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Chapter 432 Arms Plan Chapter 433 The Film Academy(2/2)

Above the pier, the sea breeze whistled, and the fishy smell hit people's faces and felt a little painful. Groups of sea birds hovered around the huge ship, making green screams.

Zhang Shichuan, Zheng Zhengqiu and the three brothers of Wan were all crying like tears.

In the past month, we have gone from stranger to familiarity to the last one. We have become a family. Although Zhang Shichuan and others have long wanted to set off and return home, when we really parted, each of them has become reluctant to leave.

The people who saw off Stengborg and others were also blushing their eyes. During this period, they often chatted and talked together. They introduced their understanding of movies and learned from each other's experiences. They all regarded each other as their good friends. In such occasions, they were inevitably sad.

"Mr. Corleon, today I'm leaving. I don't know when I will meet!" Zhang Shichuan walked up to me and held my hand tightly. His round face was covered with tears.

I was also deeply saddened by their crying. I grabbed Zhang Shikawa's hand and sighed: "Brother Ishikawa, we always meet. This time we return to China, we will definitely open up a new situation in Chinese films. I hope your celebrity film company can become the clarion call for China's national salvation. This is my hope for you!"

Zhang Shichuan nodded vigorously and said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, Corleon, we will always remember your teachings in our hearts and strive for China's independence and prosperity!"

I said with satisfaction: "Brother Ishikawa said this, I feel relieved. After returning to China, we must seize the time to develop the film company in the past few years. This time you won the Best Foreign Film Award, which will definitely cause a sensation in China. The future work will be relatively easier. At least those who exploit you will reconsider your policies. You must seize the time in the past few years, use all the experiences you learned in Hollywood, make more good movies, and increase the strength and reputation of film companies through excellent works one by one, and strive to become the king of Chinese film companies. In addition, after returning to China, you must immediately send people to Hong Kong to organize the establishment of a branch. You must keep this matter in mind and do it as soon as possible."

I paused for a moment, looked at Zhang Shichuan's face becoming heavy, and then said solemnly: "Brother Ishikawa, the war between China and Japan will definitely break out, and it will become extremely tragic. According to my estimate, this war broke out almost around 1931.) You must make good use of this period to develop celebrity film companies. Once the war breaks out, you must quickly transfer to Hong Kong. Of course, Hong Kong will become an input point for our DreamWorks in the future. I hope we can cooperate happily."

What I said made Zhang Shichuan stunned. He didn't understand why I was so sure that Japan and China would definitely have a war, and even time was said.

Zhang Shichuan is a cautious person. When he saw that I had no intention of telling him why, he stopped asking. He had been dating me for so long, and he understood my temper and knew something he was not sure about. I wouldn't tell him, so he held my hand and was silent.

"Mr. Corleon, I remember everything you say. I will definitely order things to do after returning home."

"Woo!" The whistle of the ship sounded, and the seabirds around him were frightened and fled.

"Okay, get on the boat, it's time." I waved to Zhang Shichuan and others.

Zhang Shichuan and others carried the salutes and hugged the DreamWorks and said goodbye to the people of DreamWorks. They walked along the ladder and turned around one step.

"Mr. Zhang, take care of yourself, come again if you have the chance!"

"Mr. Zheng, goodbye!"

"Mr. Gu Chan, produce more cartoons!"

Stiller, Disney and others raised their hands one after another and waved to Zhang Shichuan and others standing on the deck.

They were also waving the hats in their hands desperately at the bow of the boat. I also saw Zheng Zhengqiu waved his hand, taking off his glasses and lowering his head to wipe away the tears from his face.

"Woo!" The whistle broke heartbroken! The ship slowly sailed away from the dock, leaving our sight little by little, and finally turned into a small dot and disappeared into the red clouds.

My eyes finally became wet. Although I knew that Zhang Shichuan couldn't see me, I still waved my hands hard at the black dot on the sea.

"I have a close friend in the world, and I hope Chinese movies can become stronger." I murmured.

Zhang Shichuan and the others left, taking away my deep hope for Chinese movies. On the way back, I didn't say a word and felt very depressed.

With them here, I always feel very close to China. Once they leave, I will return to the white-skinned and blue-eyed Hollywood to continue my work.

I sent Zhang Shichuan away, and in the next few days, I sent Northrop and Natalia away.

