Then William Wheeler took him to me.

When I saw him, I felt familiar.

"Is your name Jiali Gubo?" My words made the young man stunned.

"How do you know my name?" He looked at me and said this after a long time.

Why don’t I know your name? I laughed.

He has filmed hundreds of films in his life and won three Oscars. With "York Sarca", "The Battlefield Bell" and "Noon", which was regarded as one of the pinnacles of westerns by later generations, he was affectionately called "Our Jali" by Americans. On the day of his death, the jury of the Cannes Film Festival immediately established the "Jali. Guber Award" to commemorate this Hollywood performer forever.

How could I not know such a person?!

When other film companies are crazy about recruiting people, Universal only recruits this one, I think it is enough.

During this wave of reform, some small film companies were not idle either. Although they were very powerful, they were also expanding their influence as much as possible.

On January 14, the Star Film Company, a fourth-level film company, held a press conference and announced that the Star Film Company will appoint a new British director as the company's first director.

As soon as the news came out, it immediately became a joke in Hollywood.

While many film companies canceled their first directors one after another, the small star film company actually moved against the trend to establish the first director, which really made Hollywood people laugh.

I was the only one who didn't laugh because when I saw the name of the British director, I couldn't laugh at all.

This 20-year-old British director

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Such a person, such a master who was named the ninth place in the "Top Director of the Century" by later generations, such a master of British films, and "Oscar-winning Professional". I'm afraid no one in later generations doesn't know about it.

"Lawrence in Arabia", "The Bridge of the River Kwai", "Tears of the Lone Star"... The creator of a series of films that will always be shining in the history of films. It is no exaggeration to call him a master.

But now he suddenly appeared in front of me and appeared in Hollywood. It really made me wonder. You know, in history, he only developed in Hollywood after decades.

So I sent Darren Oliver's factory guards out, but the news they came back to report made me laugh and cry.

It turns out that what prompted the director to travel from Britain to the American was nothing else, but his British compatriot Hitchcock.

Alfred Hitchcock and David Ryan met once. Hitchcock's great success in Hollywood also greatly attracted David Ryan. In his opinion, the dull British film industry could not compare with the energetic Hollywood, so he wrote a sincere letter to Hitchcock, hoping to go to Hollywood and play under the Thunderbolt Film Company.

At that time, Hitchcock was filming his movie "The Unreasonable Woman". At that time, he was very busy and under great pressure, so he replied casually.

David Ryan was very happy after receiving a letter from Hitchcock and ran all the way without saying a word. However, when he ran to Hollywood, the result of waiting for him was that Hitchcock was sent to the hospital, and Lei Dinghua Film Company was already busy with work.

The company focused its attention on the newly-designed director Victor Fleming. No one was interested in this 20-year-old British man. Although Hitchcock was willing to give it a try, he had already crossed the river with a mud Buddha himself, so he could not recommend it.

David Ryan only got opportunities from other film companies. Originally, this guy thought of DreamWorks, but Hitchcock told him that DreamWorks was not suitable for David Ryan, and as an opponent, he didn't want David Ryan to run to DreamWorks.

David Ryan has looked for MGM and Warner Bros. and Paramount, but he has been hitting walls frequently. With no money, he has to turn his attention to those small film companies.

Among the fourth-level film companies, star film companies with relatively loose creative environments came into his sight.

David Rean found Robert Keane, the owner of the celebrity film company. With his outstanding performance, the young man conquered Robert and achieved the status of the first director.

Other Hollywood film companies say such things as jokes, and only I know what will happen in Hollywood with David Rean!

In January 1929, major Hollywood film companies recruited talents. The direct reason for their actions was the just-passed third Harvey Awards ceremony. For these film companies, they only had one purpose, that is, to strengthen the company's strength and strive to win an extra trophy at the next Harvey Awards Ceremony.

But they didn't know how huge the impact their approach would have on Hollywood later.

During this reform storm, some outstanding filmmakers in history appeared one after another. With their joining, Jidadi changed the appearance of Hollywood and began to change the historical pattern of Hollywood!

