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"I want to die. In the elegant and spacious guest room, Joshua lay weakly on the X Art sofa, with a sad face, and said: "Jesus! I actually got married like this, and then got divorced like this. "It's less than a day!" He sighed a long time, covered his face and said, "Why did this happen to me? There are so many things in my resume. One, ex-wife,? I haven't even touched her!"

"Hahaha..." Wang Yang sat cross-legged on the sofa next to him, kept laughing lowly, looked at Jessica who was coming with a icy nose, and said with a smile: "Scarlett-Jackson!" Jessica smiled sullenly and handed them two ice packs respectively. Little ^ Said ^ Favorites ~ Reading Network)

Wang Yang applied the ice pack to his forehead" and said with a smile: "Joshua, actually Scarlett is pretty hot." Maybe you two should just be together? Don't get divorced."

Joshua gritted his teeth and said, "If that's Johnson!" He covered his eyes with ice packs, and said bitterly, "I don't want to live anymore" I really don't want to live anymore. "

"I don't even know what to say about you two guys!" Jessica smiled and patted Wang Yang's arm, sat down beside him, and said, "Fortunately, no one was injured." She looked at Yue Shu The tattoo on Ya's arm couldn't help being amused, she grinned and said, "Why am I not a boy? In that case, I can do these crazy things too."

Joshua let out a haha, and finally he could laugh at others and said: "You are a boy, so Yang must be a gay!" Wang Yang smiled and said nothing; Jessica smiled and said with a straight eyebrow: "So I still want to be a boy!" Girls, do crazy things that belong to girls." She smiled and asked curiously: "What did you all do last night, and how did you make it like this?"

After a crazy night, the four of them lost money to the Caesars Palace Hotel when they were all sober. Joshua contacted his new wife with his mobile phone, confessed his mistake and agreed to a divorce a few days later, and the four of them returned to Los Angeles. They were all dizzy and exhausted. Naturally, they didn't drive back, but sat on the plane for an hour in a daze. Wang Yang and Joshua were then driven back to Beverly Hills by the driver in a daze. It's now four in the afternoon. It's too late, and my head still hurts.

Although he has a headache, Wang Yang's head is very clear, but many of the memories of last night have been "broken" and buried in the long river of memory waiting to be excavated or completely forgotten. He frowned and thought: "Well, I can only remember a few What about the department...,...We couldn't tell the girls about the bachelor party, but Jessica will treat you as our brother now. "

"Thank you!" Jessica clasped her fists proudly, kissed him on the cheek again, and said with a sweet smile, "Brother!" Joshua immediately shouted, "Don't provoke me, I can't see anything about love right now." Something! Otherwise, I'm going to go crazy." Jessica spread her right hand and said with a smile, "Please."

Wang Yang rolled his eyes with a smile, covered the cool ice pack on his forehead, and smiled while thinking: "Have you heard yet? When we arrived in Las Vegas, we drank in the hotel room at first. How much regret...,

…I think all four of us were drunk by the time we walked out of the room, Joshua, huh? "

"I don't know, I must be drunk..." Joshua also recalled the vague memory flooding in, and said, "Then we went to the casino" and they exchanged 10,000 chips." I remember this number, Because I was the only one who exchanged 500 yuan, shit..." Wang Yang nodded and said: "You said at the time, I want to earn a sports car!" Jessica laughed and Joshua sighed without refuting : "Jan said slot machines are a lie" don't play: roulette is a lie" don't play... In the end we all went to play blackjack and Tom and Zachary were not very lucky and the money quickly disappeared I lost it all. But Yang, I have to admit it!" He gave a thumbs up and said with a smile: "He gambled very hard, had good luck, and won a lot of money, and there was one blackjack! Said he was that...who?"

"What?" Wang Yang thought for a while" Some memories suddenly flashed in his head, and he said with a smile: "Jeff! Joshua nodded again and again, and said with a smile: "Yes yes yes, it is Jeff Wu!" Then we left the hotel "to go to other places to play, I don't know why I went to the tattoo parlor, in the tattoo parlor..."

