Huayu: As a child star, I just want to be famous

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While "Joker" continues to gain ground, many people are paying attention to the specific progress of this year's "Time" person of the year.

Yue Shasha from Huaxin News Agency is one of them.

As the first Chinese figure in the arts and literature circles to become one of the top 10 candidates, Chen Linfeng is already a groundbreaking achievement.

But if he can be successfully elected, that would certainly be something that makes people happier.

As the country has developed to date, many honors have begun to be won by Chinese people.

But the overall number is still relatively small.

Chinese people still lack international recognition.

Besides, Time magazine in North America has always been very reserved. Except for Chen Linfeng, they almost dislike all Chinese stars.

In other words, there are very few stars in Asia who can gain their favor.

This also represents a certain reality: Asian entertainment stars rarely radiate their influence to Europe and the United States.

Now that Chen Linfeng has successfully become a candidate, he is only one step away from being named Person of the Year. The significance of this is actually quite unusual.

As a reporter for China News Service in the United States, Yue Shasha certainly would not simply wait for the new issue of Time magazine to get news.

She also has friends inside Time magazine.

Not too far in advance, at least one or two days in advance, around the time when the magazine sample comes out, is enough.

Knowing this, the leader gave her the task of investigating relevant news.

Now, Yue Shasha has been waiting for that call for a long time.

"Jingle Bell."

Yue Shasha quickly picked up the microphone.

"Hello? Jenny, what's the result?" Her tone was full of nervousness and anxiety.

"The Person of the Year is Chen."

"what?"

Although she had thought about this possibility in her mind, when the result really came, Yue Shasha couldn't help but start to doubt whether she had heard it wrong.

"In 2013, Chen defeated other candidates and became the final winner of the Person of the Year."

The other party exhaled softly, "Sally (Yue Shasha's English name), you can cheer now."

Yue Shasha clenched her fists tightly and couldn't help but excitedly shouted "nice!"

In front of her friends, she tried her best to control her emotions.

After expressing gratitude many times and promising to treat her to a meal, Yue Shasha hung up the phone.

"Haha~"

Yue Shasha couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Although this honor itself has nothing to do with her, she is very happy that the Chinese people can achieve this.

"Oh, by the way, I have to tell the leader."

As she said that, she rushed to the leader's office.

When the news reached back home, many leaders were shocked.

"He really got elected," Director Li smiled and shook his head, "This kid is always able to surprise people."

……

In mid-December, Time magazine's 12 Person of the Year was officially announced.

On the cover of Time Magazine, Chen Linfeng was sitting on the sofa in a posture similar to when he first appeared on the cover.

But this time, he not only held a book in one hand, but also a roll of film in the other.

This symbolizes that Chen Linfeng has two abilities with global influence: writing and filming.

“There are few people like him who have achieved world-shaking achievements in two fields at the same time.

As a person in the literary and artistic world, he seems to have some ability to see through people's hearts, and his works, no matter what form they are, always win the favor of the public.

When he was 25 years old, he had won the highest awards at the three most famous film festivals in the world.

Among the top ten films in film history, two are his works.

"Lord of the Mysteries", written by him, is known as the best fantasy novel after "Harry Potter" and is loved by hundreds of millions of people.

He is the true genius of the 21st century, perhaps, none other than him.”

Time magazine gave Chen Linfeng a very high evaluation.

Person of the Year emphasizes influence, both good and bad.

A failed art student and a future accordion-playing politician are both on the list.

It goes without saying whether their influence is good or bad.

As for Chen Linfeng, this is obviously a positive statement.

I can only say that Time Warner has indeed given enough face, and the expected income brought by "Lord of the Mysteries" is indeed exciting.

……

As expected, Chen Linfeng's selection as Person of the Year caused a stir around the world.

On the day the results came out, the matter made headlines in newspapers in major countries around the world.

Especially in Asia, which has always been under the media hegemony of the European and American world, this matter is taken very seriously.

Neon's Asahi Shimbun published a special issue to discuss the significance of this matter.

Singapore's Lianhe Zaobao discussed in a very serious tone the influence of Chinese Chen Linfeng in the Western world today.

Both articles mentioned the rise of East Asian cultural power and regarded Chen Linfeng's winning of Person of the Year as a landmark event.

In a way, this is not wrong.

The fact that Chen Linfeng was named Person of the Year as a cultural celebrity is inseparable from the improvement of East Asia’s overall strength and influence.

But this does not mean that representative Chen Linfeng is not important.

On the contrary, several newspapers in East Asian countries called Chen Linfeng the most brilliant star in East Asia.

Achieved achievements that past superstars have never achieved.

To some extent, this will affect the future evaluation of historical status.

