Meizong Wealth Life

Chapter 141 American version of Little Breaking Ball

"Of course!"

Sheldon was the first to speak. He said that he was a diehard fan of "Star Trek" and could recite more than 600 TV episodes by heart.

Not to be outdone, Leonard said that he loves "Star Wars" very much and also collects a Jedi laser sword.

When it was Howard's turn, he talked about his cooperation with NASA again.

It may seem like bragging, but Jamie knows that Howard will actually spend some time on the space station in the future.

Of course, this seems a bit insignificant compared to Sheldon's future Nobel Prize in Physics.

Finally, Rajesh was left, and Howard explained on his behalf:

"He suffers from selective mutism and is afraid to speak in the presence of women."

Penny nodded immediately.

"Mr. Dutton, if there is nothing else, I will go outside and wait for my friend."

Betty was also ready to leave with her.

Then Jamie stopped her.

Betty looked at her boss confused.

"Don't I have to leave?"

Rajesh was about to speak, but Howard blocked his mouth with his hand.

"Of course. Rajesh doesn't dare to speak as long as a woman is present, so you'd better avoid it."

In fact, Rajesh just didn't dare to speak in front of the beautiful woman, and there was no problem in speaking in front of Betty.

But it would be too embarrassing to mention this problem in front of Jamie.

Especially since Jamie had just brought in four people to serve as scientific advisors on the script.

Then Jamie spoke.

"Betty, don't get me wrong. What I mean is that you can go have a cup of coffee or even go shopping with Penny first, because I may spend a longer time chatting with the four scientific advisors."

Betty nodded and turned to leave the room with Penny.

As soon as the door closed, Betty spoke first:
  "Okay, now if you want to ask anything, just ask."

Penny covered her mouth in surprise.

"How do you know..."

Betty replied as if she was "sober in the world":
  "Do you think Mr. Dutton really just asked me to buy you a cup of coffee? He knew that you still had concerns about being his assistant, so he deliberately created opportunities for the two of us to be alone so that you could ask questions. "

Penny shrugged.

"Okay, then will you tell me the truth?"

Betty answered truthfully:

"That depends on what you want to know."

If the question was about daily work, there was no need for Betty to lie to Penny. If Penny wanted to ask something about Jamie's personal life, Betty would refuse to answer.

Because Betty knew very well that Jamie hired her as an assistant, in addition to her ability, the most important thing was because of her reliability.

Penny thought carefully for a few seconds before asking a question.

"Does my day job include sleeping with my boss?"

Betty adjusted her glasses while her eyes widened.

Was it so straightforward from the beginning?
  "If you had asked me that about my last boss, I would have said of course. As for Mr. Dutton, I can only tell you that he respects women."

The subtext is that the boss will definitely not force you!
  But if you take the initiative to crawl into your boss's bed, that's a different matter.

Penny understood instantly and was a little angry at the same time.

Could it be that in Betty's eyes, she was the kind of woman who liked to have sex with handsome guys?
  Betty glanced at Penny's sexy figure under the sexy COS costume, and her expression clearly said:

Is not it?
  In the room, Jamie briefly told the story of "The Wandering Earth" to Sheldon and the other four.

Then the general direction and plot outline of this script adaptation were introduced.

Afterwards, Jamie also emphasized that he asked Sheldon and the other four to serve as science consultants for the script. He did not ask them to explore whether the solar helium flash would really happen, whether the wandering earth plan was feasible, and whether there was any scientific basis for the planetary engine.

Rather, it is to assume that these things are true, and based on this, provide some scientific suggestions to make "The Wandering Earth" look more like that.

After hearing this, Leonard couldn't help but adjust his glasses.

"Mr. Dutton, the four of us just look like nerds, but we're not really nerds."

"Of course we know the difference between science fiction and science, otherwise Sheldon and I wouldn't be big fans of Star Wars and Star Wars."

Jamie nodded and said:

"That's great, so do you four need to discuss division of labor?"

Sheldon and the four looked at each other quickly.

Sheldon spoke first:
  "I'll take care of the solar helium flash."

