King of Hollywood

It seems that everything is under control. Adrian knows the specific time when the US military launched the attack, and he used his old-fashioned uncle's name to convince Claude, who has excellent talent and technology, so this is almost an unprofitable job. Compensation business.

But in fact, this is still a gamble, at best it is a gamble with a high winning rate, because Adrian does not know what kind of butterfly effect his rebirth will bring. Maybe accidentally kicked a stone while walking down the streets of New York, and then the stone made a woman who was supposed to go back to Washington, D.C. fall and hit her head, and then the woman's general husband rushed over, and then He was in an angry mood all day because of his wife's affairs, and then the Ministry of National Defense had to replace the general who was supposed to go to Kuwait, and then after several adjustments, etc., it was finally delayed until the 20th. Or the attack was launched on the 15th ahead of time, then... it is conceivable.

From the perspective of an ordinary person, what Claude said is undoubtedly correct, and the 50 million yuan is enough for anyone to start a business. But Adrian is not an ordinary person after all, and he still has huge ambitions, which were fueled by the success of the previous first movie and Claude's excellent completion of the requirements.

Of course, he is not without a mind, and he has been repeatedly revising his plan from the beginning. The crux of the problem is that although there were many opportunities in the early 1990s, they needed a lot of financial support to seize them. If they wanted to shorten the accumulation time to the shortest possible time, they had to turn their attention to the huge profits and high risks of futures. things come up.

Adrian also complained in his heart that if he was reborn 5 years earlier, the current situation would be much better, not to mention the stocks of Microsoft and Cisco that are at the same price as Chinese cabbage, just the 1987 stock market crash and Japan's economic collapse in '89 would have brought him enough money—if Crowder was still willing to help him.

However, these thoughts will be thrown out after turning around in his head at most. Adrian knows that he is very lucky to be reborn to 90 years. He has no time to complain about it. The most important thing is to grasp everything in front of him.

In short, he must gamble on this one, and if he wins, he will get a large amount of working capital - the preliminary estimate can at least double it by 3 to 4 times, that is more than 200 million US dollars! If he lost, it would be nothing more than starting all over again. Anyway, he still has a house in Marbury and Orange County, plus the house he is currently living in, so it should be no problem to keep the film company.

After spending a fairly good Christmas at the godfather's house and getting Claude's promise again, Adrian rested at home for a few days, wrote novels, exercised, occasionally went shopping, and then Went to London just in time for New Years.

Although it was only less than a month since they parted, Kate was still ecstatic about his arrival. A woman in love always wants to be with her lover every day. She originally asked Adrian to live at home, but Adrian declined. Of course, a visit must be done.

In addition to her mother and stepfather, Kate also has a half-sister and two unrelated brothers at home. She and her sister don't like the stepfather very much but have a good relationship with the two brothers.

All these Adrian had heard from Kate, so he made special preparations when he went to her house. After dinner, his demeanor and humor won Kate's family a lot of goodwill.

"He is very nice, without the rudeness of ordinary Americans, with decent manners and humorous conversation, just like an English gentleman." This is Kate's stepfather Robert's evaluation of Adrian in private.

"Not particularly handsome, but very charming, with an indescribable temperament, which makes people feel good and want to get close." This is the sense of Kate's sister Samantha.

Even the mother, who has always been a little worried, has to admit that this young man is very good.

Regarding this, Kate was both happy and depressed. The happy thing was that her family liked her lover, and the depressed thing was... because everyone liked Adrian, so she revealed a lot of her past embarrassment. For example, he doesn't like to wear baggy shorts, has a grumpy temper and taciturnity for a long time, and has the nickname of "Stuffy No. 6" in school and so on. Kate didn't know how many times she rolled her eyes at her family this night, but unfortunately she didn't pay any attention.

"Actually, it's nothing," Adrian comforted her afterwards. "Everyone will do some stupid things that they don't want others to know when they grow up. Don't care so much. These are your own growth tracks. If you still think it's unfair , I can also tell you some stupid things about my childhood."

Admittedly, Adrian is very good at coaxing women, but this time it doesn't seem to be effective, because Kate's reaction is to grab his collar and say viciously: "Unless I say it myself, no matter who tells me Come on, I won't be polite!"

