Rebirth of America, this is my era

Chapter 101: Brainstorming on Vacation
Ethan was not aware of Mirowa and Atari's plans. After all, he was not Professor X and did not have the ability to read minds.

At this moment, he is arranging work in the company.

"Julis Noble."

"I'm here." The philosophy girl who was called stood up.

"During the next period of time, all matters related to the company's orders will be your sole responsibility."

"No problem, Mr. Jones." The girl nodded briskly, "I'm already familiar with this process."

"Okay." Ethan smiled to show his satisfaction and called out another name, "Damio Dean."

"I'm here." The young man who was called responded quickly.

"In the future, you will be responsible for the production and distribution at the factory. You can directly contact Frank from the San Francisco Electronics Company for the purchase of raw materials, and then give the previous week's report to Allen Massey for reconciliation every Tuesday. Any questions?"

"No problem." The young man answered cheerfully, "Don't worry, Mr. Jones, I won't let you down."

"Hmm~" Ethan admired his confidence and turned his gaze to the oldest financial director in the company.

"After I leave, you will be in charge of the company's overall affairs, because whether it is receiving orders, production and delivery, or collecting payments, these things will eventually be handed over to your finance department for checking and accounting, so you will be very busy in the future."

"Oh Boss, I'm used to it."

Allen Massey straightened his corn belly and said with a smile: "As long as it's work, how can you not be busy?"

"Besides, aren't we all working so hard just to fight for our year-end bonuses?"

"Since tomorrow is a beautiful day that can be seen with the naked eye, the current busyness is acceptable."

"Oh - you're right -" Such words made Ethan laugh, "I'll give you year-end bonuses during the New Year!"

At the same time, he also felt in his heart that the old hands who have been in society for many years are very different from the young people who have just graduated from school!

The word "dream" can no longer bind him.

But this is also good. As a human being, you should be more realistic.

If you work hard for a whole year, but end up living a miserable life for only 300 days, then what is the point of this struggle?
He waved his hand, asking his subordinates to get busy, and then Ethan turned to look at the big boss sitting in the boss chair.

"Chairman, are you satisfied with my work?" Ethan looked at his sister with a smile.

Yes, all the work arrangements just now were completed under Evelin’s watchful eyes.

Although Evelin does not participate in the company's daily operations on weekdays, she is the chairman of the company after all.

Putting aside the fact of equity, she is indeed the most senior official in the company.
Therefore, when arranging work, Ethan had no intention of avoiding suspicion.

In response to Ethan's question, Evelin, who had listened to the whole thing, smiled and narrowed her eyes.

"Oh Ethan - I'm so pleased with your work - you did a great job -"

"Thank you." Ethan nodded repeatedly, very happy.

However, before he could say anything, Evelin added, “But I’m very dissatisfied with the position setting.”

"As the president of a company, all his work is to make every subordinate do their job?"

"Then the position of CEO can be anyone, right? If we let a dog go, we can save a lot of money~"

"So, you're fired."

'? ? ? '

These words made Ethan stunned.

But the next second he realized that his sister was joking, so he nodded happily again.

"Okay, okay. I'll pack up and leave the company immediately."

Unfortunately, no matter how he cheered, the fleeting moment of confusion had already been caught by the sharp-eyed Evelyn.

After seeing Ethan's subconsciously stupid look, the girl burst into laughter. "Gosh, gosh, gosh... Ethan... I really want to take a camera to take a picture of your expression just now, and then frame it!"

"Because you're so cute when you look silly!"

'...'

Such words made Ethan's face darken.

He hadn't expected his sister to describe him like that.

It’s not that he doesn’t like the word cute, but he feels that the word doesn’t suit him.

So, he pursed his lips and shook his head, pretending to be angry and said: "Oh, my dear sister, you can't describe me as cute."

“I hate that word.”

'? ' This question made Evelin a little confused, "Why?"

She thought Ethan was angry, "Oh come on Ethan, you know I was just joking with you."

"I know you're joking with me, but I don't like this joke." Ethan said seriously.

