Rebirth of the Thousand-Faced Movie King

"director."

"Chen... I'm just waiting for you."

"Thank you, is everyone here?"

"Here we are... you don't know that many media, including fans, are most interested in you now."

Before The Matrix is ​​released, according to the rules, a series of promotional activities will be held.

Although Chen Ping believes that The Matrix can explode, it must have the publicity it deserves.

so.

After receiving a call from the director, Chen Ping went to the Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

Although the Chinese Theater in Hollywood is named China, it is not an asset belonging to the Chinese people.

Because its design style resembled China, it was called the Chinese Theater.

And because the Chinese Theater is the most prime location in Hollywood, many blockbuster premieres, including promotional events, will be held here.

The director of The Matrix also held this promotional event in the Chinese Theater.

As soon as Chen Ping arrived, the director hugged Chen Ping excitedly: "Long time no see, you know, you are already very popular in Hollywood."

"Yeah?"

"you do not know?"

"Well……"

Chen Ping shook his head.

He has been in China recently, and he is not particularly clear about the situation in Hollywood.

certainly.

All he knew was that the few movies he starred in did make a lot of money.

When Chen Ping couldn't believe it, the director said, "Look over there."

Following the director's gesture, Chen Ping saw a dark crowd in front of him.

"Wow, are these all here to participate in our promotional activities?"

"right."

The director nodded: "To be precise, I'm here for you."

"Oh My God."

Chen Ping couldn't believe it: "Am I so popular in Hollywood?"

"Yes."

The director stared at Chen Ping with great interest: "The three movies you released recently are each more innovative than the last. Many people are curious about what you think and how you can spend tens of thousands of dollars. Just made a movie with a box office of hundreds of millions of dollars. Oh... no, not tens of thousands of dollars, to be precise, only 10,000 dollars, right?"

"Indeed."

Chen Ping nodded: "At first I just wanted to entertain myself, but I didn't expect that the box office would be okay."

"There's no need to be modest. If one of them is self-entertainment, and all three movies can break $200 million at the box office...this is your strength."

Patting Chen Ping on the shoulder, the director said: "I think the box office of our Matrix will be guaranteed."

With that said, the director looked at the time and said, "OK, it's almost time, let's get started."

…

Everyone got ready.

Under the arrangements of the staff, the promotional activities of The Matrix officially began.

Chen Ping, the protagonist Reeves, the male number 2... and others walked out from the backstage.

Immediately, a burst of fierce applause was heard, but it came towards the leading actors.

"Wow, it's out."

"That is Chen Ping."

"I like him so much, he is so handsome."

It was beyond the expectations of many people.

Among the fans in the crowd, the one who is most interested in the leading actors is not the male lead, Reeves.

Not the number one female either.

Not even male number 2.

But Chen Ping.

When Chen Ping and others walked out of the backstage, discussions about Chen Ping continued to appear.

certainly.

Not just a discussion among the crowd.

A group of media reporters seemed to be more interested in Chen Ping.

After the director introduced The Matrix, almost half of the media surrounded Chen Ping.

"Chen...what role did you play in The Matrix?"

"I play a villain in The Matrix, Smith, the third male lead."

"No, Male No. 2."

At this time, the director added: "Chen Ping is the second male lead in The Matrix."

Finished.

But he looked at the original male number 2.

Although the director didn't speak.

But he already understood what the director meant.

"This is a super villain. I believe Chen Ping's performance will dazzle everyone."

The director is very interested in Chen Ping.

This interest was partly due to the fact that Chen Ping provided him with the idea for the Matrix series at that time.

The other one was interested because Chen Ping was now famous.

"Wow...we're looking forward to it."

"Chen... we would like to ask, you spent about 10,000 US dollars before, and the box office has exceeded 200 million US dollars. So, how big do you think the box office of The Matrix will be?"

"Well...it depends on the director's estimation."

"Some people think that you have only been in Hollywood for a few months, but you have already surpassed Chen Long. In terms of box office, Chen Long's box office in Hollywood is not as much as your three movies combined. Of course, if If you include the Lord of the Rings that you filmed, Chen Long can’t even compare.”

"I want to explain that in Lord of the Rings, I am only the fifth male lead, a small supporting role. I only contributed a little bit to the success of Lord of the Rings. Mr. Chen Long is my senior and has always been a role model for me to learn from."

Chen Ping would naturally not nod arrogantly to such a question.

Even if Chen Ping really surpassed Chen Long, he wouldn't be able to say that.

