Chapter 139 The future big gold mine and his sister Natalie [5,000-character chapter](1/2)
The flight from Los Angeles to Boston is as long as six hours, while it only takes a while to get to Doctorate.
Before Chen Tian's plane took off too far, Christopher Walz had already arrived in Boston.
He had already received the script sent by Chen Tian, and he still remembered the moment when Chen Tian called out after the drama was performed on Broadway that day.
The opportunity came so suddenly. Although he was convinced by Chen Tian at that time, he still couldn't help but worry that Chen Tian would forget about this.
As time goes by, he also told himself in his heart again and again not to care too much.
He himself deliberately forced himself to forget Chen Tian's invitation, and still starred in the drama as seriously as before, earning meager rewards every day.
It was not until a week ago that when he received the script email of "This Man from Earth" that he truly confirmed that Chen Tian had not forgotten it.
He still remembered his mood when he saw the title of the script, and with an irresistible mood, Walz clicked on the email.
However, when he saw the beginning of the script and the hero told his colleague that he was from before the 140th century, Walz's favorable impression of the script suddenly dropped to a minimum.
In the end, he watched it with the idea of watching it, but he became more and more shocked, until in the end he was completely impressed by the script.
He believed that at least 90% of people would, like him, scold the film for how ridiculous it was at the beginning of the movie.
After getting the script, he carefully read the original work Jerome Bixby's "ItsaGoodLife" at Chen Tian's suggestion.
Every day when he came back from the theater, Walz practiced in front of the mirror.
Looking at myself in the mirror, I told myself time and time again that it was John in the script, and Valz had already memorized the script for a week.
After practicing in front of the mirror, Walz began to pull his wife to practice.
Waltz's wife once opposed his magical practice, but in the end she took two hours a day to practice with Waltz.
Yesterday he received a call from Chen Tian while practicing. After learning that the computer was turned on in advance, Waltz was so excited that he was like a 12-year-old child, and he could not see the appearance of a 47-year-old middle-aged man.
"I will work hard and never let you suffer with me again!"
Walz remembered what he said yesterday when he held himself in tears, looked at the Boston Airport behind him and gritted his teeth and clenched his fists.
At this moment, Chen Tian was still on the plane to Boston, thinking about the shooting of "This Man Earth".
The shooting technique of "one shot and one video" is difficult to make many breakthroughs, and it will give people the feeling of drama.
This is why Walz should be able to adapt to the transformation from drama to movies quickly, but what Chen Tian cares about in this film is not the scene but the plot.
A communication and conference-style plot built with questions and answers, and this plot is the biggest innovation and highlight of the entire film.
In fact, each of the actors in the original film performed very well, but Chen Tian still wanted to visit this oldest higher education institution in the United States and a well-known institution around the world in person.
Are there actors who are better than the original film? If not, then Chen Tian will still look for actors according to the original film?
Six hours later, Chen Tian arrived at Boston Airport, and it was already five o'clock in the afternoon.
When he walked out of the exit of the plane, Chen Tian felt a little hungry.
He and Waltz made an appointment to meet at Harvard Library at 8 o'clock in the evening. After looking at the time on their phones, Chen Tian was about to go to downtown Boston.
A city next to Cambridge and Boston, where Harvard University is located, is just across the Charles River from downtown Boston.
Standing on this side of the river, you can see the opposite shore. In Cambridge, not only Harvard, but also another world-renowned university, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
It was Chen Tian’s first time to arrive in Boston before and after time traveling. Since directing the film himself, Chen Tian’s view of the scenery suddenly seemed to have changed his mindset.
It seems that every moment and every scene around him may bring him a different feeling.
Like ordinary people coming and going, Chen Tian took the Boston Subway.
Although Chen Tian's exposure increased rapidly and was easier to identify than ordinary Asians, Chen Tian, who was dressed in ordinary clothes, looked like an ordinary Asian person and did not attract other people's attention.
According to local railway radio, Chen Tian got off the subway after arriving at Chinatown Station.
Walking out of the subway entrance, you will see the entrance of Chinatown standing not far away.
Boston Chinatown is the only Chinatown in New England, the fourth largest Chinatown in North America, and is located in the center of Boston.
Putting your luggage in a hotel near Chinatown, Chen Tian came to Chinatown.
I grew up in Chinatown, Los Angeles. At this moment, I feel a sense of intimacy when I look at the entrance of the Chinatown in front of me.
There are four big characters on the main entrance Chinatown archway: "The world is for the public", which seems to be full of righteousness. It seems that you can imagine the scene where Mr. Sun Wen wrote these four characters at that time when he looked at the words.
Walking through the archway, the opposite side is Chiang Kai-shek's calligraphy "propriety, righteousness, integrity and shame". There are almost 10,000 Chinese people in this Chinatown, and about 100,000 Chinese people settled in the entire Greater Boston District.
Walking on the streets of Chinatown, watching tourists and Chinese specialty shops standing on both sides of the street, it seems like you are in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
Her stomach was gushing, and Chen Tian gave up his plan to continue his tour and saw a restaurant called "Asian Flavor" not far away and walked over.
