Reborn America, this is my time

Chapter 80
Maybe it's because being in the showbiz means showing off, but it could also be that Universal Studios is the headquarters of Universal Pictures.

In short, when Steven Spielberg brought Ethan Jones and Steve Jobs to his cafeteria, the area of ​​more than [-] square feet can only be described in one word-how !

The buffet-like dining form and the three-column dish cabinet like an assembly line engrave the word rich on the door face.

Whether it’s the Pacific cuisine that represents the seaside flavor, the Southwestern cuisine that is deeply influenced by MXG, or the Cajun cuisine that combines Gallic chicken, Indian, and black cuisine, you can find everything here.

In addition, southern black cuisine represented by pulled pork and fried meat, which is often called home-cooked food by Americans, and New York cuisine that combines the tastes of immigrants from all over the world, as well as John Bull immigrants. New England cuisines can also be found here.

It is no exaggeration to say that the small cafeteria of Universal Pictures already contains all the flavors popular in the United States!

After picking and choosing, Ethan chose a seafood mixed dish, a stewed bean with spicy meat sauce, and a Texas barbecue.

Spielberg ordered a grilled steak, eggs bentic, and pecan pie.

The Jobs guy got a pear mozzarella salad, a burrito, and a shrimp and gumbo.

After a brief taste, Ethan immediately gave a thumbs up and said, "Oh Fxxk! This barbecue is really juicy!"

"Oh~Ethan~As long as you like it~" Spielberg introduced: "Our chefs here are all masters with more than 20 years of cooking experience, and many of them are directly invited from popular cuisines, and they are as much as possible. local flavor.”

"For example, the Texas barbecue you want is made by a chef from the Mueller family invited from Austin."

"The founder of their family is the first master who introduced beef ribs to the barbecue industry in Quanmi."

"Really? So it seems that I'm quite lucky today?" Ethan said full of surprises: "Although I was stuck on the road for a long time and didn't have time to eat lunch, it's really nice to be able to taste the master's cuisine when I'm hungry. It's a happy thing."

"I'm not flattering! After all, the satisfaction of getting what you need when you need it can be multiplied."

Ethan's words made Spielberg's eyes brighten, "Oh Ethan, you're right."

Jobs also raised his eyebrows and nodded slightly in agreement.

Although the real purpose of everyone coming to the cafeteria is to eat, but in the case of the first meeting, they will still chat. After praising the dishes, Ethan took the initiative to open the topic and asked Spielberg and Jobs how to know.

"How did you meet? Just like you, I met through games."

Spielberg smiled and said: "Steve told me that you met when selling games? Then I am the exact opposite of you, because I met Steve when I was buying games. Seems like he's in Los Angeles promoting Gran Trak?"

Having said that, Spielberg turned his head and glanced at Jobs.

"Yeah~Yeah~Yeah~"

Hearing the question, Jobs nodded and said, ""Gran Trak"~that's it, that's the first time we met."

He took a sip of the apple juice brought by the waiter, and then complained, "To be honest, when we first met, Steven gave me the impression that he was a lunatic, because he took out A thousand dollars in cash, to buy an arcade machine."

"Really! I was stunned!"

"That's a thousand dollars! I don't know why a normal person would carry so much money!"

"Oh, who made me want to play games?"

Jobs' words made Spielberg laugh and said: "If I remember correctly, Atari's delivery time in the ordering venue was three days, but three days is too long for me. , I didn’t want to wait, so I just pulled out cash and bought it.”

"But the problem is that all he took was one hundred!"

Mentioning this matter, Jobs immediately got excited and began to draw Ethan's pen, "That's a stack of one hundred dollars! I didn't dare to accept it at all! I was afraid that he was selling fans, and I was even more afraid of taking it. The cash will be robbed later!"

"Oh, oh, I can't blame me for this." Spielberg spread his hands and began to explain: "Although I can take out twenty bills, one thousand dollars is fifty twenty dollars! That's all It’s a stack! Is it convenient for me to buy arcade machines with so much money?”

Jobs frowned at such a question, and said, "So you're scaring me for your own convenience?"

Spielberg didn't bother to talk to him, "It's because your own mental quality is too poor!"

"Oh! Sxxt! Steven! What are you talking about?"

"What did I say? Of course what I said is the truth!"

The bickering between the two made Ethan laugh.

And the scene that was about to fight made him shake his head again and again.

But he didn't mean to intervene, because it wasn't a big deal.

The dollar-denomination problem that Jobs and Spielberg talked about has existed for years.