Very imposing, even more presumptuous than when they first met and provoked him, and the pungentness that was put away because of love can be seen at a glance. It's a pity that now and then are two different things, so not long after, she lay down on the floor-to-ceiling windows of the hotel room and moaned mournfully.

Adrian only stayed in London for three days before leaving. Although he was a bit reluctant, the post-production of "Memento" was only a quarter completed. If he wanted to participate in the Berlin Film Festival, he had to speed up. Besides, he still had to find time A trip to New York - since it's New Years, how can I not visit my uncle, and this is where the "source" of the news is.

However, there is also his own reason for making the time so tight. Because the footage of this movie was always in my head during the production, so I unknowingly pressed play and edited smoothly. The peculiarity and highlight of this movie is that the two lines of narration and reverse narration are paralleled, and then exchanged every 5 minutes. Think about it, how troublesome it would be to edit in this way.

By the time Adrian found out that something was wrong, four days had already been wasted, and he smiled wryly for a long time. Originally, it only needed to be cut to the end according to the narrative sequence of one line, and then divided into small sections every 5 minutes and reinterspersed according to the idea, but he inadvertently made it a lot more complicated.

Fortunately, it was not too late to make up for it, and this time with sufficient funds, he only needed to do the editing himself, leaving all the rest to other professionals, so he finally completed a quarter of it before the Christmas and New Year holidays. Although the remedy was made, it was not enough, so Adrian hurried back to the studio of the film company after visiting his uncle.

Probably because of a good rest during the Christmas and New Year holidays, after a few days of editing and getting familiar with it, Adrian suddenly had an outburst. He was already very familiar with this movie, and because he had been tempered by "Two Smoking Barrels", he had already integrated the experience of his previous life very well, so the progress was accelerated a lot.

Adrian finally breathed a sigh of relief, and after stabilizing the progress of editing, he began to free up his hands to do other things, such as novels, scripts, etc. The adaptation of Stephen King's novel should also be put on the agenda.

I hate the word accumulation! He always said this to himself in his heart.

In addition, he also took the time to call out the clip of Sarah and try to edit it. This clip specially shot to compensate the little girl is not useless. Adrian had already thought about it when he decided to compensate in this way. These seemingly scrapped shots can just be used for him to practice editing.

The total length of the shots related to Sarah is about 20 minutes. Adrian can edit them at will, or compress them into 5 minutes, or use 20 minutes to fully show the character of the characters, or try to edit them out. A little story that has absolutely nothing to do with Memento.

You must know that the successful reproduction of "Two Smoking Barrels" is all based on his perverted memory bank, which does not help his own skills and qualities in film production much. While there are still plenty of movies to copy, that doesn't mean he should leave them alone.

But the problem is, because the time for each production is very tight, Adrian relies on his perverted memory bank to forcibly suppress the scrap rate of the film below 30%, and the unused shots are quite scattered, even if he wants to It is not easy to try to use these films to practice hands during the break.

This time this set of shots lasted for 20 minutes, and the connection with "Memento" itself is not very close. When it is used for practice, it is naturally more arbitrary and not affected by the original work. Although the effect is not very big, it is always better. Yu Yu, isn't it?

With the passage of time, "Memory Fragments" has become more and more complete. If there are no accidents and Adrian explodes a few times from time to time, it is not impossible to complete it ahead of schedule. Then. Adrian heard the good news that Congress officially authorized the president to use force to resolve the Gulf crisis if necessary!

Once this news was announced, it immediately caused huge waves. Some people supported it, but many still opposed it. After all, it is less than 20 years since the end of the Vietnam War. God knows if there will be another Vietnam War? Moreover, the place where the conflict occurred is in the Persian Gulf, one of the most important places for bipolar wrestling in the world.

But this is not what Adrian cares about. He already knows the result of this local war, and he doesn't think his butterfly wings can win the war. What Adrian cares about is that with the announcement of this news, as long as the senior executives of those big companies and big funds are not fools, they all know that local wars in the Persian Gulf are inevitable, so it is inevitable to mobilize funds to enter the market, so they want to share For a big cake, it depends on who can get the specific date when the US military will launch an offensive.

Although Congress did announce the authorization on January 13 as he remembered, this can only be regarded as a half reassurance, because it still does not mean that the US military will 100% launch an attack on the 17th.

(Group, there is really nothing...)