Chapter 100 I will come to see your movie(1/2)
According to the convention, from December 24th to the 27th, the Wimbledon bars were closed. Boss John, who had been busy for a year, also had to spend a Christmas with his children. His children had started their own families and started their own businesses. He could not see them a few times a year, and only Christmas would have the opportunity to get together. Just like in China, no matter how many troubles I had in the past year or where I was in that year, when it came to the Spring Festival, he would always try his best to rush home, looking forward to reunion.
Chu Zhongtian’s Christmas is not as lively as last year’s Christmas. Last Christmas team held a Christmas party, and everyone was drunk but very happy. On the 24th, they attended a Christmas party organized by Emily with Russell and Borger. The three of them joined forces to make the annoying real sissy unconscious. On the 25th, they rested in the apartment.
What about this year? Because the team is actively preparing for the FA Cup in the New Year, the team did not organize any form of celebrations. Not only that, head coach Terry Eames also announced the first holiday ban and diet order, and players are not allowed to overeat and have fun during the Christmas holiday. There will be a league game on the 27th, and Eames will carefully check the players' status and physical condition. If someone is found to be overweight, infidel, and ineffective, he will mercilessly exclude him from the roster of the third round of the FA Cup against Wimbledon FC.
He repeatedly stressed with a dark face: "I, Terry Eames, do what I say. If anyone doesn't believe it, you can try it."
No one would have the idea of trying it out, because the third round of the FA Cup is really too important to them, and no one would want to give up on this game. Just as the veteran drunkard Joe Xilin said: "Wine can be drunk whenever you want, and you can drink as much as you want. But the game with those damn bastards may only be this time in your life!"
Everyone wants to participate in this life duel, and they even want to modify the rules of football and allow thirty-five people to play at the same time in a game - just the number of regular players in the first team. I wonder if Wimbledon FC's first team can find thirty-five players? Chu Zhongtian thought with some malicious intentions.
As for Emily... Emily is now a star. Although she is not as good as a real big star, she is still a star for ordinary people. Chu Zhongtian saw an interview about her on TV. As the only British actor in this movie, she naturally attracted the attention of the British.
She smiled on the screen, answered questions politely, and dealt with them freely, which was different from the Emily in life. What was different? Although Emily on TV was smiling, she felt a little bit like she was keeping people from thousands of miles away. However, the Emily that Chu Zhongtian knew in life made him feel very intimate. Being with her was like being with a friend she had known for a long time, without any pressure, like a spring breeze.
One is the celebrity Emily Stan, and the other is his classmate and friend Emily Stan.
How could Emily, who is so busy, still have time and the opportunity to drink and sing with her classmates?
Until Christmas, Chu Zhongtian never saw Emily any other place except on TV. He felt that Emily would not give him tickets, and his previous thoughts were a bit wishful thinking.
But he still wants to watch the movie, Emily didn't invite him just because she was too busy, and if they were friends, he should go and support him.
So after having Christmas lunch with Yang Yang, Chu Zhongtian began to rummage the boxes and cabinets. He had to find the best and most formal set of clothes. He didn't have a suit and he couldn't use that thing, so he didn't bring it to the UK. The most formal set of clothes should be a black leather jacket.
After Chu Zhongtian turned the leather jacket out of the box, he could still smell the mothballs emitted from it. He used a clothes rack to hang it on the window to cool down, and then started looking for pants. After searching for a long time, he found that only one day black jeans were the only ones that matched the black leather jacket. The others were either sky blue or light gray jeans. As for formal pants, there was nothing. Young people like to wear jeans.
Shoes? Chu Zhongtian also has no leather shoes. He has spent more time wearing sneakers since he was a child than barefoot. Since he wore the heels of his leather shoes once when he was a child, he has never been interested in wearing them again. Now when he is not playing football, he wears sports shoes, casual shoes, etc. So he is the only white travel shoes he is wearing on his feet.
That's the one.
Chu Zhongtian looked at the jacket hanging from the window, then looked at the jeans that were pounced on the bed, and then looked down at the shoes on his feet.
It doesn't seem to be bad.
After all this, he began to think about how to watch the movie.
There are countless cinemas in London, and "Christmas Boy" will not be broadcast only in one cinema. Logically speaking, if he just wants to see this movie, he can just go to any one. But Chu Zhongtian thinks that since he is going to see the premiere, what's the point of looking for a cinema to watch it?
But does he know which cinema the premiere is in?
※※※When Chu Zhongtian knocked on the door of Yang Yang's room next door, Yang Yang was taking a nap. He looked at his roommate sleepyly: "Is there anything wrong? Da Chu...yawn--"
"I'll check something if you lend it to your laptop."
Yang Yang let him into the house, and he got into the bed. "You check it yourself, I'm not locked up."
The screen of the ibm laptop on the desk is black, and the XP logo floats around from time to time. It is a screensaver program.
"Thank you." Chu Zhongtian sat down and swayed his mouse, and the xp desktop appeared in front of him.
