Eric thought it should be the "Roses of Pride", and said: "Since you are not happy, then just don't pick it up."
"You put it bluntly. I still have to make money to support my family. If I'm not happy, I won't act. Then I won't even think about acting again." Sophie seemed to forget what she just said in a blink of an eye, and said teasingly to Eric. road.
Passing by a street lamp, Sophie stepped on her short shadow and jumped up and down a few times. The high-heeled shoes hit the slate and made a series of crisp clicking sounds. The skirt of the light blue dress danced and jumped in the light, sometimes showing A white and slender calf.
Eric looked at Sophie's slightly childish actions with some excitement, and thought that the aura girl in "First Kiss" still didn't grow up, but she learned to compromise. I don't know if it is a pity.
Sophie jumped a few times, and walked to Eric's right side naturally.
Eric looked at the soft face beside him and said, "Why don't you come to Hollywood and I'll introduce you to a movie."
Sophie looked at Eric, and then remembered that the young man beside her was the big boss of Firefly Film Company, which was in the limelight in Hollywood, and he was also the director of a series of global hit movies. However, Sophie had never cooperated with Hollywood. However, Eric's young face really made her feel no sense of awe for this young man's other identity like Frederick Bloom from tf1 company just now. The girl was stunned for a moment, looking at the gentle smile on Eric's face, she suddenly relaxed again, and said with a smile: "Then tell me what movie it is first, I won't act if I'm not interested?"
Eric remembered the topic he had just discussed with John Carley in the restaurant, and said, "How about the Bond girl?"
Sophie immediately said with a look of disdain: "The guy who goes around picking up girls and being handsome and can save the world?"
Eric smiled: "Yeah. That's the guy. Are you interested?"
Sophie dragged out her tone a little bit: "Not interested~~~"
"Don't be so absolute. Why not try it, and you'll be the most beautiful Bond girl ever."
"If I want to act, I will play the big villain, kill Bond, and destroy the world," Sophie said, baring her small white teeth 'viciously', but the melancholy face full of natural literary style did not show anything. ferocious breath.
"Okay, I'll let you play the villain, kill Bond. Destroy the world."
Sophie stared sideways at Eric's expression for a few seconds, and suddenly said in surprise, "Are you serious?"
Eric nodded solemnly: "Of course, do you think I'm joking?"
"Let's forget it," Sophie's face suddenly turned red, which was very obvious even under the not-so-bright streetlights. She threw out this sentence in a panic, and suddenly gave Ai Rui a hard look. Ke: "You guy who likes to coax women with sweet words, I will never be fooled by you again."
"But I'm clearly discussing this matter with you very seriously," Eric said innocently, "Before I met you, I happened to be talking to John Carley, the president of MGM Pictures. The problem with the 007 series. MGM is likely to use the setting of two Bond girls in the latest 007 sequel, if you are interested. I can recommend you to play the villain Bond girl in the past.”
Sophie realized that Eric was really not joking, remembering her oversensitive reaction just now, she gave a few embarrassing compliments, unconsciously quickened her pace, and walked towards the steps away from the Seine embankment, Eric Ke looked at the back of the girl who was running away, smiled, and hurriedly followed.
After leaving the embankment, Eric saw Sophie standing on the side of the road waiting for a taxi, he stepped forward and gently pulled the girl: "Why don't I take you back, it's not easy to get a taxi now."
Sophie looked at Eric, saw Eric's appearance alone, and said with a smile: "Why are you sending me back?"
Eric smiled confidently and mysteriously: "I'll do a magic trick for you." As he spoke, Eric raised his right hand and snapped his fingers skillfully. Sophie widened her eyes in anticipation and curiosity. He closed his eyes, and his clear eyes were fixed on Eric's raised right hand.
Then…
And then…
Still nothing happened.
The crisp laughter of schadenfreude quickly spread out under the dim lights of the street.
"Haha, hahaha... Okay, Eric, it's getting late, I'm going home."
As Sophie was speaking, she happened to see a taxi approaching from a distance, and was about to step forward to wave, but was stopped again.
Eric pointed to a black car coming from the other side, and said, "Here, my car is here."
While talking, the black car stopped in front of the two of them. The driver got out of the car and opened the door respectfully.
Eric pushed Sophie gently, and Sophie got into the back seat without thinking of any excuse to refuse. Eric got into the car from the other side and asked, "I don't know where you live yet?"
Sophie gave Eric a blank look, deliberately said something to the driver in French, and then proudly raised her chin at Eric.
The black car continued to drive along New York Avenue for a while, then turned into a road in the northwest, walked through the streets of Paris for more than ten minutes, and stopped outside a typical five-story European-style apartment.
Sophie said goodbye to Eric, thanked the driver politely, opened the door, jumped out of the car briskly, and ran towards the apartment door. Eric gave some instructions to the driver and got off car.
Quickly entering the password on the access control, Sophie was about to push open the heavy iron door when she was startled by Eric's figure beside her.
"You, you... what are you going to do?" Sophie was a little flustered instinctively, her two little hands still subconsciously protecting her body.
Eric's face was harmless to humans and animals: "Sophie, I'm thirsty..."
The girl burst out laughing, but immediately sullen her face again, and gave Eric a hard look: "Eric, can you think of any worse excuses?"
Eric pointed to the car leaving in the dust: "Hey..."
Sophie looked at the black car that quickly disappeared around the corner, as if she had found a reasonable excuse in her heart, and pushed open the iron door of the apartment to let Eric in together. But he didn't forget to cover his ears and steal the bell: "You have to leave after drinking the water."
"no problem."
"Also. Don't mess around."
"I swear."
