Who Gets the Credit?
The characters and events depicted in this movie are fictitious.
这部电影中描述的人物和事件都是虚构的。
Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual events is purely coincidental.
任何与真实人物（活着的或已故的）或真实事件的相似之处纯属巧合。
Logline: When a desperate California Film Commission bureaucrat tries to save her husband’s doomed superhero movie by securing state production tax credits, she falls for the rebellious digital artist squatting inside an abandoned soundstage—unaware that a media mogul wants the movie to fail in order to justify moving his studios to a tax haven.
剧情梗概：当一名绝望的加州电影委员会官僚试图通过获得国家制作税收抵免来挽救她丈夫注定失败的超级英雄电影时，她爱上了蹲在废弃摄影棚里的叛逆数字艺术家——没有意识到媒体大亨希望这部电影失败，以便为将他的工作室搬到避税天堂辩护。
MARGOT (30s): A hyper-organized, chronically stressed screenwriter-turned-executive at the California Film Commission.
玛格特（30 多岁）：组织严密、长期承受压力的编剧，后来成为加州电影委员会的执行官。
She uses tax credits to try to save a dying entertainment industry.
她利用税收抵免来试图拯救垂死的娱乐业。
CHASE (40s): Margot’s husband.
蔡斯（40 多岁）：玛戈特的丈夫。
A fading, arrogant cinematographer clinging to the old Hollywood, demanding 35mm film while the world moves on.
A fading, arrogant cinematographer clinging to the old Hollywood, demanding 35mm film while the world moves on.
LEO (30s): A charismatic avant-garde artist building immersive virtual worlds.
LEO（30 多岁）：一位富有魅力的前卫艺术家，致力于构建沉浸式虚拟世界。
Working out of an abandoned warehouse, he is aggressively independent and allergic to government subsidies.
他在一个废弃的仓库里工作，非常独立，并且对政府补贴过敏。
MAXIMILIAN “MAX” VANE (40s): A sleek trust-fund billionaire who recently bought three legacy studios.
马克西米利安·“MAX”·瓦恩（40 多岁）：一位时尚的信托基金亿万富翁，最近买下了三间传统工作室。
He secretly hates cinema.
他暗自讨厌电影。
His true plan is to grab state (and Trump’s new federal) production tax credits, make a dud, write off the losses, and move his media and crypto empire to a tax shelter in Monaco.
他真正的计划是夺取各州（以及特朗普的新联邦）生产税收抵免，搞砸，冲销损失，并将他的媒体和加密帝国转移到摩纳哥的避税所。
GOVERNOR “HAIRDO” HARDING (early 60s, looks 45): California’s image-obsessed governor.
GOVERNOR “HAIRDO” HARDING (early 60s, looks 45): California’s image-obsessed governor.
He has a perfect blowout and a desperate political need to stop his Hollywood donors from fleeing the state.
He has a perfect blowout and a desperate political need to stop his Hollywood donors from fleeing the state.
The California Film Commission is a graveyard of dreams, with a failing strategy of saving in-state movie production with tax credits that benefit wealthy producers and investors.
加州电影委员会是梦想的坟墓，其通过税收抵免来拯救州内电影制作的策略失败了，而税收抵免使富有的制片人和投资者受益。
MARGOT sits at her desk, handling tax credit requests from productions that don’t need to be in California —a Florida detective series with a monkey and a Chinese government-funded epic set in the Warring States period (in which Beijing, ahistorically, wins to please Xi Jinping).
玛格特坐在办公桌前，处理不需要在加州制作的影片的税收抵免请求——一部有猴子的佛罗里达侦探连续剧，以及一部中国政府资助的以战国时期为背景的史诗片（在战国时期，北京取胜是为了取悦习近平）。
Margot’s home life is equally bleak.
玛戈特的家庭生活同样黯淡。
Her husband, CHASE, is the director of photography on Captain Chloroform , a film, soon to start shooting, about a superhero whose power is making villains drowsy.
她的丈夫蔡斯是《氯仿船长》的摄影指导，这部电影即将开拍，讲述了一位超级英雄的故事，他的力量让恶棍们昏昏欲睡。
Enter MAX VANE, the superyacht-owning playboy boss who just acquired a studio invested in Captain Chloroform.
