Chapter 232 Soaring to the top
Tommy’s action was very straightforward. In the name of introducing cooperation to his friend Stephen’s Paradise Production Film Company, which has no business visits all year round except for the boss’s self-entertainment, he personally called Stephen over to deal with Little Turner for him.
Of course, Stephen has heard of Turner Jr., and when he learned that this kind of film and television tycoon, who owns three TV networks and holds shares in multiple film companies, wants to talk about program production with him, Stephen's face is about to turn into a chrysanthemum.
He doesn't like others to think of him as a young financial talent. If someone keeps praising him for his excellent investment vision, he may not receive an invitation to Stephen's next party.
But if a person wants to praise him for his achievements in the film and television industry, think that he has unique insights and views on the art of television and film, and see him as the winner of the Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award since he was a child, then the other party is him best friend.
The three goals that this guy is currently planning for himself in life are as follows: 1: Win an Oscar, 2: Win an Emmy, and 3: Win a Jack Kirby Award, which is comparable to movie Oscars in the American comics industry.
Judging from Stephen’s influence in these three industries at present, apart from using the superhero’s unique trick "money ability" to buy villain judges, Tommy does not see any possibility of him having any connection with these three awards.
The moment he saw Little Turner appearing, Stephen felt that Tommy was his true friend. With so many people around him, no one really wanted to figure out what he wanted, only Tommy understood himself.
If my Made in Paradise wins the favor of Little Turner, it will give Stephen more recognition in Hollywood than before I signed with those filmmakers to make movies at a premium all over the world. At least people will not mention him, and besides, he is just a money What a rich man who doesn't understand anything, but a film and television practitioner who can truly cooperate with film and television tycoons.
"Mr. Turner, if you want to understand the life of young nobles, or want to produce a program similar to "Natural Noble" for competition, no one understands better than Stephen." Tommy made a gesture to the two of them. Let me give you an introduction, and immediately flash away after leaving this sentence:
"He is a true born nobleman. I have all the good qualities of a nobleman. I have witnessed that even when he is overseas, when dealing with a country's financial affairs, he never forgets to call back to New York every day to care about his grandfather's condition."
Little Turner actually had an argument with Tommy when Tommy called Stephen over. He believed that according to Fox's "Natural Nobility", his son could be considered a natural nobleman. After all, the Turner family started from his father. The Turner family has already prospered since the beginning of the generation. Now that the Turner family has combined the advertising industry, animal husbandry, agriculture, film industry, and television industry with a combined valuation of billions, if you want to shoot this young heir of a wealthy family For a reality show, you don’t need to call Stephen Bean, a young man with a foreign surname, just call him and the children of Turner Jr. to come over.
But Tommy turned Little Turner back in one sentence: "The audience can't accept 100% truth, they won't believe that the future heir of the Turner family, like most American farmers, stays in the Ohio countryside and herds cattle. They are even more proficient at milking than them. What they want to see is the false truth. This kind of family with billions of dollars must intrigue and spend money. You cannot make your heir look no different from the son of a rural farmer. You don’t need to pay for a subscription to milking a cow, they can just go to the cowshed if they want to.”
The Turner family has a special obsession with land. The area of land that the family has continuously bought over the past few decades has been larger than that of many small countries in the world. Tommy thinks that the popular American drama "Yellowstone" in the last life may be Refer to the information of the Turner family.
The Turner family's ranch business is managed by his son born to his ex-wife. Strictly speaking, what Tommy said is not wrong. Most of the time, his son looks no different from the son of an ordinary American rancher, except that There are more land and livestock, as well as cattlemen who help with grazing. After all, the Turner family is the largest private ranch and private land holder in Ohio.
Stephen doesn’t seem to have much work to do other than polishing his movie script to commemorate the CS gang recently, and there is no pressure on his movie to be released, anyway, he is the investor of the whole movie alone , producer, director, screenwriter, as long as he doesn't push the progress, others will not speak.
After leaving Stephen and Turner to exchange ideas about the happy life of the American aristocrats, Tommy went to continue discussing with Siegel whether learning mountaineering or skiing would be a better way to pass the time.
It's not that Tommy and Siegel are randomly looking for topics to pass the time, but according to his plan, the next three or four months will not be so busy. Anyway, everything that can be arranged has been arranged, and the rest is to wait slowly , waiting for the starting gun to sound.
To Tommy's surprise, Turner Jr. chatted with Stephen for a very long time. From the afternoon to the beginning of the lights, many employees of BT Entertainment had already left work, and the two guys were still discussing something excitedly in the conference room. , Even the dinner was ordered by the executive of BT Entertainment, and he didn't go out to eat with Tommy and Siegel.
"I want to go back to the hotel." Herbert Siegel saw that many employees of BT Entertainment had already left, leaving only a few employees who were still working overtime, and said with a tired face: "I want Go and ask Turner to go back to the hotel together. If you have any other questions, we can discuss them tomorrow. Thank God, I promised to stay with him for only one day, and I will return to New York at dawn tomorrow. If there is another day, I am afraid I will die of boredom."
