America 1982

Tommy's action was very straightforward. In the name of helping his friend Stephen's Made in Paradise film company, which had no business except for the boss's own entertainment, he personally called Stephen over to deal with Little Turner for him.

Of course, Stephen had heard of Little Turner. When he learned that this kind of film and television giant, which owned three TV networks and held shares in multiple film companies, actually wanted to talk to him about program production, Stephen's face almost turned into chrysanthemums of laughter.

He doesn't like others to regard him as a young financial genius. If someone keeps praising him for his excellent investment vision, he may not receive an invitation to Stephen's next party.

But if someone wants to praise him for his achievements in the film and television industry, and thinks that he has unique insights and views on television art and film art, and has seen him since he was a child - Stephen Penn is the winner of the Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award, then that person is him best friend.

The three goals this guy currently plans for himself to achieve in life are as follows: 1. Win an Oscar, 2. Win an Emmy trophy, and 3. Win a Jack Kirby Award, which is comparable to the movie Oscar in the American comic industry.

Judging from Stephen's current influence in these three industries, except for using the superhero's "money power" to bribe the villain judges, Tommy can't see any possibility of him having any connection with these three awards.

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

If his own "Made in Heaven" wins the favor of Little Turner and signs movies with filmmakers all over the world at a higher price than before, Stephen will get more recognition in Hollywood. At least people will not mention him. Besides, he is just a person with nothing but money. What a rich man who knows nothing, but a film and television practitioner who can truly cooperate with film and television tycoons.

"Mr. Turner, if you want to understand the life of young aristocrats, or if you want to create a program similar to "Born Nobles" for competition, no one knows better than Stephen." Tommy told the two of them. Let me give you an introduction, and immediately run away after leaving this sentence:

"He is a true born nobleman. I possess all the good qualities of a nobleman. I have witnessed with my own eyes that even when he is overseas and dealing with a country's financial affairs, he never forgets to take time to call back to New York every day to care about his grandfather's condition."

Little Turner actually had an argument with Tommy when Tommy called Stephen over. He believed that if he followed Fox's "Born Noble" argument, his son could be considered a natural aristocrat. After all, the Turner family inherited from his father. The Turner family has been on the rise since the beginning of the generation. With its development to the present, the Turner family's advertising, animal husbandry, agriculture, film industry, and television industries together have a valuation of several billion. If you want to film the young heirs of such a wealthy family, For a reality show, you don’t have to call the young man whose surname is Stephen Penn, just call his little Turner children to come over.

However, Tommy dismissed Little Turner with one sentence: "The audience cannot accept 100% truth. They will not believe that the future heir of the Turner family, like most American farmers, stays in the Ohio countryside to herd cattle. They are even more skilled at milking than they are. What they want to see is false reality. This kind of family with a net worth of hundreds of millions must scheming and living in dissipation. You cannot let your heir look no different from the son of a country farmer. You don't have to pay a subscription to watch milking, they can just go to the cowshed and do it if they want."

The Turner family has a special fascination with land. Over the past few decades, the land area that the family has continued to buy has become larger than the land area of ​​many small countries in the world. Tommy feels that the popular American TV series "Yellowstone" in the previous life may have Reference was made to the Turner family.

The Turner family's ranch business is managed by his son from his ex-wife. Strictly speaking, what Tommy said is not wrong. Most of the time, his son looks no different from the sons of ordinary American ranchers. There was more land and livestock and cattlemen to help with the grazing; after all, the Turner family was the largest private ranch and landowner in Ohio.

Apart from polishing the script of his movie to commemorate the CS gang, Stephen doesn't seem to have much work to be busy with recently, and there is no pressure for his movie to be released. Anyway, he is the investor of the entire movie alone. , producer, director, screenwriter, as long as he doesn’t push forward the progress, others will not speak.

After leaving Stephen and Turner to communicate about the happy life of American aristocrats, Tommy went off to continue discussing with Siegel whether learning mountain climbing or skiing would be a better way to pass the time.

It's not that Tommy just randomly found topics to kill time with Siegel, 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 very long time. From the afternoon until the lights came on, many BT Entertainment employees had already left work and left. The two guys were still discussing something excitedly in the conference room. , even dinner was ordered by the executive helper of BT Entertainment and did not go out to eat with Tommy and Siegel.

"I want to go back to the hotel." Seeing that many BT Entertainment employees had left, leaving only a few employees who were still working overtime, Herbert Siegel said with a tired face: "I want to go back to the hotel." Go ask Turner to go back to the hotel with you. If you have any other questions, we can discuss it tomorrow. Thank God, I promised to stay with him for only one day and return to New York at dawn tomorrow. If there is another day, I will be bored to death."

Tommy walked with Siegel to the conference room, but before the two of them could get close, the door to the conference room had been opened from inside, and little Turner walked out with a hearty expression on his face: "Tommy, I insist. Guys like Rick are too hypocritical, but Stephen, a good boy, has the quality of sincerity!"

