Chapter 237 New Movie and Climbing to the Top
To be honest, Liu Zhou was quite happy about Zeng Li's intention to retire from the entertainment industry.

If both of them are busy, the chances of them meeting each other in the future will be greatly reduced, and their feelings will inevitably fade.

How many couples or boyfriends and girlfriends in the entertainment industry have broken up because of this reason.

Liu Zhou and Zeng Li have been together for so long that he can't live without her.

Moreover, Liu Zhou is a somewhat patriarchal person at heart, and he doesn't want his woman to always be in the entertainment industry, which is such a big melting pot.

He still hopes that his woman can return to the family. He doesn't mean she can just be a housewife. She can also do other things she likes, or even work behind the scenes at Golden Harvest Group.

But Liu Zhou is not the kind of overbearing president who would impose his ideas on Zeng Li and force her to do things according to his requirements.

He still respected Zeng Li's own ideas. Since she wanted to be an actor, Liu Zhou would ensure that she had enough roles to play and would protect her in the entertainment industry.

Moreover, Liu Zhou also felt a little guilty towards Zeng Li.

Even though he already had her, he still failed to maintain his bottom line as a man.

So no matter what Zeng Li wanted to do, as long as Liu Zhou could do it, he would try his best to satisfy her.

What Liu Zhou didn't expect was that Zeng Li was actually willing to retire from the entertainment industry and return to her family.

This touched Liu Zhou's heart, and he felt even more sympathy for him.

"Lizi, you haven't won any awards yet, right?"

"No, but awards are something you can only come across by chance, and I don't care much about it, so I don't force it."

"Then you don't have any award of any importance. Don't you feel regretful?"

"It's a little regretful, but compared to you, this little regret is not worth mentioning."

"But I don't want you to have any regrets. Since you want to retire from the entertainment industry, I will let you retire in glory and without regrets."

"So you are going to make an award-winning movie just for me?" Zeng Li asked with a smile.

"That's right!"

"No one can predict the prizes. What if I end up being a runner-up again?"

"You don't believe me?" Liu Zhou said pretending to be angry.

Zeng Li couldn't help but laugh when she saw Liu Zhou like this:

"No, of course I believe you. I look forward to your new movie."

"Well, you wait then."

After saying that, Liu Zhou put Zeng Li down and walked towards the study.

Since we said we want Zeng Li to win the award, we must do what we say.

But as Zeng Li just said, awards are generally something you can only come across by chance.

Of course the awards can be manipulated, but Liu Zhou doesn't want that to happen. I believe Zeng Li also doesn't want to win the Best Actress trophy based on connections rather than her own ability.

If you want to be safer, movies with female protagonists are undoubtedly the best choice.

At this time, Liu Zhou also fell into deep thought, carefully thinking about which movie would be more suitable.

It has been ten years since Liu Zhou was reborn, and the impression of some things in his previous life is a bit vague in his mind.

The only well-known domestic movie with a female lead that Liu Zhou can remember that won awards was Thousand Arrows Piercing the Heart.

But this movie is not very suitable for Zeng Li at this moment. She is too young, and Liu Zhou doesn't want Zeng Li to suffer that.

Liu Zhou thought hard for an entire afternoon but still couldn't come up with a suitable movie.

But then Liu Zhou slapped his head and realized that he was getting too stuck in a rut.

There are no suitable ones in China, but there are many movies with strong female protagonists abroad.

If we expand the scope overseas, we will have more options.

After a while, a more suitable movie emerged in Liu Zhou's mind.

"Room"!
This is the 2016 Oscar-winning best film!
The film's leading actress, Brie Larson, won the Oscar for Best Actress that year for her outstanding performance.

The movie "Room" mainly tells the story of a girl named Joey who was deceived by her neighbor and then imprisoned in a small room for seven years.

During this time she was raped and gave birth to her son Jack.

Like all mothers, she tries her best to create a safe and happy environment for her children to grow up in.

Although they were trapped in a room of less than 10 square meters, they created a magical world for their son through fantasy girls.

However, as he grew up, Jack's curiosity made him no longer satisfied with this world, so the girl carefully planned and took Jack to escape from the room where they were imprisoned.

However, after escaping, the mother and son, who had been separated from society for too long, discovered that the real world was what scared them the most.

But this movie is not just about the mother and son's attempts and struggles to get out of the room and finally successfully escape from the restraints of their neighbors.

This is only the content of the first half of the movie, which tells the physical escape. The focus is on the second half, which is the heroine's psychological liberation.

The room where the mother and child are imprisoned in the movie is also a metaphor.

