King of Hollywood

"What kind of movie is it, can you tell me? I promise I won't tell the media." Sitting on a bench in Manhattan's Central Park, Natalie asked Adrian with a smile.

"Well... well, it's okay to tell you, but you must remember to keep it secret." Adrian said after thinking for a while, "It's a Stanley Brick movie."

Natalie blinked in amazement: "...Sorry, I didn't hear clearly, or did you make a mistake, Ed, I'm asking about your new movie, not someone else's."

"Ha, I always thought you were very smart, Nada, I didn't expect you to be confused sometimes." Adrian laughed.

"Hey, it's not a gentleman's behavior to tease a young girl." Natalie said reproachfully, shaking her fist.

"Okay, okay," Adrian said "raising his hands in surrender", "You should know who Stanley Brick is."

"Of course, one of the best film directors in the world has not many works but contains various themes. Someone once said that when he makes a movie with a certain theme, other directors can put down the guide tube."

"So have you seen the news during this period that Kubrick was paralyzed in bed due to a stroke."

"Really? I don't know, I rarely watch entertainment news, oh, this is terrible."

"He just happened to be preparing for a new movie, and it was almost coming to an end, but unfortunately, he had a stroke at this time, so he couldn't continue. And I, after getting his permission..." Adrian's mouth curled up, showing a hint of arrogance With a smile, "Ready to take over the production of this movie."

"Kubrick agreed to let you take over?" Natalie opened her eyes wide. "I heard... I heard... I heard that he is... a very stubborn person."

"That's right, but I still convinced him." Adrian shrugged.

"This is unbelievable." Natalie looked him up and down, with a look of great surprise, "Can you really grasp Kubrick's style?"

"He has already agreed." Adrian shrugged again, and then said: "But remember not to reveal it, otherwise it will be very troublesome."

"Is there a problem?" Natalie asked puzzled.

"Kubrick didn't want people to know that I took over his work, and we had an agreement with each other that if the movie didn't satisfy him, it wouldn't be allowed," Adrian explained. "Otherwise, Warner Bros. would have already started to hype, and Adrian's permission to take over Kubrick's new movie is quite a gimmick."

"That's true. The film company or the producer always likes to use all means to promote it." Natalie nodded immediately and said, her resentful look looked very cute.

"Hey, Nada, I'm also a producer to some extent." Adrian reminded.

"You are different from them," Natalie waved her hand, "You are Adrian."

"Oh? It's a great honor to be treated differently by you." Adrian said exaggeratedly, reaching out and rubbing her head.

Natalie curled her lips and looked at him deliberately with disdain, while Adrian looked back with a smile. After staring at each other for a while, a burst of embarrassment suddenly rushed into the girl's heart, and she couldn't help turning her head away, her face was slightly red.

"So," she coughed dryly and changed the subject, "The main reason you came to New York this time is to find the scene for the new movie?"

"Yeah," Adrian nodded, "At first, I wanted to find someone familiar here to help find a suitable place, such as you or your parents. Fortunately, there is a little girl I know who is going to meet her mother. New York vacation, volunteered to find me a few places, not too bad."

"A little girl I know?" Although Natalie said casually, her hands on her knees were involuntarily clenched into fists.

"Yes, I remember that you seem to have met, Kirsten Dinster." Adrian still had an endless look.

"Oh, Best Supporting Actress for Oscars last year," Natalie showed a look of sudden realization, but then she felt that she was a little too deliberate, and added: "Yes, I remember when I was filming "This Killer Is Not Very Good". I saw her in New York during "Cold", and she seems to have auditioned?"

"Your memory is very good, dear Nada." Adrian laughed, but immediately showed a distressed look: "I have to say, smart girls are too clever, they always like to play tricks on others, and they don't know what to do." Regardless of time and occasion."

"Really?" Natalie's tone was still very casual, and her eyes were looking into the distance, but the roots of her teeth were already biting together lightly.

"Okay, Nada, it's almost time, and it's time to send you back," Adrian said suddenly, "You know, what I did today is to cheat your parents with you."

"How come?" Natalie shrugged when she came back to her senses, "I just told Mom and Dad that I can take your ride to the city to see friends, but I changed my mind halfway and thought you were in the city like last time Go shopping."