When he said this, he stopped suddenly, as if he remembered something, Wang Yang also stared, the two looked at each other, and could no longer tell the brother. Wang Yang took the words and said: "Joshua tattooed the head of Jesus, and then" I can't think clearly, my head hurts. He closed his eyes uncomfortably, and Joshua said in pain, "Me too!" But my heart hurts even more, "I don't want to live anymore!"

Jessica nodded without paying attention, thinking about what they said just now, and suddenly asked: "Who is Jeff Yima?" Joshua said unsurely: "A writer? Wrote a book that teaches people to gamble?" book?" Wang Yang couldn't help laughing, and said: "No, his true story was adapted into a novel by Ben Mozrich. At that time, Jeff Ma was a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was going to Harvard Medical School , As a result, one day, he was drawn into a secret organization by two classmates, the MIT Blackjack Group."

The members of this group are all geniuses who are very good at counting numbers. "They study the card counting skills of leading points, learn from each other, and use calm, high-IQ numbers to manipulate the gambling table. They go to the casino every weekend to make money." Sometimes they win tens of thousands of dollars in one night, becoming a nightmare for casinos large and small in Las Vegas.

Naturally, the casino will not be indifferent. "The technology in the mid-1990s was not so advanced." There were only ordinary monitors; and these high-achieving students were ordinary gamblers. The private detective they hired played around, and after a long period of cat and mouse "Jeff Kazuma and others won nearly 10 million dollars, the private detective gradually pieced together a little bit of clues and locked them with the monitor. their identities.

After the clothes were exposed, Jeff Yima and others were blacklisted by nearly a hundred casinos in Las Vegas and even in the United States, refusing to let them enter the casino. Although card counting is not illegal, the court also supported this judgment . Jeff Kazuma and others captured Las Vegas and were also expelled from the city, but they are all living well now, continuing to be elites in other industries, and the legendary stories of the year have also been revised and published.

"That's it. All the casinos are afraid of them, and no one dares to let them in to gamble." Wang Yang sighed and said with a smile: "It's so majestic!"

Joshua was quite excited when he heard it: "So it is so, unbelievable! Is this a true story? Cool! I really want to see the expressions of those casino owners at that time, it must be wonderful!" Jessica was a little puzzled Frowning, he asked with a smile, "Well, that's cool! But don't people beat them at those casinos? I don't know." But there are always movies. "

"Yes, it's also in the book." Wang Yang shrugged, of course to add to the storyline: "But not in reality, Jeff immediately said that they were never treated roughly, they were just kicked out by casino employees That's all." He laughed a bit" and said: "Think about it, that group of people are all. Genius "card counting is not illegal, they will not let themselves suffer that kind of loss. In fact, many contents of that book are different from reality. There is a professor in the book..."

In the book "The Capture of Las Vegas" "The main character Kevin Ruxiaoyisi can't afford the $300,000 to go to Harvard Medical School" fictional: Then he was lured into the group by a professor at MIT, the professor fictional; they were beaten, fictional...

"Yeah." Jessica nodded, and Joshua suddenly remembered something." Standing up, he said joyfully, "Yan, I seem to remember that you said you wanted to make it into a movie? Dude, this is definitely a good story! Jessica was taken aback for a moment, and said, "Yan, really?" But you just finished filming. "

"I have a lot of time, don't I? This is such a good story! I will shoot it" not necessarily now" but I will." Wang Yang smiled and felt very excited in his heart." It came out, now it's stuck there" and it's strong! He turned to look at Jessica and said with a smile, "Sweetheart, can you go to the study and get that book for me? "The Capture of Las Vegas" is on the desk, thank you!"

Jessica said OK, then got up and left. Wang Yang thought for a while, and suddenly asked: "Joshua, how do you feel when you hear Jeff Ma's story?"

"Does it need to be said?" Joshua spread his hands in surprise, and said loudly, "That's incredible! Cool! Now I know that they were not beaten and they are doing well." Even cooler up! You know it's unbelievable, but it actually happened, a few people made a mess of all the casinos in Las Vegas, but everyone can't do anything about them, and they can still be at ease," he said with emotion on his face : "What kind of group of people is that? "

"Very well said, very good!" Wang Yang clenched his fists with a smile, but he still felt a little powerless, and said with a smile: "I think this is the first impression it gave the audience, and the expectation it gave the audience! This is a core .”

