Once Upon a Time In Hollywood

  Chapter 212 Violent crime, same game

"At 9:15 PST on February 28, 1997, the Bank of America branch in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California was robbed. Two masked robbers armed Three hundred thousand dollars were stolen from the hands of bank employees and 36 customers, and while they were committing crimes, passing citizens noticed the robbery and called the police."

"At 9:38, a robber left from the north gate. A few seconds later, another robber walked out from the south gate. They also found the police who arrived in time. Without any communication, they raised their hands. AKMS assault rifle, shooting at police."

"Five minutes before the shootout, three civilians and nine police officers were shot. At that time, about 350 police officers were called to the scene. Because the robbers were well-armed, they were wearing homemade Kevlar suits weighing about 42 pounds. Pull on the body armor so that the police's 9mm pistols and .38 revolvers can't do substantial damage to them at all."

  “Due to insufficient firepower, the Los Angeles police also asked for support from the SWAT team while requisitioning the rifles sold in the gun shop. Under the precise and effective firepower suppression, one robber committed suicide and the other was shot dead.”

"The gun battle lasted for about forty-four minutes. Seven civilians and eleven police officers were injured. Fortunately, no one was killed. During subsequent investigations, the police found that the two sides fired at least 1,500 rounds at each other. bullet."

"After investigation, we learned that the two robbers were habitual offenders. In the early 1990s, they robbed a cash truck in Denver and made a profit of 23,000 U.S. dollars. Afterwards, they robbed the armored vehicle again and got $125,000. Although the third robbery failed, they robbed another American bank in the weeks after the failed robbery and got $750,000. After that, they robbed a cash transport vehicle again and got 790,000 US dollars. If the 300,000 this time is added, the two robbers robbed a total of 6 times, and the total amount of crimes was as high as nearly 2 million US dollars..."

  When Roland, who accompanied Kate to live a two-point and one-line life, saw the news reported by CNN, he almost jumped up from the sofa in Spielberg's office—

  'Hold the grass! North Hollywood heist? This was the worst bank robbery of the 20th century, and one of the bloodiest of all violent crimes in the 1990s! How could I not remember this? '

  Free America, shootouts every day, this is not nonsense.

  As the largest shooting at the turn of the century, the North Hollywood robbery was later made into a movie by Hollywood, and the name was "Forty-Four Minutes of Emergency: Firefight in North Hollywood".

  As a brickman called Beast who has read thousands of films, of course Roland has seen this adaptation of the film. At that time, he was amazed at the clips in the film where the police with G36K, M16A4 and the robbers with AKM shoot wildly.

  Although it doesn't look as good as "Terminator", it's true!

Two robbers with live ammunition used AKM to educate the world's police, which made the Los Angeles police who used M9 lose face, and the SWAT that appeared at the end was even more funny. Since they were undergoing regular training, they changed their equipment even after receiving the emergency notice. There was no time, so he rushed to the scene wearing big pants.

  Imagine, wearing casual clothes with big pants, wrapped in body armor and using military AR?

  The picture is so beautiful, they are so beautiful that they look like robbers.

  During the Los Angeles riots in 1992, due to the long duration, they fought for almost a week. In addition, it was the first time Roland saw this thing at that time, so he was so scared that he ran away with his own people, but now...

  He is used to these images.

  Who made CNN always send three helicopters to broadcast live from high above the sky every time there was a riot?

   After Roland finished watching the 40-minute duel, the **** scene made his blood boil even more.

  He seemed like a pervert, thinking that the two robbers sweeping the sky and sweeping the world with AKs with round cake drums were really handsome!

   "Because no one dies, if someone dies, you don't think so."

  After hearing Roland's exclamation, Kate pointed out the problem with Roland's thinking. "The two robbers locked all the hostages in the bank vault to prevent them from being hit by stray bullets. What they did was just asking for money."

"And they used steel-core bullets, which can easily penetrate cars, but none of the police or civilians died. They survived this kind of fire suppression, which only proves the fundamental purpose of the robbers, who just wanted to Show off your firepower."

   "In addition, they all have five successful escape convictions, so they feel that as long as they don't die, they can escape."

"But it's because of this that makes the whole incident extremely exciting!" Of course, Roland knew that what Kate said was true, but it was this fact that didn't hurt the public that made him feel that this gunfight was so exciting. !

  Which man would not like guns?

  The picture of the flames swallowing and the shell casings falling to the ground is so handsome!

