Chapter 431 Hugo has seen many agents in the past year or so, but an outlier like Henry Bloom is really unheard of. Originally, Hugo thought that Henry's usual laziness was just a protective 'color', or the decadence that Mariah Carey fell into after leaving, and Henry would have a new look after entering the workplace, and today when he saw Henry's serious image after being taken care of, Hugo also thought that his guess was correct. But in the whole interview process just now, Henry once again proved the truth that people can't be disguised, and the 'confrontation' between Henry and Roger came and went, and you couldn't even see too many traces, and the inadvertent switch between offense and defense had happened several times. On the surface, it seems that Henry has achieved a stage of 'sexual' victory, but who knows what the bottom line of Roger's inner contract for glory to death is? Maybe it will be EMI Records that will make a profit in the end, and it is also possible. Although Henry is still shrouded in a fog of 'mystery', there is no doubt that he is excellent as an agent. It is the band's luck to have such an agent in Glory to Death. Briaein, as an agent and arguably the legendary man who single-handedly created the classic band The Beatles, known as the "Fifth Beatle", signed the band in 1961 and then created Beatles Mania, which he smoked in 1967. After an accidental death from an overdose, the Beatles lost their way forward and fell into a 'confusion', and soon after, in April 1970, the Beatles announced their disbandment. This shows the importance of a top agent to the band. "Henry." Hugo and his party gathered on the platform to wait for the subway to enter the station, Hugo sat down on the bench, looked at Henry as if he had fallen asleep again, and spoke. Henry's head leaning against the wall tilted over and opened his eyes slightly, as if he was ignoring it, but Hugo didn't mind, he knew that Henry was listening to him, and that was enough. "I don't know what happened to you in the past, although I've heard a lot of rumors." Hugo said frankly, but the credibility of the rumors in the circle is always an unknown, and the truth is only known to the parties themselves, "but I know that you are a good agent, and this is the most important thing." Henry still looked drowsy, and Hugo's words failed to attract his attention, but Hugo insisted on continuing, "We are all willing to have you as the band's manager, but you must know that your offer is impossible to achieve. So......" Hugo took a deep breath and turned his head to look at his teammates, who all cast a look of trust, apparently believing Hugo's judgment in this regard, "Five-year contract, ten times the liquidated damages." "The first is to put the initiative of terminating the contract in the hands of the band; The second is to shorten the ten-year contract to five years, but even so, the five-year contract is still a long contract; Ten times the penalty was retained, showing the band's trust in Henry. "However, when it comes to guaranteeing the band's creative freedom, we have to make additional terms." Hugo added that although they both want to trust Henry, the verbal agreement has no legal effect in the entertainment industry at all, although even if the legal effect is limited as a contract clause, there will still be disputes in the future because of this aspect, but at least it can reduce disputes. Henry's eyes were slightly closed, and he didn't answer, and suddenly he stood up, startling Hugo and the bandmates who were watching him, "The subway has come in." Then the four members of the band watched Henry walk in the direction of the subway, about to board the subway, and the members couldn't help but look at Hugo and ask with their eyes, "What's going on?" Hugo shrugged his shoulders and said he didn't understand, then got up and walked into the parked subway car with the bandmates. The five of them discussed Henry's attitude in a low voice, and it was clear that Henry had become his most important bargaining chip in the table of EMI Records today. Hugo also understood at this time that the reason why Henry did not discuss the issue of the agent contract with the band head-on, but took the lead in mentioning going to EMI Records for an audition, was actually showing his ability and using this way to make the band take the lead in softening. Just look at the band members' worries and nervousness right now and you can see that Henry succeeded. This kind of psychological tactic is really handy to use, and Hugo feels more and more that Henry's lazy appearance is a disguise, and it is also his umbrella as an agent. "Hugo." Henry's voice came, interrupting the discussion of the members, Hugo looked over, Henry was leaning on the side of the 'door' of the carriage at this time, as if he was too tired to fall asleep when he stood up, but he still felt Hugo's gaze, and then said, "Cheng' Jiao." "It's finally done? It was much easier than expected, and the joy welled up in an instant, and Pedro was the first to clench his fists and exclaim. This is a particularly special day for glory to death, they have their own agent, and they also signed a contract with EMI Records, and the day when the band will appear on the real stage is not too far away, and the dream seems to be within reach. Although everyone knows that the