However, many media reporters are extremely interested in Chen Ping.

behind.

In addition to asking a series of questions about the movie, they also asked about various aspects of Chen Ping's personal life.

During the interaction with fans, a series of female fans rushed out and wanted to give Chen Ping a hug.

Fortunately, the on-site staff were able to maintain order and no emergencies occurred.

But this kind of performance made several other main actors on the side unhappy.

After the press conference is over.

Actor Byrne, who played the second male lead, Murphys, came over and said, "I am the second male lead."

Chen Ping spread his hands and said, "I didn't say I was the second male lead."

It was the director who said Chen Ping was the second male lead.

After looking at Bourne, Chen Ping said, "You should ask the director."

"you……"

Bourne grabbed his fists. He wanted to have a real PK with Chen Ping.

only.

Seeing Chen Ping's smiling face, Bourne instantly gave up.

He remembered.

During the filming, Chen Ping singled out all of them.

"Haha... I thought you wanted to spar with me again."

Chen Ping smiled.

But on the other side, the number one male also came over at this time: "Sorry, I am the number one male."

As the male number one, Reeves was even more unhappy than Bourne.

Of course, his dissatisfaction is not that Chen Ping has changed from the original No. 3 male to the No. 2 male.

Anyway, he is the number one male, and he doesn’t care whether Chen Ping is the number 3 male or the number 2 male.

What upset him the most was.

As the male lead in The Matrix, he was actually upstaged by Chen Ping.

This made him very angry.

He felt that all this was arranged by Chen Ping.

But for the male number one Reeves, Chen Ping also replied coldly: "I know you are the male number one, what do you want to say?"

Compared to Chen Ping's modesty towards Chen Long.

This is the quality that Chen Ping believes a Chinese should have.

But.

Chen Ping is really not polite to these foreign actors.

He didn’t come to Hollywood to be criticized, and he didn’t come to Hollywood to be looked down upon by others.

How he treats these Hollywood stars is how these actors treat him.

Even if Reeves is the number one male, so what?

Facing Chen Ping's cold response, Reeves raised his voice: "I want to tell you that I am the protagonist of The Matrix, and you are just a supporting role."

"oh……"

Chen Ping nodded with sudden realization: "Then what?"

"Then?"

Reeves was stunned.

After a while, he said: "I want to warn you, as a supporting role, you have to restrain yourself."

"Is it your fault?"

Chen Ping was helpless: "My hero, I don't know why you are angry. However, I want to say that your acting skills can be improved. If your acting skills in the film are as real as they are now, I think you may win Oscar prize."

"What, you said my acting skills are poor?"

"This... isn't bad, but it's not much better."

"you……"

Reeves almost went crazy, he roared loudly.

But in the end, the director came over and there was no conflict between the two.

…

In the following time, Chen Ping and Reeves... pretended to cooperate to complete the rest of the publicity.

However, what Chen Ping didn't expect was.

After the promotion of The Matrix ended, the media actually exposed a series of dirty information about Chen Ping.

[Chen Ping beat people on the set of The Matrix. 】

[Chen Ping plays a big role and ignores Reeves. 】

[Chen Ping had conflicts with everyone on the crew. 】

These black materials, more or less, really affected Chen Ping.

There were several companies that were originally interested in Chen Ping, but now they chose to watch first.

"Holy shit, Brother Ping, Hollywood is so disgusting too."

"What do you think?"

Looking at these gossips, Chen Ping was relatively calm.

Hollywood not only has blockbusters, but also a series of disgusting incidents.

Of course there is some untrue gossip.

"Well, Brother Ping, do we want to clarify something?"

"If you clarify something, your work is the best way to respond."

Chen Ping had no opinion on this.

Although these gossips all agreed on what Chen Ping was like, it did not affect Chen Ping at all.

Because this is just gossip, and there is not much real content.

As for beating people, that was entirely a matter of discussion on the set.

on the contrary.

Isn't it a very miraculous thing that Chen Ping, who is so small, can knock Bourne, who weighs more than 200 kilograms, to the ground?

Chen Ping doesn't think this is a black mark for him.

instead.

The video of Chen Ping beating up many people in The Matrix has become quite popular in China.

Rather than pleasing foreign fans, Chen Ping feels that pleasing domestic fans is more important to him.

At least Chen Ping was very excited when domestic fans saw Chen Ping fighting and calling him YYDS... from time to time.

…

"Well done, Bourne... I thought you couldn't do anything?"

"How is it possible? Who does this guy think he is? On our territory, I have to kill him."