  Although before filming "Terminator 2", Roland played AR at the annual gun event week, but after all, it was shooting in the wilderness. Compared with the act of sweeping the streets with an automatic rifle, it is simply a younger brother...

Normal people can't do things like sweeping the streets with guns, and it's this impossibility beyond the legal boundaries that makes people feel happy. If it wasn't, then shooting games wouldn't become the best-selling games in the world. good game.

V Agency's "Counter-Strike" has been popular for more than ten years, and the "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive" that was fiddled with afterward is not worried about selling. Even if "Call of Duty" gets worse and worse, their sales will not be affected. "Battlefield", "Demolition Six", "Borderland", "Armed Assault", as long as you are a game player, you must have played shooting games!

   Not to mention the gunfight dreams of those 300 million elementary school students, until 2020, it was still providing penguins with a huge cash flow!

  If you can’t play with guns in reality, why not spend your time in the virtual world!

  Just like 'everyone has a Jade Dragon in their heart, and everyone has a Brokeback Mountain in their heart', which boy doesn't have a gun dream in his heart? A guy who hasn't used a toy gun to smash the classroom glass, doesn't have a childhood, okay?

"So..." Behind the desk, the hands flipping through the documents had already stopped, looking at the guy who was looking longingly at the TV screen, Kevin, who clasped his hands and rested his jaw lightly, asked suspiciously: "Don't tell me, After seeing these pictures, are you planning to apply for a gun license next year and then play with guns?"

   "I have to remind you that the gun laws in California are different from those in other places. You can't play with a license."

Of course, Roland will apply for a gun license after he becomes an adult, and he will definitely play with it. After all, it is better to ask for others than to ask for yourself. There are many bodyguards, and he will not hand over the last line of defense to others, but what he really thinks now is not playing with guns. .

If it is said that when he first heard the news, he felt a kind of accident and annoyance that he had forgotten. by another name—

   "No, I don't want to play with guns right now."

  Roland turned off the TV, went to the desk, scanned the table, and asked, "Where is my mobile phone?"

   "Here."

Kate took the bag hanging on the back of the chair with her backhand, took out Roland's mobile phone and handed it to him, and at the same time, instructed: "It's best not to donate money directly for this kind of thing, because public facilities don't cause huge damage. Damaged, if you really want to maintain your image, then go and condolences to those police officers, visit those injured people, bring them some gifts."

"After all, the criminals have been killed by the police. They handled the whole thing very well. We can't make donations in the name of fighting crime, and the Bank of America is not short of money, so caring about the direct participants can make your The image is more friendly to the people.”

   "Mua, I will go with you when the time comes."

  Although Kate would be wrong, Roland still smiled and kissed her on the cheek.

   "Hey? I've figured it out, your favorite thing to do is to be lazy."

  Kate, who discovered Roland's essence, pushed him away with a look of disgust.

  Hearing this, Roland smiled and said nothing. Instead, he sat opposite Kate and called Mike Mohamy.

   "Hi, Mike, are you enjoying the one-week annual leave?"

   "Oh? Someone wants to take a vacation? So you combined all their personal leave this year and gave them half a month?"

   "It doesn't matter, you are the general manager, these things are up to you..."

   "I called this time just to ask, is there any clue about the acquisition that I told you at the previous annual meeting?"

"Haven't started searching yet? Ah, that's okay, you can find it slowly...ah? Yes, yes, I just heard the title of the game and thought it sounded like a game, so I wanted to ask if you know Which company made it..."

   "Uh... the name of the game is "GrandTheftAuto"..."

  That's right, after watching the news and calming down, there was only one name left in Roland's mind——

  Los Santos!

The robbers who once robbed cash trucks and banks just for money took AKMs to rob banks, and were fully armed to shoot at the police. The policemen couldn't lift their heads due to the powerful firepower, so they had to call for air support. Finally, the robbers Was killed in the process of escaping, isn't this special is the Pacific Standard Bank errand?

The North Hollywood robbery and the robbery plot of "Give Him Love" are too **** similar, or in other words, it is still unclear who hasn't bought "Give Him Love 5", not only copied the Los Angeles area, Even the plot is copied from real cases!

  Before the Blizzard annual meeting, Roland told Mike Mohamy and the others to let them look at the acquisition of the studio.

   This is indeed a casual remark.

  Because the Blizzard in the previous life was able to grow bigger and stronger even if it failed to pass the acquisition.

