Chapter 24: Rebirth

Victor learned more about the glory of Vittegrave Film Company from later textbooks, but for John Ford, this feeling was real and personal.

"When I first came to Hollywood, MGM and Paramount, they were just medium-sized companies, and they had to look at Vittegrave's face. At that time, Vitaigrave almost dominated the world of American films, and I am afraid that the only film company that could compete with it was Bivograve. ”

"It was the real golden age of Hollywood. As long as you have a good idea, as long as you have talent, Vitaigrave will not hesitate to hand over all the power to you, as long as you make a film that satisfies them! At that time, whether it was a director, an actor, a screenwriter, or an actor, no one was not full of energy, and no one was not happy. ”

But later, as soon as the sons of bitches on Wall Street came, Hollywood completely changed, there was more money, but the real film art was gone. MGM and Paramount got up, but the giant Vitaigrave fell. John Ford shook his head.

Victor was able to relate to his feelings. John Ford's entry into Hollywood was indeed the most glorious and creative era in this place.

Today's Hollywood is like a lion being put on a cell made of gold, no matter how good it looks, it has lost that kind of reckless freedom.

Standing on the hillside, John Ford pointed to a large area of buildings in front of him and said: "It turns out that all the places here belong to Vitaigraf, continuous patches, after Vitaigrave was acquired by Warner Bros., Warner Bros. felt that this place was too far away from the city center and the transportation was inconvenient, so they demolished and abandoned this place, making a movie empire into ruins." ”

Looking in the direction of his finger, although nearly 20 years have passed, it is still clear that the ruins of buildings stretching from the top of the hillside to the bottom of the hill, some of them have collapsed, some of them are dilapidated.

Here, once stood a movie giant!

"This place, the scenery is good." Victor fell in love with the place from the first time he saw it.

"I think too!" John Ford smiled and pushed open the door: "This place, Warner Bros. Pictures sold to a small factory owner in 1935 and turned it into a slaughterhouse. “

"Slaughterhouse?" Victor smiled on his face, but his heart was filled with sadness.

Such a movie mecca turned out to be a slaughterhouse? How can you not sigh.

Pushing open the iron gate and entering the yard, I really saw that the yard was full of cow and sheep dung, and there were some meat grinders and other machines standing next to it, and there was a disgusting smell wafting in the air.

"Baggins, is your mother still alive?" John Ford shouted at the top of his voice.

"It's coming! Here it comes! Out of it came a middle-aged man in overalls with blood on his hands, and met John Ford, Hahadaxiao.

"Baggins was my partner back then." John Ford explains.

"Back then, now you're a big director, I'm just a butcher." Baggins, though rude, has a good temper.

"Baggins, let's make a long story short, I'm here today mainly to talk to you about something." John Ford put his arm around Baggins and smiled.

"Do you want to buy cows?" Baggins Road.

John Ford said, "We're talking. ”

Then, Ford walked up to Victor and said, "Don't think Baggins is a butcher, he also came to Hollywood with a dream of movies and joined Witteglaf, but he is not the material for this business." After Vittegrave was bought by Warner Bros., the place was supposed to be demolished, and Baggins was very fond of Vittegrave, so he bought it for $20,000. ”

"With my friendship with him, and then tell him that this place is going to build another electronic music company, I think he will be relieved. Waiting for my good news. John Ford winked Victor's eyes.

With that, the two of them entered the room.

Victor, Leo and the others stood in the courtyard, looking here and there, and after going around the courtyard, Victor found that it was much more detailed.

From the outside, it looked like a dirty slaughterhouse, but it was only a piece of the yard. In fact, the seven or eight buildings in the factory basically still maintain the original appearance of Vitaigrave, the office building is an office building, the studio is a shooting hood, the printing factory, the workshop, etc., the pattern of these places has not changed at all, and what is worse is that Baggins has maintained the professional equipment more than ten years ago very well, although it is old, but there is still no problem with using it.

In a word, with this yard, you only need to add some advanced shooting equipment, recruit good manpower, and then arrange it a little, and you can move immediately.

"Nice place." Even Pike fell in love with the place.

Leo stood in the courtyard and looked at Hollywood condescendingly: "In the future, when you have money, you will build a 50-story building here, what swimming pools, pubs, all of them, how many beautiful girls you want, standing here, the whole Hollywood is prostrate at your feet, cool!" ”

"You're just daydreaming, you." Anthony shook his head: "I think, it's better to pull a group of brothers to do business here, Hollywood has so many deals, so many companies, it's a pity not to charge protection money." ”

Victor sat in a chair and sat next to a pile of cows listening to the gang of second-hand squirting manure, and was very happy.

Half an hour later, John Ford and Baggins came out.

"Victor, I just talked to Baggins and told you about it. Baggins admires you very much, in fact, he doesn't make much money guarding this place, the only reason he stays here is that he is reluctant to have feelings for Vittegrave. You're going to set up a film company here, and he's happy. John Ford patted Baggins on the shoulder.

"Mr. Ferro, please restore Vitaigrave to its former glory! Be sure to trample those bitches under your feet! Baggins pointed to the huge construction road of Paramount and other companies not far down the hill.

Victor laughed.

John Ford pulled out a contract he had just written: "Sign it, $30,000, this place is yours!" ”

"Thirty thousand dollars?" Victor was surprised by the price.

"Tall?" Baggins hurriedly explained: "When I bought it more than ten years ago, it was 20,000 yuan......

Victor hurriedly explained: "No, no, no, I mean, this price is too much for you to lose, Mr. Baggins." ”

Baggins Hahadaxiao: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. I'm almost fifty years old, and I don't have any pursuits. There's nothing more pleasing to me than to see a film company standing again on the site of Vitaigrave. ”

"Sign it. After signing, let Baggins stay as well. He had only one request. John Ford said.

Victor: "Of course I have to sign for such a haode thing." ”

Victor Ferro.

After the name was signed, Baggins looked at the huge broken sign and smiled, "This place, finally, has been reborn." ”

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