Chapter 413 (1/2)

As a country with separation of powers, the legislative power of the United States is mainly in the hands of Congress.

After being elected, the core work of members of the house and Senate is to propose, formulate, amend or repeal various bills according to the actual situation of all walks of life in the United States.

Every year, the U.S. Congress accepts thousands of bills of various types, ranging from the national economy and the people's livelihood to trivial matters.

Of course, there are differences in the importance of the bill.

Take Hollywood as an example. One of the recent lobbying focuses of the American Film Association (MPAA), which is mainly responsible for lobbying major Hollywood studios, is to abolish the merger restriction act between Hollywood studios and American public television networks.

The repeal of this bill will involve tens of billions of industrial changes.

On the other hand, members of Congress can't just sit in their offices and conceive certain bills out of thin air.

Most of the bills are obtained through communication between the public, trade unions, business owners, interest groups or federal government agencies and members of the house and the Senate.

As a result, countless professional lobbying companies have emerged in the United States, which are responsible for bridging the gap between various groups and members of Congress.

Although the so-called lobbying in the United States can not avoid the power game or interest exchange behind the scenes, it is very formal as a whole. On the surface, at least, no member would be so stupid as to know that some people ask for something from themselves and accept the other party's treat, give gifts and stuff red envelopes.

If you want to promote the establishment of a bill, you must first contact people, usually lobbying companies.

If we can't find the ”temple gate”, everything is in vain.

It is worth mentioning that most of the lobbying consulting firms are often set up by politicians who have left their jobs at all levels in the United States. The more top politicians are, the higher their fees will be. This is another form of high salary.

With the huge number of bills submitted by the US Congress every year, we can imagine the huge income of these people.

When it comes to contacts, it is impossible for others to help you persuade a member to submit a motion without any reason, and it is also impossible for them to put money into someone's hands for you. If you want to promote any bill, you must collect and sort out the corresponding data to prove the necessity of making or repealing a bill.

After obtaining enough data, members draft bills and submit them to Congress, and then go through the process of deliberation, debate and voting.

The process after the bill is submitted is often the focus of the game.

Most of the time, the more important a bill is, the more important it is that you can ensure that it is passed with good evidence and detailed data.

This requires the promoters of the bill to continue to show their skills, such as political strife, mutual compromise, public opinion building, interest exchange and so on.

The most direct manifestation of this kind of game is that the White House and Congress often fight against the annual government budget bill and even cause the government to shut down.

Of course, most of the dark battles hidden behind the scenes are not what ordinary people can see.

The bill Simon discussed with Joseph schrap that operators should not participate in the field of telecommunication equipment manufacturing is an important economic bill. It will take about two or three years from the proposal to the vote, and it may also be necessary to lobby together with other telecommunication control bills.

After more than an hour's discussion, the two settled on some details, saw off Joseph schrap, and Simon boarded at Westchester County Airport near Greenwich and returned to the west coast.

Back at Cape Dumay, on the west coast, it's lunchtime.

After lunch with Janet and chatting about the trip to New York, Simon went to work in Daniels studio in the afternoon.

Today is May 20th, Monday.

The next Friday, the summer program of 1991 will open.

However, today is another day. Another Cannes Film Festival in France ends today.

Los Angeles and Cannes have a 9-hour time difference. In the afternoon, when he came to Denise studios, Simon soon received the awards from Cannes, which is already at night.

Denise Entertainment's two films, Barton Fink by Cohen brothers and jungle fever by Spike Lee, failed to win Cannes' highest Palme d'Or. Fortunately, they did not return empty handed. Barton Fink won the best director award, and Samuel Jackson in jungle fever won the best supporting actor award.

In Simon's memory, Barton Fink should have won the Cannes Palme d'Or.

However, two of the three palms of gold works in the previous three years, vulgar novel, cinema paradise and wild my heart, were American films. There are two American films, one is produced by danielis entertainment and the other is released by danielis entertainment.

This time, the Cannes jury has clearly given birth to some balance.

The final Golden Palm award-winning film is the French director Jacques Levitt's ”uninhibited beauty”.

Jacques Levitt's fame is not too big, but one of the heroines in ”unruly beauty” is known as Jane platinum. The platinum bag of Hermes, which is so expensive that it is popular with many celebrities and ladies, is named after Jane platinum.Because of such a gimmick and the blessing of Palme d'Or, Ella doichman has been in contact with the copyright owners, hoping to get the North American distribution right of ”uninhibited beauty”.

”Barton Fink” and ”Jungle Fever” did not win the Palme d'Or, but only won two minor awards, which actually met Simon's expectations.

Danielis entertainment can not occupy all the light after all, it is necessary to keep a low profile properly.

What's more, the focus of gaomen film's overseas awards this year is actually the Venice Film Festival.

Because of the production progress, Jane Campion's ”farewell to the piano” can not participate in the just concluded Cannes Film Festival, but has declared the main competition unit of this year's Venice Film Festival.

Last year, Jane Campion's ”the angel is at my table” won a very good evaluation at the Venice Film Festival. It is obvious that ”farewell to the piano” is more suitable for the artistic temperament of Venice than Cannes. This film is very likely to impact this year's Venice Golden Lion Award.

On the other hand, the contacts of Ella doichman and Sophia Fisi in the Italian entertainment industry are enough to support the success of farewell to the piano.

In addition to Cannes, Simon's main busy job in the week of returning to the west coast is ”flash” which has been successfully completed in Melbourne and returned to North America.

As the first producer of flash, Warner expressed his misgivings and dissatisfaction about Simon's not going to visit Melbourne during the filming period.

Simon didn't retort, and he really didn't have the time. However, Simon actually invested a lot of energy in this film, enough for him to get the remuneration in the original producer contract.

For several working days in a row, Warner Bros. CEO Terry Semel took time to review the samples with Simon every day.

Terry Semel was not relieved until he confirmed that there was no big problem with the sample film and Simon personally presided over the post production plan of the film.

In a flash, it's Friday, May 24.

In 1991, the summer program was officially opened.