Exploiting Hollywood 1980.
Chapter 1504: 3 Falls and 3 Rise
Chapter 1504: Three Falls and Three Rise
The leadership of the Minister arrived in America, but did not make significant progress on the trade issue where they most wanted to make a breakthrough.
American politicians are constrained by the Senate and the House of Representatives in legislation. And these members have different views on various issues according to the interests of their constituencies.
The current trade issue between China and the United States is at a very delicate stage. The annual trade volume between the two countries is growing rapidly, but the annual review of most-favored-nation treatment is like a sword of Damocles hanging over their heads.
In addition, since trade between the two countries has not yet benefited as many American people as possible, lawmakers are considering the issue of most-favored-nation treatment more from a conceptual perspective.
To keep this treatment, a lot of political resources must be spent on it every year. Opponents are not capable enough to overturn what President William has decided.
However, it is not able to go further and restore its status as a contracting party to GATT. This requires the approval of both the Senate and the House of Representatives and the signature of the President before it can take effect.
The main purpose of the Chinese leaders' visit is to speed up the restoration of GATT at this moment. Because in April this year, at the last meeting of the Uruguay Round of negotiations held in Marrakech, GATT members decided to establish a new international organization to replace GATT, which has played a lot of roles in international trade but is still a temporary treaty framework.
The new organization that the Marrakesh Agreement decided to establish on January 1 next year is called the WTO.
Since the end of the Cold War, many parties have also wanted to occupy a more advantageous position in the new international order. America and Europe both want to become the new center of international trade. In addition, although Japan has been suppressed by America for nearly ten years, it is still very strong... These three countries have become the backbone of promoting this transformation.
After the end of the Cold War, the United States, the European Community, and Japan wanted to jointly achieve something that had no chance of failure. So this new organization was announced without much resistance.
The original GATT member countries will automatically become founding members of the WTO as long as their domestic parliaments pass the "Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization".
However, countries that are not formal GATT members must reapply to join the WTO. This application must be agreed upon by all WTO member countries. This is an important principle of the new WTO formal organization - the "member country consensus principle".
The applicant country must hold one-on-one bilateral negotiations with all member states to reach consensus on market access commitments, tariff reductions, service opening, etc. If one member state disagrees, it cannot join.
This made China angry because it was one of the founding members of GATT in 1947. However, it withdrew from the GATT in 1950 due to the Cold War confrontation.
Since 1986, China has wanted to restore its status as a contracting party and automatically become a member of the new WTO, skipping the extremely cumbersome procedure of applying for membership.
However, the resumption of GATT negotiations has been obstructed by the American government. The reason for this is not only that the starting points of the two countries are very different, but also that the three economies of America, the European Community and Japan want to promote the transformation of GATT into the WTO.
GATT is an old agreement with a history of 50 years. At that time, international trade was mainly in goods trade. Therefore, the various provisions in GATT mainly revolve around goods trade and the regulations on the collection and reduction of tariffs by various countries.
However, since the 1990s, disputes over trade in services and the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights have become the main areas of GATT disputes, surpassing trade in goods.
In addition to the original GATT's goods trade and tariff agreements, the WTO's treaty negotiations also require agreement on trade in services (GATS) and the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).
The Uruguay Round of negotiations began in 1986 and was not concluded until last year, when the three economies, mainly America, Europe, and Japan, argued and came up with the framework of three agreements.
China wants to join this global trade system and free ride, but the three leaders disagree. They must follow the usual practice and have another argument, and only after reaching a consensus can they sign an agreement.
From becoming a contracting party in 1947, to withdrawing in 1950, to applying to be reinstated and becoming a contracting party in 1986, to failing to reinstate its status as a contracting party this year and having to apply to join the WTO as a non-GATT member, China's difficult struggle in international trade has experienced several ups and downs.
Therefore, as China is focusing its diplomacy with the United States on economy and trade, Ronald expects that the contract issue of "The Fugitive" will receive the attention of some senior officials and be resolved.
After all, the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) is the key to joining the WTO.
Unlike software companies like Microsoft that have encountered massive piracy in China, Hollywood has signed a legitimate agreement with your distribution headquarters.
