The internal hearing about the dead and the crashed helicopter ended successfully. The money was obtained and the documents were thrown into the safe... Just when the Hines team finally broke free from the sea of ​​literary meetings and actively celebrated another "great victory". Their team leader Hines locked himself in the office for one morning. When he came out, his face was a little pale and there was no trace of happiness on his face.

Hines has been addicted to money and the excitement of fighting (with audit) these days, and has no time to think deeply. He just habitually thinks about it, and thinks that it may be the one who made it... Just like Rock Taylor-Martin insists that it was done by its competitors. Everyone has the "enemy" they recognize in their hearts.

But there is a saying that goes, "see the essence through phenomena."

If a thing ignores the process full of contradictions and complexity and only looks at the cause and effect relationship, you will often draw completely different conclusions.

What is the cause of this incident? The cause was that Hines forced Mike's team to rob AI's armored car, and the result was that Mike's team took the big head, and Hines only received 30% of the "informer fee". Chen Yan gave Hines all the government bonds with basically fixed returns, which did not count as the margin, but was calculated as the extra 7 million. It was incomparable to the bearer bonds in Shen Yan and the others, but Hines did not know this.

Another point is that sending helicopters to monitor and "clean" when necessary is Hines's idea. Now, two deaths and four serious injuries are caused. Fib lost a 21 million helicopter. Dave was lying in the hospital and his life is unknown... Some things are extremely terrifying! Suspicion... No, it was confirmed fear that had been grasped tightly by Hines' heart! It seemed that a shadow was sneering at him and saying to him... Look, this is the result you want, are you satisfied now?

If he had thought of this on the day of the incident, then Hines, who felt face-damaged, might have revenged immediately due to stress reactions! But now more than half a week has passed, he has really calmed down and the money has entered the account... After thinking it through, only deep fear and thoughts are left.

The relationship with Mike will definitely not be able to maintain the same pattern as before, and it is all blamed for Dave! The most active one is already lying in the hospital, and Hines needs to take this opportunity to think about it...

****

Hollywood, Paradise Cinema.

Few people know about this place, and even the locals don't know that this old building turned out to be a cinema.

"My grandfather is from Ireland. They came to the west during the gold rush, selling horses, smuggling gold, reselling railway stocks, and doing everything. Until 0 years ago, they took out all the money they had in their hands to build this cinema." Americans like to show off their fortunes. Lee Cobb struggled to unlock the door lock of the building and pushed it open. As a result, a large amount of dust fell from the crack of the door, choking him for coughing desperately. "Sorry, I haven't come for a while, so don't worry about the situation in the house."

The fat man slapped the dust on his body and said embarrassedly. "I promise that everything inside is intact. You know, in the 1960s, Paradise Cinema was the best cinema in Hollywood, and she was the legend of Hollywood! There were even companies making movies for her story... At that time, many movie premieres were arranged here, "Monday Cristo's Revenge" and "Street Car Named Desire"... Like Jane Fonda and Vivien Leigh, these big stars are regular customers here, and even their signatures were on the backrest of the chairs in the front row."

The afternoon sun shone in from the gate, illuminating the dark mottled wooden chairs in the cinema.

Mike walked into the old cinema with Naomi's hand, just like walking into the history museum in Hollywood.

They touched the back of chairs flattened by generations of people and looked at the interior of the cinema. Although it was a bit dark, because the windows were blocked by thick cotton felt. The screening was also rolled up, revealing the white walls, but it was still obvious that this was a cinema.

Because rows of wooden chairs with narrow spacing are neatly arranged, squeezing to the front of the screen, like a church.

There is no comfortable sofa chair 3D seat, no Dolby noise-cancelling surround sound system, nor does it have an III super screen... Even the projector is the old-fashioned type, which can only be placed on a film turntable and has to be manually replaced every half an hour.

However, this is what Lao Mai wants. Naomi also looked around excitedly, unable to control her emotions. In their eyes, these uncomfortable chairs, curtains that deform the face, and projectors that project bright beams are all beautiful... because that is feelings.

The fat man named Lee Cobb stopped talking and knew it was not easy to wait for a customer.

The cinema closed down in the 1990s because his family could no longer support it. Even the movie that looked at nostalgia later failed to save her because it was not a cinema problem, but the economic recession of the entire community and became a blue-collar and immigrant community. People can drive dozens of kilometers to miss it because of their feelings. But when they really watch movies, they still like the ones near their homes.

Even though the planning company came to see it later, it was said that the best choice for this cinema was to close the door directly, and it was not of great value whether it was redecorated or rebuilt.

There was once a producer named Jack Klugman who wanted to transform this place into a film museum that records Hollywood history.

Unfortunately, Hollywood does not need to record history. Los Angeles, a city with less than one million permanent residents, lacks cultural recognition because of its high mobility of personnel. Therefore, after burning out the few funds, Jack Klugman, who could not find the source of funds, had to give up, and the cinema returned to the hands of the Lee Cobb family again. The cost of modernization is getting higher and higher, and the Lee Cobb family is increasingly unable to afford the money.

Apart from taxation every year, this cinema cannot even bring in a penny of income, a typical negative asset. Therefore, he hopes that Mike can wave his hand and buy it directly... I heard that Hollywood people are stupid and have a lot of money? Unfortunately, although Lao Mai has a lot 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 I called before, Lao Mai talked to him about leasing.

Lee Cobb has no choice but to pay for hundreds of thousands every year...it is better than nothing, at least he can handle taxes.

****

"Come on, show you something good." Lee Cobb took them upstairs and opened the projection room with the keys. This projection room is very large. In addition to the projector and several huge iron cabinets, both sides of the left and right have been transformed into small private rooms, just like watching operas. This angle is undoubtedly the best place to enjoy movies.