However, just when Evelin frowned slightly, thinking that she had really offended Ethan, Ethan said again: “Because in this world, there are only three words that can describe me, one is handsome, the other is very handsome, and the last one is super handsome!”

'! ! ! '

Evelyn was shocked.

She didn't expect that there would be such shameless people in the world?
Does he not like the adjective "cute" because he thinks he is handsome?

Oh...really...

"Okay, okay, you're so handsome..."

Evelin stood up with a smile, pulled Ethan’s arm as if coaxing a child, and pushed him out of the office.

"Oh Ethan - I admit you're handsome - you're the most handsome man in the world -"

"So let's not waste time on this established fact, okay?"

"Go! Go! Go!"

“Let’s go to Los Angeles!”

“Let’s go to Hollywood!”

"We're going on vacation!"

That's right, the reason why Ethan assigned responsibilities for various tasks in the company to different people was because he was going to be on vacation for the next period of time.

He hadn't had a good rest for almost a year since the lawsuit started, so when Pac-Man achieved success and the Destiny game was on track, Ethan, who had been running for a long time, wanted to stop and take a break in the lovely summer.

It happened that Spielberg was filming in Los Angeles, so Ethan decided to go visit him. When he told Evelyn about his idea, the girl, who had also been busy for a long time, decided to go along.

As such, Evelyn would sit in the chairman's chair for the first time after the company was founded.

And this was the first time she exercised her power...

That means firing the company's president.

(laugh~
Neither of them took this cheerful banter seriously, and their joyful departure also aroused a wave of envy.

Some people in the company think that this kind of behavior of leaving at any time is too cool, while others think that making money and enjoying life at the same time is the real life.

But no matter what, none of this had anything to do with Ethan. He stepped on the accelerator and turned the steering wheel sharply. With a buzzing roar, the two arrived in Los Angeles.

To be honest, after being severely shown off by Jobs last time, Ethan was fully armed to the teeth for this trip.

He wore a floral shirt, sunglasses, and even had his hair done up, with long side bangs similar to Leo's.

Once the convertible is opened, the main attraction is how handsome it looks!

But unfortunately, no matter whether it was the straight road from Palo Alto to Los Angeles, the spider web road from Los Angeles to Hollywood, or the confusing road that kept wandering around Hollywood, he did not attract much attention along the way.

This situation surprised Ethan.

Because he thinks he is more handsome than Jobs, and much more handsome!
Why were there so many girls looking at him along the way before, but no one looked at him this time?
He doesn't understand!
But when he turned right, he subconsciously saw his sister sitting in the passenger seat...

The figure in the pure white dress and with fluttering blonde hair made him instantly find the crux of the problem!
'Damn! I should have driven two cars!'

Ethan felt like a fool for being in the sun for so long for no reason!
parking!

Close the shed!

Set off again in a huff!
And that puffed-up look made Evelin, who witnessed it all, laugh non-stop.

In fact, when Ethan wanted to go for a drive in a convertible in California in June, the girl already knew what this guy was up to.

But she didn't remind me.

Because Ethan's silly look is really cute.

Compared with the serious state, it is a huge contrast.

When Ethan drove to Warner Bros. Studios with a stern face, Spielberg, who had received the news when they set out, had already asked the crew to wait at the door. Under the other party's guidance, Ethan came to the 15th and 16th studios of Warner Bros. Studios. With his appearance, the busy Spielberg also put down his work and welcomed him with arms wide.

"Oh Ethan! We meet again. I'm really glad you came to visit me while I'm working."

"Oh Evelyn! You look so beautiful today. I'm so glad to see you."

Although Ethan came to play with Spielberg, he couldn't do anything to disturb others while they were working.

After a brief greeting with the guy, Ethan urged him to get back to his work as soon as possible. They could talk about other things after work.

Spielberg also knew that when the crew started operating, every minute and every second was burning money, so he naturally accepted Ethan's concern, asked his assistant to accompany Ethan, and then picked up the director's baton again.

And once he got into work mode, Ethan's purpose of this trip was achieved.

He came here today specifically to watch Spielberg make a movie.

