Chapter 346 Core Competitiveness

The Oscar turmoil in 1999 is still talked about today, and the epic movie "Saving Private Ryan" lost to the unknown so-called "Shakespeare in Love", which made the whole Hollywood boil for a long time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The two parties, the famous Hollywood director Spielberg and the famous villain Harvey, were naturally put in the position of life and death enemies by the media and the public, and were almost hyped by the media to be endless, but although in fact, Spielberg openly joked about Harvey's 'unspoken rules', the contradiction between the two is not so big, but there is a certain cooperative relationship.

Harvey is the undisputed independent investor in Hollywood, and although he has a bad character, his pursuit of art is indeed more bottom-line than the pure business of the giants.

Think Spielberg is a big director with artistic pursuits, although they sometimes succumb to giant companies because of capital, but in fact they prefer to cooperate with Harvey, but Harvey sometimes can't support too large funds, and he is very shrewd, and he basically does not participate in things that are too risky.

But Spielberg's relationship with Harvey is indeed not as bad as the media hype, and Spielberg just sometimes doesn't bother to talk to him.

Harvey usually doesn't bother these big directors, after all, no one wants to be poured cold water on the door, but this time Spielberg was still a little surprised when he received a call from Harvey.

"Did you make a mistake?" Spielberg quipped with a laugh.

"Spielberg! I heard that the media is comparing you to Miyazaki again?" Harvey's laughter shook people's ears.

"If you're bored, you go to Wall Street and run naked, and you might be able to get the stock up. Spielberg scoffed.

"You bad-mouthed old man. Harvey laughed and scolded, "I have a cartoon in my hand." ”

"Oh, are you watching Miyazaki's animation, are you looking at Miyazaki's animation, do you want to extend your evil hand to the field of animation, are you not afraid of Miyazaki's katana?"

Hayao Miyazaki's 1997 animated film "Princess Mononoke" was released in North America in collaboration with Harvey, and Harvey's habit of editing movies has long been known.

'You dare to cut my film'

was so scared that Harvey really didn't dare to cut "Princess Mononoke", and this matter was circulated as a joke in their circles.

"Don't mention that old man, aren't you interested in oriental culture?

"I've heard that you introduced a Chinese martial arts movie, which is the same type as Li Yu, why are you also fascinated by oriental culture?"

"Do you remember the oriental ink animation that you admired a long time ago? Harvey asked.

Spielberg was stunned, in the early years of Chinese ink animation had given him a lot of inspiration, in the sixties of the last century, basically all aesthetic and animation directors were fascinated by ink painting, including Miyazaki, Spielberg, and some directors who have long become masters now, and ink animation at that time was almost another enlightenment to open their aesthetic cognition.

It's just that after Spielberg and the others grew up and became famous, they went to look for this kind of ink painting, but they couldn't find the feeling they had at the beginning, which is also one of the regrets.

"So you've found the baby?" Spielberg asked, coming back to his senses.

"To cooperate or not. Harvey smiled and said, "Paramount isn't trying to suppress you, do you want to try to fight back?"

Spielberg frowned, six years after the DreamWorks company he and two other friends had founded, but it hadn't lived up to their original desire to make the company a new type of industrial company unique in Hollywood.

Behind the seemingly complete industrial chain of games, books, entertainment, etc., DreamWorks' biggest flaw is that it does not have a core competitiveness, although it has Spielberg's golden signboard, it can be said to be one of the most appealing directors in Hollywood, but it still cannot be compared with the giant Disney.

The input and output are completely disproportionate, which puts them in a corporate predicament, coupled with Spielberg's energy is focused on movies, and the company's management is also contradictory, although it has the most advanced CG technology and R&D personnel in Hollywood, but it has always been in the service of several giants, which makes Spielberg and others feel that they have lost their original intention.

It happened that Disney acquired Harvey's company some time ago, which caused another giant, Paramount, to have a crisis, and began to want to negotiate cooperation with DreamWorks.

On the surface, it is a cooperation, but in fact, it is also a strong merger and acquisition, and recently the three giants of DreamWorks have also fallen into a quarrel because of this issue.

"Easy to say, you lost dog and want to pull me to play with you?" Spielberg laughed after a moment's thought.

"Why don't you take a look at what I sent you. Harvey smiled, "Besides, sooner or later, you and I will be lost dogs." ”

Spielberg frowned and hung up the phone, opened his laptop, opened the file sent by Harvey, and the impression came from the thick bass chanting, which made Spielberg's instinctive hairs rise upside down and his eyes widened.