At this time Jessica came back with a book and handed it to him. While flipping through the pages, Wang Yang asked, "Hey, if you were asked to shoot this story, how would you shoot it? What would you shoot?" He casually flipped through a page and said, "This story can be used in a variety of ways. It can be made into a biographical film about Jeff and a horse; it can also be made into a drama film about several people, serious, serious, and funny: even a campus film can be fine..."

Joshua took away the ice pack, frowned and thought, "I don't know, maybe it will be a funny movie? No, no! It doesn't feel right. I want to make a cool and exciting movie. , Jeff just said how they swept the casino, and those bosses looked desperate!"

"Me?" Jessica tilted her head, thought for a while, and said, "Let me do the filming, and it is very likely that I will win the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Film.

But I will make it not serious, nor is it a drama for funny. "She smiled" and said: "I'm very interested, how did they do it? Those card counting skills, as well as the makeup and code gestures you mentioned, I just think it's very interesting."

"I see, as you wish!" Wang Yang nodded seriously, then turned his eyes to the book again and said with a smile: "I want to think about it for a while. Hearing this, Joshua lay down on the sofa and said, "Then I'm going to sleep." "Jessica hummed, stood up and said: "Then I went out to the supermarket to buy some things and came back. There is no food in the refrigerator. You take care of yourself." After she finished speaking, she picked up the handbag on the coffee table and walked outside .

Looking at the book in his hand and thinking about the true story of Jeff Yima, Wang Yang slowly fell into deep thought.

This legendary story can be filmed in many genres, and when he returned today, he watched a future movie called "Decisive Victory 1 Point" in his mind, which was adapted from this book and this story. That movie was made into a feature film, but it was utterly screwed up, and he has to say it was mediocre, boring, impatient, bad movie" a complete waste of the genre ...

"Decisive Blackjack" did not capture the focus and core of the story, and lost its original characteristics, the characteristics of those who heard the story first.

It starts with some "high IQ details", how the whole group works, card counting skills, code words, gestures" and how they trick the casino and play cat and mouse with the private eye"...how did they do it? "However, in the movie, these are all taken lightly." The stories on the gambling table were all scanned in fast shots, with no sense of professionalism, no sense of high IQ, and the genius team did not play a role... The features that originally belonged to this story have become Some gimmicky looks.

It also didn't figure out the location of the enemy. There should be only one enemy in the group, and that is the casino, as well as the private detectives who are fighting wits with them. Not sinister money-hungry professors, not those boring clichéd internal conflicts.

The positioning of the enemy determines the focus and direction of the story, and also determines what the story wants to say. In "Decisive Blackjack", maybe what it wants to say is that it is wrong to get something for nothing and get rich overnight." So in the end, the professor, the protagonist, and the group all lost the money, became "nothing" people, and returned to their original lives.

This is the most unbearable! Gambling for nothing is wrong, but not for this story "Those people are not gambling or breaking the law, they are counting cards, they are trying to show wisdom, not preach. It doesn't need to be that complicated at all" No need to give this story Add those heavy things, and the more you add it, the more it becomes mediocre, the more it loses its true legend.

The protagonist and others are played around by the professor, caught and beaten by the security boss of the casino, and finally the protagonist has to cooperate with the security boss to calculate the professor, and then be calculated by the security boss. The question of what audiences expect from it, it's just infuriating.

Jeff Yima and the MD team are great because "the attractiveness of this story is that" this is a real miracle, they played the casino around, they captured Las Vegas" and they swept away a thousand Ten thousand! The casino has no choice but to blacklist them, and the big winners from the beginning to the end are all these MIT students.

The core of this story is "a group of geniuses with high IQ conquered Las Vegas, and they had the last laugh." Those professionalism and high IQ are what make it inherently cool: sweeping casinos, playing with private detectives, and more. It is its natural beauty point" This should be an enjoyable movie to watch.

"I can't do this..." Wang Yang muttered to himself, and flipped through a few more pages of the book. He already had some thoughts in his heart. He wanted to write a cool, professional, and grasp this story. The core script. Obviously, this is not a job that can be completed in a day or two. He thinks he still needs to contact Jeff Yima, Ben Mozrich, and some experts, professors, private detectives and others who can provide professional help.

