King of Hollywood

The next few days were still the same as before. Adrian and Kate went to the sights, tasted the food, visited the local customs, and occasionally asked about "Memory Fragments", as if coming to Berlin was really just a vacation.

Although a series of films with different styles such as "The Silence of the Lambs" have been released in various theaters designated by the film festival, the attention of "Memory Fragments" has dropped a lot, but the popularity has been spread, and film critics are very fond of Dennis and Joe. Her acting skills have been praised and criticized -- for Kate, it is either very good or bad -- plus Laverne's ability to show that there is no need to worry about the promotional work of the film.

Because of this, Adrian let it go, anyway, he didn't expect to win any awards at the Berlin Film Festival. It's just that the reality is often unexpected. At the award ceremony two weeks later, "Memento" actually won the special jury award!

"Thank you to the judges for awarding this award to me..." Don't look at Adrian talking about thanking a large number of people when he came to the stage to accept the award, but he was muttering in his heart whether the judges had lost their heads.

Although the Special Jury Award of the Berlin Film Festival and the Venice Best Newcomer Award are of the same nature, they represent the recognition of the judges of the film festival anyway. Although the judges of the film festival come from all over the world, it is the filmmakers in Germany and the surrounding areas who can really make decisions or influence the results at critical moments. Film festivals such as Venice, Cannes, San Sebastian, etc. This is the case, and Oscar is no exception.

These film festivals or film awards all have their own themes, so naturally, awards will not be randomly awarded to films that do not fit the theme. As I said before, the theme of the Berlin Film Festival is politics, and the theme of "Memento" has nothing to do with politics. In addition, the best director has already been awarded to Jonathan Demme-"The Silence of the Lambs" is somewhat political, Like the kidnapped senator's daughter -- there's no reason to give the consolation prize to another American movie. So why did the judges hand over the special jury award to Adrian?

Adrian was very puzzled by this, and he didn't understand it until he had a few words with Laverne and combined his own cognition. The current Berlin Film Festival is far inferior to the Berlin Film Festival 10 years later. Although it wants to catch up with Venice and Cannes, there is always a big gap for various reasons. Even the title of one of the three major European film festivals Very reluctantly. Now that the two Germanys have just been reunified, this gap has further widened, and Adrian just won the Best Newcomer Award at the Venice Film Festival.

Never before has a director been able to produce two high-quality films in just a few months, one of which won a lot of praise and did well at the box office, while the other was also in the top of the critics' list. It got quite high reviews there, even surpassing the first one. That being the case, it is not a big deal to award him two special jury awards. Anyway, this award is basically consolation, and there are two more. It can't even be inferior to the Venice Film Festival, right? Besides, "Memento" is fully qualified to win the award.

In fact, to put it bluntly, the film festival is actually a cake, as long as you are qualified, you can share it, but whether you can get it depends on your luck. After understanding these, Adrian no longer took it to heart, and Laverne would naturally make good use of the award he won to promote the release of the film.

After the awards ceremony, the Berlin Film Festival, which also took two weeks, came to an end. Adrian returned to Los Angeles after sending Kate back to London for another two days.

The next thing is naturally to wait. The Berlin Film Festival opened on February 4 and closed on February 18, and the end of the first Gulf War was February 28.

Of course, Adrian is not idle. The North American distribution of "Memento" was assigned to Universal and then began to live in front of the typewriter. When London was in Berlin, Kate asked a lot about the novel content of "Tomb Raider", and Adrian's plan added the script of "Philadelphia Story".

Generally speaking, it is still very comfortable, unlike the tense one that stayed in the editing room all day more than a month ago. The only regret is that Kate is not around, especially when I think of her fiery carcass and how she looks tactfully under his training. Since the last trip to Los Angeles, Kate has been completely unable to extricate herself from being played by the experienced Adrian in various ways on the bed, almost reaching the point of "XX under the bed and XX on the bed".

That's why Kate complained to Adrian that night in Berlin. It's just that complaints are complaints, what should be done, what should be done, or the same sentence, people in love are always irrational.

Time finally passed in February 1990. After the multinational forces in the Persian Gulf announced on the 28th that they would stop attacking and end the 100-hour ground battle, the Gulf War, which lasted more than a month, came to an end. Next, it's time to count the spoils, the military's, the financial predators', losses and gains.