Most Asian countries have a sense of pride in this matter, after all, it represents the rise of influence in East Asia as a whole.

Only South Korea is a little jealous, thinking that although Chen Linfeng has some level, our country's Rain also has great international influence, and has been selected as one of the world's 100 most influential Asian artists by Time magazine twice.

Why not choose Rain?
The Koreans are a little angry and feel that the United States is a bit disrespectful to them as an ally.

Of course, we have to ignore here that Chen Linfeng has been on the list that Rain is on every year since 08.

That's a small matter.

In China, the authorities don’t take it too seriously and there is no such treatment as the News Broadcast.

But what is more interesting is that some political commentary programs on CCTV Channel 7 and Channel 4 mentioned this matter.

When they talk about the international situation, they will use Chen Linfeng's selection as Person of the Year as an argument to prove the increase of China's global influence.

CCTV Channel 4 even made a special program to trace the international honors Chen Linfeng has won over the years.

The aforementioned “World’s 100 Most Influential People” list, as well as more well-known lists such as the Forbes Celebrity List, are all included.

I don't know, I was taken aback.

All in all, there are dozens or even hundreds of lists, big and small, and these are the more well-known ones.

Among them, Chen Linfeng is almost tacitly regarded as the synonym of Asian superstar.

His name is often ranked at the top, and he is far ahead of other Asian superstars.

In some heavyweight global lists, Chen Linfeng is the only Asian on the list.

Of course, the most important thing is Time magazine's "Person of the Year".

You can tell as soon as you hear this that it is much more valuable than other lists.

After all, there is only one person in the world each year, and it is truly extraordinary that outstanding people from all fields compete together.

Just look at the annual figures of previous years and you will know that every one of them is a trend-setter of the times and every one of them is a world-renowned figure.

This program is very clear and shows Chen Linfeng's current international influence.

Some of these statistics and indicators are not well known to his fans.

After the show aired, it was immediately accepted by fans, who took it as evidence for future attacks.

Yes, of course the people who are most excited about being named Person of the Year are Chen Linfeng’s fans.

This group of people was unusually crazy and spread and discussed related topics everywhere on the Internet.

It just so happens that "Joker" has been gaining a lot of ground during the awards season.

The combination of these two things triggered public opinion on the entire Internet.

“When Chen Linfeng starred in and directed various TV series that became very popular overseas, I thought it was amazing for a star to be able to do this.

As a result, he became more successful in filmmaking and gained a huge reputation in Hollywood.

I think this is enough, who knows if he can still move up one step every year.

It won three major awards and its novel sales reached nearly 20 million in one quarter.

Now the Person of the Year has been announced.

When will this end? Xiao Chen, please stop for a while and wait for your people."

"The guy above is really great, but it's true that Xiao Chen is a bit too fierce. As his fan, I feel like I can't keep up."

"Too fierce. Compared with domestic stars, they are not in the same league."

"If we can have the Oscars again early next year, it will be perfect. Damn it, the Wind God is not going to do it for real, is he?"

"You think you will win."

"Must win +1"

"..."

Fortunately, Chen Linfeng was busy with public relations in Hollywood and was not greatly affected by the relevant public opinion.

It just gave me another topic to talk about when I was chatting with the judges.

After returning home, I had more things to talk about with Xixi.

Chen Linfeng gave the commemorative issue of Time magazine to Sissi as a gift.

Her pregnancy is starting to show, but her temper is okay and she doesn't have the temper that is typical of pregnant women.

This is a good thing, Xixi is usually a gentle person.

She is still like this even when she is pregnant. It seems that this is really the underlying color of her personality.

The time has come to the end of the year.

The eventful year of 2013 has passed.

Next is 2014.

This was the first year of traffic stars, and it was also the year when Internet capital first entered the film and television industry and began to suffer losses and learn lessons.

At the same time, it was also the year when online dramas began to rise.

On a broad scale, society entered the pure Internet era starting in 2014.

Time has transformed society into something more and more familiar.

During the New Year's Day, Chen Linfeng brought Xixi back to China and spent the time at home.

Then, he went to Hollywood.

Private jets are indeed convenient enough in terms of convenience.

One more important thing is the meeting between Chen Linfeng and Kevin Feige.

Since the second half of last year, Mei began negotiating cooperation matters with Marvel.

The cooperation was subsequently confirmed, and it has been three or four months now.

Although Chen Linfeng has been at home with Xixi for some time.

But he never forgot about Marvel.

I met with Kevin Feige today to discuss the relevant plot.

The two met at Disney's headquarters.

Marvel Studios is here, with their own office.

"Kevin, I watched Thor: Ragnarok last November. It was pretty good."

