When Alex saw Morris coming in for funding, a thought crossed his mind.

"Do you want to try to make a movie?" Alex thought to himself. He'd had thought about it a long time ago, but the time was never ripe.

Although he starred in "The Little Fugitive", that movie was really a small fight and didn't have a good climate. He wants to make a big production, a big movie. If you want to make a lot of money in one go, that's cool enough.

If you want to make a movie, someone has to have money. If you are a person, Morris in front of you is quite good. As for the funds, the Carpenter family is now a little rich, electronic companies, battery companies and record companies are quite profitable, especially the electronic products produced by Carpenter Electronics, which are very popular, and the money earned every year is estimated to be tens of millions of dollars.

It is important to know that the sale price of a world-class computer is in the millions of dollars. The profits are unbelievably high, and it's even better than robbing a bank. In particular, the government has placed a large number of orders for transistor computers to calculate missile trajectories, the impact of atomic bombings, and so on.

The computers produced by Carpenter Electronics have been gradually used in various fields such as military, scientific research, and economy. Now that the United States and the Soviet Union are competing for hegemony, they will be willing to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in order to increase the speed of research even a little. Scientists in the government are demanding the use of this state-of-the-art computer.

They use computers to perform various complex calculations and the processing of large amounts of data, such as the trajectory of satellite flights, data processing in weather forecasts, and so on. With faster computers, computing tasks that used to take days and years can now be completed in a fraction of the time. This is a great help for scientists.

Transistor computers are needed not only by government departments, but also by large corporations. All in all, the Carpenter family can get rich even if there are no other companies, only electronic companies.

It has been said that money and power are the things that can change a person the most. Bart slowly becomes more confident and tough with power and money in his hands.

If you make a big-budget movie, you need to invest millions of dollars. Alex wasn't quite sure he would be able to convince Bart.

Although electronics companies make a lot of money, they also spend a lot of money on research and development, and with the normal operation costs of the factory, the cash in hand will not be very much. It can be a bit difficult to pull out that much money at once. This is also a very troublesome question.

"Forget it, let's get ready first." Alex thought. He carefully searched his mind for a movie that had not yet been filmed, to see which one would be more suitable. can not only make money, but also be able to really shoot it. You don't have to think about movies that need to use computer special effects, and now the fastest computer in the world is in Carpenter Electronics, even if Alex is powerful, he can't make a 486.

War Movie, PASS!

Sci-fi, PASS!

Love is a romantic film, which is a bit interesting, but it is very demanding for actors. The most important thing is that he is not yet old, even if he acts, it is a trick. Or PASS!

Action movies, can people in this era make them? It's better to think about it later when you grow up, at least after Bruce Lee arrives in the United States.

Song and dance film, well, this seems to be a bit funny!

Alex has locked the memory search as a song and dance movie, and his "traceability" is now becoming more and more powerful, and he is now able to perform a specific search for a certain keyword. He soon found in his memory bank the song and dance movies he had watched, including almost all classic song and dance films of all eras.

In this regard, people from the era of the information explosion have a great advantage. As long as there is a slightly famous movie, he has seen it at least once. After all, as an otaku, it is impossible for a person not to watch a few movies, TV series or cartoons every day.

Soon, Alex found his target. With the clear picture and sound of the movie in his memory, he felt that as long as the external conditions allowed, he would definitely be able to shoot this classic movie.

It's just that how is he going to convince the others? This is not a small problem, he can't always run in front of Bart and Angel and say loudly: "Let's make a movie!" ”

Then, they fully supported him to make a movie, no objection? That's unlikely! If it was a tens of thousands of dollars, maybe neither Bart nor Angel would say anything. Just as he gave some pocket money, he spent it. This time it's not tens of thousands of dollars, it's millions, maybe tens of millions.

No parent would be so easy to give so much money to a child. Even the son of the Rockefeller family, the richest man in the world, is impossible, and money is not burned like this.

"You have to find a way to convince them." Alex was carefully calculating in his heart.

He thought for a moment, went to the living room, picked up the phone, and said to the operator on the other end of the phone, "Please help me transfer to Carpenter Records." ”

"Okay, please wait." The operator on the other end of the line said.

Soon, someone on the phone said, "This is Carpenter Records, who are you looking for?" ”

Alex said, "I'm looking for Chuck Berry, is he in the company now?" ”

"Mr. Chuck? Yes, he's here! Who are you? What am I going to say to him? ”

"You just say that his boss (BOSS) has something to find him."

