Chapter 406 The Shawshank Redemption

Chapter 406 The Shawshank Redemption

Chapter 406 The Shawshank Redemption
"We are Netflix South Korea. With a large investment and a large production, the popularity of "The Devotion of Suspect X" will rise significantly." The person on the other end of the phone was confident in his offer. He was Jeon Joon-an, the head of the business department of Netflix South Korea.

On the phone, Quan Junan was arrogant.

Even if the South Korean film and television circles are vilifying him behind his back, calling him a traitor and leading Netflix to impact South Korea's local film and television industry, which is currently struggling to survive, in another year or two, the South Korean film and television industry will become a Netflix colony.

But Quan Junan believes that one general's success is the result of the sacrifice of thousands of soldiers. Besides, South Korea is also dominated by American soldiers in reality. Isn't it more appropriate for it to be dominated by Netflix in film and television?

So it's okay for him to be arrogant.

"I'm sorry, we don't package Asian film and television copyrights. If you want to purchase copyrights, you can buy them separately for South Korea, Japan, Thailand and other regions." said Yao Xiaoju.

"You want to reject South Korean Netflix? Are you rejecting the world's most powerful streaming media Netflix?" Quan Junan felt unbelievable.

This toad yawns - what a big breath! Yao Xiaoju's mood remains stable, after all, he is doing it to make money.

He responded in a dignified manner, "Your company purchased the copyright of our "The Devotion of Suspect X" because you believed that the popularity and plot of the book were suitable for adaptation. So it is mutually beneficial, not a charity."

"Otherwise, I would doubt the professionalism of Netflix South Korea," Yao Xiaoju added.

Indeed, the works produced by South Korean Netflix are killing it in Asia, even in China. But facing the Japanese dominance of animation, the results are minimal...

So after analysis by the data department of Netflix South Korea, the solution proposed is: purchase works by Chinese writers.

South Korea purchased Chinese works in order to conquer Japan?

It sounds like divine gold.

"Teacher Gu Lu's work has a certain appeal in Japan, but it still needs to rely more on our South Korean Netflix production." Quan Junan said, "The price of 4 million won is already very high, and the package of Asian copyrights..."

Yao Xiaoju didn't want to listen to what the other party said. The words he said were like being hit on the head with a stick.

What a joke, 400 million won is only about 2 million RMB. Let me tell you the price, the short story "Yesterday's Park" was purchased by a domestic production company for 1.5 million.

"Well, sir, I'll think about it again. I have something else to do, so I'll hang up first." Yao Xiaoju hung up. His experience is that you should talk less with sick people because they are more likely to be infected.

Just after I hung up the phone, another company called me. King Guru's work in the field is very effective...

He traveled to three countries in seven or eight days and was really tired. He sent the heroine abroad as soon as he returned home. Therefore, he decided to do nothing and just take a few days to recuperate.

Why not take a break now? Peking University will open in a week. At the opening ceremony, he had already declined the role of senior student representative, but the wind did not stop. Even though those who could be admitted to Peking University were all top students, Gu Lu was too well-known among the students. Therefore, every year when the new students entered the university, he would instantly become a national treasure, and the new students would come to watch.

"I'm almost a senior. Zhou Lin has started graduate school at Peking University, and Tang Yuan seems to be doing the same... Although I don't have to find a job or internship, think tanks, publishing new books, and copyright development are already very time-consuming." Gu Lu immediately shook his head. What is he thinking about? Forget about working during his rest time.

bang bang-

Gu Lu opened the door, and the person outside was not the delivery man as he had imagined, but a curly-haired lady from the property management department.

The reason why she was the curly-haired auntie was that every time Gu Lu met her, she said that she wanted to curl her hair, but she never took action.

"Auntie, what are you doing?" Gu Lu asked.

"It's like this. Everyone knows that Teacher Gu Lu is a famous writer, so there is a celebration event in our community." The curly-haired aunt said, "I came here specifically to ask Teacher Gu Lu if he wants to sign up for a show?"

"I won't sign up for the show. School is about to start and I'm very busy with studies." Gu Lu said that he would rather be a spectator.

This reason is inexplicable! The curly-haired lady agreed very much, "Study is important, study is important, so I won't disturb Teacher Gu Lu's rest."

Maybe the current property management fee is too high, so they organize some activities for residents every year. When Gu Lu was in Fog City before, not to mention the annual activities, even when the elevator broke down, the property management said they had no money to repair it.

After the property staff left and the door closed, Gu Lu immediately opened his phone to see where his takeaway was.

