Chapter 125 Representatives of the American Dream
After filming the scenes in San Francisco, the crew quickly moved to Alcatraz Island for filming.
Because Alcatraz Island is a tourist attraction and belongs to the federal National Park Service, it was impossible to clear the scene during filming.
So during the filming at Alcatraz, curious tourists came to watch every day.
Fortunately, in this era, there was no smart phone or the like that could carry portable video, and not everyone could afford cameras like those of Sullivan and Ball.
In addition, the Internet is not developed yet, and it is difficult to spread videos. Therefore, the filming content of "Bravely Entering the Island" can only be circulated in a small area and is not considered a spoiler.
Moreover, to a certain extent, this kind of communication also helped promote "The Island of Death".
This is also the reason why little Gilbert did not embarrass Charlie Ball. From the beginning, the crew was always onlookers, and it didn't matter anymore.
But I have never seen anyone else do it like the two of them took secret photos with cameras.
Sullivan and Ball are now popular figures at St. Mary's High School. The two boasted about their magical experiences on the set and attracted a large number of friends.
Because of this magical experience, it also attracted media interviews.
Of course, this was arranged by the publicity and distribution department in order to provide early publicity for the film and attract the attention of movie fans at all times.
In the San Francisco Morning News, the magical adventures of the two high school students and their photo with little Gilbert were published.
In the report, Sullivan said: "It's so cool to be able to participate in the filming of a movie. I never thought I would be able to participate in a movie shooting."
Ball said: "When we were caught at first, I thought we were finished. But I didn't expect that Director Gilbert Jr. was very kind and kindly gave me an autograph.
Now the hottest girls in school are dating me because of this experience..."
Well, at least the fat boy's problem of not being able to find a girlfriend in high school was solved. Little Gilbert never expected that he would become a Yue Lao.
Various other small newspapers also continued to interview and report on tourists and passers-by who had watched the filming of "The Island of the Dead".
Among them, it became an interesting story that a stuntman was hung thirty floors away during filming, which caused a misunderstanding by the police.
Little Gilbert himself was not idle either. He arranged for his assistant Anna Singer to run his Facebook account and posted some stills through the Facebook account, which aroused the attention of movie fans.
There are now more than 500,000 Facebook users in the United States. This is not 500,000 accounts. Based on real-name social networking, this is 500,000 real users.
Also because of its good user stickiness and data performance, Facebook continues to gain favor from the capital market.
More importantly, with the proposal of the Internet Information Superhighway plan last year, the Internet speed has been greatly improved after one year of construction.
Although video transmission is still difficult, the upload and download speed of less high-definition pictures is already very fast.
As a picture social networking site, Facebook's faster network speed will certainly help Facebook's business develop faster.
After Series A financing, Facebook quickly carried out Series B financing and Series C financing. Facebook’s current valuation is around US$450 million.
As the boss and largest shareholder of Facebook, although some shares were inevitably given up during the financing process, Gilbert Jr. still holds 44.3% of the shares.
Thanks to Facebook, Gilbert Jr. has become a billionaire.
Now it is no secret that Gilbert Jr. is the boss of Facebook. When they learned that the boss behind Banana, another portal and search engine, was also Gilbert Jr., Silicon Valley and Wall Street were shocked.
When Gilbert Jr. invested in Apple, he was ridiculed by Silicon Valley and Wall Street, who thought he had poor investment vision.
But now little Gilbert has actually founded two unicorn Internet companies, which makes people doubt little Gilbert's vision.
Could he actually be an investment and business genius? When interviewing the COOs of Facebook and Banana, both companies said that the original ideas and creativity came from Gilbert Jr.
This is not over yet. Netscape went public in August, and Gilbert Jr. was among the shareholders.
And it is said that Gilbert Jr. has been persisting in buying stocks of popular Internet technology companies such as Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, etc., and has also invested in several start-up Internet companies.
After reporting on the development of Facebook on its front page, the Wall Street Journal introduced Gilbert Jr.'s business investment empire in detail on its second page and estimated Gilbert Jr.'s wealth at more than $500 million.
This part does not include Little Gilbert's part in Hollywood. If you add in the various copyrights held by Melon Studio and the value of Little Gilbert himself, it is estimated to have exceeded 700 million US dollars.
Of course, most of the US$700 million is in shares and stocks, and many of them cannot be liquidated.