Decades later, people called January 1929 the "golden moment of the golden age" the "spring of the filmmakers". Because during this month, the changes that took place in Hollywood brought revolutionary qualitative changes to the subsequent development of Hollywood films!

When people mention this period of time, they are all amazed at the huge opportunities that Hollywood brings to filmmakers this month. Because in Hollywood history, such a large-scale reform and such a large-scale crazy absorption of newcomers is unique.

This reform shocked the entire United States and the film industry.

The Los Angeles Times said: "The end of 1928 is here: Book! It is not just because of the invention of color movies, not just because of the vigorous thrill of the third Harvey Awards, not just because of the reforms of major Hollywood film companies. But because these two months have been the months since Hollywood began to transform."

"If Hollywood, which had been in the past 30 years, was regarded as a worm pupa. Then in these two months, the worm pupa began to crack, and a gorgeous butterfly finally broke out of the pupa! This is a sign of Hollywood's maturity! After these two months, we believe that Hollywood's tomorrow will be even more brilliant!"

This statement from the Los Angeles Times has won the approval of most newspapers.

The Los Angeles Tribune, Hollywood Times, Movie Manual and even the Washington Post, the New York Times have commented on Hollywood's changes in the past two months.

Among the many comments, the New York Times' comments are unique.

"In the past two months, Hollywood seems to have changed apart overnight. The whole process has made us involuntarily ring the development process of the American consortium."

"In the early days of the United States, there were a large number of small companies on the country. These small companies had almost no difference in strength. They coordinated and developed harmoniously. However, as the scale became larger and the invention of various industrial technologies, these small companies that were originally similar in scale began to have two-level differentiation, the larger ones became larger and smaller, and the larger ones gradually grew into super giants, and the smaller ones were either swallowed up or went bankrupt."

"Then finally, for a period of time, large companies began to reform almost at the same time, becoming a real consortium, and since then, they have become the master of the American economy!"

"Hollywood is now completing this process, and it is completed spontaneously in two months. Hollywood has matured, really matured. It is not that more than ten years ago, the Hollywood that could build a very decent film company for tens of thousands of dollars twenty years ago is no longer the Hollywood that is full of small boats. Now Hollywood has finally begun to rise as a super warship and finally embark on the road of independent development."

"Faced with such Hollywood, I think the Wall Street consortiums that try to use money to make movies their own money tree will probably become more and more difficult to implement. Hollywood has formed an indestructible development trapezoid with many small companies such as MGM, Paramount, DreamWorks, Warner Bros., Fox, First National Film Company, Columbia, Universal, Bivograf, 20th Century Film Team, Crescent, Star, Kepi, Frontier, Galaxy and other small companies as the bottom. Whether in internal operations or in capital, Hollywood is like a turtle with an extremely hard turtle shell. It is becoming increasingly impossible for this evil wolf on Wall Street to eat it."

“The reason is very simple, because

The street doesn’t have anything to control Hollywood’s life or death!”

I don't know who wrote this article, but I'm sure the person who wrote this article is definitely the most outstanding economist in the United States, and he is very familiar with Hollywood.

This article has caused a stir when it has been published, especially for those of Wall Street consortiums.

And when I was reading this article, I couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Historically, Wall Street controlled Hollywood and eventually made Hollywood a tool for their money, all relying on two things.

First of all, it is the patent right for audio films. For the transition period from silent films to audio films, whoever has mastered the patent right for audio films is undoubtedly equivalent to mastering the fate of major Hollywood film companies.

The second thing is the theater chain. No matter how huge the film company is, no matter how excellent the local movies you produce are, or how popular it is. As long as I master the theater chain, I will play the movies of whoever I say I will play. No matter how good your local movies are, I refuse to show them. What is waiting for you is only a loss.

Therefore, in history, Wall Street successfully invaded Hollywood, making the golden age of Hollywood go back forever. It was these two brushes that had patents for audio films representing the future trend of films, and the theater system that had the lifeline of major film companies. Then, it took this opportunity to continuously pour in money. Major Hollywood film companies had to surrender.

But now, the situation is completely different.