He opened the browser, then opened the Google search page, and entered the keyword "Christmas Boy, Premiere" in the search box.
The first search result tells him where the premiere of the movie will be held.
It was entertainment news, which clearly told him the name of the cinema at the premiere. A cinema that was not very famous.
Chu Zhongtian knows a little about the names of these cinemas. After all, he majored in media. Cinemas is also a kind of media. This cinema is not the best cinema in London, and its fame is not as big as BFI and Cineworld. However, the Christmas period of those large cinemas is definitely reserved for the best movies, such as big-produced movies like "Lord of the Rings 3". The film starring Emily does not have any sensational big stars and does not have much investment, so she can only go to those second-tier cinemas to premiere.
After finding the name of the cinema, Chu Zhongtian opened Google Map and first searched the London map, then entered the name and address of the cinema. After knowing where to go, he studied how to go from Wimbledon. He drew down the route map, remembered the route and train number to take, and then said goodbye to Yang Yang.
The premiere begins at 4:30 pm and he has to set off now.
After changing all the clothes, Chu Zhongtian put the belt Emily gave him on his pants, said to Yang Yang, and pushed the door out.
It was raining outside, and he didn't forget to hold an umbrella.
※※※Emily looked at the street scene in the drizzling rain outside the window with some anxiety.
She was in the room of the hotel where she was staying, with her mother and her agent sitting on the other side, studying her itinerary for the next few days.
Since arriving at the Heathrow International Airport, she has not had a quarter of her time except to sleep. Her mother is always by her side, taking her there to come here, accepting various media visits, or following the crew to conduct publicity activities. She is so busy that she can only sleep in the car.
It’s nothing to be busy, but the key is that she is so busy that she can’t take off her body, and she can’t leave her mother and go out alone - even if she goes downstairs to buy a bottle of mineral water at the convenience store opposite, she will be with her mother.
How could she give Chu Zhongtian a ticket like this? How could she tell him the time and location of the premiere? No one can help with this except herself. But she didn't know where Chu Zhongtian lives at all. She knew that Chu Zhongtian didn't have a cell phone and wanted to contact him. She usually called Boss John's bar.
This time she was so busy that she didn't even have time to call. She was free - but the bar was closed.
She received the game disc sent by Boss John, and there, Chu Zhongtian sent her an invitation to watch the game. Then she received the news that Chu Zhongtian fulfilled the invitation - Wimbledon entered the third round of the FA Cup, and she really caught up to watch the game on site.
Now, it was her turn to fulfill her invitation - inviting Chu Zhongtian to see her movie premiere.
But she couldn't do it.
"Amy?" Mom was calling her.
She raised her head.
Mom sighed: "I really should give you a mirror to show you your current expression... You will scare the audience away at the premiere in a while. Don't frown, they will say that you have learned to be a big shot before you become famous. You must carefully maintain your image. It is not easy to build it up. It is simple to destroy it like cutting butter."
Emily stretched her frowning brows and showed a sweet smile. "Is this OK, mom?"
Mom was still dissatisfied: "What makes you feel so bad? Don't tell me it's the weather, my dear."
"Maybe it was the first time I was attending the film premiere," Emily replied.
Her mother accepted the explanation. "Nothing, everyone has their first time. Your performance in the movie is very exciting. You are not nervous when facing the camera. Why are you still nervous now? Be more natural and just pretend to be filming a movie."
Emily nodded.
"But this weather is really annoying..." Mom said with concern as she looked at the rain outside the window, "The cold rain will reduce the number of viewers going to the premiere. Damn weather, I'm really fed up with this country. I said Amy, when you graduate, we'll move to Los Angeles..."
Emily listened absent-mindedly, nodding occasionally, expressing her agreement. But what did she agree? She didn't listen to a word.
※※※When Chu Zhongtian felt that the premiere cinema was already surrounded by many people. Although it was not as popular as a masterpiece like "Lord of the Rings 3", second-tier stars are still popular.
The tickets for the premiere are more than twice as expensive as ordinary movie tickets, so Chu Zhongtian still paid for it without hesitation. Of course, he received a 50% discount on the student card, which was still affordable.
After buying the ticket, he did not rush to enter the venue, but waited outside, holding an umbrella, and waiting for the crew to arrive. He wanted to see how Emily walked across the red carpet.
Soon the car the director and the actors were riding in stopped in front of the red carpet, and a canopy was set up above the movie theater, so these stars don’t have to worry about standing in the rain when they get off the car and showing their charm to the fans.
The most attractive ones are always placed behind, so the first supporting role like Emily appears in front of everyone.
She was wearing a black evening dress, revealing her large pieces of breasts and shoulders. Chu Zhongtian looked around and shrank his neck - didn't she feel cold?
Emily, with her hair tied up, looks more mature than usual. With her well-developed body, Chu Zhongtian realized that Emily was already an adult girl of twenty-one, or a woman... she used to wear a T-shirt and jeans with a strong sporty atmosphere, and always thought she was still seventeen or eighteen years old.