The market is changing, and the company may collapse one day, and little Gilbert's wealth will shrink.
However, it seems that there is little hope that Gilbert Jr.'s wealth will shrink.
The Los Angeles Times believes that not only in the film industry, but also in the investment field, Gilbert Jr.'s achievements are beyond the reach of many young people in their lifetime.
Therefore, after the movie genius, little Gilbert was given the title of investment genius. The Wall Street Journal gave him a more appropriate name: Gates Jr., or Buffett Jr.
However, neither Gates Jr. nor Buffett Jr. can cover up the fact that Gilbert Jr. is a talented film director.
The halo added to him eventually fed back into his film career.
Anywhere in the world, except in weird countries, the pursuit of genius is never-ending.
Although the world is built by tens of millions of ordinary working people, it is undeniable that much of the change and progress in the world is driven by geniuses.
Now, little Gilbert is undoubtedly considered to be on the same level as those geniuses, although others don't know that he is actually cheating.
After marveling at little Gilbert's genius ideas and vision, looking back at Apple, elites on Wall Street and Silicon Valley began to wonder, does Apple really have potential? Is it just that we didn't see it?
However, after the capital market carefully studied Apple again, it still believed that this company was hopeless and that it was the kind of company that should be given up immediately.
It seems that no matter how talented a genius is, he still needs to learn and grow. This apple is an example of failure for little Gilbert.
This not only kept the aura of little Gilbert from dissipating, but also added a touch of people-friendly and comic character to it.
Especially knowing the history of little Gilbert's fame and the process of his success, this is a typical example of the birth of the American dream.
Little Gilbert has become a representative figure of the American dream. Countless people at the bottom of society and immigrants to the United States want to become the next Little Gilbert.
These are all the things that ordinary people dreaming about the American dream know about little Gilbert from newspapers and media. What they don’t know is that little Gilbert’s father has deep connections in Hollywood.
He is an Italian squid himself, with the help of the Italian Gang and the Hollywood Jewish Club.
Moreover, little Gilbert's first directing opportunity was obtained by sleeping with Gwyneth Paltrow, although it was not a loss for him.
Of course, if you are a loser, even if your family has deep connections, you will end up just hanging around and waiting to die, so little Gilbert's own 'talent' is still very important.
As time enters November, the climate turns to winter. Affected by the cold air from the south and the cold current from the Pacific Ocean, the actual body temperature will feel cold.
However, it rarely snows in San Francisco, and this year is no different. There are also very few snowy days.
Therefore, the crew's filming work went smoothly and was not affected by the weather.
After finishing the filming of a large number of outdoor scenes, the crew moved to the studio to set up scenes for filming, which eliminated the impact of cold weather to a greater extent. Scarlett Johansson's birthday was coming soon, and the little girl called little Gilbert specifically to invite little Gilbert to her birthday party.
"Can you come to my birthday?"
Hearing the expectant tone of the little girl on the phone, little Gilbert thought about his schedule. It happened that the shooting task was not heavy, so he could go.
"Okay, Scarlett, what kind of birthday gift do you want?" Little Gilbert agreed and asked the little girl what gift she wanted.
Who knew that Sijia would still lie about it: "Mom said, girls should not take the initiative to say what they like, let the boys guess."
After hearing this, little Gilbert found it funny and interesting, so he cooperated: "Okay, in that case, then I will guess what you like and prepare a birthday gift for you!"
"Well, okay, come quickly, otherwise the cake will be shared."
"Okay, okay, I will definitely..."
After hanging up the phone, Little Gilbert asked his assistant to prepare a round-trip ticket to Los Angeles and rush back to San Francisco early the next morning.
In fact, San Francisco and Los Angeles are only more than 600 kilometers apart. You can also drive there, but it will take longer.
Most of the railway network systems in North America were built in the 1920s and 1930s, and the railway systems of the last century could no longer meet the needs of daily travel by the 1990s.
Therefore, when traveling here in North America, you usually drive your own car, and the only way to get there is by flying.
Air tickets for this kind of short trip are very cheap, there are many flights, and tickets are available at any time.
In North America, traveling by plane is as convenient as taking buses and subways in China.
However, it seems that not many cities in China have subways now, and buses and bicycles are the most popular modes of travel.
As for the gift, little Gilbert put some thought into it and went to San Francisco's Chinatown to find someone to order a folding fan.
