Australian Storm 1876 - Chapter 1078

Chapter 1078 The Film Company

Galaxy Films

This is a well-known film company on the Gold Coast. In 2016, it made more than 40 films, including several popular film works. It earned 200,000 to 300,000 yuan a year, and it really took the limelight.

Galaxy Films owns a 3-storey European-style building in Brisbane. It is on the highland of the mountains not far from the bay. From here, you can overlook the invincible beauty of the blue bay. A busy scene.

“Morning, Brother Lu.”

“I heard that it’s going to be a big movie again, congratulations, Lu Sheng, don’t forget us old guys.”

“Oh, Lord Lu, you are lucky.”

Lu Xiaotian drove his second-hand Volkswagen brand sedan to the film company, and as soon as he got out of the car, he was greeted by many people.

As a contract artist of Galaxy Company, the company pays a salary, and he has to come here to work every day when he has nothing to do. He is familiar with the staff of the company, and he also greeted him all the way into the office building.

Lu Xiaotian walked briskly along the stairs to the 2nd floor. His master, Director Li Jiamao, has a desk in the director’s working group office on the 2nd floor.

As soon as he walked to the corner of the stairs, he heard an angry voice from the second floor; “Go away, you two white-skinned pigs, movies are sacred art palaces, not the place you should come.”

“Please forgive me for interrupting, Dear Director Huang, we both love film art from the bottom of our hearts, we just want to get a chance to be on camera, and we have learned a lot of related performances for this…”

“Okay, let’s go, I don’t want to listen to your nonsense anymore.”

“Please, give me a chance?”

“Hmph, you are barbarians, uneducated, how do you know the true meaning of the art of film and painting? I see that you are all mediocre talents, unworthy of cultivation, quickly retreat, or I will ask people to throw you out.”

“Dear Director Huang…”

“roll!”

The steps of the stairs rattled, and two tall and handsome white youths came over with a dejected expression, and from time to time they looked back and looked at them with pleading expressions in their eyes.

“Brother Lu…” The two white youths also knew Lu Xiaotian, who had just become popular, and shouted expectantly;

Lu Xiaotian just smiled awkwardly, then turned his face decisively, the meaning was already obvious.

These two white youths could only leave in a dejected manner like defeated roosters.

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Lu Xiaotian couldn’t help but feel sympathy, but he couldn’t do anything. With his small arms and legs, he couldn’t reverse the white discrimination that existed in many Chinese film companies on the Gold Coast.

The film industry is an emerging industry where people eat their faces. In Australia and the Chinese cultural circles in Southeast Asia and East Asia, Asian audiences are the mainstream, and there is no market for white actors for traditional types of films.

This is also very obvious in the endorsement of commodity advertisements. The income of white actors is meager, and the money earned is not even enough to maintain a basic life. Many of them rely on love to generate electricity.

Caucasian actors have their own disadvantages, that is, rigid limbs, language barriers, not as agile as Chinese actors, and fighting wonderfully.

It has no market in traditional mainstream martial arts films and opera films, and can play a narrow range of roles.

Among the various film companies on the Gold Coast, it is possible to use white actors only in certain feature-length films, or feature films whose distribution destination is in Europe and America.

In the current three major mainstream films, the market audience of white actors is extremely small, and in a small number of feature-length films, most of them play dragon roles.

For example, in “Breakthrough in the South China Sea”, he played a mean white farmer with a disgusting face, and his favorite thing to do was to play with a gold coin in his hand, showing that I was rich.

The white female characters are either barmaids, or white concubines who were bought by wealthy families to do their heads and poses, or prostitutes, or female liars, which reflects the discrimination and suppression of white actors by the Gold Coast Film Company from one aspect.

The government has promulgated a number of decrees, emphasizing that citizens, regardless of whether they are nobles or not, are equal before the law, regardless of their skin color, and have full business, employment and development rights, and prohibit discrimination.

However, the Ocean Empire is an immigrant society dominated by Chinese, with strong feudal ideology, deep-rooted Chinese traditional courtesy, righteousness and shame, cultural conservative forces are incompatible with the open concept of Western integration, and many things cannot be prohibited by a single decree. And cultural circles, including film circles, are more obvious.

The most open and inclusive is the field of scientific research. Many white immigrants and their descendants have made outstanding achievements in the field of scientific research and occupy a place in the field.

Lu Xiaotian was born in a mixed-race family, and his mother was the original Cuban white woman. Fortunately, his face was more inclined to Eastern Asians than Europeans with a high nose and deep eyes, so he was able to show his strength in the Gold Coast Film Company.

The two young white people who came to apply for a job today are different. They are also second-generation immigrants. They can speak fluent Chinese and like to drink soy milk and fried dough sticks for breakfast. way.

The empire has repeatedly expanded its territory and expanded its prestige beyond the waves of thousands of miles. It even performed exceptionally well in Europa, which brought an extreme burst of national self-confidence and gave birth to the arrogance and self-confidence of a world power.

The Chinese who immigrated to Australia call themselves the Tang ethnic group. Chinatowns all over the world are also bustling and bustling places. They belong to the wealthy class with big pockets and are respected wherever they go.

