Chapter 54—The Influence of Movies

"You are optimistic about Bush Jr.?" Claude looked surprised. (Baidu search m, Rainbow Literature Network) M

The US election has two phases. The first round of voting is held on the first Tuesday in November, and voters in each state will elect voters representing their state. Then on the third Monday in December, state electors will go to the state capitals to vote for the new U.S. president. Generally speaking, if a candidate can get more than half of the popular votes in a state-the voter recommends the electorate and also votes for the presidential candidate he supports-then all voters in that state The votes will belong to him, even if half of the state's electors do not support him.

This is called the winner-take-all, except for Maine and Nebraska, as well as the other 48 states and Washington, DC. This is why Claude is surprised that Adrian is optimistic about Xiao Bu, although he thinks that Gore is not dominant. After all, Gore has a higher approval rating among ordinary people than Bush Jr., and the electoral votes are on election day. Basically it became clear after that, most of the voting in December was just a sideshow.

"You know, I don't know a lot about everything," Adrian spreads his hand. "But that's why I can often look at things from a different perspective and see things that others don't see. Something—tell me, dear Crow, how much campaign money each Gore and Bush have raised? Or tell me directly, which one raised more? "

"Should be Bush." ​​Crowder recalled and gave the answer.

"I don't know if you noticed that, Crow, from the late 1970s, Jimmy? Carter, the presidential campaign has become the model that spends more money and wins." Adrian said seriously.

"Oh?" Crowd raised an eyebrow.

"Carter, Reagan, Bush Elderly, and Clinton are all the same. Although there are only four people, it is enough to explain some problems." Adrian stood up. "Of course, if it is just this, we can take it as a coincidence, but we look back Looking at history, after the Civil War, except for Franklin Roosevelt, the Democratic Party has never been in power for 12 consecutive years, and it has appeared more than once in the Republican Party. "

"Clinton has been in office for two consecutive terms, so the chances of Gore of the Democratic Party wanting to be elected are very small. This is what you mean, right?" Crowder asked back.

Adrian raised his hands: "Gore's approval rating among ordinary people is indeed higher than that of Bush Jr., but it is never the voters who decide who can sit on the throne of the president. Bush has been a member of Congress and a director, As President of the United States, we also discussed before that if the Red Empire disintegrates two or three months in advance, it is very difficult for Clinton to defeat him. The political capital and connections that Bush has accumulated now are enough for him to push his son up The presidential throne is here, which is why I suggest you send a personal representative to contact him instead of Bush Jr. who is running for the election. "

"It seems a bit late now," Crowder frowned. "It's been less than a month before the election day, and even if we turn to them, it won't necessarily play much role, let alone we support the Democratic Party. . "

"Come on, Crow, can't you have to do this?" Adrian could not help rolling his eyes.

That's right, traditionally, the Ron Reese family has been a supporter of the Democratic Party-of course, Uncle Anderson supports the Republican Party, he is conservative. But for major groups, betting on both sides is already commonplace. Just like this year's election, whether it's Gore's team or Bush's team, the media has made a lot of contributions.

"Okay, okay," Claude Haha laughed. "In short, Bush Jr. only needs to have more than half of the electoral votes, at least one month from the first Tuesday in November to the third Monday in December. Things, so anything can happen-I'll schedule it right away, but some things take time. "

"Don't worry, maybe the political contribution ceiling will be lifted after ten years," Adrian, who knew what he was talking about, answered with a smile.

Although U.S. law provides for a certain amount of political contributions by a campaign team to accept someone or a company, it is easy to circumvent this restriction. It is nothing more than setting up more funds. Now that the laws have all become empty, it is no wonder that the upper limit of political contributions has simply been lifted after ten years.

This result did not surprise Adrian. Claude is very stable but also likes to do some challenging things, so he helped him to rob Japan and the Black Empire, so he will be established together under his persuasion. Media, so he will do everything possible to acquire tbs acquisition and so on. But the achievement is also huge. The word young and promising is now tailored to him. How many people can manage a large group with assets of 500 million or 600 million in their early thirties? Not to mention that this group was worked out with the dead.

Therefore, as long as he can successfully acquire at & tadband, Claude doesn't mind betting on it, and the win is still great. Although investing in a senator is more cost-effective than investing in a president, there are times when investing in a president can yield great benefits, such as now. Selling personal feelings at a critical moment, as long as Bush Jr. can wait for the throne of the US President, and with the cooperation of McDonald and others, it should be possible to get it done in a short period of time. American politicians are relatively reputable in this regard.