real start of a singer's career is after the release of the album, at least they now have what it takes to get started, and it is an extremely important step to stand out from the ranks of huge underground rock bands! The band members were ecstatic, even Fokine laughed heroically, and several people jumped up and down regardless of the fact that this was a public place in the subway, causing the ordinary citizens in the carriage to frown and cast a condemning gaze, which made the band members have to restrain themselves, and then bent down to apologize to everyone again and again, but even so, it still did not ruin everyone's good mood, and the curvature of the corners of the mouth clearly wrote the appearance of happiness. After the ecstasy, Hugo looked at Henry, who was standing next to him and fell asleep, thoughtfully. Hugo is no longer a rookie who just entered this circle last year, looking at the joy of the band now, Hugo knows that in fact, from the beginning Henry knew that his conditions could not be agreed, he just set the conditions out for the band to bargain, and obviously, the five-year contract still made Henry very satisfied, and even exceeded his original expectations. The negotiation between Henry and Roger just now was much the same. Quietly, Henry was cheap and obedient, making the band so happy that they couldn't find the north, but he sat firmly on the Diaoyutai platform. However, Hugo has no intention of thinking about it, and from Henry's insistence on the contract length and liquidated damages, you can vaguely get a glimpse of the damage caused by Mariah Carey's unhappy breakup with Henry, and it is no wonder that Henry is so cautious. Hugo only felt that the sun's 'temple' was beating slightly, he remembered his partnership with Joseph, their contract will expire in May next year, normally speaking, the renewal should be talked about half a year in advance, but recently because of the chain reaction brought about by the script of "The Shawshank Redemption", the renewal has been temporarily put on hold. Now, Hugo not only signed a new music agent, but also made a plan to record a new album, although music and film are completely different fields, Joseph and Henry will not have any 'intersection', but in this way, the situation becomes that Joseph ignores Hugo and is busy with the work of Nicolas Cage and others, and Hugo also ignores Joseph and begins to busy his music career, and the cooperation between the two in film will only go further and further, which is really not a good thing. What's more, Joseph is still a friend of Hugo, and Carl, Alex and Charlize know more or less about the band recently, but Joseph is excluded, especially Alfonso must have been in contact with Joseph to talk about these things, but Hugo has not communicated with Joseph, this situation is really weird. It's a real headache. Back at their residence in Brooklyn, Hugo still had a headache how to tell Joseph about what happened in New York in the past two days, and friends should at least say hello, but Alfonso solved the problem for Hugo, "Hey, Hugo, Joe is online, do you want to say a word to him?" "Or rather, Alfonso 'forced' Hugo to face this problem. Hugo looked at Fokine who was sitting next to him, apparently Foquin had also spoken to Joseph just now, hesitated slightly, walked in the direction of the landline, took the receiver from Alfonso's hand, pulled out a smile and said in a relaxed tone, "Hey, are you ready to congratulate me?" Our band finally got a chance of its own. "Of course, congratulations." Joseph's voice was also deliberately raised, trying to pretend to be relaxed, but it was not an easy task, "You know, your band has always been very strong, this is a matter of course, I heard Alfonso say before, you have really worked too hard this way, and it is not easy to persevere." It's harvest time now, isn't it? "This is just the beginning, the recording of the album is unfamiliar, and after the album, we plan to continue the road tour from New York back to Los Angeles." Hugo is also at a loss to say, and this embarrassing state is very strange to both of them. Joseph originally wanted to compliment him politely, but when the words came to his mouth, he finally swallowed, "Hugo, you know, I'm really sorry for what happened before, it was my negligence and mistake in my work, and you missed the 'Shawshank Redemption', really...... I'm sorry. Hugo didn't expect Joseph's apology to come so suddenly, he looked out of his eyes to Alfonso, who was sitting next to him with some trepidation, and then laughed with relief, "It's okay, there will inevitably be mistakes in the work process, don't you?" Although Hugo cares about "The Shawshank Redemption", what he really cares about is Joseph's work attitude, and now Joseph realizes the crux of the problem and is willing to apologize, so Hugo doesn't need to hold on to it all the time, there are not so many stumbles between friends, just say it. "But, you know, it's a very good script, and I spent a lot of effort to revise the script and I missed it, so you owe me a good script." Hugo teased, and Joseph sneered on the other end of the phone, and then he heard Joseph say, "That's it, a good script." (End of chapter)

Firing Joseph has always been the motivation for me to keep watching

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