Chapter Eighty-Six: Taxi Drivers
Meng Lei returned to the hotel, immediately got on Zhou Zhen's number, took a few photos of the room, and expressed her gratitude to Xiaoliang's sister-in-law for arranging the room.
Xiaoliang's sister-in-law quickly responded that Zhou Zhen is a younger brother, and it should be.
After a while, she brought a few more artists from their company to say hello, as well as an old acquaintance of Brother He.
talked about Zhou Zhen's two songs, and everyone admired them.
That Chinese song is very popular, and that English song is even more popular than Chinese songs. Almost everyone is praising that the English song is very international, and this time it will definitely break into the international music scene.
Some people who questioned that they were not original to Zhou Zhen couldn't raise their heads when they were scolded by Zhou Zhen's fans.
This also attracted a lot of black fans to Zhou Zhen.
But Zhou Zhen didn't care, whether it was praise or questioning, he didn't take it to heart.
A group of people chatted for about half an hour, and then they left one after another, everyone was busy with fart, and it was already a great shame for Zhou Zhen to spare half an hour to have a relationship with Zhou Zhen.
Although Zhou Zhen didn't care at all......
After washing, Zhou Zhen turned on the computer and prepared to start scanning the useful information on the Internet.
Then the system suddenly connects with the biological computer and gives a hint: discover the world of the Taxi Driver movie.
Zhou Zhen's mind controlled the biological computer and asked, "Is there anything special about this movie?" ”
Because of Zhou Zhen's "pickiness", the system encounters a maximum of three world nodes every day, and at least one.
Most of these worlds are very boring, or they are limited editions, or not challenging at all, and there are very few quest worlds that interest him.
For example, those police and gangster movies, the rules of the world themselves have been limited, and after entering, they can only change the fate of the characters in the plot, but they cannot change the nature of the world.
No matter how many people are killed, no matter how many girls are soaked, it is just a wave in the world.
In the past, Zhou Zhen was worried that he would become a neurotic, mixing other people's thoughts and emotions, which was a great burden on himself.
Now that he has a biological computer, he has no worries about this, but Zhou Zhen's ability is too high, and he also feels that such a world is not challenging.
In this way, there is less room for choice.
It's been a month since the end of the last world, and this time I finally met one.
His biocomputer stores almost all the movies and comics in the world today, and even if you haven't seen it, you have data for storage.
The taxi driver, a movie that he had already watched, naturally still has some memories.
This is a classic Beat Generation movie and one of the masterpieces of the film master Martin Scorsese.
The influence of this movie in Europe and the United States is definitely not inferior to the influence of "Hero" in China, and even because of this movie, a major case of assassinating the president was triggered.
Zhou Zhen is not a literary youth, but Jiang Hao is a heavy literary youth, Zhou Zhen has all his knowledge and memory, and he is also very aware of the influence of the Beat Generation in the United States after World War II.
He has also seen masterpieces such as "The Catcher in the Rye" and "On the Road" that represent the Beat Generation, and understands the root cause of the emergence of hippies.
The Will Substitute System replied: "'Taxi Driver' is a very sad movie, and such a film can easily change the nature of the world at its roots.
No matter if you become an underworld tycoon, an entrepreneur, or even a president in that world, as long as you are not that decadent and confused bastard and wait for death, you can easily change the basic nature of that world. ”
Zhou Zhen quickly analyzed the comments on the Internet, the essence of the movie, and understood that the world of this movie is indeed easy to change from the essence.
The protagonist of the film is Travis, a Vietnam War veteran who suffers from severe insomnia and makes a living in New York City by driving a night taxi.
Travis is a socially maladjusted man who relies on short movies to beat his insomnia.
He witnesses the corruption and darkness of the Met's nightlife every night, making him more and more lonely and confused.
Zhou Zhen only needs to change his situation with his identity, no matter which direction he develops, he has directly become the fulcrum that leverages the essential change of the world.
This world is not limited, the storyline can change at will, and the relationship between the characters can change at will.
Zhou Zhen commanded: "Carry out the world node connection." Calculate the main quest. ”
The vast majority of movies have a fixed theme. Like "The True Color of Heroes" is a Jianghu film; Like "Infernal Affairs" is a police movie; Like "The Day After Tomorrow" is a disaster movie.
After such a movie enters, it can't change the essence of the world at all, just like the end of the world in "The Day After Tomorrow", you can't make them disappear.
But "Taxi Driver" mainly describes the glitz and changes of American society in the 70s, the sinking and indulgence of thoughts, all of which are reflected in the little character of the protagonist.
Zhou Zhen changed the fate of the protagonist, which also changed the theme of the movie.
