Once Upon a Time In Hollywood

Chapter 45 Dinner

Squeezing out a week to adjust for Roland is already the limit of Columbus's power.

After all, the current Roland is not the Hugh Jackman of the future, and there is no way for the crew to wait for him to finish other things before shooting.

However, a week is enough for Roland.

With the help of the teacher's correction, the weird accent has disappeared. With the return of the Californian accent, his literary drama has also progressed smoothly.

"Oh, Kevin, I am so sorry."

When Catherine Hara, who plays the mother, looked at Roland apologetically, and said her lines affectionately.

Roland, who was still pursing his lips and showing aggrieved face, suddenly raised the corners of his mouth, and rushed over with a smile on his eyes.

In the camera, Catherine in a camel coat crouched down. When she opened her arms and hugged Roland in green pajamas tightly, the whole California scene of the movie was completed.

Next, the crew needs to go to Fox's studio to retake all the scenes of the family going out for fun, stranded at the airport, and trying to get home. Those shots have nothing to do with Roland and the others.

It is no exaggeration to say that when Chris Columbus held up the guide tube and shouted 'Cut, good'—

Roland is considered unemployed.

"Everyone, can we go to dinner now?"

After three months, when Roland brought up the invitation to join the team again, everyone who had already finished work suddenly burst out laughing.

"We have rejected you once before, if you don't go this time, it will be disrespectful to you."

"You decide the time and place, we will definitely be there."

Answering like this made Roland smile, "Well, I'll go back and talk to Aunt Ganetti tonight."

"Tomorrow night, you just come to my house directly..."

"This time, it's not business, right?"

In terms of interpersonal communication, Roland still upholds the attitude of his previous life.

If you can go to the dinner table to stimulate affection, you will never have a head-to-head conversation.

Not to mention that America is not fond of entertaining guests, they are also human beings, and they also have official and private exchanges: most of the official banquets are held in restaurants and clubs, and only close friends will be invited to their homes; When the other party accepts your invitation and says that he will arrive on time, it means that the other party at least regards you as a good friend.

Ah no, they are good friends.

After returning home, when Roland told Ganetti the news of inviting everyone to come over for dinner, the hospitable aunt responded directly without thinking; since the latest season of "Full House" has already been finished, the second Early in the morning, Ganetti took Roland and his daughters to Kroger near their residence, where they made a purchase.

Kroger is the largest grocery chain in America. It sells a variety of branded food and fresh produce. Not only that, but they also have a bakery, deli and butcher shop. As long as there are no special ingredients, you can basically buy them here. arrive.

Pushing the stroller and leading the two daughters, Ganetti kept reporting the names of the ingredients. After hearing this, Roland quickly found these products on the shelf, took them off, and threw them into the trolley.

After so many years, Roland felt a little emotional when he experienced the busy feeling of shopping in the supermarket again.

In his previous life, he has never stepped into a supermarket since he graduated. If he is hungry or thirsty, is Meituan hungry? If he lacks urgent needs, he will call Wukong to run errands. For large items, he will open Tmall. For daily necessities, he will use Taobao , So they asked people to bargain on the eve of the fight.

He is used to the convenience brought by the Internet, but unfortunately, America in the 1990s had nothing.

"Roland, what do you need?"

"If there is no shortage, then we will check out and go back."

Looking at the hill-like trolley, Roland came to his senses and really had one head, two big heads.

He really doesn't like the behavior of American people who come to the supermarket once a week and buy food for a week at a time.

Not to mention whether the vegetables are fresh after being stored for a long time, the shelf life of the various foods alone cannot be controlled.

A lot of food is put there when you buy it. If it is expired, just throw it away.

This kind of waste visible to the naked eye made Roland, who had lived a hard life, very distressed.

Unfortunately, he is not in charge of the family, so there is nothing he can do!

According to Garnetti's instructions, he found a notepad and checked each dish. Roland, who found nothing missing, pushed the cart to the cash register, and when he was about to pay the bill with the salary he had just received, he was The straight eyes on the side caught his attention, and following the line of sight of the two little lolis, the advertisement with the Baxi logo entered his field of vision.

'I see…'

'These two little guys are hungry...'

When Roland found out that Ashley and Mary were so attracted by the ice cream advertisement, Ben was still standing in front of the cash register, waiting for the settlement, and he slapped his forehead and suddenly woke up and said, "Aunt Ganetti, I forgot I bought ice cream."

"ice cream?"

Garnetti was taken aback for a moment, then turned his gaze away from the radio display, "We don't need ice cream."

"And I remember you don't like ice cream, right? It's a high-calorie food..."

"But when James was in school this morning, he deliberately pulled me and told me to bring him a Baxi family bucket."

"He said that now that my salary has arrived, it's time to treat me."

"As soon as I heard it made sense, I agreed to him directly."

Facing Ganetti's inquiry, Roland instinctively poured dirty water on James without thinking.

