Text Chapter 82, Hollywood

After dealing with the matter on Microsoft's side, Lei Weidong and Zihanyan and others divided into two ways, Zihanyan and He Sanshui rushed to New York, and Lei Weidong took Wu Fan and Chen Dazhuang to Hollywood.

Hollywood, the leader of world cinema, Lei Weidong can be said to be thunderous in his previous life, and he has always wanted to go to Hollywood to see those beautiful stars, but unfortunately he didn't have the opportunity. Just learn a little about Hollywood online.

Hollywood (pinyin: Hǎoláiwù; English: Hollywood), originally meaning a place name concept, Hong Kong translation "Hollywood", is a place name in Los Angeles, California, USA, because many famous film companies in the United States are set up here, so it is often associated with American movies and movie stars, and the word "Hollywood" is often used directly to guide the film industry in California, is a world-famous movie city, with a permanent population of about 300,000.

Hollywood is not only the birthplace of global fashion, but also the heartland of the global music film industry.

It has the world's top entertainment industry and luxury brands, leading and representing the highest level of global fashion, such as DreamWorks, Disney, 20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, Sony, Universal Pictures, WB (Warner Bros.) Paramount, and other film giants, as well as top record labels such as RCAJIV.E Interscope Records.

Fashion and technology here are mutually restrictive and developing, which is naturally unpretentious, with a deep fashion heritage and majestic technology to support, and has been imitated by all over the world.

Hollywood is located on the west coast of the United States, just outside of Los Angeles, California, and is a beautiful place surrounded by mountains and rivers.

Discovered by photographers looking for locations, it attracted photographers around the beginning of the 20th century, and then began to form a center of cinema by small companies and independent producers who sought to escape the control of patent companies.

In the period before and after World War I, some film masters such as Griffith and Chaplin won world fame for American cinema, and Wall Street conglomerates began to intervene in the film industry.

With abundant financial support, the Hollywood film city was rapidly formed and emerged, and the film industry just adapted to the needs of the rapid economic development of the United States during this period, and the film was further incorporated into the economic mechanism and became a part of the profit-seeking.

After decades of development, the small village outside of Los Angeles eventually became a sprawling movie city, and Hollywood became invisibly synonymous with American cinema.

Due to the developed entertainment industry in the local area, but the distribution of film studios has long been not limited to a corner of Hollywood, Hollywood and its surrounding cities such as Burbank together constitute the center of the American film and television industry, Hollywood City has a lot of decades-old movie theaters, usually used as movie premieres or Oscar ceremonies, but also become a popular tourist location, tens of millions of tourists come here every year to visit, play.

But one thing to make clear is that Hollywood is not the Walk of Fame, not Universal Studios, not Beverly Hills...... It is not a city of high-rise buildings, nor is it a fortress of arrow towers, it is invisible, an invisible, but real cinematic empire.

In Hollywood, there is a white supremacy circle similar to what Chinese people often say, no one can say what the circle is, but it just exists, the film and television industry, the sports circle, etc., if you want to develop in that industry, but you don't integrate into that circle, you will do things with half the effort, and it is likely to be fruitless.

Outsiders want to enter a circle, there are two ways, one is simple and rude - take money and smash it! Money is the most powerful weapon in the world, and any circle, in the face of money, is a half-pushed and half-done woman, such as in the eighties and nineties when Sony smashed billions of dollars to acquire the eight major Hollywood film companies, Hollywood knelt in front of money, and for example, Abu burned billions of euros to enter the British football world, and the arrogant Britishmen knelt.

This method is quick and efficient, but it is not very expensive...... With Lei Weidong's current value, he can't afford to play.

Another method is to go with the wind and drizzle, first find someone to guide the way, get into the circle, and then slowly develop, and finally integrate into the circle.

This method is slow and inefficient, but it costs less.

For Lei Weidong, now that he is low, he can first adopt the second method, step by step, slowly cultivate his prestige and fame in Hollywood, and when the time is ripe in a few years, he will directly spend money to acquire the eight major Hollywood film companies. I deeply imprinted my influence on the film kingdom of Hollywood.

Of course, the words are a bit far, so let's talk about the present first. Lei Weidong and his entourage flew to Los Angeles first, first looked at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, and then looked at the famous Chinese Grand Theater, and then the group came to Hollywood from Los Angeles.

On Thursday, October 6, 1977, the legendary Chinese entertainment tycoon, three-time Oscar winner for Best Director, Hong Kong actor Lei Weidong set foot on the territory of Hollywood, his arrival had a profound impact on Hollywood films, and he and his team left indelible traces in Hollywood.

However, when Lei Weidong first arrived in Hollywood, he didn't believe his eyes, you must know that in Lei Weidong's impression, Hollywood is a well-known existence in the world, attracting people from all over the world every day, and the annual output value here is definitely not a small amount, even if it is only the late seventies, Hollywood at this time, has also conquered Europe and the United States, is the world's first film mecca.

So Lei Weidong thinks that Hollywood should look so high-end and atmospheric, but when Lei Weidong and his party really set foot in Hollywood, Lei Weidong feels that this place is a little unworthy of the name. The architecture here in Hollywood is not much different from the average American town.

In addition to the fact that there are more people, more modern billboards, and more buildings than ordinary American towns, it is difficult for Lei Weidong to connect the famous Hollywood with the place in front of him.

However, the tour guide and driver invited by Lei Weidong was not surprised at this time: "Mr. Lei, do you think this place is a little unworthy of the name?" When I first came, I also thought it was strange, how could Hollywood, which is so famous in the world, look like this? But after staying here for a long time, I don't think it's strange.

Lei Weidong asked the tour guide to be named Li Mingyu, a Chinese-American whose parents opened a restaurant in Los Angeles and hoped that their son would inherit his family business and become a restaurant owner.

However, young people like freedom and don't want to be constrained, anyway, their home is very close to Hollywood, so Li Mingyu went to Hollywood to try his luck and see if he could become a star, but he was not happy in Hollywood for a few years, mainly because American movies are mainly based on white themes, and there are too few Chinese actors needed, and Chinese films except for Li Xiaolong's kung fu movies in the past few years entered Hollywood, causing a wave of movie-watching in Hollywood, but with Li Xiaolong's death, everything returned to the starting point.

Now Li Mingyu is still a part-time tour guide when he is playing tricks in the movie, otherwise he won't be able to support himself at all. The reason why Lei Weidong invited him was that Li Mingyu could speak Chinese and was familiar with Hollywood, so he didn't need a translator to introduce Hollywood scenery. So Li Mingyu saw the doubts of Lei Weidong and others, and immediately gave an explanation.

When Hollywood was founded, the place could not be called a village, but a small settlement, because there were not a hundred people living here.

And now it's the size of a small town, which is pretty good. Besides, this is just a place where everyone shoots movies, and now that many companies have moved out, the real place to rest is actually elsewhere, anyway, the roads in this part of the United States are everywhere, from Hollywood to the place of rest, you can't use half an hour. It's only when you get there that you can see the prosperity of Hollywood. ”