Chapter 255

Janet naturally said, "I didn't want to give myself a Chinese name. I just suddenly felt that Jennie was very suitable for the name."

The two women were standing opposite each other on both sides of a long table full of various things. As Janet said, she turned to her still puzzled side with a smile and began to bite her ears with the female assistant.

Simon vaguely heard that Janet told her that she would keep an eye on her when she returned to the United States. She didn't want to stick to her. She didn't want to make a woman too tired. Her voice was that her wife told her to be a big girl in the whole room. She was very involved in the play.

Jennifer still didn't know what was going on. She just listened to Janet's advice. Her face turned a little red and she always felt something was wrong.

The telephone rings on the tea table.

Simon reaches for the line. Anthony Johnston is calling. Lunch is ready on the other side of the mansion.

I'm leaving Melbourne in the afternoon. I'm sure we'll have dinner together.

Both women heard the conversation between Simon and Anthony. Janet took her arm and said, "I haven't invited you to my house yet. It happened that we were together."

Jennifer looked at Simon and shook her head with a smile. "You two go over. I'll have to tidy up and wait for someone to pick up the luggage at the airport."

If it's just a personal assistant, it might not matter to go to Johnston's for lunch, but with her current relationship with Simon, in the past, everyone would be uncomfortable.

Jennifer doesn't want to embarrass Simon. Like last month's Easter, she prefers to make Simon feel a little sorry for herself.

Today's Johnston house is a bit more lively than Simon's first visit to Australia.

After lunch that day, Veronica didn't deliberately hide from Simon any more. She also showed up today. Janet's brother, David Johnston, came back from England with his girlfriend in the morning. Together with Anthony Johnston and Norman Johnston, they packed up the long table in the dining room of the mansion.

Only Raymond Johnston's youngest son, Patrick, was left before Simon saw him.

David Johnston, 26, a tall, thin man like his father, with a pair of rimless glasses and a gentle look, is currently studying for a PhD in fluid mechanics at Cambridge University.

David's girlfriend, Leslie Whitaker, is his younger sister in Cambridge. She is a brown haired girl with good appearance and temperament. She is still studying architecture and design with a minor in art history. She should not be more than 22 years old.

As Janet said at the beginning, David Johnston is a bit of a nerd.

At the dinner table, when Simon asked about his professional research direction, David solemnly explained how to use the principle of fluid mechanics to calculate the trajectory of the oil layer buried thousands of meters underground. Raymond Johnston frowned at a series of technical terms.

Because David brought his girlfriend back for the first time, other people pretended to listen with face, but the old man didn't have any scruples. He quickly interrupted, "what's the use of learning these? There's no oil field at home for you to study."

David Johnston was obviously afraid of his father and immediately lost his temper.

The atmosphere in the restaurant became a bit awkward.

Janet leaned over and looked at David.

Simon will understand that the old man is not satisfied with David's girlfriend, so he will react like this.

Although Raymond Johnston's attitude towards Simon has been very good since the first meeting, Simon always knows that the old man is not a good-natured person from the private talk of Anthony and Janet's children and their performance in front of Raymond.

Noting the unnatural look on Leslie Whitaker's face next to David, Simon realized that she was also a very observant girl.

Remembering that he caused the embarrassment, Simon took the initiative to ease off: "in fact, the use of fluid mechanics is still very wide, and movie special effects can also be used. Through fluid simulation, we only need to use CG animation to achieve realistic water, fire and other effects, which can avoid many expensive real scenes. "

Raymond turned to look over, softened his tone, and said, "when you get back to Los Angeles, get in touch with Tony more. Don't let Jennie fool around alone."

Simon naturally understood what Raymond meant. He nodded with a smile and said, "I will. Besides, Jennie is more suitable for running the fund than I am."

Raymond glanced at Janet and said, "I know her temperament better than you do. No one's looking at her. She's bound to cause trouble."