Although he is just a supporting role, he has become familiar with him on TV these days. When Emily appeared in front of everyone, many photographers still pressed the shutter in their hands, and Chu Zhongtian even saw some fans holding Emily's posters in the crowd.
He has become famous... Chu Zhongtian shrank in the crowd, wearing black clothes and black umbrellas made him unobtrusive. He suddenly remembered that in January this year, Emily returned from a vacation in the United States and was on the roof of the school teaching building with him. Unexpectedly, it almost became true in less than a year. Emily has become a star, and she has not yet become a paparazzi.
With the lights off, Emily, who was cheering, poses a few poses to the camera, then waves to the fans holding her poster, reveals a sweet smile, and then walks in along the red carpet.
As soon as she walked into the theater hall and came to a blind spot without the attention of reporters and audiences, the smile on her face disappeared. Her brows frowned again, and her mouth also pouted.
I just put three poses at the door. For a short time, she kept searching for the crowd, but never saw the figure she had been looking forward to.
It seems that he didn't find it, or he didn't come.
Mom trotted up, "Expression, Amy."
Emily skillfully changed into a smile and looked at her mother.
"What's wrong with you? You're worried?"
"Maybe I'm too tired, mom." Emily found a seemingly reasonable excuse. She hasn't had a good rest these days.
"Come on, Amy. As an artist, no matter how tired he is, he cannot show it in front of others!" The mother held her daughter's hand and cheered her up.
Emily made her smile look more natural: "Okay, I'm fine, mom. Let's go in."
Seeing Emily walking in, Chu Zhongtian also pulled out of the crowd and went to check the tickets to enter the venue.
Emily today is not shining, but it is completely different from Emily he had seen in the past. Although there are only three layers of people, one layer of security, and a red carpet between him and Emily, he feels that it is completely different from two worlds, and the black crowd is like a bottomless black abyss.
※※※After thirty minutes of commercials and trailers, the lights left in the hall completely dimmed, which was a precursor to the beginning of the movie. The hall, which was still buzzing just now, immediately quieted down. Some of the albums were media reporters who looked at the new film with a picky look. Chu Zhongtian and them were either on the same side, he just watched the movie as an ordinary audience and admired Emily's performance.
"Christmas Boy" tells the story of Santa Claus who went out to perform gifts during Christmas to pick up a baby and took him home to raise him. The child grew up in a snowy environment and thought he was a Santa Claus, but he had no beard and was much taller than the short and fat Santa Claus. He could not stand on a reindeer sled and could not do anything Santa Claus did, so he was always worried about his incompetence. After knowing that Santa Claus had told him about his life experience, he realized that he was not the person here, he was a human, and should return to the human world. He was determined to find his true identity, and should leave the Santa Claus who was reluctant to leave him and returned to the city alone. How many hilarious stories will happen if a person who has never received any education related to human daily life came to a modern city?
This is a comedy with small investment and small productions, but it is better because the actors perform wonderfully, their emotions are sincere, and they praise the purest and most beautiful love in the world. So Chu Zhongtian was very dedicated to seeing it, and was constantly amused by the hilarious plots in the play.
Emily appeared as the heroine's good friend. When she appeared, the hero was taken in by the heroine. Because she didn't have much common sense in life, she made a joke. A burst of laughter happened to be heard in the theater hall. Chu Zhongtian was also laughing, but when he saw Emily's face, he immediately put away his laughter.
Emily in the movie looks similar to the Emily he usually sees. She looks like the girl next door, sweet and cute, and a little immature, just like a peach that is not yet fully mature.
Then she spoke the first line: "Hi, my name is Sarah, I'm Terrily's friend, I'm very happy to know you."
Chu Zhongtian remembers Emily said that she only had three lines in this play.
If it is the heroine's friend identity, then is there a little less of only three lines?
Later, Chu Zhongtian watched the movie and found that three lines were really not bad at all. It can even be said that even if the character of her was deleted, it would have no effect on the plot. Being able to add a character to her and give three lines was considered special care.
It seems that there is a noble man behind her... Emily's second line is: "Oh my God! You are injured!" At that time, the male protagonist crossed the road at a red light because he did not understand the traffic rules, and was hit by a car. When he fell to the ground, he was bleeding. Sarah, played by Emily, and the female protagonist Terryli happened to pass by. After squeezing in, she let out the scream.
The third sentence is the last part of the film. The male protagonist finally integrates into modern society with the help of the female protagonist, and he also found his true love - of course he is the female protagonist, and it cannot be a supporting actress, right? Then Sarah, played by Emily, congratulates them: "You look really a match!"
The supporting actress with only three lines looks really inconspicuous, but Emily's outfit on the screen is very beautiful, which is very eye-catching. After she appeared many times, Chu Zhongtian could already hear the audience behind him exclaiming: "That Sarah is so beautiful..."
"How great would it be if she was my girlfriend!"
"The sound is pretty good too!"
To be continued...