Vol 5 Chapter 119: Paradise Cinema

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The internal hearings on the dead and the crashed helicopter ended successfully. The money was prepared and the documents were thrown into the safe ... It was just after the Hines team finally broke free from the Wenshan meeting and actively celebrated another "big victory". time. Their leader Hines locked himself in the office for an entire morning. When he came out, his face was pale, and no trace of happiness could be seen on his face.
Hines has been addicted to the excitement of money and (and audit) battles these days, and has no time to think deeply. It's just a habit of thinking about it for a while, and I think it may be the ghost of CAI ... just like Locker Martin Martin is determined to be a competitor. Everyone has an "enemy" identified in their hearts.
But there is a saying called "seeing the essence through phenomena".
If one thing ignores the process that is full of contradictions and complexity, and only looks at the cause and effect relationship, it often leads to very different conclusions.
What is the cause of this incident? The reason was that Hines forced the Mike team to rob the CAI money transporter, but the result was that the Mike team got the big head, and Hines only received 30% of the "informer fee". What Shen Yan distributes to Hines is the fast-maturity treasury bonds with basically fixed returns, not counting the income, but counting the extra 7 million. They can't compare with Shen Yan's bearer bonds, but Hines doesn't know this.
Another point is that it is also Hines ’idea to send helicopters to monitor if necessary. Now the result is two deaths and four serious injuries. FIB lost a 21 million helicopter. Dave is lying in the hospital with unknown life and death ... … Some things, it's terrible! Doubt ... No, it was the established fear that held Hines' heart tightly! As if there was a shadow sneering at him, saying to him ... Look, this is the result you want, are you satisfied now?
If he thought of this on the day of the incident, then Hines, who felt that his face was damaged, might retaliate immediately because of the stress reaction! But now that more than half a week has passed, he has really calmed down, and the money has been entered into the account ... After thinking about it, only deep fear and thought remain.
The relationship with Mike can no longer maintain the past model, everything blames Dave! The most active one is already lying in the hospital, Hines needs to take this opportunity to think about it ...

Hollywood, Paradise Cinema.
Few people know this place, not even the locals know that this old building turned out to be a movie theater.
"My grandfather's grandfather came from Ireland. They came to the west during the gold rush, selling horses, smuggling gold, and reselling railway stocks. They did everything. Until 60 years ago, they took out all the money in their hands to cover this movie theater." The Americans like to show off their family history. Li Cobb struggled to open the door of the building and then pushed the door open. As a result, a large amount of dust fell from the door slit, making him cough desperately. "Sorry, I haven't been here for a while. Don't worry about the condition of the house."
The fat man slapped the dust on his body and said awkwardly. "I promise, everything inside is intact. You know, in the 1960s, Paradise Cinema was the best movie theater in Hollywood. She was a Hollywood legend! There were even companies that made movies for her story ... At the time, There are many movie premieres here, "Church of Montenegro", "Street of Desire" ... like Jane Fonda, Vivien Li, these big stars are regulars here, front row They even have their signature on the back of their chair. "
In the afternoon, the sunlight came diagonally from the gate, illuminating the dark, mottled long wooden chairs in the cinema.
Mike took Naomi's hand into the old movie theater, just like walking into the Hollywood History Museum.
They touched the back of the chair smoothed by the palms of generations and looked at the interior of the cinema. Although it was a bit dark, it was because the windows were blocked by thick cotton felt. The screen of the screening was also rolled up, revealing the white walls, but it can still be seen that this is a movie theater.
Because the rows of narrow wooden chairs lined up neatly, squeezed to the front of the screen, like a church.
There is no comfortable sofa chair 3D seat, no Dolby noise reduction surround sound system, no IMAX giant screen ... even the projector is the old-fashioned, only film turntable, every half an hour The one that is replaced manually.