The U.S. dollar is a currency with strong purchasing power. Most of the time, [-] U.S. dollars can make a family go shopping in a supermarket. Therefore, ordinary people use [-] U.S. dollars the most in their lives.

As for the higher face value?Those are all flowing in large quantities in illegal business.

For example, for one hundred dollars, those who spend a lot are basically peddlers, or they are selling counterfeit money.

Grab one and shoot the other, basically there is no wrongdoing.

So when Spielberg goes to buy an arcade machine with a stack of hundred dollars, any normal person would be terrified.

Ethan can understand, and he is also happy to watch the show.

After arguing for a few words, the two people who knew that there was no result also stopped.

At this time, Ethan intervened at the right time, asking whether the previous news would bring trouble to Spielberg.

After all, according to the intelligence heard by Ethan and Jobs, MCA wanted to acquire Atari, but when they were talking about cooperation, Spielberg gave the news of Atari to outsiders. Seeing that there is a feeling of growing a bone in the back of the head.

And when Ethan expressed his thoughts, Jobs smiled and said, "Trouble?"

"Oh Ethan - you look down on Steven too much!"

"Steven has always been Universal's prince! MCA's prince!"

"Who dares to trouble him?"

Ethan was taken aback by Jobs' words.

But in the next second, he reacted, shook his head with a smile and said, "Yeah~Yeah~Yeah~ I'm superficial."

""Jaws" is the first movie in movie history to break through [-] million at the box office!"

"When this kind of achievement appears, no one in Hollywood will offend him!"

However, before Ethan finished speaking, Jobs smiled and shook his head again, "No, No, No~"

"You still don't understand, Ethan."

"Before "Jaws" was filmed, Steven was already running around the world like a crab!"

"Because he only needs to report to one person, that is the CEO of MCA and the president of Universal, Sidney."

"What?" Ethan didn't understand.

Spielberg smiled and waved his hands, saying, "Steve, keep a low profile."

And after seeing Ethan's blank face, he explained: "Ethan, don't listen to his nonsense, Sidney is my boss, my leader, and the teacher who supports me and educates me. I respect him a lot."

Under Spielberg's narration, Ethan finally knew what kind of special is the chosen one!
Since Spielberg wanted to make movies since he was a child, after graduating from high school, he applied to the Southern California Film Academy three times, but was rejected because his grades were only C, so he had to transfer to California State University, Long Beach.

But the problem is that Spielberg doesn't like reading at all, he just wants to make movies, so he came to Hollywood to play in his spare time, trying to find opportunities to enter the circle in this way.And when he once heard that Universal Studios had a sightseeing event that took tourists to visit the studio, he decisively signed up to participate, and at the same time, he played a trick.During the visit, he applied to the team leader to go to the toilet, then sneaked away from the toilet, separated from the visiting team, and then peeked at other people's filming in the Universal Studios openly.

Although this behavior of stealing a teacher is a bit shameful, Spielberg doesn't care.

After all, how can the affairs of scholars be called stealing?

This is obviously learning!
But it's fine for him to believe in this kind of thing, and the shadow of the dog can't escape the eyes of Universal Management.

When Spielberg was wandering around, a guy named Chuck Silvers, a project leader at Universal, spotted him and asked him about his intentions.And when Spielberg said that he escaped from the sightseeing bus just to learn film shooting skills and that he wanted to become a film director, the guy named Chuck Silvers was moved by him, It was decided to give him a three-day pass, allowing him to freely enter and exit various places in the studio and watch it openly.

then……

Spielberg has been with Universal since that day.

While that pass was only good for three days, Spielberg spent the entire summer at the studio.

Because when his fourth day passed...

"The security at Universal didn't stop me at all."

Spielberg laughed: "He just let me in."

"I was so happy at the time, I thought he had misremembered the date on my pass."

"But then I found out that someone had greeted me. The person who greeted me said that if I could come for three days on time, then I would be able to watch how they make movies here."

"Is that Chuck Silvers?" Ethan asked with a smile.

"Yes, it's him, he's a good guy." Spielberg nodded.

A nostalgic smile was also written on his face.

After clearing his throat, he continued, "Then, I became a member of Universal."

"Because I didn't know that someone had greeted me, so in order not to be discovered by others, I pretended to be an employee of Universal here and pretended to work here."

"The office that Steve took you to just now was my office at that time. Although it was very old and worn out, I didn't care because no one used it at that time, so I used it. It allowed me A place to rest, a place to think."

