Hilton Deluxe Suite room.

Li Jiaxin cocked her orchid fingers and gently put a bright red and lovely strawberry into the red wine.

"Jiaxin, I didn't expect you to enjoy it more and more after not seeing you for more than half a year!"

Li Jiaxin glanced at him. "There's nothing to entertain in the United States." Usually socialize with those high-class people who are vassal and elegant.。 I learned a lot of these façade kung fu! ”

Chen Xuanting laughed and pulled her on his lap without hesitation. slapped her ass and said, "This is also a skill, many people can't learn it if they want to!" ”

"Okay, let's get down to business, you won't come to the United States to see me this time, right?" Li Jiaxin asked.

Chen Xuanting said: "You guessed it right." I've come here to do something. After a pause, he said, "The computer special effects of Fengyun are not good, I hope to use the power of Industrial Light and Magic to complete it, and at the same time, I consider whether to buy it!" ”

"Acquisition of ILM?" Li Jiaxin was stunned. "Now the company is almost like a sky, and it is almost impossible to acquire it!"

Watching Chen Xuanting drink red wine silently, Li Jiaxin lightly poured the red wine and poured it full.

After a while, Chen Xuanting came back to his senses, and his eyes brightened: "I've also thought about this problem, but it's okay, I'll understand it first, and then take a plan." ”

"It's for the best." Li Jiaxin snuggled in his arms.

The next time, in the hotel room.

Chen Xuanting slowly changed into a suit, carefully observed his appearance in the vanity mirror for a long time, sorted out the hair on his sideburns, put on the glossy hair wax, and then walked towards the living room. Johnson, the business manager of the Light Demon Company, stretched out his hand and said with a smile: "Hello, my friend, slack, slack... I'm really sorry, but I'm just busy with business! ”

Mr. Johnson stepped forward and shook Chen Xuanting's hand with a smile, and said with a smile: "Dear Mr. Chen Xuanting, this time your company can hand over the filmed film to us for post-special effects, which is a good choice." I can guarantee that we will definitely help you do a good job of special effects in this drama, so that it is better than Hollywood movies! ”

Chen Xuanting said with a smile: "I hope it is as you said, but I am very interested in Hollywood in the United States, as well as your digital company, and I hope to be able to get close to and understand it, I wonder if Mr. John is willing to be a guide?" ”

Johnson knew that Chen Xuanting was a famous world-class billionaire, and immediately laughed: "This is my honor, Mr. Chen." I will definitely give you a deep and comprehensive understanding of Hollywood and our company! ”

Chen Xuanting smiled and sat on the sofa opposite, touched his chin and said, "That's very good, then let's start!" ”

Why did Chen Xuanting learn about Hollywood first? The reason is that Hollywood does not understand the Chinese! And Hollywood represents the entire Western West.

I don't know that Westerners have such a poor understanding of Chinese movies and everything about China.

This is a terrible phenomenon. People around the world do not understand the Chinese, and their impression of China can only rely on their own superior cultural transmission forms. Words, music, and works of fine art cannot be disseminated from country to country to country—Chinese poetry and translation into foreign languages suddenly become different. It's not the way it is at all; Not to mention the abstract forms of music and art.

The only cultural situation that can be accessible all over the world is to have the advantage of disseminating the cultural situation, and it can only be film! It's only the things in the image that make it clear - oh, the people of this country are like this, they live like this, they work like this, they hate like this, they love like this...... Cannes judges often turn off subtitles and dialogue when reviewing films. Just looking at the image is to follow the principle of the world surname of the audiovisual language of the film.

People in the Western world can't find a specific image of Chinese in Chinese movies, so they can only look for them in American movies, which is inevitable. And how can the dominant films of hegemonic countries praise the Chinese positively? In American movies, almost all Chinese Americans are almost representatives of barbarism and blood, and their relatively thin and short bodies can explode with so much destructive power. It also makes Westerners see the Chinese as a symbol of mystery and weirdness and full of criminal surnames.