But who will play Jeff? Thinking of this problem." Wang Yang frowned suddenly. In the future "Decisive Blackjack", the protagonist will be a white man, Ben Campbell, and after the violence, he will also be played by a white actor." This is another big bad point of it. . In some related reports, this change caused great dissatisfaction and protests from the Asian community.

Because in reality, Jeff Ma, nicknamed "Intel Chip", is the most important member of the team ushering in the peak change: and most of the team members are Asian. As a result, in "Blackjack", Jeff Ma They are white; the five-person team has two Asians, a girl with no image "a boy who is greedy for petty gains and likes to steal things, one of the typical Asian screen images, a wretched thief.

Jeff Yima actually had no objection to this change, and Asian netizens accused him of being a "racial traitor" and declared that he would not watch this garbage movie: while Jeff Yima said: "I value more It's an actor's talent." If the film company cast me by random Asian actors, such as Japanese or Korean, it would be even more insulting. "

This situation will not happen in his movies. Jeff Yima is a Chinese "The protagonist in the screen must also be a Chinese. If it is an honor to capture Las Vegas with wisdom, then this honor is also Chinese! Why are Chinese always villains, wretched, mean-spirited people? Even real stories have to be robbed by white people? If one day after a long time, someone suddenly goes crazy and wants to shoot "Magic Yang", should they also find someone? White people come to play?

Unreasonable! Jeff 1 Horse Club is a new screen image of Chinese Americans. The positive role is no longer limited to Kung Fu. Chinese people not only have Kung Fu, but also a handsome, highly intelligent and charming MIT genius. This is also what he strongly wants One of the reasons for doing this story.

In reality, "Jeff Yima looks very simple and honest" is not considered handsome; but in the movie he must be handsome. Where can I find such a "Jeff Yima"? A tall and handsome man with a high IQ genius temperament and good acting skills , A Chinese actor who can play a young man? And his English must be very good. Although Wang Yang himself can speak Chinese, the actor must interact with other actors and communicate with some members of the film crew. To do this These require sufficient English proficiency.

Best of all, he must be a Chinese-American who grew up in the United States. There are several reasons. The first is the accent. Only actors with an American accent are more Jeff-Ma, and are more accepted by the market. The same goes for his identity This is also the case” can alleviate the market’s arrogance and prejudice to a certain extent: but the more important reason is that a Chinese American who is familiar with American culture obviously has a deep understanding of the script and character creation, and has that style.

But where to find it? Wang Yang understands that it is absolutely impossible to find it in Hollywood. "There are no Chinese-American child stars here." There is a lack of opportunities and space for Chinese-American actors to grow and survive; so his eyes can only look to the Greater China region, where there is the soil of the Chinese themselves. Attract Chinese to go back to develop.

Although he is almost 22 years old, he has not been to Greater China once, but Wang Yang is no stranger to Hong Kong, because he grew up watching Hollywood movies on the one hand and Hong Kong movies on the other. Quentin Tarantino is one of the die-hard fans of the film, whose film style is also deeply influenced by Hong Kong films.

When I was a child, I attended classes at USC. "Many Hong Kong movies have given him a great shock." Those unique camera techniques, such as many eye contacts without lines and silent collisions, all made him exclaim, "So the movie is not bad. This way!" As for the genre of gambling movies, it can be said that Hollywood and Hong Kong movies are completely two types. Hong Kong movies can always play a side job very cool, very textured, and ooze out a kind of "authentic" ", the taste, this is worth learning.

Of course, because of the market, cost and shooting cycle, Hong Kong movies have a characteristic that a good movie is followed by a bunch of bad movies, until the subject is shot to death.

Wang Yang hasn't watched Hong Kong movies for a long time, and he couldn't figure out whether there are any suitable actors to play Jeff. He shook his head, temporarily put the question in his mind." He said softly: "OKPK, let's think about the heroine first. ", in his preliminary idea, the name of this movie is "The leader of the MD group is no longer a professor, there will be no such role as a professor. This not only conforms to reality, but also looks cooler: "We are geniuses , not a bunch of kids led by a teacher; it's our own idea, no professors needed. ", the captain of this team, the leader, fell on the head of the heroine. She is a very, very cool big sister, with superior IQ, tight-lipped, calm, and extraordinary leadership... She is also the leading actor. People who joined the gang.