As for the name of the movie...

It's called Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Ethan had seen this movie in his previous life. The main content of the movie is that some earthlings encountered UFOs in different places and were attracted to Devil's Tower in Wyoming, America by the same mysterious force. At the same time, the US government and scientists also received signals from aliens and decided to build a base in Devil's Tower to communicate with aliens. The whole process was actually very smooth. Earthlings and aliens communicated with each other through music and lights and reached a peaceful and friendly relationship. In the end, the alien spacecraft landed in Devil's Tower, showing its true form in front of humans for the first time, and released some earthlings who had disappeared inexplicably many years ago. At the same time, they also took away a guy who voluntarily left the earth and wanted to contact alien civilizations.

If Ethan remembered correctly, it was an electrician.

Ethan admitted that when he watched the movie, he found it extremely boring at first.

In his opinion, the narrative of this movie is problematic. The plot is not explained at the beginning, but three different perspectives, or three different main lines, are used to jointly construct a theme.

If it weren't for the fact that Spielberg was the director, he even felt that he would not have been able to finish watching the movie.

But when he finally endured it, the alien spaceship appeared.

That amazing imagination forced him to admit that pictures were indeed more shocking than words.

When he watched the movie, he wanted to know how the alien mothership in the movie was made. And now...

When he saw a huge model with a diameter of forty feet in Warner's studio, he realized that this thing was actually a real shot. When he got closer to observe it, the tiny light bulbs and black optical cables shattered the filter from his childhood.

"Oh, are the lights on the spacecraft made by you using light bulbs?" Ethan asked curiously.

"Yes." Before he finished speaking, a voice of agreement appeared, "Because Steven needs various parts of the spacecraft to light up at a certain frequency, so we have arranged more than 10,000 light bulbs on this spacecraft."

“Because only then can we create a rhythmic feeling similar to the beat of music when they light up.”

"And to build this spacecraft, we spent about three and a half million U.S. dollars."

These words made Ethan turn his head.

When he found out that the person who was talking was a middle-aged man wearing glasses, he extended his hand in a friendly manner and introduced himself.

"Hello sir, thank you for answering my question. I am Ethan Jones."

"Ethan Jones? Oh, I know you - Steven spends every day after get off work in front of the Pac-Man arcade machine you invented."

"He said it gave him inspiration."

The middle-aged man smiled and stretched out his hand, shaking hands briefly with Ethan.

At the same time, he introduced himself: "I am Douglas Trumbull, the visual designer of the crew. You may not know me, but it doesn't matter, because you must know my work. I did the visual effects of "2001: A Space Odyssey"."

Oh, this is a big guy too.

Ethan shook his hands vigorously several times.

With the other party's introduction, Ethan gradually understood how Spielberg presented the visual effects in the movie.

To put it simply, great effort can actually make miracles happen.

Create your imagination with models, then enhance it with the most basic principles of physics.

The process...

"Why do I feel like it's a bit like a circuit board arcade machine?" Ethan complained in a low voice.

“It’s the same thing.” Evelin agreed, saying, “It’s just that the cost is slightly different.”

Since Ethan was brought by Spielberg, no matter what they were curious about, there were professionals in the crew to answer them.

After watching the scene for a while, Ethan, who had received various answers, lost interest in filming.

The reason is very simple, that is, the complicated behind-the-scenes work makes the filming process seem boring.

For example, cameras of this era did not have automatic focus, so the crew had to use a ruler to measure the optimal distance between the camera and the actors, and then use tape to mark the ground. When shooting, the actors would stand in a fixed position to ensure that the finished product would not be out of focus.
For example, the equipment of shooting monitor has not been developed yet, so when shooting a movie, you can only watch the actors' performance on the spot. As for the real-time picture? Only the photographer can see it. Even the director has to wait until the film is developed to know whether the picture on the day of shooting is what he wants. And it is precisely because the director himself is not sure that the term "reshoot" was born.

When the boring situation of the pre-production work exceeding the actual shooting time appeared, Ethan's curiosity about film-making plummeted like a person falling into a valley. Even if the old man came to the rescue at this time, he estimated that he would not rekindle his curiosity.