Janet, who is seriously cutting a lamb chop, wrinkled her nose discontentedly, but didn't talk back to her old man at this time.

Interrupt a few words, just the embarrassment was resolved, the atmosphere in the restaurant RE activated.

Simon readily agreed to Norman Johnston's 8-year-old son Victor's request to give him a bat motorcycle, but only told him not to really drive on the road, which was too dangerous.

Asked by his puzzled father, the little guy accidentally let slip. It turned out that Anthony's eldest son Brandon wanted to, but he was embarrassed to speak to Simon.

Anthony got married very early. According to Janet, his elder brother had to marry his son when he was half of college. In recent years, he had a son and two daughters. Sylvia, 16, and Chloe, 9, were here at this time. Brandon, Simon's eldest son, appeared several times these days, but he didn't come to lunch today.At this time, we also understand why.

When Raymond heard that his eldest son was "frustrated by playing with things", he caught his eldest son and reprimanded him. However, he was obviously not as serious as when he interrupted David.

After lunch, he stayed in the mansion until four o'clock in the afternoon before Simon left. Anthony and Janet take Simon to Melbourne Airport in the western suburbs. A Boeing 767 is waiting on the runway.

In addition to Simon and Jennifer, the last Batman crew to stay in Melbourne will also return together this time. The film's work in Australia is basically over.

The staff of the Australian branch will settle the tax refund with the Victorian government. Simon does not intend to withdraw the 5 million US dollars to North America. Instead, he plans to invest directly in making movies in Australia, such as Jackson's "crazy fat baby variety show".

Next to the runway of the airport, it's about to leave. Janet hugs Simon tightly and says, "I'll take care of cersei capital for you and make sure you won't lose money. When I miss you, I will go to Los Angeles. You should always think about me. If you can come to see me suddenly, it will be better. Girls like surprises very much... "

Simon hugged Janet and listened patiently, nodding from time to time.

A few minutes later, Janet stopped and put a sticker on Simon's face. Simon thought she was going to let go of herself, but suddenly Janet bit his ear and whispered, "does my aunt smell good?"

I'm really biting my ears.

Simon suddenly heard Janet's words. He felt two rows of small teeth rubbing on his earlobe, and his back was a little chilly. He was worried that a woman would bite off her ear. He nodded calmly and said with a smile, "yes, don't you like it too?"

Janet saw that Simon didn't have any sophistry. She let go of her white teeth and whispered in his ear: "little bastard, you think I can't see that my aunt is very uncomfortable in front of you. Women are always sensitive to certain things. She doesn't like you and doesn't have a good fit."

"Well," Simon said, trying to distract the woman by gently scratching her waist, "I'm sorry."

"Hum hum," Janet said with a few small wrists, "I warned you a long time ago, little bastard. So it's OK to smell it, absolutely not to move other thoughts. "

Simon felt his cold sweat come out, shook his head and said, "I swear to God, absolutely not."

Janet still reluctantly pinched Simon on the waist, finally let him go, stepped back, still smiling, as if the conversation had never happened, raised her hand and waved to him, saying: "get on the plane, we have to wait."

Simon watched Janet step back, step forward two steps to recapture the woman and kiss her. Janet naturally began to respond.

After a few minutes of obsession, Janet's face turned red. Knowing that she could not delay any longer, she pushed Simon towards the gangway and turned back to Anthony. Brother and sister stood beside the runway to watch Simon board the Boeing 767 and the plane glided into the clouds.

The rest room in the front cabin of the fuselage.

The plane was flying smoothly. Jennifer, who was near the window, unfastened her seat belt, got up and came to Simon. She noticed the sweat on his forehead and said, "are you ok?"

Simon is still thinking about what happened.

He always thought that he and Veronica covered up well, but he had been seen by Janet for a long time. Fortunately, Janet just misunderstood.

However, this misunderstanding seems more embarrassing than the fact.

Hearing Jennifer's concern, Simon took back his mind, unfastened his seat belt, patted himself on the leg with a smile, and said to the female assistant, "come on."

