Chapter 646: Forrest Gump became an election slogan
"Hi, Sonny..."
"Ronald, I'm glad you can come here..."
Ronald once again took his family to Palm Springs for vacation. Sonny Bono, Cher's ex-husband, the former mayor of Palm Springs, and the organizer of the Palm Springs Film Festival, has now resigned from public office.
Receiving Ronald and his party.
Sonny Bono is also the honorary president of the Palm Springs Film Festival and has great influence here. Some of Daydream’s imported films from abroad (especially Chinese-language films from the three places) will come to this film festival held at the beginning of the year.
, trying to gain some influence so that it can be sold at a higher price when America is released.
The box office of Forrest Gump is still very strong. Ronald is mainly busy with TV broadcasts, video tapes and original soundtracks. It is more convenient for TV stations to broadcast. He only needs to slightly trim a few overly cruel scenes of the Vietnam War and remove a few seconds, which is in line with the situation.
The TV station’s rating standards will suffice.
Ronald planned to put one or two scenes that were cut out of the finished film into the videotape. For various reasons, Forrest Gump was not able to present the director's version in theaters, and the videotape had to be given to those who bought the videotape themselves.
Some compensation for the hardcore fans of the collection.
As for the soundtrack CD, it is the most troublesome. The entire movie contains more than 40 American pop music from the 1950s to the 1980s. It can be said that these middle-aged people can almost listen to the most popular music every year in the movie.
American music.
This has also brought about copyright confusion. The copyright authorization for use in a movie is not the same as the authorization for the soundtrack album. Ronald made a fortune through the soundtrack album of "Dirty Dancing" before.
It has been spread in the music circle for a long time, and it is impossible to take advantage this time.
Over the past 40 years, the copyrights of these songs have also experienced major changes in the music industry and have become very complicated. Some original record companies have been acquired, and the copyright packages containing some songs have been sold as investment products, so it takes
A lot of effort was put into straightening out copyright agreements.
Ronald also had to contribute to the company, and some high-level understandings had to be communicated by phone. However, the copyright of some songs just couldn't be obtained, such as "Freebird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd Band.
Bird,” and The Doors’ “Love Her Madly.”
The copyright owner offered a sky-high price, and the original soundtrack album couldn't be released, so we had to give up. However, "Sweet Home Alabama" by the Lynyrd Skynyrd Band was still available.
After Ronald agreed to pay a high price, he was included.
Jim Morrison, the lead singer of the Doors, had passed away long ago, so there was no pressure from the copyright holder during negotiations. Even Ronald couldn't bear the lion's mouth, so he had to become the hidden gem of this CD, which was used in the movie.
None of the four songs were included.
This soundtrack album is divided into two CDs, with a total of 32 songs, plus the theme song of the movie, and is available as a set.
By the time Ronald came to Palm Springs for vacation, the album was already available in some music CD stores. Without any large-scale promotion, sales in the first week ranked 35th in the United States.
This is a very good sign, because sales in the Midwest and South are very good, and dealers there are rushing to ship. Sales in big cities such as New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago have also seen peaks, and local right-wing radio stations in these places have
After praising this album, I said that now is an opportunity to buy all the songs worth listening to in the past forty years at once. Just add a best selection of the Doors and your music collection will be complete.
Now the factory is stepping up production and delivery. Soon, movie fans and fans across the country will be able to buy two high-quality rock records selected from the music industry over the past 40 years at a cheap price.
"Why don't you have any songs from the British Invasion period in your two CDs?" Sonny Bono was also a famous singer who had topped the charts, but he was singing love songs at that time and was seen together with Cher.
Cheng is the sweet song group of Golden Boy and Girl, which does not match the rock-oriented temperament of Forrest Gump, so they did not use his songs this time.
But Sonny was a professional player after all, and he could see it at a glance. In Forrest Gump, Ronald deliberately omitted the dominance of a large number of British rock bands in America at that time.
For example, the two bands that used the most interludes in Forrest Gump, The Doors and CCR, were at the same time, and the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and The Who were even more famous than them, and they also became very famous later.
Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, etc.
These British rock bands were better than the local American rock bands at the time, both in terms of sales and music reviews.
"It's hard for me to imagine that Forrest Gump would listen to those songs. He is a young man from a small town in Arkansas. Of course he must listen to American rock music sung by American singers..."
