It's simple.

Douglas and his sister handed over the script for "Broken Blue Bridge" to the producer, who read it and thought it was good, so he submitted it to MGM executives.

At this time, the problem came, MGM had just recruited a female star from Sweden, who was very well-known in Europe and performed in films that were widely acclaimed.

MGM is ready to praise this person and is looking around for good stories.

The company's senior management watched "Soul Broken Blue Bridge" and felt that the story took place in the United Kingdom, and the heroine was very suitable for the European actress to play.

Of course, they also left the Canadian girl with a role to play as the heroine's friend.

Under this system of big Hollywood studios, ordinary actors have little say.

Unless you become a top star, or have a high-level film company as a backstage, you can be qualified to choose scripts and roles, and even negotiate terms with the film company.

Lin Zixuan himself is the boss of the film company, and this kind of thing is commonplace.

Within the star film company, if Yin Mingzhu or Meng Xiaodong takes a fancy to a certain role, then other actors can only back down, which is the privilege of a big star.

So, there is no fairness in this world, and instead of stopping and complaining, it is better to work hard to get to the top.

Historically, Nauma Sheila succeeded and won the Oscar for actress because in 1927 she married a MGM producer, thus gaining the freedom to choose scripts and roles.

By 1936, the producer had died, and her acting career had gradually declined. Soon quit the film industry.

Hollywood is a vanity fair, and if you want to get it, you need to pay. No one succeeds casually.

Lin Zixuan couldn't help this.

The Canadian girl had two options, either to go along with the company's arrangement. Make a good impression on the company, wait for the next opportunity, or get the script back, fall out with the company, and be hidden from then on.

As for leaving MGM, I am afraid that they will have to pay a lot of liquidated damages, and their brothers and sisters may not be able to afford it.

For this second-tier female star, the wisest thing is to obey the company's arrangement and endure the anger of the moment.

He found out that it was Swedish actress Greta Garbo who was competing for the role with Naumahira.

Garbo, the female star Lin Zixuan, was a little impressed. She is a legend in Hollywood.

Born in 1905 in Stockholm, Sweden, to a poor working-class family, Greta Garbo was forced to leave school when her father died at the age of 14 and worked as an advertising model in a department store.

Her image in an advertising short film was favored by the director, and since then she has entered the film industry.

She also applied for a scholarship to a Swedish acting school to study acting.

In 1924, Garbo starred in German playwright Papster's famous play "Sad Street", making him one of the most popular movie stars in Europe, and thus was poached to the United States by MGM Pictures. Prepare to win.

Garbo is well-known in Europe and is valued by MGM, so Nauma must have little chance.

Naumahira thought the same thing, she had no advantage over Garbo. The Swedish girl is indeed very beautiful, and the deep eyes of a European woman are the favorite of American audiences.

In comparison, she was born in Canada and has no geographical advantage.

In this day and age. The United States has not yet become a superpower, and Europe is the center of the whole world.

Whether it is a strong military force. Or a culture that has flourished since the Renaissance, and Europe is highly regarded. So actresses from Europe are very popular with American audiences.

But the Canadian girl was not reconciled, she couldn't swallow the breath.

finally met a character who could become famous in one fell swoop, and she never wanted to give up and make wedding dresses for others.

Naumahira weighed the pros and cons and sadly found that she personally did not have the strength to compete with a large company like MGM.

If you take the script and go to other film companies, such as Paramount and Universal, you may end up in the same fate as at MGM.

What to do?

She accidentally saw Lin Zixuan, this Oriental has his own film company, can he invest in the filming of "Soul Broken Blue Bridge"?

This may be her last chance, or she will have to give in to the company.

Shoot an American movie?

Lin Zixuan fell into thinking, he knows better than anyone that "Soul Broken Blue Bridge" is a classic movie, and there is no problem with investing in filming, but in what form to shoot needs to be considered clearly.

This involves the law of the United States.

He could not invest as a Chinese, nor could he lend money to the siblings, a hundred thousand dollars was not a small amount, and as a businessman, he had to distinguish between business and private relationships.

When he contacted Peterson's lawyer, he found that a roundabout approach was possible.

Shanghai Star Film Company is nominally a U.S.-funded company because it has lawyer Peterson as a minority shareholder.

As long as an American star film company is established in the name of Peterson's lawyer, then the company in Shanghai is a subsidiary of the American company, and Lin Zixuan can invest in films in the name of American star film company.

Only, in this way, the film company became the property of Peterson's lawyers.

Lin Zixuan is only responsible for the operation, and has changed from a boss to a wage earner.

Of course, in order to protect Lin Zixuan's interests and control in it, a lot of legal documents need to be signed.

For example, lawyer Peterson gave up the right to operate the company, and entrusted Lin Zixuan with full authority to operate the company, not to interfere with the company's decision-making, and to have clear provisions on the distribution of interests, and Peterson lawyer is only responsible for the legal department.

This is a loophole in American law.

Finally, we have to go this way, and if you want to invest in the United States, you need to find an American partner.

It was a risky affair that would cost him the business to someone else, and if Peterson played a trick on it, his hard-earned family fortune would be in vain.

But risks and opportunities coexist, and if you want to make money, how can you not take risks.

Lin Zixuan was not very familiar with American law, so he deliberately took the legal documents to consult legal expert Zhang Kangren.

He believes that the Chinese will not lie to the Chinese.

Zhang Kangren carefully reviewed the legal documents and found no loopholes.

Except for the change of ownership of the company, Lin Zixuan's rights and interests have not been harmed, which is a common means of disguised investment by Chinese people in the current United States.

However, the amount of such an investment should not be too large, otherwise it will attract the attention of the US government.

In other words, you can't get a big consortium out and directly affect or control the economic development of the United States.

Lin Zixuan put his mind at ease and began to plan for future investment in the United States, and the film was only the first step.

He asked his sister Lin Xiaoling to register in the American Star Film Company, responsible for the exchange of some documents and reviewing the accounts.

As for the Douglas siblings, it depends on whether they have the courage to break away from MGM and take on new challenges.

While Lin Zixuan was busy signing various legal documents, the book "The Man in the High Castle" was shipped to all over the world through the American postal system, and the first to receive the book was a domestic publishing house in the United States. (To be continued.) )