Dominating Hollywood: Starting with Scarlett

Chapter 20 Guess where it is
  The packaging work of the MV was handed over to a specialized visual effects company by Badman on the same day.

Of course, Tang De had already written down all the things that needed attention and handed them over to the visual effects company. They would receive the finished film within three days.

After returning home in the evening and having dinner with his family, Tang De was lying on the bed and playing Snake on his mobile phone when he suddenly received a text message.

It's Scarlett.

"Let me see what was sent to me?" Tang De said to himself and opened the text message, but there was only a comma.

"Strange?" Tang De raised his eyebrows. Could it be that Scarlett sent the wrong message?
  So he replied: "What are you doing?"

A photo was sent shortly after. The photo was a bit blurry, but what could be clearly seen was a floor-to-ceiling mirror in a hotel, and inside the mirror was a woman covering her face with hair, wearing pink silk pajamas.

She knelt on the yoga mat in front of the mirror, leaning forward and backward. Her fair and smooth thighs are stacked together, one foot has a shoe hanging on it, and one foot is smeared with red nail polish, which looks particularly conspicuous.

There is no doubt that this is Scarlett's selfie.

At the same time, she also sent a text message: "Exercising."

Seeing the smooth arch lines of the feet, Tang De nodded slightly and sent a message asking: "Doing yoga? Are you very free and still in New York?"

"Want to know where I am? It's a very smart thing to do, but unfortunately, I saw through it."

Scarlett replied quickly, and Tang De could even think of the proud and sweet smile on her face while typing.

Tang De couldn't help but raised the corner of his mouth and said deliberately provocatively: "It's a pity that you only found out, just a little bit. However, the confidentiality is so strict, are you so afraid of being found by me?"

Unexpectedly, the next second, Scarlett sent another photo, which showed Scarlett's slender swan neck and collarbone. She leaned against the floor-to-ceiling window and gently stroked her neck with her hands also painted with red nail polish, seductively. Extremely. Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, there is a dim street scene shot from a hotel above the 18th floor.

"Yes, I'm really afraid of being found by you. Otherwise, I will be treated as promised... I'm so scared. Do you think the place I live in looks good?"

This woman is actually provocative! Tang De raised his eyebrows, she dared to post street photos! Are you convinced that you can't recognize where she is?
  Licking his lips, Tang De couldn't help but become excited.

He brought his eyes closer to take a closer look. Although the scene outside the floor-to-ceiling windows was blurry, he could still clearly see the shape of the building.

One of the two-story buildings looked particularly familiar, with a cloud-shaped curve on the wall, which was very special.

Tang De recognized it after just thinking for a while.

That’s the Getty Center Museum of Fine Arts!
  "^_^, very good, I already know where you are. Baby, go take a bath and wait for me on the bed!" He immediately answered Scarlett.

This art museum was built in 1997 and is not very famous now, but when he searched for relevant places worth visiting on the Internet, this place must be among them, so it was not a problem for him at all.

And knowing this, Tang De knew where Scarlett was.

That is Los Angeles, known as the City of Angels, where Hollywood is located.

"Really? You lied to me! Do you really recognize me? Do you know which hotel I am in?"

Scarlett was obviously shocked, even using a few more modal words.

"From the angle and orientation of the photo... Hey! You are in Los Angeles, the Sunset Strip Hotel, am I right?"

Tang De immediately sent the text message.

"FXXK! You win! You actually recognized it. Tell me, how did you recognize it? Otherwise I will not be able to sleep tonight!" Scarlett even cursed, and you can imagine how surprised she was .

But Tang De did not satisfy her curiosity: "Haha, it doesn't matter. Baby, clean it and wait for me. When we meet, I will naturally tell you how I recognized it."

"Oh, I'm sorry...Dear Mr. Tangde, the plane to the UK is about to take off. It seems that I will not be so lucky. Unless...you can borrow a rocket from NASA to send you here, otherwise you will have to grow Wings, it’s too late to meet me in Los Angeles. What a pity, your grand prize will have to be postponed until next time.”

"FXXK!" This time it was Tang De's turn to swear.

"Hahaha." Scarlett's text message made no secret of her pride and gloating.

"Looks like I'm unlucky, but I wish you a safe journey. As for how I guessed your address, it's simple. I recognized the Getty Center Museum of Fine Arts! It's not that famous, but you know, I'm an artist. .”

"And the slippers in your first photo also have the hotel's gilded text on them. Although they are hidden, they can't be hidden from my eyes as a photographer."

"Wow, that's it. It looks like I can sleep well tonight."

After reading the last message from Scarlett, Tang De dropped his phone with a smile on his face.

Unexpectedly, Scarlett seemed to be a more interesting woman than he imagined.

Although it’s a bit regretful that I spent half a day on brain cells and didn’t get any rewards, but...

Ding Dong!

Just when Tang De was trying to calm down, his cell phone suddenly rang again.

Tang De picked it up and opened it, and his eyes widened.

On the phone is a selfie photo.

Scarlett's white and tender thighs stretch across the screen, and on the inner thighs, there are two thrilling and subtle arcs extending to unpredictable places outside the screen.

