Chapter 13: The First Pot of Gold
After leaving Nikolai's office, Kim rushed to Wilson's recording studio.
Wilson's recording studio was set up not far from the Disch School of Art, and it took Kim more than ten minutes to arrive.
When Jin Jingcheng arrived, Wilson was ready to record, and even the arrangement had been determined, which made Jin Jingcheng a little admired, thinking that Wilson was particularly enthusiastic about the two songs, and also called several music producers under his command together, which completed the arrangement in just over an hour.
Jin Jingcheng recorded it directly.
In less than half an hour, Kim Jingcheng recorded the two songs "If-I-Die-Young" and "Tonight-I-wanna-cry".
This result surprised Wilson, after all, this is the first time Jin Jingcheng went to a professional recording studio to record a song, but there were only two small mistakes in the entire recording process, you know, even experienced veteran singers, when recording songs in the studio, there are often many flaws, and it often takes a lot of time to record a song.
Regarding this, Jin Jingcheng himself is not surprised, he is so familiar with these two songs, and he invested very deep emotions in the creation of them, so that these two songs now seem to be imprinted in his bones.
What surprised Wilson the most was Jin Jingcheng's singing.
"Maybe it's because I've been in this industry for a long time, and I've seen too many singers, so that I'm numb to the singing voices of many singers now, and I rarely praise singers. But now I have to say that your voice is somewhat unique, and the singing you sing is so moving that I can't describe it in words, I can only say that your singing has penetrated deep into my soul!"
After the recording was completed, Wilson couldn't help but admire Jin Jingcheng and looked shocked.
When Jin Jingcheng used a worn-out Motorola mobile phone to play songs in Wilson's office before, Wilson only heard the extraordinaryness of two songs, and heard that Jin Jingcheng had the potential to be a singer, but he did not clearly and deeply experience Jin Jingcheng's singing.
And now, Jin Jingcheng's singing voice recorded in the recording studio not only has pure American English pronunciation, but also uses a unique hoarse and magnetic voice, and the singing process is like a kind of joyful lyricism, full of deep feelings. Not only that, but because of the two lives, Jin Jingcheng's singing voice also has a dream-like sense of vastness that other singers don't have.
In the face of Wilson's praise, Jin Jingcheng smiled happily very calmly, and did not deliberately restrain his joy. He enjoyed this joy very much, because in his previous life, his voice was not very good, and he was often disgusted when he sang at KTV, he was very envious of people who could sing, and he also wanted to be a singer very much, and now, Wilson's praise is undoubtedly the best affirmation for him.
Due to his calm and resolute character, this joy will not make Jin Jingcheng too proud, but reminds him to work harder.
Jin Jingcheng glanced at this very professional recording studio, looked at the many recording equipment that he was unfamiliar with, as well as Wilson and several other music producers under Wilson, and recalled the extraordinarily professional appearance of these music producers when he recorded the song just now, Jin Jingcheng told himself in his heart: "You must study music production hard in the future." ”
Jin Jingcheng in this life has a very ambitious goal, but becoming a singer is also one of his goals, and he knows that he will definitely be a singer-songwriter, and it is unreliable if he doesn't know how to make music, so he made up his mind to learn this.
Jin Jingcheng thought about it, it should be after returning to South Korea, he should not have the time and experience in the last year, fortunately he has a good foundation in music, I believe it will not be too difficult to learn by then.
At this time, Jin Jingcheng thought of something and said to Wilson: "By the way, Professor, don't upload my photos when you put my two songs on the Internet." ”
Wilson was a little surprised: "Why?"
Jin Jingcheng said: "I don't want to show my head in the public media just yet. ”
Jin Jingcheng's main target is the Korean entertainment industry, and he doesn't want to show up in the public media in the United States before he returns to South Korea to develop, which is actually a strategy for him, because he understands the principle of keeping one hand in everything, from the current point of view, this conservative strategy may be a bit of a loss, but in the long run, Jin Jingcheng believes that it is likely to be beneficial to himself.
It's mainly his psychology, he doesn't want to reveal his identity yet, so he just does it, he just does what he wants.
Jin Jingcheng added: "Don't use my real name either, well, just use 'mrJin'." ”
Mr. Kim, this is the name that Kim Jingcheng came up with temporarily, but I like it very much, maybe this kind of alternative name will help the spread of the two songs, think about the ladygaga that will be born in a few years, is the best proof.
Wilson became more and more surprised, in his mind, today's young people are singing, all racking their brains to show their heads, why did Jin Jingcheng actually do the opposite and play mysticism?
Wilson didn't press, and since this was what Kim meant by himself, it was hard for him to refuse.
……
In the next half month, Jin Jingcheng locked himself in the dormitory and devoted himself wholeheartedly to the creation of the script of "Brokeback Mountain", but he still went out once in the process, because Facebook was online!
Jin Jingcheng knows that the launch of Facebook seems to be nothing at the moment, it is nothing more than a new small website, but in ten or even a few years, this scene will be recorded in history.
Rao is like this, Jin Jingcheng only went to Cambridge, Massachusetts when Facebook was launched, because he knew that at the moment, all he needed to do was to get money quickly to ensure a series of subsequent expansions and expansions of Facebook, and other things, Mark, Tony and Jose would naturally solve them.
Half a month later, the script of "Brokeback Mountain" was completed.
Fortunately, in his previous life, he was very interested in movies, and he has seen and is familiar with many movies, "Brokeback Mountain" is one of them, otherwise his own ability alone is not enough to create a high-quality and deep artistic conception of "Brokeback Mountain".
