King of Hollywood

“Wow!" a shock rang in his ear, confused Adrian was frightened and almost jumped off the lying couch, then he saw two smiling faces.

“Juliette, Deva, are you bothering Dad again?” Sophie burst out of the kitchen half-body screaming with blame and pity in her tone.

“Dad was so cute when he slept.” Juliette screamed softly, and Adrian grabbed her into her arms and kneaded her on her little face.

“How dare you say Dad's cute? Looks like you need to clean up, little girl!” Adrian made a nasty, harsh tone, but only pinched a few times, and Dava waved her fist and rushed up: “Dad, don't bully my sister! ”

Though he was nasty, the little guy who grabbed his hand so hard was very resolute, and then Sophie shifted the direction of the wind and said, "Ed, aren't you really going to compare these to the kids? ”

So “The Great Demon King" finally let go after pretending to be a few pinches, then the two sisters made a ghost face with Dad, then chuckled and slipped away, their emotions were so good that no one else could reach them. No wonder, apart from the twins, few half-sisters in the world are conceived at the same time and born at the same time, even less than a decade apart, so they are not twins.

With a lazy waist, Adrian stood up from the couch and had a good nap. Then he sucked his nose and slowly swallowed it to the kitchen door. I watched Sophie go back to the kitchen table and cut the dishes for a few minutes, then I reached behind her and hugged her waist and buried my head on her back neck and took a deep breath: “It smells so good that I can't help it. ”

An intoxicating look. I don't know if the phrase "I can't help it” refers to the dishes in the pot next to me or to Sophie herself.

But when he saw what Sophie had cut in his hand, he frowned slightly on his own: “Another... chorizo? ”

“Unfortunately, Mr. Cowell," said Sophie, turning her head and laughing, "I would only cook this kind of dish if I didn't like it. You can order takeout, you can go out and eat, or —— go back to Cannes! ”

“Absolutely not,” Adrian certainly wasn't stupid enough to flirt with Sophie up there. “Then the risotto is good, the cooking is still very good, and both Deva and Juliet love it. Besides, the two of us are in this little villa, playing with the kids. Of course you should eat home-cooked food, right? ”

Adrian did not stay in Cannes until the end of the festival, except for the fact that he did not participate in the festival, but only created momentum for Lost in Tokyo. There's also a reason Sophie promised to stay with her for two days in Paris. There's no other woman, just him and her. And two little guys, Juliet and Deva, in a little apartment on the banks of the Seine.

The small apartment has less space than a luxury villa. But with a warm atmosphere and kids, it's like a normal family.

So Scarlett's request to be alone at the festival was hardly difficult, which was almost entirely consistent with his plan, and, by the way, he could make small demands, such as leaving traces of them on the top floor of the Castle Gallery in Cannes and in the lush woods on the hillside.

Sophie didn't care about it. She was angry at Scarlett just because she dared to tease Adrian in front of her that day. In the last two days and Adrian's spare time, she would make two sentences, and it would soon adjust. She didn't know what kind of person he was. She was used to it.

“If you feel you have nothing to do, wash these dishes for me.” Sophie lifted her chin against the basket next to her.

“Wow, there's onions!” Adrian shouted in an exaggerated tone.

“What's the problem?” Sophie did not give him the opportunity to do so and immediately asked.

“No, of course not," Adrian grabbed his sleeve, "I just didn't like to cry because of the onion peel, which was bad, like some nasty guy. ”

“Oh?” Sophieton's curious eyes, “the director at the festival? ”

Now Adrian's on the beam, he just said it randomly, but in a few seconds he reacted: “No, that kind of person is not qualified, it's just a... idiot. ”

“But I heard he was the best director in the world," Sophie said, deliberately, “and a lot of people in Europe liked his work, and he got gold palms last year, um, the year before. ”

“Just bragging about it. Adrian understates," A man who has never been to the United States has shot something that could happen anywhere, and then says it's his American trilogy... and then associates himself with a performance in front of me, and frankly, I think he's out of his mind. ”

Simply put, Adrian encountered a less clear-minded arrogant man at the festival, director Lars from Denmark? Von Tyre, who picked gold palms from Dancer in the Dark in '00, also made a dogma95 declaration at the Sundance Film Festival in' 96, advocating live radio, handheld photography, no post-dubbing, and more.