The person on the other end of the phone immediately changed his tone and said to him, "Are you Mr. Rudy?" ”

Alex laughed, and he said without explanation, "It's not Rudy, anyway, you just have to tell him like that." ”

"Okay, please wait!"

Less than a minute later, Alex heard the sound of someone running over the phone.

"Boss, I'm Chuck. Excuse me, please? ”

Alex said, "You help me find a lawyer and let him contact someone." I have something to talk to that person about. ”

After he made it clear what he wanted Chuck to do on the phone, he put the phone down. He thought about it for a while, and felt that this was not enough, and that he had to come up with something convincing.

So, he went out and took the elevator down to the hall.

Alex was often seen by the doorman at the Dakota Tower, and he was also familiar with the Carpenter brothers and had heard some of their records.

The doorman, dressed in a black suit, stood in front of the door, opened it, and said, "Are you ready to go out?" ”

Alex nodded and said, "Yes, I'm going to go out and buy a book." ”

"Buying books? Is it a reference material for writing a book? ”

"No, it's for giving away."

Without waiting for the doorman to say anything, Alex was already on the street.

The area where they live is relatively neat and clean, the neighborhood is full of rich people, the law and order is good, and no ruffians dare to wander around this area. Alex doesn't need to bring any bodyguards to go out, and it seems that Bart and Angel haven't adapted to the life of being protected. Their family is now living a very simple life, at most, they ask a nanny to help take care of the children or something.

Due to the growing fame of the Carpenter brothers, Alex does not dare to be too ostentatious when he goes out now. He came out in disguise, dressed in a more ordinary way, and then brought a hat and sunglasses.

Alex walked into a bookstore and asked the clerk, "Excuse me, is there a book called "The Singers of the Von Trapp Family"?" ”

"What singer? Well, I don't think I've seen it. You can look for it, though. The clerk had no memory of the title of the book he said, so he couldn't help it.

"Haven't you heard of it?" Alex was a little disappointed, he thought about it and switched to another bookstore. In the bookstore, he still couldn't find the book.

Alex was a little confused, and he thought to himself, "Isn't this book published yet?" ”

So, he went home and called Carl, the editor in charge.

"Carl, you look up a book for me. The title of the book is "The StoryoftheTrappFamilySingers"! Let's see if the book is published, and if you can, it's best to buy one for me. ”

"Who wrote it?" Carl knows that if you want to look up a book, it is best to know the title and author of the book.

Alex immediately found the author's name from memory, and he said: "Maria Von Trapp, this is her autobiography. ”

Carl didn't understand what Alex was looking for this book for, but he said, "That's good! Can you wait? I'll be back soon. ”

Bandan Books was very efficient, and Carl was quick to have people look it up. They didn't find the book, not even the author's information.

"The book you're talking about hasn't been published. Are you mistaken? Carl asked, puzzled, as he remembered that Alex had never made such a mistake.

So Carl said in self-denial: "Maybe it's because the book has just been published for a short time, and it's not very famous. I'll look for it again. ”

"Thank you, no need. I may be mistaken. Alex thanked him and hung up the phone.

Alex wasn't mistaken, but he didn't have the details of the book at all, he only knew that the movie was based on the book. However, what he never expected was that the book had not yet been published. It's going to be difficult, but luckily, he's had Chuck contact a lawyer to find the author of the book.

"It doesn't matter, I can make this movie even without a book. It's just that in this case, it's not very good for the original author. Alex thought to himself, and he decided to wait until Chuck found someone.

Alex sighed and said, "Is it so difficult to make a "The Sound of Music"? Even if it's ten years earlier, it shouldn't be impossible to shoot. ”

Yes, the movie he wants to make is the musical film that is a household name in the United States. This movie is recognized as a good work, and the most important thing is that the box office is very high. It's a movie with hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office, and that's just the North American box office.

The film caused a frenzy of movie-watching at the time, and according to the New York Times, an elderly woman in Los Angeles had seen the film more than 300 times, almost once a day, and a young man in Oregon could even dictate his lines.

Some critics have called the film "the perfect masterpiece of cinema", and the heroine Julie Andrews's sincere and simple performance and beautiful singing voice have made American audiences regard her as "the ideal wife, mother and daughter in their hearts".

There are such good movies that don't go to make them, Alex doesn't have to be brain-dead to that extent.