Marie Beckford invites Lin Zixuan to visit her home in Beverly Hills in western Los Angeles.

In later generations, Beverly Hills was the place with the title of the most noble residential area in the world, and it was the famous city in Los Angeles.

It has the world's most elegant commercial streets and shopping areas, and also gathers many luxury houses of Hollywood movie stars. It is a place where the city's most wealthy people live.

But, now it has just developed.

In 1900, Los Angeles had a population of only 100,000, but ten years later, it had 10 film companies.

By 1921, nearly 80% of the film industry in the United States was concentrated here.

Initially, Beverly Hills did not attract many buyers. In 1914, Beverly Hills merged into the city, and only five years later were movie stars coming here to live.

The first movie stars to come here were Marie Beckford and Douglas Van Punk, who lived here after they got married.

A few years later, many Hollywood stars gathered here.

A hundred years later, this place has become a holy place for the world's film industry, attracting countless tourists from all over the world every year to explore the streets and alleys curiously.

A luxury house here will be sold for tens of millions of dollars.

If Lin Zixuan was not a Chinese and could not own real estate in the United States, he would definitely purchase a large amount of land here and wait for the appreciation in many years.

Maybe I can remind lawyer Peterson that this is a good way to get rich and make sure to make money without losing money.

At this time, Beverly Hills was not large in size, and there were no luxury houses everywhere. What was more attractive was its pastoral scenery. Although it was close to Hollywood studios, the land prices should not have been raised yet.

Lin Zixuan walked into the home invited by Marie Beckford with this feeling.

He and Marie Beckford talked about some scenes in "Roman Holiday". Due to the conservative atmosphere in China and the limitations of filming funds, many classic plots in "Roman Holiday" were not included in "Shanghai Holiday".

There are not so many concerns in the United States, and with Marie Beckford's reputation, there will be no shortage of investment, it only requires a good story.

Lin Zixuan lived in New York, and combined with the iconic buildings in New York, he can create many interesting stories.

Marie Beckford was very interested in the plot Lin Zixuan mentioned, and even had the idea of ​​inviting Lin Zixuan to write the script, but later thought about it and gave up.

She is a smart woman and doesn't want people to feel close to Chinese people. In that case, there are political risks.

However, she did not refuse Lin Zixuan's request to meet with the head of a major Hollywood film company. She would hold a party at home and invite Hollywood celebrities to come.

This kind of gathering is very common in Hollywood and is a place for communication and gathering.

Marie Beckford’s meaning is very obvious. She will create opportunities for Lin Zixuan. As for whether Lin Zixuan can grasp it, it’s not her business.

With Marie Beckford's reputation as the top in Hollywood and her husband is also a big Hollywood star, the appeal of the two can be imagined.

This party gathered almost half of Hollywood celebrities.

The heads of major film companies, big directors, first-class stars, and young actors looking for opportunities, etc.

Luxurious cocktail party, cheerful music, men dressed in a well-decorated manner, women were charming and charming, they either sang and danced lightly, talked in a low voice, laughed happily, and raised their glasses to drink.

This is Hollywood in the midst of glitz.

In this era, Hollywood's largest film companies are Paramount, Fox and Universal.

MGM and Thunderbolt have not been established yet, and the four Warner brothers are still running their small theaters. The CBC film marketing company, the predecessor of Columbia Film Company, is starting, and Lianmei Film Company is still very weak.

A few years later, these are the eight major film companies in Hollywood's golden age.

These eight companies control more than 95% of Hollywood's share of films and are veritable film giants.

Lin Zixuan stood in the crowd and looked at these Hollywood elites, feeling quite emotional and helpless.

He, Zheng Zhengqiu and Zhou Jianyun were not in a good situation at the cocktail party. You can come forward to introduce yourself. The other party did not ignore it, but a kind of indifferent politeness.

These people may be curious about your origin, but they will not communicate with you in depth, just talk about it in general.

During this bustling cocktail party, Lin Zixuan felt as lonely as in the deep mountains and wilderness.

This is the racial and cultural gap.

"Remember the faces of these people and remember their indifference. One day, we can shoot a movie that shocks them." Lin Zixuan said to Zheng Zhengqiu in Chinese.

Yes, this is the reality of society.

If you want others to value you, you need to come up with something worthy of their attention.

Just like when he was about to publish "The Old Man and the Sea", no publisher was willing to pay attention to him when he traveled throughout New York. Now, in "Gone with the Wind", he can get high royalties and royalties.

As it was sung in that song.

"A cold person, thank you for your despising me for not bowing my head and making me live a more exciting life."

Lin Zixuan has no resentment towards these Hollywood elites, but he is too impatient to go. He doesn't want to break into Chinese movies into the American market by just one movie "Shanghai Holiday".

Instead, it requires many high-quality and Chinese-style movies, which is a long-term process.

What he wants to do now is not to establish good relations with Hollywood film companies, but to work hard to improve the quality of Chinese films.

Audio movies are his first choice to surpass Hollywood.

At the cocktail party, Lin Zixuan asked some people about the news about audio movies. Although there were a lot of ridicule, he also obtained some news. It is said that some technology companies have recommended audio movies to major film companies.

That technology company is called Western Electric.

Western Electric Company belongs to AT&T and owns the patent for audio film machines.

They studied for four years and mastered a record accompaniment technology called "Vitafeng".

That is, the wax disc makes sound, record the sound on a separate record, and then play it in a counterpoint with the film.

However, since the record and the film are separated, the sound and picture are often out of sync when screening in the theater. Sometimes the picture has been played long ago, and the sound on the record continues.

Western Electric has made improvements to this, and Vitawind technology can solve this problem well.

They have proposed to major American film companies to use its recording method, but these companies are reluctant to accept such audio films that endanger Hollywood hegemony.

The promotion of audio movies is difficult.

Lin Zixuan was happy with this situation, so he decided to go to Western Electric to buy this technology, and timely help was more popular than adding icing on the cake.

After the cocktail party, Lin Zixuan and the other two said goodbye and left.

At this time, a Hollywood star asked Marie Beckford who were invited by the three Oriental people.
Chapter completed!