"You know, this is an excuse, Nada." Adrian looked at you gently, "Although I don't mind doing something for you, although I will visit you every time I come to New York, although I like you very much, But it doesn't mean I can cooperate with you to deceive your parents, it's wrong."

Natalie blushed first, then frowned and looked at him angrily.

"Why have you become like my father?" She asked very unhappy, "I always say that this is not good and that is not good. I am not a child, and I have enough judgment."

As she said that, the girl jumped off the bench in a huff: "I'm usually well-behaved enough, but can't you even tolerate this little bit of rebellion? Also, allow me to remind you, Mr. Adrian, no matter what you say No matter how high-sounding it is, your behavior has constituted the fact that you cooperated with me to deceive my parents."

After finishing speaking, she let out a heavy hum, and walked towards the ice skating rink not far away. Adrian spread his hands with a smile, then got up and followed.

"Okay, Nada, I just reminded you a little bit, don't you need to treat me like this? I'm not Mr. Evner." He said half-jokingly and half-complainingly.

Natalie didn't answer, but turned around and made a face, still looking swollen.

"Then let's talk about something else. Anyway, there is still a while." Adrian said immediately, "I can continue to accompany you."

"Really? Tell me about the new movie you took over." Natalie asked after thinking about it.

"Ha, strictly speaking, it's a movie. It's not suitable for a girl like you to watch. Let's change the subject." Adrian shook his head and refused.

"All in all, treat me like a child," Natalie spread her hands and looked at him teasingly, "Oh, Ed, what I said just now was for nothing."

"I'm serious, Nada," Adrian suddenly became serious, "I admit that you are very smart and precocious, Nada, but some things are still too early for you. You have been warned in the letter."

"But we had a nice chat in the letters, didn't we?" Natalie retorted immediately.

"Because it's a letter. Writing a letter is different from chatting. Face-to-face chatting is often swayed by emotions, but writing a letter will make you more rational. That's why I always ask you to indicate in the letter Which page of the book is the quote from,” said Adrian.

"...It really made me develop a good habit of being good at looking up books." After a moment of silence, Natalie looked into the distance, with a look of reminiscence in her eyes, "I still remember that I asked you in the letter about the discussion .”

"You must know how to release and control," Adrian quickly replied, "Whether it is abstinence or indulgence is stupid, don't hesitate when it's time to release, and don't cross the bottom line when it's time to control, understand It is a compulsory course for every adult to know how much you are and how capable you are.”

"What about you? What is yours? How big is it?" Natalie suddenly turned her head and looked at Adrian with a smile, "Don't tell me, you are not considered a person."

"I don't think there is any need to answer these comparative questions?" Adrian replied in a joking tone, but his eyes changed slightly inexplicably, and his eyes stayed almost on the girl's face. Two seconds, and then quickly moved away to look elsewhere.

The girl suddenly turned her head away like an electric shock, and her heartbeat accelerated a lot for a while.

"Sorry, I'm going to the bathroom, please wait for me here." Without waiting for Adrian's answer, Natalie quickly ran to the simple bathroom on the other side of the skating rink.

Bang, closing the door, the girl immediately leaned against the wall, held her face in her hands and let out a big breath, followed by another long moan.

"Oh, what the hell, Natalie, what are you doing? Is your brain burned out?" she whispered to herself, her voice stern, but then weak again.

After school yesterday, she went to look around in her mother's gallery in Brooklyn, and came out just in time to see some disturbing images. At the end of the street, a girl about her age wrapped her arms around Adrian's neck and kissed him hard on the face.

At first she still thought she was wrong, but after careful observation, she confirmed it, and even recognized that the girl holding him and kissing was Kirsten, and then she felt an inexplicable irritating feeling in her heart. Happy emotions come.

Although Adrian looked like he was being teased, and Kirsten seemed to be joking, but Natalie was always swayed by this emotion, so she didn't go up to say hello.

This feeling became more and more intense after she returned home, and the pictures that had been forgotten in the corner kept reappearing in her mind again, so that the situation that rarely appeared when she went to bed at night came again, and finally had to Don't get up in a daze with a blushing face and change her underwear.