Take the United States, for example. The United States was an anti-fascist ally in World War II, but in the eyes of many ordinary people in the United States, the bloody fascist war criminals themselves are noble and positive. And the Chinese, on the contrary, are dirty and barbaric. When it comes to Eastern culture, Americans think of kimonos, wooden sliding doors, and katanas, while China, apart from Chinese kung fu, the most developed country in the world knows very little about us.

This is the power of cultural discourse.

If you can speak well in the world, people will understand you, and what you say will be listened to and believed. Without the advantage of cultural communication, you shouted hoarsely. It is said that we Chinese are peace-loving, that we are a nation of implicit civilization, and that we are following the road of peaceful rise -- no one listens to these slogans shouted all day long by relying on the power of the national political axe; except for those politicians, the broad masses of Western people still imagine China as a country that worships evil dragons, backward and barbaric, and threatens the security of the world at any time. And these are exactly what many [***] forces in the West have been happy to see for so many years.

As a businessman, a filmmaker, a Chinese. Chen Xuanting felt that he needed to take up the weapon of film, use it to open the door to Hollywood, use film to spread Chinese thought and culture, and let those who are prejudiced against this know that China is like this! It turns out that China is so ancient and beautiful!

So now, if you want to enter Hollywood, then you have to know it first!

As the old Chinese saying goes: Knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent will not be defeated in a hundred battles!

That's exactly what happened

Hollywood, USA.

Standing at the entrance of the highway leading to the studio Hollywood in the northwest suburbs of Los Angeles, California, Chen Xuanting put up a pergola with his hands and was full of emotion.

Hollywood, the starting point of the world-famous Walk of Fame, which Hong Kongers translate as Hollywood, is a borough of Los Angeles and a world-famous movie city. In the United States, the word Hollywood is often used directly to refer to the film industry in Southern California, USA.

As a filmmaker, Chan, like other Hong Kong people, has inexplicable and complicated feelings about the place.

It represents the highest level of the world's film industry and film technology, and is an ideal place for countless young filmmakers to show their talents and practice. However, it is also a sharp sword for the United States to conquer the world and dominate the global discourse, monopolizing nearly half of the world's film industry output value.

It's loved, hated, and hated.

Chen Xuanting raised his handsome face and looked at the end of the highway, where there were layers of distant mountains, and behind the endless fields, there were countless advertising light boxes of film companies.

It's so beautiful. But Chen Xuanting knows that this beauty will never belong to China, and if Chinese want to have and surpass this magnificent and magnificent beauty, they must work hard. Self-reliance.

In the distance, the luxury convoy that picked up Chen Xuanting drove here one after another, and the luxury car was parked at the intersection to be inspected by the local police.

The American policeman, who was equally tall and had a magnificent belly, was doing a routine inspection of Chen Xuanting and them, and at the same time looked curiously at the luxury convoy of this yellow person, as if guessing the nationality of these people.

"Hey. Let me guess where such a beautiful Miss Oriental came from......" This Yankee, who weighs at least three hundred pounds, twisted his ass with the enthusiasm and rock feeling unique to South Americans, holding Li Jiaxin's passport in his hand, and said thoughtfully: "Aha! Say myself? ”

Li Jiaxin pursed her lips disdainfully.

The Yankees showed an idiot-like expression in surprise, and designated Li Jiaxin: "Understood! Korean? Oh no no, Singaporeans! ”

Li Jiaxin listened to his more and more outrageous guesses, and directly pointed to Wu Yusen, who was breathing fresh air and chatting with Chen Xuanting on the avenue, and said to this devil in American English: "Do you know him?" ”

The policeman looked at it with a frown. showed an exaggerated expression of "I see", the world's largest Chinese director, filmed "Changing Face" and "Operation Broken Arrow", and the box office sold great, who doesn't know? Unless he never reads the news and newspapers.