In the team, she and the hero are big players, and the other three are card counters. The job of the so-called "card counters" is to sit at a certain gaming table, count the cards on this table with the lowest bet in each game, and accurately judge when that gaming table will be unfavorable to the dealer, and then Give the signal to let the "big players" come to the game. The big players have higher card counting skills, are calm enough not to be affected by emotions, and are very lucky. Their task is to win money, and naturally the more they win, the better.

The card counters and big players are mobile, and when the cards at that table get "cold," that's when they switch tables.

This cool and crazy big player, a girl with cult charm... who is suitable? When this question arose in Wang Yang's mind," he had an answer in an instant. Seeing the face that appeared to be a smile but not a smile, he murmured: "Natalie-Portman...Nata Korea! ? He thought about it seriously for a while, then suddenly laughed and said, "Oh my god, who else is more suitable than her?" ", in terms of the film itself, Natalie's acting skills are unquestionable, and this role is very suitable for her, almost tailor-made; she is a Harvard student and Queen Amidala, and she also has a big screen with a high IQ Persuasiveness, and appearance temperament.

From the perspective of market considerations, her high popularity as a "national idol" and her extraordinary status in the hearts of public movie fans are of great help to her. After all, Chinese-American male protagonists are a big element of "box office poison". This is not a Kung Fu movie. It is a delusion to suddenly want the market to digest and accept it in its entirety: on the other hand, the more popular it is at the box office, the more confidence it will give the market. It's not just kung fu.

So this movie needs a heroine with strong market appeal to hold the line." So who is more suitable than Natalie Portman?

Thinking of this, Wang Yang immediately closed the book, picked up the mobile phone on the coffee table with great interest, and no matter what time it is, he directly dialed Natalie's number, and after a few beeps, he got connected. He smiled. Said: "Hey, Natalie!"

"Wow!" Natalie over there shouted in surprise" and then said: "Dude, you took the initiative to call me? This kind of time! What holiday is it today? Happy Holidays Natalie? "

Wang Yang leaned on the sofa with a smile, pressed his sore forehead, and said excitedly: "Don't worry about that shit" You have to save this schedule for me! What to do, said: "I don't know the exact time now, it should be after October this year, I need you to join me in a movie, heroine. "

"Hmm..." Natalie responded noncommittally, the corners of her mouth turned up towards the phone." She dragged her voice and asked, "What movie is that? "

"Please!" Wang Yang smiled impatiently, took a sip of water from the water glass and made a decision and said, "No matter what movie you want!" Natalie couldn't help laughing "said a quick thought "Uh, uh" the voice said: "Okay, I agree! It's definitely not porn, anyway. Wang Yang let out a sigh of relief pretending to be relaxed, and said with a smile: "I'm hooked!" What are you sure about? This time I'm going to shoot that. "

Natalie suddenly seemed very surprised and said: "Really? Cool! Who is my partner?" Wang Yang smiled, ignored her question, and said seriously: "Actually, this is a movie about gambling with high IQ. The name is now called "MDTTEAM". Do you play blackjack? Do you know card counting? Jeff is a horse?"

"What do you think?" Natalie's voice was full of anger, and she said, "Don't you know that many people think that Natalie is an old chess player?" She laughed, and said: "21 I've played cards, but I don't know much about card counting and Geoff."

Wang Yang hummed, and then told her some preliminary ideas and about her character setting." Finally he said with a smile: "Anyway, that's all for now, if you have time, read the book "The Fall of Las Vegas" first." "And learn about card counting, you know you are the captain, so cultivate that SS temperament!" Natalie over there smiled and said: "OK" I will! Amazing Jan, will I still get that damn Oscar nomination this time? "

"Oh, I don't know!" Wang Yang laughed, Oscar? He shrugged and said, "Maybe. This role doesn't have so many award-winning elements, but you can do well, maybe you have a chance." Natalie's tone became indifferent again, and said: "Whatever! But man , I know I'm going to have another bucket of popcorn in my bedroom as a prize."

