At the invitation of friends from Oceania, after finding a NASDAQ fund worth investing in in San Francisco, Gu Kun prepared to go to Los Angeles while there was still time.

That night, Luo Haili happened to receive the new house, so Gu Kun took his subordinates to the new house for a small gathering, and by the way, he returned the hotel room he lived in when he first came.

More than a dozen acres of Silicon Valley manor can accommodate many people, so even if Gu Kun's team leader, coach, doctor, cook, and female bodyguards bring more than a dozen people, it seems very spacious.

Let's have a little wine and have a meal together, and use the home theater K song left by the original owner of the manor.

Taking advantage of the leisure time of singing, Gu Kun put his arm around Lin Ying and instructed Midlova, who was waiting beside him: "Early tomorrow morning, you go and buy a car and an RV, don't be too conspicuous." In the future, on the West Coast, there will also be a substitute. After packing up tomorrow at noon, let's drive to Los Angeles. ”

"Driving to Los Angeles? "Lin Ying's geography is not good, and at first glance I can't tell how far away.

Gu Kun: "When you come to Oceania, you have to follow the customs. More than 800 kilometers, it is troublesome to fly. The railroad here is at least 30 years old. It's still comfortable to drive. ”

The infrastructure on the side of the Oceania country is really rotten, but fortunately, the aviation industry is quite developed and has been maintained.

In the 21st century, many trams in major cities in Oceania will have to buy CRRC.

It's not that Oceania doesn't have the technology to build subway trams, but that the railway/subway construction on Oceania's side was completed in the 50s/60s of the 20th century. Then in the 70s, there were still some orders for the replacement of carriages, and then there were no orders.

As a result, the traditional companies that built electric locomotives in Oceania, such as some of Westinghouse's subordinates, went out of business in the 70s.

A complete industrial category cannot be sustained if there is no enough continuous market.

Rather than counting on the public transport system that often drops its chains, it's better to follow the locals and make a fleet drive wherever it goes.

Others, of course, will not have objections.

The next day, Midlova carried a box of cash in high spirits, found a place similar to a 4S store, and experienced the life of a rich lady.

Although she was very fluent in English and had a strong Russian accent, the owner of the car shop respected her more and more, and treated her as a relative of a tyrant like Abramovich, who had embezzled Lucia's national resources, and treated her politely.

Throughout the mid-to-late 90s, various high-end consumption places in Western developed countries often saw the kind of mysterious low-key rich people who spoke Russian accents, did not want to identify themselves, and bought things directly to shoot boxes of cash.

However, the relevant departments of English-speaking countries still do not investigate when they see such people, and even provide convenience for the other party - who let these moths that plague Lucia are hollowing out the national strength of Eastern European countries for the West.

As long as it is a favorable potential ally, Lao Mei doesn't care whether you are greedy or poisonous.

Midlova really enjoyed the feeling of raising her eyebrows, and when she came back from buying the car, she couldn't help but cry in a low voice.

"What's wrong? Don't you just buy a car, and you're wronged. Gu Kun was making preparations before leaving, and he was in no mood to take care of the woman's emotions.

"It's okay, I think that a few years ago, the people around me were miserable by the people of Oceania, and I felt it. Midlova hurriedly wiped her tears, and secretly kissed Gu Kun while no one was around, "Thank you, let me have a chance to see the Yankees grovel in my life." ”

This is too easy to satisfy, but since Gu Kun has a vested interest in this emotion, he has no reason to stop it.

Women in the prosperous world are priceless, but Heklan is in troubled times. So Midlova's mentality, a woman in the prime of life can't understand it. (I wouldn't say the traditional vulgar metaphor of "women in prosperity are like gold", which still portrays women.) If you say priceless, then it's not objectification, and what is priceless is not necessarily a thing, so I don't give you a chance to spray. ）

After lunch, Gu Kun sat on the newly bought Lexus and traveled along Highway 1 to Los Angeles.

Only Gao Jianxiong, who was driving, and Gu Kun's two women in the same car.

The other bodyguards and entourage followed in the RV.

Domestic people may think that Lexus is not good and is a Japanese car, but I have to admit that the quality of Japanese cars sold to Oceania is really good, and that is the goods that support the façade of Japanese cars.

Since it is a good thing for Xiao Yuben to honor his beautiful father, there is no reason for Gu Kun not to take advantage of this, right, besides, Lexus is more popular among the wealthy people in California, and it is not eye-catching.

Highway 1 is a very beautiful road because it is close to the west coast of Oceania, and you can see the vast Pacific Ocean directly on the right hand side of the road as you go south.

In Need for Speed 5: A Porsche Journey, there was a map of the mountains and the sea, which was adapted from California's Highway 1.

So racing here, there is quite an illusion of crossing into a Need for Speed car.

Especially in the evening, when you take it to the car, you can see the sunset falling into the Pacific Ocean, and the sky is full of red light, which is spectacular.

"If this place is just a place to live, it's really good, and it looks like it's not in dispute with the world. Lin Ying leaned on the car window and couldn't help but sigh.

……

I traveled all the way, slept in the RV at night, and arrived in Los Angeles early the next morning.