Evelyn also felt bored.

The girl thought the Hollywood set was fun, but...

That's it?

Out of politeness, the two did not leave immediately. After Spielberg finished work, he took the initiative to invite the two who came from afar to have a meal. He had already chosen the place, which was the MK restaurant that Chaplin liked, which he had mentioned to Ethan last time.

Although watching the filming of the movie was not a good experience, Ethan and Evelyn did hear a piece of gossip at the dinner table.

"Oh Ethan, you asked me where the inspiration for the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind came from?"

“The inspiration for this movie actually has a prototype.”

"Do you know about the Roswell incident?"

"It was the alien UFO crash that happened in 1947."

"There is actually a sequel to that story. I don't know whether it is true or not, but I thought it was interesting, so I decided to make it into a movie."

"The subsequent content should have happened more than ten years ago. We in America finally contacted the alien civilization in the Roswell incident. The alien civilization drove a spacecraft to our Earth. After some communication, we found that the alien civilization was very kind."

"It was precisely because the aliens were so friendly that we wanted to learn more about them. The then-President directly signed a secret exchange plan. The plan was to send a small US military team to follow the aliens back to their hometown to gather intelligence there. In order to obtain intelligence, they also agreed with the aliens to send them back after a certain number of years."

"The content of the story is so simple. I actually don't know the ending of the story because I haven't heard of any human coming back yet. But this is not important, right? Because just these known contents are enough for me to make a movie..."

Good guy!
Ethan was stunned!
It turns out that the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" is actually a sequel to the Roswell incident?
This is too funny!
As for the reason?

Very simple!
Because Ethan had heard of the Roswell incident!

Or, in other words, when he was growing up in his previous life, even newspapers were reporting on this matter!
From the "****" to the "Legal Evening News", there is no newspaper that is not discussing it!
The content of this incident is also very simple. It is about a thunderstorm in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. A farmer heard a loud noise and found many metal fragments around the farm the next day. This situation prompted the US military to intervene in the investigation.

A few days later, another Roswell resident claimed that he had found the wreckage of a UFO surrounded by several short bodies. Subsequently, the US government intervened strongly and blocked the scene.

At this point, rumors of aliens coming to Earth became widespread.

In his previous life, Ethan just listened to this story as gossip.

Because until 2023, there are no publicly known aliens in the world.

But now...

Is Close Encounters of the Third Kind a sequel to Roswell?
OK……

The great director Spielberg is really awesome!

Any gossip can be made into a movie!
Ethan thought Spielberg's inspiration was a bit outrageous.

Another person who thought the story was far-fetched was Evelyn.

After dinner and saying goodbye to Spielberg, on the way to the hotel, the girl sitting in the passenger seat complained about the boring plot of the movie, "If this story is related to the Roswell incident, then I think it should be filmed a little darker!"

"Because that's what makes it fun!"

"For example, the aliens come to Earth and have a kind contact with humans. Then they change it a little bit to say that these aliens are advanced creatures in the universe. They come to Earth to observe whether the low-level human civilization may threaten them. If there is a threat, they will attack directly. If there is no threat, they will obtain their genetic data and suppress their development."

"That's why they took a group of humans with them when they left. That was to conduct special research on humans. Then they promised to send them back. That was because the aliens were going to study human DNA and then send spies disguised as humans to secretly invade the Earth."

"And this breaking news is put after humans are taken away by aliens, that is, this fact can only be discovered by humans on the spacecraft. At the end of the movie, they are on the spaceship gazing at the earth getting farther and farther away, watching it slowly turn black."

"This indicates that the Earth will be in deep crisis in the future."

"Well, does this story sound more interesting?"

Evelyn winked at Ethan.

He was almost praising me with a clear expression on his face.

Her imagination made Ethan amazed. "Oh! Fxxk! With your change of the plot, it suddenly changed from a science fiction movie to an action movie, or even a science fiction action movie. This movie can definitely be made into a second part, and the specific content is about aliens integrating into the earth!"

