Lance studied language, literature and philosophy. He knew clearly that just like the vast land of China, there are huge differences in cultures in different river basins and regions. The same is true in the United States.

The East Coast led by New York and the West Coast led by Los Angeles are not just two completely different cultures, but even two opposite cultures.

As the world's largest capital, New York has the most immigrants and the most complex nation in North America, which makes people take it for granted that New York is the most successful and complex city in the great integration of culture. But Lance has lived in New York for thirteen years, but clearly knows that on the contrary, New York is one of the most exclusive cities in the United States. Unlike the closed small villages in the central region, New York's exclusiveness does not come from fear of the unknown, but from the exclusion in the bones, and even discrimination.

The most successful city in American cultural integration is undoubtedly San Francisco. The cultural integration around the world has given this city a unique feature, as if you can find freedom, casualness and literary atmosphere in the streets and alleys. After living in the two cities of San Francisco and New York for a long time, you can notice the sameness and differences between them. Lance just meets this condition, so he understands this better than many people.

San Francisco and New York also have Little Tokyo, Little Italy, Chinatown, Latin American communities, hippie communities, and poor areas, etc., and each area has its own characteristics and style. Even the architectural style highlights the mark of national culture, as if standing in a city, you can see different scenes and cultures around the world.

In San Francisco, various cultural differences can be felt between streets, but they are wonderfully integrated, just like the Pan American Pyramid Building standing between the Financial District and the Little Italy District, but it is full of a rich ancient Egyptian style, which looks out of place compared to the surrounding buildings. However, it is connected with all the buildings in a calm and natural manner, forming a beautiful landscape.

But in New York, the style between regions is so distinct that it seems to be traveling between different cities. The distinct feeling is a strange sense of alienation. It is completely a small United Nations that is set on Manhattan's palm-sized island. The jumping style makes New York full of colorful colors, but it has never been truly integrated, just one by one, one by one, is tied together by chains.

To give an intuitive example, restaurants. In San Francisco, you can find restaurants of various styles in any area, Chinese restaurants in the financial district, sushi restaurants in the Latin American district, and burrito carts in the little Tokyo. But in New York, specific restaurants always have specific areas, such as in the Upper Town, almost all restaurants are high-end French restaurants and Italian restaurants, while truly authentic traditional Italian cuisine can only be tasted in the little Italian district.

Of course, there must be exceptions and cannot be generalized by any means, but overall this is the case. This is the difference between New York and San Francisco. It is also the difference between the East Coast and the West Coast of the United States.

Located on the east coast, New York is a typical temperate continental climate, with rainy, cold, haze and humid. It may not only face heavy rains and snowstorms, but also often face the potential threat of hurricanes. All of this makes New York, which seems to be open, form a psychological attitude of blocking and exclusion.

Due to geographical location, the East Coast became the forefront of the European continent's invasion of North America. As the first colonial trade point established by colonists from European countries after Columbus discovered the American continent, New York had excellent historical heritage and then formed its own unique cultural characteristics. Many arts were born, developed, spread and prospered. From poetry to literature to painting, from Broadway to hip-hop to dance, the city has its own authentic art form.

It is no exaggeration to say that New York plays an important role in art history, and even the culture of many regions of the United States has inherited the inheritance of New York. A most direct example is the contemporary "New York Times". The reason why this newspaper is called the number one newspaper in the United States is not because its highest sales volume "Wall Street Journal" is the newspaper that dominated the sales list for many years, but because the remarks of this newspaper play an important role in the United States. Many local newspapers even report on the views of the "New York Times".

All of this has led to the fact that artists born in New York are often arrogant and cold, living in their own world, continuing and inheriting the artistic style of New York, but refusing to open their hearts to the outside world and communicate with the outside world.

Los Angeles, far away from New York, is connected to San Francisco, forming a special culture on the West Coast. It has a typical Mediterranean climate, with sunny and sunny all year round, and sometimes it rains a handful of times throughout the year. Of course, the Bay Area in San Francisco is generally not high throughout the year. Ernest Hemingway Sn once said, "I spent the coldest winter, the summer in San Francisco", but this will not affect the golden sunshine and brilliant clouds of San Francisco.