What's more, the media is not without a backstop. The plans of several other media groups are not difficult to guess. Of course, it would be best if antitrust agencies intervened and banned the transaction in the name of suspected monopoly after adjustment. It doesn't matter-since they can use their relationship in government departments, the media can also use it, and they each have their own thoughts.

It can't be banned, then it will be delayed. The informal deadline for review can reach up to 180 days, and the formal period will not be much less. If you delay for a year, the funds required to acquire at & tadband will increase greatly. Each of these media tycoons who want to obstruct them can not see the prospect of at & tadband, but for one reason or another, they cannot or are unwilling to acquire it, and the time is a little longer, and the performance of at & tadband will generally rise, until One year ago, it only took 10 billion to buy it, but one year later, it only cost 20 billion or even 30 billion. Besides, Comcast competed to raise prices.

Their plans cannot be said badly. Under normal circumstances, it may indeed fail if they are delayed for so long, but if there is an omission in key information, then no matter how they are calculated, there will be no results. To that point, the media may not have enough funds, but what Adrian and Claude have in their hands, and Adrian decided long ago that it wouldn't matter if they were all invested in.

In the old saying, in the face of absolute strength, any strategy is useless. Without government intervention, the final decision on the acquisition case is the amount of corporate funds. Nonetheless, if this is the case in the end, there will inevitably be some losses, so it is necessary to invest in Bush Jr.

The matter was decided in this way. As before, Adrian took the idea and Claude carried out the operation, so what should Adrian do, such as accompanying Jessica to the cinema to watch "Keep the Last Dance" .

As a song and dance type film, it is already a niche in the current movie market. Although song and dance film is an indispensable type of film in Hollywood, there is almost no memorable song and dance film throughout the 1990s. , Even Woody? Allen followed up on it.

So there is no premiere for "Keep the Last Dance", of course, the propaganda is still enough-as opposed to a small-cost movie-so Adrian took Jessica to disguise and went to the cinema Watch among people.

This is actually the second time Jessica has seen a movie starring her first time. The first time she watched with her family on the day of the show, after all, she hasn't returned home for a long time. Fortunately, her figure has been recovered, so that her parents ca n’t see the flaws. Even if the mother is in doubt, she has taken some pregnancy drama in “Black Angels in the Last Days” so she added some weight to the past.

Adrian did not stop the body-building exercise that began immediately after childbirth. In any case, Jessica was still very young. In addition to her inferiority when she was a child, she also valued her looks and body. It is completely understandable, as long as Mary Just enjoy the most basic breastfeeding.

There are not many people sitting in the screening room, and they are mainly young people. They are all interested and seem to be interested in the film. Not surprisingly, this is already the second week of "Retaining the Last Dance". Because this is the off-season, we won almost 2,000 theaters, and got 25 million box office in North America in the first week. Many people have given considerable praise.

"It is full of youthful vitality and inspiring power," a film critic wrote in a column of the Chicago Tribune.

Indeed, in the past, most of the song and dance films show the adult world, either gorgeous and extravagant, or fresh and simple, although there are some youth song and dance films that are completely played by young people, they are not good, and the audience is very small. And "Keep the Last Dance" first combined inspirational and love in the story, and then combined ballet and blues in the dance, so it became such a distinctive youth song and dance film now .

"Look, you're charming, aren't you?" Looking at the big screen, Adrian breathed in an ambiguous tone in Jessica's ear.

Although Jessica didn't speak, a smug smile appeared in the corner of her mouth. Obviously, her family and friends had not praised her before. Although Jessica's acting skills are still relatively weak, they are very attractive through those lively, ornate dances. I have to say that the choreography is beautiful.

One of the biggest highlights of song and dance films lies in the carefully choreographed dances. As far as "Retaining the Last Dance" is concerned, the plot of the movie is still more conventional and simple. As soon as the heroine died, her heroine moved to her father, then she met the heroine, and then slowly came together because of the dance, and she had to undergo various tests halfway through.

If there is no dance, this is at best a very popular love movie, but with dance it is different. Choreography has done a lot of work in this regard, combining blues and ballet as much as possible, using different styles of dance to show the difference in color and identity of the two. There is no doubt that no matter what positioning ballet used to be and how much time it took to evolve to the present, it currently represents elegant art, and the blues, which have been popular among black people for decades, have been called vulgar by many people. Even gaudy things happen to resemble the identities of male and female protagonists.

