After a few hours of communication with Lucas, he fell into a state of uselessness. Although Lucas wants to make a movie, it is not up to him to make it alone.

He depends on the willingness of investors, and if investors think that this film can be made, he can only make it if they are willing to invest money. Even if he doesn't have a lot of fixed assets now, he can still have money to make films if he takes out a mortgage from the bank. But he won't do this, the success or failure of a commercial movie is not easy to say many times, just like the games launched by Wanhu, although each one is made with hard work, but the sales are also high and low, and the player's evaluation is also good or bad.

Movies and video games are both industrialized works of art, and commercial films and commercial video games cannot be created by one person behind closed doors for decades.

Over the decades, movies could go from black and white silent films to color films, and video games could go from 2D to 3D.

The so-called craftsman spirit is of no use in the face of industrialized artworks.

Takahashi also gained a lot in the process of talking with Lucas, and Takahashi's understanding of movies is only a layman's understanding. It is easy for the layman to understand some of the general trends, but they often do not know much about the details.

And people in the industry sometimes only walk around in their own circles and can't see the complete industry situation, but they know the details well.

There are many masters from all walks of life in China, and in their spare time, they like to do things that seem to have little to do with their job.

And if they are willing to say it, they will know that they generally think that these hobbies will be of great help to their careers.

This is called tactile bypass.

And video games and movies are actually quite related, and both are industrialized works of art. And the history of movies is not known how long to be longer than video games.

The experience accumulated over such a long period of time, even if it is only a small detail, has helped Takahashi a lot.

Takahashi knew several ways to go in the future of video games, one of which was cinematicization. One of the advantages of video games over movies is that players can actively engage in various things in the game, rather than sitting there and passively receiving information.

However, this kind of overly subjective operation often makes the game a little weak in terms of building a world view.

Wouldn't it be better if a game had both the advantages of a movie and the advantages of a game through means such as broadcasting.

Regarding the issue of capital, the reason why Takahashi did not take the initiative to invest in Lucas was not because he had no money, but because he did not think that it was the right thing for Wanhu to get involved in the film industry now.

Today, Wanhu is still a company that deals with video games. If it is much larger, Wanhu is a cross-group group, covering from electronic hardware manufacturing, video game production, distribution, and media publicity to a complex large group.

Since the establishment of Wanhu, Wanhu has been expanding, hardly stopping for a second.

But Takahashi didn't think there was a problem with this, because it was all he had planned. And movies, animated films, although he already has a similar plan in mind, now is not the best time to cut in.

Because, it has not yet entered the era of 3D, whether it is special effects or animation, many of them need to be completed by actual operations. For example, miniatures, hand-drawn.

These behaviors are a lot worse than Wanhu's bank, although Wanhu also has hand-drawn, but even Wanhu's fighting game "Blood" is hand-drawn by the computer, and then corrected.

Takahashi is a person who likes to be "lazy", and he believes that the best laziness is to have better skills.

Although the outside world doesn't know much now, Wanhu already has a lot of its own exclusive "black technology".

The effect of these black technologies is not to make the meter turn upside down, but to make the tools more convenient and can improve the productivity of every employee to a higher level.

After sending Lucas away, Takahashi listened to Nick's debriefing.

It took Nick about an hour to explain everything about Wanhu North America. The data and situation of several key nodes are also specially explained.

"You're doing a good job, if the sales figures for this quarter meet expectations, all employees in North America will be directly rewarded with a year's salary. Takahashi said.

Nick was slightly happy when he heard the salary increase, but he still said with restraint, "We haven't actually done much, and most of these things happen naturally." ”

Takahashi said, "If you hadn't gone to the United States to set up a North American branch, there would have been nothing natural. If you should increase your salary, you can increase it, but ...... Don't evade taxes. ”

Nick heard Takahashi's last words, and the expression on his face changed slightly.

The tax burden in the United States is not low, even if you are sick, disabled, or even dead, it is impossible not to pay taxes.

And for these relatively large incomes, taxation is even more powerful.

Take Nick himself, his annual salary is about $100,000, and if it is paid monthly, he will have to pay about 30% of the tax, and his actual income is about $70,000 a year.

And if, as it is now, the big boss is happy and gives a bonus of one year's salary, then well, he will even have to pay more than 50 percent of the tax.

For the tax department in the United States, it is really people sitting at home, and money comes from heaven.

Logically speaking, tax evasion in the United States, like corruption in China, is a crime that can be established by almost anyone.

For example, the tax rate that Nick needs to pay is so high, and the tax rate of 10,000 households in North America is a little lower than this, but it is also high.

If the tax burden of tens of percent is actually paid, unless it is an industry with high profits such as 10,000 households, the traditional industry can almost die.

Takahashi saw that Nick's expression was not very right, and asked, "Did you evade taxes?"

"I didn't ...... Didn't run away...... It's just tax avoidance...... Law...... Do all of this......" Nick's words were a little bit out of the line, and he looked apprehensive.

Takahashi frowned, and said in a calm voice, "Take the initiative to pay all this part of the tax, and ten thousand households are not short of that money." ”

For multinational companies, different countries have different policies and different risks, just like the United States, although it is nominally the most open market, but that is often because you have not touched its core interests.

For example, although Wanhu can sell "Tetris" handheld computers in the United States, if he directly sells a CPU with good performance, if he is not sanctioned, Takahashi will write his name upside down.