King of Hollywood

"Frankly, Ed, if the chef knew that in your eyes, his carefully prepared food would not fill the belly of the takeaway pizza, it would be easier to fill his belly, I'm afraid he would cry." Crowder While talking, I pressed the switch on the wall, and the bright light filled the minimalist-style living room.

This is a villa that Crowde rented on the other side of Beverly Hills. It is quite modern and well furnished from the inside out. He moved out to live after graduating from college. Unlike Adrian—the former Adrian—doing nothing all day, after making a lot of money this time, he has already planned to buy a villa that is completely his own. .

"Please note, Crow, I'm talking about filling the stomach, not the deliciousness of the food." Adrian corrected him. "The veal he made is indeed delicious, and I have never denied that. "

Speaking of which, he could not help but twitch his mouth, although because of that small part of the soul, Adrian did not exclude Western meals, but he could also make a one, two, three, four, but deep in his heart, he still missed Chinese food. . He ran around Chinatown restaurants, but ... have you ever seen the chicken in the gongbao soaked in orange syrup? Fortunately, in the past life, I occasionally cook, and I can still remember the blessings of that abnormal memory. From time to time, I cook some home-cooked dishes for myself. In addition, so many Chinese restaurants in Chinatown are not all things that are completely Westernized, so I can barely solve it. Ascaris.

"You guys, French food is used for tasting. It's easy to fill your stomach. Burger King's two burgers are enough to do this." Crowd shook his head and fell behind the bar in the living room. Two glasses of whiskey.

"Kate said the same thing, but unfortunately you didn't bother with the point. I didn't deny the deliciousness of French cuisine. I just said that it can't be used to fill your stomach. This is all true, isn't it?" Adrian took Claude. Push the cup over.

"Kate? The chick you met in England? Still dating?" Claude asked in amazement. "It's not like you, Ed. Before, your interest in a girl never exceeded 5 day."

"That was before," Adrian said disapprovingly, "I have taken her home."

"Wow, wow, wow, is the end of the world coming?" Claude gestured exaggeratedly. "Our Ed actually took the girl home! Dude, this is the first time! It's amazing! Are you planning to marry her ?! "

"Shut up, Crow," Adrian gave him a grimace. "Will I give up the entire forest for a tree?"

那 "You are ..." Crowd looked at him with interest.

"I want a tree, I want the entire forest." Adrian shrugged.

Claude was a little stunned, but immediately laughed: "It really is Ed, but don't you feel a little greedy?"

"Olive Stone has a famous saying in Wall Street." Adrian took a sip of whiskey.

"Greedy is good." Crowder immediately took it.

"I slightly modified this sentence, and moderate greed is good." Adrian smiled. "The point is to know where my degree is, I need to make my degree bigger now. "

"Well, what are you going to do? This time the profit is enough for you to get a place in those group companies?" Crowder did not continue the discussion on this topic, but asked something else.

德里 Adrian smiled and looked at Claude's eyes seriously and said, "Let's do it together, Crow."

"What did you say?" Claude looked surprised, and the wine glass he delivered to his mouth stopped in the air.

"Remember how I told you in the cafe at the beginning? I want to take control of Hollywood! I mean to build my own media empire, not to become a shareholder of those established companies!" Adrian squeezed his fists. He waved in the air, "We can work together, Crow. You have talents that I can't match in business, but I also have a place in the movie that makes you hard to match, and my vision is not worse than you. ! We will never be disadvantaged together! "

Claude looked at Adrian puckering his lips and seemed to laugh: "Your change is so great, Ed, it's hard to imagine that you were still a year ago ..."

行 "Okay, Crow, turning over old accounts means nothing to me. I have changed." Adrian sneered.

He lowered the cup in his hand, and several came to Claude and stared at him: "Tell me, Crow, what are you hesitating? What are you worried about? Or you want to tell me that you plan to stay at the Godfather's company like this Here, slowly kill away your courage and courage, and then take over after the godfather retires? "

Claude didn't speak, just looked at Adrian with his lips serious.

"Think about it, Crow, what is what you want the most?" Adrian made an exaggerated gesture. "Is it taking over his father's company and going down the route they have planned for himself? Or start from scratch, Breaking out into a new world of our own ?! We are still young, Crow, we have the ability and we have the opportunity! Even if we lose, we can start from scratch! "

Looking at his frantic expression, Claude exhaled a long breath: "Tell me, Ed, why is the media?"

