章節 38: 38. Mariah Carey MV
To many young people, being a Hollywood assistant sounds like a stepping stone to the film industry.
After all, being able to work with celebrities and famous producers every day, in addition to accumulating industry experience and building connections, you might even be spotted by a director one day, skipping grades and taking a shortcut to a career in the film industry.
For opportunities and shortcuts, this is why they accept unfair treatment in the workplace and why others rush to do the same.
Using these, some employers can even find "free assistants" and don't have to pay any attention to the protesting assistants.
For those who didn't understand learn more about the unlimited internship period.
Everyone at the grassroots level is confident that as long as they survive the initial trials, their treatment and power will be greatly improved, or even doubled, if they move up to a higher level.
But what they were seeing was just the survivor effect.
For every success story there are thousands of failures.
Hollywood sells dreams and exploits these young men and women by packaging them as successful films.
To Rowan, this looked like the future Montero envisioned, an artificially designed class.
Control opportunities and widen the gap, so that the bigwigs in Hollywood will always have labor to exploit and will always be the bankers and the superior ones.
Rowan disdains exploitation and chooses the Canadian girl Emma because he thinks she has a good personality, can keep secrets and last long, and is worth training.
Based on this, Rowan treated her very well.
The monthly salary is not very high, the basic salary is around three thousand dollars, but there are travel allowances, as well as benefits such as insurance and housing subsidies.
All in all, the annual salary should be a round 40,000 to 50,000 dollars.
For a first-year employee, this salary is pretty good in Los Angeles.
The female assistant also understood this and started working enthusiastically.
The next step is to interview the driver and bodyguard.
There were no retired T1 special forces members who came for the interview, but there were a few T2 ones who were pretty good.
--There are three levels of American special operations forces: Tier 1, T2, and T 3.
T1 is the most elite special forces of t he United States, directly under the command of the Joint Special Operations Command. Currently, a total of 5 teams have been exposed: SEAL Team Six, Delta Force, 24 Special Tactics Squadron, ISA Intelligence Support Activity and Army Ranger Regiment Reconnaissance Company.
T2 level special forces are also elites, just like ordinary SEALs, with an elimination rate of 80%.
The same goes for Delta, which draws talent from the T2 Berets and the 75th Ranger Regiment.
Although T2 is the talent pool of T1, it is also an excellent pioneer in the international arena.
At T3, they are no longer special forces, but conventional combat forces.
Leonhard cannot hire T1's top talents, but he can still hire two ordinary SEALs who want to live a stable life.
Two middle-aged men in their forties each earn $55,000 a year.
This was cheaper than Rowan had imagined.
Firstly, neither of them had received any professional personal bodyguard training and needed additional training.
Secondly, private bodyguards are not as expensive as Rowan imagined.
The private bodyguards in the movies all earn millions a year.
Of course there are people with annual salaries of one million, but they are very few and their duties are very special. They are all high-risk people who may be assassinated.
Being a bodyguard for these dangerous people would certainly cost more.
For an ordinary actor like Rowan, the salary of a private bodyguard would not be sky-high.
The most common annual salary is only 30,000 US dollars.
The reason these two have a little more annual salary is because they are Navy SEALS and have the bonus of "educational qualifications".
After signing the three contracts, Rowan's initial team was assembled.
Not counting other miscellaneous items, the annual expenditure just for salary and wages would be an additional US$140,000.
Without advertising revenue, this expense would be a burden for him.
Even if you have some money, many projects such as independent films and the Internet require funding.
Rowan developed an urgency to make money. Though Mary was able to get Jeffery Ketzenberg agree on the terms for the rights of Kung fu Panda which surprised him a little as he didn't think that anyone would accept his terms that's why he gave them but since Ketzenberg accepted it he didn't reject it anymore. Though the rights for Shrek will have to wait as it was just released today.
Rowan turned to look at Mary "Isn't it time for Mariah Carey's music video audition?"