Leonard followed closely:
  "Then I'll be in charge of the planetary engine."

Howard then raised his hand.

"I'm here to design the Navigator space station and the space elevator. By the way, these are all areas of engineering that I'm good at."

Rajesh had no choice but to shrug and said:

"I will be responsible for the trajectory of the wandering earth as it approaches Jupiter, and how to use the 'gravitational slingshot' to allow the earth to escape from the solar system."

The four people cover all the scientific fields involved in "The Wandering Earth".

Jamie stood up immediately and shook hands with the four of them, expressing his pleasure in cooperating.

At this time Howard raised his hand again.

"Mr. Dutton, I have one more question."

Jamie slapped his forehead.

"Sorry, I forgot to tell the four of you that after the filming of the film is completed, each of you will receive a pre-tax consulting fee of US$10."

Jamie said looking at Howard.

"Mr. Wolowitz, you may ask your questions now."

Howard's Adam's apple rolled hard.

He did want to ask about the reward just now, but there is no need now.

Jamie smiled and turned to look at the other three.

"Do you have any questions?"

Leonard raised his hands.

"Mr. Dutton, may I venture to ask, who is Vestar Pictures planning to find as the director of this movie?"

Jamie glanced at Leonard.

"What, you want to recommend George Lucas?"

Leonard asked with surprise and expectation:
  "It can't really be him, can it?" Jamie shrugged noncommittally.

"Congratulations, you got the wrong answer, but your answer was very close."

Howard didn't even have time to raise his hand this time and answered directly:
  "I know, it's Ridley Scott, right? His "Alien" and "Blade Runner" are both super classics."

Jamie was about to deny it when his cell phone suddenly rang.

After glancing at the call from Ovitz, Jamie made an apologetic look at Sheldon and the other four, then walked to the next room with his phone in hand.

The four Sheldons who stayed in the living room quietly argued over whether the director was Ridley Scott.

Before the four people could reach a conclusion in their argument, Jamie came back after answering the phone and told the four people two breaking news.

The first news is that the first draft of the script for "The Wandering Earth" has been completed and has been sent to Jamie's mailbox.

The second news is that the great director James Cameron will come to the hotel soon to discuss the script with Jamie.

Yes, James Cameron is the director of "The Wandering Earth".

For the Sheldon four, the second news is undoubtedly more exciting for them.

Including Penny outside the door.

After learning that there was an opportunity to contact a great director of James Cameron's level, she immediately agreed to serve as Jamie's assistant.

The only requirement is that you can start work now.

Betty adjusted her glasses and looked at the emotional Penny.

"Are you going to meet Director Cameron wearing what you are wearing now?"

Penny thought that it would be too late to return to the hotel to change clothes at this time, so she simply put her hands on her hips and proudly puffed her chest out and said:

"At least this outfit is impressive enough, isn't it? I mean, no one has ever dressed up as Wonder Woman and appeared in front of Director Cameron before."

Betty complained speechlessly:

"But your identity is Mr. Dutton's assistant, not an audition actress."

Penny suddenly felt like a deflated rubber ball, holding Betty's hand and begging:

"Help me, this is probably the only chance in my life that I can get close to a director of this level."

Betty shook her head decisively and said:
  "If you have been Mr. Dutton's assistant for a long time, you will find that there are actually quite a lot of opportunities to get in touch with such big Hollywood directors."

That being said, Betty still relented and agreed to help Betty once.

"I have a spare set of clothes that I can lend you."

With Penny thanking her a lot, Betty took her to change clothes.

At the same time, the four Sheldons in the room were also discussing the issue of clothing.

Leonard thinks they should change their clothes before meeting Cameron, but Sheldon insists that they are fine as they are.

In the past, when the two had disagreements, Howard basically sided with Leonard without thinking, but this time Howard chose to support Sheldon.

"This is probably the only time in my life that I can appear as Batman in front of a great director like James Cameron. When the time comes, you must remember to take a picture of me shaking hands with him."

Leonard looked at Howard speechlessly.

"You are already dressed as Batman. Even if a photo of you is taken, who would know that the person standing next to Cameron is you?"

