$300,000 is indeed stretched thin for the filming of "This Killer Is Not Too Cold", and it can only be said that it can barely be done, if you want the movie to be of high quality, if you want to promote it after filming, it is a little insufficient.

Therefore, if you can bring in an investment without harming the quality of the movie, it will naturally be very good.

However, in general, the people who can come up with these investments are capitalists, and in most cases, they are venture capitalists from Wall Street, and the person recommended by Gratt is very interesting to Victor and John Ford.

Grant said to John Ford, "John, this man you know, it's that Mr. Bernarno from Los Angeles. ”

"Bernano?! Chris Bernarno? This name made Victor's heart tremble, and he couldn't help but call out.

"Oh, Victor, you know him too?" Grant Road.

"How about knowing!? It's just a fucking enemy! Leo scolded.

Looking at Grant's puzzled expression, Victor briefly explained the previous incident, but did not indicate his identity as belonging to the Ferro family.

Grant smiled: "I see. But Victor, Chris Bernarno is a man of honor, and what he does to you is in the interests of the family. Aside from that, when it comes to movies, he's a veteran movie fan and an audiophile. ”

"He has a very good relationship with me, as far as I know, this guy's favorite is Westerns, and he likes the kind of scenes where guns are drawn against each other, but in the past two years, Westerns have been made badly in Hollywood, and Bernano began to talk to me very early on, if Hollywood has a script about killers, you can go to him, and if he is satisfied, he can invest."

After Grant said this, he looked at Victor with interest: "Victor, to do great things, you must be able to stretch and bend, this is cooperation, very simple cooperation." ”

Remembering Chris Bernarno's face, Victor was indeed very uncomfortable, but when you think about it, Grant's words are not unreasonable.

"Mr. Grant, what you said is right, I have one condition for cooperating with Bernarno, if he agrees, everything is easy to say, if he doesn't agree, no matter how much money he invests, I am not willing." Victor Road.

"You say." Grant Road.

Victor: "He invested, and we can divide the future income of the film according to the proportion, but he doesn't have any say in the film itself!" ”

Grant understood: "What you mean is that it's up to you to decide how this movie will be made." ”

"It's a must!" Victor Road.

Grant extinguished the cigarette in his hand and said, "If you believe me, give me this script, I'll go to Chris right away and tell him your opinion as it is, do you think it's okay?" ”

"Take it. Hehe, anyway, the copyright of this script has been registered. Victor shrugged.

The group had a great conversation, and when they were done, Grant took the script and went to downtown Los Angeles, while Victor, John Ford, and others found a café to continue discussing.

"Uncle John, now that the company has been registered and the movie script has been written, the most critical thing at the moment is to prepare for the crew." Victor said: "In this regard, what do you suggest?" ”

John Ford shook his head: "I don't think these things are important now, what is important is that you have to find a place to get the company up first." In Hollywood, you always have to decorate the façade before doing things, you say that you don't even have a factory site for a company, who will look at you? ”

"But it costs money, and we don't have much money right now." At the mention of money, Victor had a headache.

"There's always going to be money." John Ford spread his hands and said, "And I didn't have the money to do it, I didn't ask you to find a few thousand acres of land to build a company as luxurious as MGM Studios, I mean, even if you find a small place first, you can do it, right?" ”

"I'm not familiar with this at all." Victor smiled wryly.

John Ford was very happy: "Don't worry, I thought about this for you yesterday, come with me." ”

The gang went out, and John Ford drove his car straight to Hollywood's West End.

Along the way, Warner Bros. Pictures, MGM Studios, and Columbia Pictures shuttled through the luxurious bases, where are the companies, it is clearly a huge castle, a small city with a few caves, extremely prosperous and imposing.

Ford's car, turning a dozen blocks, stopped.

As soon as he got out of the car, Victor was a little stunned.

Because in front of me, there is a hillside, and on the top of the hillside, there is a huge advertising panel, on which is the HOLLYWOOD, which later became a symbol of Hollywood! However, the difference is that this line of big white characters has four more letters: land.

Standing here, condescendingly, the whole of Hollywood is in full view.

But this place is clearly out of the bustling area of Hollywood, and the surrounding buildings are also a little dilapidated and depressed.

John Ford led Victor to a building.

In this building, the mask is about dozens of acres, there are seven or eight small buildings, in the middle is a large courtyard, an iron gate is very majestic, there are not only magnificent ornaments on it, but also a huge signboard that has collapsed.

"Vitaigraf!" When Victor read out the mottled words on the sign, he was a little surprised.

Is this the factory logo of Vitaigravel!? No wonder this iron gate is so majestic!

For those who are not familiar with the history of cinema, it may be difficult for them to understand the meaning of the name Vittegrave.

Soon after the invention of cinema, this new art form aroused the idea of many people, and in the United States, film companies specializing in shooting and screening were soon established, which was also the first film company pioneers in the United States and even Shijie.

Vittegrave was founded in 1897 by James Stewart Blackton and others, and many of the films produced by this company have created firsts in the history of cinema.

Under James's management, Vittegrave expanded rapidly, especially during the First Shijie War, Vittegrave's career reached its peak, becoming one of the largest film companies in the whole of the United States, to use an analogy, Vittegrave at that time was to American films what Paramount or MGM were to Hollywood in 1940.

But the good times did not last long, because of the business philosophy, or because of the inability to keep up with the times, coupled with the intensification of competition, the great Vitekgrav was acquired by Warner Bros. in 1926, and Warner Bros. Pictures also became one of Hollywood's first-class studios because of the acquisition of this giant.

Standing in front of the site of such a great film company, Victor naturally felt a lot of emotion.

In Hollywood, there is never any comfort at all, there is only the survival of the fittest, no innovation, no effort, even a company like Vittegrave will be buried in the dust of history.

"This was once the headquarters of Vittegrave Films. When I first came to Hollywood, it was the heart of the whole of Hollywood. Looking at the collapsed factory logo, John Ford himself was a little sad.