American Entertainment 1982

It is not difficult for Jamie Crosby, a veteran industry insider, to investigate this BT TV station that came out of nowhere.

Moreover, this industry is basically in a transparent state. As long as there is a heart, the general situation of any TV station can be known.

It took him more than half an hour to flip through the survey information about BT TV station to the last page. The last page showed that the latest activity of BT TV station was to cooperate with Marvel Animation Production Company, a subsidiary of New World Pictures, to launch A cartoon designed to appeal to a black teenage male audience.

According to the information, this cartoon is adapted from Marvel Comics' "Black Panther: Jungle Action", a comic that sold poorly in the 1970s.

In addition to this cartoon, the information also shows that this TV station has a large number of TV programs that have been produced or are in the late stage, including a "Nigger Boss" similar to the black version of the godfather, and a story about black single mothers taking risks in order to raise their children The entrepreneurial crime comedy "Toxic Moms" is trying to win the away broadcast rights of the football team Los Angeles Rams, as well as a series of reality shows similar in style to FOX but with lower moral standards.

Looking at the list of self-made variety shows on BT TV, Jamie Crosby, who has worked in the TV industry for many years, couldn't help exclaiming "Wow".

"Looking for Dad in America", a family-finding program, helps black single mothers who want to find a stable meal ticket, and find husbands who disappear after she finishes watching.

"Almighty Gun King", a popular science program, teaches you how to live a frugal life. For example, from the perspective of saving money, buy the cheapest gun, and then use various modification methods to make it perform better and make it more powerful. Practical and more effective.

"Mothers of My Children", an emotional reality show, mainly tells about the extravagant life of a rich man and his wives or mistresses.

"The Strongest Pregnancy Makeup King", a reality show that claims to focus on pregnant women. The women participating in the show are all single pregnant women. With the help of the program team, they will cover up their pregnant belly and strike up a conversation with Kaizi People who make friends with each other, cheat each other into bed and register for marriage, and successfully help the cub in the belly find a long-term meal ticket with themselves, can get a bonus of up to 100,000 yuan on the show.

"Big Brother Is Watching You", a show that satisfies voyeurism and allows the audience to act as the gods of those involved.

In "Who Wants to Marry a Rich Man", fifteen gold-digging women compete for a diamond kingpin. They can use any means except force. In short, the purpose is to destroy the image of other women in men's minds, so that I had the last laugh, put on the wedding dress and handed it over to the other party.

In "Wife Swapping Game", two families exchange hostesses. In a completely strange family, the two women will be called mother by a child they have never met before, and be called dear by a man they have never met before. And start a new family life with these strange faces.

In Jamie Crosby's view, these programs are obviously aimed at gathering low-level black audiences. The more exciting programs are placed on premium channels, allowing viewers to pay to watch them.

But in fact, a large number of low-level groups such as blacks and Latinos are still watching free TV networks because they feel that it is unacceptable to pay for subscriptions to watch TV.

Before FOX started broadcasting, it conducted a large-scale survey. According to the data obtained, the number of blacks watching free TV is 44% more than that of non-blacks, and most of them are low-level blacks.

This is why FOX continues to launch programs such as "America's Most Wanted" and "Temptation" that are more vigorous than the free programs of the three major TV stations. Inconvenient to sing against the ruling party, FOX has long been attacking the various racial abuses of the Republican government to attract and show favor to more black people.

"Tommy Hawk, Tommy Hawk..." Jamie looked at the name of Tommy, the behind-the-scenes boss of BT TV, and fell into deep thought.

A young man who graduated from Stanford with a major in computer science and became famous in the software industry, instead of joining the sunrise industry, he came to start a business in this already bloody TV circle.

And there are so many self-produced programs reserved before they start broadcasting?

You know, even large TV networks will not take such a high risk. After they choose to establish a project, they will contact six to eight advertisers to confirm that those advertisers are willing to pay to help them bear the cost, and they don't need to spend it themselves. After receiving the money, it officially entered the production process.

"Who the hell is this guy?"

Moreover, apart from the self-produced programs, this information shows that there is nothing to know about BT TV's TV network. It only says that BT TV has no record of any independent TV station building the backbone of the TV network.

When Jamie saw this, he asked the secretary if he had made a mistake. How could such an important question be missed? If a TV network wants to gain a firm foothold, it must have its own TV station.

For example, FOX bought six TV stations directly and generously as flagship TV stations, and other cooperative TV stations assisted, which allowed viewers in most parts of the United States to watch FOX programs.

