Chapter 305: Eyes turn to Hollywood
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Salvatore died, and Li Yaoyang became famous overnight.
Some people become famous by eyeballs, some people become famous by sleeping, and some people become famous by money, but Li Yaoyang tells everyone with practical actions that he wants to be famous? A bullet thing!
Philadelphia went up and down, left and right, and everyone who thought they had a bit of a hand was scared by Salvatore's death.
This is also the first time that Li Yaoyang has publicly killed people, in fact, this is not a good thing, from his debut to the present, he has done a lot, but he has always been very innocent in reputation.
Because he cherishes his feathers very much, he knows very well that if he wants to go long, he must not have a stain on his body, at least not on the surface!
And this time, the reason why he chose to shoot in public was for the 12 brothers who died, their deaths made Li Yaoyang angry, his brain was swayed by emotions and hatred, and it was difficult to keep his mind rational.
And all the sanity was used to think of the 'plan', how to trick Salvatore out?
is to take the initiative to show weakness when he gets carried away, and this is the only way to see him.
When I really saw him, my reason was immediately thrown out of the clouds.
Salvatore must die!
The second is because Cecil has waited for himself for so long and helped him a lot, and if he doesn't give him a perfect result, I'm afraid his patience will be exhausted.
Third, Li Yaoyang is also using this incident to prove to everyone that he cherishes feathers, but it doesn't mean that he really can't tolerate a stain!
In short, as soon as Salvatore died, the situation immediately opened.
Dongxing's people counterattacked and easily recaptured the riverside area, and at the same time, they also successfully took over Salvatore's industry.
As for whether there are any die-hard people who want to avenge him?
Of course there is, but unfortunately there are no waves, and they are not as big as the waves on the Delaware River, so they are not worth mentioning.
The boar's fake liquor quickly disappeared in Philadelphia at a receding rate, and at the same time, the bison took the stage to its own.
However, due to the lack of production capacity, the supply of up to 1,500 bottles a month has led to a high price.
Li Yaoyang felt very wronged, the price was speculated, but it had nothing to do with him.
Because Bison mainly targets the mid-range or low-end market, the ex-factory price is not high, 12 dollars a bottle.
And in the hands of consumers, the price is 20 or even 22 US dollars.
Of course, compared to Scotch whisky, which is often more than 100 dollars a bottle, more than 20 is simply the price of cabbage, which is also the key reason why the supply exceeds demand.
But if it goes on like this, not to mention 20 knives, 50 knives can also be blocked, Li Yaoyang urgently needs to increase production capacity.
Three days after Salvatore's death, Li Yaoyang drank coffee in Cecil's office.
These few days are Cecil's happiest days, the revenge has been avenged, the resentment accumulated in his heart has been swept away, and the whole person seems to have lost dozens of pounds, just happy!
Taking advantage of this stage, he can unconditionally meet any request made by Li Yaoyang, but he is more concerned about the script that Li Yaoyang is going to write.
"Lee, how's the script going?"
"Don't mention it, I wrote and wrote, and found it too difficult to present naval battles on the stage, so I was going to leave this topic for the first time, and wait for a different carrier to try."
"A different carrier?" Cecil didn't understand for a moment.
"Yes, Hollywood!"
Cecil suddenly realized.
In 1891, Edison invented and patented the movable motion picture glass, and began the road of invention and patenting of various filmmaking techniques.
In 1923, that is, this year, Walt Disney went to Hollywood and founded the Disney Brothers Animation Studios.
In 1911, in a small inn in Hollywood called Brondo, Hollywood's first film company was founded.
"Hollywood" is an English translation of the English word "holly", a field of holly trees located in the suburbs of present-day Los Angeles in the United States.
In 1866, a real estate merchant and his wife bought the land to build a ranch, and the lady imitated the forest of her hometown and brought in a lot of holly trees to plant, and it gradually became a small town where people gathered, and the name was holly trees.
In order to compete for the market and obtain commercial profits, an excellent inventor founded the Edison Company at the end of the 19th century, and held many basic technologies and key patents in film shooting.
From the camera, the projector, and even the film itself, as long as there is patent infringement, Edison will go to court, and the other litigation journey has lasted for more than a decade, and everyone in the industry knows Edison's reputation as a "good suit".
Later, Edison, together with seven American film companies and two French companies, established a joint film patent company, known as the "Edison Trust", which monopolized the emerging film industry at this time, and paid various patent fees from theaters, distributors, and producers.