It can be said that Zhou Zhen just borrowed Travis's identity and borrowed the background of the times at that time to deduce a completely different story.
"Taxi Driver" is partial to the mission world, the soul is fused with Travis Bickle, and the body is half-traversed.
Main Quest: Change the fate of Lavis. (Living in another state of life for more than three years.) )
Side quest 1: Get Betsy's favor.
Side quest 2: Change the fate of Iris.
As soon as Zhou Zhen's mind turned, he knew that Betsy was Travis's dream lover and the fuse for Travis to change his numbness.
And Iris is the Lori who once swept the world, attracted countless Americans to be crazy and infatuated, and even made fans use the assassination of the president to attract her attention.
In the film, she is identified as a chick.
Zhou Zhen thought for a moment and asked, "When did Iris come to New York?" ”
This background movie is not given, but in the film, when Travis met Iris, she was only twelve and a half years old, and it was not long after she arrived in New York to be controlled by the gang.
The system said: "The rules of the world are made, and I can only know if you enter that world." I can remind you when she arrives in New York. ”
"Very well, according to the end of the plot, arrange the time for the first three years. I need to learn a little bit about that era now, goodbye. ”
When the connection was cut off, Zhou Zhen took a look at the energy points, and there were still fifty-three energy points.
Returning to reality, Zhou Zhen began to search the political, economic, and development situation of the United States in the 70s to find the most suitable direction of development.
He won't go into politics, that kind of life with a mask, it's not what he wants, and it's only been there for three years, and it's not a good choice to go into politics.
And if you want to be happy in the United States, you only need one thing, and that is money.
Especially in the seventies, it was a time when you had money and you could do whatever you wanted.
And the investment target was quickly chosen, that is, oil futures in the first oil crisis.
From October '73 to early '74, oil prices quadrupled from $3 to $12 in 2 months due to the outbreak of the Fourth Middle East War.
The second investment target is to rise 60 percent in the stock market in '75-76.
The seventies were a lost decade for the U.S. economy, in which the stock market not only did not rise, but also regressed.
Until the new century, if inflation is taken into account, the life of the American middle class has actually been regressing.
From the early seventies, the U.S. economy was in shambles with a trade deficit, the petrodollar collapsed, the Bretton Woods system collapsed.
Although the world of this taxi driver is not necessarily the real world, it still follows the laws of the real world.
Zhou Zhen doesn't need to watch movies now, and he doesn't have to collect information, but with a biological computer that stores these materials, he can continue to watch them in the mission world.
In other words, when he went to ancient times and had no entertainment, he also had his own movies to pastime.
The information was almost collected, and Zhou Zhen went to bed with peace of mind, until he was pulled into the world of taxi drivers by the system after eight hours of connection.
Now he is still on a plane, and the entire plane is full of retired soldiers who have been withdrawn from Vietnam.
The time of the filming of the movie is 76, but the date in the movie does not indicate what year it is, only that the protagonist Travis is a retired marine.
Now that Zhou Zhen knows, it is September of 73, so the plot of the whole movie should mainly be in 76.
Travis in the original play has a severe war syndrome and often has headaches, but now, Zhou Zhen's physique has replaced his original physique, and these problems have disappeared without a trace.
The plane arrived in Maryland, and after three days of procedures, Zhou Zhen became a normal retired soldier.
Instead of having the government resettle his job, he chose to receive a retirement pension.
The retirement pay of a U.S. soldier is 10 percent of his annual salary multiplied by the time he has served, and Travis's annual salary is $6,000, which is equivalent to a one-time payment of $1,800.
However, he has no relatives, and when he was in Vietnam, he spent less than half of his annual salary for three years, which means that he now has a total of 16,000 US dollars on hand.
This money is still worth a lot in this day and age, with gasoline costing a dime a litre, the average price of a new car being only $3,000, and an apartment costing only $25,000.
Of course, 25,000 can't buy a house in New York, here is just talking about other areas, New York's housing prices have always been the highest in the United States.
Travis was born and raised in New York, and of course prepared to return to New York when he retired.
In the original show, Travis has been hanging around, living in a dilapidated apartment, like a lonely ghost.
In the end, in order to fight insomnia, he chose to become a taxi driver.
And he doesn't have any other hobbies, not for money, just to pass the time.
In the movie, he said more than once that he was not short of money, and when he bought a gun, he also bought four black guns at once.
Of course, that is based on his consumption philosophy, according to his own consumption philosophy, must be able to maintain a decent state of life.
In September of '73, that is, the fourth Middle East war was about to break out, and oil was about to quadruple at once, and it was the time for speculation.
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