Ronald smiled and said that Sonny Bono had not seen Forrest Gump yet. Ronald teased that there would be a show in the evening for Sonny Bono, the RINO (the titular RINO).
Party) come to popularize the science.
This is why Sonny Bono came to accompany Ronald throughout the whole process. He originally planned to run for governor of California, but when he heard that the Elephant Party representative in his district was retiring and would no longer participate in the November mid-term elections, he immediately changed his mind.
I have made plans to run for the House of Representatives in California’s 44th District.
The constituency where Palm Springs is located is mainly a desert, with some famous resort cities, and is famous for its warm climate and tourism. Because it is vast and sparsely populated, it is a typical Elephant Party constituency.
Feeling that his acting career was over and he was about to transform into a politician, Sonny Bono immediately began to publicly declare that his political views had always been conservative and that he would participate in the midterm elections as a Republican this time.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! However, he is not really a supporter of the Elephant Party’s ideals. He just likes the policies of the former commander-in-chief, Ronald Sr., which allowed him to make more money and pay less.
Just taxes.
"Ah, it's really shameful. I have too many things to do now. In preparation for the election, I need to attend many fund-raising activities, and I have to visit people's homes to ask voters to vote for me. Fortunately, I still had a certain reputation when I was a singer. Those women
Voters still remember me."
"Old friend, I'm ready..." Ronald smiled and took out a business card, which was the organizer of a super PAC established in California. Needless to say, Ronald was the big funder behind this PAC.
, donated a lot of money to them through various funds.
Ronald's purpose is to try to help politicians who are friendly to him come to power. For example, the two California senators often receive checks from this PAC called "Make California Life Better."
There are also the elected members of the House of Representatives near Beverly Hills, where Ronald is located, and the elected prosecutors of Los Angeles County, California. They are all his public relations priorities. It does not matter whether they are the Elephant Party or the Donkey Party. What is important is that they must
There are people of your own at key locations where you live and live.
Therefore, who is selected is not the key issue. The key is that the person selected must thank Ronald's fund for contributing to their campaign. It does not matter who shows up at the fundraising party. What is important is that the broker is there.
Tell the names of those candidates behind the scenes.
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"It's really good. These songs, hey, remind me of past memories..." Sonny Bono really knew the current situation and immediately went to borrow a copy and put it in the theater of the luxury hotel where Ronald was staying.
There was a show.
He himself had tears in his eyes when he saw it, recalling the time when he was a big singer, and his songs at that time were also frequent on the charts. "I Got You Babe", a duet with Cher in 1965, also topped the charts.
Number one on the list...
"Honestly, is your success rate in this election high?"
Ronald looked at Sonny Bono and didn't quite understand. Susan Strickland, the candidate of the Donkey Party, also had many supporters and had received funding from the Donkey Party's national convention. It was specifically used for
Sniper like party candidate.
"I don't have a big problem. This year will be a red tide. When the Elephant Party wins a big victory, maybe we can win the House of Representatives and the Senate and make William lame..."
"Why?"
Ronald hadn't seen him for a while and found that now he was full of political jargon. He seemed very professional, very much like this.
"We have a very good party whip, Newt Gingrich. He launched a movement called the Compact with America platform, which emphasizes reducing the size of government, increasing government responsibility, reducing taxes, strengthening public safety, and reforming welfare
system……"
After listening to Sonny Bono's explanation, Ronald realized that it turned out that the minority leader of the House of Representatives and the whip of the Elephant Party had formulated the platform for this midterm election based entirely on First Lady Rodham.
Rodham wanted to enter politics, so as soon as her husband took office, she began to push for a universal health insurance project, big welfare, and big government. Gingrich did the opposite and promoted reform of the welfare system and cut the existing
Welfare and reduction of government spending.
For this platform, Gingrich also announced that as long as the Elephant Party can win and occupy a majority in the House of Representatives this time, he will make a commitment to promote legislation in the "Contract with America" within the first 100 days of taking office as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
bill...
This promise is also aimed at First Lady Rodham. The health insurance group led by her wants to take advantage of the opportunity now that the Donkey Party occupies both houses of Congress to accomplish its feat by passing universal health insurance during this Congress.
legislation.
By convention, this bill will be called the "Rodham Bill." Being able to leave his name on such a bill that changed the universal health insurance system will give Rodham an excellent bargaining chip in his future political career.