While Howard was stunned, Rajesh took a last hit and said:
  "In fact, it can be seen, because Cameron has definitely never taken a photo with a Batman who is less than [-] meters tall."

In the next room, Jamie logged into his email and clicked on the first draft of the script for "The Wandering Earth".

After reading it quickly for more than half an hour, Jamie found that the entire story had become "out of context."

The entire script adopts the classic Hollywood three-act structure.

The first act throws out the story setting, the sun is aging rapidly, and mankind is facing annihilation.

Under the leadership of the United States, the United Nations decided to implement an ambitious 2500-year plan to build a planetary engine to push the earth out of the solar system.

The protagonist is an outstanding American astronaut, Michael Jing, who was selected as the leader of the navigator space station.

In order to save resources, all astronauts who log in to the Navigator Space Station will stay in space for their entire lives and will not be able to return to Earth.

In exchange for the right to enter the underground city shelter for his wife Kate and son Jack, Michael resolutely agreed to participate in this mission with no return.

After bidding farewell to his wife and children, Michael took a spacecraft into space and became the first astronauts on the Navigator space station.

More than ten years passed in a blink of an eye, and Michael's son Jack grew up in the underground city.

Because his father was far away on the space station and could only see him through video all year round, Jack developed a rebellious character. After graduating from high school, he had nothing to do and became addicted to various illegally modified machinery.

Mother Kate became a mining truck driver who provided fuel for planetary engines on the surface.

As soon as he saw this, Jamie was already sure of one thing.

This script was truly tailor-made for Cameron.

Looking at science fiction films such as "Terminator" and "Alien" shot by Cameron, the biggest thing in common is that they all have a tough guy heroine.

In order to suit her liking, the screenwriter also arranged such a heroine in the play.

The subsequent plot is more cliche.

Jack has a crush on the school beauty Rose in the underground city. In order to win Rose's favor, he stole his mother's mining truck on the advice of his bad friends and returned to the surface with Rose.

They came to the frozen New York City and saw the Statue of Liberty that had frozen into a popsicle, but their whereabouts were discovered by surface patrols.

A patrol car began pursuing them.

Relying on his extraordinary talent in mechanical operation, Jack played a doomsday version of GTA with the patrol car in the frozen New York City.

At the same time, Kate also discovered that Jack had stolen her mining truck, so she knocked out her colleagues, snatched another mining truck, and rushed out of the surface to search for her son.

As for Jack, he was eventually overtaken by a patrol car because he was unfamiliar with mining trucks.

Just as two NYPD officers wearing mechas got out of the patrol car, they were about to come up and give Jack and Rose an American style Iai.

At this time, there was a sudden violent tremor on the ground.

Soon the police officers on the patrol car were notified that one-third of the world's planetary engines had stalled due to malfunctions.

In order to prevent the earth from deviating from its planned orbit and being captured by Jupiter's gravity, the United Nations decided to temporarily mobilize all vehicles performing tasks on the surface and rush to the nearest planetary engine to launch a saturation rescue.

The first act of the story ends here.

The second act unfolds a three-line narrative.

One line is that Kate is forced to change course and join the rescue in the process of searching for her son;
  In one line, two police officers took Jack and Rose to the nearest planetary engine that stalled.

One line is that after Michael learned on the space station that his wife and children had joined the rescue on the surface, he gave Kate and Jack directions from the space station.

In the end, mother and son reunited and worked together to restart the stalled planetary engine.

Just when everyone thought the earth had successfully weathered this crisis, the brain on the Navigator space station reminded all astronauts.

The Earth has deviated from its intended orbit and been captured by Jupiter's gravity.

This situation was considered at the beginning of the design and construction of the Navigator space station. According to the program settings, the brain will automatically gain control of the space station and initiate an escape mode from the earth.

As a result, the astronauts were divided into two groups. One group decided to follow Zhinao's arrangement to abandon the earth and drive the space station to escape alone, while the other group wanted to seize control of the space station from Zhinao and make a last-ditch effort to save the earth.

Michael and a handful of astronauts were imprisoned by other astronauts for supporting the latter.

(End of this chapter)