After listening to Tommy's words, Wolf's facial muscles were a little out of control and twisted, he opened his hands, and his eyes moved from Tommy's face to Sophia's face, hoping that Sophia could translate for him:

What does it mean to bypass BT and rebuild a new network?

"I'm sorry I can't help you, Wolf, Tommy...... No one knows what Tommy's brain is made of, what is going on inside, not even me. Sophia shrugged apologetically and said to Wolf.

"I misunderstood the meaning of that sentence, did I?" Wolf reluctantly digested Tommy's words again, and then showed a clear expression and laughed a little self-deprecatingly: "Actually, Tommy, you want to say that the second channel will be broadcast, the second channel of the BT TV network, right?" ”

"No, it's a single one, another one, a presence that has nothing to do with BT, and it's a cable news network." Tommy looked at Wolf again and explained.

Wolf opened his mouth, and although he didn't make a sound, Sophia and Tommy could tell by the shape of their mouths that Wolf was probably trying to say WTF.

"Need a TV network that leases satellites and then monetizes them by paying subscribers? And it's a TV news network? Wolf looked at Tommy in disbelief, and the doubts popped out of his mouth uncertainly.

"Yes." Tommy nodded, "That's it." ”

"Tommy, you can find the value of your life by starting a TV station, but you don't need to burn the money all at once, or invest in the establishment of a satellite TV news network, it is better to burn the money with a fire, at least you can appreciate the visual beauty brought by the fireworks." Wolf exhaled:

"Who made you think like that? Earl Rush? I'm getting ready to talk to him! I can't watch him take my friend's hard-earned money with all sorts of rotten investment circles! ”

Wolf was really a little angry, in his opinion, this is definitely someone fooling Tommy, trying to get Tommy to take the money out and invest, and then find a way to roll away Tommy's money in various ways at a loss, the most likely, it is Earl Rush, the CEO of BT TV, that damn black lawyer.

Tommy immediately explained: "No, it has nothing to do with Earl, it was my own idea, Wolfe, it has nothing to do with anyone else, the experience of founding BT has made me understand what the TV industry really lacks, and it has also made me realize the one-sidedness and inadequacy of my previous thinking, and I now finally know what to do to prove my worth." ”

"What do you think you should do?" Wolfe suppressed his anger and asked Tommy.

"Witness." Tommy said to him with a big smile.

Wolf was slightly stunned: "Witness? ”

"Yes, if you send all the big moments in the future of this world into the living rooms of Americans by satellite, they may not be able to experience the big moments that changed history but are thousands of miles away, but I can let them sit on their couches and see for themselves." Tommy, in an almost reverent tone, spoke his thoughts.

This sentence made Wolf firm that BT TV's current vulgar style has absolutely nothing to do with Tommy, and must be caused by Earl Rush's mercenary lawyer.

This is the Tommy Hawke he knows, just like at the beginning, this young man once invited himself with a clear eye to join BT and create a TV station that the black community needs, so that black people can improve themselves and change themselves through BT programs, and then reverse the stereotype of black people.

"Uh...... Frankly, the moment you said that, I had the idea to come back. Wolf was moved, smiled at Tommy and said:

"Your dream is great, but the investment is amazing, it is not a traditional TV network like BT, and it is not a traditional TV industry, the whole United States, only CNN is a cable news network, eight years after it was launched, the founder Turner has been frantically selling assets in the past two years, looking for investment, you know, three years ago, he also had the ambition to buy MGM with 1.5 billion, in just three years, MGM was split by him and sold 1 billion cheaply, only retained the film library, and used the film library to set up TNT, a movie channel, Trying to make money through pay-per-view movie channels to maintain its own cable network, CNN has made it clear to all TV people in the past eight years that news does not make money, on the contrary, it costs money, and if it weren't for Turner Jr.'s advertising business and several teams that can still be profitable, and he hasn't completely beaten Murdoch, he would have shut down CNN a long time ago. ”

"What's the contradiction between him and Murdoch?" Tommy asked curiously when he heard Wolfe's words.

He knew that the bosses of the three major television networks all hated Murdoch, to what extent? At the FCC's conference of television industry practitioners in Washington, D.C., Grant Tick, president of NBC Television Network, the oldest television network in the United States, walked up to the podium in public, patted the American flag on the wall of the rostrum and the program schedules of the three major television networks, and said to the FOX crowd sitting in the audience without the slightest affection:

"I, and we, will not stop a fourth television network from emerging in this land, and it will be born sooner or later as the times evolve and the needs of the audience, but, we believe, it will never be the one founded by Australians who make a living from peddling lies and pornography."