Many expressed support at the time, as well as a number of well-known directors, but unfortunately these foolish old declarations were then shattered by the tide of the Titanic, and even his own filming of Dancers in the Dark was not fully complied with. Of course, it's not difficult for a thick-faced guy who openly promotes "I'm the best director in the world" to eat what he says, not only that he often makes some remarkable remarks in public, but this time at a liquor party, he says something big to Adrian ——

“It shouldn't be Americans, immigrants to France or Denmark, this should be the place to stay! ”

“How can you give up the true spirit of a movie if you look at those films you once directed and what you are now?! ”

“I should have made those films, and I could have made them. You shouldn't be so corrupt! ”

“Why don't you introduce Nicole? Kidman met me? I have a movie just right for her. ”

You are full of nonsense, and you are not polite at all, and you ignore what others feel when you speak for yourself. They didn't give people a chance to talk, and many of the well-educated people had changed their faces. No wonder you can say something in public about your sympathy for the Nazis, which, of course, is later.

Yes, Adrian knew this man, and naturally felt very, very remarkable at the time when he was obsessed with European films in school in his previous life, when he had seen his work in what he used to call the "middle two” period. Fortunately, the “middle two” period of the previous life was relatively short. Soon I woke up and looked at the movies, besides pretending or pretending, just to make it for an uncomfortable purpose. Not some art.

In this life, you've opened your eyes and practiced so much, you're starting to feel like Yvonne? Naturally, a group of European directors represented by Tyre are lazy enough to deal with these self-righteous people.

Excuse me. ”Adrian asked directly at the time.

“Sorry, never heard of it.” In Von? After introducing himself in an uncomfortable way, Tyr made a look of memory and shrugged his shoulders. Without waiting for the other party to react, he left, as if he had been corrupted by a fly.

They say Von? Tyr was so pale. And then, at the film festival, he started attacking him, saying bad things, not just to people. He also claims to be fortunate that he did not serve as a judge at the Cannes Film Festival in '00, otherwise he would definitely try to stop himself from taking gold palms, which is a laugh. Interestingly enough, there were some people who responded to him, and there were pieces in the paper that were more biased towards Von? Tyre reported.

But Adrian wasn't paying any attention, and the more people took care of him, the more vigorous he was going through the festival, and if he was still making noise, then let him go straight to hell, which was no easier than crushing an ant.

“To understand that this kind of person does not want art, but the kind of crane chicken feeling, as if he is the one who understands, the other is either a fool or a guy who buries himself for the benefit of not seeing the truth.” This is what Adrian concludes.

“Okay, okay, I know you don't like European directors and movies...” Sophie shrugged.

“Hey, when did I say that, at least Luc and his movie, I still think it's good.” Adrian interrupted immediately, and as he washed the vegetables, he simply shifted the subject: “Okay, let's not talk about this, let's change the subject, for example... which cinema is more spacious or something. ”

“Oh, here we go again," Sophie flipped a white eye, "and now I remember, Ed, what you did to me that night at that little theater, that was shameful! ”

“Why don't we do it again,” Adrian said softly, "a romantic journey from the Tower of Paris to that little cinema? ”

“By the way, take another trip around the streets and alleys of Paris, huh?” Sophie squeezed her eyes, raised her knife and shook him with her tip.

“Hey, Sophie, I don't think that's a good idea?” Adrian raised his hands the first time, and then there was Deva's voice at the kitchen door: “Wow, Mom's going to kill Dad. ”

Sophieton's fashion couldn't go on. He plugged the knife into the plate and looked at the two little dots of his head with his hands and hips: “All right, you two, stay out there honestly! We're eating soon. Don't run away! ”

And the little guys laughed, and they went out, and they didn't know if it was Deva or Juliet: "Yeah, Mom's mad! ”

“Now you know how small they are?” Adrian Haha laughed and turned the subject off before Sophie moved her anger onto herself: “By the way, there are two things I would like to tell you, although I would have liked to wait a while longer, but it seems good to tell you now. ”

“Oh?” Sophie picked the eyebrows.

“The first is, I think Sophia's right, and I happen to have an interesting idea here, so I don't know if I'd be interested in trying.” Adrian asked very seriously.

Although after the short film, under his guidance, she can basically face those criticisms calmly, it is impossible to say that she doesn't care, after all...

“What is it?” Sophie immediately asked.

“A short film about the supermarket, don't worry. I know, I'm going back to Los Angeles to busy a movie, and it's not too late for us to talk about it after it's closed, and I was just using it to figure out how to fix the flaws that came out of this short film.” Adrian said so.

“Got it.” Sophie nodded. The faint loss flashed between the eyebrows and went to get the knife to continue cutting carrot pieces.

Adrian smiled in his eyes and walked behind her and hugged her again from behind: "Hey, aren't you going to hear another thing? ”

“Go ahead, I'm listening.” Sophie replied faintly.

“I remember a record once, right?” Adrian's tone carries a slightly indescribable drama.