The phone on the table rang without warning, making Adrian, who was thinking about it, jump. After hesitating for a while, he picked up the receiver and asked, "Hello, who is it?"

"Ed, it's me." Claude's voice came from over there, accompanied by the sound of heavy breathing, wheezing and wheezing, very clearly, as if he couldn't breathe.

"Hi, Crowe, you finally called me. You were so calm. I thought you ran away with the money." Although Adrian's heart skipped a beat, he still said in a teasing tone. After Adrian briefly said "28th" to Claude on the phone on February 20, the two of them had no contact at all during the process.

"You know...you know...do you know how much money we invested in?" The heavy breathing became clearer, accompanied by the sound of tearing, Claude was probably pulling the tie around his neck.

"In addition to my 65 million, you also invested more than 10 million, almost in the early 80 million." Adrian recalled carefully, "Okay, don't be secretive, and tell me the specific situation."

"...10 times!" After swallowing hard, such a voice came from the other side.

"Ha, it's pretty good. It's turned 10 times... What did you say! 10 times!" Adrian almost threw the microphone out of his hand. He opened his eyes wide and tried hard to control his body, but his teeth still He was bitten and rattled.

"Yes, that's right, 10 times! You heard that right! It's 10 times! I fucking doubled the money 10 times! I made 800 million dollars back!" Claude on the phone suddenly went crazy He laughed loudly, as if a balloon full of air had been punctured suddenly, and the air inside was vented out.

Adrian opened his eyes wide, covered his forehead and breathed heavily, and his breathing became as heavy as Claude before. He never expected it to be like this. At the beginning, he only hoped to double or triple, and strive to earn back 200 million or 300 million yuan, but unexpectedly, the 80 million US dollars turned into 800 million US dollars in the end! This is really a fucking profiteering! Claude this guy...

"Claude, you bastard..." Adrian also began to pull up his neckline, as if it would make him more comfortable, "You are so fucking amazing!"

"Haha I love that line, say it again, say it again!"

"You're fucking amazing! Very, very amazing!"

The two of them were so full of swear words that you and I said each other, and each of them beat the table vigorously on their own side, making bang bang sounds, as if they couldn't vent their excitement otherwise. After a long time like this, the two on both sides of the phone gradually calmed down.

"I can't believe it, how did you do it, Crowe?" Adrian asked, slumped in the high-back chair, his chest was still heaving obviously.

"I don't know. I didn't think about that at all. All my attention was focused on buying and selling. No matter how big the money was, it was just a number to me. When everything was over and I looked back, I I was really taken aback." Claude recalled, the joy in his tone was very obvious.

"You are very good, Crowe. Although I have said it countless times before, I still have to say that you are very good." Adrian said sincerely.

"Yes, of course," Claude laughed loudly, "You know, Ed, when I told this to the old man, his face was really wonderful, he probably didn't expect me to be able to do this."

"I have to remind you," Adrian said with some amusement. All fathers and sons in the world are similar in some places. "The old man you mentioned is both your father and my godfather."

"I know, I know," Claude sighed exaggeratedly, "I just proved myself, is there anything wrong?"

Fortunately, he immediately added: "Of course, without the information you provided, I would not have been able to do this—are you okay recently? Didn't someone from the China Securities Regulatory Commission ask you for coffee?"

"Why, do you really want them to find me?" Adrian cursed with a smile.

"Hey hey, I just care about you." Claude shouted hastily.

"Okay, I see. Are you free tonight? I think we should have a good and detailed talk." Adrian put away his joking tone and said seriously.

"No problem, Losata Restaurant, you treat me." Claude said immediately.

"Okay, I'll treat you." Adrian laughed.

Putting down the receiver, Adrian stood up and walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows, opened the curtains with a snap, and the unchanging sunshine of Los Angeles suddenly poured in, illuminating the study brightly. After stretching his waist very comfortably, he narrowed his eyes facing the bright sky.

I really didn't expect that the harvest this time would be so huge, not only the sufficient funds that were several times more than expected, but also Claude... Very good, I can choose from the few prepared plans, and the rest It depends on how to convince him!

(Okay, continue to ask for some recommendation tickets, so that we can go one step further on the list of newcomers and new books~)