He had never heard a voice before.

Five minutes later, Spielberg pressed the pause button, picked up the phone and called Harvey.

"Hi, you've got you done?" Harvey's laughter was full of smugness, as if he had eaten him.

"This animation was made by the Chinese?" Spielberg asked in a deep voice.

"It's like a fake. Harvey said.

"I was willing to trade six percent of DreamWorks' shares for the film's production technology. Spielberg said.

"I'm asking about the counterattack. Harvey laughed.

"What do you want to do?" Spielberg was silent for a moment.

"I'm going to sell Miramax. Harvey said seriously, "If I don't do what I like, then what's the fun of making movies?"

"Your joy in making movies is to make this circle a miasma. Spielberg scoffed.

"If I don't make this circle a miasma, run by giants like a business machine enslaving the soul of the audience, is this kind of Hollywood you want to see?" Harvard asked rhetorically.

Spielberg was silent for a moment: "You can't clear your name. ”

"I'm such a scoundrel, why do I want to wash my name? I just don't want the big guys to feel like they're the only right. Harvey sneered.

"I want to meet the director of this movie, the subject matter of the movie is too foreign to me, I can't understand it. Spielberg said.

"As long as you're willing to cooperate, nothing else is a problem. Harvey laughed.

"Seriously, Huaxia is such a terrible country, and I visually estimated that the production cost of this animated film would be more than 100 million US dollars, and from a market perspective, the risk is higher than 70%. How could they be so bold?" Spielberg asked, a little confused.

"I'm also curious about that. Harvey smiled, "You also know that this is an ancient and mysterious country. ”

Spielberg pursed his lips, "Listen to you, as long as you don't embarrass me." ”

"Don't worry, we're old friends, will I cheat you?" Harvey laughed.

"Aren't you afraid of God's punishment when you say that?" Spielberg sneered.

"God, old man, thank me for the pleasure I have brought to his people. Harvey laughed and hung up.

Spielberg turned his head to look at the magnificent picture of the palace on the laptop screen, and made another call, "Jobs, I think your screen resolution should be further improved." ”

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"How?" Wang Yao was wearing a vermilion embroidered gold-rimmed coat, looking at Harvey who hung up the phone and had a red face.

"My hero, I've never seen that old fellow so obedient. Harvey's expression was inexplicably refreshed.

"So, it was a success?" Wang Yao asked with a smile, quietly relieved.

The production of "Zodiac Turn" was completed, and the final cut version was 140 minutes, and Harvey was full of praise after watching it, and the two entered the negotiation process.

The cooperation proposed by Wang Yao is that seven and three are divided, he is seven, Harvey is three, and the issuance cost is borne by Harvey.

According to normal logic, the plan proposed by Wang Yao is almost nonsense, because he has the absolute initiative to release Harvey in North America, and he is the absolute strong party.

But in fact, Wang Yao knows that the production technology and his own value in his hands are what Harvey needs most at present, and Wang Yao is the strong party.

Because Harvey actually smashed Hollywood, in addition to his own means, almost all the authority was vacated by Disney, he is now a light commander, after the company was acquired, all investors no longer look at his face, but look at the face of the giant Disney.

Disney's animated film is the best in the world, not one of them, whether it is artistic, commercial or influential.

But what Wang Yao has mastered is an area that Disney cannot replicate and cannot participate in.

Ink painting, only Huaxia has this style of painting in the world, and the entire Chinese ink painting talents, if they want to complete a movie, they cannot meet the needs of Disney, and the cost of cultivating talents is too great, so in the field of ink painting, Disney is an absolute blind spot.

And this blind spot is Harvey's chance to turn the book, and he can even predict that he may reach the level of a Disney giant in the future, provided that Wang Yao will cooperate with him.

All the cutting-edge enterprises in the world, in addition to the support of capital, the most important thing is the core technology, and Wang Yao currently has a core technology resource, and it is likely to be unique.

Although Wang Yao's painting skills may not be the pinnacle of Chinese ink painting now, there are many masters who are better than him, and not much to say, Mr. Qigong and Mr. Da can crush him in the realm.

But Mr. Qi Gong and Mr. Da will never put their ink painting skills into the production of movie plots, because they do not conspire with each other.