If the intellectual property rights issues of software, toys, stationery and other products can be excused by the fact that there is no agreement and they need to be renegotiated, then Hollywood movies are a weathervane for observing whether China is sincere in abiding by its commitments under TRIPS.
Ronald, who was full of confidence in this, also began negotiating with the head office for the approval process of his new film "Forrest Gump" and "Speed" as the second batch of co-production films.
This year is nominally the first year for Hollywood blockbusters to enter China, but in fact only "The Fugitive" will be released at the end of the year. Several of his films next year will be the first Hollywood films that will leave a deep impression on Chinese audiences.
Audiences have some inertia when it comes to watching movies, and Ronald, who took the lead, will be able to seize the initiative in the annual approval quota of 20 films in the future.
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"Jury selection for the OJ Simpson case will be held in the Superior Court in downtown Los Angeles. Prosecutor Martha Clark said she has every confidence that the jurors here will deliver justice."
As usual, the daily news is still reporting on the OJ Simpson case. When Ronald meets his friends now, the first thing he asks is what he thinks of OJ and whether he did it.
There were some minor changes in the prosecutors of the case. The female assistant prosecutor, Martha Clark, was now the real chief prosecutor of the case. The white male assistant prosecutor who had been co-chairing the prosecution with her was transferred away from the case, and according to Martha Clark's opinion, a black man, Chris Darden, was added.
Although he is a newcomer, he has always been well received by the Los Angeles prosecutor system. Martha Clark believes that his joining can strengthen the persuasiveness of the prosecution.
Ronald shook his head. He was very familiar with this. Many Hollywood stars, after they have confirmed that they will star in a movie, will also try to get some of their good friends to join the crew as supporting roles.
Martha Clark's original companions were equally matched with her, but now that a younger brother has come, everything will be based on her opinion.
Moreover, Dutton is a black man, and he is also a handsome man. In the city center where the majority of people are black, the 12 jurors selected must also be mostly black.
With a black prosecutor like this, representing the people to prosecute OJ, who is also black, the jurors will probably feel that Darden is more convincing than a middle-aged white male prosecutor.
Since the riots two years ago, most black people in Los Angeles have always believed that if you fall into the hands of white people, they will frame you even if you didn't do it. Now that there is a person like Darden, OJ will definitely not be wrongly accused.
"I totally disagree with Marsha Clark and her boss, the prosecutor. Why hold the trial in downtown Los Angeles instead of Santa Monica, where the crime took place?"
After the news comes the in-depth analysis column. When Ronald sits down, it's like watching a TV series, watching the daily in-depth news analysis of the OJ case, and inviting experts from all aspects to express their opinions.
"Martha Clark seemed to suggest in an interview that having more women on the jury would be more favorable to the prosecution, regardless of whether these women were black or white. They all felt very disgusted with domestic violence."
"Let's hope she's right. I'm not optimistic. Downtown, huh, huh, you know..."
"Are you suggesting that the majority black population in the inner city would bias the jury in favor of OJ?"
"I didn't say that. You thought so. And you see, even he thought so. There is no reason why the prosecutors couldn't see that."
Several experts almost quarreled in public on the TV show. Ronald listened to their arguments carefully and still felt that the view that there were many female jurors was in favor of the prosecution sounded reasonable.
Because Hollywood has produced many so-called feminist films with women as the protagonists and the narrative center, Ronald knows that in today's America, domestic violence against women is a social problem that cannot be ignored.
Jodie Foster was able to win her first Oscar as a dark horse for the film about domestic violence and date rape. The box office of this film was also surprisingly higher than expected.
But this is not a topic that is often discussed in society. It is a tacit understanding that everyone knows about this problem, but they don't speak it out publicly. If those female jurors have such a knot in their hearts, then it is obvious that OJ Simpson's prospects are not good.
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"Do you think he did it? Ronald, that's definitely not right, we all know what the LAPD did two years ago."
"I saw a lot of evidence about OJ on TV, and I wanted to put it into my stand-up comedy show and write it into a joke, hahahaha..."