He called his friend Emmerich, and the other party gave Gu Kun an address very warmly, and welcomed him to his house.

Gu Kun found a villa in Beverly Hills in Hollywood by address.

"Hey, Roland, nice to meet you. Gu Kun greeted him stiffly in translated English.

"Gu, you are a celebrity now, the Olympics are coming, and many people say that you are going to win the gold medal crazy. Emmerich enthusiastically pulled Gu Kun's people into the villa.

Obviously, in the past year or so, Gu Kun's reputation has skyrocketed many times.

Before, he was just a billionaire with tens of millions of dollars, and there are at least tens of thousands of such billionaires in the world, which is inconspicuous.

But now, with the Olympics year, he has become the hit of media hype. In the past nearly a month, even many media on the side of Oceania have been warming up to report about Gu Kun's lace.

Therefore, Hollywood media insiders, as long as they can have some friendship with Gu Kun, as long as they are not top celebrities, they will definitely tend to associate more.

The so-called top celebrities, of course, refer to Cameron and Spielberg, who are high up and disdain to associate with Gu Kun.

But Emmerich clearly doesn't belong to that class, and he's now just a second- or third-rate director.

In the face of Emmerich's enthusiasm, Gu Kun greeted the other party with a warm face, and at the same time did not forget to complain slightly: "At this time last year, when I talked to you about your movies in the Netherlands, you still didn't bother to tell me more, if you have money and want to invest in you, you don't want it." ”

Emmerich was slightly embarrassed, and while personally pouring Gu Kun a glass of pure freshly squeezed Sunkist orange juice, he asked his servants to greet Gu Kun's entourage, and then made an excuse to explain:

"You mean my "Earth Strikes Back", right? Isn't that every circle has a fundraising channel for each circle, I'm afraid you don't understand, just a few blind votes, and then you will blame me for the loss, we don't even have this ordinary friendship left.

You may not know that my movies are not very popular in Hollywood, but fortunately I have money, so I don't look at other people's faces, and I can shoot whatever I want. ”

The name "Earth Strikes Back" is actually the Chinese translation on the domestic theft plate in China after 96, which belongs to a few blind translations, and the original name of Oceania is "Independence Day".

This film was filmed by Emmerich in the last year or so, and it will be released in time for the National Day and summer vacation of the Oceania Kingdom on July 4, and it will be a few days away.

Of course, Gu Kun knows that the box office of this film is very good in history, but at the same time, the reputation of the industry is also very poor.

How to say it, it's like the people of the Chinese Classic Film Art Festival in later generations, who don't like movies like "The Troubles of XX" and "The Richest Man XX", and feel that these movies "bring the rebirth and the vulgar elements of the Shenhao system in the online text" to the film industry, and lower the lower limit of the film industry to the same level as the online article.

or similar to the traditional cross talk world, looking down on Guo Degang, thinking that it is full of meat words and yellow jokes, making cross talk vulgar.

However, these vulgar things are actually selling tickets very well.

Vulgar, stigmatized, but it's a pity to make money.

Emmerich's films, vulgar is vulgar in the plot, and even the logic is not self-consistent, but he knows that audiences in this era like to watch special effects piled up.

As a result, from "Earth Strikes Back" to the later "Godzilla", "The Day After Tomorrow", and "2012", a bunch of things with sparse plots but absolutely full of devastating scenes appeared.

"Earth Strikes Back" is his first movie that is about to make a lot of money, so at this moment, his situation is like a "Hollywood Guo Degang" who is about to make a lot of money but has not yet made a lot of money, and he is sprayed by his peers.

Therefore, Gu Kun also knows how to deal with this kind of friend:

"How do you know that I wanted to invest money in you at that time? I don't think I have a bad eye, I've seen your book, it's a big and lively scene. You also spent money to ask Industrial Light & Magic to do special effects, and the audience will definitely love to watch it. If you had asked me to vote, I would have voted for it. ”

These words really surprised Emmerich, even more than when Gu Kun wanted to invest money in him last year.

Because he is not short of money, he just feels that there is no confidant in the industry.

He asked with a slight scrutiny, "Don't you think the plot of this movie is bad?"

Gu Kun: "It's rotten, it's really rotten, but it's okay." We are tired of watching the plot for so many years, even if it is not bad, it is not necessarily new, and 95% of Hollywood art films are moaning without disease.

In this case, it is better to cater to the audience directly, even if you take a bunch of jokes together, as long as you shoot a grand scene that everyone is shocking, it will be considered a contribution to society. ”

Emmerich smiled bitterly and sighed: "Those academics think that this will lower the audience's ability to appreciate. ”

Gu Kun shrugged indifferently: "If you become popular, others will follow suit, and the audience will get tired of watching too much, I dare to say that within ten years, the market atmosphere of worshipping stunts and big scenes will be saturated." When the time comes, social aesthetics will naturally return to focusing on plot and ideas.

We Chinese people have a saying that aging, blocking is better than sparse. To solve the wrong needs of the people, it is necessary to let him eat enough to eat and eat disgusting. And at this moment, what you are doing is still satisfying scarcity, what is there to be confused about? After ten or eight years, when it is no longer scarce, you can change careers or retire. ”

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