Chapter 46: Hollywood
"So, every time you eat it, you have to have someone to pick the green beans for you? Did you know that ten dollars can buy a bunch of green beans that weigh more than your body? ”
He shrugged his shoulders and said, "But I don't care about ten dollars, and I can make a beautiful girl happy all day, can I?" ”
Audrey couldn't help but say in low German: "Extravagant quirks, it's terrible. ”
Zhou Nan was disturbed by this guy to sleep today, not to mention, and he was half tired from chatting with him. Anyway, I don't particularly care about him, if it weren't for the fact that he is the most famous billionaire in the United States and can't fight for his strength, Zhou Nan would have kicked him out a long time ago.
So I couldn't help but want to joke with him at this time, and he said to Hughes: "Let's play a little experiment, when your eyes can't see the food, do you care about the shape of the food?" ”
If it were a normal person, he would definitely not accept it, but Hughes found it amusement, and immediately agreed: "I haven't tried it yet, I can try it with my eyes closed." ”
Zhou Nan asked again: "Then do you have any foods that you are allergic to or foods you don't like?" ”
One of the bodyguards behind him said, "Mr. Hughes is allergic to peanut butter and doesn't like melon and fruit foods. ”
He didn't mean to stop him, I'm afraid he was tortured enough by his quirky employer, and he also wanted to see him molested.
Zhou Nan clapped his hands and said, "That's very simple, now let's blindfold Mr. Hughes, and then give him different foods to eat by himself." Maybe this will cure his obsessive-compulsive disorder. ”
Hughes seemed even happier than Zhou Nan, and he said proudly: "In the future, I can also choose women in the same way." If I find ten different women in a room, blindfold them, and have sex with whichever one I catch, it might add to my sense of anticipation and freshness. In a dark world, everything depends on fantasy, wow...... It's really fantastic. ”
Well, his words made Audrey and Bonita in the room completely lose any affection for him. Of course, he doesn't care about how other people feel about him, and for him, everything is less important than being happy with himself.
Zhou Nan just wanted to tease him, but he didn't expect that he would even think of women, and he accepted it very happily. In this way, he has no sense of accomplishment, but he can only watch his performance.
Facts have proved that mental illness can be solved by some mental adjustment, and the key is to see if a good solution is found.
His obsessive-compulsive disorder disappeared after his eyes were blindfolded, and he was able to eat the green beans and other foods with the spoon.
In fact, a better way is to get him to those places where there is a famine, starve him for a few days, give him a bitter gourd, and he will probably eat it with relish.
Zhou Nan was originally a bit of a picky eater, but after receiving memories from the future, the young man suffered so much in another life, and often couldn't eat enough, and now he knows the preciousness of food, and the only picky eater is gone.
Hughes was really playful, and after breakfast, Hughes opened his eyes. "It's exciting, I don't know what you're holding in front of me, and I'm full of anticipation."
Zhou Nan and they had already finished eating, and they were watching him perform. Audrey and her assistants were already in a hurry.
Zhou Nan opened his mouth and said, "Mr. Hughes......"
He carefully wiped his swollen mouth with a napkin. "Just call me Howard, Jonas, I think we're friends now."
Being friends with you will be short-lived for several years, you are happy, but you will only toss the white man who wants to die. "Well, Howard, you see, this morning, my wife is going to be in the opening ceremony of her first movie, and we still have a lot of arrangements on the table, so ......"
"Have you forgotten who I am? Trust me, if I'm here to attend, I'm sure I'll add more heat to you. ”
Zhou Nan pointed to the corners of his mouth and face, "...... Are you sure you're going to attend a boot-up ceremony like this? ”
He laughed and said, "Do you think I care what people say about me?" I don't care about their comments, just like elephants never care what ants think. ”
Well, this sentence is indeed domineering, and Zhou Nan can't do this. In his heart, he cared about too many things, and there would never be such a free and easy way for Hughes.
Another of his bodyguards came back with the clothes he had bought, all silk shirts, and he hesitated for a moment before picking out a silk shirt that looked like a bat's shirt and changing out of the shirt on his body.
Although Hughes has not yet acquired Raiden Pictures, his California film company still has no studio in Hollywood that dares to underestimate it.
The main reason for this is that he is richer than the owner of any film company, and his global aircraft company, Universal Airlines, brings him huge returns every day.
There is a boss who spends money at a rate that is not as fast as he can make money, which film company dares to compete with him?
His attendance at the opening ceremony of Paramount attracted strong media attention, and many people were speculating whether Hughes was going to cooperate with Paramount.