The director also handled the plot quite well and cooperated well with the choreographer. For example, the encounter between the heroine and the ballet and the blues was incompatible at first, but they attracted each other in essence. Then they began to have contact It feels that the choreographer is here to arrange the blues for the first time to integrate into ballet. Of course, bumping is inevitable. As the relationship between the male and female protagonists heats up, the two dances merge very smoothly, and with the exchange of dance experience, the relationship between the male and female protagonists continues to heat up until various difficulties begin to arise.

At the back, the two had to be separated, and the fusion of the dance was stopped. The heroine could not concentrate on practicing, and the heroine could not face himself. Until the end, the actor finally decided to break up with her previous life, and then went to find her lover. She was preparing to perform in a dance school teacher in a theater at the moment. There are no male protagonists around, and although the female protagonist is desperately practicing the dance created together, the first performance still has a lot of problems.

"Are you really ready?" Asked a male teacher with glasses and a ponytail.

The heroine couldn't answer a few deep breaths until the voice of the heroine came from the door: "Yes, she's ready."

As said before, the plot is very cliché. The next scene can be seen in all love and inspirational movies. The actor rushes to the stage to encourage his lover: you can do it, you can do it. The heroine finally performed perfectly. Here, the director and choreographer are very well arranged. Although there are ballet or blues dances from time to time throughout the film, they all dance well and feel very well. There are also dances that blend ballet and blues, which also has people's eyes. A bright place, but basically did not fully show the entire dance, until the end here.

In the fast cutting, the heroine used the body to fully show this dance. It has the elegance of ballet and the rhythm of blues. It is perfectly integrated into everything, and it switches without any gap. Sometimes it is soft and sometimes sexy. It ’s like that. Passionate and energetic, even the teachers in the audience couldn't help but nod to the rhythm. The whole film was set up for just a few minutes. The emotions accumulated in the whole film were completely released at this moment. When the dance was over, the young people in the screening room couldn't help but applaud and applauded. Come.

"Very perfect." Adrian could not help but clap his hands and praised him.

Jessica, who was sitting beside him, couldn't help but frown, despite hearing such praise many times, but she sighed as she thought of something when she walked away from the movie.

"What's wrong?" Adrian asked strangely.

"It's nothing, it's just ..." Jessica pursed her lips. "It would be nice if this were all my jump."

Adrian couldn't help laughing, and stretched out his hand and shaved her nose: "Don't think so much, after all, you are not a professional dancer, and you can train to that look in a short period of time, it is quite outstanding."

As I said before, ballet is different from ordinary dances. As long as ordinary dancers give the actors enough time to practice, most of the moves can be infinitely close to professionals, such as the film Adrian prepared for Nicole. It's also one of the reasons he asked Nicole to practice dancing. But ballet is different. Generally, ballet dancers start to dance from a young age and have strict requirements on body shape. Therefore, it is necessary to start shaping before the bones are fully developed. Adults can practice ballet jumping and playing, but It is almost impossible to perform on a very professional stage.

The ballet company is also the most competitive place in the entertainment industry. It even surpasses the model circle. Many ballet dancers who perform very well are dancers for life. After practicing for half a year to a year, they can really dance like professional ballet dancers. It is impossible at all, so all ballet-related films, unless the actors are young or are themselves ballet dancers, most dances are substitute dances, without exception.

Even though there is not much about ballet in Keeping the Last Dance, Jessica used a lot of stand-ins, especially the last excellent dance. Therefore, whenever there is a front camera with Jessica's rotation on the movie screen, the feet will not be taken in, but when the whole body is rotated, the speed is very fast, the face is not clear, and it will soon switch to the upper body. close up.

"Wait for me here." When outside, Adrian patted Jessica's arm ~ lightnovelpub.net ~ and then drove, but saw an unexpected scene when he returned.

The fans who are still outside the theater are moving closer to Jessica. The front ones are rushing in front of her, and they are panicking to find something to ask her to sign. Jessica has her hat removed. He smiled bitterly but could not refuse. Needless to say, she was accidentally recognized by the fans while waiting. Of course, the fans who just watched her starring movie and delighted in it were all swarming.

Adrian shook his head with a smile, pulled his hat down, turned the car in front of the theater with a dozen steering wheels, and poked his head out the window and shouted, "Jessica! Here!"

Jessica looked at the sound, hurried over, pulled the car door and jumped up, and as the car blasted the throttle, she still apologized to the fans and said, "Sorry."

"Really popular," Adrian teased after driving the car down the street.

Jessica smiled embarrassedly, but how could the contentment and contentment on her face not be covered up, even though "Dark Angel" in the last days has made her a little famous, but when did she encounter such a scene? This is the influence of the movie.

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