I just ordered some snacks, no main course, and a few bottles of beer.

It was my first time having a drink at home by myself, and I was exhausted both mentally and physically.

Looking at the APP, the delivery man was only a few dozen meters away, so Gu Lu stood guard at the door.

After a while, there was another knock on the door, and the supplies delivered by the Yellow Knight arrived.

The moment he took the drink in his hand, [Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter] [a transitional work] [the most perfect movie adaptation in Hollywood] turned into "A Tale of Four Seasons".

Details: This is a collection of novels by American writer Stephen King, which consists of four stories: "The Hope of Spring: The Shawshank Redemption", "Summer's Demise: The Nacui", "Autumn's No Innocence: The Corpse" and "Winter's Rebirth: Breathe, Breathe, Breathe". Except for Winter's Rebirth, the other three stories have been adapted into movies.

So beer? Gu Lu tapped the bag in his hand. The beer must be from Shawshank. And it should be the movie referred to by the last label.

I also drank with friends before, why didn't it trigger? Gu Lu thought for a moment and came up with the answer. When you go out to eat and drink, you must pay the bill after eating, which means that the beer does not belong to him during the meal.

Very reasonable.

"Is there something wrong with the beer?" The delivery guy was also a little worried as he had a scratch with someone on the way.

"Oh, no, no." Gu Lu said immediately, "Sorry for the trouble."

The delivery guy breathed a sigh of relief. It was currently his working hour and he was racing against time. He lowered his head and watched other orders leave.

Gu Lu put the snacks and beer away and gave the delivery man a good review, as compensation for his sudden startle and scaring others.

"I'm sleepy and I'm faced with a pillow. Can I do two things at the same time?" Gu Lu pondered.

Don’t think that this novel became famous because of the movie. After the work was released, Gu Lu naturally gained the achievement of the work in his mind.

"A Tale of Four Seasons" is Stephen King's 10th work, and it is another peak of his career after "Carrie". The publisher was not optimistic about it at all, because Stephen King had previously written about ghosts and spirits, and there were no ghosts in the four works, which was a big change in style. He himself did not have high expectations, after all, the four seasons were made up later, and he just randomly picked four works and combined them into one book.

The result? As soon as it was published, it topped the New York Times bestseller list, with 280,000 copies sold in its first year. In addition, Tales of the Four Seasons was listed as a teaching material by English departments in many universities around the world. To put it more bluntly, it was a success both literaryally and commercially.

"As a think tank expert, the first mission you take must be 100% successful!" Gu Lu is taking another path.

Plan A is to target Da Ying through the Cthulhu series. Plan B is to target America through Tales of Seasons.

For example, in The Shawshank Redemption, Andy used his tax evasion to help the prison guard Harry to exchange three cans of beer for each of his colleagues (cellmates). If I were to mention it lightly, what brand of beer was it?

[So in 1950, a group of us who were responsible for renovating the roof sat in a row on the roof at ten o'clock in the morning before the end of the work, drinking beer, which was provided by the most stringent prison guards in the history of Shawshank Prison. The Snow Beer was warm, but it was still the best beer I have ever tasted in my life. We sat there drinking beer, feeling the warm sunshine on our shoulders...]
Why is it Snow? It just so happened that the beer in Gu Lu's hand was Snow, but "Snow is warm" is inexplicably harmonious here. Fortunately, it is not "Brave the World", otherwise it would have been weird to put it in.

Then add some Chinese elements into it...

Action - Action, first finish writing "Color of the Stars" and "Call of Cthulhu", then "The Shawshank Redemption". Gu Lu walked back to the study and turned on the computer. When his fingers touched the keyboard, he froze. That's not right, brother!

Just be a lazy guy today and tomorrow, don't talk about work.

I ate well and drank well that night, and then went to bed after drinking.

Another day, the sky was gray, as if it was raining, but also as if it had not woken up yet.

I have developed a habit of waking up at nine o'clock even on days when I don't have to go to bed at eight o'clock.

I ran on the treadmill for a while to activate my body, and then looked at the sky outside. It was even grayer. It didn't seem like I was still asleep, but rather like I had fainted.

"The weather is so bad. I won't go out today." Gu Lu looked at his phone.

It takes about ten hours to fly from Beijing to Paris, and the heroine should have arrived at her destination.

[Gu Jiayu: Brother, I’m here. I also saw Uncle Dibo picking me up at the airport. Brother, you should be asleep at this hour.

