Chapter 12: Making Money is Hard and Bad Things Happen
The community theater troupe Brand belongs to is a professional team of Hawke with extremely high professionalism.
Arrived at the community, Hawke confirmed again: "As long as someone sponsors it, the troupe can have nearly a hundred people participating, no problem, right?"
Brand kicked the snow on the roadside: " It's winter now, and there are a lot of idle people in the community. If it were you, you would have free food. Will you refuse a drinking party? Believe me, the whole family will go to battle."
With the profit, he can use it to chase the goddess. He is very motivated: "Let's go, I will take you to see the leader Larson. , he is the most attractive person in the troupe.”
Ten minutes later, Hawke met the leader of the community theater group in the living room of a wooden house.
Larson was nearly fifty years old and still full of energy. Hearing what Brand said, he asked Hawke directly: "Outlander, are you going to spend money to sponsor us? I don't quite understand. What are you doing? Charity? "
Hoke said selectively: "I have a director friend who made an independent film in the Great Salt Lake the day after tomorrow. It was shown in the theater and they were worried that there wouldn’t be enough viewers, so they asked me to help find some viewers. I happened to be friends with Brand, and I heard him talk about your party.”
Larson stared at Hawke and smiled: "You can get a lot of benefits."
Hoke said lightly: "A little hard-earned money."
Larson's smile gradually faded, and he said simply and directly: "I want half."
"Captain, I..." Before Brand could finish his words, he was stopped by Hawke.
He always considers the worst-case scenario when doing things, and Larson's performance is undoubtedly biased towards the bad side.
Hoke opened the wooden chair, sat across from Larson, and said slowly: "The crew paid US$5,000 for this business."
Hearing this number, Larson Mori's eyes lit up.
Hawke is not afraid of his greed, but is most afraid of his lack of interest: "The Sundance Film Festival is held every year, and there will be more than 20 or even 30 film crews with similar needs in each session. This is a long-term business."< br>
He pointed at himself: "I am an outsider. After this session, the next session will not come. This market will soon be occupied by all of you."
Larson understood and inquired: "It's not just about the audience, right?"
Hoke said: "It's not easy to operate, Brand, or even you, this film festival can Follow me and watch and learn the whole process, I won’t charge you tuition.”
Larsson couldn’t help but said: “You are so generous!”
"Thank you for the compliment." In fact, what Hawke has done does not have much technical content. It is just old wine in new bottles. As long as the magic box is opened at a certain film festival, it will soon become a flood.
One crew can earn 5,000 US dollars for fishing bait, which makes Larson feel itchy. More than 1,000 crews come to each film festival, so there is a huge base to choose from.
Larson thought for half a minute and said to Brand: "Call the other deputy captains and ask them to come over immediately."
Brand called quickly.
More than ten minutes later, four deputy captains arrived, all middle-aged men, similar in age to Larson.
Larson told the story.
One of the deputy leaders, who looked very mature, said: "The troupe gathers every year, and everyone complains about digging into their pockets. The troupe only holds events a few times a year. If the most important gathering is canceled, people's hearts will be completely dispersed."
Larson looked solemn: "This is done. , the troupe has a stable source of income every year. With the money, we can hire professional teachers to teach, and those talented people in the troupe will have a better future.”
This is exactly what Hawke thought. Different, he couldn't help but look at Larson again. People are indeed complicated.
After some discussion, Larson said to Hawke: "In the evening, I will try to gather as many people as possible. When you come here around eight o'clock, I have something to declare in advance. I can call on them to do it." What, but if you want to mobilize their enthusiasm, you have to think of something.”
Hawke was mentally prepared and asked: "Is it okay to have about 100 people?"
Larson asked the four deputy commanders a few questions and said: "Including family members, it is enough."
"Okay, I'll come back in the evening." Hawke called Brand and prepared to leave.
The experienced deputy leader grabbed Hawke: "You are in the media, let me ask you something. Renona Reed stole money on Capitol Hill and hasn't been caught yet. Really?”
Hoke said nothing, lowered his head and left.
After going out, Brand never mentioned stealing the door, and said: "The leader's side is different from what I thought. I will pay for the party."