"Why?" Adrian raised an eyebrow. He suddenly turned around and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window of the living room. The curtain opened suddenly, and the bright night view under Beverly Hills immediately appeared to them.

Adrian took a deep breath and pointed to that little light: "Look, look at this city, Crowe! Here is the world's largest film industry, here is the world's most dazzling star, countless people came Looking for their dream here, always thinking that maybe one day they stand on the stage with glory and attract the attention of the world! But they do n’t know, they do n’t know, they only see one side, beautiful and seductive. The bright side! On the other side, the dark, dirty, and desire-filled side is well hidden behind it! Why? Because what they see is only what those people want them to see You and I know this, Crow! Think about it, when they turn with our baton, when they blindly applaud us, how do we feel? "

Fierce words echoed in the room, and Claude sat up involuntarily. Adrian, who stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, didn't say any more, just stared at his dead party with a keen eye.

Suddenly he pours the liquid in the cup down, and Crowd stands up, with brown eyes blinking with unknown light.

那么 "So, let's do it!"

德里 Adrian knows how the world will develop in the next 20 years, and his own conditions and capabilities are not bad-don't think that copying movies is a simple thing. So it is not impossible for him to control Hollywood. As long as one problem is solved, it is management and operation!

Yes, he knows what to do to make a lot of money, but after all, he was just a director. When did he manage and run a large company? The Adrian may have had a little experience before, but more of them are fun. So he had to solve this problem before it was possible to achieve everything, and finally thought of Claude.

德里 At the beginning, Adrian didn't realize this, he just wanted to make a startup capital through Claude. And Claude's flexible completion of the assigned task made him realize the great value of the other party to himself, so he put all his futures into his hands, and it goes without saying.

Adrian therefore made up his mind to tie him to himself, and Claude was also a lonely man who dared to break into the shelter of his parents, and his confusing remarks finally agreed. Came down.

说 "Talk about your plans, Ed," Claude said after the two came to the study and sat down. "Don't tell me, you have no plans."

"Of course there are plans, but you also know that I am not this material, so there is only a general idea, and the rest needs you to add." Adrian did not hide his shortcomings.

Claude raised his hand and made a "talk" gesture.

"The first thing is of course to set up a media company. You can buy an empty shell, how much you invest, how to allocate equity, and whether Bosworth Films belongs to it. We will discuss it in detail later." Adrian slowly Speaking, "You are the CEO, everything is up to you, I don't interfere with anything."

"Simply put, you don't care about anything. Be a big shareholder with peace of mind. I'll take care of everything." Claude sighed, "It's really unfair, Ed, you're too easy Come on. "

"That's okay. In short, everything is up to you," Adrian ignored his joke. "If I have any opinions or suggestions, I will discuss with you and get your consent and support. "

"So ..." Claude suddenly thought, "If you insist on something and I always disagree?"

那么 "I will stay with you 24 hours a day to lobby you. No matter what you are doing, I will be by the office, eating, bathing, sleeping, and even going to bed with women." Adrian said leisurely.

"Hell! Ed ~ www.readwn.com ~ You are disgusting!" Claude waved his hands in disgust.

"No way, I can't turn my face with you." Adrian spread his arms.

"Okay, okay, skip these for a moment, and then?" Claude shifted the subject.

"Set up a venture capital company with the goal of focusing on the IT industry." Adrian threw out the long-awaited answer.

"Venture investment company? IT industry?" Crowd raised his eyebrows unexpectedly. "I thought we were discussing the media industry."

"Yes, I know," Adrian nodded. "What should I say ... What do you think of this year's election?"

"This year's election?" Although Claude did not understand why he turned to this topic, he still gave his own answer: "The Democratic Party has an advantage."

"Really?"

真的 "Really-how about you?"

"Democrats have an advantage."

"Really?"

"Really."

Suddenly they stared at each other for a moment, and both laughed suddenly. Ron Reese's family has always favored Democrats, because most of the time in California, Democrats have won, but the Cowells have always been neutral, so Claude ridiculed by Adrian's sentence.

"Do you know who the preliminary presidential candidate in the Democratic Party was in January, Crow?" Adrian asked after a laugh.

"It seems ..." Claude thought a little over his head, "William Jefferson Clinton?" (Note)

(Note: In reality, in the US election, the two parties have to wait until July or August to formally determine the candidates. Here is a change in the plot. I have also thought of changing it to fit the reality, but the plot behind it is a bit troublesome, so Forget it, just look at it)