Chapter 70: Soaring

Tommy's actions are very simple, in the name of helping his friend Stephen, who has no business at Paradise Manufacturing Film Company for many years except for the boss to entertain himself, he personally called Stephen over to deal with little Turner for himself.

Of course, Stephen had heard of Turner Jr.'s name, and when he learned that this kind of film and television predator, who owns three TV networks and holds shares in many film companies, actually wants to talk to him about program production, Stephen's face is about to laugh like a chrysanthemum.

He doesn't like people to think of him as a young financial talent, and if someone keeps complimenting him on his investment acumen and the like, he probably won't get an invitation to Stephen's next party.

But if a person wants to praise him for his achievements in the film and television industry, think that he has unique insights and views on television art and film art, and see him as a child Stephen Lane is the winner of the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement, then the other party is his best friend.

The three major goals in life that this thing is currently planning for himself are as follows: one: to win one Oscar, two: to win one Emmy Award, and three: to win one Jack Kirby Award, which is comparable to the Oscars of movies in the American comic industry.

At present, judging from Stephen's influence in these three industries, except for using the superhero's trick "money ability" to buy villain judges, Tommy does not see any possibility that he has anything to do with these three awards.

The moment he saw little Turner appear, Stephen felt that Tommy was his real friend, and with so many people around him, no one really wanted to figure out what he wanted, only Tommy understood himself.

If he wins the blue eyes of Turner Jr. and signs those filmmakers to make movies at a premium all over the world before himself, Stephen will be more recognized in Hollywood, at least people won't mention him, and besides, he's just a rich boy who doesn't know anything but money, but a film and television practitioner who can really cooperate with film and television tycoons.

"Mr. Turner, if you want to understand the life of a young aristocrat, or if you want to make a show similar to 'Born Aristocrat' and used to compete, no one knows it better than Stephen." Tommy introduced the two of them, and immediately flashed when he dropped this sentence:

"He was a true natural nobleman, and I had all the good qualities of an aristocracy, and I have seen him take time out of his day to call back to New York to care about his grandfather's illness, even when he was abroad, when dealing with the financial affairs of a country."

Little Turner actually had an argument with Tommy when Tommy called Stephen over, he thinks that if according to Fox's "Natural Noble" argument, his son can be regarded as a natural nobleman, after all, the Turner family has risen since his father's generation, and now it has developed to the present, the Turner family has added the advertising industry, animal husbandry, agriculture, film industry, and television industry to the combined valuation of billions, if you want to shoot this kind of reality show of the young heirs of a wealthy family, You don't have to call Stephen Lane, a young man with a foreign surname, just call a few of his little Turner kids over.

However, Tommy scolded little Turner back in one sentence: "The audience can't accept 100% truth, they won't believe it, the future heir of the Turner family, like most American farmers, stays in the Ohio countryside to herd cattle, and even milks cows more skillfully than them, what they want to see is false truth, this kind of billionaire family must be intrigued, must be drunk, can't make your heir look no different from the son of a country farmer, milking this kind of thing does not require the audience to pay to subscribe to watch, If they want to, they can just go to the cowshed and get started. ”

The Turner family has a special obsession with land, and the area of land that the family has continued to buy over the past few decades has been larger than the land area of many small countries in the world.

The Turner family's ranch business is run by his son born to his ex-wife, and strictly speaking, Tommy is not wrong, his son most of the time looks like the son of an average American rancher, except that there are more land and livestock and cattle herders who help with the herding, after all, the Turner family is the largest private ranch and private landholder in Ohio.

Stephen doesn't seem to have much to do lately except for polishing the script of his film to commemorate the CS Gang, and there is no pressure to release his movie, anyway, he is the investor, producer, director, and screenwriter of the whole film alone, as long as he doesn't rush the progress himself, others won't speak.

After leaving Stephen and Turner to talk about the happy life of the American aristocracy, Tommy went off to continue the discussion with Siegel about whether learning to climb or skiing would be better to pass the time.

It's not that Tommy casually finds topics with Siegel to pass the time, but according to his plan, the next three or four months will not be so busy, anyway, everything that can be arranged has been arranged, and the rest is to wait slowly, waiting for the starting gun to sound.

To Tommy's surprise, Little Turner actually chatted with Stephen for a long time, from the afternoon until the early days of the lights, many BT Entertainment employees had already left work, and the two guys were still discussing something in the conference room with excited expressions, and even the dinner was ordered by BT Entertainment's administrative help, and they didn't go out to eat with Tommy and Siegel.