If you just use cooperative TV stations to fill your own TV network...

"I think as a young talent, this Tommy Hawke is unlikely to be an idiot, because it is equivalent to a bunch of leeches lying on him and sucking blood madly."

...

Tommy was being asked to see at the door while someone was speculating behind his back whether he was an idiot or not.

It was a young black director who had met once, Spike Lee.

Young is only for other directors. In fact, Spike Lee is five years older than Tommy.

But in front of the banknotes, Spike Lee could only bow his head and silently accept the words of the younger potential investor Tommy who praised him for being young and promising. This kind of praise, coming out of Tommy's mouth, was full of irony.

Tommy Hawke, who is younger than himself, lives in a mansion in the North Side of Beverly Hills, with a net worth of billions, while the self who is five years older than him and praised by him as young and promising, is paying a mere three million for the cost of the new movie. Budget, call for help.

In fact, there is no irony in Tommy's praise of Spike Lee. In his opinion, this young black director is really young and promising. My own film company, but the name is a bit weird, called Forty Acres and a Mule.

The so-called forty acres and one mule is a military order during the American Civil War, saying that William Sherman, the commander-in-chief of the Army of the Northern United States, said that for those black slaves who fled to the North to gain freedom, if they are willing to join the army and fight, then his family Forty acres of land can be obtained, and those who are disabled and lose their labor force on the battlefield can get an additional retired mule for their families to reclaim the land.

Spike Lee used this company name to remind himself that he should never forget what happened to black people on the film road.

With this kind of company name, he can get investment in Hollywood where white people gather. Most of the time, he even has to help various brands shoot advertisements to maintain the livelihood of his company and ensure that the company will not close down.

In fact, his first film, "Surely Winning", which was released in June 1986, was very impressive at the box office, reaching 7 million.

For all kinds of big Hollywood productions, this box office figure is equivalent to a bad movie, but what you need to know is that the total cost of this movie is only 175,000 yuan, and Spike Lee spent several years shooting commercials to save enough budget, and then finished the film in twelve days.

This black heroine sends out the slogan "Tools grow on me, I decide who I want to sleep with". The whole article promotes feminism and feminist movies, relying on political correctness, bold stories and beautiful compositions. , received a lot of praise, and all the film critics who have seen the film feel that Spike Lee will definitely become a well-known film director in the future and gain a place in Hollywood.

In reality, the major Hollywood film companies, after seeing the exaggerated revenue-to-expenditure ratio of "Surely Winning" at the box office, are also in a hurry to seek cooperation with Spike Lee with real money.

The black boy wearing glasses was flattered, and then he seriously introduced the idea of ​​his second film to the producers of the Hollywood film company who came to the door.

After listening, those film companies never contacted him again.

It's not that the movie's budget figure scares them away. In fact, the budget of the new film is not high, only 6 million, which is regarded as a small production in Hollywood, not to mention that Spike-Li Zhuyu is in front, and the film companies are willing to gamble with a small gamble. Once, the other party used a cost of 170,000 to win a box office of 7 million. If the cost was increased to 6 million, wouldn't it be possible for the box office to break through at least 50 million?

What really frightened the film company was the script in Tommy's hand at this time.

The name is "Do What You Want", followed by a line of small words: Inspired by the Howard Beach Racial Discrimination Killing, in memory of my dead black brother, Michael Griffin.

Tommy is no stranger to the Howard Beach incident, a vicious incident that occurred in 1986.

Late at night, four black youths living in Brooklyn said they were going to drive to Queens to settle their salaries, but their car broke down on the way.

The young man who was driving stayed behind, and the three companions headed by the deceased went to the Howard Beach community to find a payphone, wanting to call the towing company to help tow the car.

It’s just that Howard Beach is a white community. Since entering the white territory, the three black people have been humiliated by white alcoholics, prostitutes and other people wandering on the street, telling them to get out of their territory. At the entrance of a pizzeria, I met a group of young white men with baseball bats and car wrenches in their hands, who grinned grimly at them.

The two companions were knocked down to the ground and their life and death were unknown. Michael, the deceased, was bruised and struggled to escape. However, being chased by white youths, he rushed onto a main road and was hit to death on the spot by a speeding car.

After the incident, the blacks said that they just broke down to call the white community, and the whites said that no one went to get paid late at night, and that knives were found on the blacks. These four blacks were simply planning to come to Howard Beach to rob whites.

This is the whole incident. It sounds like a trivial matter of the death of a black man. If those white people are replaced by black people, there will be absolutely no ripples at all.

