Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 356 95 Invitation from United Artists

Chen Muwu had so many literary and artistic themes about aliens in his head that he couldn't figure out for a while which one he should talk about, Fairbanks or Chaplin.

There is no need to talk about "Star Wars". Not to mention that he plans to adapt that series of movies into novel outlines so that Eve, who according to Irena, has recently been obsessed with writing science fiction novels, can get addicted to writing. Just talk about George. The models and special effects that Lucas spent a lot of money to create are fantasy that directors and producers in this era cannot imagine and cannot produce.

What's more, most of the movies shown in cinemas are black and white. The technology of color movies is very immature and the aesthetics are very poor. This makes it very difficult to produce "Star Wars" in advance. Chen Muwu is not optimistic about this. The series of movies would be as successful in this era as they were before.

The reasons why he rejected "Star Trek" are different from the reasons why he rejected "Star Trek".

Because people today are limited by their own knowledge, they cannot imagine what kind of transportation humans should take when traveling among the stars.

The mainstream view in people's minds is an interstellar vehicle called the Galaxy Train imagined based on trains. If the Enterprise spacecraft were suddenly brought up, many people might be confused.

——It’s okay to ask Chen Muwu to provide the script, but to ask him to cross the Atlantic and go to a Hollywood studio to help the crew design props, he will not agree no matter how much money is given, because it is really a waste of time.

Apart from these two future god-level IPs about aliens, the only thing Chen Muwu can think of is Spielberg's movie "E.T. Alien" and Liu Cixin, who he just suddenly thought of. "Rural Teacher".

But it is unrealistic that this story took place in China in 1927, because at that time, in rural areas of the country, except for a few extremely wealthy places, the illiteracy rate was basically higher than 90.00%, and an entire village , or in other words, there is a private school in the nearby villages, and it is already a great thing to have a teacher who can shake his head and memorize a few sentences from the "Four Books and Five Classics" to teach.

Under such circumstances, it is impossible for an unknown rural teacher to teach those innocent children who are Newton and Maton, and what are Newton's three laws of kinematics.

If this storyline were to take place in China in 1927, it would be a very dramatic thing.

And if those private school gentlemen taught some "Zhizhi Si Gan, Youyou Nanshan", those high-level aliens who came to the earth to test the children to determine whether it is necessary to destroy the planet to resist the invasion of silicon-based organisms , and they will never test these useless knowledge.

Speaking of rural teachers, Chen Muwu thought of Wittgenstein, who stayed at Cambridge University for a period of time because of himself. He himself wrote "Tractatus Logic and Philosophy" at a young age and arrogantly believed that all philosophical problems had been solved. After that, he went to a small village in southern Austria and became a rural teacher out of place.

Moreover, Wittgenstein had been interested in physics and was also a top student at Cambridge who studied mathematics and philosophy. He explained Newton's three laws of kinematics to his students, which was not inconsistent at all.

Although Wittgenstein's rural construction ideals encountered setbacks in the end and he had to return to human society, it is still a good thing to put the story of this science fiction short novel on him.

After Chen Muwu briefly told the story to Fairbanks and Chaplin, who was listening on the side, he then added:

"This story is adapted from what really happened to a good friend of mine, Ludwig Wittgenstein. He himself did work as a rural teacher in Austria for several years, and he happens to be at Cambridge University now. Mr. Punk, if you want to have a chat with him, I can introduce you two to each other.”

If you want to say whether the story told by Chen Muwu is good or not, it must be very good, because he used the alien skin to tell a story with considerable depth.

But when it comes to adapting this story into a movie, moving it into cinemas and onto the screen, no one can say whether it will be a big hit.

Later, Ning Hao adapted the story of "Village Teacher" into "Crazy Alien" and invited two actors with profound comedy skills, Huang Bo and Shen Teng, to join the cast. As a result, after the film was made, he won Reviews are still mixed.

In the 20s, movies were just a form of entertainment for humans to relax when they were bored. They had not yet evolved to the extent of using movies to make people feel enlightened after watching them, and thus to preach to people.

If someone else had provided him with such a synopsis of the story, Fairbanks would not have had any hope of making it into a movie at the box office. He felt that this version of the story would not be better than his own alien story. Where can Taishan go?

But the person sitting opposite him now is different. This is Chen Muwu, who is currently the most popular topic in the scientific community, and is also a recognized expert in "alien research" in the world.

Just under this banner, Americans who have money, leisure, and longing for advanced European knowledge can be deceived into cinemas. As long as they can defraud the box office and make a fortune, his movie shooting A gain is not a loss.

As for whether after people watch the movie, the reputation will be polarized, or simply one-sided and full of criticism, that has nothing to do with United Artists Pictures.

——After all, from the filming to the release of the movie, Chen Muwu was the focus of publicity.

Moreover, people nowadays are very curious about the new thing aliens. Chen Muwu also mentioned interstellar travel in the synopsis of the story, as well as intelligent creatures of a higher level than humans, as well as the cosmic war between carbon-based creatures and silicon-based creatures. If we grasp the above contents and extend them, it may produce unexpected effects.

Fairbanks immediately decided to try making a movie based on the story provided by Chen Muwu.
The reason why Griffith's "Intolerance" failed was not because he told a boring story, it was because a lot of money was invested in the filming and production of his film.

As long as the investment can be controlled, it will be a sure-profit deal for United Artists Pictures.

Chen Muwu just said that the prototype of this rural teacher is a philosopher from Cambridge University. So while promoting this is an alien movie, can he also promote this as the first philosophical movie?
Well, it has nothing to do with philosophy.

