Chapter 75 City of Angels The so-called Hollywood is the most prosperous movie city in the is also a general term for the entire . film and entertainment industry. It is Los Angeles, located in California, the largest state in the United States. It is the state with the highest economy in the United States. If taken alone, it is also among the top ten countries in the world, and can even be among the top five. Los Angeles can also be called the world's film city or film kingdom today. The most complete film industry system and the most complete publicity and distribution channels spread to every corner of the world. If he wants, he can make his uncle, who can barely afford a meal, watch your movie. This is also a powerful promotion that people often overlook, and only remember its powerful industrial system and film special effects technology. Chen An's passport had been processed long in advance. Without notifying anyone else, he boarded the plane to this strange country with only Chen Wei seeing him off. We took a plane across the vast Pacific Ocean and flew nearly 10,000 kilometers to land in the "City of Angels". The center of world cinema, I want to make my own way here.
After getting off the plane, Chen An dragged his air-transported luggage and walked out of the hall with knowledge in his hands. Instead of smelling the breath of freedom, I was afraid of the smell of gunpowder, which was directed directly at myself. After walking out of the exit, Chen An searched for a while and saw Jerry, whom he hadn't seen for several years, waiting for him with a sign. He walked straight to the place. "Hey Jerry, long time no see." He opened his mouth in English with a hint of Chinese accent. Jerry looked at the Asian man in front of him who greeted him and was stunned for a moment. Then he suddenly hugged Chen An happily: "Long time no see, Chen. I have been waiting for you for a long time. You should have come earlier to show your talent." By the way, he also complained that Chen An took several years to come to find him. Then he opened the car door for Chen An and stuffed the luggage in his hand into the car: "Come on, get in the car, Chen, we'll talk in the car." He took Chen An into the passenger seat. This is a Ford Mustang, a classic American muscle car with perfect body lines and well-maintained. You can tell at a glance that the owner loves it very much. Chen An observed for a while and then sat directly in the passenger seat. "Chen, your new movie is very successful this time. My expectations of you are higher. Two million dollars turned into eighty-five million. You are simply robbing, don't you think?" Jerry returned to the car, started the car and drove away, and said to Chen An in an exaggerated tone. Chen An sat in the passenger seat, looking at the buildings in a foreign country: "I don't think so. You should be the ones robbing money. You can rob all over the world." "You are the biggest market, and Titanic is making a lot of money all over the world." Jerry, who was driving, disagreed: "No, there is only one movie like this, and it's too expensive. No one wants to make such an expensive movie. Your movie is more popular." "You've registered so many scripts, have you decided what to shoot?" "Don't you like low-budget movies? How about shooting this kind?" Chen An didn't say much, nor did he think about going for a big budget right away. Hearing Chen An's idea, Jerry turned around happily and said, "Oh Chen, you are really great. Can you create miracles like your new movie?" "You have to ask God about this. I won't get the answer even if you ask me." It is impossible to come to a direct conclusion about these things. Chen An looked at the hustle and bustle of the street. The prosperity of Los Angeles was basically the same as what he saw in movies later generations. There are all kinds of blonde foreign girls and uncles walking on the street.
Of course, there was also a lot of garbage, with Coke boxes from various fast food restaurants thrown on the ground at random. But it is truly prosperous, with countless skyscrapers standing side by side, and Spider-Man's spider silk can only work in such a city. If I get home, I can only run. But Chen An was not discouraged. He came here just for this and had been to the country before, so he was not afraid of difficulties. The car slowed down gradually and finally stopped in front of a tall hotel. "Chen, this is the hotel I booked for you. You can rest here tonight. I will take you to the headquarters tomorrow." As he said this, he opened the car door and got out, then went to the back to take down Chen An's luggage. Chen An also opened the car door and got out. Just as he was about to take the luggage, a doorman came over and took Chen An's luggage. Someone else took Jerry's keys and went to park the car. Jerry smiled, took out a fifty-dollar tip from his pocket, handed it to the doorman, and said to Chen An: "This is Hollywood and the United States. As long as you have Manny, you have everything. I believe you will adapt quickly." After saying that, he pulled Chen An towards the hotel lobby, and the doorman dragging the luggage followed them slowly. Jerry chatted with the front desk for a few words and got the key to the reserved room, then took Chen An to the elevator. As the elevator went up step by step, it finally stopped on the fifteenth floor. I walked out of the elevator door and found the room I was going to. You can overlook the bustling city next to the huge floor-to-ceiling windows in the room. The room is very large, almost twice the size of an average room in a domestic hotel, with a huge single bed and a sofa. The floor was covered with carpets that covered the entire room, and there were some foreign liquors that Chen An didn't recognize. The bathroom was probably about 20 square meters, with a shower, bathtub and toilet. There is a round table in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, on which is also a bottle of foreign wine, and two armchairs facing the scenery outside the floor-to-ceiling window. The room is a bit luxurious, I guess it cost a lot of money. "Chen, you can rest here today. You can also look around, but it's best not to go out at night." Jerry brought Chen An into the room and said after asking the doorman to put the luggage away. "Of course, you can contact me if you feel lonely." Jerry said this with a smile on his face. Chen An looked at Jerry in disbelief: "Contact you?" "Hey, don't look at me like that. I'm normal. I'm saying I'm helping you make the connection." Jerry explained quickly. Chen An, who was just joking, smiled and shook his head: "No, I like others to contact me." "Then let's hope that we are very successful this time. Then there will surely be many attractive babes knocking on your door." "In that case, I wish us great success this time, because I want to see how tempting it is." “I hope you can experience it.” Jerry left after a short time. He was an employee of Warner, responsible for purchasing films at major film festivals around the world, and was also a producer. Traveling around the world and making a lot of money is also tiring work. Compared to becoming a good producer, this little bit of money is nothing.
In this producer-centric country, producers are at the top of the industry, just behind investors. The director here is just a part of the crew, no different from an actor. Sometimes I am not even as good as actors. When big-name actors encounter problems, I can only coax them. The director is just a tool. Unless you are an independent film director or a truly big international director, you can get the corresponding respect. There are countless actors here, and the post-production crew and behind-the-scenes staff have formed a system with special assessment and learning directions. The director's status is far different from other places. The saying that film is the art of the director only works in other places, but it has no effect here. The three best films in Europe go to the directors, while the best film at the Oscars goes to the producer. The highest award for a director is only Best Director, while the three major awards in Europe are Best Film. Europe is the birthplace of film and the place that pursues art the most. Film, the art of directing, also comes from here. In Hollywood, movies are like commodities, which are packaged layer by layer before being put on the market. Being a director is just one level of the puzzle; most directors don’t even have the right to edit. This is also the reason why many directors don't want to be named in a movie, and Hollywood has even made up a director's name for use by those directors who don't want to be named. "It seems that in addition to being a screenwriter, I also have to be a producer." Chen An, who was standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, muttered to himself as he watched the vehicles passing by. There is still
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