Lee Cobb searched his big bunch of keys again, and finally opened the large iron cabinet with a copper key, "Look!"

"Oh~!!! hly shit!" Old Mai couldn't help but blurt out his swear words, and Naomi also covered his lips in surprise. He saw a flat round iron box containing film, rows of neatly scribbled in the cabinet! At first glance, the big iron cabinet was afraid that there were hundreds of movie copies in it!

"Godfather, my favorite...want to watch?" Lee Cobb picked up the one on the top and said with some flaunt. This was a movie that was often screened in the theater in the later stages. He pointed to the sloppy line of paint on the iron box in English, "the gdfather!".

"Francis Ford Coppola wrote it himself, and he only wrote ten copies at that time!"

When the Hollywood film era is released, the distribution company will copy thousands of copies of the master disc filmed by the director and send it to various cinemas in a car for screening. During the release process, the movie copy may have various problems, such as loss, fire, flooding, damage, etc. Cinemas are a relatively strong party in the distribution system. After the movie is screened, the copy will generally be left in the cinema, which is considered a small souvenir.

Because recycling also costs a lot of money, and even rents a warehouse to install! The issuing company will never do such a loss-making transaction.

If the copy is left in the cinema, if the cinema organizes several "nostalgic movie screenings" at a certain period, the copyrighted distribution company will turn a blind eye and pretend to not see it. If the copy is shown too many times, there will be many scratches and blank spots on the screen, which has even become a favorite of a small wave of people... Time leaves traces.

"I'm going to fuck..." Old Mai was so excited that he couldn't speak. He walked over and flipped through the lower layer, "God, this is the 11th Arhat in the 1990s. The one played by Clooney is just a piece of shit compared to this one." He moved his fingers down and picked up the next film. "Fake, Fake! Are these twelve angry men?! These are the twelve angry men!"

"Yes, I saw Mike, I saw it." Naomi held Mike from behind, not knowing how to soothe the excitement of this older child.

"Can you show it? I mean...now." Lao Mai looked at Lee Cobb with anticipation.

Lee Cobb hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded in order to promote the business, "No problem... Damn it, I haven't done this job in twenty years! I haven't forgotten how to do it!" His hands were also trembling slightly, and the days of being a projectionist in his own cinema when he was young came to his heart again... At that time, the cinema had declined, and there were not many customers every day. Only he himself, watching the old movies over and over again behind the camera... Later, he left here for the dream of a movie, and the cinema closed temporarily... and then he never opened again.

"I'll try, I'll try... God, I hope everything goes well!" When the projector started successfully, he was as happy as a fat man of two hundred pounds. In fact, it was just that the projector's light bulb was lit up smoothly.

"Mike, can you do me a favor? Put the screen down. Ah, beautiful Ms. Naomi, forgive me for not recognizing you just now. Welcome to the Paradise Cinema. Please go to the private room next door and lift the dust cover off. I promise that the chair will not be worse than the chairs that the French king has sat on (of the century)."

Lao Mai happily ran downstairs to unravel the curtain.

Naomi also went to pack up the private room in a happy mood and prepared 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 200, watching black and white movies in a cinema built in 1990 was like traveling through time, which was a tasteful and luxurious enjoyment!

Happiness has its limits, not the richer the happier it is. Ordinary people can be happy for a whole year when buying a house; while rich people will not get more pleasure than we get when buying a game on Stea, and we also have the same trouble. We have the same trouble. We have the trouble of buying a game but not having time to play, and they have the trouble of buying a house but not having time to live in.

Therefore, it is not unreasonable for rich people to be addicted to drugs, drugs, racing, and promiscuous searches. In contrast, collecting antiques, jade, famous cars, playing golf all over the world, and wanting to die on Mars... These are all tasteful hobbies.

Iron Man is rich. Is he collecting the cover girl to brag or to be really happy? It's really hard to say. We know that if the man performs well, he will definitely stay and show off the next day. What about making breakfast... This kind of considerate behavior is all accompanied by. If the woman says, "I'm so tired that my whole body is so sore that I don't want to go to work today", he will be proud all day!

Tony Stark always disappeared without a trace early in the morning, and refused to communicate and left a considerable hush fee. With his age and body hollowed out by wine, he didn't look like he performed well...

Fortunately, he later had an iron suit. Stark said that the steel suit was a "prosthetic limb" in his speech at Congress, and he was very likely to be true!

****

When the theater turned dark again, when a bright beam of light was projected onto the white cloth, and when the colorful opening appeared... Naomi leaned into Mike's arms and hugged the man tightly.

She felt water drops falling into the fever, and in the darkness, Mike gently saved his nose...

The screen is "Eleven Arhats", the 1990 version. "Twelve Arhats" is a bit damaged in the film, so Lao Mai was reluctant to take it out and play it... It is so precious, and it is probably one of the few film copies in the world. On the contrary, "Eleven Arhats" was so popular that the copy was damaged in the film that year, and the distribution company gave another copy after the film was damaged. At that time, it was close to the later stage of the screening, and the copy was quite new now.

The specific plot of "Eleven Arhats" is similar to the 200-year remake. They are all robbing the Las Vegas casino, but the idea is different. The 0-year version is a heroic and proud comedy, while the 0-year version is a handsome show. Clooney, Pete and Matt Damon are constantly showing off their handsome show in shifts.

The squeaking sound of projectors sounded again in Paradise Cinema, as if it was reappeared yesterday.

The audience only has a woman who is in love, a criminal master who loves to watch old movies and a fat man crying, watching the joys, sorrows, sorrows, and joys performed on the screen, and watching how eleven people defeat Las Vegas...

As the movie was about to end, Naomi said softly in Lao Mai's ear.

"Mike, I'm worried about you."
Chapter completed!