If she runs for public office in the future, she can tell the low-income voters of the Donkey Party that I brought you your medical insurance and you have to vote for me. This is an inexhaustible political resource that can be passed on to future generations.
However, Rodham's real level is really not that good. If his husband William had been involved in this matter, even if it had not been successful, the lengthy discussion would have ended in the House of Representatives, a draft had been formed, and the draft had even been passed.
, delivered to the senators for approval.
Rodham has yet to win majority approval in the House of Representatives. The more they debate, the more everyone discovers that her draft contains too many imaginary contents and will bring huge benefits to those involved at the federal level.
On the other hand, the state's related households will get nothing, but may lose the procurement contract for the public hospital system that they worked hard to obtain.
Comparing the two comparisons, voters have a very high degree of recognition for Gingrich, and they all hope that the elected speaker of the House of Representatives will bring more benefits to voters and educate the president and his wife on what it means to truly serve voters.
In other words, Gingrich directed the campaign headquarters of the Elephant Party and distributed it to the House of Representatives candidates in each state. The overall strategy in this midterm election was to attack First Lady Rodham.
Instead of spending a lot of effort describing what they can bring to the voters of this district, they should spend their money on attacking the first lady. If you continue to vote for Rodham’s Donkey Party, then the next two
In the next year, nothing will be achieved in your constituency, and none of the things you expect will be achieved.
"Is this okay?" Ronald felt a little incredible. Could it be that voters hate one person so much that they would elect another person just to make her feel defeated?
"Of course, our internal poll numbers are very good. As long as I have enough funds and invest in qualified party workers on the ground, winning the 44th District is not a problem. I heard that overall, we will win this time
In every election, thirty to forty constituencies can be flipped."
The ground push is to hire volunteers to knock on doors at every house before the election and ask them to vote for them. The flip is that the constituencies that originally belonged to the Donkey Party have elected candidates from the Elephant Party this time.
Sonny Bono is very confident, which is a good thing. He also highly praised Gingrich, the minority leader of Congress. This made Ronald turn on the TV on the way back to Los Angeles to watch Golden Rich on NBC.
Rich's speech.
"We need to balance government spending and allow the federal government to achieve a balanced budget.
We need to cut back on the welfare system and strengthen the review of people who receive benefits. Welfare recipients must find jobs or participate in certain work-related activities (such as vocational training) in order to continue to receive benefits. They cannot receive benefits for more than five years at most. People cannot
You cannot live on welfare all your life, you must earn the dignity of being able to work.
We need to hire more law enforcement officers, strengthen public safety and crime prevention, and increase penalties for violent crimes..."
Gingrich is a bit fat, with fair skin and big ears, but his words are very inflammatory, which is very pleasant to the ears of voters who support the Elephant Party.
"We are not congressmen with privileges, but public servants serving you. Within 100 days after I take office, I will remove the privileges of congressmen from complying with certain federal labor laws and require Congress to also abide by federal labor regulations...
"
When Ronald heard this, he was a little surprised. Gingrich also wanted to take action on his colleagues and exempt them from some privileges. In the future, will members of Congress not be able to make a fortune by stock trading based on inside information?
"These are common sense that everyone has known since the founding of America. And those in the Donkey Party are trying to make you not believe in common sense. After universal health insurance, a large number of people who cannot afford commercial health insurance will enter the system. You guys
Can people who pay taxes get better insurance terms?”
This was a direct attack on Rodham. Ronald felt that Gingrich seemed to be very confident, and the commander-in-chief did not give him any face.
"Just like a movie I saw recently, Forrest Gump, an ordinary person with an IQ of only 75 also knows that there is no free lunch in the world. Stupidity is the stupid things that normal people do, not a person who is called stupid.
I may not have as high an education as those people, but look at their ignorant proposals, they are just doing stupid things... And you, the backbone of America, like Forrest Gump, work hard and raise children, we absolutely cannot
Let these hippies do something stupid to destroy what the Forrest Gumps have accomplished."
"Why!"
Ronald was shocked. How could this guy quote characters and lines from movies to canvass votes for his election without asking his own opinion? Doesn’t this make it seem like he has jumped out to support the Elephant Party? Ronald has been absent all this time.
Openly supporting any party, because if you publicly declare to support a certain party, you will offend the other party, which is definitely not a good thing for a movie director or media company owner.
"Hello?" Ronald immediately called lawyer Lindsay Dole, "Gingrich, this idiot, can we sue him for infringement?"