The folding fan is designed with Xiangfei bamboo as the main body, with some exquisite ornaments and a song "The Book of Songs·Guan Ju" embroidered on it.
This poem expresses the love between men and women. Little Gilbert felt it was inappropriate, but he thought Scarlett wouldn't understand it either, so he didn't change it.
After it is done, put it in a wooden box engraved with various small patterns of birthday wishes, and finally wrap it in a gift box.
Little Gilbert felt that this gift was enough to satisfy the little girl.
After temporarily handing over the crew affairs to Charles Rowan and Kane Waxman, and handing over the filming tasks to Anne Burton, little Gilbert and Sofia returned to Los Angeles to celebrate Scarlett Johansson's birthday.
"Happy birthday, Scarlett." Little Gilbert took out the gift from behind and handed it to Scarlett Johansson who looked expectant.
Scarlett couldn't wait to take it, and Sophia also took out her own gift, which was an electronic product.
After reading it, Scarlett put it aside, and then opened the birthday gift from little Gilbert. It was a folding fan, which was very beautiful.
Scarlett immediately beamed, very happy, and said to little Gilbert: "Thank you, little Gilbert, I like the gift you gave me very much."
Sophia rolled her eyes: "Scarlett, don't you like the gift I gave you?"
"I like it, I like it all." Sijia replied.
But it can still be seen that she prefers the gift from little Gilbert.
At this time, Ms. Sloan came out to greet her: "Director Gilbert, Sofia, dinner is ready, let's eat together!"
"good……"
Little Gilbert and Sophia walked in together. There were many children in the room at this time, and they seemed to be Scarlett's friends.
Of course, adults are also indispensable to congratulate you.
Seeing the famous Hollywood director Gilbert Little, these adults didn't expect that they could actually see him, and they were a little dazed for a while.
Although Ms. Sloan came to Hollywood from Broadway to work as a screenwriter and producer, she was apparently not very successful.
When these adults saw the close relationship between little Gilbert and Scarlett, as well as the daughter of director Coppola, they had to re-examine Ms. Sloan's background.
After eating dinner, singing happy birthday to Scarlett, and eating cake, little Gilbert casually dealt with the guests who came to visit, and then was taken by Scarlett to visit her room upstairs.
"Scarlett, is this your room?" Little Gilbert looked around, a very dreamy princess room.
Scarlett said proudly: "I designed it myself, and my mother helped me decorate it."
"Wow," little Gilbert exclaimed, "I didn't expect you to have the potential to be a designer!"
"That's right," Sijia became even more arrogant when she heard the exclamation: "I have designed the interior decoration of many houses. Let me show you."
As she spoke, Scarlett pulled out a picture album from the small cabinet on the desk, sat on her little bed with little Gilbert, and shared some of her paintings and designs.
Although she is still very immature, it can be seen that Sijia has good artistic talent.
After Little Gilbert and Scarlett finished reading the painting, they suddenly saw a comic book on the bedside table where the lamp was placed.
So he asked Scarlett: "Scarlett, do you still read comic books?"
"Yeah," Scarlett took the comic book and showed it to little Gilbert, and said at the same time: "This is the comic book of "Iron Man". I have many more on my desk."
Like sharing her interesting toys, Scarlett shared her comic books.
Not only "Iron Man", but also "Captain America", but also "Superman" and "Batman".
Looking at these comics, little Gilbert couldn't help but think of the brilliant superhero movies in his previous life.
In this day and age and with this technology, it is technically very difficult to shoot a superhero movie.
"Fantastic Four," which Marvel Comics sold to movie studios, was released this year, but it flopped at the box office.
Today's successful superhero movies are basically DC Comics superheroes, the "Superman" and "Batman" series, and DC has long belonged to Warner Pictures.
But it doesn't matter, there is a huge opportunity in front of little Gilbert, and that is Marvel Comics.
Although it is still more than ten years before Marvel Comics' superhero movies start, wouldn't it be possible if we acquired or invested in Marvel Comics at this time?
When he thought that an industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars was at his fingertips, little Gilbert couldn't help but get excited and smacked Scarlett's forehead hard.
"Scarlett, you are truly my lucky star."
The little girl was dizzy from the sucking. She looked at little Gilbert who was excitedly making a phone call with a puzzled look on her face.
"What did I do?"
(End of chapter)