Rebirth of Xiangjiang - 1978

"Time" magazine selects a global influential figure every year. The purpose of the selection is to "select the person who has the most significant impact on news and people's lives, whether for good or bad."

Before "1992" is about to be released, "Time" has decided to select Lin Daoqiu as this year's Person of the Year.

Last year, a Chinese woman was named Person of the Year. This year, another Chinese was elected as Person of the Year. I wonder if this was a deliberate arrangement by Time magazine.

However, it can be said that it is a bit late to cast Lin Daoqiu now. Logically speaking, he should be selected the year after the release of "Godzilla".

As for Time magazine selecting him as the person of the year, Lin Daoqiu was not excited or happy about it.

What he even hopes is that he can stop having sex with this kind of thing, because it won't do him any good at all.

Lin Daoqiu's idea is very simple. It is best to keep a low profile in Hollywood, because his acquisitions in recent years have attracted some people's attention.

Fortunately, they do not regard Xiangjiang or the mainland as a threat, so Lin Daoqiu will not be targeted yet.

But this time "Time" magazine selected Lin Daoqiu as the person of the year, then he will be valued by more American media.

If there are any large-scale acquisitions in the future, it will definitely be covered by overwhelming reports. This is definitely not what Lin Daoqiu wants.

So for him, being this guy of the year is definitely doing more harm than good.

But it's a pity that Lin Daoqiu couldn't stop it, because those people would not criticize him at all, so he would not accept an interview with Time magazine.

As for what they will write in this weekly, Lin Daoqiu is not sure, but Lin Daoqiu can probably guess that it will be a mixture of good and bad, and may even vaguely hint that he will pose a threat to Hollywood.

"Are you really not going to be interviewed?"

After Langmeyer learned that Lin Daoqiu was selected as Time magazine's Person of the Year, he actually refused the other party's request for an interview, which was very surprising to Langmeyer.

You must know that being selected as Time magazine's Person of the Year will increase his reputation around the world. This is definitely a fast track for a person who wants to become famous.

But Langmeyer can probably guess why Lin Daoqiu didn't want to be selected, because he didn't want to be famous at all.

"If I don't do the interview can they replace this person with someone else?"

Longmeyer smiled and shook his head. Since the guys at Time magazine had already selected something, how could they easily replace it unless there was a major change?

Later, in 2001, when 9/11 occurred, the terrorist leader almost became Time magazine's Person of the Year.

If they weren't worried about causing an uproar, I guess those guys at Time would really dare to do this. After all, this is the purpose of their selection.

"Anyway, I don't care if they do whatever they want. This is their freedom and I can't stop them. But if possible, I really hope that I can replace them, even if I have to spend money."

Lin Daoqiu really thought about spending some money to see if they could change the candidate to someone else, but at least for now, this is probably unlikely.

"Well, since you don't want to be interviewed by them, forget it. Anyway, this kind of thing is chosen once a year. It won't be long before everyone forgets about it, so you don't need to worry too much."

In fact, the popularity of this kind of influential figure who is selected every year will not last long. After some major events happen, no one will be able to remember them.

Lin Daoqiu certainly hoped that this would be the best, but in fact, what he was most worried about was that Time magazine focused on his relationship between men and women, which was what he least wanted to see.

However, Time magazine editor-in-chief Claydberg was still surprised when he learned that Lin Daoqiu rejected their interview request.

"Why? Why doesn't he want to be interviewed by us? Doesn't he know that being selected as Time's Person of the Year is a very honorable thing?"

In Claydberg's view, Time magazine has considerable influence in various regions around the world, and it is simply unbelievable that Lin Daoqiu refused their interview request.

"I don't know, but according to the information we collected about Lin Daoqiu, he has never been a person who likes to appear in front of the audience since he started making movies. He is really weird."

For the editors of "Time" magazine, when they were collecting information on Lin Daoqiu, they found that this person was very mysterious. He rarely appeared in front of the public, and even gave an interview only once every few years.

So this time he declined an interview with Time magazine, which is not a big surprise.

"The more people like this, the more valuable they are to be interviewed. Let me handle this matter."

Claydberg seemed eager to give it a try because there was so little information about Lin Daoqiu, but his achievements in the film industry can be said to be outstanding.

If we can conduct an in-depth interview with him, there will be more to write about in Time's Person of the Year issue.

So Claydberg took his assistant directly to the headquarters of MGM, and he wanted to personally invite Lin Daoqiu.

"Hello Mr. Berg, I am Richardson, the president of MGM. Nice to meet you."

When Claydberg arrived at MGM, it was not Lin Daoqiu who came out to greet him but Richardson.

"Just call me Clyde."

Claydberg looked around and found that there was no one else in Richardson's office, which made him somewhat disappointed.

Because he had announced his home before going upstairs, but there was no sign of Lin Daoqiu when he came here. Could it be that he was hiding from him on purpose?

"Clyde are you looking for something?"

Richardson noticed that Claydberg started looking around after entering the door, as if he was looking for something, which made him feel confused.

"To be honest with you, the main purpose of my visit today is to meet Mr. Lin Daoqiulin. I wonder if you can help me make arrangements."

"It's really unfortunate. Mr. Lin flew to Maine yesterday and I'm afraid he won't be able to come back for a while."

Claydberg didn't expect that Lin Daoqiu would go to Maine, which made him not know what to say for a moment.

"Please rest assured, I will make a call later to inform Mr. Lin of your visit. When he comes back, I will ask him to contact you as soon as possible."

Claydberg just smiled at this. He felt that Lin Daoqiu was hiding from him on purpose. He might even be in the MGM building now, but he didn't want to come out to meet him.

At this moment, Claydberg suddenly had a plan in mind.

"Well, please tell Mr. Lin that we found some major controversies while collecting and sorting out his information. I am here to verify it with him in person. Otherwise, we can only publish it truthfully based on the information we collected."