1855 United States Tycoon

Of course Edmundo had heard of the sound film, but he had never thought it had anything to do with him before. Because, before this, the movie thing seemed to be a kind of special purpose for hunting curiosity and seeing new things. It seems to have nothing to do with drama art. So, when he heard this word from Buick's mouth, he didn't associate it with own drama at all. I thought Buick was chatting casually.

"I've heard of it, and I've seen a section of a train coming into a station, or a bustling street or something. It's a bit interesting at first glance, but after the freshness is gone, it's nothing." Edmundo said disapprovingly.

"I mean movies with sound." Buick said. "Have you seen the "Singer" that Edison produced recently?"

"I've seen it, but I didn't think so. The people in the movie jumped and saw dazzled. Moreover, that voice...I recognize the guy who sings, but I never thought that his voice can It's so ugly, it's like...like a duck with a bad cold!" Edmundo frowned.

Hearing this comment, Buick couldn’t help but laughed: “Edmundo, I didn’t see it, you would say such a mean thing. However, you have to admit that people who have watched "Singer" are better than they can personally. There are many people who come to the theater to watch and sing. Moreover, Mr. Edison used this to show off technology. He did not seriously deal with it and demand it from the artistic point of view. So... well, you know, the same drama, Let different people play it, and the effect is absolutely different. For example, in "Romeo and Juliet", I have seen a fool who can read the beautiful lines of Shakespeare's poem so that you can spit out everything you ate the night before. Have you ever thought that the combination of drama and sound film might become a brand-new art?"

"New art?" Edmundo said.

"Yes, brand-new art!" Mr. Buick said, "Edmundo, you know, when a new art is first produced, the level is definitely not too high, and no one will ask for it like this, but the people who pioneered the mountain always It’s easier to leave a name in history. Have you noticed the gentleman who came to watch the rehearsal today? Do you know who he is?"

"Mr. who came to watch the rehearsal today?" Edmundo said, "I didn't pay much attention, I just thought it was your friend."

"Oh, it would be great if he was my friend." Mr. Buick laughed. "You know what? That gentleman's name is Greystone MacDonald!"

"So what?" Edmundo still didn't want to understand.

"Damn it! Why don't you understand that his surname is "McDonald"! MacDonald! Did you know?" Mr. Buick said "McDonald" almost letter by letter.

"MacDonald? You mean?" Edmundo's face turned pale all of a sudden. As a person from United States, how could he not know what the last name MacDonald means? Of course, there is more than one McDonald in United States, but there is definitely only one McDonald worthy of Mr. Buick. Of course, compared to more than ten years ago, the reputation of the McDonald family seems to be reduced a lot, at least a lot of low-key. Many companies that originally had the dazzling "McDonald" on their signboards have been sold, and the words "McDonald" have disappeared from the names of these companies, so that MacDonald was once prominent. The surname was gradually forgotten by many people. There are even rumors that Mr. MacDonald no longer regards making business and making money as the top priority, but instead devotes his energy to the things he likes to do wholeheartedly, such as running for peace, for example, Scientific research. Especially the latter, to a certain extent, has been confirmed by Mr. McDonald's own. When Mr. Maxwell passed away a few years ago, Mr. McDonald, his good friend, attended his funeral and gave a speech in front of his grave. In that speech, in addition to highly appraising Mr. Maxwell’s achievements, he also mentioned one thing, that is, Maxwell criticized him for being too distracted and seeking too many goals when he was first in Life. , So as to delay the pursuit of "the real Immortal thing".

As Mr. Maxwell, what he called "real Immortal" can of course only be science. Since then, it seems that Mr. MacDonald has indeed devoted more energy to science. Although the results are not many, this is normal, because Mr. MacDonald is already old. Like a woman, a scientist cannot grow old, and a scientist eats his youth. As far as the shelf life is concerned, the shelf life of scientists is not even as good as that of engineers. Because with the aging process, the performance of the human brain is also declining, and scientific research has high demands on the performance of the brain. Therefore, the age when most scientists are truly able to achieve success is in their prime of life.