Jennifer gave him a slight stare, saw Simon reach out to pull himself, and sat down with him. Her face was a little red, and her body was stiff, worried that someone might suddenly come.

As her head twists and turns, Jennifer finally finds a topic to distract herself and says, "what does that mean by 'attacking someone'

"It's a classic novel from the East. Xiren is the valet of the hero," Simon said. As he put down the partition in front of his seat, he took a pencil from the side and wrote two poems in regular script in the blank of a document, saying: "a name with artistic conception."

After Simon finished writing, Jennifer looked at them carefully. She didn't know the two poems, but she could feel the beauty of Chinese font: "these words are so beautiful. How do you read them?"

"When the flowers are blowing, we know the day is warm. When the magpies are singing through the trees, they like the new sunshine," Simon said slowly. He circled the word "attacking people" and explained, "this is a poem about scenery. The village in the suburb has just experienced a cold rain in early spring. The poet gets up in the morning, the sky is bright, and the sun has not yet risen. Walking in the countryside, the strong fragrance of flowers means that the weather is about to get warmer. The magpie singing from the treetops seems to tell the poet happily that today will be a sunny day. "

Jennifer leaned against Simon, rubbed her fingers on the pencil line, and said, "just these 14 words can express so much of what you say?"Simon nodded: "yes, that's the characteristic of that country's classical culture."

"It seems that I have to learn some Chinese in my spare time, otherwise I can't understand anything in front of you and Jennie."

"I'll teach you."

"Do you have time?"

"Time is squeezed out. Let's start now."

"Ha ha."

The two chatted in a low voice. Jennifer finally got used to sitting on Simon's lap, but the door of the lounge was knocked, and the female assistant immediately got up and ran away like a rabbit.

It turned out that the stewardess came to say hello to Simon and asked him eagerly if he needed anything.

Simon felt the stewardess's red eyes, just asked the other party to send a pot of coffee, and sent her away.

Just beautiful but can not continue, Jennifer returned to his seat, mouth with a smile, but not in response to Simon's eye call, bow to pretend to seriously sort out some information.

Simon had no choice but to open the document where he had just written the poem.

This is Ella doechman's release report on Sid sisters. Doechman is still directly responsible to Simon. Whether it's the release of films owned by gaomen pictures or the PR of the previous award season, doechman will regularly summarize the work report to Simon.

Today is April 29, Saturday.

Gaomen's third film released this year, the SID sisters, was released on April 22.

Compared with metropolises and sisters, Sid sisters is a small-scale show. Doechman only publicized and promoted in New York, where the audience of art films is relatively wide, and arranged 35 opening screens.

Although the publicity points of the film have been explored as far as possible, and "Sid sisters" has also won high praise from the media, in the first week of its release, the campus bullying oriented drama only recovered $260000 at the box office, with an average of $7500 per studio.

Compared with the box office of some other blockbuster films, which often cost US $60000 or US $70000 at the audition stage, the small-scale release of the 35 screens of the SID sisters did not even reach US $10000, so there is no need to increase the release scale of the film.

According to the current release rhythm, the total box office of the film in North America is only about $1 million. Compared with the production cost of $3 million, the film will definitely fall into a loss.

"The SID sisters" will also be the second loss making film released by danielis entertainment this year.

Ella doechman analyzes in the report that the main reason for the failure of the SID sisters is that the theme and audience deviate too much.

The protagonist of this film is high school students, and the target audience is teenagers, but most teenagers obviously don't like art movies. The audience over 18 years old, who are relatively easy to accept literary films, are hard to be interested in the theme types of SID sisters.

It is because of these factors that the film will fail.

"Sid sisters" is a legacy of new world entertainment. Doechman has done his best. The box office failure is not the responsibility of the distribution team. At the same time, Ella doechman also concluded in the report that Denise entertainment should try to avoid making films with similar themes in the future.