This guy did his routine check-in. Returning the passport to Li Jiaxin, he said loudly to Li Jiaxin in the car the moment the car started: "I wish you a pleasant, beautiful Chinese girl!" ”

Li Jiaxin smiled reluctantly. There is one Chinese in every six people in the world, but people even guessed Singapore but did not guess the Chinese. Hollywood welcomes many foreigners and foreign filmmakers from various countries every day, but there are very few Chinese who come here.

In the six-door luxury chartered car, Mr. Johnson, who was very professional, helped Chen Xuanting open a bottle of French cognac red from 18 years ago. Knocking on the crispy American cashew nuts, the feeling is enough to dilute the slight unhappiness just now.

Even in the United States, the only people who can be offered this kind of enjoyment are probably super-rich people like Chen Xuanting.

While accompanying Chen Xuanting to drink fine wine, Johnson introduced the customs of Hollywood to Chen Xuanting.

Hollywood was originally a very barren land. By 1900, Hollywood had a movie theater, a newspaper, a hotel, and two markets, with 500 residents. With a population of 100,000, Rosa is located 11 km east of the city.

In 1904, a new streetcar known as Hollywood Avenue opened, greatly reducing the travel time between Hollywood and Los Angeles. In 1910, the residents of Hollywood voted to join Los Angeles. The reason for this is that they can get enough drinking water and drainage through Los Angeles.

…… Chen Xuanting listened to Johnson's narration, and suddenly became intrigued, such an inconspicuous land has later become the symbol and center of the world film industry, it is really incredible.

"You can't imagine who really made Hollywood what it is today." Johnson said to Chen Xuanting with a smile.

"The guy who invented the electric light!" The great director John Woo said with great interest: "Thomas Edison. ”

Johnson laughed, "I forgot." Dear Director Wu also knows Hollywood very well, hehe. ”

At the beginning of the 20th century, film companies from New York and New Jersey began to move to California because of the good weather and long hours of sunshine.

Although electric lights were already available at that time, they were not bright enough, and the best source of light at that time was sunlight. In addition to that, California has a wide field of vision. There are a variety of different natural landscapes.

At the time, Edison owned almost all of the patents related to the film. And California is very far from New Jersey, so it was difficult for Edison to control his patent rights here. On the West Coast of the United States, Readpower's film company was often sued by Edison and his agents. There weren't that many Edisons in faraway California. Even when he sent people to California, his people often came late to hear from them, so that the local filmmakers could hide in nearby Mexico.

"Hehe, that's interesting." Chen Xuanting smiled in his heart: "It turns out that Americans have not respected intellectual property rights since ancient times, as they themselves advertise. The predecessor of the famous Hollywood was actually a group of pirated copies to avoid genuine debt collection. Probably Edison never dreamed that he would become the future world film capital by accident. ”

With Johnson's introduction, Chen Xuanting and his group soon came to the "Industrial Light & Magic" company located on Hollywood Boulevard.

"Dear Mr. Chen Xuanting, this is our company, and everything that follows will make you feel amazing." Johnson exaggerated.

Truly. Compared to ordinary companies, this "Industrial Light and Magic" is a little different, and the whole company looks like a huge warehouse. Walk through the long corridors. At the end of the tunnel, Johnson came to an electronic iron gate, entered the code on the combination lock on the wall, and pressed his thumb against the fingerprint reader that was recessed in the wall...... "...... With a sound, the thick iron gate slowly opened, and everyone's eyes suddenly brightened! Li Jiaxin took Chen Xuanting's hand, and suddenly exclaimed with an "ah", she couldn't believe her eyes! The moment the thick iron gate opened, a soft and dazzling light shot into everyone's eyes.

In everyone's exclamations, no one thought that there was such a big world at the end of the corridor and behind the iron gate.

The magic of industrial light and magic is just around the corner!!

(To be continued)