Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

When "Empire of the Sun" was released, mainland China had not yet opened up the market to Hollywood, so Spielberg didn't know how the film's reputation among Chinese audiences was.But when Jed mentioned it like this, he also began to think back to his original intention of making this movie.In fact, Spielberg is a very active anti-pacifist, so his sympathy for Japan is definitely not based on sympathy for Japanese militarism.In Spielberg's view, the Japanese people have also been hurt by Japanese militarism, so he also sympathizes with it.Of course, the main clue of the whole movie comes from the perspective of Jamie, the British kid.

In fact, Spielberg doesn't know much about Eastern culture. The "Empire of the Sun" in his movie is actually a metaphor for Britain, which is the protagonist of the film.However, due to the cultural differences between the East and the West, in the eyes of the Chinese, this film more or less has the meaning of "overturning the verdict for Japan".If Spielberg knows that there are some Chinese people who think his movies are the soul of militarism, he is probably the saddest one.However, under Jed's reminder, Spielberg also discovered his mentality when he was filming "Empire of the Sun".

After a long time, he said, "I ignored the truth in pursuit of the perfection of the film. Jed, this mistake cannot be made again when filming "Schindler's Ark". But I have a request, I hope This script can be adapted by you. I believe in your pen and your heart, you can always use the simplest words to express humanity most directly.”

In fact, the idea of ​​adapting the novel "Schindler's Ark" has always lingered in Jed's mind, but because "Schindler's List" is too classic, Jed did not have the courage to adapt it.But since it was proposed by the director himself this time, why not adapt it himself?After thinking for a while, Jed nodded in agreement.

After the two discussed the matter, they began to prepare for the shooting of "Jurassic Park".Since joining the crew with Spielberg, Jed has discovered that it is simply impossible for the main character to make several films every year in the novels of later generations.Rao is a director of Spielberg's level and a professional and senior film company like Universal Pictures. It takes at least a year for a film to start shooting, and then half a year of shooting and half a year of post-production. It's not bad if the film can be completed in two years.Of course, some low-budget and low-production movies are naturally special cases.

And Spielberg also trained Jed as a producer and director. After all, since the abolition of the director-centered system, the director's rights have become smaller and smaller.Corresponding to movies, the titles of movies are more and more "products of a certain company" rather than "works of a certain director".The reason why directors like Spielberg and Cameron are still so strong is not their directorial identities, but the producers behind them.The reason why directors Spielberg, Cameron and Lucas can still retain the final power of directors-final editing rights is because the films they participated in are also the films they produced.It is precisely because of the combination of the identity of the producer and the identity of the director that these great directors can still enjoy this kind of treatment.

Spielberg is not worried about Jed's ability to make money at all. Since they are all Jewish, Spielberg naturally has his own channels to know the profitability of Jed's companies.Now Spielberg is training Jed's ability to spend money, how to spend it?How much do you spend?There are tricks to this.Without the guidance of senior companies such as Abelin Entertainment and Universal Pictures, it would take at least two to three years for Jed to learn to become a real producer.And under Spielberg's guidance, Jed has already begun to get a little introduction to how to be a producer.In addition to studying film production with Spielberg behind him, Jed's other task is to change the novel "Schindler's Ark".

Since Jed has watched "Schindler's List" several times in his previous life, he also has a lot of experience with the script of this movie, so Jed's adaptation speed is quite fast.But Jed was not in a hurry to hand over the script to Spielberg, he really didn't want to spoil his mood of filming "Jurassic Park".

The days in Hawaii were actually quite difficult, because the shooting locations belonged to some relatively isolated islands in the Hawaiian Islands.Although there is a nanny car and satellite TV and telephone, it is too boring for Jed.But what surprised Jed was that when he was watching the NBC Sports Network, he actually saw the tennis boy he met in New York last time.What surprised Jed even more was that the teenager actually won the singles championship in the Aptos Challenge.

The Challenge is the lowest-level event in the ATP series, but it is undoubtedly the only way for every teenager to go from amateur to professional. A reporter from NBC Sports introduced Nicholas Zhou's game experience, saying that he started to enter the professional game circle after the semi-finals of the National Junior Tennis Championships.Prior to the Aptos Challenge, Zhou had already won the semi-finals and runner-up of three other challenges.However, since the ATP points are emptied at the beginning of each year, Zhou's points are not enough to participate in the ATP Masters Tour.However, the organizers of the US Open have expressed a certain interest in Nicholas Zhou, and will decide whether to give him a wild card to invite him to participate in the qualifiers depending on his performance in subsequent events.

Hearing the news, Jed was quite happy for the boy.With the experience of participating in the four Grand Slams, then entering the ATP Masters Tour in the future is bound to have a good ranking.

