Chapter 509 The King xx Wu Hai?
Chapter 509 The King xx Wu Hai?
Morden is a smart man. Creating his own characters is an unorthodox approach, but it is a good idea to jointly promote it with a certain country.
That’s right, using a certain national geographic prototype as the background map is a joint promotion.
The announcement on Twitter was not just Morden Hughes’s self-indulgence. It was around 6pm Rome time when Renault, the head of the Italian Tourism Bureau, made a statement:
“Human activities on the Italian Peninsula can be traced back to the early Paleolithic Age! In the 9th century BC, the Etruscans created a splendid civilization. Such a splendid history is very consistent with the epic of the continent of Man in "The Holy Land Mountain", so the combination of the two is like the combination of cheese and dough, which is a perfect match.”
Then Morden said modestly and praised Idali, "The Saint Realm Mountain in the book that towers into the clouds and dominates the Man Continent, when I wrote it, I was thinking of Mount St. George."
Seeing Morden and the Italian party being so affectionate, Yao Xiaoju couldn't stand it anymore. He sent an email to question them - not really, the tone was not harsh, just asking what was going on.
It doesn't mean that the Italian authorities can only play with Gu Lu. This is not a child's game of house. Friendship between countries is often interest-oriented.
But Mo Deng tied himself to Gu Lu to market himself, and either stepped on or belittled him in public. It is no exaggeration to say that Mo Deng and Gu Lu are enemies.
In this case, the staff took Gu Lu to visit St. George Hill a week ago, and you turned around and cooperated with them, which can definitely be called a backstab.
Renault, the head of Italian tourism, said after receiving Yao Xiaoju's email:
"Five out of ten of Morden's works can be adapted in Hollywood, not to mention that The Sacred Mountain has been valued by several Hollywood companies. Only a handful of Gu Lu's works have been adapted into movies, and it's unknown when this fantasy work will be produced. It's unknown whether the success of A Man Called Ove Decides to Die can be replicated."
"The Sacred Mountain has sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide and has also been on the New York Times bestseller list. These are 100% certain influences. There is a proverb in our country that no matter how many tunas there are in the sea, they are not as good as a bass at home."
Renault said this, to put it bluntly, he believes that in the short term, Moden can bring greater benefits to Italy's tourism resources. To be more direct, Gu Lu's new work should be inferior to Moden's new work. This is the conclusion reached by their think tank.
Of course, he directed his men to give a relatively polite response to Gu Lu's agent, Mr. Tom. After all, there was no benefit in being at odds with a writer who had a wide influence in Europe.
Yao Xiaoju hit a snag.
The Italian side said that we have the same respect for Gu Lu and Mo Deng, blah blah blah.
Well, it would be a waste of words to say more. Yao Xiaoju had no choice but to call the writer to inform him.
"...It's normal for Italy to change its choice temporarily." Gu Lu heard it and said, "This also fits my stereotype of Italy."
Thinking of this, Yao Xiaoju felt relieved.
"It was the Italian side that initially attracted me with the opportunity to be a member of the Venice Film Festival jury. But personally, I prefer France," said Gu Lu.
Yao Xiaoju asked, "Will that affect the completion time of The Lord of the Rings?"
As an overseas copyright agent, Yao Xiaoju knows the most about the creative progress of new works.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy is scheduled to be completed and proofread in March, which is more than two months later.
A large part of it should be completed now.
"Just make some modifications," Gu Lu said, "it's not a big problem."
That's good. Yao Xiaoju paused and continued, "Don't worry, Brother Gu. Yidaili will definitely regret his choice."
Yao Xiaoju just couldn't understand why Italy thought that Mo Deng could be compared with Gu Lu? The sales of their books were not even on the same level.
Even if the quality of "The Lord of the Rings" is the same as "The Sacred Mountain", Yao Xiaoju can make the former win in terms of popularity and discussion. Do you really think that Little Prince Culture Company has been doing this overseas for free for so many years?
He hung up after the call.
Gu Lu knew that every time he responded to Mo Deng, the latter would get the upper hand. He was not that stupid. If he wanted revenge, he had to hit the target with one strike!
Let's talk about domestic affairs -
"What is the Thirteen Warlords of the Sea?"
"Could it be that Bilibili has obtained the copyright for One Piece? That's not right, didn't they have the copyright before?"
Many netizens saw the first recommendation as soon as they opened the app, which was a bit confusing.
