Bart was about to break down.
College entrance examination graduation has not been found for a good university for a long time.
All application letters to 8 universities were rejected.
Bart is a child with a backbone: if you don't admit it, you can't start a university yourself!
He found a few "like-minded" friends and forged fake admission letters and the school's official website together.
Admittedly, Bart was just a cannon king at this time.
However, his parents were very happy and thought that the green smoke was rising from the ancestral grave.
After all, their own children know best how many pounds they have.
Bart's parents decided to go to their son's school and come back to brag to their neighbors.
It's hard to do with Bart, fictitious admission letter and fictitious school, can that be the same difficulty?
In order to avoid the tragedy of the blossoming of his ass, Bart decided to keep the lie straight, after all, he had already got the tuition for one semester first.
They rented an abandoned two-story building and formally established South Harmon Polytechnic.
Unexpectedly, many students came to register.
Only because the official website is too realistic, there is a button for all applicants to enroll.
The people who came were like Bart and couldn't get into college.
At this time, the university must be opened, and it is not okay not to open it.
After all, people come with tuition.
With so many people and not being able to play all day, Barthes went around looking around at the operating models of other universities.
Then decide, let the students decide what to study.
You can learn what you want, and those who learn well can be teachers to others.
In this way, a group of people get together and learn what interests them.
This way of learning may be closer to the original intention of the university.
In this way, Barthes created a utopian dream for more than 300 people (including himself) who did not get into college.
This school does have a prototype, that is, the "Chapman University" in Orange County, USA.
Bart was brave.
Do you, when others say you are daydreaming and whimsical, do you have the courage to guard your ideal country?
Recommending a movie today is a story even more legendary than Barthes founded a university.
The Incredible History of Rose Island.
And look at how an engineer builds a country.
01
Since ancient times, there have been many people who want to change the world.
Engineer Giorgio is one of them.
Big Joe is a very simple romantic person.
In order to eliminate the three snowflakes on the TV, he blew up his girlfriend's father's TV and almost blinded the old man.
Because he left a criminal record flying an unregistered airplane, which he built.
Built a car for himself and was towed away because he didn't have a license plate and driver's license.
The fact that he entered the bureau several times soon made him lose the golden rice bowl of the national engineer.
Big Joe is very low, obviously he has not made any mistakes, how can life be restricted everywhere?
Can you still let engineers invent and create well?
Being arrested every time you invent a few toys is also too unfree.
Just create a free place with no messy rules.
It all starts here.
As a science student and an engineer with super hands-on ability, this dooms Big Joe not to be a daydreamer who only fantasizes.
In the movie, Big Joe's loyal fan is an alcoholic rich second generation.
Mr. Drunkard's only wish is that there is enough wine to drink, and no one has taken care of it yet.
He stole 700,000 lira (more than 2 million yuan) from his father's safe and put it into his friend's kingdom building.
In reality, Big Joe does not have such an idealistic friend, and the money he spends is all the bonuses of his various patents.
02
Big Joe sits on the high seas 11 nautical miles from the border.
He wanted to build a steel kingdom.
Of course, even a skilled engineer can be challenging to build a smooth piece of ground on the surface of the sea.
Big Joe pondered and came up with a hollow steel column, filled with water, and stood on the sea as a support.
It is worth mentioning that Big Joe's idea technology has also been patented, and the money obtained has been continued to be invested in construction.
The construction process that passes through the film can imagine its difficulties in reality.
Years later, when people went to interview Big Joe's real-life archetypal characters, he didn't want to talk about anything else, but was just a little proud of his architectural skills.
The platform was finally set up and the Republic of Rose Island was established.
Big Joe still wasn't idle.
As his own president, Big Joe had to find a way to keep the country alive.
What to do?
Because the "land" area is too small, only 400 square meters, the traditional industry is not suitable.
It is surrounded by the sea on all sides, which is naturally suitable for the development of tourism!
As a result, Big Joe and several partners successively equipped a lot of commercial facilities: restaurants, bars, nightclubs, etc.
Started to develop tourism.
Because there are no rules, no laws, no moral constraints, and no worldly pressures, people hear about it.
It became a veritable utopia.
03
Big Joe certainly doesn't just want to play, he's always preparing for formalization.
They designed the flag, established the language, designed the stamps.
It has also been endorsed by the European Commission.
During this period, many people from all over the world received applications to become residents of Rose Island.
Big Joe's side was in full swing, annoying the Italian government.
Even if you rob us of our business at the door of your home, you will make me punch me in the face internationally, is it a provocation.
The Italian government sent someone to talk to Big Joe and coerced him to abandon the island.
Big Joe became more and more frustrated, but there was a huge disparity in strength.
The provoked Italian government decided to blow up the so-called Republic of Rose Island by force.
In history, this was the only act of aggression committed by the Italian Republic.
The Republic of the Roses, which had been established for less than two years, was destroyed.
However, Big Joe is not a complete failure.
The act urged the United Nations to move the boundaries of its international territorial waters around the world.
In addition, Italy's bombing of Rose Island has proved that they recognize Rose Island as a sovereign state.
In the movie, 85% of the plot is true.
Big Joe in the real world has also been greatly hurt because of this matter.
However, many years later, he was asked: Why did you build such an island?
Big Joe said: Why not?
He didn't regret doing so.
Yeah, if you want to do something, why not?
Even if you fail in the end, at least you have made efforts to change yourself and change the world.
In 2017, Big Joe passed away.
Before his death, he received a precious gift, a brick from the Republic of Rose Island.
This is what Italian divers brought back from the ruins of the seabed.
It read: "It is an honor to return the fragments of dreams to the dreamer." ”
In addition to envy, don't forget: you and I can also be dreamers.