The hand paused. But it immediately began to go on: "What, are you going to let me switch to a singer? That's not gonna work. That album was pretty bad. Everybody said I wasn't good for singing. So don't add me to the list of actors, writers and actors. ”

“But I'm working on a movie, and I need to sing inside. What do I do?” Adrian deliberately asked in an embarrassing tone.

“You can find someone to sing with. Anyway, it's not like there's no record company under AC Media... Wait, what are you saying?!” Sophie suddenly turned her head. Some look at him unbelievably.

“The movie is almost over and the later part is simple, and I don't have to worry too much about Hacker Empire and Ring King, so I want to make another movie after three or four months off. It will then be shown at the end of next year.” Adrian said not slowly.

Though flat, Sophie's breathing was inevitably getting a little heavy. As one of his women, how can he not understand what it means to be a female lead in a film he directs himself?

She stared at him. The corner of his mouth trembled slightly, and it took a while to ask softly: "Really? ”

“Of course, but there is a lot of preparation, and a lot of training is needed. This is a biographical film. It will be very, very hard not only to make up the look of each other, but also to learn how to sing, speak, and all kinds of deities, while also taking time to prepare short films.” Adrian smiled softly.

“As long as I think I can, I can.” Sophie closed her eyes and leaned all over Adrian's arms.

Then, a faint, unspeakable feeling swung back in the kitchen until... the burning smell came out of the pan.

“Don't think we don't know, we're going out to eat tonight because Mom's cooking up the food. Don't lie to us!” That's what Juliet and Deva said when they slept that night.

By the end of May, when the 55th Cannes Film Festival came to an end, Adrian had returned to Los Angeles to continue filming The Wicked Head, and despite the widespread attention that Lost Tokyo attracted at the festival, he had crossed his arms with the loss of gold palms. Although the European Film Festival treats female directors less harshly than Oscar, it is not easy to win a grand prize, not to mention that Sofia is American.

Adrian, however, has somewhat changed something, and Sofia won the Jury Award, not none, even though she didn't get the gold palm. And for some reason, getting gold palms this year is Italian director Marco? Belocchio's "Religious Moments" instead of…

From the start of the shoot, it took about five business days to seal the "Demon Head" mirror, and the star Gwyneth finally relieved herself and finally started losing weight without wearing ugly makeup. In fact, as early as Adrian went to the Cannes Film Festival, she started losing weight consciously, just not so intensely, so when Adrian came back, although her body was no longer particularly swollen, it was fine to continue shooting.

“Suffer, dear Gwinnie, it's worth it.” That's the first thing Adrian said to her after she closed the mirror.

“Thanks, I just want to get back to where I was and I don't want to endure another day!” Gwyneth did not answer with anger.

“I promise I'll give you a big surprise next year if nothing goes wrong.” Adrian blinked his eyes and said, "Let Xiao earn all the grievances of the past. ”

He didn't shy away from Annie, and Annie listened with her ears up, and it seemed like she should know what she was doing best.

After the completion of Demon Head, he relaxed a little -- albeit only in Europe -- and attended Jack? The premiere of Chen Xin's film, Westward Wailong. Summer break has arrived, and all the films targeting this period are ready to land on all the estates, Jack? Chen's current popularity in the United States makes it very appropriate to arrange Westward Willon at this time.

The film is also a newline investment, Lin Zhiling is also the lead actress, although it is a vase actress, so it doesn't matter if he attends the next premiere.

“Thank you very much for coming, Mr. Corwell.” Jack? Chen is as enthusiastic as ever.

“You're welcome, Mr. Chen, I've always loved movies.” Adrian replied with a smile.

He knew why he was so enthusiastic, and thanking him for attending the premiere was one reason. After all, Adrian was one of Hollywood's most powerful people, and it was another thing to want to cooperate. Even though this is Hollywood, not Hong Kong. He and Jett? Lee also temporarily let go of some of the old contradictions, but that kind of competitive mind is still necessary, and Jett? Lee's big part in Hacker Empire 2 is already well known, and the mainland has already set aside a spot for the film, Jack? How could Chen not want to also work with him to take himself one step further, unfortunately...

“What do you think of him?” Wait for Jack? After Chen left, Adrian asked Lin Zhiling beside him. He did not hold her in public at all, and she was equally generous and affectionate to him.

“Not bad, very good at taking care of people," Lin Zhiling said, “Rest assured, although he does have some thoughts, he won't dare. ”

Adrian couldn't help but laugh. Basically, two or three dignitaries who do entertainment in the media should know by now that Lin Zhiling is his banned, so whether it's with Jack or not? Chen Xi Wei Wei Long still went to the mainland to perform "Heroes", and she was treated pretty well.