MAX VANE 登场，他是一位拥有超级游艇的花花公子老板，刚刚收购了一家由 Captain Chloroform 投资的工作室。
Max delivers an ultimatum: Unless Margot and the commission deliver a massive, state-approved, tax-credit-eligible soundstage in Los Angeles, he is shutting down production, firing Chase, and moving his entire corporate apparatus to Monaco, or maybe Memphis.
马克斯发出最后通牒：除非玛戈特和委员会在洛杉矶建造一个大型的、国家批准的、符合税收抵免资格的摄影棚，否则他将关闭制作，解雇蔡斯，并将他的整个公司机构搬到摩纳哥，或者可能是孟菲斯。
Max wins no matter what.
无论如何，麦克斯都会获胜。
He either doesn’t make the movie, saving $150 million, or he gets free money with state and federal tax credits, makes a bomb, and uses to justify moving his studio out of state.
他要么不拍这部电影，节省 1.5 亿美元，要么通过州和联邦税收抵免获得免费资金，制造炸弹，并以此为将工作室搬出州的理由。
Margot can’t justify the credits under the commission’s calculations of jobs and economic impact .
玛戈特无法根据委员会对就业和经济影响的计算来证明这些抵免是合理的。
But, desperate to save Chase’s job, Margot finds a loophole: an abandoned studio warehouse in a designated empowerment zone , which would make the production eligible for wage credits.
但是，为了挽救蔡斯的工作，玛戈特发现了一个漏洞：指定赋权区的一个废弃工作室仓库，这将使制作有资格获得工资抵免。
She drives out to inspect it, expecting an empty shell.
她开车出去检查，期待一个空壳。
Instead, she discovers LEO and his collective of rogue artists, who are using cutting-edge LED volumes and game engines to build stunning, participatory visual art in which the audience directs the narrative.
相反，她发现了 LEO 和他的一群流氓艺术家，他们正在使用尖端的 LED 体积和游戏引擎来构建令人惊叹的、参与性的视觉艺术，并由观众引导叙事。
Margot explains that they are trespassing and must vacate so a real movie can save her marriage.
玛戈特解释说，他们是非法侵入，必须离开，这样一部真正的电影才能挽救她的婚姻。
Margot tries to bribe Leo to leave with state grants and relocation credits.
玛戈特试图用国家拨款和搬迁信贷贿赂里奥离开。
Leo laughs in her face, rejecting the entire government-subsidized Hollywood ecosystem.
Leo laughs in her face, rejecting the entire government-subsidized Hollywood ecosystem.
“You’ve been handing out those credits for a decade,” he tells her, “and Hollywood is dying anyway.”
“十年来你一直在发放这些荣誉，”他告诉她，“无论如何，好莱坞正在消亡。”
Forced to negotiate, Margot spends her days at the warehouse.
玛戈特被迫进行谈判，她在仓库里度过了她的日子。
The contrast is devastating.
这种对比是毁灭性的。
At home, Chase whines about the cost of vintage lenses and having to grovel to Max Vane.
At home, Chase whines about the cost of vintage lenses and having to grovel to Max Vane.
At the warehouse, the unsubsidized Leo and his team are vibrant, collaborative, and free.
在仓库里，没有补贴的 Leo 和他的团队充满活力、协作且自由。
A crackling romantic tension builds as Leo shows Margot that storytelling no longer needs Hollywood gatekeepers.
利奥向玛格特表明讲故事不再需要好莱坞的看门人，浪漫的紧张气氛逐渐形成。
Max Vane escalates his plan.
马克斯·维恩升级了他的计划。
He intentionally inflates Captain Chloroform ‘s budget, demanding Margot deliver the credits and the warehouse immediately or he will publicly announce the relocation of all three studios.
他故意夸大氯仿船长的预算，要求玛格特立即交付片尾字幕和仓库，否则他将公开宣布三个工作室全部搬迁。
Chase turns on Margot in a toxic tirade, blaming her for his failing career.
蔡斯对玛戈特进行了一番恶毒的长篇大论，指责她导致了他事业的失败。
Broken and panicked, Margot bribes two L.A.
玛格特心碎又惊慌，贿赂了两名洛杉矶人。
city council members and an assemblymember to get Leo’s warehouse red-tagged, and then turned over to the state for filming.