Gu Jiayu: Hahaha, Uncle Dibo insisted that I call him brother. He said that the relationship between him and you is that we are half brothers. ]
The message was sent at around 1 a.m. Since I had met Dibo, it meant that I had packed my luggage.

Gu Lu replied to the heroine.

Then he went out for a walk and bought all the ingredients for lunch. Gu Lu felt that young people rarely cooked at home because they just didn't have the time.

Take Gu Lu for example. He wanted to make something to eat today. He wanted to stir-fry some clams, cook a rabbit, and finally stir-fry shredded potatoes with shredded ginger.

There were three dishes, and Gu Lu was busy from ten o'clock until after one o'clock in the afternoon before he took the first bite.

How can we have time for school or work? If we just want to cook a dish, wouldn’t it be more convenient and convenient to order takeout?

After dinner, Gu Lu estimated the time difference in France and thought Dibo should be up, so he called him.

After a few beeps, the call was connected.

The two of them exchanged pleasantries for a few minutes before they started talking about serious matters.

"Gu, are you still not confident in my work? My sister arrived in Paris last night. I prepared a family dinner to entertain her today." Dibo said.

If the previous relationship only arranged a small villa, now there must be a housekeeper and a vehicle for travel.

The Peng Pang family is a "political mountain range". The family assets are not as exaggerated as those of the giant tycoons and wealthy people, but they can take out hundreds of thousands of euros every year to arrange for Gu Lu's sister. It's very simple, right?

But this amount of money is not enough to make friends with a future great writer.

"Thank you very much." Gu Lu thanked him.

"Given the relationship between us, do we need to say thank you?" Di Bo said, still fluent in Chinese. "Gu, did you receive my cheese? I don't know which one you like, so I sent you some of each popular variety. Tell me which ones you like, and I'll send you some next time. You can give away the ones you don't like. There are so many cheese flavors, there's always going to be one or two that don't suit you."

You are really considerate. Gu Lu's current expression is very interesting.

"I can't eat so much by myself..."

Before he finished speaking, Dibo on the other end of the phone interrupted, "Gu, I know you are being polite. But there is no need to be so polite between us. Cheese is the most beautiful thing in France, so..."

I’m a cheese promotion ambassador. Gu Lu felt that these words were very familiar and quickly stopped the other party from continuing to chant.

All right, they had another brief exchange, and the other party recommended several methods of cooking delicious cheese dishes, but Dibo stopped teaching because he had something to do.

"There are still so many left, who should I give them to--" Gu Lu thought about it and came up with a good idea.

He himself is the honorary president of the May Fourth Literature Society of Peking University, but he seems to have made no contribution. He even went to our literature society to serve as a judge for the essay competition. It was because his personal fame was too great that others dared not say anything.

"These cheeses are not available in China. Strictly speaking, they are really good stuff." The prices are really not cheap. Take the imported cheese brands for example, the ordinary grade 140g costs around or yuan.

What Di Bo sent over are definitely top-notch items. King Guru thinks they can be used as prizes for activities organized by the May Fourth Literary Society.

He contacted Zhao Xin, the president of the May Fourth Literary Society, and they quickly reached an agreement. Was Gu Lu promoting cheese without realizing it?

The second day's leisure time was a bit of a failure. After all, Gu Lu had worked so hard, and he was the kind of person who wanted to implement his plans immediately.

At night, Gu Lu refused to answer several calls.

Gu's mother and father were in the city of Sijiu, and Gu Lu had not met them since the Capital Airport. How should I put it? He was just an "outsider", and whether he forgave his parents was up to his original self, right?

If his parents could bring his original body back to life and tell him, then he could consider it... Gu Lu hung up the phone, which was in Fog City.

Gu Lu had already blocked the phone numbers of those two people, and he guessed that they would call from a different phone number.

The children that the two raised for others have grown up and need to find a job, so now they want to have someone follow King Gollum.

How can such a good thing happen!
After resting, Gu Lu began to type rapidly, with an incredible efficiency of 20,000 words a day.

In three days, I finished revising Call of Cthulhu, Color of the Stars, and Shawshank Redemption. After all, copying is very fast, and the only difficulty is how to appropriately add Chinese elements and complete the task of the think tank vanguard.

There is no need to say anything about the first two articles sent to Yao Xiaoju, but the last one needs a note.

[Brother Yao, please help me find a newspaper in America to serialize this article. Let’s do an experiment. The third article will be serialized in America.]
Yao Xiaoju saw the text message first, and he wondered, is this an attack on the American market?
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