Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

In fact, being a professor in the United States is a fairly easy job. Except for a few classes, the rest of the time is either researching topics in the laboratory or serving as a consultant.Especially the job of being a consultant is simply a good part-time job with a short time and high returns.Ordinary people should not think that the consultant fee of other professors is high. If a certain professor of a certain major in a certain university acts as a consultant in your movie, then the audience will look at your movie with a different perspective.They will definitely feel that your film is very logical and supported by scientific principles.You must know that the United States pursues "elite education", so the general public has reverence for professors.

So Jed didn't feel that it was a waste of money to spend $10 to invite three professors to work at Industrial Light and Magic for a week. This was both a technical consultant fee and a publicity fee, so why save it?So at this time, Jed dragged three professors from the University of Southern California to Industrial Light and Magic to harass Lucas. Originally, Lucas was very disgusted with Jed who went to the Three Treasure Hall for nothing, but when he heard that Jed After Deshi planned to study how to destroy skyscrapers vertically at high altitude, Lucas suddenly became interested.Not only did he not dislike Jed running to him to be annoying, but he also specially brought his most promising team to be in charge of the production of this scene.

"The weapon possessed by the alien spaceship is a high-energy laser, which shoots in almost vertically from the Empire State Building." Jed took out his draft drawing and explained, "Professors, I want to know, what will the real situation be like? We will Let the most professional computer engineers listen to your analysis, and then create a simulation scene, and then we will modify it carefully, how about it?"

As a result, professors of mechanics, architecture, and weapons experts at USC put forward their own opinions on the various performances of skyscrapers after they were hit.Jed was listening to their analysis, by the way, to see if Lucas' team had any new inventions.Because Lucas couldn't understand the professional analysis, he saw Jed and took him away to discuss the plot of the movie.

Jed and Lucas were originally business partners, and Lucas is not a big mouth, so Jed probably explained the plot to Lucas.When talking about Jed's plan to destroy major cities and Washington DC in the movie, Lucas showed an expression of disbelief, "Wow, Jed, are you really going to blow up the White House? I never thought pass!"

"You have to know that the White House has never fallen since the British army burned it down on August 1814, 8. You actually plan to let aliens bomb the White House? Aren't you afraid that the Pentagon will trouble you?" Lucas teased road.

"Thank God, thank the founding fathers, they made us the "First Amendment to the United States Constitution." Jed laughed.

Lucas also didn't think that the U.S. government would prevent such a movie from being released. If someone really stopped it, Jed didn't need to do it. I'm afraid that various civil rights organizations will sue the U.S. president from the presidency.It's just that Lucas is worried that some American conservatives will boycott or protest the film.Jed is not worried about this, "Independence Day" was ridiculed by many people in later generations as "an American-themed propaganda movie", okay?If the United States also wants to carry out the "five ones" project, "Independence Day" will definitely be selected and awarded.

While squatting in San Francisco and experts and professors analyzing how to blow up the White House and skyscrapers in the United States, Jed was also talking to his grandfather about the possibility of reorganization of East West Bank.In fact, Lin Boan was still a little worried about the restructuring of East West Bank in his heart. After all, he was worried that too much commercialization would lead to the failure of Chinese deposits to be preserved.But Jed felt that it was too much for East West Bank to be limited to California. Why couldn't East West Bank go out of California?

It seems that Jed has always planned to set up a Chinese-language TV network in the United States. Although this plan has been opposed by Lansing, Jed still intends to continue.Since Americans can accommodate Spanish-language TV networks, why can't they accommodate Chinese-language TV networks?You must know that Asians are the third largest ethnic minority in the United States after Africans and Latinos.African-Americans use English, but there are still dedicated black TV stations; Latino-Americans have dedicated Spanish-language channels, and almost all major TV networks have Spanish-language channels, let alone dedicated Spanish-language TV networks.

On the contrary, the Asian population does not have a dedicated TV network, and a population size of 5% is doomed that this market should not be ignored.Therefore, the issue of whether to start a Chinese-language TV network and how to set it up has been discussed internally by Dongfeng TV.

"Mr. Sherman, the U.S. military has given us an answer." Jafei called Jed, "They are very happy to take on the mission of saving the earth in the movie, but at the same time they express their concern for our description of Area 51 in the movie. Dissatisfied. The U.S. military said it was just a secret air force experiment base, and there were no aliens. And our description in the movie is suspected of misleading the audience. The U.S. military has never been in contact with aliens. They hope we can Modify the plot."

"They think too well, don't they?" Jed sneered, "Since Area 51 doesn't have so many unspeakable secrets, please ask them to disclose their files! Besides, movies are just a means of entertainment. It’s not news propaganda, how can it mislead the audience! You can answer the US military, the script cannot be modified, why can’t we cooperate, then let’s talk about it next time!”