The patent rights of audio films are firmly in the hands of DreamWorks, and even the patent rights of color films belong to DreamWorks. DreamWorks treats other film companies not as strict conditions as those vampires who have patented audio films in history, but chooses to share common development with major film companies. As long as they are film companies in the alliance, they only need to pay a small amount of patent fees to shoot movies, and this patent fee is very small compared to the profit and investment costs of the film. The same is true for color film patents.

If DreamWorks offers harsh conditions, it will definitely greatly improve its strength. But I would not do this. Doing so will make DreamWorks rich, but it will damage the entire Hollywood.

DreamWorks' move has won the support and respect of all Hollywood film companies. Audio movies have become a propeller to promote the development of major film companies. With the promotion of audio movies, the development speed of major film companies can only be described as rockets compared to the silent film period.

In this case, Wall Street consortiums would not have taken advantage of this. On the contrary, even Rockefeller consortium Die Dinghua Film Company had to pay a high patent fee for audio films and future color films.

In Hollywood, there is only one company that is harshly treated by DreamWorks because of patent fees, and that is Lei Dianhua.

Every year, Leidianhua Film Company has to pay DreamWorks nearly yuan in terms of patent fees alone, and DreamWorks can increase the local language at any time if they want to increase the local language. For other film companies, such as MGM, the total patent fee for land payments will not exceed 200 yuan in the whole year. This is the largest patent fee for film companies in all alliances. For some small companies, such as celebrities, the annual patent fee is only tens of thousands of dollars, which can be ignored. The patent fee has not only become a headache for major Hollywood film companies like history, but has become a tight spell on the head of Leidianhua, a subsidiary of Rockefeller Consortium.

As for the theater system, Wall Street consortiums have no chance. Historically, they could take advantage of loopholes and take all the theaters across the United States without realizing the importance of the theater system, but it is not possible now.

Under my advocacy, especially DreamWorks' practice, every film company, no matter how big or small, regards the cinema as its lifeblood, saying that it is okay to take movies to our cinema. If it is a acquisition, as long as the company has not yet gone bankrupt, it is impossible.

Today, Hollywood, as the backbone, the first, second, third and third grade film companies have developed well, with sufficient funds and no worries. Moreover, with the deepening of reforms of major film companies and the continuous improvement of internal systems, the company will become stronger and stronger. Under this situation, it is completely impossible for Wall Street to invade Hollywood without anything that can control the lifeline of Hollywood film companies.

I don't know what expressions would appear on John Rockefeller's face when he saw such an article. But I know, he would definitely not smile.

At the end of January, something big and small happened in the vigorous wave of film company reform.

This matter is that after more than a year of research, a lot of manpower and material resources, and huge amounts of money were invested. Leidianhua Film Company announced that the company had invented a new audio film projection system.

In order to distinguish it from the "Vitafeng" audio film projection system invented by DreamWorks, Lei Dianhua named their audio system "Futoufeng".

This news made me laugh.

There is a reason why this matter is not big or small.

Historically, the new audio film screening system invented by Leidianhua Film Company was a major event that changed the development of Hollywood. Because of this audio film screening system, the Wall Street Consortium, especially the Rockefeller Consortium, took advantage of the opportunity to complete the first step in invading Hollywood.

But now, this historical event has become a small matter. Because the invention of this audio film projection system not only saves Lei Dianhua from paying high audio film patent fees to DreamWorks, it has no impact on other Hollywood film companies. What is interesting is that after investing a lot of money and energy, Lei Dianhua still makes them laugh and cry. That is, although they don’t have to pay patent fees to DreamWorks for audio films, if they shoot color movies, the patent fee will not be reduced!

Therefore, the Forto-style audio film screening system, which has changed the fate of Hollywood in history, became one of the most critical factors in Rockefeller's successful control of Hollywood, has become a completely useless person!

How could this not make me laugh so hard that my stomach hurts?

The person who wrote that article was right. Hollywood is now like a big turtle, and it is a big turtle with a hard shell as hard as iron. If the wolves on Wall Street want to eat it, they may break his mouth full of teeth.

It was also at the end of January, January 25th, another big thing happened, but this thing was a good thing.

On this day, I received a call from Grant.

The first thing Grant said to me made me stunned.
Chapter completed!