市议会成员和一名议员将利奥的仓库贴上红色标签，然后移交给州政府进行拍摄。
Margot immediately regrets her actions.
玛戈特立即对自己的行为感到后悔。
Max Vane forms an unholy alliance with GOVERNOR “HAIRDO” HARDING.
Max Vane forms an unholy alliance with GOVERNOR “HAIRDO” HARDING.
The governor wants a televised PR victory to show he is saving jobs, while Max wants both the write-offs and a legal clusterf—k that justifies his tax flight to Monaco.
州长希望通过电视转播的公关胜利来表明他正在挽救就业机会，而马克斯则希望获得冲销和法律集群，以证明他逃往摩纳哥的逃税是合理的。
The governor, with Max’s support, plans a live, televised police raid to clear out “the squatters” and bring back the old studio warehouse.
在马克斯的支持下，州长计划进行一次电视现场直播的警察突袭行动，以清除“擅自占地者”并收回旧工作室仓库。
Margot discovers their plan and realizes she has been manipulated by Max and betrayed by Chase, and that she could destroy Leo, the only real artist she has ever loved.
玛戈特发现了他们的计划，并意识到她被麦克斯操纵并被蔡斯背叛，她可能会摧毁她所爱过的唯一真正的艺术家利奥。
Margot makes her choice.
玛戈特做出了选择。
She hires a divorce lawyer, quits her job, and races to warn Leo.
她聘请了一名离婚律师，辞去了工作，并赶忙警告利奥。
Leo refuses to run.
利奥拒绝逃跑。
Instead, he and his team, with Margot’s help, rig the warehouse with elaborate, farcical traps designed to prey on Hollywood and the state government’s bottomless hunger for money.
相反，他和他的团队在玛戈特的帮助下，在仓库里布满了精心设计的滑稽陷阱，旨在利用好莱坞和州政府对金钱的无止境的渴望。
Gov.
政府。
Harding and Max Vane arrive with SWAT teams, news crews, and Max’s entourage of executives and supermodels.
Harding and Max Vane arrive with SWAT teams, news crews, and Max’s entourage of executives and supermodels.
They march into a funhouse of bureaucratic and high-tech nightmares:
They march into a funhouse of bureaucratic and high-tech nightmares:
The live stream breaks the internet.
直播打破了互联网。
Overnight, Leo monetizes the video as an anti-establishment documentary, earning his artist collective millions directly from global viewers.
一夜之间，利奥将这段视频作为一部反建制纪录片货币化，直接从全球观众那里为他的艺术家集体赚取了数百万美元。
Max Vane is arrested for tax fraud and securities manipulation before his jet can leave the tarmac for Monaco.
马克斯·维恩 (Max Vane) 在他的飞机离开停机坪前往摩纳哥之前因税务欺诈和证券操纵被捕。
Chase relocates to Atlanta to shoot infomercials.
蔡斯搬到亚特兰大拍摄电视广告。
The governor brazens his way through the fallout, runs a leftist-populist presidential campaign, and wins the White House.
这位州长厚颜无耻地度过了余波，开展左翼民粹主义总统竞选活动，并入主白宫。
As the sun rises over Los Angeles, Margot stands on the warehouse roof with Leo.
As the sun rises over Los Angeles, Margot stands on the warehouse roof with Leo.
Free from her dying marriage and the dying Hollywood system, and able to avoid jail time for bribing the local politicians through a generous plea deal, she looks out at a city where the corrupt old ways are finally crumbling—making room for something beautiful and new.
她摆脱了垂死的婚姻和垂死的好莱坞体系，并能够通过慷慨的认罪协议避免因贿赂当地政客而入狱，她看着这座城市，腐败的旧方式终于崩溃，为美丽和新的事物腾出了空间。
Joe Mathews writes the Connecting California column for Zócalo Public Square and is founder-columnist of Democracy Local , a planetary publication.
乔·马修斯 (Joe Mathews) 为佐卡洛公共广场 (Zócalo Public Square) 撰写《连接加州》专栏，也是行星刊物 Democracy Local 的创始人兼专栏作家。
Primary editor: Eryn Brown | Secondary editor: Sarah Rothbard
主要编辑：Eryn Brown |二级编辑：莎拉·罗斯巴德
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