Edison's methods were also very strong and ruthless, they would hire gangsters to collect all kinds of fees, and often use armed forces to go directly to the scene to steal the filming equipment, and even send spies to lay a net to suppress normal business.
It is said that even the Edison company knows exactly what they eat in a day, and it is simply the "hey boss" of the film industry.
There are more than 60,000 of the boss's subordinates who are willing to pay, but there are also those who are not convinced.
A man named Carl Ramler was very dissatisfied with the repression of Edison Trust, and jumped out to set up an independent film company.
He left Edison's base in New Jersey in the northeastern part of the ugly country and headed straight for the southwest corner of the United States.
If Edison Trust wants to send thugs to chase after him, he will have to cross the entire Americas, and it is more important to work hard and stabilize the entire base camp first.
Since then, many small film companies and independent producers who can't stand the crackdown have "gone to the top" and have taken refuge in California, the southwest corner.
If it is too troublesome to send thugs, what about the judge in charge of patent law cases?
In fact, Eddie grew up for many years, and fought large and small lawsuits, and some people called him a "patent troll" at that time, and the local judges did not have much affection for him, so they turned a blind eye to these small companies that "fled".
Those who went to the small companies in California found it to be a filming destination.
The long sunshine and different scenery here are conducive to long-term shooting and framing, which reduces the cost of shooting.
In addition, California is next to Mexico, and it is relatively easy to escape the law, so California, a small haven, gradually left Edison's home base and attracted more film companies to set up sound studios.
In addition to the credit of these independent small companies, the successful filming of "The Count of Monte Cristo" made California Hollywood "an instant hit".
In 1907, the film was supposed to be filmed in the eastern part of the ugly country, but it encountered bad weather and urgently needed to add other shots.
They chose California, where the climate is suitable, and they stumbled upon a sunny place with beautiful views: Hollywood.
At that time, the equipment for filming movies was still very outdated, requiring sufficient light to make the images clear, and the equipment was very expensive and could not be invaded by rain and snow.
The filming of "The Count of Monte Cristo" made Hollywood even more famous, and the film production team came one after another, and gradually gained scale.
In 1915, a federal court found Edison Patents guilty of violating the Sherman Act, and the "Hey Boss" was completely dismembered.
California Hollywood has no competitors and has quickly grown into a base for ugly movies.
For the people of the world, among the many symbols of ugly countries, Hollywood and Silicon Valley are the most influential, and they are the perfect products of the combination of business and art and technology, which have influenced the world for more than half a century.
Hollywood is a comprehensive entertainment industry with movies as the main body, covering music, fashion, and tourism.
Silicon Valley is a technology industry with high-precision silicon as raw material and electronics and computers as the main body, which has gradually extended to software and the Internet, and has now become synonymous with technology and innovation.
Hollywood and Silicon Valley are both in California on the west coast, and interestingly, at the time of the founding of the state, these seven western states centered on California did not belong to the ugly country, but to Mexico, and of course earlier to the free Indians.
In 1781, 44 dark-skinned Mexicans settled in a wild Indian territory, the first inhabitants of the City of Angels.
After that, a war broke out between the United States and Mexico, and judging by the outcome of the war, it was a well-planned business - Mexico was defeated, and at a ridiculous price of $15 million, seven western states dominated by California were ceded to the ugly country, which was equivalent to 1/3 of Mexico's land at that time.
If at this price, even if inflation is taken into account, the top ten richest people on the list can buy all the ugly countries.
And then as I said earlier, a couple bought a 0.6 square kilometer piece of land in the suburbs of Los Angeles as a ranch.
When my wife was on a trip, she heard someone say "Hollywood" and thought it sounded very good.
So after returning home, he bought a lot of holly trees in Europe, planted them in the ranch, and named the ranch "Hollywood".
A few years later, the couple wanted to develop the land into a city, so they applied to the local government for the name "Hollywood" and established the first avenue in the city of Hollywood.
Gradually, there was a post office, a church, a shop, and a permanent population.
It is 11 miles from Los Angeles, and in order to obtain the drinking water and urban resources of the city of Los Angeles, 177 adult residents of the city of Hollywood voted to merge into the city of Los Angeles and become a beautiful area of Los Angeles.
Although the whole is under the management of the city of Los Angeles, it only sends a symbolic honorary mayor of Hollywood.
Then there was the birth of "The Count of Monte Cristo", which was filmed in the east in bad weather and needed to make up some shots, so by chance, it was completed in Hollywood, a suburb of Los Angeles.
The beautiful scenery and good weather conditions here are perfect for filming on location.
Since then, some independent filmmakers with small productions have begun to choose to shoot films here.