However, Jin Jingcheng still revised the script according to some small flaws in "Brokeback Mountain" in his previous life, on the one hand, to make Li Huan make a more perfect movie, and on the other hand, to ensure that the script he created can win Li Huan's satisfaction, he really doesn't want to waste this great opportunity, because ...... Facebook is waiting for him to burn money.
In this way, it took half a month, otherwise Jin would have been able to complete the creation within ten days.
Half a month later, Jin Jingcheng made an appointment with Li Yu in a café and handed over the written script to Li Yu for review.
Li Yu looked very carefully, starting from noon and until evening, before closing the printed script.
Li Yu stared at Jin Jingcheng in silence, looking a little unfathomable, which made Jin Jingcheng, who was still very confident, suddenly a little surprised, thinking that such a script could not satisfy the future international director?
As a result, Li Yan sighed deeply after being silent for a long time, and said: "I really can't believe that such a script would be written by a young man like you." ”
Hearing this, the stone that had just hung in Jin Jingcheng's heart immediately put down.
Li Yu is still deeply admiring: "Your script not only exceeds my expectations for the adaptation of "Brokeback Mountain", but even exceeds my imagination. ”
Jin Jingcheng smiled and said with a solemn face: "The only thing in this world that can withstand the ravages of time is talent!"
This is a sentence that Jin Jingcheng liked very much in his previous life, and it is also a famous quote of Li Eucalyptus, and now it is said by Jin Jingcheng.
Jin Jingcheng said again: "In addition, I think that talent is sometimes not controlled by the years. No one has ever said this, it is Jin Jingcheng's own voice, and it is also a point that he wants to prove in this life.
Li Yu smiled elegantly, and after taking a sip of coffee, he stared at Jin Jingcheng again: "I don't know if there will be a chance to cooperate with you in the future, but I am very willing to be friends with you." ”
Jin Jingcheng said: "Senior, do you confirm that you are friends?"
Li Yu nodded: "In China, there is an idiom called a year-old friend, and I confirm that I want to be your year-old friend." ”
Jin Jingcheng immediately got up, stretched out his arms, and said with a smile on his face: "Then I might as well be respectful, well, this sentence should also come from the Chinese country, right?"
Li Yu couldn't help laughing out loud, a person like him who respects the way of elegance can laugh out loud, which is enough to see the joy in his heart.
While smiling, Li Yu got up and hugged Jin Jingcheng gently.
This hug, a pair of year-old friends can be regarded as hugging out.
When he left the café, Jin Jingcheng had a passage in his mind: "Everyone has a brokeback mountain in their hearts, maybe it is a person or a thing, in short, you poured all your feelings into trying to keep him, but you can't do it." In everyone's heart, there is a deep mountain called 'the past' that cannot be let go of or go back. ”
This passage is also a famous quote of Li Yu in the previous life, which was said for "Brokeback Mountain".
The movie "Brokeback Mountain" seems to be about same-sex relationships on the surface, but it is actually about love, and the theme of this movie is about the eagerness, persistence, waiting, fulfillment and suffering of love, but because it is about same-sex love, there are some shackles that ordinary love does not need to face, and these emotions have been magnified countless times: pain is the pain of the skin, but sweetness is sweeter than honey.
We all have such a love in our hearts, which contains all kinds of things: the scorching and bright heartbeat, the pain of not being able to love, the sourness of having to give up, and the emotion of looking back on the past, which constitutes the endless "Brokeback Mountain", which stands in our hearts and does not move, and any time you look at it from afar, you will instantly remember the love that once came!
Everyone has something you love, but you are afraid of losing it, so please cherish the true love you have now!
For the current Jin Jingcheng, what he loves is nothing else, it is his newborn life!
Because he had lost his former life, he was especially eager to burn this life into brilliant glory!
……
A few days later, Li Yu made a phone call to Jin Jingcheng.
Jin Jingcheng went to a studio of Li Yu in New York and got paid for the script of "Brokeback Mountain".
The script of "Brokeback Mountain" won Li Huan's satisfaction, and Jin was not surprised, but the remuneration paid by Li Huan this time made him a little surprised, more of a surprise.
That's half a million dollars!
Li Yu even felt sorry for this, and said to Jin Jingcheng: "The movie "Brokeback Mountain" is not only too artistic, but there are topic debates, the investor will not invest too much, and the total investment is estimated to be only more than 10 million US dollars, so I can only give you so much, but you can rest assured, if "Brokeback Mountain" is good at the box office in the future, I will compensate you as much as possible." ”
With all that said, what else can Jin Jingcheng say? I can only be grateful and respect Li Yu in my heart.
Not to mention the possible compensation in the future mentioned by Li Yan, the amount of 500,000 US dollars alone is already equivalent to the remuneration of famous Hollywood screenwriters and even some big-name screenwriters.
500,000 US dollars, this is the first pot of gold that Jin has earned since he was reborn.
However, Jin Jingcheng is still worried about money, very worried!
Facebook is indeed an extremely domineering super money-making machine in the future, but in the early stage, it is equivalent to a very domineering money-burning machine.
If Jin Jingcheng is not wrong in his estimate, he will have to inject a large amount of money into Facebook after half a year, which is not important, but the important thing is that a large amount of money will probably need to be injected after a year.
"Money, it's really a cute thing that is sometimes troublesome!"
Jin Jingcheng, who was walking on the road, sighed in his heart.
After a while, he suddenly muttered, "Do you really have to get it out?"