Now that all of Mr. Macdonald's energy has been transferred to science and technology, of course, business matters can only be left to others to take care of. It is said that over the years, McDonald’s business has been managed by Mr. McDonald’s Big Brother, his wife and the next generation of their family. Therefore, the Macdonald Consortium naturally lost its momentum of rapid expansion. After all, the family of geniuses are not necessarily geniuses.

However, even so, the McDonald family is already deeply entrenched in its great cause, and compared to people like Edmundo, it is definitely an unimaginable big boss.

"Edmundo, you finally remembered." Mr. Buick said, "Mr. MacDonald is very satisfied with the similarity between your actor and Annie, and also very satisfied with the script you adapted. The University of Cleveland experiment not long ago Shi has just completed the research on a new generation of sound films. He hopes to work with you to make your drama into a movie. Oh, here is Mr. MacDonald’s business card. He asked me to tell you if you feel about it. Interested, you can bring your Annie to Duck Castle on Sunday, Houtian morning."

Mr. Buick took out the card, and his hand pinched the card so tightly that his knuckles were a little white. He looked at the card again, and after a while, he closed his eyes and handed the card to Edmundo.

"Mr. Edmundo, you are about to become prosperous. I really envy you." Mr. Buick said seriously, "They only need to leak a little bit from their fingers to make your grandchildren's generation. Eat caviar every day! Take this opportunity and don’t miss it."

Edmundo certainly knows how rare this opportunity is. Although he already has a bit of fame in drama, he sometimes has the opportunity to meet some so-called "high society" people, but the gentlemen of the high society he has been in contact with before. The gap between families like MacDonald is bigger than the gap between them and those high-class gentlemen. Prior to this, the richest man he knew was only said to have millions of assets, and almost no one knew how much money the McDonald family had. However, according to some tabloids, it may be thousands of times more than the richest man he had known before! It is almost impossible for a person like him to have any intersection with such a rich person under normal circumstances. Of course, his actors, especially actresses, have a greater chance in this regard than themselves, if they have a chance to win Morgan's Viking. Just like Mr. Buick said, if anyone leaks anything between their fingers, it will be enough for them to make a fortune.

"Thank you, Mr. Buick!" Edmundo said, after a while, he said hesitantly, "Mr. Buick, can you lend me some money, you know, neither me nor Vera? A dress that is decent enough..."

...

Edmundo and Vera waited for more than two hours at the porter of Duck Castle before they could see the little MacDonald, who is Greystone. Edmundo has no dissatisfaction with this long wait, because in his opinion, Mr. MacDonald has a lot of business, and he is honored to be able to spare time to meet small people like him. .

"Vera, you have to know that time is different for us and for them." Edmundo was a little sad to wait so much. Vera said, "Even Mr. MacDonald, he The funds that need to be processed in an hour are probably counted in millions. And what about us? Vera, under normal circumstances, we can’t make money in a lifetime, Mr. MacDonald’s processing in an hour or even half an hour So much money! So, with this conversion, our two hours are equivalent to one minute for Mr. MacDonald, no, no, there is no one minute at all, at most it is just one or two seconds. Do you think it’s normal for a guest to come to the host’s house and wait for a second or two after pressing the doorbell?"

Just as Edmundo tried to comfort the impatient Vera (Vera was still a little girl who was only twelve years old, and she didn’t know much about the social situation), a man in a waiter’s costume People came over and said to them:

"Mr. Edmundo, Willa Miss, Mr. Macdonald Jr. invites you both in."

So the two quickly got up, followed the waiter, and walked towards the inside of the duck castle. I don't know how long I have been around, and I came to an office that is not too big and the decoration is quite simple.

"Mr. MacDonald, Mr. Edmundo and Vera Miss have arrived." The waiter said to the man behind the desk.

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