Of course Hawke will not do this. He will do it later. A big problem occurred: "You can't change what you promised. Don't forget, the goddess is still waiting for you at the state university."
Brand immediately became more motivated: "What else should we do?" He urged: "partner "Ji, now is not the time to rest, you are walking too slowly, we don't have much time!"
"Finish the party catering." Hawke walked out of the community: "You know Bill well, right?" What’s the turnover at noon? How much will it cost if we book a time slot?”
Brand was too familiar with Alpine Pizza, so he started to figure it out in his mouth.
General meals in the United States are quite cheap, and Brand is half a mole. Hawke negotiated to book the lunch section of Alpine Pizza for US$1,000 the day after tomorrow. The store will provide pizza, steak, barbecue, fried chicken and salads. Food, beer and cola are available in unlimited quantities.
In addition, the pizza shop will provide one hundred cups of refreshing American black coffee in the morning the day after tomorrow. The two of them each came out with a cup of black coffee. Brand took a big sip, thinking about everything that happened in the past two days, and said to Hawke: "I found that, except for Lewis and Damian, you have used almost all the people you met. All resources."
Hoke threw the empty paper cup into the trash can and said, "If I hadn't been lucky enough to meet you, I might have had another plan."
At eight o'clock in the evening, Hawke showed up at Larson's house on time.
Eighty or ninety people gathered in the yard surrounded by wooden walls.
Larsson talked about the movie and the party, and everyone cheered.
Everyone loves a free sumptuous lunch.
There was a bearded man holding a wine bottle. He raised the bottle towards Hawke: "Man, I want to toast you. You are a good person on horseback!"
"We must have a drink at the party. !" Regarding the movie, Hawke had to say first: "The movie I watched before the party was a movie about Mexicans."
He asked Brand to pass out the movie coloring pages.
Everyone had seen the movie introduction and stills, and the warm atmosphere was gone.
The bearded man said loudly: "Mexican movies are none of our business."
The crowd was in chaos.
“This movie is boring.”
"Change one!"
"We only go to parties, not movies."
When there are more people, it is difficult to control order, and it is particularly difficult to organize large-scale events.
Hoke opened the bag, took out a small electronic loudspeaker, and said: "Everyone, everyone, listen to me!"
The scene became a little quieter, and Hawke used the simplest A no-frills way to get these people to cooperate: "Everyone gets a $10 reward! $10!"
The crowd quickly quieted down upon hearing the money.
Hoke added: "Everyone who goes to watch the film will receive a $10 reward when they enjoy the feast at the party! There is a premise that the crew has dedicated personnel to patrol. If someone does not watch carefully, not only If you don’t get the money, your qualifications for the dinner will also be cancelled.”
“It doesn’t seem difficult,” someone commented.
“It’s just over an hour.”
“It’s interesting to see how Mexicans live.”
Human nature is the same, just like an old lady with a pension worth several thousand, spending several hours to get ten free eggs.
There is also a lot of chops.
Just sitting in a warm theater and watching a movie for more than an hour.
Hawke added more: "To prevent drowsiness, I also prepared coffee for everyone."
The beard suddenly raised the bottle: "Can I have two cups?"
Hawke pretended to be in trouble, and after a moment he said: "In this case, I will give you that cup."
The crowd burst into laughter, and the atmosphere was particularly harmonious for a while.
The Caotai team finally took shape. Hawke said some more precautions and everyone dispersed.
If you want to command nearly a hundred people smoothly, it is too difficult to rely on just one or two people.
The next day, Hawke first went to see Eric and Catherine, and then made an appointment with Larson and the four deputy leaders to explain tomorrow's process.
In the afternoon, he went to the Great Salt Lake Theater with the first two to discuss the screening layout.
In short, Hawke wants his customers to see that he is always working.
No one is 100% sure whether the movie will be sold, but no matter what, the other party has to pay the remaining $5,000.
After dinner, Hawke was finally able to rest. He borrowed Brand's computer and logged into the blog to post a blog post with pictures.
At about ten o'clock, Catherine's phone call came suddenly.
"Robert Reiner suddenly changed his schedule and will not come to our screening tomorrow. Eric went crazy and ran out to find trouble. I can't hold him back. Please come and help."
( End of chapter)