After he finished speaking, Ganetti, who was bewildered, immediately lowered his face, feeling helpless and angry, which made Roland feel guilty.

"Okay, it's James again..."

"Go and buy it, I'll talk about him when I get back."

From the moment Roland mentioned the ice cream, the two little lolis, Ashley and Mary, pricked up their ears, eagerly looking forward to the development of the matter, and when Ganetti nodded in response, they smiled even more excitedly stand up.

For them, being able to taste sweet ice cream is the greatest satisfaction at the moment.

As for whether your own satisfaction will be based on the pain of others?

Then this is out of their control.

What's more, James is their elder brother.

My brother blamed my sister, is there anything wrong?

When Roland chose a bucket of each flavor of Baxi ice cream in units of one gallon.

Following the cashier's settlement action, Ganetti's complexion also became quite gloomy.

Feeling the coldness emanating from the other party, Roland could already imagine that after returning home, James must face Gale.

‘It’s a pity that Americans can’t spank their children. '

‘Otherwise, James’ dinner tonight should be fried pork with bamboo shoots. '

After two seconds of silence for James, Roland took out his wallet, paid the bill and left.

After returning home, Roland first helped Ganetti throw things into the food room, and then watched him put on an apron and get into the kitchen.

The Olsen family actually has a nanny, but if they don’t cook for this kind of dinner, they will feel that there is something wrong; so, when Ganetti carefully prepares the dinner, the three sisters left unattended. In the hands of Roland, Roland played with Ashley and Mary in the playroom, as for the aged Elizabeth? Isn't this guy who can crawl, walk and imitate the biggest toy?

However-

"Hey! Elizabeth, can you stop hugging my leg?"

"Hey, hey, don't climb on me!"

"Wow, are you using me as a crutch?"

"Don't pinch my face! I rely on my face for a living!"

Although Roland never took care of a child, in the previous time loop, he used Elizabeth as a model and drew an unknown number of portraits of her.

It's just that Elizabeth knew how to sleep back then, and she wasn't as skinny as she is now. Under the preconceived situation, Roland felt that this guy was easy to deal with, but now...

When the hungry Elizabeth yelled and slobbered his face, Roland felt like he was a husky big G.

And Elizabeth is the mythical beast A Dan.

Of course, being kissed by the future Scarlet Witch is not the point.

The point is…

"Aunt Ganetti, I think I need to take a shower."

Looking at Roland's bird's nest-like hair and wet trouser legs, the familiar smell that came to him made Ganetti, who was preparing dinner, burst out laughing, "Okay, kid, you can go... "

"I'd better call David to come back, the three of them are really too difficult to serve..."

"Oh, by the way, there is deodorant in the storage room, you can pick an unopened one and go back and use it."

"Don't wait until you're still smelling after taking a shower. It won't be fun if you let those guests think you peed your pants..."

Yes.

Roland encountered what happens to all guys with children.

When he felt the coolness coming from the trouser legs, he knew that he was done.

In his mind, he quietly made a note to Elizabeth, and Roland was going to settle the matter with her slowly after the other party grew up.

At this time, what he needs to do most is to go home and take a shower.

By the time Roland appeared again, it was already past five o'clock in the afternoon.

James has already finished school, David has also returned home, and the guests who contacted yesterday showed up on time.

Not only that, Mohamy, the driver who accompanied Roland for 90 days, was also invited by Roland.

It is the same as the custom of being a guest of the American people.

Although it was Roland's treat, these guys still brought some small gifts with them. Chris Columbus brought a cake, Joe Pesci brought two bottles of wine, and Daniel Stern went too far and brought A full set of Disney dolls.

Mickey, Minnie, Donald Duck.

Daisy, Goofy, Pluto.

When the three sisters saw the one-meter-tall doll set, the three pairs of eyes stared bigger than an angel baby giving birth.

"There are exactly six, two of you."

"Thank you, Daniel."

"You're welcome, I just don't know what to give."

“Sofia (Coppola) asked me for a Disney doll for her last birthday.”

"So I think they should all like these."

Roland laughed at Daniel Stern's words. He didn't worry too much about the other party's choice phobia. He took the plush toy without even thinking about it, and stared at Elizabeth for a long time at Minnie and Dessey. to the opponent's face.

The remaining four were thrown to Ashley and Mary by him.

Neither Roland nor James likes Disney dolls. The former is long past the age of liking plush toys because of his two lives, while the latter likes the plastic villains.

Of course, the plastic villains played by James are not Asuka or Saori, but Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and Batman.

And his wife is Spider-Man.

Because today's dinner is thankful, everything will officially begin when the guests arrive.

Everyone at the dinner table behaved very casually, and the topic of discussion was quite open.

They can talk about Hollywood related to themselves, real estate closely related to David’s assets, sea fishing, golf, rugby and other sports, as well as the game market related to Mohamy’s future, except In addition, the tense situation in the Gulf region is also what they can talk about.

