On this night, if there were reporters on the scene, there would definitely be a scoop that could have been written: The king of Hollywood was beaten by a group of hairy boys to slaughter MGM.

It's a pity that no one photographed Meyer's appearance of being beaten to a pig's head.

The police didn't care what the king of Hollywood was, so they took both groups directly to the police station, and after inquiring about the specific situation, they fined each $500 to let the two sides get out.

Meyer's gang left in a hurry, while Victor and Nicholas and others were too happy.

In Leo's words, it was worth $5,000 to beat the king of Hollywood like this.

But Ingrid Bergman was clearly frightened and kept crying.

Victor asks Leo to lead the group back, and then drives Bergman home.

Unlike Victor's sling, Bergman lives in Beverly Hills, the most prosperous and affluent residential area in the Los Angeles area, inhabited by celebrities. Although Bergman is not a first-class star in Hollywood now, not as good as Garbo, he has become famous and very popular with the audience.

However, to Victor's surprise, Bergman's house was home with no one but an old servant.

Back at his home and resting for a while, Bergman regained some composure and made Victor tea.

Drinking black tea, Victor whispered, "Miss Bergman, if you don't mind what happened today, can you tell me?" ”

Bergman was stunned for a moment.

Victor hurriedly said, "It's okay if it's inconvenient. ”

Bergman shook his head: "Nothing. I'm just homesick, I miss the Swedish sea. ”

This angelic woman, sitting by the fire, tears streaming down her face, crystal clear, heartbreaking.

Victor was silent, or rather, he was waiting.

Bergman looked at the churning flames in the furnace and said softly: "Mr. Ferro, I was born in Sweden, my mother died when I was three years old, and my father died when I was thirteen. I was sent to live with an uncle, but he died six months later, which made me feel like a bad spirit. At the age of 17, I entered the Royal Swedish Academy of Acting, mainly because the school did not charge tuition fees and free room and board, and I never felt that I had no family and learned to be independent from an early age. ”

"I didn't expect to make a film later, but in Sweden and Germany, I did a lot of films, people liked me, and I felt the warmth of home from those sincere audiences, and that was probably the only reason why I stuck on this path."

"In 1936, I gained some fame by starring in a movie that caught the attention of Hollywood. A year later I married my husband, an ordinary dentist, and gave birth to a daughter the year before. But there is no affection between us. I had no relatives in Hollywood and stayed only because of the audience. ”

"This year, all the major film companies are going to ask me to work with me, and as you can see, Paramount likes me very much, but Mr. Chuck has asked me to owe them a contract of 20 years at a time, Mr. Ferro, how many twenty years can a woman have? I don't want to be a money-making tool for them. I never lived for money and fame. ”

"Then Louis Meyer came to me. He was very nice to me, and he was very relaxed, and he promised MGM that he could fund me as much as possible, provided that I made ten films for them. ”

"Ten films? This condition is indeed not harsh. Victor nodded: "However, since this is the case, then weishenme ......"

Bergman turned his face and looked at Victor, with a pair of teary eyes: "Mr. Fellreau, among these ten films, Meyer requires that at least three of them be made into love scenes that tease the audience. ”

"Love play!?" Hearing this, Victor immediately understood Bergman's mood.

Romantic movies, in fact, have existed almost since the birth of the art of film, and they are inseparable.

The reason is very simple, first of all, for this thing, everyone will like it, after all, it is an instinctive demand, and secondly, and most importantly, in the early days of the birth of movies, people who watched it were the working masses of society, and people with status disdained to watch this kind of juggling, and those ordinary people who did not have much culture certainly had a soft spot for this.

This also created that in the early days of Hollywood, the development of romantic films has always been outstanding, the market is very good, and film companies are naturally happy to shoot.

But that changed in 1930. This year, because there were too many scandals in the film industry, and because Hollywood has been in chaos, the Catholic priest Daniel publicly declared that movies were corrupting people's morals, and drafted a film censorship power generation, which was soon widely accepted and handed over to Will Hayes, the chairman of the American producers and distributors' recess, to enforce, known as the "Hays Code"!

The Hayes Code morally restricts films, and the main contents are: obey the prohibition of alcohol and do not promote soju; Do not describe in detail the methods of murder, theft, or robbery; There shall be no scenes of torture; Do not engage in immoral sexual relations; shall not show the relationship between black and white people; Footage of abortion or childbirth is not permitted; Nude footage is not allowed; It is forbidden to kiss the lips of men and women; Do not be disrespectful to the national flag; No rough treatment of animals, etc.

Because this code is recognized by the law, it has the force of law, and the film giants who originally supported it soon found that they were unlucky, because the existence of this code on the one hand seriously hindered the development of films, and on the other hand, seriously hindered them from making money.

But the law is the law, and if it is determined, it must be obeyed.

In this case, the kind of explicit and straightforward sensual movies in the past can't be made, but this money can't be unearned, so major film companies have played side balls, such as MGM, they are good at shooting that kind of flashy, big-scene movies, adding love scenes in the middle (these shots are not straightforward, but they are seductive enough, and the heroine is very charming), and the audience is very marketable.

Victor understood Meyer's mind almost instantly, as well as Bergman's reasons for refusal.

Let's start from Meyer's point of view, in fact, although there was an audience market for love movies in 1940, the audience's tastes have become more and more picky, after all, this kind of movie is available every year and there are a lot of them every year. Bergman is now very marketable in Hollywood, and it is also very marketable among the audience, but Bergman's positioning on the screen has always been a pure and clean goddess-like existence, if she suddenly changes into such an image, the audience will definitely go crazy. In this way, MGM will definitely make a lot of money.

And for Bergman, it's a huge injury. An actor, especially a star, can certainly change his style in Hollywood, but the screen image will generally be fixed in the audience's mind, Bergman has always taken the positive goddess route, such a change is likely to ruin Bergman.

At this point, Meyer can't be unaware that the reason why he did this, to put it bluntly, is because Bergman is not very famous now. With the same thing, it is impossible for him to let Garbo shoot it.

Although Bergman is weak on the surface, she is a tough woman in her bones, how can she agree to this kind of thing?

"Miss Bergman, what are you going to do now?" Victor sighed.

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Everyone, can you still collect it? Do you still have referral tickets? I'm begging. haha