The reason why the three major TV networks have such a big hatred for FOX and Murdoch is not because Murdoch poached a large number of elite talents from the three major TV networks at a high price, but for the three major TV networks, it is normal for each other to poach people, and the other party pays more, so it is very normal for his subordinates to resign.

The real reason is that this bastard from Australia is unruly, he acquired 21st Century Fox Film Company while forming the FOX TV network, which makes Murdoch's identity, in addition to being a TV person, is also a filmmaker, and the TV network has not yet started, Murdoch's 21st Century Fox Film Company has joined other large film companies to arrange lobbying companies to pass a restriction bill on TV movies in Congress, which is the focus of the three major TV networks.

The main reason why this kind of TV movie is made is that the TV network does not want to buy movies from film companies at a high price in order to save costs, because often this kind of business of buying movies is a packaging behavior.

For example, if a TV network wants to buy the broadcast rights of "Jaws" on TV, then it is not that "Jaws" has a high box office, and the TV network can buy it at a high price and then show it on its own TV station, but that while buying this popular movie at a high price, it must also use a large sum of money to buy dozens of bad movies, so that the film company will sell you.

Murdoch courted the Republican Party, and united with the film company to lobby Congress, and finally let the U.S. Congress successfully pass the relevant restriction bill, so the restriction bill announced that in order to allow the public to continue to enter the cinema to enjoy film art, the film industry will not decline, and film practitioners will not usher in the risk of unemployment.

In other words, the three major TV networks did not wait for FOX to start broadcasting, and they were calculated by Murdoch, so that the film industry successfully laid eggs again.

And Murdoch's own FOX television network is not worried about licenses, because he bought 21st Century Fox in advance, which has a film library of thousands of films.

As we all know, the US television industry has been cheated by the film industry many times, and the two sides have been fighting with each other for many years on the question of whether the American people should spend their money on TV or movie tickets, and the contradictions are deep.

However, Ted Turner also has a grudge against Murdoch, which is the first time Tommy has heard of this, because Ted's CNN strictly speaking, has no competition with the three major TV networks and FOX, those TV networks are free, and his CNN is a cable pay channel, which has no intersection at all

"Murdoch is a stingy guy who can't afford to lose, Turner likes sailing, Murdoch also likes, the two sides met in a sailing competition in Australia, when the sailing boats sponsored by the two started a showdown, Turner's sponsored boat has been leading, that is Australia, Murdoch's territory, so another sailboat sponsored by Murdoch that had no chance to win the championship suddenly crashed into Turner's boat, so that Turner's boat ran aground and withdrew from the race, and then at the post-race banquet, Turner directly poured Murdoch a glass of red wine, if it weren't for the bodyguards of both sides to pull away the twoTurner may break Murdoch's spine with a straight back throw, and he's an American wrestling fan. Wolf introduces Tommy to the conflict between the two.

"It sounds really sportsmanlike and gentlemanly." Tommy responded with a smile.

Wolf sighed, reversed the subject, and said to Tommy seriously: "The point is, the rich Turner can't afford to lose money like CNN, Tommy." ”

"Losses aren't your concern, Wolf, and I don't like to let money taint dreams when I talk about them." Tommy lightly stopped Wolf's dissuasion, and instead continued to paint his dreams:

"The three major television networks have cut almost all overseas correspondent stations, and the way to obtain international news today is to buy news images from major news agencies, and the three major television networks buy the same photos or videos, but the news anchors and commentators are different, what does this mean? It shows that there is no television station in the United States that can really report those important news in a timely manner, and what news the three major television networks buy determines that the American audience knows what is happening in the world, to put it bluntly, if the Soviet Union collapses, the three major television networks do not buy the news from the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, Reuters or TASS because the news price is too high, or conversely, if one day, those news agencies refuse to sell the news to these American television stations, Then the American audience will not be able to hear the news at all on the TV set. ”

"Do you want the American people to live in a world where they can't witness history? Maybe they don't care about what's going on on the other side of the world, but if they want to know one day, because we exist as a news network, they just need to turn on the TV, turn on our channel, and they can easily see it. ”

"This is the testimony."

"This is the freedom and right that God has given them."

Tommy said in an eloquent voice.