"Ha, do you want me to brag about the performance of The Hunger Games 2?"

Kevin Feige walked up and gave me a hug.

"Congratulations, Chen. Joker won the global box office championship in 2013."

Since Frozen was released at the end of the year and is still being released around the world, this movie was not included in last year's annual box office. In fact, people still don't know that an animated film can have such a high box office.

Therefore, in recent days, newspapers and media have been hyping up the fact that "Joker" won the annual box office championship.

"That's all in the past, and we still have to focus on the future."

Sitting on the sofa in the office for entertaining guests, Chen Linfeng took out a stack of documents from his bag.

"Elsa, go make two cups of coffee."

Kevin Feige waved his hand and asked his assistant to get to work.

He picked up the document handed over by the other party and asked, "What is this?"

"The script for The Monkey King that we talked about before."

"Oh, you're really fast."

Kevin Feige was not in a hurry to open it and watch it, but started talking about "Thor 2".

“You praised it before, but in my opinion, this movie is just average.
It didn’t give me more excitement than the Iron Man series.”

"This is normal. Examples like Iron Man where actors and movies complement each other are rare."

"What about this 'Xun Wukong' series you prepared?"

Chen Linfeng frowned when he heard the extremely awkward pronunciation of the other party.

Never mind, no need to correct it.

"It hasn't started filming yet, so who knows? What I am more certain of is that at least in China, people will definitely like this kind of subject matter."

Kevin Feige pondered for a moment and decided that as long as it could connect with the entire Marvel worldview and achieve huge success in the Chinese market, that would be enough.

This is what he was pursuing from the beginning.

"Chen, in what direction do you think Marvel should develop in the future?"

Kevin Feige looked at the other person steadily and said, "I need your advice."

There has been a lot of quarreling within the company recently. Although "Avengers 2" has set the main tone, there are still serious differences among people on individual superhero movies.

Chen Linfeng thought about it and decided to give some advice. Although Marvel has been very popular in the past ten years, there are still only a few that have a large fan base.

"I think Marvel should consider letting Spider-Man join."

"Oh?"

"Sony is currently filming The Amazing Spider-Man 2. This series can't be said to be bad, but it is still basically considered a rehash.

Marvel might as well find a way to negotiate with Sony and bring Spider-Man into the Avengers world. This will be a key step in attracting fans..."

At this time, the assistant brought the coffee.

Chen Linfeng was interrupted, said thank you, and then continued,

"When the time comes, we'll shoot two stand-alone Spider-Man movies first, and then add the male protagonists of the two generations of Sony Spider-Man into the cast. It will be a huge carnival to have three generations in the same frame."

Kevin Feige sighed inwardly.

Fxxk, this Chen is so talented.

He also thought of getting Spider-Man back.

But he couldn't think of the three generations appearing in the same frame afterwards.

Yes, the three generations of Spider-Man will be the sentiment of many people, and will surely attract carnival from fans all over the world.

Kevin Feige became excited just by hearing the idea.

"Chen, your idea is really shocking."

Kevin Feige asked quickly, "Anything else you want to think of, Chen? You're really a genius. The ideas you come up with are better than the results of my people who have been thinking hard for half a year."

Chen Linfeng smiled slightly, picked up the coffee and started drinking.

I'll give you a hint, just finish reading my script and we'll be done.

Do you really think I can give you all the advice?

Do you want me to point out to you the problems with Marvel movies after Avengers 4 so you can avoid them in advance?

joke.

He doesn't want Marvel to survive forever.

Chen Linfeng took two sips and frowned.

"Miss Assistant, give me more sugar, thank you."

"Okay, sir."

Kevin Feige also knew that Chen would not give him advice for no reason.

I had to give up this plan and picked up the script on the table and started reading.

At the beginning of the script, Sun Wukong did not appear immediately.

Instead, it shows what happens when the extraordinary appears in modern society from the perspective of a young Chinese person.

In the West, there were Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America.

On the Chinese side, some people with super powers have gradually appeared.

Among them, some are decent characters, but many others cannot withstand the psychological alienation brought about by the enormous power and become villains who harm the people.

Experts call this alienation and distortion super power disease.

The villains in China will not rob a bank as soon as they gain power.

But there is still revenge to be taken and grievances to be taken.

Who doesn’t have an enemy?

As a result, casualties began to occur.

Because the authorities began to crack down on this kind of behavior that harms others, the conflict between the two sides intensified.

The villains even know how to unite with newcomers and gradually form their own forces.

Although the authorities are trying their best to control the situation, they are also improving their previous working methods.

But some people have peculiar abilities and are often difficult to subdue, making it difficult for them to be defeated.

