Under the guidance of Gith, a typical western man in his forties, big and thick, walked into my office. The straight suit didn't match his figure at all, and even made him a little funny.

"Mr. Corleone, I'm disturbing. Thank you for your reception." Shanlige walked over and shook hands with me politely.

"Mr. Shanlige, it's a privilege to see you. Please sit down." I pointed to the sofa next to me.

Shan Lige was not polite either. He sat on the sofa, and the leather sofa was creaking with a squeak.

"Mr. Shan Lige, is there anything you need to ask me for?" I haven't eaten for a whole day, and I'm so hungry that I'm so hungry that I'm so close to my back. I quickly got straight to the point.

Shanlige smiled and said, "That's right, Mr. Corleone, I heard that your DreamWorks is going to shoot another new film, so I came to negotiate related business."

We have just started shooting a new film, and Shan Lige stared at it like a fly and came to find a business. It was indeed not simple.

"Oh, this is easy to say, but our company basically has no shortage of film equipment. I am afraid that only clothing and film can be used to cooperate with your company." I said calmly.

Shan Lige rubbed his hands: "That's great, Mr. Corleon, the film and clothing produced by our company are first-class in quality. Take film as an example. We not only have a production base, but also have related R&D bases. In Hollywood, it can be said to be absolutely first-class products."

I nodded: "I believe this, but other companies are also good, like Vitagraf. If your company's price is reasonable, we will naturally be happy to cooperate. Otherwise, there will be more companies like you."

Experience tells me that when doing business with a businessman like Shanlige, you must do a good job of bargaining.

"That's right, that's right, our price is absolutely fair, and the film quality is absolutely first-class, absolutely first-class!" Shan Lige said with a smile.

"You said you have a film R&D center, what research are done? Have you done recently?" I am very interested in his R&D center.

Shan Lige immediately became confident: "Our development center has been doing cutting-edge film research, with significant results. Are the recent achievements mainly focused on the subtitle research of film films."

"Oh!" As soon as I heard this, I became interested: "Study subtitles, let's talk about it."

"It mainly studies the font, clarity, saturation and other research of subtitles." Shan Lige replied carefully.

Not only am I disappointed, this is nothing big of a research!

Seeing that I was disappointed, Shan Lige quickly added: "But we have just developed a kind of subtitle pressurized film recently, but when the characters in the movie screening spoke, subtitles appeared below the screen."

This technique is good! I suddenly got happy.

At this time, in Hollywood movies, there are few dialogues in the characters in the movie. Even if there is a dialogue, during the screening, a separate black screen appears after the characters in the movie say a sentence, and subtitles appear on it. This kind of behavior will interrupt the normal progress of the film for a long time. The audience is excited and suddenly a black screen appears, which makes it very unhappy.

This new study by Shanlige solved this problem.

"Have your films put into production?" I shouted.

"I just researched and only produced a little, and I haven't applied for a patent yet, because we have a lot of research results and there is not enough funds to apply for a patent for each achievement."

I was completely convinced by this Shanlige. The research results he mentioned were probably similar to those nonsense research on fonts, clarity and saturation. The real research results came out and they said that there was not enough money to apply for a patent. I was completely convinced!

"So, Mr. Shanlige, do you think this is good? I bought the patent of your technology for $50,000, and then you are responsible for producing it for us. OK?" I said with a smile.

"50,000 US dollars!?" Shan Lige almost jumped up. He was not very concerned about such technology. This kind of pressurized film is more expensive than usual films. In the eyes of most film companies, there are not many subtitles in the movie. Why spend such money on those subtitles? So in his opinion, even if this kind of film is produced, there is not much market. Now I actually bought his patent for $50,000. How could he not be moved?

"Mr. Corleon, are you saying it true?!" He was a little unbelievable in his ears.

"We can sign the contract now!" I asked Gans to come in and print a contract, and then signed his name on it. Shan Lige followed closely, hurriedly afraid that I would regret it.

"Mr. Shanlige, I hope you can produce a batch this week, and our new film will use yours." I smiled and said with a contract.

"Okay. I'll let them give birth when I go back." Shan Lige stood up and said goodbye.

"Boss, you're crazy. It's not worth it to spend 50,000 yuan to buy this broken patent!" Gans screamed from the side.

"Not worth it!? You can wait and see. You will go to the patent office tomorrow to apply for this patent." I handed over the contract to Gans, laughed out loud and went out for dinner.

Audio movies have not yet been released, and the silent movie characters produced have very few dialogues, which are almost entirely dependent on the actors' physical performances, which greatly hinders the expression of the film's meaning. With this kind of increase in film, I can let the characters in the movie talk more, not only interrupt the audience's normal viewing of the movie, but also add meaning to the film. Such a movie will definitely be popular.

Before the invention of audio films, this kind of increased film was undoubtedly the best form of the transition from silent films to audio films. I want to let the characters in the movie "speak" in advance.

On September 19, my Montage Theory was published in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. On the day the article was published, the phone ringing in the company's office rang from morning to night. Hollywood directors and actors, American cultural scholars, linguists, painters, photographers and all kinds of people called me and asked me to meet and discuss in detail. The response caused by the article was greatly unexpected.

In the following week, newspapers across the United States focused on DreamWorks and Andre Corleon. Whether they had a good relationship with me, or had not met me, or even those who had a grudge with me, they highly appreciated my article. Even Chaplin personally called me to congratulate me. He actually wrote an article in the Hollywood Times the next day, calling me "the first great theorist in the history of film, who truly turned movies into art."

The successful publication of "The Montage" has led me to transform from a new director in Hollywood to a film theorist, including Griffith, who are all applauding when reading articles. They don't understand how a young man, who is only in his early 20s, has such a theoretical mind.

I can only accept all this humbly.

The Thomas Publishing Group in the United States actually took the initiative to find me, wanting to compile my article with some interviews I did with me. I readily agree that the Thomas Publishing Group promised that the book would be published by the end of October and that the royalties would be paid to me based on the sales volume.

At the same time, Stenborough's shooting was also going smoothly. Shanlige sent their newly produced film to the company. I called Stenborough to use all this film, and he also liked it very much.

I found that if a person is a little famous, it is really a happy and hard work. What is happy is that everyone admires you very much, and what is hard work is that you have to deal with some messy things every day.

During this period, my basic job is to receive visitors of different identities. No matter what kind of person they are, they must always greet them with a smile. Often, I feel that my face is completely numb after the day.
Chapter completed!