Wolf was silent, and as an aspiring television practitioner, it was impossible for him to refuse the temptation to let the audience witness history.

"I'll give you two months to hand over to SBG, say goodbye, and then, get ready to start a journey of life that will suffocate your dreams, Wolf." Tommy jumped off his desk and patted Wolf on the shoulder:

"I can't do such a great cause alone, so I'm not asking you to think about it, I'm calling you back for the American people to do the right thing."

He walked to the door and opened the door, and said to Wolf, who was still pursing his lips and not responding, "As for the financial problems you are worried about, I will go and help you solve them now." ”

With that, Tommy walked out of the room, leaving only Sophia, who had been enjoying Wolfe's expression for a long time, and Wolf-Tucker, who had not yet recovered from Tommy's suffocating and fiery dreams.

……

Tommy nibbled on a burger at KFC across the street from the company, and then instead of asking Page to help him drive, he took the rare opportunity to drive his own car that was mostly parked in the company garage.

It was Otillia's birthday present to Tommy for his birthday last year, a black Pontiac Firebird GTA from '82.

Of course, Otilia's gift will not be ordinary, this 82-year-old Pontiac Firebird is not a common style on the street, but a perfect replica of NBC's intelligent car KITT, the protagonist of the popular sci-fi series "Thunderbolt Ranger" in previous years, the reason why it is perfect is that Tommy drove the car at this time, and drove directly to Universal Studios to replace the prototype show car in the exhibition hall, which will not be noticed.

After Otilia bought a new car, she found George Barris, who had modified KITT for "Thunderbolt Ranger", this legendary old man is known as the first person to modify cars in the United States, and began to help design and modify the Batmobile for the "Batman" movie in the 60s, many well-known people will ask him to help modify their cars, and his offer is also very interesting, how much does it cost to buy a new car, and how much does it cost him to modify it.

For Tommy's birthday, Otilia asks for help in creating a perfect replica of a KITT.

So Tommy's car is extremely stylish, one-key convertible, one-key hatchback This function is needless to say, and even the sci-fi interior and driving steering wheel in the TV series are presented as they are.

Tommy even had Martin try to play a car thief, only to get into the car and not know how to drive the car, the key jack, or where to hardwire.

And once it starts, the dashboard-sized screen in the car, all kinds of buttons immediately light up, giving people the feeling of driving a small alien spaceship.

It is of course to pull the wind, but Tommy rarely drives it out, because the light pollution is too serious, and it is generally only opened when it is necessary to stimulate the broad guy's goods, which is also one of Tommy's few things that can stimulate the other party's possession.

Yes, he's going to see Stephen the Broadman right now.

When I drove to Stephen's lodgings in Los Angeles, the guy was basking in the afternoon sun with a cold beer.

"Show off, Tommy, you're going to lose the fun soon, I've got George Barris to help me with three cars." Stephen heard the roar of the car engine, opened his eyes and glanced at Tommy, who was getting out of the car, and said lazily.

Tommy looked around, but didn't see the other party's new girlfriend who had recently caught it, and asked curiously, "What about your new girlfriend?" ”

"I went to Paris to participate in the French Open, and by the way, I accompanied my parents to Paris for a vacation." Stephen patted the empty seat next to him: "I called you a dozen times in the morning, and you are finally willing to come to see me?" ”

Tommy walked over and lay down, adjusting the angle to avoid direct sunlight shining into his eyes: "Okay, frankly, I forgot about you calling me, the TV station just started, and I was in a hurry. ”

"I've done two movie scripts, Tommy, and I'm going to make them." Stephen pulled a beer out of the ice bucket, handed it to Tommy, and said earnestly.

Tommy took it and asked in a tentative tone, "I guess you're not stupid enough to fool me into investing in your movie, right?" ”

He knows that Stephen has always had a movie dream, but it's okay to be friends, let him take out the money to pay for Stephen's dream, absolutely no need to talk about it, this guy's dream is more suffocating than Tommy's dream, Tommy's dream can make money, but Stephen's movie dream seems to be more like throwing money into the water.

"A romantic comedy, my own original script, called "My Underage Husband", the kind of romantic comedy that has been popular in Hollywood in the past two years, between a beautiful woman and an underage boy, from mutual hostility to mutual understanding, to acquaintance, love, resistance, contradictions, but finally happy to live together." Stephen talked about the general plot of the script he had written, and when he was happy, his eyebrows fluttered and his eyes flashed with excitement.