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Ethan felt something was wrong.

If the movie is modified according to my sister's imagination, wouldn't it become Marvel's Secret Invasion event?

This idea is really...

A bit outrageous!

However, just when Ethan wanted to sigh that this connection across time and space was such a coincidence...

A sudden flash of inspiration made him feel that something was even more wrong.

His brows furrowed slightly, and he said, “Evelyn.”

"Ok?"

"Didn't Steven just say that at the end of the story, the aliens promised humans that they would send the humans they took away back after a period of time?"

“Yeah, what’s wrong?” Evelyn answered instinctively.

She didn't understand why Ethan asked that.

But at this moment, Ethan felt that his imagination was opening up!

Spielberg's version of the story is that aliens came to Earth, took away an electrician, and sent him back many years later.

Evelyn's version of the story is that the aliens have evil intentions towards humans and are plotting to subvert the entire human civilization.

Combining these two stories, it turns out that aliens came to Earth and took away an electrician, and sent a disguised body to Earth many years later. Because on the spacecraft, the human electrician had already heard the alien conspiracy, so after arriving on the alien planet, he actively wanted to find the alien who was going to Earth and wanted to incite it to rebel.

Because this alien is a kind-hearted creature, a good kid who opposes his own civilization's plan to subvert other civilizations, so after the human electrician found it, it decided to help and alert the people on Earth of the alien crisis.

Since the aliens first came into contact with America, in order to avoid the failure of their subversion plan, they chose to descend in the opposite direction when they appeared again. And because the kind-hearted alien learned a lot of human knowledge when he came into contact with human electricians, much of which was electrical knowledge, after coming to Earth, he gradually became an electrician.

But this identity cannot allow it to remind humans of the alien crisis in the outside world, so after racking its brains, it decided to spread its own reminders by writing a book. After practicing writing many times, it wrote the following sentence based on its own personal experience:

'The universe is a dark forest, and every civilization is a hunter with a gun...'

That's right!

Liu Cixin, the electrician with thick eyebrows and big eyes, is actually an alien!

The logic code is closed!

"Ha ha ha ha--"

Thinking of this, Ethan laughed out loud.

And his strange laughter also made Evelin very confused, “Ethan, what’s wrong with you?”

"I'm fine...hahaha...I just...hahaha...I just thought of something funny..."

Ethan was overjoyed.

At this moment, he finally found the happiness of the day!

Although I can’t explain this idea to others, it doesn’t matter!

He is happy, that's enough!
Ha ha ha ha--

He tried not to laugh out loud.
While laughing foolishly, Ethan thought of another question.

Evelyn thinks that after the third kind of contact, aliens will attack the earth?
Isn't this the story of Space Invaders?
hiss……

This is where the inspiration for this game came from!

At this moment, Ethan felt that no one understood "Space Invaders" better than himself!

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Note: ① The Roswell incident has been posted on C Station. If you are interested, you can directly search on Baidu. There are more interpretations than psoriasis on telephone poles. A book called "The Roswell Truth" was published later about this incident. Even if you are interested, don't buy it. The content inside is basically the same as the one spread on the Internet. It just adds a lot of details. It is really a waste of money. ② Whether "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" was filmed based on the popular "Zeta Operation" among the American people, Spielberg has never responded positively, but this movie is indeed popular because of the follow-up of the Roswell incident. Aliens were a hot topic among the American people at that time, so watching "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" now may feel boring, but people in that era watched it like watching a documentary. The whole book is full of the fantasies and expectations of Americans at that time, which is also a bonus of the times. ③ "Space Invaders" is really the opposite interpretation of "Zeta Operation", and it feels that aliens will not be so beautiful.

PS1, the fever has gone down, but I am still coughing, and the most important thing is that I am still having diarrhea. I will write one chapter today and tomorrow, and resume updating twice a day on the weekend.

PS2, Liu Cixin’s idea came to him accidentally when he was typing. I don’t know if it was because he was confused or just a coincidence. You can just read it for fun. It is not included in the outline.

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