Coupled with the pajamas, underwear and underwear thrown randomly on both sides of the thighs, Tang De could even imagine the scene of Scarlett holding her phone high and pointing it at herself to take pictures.

"Your consolation prize." There was also a text message attached to the photo.

This woman is crazy! Is this a photo that can be sent to others casually? Tang De was so surprised that he couldn't even close his mouth. Well, it’s still the new millennium, and all kinds of internet tidbits about celebrities’ privacy scandals have yet to appear. Scarlett's defensiveness in this regard is obviously not as strong as that of later generations.

"Girl, I solemnly warn you, don't send photos randomly." Tang De immediately sent a text message to Scarlett.

It took several minutes before Tang De received Scarlett's reply.

"Thank you, Lord Knight. I have remembered your advice. In order to thank the Lord Knight for his loyal advice to me, and to beg the Lord Knight not to make poor Scarlett's private photos public, I can only say this to you. Please forgive me."

"Ding dong." Another photo came from the phone.

It's just that this time the photo is more explicit, it's a bird's-eye view of the bathtub.

Scarlett held up her mobile phone to take pictures of most of her fair skin bathed in bubble bath and roses. The flesh color hidden in the white bubbles was extremely eye-catching. The most important thing is that she also put on an expression begging for mercy.

The photo itself is nothing, the key parts are blocked by bubbles! At best, it's shameful to hide it.

But her expression...FXXK! As long as he was a man, he would never be able to bear it. Tang De stood up directly.

"Damn it." Tang De swallowed, his throat a little tight.

This woman knows so much!

"FXXK! This annoying little goblin." Tang De gripped the phone tightly and swore: "Sooner or later, I will put you in the bathtub and execute you on the spot!"

The next day, Tang De, who was planning to weed the yard alone, was visited by Jimmy.

So Jimmy also became one of the weeders.

Wearing gloves, the two stood in the sunny yard, chatting while pulling weeds by hand.

"It's really troublesome, Tang De, why don't you buy a lawn mower?" Jimmy had a new understanding of the Tang De family's frugality, and was reluctant to even buy a lawn mower.

Tang De pulled up a piece of grass and said: "Because of the debt repayment, I never had time to clean up the yard, so of course I don't need a lawn mower, but now that I have money, I can really buy one."

"Then let's go buy it now! Why do we have to pull it out with our hands?" Jimmy frowned in confusion.

Tang De shrugged: "Don't be so anxious, calm down, Jimmy, don't you think this is a good way to cultivate your mind? It can make people calm down."

"Come on, Tang De, calm down? You didn't get along with those two words on the set." Jimmy sneered at him.

Tang De spread his hands: "Okay, but what do you want to come to me for?"

"Yes, I just wanted to tell you." Jimmy then remembered his purpose: "Tang De, you should sign with a brokerage company."

"Agency company?" Tang De was a little confused: "I don't make much money now, is it useful to sign it?"

"Of course!" Jimmy hurriedly explained his good brother's doubts: "For example, CAA, where I am now, is one of the largest agencies in the United States. When I need work, I can ask them to arrange it for me."

"But I think I won't be short of work in the future." Tang De told the truth.

"It's different, man! CAA has access to the most powerful directors and music companies. Its resources are unimaginable, and the packaging service they launched is also the best way for us to access top-level films."

Tang De has heard about this. CAA's packaging business is to recruit top talents in each position to its own company, including actors, program planners, writers, screenwriters, producers, directors, etc. They are then packaged and sold when needed for TV or film.

This method was warmly welcomed by the market at first, because it avoided the cumbersome steps of separately searching for talents for each position. However, as CAA package prices increased, the production costs of movies also continued to rise.

So now major companies are complaining about CAA.

But for film workers like Tang De and Jimmy who are currently at a low level, there is an obvious benefit.

That is, you can use packaging services to participate in high-standard film shootings that are simply out of reach on ordinary days.

But there's a problem here.

Tang De wondered: "Will a nobody like me also sign a contract with CAA?"

Speaking of this, Jimmy immediately replied categorically: "Of course! Apollyon! He has connections with the top management of CAA. You know, as long as we go through his channels, we can successfully join CAA and become a member of the packaged sales team."

Tang De suddenly realized that there was indeed a greedy exchange of interests everywhere.

The packaging business makes it impossible for the buyer to carefully review every position. So if the resume is falsified and two extra insignificant people are added, it will not affect the filming of the entire movie.

Maybe CAA could still control the people under it at the beginning, but now that the business is getting bigger and bigger, it probably won't be able to control them one by one. I just don’t know how much those buyers have paid over the years for such a value-for-money deal.

But this has nothing to do with Tang De.

But he didn’t want to rely on this channel to get in: “The commission will be higher than normal.”

"That's right." Jimmy did not deny this.

"Then I don't have to worry, Jimmy. When this MV comes out, I believe I will have a good bargaining chip, and of course, you will too." Tang De was confident.

"But you must have a lawyer to help you before that, otherwise you will not be able to cope with the various terms of those vampires."

"You are right, you should really contact a lawyer."

(End of this chapter)