Natalia brought a large amount of arms to Europe to deliver orders signed with various countries. It was the most important arms dumping place for Northrop's arms company. Natalia is the head of the European region.

As for Northrop, he took a batch of cargo ships to Asia. Most of the things on the ship were weapons. These weapons were divided into two parts, and some were the most advanced weapons produced by Northrop's arms company. They were sold to China, and the other weapons were guns and ammunition that looked OK but were of no quality at all. They were sold to Japan, and several of the ships in the fleet were loaded with drugs. They would bear fruit among the rods on Japan and the peninsula.

The amount of things Northrop brought this time is not very large, mainly to first understand the situation of some Asian countries and explore the future trade.

It also set off at the same time as Northrop and Natalia, and also had a fleet dedicated to the Cannes land, with the materials and personnel transported to the Cannes branch of DreamWorks and related places.

In the new year, DreamWorks began in a busy situation. While film companies like MGM and Paramount were still immersed in the joy of winning awards, DreamWorks people had already placed the eight golden trophys in the honor room, and everyone was working hard to start from scratch.

On January 15, the Los Angeles Times reported that DreamWorks will establish the Corleon Film Academy in Hollywood, which immediately caused a warm response in society, attracted controversy and admiration from many media, and immediately became the focus of society.

The Los Angeles Times pointed out: "For a long time, Hollywood has not had any institution to cultivate specialized film talents. It was not until ten years ago that there were primary schools like Vitagraf Film School. Not only were they not large in scale and teaching quality was not high, but the students they trained were also mostly submerged in Hollywood. In recent years, everyone has seen the development trend of Hollywood. Under this situation, the demand for film professionals is also huge. Hollywood now needs the participation of filmmakers more than any other period!"

"Mr. Corleon's idea of ​​establishing a formal, huge, comprehensive cinema is very encouraging! The completion of this academy will surely become a major event in Hollywood's history, and will also greatly promote the development of Hollywood and provide Hollywood with a continuous stream of outstanding film talents!"

"We can foresee how charming the place will become after the college is completed! The passionate young people who love movies from all directions gather here. They have the same dream in their hearts, about movies and Hollywood dreams, where they receive the world's most advanced film education, and after graduation, they will become the fresh blood of Hollywood and gather under the major film companies. Future movies will be born in their hands. The future Hollywood is moving towards glory among these younger generations, completely different from the older generation of film workers. And DreamWorks Film Company, Andre Corleon, will become the founder of this glory!"

"We can see that this film academy will become the cradle of all Hollywood filmmakers in the future, and this film academy will also become the temple in the minds of all filmmakers, and Mr. Andre Corleon, who created it, will undoubtedly become the teacher and father of all filmmakers in the future!"

The Los Angeles Times reported on DreamWorks' construction of the Film Academy was full of affection and hope, and they were extremely supportive of this decision.

Not only them, almost all media and people in Los Angeles are extremely welcomed by this film school. They even affectionately call this film school, which only exists on the drawings, "our own film school"!

Then, the five major Hollywood associations issued statements saying that they would unconditionally provide the help of faculty to the film school. Many experienced directors, photographers, actors, makeup artists, etc. are very interested in teaching in the film school. Their statements have completely disappeared from my original concerns about faculty.

Then, the Hollywood City Government and the Los Angeles City Government also issued a joint statement claiming that they welcomed the decision to build a film school in DreamWorks. This attitude of the government has been subject to any public opinion.

In addition, many people spontaneously organized themselves, saying that once the film school starts construction, they are willing to provide assistance to the best of their ability. Some people are even willing to participate in labor free of charge, and almost all Harvey people have joined the voluntary labor force.

I never expected this overwhelming support. I didn't expect that the decision of a film school would make so many people ecstatic.

Not many companies have reacted coldly to DreamWorks' move to establish a film academy, except for the enthusiastic support of film companies that are close to DreamWorks.

MGM, Paramount, Warner Bros., Fox Films, etc. did not respond. Marskolov and others didn't even call a phone call.

This reflection of them was completely expected by me.

The establishment of a film academy in DreamWorks is a great thing for the public and filmmakers, but for the bosses of the film company, it becomes a bad news.