"Ethan, I don't know if you have that feeling, that is, after you get used to lying to others, you will gradually believe your own lies. I have been in Universal for a long time, and I even thought I was from Universal. It was not until one day when people from Universal came to me and said that I had been studying for a long time, and I didn’t know if I had any ideas of my own. They knew everything.”

Speaking of this, Spielberg immediately leaned back, played with his fork, and said in a nostalgic tone: "I was scared to death at the time. But the people at Universal were very kind. They asked me to prepare a project by myself, saying I was ecstatic about the fact that if I passed, I could get a job, and of course I had my own ideas, so I wrote a screenplay and got $[-] from a friend to write it. It was made into a short film called "Amblin."

"To be honest, I was not very satisfied with that movie, but Sidney thought it was good after watching it. He should be the vice president of Universal at that time, right? He had the power to sign the contract, so he gave it to I have a seven-year long-term director contract, which gives me a fixed salary and allows me to practice in various projects."

"I screwed up a lot of projects, but with Sidney around, no one dared to criticize me, because he said to me in front of many people, 'A lot of people will stick with you in success; I'll stick with you in failure. (A lot of people will be with you when you succeed, but I will be with you when you fail.)', with his words, I can be in the world again and again Got the project, so Steve was actually right..."

Spielberg tapped his index finger on the table and said softly: "Here, indeed, no one will reject me."

"And after Jaws came out—"

"This is indeed my territory."

When Spielberg told his story with a smile, Ethan really didn't know what to say.

In order to make a movie, the world-renowned director in the future will stay at Universal like a child?
This……

Black history!

Ah no!
For ordinary people, this kind of thing is black history, but for celebrities, it is a thirst for knowledge!
There's no way, after a person becomes famous, it's right to fart!
"So that's the case?" Ethan nodded with a smile, and said with emotion: "No wonder the security didn't stop Steve when he brought me in, because they knew that Steve often came to Universal to look for you, right?"

"Yes. "Snake Game" was sent by me."

Jobs nodded and said, "Didn't I disappear on the afternoon of the new product launch? I just gave him an arcade machine."

'Is that so? '

Ethan suddenly remembered.

On the afternoon of the "Snake Game" press conference, the only people staying at Atari were Nolan Bushnell and others.

At the time, he thought Jobs was on a delivery trip with the peloton.

But I didn't expect it to be given to Spielberg alone?

'It seems that their relationship is really good. '

After sighing in his heart, Ethan chatted with them again.

We talked about games, we talked about movies, we talked about Hollywood.

And when he learned that Spielberg and Barbra Streisand knew each other, he even made a request.

"Oh Steven, can I trouble you with one thing?"

"Tell me." Spielberg said with a smile, "As long as I can do it, then I will definitely help you."

"Can you get me a signed Barbra Streisand album? Because my sister likes her."

"This is too simple, don't say one copy, one set will do." Spielberg waved his hand and said, "Whether it's a music album or a movie video, I can get it for you. I will talk to me later. The assistant said, and this matter will be handed over to her."

"Don't worry, although this matter will take a while, you will definitely be able to get it before you leave."

"Of course...you can't tell me you're leaving now!"

Spielberg knocked on the table and said jokingly, "After all, I'm not Superman."

"Hahaha~ No, no~" Ethan smiled like a flower, "Oh Steven~ Thank you so much...I'm troublesome when I just met you, this is really...I don't know what to do It's good..."

"I don't know what to do? It's simple." Spielberg said: "I want to know a question now. As long as you can answer me directly, then I can guarantee that you will not feel that there is a distance between us. .”

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'Is there such a magical question? '

"What's the problem?" Ethan asked curiously.

As soon as this remark came out, Spielberg first made an inscrutable face, and looked at Ethan with very serious eyes. When Ethan frowned and was a little surprised, he burst out laughing and rubbed his face. Rubbing his hands together, he said, "It's very simple!"

"When will you release a new game?"

"I can not wait any more!"

"While I believe the Snake Game will last me a long time, I still want to play something new!"

'...'

'Come on! '

Spielberg's question made Ethan dumbfounded.

What is this?

Isn't today a happy fan meeting!
How could it become an offline solo face-to-face reminder!
Although Ethan doesn't understand what Spielberg's brain circuit is like, he can still answer this question.

Taking a deep breath, he shook his head and said, "Oh Steven, I don't want to lie to you, I do have inspiration in my mind, but I can't realize it for the time being."

"What?" Spielberg was a little surprised, "Why can't it be realized?"