The dispute between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, whether they will fight, whether their conflict will affect the international oil price, these things, let the guys who hold money and invest moderately care very much.

And when they talked about all this, Roland, who was sitting aside and listening patiently, curled his lips.

Gulf War!

What a chance to make money!

The whole world knows why this war started, and because of the war, the international oil price will soar during this period. Although it may not be able to rise to some barrels of crude oil, if you take the opportunity to make futures, the profit is still quite a lot.

Even if Roland can't control the timing well, he can buy Lockheed's stock with his eyes closed now!

You know, with the F-117A shining in GulfWar, Lockheed's stock has risen a lot!

It's a pity that these treasures that have been recorded by Roland can only be stored in the hard disk of the computer to eat ashes.

Not to mention whether Roland has money, even if he has money, at his age, it is not easy to operate.

This is the biggest problem.

"Eh? Mike, I heard from Roland that you're not going to work at Western Digital?" After everyone exchanged some half-truthy inside information, David suddenly shifted his gaze to Mohamy, who was working hard. .

Faced with David's question, Mohamy, who was gnawing on the beef ribs, quickly swallowed the food, nodded and said, "Yes, David, after taking the salary you settled for me, I plan to start my own business." .”

"Really? Do you need help?" As if he felt a little too enthusiastic, David explained with a smile: "Don't think too much, I just want to know when you will start the company."

"Chris (Columbus) just said that the third round of audition time was arranged by them on the third of next month. If you don't mind, I will help you with company registration, looking for an address, and you. Help me Take him to the Columbia set..."

"We've been together for more than three months, and I'm still at ease with you. If you can come, I don't need to ask others for help."

That's right, during the previous communication, Columbus also told Roland about the audition time for "Captain Hook".

June 3rd at 9:00 a.m., arrived at Columbia Samsung's studio on time, and someone would tell him what to do.

In the words of Chris Columbus, that is: "Steven has already contracted most of the three-star studios."

"All the scenes are in-studio, so you don't have to worry at all. After taking over the project, Roland will leave Los Angeles for filming."

"You don't have to be afraid, Roland will work overtime at night."

“After Steven had a baby, he became famous as a robot, and he would go home for dinner on time every night.”

"It is precisely because of this habit that he has very high requirements for actors."

Yes, before the audition, these guys also kindly revealed to Roland the weight of Spielberg in the project. Although the film was invested by Columbia Samsung, and this company now belongs to Sony, but Sony, Spielberg can’t be controlled now. Not only that, the chairman of the merged Columbia Samsung Films is also Spielberg’s former agent—it’s no exaggeration to say that he is the same as the "Home Alone" project occupied by the Jewish gang. In contrast, the "Captain Hook" project, from the investors to the screws of the crew, are all Spielberg's people.

In this case, if any problems arise during the audition, Spielberg's request will prevail.

The producer will not control him, nor can he control him.

so-

Arriving on time and not annoying Spielberg became a must before the audition.

"Roland has already told me about this."

"Don't worry, I will come over at seven o'clock, and I promise not to let Roland be late."

"As for the company, we haven't actually figured it out yet."

"I'll go back and discuss with them to see if I should make the game by team first, and then register the company after I'm successful, or register the company first, and then start taking orders..."

Hearing Mohamy's words, everyone present shook their heads secretly.

Young people want to start a business, but they don’t even have a plan?

This kind of company, it's no wonder if you don't rush!

However, for Roland, Mohamy's state is normal.

If Mohamy is not beaten by reality, how can he have a chance?

Compared with David, who hoped to see Mohamy come up with a complete plan, Roland hoped that Mohamy would be directly frustrated and rush to the street.

After all, that's Blizzard...

Note: ①Sony only bought Columbia from Coca-Cola in 1989. Of the 3.4 billion purchase price, 1.4 billion was used to repay Columbia’s debts, and the other 1 billion was to settle Warner Bros. At that time, Sony, which was full of lawsuits, could not manage the film project at all, and they also desperately hoped that the film company could hand over a beautiful financial statement. When Berg filmed "Captain Hook", he was the boss, the boss of the entire film industry. The then chairman of Columbia Samsung Pictures was his former agent. Under their communication and operation, Spielberg, Robin -Williams and Dustin Hoffman didn't ask for a penny of salary, and directly took 40% of the profits. The box office alone took away nearly 50 million. Not only that, their The contract still includes follow-up income such as DVDs. So, don't watch this movie to make money, but Sony has suffered a dumb loss. Although the report is good-looking, but the egg is useless, and the big head is taken away by the three main creators. It is not an exaggeration to say that Spielberg is the father of this project. If he wants to postpone it, he will postpone it. If he wants to increase the investment amount, Sony will increase the investment amount. They are completely led by their noses.