Whether it is Los Angeles or San Francisco, the beaches are a beautiful landscape of the city and even become part of people's lives. This also makes people always lazy, casual, sunny, and comfortable. The smile on their faces become the most representative city postcards.

Both the development of Los Angeles and San Francisco lag far behind the East Coast. It was not until 1781 that the Spanish colonists began to develop Los Angeles, and San Francisco had to wait a century later. All of this gave the West Coast a distinctive feature: all development, all progress, all developments were passed down from the outside world. When New York had become a historical turning point and a cultural gathering point, the West Coast had just begun to start.

After the West Coast has merged a large number of cultural differences, it has formed art works, music, literature, painting, dance, drama, etc. with its own style, and they have gradually gained their own unique style. But compared with the East Coast, it is always more open, more free, more mixed, more diverse, and more variable. This is true even the birth of Hollywood.

So, this has a phenomenon: the cultures on the East Coast and the West Coast gradually form an opposition.

The East Coast believes that the West Coast is too commercial, too open, too changeable, losing the purity of art, but the West Coast believes that the East Coast is too conservative, too noble, too self-centered, and living in its own world, refusing to keep pace with the times. The East Coast believes that the West Coast’s culture is vulgar and boring, and that the West Coast no longer has the elegance of art, the West Coast believes that the East Coast’s art is separated from the masses and self-admiration, and will sooner or later be eliminated by society.

Broadway looked down on Hollywood for a long time, and it can even be said to be contempt and contempt, believing that Hollywood is a symbol of depravity, and Hollywood always mocked the old peddlers on Broadway, unable to keep up with the pace of the times, and the hip-hop disputes on the East Coast and the West Coast were sparking, with many shootings, revenge and counter-retaliation, resulting in the death of many talented hip-hop artists.

Such an opposition did not disappear because of the development of the times, but instead penetrated into the bone marrow and could not be erased.

The American Academy of Film Arts and Sciences has a deep imprint on the West Coast in its bones. The cultural opposition between the East Coast and the West Coast can clearly find traces on the Academy.

As the most representative figure in East Coast film art, Woody Allen is the most popular figure in the Oscars. As of the just-concluded 77th Oscars, he won twenty-three Oscar nominations, including fourteen script nominations, but interestingly, he only won three Little Golden Man trophys, two of which were from the same work, "Anne Hall", and the other was the "Sisters of Hannah" in 1986. After that, eighteen years have passed, Woody won numerous nominations but has never been recognized again.

However, Woody didn't care. He never attended the Oscars. He was a literary old man who was happy to stay in this small world of Manhattan. The only compromise was after the September 11 incident in 2001. He attended the Oscars the following year. For his beloved New York, the unique New York, he spoke out on stage.

Martin Scorsis is another benchmark film character on the East Coast. All his works can be found in New York's Little Italy, which is the source of his creation. But unlike Woody, Martin has always had a good relationship with Hollywood, but his Oscar journey can be called tragic and heroic. The "taxi driver" who has been famous in history has not even been nominated for the best director.

Of course, nothing is absolutely absolute. With more and more members of the academy, the number of judges who are born on the East Coast is gradually increasing, and many New York-born actors are also booming in Hollywood. For example, Robert De Niro. It is undeniable that the cultural opposition between the East Coast and the West Coast is an indelible part of Hollywood's blood.

"Did you know? Warrenbeatty is also from the East Coast School." Tom's voice pulled Lance back from shocked thoughts. "He was born in Virginia and then succeeded on Broadway. He had eight years of acting experience when he succeeded in Hollywood with the male and female thieves."

Lance savored Tom's short words carefully, "So, is this a good or a bad thing?" Lance covered up his inner surprise. His current panic could not help at all. He also believed that those who like Tom could never guess that he had been a human being for three lifetimes. He was just scaring himself now.

"I think it's a good thing. Just like Martin said, you're from San Francisco, but your cultural heritage comes from the West End, which is in line with New York. So, that makes you win more recognition here." Tom's words answered Lance's doubts: No wonder people take it for granted, no wonder people put him and Warren and Woody together, and the West End experience became the best answer. "From your current number of Little Golden People, and from where we are tonight, I think this is a good thing, at least we've all made a profit, right?"

After saying that, Tom smiled heartily, which made Lance smile brightly, but deep down he fell into deep thought. To be continued.

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