This means that victims appear every now and then, and the entire society suffers greatly.

This is the background of the whole story.

Against this backdrop, the protagonist is a man whose family is torn apart by a villain’s superpower disease.

He hates those super-powered people who act recklessly and without any regard for civilians, and has always hoped to change the status quo.

For this reason, he often appears at the scene where people with super powers cause casualties to help the victims.

The male protagonist himself is very ordinary, and his only unique hobby is stone carving.

Whenever I feel sad or in a bad mood, I carve stones.

And ever since his parents passed away, he has been carving a statue of a great sage.

Now it is almost finished carving.

The beginning of the script mainly introduces the world background and the experience setting of the male protagonist.

Kevin Feige raised his eyebrows. This kind of protagonist is considered a classic setting.

However, Marvel movies do not seek to be too innovative, and classics also have their advantages.

He looked at the time marked on the script. The previous background setting and description of the protagonist were all glanced over in the first ten minutes of the movie.

Some will be presented in the form of memories in subsequent stories.

The male protagonist who appears at the beginning is more of a tool to introduce Sun Wukong than the protagonist.

With monkeys around, who would want to watch the story about the protagonist?

The next thing should be to come into contact with the power of Sun Wukong. The most suspicious thing is the statue.

Kevin Feige continued to watch.

After the male protagonist finally perfected the eyes of the statue, the Monkey King Sun Wukong appeared.

[A stick that goes all the way from the sky to the earth appears before his eyes. Sun Tianyou (the protagonist's temporary name) stands there in a daze.

Looking at the figure in armor, like a god or a demon, exuding a terrifying aura.

But he was not afraid at all.

The golden monkey rose to a great height, and Yuyu clarified Wan Liai.

"Great Sage!" He couldn't help but shout out. 】

What follows is the very classic process of Sun Wukong becoming familiar with modern life and gradually becoming closer to the protagonist.

Where are you from?

【Earthly Immortal Realm.】

[Where is the Earthly Immortal Realm? ]

[It’s hard to say. You need to ascend to know. To use your terms here, it is in another dimension.

Above the countless worlds, there is only one earthly immortal world.

Oh, in your terms, there is such a world of earthly immortals above the multiverse. 】

……

【Where did you hear so many of our words? 】

[There is a teaching in the heavens. In our place, the most famous one is the teacher. The knowledge of the earthly immortal world in recent years has been updated to this person's theory. I was so confused at one point.]

[Do gods also need to learn Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought? ]

【yes. 】

[Why? It makes sense.]

【Won't others object? 】

[The leading Daluo Jinxians all agree, so what's the point of others objecting? 】

【what? 】

[The Golden Immortals are all people who can stand above the long river of time and space, so they naturally understand which future is better. ]

Can you?

[In the earthly immortal world, he is barely able to do it, not as good as Tathagata, Jade Emperor, Laojun and others, but he can’t do it after coming down]

Kevin Feige frowned, and he obviously realized that these were Chen's own private goods.

I wanted to mention it, but after thinking about it, I decided to hold back.

I just received an excellent suggestion. It's not worth getting upset over such a small piece of advice.

Chen Linfeng sat aside drinking coffee, and his assistant brought him several cups in a row.

Then some snacks were brought so that he wouldn't have to sit and wait.

Chen Linfeng saw Kevin Feige frowning, glanced at the approximate position in the script, and understood.

The bait I gave you really worked.

Some of the content in the script involves a lot of knowledge about Chinese culture, but Kevin Feige's rough understanding is not enough for him to fully understand it.

So he would ask one or two questions from time to time.

"This Sun Wukong's personality seems to be slightly different from what I knew before?"

“That’s right, the Monkey King in the script is actually the Monkey King who became a Buddha after going on a journey to the West in the original novel.

Even further back.”

Chen Linfeng gave him a brief account of the contents of "The Sequel to Journey to the West".

It’s a good copyright, so don’t waste it.

After Mei finished the negotiations, Kirin and Marvel jointly established a company.

The two parties each hold half of the shares, and the film copyright of Marvel's China chapter belongs to this company.

Afterwards, the corresponding copyrights of "The Sequel" must be purchased in the name of this company.

"So Sun Wukong's personality is more calm, like a teacher?"

"Yes, the underlying tone of righteous rebellion is still there, but it has become much calmer accordingly."

Zhang Lingtong's performance in the old version of Journey to the West is somewhat eccentric.

By the time of "The Sequel to Journey to the West", it had been much more restrained.

If he were to be cast in a movie today, it would definitely have to be slightly changed.

This way it seems to be more in line with the senses of global audiences.

Everything is in order.

(End of this chapter)