Kong Qingqi is an international student who came to the United States after graduating from high school and has lived in Washington for three years.
She is still a student, sharing an apartment with two girls who are also from China. She has been busy with her studies recently, and the food and some necessities at home have been almost consumed. Kong Qingqi drove out to buy some daily necessities and food to sustain her life needs during the upcoming busy period.
Kong Qingqi didn't notice that there was something in the shopping cart that she didn't intend to buy. When she got home and was cleaning up the things she bought, her roommate Lu Xin passed by the living room and saw a pile of things on the floor. She was attracted by one of the covers. It was a magazine with the popular Hollywood actor Lester Birch on the cover. She was a little curious:
"Qingqi," she called Kong Qingqi's name: "Are you reading a movie magazine?"
The magazine had the special name "Movie Talk" written on it in English, and Lester's face on the cover looked handsome and charming.
The magazine has not been opened yet, and the cover page says that the French Film Festival started a few days ago, and introduces several American films participating in the festival this year.
When Kong Qingqi saw this magazine, a look of confusion appeared on her face.
She was wearing a small camisole and a short white skirt, with her long legs crossed. She was still young and had no interest in magazines like "Movie Talk" which were more professional. Girls of her age would obviously prefer magazines that introduced popular makeup, hairstyles and clothing styles of the season. She vaguely remembered that when she was shopping in the supermarket, she did stand in front of a magazine for a while and took a fashion magazine, but she had never taken a serious magazine like "Movie Talk". Kong Qingqi thought for a while:
"It must have accidentally been pushed into the shopping cart while I was shopping."
She took the magazine from Lu Xin's hand. The magazine cost twenty-one dollars, which was not cheap. If she saw it in the supermarket, she would definitely not buy it on purpose.
Kong Qingqi showed annoyance on her face, but in this episode, Lester's face was photographed with sharp edges, his long dark blond hair combed back, and a well-ironed suit. This well-known Hollywood actor once played the leading role in a movie that Kong Qingqi liked before, and now he is very famous in the United States.
Such professional magazines were originally much more expensive than ordinary magazines. In addition, this issue was supposed to be a special edition to coincide with this year's French Film Festival. It was a thick book, and Lester was invited to shoot the cover, so the price exceeded Kong Qingqi's expectations.
She was not very interested in this kind of magazine. Even though Lester's blue eyes were deep and attractive, Kong Qingqi took a look and still made up her mind to return the magazine to the supermarket.
Just by chance, she saw a line of small English words under Lester's photo.
The line of words was hidden under Lester's gray suit jacket and was not eye-catching, but after translation, it was the word "Huaxia", which immediately attracted Kong Qingqi's attention.
She picked up the magazine that she was going to put aside, took a closer look, and saw the words: "A Chinese film worth pondering, it may be one of Spacey's biggest competitors at this year's French Film Festival."
Such a sentence easily piqued Kong Qingqi's interest.
Spacey is a legend in the American film industry. He graduated from the Film Department of the University of Southern California and has served as the visual effects art director in many Hollywood commercial blockbusters. Later, his first adventure film directed by Roundabout Entertainment was well received. The success of this film made Spacey the first director in American film history to direct a movie with a box office of over 200 million US dollars, which made his status rise again and again.
Since then, he has directed a number of critically acclaimed and commercially successful films and is one of the most famous directors in the United States today.
This year he has a new work and participated in the French Film Festival. Many Spacey fans believe that he has the ability to win the trophy at the French Film Festival. But at this time, the cover of "Film Talk" magazine pointed out that his competitor is a director from "China". Kong Qingqi was very curious.
China itself has many well-known directors, but not many of them are famous internationally. As a Chinese, Kong Qingqi naturally pays some attention to some news about her motherland.
She guessed that one of Spacey's competitors should be a top-notch super director like Zhang Jing'an.
However, since the release of "Rescue Operation", there has been no news of Zhang Jing'an entering the promotion period for a new movie. It was heard last year that his new work had just entered the shooting stage. The male lead is her idol Liu Ye, and it is the second time he has collaborated with China's most popular actress Jiang Se.
Even if Zhang Jingan's film wanted to participate in the competition, it would not be possible at this time as the timing is not stable.
But who else could it be besides Zhang Jingan? Could it be "The Accident" starring Tao Cen
Out of curiosity, Kong Qingqi couldn't help but tore open the magazine and flipped through it impatiently. She didn't flip for long before she found the news on the inside page of "Movie Talk" that said in small print on the cover that he could be Spacey's rival. Kong Qingqi almost cried out in surprise, as it was an interview report about Zhao Rang's new drama "Devil".
Inside the pages, Jiang Se was wearing a light blue chiffon sequined long dress, with her shoulders half exposed, she was incredibly beautiful. After being used to seeing European and American beauties in the previous pages of the magazine, when Kong Qingqi suddenly saw this page of Jiang Se, she took a deep breath and was unable to come back to her senses for a long time!
As for "The Devil", I think everyone in China knows about it now.
Even though Kong Qingqi is not in the country, her former classmates and relatives always tell her the news.
Moreover, the Internet has been popularized nowadays. She can refresh the latest domestic news when she goes online every day. And it just so happens that the biggest news in China recently is the dispute caused by "The Devil" directed by Zhao Rang!
The crew of "Demons" was participating in a film festival in France. When the domestic news about Shu Pain's comments on "Demons" and "The Accident" in a media under Longxing Studio caused an uproar, no one from the crew and the two leading actors responded online.
Even though the homepages of Jiang Se and Liu Ye were overwhelmed by netizens anxiously waiting for answers, and Shu Peien's comments in "Times Commentary" on the same day made the audience's curiosity about "The Devil" reach its peak, the entire "The Devil" crew remained quiet, even though some people scolded Zhao Rang online for "making things suspenseful" and thought that Shu Peien's comments on the same day were out of date and deviated from his original intention.
The incident has caused such a big stir because it involves Liu Ye. Kong Qingqi has actually been paying attention to this news recently. When her old classmates, friends and acquaintances contacted her online, they all had different opinions on "The Devil".
Some people are curious, some support it, and of course there are also people who like Tao Cen and oppose it.
But Kong Qingqi didn't expect that "Devil", which had not been leaked at all in China, would be published in this professional American film magazine. (To be continued)