"Brother, forgive me for not believing in love, so I ask a practical question, if you don't pay for it yourself, will you find a company in Hollywood that is willing to invest and start filming?" Tommy opened the beer with the corkscrew, poured a sip into his mouth, and then thoughtfully poured cold water on his brother's head.

Stephen seems to have gotten used to Tommy's poisonous tongue: "After many film company producers read it, they think the script is great, but there has been a lot of financial pressure recently. ”

"When I don't want to spend money, I will also use this reason to reject the other party, so their words are also what I want to say, in fact, my financial pressure has been a bit big recently, Stephen, I'll pay the bill, help you call a little actress with a maximum overnight budget of 20,000 yuan from your wife to be happy with you all night, in exchange for you to give up and persuade me to invest in your movie, how about it?" Tommy laughed.

Stephen flicked a cigar to Tommy and scolded, "Thank you for your uprightness and generosity, silly*." ”

"You're welcome." Tommy said.

"I'm talking to you about my dreams very seriously, Tommy, you know, I've always had movie dreams, and I've been trying to write sequel scripts for cartoon movies since I was eleven years old." Stephen gestured, kicked Tommy, and said dissatisfied.

It's true, Stephen liked to help create follow-up stories for cartoons he watched since he was very young, and he also submitted articles to comic companies and sent cartoon stories he wrote, but for so many years, he didn't meet the discerning Bole to dig this great screenwriter.

Tommy looked at Stephen and teased: "You wrote the screenplay yourself, and invested in finding a director to shoot the comedy film "Married to My Ancestors", if I remember correctly, you hired the well-known young director John Hughes as the director, and brought Rob Law and Linda Kozlowski as the male and female leads, the whole movie cost you 12 million, how much is the box office, Stephen, say it out loud, how much is the box office of the movie you put your heart and soul into?" ”

"Art can't be measured by money alone, you know? Vulgar poor ghost. Stephen said dissatisfied.

Tommy saw that Stephen himself didn't say anything, so he said it for him: "It's only 17 million, that's John Hughes, a million-cost "The Breakfast Club", a genius director who won 50 million box office, and was almost scolded by film critics for your film to the point of suffering from depression and running off the building." ”

"That's because the director didn't really grasp the emotions conveyed in my script, and everyone has their eyes at times, not to mention that I now understand that I need to avoid this kind of problem." Stephen argued.

Tommy breathed a sigh of relief, "I'm glad you're aware of the problem of avoiding indiscriminate spending, Stephen, I ......"

"The way to avoid it is that I am the director myself, and I make my own script." Stephen interrupted Tommy, excitedly giving an answer.

Tommy seemed to be choked by the neck and stared at Stephen for a long time before he spoke, "Is this how the you avoided the problem?" Going into battle to be a director yourself? ”

"Yes, I made sure that I could understand the emotions in my script and bring them to life on screen." Stephen stared at Tommy with a sparkling gaze: "Isn't that the best solution?" ”

"A genius director who earned 50 million box office with 1 million was almost sent to the rooftop to commit suicide by you, and your reflection through this incident is, the director is too rubbish, not the problem of the script?" Tommy's expression was a little broken:

"Dude, where did you learn this way of reflecting? So, the romantic comedy you just talked about, are you preparing to be a screenwriter, director, and investor? Man, what Hollywood actress would think you believe in love and make a good romance movie? ”

Stephen shook his head and explained very quickly: "No, no, no, it's not that romantic comedy, I just said that I created two plays, and there is another one, called "Missing Action", which tells the story of a summer camp, all the leaders of that country are missing, and there is a male protagonist named Tommy who took his summer camp members to save that country, you heard it, it was our experience back then, and I finally worked hard and adapted it into a screenplay. ”

"Otherwise, let's talk about romantic comedies, Stephen." Tommy looked at Stephen and said frantically:

"Wouldn't it be nice to hide those memories in our minds selfishly? Why adapt it into a spicy-eyed horror story in exchange for the audience's angry scolding? ”

Stephen ignored Tommy's words and introduced excitedly: "I think this time I will direct it myself, and the cost of the whole movie will be slightly higher, about 18 million to 20 million." ”

"I'll give you 20 million privately, in exchange for you letting go of the good memories shared by the CS Gang, I knew I wasn't interested in buying tickets to watch this movie when I heard the name." Tommy rubbed his face in despair and said weakly.