The point that can cause a sensation is that a group of white people killed a black man.

Subsequently, a black demonstration broke out in New York, and countless black civil rights activists emerged like mushrooms after the rain, and traveled thousands of miles to demonstrate at the scene of the incident, hoping to increase their influence and allow those white murderers to be sentenced to death.

The white people were not to be outdone, and many white people also rushed to New York from all over to support the murderer. They held up slogans such as "Negroes go home", "White supremacy", "Return slavery to America", and confronted the black demonstrators.

There were several conflicts between the two sides.

There was even an exchange of fire between white gangs and black gangs in New York after the incident. Both sides lost a few lives, but the police investigation indicated that it had nothing to do with this case. They tried to downplay the racial conflict and did not allow the incident to continue to ferment around racial discrimination.

The reason Tommy knew about the news in New York was not because he cared about black people, but because Papa Colin mentioned it on the phone.

Dad once mentioned on the phone that his favorite excellent employee Wilson went to New York to participate in the demonstration, and Tommy knew about it.

Mr. Wilson has a relative who runs a local convenience store. That relative frantically called his relatives and friends from all over the world, inviting them to New York to support him, appealing for the innocence of white people, and killing black people was just self-defense.

Mr. Wilson, as a model of Rhode Island's low-level white people, naturally would not refuse such a thing, what world? Is it illegal to kill a nigger? Back then, Lao Tzu killed the black ghosts in Rhode Island almost to extinction, comparable to endangered animals, and he never spent a day in jail.

Although Dad and other workers had no plans to go to New York, they also agreed with Wilson's views, so everyone decided to take the initiative to bear Wilson's travel expenses to express their support for the white people in New York.

This matter has not yet come to an end, but at present, among the white murderers, some have changed their age and were acquitted as minors, some have been diagnosed with mental illness, and even because the witness refused to cooperate, the prosecution was dismissed. Court dismissed.

Families of black victims are still struggling to appeal.

Now both the federal government and the New York government are frantically trying to downplay the impact of this incident, but the black director in front of him wants to make it into a movie. No wonder those film companies have backed down.

The government won't trouble a black director, won't it trouble those film companies?

"Mr. Hawk, I know about your past. You have been promoting women's employment and equal rights in technology. Even now, you are still paying attention to the black group and want to provide them with favorite programs. You even helped Vanessa Williams Miss Si, you are a real friend, I mean it." Spike Lee was speechless for a long time when he saw Tommy finished the script, thinking that the other party had the same concerns as those film companies, so he said in a comforting tone:

"It doesn't matter if you reject me. I can understand your difficulties, because we all know that many people hope that this tragedy and the deceased will be completely forgotten."

He and Tommy had met once before. At the beginning, BT TV station wanted to invite him to help direct the pilot episode of "Nigger Boss". The two parties even sat down to discuss the script and characters. Turned down the opportunity to cooperate.

However, although the cooperation was not successful, Tommy left a deep impression on him. He is a very friendly white young man, and from Vanessa, Spike Lee knew that Tommy gave her another chance.

"Why would I reject you? Spike? I'm just reminiscing about this story." Tommy came back to his senses and looked at the director in front of him:

"Did you know? I used to talk to people about my original intention of joining the TV industry, which is to let the American people see the truth and not let the truth be buried by countless lies."

After speaking, he handed the script back to Spike Lee with both hands.

Spike Lee said a little excitedly: "Sir, the income from my previous movie plus the investment from some small investors is currently only 3.1 million, which is still far from the total movie budget of 6 million..."

"What is a budget?" Tommy took out a cigar from the mahogany humidor on the table and handed it to Spike: "I don't understand movies, and I don't ask for anything in return. I only have two small requests."

"Of course, sir." Spike took the cigar excitedly and stared at Tommy in disbelief.

"First, my TV station wants its TV broadcasting rights. Second, it should be filmed realistically enough to show what happened to the black people in the United States on that day." Tommy said with a serious face:

"We can't let the American people live a lie. They have the right to know the truth."

Sorry, I broke my promise, I originally said that there will be no updates this month...

Something happened at home, last month it was my son, this month it was my daughter, because last month I was busy taking care of my son, neglected to discipline her, her grades plummeted, she was suspended from school, and her mother was so angry that she took Suxiaojiuxin Pills, which made me The blood pressure reached 179, and he was still taking antihypertensive drugs... Really, why is there a middle-aged stage in life...

Will continue to update tomorrow...