When I clicked in, I saw videos posted by thirteen up accounts, some long and some short, including Nestle of Acne, Please Take Care of Xiao Xiangxiang, Here Comes Adou, Macho Dance Group, and Smart Roadblock.
They are the award presenters this year and are also followed by special guest Gu Lu. They even came to the scene to ask for autographs, which is enough to prove their extraordinary love for them.
The shortest post was from Xiao Xiangxiang, a food blogger. "Hello, everyone. I'm Xiao Xiang. Do you know me? I came to Shanghai to attend the award ceremony, and I experienced something magical. It turns out that Mr. Gu Lu watches my videos every day. That's right, it's the Gu Lu that everyone is familiar with, the kid from other people's families that you've heard about since childhood."
"This is not fake, I have video evidence!"
In the video, Gu Lu asked for an autograph, and then Xiao Xiangxiang handed it over without paying much attention. To be honest, when there are many people queuing up for autographs, naturally they won’t pay too much attention to the fans who want autographs.
"Ah, I still have The Little Prince, the Collector's Edition, the Hardcover Edition, and the fifth anniversary edition at home. I like The Little Prince very much and I missed a great opportunity to communicate with the author!"
The next half minute was Xiao Xiangxiang explaining that he was a little airsick when he was on the plane, otherwise he would have recognized the other person.
The content posted by other up-masters is similar. The one who posted the longest video among these thirteen up-masters is Adou. He is an up-master in the film and television area and has no habit of shooting vlogs, so he didn’t record it.
The movie that Adou is going to talk about today is "Total Eclipse of the Heart", which is about the love-hate relationship between the great French symbolist poets Verlaine and Rimbaud.
At the end of the video, Adou summarized the film as usual, "People who know Rimbaud say he is the first genius of France and the saint of poetry. People who don't know him have never heard of him. Verlaine is the founder of the Symbolist school. Both of them are legendary figures. But in terms of genius, I think Gu Lu is even better than Rimbaud."
"Although Gu Lu did not make any groundbreaking contributions, he became the most famous short story writer in Asia before the age of 25. This talent is truly astonishing."
Although there is no video evidence, there is other evidence - Mr. Lin asked for Gu Lu's notebook, and the thirteen signatures on it were particularly obvious!
Netizens who watched two or three videos now understood it.
It’s not my brother, Your Majesty is actually King Gollum!
"Why are half of the thirteen anchors that Gu Lu likes all doing abstract things? Could it be that Gu Lu is also a fun-loving person?"
"The house has collapsed, brother. My impression of Gu Lu has always been Su Zhemu in Hyouka, the energy conservationist who is extremely smart and sees through everything."
"Hahaha, I was there when he was signing autographs that day. Teacher Gu Lu is really low-key and looks like just an ordinary person! But when I first saw him, I felt that he was definitely not an ordinary person." "I also love watching macho dance troupes, and Gu Lu also loves watching macho dance troupes. To round it off, Gu Lu and I have the same level of appreciation, hahaha."
"I feel like Bilibili is a bit exaggerated. Is the up follower of Gu Lu worthy of special mention?"
Whether netizens think it's an exaggeration or just want to watch the fun, they are all interested in clicking in to see who the thirteen ups are.
Before Qidian was called Yuewen, it had held a similar event, announcing the bookshelves of Huang Yi and Bao Jianfeng. It was also a kind of recommendation, which attracted many readers or authors to read it.
The former is very familiar, needless to say, the latter is one of the Five Emperors of Qidian. You all know the Five Emperors, the five founders of Qidian, this thing is more to satisfy the voyeurism of netizens.
To sum up, the promotion effect is quite good.
Domestic news, if it is not a big deal, will be delayed. Correspondingly, the same is true for foreign news reaching China.
The Thirteen Warlords of the Sea was originally small news, so it was only two or three days later that the Chinese students studying in France saw it.
"It's like this. After becoming famous, every move will be over-interpreted. I feel that these thirteen are not my brother's favorites, but I feel that their signatures are the best." A brother knows his sister best. Gu Jiayu basically guessed Gu Lu's route of action, which is why half of the "Thirteen Warlords of the Sea" are abstract up.
Subconsciously I feel that abstract people will not refuse to sign.
"So is your brother a traitor?" Fu An asked. This man was a foreign student in Paris and also a friend that the heroine met abroad.
"Of course..." Gu Jiayu was about to say of course not, but then he remembered the birthday present his brother gave him last year - a Shamatte internet name from his junior high school days and many screenshots of painful signatures.