Due to the low cost of Hollywood, the vast mountains and land outside the city, which is completely natural and wild, is suitable for the use of large shots in and out of the film, which is more and more attractive to filmmakers to choose this location.
Hollywood is blessed with beautiful scenery and brilliant clouds, and it is definitely a place for those who pursue art.
Soon, local residents also built hotels and restaurants suitable for filmmakers.
Later, in a small inn in Hollywood called Brondu, the first film company in Hollywood was created.
Due to its proximity to Los Angeles, the core city of Chouguo, and the low price of land and the excellent surrounding location conditions, more film companies will soon set up professional studios here.
A LOCAL BUILDER, IN ORDER TO MARKET HIS BUILDING MATERIALS, ERECTED "HOLLYWOOD", A LANDMARK BUILDING IN HOLLYWOOD, ON THE HILLSIDE BEHIND HOLLYWOOD.
However, the reason why this place can become the center of the film industry in the ugly country is due to the fierce monopoly competition in the industry, which originated from the master inventor Edison, but now it has dissolved, so let's not talk about it for the time being.
Throughout the first and second stops, Hollywood ushered in its first peak of development.
Those who are familiar to later generations in the film industry are active in the world cinema center of vitality and opportunity, including: Charlie Chaplin, Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe and so on.
and "Broken Blue Bridge", "Gone with the Wind", "Roman Holiday", "Sun Blood", "Hibiscus Out of the Water" and countless other innumerable good films.
However, in the fifties and sixties, Hollywood began to decadent, crime rates remained high, neighborhoods were filled with violence and garbage, and the film industry declined.
Managers in Los Angeles launched a series of "reinvigorate Hollywood" campaigns, including a focus on crime, which led to a significant reduction in crime rates and the renovation of Hollywood's tourist attractions.
With the application of computer technology in movies, Hollywood ushered in a new prosperity.
A new generation of high-tech film companies such as Pixar and DreamWorks came into being, "Star Wars", "Jurassic Park", "Jaws", "Toy Story", "The Lion King" and so on, Hollywood truly ushered in the dynastic era.
This is the past and present life of Hollywood, to put it bluntly, it is still that little thing in the business field, nothing new.
Hollywood is ostensibly the center of film and fashion, but in fact it is a collection of perfect business operations, and it is a giant industry of world entertainment.
Hollywood is like a huge workplace, where the people in the workplace are directors, screenwriters, actors, post-production, and so on.
This big workplace has its unique operating habits, organizational forms, talent training methods, and salary and incentive methods.
The production of each film is the operation of a project.
Hollywood's film production was the first fully operational project management, and the flexible employment system created by the agent system was the project management system that was accompanied by this project management - these are indeed very advanced in organizational management.
Not to mention the incentives, Hollywood's remuneration is the highest in the world, coupled with the flexible company operation mechanism, it provides equal opportunities for talented people, attracts the world's top filmmakers, and always maintains the world's leading level of creativity and production.
This kind of large-scale industrial operation makes the comprehensive production cost of its films of the same level very low.
Another objective factor is that the ugly country is a country of immigrants, and there are relatively few taboos on the theme of the movie.
The operation of this giant commercial industry has naturally contributed to Hollywood becoming the largest exporter of ugly culture.
"Brother Shen!"
"Hmm!"
Shen Changqing walked on the road, and when he met someone he knew well, he would say hello to each other or nod his head.
But it doesn't matter who it is.
There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, as if they were very indifferent to everything.
on this.
Shen Changqing is used to it.
Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, it is an institution that maintains the stability of Great Qin, and its main responsibility is to kill demons and monsters, and of course there are some other side jobs.
Arguably.
In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands.
When a person is accustomed to seeing life and death, then he will become indifferent to many things.
When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.
The Demon Suppression Division is huge.
The people who can stay in the Demon Suppression Division are all powerful masters, or people who have the potential to become masters.
Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.
Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two professions, one is the town guard and the other is the demon exterminator.
Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts with the lowest level of demon slayer.
Then step by step, he is expected to become a town guard.
Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level of the demon slayer envoys.
Have memories of the predecessor.
He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.
It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.
Unlike other places full of slaughter, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, and in the bloody Demon Suppression Division, it presents a different tranquility.
At this time, the attic door is open, and there are occasional people entering and exiting.
Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment, and then stepped in.
Access to the attic.
The environment has changed in vain.
A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood came to his face, making his brow furrow instinctively, but quickly stretched.
The smell of blood on everyone's body in the Demon Suppression Division is almost impossible to clean.