Save the Bachelor of Heaven

The reason why Maggie Q can succeed in Hong Kong and the United States is due to her beautiful face of mixed blood.

Hong Kong people see her as a foreigner, and foreigners see her as Asian. Catch up with the 2000s, mixed-race faces in the Hong Kong entertainment industry are popular, and Hollywood is also pursuing diversity and is willing to use minorities, so Maggie Q has caught up with the good times.

In the 1980s, when Xiangjiang and Hollywood were conservative, a mixed-race person like her would not be able to please both sides.

"Ms. Li, hello~" Xiang Nan shook hands with Maggie Q, nodded with a smile.

Maggie Q in real life is more glamorous and charming than she is on screen, Xiang Nan couldn't help being very happy.

"Hi Charles, it's really an honor to meet you." Maggie Q also said with a smile, but she spoke English, not Cantonese.

After all, she has only been in Xiangjiang for two years, and she hasn't learned Cantonese yet. Usually filming is also in English, and then dubbed into Cantonese, Mandarin.

"You're welcome." Xiang Nan waved his hands and said with a smile, "I'm asking you to meet this time mainly to find suitable actors for my new movie "Mission: Impossible 3."

"Mission: Impossible 3?" Maggie Q was very excited when she heard it.

The first two films of "Mission: Impossible" have achieved extremely high box office in the world. They are the pinnacle of Hollywood action films, with big investment, big scenes, and big cast.

Being able to star in this movie, even if it is only a small role, may attract the attention of the industry, and thus enter Hollywood smoothly.

For her who is very enterprising, this is of course great news.

"Then do you think I'm suitable?" she asked immediately.

"Looking at the appearance alone, it is suitable." Xiang Nan nodded and said, "However, I have to further investigate how the acting skills are and how good the skills are."

"Okay, I will cooperate with any investigation you want." Maggie Q said immediately.

Xiang Nan nodded in satisfaction.

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After staying in Xiangjiang for half a month, Xiang Nan conducted a comprehensive inspection of Maggie Q, and finally decided to hand over the role of Mei Ling in "Mission: Impossible 3" to her.

Xiang Nan then returned to Hollywood with his family.

At this time, the films that Universal Pictures is releasing are "The Princess Diaries" and "A Woman's Heart".

"The Princess Diaries," which came out in January, is still in the works because it's doing well at the box office. The global box office of this film has accumulated 120 million US dollars, and the final box office is expected to be around 180 million US dollars.

And it cost less than $40 million, so it was a huge success.

The reason why it can succeed is, on the one hand, because the identity of the heroine is set to cater to the tastes of young people. According to the setting, the heroine is a sixteen-year-old female high school student, at the age of cardamom years, the beginning of love, and the age of fantasies. Who doesn't desire to fly on the branches and become a phoenix. Therefore, the story of the heroine turning from a sparrow to a phoenix is ​​naturally attractive to them.

On the one hand, the story is solid and interesting. Although it is an old routine that a sparrow turns into a phoenix, after careful arrangement, the whole story is not too old-fashioned at all. On the contrary, it is full of fun, relaxed and happy, and gives people a very good movie-watching experience.

Coupled with the heroine Anne Hathaway, with her bright smile and fresh and refined temperament, she is known as the synthesis of Julia Roberts and Audrey Hepburn, and has won the love of thousands of boys and girls .

Therefore, "The Princess Diaries" naturally captured the hearts of the audience and achieved such a good box office result, it is not surprising.

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"Listening to Women's Hearts" was released on Valentine's Day in February. The film stars Brad Pitt and Nicole Kidman.

It tells the story of the male protagonist who is an advertising designer, but is always made things difficult by his female boss. An accidental electric shock gained a special function, and he was able to read a woman's heart ever since.

In this way, he was able to understand the real thoughts of the users, so the advertising designs launched perfectly catered to the needs of the customers, and thus achieved great success.

And he found out that the female boss liked him, so he tried to take revenge. In the end, he fell into a net of love...

This is a romantic comedy with a fantasy color, humorous and fresh, funny and romantic. Paired with the impeccable performances of Brad Pitt and Nicole Kidman, the film is a natural hit.

In the end, the North American box office was 180 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office was 370 million U.S. dollars. It broke the box office record of a romance film created by "Pretty Woman".

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Entering March, the suspenseful thriller "Mulholland Drive" directed by David Lynch.

This movie, in terms of plot, is really brain-burning. After watching this film, many viewers complained that they could not understand it. But many viewers, after watching this film, call it the most exciting movie of this century.

In fact, the reason why the audience will not understand. It's because "Mulholland Drive" was originally a TV series, just like David Lynch's previous work "Twin Peaks".

But unexpectedly, after he finished filming the sample of the first episode, he gave it to ABC TV station for viewing, but ABC TV station didn't buy it at all. I thought his filming pace was too slow, and after watching for half an hour, I didn't know what the plot was about, so I withdrew from the next investment.

David Lynch was helpless, neither wanting to compromise with ABC, nor giving up the project. In the end, he turned "Mulholland Drive" into a movie.

In this way, with the remaining funds, the filming of "Mulholland Drive" was just finished. But because the content of an American TV series, more than ten hours, is compressed into two and a half hours, there are many places that cannot be explained in depth, which naturally makes people look confused and unclear.

But this is also a mistake. Because of this, this film has won the love of lovers of literary and artistic films and gained an excellent reputation.

However, because the plot is really difficult to understand, the box office was high and few, and in the end it only received tens of millions of dollars at the box office, and the global box office was only more than 20 million dollars.

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At the end of March, the Academy Awards are held as usual.

"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" starring Xiang Nan was shortlisted for ten awards including Best Foreign Language Film, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, and Best Soundtrack. It is one of the most popular Oscars this year.

Xiang Nan attended the awards ceremony in person and invited Naomi Watts to walk the red carpet together.

Naomi Watts is one of the heroines of "Mulholland Drive". She was born in 1968 and was once a classmate of an opera school with Nicole Kidman, and she also worked with Nicole Kidman in a movie.

But her stardom is far behind that of Nicole Kidman. Since Nicole Kidman met Xiang Nan, she quickly became famous with "Ghostbusters 2", "Emergency Tracking Order", "Cocktail", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" series, "Pretty Woman", "Silent "Lamb" quickly became popular and became a top Hollywood star.

Although Naomi Watts also came to Hollywood to make a living, she couldn't even get a serious role, and lived a life of poverty and poverty for a long time.

In "Mulholland Drive", the down-and-out and pitiful female artist she played is a true portrayal of her.