"tomorrow."
"She prefers you, but she doesn't insist on you. So whether you can get the role depends on your performance tomorrow." Mary stated
Rowan wondered, "How else can I perform in a music video interview?"
"Mariah Carey is divorced and may have impulsive thoughts of revenge against her ex-husband."
Mary revealed a little: "I heard that her MV for "Butterfly" is more... bold, and this is Mariah Carey's own request. She has a very high degree of control over her new album. As long as she decides, the role is yours."
"It's time to work on your charm, Rowan."
"Ah, this..."
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Seducing Mariah Carey with his charm was just a joke on Mary's part.
The salary for being the leading actor in a music video is only a few thousand dollars, which is not worth it for Rowan to do this.
Rowan was already on the right track and didn't need this kind of opportunity, and butterflies and flowers were not in his aesthetic taste.
Age is not a problem, but when Rowan looks at recent photos of Mariah Carey, he always feels that she is a heavy tank.
The Type 1 tank was acceptable, but the 188-ton Maus tank was too much.
In short, if it works, it works; if it doesn't, it doesn't.
With this idea in mind, Rowan performed quite well during the audition.
"It's him!"
Fortunately, Mary's information was correct.
Mariah Carey really favored him and made the decision during the interview: "Rowan is my leading man!"
The director looked helplessly towards Columbia Records.
The Colombian leader smiled and sais, "Rowan is a very good choice. Is that the decision?"
"Well, it's decided. He gave me some inspiration."
Mariah Carey's eyes sparkled with freedom: "For 'Butterfly' I'm going to change my image, to a mature and sexy new look. I'm going to dance with him in it, and the effect will definitely be great..."
She spoke a lot at a very fast pace, which made people sigh that she is indeed a talented female singer who plans to go into rhythm and blues and hip-hop music.
Other people around thought: You are trying to use the handsome guy to provoke the old goat.
But it has nothing to do with them.
Their job is to make Mariah Carey happy, and once she makes the decision, they just go along with her.
Soon after, Rowan received the news that he had passed the interview.
Signed the contract and got the MV script.
Looking through the script, Mary sighed "Mariah Carey is going crazy."
Rowan was immediately frightened.
What if Mariah Carey knocks on the door at night like Catherine did?
Do you want to agree?
The real person is much prettier than the photo, and it is still within the acceptable light tank range.
But looking at the picture, Rowan, from a professional's perspective, feels that it is not a problem for a light tank to be upgraded to a heavy tank at any time!
Rowan asked cautiously, "What do you mean?"
Mary saw what he was afraid of at a glance, and said with a half-smile: "It has nothing to do with you. The root cause is her ex-husband."
"Mariah Carey's ex-husband is Tommy Mottola, the president of Sony Music, who is 21 years older than her."
"Tommy Mottola's nickname is Old Goat. The nickname comes from the fact that Old Goat means old pervert or dirty old man."
"There are many older men with younger wives in the music industry. Celine Dion is a typical example."
"Celine Dion met René Angelier, 38, when she was 12 years old. They made their relationship public when Celine was 25 years old, and they got married the following year."
A 26-year age difference is not bad. Rowan mumbled "That's too much."
Mary said calmly "This is how the music industry works."
The young lady was well-informed, but Rowan couldn't help cursing in his heart "These old men have really weird appetites. Mature women are the best!"
Mary ignored Rowan's self-exposure "The industry didn't criticize Celine Dion and René Angelil much, but gave Tommy Mottola the bad nickname of "Old Goat", mainly because Tommy Mottola had a strong desire to control Mariah Carey."
"It's okay to be controlling, as long as you have the means. But Tommy Mottola doesn't have as good means as René Angelil."
"Rene Angelil was able to get Celine Dion to willingly have an artificial pregnancy and give birth to a child for him, but Tommy Mottola and Mariah Carey broke up."
"Mariah Carey's album music video may be intended to provoke Tommy Mottola."
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