Rebirth of the Spanish Empire

"Hello everyone, I would like to invite our Spanish Film Association President Meyer to come to the stage."

As soon as the emcee finished speaking, more than 60,000 people and nearly 130,000 hands clapped together.

With everyone’s expectations. Meyer, who has short hair, big eyes and a Chinese character face, walked out from behind the scenes. When he came to the center, he lowered his hands like a gentleman and said to the people below:

"Very good, very good, how are you?"

The natural screams coming from below made Louis Meyer on the stage not look happy, but instead touch his chin QGU. [

Suddenly, he straightened his expression: "Welcome to the Spanish Oscar Film Awards Party. I am the host tonight, and I am also the chairman and president of the Film Academy that you should have heard of. If any of you here want to learn Make a movie, watch a movie. If you want to criticize the movie, please call me directly, I will teach you carefully, and I guarantee that I will not lie to you. "

"Hahaha" "It's so funny, let me just say, how could this guy Meyer be so serious? Sure enough, he is still the same as before, continuing to tease everyone with his hooligan jokes. A person who knew Meyer before Funny.

"Yeah, I haven't listened to his jokes in a few years, and now I feel like I've met a close friend after drinking. Wait a minute, it looks like we need to have a few drinks with him."

"I said Laimer and Chukor, you two guys, your independent film company and Paramount Pictures have been far behind by the Barcelona Film Company, which is now a latecomer. You are still I'm so embarrassed to laugh. Our Jesse Laski feature film story is now ready to fight against Spanish films. We originally wanted to unite with you to fight against the Spanish film's invasion of the United States, but now it seems that I made a wrong calculation. But you have no such idea."

Laimer and Zukor looked at each other, and both saw the importance in each other's eyes. Laimer is now the owner of the largest film company in the United States. In addition to independent film companies, he also has several other related companies. Industrial companies are also his assets and he continues to acquire other companies to strengthen himself.

In fact, he didn't hide the reason for doing this. That is to dominate the US market. Just like Morgan monopolizing American banks and steel, Rockefeller monopolizing American oil, and the Mellon family monopolizing American coal mines, as long as he also monopolizes the emerging industry of American movies. When the time comes, he will also become a common presence in those families. so. It would be strange to say that he was not moved by Lasky's words. He is already preparing to acquire small companies in advance. It is planned to be completed within the next two years, and then according to its own ideas, these companies will be united to form a unified large company around 1913. However, the name is very cool, it is called Universal Pictures.

The same is true for Paramount, which is ranked second, but he is slightly wary of the independent film company ranked first, because Laimer's actions are too obvious. It is precisely because of this that in recent years, Paying attention to the actions of independent film companies acquiring other small companies, he also began to follow suit and acquire small companies, but he also knew that this was not a universal solution. Therefore, at this time, when Spanish films came to the United States, , making him feel like an opportunity. He remained calm, but glanced at Lasky, thinking that the other party must also have grasped that he did not want independent film companies to become too big, so at this time, independent film companies stepped forward to lead American films and become the first. That's it. , the two of them have already stood on the same strategic line without being connected, and have pushed Spanish and independent film companies to their backs, allowing them to join the battle to kill each other. In this way, they will have the opportunity to develop themselves without being suppressed by the other two parties.

And Alfonso, who was not far away from them, happened to understand. This time, Alfonso did not take any special action, so he sat in this place where the nobles were not isolated without revealing his identity. Listening to Meyer's speech, Meyer's eloquence is indeed very good. When he wants others to laugh, his face will deform and his white teeth will be exposed. Every move can touch everyone's heart.

Alfonso even thought of the hilarious scene where Huang Zihua, the founder of stand-up comedy in Hong Kong, gave a personal stage speech for several hours, and the speech of Zhou Libo, who learned a lot from Huang Zihua and others. These are the surprises that appear on Louis Meyer now.

"Independent film company, isn't that the Universal Picture Company that was established soon after acquiring six or seven small film companies? This company includes "Jaws", "Alien", "Jurassic Park", Is it the company that owns classic movies such as "The Bourne Supremacy" and "The Fast and the Furious"?

And Paramount is also a big player. "The Godfather", "Saturday Night Fever", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Transformers", "Forrest Gump", etc. are all world-class box office players. , but they are all the private property of Paramount.

As for Jesse Lasky, he joined Paramount later. Looking at the situation now, it seems that it was because Universal Pictures was too big, so he joined to fight for survival, but he didn't expect that he joined in the end but didn't come out. mean. I don’t know if this was voluntary on their part.

If these guys form an alliance to fight Spain, that would be a good idea, but for Spain, it is a somewhat bad situation. In the world of movies, the only one that can compete with Spain is the United States, which already occupied the world share. Spanish movies are not afraid of American movies now, but sometimes, if you are not careful, some big surprises will happen. What is very likely to happen is that now that American films are making full efforts to develop in the United States, there is a market of nearly 100 million people supported by the developed economy of the United States. If Spain does not enter to seize the market share, it will not be able to compete with the United States. Film companies will grow there and wait until Spain has political conflicts with other countries to stand up and use political factors to release American movies. This is what Spain least wants to see.

This is also what he focuses on guarding against. However, he finally chose not to do anything while investigating, because he wanted to see how Luis Meyer, the godfather of Spanish film and the original father of Oscar, would solve the world-wide problems of Oscar. , this can be regarded as a real test for him.

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