a year later, which was awesome.
But the reason why Hepburn was known to the Chinese later was that Kelly didn't seem to be so famous. It was just because Kelly was married to Rainier III as a princess in the second year after Kelly won the actress. So she quit the world.
This should be easy to understand. Just like Cherie Chung was actually no less popular than Maggie Cheung when she filmed the film, but Joey Chung got married and retired from filming, she was definitely not as famous as Maggie Cheung for her lifelong acting career.
Princess Kelly had a good relationship with Li Gen, a male star who had a good time in Hollywood before she got married in 1956. Although Li Gen is a teenager older than her, men are still very charming when they were in their thirties. In addition, Li Gen was really handsome when she was young and became the leader of the Actors Union, making female friends is very relaxed.
After Li Gen won the election this time, the Prince of Monaco and the Princess brought their youngest daughter Princess Tiffany to congratulate each other. Li Gen was also very nostalgic when she saw her old friend.
However, this Tiffany is an absolute little devil. Although she is only 16 years old, she has not been doing her job since she was a child. After graduating from junior high school at the age of 14, she didn't want to study as formally as her elder sister and second brother. In high school, she directly chose an art school in Paris.
But her father and mother were too spoiled and did not need her to inherit the throne, so she was used to indulging. As a princess, she actually worked as a model, performed on stage plays, made short films for a year... and had everything.
She was not satisfied. She felt that the movies she had encountered in France were too literary and hypocritical to please her, and she was not as wild and unrestrained as Americans. After this time, she took advantage of the family banquet hosted by the president and acted coquettishly at Li Gen, saying, "What's wrong with the actor? Can't actors also be president of the United States?" and ran her parents and said that she wanted to see in the United States.
Princess Kelly has a bad background and has been a Hollywood actress. She was so entangled that she had no choice but to compromise and promise to find a safe crew and give her some experience.
Then, Li Gen just stood up for the Terminator in the last moment before Election Day.
They felt that the production of a prestigious person like Li Gen must be very serious and there would be no filth. And after inquiring about the script, there was no emotional scene, it was a philosophical battle between humans and artificial intelligence, so they used it to deal with it.
Princess Kelly may not have the idea of "If she doesn't want to act, she will take the opportunity to kill her evil thoughts."
Unexpectedly, she underestimated the level of this daughter's devil.
Princess Tiffany thought the character was very fierce and ostentatious, so she wanted it. Princess Kelly had to revisit her old place. After nearly 25 years of leaving Hollywood, she lived back to her old residence and stared at her daughter who was experiencing life crazy.
In addition, Gu Ao can also learn about the above content through prior understanding and interrogation at this moment.
But there is also some evidence to prove the level of Princess Tiffany's demon, no one on Earth knows it now.
Including Gu Ao himself, he had never paid attention to this kind of gossip in his previous life - that is, in the original history, two years later, on September 14, 1982, Princess Kelly would die at the hands of her daughter Princess Tiffany.
The little devil was less than 17 years old and rushed the car to 110 mph on the highway (note that it is miles or not kilometers), and then got into a car accident. The princess wore a seat belt in the driver's seat herself, so she was seriously injured. Her mother did not wear a seat belt in the back seat and was hit and killed on the spot.
So it is no wonder that a princess who cares nothing seriously makes a crazy choice.
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"...Gu, you crew was indeed someone who asked me for help after listening to President Li Gen's introduction. I know that my daughter's acting skills may not be very good. If this leads to a loss in the box office of the movie, her father will pay the bill, and I also know the industry rules. Our Monaco royal family can afford this money.
If the rebellious girl wasn't too rebellious and looked down on French and Italian directors, I would have no problem with a crew to play with her. But I know that if it wasn't released, she would be unhappy."
Princess Kelly told Gu Ao in a kind manner, and finally showed up like this.
Of course Gu Ao knew that the Monaco royal family could afford money - Prince Rainier III's status in Europe is roughly equivalent to the status of the Australian gambling king Stanley Ho in Asia.
How rich is he who can make the per capita GDP of Monaco's 30,000 to 40,000 US dollars and the per capita income of 80,000 US dollars? (Basically, if the per capita GDP is reduced by minus per capita income, it is roughly equivalent to the royal income plus government income, but the government income still needs to be reinvested into national construction and provide welfare to the people)
However, since Gu Ao knew that "Terminator" could not be compensated, he would not receive another promise in vain:
"Your Highness, you misunderstood. I came to visit myself today, not to have any doubts about Ling Ye's acting skills. I also believe that this film cannot lose money, it is just a matter of how much you make. So you don't have to make a promise."
He had seen Cameron's ngs just now, and he could see that Princess Tiffany's acting skills were still good. The independent temperament that was most needed in the later plot of the film was obvious. At first glance, she was used to it since childhood, and she was very similar without acting.
Gu Ao did not rely too much on history like other rebirths or time travelers, and felt that actors who did not leave a reputation in history must have poor acting skills.
Put yourself in your shoes: I am an Oscar winner, and my inheritance and influence from childhood, how bad can my daughter be? Can she be worse than other newcomers? I haven’t become a famous actor in history because of my status as a princess and I have no chance to perform.
"Since Mr. Gu is so open-minded, we won't stick to it. Because of your friendship, I'll give you some souvenirs." Princess Kelly saw that he was so easy to talk to, and asked the maid to take out an envelope containing a gold card.
"If you have the opportunity to go to France in the future, you can stop by Monaco to experience it. With this card, you can enjoy a $1 million purchase on the 'Princess Caroline' gambling ship - everything you can think of should appear on the ship, there are all there."
"Thank you." Gu Ao accepted this not-so-value thing out of politeness.
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ps: Today is the fourth update, and tomorrow will be the second update. Anyway, it’s the same. Let’s go to 1 million words first. 1 million words! Don’t keep it!
Chapter completed!