But the box office results of the two are far apart, mainly because of their different focuses.

M. Shyamalan's "Celestial Omen" focuses on the reactions and emotions of people under the threat of extraterrestrial fear, which is also what the people of Europe and the United States can feel most intuitively at present.

Spielberg's "Minority Report" focuses on the idea that when people voluntarily surrender their freedom in exchange for a sense of security out of fear, they will even arrest the innocent of the present for the sake of a "false" possibility of future crimes.

Aren't these things actually the "prism door" and "monitoring door" crises that will make a lot of noise in the future? When people's personal privacy becomes a government *****, security reasons pale in comparison.

From this point of view, Spielberg deserves to be a master director, who saw through the essence of the government and the public at a glance, and made a movie like "Minority Report" in 02, which is really breathtaking.

However, the things in the "Minority Report" will not be gradually revealed in public life until at least the next ten years, as the so-called genius who is half a step ahead of the times, and those who are one step ahead will become "fools".

Returning to the film itself, the example of "Minority Report" also fully shows that as a director and creator, it is good to see far, but it is also necessary to follow the trend of current affairs, so that you can be invincible.

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"So, today is the day of the board vote." The independent directors who presided over the meeting simply felt that this month was the most ups and downs of their lives.

First, Carl Icahn, the major shareholder director, threw out the "split plan" of the four-part group, and then the group's CEO Richard Parsons gathered the executives of the Time Warner family to force the board of directors, but Chairman Steve Keys took the initiative and instead focused everything on the spin-off and sale of DC Comics.

At a time when AOL's external stock price is tumbling and turbulent, it is quite rare that its internal struggle is becoming more and more fierce.

It's just that for both Steve Keys and Richard Parsons, it's time to get the answers.

After more than a week of intense battles, today's board vote will determine where DC Comics goes.

And this will also determine the possibility of the "four-point plan" in the future.

So the attendees waited with bated breath for the outcome.

"Against, one vote." The independent directors who presided over the meeting opened the first vote in front of all the board members and the chairman and CEO of the group.

Although everyone in the conference room did not speak, the eyes of everyone on Richard Parsons' side couldn't help but light up, but then the independent director calmly said: "Yes, one vote." ”

AOL Time Warner immediately pulled back a city, and with the independent directors' unwavering tone, the voting results of the board members were announced one by one.

And the hearts of everyone in the conference room also rose and fell again and again with the results announced, and in the end, the first eight votes just reached the result of 4:4.

Everyone looked at the independent directors with bated breath, and was watched by so many people, Rao was that he had seen a lot of big scenes, and he couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

Then he picked up the last ballot, flipped it open, and there was a hint of inexplicable solemnity on his face, and then he looked up, opened the ballot as he spoke, and showed the crowd: "The last vote is...... Approve. ”

"Shredded coconut—" Steve Case's hand clenched into a fist under the table.

And Richard Parsons's already dark face became darker at this time, he stood up solemnly, and then looked at Steve Keys and Carl Icahn excitedly, "You won this game, but don't think this is the end of it!" ”

With that, he got up and left the conference room.

The board of directors voted to spin off and sell DC Comics, and finally passed by a narrow margin of 5:4!

The news quickly spread throughout the group, and AOL was overjoyed, while Time Warner was on the back of frost.

Sid and Shirley were soon pleasantly surprised by a call from Carl Icahn.

"It's really done!" Sid's first reaction on the phone with Shirley was this.

Although this result is somewhat unexpected, it is also reasonable.

If we wait until Steve Keys leaves, Richard Parsons will still have a good fight.

But now there is Chairman Keith on it, and there is a Carl Icahn who jumps out and stabs him from time to time.

Even with the support of Time Warner's executives and some shareholders, it is still difficult to match the combination of Steve Case and Carl Icahn.

The reason why Richard Parsons was able to reorganize and reorganize Time Warner so smoothly in "history" has a significant relationship with the departure of Steve Keys at that time.

Because in the initial merger process of AOL Time Warner, it was actually more like AOL's annexation of Time Warner.

With the exception of a few subdivisions such as Warner Pictures and HBO, almost all other divisions within the group have been replaced by their own henchmen and executives on AOL.

Just like now, although there is "CSI", Warner Bros. TV is still controlled by AOL.

And the departure of Steve Case "historically" put the executives on the AOL side into a state of leaderlessness, just like the Macedonian Empire that quickly collapsed after the death of Alexander the Great.

They were liquidated by Richard Parsons one by one, and after the departure of Steve Case, Richard Parsons's greatest energy was to purge these former "political enemies".

But even so, it took Richard Parsons a full ten months to clean them up, and after that, there was a counterattack from Time Warner.

But now, with Steve Case, the chairman who led the merger, still around, all the power of AOL is twisted into a rope, plus Carl Icahn is behind it.

The result of the 5:4 vote was not unexpected.

"We have a solution!" Barry Meyer exclaimed.

When the voting results were announced, Carl Icahn also explained to the board of directors that the buyer who was willing to pay more than $2 billion to buy DC Comics was the Fire Lion Group.

This news made Time Warner's side grit their teeth suddenly, there was a fledgling fire lion in the past, and they snatched "Harry Potter" from them, and now they dare to pull out their teeth to get involved in DC!?

It's really unbearable!