[“Is there nothing I can do after all? This is the limit of my ability.”
“It turns out that the footnote of the world is failure.”
"A three-foot-long sword stains the world with blood"
...]
The heroine couldn't help but shudder. She had cancelled that account!
"What's wrong with Jia Jia?" Fu An saw that the other party didn't say anything, so he shouted again.
"Oh, nothing." Gu Jiayu came back to her senses, "Let me clarify, my brother is just a funny guy. But he's still a little short of being abstract."
"Oh!"
Before Fu An and Gu Jiayu became good friends, she didn't know that the famous writer was her brother. But after knowing this, she became very curious, after all, she was sent abroad in junior high school, and Gu Lu was one of the few Chinese writers who was often mentioned in Paris.
"Are you going home for the New Year this year?" Gu Jiayu brought up another topic.
"No, I haven't been home for the New Year for four or five years. I'm not used to going back all of a sudden." Fu An asked back. "What about you?"
Gu Jiayu is going home this year, with the reason being, "This year I have to go home and be a light bulb, hahahaha."
As they chatted, Fu An suddenly mentioned something he had heard from a group. Recently, Mont Blanc announced that it would conduct a week of facility maintenance at the end of January and close all entrances to the mountain.
Of course, if you want to enter a mountain from another place, that's no problem, but it's dangerous if there is no well-developed climbing route.
"What kind of big news is this?"
Gu Jiayu didn't understand. Mont Blanc is known as the "Roof of Europe" and is the highest mountain in France, with an altitude of 4810.45 meters. For European mountaineering enthusiasts, there are several routes with very complete facilities. It's not a big news to carry out maintenance, right?
"If it was just maintenance, it certainly wouldn't count, but later news came out that someone was going to climb it, so Haute-Savoie temporarily closed it," Fu An said. "Then it became a big fuss. After all, many French people think Mont Blanc is the pride of France. What the local officials are doing now is undemocratic and unfree."
"Huh? Who is it?" Gu Jiayu has been studying in Paris for one or two years and is familiar with the situation in France. Officials shouldn't be so outrageous. They should be wealthy people.
"No matter who it is, it's too much to close the entrance to a mountain as big as Mont Blanc for a week just for one person to visit." Gu Jiayu even uttered a sentence in dialect, "Such a big cigarette butt that can't be put out by stepping on it?"
"Right, now everyone on the internet is trying to figure out who it is, but no one has found it." Fu An loves to find out gossip everywhere.
"Maybe it's an investor who wants to invest in Sava." This is the heroine's habitual thinking.
Fu An felt that he was a politician, and only a high-ranking official could have such a grand ceremony.
Mont Blanc is the highest peak in the Alps, located on the border of Haute-Savoie and Valle d'Aosta in Italy...
The following days were relatively quiet. The only problem was that Gu Lu went to France during this period. That's right, the locals in Haute-Savoie made this arrangement because Gu Lu was coming.
It's not that Gu Lu is so famous that he has to occupy a mountain alone. This is thanks to Dibo. As the first minister of the Ministry of Culture and Communications, he believes that Gu Lu is a friend of our France, and his treatment must not be lower than that of Italy.
Italy was accompanied by staff and tour groups throughout the trip, while France booked the entire theater for Gu Lu to watch.
Right! No matter who we lose to, we can’t lose to Italy, a country that only knows how to surrender, Dibo thought.
Italy is backstabbed, so let’s change the place and name it the European chapter. After all, Europe is so big, right?
There is nothing much to say about the trip to France. Although Gu Lu was very serious and even brought a camera to take some photos.
How should I put it? At least when it comes to plagiarism, Gu Lu is very serious!
During a week of browsing, Gu Lu took more than 3,000 pictures and the recorded text filled half a book.
It's not an exception. Gu Lu also cared about this standard before.
King Guru, who has returned to China, has entered the coding stage and is ready to release his first work of 2021!
“It’s unnecessary to announce a round every year. After all, I don’t spend much time watching Bilibili, and I have never come into contact with many excellent up-ups.” Gu Lu received a call on the way. It was Mr. Lin from Bilibili.
It is said that the publicity effect of "The Thirteen Warlords of the Sea" is very good, with an average increase of more than 100,000 fans for each up.
Of course, the most important thing is not to increase fans.
Because for the Bilibili platform, increasing followers internally is not helpful to the platform.
The main thing is the Thirteen Warlords of the Sea joke, which has gone a bit out of the circle.
(End of this chapter)