However, this is the kind of Lao Mai wanted, Naomi was also very excited to look around, some emotions can not control. In their eyes, these uncomfortable chairs, the curtains that deform people's faces, and the projectors that project bright beams are beautiful ... because that is feelings.
The fat man named Li Cobb stopped chattering, and he knew it was not easy to wait for a client.
The movie theater closed in the 1990s because his family ’s funds were no longer able to support it, and even the movie that was nostalgic for later could not save her-because this is not the problem of the movie theater, but the entire The economic decline of the community has turned into a problem of blue collar and immigrant communities. People can miss dozens of kilometers by car because of feelings. But when they actually watch movies, they still like to be near their homes.
Even if the planning company came to see it afterwards, it was said that the best choice for this movie theater is to close the door directly, no matter whether it is renovated or rebuilt.
There was once a producer named Jack Klugman who wanted to transform this into a movie museum that records the history of Hollywood.
Unfortunately, Hollywood does not need to record history. Los Angeles, a city with less than one million permanent residents, lacks cultural identity because of its high mobility. Therefore, after burning a small amount of funds, Jack Klugman who could not find the source of funds could only give up, and the cinema returned to the Lee Cobb family again. The cost of modernization is getting higher and higher, and the Li Cobb family can't afford the money.
In addition to tax every year, this movie theater cannot even bring in a penny of income, typically a negative asset. So he looked forward to Mike's big hand wave and bought it directly ... I heard that Hollywood people are stupid and have too much money? It is a pity that although Lao Mai is full of feelings, his pockets are empty and he has no money to pay for his feelings ... the money is all in the stock market.
Therefore, when calling before, Lao Mai talked to him about leasing.
Li Cobb is helpless, hundreds of thousands per year ... it is better than nothing, at least to pay taxes.

"Come, show you a good thing." Li Cobb took them both upstairs and opened the projection room with the key. This projection room is very large. In addition to the projector and several huge iron cabinets, the left and right sides are transformed into small private rooms-just like watching opera, this angle is undoubtedly the best place to enjoy the movie.
Lee Cobb rummaged through his large bunch of keys again, and finally opened the big iron cabinet with a copper key, "Look!"
"Oh ~~~ !!! Holyshit!" Lao Mai couldn't help but swear out, and Naomi also covered her lips in surprise. I saw the flat round iron box with the film, and the rows were neatly lined up in the cabinet! At a glance, there are probably hundreds of copies of the movie in the big iron cabinet!
"The Godfather, my favorite ... do you want to see it?" Lee Cobb picked up the one at the top and said with some ostentation that this is a movie that is often screened later in the theater. He pointed to the scribbled line of English "The Godfather!" Written on the iron box.
"Francis Ford Coppola wrote it by hand, he only wrote ten copies at that time!"
When a film from the Hollywood Film Age was released, the distribution company had to copy thousands of copies of the master disc shot by the director and send it to various movie theaters by car for screening. The film copy may have various problems during distribution, such as loss, fire, flooding, damage, etc. The movie theater is a relatively strong party in the distribution system. After the film screening, the general copy will remain in the movie theater, which is a small souvenir.
Because recycling also costs a lot of money, and even rent a warehouse to install! The issuing company will never do this kind of loss trading.
The copy remains in the movie theater. If the movie theater organizes several "nostalgic movie screenings" during a certain period, the copyright distribution company will also turn its eyes closed and pretend not to see. If there are too many copies of the screening, many scratches and blank spots will appear on the screen, which has even become a favorite of a small wave of people ... time marks.
"I'm going to ..." Lao Mai was already a little speechless with excitement. He walked over and turned over at the lower level. "God, this is the 1960 version of the eleven Arhat, the one played by Clooney and this In comparison, it's a pile of shit. "His fingers moved down one block, and he picked up the next film. "Fak, Fak! This is the twelve angry men ?! This is the twelve angry men!"
"Yes, I saw Mike, I saw." Naomi hugged Mike from behind, not knowing how to smooth the excitement of the elder child.