Area 51 is an area located in Lincolnshire, Nevada, 150 kilometers northwest of downtown Las Vegas. The U.S. military declared it an air force base and declared it a military restricted zone.The information about Area 51 is very limited. The only thing we know is that it has the longest runway in the world, but it has been abandoned for many years and has not been used again.The reason why Area 51 is famous is that it has always been considered as the secret base of the US military to study aliens, especially after the Roswell UFO crash, Area 51 became more famous.Obviously, the screenwriter also believed in the theory that there are aliens in this secret base, so a lot of plots happened in this mysterious Area 51.In Jed's memory, when he was a playboy, he drove from Las Vegas to Area 51 with someone, but unfortunately, a large number of barbed wire blocked his way forward.There are many billboards on the edge of Area 51, warning passers-by that the government has the right to use lethal weapons to drive away those who enter the base.Different from general military restricted areas, even military personnel who enter Area 51 by mistake will be detained and interrogated.

"Wouldn't an Alien movie be a lot less fun without Area 51?" Jed asked Lucas.

Lucas shrugged, "Fortunately, my story will always take place on an alien planet. Don't worry about Area 51 or Roseville."

With the help of experts from Southern California, the technical staff of Industrial Light and Magic quickly made models of aliens bombing the earth, and then it was enough to paste them on the city skin of Los Angeles or New York.At the same time, professors at USC were also overwhelmed by computer technology, and never thought that some things that existed in pure theory could be so intuitively expressed.

While Jed was busy in San Francisco, Jia Fei also arranged for the casting director to finish the selection of the three actors Jed named and other actors.Now the casting director is explaining the outline of the story to the actors, and at the same time doing preliminary training for the actors.For Will Smith, this casting took him by surprise.Although last year's "Bad Boys" freed me from the shackles of being a comedian, I didn't expect that I would soon become one of the protagonists of a commercial blockbuster.Will is no fool, of course he knows that such an experience is both an opportunity and a challenge for him.If the director has full confidence in himself, why would he arrange two additional male leads?Isn't he just worried that in case there is a problem with his acting skills, can he still use the other two male protagonists to save him?Regarding the director's arrangement, Will naturally wouldn't question anything, after all, the director was already giving himself a lot of face by arranging such a role for himself.Being a small character requires the awareness of being a small character.

Since Jed's movie started shooting the latest, in fact his shooting schedule was the most rushed.After completing the bombing design, Jed rushed back to Los Angeles to prepare for shooting after leaving aside the design requirements for the alien aircraft attack.Fortunately, there are not many exterior scenes in "Independence Day", and the exterior scenes that appear are basically bombing scenes.Some of the remaining scenes could have been realized in the studio with green screen, so Jed didn't have to work as hard as John Woo and Michael Bay.Of course, such a movie is doomed to not have any so-called depth. The only attraction is the big scenes of various explosions.

When the day came to March, Wu Yusen and Michael Bay had already finished filming half of the plot, and Jed was almost finished shooting the entire plot.But the rest of the plot is some very troublesome shots, such as the aerial battle between aliens and earthlings.Jed had to find Disney to rent a super-large studio, and then set up a huge green screen.In the green screen, several suspended planes are engaged in non-existent aliens.This is a test of an actor's acting skills, because you have to play against an opponent who does not exist, which means that one person has to play two roles.Jed watched the performance of the flying detachment on the monitor and found that the expressions of some actors were not in place at all, which made Jed very annoyed.But Will Smith's acting skills unexpectedly satisfied him, so Jed picked up the tweeter, "The scene just now is going to be retaken! Pay attention to all the shots, only Will appears in close-ups and medium shots, and the rest of the staff use long shots Or a voiceover."

Hearing the director's order, all the actors except Will Smith showed dissatisfied expressions.They knew very well that their acting skills were rejected by the director, and in order to pursue the progress of the filming, they could only disappear from the camera.Contrast that with Will, who is all the close-ups in this intense scene, and even the worst actor will get attention because of this scene.Looking at the smile on Will's face and the complacency in his eyes now, many actors sneered in their hearts, who do you think you are!

Jed, who was busy with the filming, naturally called it a day and went home, while the actors went to the bathroom near the studio to take a shower and prepare to go home.Just when Will was humming a song and was about to leave, several actors stopped him, "Dude, the director praised you, isn't it! It's amazing, isn't it! Look where this is? Hollywood! You black people should do it Comedians forget it!"

Will Smith was blocked immediately, and then he raised his fist without knowing it, and then he appeared at the police station.