Huayu: Enjoy Yourself

Chapter 75 City of Angels

Hollywood is the world's most bustling film city.

It is also a general term for the entire American film and entertainment industry.

It is Los Angeles, located in California, the largest state in the United States.

It is the state with the highest economy in the United States, and if taken out of context, it would be among the top ten in the world, and even in the top five.

Los Angeles can also be called the world's movie city or movie kingdom.

The most complete film industry system and the most comprehensive publicity and distribution channels reach every corner of the world.

If he wanted to, he could get that poor, starving uncle to watch your movie.

This is also the powerful marketing and promotion that people often overlook, only remembering its powerful industrial system and film special effects technology.

Chen An's passport had been processed well in advance. Without notifying anyone else, he boarded the plane to this unfamiliar country, accompanied only by Chen Wei.

Travel by plane, crossing the vast Pacific Ocean, and flying nearly 10,000 kilometers to land in this "City of Angels".

The heart of world cinema, I want to make my mark here.

After getting off the plane, Chen An dragged his air-freighted luggage and walked out of the hall with his knowledge.

Instead of sensing the breath of freedom, I fear the smell of gunpowder, as if someone were shooting at me.

After exiting the exit, Chen An searched for a while and then saw Jerry, whom he hadn't seen for several years, holding a sign and waiting for him. He walked straight to the sign.

"Hey Jerry, long time no see." He started speaking in English with a slight Chinese accent.

Jerry stared at the Asian man greeting him for a moment, then suddenly hugged Chen An happily: "Long time no see, Chen! I've been waiting for you for so long! You should have come sooner to show off your talent."

He also complained that Chen An had taken several years to come and find him.

He then opened the car door for Chen An and stuffed his luggage into the car, saying, "Get in the car, Chen, let's talk in the car." He then led Chen An into the passenger seat.

This is a Ford Mustang, a classic and beautiful American muscle car. The body lines are perfect, and it is well maintained. You can tell at a glance that the owner cherishes it.

After observing for a while, Chen An got into the passenger seat.

"Chen, your new movie is a great success this time, and my expectations for you have risen even higher. Damn it, two million US dollars has turned into eighty-five million. You're practically robbing people, don't you think?" Jerry said to Chen An in an exaggerated tone as he got back into the car and started driving.

Chen An sat in the passenger seat, looking at the buildings in this foreign land: "I don't think so. You're the ones who should be robbing people. You can rob people all over the world."

"You are the biggest market; Titanic is making money like crazy all over the world."

Jerry, who was driving, disagreed: "No, there's only one movie like this, and it's too expensive. Nobody wants to make a movie that expensive. Your movie is much more appealing."

"You've registered so many scripts, have you decided what to film?"

"Don't you like low-budget movies? How about we shoot one like this?" Chen An didn't say much, nor did he intend to go for a big budget right away.

Hearing Chen An's idea, Jerry turned around happily: "Oh Chen, you're amazing! Can you create a miracle like your new movie?"

"You'll have to ask God; you won't get an answer from me." It's impossible to draw a definitive conclusion about these things directly.

Chen An looked at the bustling traffic on the street. The prosperity of Los Angeles was basically no different from what he had seen in movies in later generations.

The streets are filled with blonde, Western women and men.

Of course, there was also a lot of trash, with Coca-Cola boxes from various fast food restaurants carelessly thrown on the ground.

But it is indeed bustling, with countless skyscrapers standing tall, and Spider-Man's webs can only work in a city like this.

Even when you get to your own home, you can only run to get there.

However, Chen An was not discouraged. He had come here for this very reason and had already traveled through the country once before, so he was not afraid of any difficulties.

The car gradually slowed down and finally stopped in front of a towering hotel: "Chen, this is the hotel I booked for you. You can rest here tonight, and I'll take you to headquarters tomorrow."

He opened the car door and got out, then went to the back to take Chen An's luggage down. Chen An also opened the car door and got out.

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Just as he was about to take the luggage, a doorman came over and took Chen An's luggage.

Then someone else took Jerry's keys and parked the car.

Jerry, however, smiled and took out a fifty-dollar tip from his pocket, handed it to the doorman, and said to Chen An:

"This is Hollywood and America. As long as you have Manny, you have everything. I believe you'll adapt quickly."

After saying that, he pulled Chen An toward the hotel lobby, with the doorman carrying their luggage following behind them at a leisurely pace.

Jerry chatted with the receptionist for a few minutes and then got the key to the reserved room. He then took Chen An up the elevator.

As the elevator ascended step by step, it finally stopped on the fifteenth floor. I stepped out of the elevator and found my room.

You can overlook this bustling city right next to the huge floor-to-ceiling windows in the room.

The room was very large, almost twice the size of a typical hotel room in China, with a huge single bed and sofa.

The floor was covered with carpets that covered the entire room, along with some foreign liquors that Chen An didn't recognize. The bathroom, which was estimated to be about 20 square meters, had a shower, bathtub, and toilet placed together.

There is a round table in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, on which sits a bottle of foreign liquor. Two chairs with backs face the view outside the window.

The room was quite luxurious; it must have cost a lot of money.

"Chen, you can rest here for today. You can look around, but it's best not to go out at night," Jerry said after the doorman put Chen An's luggage away.

"Of course, you can contact me if you feel a little lonely." Jerry said this with a broad smile on his face.

Chen An looked at Jerry with some disbelief: "Contact you?"

"Hey, don't look at me like that, I'm perfectly normal. I meant I'll help you make the contact," Jerry quickly explained.

Chen An smiled and shook his head, jokingly saying, "No need, I prefer others to contact me."

"Then let's hope we succeed this time, then surely many tempting treasures will come knocking on your door."

"In that case, I wish us great success this time, because I want to see just how tempting it is."

"I hope you can experience it."

Jerry left after a short time. He was a Warner Bros. employee who was responsible for purchasing films at major film festivals around the world, and he was also a producer.

Traveling all over the world, even though it's lucrative, is still a tiring job.

Compared to becoming a great producer, this little bit of extra income is nothing.

In this producer-centric country, producers are at the top of the industry, second only to investors.

The director is just one part of the production team here, no different from the actors.

Sometimes it's not even as good as the actors; when big-name actors have problems, you can only appease them.

The director is merely a tool; only independent film directors or truly renowned international directors can earn the respect they deserve.

There are countless actors here, and the post-production team and behind-the-scenes staff have formed a system with specialized assessments and learning paths.

The status of directors is vastly different from that of other places.

The saying that film is the director's art only applies elsewhere; it has no meaning here.

The three major European film awards all go to the directors, while the Oscar for Best Picture goes to the producers.

The highest award for directors is Best Director, while the three major European awards are for Best Film.

Europe is the birthplace of cinema and the place that most pursues art. Film, the art of directors, also originated here.

In Hollywood, movies are like commodities, packaged layer by layer before being released to the market.

The director is only one layer in this hierarchy; most directors don't even have the right to edit.

This explains why many directors are unwilling to have their names credited on their films, and Hollywood has even created a fictitious director's name for those who don't want to be credited.

"It seems that in addition to being a screenwriter, I also need to be a producer." Chen An muttered to himself as he stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, looking at the cars passing by below.

There is still

(End of this chapter)