Stephen looked at Tommy seriously: "I'll be very attentive, Tommy, I'm not kidding, and I sent invitations to everyone in CS, including Otilia, invite everyone to come to Los Angeles to audition for their roles, and everyone decides which actor will play themselves, except for Dennis who can't come because of overseas service, everyone feels happy, eager to try, and gives me encouragement, except for you, the stupid*, who has been persistently pouring cold water on me." ”

"Well, what do you need me to do in order not to be the most unhappy person in your mind?"

As if by magic, Stephen pulled out a thick stack of actor profiles from under his seat: "This is the profile of the actors who are listed as candidates, and the top stack is the actor who plays Tommy." ”

"Who the cares about the looks of a poor ghost, I'm more concerned about which actors are selected for the role of my wife Otilia." Tommy smiled and flipped through the information of those actors, directly skipped his role, and turned up the information of those female actors.

"That experience was very important in my life, if I hadn't met you, I wouldn't have been as cheerful as I am now, so I'm going to take it very seriously and bring our story back to life on the screen, those experiences are like they happened yesterday, I remember every little thing, I ......"

Before he could continue to express his determination in the chatter there, Tommy suddenly interrupted him with one of the documents: "This information shows that the actress who wants to audition for the role of Zoe as a shrew, can you get in touch?" ”

"Of course, there should be a contact number, what's wrong, she's attracted to you?" Stephen took the information and glanced at the attached art photos and life photos: "Wow, it's black hair, have you changed your taste?" ”

"According to the information, this girl, Sandra Bullock's hometown is Arlington, Virginia, she settled in Germany with her parents, she is fluent in German, and her mother is a well-known German opera artist......" Tommy's eyes flashed with excitement not inferior to Stephen's when talking about his dream of film, and his mouth said.

"Do you have to do this kind of complicated background check every time you sleep with an actress? How? Make sure you don't sleep with a black man? Stephen couldn't understand why Tommy was so concerned about an actress's family situation at the moment.

Tommy came back to his senses and said with a smile to Stephen: "God favors me, in fact, I came here to let you take a lot of money to invest in the TV business, but now, I think Stephen, your dream has touched me, I am willing to suffocate for your dream, you just said, how much does this movie cost?" ”

"Thirty million? Or more? It depends on the strength of the woman's temptation to you. Stephen sensed Tommy's excitement and said with some amusement next to him.

Tommy nodded: "This woman is indeed very tempting to me. ”

"I don't think she's as pretty as Ottilia, Tommy." Stephen disagrees with Tommy's statement that the woman is very seductive.

Tommy did not deny it: "Of course, there are few women more beautiful than Otileia, and I didn't want to marry her, I just wanted to find a chance to meet her father." ”

"Her father? So, are you going to sleep with her, or with her father? Stephen asked, looking at Tommy with a strange look.

Tommy took a sip of beer into his mouth: "If I'm not mistaken, there is a name recorded in one of the issues of SSD magazine, Mr. Wilson-Bullock, a native of Arlington, Virginia, graduated from West Point, served on a U.S. Army military base in West Germany, married a German opera singer, and had two daughters. ”

"If she's the other person's daughter, what exactly are the features that attract you?" Stephen pursed his lips and said unhappily, "You can't just invest in my dreams once?" Dreams, aren't dreams more glamorous than banknotes? ”

Tommy looked at Stephen: "Wilson Bullock, who previously served as assistant chief of staff at the U.S. Army Materiel Command, became a logistics contractor for the U.S. Army Materiel Command, contracting mail and courier operations for all U.S. overseas Army military bases. ”

"You want to know him, are you going to get involved in this kind of army contractor business?" Stephen sighed in despair.

Tommy smiled at Stephen and said: "Maybe in the future, but for now, if we can get to know each other and reach some cooperation, I think the news network can save a lot of trouble when opening up international news business, for example, if Germany does not agree to let us do exclusive reports, we can ask the American soldiers who help defend Germany to talk to them, what is called American-style mutual help." ”

"Is it okay to talk about dreams? Don't always put business first every time you chat. Stephen gestured his middle finger at him and said in disgust.

Tommy nodded: "OK, OK, back to your fiery dream, as a producer, director, and screenwriter of the biggest bad movie of the year, what is your dream?" ”

"F*ckYou, Tommy." Stephen listened to Tommy's taunt and opened his mouth to scold.

Tommy seriously dissuaded: "I'm sorry, I can't do anything about this dream, Stephen, because I'm not a like you, let's change my dream." ”

(End of chapter)