"Dr. Chen, can I meet the philosopher you mentioned in the story later?"

"Of course, I am happy to introduce you to them. But Mr. Fairbank, you also know that philosophers are very weird. If you are rejected by him, you must not blame me."

Fairbanks wanted to get up and see Wittgenstein now, but before that, he was stopped by Chaplin beside him.

"Dr. Chen, thank you for providing such a wonderful, in-depth and connotative story to United Artists Pictures. Look, how much should we pay for this story?"

"Remuneration? There's no way to talk about it. Didn't we agree before that I will serve as a consultant for your company's alien movie, and your company will help shoot and record the wedding when I get married next year?"

“Well, being a consultant is being a consultant, and providing stories is providing stories, and those two things are different.

"Novelists can get royalties for publishing articles in magazines. You have provided us with new shooting ideas. There is no reason why we should not get paid for it."

Fairbanks had a smile on his face, but in his heart he complained about the partner beside him:
Chen Muwu himself didn't even say why he wanted to mention any compensation!
If after Chaplin's reminder, Chen Muwu takes this opportunity to speak loudly, will he pay for the money or not?
Chen Muwu also didn't expect that Chaplin would rush to make money for himself and give the pricing power to himself.To Chen Muwu, the script fee was equivalent to Cao Cao's tasteless money. If it was less money, he would not be able to get his attention, and if it was more money, the other party would not necessarily give it to him.

Rather than doing this, it would be better to give him a favor and use it as a bargaining chip to make friends with Fairbanks and Chaplin.

But now that Chaplin has returned the initiative to his side, Chen Muwu feels that he can get some benefits from them.

"I also like to watch movies produced by United Artists. I feel very honored that the story I provided was selected by your company. I have never thought about the script fee at all, not to mention that your company has to pay for me. I couldn’t be more grateful to have photographed the entire wedding.”

Fairbanks turned from worry to joy, thinking that Dr. Chen still knows how to be a good person, and Chaplin almost wanted to ruin my career.

He had only been happy for a few seconds when he heard a twist in Chen Muwu's words: "The fact that United Artists Pictures can gain a foothold in Hollywood controlled by those big Wall Street capitalists and carve out a bloody path shows that your company must be a leader in movies. Have your own merits.

"So I have a heartfelt request. If there is an opportunity in the future, I hope your company can accept some of my compatriots and let them train or intern at United Artists Pictures to learn some film shooting and acting. skills. I wonder if you two can agree to my request?"

When the school in Stockholm gets on the right track and the various industries that Chen Muwu and the Wallenberg family cooperate with start to make steady profits, Chen Muwu will definitely implement the second step of his entertainment plan and make movies to build up the Chinese people's reputation. figurative.

Just by writing a few novels in the George Chen and later Dee Renjie series, its scope of influence is limited to English-speaking countries and the Western world.

But if these stories are made into movies, they will radiate to the entire earth, and more people who are impatient to read those words will enter the cinema through word of mouth and be exposed to George Chen on the big screen. The image of a smart and upright Chinese person.

Chen Muwu is playing a big game of chess.

Fairbanks, who had just heard the merciless invitation, was shocked again. The more polite his words were, the more likely he was to ask for an exorbitant price.

It wasn't until he heard what Chen Muwu said clearly that he nodded in agreement and agreed to the matter.

In Fairbanks' view, the word "in the future" is basically an illusory thing.

Maybe Chen Muwu mentioned that he wanted to send someone to learn how to make movies just because of the two of them visiting today.

After a while, he might forget about today's incident.

And sending a few apprentices to United Artists would do no harm to the film company.

The cheap labor delivered to your door is not wasted!

The three people who had reached a verbal agreement had a great time. Chen Muwu took the two people out of his room and went to Wittgenstein, who was renting a short-term rental at a resident's house in Cambridge County.

As one of the main entertainment activities of this era, movie stars were quite famous. Even Wittgenstein, who had lived in seclusion in the Austrian countryside for a long time, could recognize these two people.

After introducing them to each other, Chen Muwu made an excuse, saying that he had to prepare a speech for a conference in Belgium next month, and left Wittgenstein's room.

He had been tortured by philosophical questions for several days before, so he chose to stay away from the place of right and wrong early this time.

Unexpectedly, there was a person following behind him: "Dr. Chen, Dr. Chen."

Chen Muwu turned around and found that Chaplin had also slipped out of that room.

"I'm really not interested in philosophical issues, but I am quite interested in you. I have a few questions that I would like to ask you."

"Don't take it seriously, don't take it seriously. If you have any questions, just ask directly."

"Just now you said that you want to send people to United Artists Pictures to learn acting and filming. Could it be that Dr. Chen, do you want to enter the film industry?"

Chen Muwu didn't expect that Chaplin's mind was so sharp and he could see through what he was thinking.

Or is it that he acted too eagerly and became Sima Zhao's heart?

In this case, he didn't want to deny it, but nodded: "Maybe I will have this plan in the future, but for now, I still want to devote all my energy to physics research."

"That's perfect. Professor Einstein and I are good friends. I know that scientists like you who do scientific research, even if they make a small contribution, may push our human society forward." A big step, such as steam engines, generators..."

Einstein had a really good relationship with Chaplin. When he did the famous relativity experiment "Beauty and the Stove", the female guest he invited was Chaplin's wife.

"It is natural that you should devote all your energy to physics. However, Dr. Chen, if you are very interested in making movies, are you willing to invest in our United Artists Pictures? I can use my shares to I will take some of it and transfer it to you."

Invest in United Artists?

What kind of strange development is this?

(End of this chapter)