After Jed spent a week in Hawaii, Lucas also brought his special effects team to the "Jurassic Park" crew.Although most of the special effects have to be produced in the post-production stage, the special effects team in the early-stage shooting also needs to give some assistance to the director to determine which effects can be produced.Avoid the disjoint between the pre-shooting action and the post-production effect, which makes people feel that it is not real enough.Although in "Terminator 2", the liquid robot produced by Industrial Light and Magic has shown reporters the magic of computer special effects, but after all, it is only a few shots.

Now in "Jurassic Park", Industrial Light and Magic needs to produce many more scenes than "Terminator 2", and the scale is also much larger, which undoubtedly aroused the curiosity of many reporters.However, in order to ensure the freshness and mystery of the film, Spielberg and Universal Pictures issued a "ghost order" to reporters.

Since they couldn't get the real interview content, the reporters started to use their imaginations to make various guesses about the special effects.Of course, many reporters felt that "Jurassic Park" was playing tricks, and even specially interviewed some computer professionals, thinking that the so-called computer special effects are difficult to achieve.Jed felt pathetic about the sworn assurances of these experts.After all, these experts are indeed professionals in the industry, and they are also people with real talents.But it is this group of experts who invented and promoted the development of computers, but they are the people who have the least confidence in the future of computers.

At that time, the chief engineer of IBM still patted his chest and said that "five personal computers are enough in the world", so IBM did not enter the personal computer market, which led to Big Blue's disastrous failure in the early personal computer business.Later, it formed an alliance with Intel and Microsoft to defeat Apple's closed computer architecture with an open personal computer architecture.If there is no such trick later, maybe this pioneer in the computer world will become the first martyr in the history of computer development.

So Jed didn't think there was anything wrong with the opinions of these experts, because they couldn't see and imagine that realm, so they thought it was incredible.Jed believes that after the filming of "Jurassic Park" is completed, only one trailer can surprise the whole world.

Jed originally thought that the cooperation between Industrial Light & Magic and Abelin Entertainment would go smoothly, but he obviously miscalculated the relationship between Lucas and Spielberg.Two first-line directors who are both in Hollywood actually appear in a movie at the same time, so the two sides will start to argue because of various issues.Lucas is a typical scene director. He hopes to make the film's scenes large and powerful; but Spielberg believes that this will weaken the theme of the film and asks Lucas to stop in moderation.

Whenever the two big directors started to argue, it was time for Jed to coordinate.After all, given the level of these two directors, no one really dared to try to persuade them to fight.Fortunately, on the one hand, Jed is a junior that Spielberg admires, and on the other hand, he is Lucas' partner, so Jed has to spend a lot of time every day coordinating the relationship between the two.Fortunately, "Jurassic Park", as a popcorn commercial movie released in the summer, did not take too much time for everyone.In just two months, Spielberg completed all the pre-shooting work, and then completely left the post-production of the film to Lucas.

"I've seen your script, it's very touching." Spielberg got Jade's script when the film was almost finished.Spielberg also knew that the script had actually been completed long ago, but Jed kept dragging it off because he was worried about affecting his emotions. "Your shot design is also perfect, and I also benefited from some of the shooting notes. Jed, I would like to invite you to co-direct this film. I think you are more than capable of doing the job."

"Isn't that appropriate?" Jed was taken aback.Co-directing with Spielberg, it was amazing.And the two will also co-direct "Schindler's List," which is simply pie in the sky.But Jed is very aware of his situation. The reason why his storyboards and notes are perfect is because he has seen that movie, and he can perfectly reproduce the technical content.But for the grasp of the emotion of the movie, this must be done by Spielberg.And Jed knows that the biggest difference between him and Spielberg is that Spielberg has a particularly meticulous grasp of humanity and heart, and he always has a sympathy for people.But Jed doesn't have such a good view of people. In Jed's works, he always criticizes people to a certain extent.

If Jed came to know "Schindler's List", Jed would definitely give a lot of shots to the Nazis, so that humans can see the ugliness of their own kind and criticize the darkness of human hearts.But this is obviously not what this movie needs. This movie is a kind of pity, a kind of sympathy. "I'm not suitable. Because I will use a very strict eye to criticize people and things at that time. But we don't need to show too much ugliness in this movie. What we need is to reflect history truthfully and use compassion The eyes to record everything, and then let the audience feel sympathy from the bottom of their hearts and prevent the tragedy from happening again."

In fact, Spielberg also understands that Jed's vision of the world is different from his own. If Jed is promoted to the level of co-director, it may lead to deviation or splitting of the values ​​​​of the entire movie. "Okay then, but I still want you to serve as the assistant director of this movie. Jed, I need an assistant to help me through these terrible years."