As he spoke, he couldn't help but pat Stephen on the shoulder who walked out with him: "Let the legal department draw up the contract as soon as possible. I believe that investing in Paradise Production will definitely be worth the money."

Tommy suspected that he had heard wrongly, so he picked out his ears and asked, "Who are you investing in?"

"Stephen's Paradise Production." Little Turner said with a positive smile, "I think this show has great future."

Tommy opened his mouth, what the hell is going on? Crouching dragon and phoenix chick fell in love at first sight and hit it off right away?

Herbert Siegel was also a little confused: "You asked me to persuade Tommy's father-in-law to invest in BT in the name of Warner in exchange for BT being willing to jump in and help you produce some programs. But now, you have temporarily decided to invest in another company." A company? You know, whether you asked Tommy to help or not, Julian was going to make me owe him a favor, right?"

Tommy didn't care whether Little Turner wanted to invest in BT Entertainment. He was just curious about what Stephen had talked about with the other party that could make Little Turner regard him as a talent and be willing to invest in his production company.

He has known Stephen for so long, and this guy has always used money to invest in others. He tried to find someone to invest in the script he wrote himself, but he never succeeded. Little Turner is the first person in Stephen's life who is willing to invest in his artistic dream. people.

Stephen's expression at this moment looked even more triumphant than when he usually dated women. He left little Turner and Siegel in the corridor, without even saying goodbye to the two of them. He happily pulled Tommy back to the conference room and left Tommy Pressing on his seat, he walked to a whiteboard and said to Tommy with shining eyes:

"With the help of Mr. Turner Jr., I came up with a great idea. Mr. Turner said that Fox had produced a reality show called "The Born Noble" and was going to put it on their paid reality show channel. I Helped Mr. Turner design another reality show. If Fox hopes to tell Americans that there are aristocrats in this country and they lead the audience into the lives of those aristocrats, then our program can tell the audience that no, there is no such thing as the United States. The aristocracy, only the great American dream.”

"I'm confused now." Tommy stared at Stephen with a worried tone: "And you look a little unusually excited, which makes me a little worried. The disease in Little Turner's brain may be contagious. He bought MGM When he held the press conference, he said almost the same thing as you, saying that he would revive MGM and restore MGM's status as the king of the silent film era. As a result, under his leadership, MGM not only failed to become the king, but even lost its status as a big six. Either way."

Stephen ignored Tommy's concern and said seriously: ""Born Noble" shows the so-called luxurious life of the children of wealthy families, so my program focuses on emphasizing not to envy those people. Which one is more exciting, being born to inherit a wealthy family or creating a wealthy family with your own hands? , which one is greater?”

"Speak humanly, Stephen," Tommy said with the same calm expression.

"I decided to gather a few rich young people and ask them to temporarily give up their identity and wealth, go to a completely unfamiliar city to start from scratch, and within a certain time limit, they can transform from a penniless homeless man into a wealthy person again. Money man, I want to tell the audience in front of the TV that if we can accomplish this miracle, then they can also do it, and this is the American dream." Stephen opened his arms and proudly said to Tommy.

"What are you going to call this show?"

Stephen took two steps to the side, letting go of the whiteboard that was mostly obscured just now. Tommy followed his gesture and looked over, which read: "The Rising Stars."

"How did you come up with that?"

"I thought of it from the setting of Rick's "Fake Daughter" in which the daughter of an upper-class family was thrown on the street and let her join a gang. However, "Fake Daughter" can only deceive the poor people at the bottom, and there is no authenticity at all. It's nothing more than the exquisite plots designed by Rick that make the audience want to die, but the audience willing to pay must have a higher level of pleasure than the bottom audience. Just like you, after sleeping with too many women, ordinary women are already very It’s hard to make you feel happy.”

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

"So, here it is, the modern American dream, the modern gold rush. Isn't that more interesting than watching a bunch of guys who inherit a bunch of money and just throw gangbang parties in New York?"

"Want to hear the truth?"

"What?"

"Personally, I prefer to watch group parties." Tommy grinned, then stood up: "Just kidding, I am happy for you to have people like Little Turner recognize your abilities, brother, please allow me to represent Your father, who was not present to witness, and your mother, who was not present, Otilia, are proud of your performance."

"F*ckYou! Tommy!"

"Goodbye, come on, future film and television tycoon. By the way, if you are busy with work next, recommend to me the doctor, coach, etc. you used when you went to Switzerland for a ski vacation. I am going to learn to ski."

"But I just said it, I said I was going to call a few rich young people, and one of those people happened to be named Tommy Hawke." Stephen raised his eyebrows:

"Come on, you poor man, let the American audience understand what it means to start from scratch and rise to greatness. Teach these poor Americans what the great fucking American dream is."

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