Even in Europe, no one dared to discriminate against the Tang people.

The powerful army and navy of the empire is not for fun, nor is it the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is just that its economy is strong and its force is not worth mentioning.

The Royal Navy and Royal Army of the Ocean Empire are among the top in the world in combat effectiveness. In this era of being a man with fists and powerful force, European countries can’t afford it.

Lu Xiaotian hesitated for a moment at the entrance of the stairs, but he still walked up, just when he saw Director Huang coming towards him with his hands behind his back, he quickly raised his hands to greet him; “Master Huang, I heard your voice downstairs, yes. Which one is making you angry by not opening your eyes?”

“Anxie, Xiaotian!” Huang Daolue was stunned, barely holding a smile on his face, and said, “Don’t mention it, the two pickled white boys still want to play and have their big dreams of Qingqiu. By the way. …Your master is going to have a big drama soon, and I heard that he will hold you as the male lead, this is a good opportunity!”

“Then I would like to thank Master Huang for his support, Xiaotian will definitely work harder.”

“Hahaha… Your face is born to be eaten by God, and sooner or later you will become red. I am very optimistic about you! There is a role in my lower drama that is very suitable for you. If the company passes it, you will come and try the drama. ”

“Thank you Master Huang, Xiaotian is waiting for good news.”

“Haha… a trivial matter.”

Director Huang laughed, waved his hands, and walked downstairs with his hands behind his back.

People really can’t be compared, those two white boys couldn’t get the role even if they knelt down, Lu Xiaotian met on the road, and the role came to the door, this is the difference between heaven and earth!

For Lu Xiaotian, he must marry a beautiful Chinese girl in the future when he becomes famous in this life, and he cannot let his children lose at the starting line.

Caucasian women just have fun, never marry them back home.

Otherwise, having a bunch of yellow-haired and blue-eyed children would be a bad idea, and being discriminated against everywhere in this society, it’s not that hard to get ahead.

Although the    Ocean Empire society is an open and inclusive feudal capitalist society, it is much stronger than European and American countries, but rank and discrimination are still everywhere.

From the perspective of the top royal family, Li Sihan, the second prince with impure blood, has no right to inherit the throne. He was named Duke of Wright, which means that he is rich and noble for a lifetime. Compared with other princes, his status is much lower.

From the point of view of nobles, children with impure blood are often excluded from inheriting family titles, so as to avoid being ridiculed by the upper classes and being invisible and suppressed.

The three sons of the former army chief of staff, General Conrad Adenauer, all married Chinese women as their regular wives. Now the third generation of the family is basically Huade mixed blood, and the third generation is a few older male families. The heirs are also married to Chinese women.

The 4th generation of family children is not much different from ordinary Asians in appearance.

The general ethos of society is like this, and no one person can change it.

Came to the upstairs office. There were only three people in the director’s studio busy. Among them was his mentor, Director Li Jiamao. Lu Xiaotian greeted them one by one very knowingly, and then came to the front.

Director Li Jiamao was revising the script with a pen in his hand. When he saw him coming, he put down the pen in his hand, took a sip from the big tea jar, and said with a smile; “Xiaotian, the bicycle endorsement you did last time was very good. The manufacturer intends to take a few more sets of photos as an endorsement for next year and the year after. Keeping this momentum, we can also receive generous endorsement contracts from other big manufacturers in the future.”

“Master, Xiaotian is able to achieve a little, thanks to the master.”

“You don’t need to be too modest. It’s up to you to be popular. Remember to keep your figure. Don’t learn from some people and you’ll float away after a little bit of popularity.

“Xiaotian saves a lot, never dare to indulge himself.”

“That’s good, you can find a Liyuan master to study recently. My film will start shooting in two months. If you have time, you can still make a film or get a few endorsements, but don’t relax and learn to play.”

“Master’s teachings, Xiaotian keep in mind.”

After talking for a while, Director Li Jiamao waved his hand to let Lu Xiaotian take care of himself, he still has to be busy for a while.

After saying goodbye to the master, Lu Xiaotian walked downstairs. As soon as he reached the gate of the courtyard, he saw a black luxury crown car approaching and parked steadily at the gate.

Lu Xiaotian saw Li Jianhua, the owner of the film company, sitting in the back seat of the car through the window glass, with a richly dressed woman next to him. He stepped forward quickly and opened the car door; “Li Shengchen’an, please get out of the car.”

Li Jianhua got out of the car, then reached into the car, and respectfully helped the luxuriously dressed woman down.

He looked thoughtfully at the tall and handsome popular young student in front of him, and said, “The young man is very discerning, so let’s go, I have a distinguished guest here, you come up and greet him.”

“Li Sheng’s order, Xiaotian dare not obey?” The nose smelled the fragrant fragrance, Lu Xiaotian knew that this was a very expensive Melbourne perfume called “Mrs. Hundred Flowers No. 2”.

A small bottle is worth 55 Jinyang, which is the salary of an ordinary worker for three months.

(end of this chapter)