"Can you show it? I mean ... now." Old Mai Man looked at Li Cobb expectantly.
Lee Cobb hesitated, and finally nodded in order to facilitate the business. "No problem ... damn, I haven't done this job in 20 years! I hope I haven't forgotten how to do it!" His hands were trembling slightly. When he was young, he used to be a projectionist in a movie theater ... At that time, the movie theater was already in decline. There were few customers every day. Only him, watching old movies over and over again after the camera ... Later he left here for the movie dream, the cinema was temporarily closed ... and then never opened again.
"I try, I try ... God, I hope everything goes well!" When the projector started successfully, he was as happy as a two-hundred catty fat man, but in fact the projector's light bulb only lighted up smoothly.
"Mike, can you do me a favor? Put the screen down. Ah, beautiful Ms. Naomi, forgive me for failing to recognize you just now. Welcome to Paradise Cinema. Please go to the private room next door and watch The dust cover can be lifted down, and I guarantee that the chair will not be worse than the chair that the French king had (16th century). "
Lao Mai ran downstairs happily to solve the curtain.
Naomi was also in a good mood to clean up the small room, preparing to watch a black and white movie with Mike for a while.
She didn't think there was anything simple here, on the contrary-in 2010, sitting in a cinema built in 1960 to watch black and white movies, it was like passing through time-that is tasteful and luxurious enjoyment !
Happiness has its limits, not the richer the happier. Ordinary people buy a house and can be happy for a whole year; while rich people buy a house, they will not get more pleasure than buying a game on Steam, and they will have the same troubles— —We are troubled by buying a game but not having time to play. They are troubled by buying a house but not having time to live.
Therefore, it is not unreasonable for rich people to indulge in drugs, drugs, drag racing, abuse, and so on. In contrast, collecting antiques, collecting jade, collecting famous cars, flying golf all over the world, and wanting to die on Mars ... these are all tasteful hobbies.
Iron Man is rich, is he collecting cover girls to brag or to be really cool? It's really hard to say. We know that applauding this movement, if the man plays well, he will definitely show off the next day. What makes breakfast ... This kind of thoughtful behavior is incidental. If the woman said "I'm so tired and sore, I don't want to go to work today", he can be proud all day!
And Tony Stark always disappeared without a trace early in the morning. He refused to communicate and left a considerable sealing fee. With his age and his body hollowed out by wine, it does not look like it is very good. Good looks ...
Fortunately, he later had a steel armor. Stark said that the steel armor was a "prosthetic limb" during his speech in Congress. He probably said it was true!

When the theater turned dark again, when bright beams projected on the white cloth, when colorful mottled titles appeared ... Naomi leaned her body into Mike's arms and hugged the man tightly.
She felt a drop of water on her hair tip. In the darkness, Mike gently saved his nose ...
Screened on the screen is "Eleven Arhats", 1960 edition. "Twelve Angry Men" has some damage to the film, so the old Mai She can't take it out to play ... That is too precious, it is probably one of the few film copies in the world. On the contrary, "Eleven Arhats" was released because of the movie's popularity, and the distribution company gave another copy after the screening was damaged. At that time, it was close to the late stage of the screening. As a result, the copy is still quite new.
The specific plot of "Eleven Arhats" is similar to the remake of 2001, and all 11 people robbed the Las Vegas casino, but the intention is different. The 60-year edition is a majestic and vigorous comedy, while the 01 edition is handsome. Clooney, Pete, and Matt Damon are constantly changing handsome.
The creaking sound of the projector sounded again in the Paradise Cinema, as if it were reproduced yesterday.
The audience only had a woman who fell in love, a crime master who loved watching old movies, and a fat man with tears. They watched the joys and sorrows on the screen and watched how eleven people defeated Las Vegas ... …
When the movie came to a close, Naomi said softly in Lao Mai's ear.
"Mike, I am worried about you."