You can figure it out with your toes that the name of this film academy is Corleon Film Academy, which is built by DreamWorks and has low eyelids in DreamWorks. That means that students who graduate from this academy are all specific DreamWorks people without exception. This identity, even if they switch to other film companies in the future, they will have a deep dreamWorks complex in their hearts. These new generations of filmmakers will become pillars of Hollywood's industries in 20 years. At that time, no film company can surpass DreamWorks in its reputation!

In addition, DreamWorks will give priority to ownership of outstanding talents in the film academy. What is the most precious thing in Hollywood? It is not capital or equipment, but talent. DreamWorks will master the future outstanding film talents, which is undoubtedly something that all film companies bosses do not want to see.

In the eyes of the bosses of these film companies, the construction of a film school is a matter of gaining fame and fortune, and DreamWorks has taken a big loss this time.

Although many film company owners also wanted to establish a film academy, they then found that this idea had become impossible, because the people, the government and Hollywood filmmakers were attracted by the Corleon Film Academy, and other film academies would not be interested in it at all.

Furthermore, these movie bosses also found that it would be extremely difficult to establish a cinema, because building a cinema not only requires a considerable amount of funds to invest, but also requires establishing a complete set of college mechanisms, and even the specific course setting and professional division have to be concerned. In addition, the faculty is even more difficult to handle. After comparing, the bosses of these film companies came to a conclusion: Although establishing a cinema is a very beneficial thing in the future, it is definitely a difficult and thankless thing.

Especially for people like Adolf Chuck who puts money first in everything, he is not willing to participate in such a business that has invested a lot of manpower and material resources but cannot recover much profit. Although he knows that it can bring a lot of benefits, he still feels that having this money and energy without investing in shooting a few movies will make much more money than building a film academy.

On January 18, I personally found Pang Mao and asked him about the ground-breaking matters.

"Andre, you are here just in time. I'm about to look for you." When I arrived at Pang Mao's office, Pang Mao was about to come out when he walked in.

"What, why do you want me?" I sat on the sofa opposite his desk and smiled.

Pang Mao personally poured me a cup of coffee, put it in front of me, and then took out a document from the drawer and handed it to me.

I opened it and it turned out to be a landing document. It said that the wasteland next to Harvey Street would be allocated to DreamWorks, but it was not for free.

"What does this mean? Why do we have to pay $100?" Looking at the long list of numbers on the document, I immediately frowned.

Pang Mao squeezed his eyes and smiled, "Andre, I have already said a lot of good things to you. This is a decision made by the city council, and I have no choice."

I frowned and said, "What a nonsense decision. We are doing good things for Hollywood and the government. We are doing such a thankless job that no one else wants to do. We have done DreamWorks. Not only do you not support us, but you even speak to us lions. What is the reason? Besides, even if you buy it, you don't need so much money?! When DreamWorks was just established, I spent tens of thousands of dollars to buy that small film company. Although the land is much larger than the small company I bought, even if it is calculated according to the proportion, it can't cost 100 yuan!? Isn't this blackmail? Your government just issued a statement saying that we welcomed us to build DreamWorks. Is that how we welcome it?!"

I cursed the city government in Pang Mao's office. The walkways outside were all government officials, and many of them were from the city council. When these guys heard my voice, they all slipped away in shame.

Pang Mao smiled bitterly: "I don't forget to say this, don't make things difficult for me."

I threw the document to Pang Mao and said, "It's not that I don't want to come out, but that your government has no reason. The money used by our DreamWorks to build a film school is very limited. For the 1 million, I want to build a few more teaching buildings! You tell the people in the council that they want to divide the land for us, so they can get a piece of land for free. Otherwise, at most, we won't build it, or it's not built in Los Angeles, and San Francisco is good. Anyway, everyone in the city council is there now, so you can discuss it immediately and give me a result later."

Pang Mao held the document, looked at me and shook his head, walked out to look for Kawald with a wry smile.

"Andre, if the city council does not agree to give us free of charge, will we really want to build a film school in San Francisco?" After Pang Mao walked out, Holkina asked me in a low voice.

"What do you think?" I asked happily.

Holkina shook her head and said, "I don't think it's good. Building a film school in San Francisco is not as good as Hollywood."

"That's how I feel." I laughed.

"Then you still use this to threaten the city council! What if they don't agree to the free landing?" Holkina smiled.
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