"That doesn't sound sincere at all."
"I swear to God."
"Don't. What if God gets angry with me."
"I'll let him punish me alone."
"Slick tongue."
In the narrow corridor of the apartment, the two bickered softly, and quickly disappeared around the corner of the stairs.
…
In just one week, she woke up in the arms of the same man she was not familiar with, and Sophie couldn't help but confess her depravity.
However, Sophie still didn't understand why she fell so easily when she was hugging her man at this time. She could only feel that she was very comfortable when she was with Eric, and he could always guess her easily. mind. Even if there are occasional differences in the conversation between the two, the differences will be so clear. Moreover, Eric never tried to persuade her to agree with her point of view. He seemed to understand from the beginning that she hated the kind of person who likes to preach. .
Although the two had known each other for less than a week, he seemed to have known her for many years. Sophie even remembered the words Eric said when she first appeared in front of her, "I think I should have known her in the last life." You, so come up and say hello."
On this somewhat cool, sunny summer morning in Paris. In an apartment in the sixteenth arrondissement of Paris, Sophie suddenly felt. Maybe what he said was true.
Oh, so silly.
Although she felt that her thoughts were absurd, Sophie still turned her body curiously, as if she wanted to take advantage of his deep sleep to inquire about it, but just turned her body, and met Eric's bright eyes.
"You, are you awake?" Sophie said pretending to be calm.
Eric could feel the slight tightness of Sophie's waist instantly, and asked doubtfully, "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing." Sophie shook her head lightly, and said, "You should go."
Eric reached out and took a look at the watch on the dressing table. It was not yet eight o'clock, so he retracted into the bed again, hugged Sophie into his arms, and rubbed the woman's round face with his chin. Shoulder: "It's still early, let's sleep for a while."
Sophie opened her mouth, wanted to say something, but gave up the idea, thinking that there was no work to do today, so she leaned obediently in Eric's arms, twisted her body by the way, and pulled Eric He put his arm on the pillow and changed to a more comfortable position.
The two of them were like mice cuddling tightly together in the cold winter, and after an unknown amount of time, they opened their eyes together again as if they had a tacit understanding.
Eric sniffed and smelled a faint smell of toasted bread, and said to Sophie, "Did I feel hungry?"
Sophie smiled lightly, and said, "There's a bakery downstairs. I'm hungry too. Get up and buy bread."
Eric immediately bargained: "I don't speak French, you go."
"You don't speak French, and you don't know francs?"
Eric buried his head in Sophie's pillow with a good smell, and continued to play tricks: "I'm a big shot, and I never carry change on me."
Sophie pinched Eric angrily and amusedly, but got out of the bed, walked barefoot to the closet, randomly found a set of loose pink home clothes, put them on, and dug them out of her purse. With a few change notes, he stepped out the door in fluffy slippers.
Eric watched the girl disappear, stretched comfortably, and slowly got up to get dressed.
Then, after a simple breakfast, Eric was kicked out by Sophie again.
It's strange, why do you say again.
Of course Eric can understand Sophie's entangled mood. In the memory of his previous life, Sophie did not cooperate with Zulaski in any film in the ten years after the filming of "The Blue Movement" in 1991. At this time, " The Blue Movement was already a movie two years ago. Although the relationship between her and Zuraski began to fade, just like the "When Love Becomes a Habit" directed by Sophie Yuanshikong, the two are still in love with each other. There was no formal separation, it just became a habit. From some performance tracks of Sophie's previous life, Eric knew that Sophie would be wandering in Hollywood more in the following years. What Eric has to do now is It is to abduct Sophie to Hollywood two years ahead of "Braveheart".
For him, this couldn't be easier, and from the communication with Sophie, Eric can also feel that Sophie is not disgusted with the invitation from Hollywood, or the invitation from him personally.
Back to the hotel to meet with Chris, and after a brief finalization, Chris formally submitted an offer to the management of the Nokia Group in Finland for the acquisition of Nokia's mobile communications division.
Unsurprisingly, Nokia's management immediately rejected Firefly's investment plan, and Nokia's acquisition terms were to sell 20% of Nokia Group's shares in exchange for 250 million US dollars in development funds. This plan is far from Eric's expectations, but Eric also knows that, just like the wholly-owned acquisition plan of Firefly Pictures, the plan given by Nokia is also just a test. It was determined after a long period of see-saw negotiations.
After the official contact, Chris did not stay in Paris, but went to Helsinki, the capital of Finland, with Firefly's acquisition team. Eric remained in Paris, but kept in close contact with Chris.
In addition, to Eric's surprise, the plan he proposed on the night of his meeting with Marcel Noiré of Lyon Credit Bank and John Carley of MGM was unanimously opposed by all film forces in Europe. It is also very obvious that although Eric's plan has a very good prospect, no one wants to step into the mess of MGM.
Over the years, apart from a few capital operations in the hands of Kirk Kerkorian, MGM has not had any outstanding performance at all. However, Kirk Cotterian has never invested a penny in MGM. MGM’s operation method is to continuously issue corporate bonds, and use this method to raise funds to produce and distribute movies. However, for more than ten years In the end, not many big-selling movies were produced, and the debts accumulated were getting higher and higher.
After the box office failures of "Brother's Peak" and "The Last Action Hero" released in the summer, Credit Lyonnais, as the largest shareholder at this time, not only could not obtain any benefits from MGM, but instead wanted to prevent MGM from falling into Debt crisis, but also continue to invest in MGM.
Under such circumstances, it is not difficult to understand that these European film forces are unwilling to step into this mess.
In desperation, Eric thought about it, and soon came up with a plan that was easier to accept. (To be continued..)