Tommy accompanied Siegel to the meeting room, but before the two of them got close, the door of the meeting room was opened from the inside, and Little Turner walked out with a happy expression on his face: "Tommy, I insist, Guys like Rick are too hypocritical, but Stephen, a good boy, has the quality of sincerity!"
While talking, he couldn't help but pat Stephen on the shoulder who came out with him: "Let the legal counsel draw up the contract as soon as possible. I believe that investing in Paradise Production is definitely worth the money."
Tommy suspected that he had heard it wrong, so he picked out his ears and asked, "Who are you investing in?"
"Stephen's Paradise Production." Little Turner said with a positive smile: "I think this show has great promise."
Herbert Siegel was also a little confused: "You asked me to convince Tommy's father-in-law to invest in BT in the name of Warner, in exchange for BT willing to jump in line to help you produce some programs, but now, you temporarily decide to invest in another A company? You know, Julian is going to make me owe him a favor whether or not you ask Tommy to help, right?"
Tommy didn't care whether Turner Jr. wanted to invest in BT Entertainment. He was just curious about what Stephen had talked with the other party, so that Turner Jr. could regard him as a talent and be willing to invest in his production company.
He has known Stephen for so long, and it has always been this guy who used money to invest in others. He tried to find someone to invest in the script he wrote himself, but he never succeeded. Little Turner was the first person in Stephen's life who was willing to invest in his artistic dream. people.
Stephen's expression at this moment looked more smug than when he usually dated women. He left Turner Jr. and Siegel in the corridor, and didn't even say goodbye to them. He happily pulled Tommy back to the meeting room, and put Tommy Pressed on the seat, he walked to a whiteboard and said to Tommy with bright eyes:
"With the help of Mr. Turner Jr., I came up with a very good idea. Mr. Turner said that Fox had produced a reality show called "Natural Nobility" and was going to launch it on their paid reality show channel. Helped Mr. Turner design another reality show. If Fox wants to tell Americans that there are nobles in this country, and they take the audience into the lives of those nobles, then our show can tell the audience, no, there is no **** in America. Nobility, only the great American Dream."
"I'm at a loss now." Tommy stared at Stephen, with some worry in his tone: "And you look a little excited, which makes me a little worried. The disease in Little Turner's mind may be contagious. He bought MGM At the press conference, I said the same thing as you, saying that he wanted to revive MGM and restore MGM’s status as the king in the silent film era. As a result, under his leadership, MGM not only failed to become the king, but even lost the status of the Big Six. Or not."
Stephen ignored Tommy's concern, and said seriously: ""Natural Nobility" shows the so-called extravagant life of the children of wealthy families, so my program focuses on emphasizing not to envy those people, which is more exciting to be born to inherit a wealthy family or to create a wealthy family by yourself , which is greater?"
"Speak humanly, Stephen." Tommy said with the same calm expression.
"I decided to gather a few rich young people and let everyone temporarily abandon their identities and wealth, go to a completely strange city to start from scratch, and within a certain time limit, from a penniless tramp to a rich man again. Money man, I want to tell the audience in front of the TV, if we can accomplish this miracle, then they can too, this is the American dream." Stephen opened his arms and said proudly to Tommy.
"What are you going to call this show?"
Stephen took two steps to the side, letting go of the whiteboard that was covered by most of it just now. Tommy followed his gesture and looked over.
"How did you come up with that?"
"I thought of it from the setting of "The Fake Girl" produced by Rick, who threw the daughter of an upper-class family on the street and let her join the gang, but "The Fake Girl" can only deceive the poor people at the bottom, without any authenticity at all. It’s nothing more than Rick’s exquisite plots that make the audience want to die, but the audience who are willing to pay must have a higher level of pleasure difficulty than the audience at the bottom, just like you, after sleeping with too many women, ordinary women are already very tired. It’s hard to make you feel happy.”
"Just say it yourself, I'm still a **** American virgin."
"So, there it is, the modern American dream, the modern gold rush, isn't it funnier than watching a bunch of guys who inherit a pile of money and only know how to throw all sorts of *group* parties in New York?"
"Want to hear the truth?"
"What?"
"Personally, I prefer to watch group parties." Tommy grinned, and then got up: "Just kidding, I'm happy for you to have someone like Little Turner recognize your abilities, brother, please allow me to represent Your father who wasn't there to witness, your mother who wasn't there, Otilia, are so proud of you."
"F*ckYou! Tommy!"
"Goodbye, come on, future film and television tycoon, by the way, if you are busy with work, recommend me the doctor, coach, etc. you used to go to Switzerland for ski vacation. I am going to learn to ski."
"But as I said just now, I said that I would call a few rich young people, and among those few people, there happened to be someone named Tommy Hawke." Stephen raised his eyebrows:
"Come on, poor ghost, let the American audience understand the meaning of self-made prosperity, and teach these poor Americans what the **** great American dream is."
Second update~
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