Hollywood in this era is full of bloody violence, and film companies maintain a thin layer of face between them. For the sake of profit, violent incidents of assassination, smashing, and arson in private have emerged one after another.
Although Hollywood represents American films, there are few film companies in the true sense of Hollywood.
Why?
The main reason is that the film companies that got together at the beginning were so convenient for each other to do it. It's normal for you to set fire to my house today, and I'm going to sabotage your crew tomorrow.
Even so, this strife cannot be stopped. In 34, the Warner Bros. fire at the Burbank studio burned all the copies of Vitaglaf, Warner, and First Nations, which had been treasured in the studio for more than 20 years.
Until now, Warner has not found out who is behind the scenes.
When did the relationship between film companies gradually ease? That would be after the mid-fifties. Fifty-three years later, the production of television sets and the diversification of television programs have caused the film industry to plummet, and many film companies have struggled to sustain themselves.
At such a time, the film companies put aside their grievances and hatred and hugged together for warmth.
Before the fifties, it was almost impossible for a movie star to make a film for another company. The movie stars of this do not have a management company, they all sign contracts with film companies, and after signing a contract, they cannot make movies for other companies.
It wasn't until after the fifties that it was possible for these stars to make films for other companies.
Hughes was originally the owner of a film company, and he attended the opening ceremony of another company's film, and it was not yet a co-production, which made him more popular than Audrey as the heroine.
Zhou Nan has never liked this kind of showmanship, but he is also very busy, because several sponsored Jewish groups have come today.
Because this movie is speaking for the Jews, the enthusiasm of the Jewish community for this movie is even higher than that of Zhou Nan. Many of them have come up with high sponsorship fees and are also building hype for the film in the media.
In this regard, Zhou Nan and Chukor are of course happy to see it happen. This cooperation, they got the name of the Jews, but the interests really fell into the pockets of Zhou Nan and Chukol.
For Jews, Zhou Nan's feelings are more complicated. He was sympathetic to the Jews and willing to cooperate conditionally, but he was not willing to get too involved with them.
Because starting with Israel, this poor little nation will be at the center of the world's political maelstrom for decades to come.
Being involved in this matter, although it is not completely beneficial to Zhou Nan, it does more harm than good.
Therefore, it is okay to cooperate in the economic aspect, but in the political aspect, Zhou Nan hopes that the less the better.
At this time, Zhou Nan was also a little glad that he was prescient, he was now an adviser to the Swiss government, and Switzerland was a well-known neutral country, which gave him room to maneuver.
The situation of the Chinese is similar to that of the Jews in the United States, and because the government of the Republic of China has accepted many Jews, the Jews have a good view of the Chinese.
However, because of the difference in the background of the two peoples, the number of Jews is too small, only more than 10 million in total, and they are still distributed all over the world. So the Americans don't feel threatened by them, and they themselves are smart, and in the coming decades, they will gradually mix up in the upper echelons of the United States.
However, behind the Chinese is a nation of up to 500 million people, and the United States has never relaxed its control over the Chinese. Coupled with the disunity of the Chinese themselves and their lack of enthusiasm for politics, their status in later generations was not even comparable to that of blacks.
Zhou Nan wanted to improve the situation of Chinese in the United States, and Jews were good partners. But next year Israel will be stated, so Zhou Nan is now hesitating about what kind of cooperation with the Jews should be.
The boot-up ceremony was held very smoothly, and Audrey was unanimously praised by the media, and even Zhou Nan felt a little embarrassed when he heard many compliments.
The key to her being so easily accepted by Americans is her British ancestry and aristocratic status.
Although the nouveau riche in the United States professes to despise those European aristocrats, they despise it precisely because they care. In this era, no matter what you do in the United States, you will naturally be treated better.
Over the decades, there have been countless cases of fraud in the United States, many of which are scammers posing as European aristocrats and succeeding in fraud.
One of the most famous examples of this is Grace Kelly's wedding to Rainier III of Monaco.
Grace Kelly is a famous courtesan in Hollywood, and it is rumored that as long as she takes a fancy to the other party, even the small workers on the set may become her subordinates.
She is not because of money, because her family is originally a famous rich family in the United States, she is completely because of her own nature.
And Rainier III, although he was poor at that time, did not even have the money to repair the royal palace of Monaco. Just because of his aristocratic status, Grace Kelly's father was willing to pay two million dollars to marry his daughter to him.
Rainier III married Grace Kelly for the sake of money and did not care about Grace Kelly's history at all. With this dowry, he gradually developed Monaco.