| | | This day, now evening, passed like a Sunday even though mid-week because it is a public holiday.
The Coconut excitedly left HK for Paris. She knows her cohorts (20?) only by name and school, and none from her school but from lots of other universities. All aiming to learn ‘writing’ from the professionals, and all eager to hang out in Parisian spots to absorb the atmosphere that hopefully inspires.
She shall have some time to hangout with her college friend, a German girl and suite mate as the friend’s parents ‘has a place in the south’. Good.
She is doing well on two of her three internships, and shall start on the third (soft news TV journalist / anchor) one upon return in early August. As all internships are long term in nature doesn’t matter when she starts what as long as she starts and continues.
Internship #1 she is turning out to be a hi-potential, starting with research and script coverage for a movie production house of some substantive reputation (meaning it makes money) doing feature films. The idea is that over time she shall graduate to do other tasks, stretching from vetting scripts all the way to distribution, and all the technical / biz stuff in between. In script coverage now she gets to suggest changes to the script but only to her seniors as opposed to whomever originally wrote the scripts.
She is also researching computer games (80+) to see which might be good for the cinema-isation processing, and so talks w/ the Jack for some views as part of effort.
Internship #2 she is doing well, veering towards less-dispensable, being a research PA to a name-brand producer / director / master of the art, doing research for a current ongoing movie project for the big screen, fact-checking, location scouting (by remote :0), and looking through the details of could-be performers including extras. She loves the business.
I do know the movie she is working for, and it is or should be a wow, but the Coconut does not tell me very much per her NDA, and I can only discern from whatever is already out there amidst the tabloids.
I asked her where does she think she is going with her effort. She told me that as long as she gets to know the relevant folks in Greater China and USA, from writers to distributors, producers to performers, investors to agents, perhaps she can make a business of turning every high-potential script into two high-potential movies, one for the east and the other for the west.
These days whenever she meets someone in the industry I get a message of who what when and how, and the list is growing. In this respect she is much more like her mom than I. I tend to just sit around and mope around, first to cocktail parties, first to buffet table, first to pool, speak with only one other person, whomever accost me, and first to head home. In any case the coconut is exchanging e-mails with Oscar winners.
The coconut is not exactly like her mom, hanging out there until 12:30 midnight. She does more than I as I tend to leave at 8:30 after I am sated by food. Coconut does about 9:30.
Cross-border IP lawyer-ing might still be, but looking like she is dancing down a different rabbit hole at this moment.
Too funny, what a coconut :0)
The Jack and his mom shall coincidentally do the D-day tour package, leaving early July. He is soooooooo excited. Helicopter survey of once battle space, and lots lots of equipment, bunkers, etc etc.
I meet all of them in Istanbul, and the Jack had watched the Netflix series “Rise of Empire: the Ottoman” … twice. He loved the stories. |
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