"That's what I have to do. I got the news that not many film companies are willing to cooperate with him at present. Even CAA plans to wait and see the limelight before deciding."

"We should have done this before... or we did it too late, making this guy think he was the leading actor."

"Tsk, the actors in China are all clowns, and some of them can act. They think that by relying on a few self-entertainment works, he will be a big star in Hollywood. Sorry, Hollywood is not that easy to mess with. "

Bourne clinked glasses with Reeves.

Bourne looked very comfortable and asked: "Reeves, how many billion do you think our Matrix can make at the box office?"

"The director predicts that it will be at least 500 million US dollars."

"so much!!"

"This is still a conservative prediction. You should know that the imagination of our movie is really too big."

"I think so too. It seems that the director said that he is also planning to make a sequel."

"Yes."

Reeves nodded: "If there are not too many surprises, after The Matrix is ​​released, we will make a sequel."

"Is that guy still there?"

"I don't know...but if we really want to make a sequel, I will definitely put pressure on the director and never let him participate."

"marvelous."

Byrne finished the glass of red wine in one gulp: "I have to do this, even though my role is not very good. I also have to express my attitude to the director. If he dares to use Chen Ping, then I will not play Morpheus." .”

"OK, I'm the same as you. If the director continues to use Chen Ping, then I won't play the leading actor Neo."

…

have to say.

The imagination, or setting, of The Matrix is ​​simply too powerful and powerful.

So powerful.

You only need to take one look and you will be attracted by this setting.

Do you know that the world you live in is actually a virtual world?

What you see, hear, feel...everything is just a piece of code.

And humans are just controlled by robots.

In front of these robots, humans are just a battery that can provide them with energy.

At the same time.

The box office of The Matrix was like a rocket.

$100 million.

$200 million.

$300 million.

In just one week, the global box office reached $300 million.

$400 million.

$500 million.

$600 million.

The box office shows no signs of slackening, and he's still on the rise.

$700 million.

$800 million.

$900 million.

until.

When The Matrix was released, its global box office total exceeded $1 billion.

"Oh, God, this is unbelievable."

"$1 billion, that's more than Lord of the Rings."

"This is the most successful movie of the year."

When The Matrix broke 1 billion US dollars, the Tadros brothers quickly started preparing for the filming of the second part of The Matrix.

The best way to shoot a sequel like this is of course with the original lineup.

only.

When the director called the starring actor Reeves over, Reeves made a condition.

"Reeves, are you saying that you don't want to film with Chen Ping?"

"Yes."

"Why?"

"For no reason, I felt very uncomfortable when I saw him, and it affected my performance."

"But you performed well in the upper part."

"I know...but I just don't want to film with him."

"I may not be able to agree to your request."

"If that's the case, then I will refuse to do The Matrix Part II."

"I think you should think about it carefully. It's just acting."

"Director, I've thought about it carefully."

"you sure."

"I'm pretty sure."

"Okay, I get it."

The director nodded.

Then.

He read a data questionnaire.

Filming a sequel to The Matrix was not a temporary decision.

Among them, there are also the ideas given to him by Chen Ping.

but.

This is not the most important thing.

The most important thing is.

In this survey form, more than 90% of movie fans are looking forward to seeing Chen Ping appear in the next film.

For Reeves, it's only 30%.

…

"Reeves, did the director call you?"

"Yeah, he's going to do a Matrix sequel."

"That's great. I knew I would definitely make a sequel. By the way, how are the film preparations going?"

"The chips are three times the original amount."

"Tsk...then...about Chen Ping?"

"I have made my point clear to the director. As long as he still uses Chen Ping, I will refuse to play the male lead."

"Reeves, you are simply my idol."

"I estimate that the director team may come to you to discuss the project."

"Don't worry, I will act in concert with you."

Bourne nodded heavily.

only.

A few days later.

When the director of The Matrix approached Bourne, Bourne readily accepted the film project proposed by the director.

As for Chen Ping.

Burnti didn't mention it either.

As for why.

But Bourne accidentally saw an investigation report a few days ago.

This investigation report talks about the acting performance of the actors in The Matrix.

Among them, Reeves’s vote was only 10%

His character Morpheus received even less, only 7%.

Female No. 1: 5%.

Chen Ping: 70%.

As for the rest, it's the other actors.

Want to say more?

Seeing this data, Bourne knew.

In their words.

Compared with Chen Ping, Reeves' acting skills are garbage.

So.

After knowing this, Bourne knew what he should do.