Ronald had a sudden idea after the NBA game and asked Spike Lee and Whoopi Goldberg to make a movie that satirized the Knicks head coach and the Dolan family. He already had a first draft of the script.
The two main creators, Spike Lee and Whoopi Goldberg, came to Ronald's house with the script to discuss the project with him and listen to Ronald's opinions.
As soon as they met, the two started talking about OJ. Spike Lee believed that OJ was framed, while Whoopi Goldberg unexpectedly sympathized with OJ Simpson. Isn't it said that women hate men who commit domestic violence?
Ronald felt like something was wrong, and instead of looking at the script, he asked Ubbe, "Do you think domestic violence is something OJ would do?"
"Of course he could do it. I saw in the news that OJ beat up his ex-wife Nicole Brown a few years ago and she called 911 several times. This guy is capable of anything."
"Then why?" Ronald was puzzled.
"You know, Ronald, in the environment where we grew up, domestic violence is the lightest problem that women can encounter. We black women will not call the LAPD just because our husbands slapped us twice..."
"So, do you think he did it?" Ronald was confused and asked the same question.
"Not necessarily. Didn't they say there was a gang fighting that night?"
"You don't seem to like OJ, but you're not sure he did it?" Ronald got a glimpse of his black friend's thoughts.
"Hey, I've seen a lot of black people like OJ. Once they become rich and famous, they don't hang out with black people. Their friends are all white. You see, when he ran away, he ran to the home of his white friend Kardashian. He didn't look for any of his black teammates in college and the NFL. In the end, he borrowed the phone from his white coach when he answered the phone."
"Ahaha..." Ronald suddenly realized.
It seems that the prosecutor who was trying to imitate the movie star Sigourney Weaver was wrong. It is true that black women hate domestic violence men. But don't forget that the black community is full of murders, trafficking, robbery, and other vicious cases. Domestic violence is already the lightest felony case.
They have a natural envy and jealousy for people like OJ who have left the black community after becoming successful. In their view, the victim Brown's actions of calling the police were something that only a fragile white girl could do.
In addition, OJ divorced his first black wife and married his lover Nicole Brown. The black women on the jury were even more dissatisfied. They really didn't have much sympathy for the victim... maybe they even cursed in their hearts that he deserved it.
"Judge Ito, who is in charge of hearing this case, said that he would carefully consider whether to allow television media to broadcast the trial scene..."
At this time, another piece of news came on TV.
Ronald's mind was moved. Generally, court trials are not allowed to be broadcasted. Let a white woman who only knows how to show off be the chief prosecutor, a black guy who is just starting out as the deputy, and an Asian judge who is ready to allow television broadcasting. The Los Angeles prosecutor chose the city center as the trial venue, which is obviously favorable to OJ...
There are signs that there may be some powerful people behind the scenes who, fearing that OJ would cause riots like the one that happened a few years ago, gave him many convenient conditions.
What these politicians really care about is not having any unexpected incidents that would affect their status and the upcoming local elections. Whether justice is being preached is not a key factor that ranks high in their considerations.
"By the way, I haven't congratulated you yet, Ronald. Forrest Gump is at the top of the box office charts for the third time in its seventh week. Has this never happened before?"
Spike Lee is the director who noticed the change in the box office rankings last weekend. Both The Mask and The Mask saw their box office decline at a rate of more than 20% per week.
Forrest Gump seemed to have taken some medicine, and it remained strong, declining slowly by single digits. So it made it to the seventh week, outlasting strong films such as The Lion King, True Lies, and The Flintstones. After falling from the top of the box office chart three times, it climbed back to the top three times.
"As far as I know, no other movie has been able to do this. Maybe I'm lucky and the competition isn't very fierce?" Ronald was very happy that Spike Lee's flattery had scratched his itch.
"Not intense? The Lion King, True Lies, The Mask, these aren't intense? Your standard for intensity seems to be much higher than ours. Does it have to be as intense as Jurassic Park?" Whoopi Goldberg also noticed that Ronald was boasting in a low-key manner, and quickly praised him a few words.
"Hahaha, I'm just being modest. The script you guys produced is very good. I'll have David Simkins follow up and find a script doctor to polish it, and then we can get the project financed."
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