  But now—

  Roland remembered that one of the things he regretted after time travel was that he had to wait decades before he could play "Give Him Love 6".

  At that time, he thought, when he has money in the future, he will buy Rockstar and let them develop it.

   Now that he has money, the real cases of Los Santos are all in front of his eyes. If he still can't remember...

   That is definitely not enough hatred.

  However, when Roland revealed his idea of ​​acquiring the other party, Mike Mohamy gave him unexpected news.

   "No problem, Roland, I'll let Cole Needham buy instead of us."

   "What? What does this matter have to do with Cole Niederham?"

   "The production company of "GrandTheftAuto" is DMASoftware, which is located in Edinburgh, England! Isn't the headquarters of IMDb right next to Edinburgh? Isn't it time-saving and labor-saving to let him talk for us? Anyway, it's your company..."

Speaking of this, Mike Mohamy seemed to think of something, and added, "What's more, aren't you going to England to film soon? Cole said that after you come to England, I will accompany you there Edinburgh, say that a female writer you know has almost finished her , since you are going there, wouldn’t it be easier for him to report directly to you?”

   Grass hold...

   Do you guys have any indie face?

   Yes, Blizzard and IMDb are both my private properties, but I have no idea of ​​combining you at all!

  In the case of independent operation and independent accounting, how did you do the same as conjoined twins?

  The group companies are not as tired as you, okay?

   As for women writers?

   Isn't that "Harry Potter"?

  Although he complained secretly in his heart, there were still some words on the scene, and at the end, he even gave an order.

   "After the acquisition of DMASoftware, just change the name to Rockstar."

   "However, this is just the name of the production company. When the game is released, it still has to be called Blizzard."

   "Our company's games can only be named Blizzard, and I hope that the name Blizzard can make it into the world's top 500."

  Roland hung up the phone gracefully, and Kate, who had listened to the whole process, showed a smile like A Chai twisted her mouth in the emoji.

   "How much money are you going to spend to buy the company?"

"It shouldn't cost much, right? That company doesn't have any big hits." Roland replied very happily, "Besides, after deducting R&D expenses, Blizzard's own funds have exceeded 100 million. It is still very easy to acquire a company. No, that is to let them take loans, they can be weaned, and I don’t need to spend money like crazy.”

   "Really? But with so much money, can you build a zoo for Liqi in two years?" Kate pointed out the problem.

  Hearing these words, Roland smiled confidently, and handed his mobile phone back to Kate, "Building a zoo..."

   "I'm pretty sure right now."

  Of course Roland is sure, because the acquisition of Rock Star is a one-time payment with a lifetime return.

As soon as the "GTA" series came out, the rock star became a cash cow. There was no need to spend money in it like Blizzard back then to support their research and development. You must know that the sales volume of the first generation of "GTA" was 2 million copies. Starting from the beginning, and starting from the third generation, their sales are at the bottom of tens of millions. The 2K stock price, which only knows to change skins every day, is all raised by "GTA".

Since there are game companies that can breastfeed, Roland, who wants to build a zoo, is actually a lot easier. He won't invest a penny in Warcraft Film and Television, and Overwatch Venture Capital has already sucked enough blood. Interstellar Records is even more beautiful. empty shell...

  In this way, let alone building a zoo, even if you are buying, buying, buying while building the zoo...

  He is not short of money...

  Hey, this kind of empty life of buying whatever you want is really boring...

   Note: ①The American media is so tough. When the North Hollywood robbery happened, those TV stations drove the helicopter to live broadcast in the sky. In the recorded materials, there were scenes of the robbers shooting at the news helicopter. ②The gun laws in California are very **** up. Gangsters use them at will. Their guns are already illegal, but it is very troublesome for ordinary people to own guns. First of all, the first point is that all weapons can’t have more than ten rounds of bullets. felony (felony). The semi-automatic weapon must have a bullet button (a button), the main purpose is to slow down your reloading speed. And one or two years later, you will need a gun license to buy a shotgun in California (not required before). The most painful thing is that the procedures that need to go are too cumbersome, and even the utility bills have to be checked. ③The first generation of "GTA" was only released in Europe at the beginning, and sold more than 500,000 copies. Seeing the opportunity, 2K bought their company, and then brought "GTA" to North America. million copies. According to statistics from statista, the "GTA" series dominates 2K's stock price. Excluding the "GTA" series, 2K's PE is around 46 times, but with this series, it is between 70 and 100 times. up.

  (end of this chapter)