The restaurant is a medium-sized Chinese restaurant. Today is the weekend. The restaurant's business looks good. It can accommodate almost fifty or sixty people in a restaurant with a capacity of about 100 people.
A middle-aged woman was wiping the table in a restaurant, while a middle-aged man was behind the counter. The two were obviously Asian.
"Welcome, what should I eat, sir?" the middle-aged man asked with a smile as Chen Tian looked at the same Asian person.
Chen Tian looked at the large menu in Chinese and English that was sticking high on the wall, looked at it and said in Chinese: "Give me a portion of Yangchun noodles and a portion of Yangzhou fried rice."
Many people in the restaurant are also eating Yangzhou fried rice, which is similar to Chinatown in Los Angeles.
Many people in the United States like Yangzhou fried rice. Although their reputation is not as good as California fried rice, the biggest American enthusiast of Yangzhou fried rice is undoubtedly former President Nixon's family.
When the middle-aged man smiled even happier when he heard Chen Tian’s Chinese, he also responded to Chen Tian in Chinese.
"It seems that you look familiar." The middle-aged woman came over and inserted into Chen Tian's table and said to Chen Tian.
"Is that true?" Chen Tian smiled. He didn't say he was the director anywhere he went, "Sister, this is fate."
The speed was very fast. A bowl of Yangchun noodles and a portion of Yangzhou fried rice were delivered to the table.
For Chen Tian, eating two servings by one person is almost full.
After checking my phone, I was about six o'clock, and I could arrive at Harvard before 8 o'clock after I finished my meal.
Chen Tian’s habit of eating noodles first and then eating.
The noodles tasted very good. Just as Chen Tian was eating noodles, a woman walked behind the counter.
Chen Tian looked at the woman. She may be about the same age as him, she has an ordinary figure and a slightly fat figure, but she looks like a typical Asian, or rather the Chinese characteristics.
The woman seemed to be the daughter of the restaurant couple, and she was talking to the middle-aged man.
Chen Tian continued to eat noodles and wiped out the noodles in the bowl. Chen Tian started eating fried rice.
A middle-aged man walked in, but Chen Tian didn't care. After all, there were too many people coming and going to this restaurant. He just glanced at it and continued to eat.
"Zuckerberg, why are you here!"
Growing up in the United States, but Chen Tian rarely comes into contact with this surname.
The most familiar one is Mark Zuckerberg, who was called "Gates' Second" computer genius who founded Facebook.
So Chen Tian subconsciously raised his head, and the face of the white man walking in was completely imprinted into Chen Tian's eyes.
A naturally curly blonde short hair. The long face is characterized by mostly white people and red spots. A pair of Nike's gray long sleeves on the upper body and a pair of trousers on the lower body.
Compared with most white people, the man in front of him looks a little thin.
This man is the famous Mark Zuckerberg of later generations. Chen Tian never thought that he would meet him in Chinatown.
"Isn't this a few months before FACEBOOK in October 2003?"
This idea came into Chen Tian's mind. Although Chen Tian had little concern for things outside the movie, he did not have hobbies or was completely deaf.
However, if it weren't for meeting Mark Zuckerberg here at this moment, Chen Tian might not have thought of FACEBOOK at all.
Chen Tian naturally knew how FACEBOOK was so scary.
Before traveling through time, USC also invited Mark Zuckerberg to give a speech, and Chen Tian remembered Mark Zuckerberg's entrepreneurial path very clearly.
In just less than four years, Mark Zuckerberg became a super rich man with a $15 billion magnitude, and at that time Mark Zuckerberg was only less than 24 years old.
"Prishyla, I want to invite you tonight's dance!" Mark Zuckerberg seemed a little embarrassed.
"Prishyra?"
Listening to Mark Zuckerberg's words, Chen Tian suddenly remembered that the name was Priscilla Chen, the wife of Mark Zuckerberg who had been in love for nine years and finally entered the marriage hall?
Isn’t his father-in-law’s restaurant called Asian? Thinking of this, Chen Tian couldn’t help laughing.
He never thought that the restaurant he walked into was a restaurant run by Mark Zuckerberg's future father-in-law.
Even more coincidental, I happened to meet Mark Zuckerberg.
For Chen Tian, he naturally wanted to shoot super blockbusters with investments of hundreds of millions after his technology matured.
It is a long-lasting problem to invest in filming, otherwise he would not have filmed "Buried Live" at the beginning.
Although he still has about 50 million in his hands now, 50 million is nothing in front of big investments, as David Ellison said.
The man in front of him was Mark Zuckerberg, who also knew the early days of Facebook's birth.
Because of the large number of photos obtained through hackers, Facemash caused contrast fever, or reported to Harvard servers to be paralyzed, and was eventually forced to take off the shelves due to infringement of portrait rights.
Later, the program was redeveloped with the support of others and named it Facebook. Although it might be possible that FACEBOOK would be reborn without the support of those two people.
But Chen Tian remembered correctly. Facebook has not appeared yet, and Mark Zuckerberg may have only one idea that has not yet been formed.
If you cooperate with Mark Zuckerberg, you don’t need to worry about the future funds.
To be continued...