The child has grown up in this small room since birth, which contains all his knowledge of the world. Before he came into contact with the real world, the little boy could not accept real dogs, real leaves, and real people, because his mind had been imprisoned.

So is each of our brains like that “room”?
What we can think of and see are also limited to us within a limited time, just like when you are a 12-year-old in junior high school, you cannot imagine the freedom of college.

When you first enter college, you also cannot imagine how realistic and cruel the real world is.

Everyone is imprisoned, so there are so many people who want to look forward to the future, travel around the world, go further and see more.

After the girl escaped from the room, she almost collapsed when she faced the outside world again.

First, the son became autistic, then the heroine discovered that her parents were divorced, and then she became tired of life and took sleeping pills to commit suicide. Fortunately, her son discovered it early and sent her to the hospital.

In the end, it was her son's strength that gave her the courage and motivation to live again.

Not only did he rescue his mother from the room, but he also rescued her from the spirit room.

So this movie mainly tells a story of redemption.

The movie has no intention of making people cry, but instead reveals the purest human affection everywhere.

Five-year-old Jack used his innocence, his humor and his love for his mother to not only redeem his mother, but also make people feel hope and strength.

After determining the goal, Liu Zhou also began to write the script.

But before he started writing, Zeng Li came to call him to finish his meal. He didn't expect that he had spent the whole afternoon in the study without realizing it.

However, Liu Zhou felt that inspiration came to him at this time, so he let Zeng Li eat first while he continued to think about the script.

This is a foreign film after all, and some local adaptation is needed.

Afterwards, Liu Zhou spent three days writing the script, and another three days thoroughly revising and perfecting it.

For this movie, Liu Zhou is not only targeting the domestic market, but it may even be more popular abroad.

So this time Liu Zhou not only wants to use this movie to help Zeng Li win the Best Actress award, but also wants to win an award for himself.

After finalizing the script, Liu Zhou immediately gave it to Zeng Li.

"Look at this now. Your man has spent a week working hard to make this."

Zeng Li certainly knew how devoted Liu Zhou had been to writing the script during this period. Apart from eating and sleeping, he stayed in the study.

This made her feel as if she was back in college, when Liu Zhou was writing seriously in the courtyard and she was taking care of Liu Zhou's daily life.

Looking at Liu Zhou's expectant eyes, Zeng Li took the script with a smile and began to read it carefully.

At this time, Zeng Li is no longer a newbie and has her own judgment on whether the script is good or not.

Liu Zhou’s freshly released script “Room” is undoubtedly a very good script.

Although the story is set on an evil premise, the whole movie is very warm. It not only tells about family affection, but also expresses redemption and hope.

Seeing Zeng Li close the script, Liu Zhou asked expectantly:
"How about it?"

"I feel very good!"

"If you think it's good, then we can make this movie."

"Sure, but this role is a bit difficult. I need to spend some time to figure it out."

"Don't worry, don't worry. I plan to start shooting this movie after the Chinese New Year. You have plenty of time to prepare."

“That should be fine, but the role of this little boy in the film is also very important.

The whole movie is basically a one-man show for this mother and son, and it was not easy to find a suitable child actor.”

“There is no need to worry about this. We are no longer fighting alone as we did in the past, but now we have a large film and television company.

We don't need to worry about finding actors, just leave it to our subordinates.

We just need to choose the most suitable person among those they select.”

In fact, Liu Zhou has an even simpler method, which is to select from those who debuted as child stars in their previous lives and are still active in the entertainment industry.

However, the only person Liu Zhou remembered was Wu Lei. His age seems to be just right now, and he was very cute when he was a child, and his smile was very healing.

Afterwards, Liu Zhou planned to first see if Wu Lei was suitable. If he was, that would be great. If not, he would then conduct an open audition.

After confirming the new project, Liu Zhou felt slightly relieved and turned his attention to other things.

At this time, "Red Cliff" had just finished its fourth week of screening, with a total of twenty-four days in the show, and a box office of 2.3 million yuan, just exceeding the box office of the first "Red Cliff".

Now it is only 30 million away from the box office of "Titanic".

At present, everyone is paying close attention to the box office of "Red Cliff", wanting to see the day when it breaks the record.

The single-day box office of "Red Cliff" has dropped to less than two million, but the general public now knows that the film is breaking records for foreign films.

Some people watched the movie a second time, while some people who originally wanted to watch a pirated copy gritted their teeth and went into the cinema.

So in the past few days, the box office of "Red Cliff" has actually experienced a slight decline.

I don’t know if it was God’s will, but on January 15th, one month after the release of “Red Cliff”, the box office officially surpassed that of “Titanic”.

(End of this chapter)