"Is it for technical reasons?"

Ethan shrugged regretfully, not knowing how to answer.

In such a situation, let Jobs speak at the right time.

He told the specific situation.

And when Spielberg learned that all the problems were caused by the patent of video games and training devices, he was a little surprised, "Oh Ethan, are you not authorized?"

"If I really want to get it, I should be able to get it, but the price is probably a bit inappropriate."

Ethan said sincerely: "You make movies, you should know that inspiration is also valuable."

"If this value is taken away by the theaters that provide the venue, then I have nothing to say."

"After all, their existence is to provide audiences with a place to watch movies."

"But if most of the benefits are taken away by Edison, then..."

Before Ethan could finish speaking, Spielberg smiled and said, "Don't worry, Edison's behavior has been deemed a monopoly."

"But something like Mirov...it's hard to be considered a monopoly, right?" Ethan said with a smile: "After all, Professor Bell is different from Edison. Professor Bell never buys patents. The patents in his name are not his own." The research and development was led by him. When aerospace, deep-sea exploration, medicine and medical treatment and many other fields have his presence, and he no longer charges patent fees for many projects, the corresponding occupation of the video game field, the court or say It's the state, and it won't take care of it."

This fact made Spielberg nod slightly, and at the same time asked: "Then this problem can't be solved?"

Then he explained: "Oh, I mean, I'm really looking forward to your game."

"I understand, I understand, you have no malice." Ethan nodded with a smile, and said, "Actually, I have a solution now, but it may not be possible in a short time, because I need to meet with Professor Ralph Bell , but I don’t know him. I have already asked my sister’s teacher to contact Professor Ralph Bell, but the news from them is that the end of the year will be the soonest.”

"So, you may have to wait a while."

Because Spielberg knew what happened, Ethan didn't want to hide it.

But after he told the truth, Spielberg, who was sitting opposite him, was stunned.

Then, the guy scratched his head, frowned and asked, "You mean that Professor Ralph Bell can help you solve the patent problem?"

"If he is willing to cooperate with me." Ethan nodded: "As long as he is willing to cooperate with me, then I have a way to bypass the patent barrier, and it is a legal bypass. Steve can help I prove it."

Ethan pointed to Jobs.

Jobs, who was already using MOS 6502, nodded, "Yes, we have the method, and we just need to find someone."

However, just when Ethan thought that the topic had already been discussed to death by them, Spielberg said: "Is it that simple? Then you can directly make games! And I have to be the first Player!"

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Ethan was stunned by Spielberg's words, and said, "Steven, I don't understand what you mean."

"Don't understand what I mean? It's very simple!" Spielberg blinked and said, "Because my father knows Professor Bell."

"Knowledge in every sense."

"After Mirov's Odyssey was launched, my father also told me about Professor Bell. He said that Professor Bell's technology in the field of electronic engineering is much better than him."

"If you want to find Professor Bell, I can ask my dad to make a call for you."

"Although I don't know what you want to cooperate with Professor Bell, or what you want to get from Professor Bell, but I can assure you that even in an outrageous cooperation, Professor Bell will look at my father's face I have listened to it."

"WTF???" Ethan was startled!
He asked in disbelief, "Oh Steven, are you serious???"

"Of course! Why would I lie to you about this kind of thing?" Spielberg was very surprised, and said, "Are you surprised?"

"Why? Why the surprise?"

"Don't you think it's not normal for my dad and Professor Bell to know this kind of thing?"

"Ok?"

Spielberg frowned, he couldn't figure it out.

And the ones who couldn't figure it out more than him were Ethan who was bewildered and Jobs who was also dumbfounded.

Because of this kind of thing, it's really not normal!

　Note: ① "Gran Trak" is a racing game produced by Atari.Uh... To say that it is a production is actually plagiarism, because its style and production method are basically the same as the racing game launched by Professor Ralph Bell on Mirowa Odyssey. ②The matter about Spielberg becoming a director comes from an exclusive interview with him by the BBC, which was said by Spielberg himself. It's still up on the BBC's UK official website.

　　PS, there is a gossip that it is said that Universal Pictures agreed to Spielberg to study there because of his Jewish identity.Universal is a studio with a strong Jewish atmosphere. From the earliest founders to the later controllers, as well as the executives during the MCA period, they are all Jewish, so when Spielberg's extremely Jewish appearance appeared Afterwards, Universal acquiesced to him to come and see, and when Sidney found out that he was really talented, he directly gave him a long-term contract to train his own people.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)