Jed did not refuse Spielberg's request.In fact, Jed had been very resistant to watching movies related to the Nazi Holocaust or the Nanjing Massacre in his previous life, because he felt that he could not bear the pain.Only as he grows older, Jed is willing to face such history.He knows very well that since watching such a movie as an audience is so uncomfortable, it is even more terrifying for the director to reproduce such a history.Because in a sense, the director is tantamount to reinterpreting the originally terrible history, which is unacceptable to any normal person.It's no wonder that after Spielberg finished directing "Schindler's List", the first thing he did was to receive half a year of vacation treatment on a sunny island.It is conceivable how much the darkness in this movie hurt the director.

"We expect to start filming this movie next year, and now I'm going to work hard to find actors and scenes." Spielberg stood up and patted Jed on the shoulder, "We need this movie to record that period." History serves as a wake-up call to the world."

"Yes, the Chinese have a saying called 'the teacher who never forgets the past'." Jed also nodded in agreement with Spielberg's words.

After leaving Hawaii, Jed returned to his home and began to take care of his own property.Old Bell naturally handed in various accounts and briefings. As the most important Sherman Family Development Fund of the Sherman family, it finally got out of the shadow of the former executive’s corruption. Under Jed’s deliberate guidance, the Sherman Family Development Fund started Invest mainly in U.S. treasury bonds and blue-chip stocks, and the capital is in a stage of steady growth.

Among the three TV series launched by its own Dongfeng Production, "Friends" and "Will & Grace" are in good ratings, and the second and third rounds of broadcasting rights are also very popular.At present, some videotape rental companies such as Blockbuster have begun to suggest that Dongfeng Productions release corresponding videotapes to get involved in the videotape rental business.

The ratings of "Warning Fence" are relatively sluggish, but fortunately, critics are quite satisfied with this TV series, and believe that the main creator David Kelly will be a superstar in the American TV series production circle in the future.

The popularity of "The Oprah Show" in the United States has far exceeded that of the ABC era, which made Oprah quite satisfied.More importantly, Lansing not only sold "The Oprah Show" to Europe, but even TV stations in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia participated in the purchase, which can be regarded as promoting "The Oprah Show" to the international market.However, the most profitable under Jed's name is still his investment company and Rainbow Entertainment, which he started with the Japanese.

Jed has found that his shares have entered the top ten shareholders of Microsoft and Apple. Fortunately, Jed has handed over his shares to eight companies, otherwise Jed's name will start to appear in the financial industry. version.

As for Rainbow Entertainment, Jed was a little surprised by the Japanese's management capabilities.Ejima Hayato not only succeeded in making Japanese teenagers feel that entering male-male love action movies is one of the shortcuts to enter the entertainment circle, but also made some male stars become Japanese idols.Ejima Hayato is no longer limited to shooting romantic action movies. He also organized his male stars to shoot some slightly larger-scale midnight TV dramas or restricted-rated movies, which also achieved good success.Some media even believe that apart from Johnny's & Co., the Rainbow firm under Ejima Hayato has the most handsome guys.This surprised Jed a little. He was just showing up to catch a little sideways, but Hatoto Ejima gave him a completely unbelievable result.

Of course, in addition to these investments in the entertainment industry, Jade has also gained a lot of benefits from Philips through Horizon Technology.

After Jed finished the briefing, Old Bell suddenly said, "Mr. Sherman, is there a guest from South Korea who wants to see you?"

"South Korea?" Jed was slightly taken aback. Although South Korea in this era has already been listed among the "Four Asian Tigers" and has the reputation of "East Asian Miracle", after all, South Korea is dominated by the chaebol economy, so the economies of South Korea and the United States are not the same. Not much communication. "Who are the guests from South Korea? Did they say anything?"

"The person visiting you is Mr. Lee Kun-hee, the chairman of South Korea's Samsung Group." Old Bell will naturally filter and investigate every guest who visits Jed to ensure that no unseemly guests will harass Jed. "He hopes to cooperate with you on electronic technology. I guess he heard about Horizon Technology from Philips, and then found you."

Li Kunxi can be said to be an important figure in the Samsung Group's turnaround after the 90s, and he is extremely fond of electronic technology and modern technology, so Samsung Electronics under his control has gradually become a company that can challenge Apple, Nokia, and Motorola.Jed doesn't keep much secrets about Horizon Technology, so as long as he has a little heart, he can know that he is the largest shareholder of this company.

It seems that Samsung is also interested in its own optical media storage technology, but Jed will never miss the prey that comes to his door.He not only has what Samsung wants, but also what Samsung can't even imagine. Is such a good bait afraid that he won't be able to take the bait?