"I want to go back to the hotel." Herbert Siegel saw that many of the employees of BT Entertainment had left, and only a few employees who were still working overtime remained, and said with a tired face: "I'm going to call Turner back to the hotel together, if there are any other problems, I'll discuss it tomorrow, thank God, I promised to only accompany him for one day, and I'll go back to New York tomorrow morning, if I have one more day, I'm afraid I'll be bored to death." ”

Tommy accompanied Siegel to the conference room, but before the two of them could get closer, the door to the conference room had been opened from the inside, and little Turner walked out with a hearty expression on his face: "Tommy, I insist, Rick's kind of guy is too hypocritical, and Stephen, a good young man, has the trait of sincerity!" ”

As he spoke, he couldn't help but pat Stephen's shoulder who walked out with him: "Let the legal counsel draw up the contract as soon as possible, I believe that investing in Paradise Productions is definitely worth it." ”

Tommy suspected that he had misheard, and deliberately plucked out his ears and asked, "Who to invest in?" ”

"Stephen's Paradise Productions." Turner Jr. smiled affirmatively: "I think this show has a lot of promise." ”

Tommy opened his mouth, what the is going on? Wolong and phoenix chicks fell in love at first sight and hit it off?

Herbert Siegel was also a little confused: "You asked me to convince Tommy's father-in-law to invest in BT in the name of Warner, in exchange for BT's willingness to cut the queue to help you produce some shows, but now, you have decided to invest in another company on the other hand?" You know, whether you ask Tommy to help or not, Julian will make me owe him a favor, right? ”

Tommy didn't care if Turner Jr. was going to invest in BT Entertainment, he was just curious about what Stephen was talking to about that would make Turner Jr. treat him as a talent and be willing to invest in his production company.

He has known Stephen for so long, it has always been this guy who takes money out to invest in others, he writes the script by himself and wants to find someone to invest, but it has never succeeded, and little Turner is the first person in Stephen's life who is willing to invest in his artistic dreams.

Stephen's expression at this moment looked more smug than when he usually dated women, he left little Turner and Siegel in the hallway, and did not even say goodbye to the two, happily pulled Tommy back to the conference room, pressed Tommy to his seat, and walked to a whiteboard, and said to Tommy with bright eyes:

"I came up with a really great idea with the help of Mr. Turner Jr., Mr. Turner said that Fox had made a reality show called 'Born Aristocrats' and was going to put it on their paid reality TV channel, and I helped Mr. Turner design another kind of reality show, and if Fox wanted to tell Americans that there were aristocrats in this country, and that they would take the audience into the lives of those aristocrats, then our show would tell the audience, no, there are no fucking aristocrats in America, only the great American dream."

"I'm confused right now." Tommy stared at Stephen with some worry in his tone: "And you look a little excited, which makes me a little worried, the disease in Turner's brain may be contagious, he said something similar to you when he bought MGM at the press conference, saying that he wanted to revive MGM and restore MGM's status as the king of the silent film era, but under his leadership, MGM not only did not become the king, but even the status of the Big Six was not guaranteed." ”

Stephen ignored Tommy's concern and said seriously: ""Natural Aristocracy" shows the so-called extravagant life of the children of those wealthy families, so my show focuses on emphasizing not to envy those people, who are born to inherit the wealthy family or create the wealthy family with their own hands, which is more exciting and which is greater?" ”

"Speak human, Stephen." Tommy said with a calm expression.

"I decided to gather a few rich young people, let everyone temporarily give up their identity and wealth, go to a completely unfamiliar city to start from scratch, and within a certain time limit, from a penniless homeless man to a rich man again, I want to tell the audience in front of the TV that if we can accomplish this miracle, then they must be able too, this is the American dream." Stephen opened his arms and said to Tommy proudly.

"What's the name of this show?"

Stephen took two steps to the side, letting go of the whiteboard that had been covered by most of the back, and Tommy followed his gesture to look at it, which read: "Flying Yellow Tengda".

"How did you come up with that?"

"I thought of it from the setting of "The Fake Daughter" produced by Rick who threw the daughter of the upper class family on the street and let her mix in the gang, but "The Fake Daughter" can only deceive those poor people at the bottom, without any authenticity at all, it is nothing more than the exquisite plot designed by Rick to let the audience see that the audience wants to die, but the audience who is willing to pay must have a higher difficulty of pleasure than the bottom audience, just like you, after sleeping with too many women, it is difficult for ordinary women to make you feel happy."

"Just say yourself, I'm still a American virgin."

"So, that's it, the modern American dream, the modern gold rush, isn't it more fun than watching a bunch of guys who inherit a bunch of money and only know how to throw all kinds of gang* parties in New York?"

"Want to hear the truth?"

"What?"

"Personally, I prefer to watch a group party." Tommy grinned, then got up, "Just kidding, I'm glad for you to have someone like Little Turner recognize your abilities, brother, and allow me to be proud of your performance on behalf of your father, mother, Otilia, who wasn't there." ”

“F*ckYou! Tommy! ”

"Goodbye, come on, future film and television tycoon, by the way, if you are busy with work in the future, recommend to me the doctor and coach you used to ski in Switzerland before, and I am going to learn to ski."

"But as I said earlier, I said I'm going to gather a few rich young men, and one of those people happens to be named Tommy Hawk." Stephen raised an eyebrow:

"Come on, poor ghost, let the American audience understand the meaning of self-made prosperity, and teach these poor Americans what the great American dream is."

The second more ~

(End of chapter)