Chatted with her again." He ended the call to confirm the heroine of "MDTTEAM", happily tossed the phone, caught it firmly, and said with a smile: "It's done! "

At this time, with a cough, Joshua, who was lying on the main sofa, sat up and looked at Wang Yang without blinking, "pointed his eyes with two fingers and crossed the night" and said roughly: "Yang , I’m staring at you!” Wang Yang looked at him and smiled and said, “Scarlett-Jackson.” Joshua immediately bounced back and took a deep breath; Wang Yang repeated the sentence “Scarlett Jackson.” Li-Jackson", Joshua screamed and gritted his teeth, "Scarlett, Jackson", he screamed: "Say it again, I will commit suicide immediately!"

"Hahaha" Wang Yang let out bursts of unscrupulous laughter, silently chanting "Jackson" to him. Joshua hastily closed his eyes." Changing the subject, he said, "Are you really going to make that movie about the dogs and horses? "

Wang Yang smiled and nodded, "Of course." Can you give me a reason not to shoot? "He picked up the water glass and drank it. Clear water moistened his dry throat" and said: "However, the movie has to be done slowly, and the script and shot must be carefully considered; before that, I have to shoot another one. Movie,."

Joshua opened his eyes suddenly, and said in surprise: "There is another one? Wow, it's really like what was written in the newspaper, that high-speed magical Yang is coming back?" He waved his fist excitedly, and said with a smile: ", You look cooler than Jeff Kazuma! So what's the story of this movie? Getting drunk?"

"What happened to us yesterday." Wang Yang smiled, and Joshua was stunned for a moment and said, "What do you mean?" Wang Yang spread his hands with a smile on his face, and said, "It was just yesterday that a man was getting married and bid farewell to being single. Party, story of four guys running off to Las Vegas drunk and crazy. Imagine we woke up this morning and Tom was gone, but the wedding is a day away! What? We need to find Tom! "

He picked up the ice bag next to Joshua and threw it at Joshua, and continued to laugh: "But you saw, the three of us were all so drunk that we couldn't remember what happened last night at all, so we have to rely on clues bit by bit. , to restore the truth of the crazy night, and a lot of crazy things continued to happen in the middle.” Finally, Tom was found, and the wedding was successfully completed. That's it. "

"You mean?" Joshua frowned suspiciously, and said, "You mean my marriage will also be shown on the big screen?" Wang Yang laughed a few times before nodding his head. :"Yes, of course! This is one of those things, it's so much fun! Also, there will also be card counting in it, by the way, Jeff will give them a shot. I think this is to sell "MDTTEAM" first, and then when it is promoted later, it doesn't need to spend so much time explaining what card counting is. "

Joshua is not interested in publicity or not, he only knows that this will publicize his marriage! He took a few short breaths and said, "No, Yang! You can't do that, what movie would do that! ? incredible! "

\u0026nbāban, said to himself: "Joshua, do you know? I'm going to have a good time this time!"

For most of last year, he was haunted by some sad things; in order to better grasp the story, he was a little too involved in the whole process of filming, lonely, depressed and sad." He was always in a bad mood, not Well... and last night's indulgence gave him a real chance to let off steam, and he already remembered to "push the sofa down, smash the TV, and mess up the entire presidential suite"...it's all about him credit.

This also gave him a strong desire to continue playing like this and make a funny movie! No matter so much shit, it's just for fun and funny!

"Can you get rid of my marriage?" Joshua still asked a little unwillingly." Seeing Wang Yang shaking his head, he immediately wailed, and gritted his teeth: "I will commit suicide now, I will commit suicide now! At this time, Jessica came in with a bag or two of things. When she heard what her brother said, she asked with a puzzled smile, "What's wrong with you?" "Joshua wiped his tearless eyes and said sadly: "It's time to ask what happened to your boyfriend! He wants to make another funny movie, why! "

Wang Yang shrugged his shoulders with a smile, and said in a serious tone: "Why? I think it will scare a lot of people, and they will scold "Damn Wang Yang, I was cheated by him, and it hurts to watch this movie" OK, then let A funny movie to cheer them up! Well, it's a joke." He smiled and said, "It's actually" I found that I kind of fell in love with Las Vegas. "