Chapter 475: A Common Language
It was still that room, and at this time, the conversation was over, but the two men still had something to say to Phoebe, and the thing they mentioned was that they had collected Phoebe to form a fake company for this year's prank.
The man on the left was obviously a little excited: "Hahaha, that's right, that's what your students are supposed to do!"
Barbara smiled bitterly and said, "I said, aren't you worried about the damage to Phoebe's reputation if this matter leaks out?"
"Reputational damage?" The man on the left shook his head and said, "Absolutely impossible, what is it, it is the driving force of the national economy, although it may not be the first in the world in terms of basic science, but in terms of applied science, you Harvard is also slightly inferior." ”
Barbara looked at her head with a serious expression and said, "That's right, so many Chinese and Indian students choose not to be at Caltech, and they are really not very attractive in this regard." ”
The man on the left pointed at Phoebe and said, "Don't forget that your boss is too." ”
Barbara pursed her lips and spread her hands, meaning that since you said that, you can't talk.
Phoebe sensed that the atmosphere was about to be awkward, so she changed the topic and said, "Just now you said that practitioners in the film and television industry will vaguely use guò works to express political tendencies, referring to those zombie films?"
The man on the left shrugged his shoulders and said, "Indeed, but it's more than that, in fact, before the loss of the film came out, it was mainly a gangster movie." However, the risk of this kind of film is too high, and it is difficult to grasp the scale. Until the appearance of zombie films, many people found that it was the most suitable film to express political tendencies, so at least ten zombie films were still made every year. ”
The man on the right shook his head in disgust and said, "That's right, if you don't watch such a film from the perspective of politics, you will definitely feel that it is very badly made." ”
Barbara asked, "I heard that in addition to the acquisition of the water pipe network, you have also acquired several film and television companies, and you are going to make such a film?"
The man on the left smiled and said, "Of course, you have to shoot sooner or later." In fact, the most ridiculous thing is that there is a director who wants to make this kind of film to express his political position through guò, and on the other hand, he can't identify his own position, so that no one wants to say to such a leading grass (10) ◇ dǐng (10) ◇ diǎn (10) ◇ small (10) ◇, .↗.⌒os_ (); cooperation, although the trailer of the film has been broadcast for more than two years, the shooting plan of the feature film has not been decided until now. Many people who followed him at the beginning have completed their own zombie films, and this person is actually a laughing stock in the industry now. ”
Barbara knew who she was talking about, and she had warned them not to work with the director when she had helped some people flee to the West in Eastern Europe, some of whom were making a living in the fashion and entertainment industries.
The man on the right said at this time: "Speaking of filming, in fact, we also want to ask you, Phoebe, are you interested in cooperating with us?"
Phoebe immediately shook her head and said, "No, I have my own film and television production company." ”
The man on the left suddenly shook his head regretfully and said, "Ah, that's a pity, in fact, we really want to cooperate with you, you know, the real enterprising talents in the science and technology industry are always a scarce resource." ”
Barbara looked at each other in disbelief for a moment, were they trying to recruit Phoebe?
The man on the right looked at Phoebe and explained, "Don't get me wrong, that's what happened. The other day, when I was drinking with the recent graduates of the fraternity where we worked, we talked about this year's prank plan. And then we know, you're planning a prank of stealing out the graduation rings of this year's college graduates, well, at least Stanford is wiped out under your plan, well, I mean, there aren't many students like you who are challenging all the American college students in their first year of college, and a lot of people are convinced that you're targeting graduates who are about to enter society. If only one or two people are tricked by your pranks, everyone will attribute it to luck and negligence, and at least five people from each school in your plan this time will be recruited, and to be honest, anyone can see the hidden intelligence gap behind this. ”
The man on the left, diǎndiǎn head, said admiringly: "That's right, this kind of prank was something we never thought of back then, I heard that the overall planning framework was completed by you alone, it's really amazing." The most important thing is that you actually said that the tutor of psychology gave you a new topic, to be honest, if you don't already have your own company, the companies that know about it will already be robbing people. ”
Phoebe glanced at Barbara, who spread her hands to her, "I haven't heard of this." ”
The man on the right said, "That's the case, if you're playing a prank, why don't you make it bigger, for example, to fool the audience, how about it?"
The man on the left spread his hands helplessly and said: "Look, after knowing about your prank, he has always had this idea, but what he said is not the fool of making a bad movie casually, but the fooling method like you, with logic as the main body, to establish a framework, so that the audience can't see it at all." ”
Barbara opened her mouth slightly and sneered, sounding as if she was sighing, but Phoebe, who knew her well, naturally understood what Barbara wanted to express.
However, in Phoebe's opinion, the two opposite sides can play a considerable role in the development of Girls' Generation, so she weighed it and said: "In terms of the plan to fool the audience, it is not impossible to cooperate, but I want to know one thing, this plan is not difficult to implement for you who have enough resources, why do you want me to join?"
The man on the left spread his hands and said, "It's him who thinks." ”
The man on the right looked at his companion and said dissatisfiedly, "Hey, didn't you also put forward your idea? It's just that if you shoot according to your idea, you can be seen through the first season, right?"
Barbara knows that there are people in this world who like to show off their wealth, some people like to show off their lifestyle, and some people like to show off things that seem "high-end", and these two people in front of her are, although they have heard that their company has been committed to advancing the progress of applied science, but now Barbara understands that they actually prefer to feel the excitement of new things that have never been seen before. Therefore, after taking one look at Phoebe, Barbara said to the two opposites, "You still haven't said why you want Phoebe to cooperate in this matter." ”
The man on the left suddenly said, "Yes, that's it." In fact, it's very simple, people who think this matter is interesting have made a shooting plan, but after finding some screenwriters to enrich the script, I found that there were either logical loopholes and deviated from the original idea, or I found that the script made up was probably difficult to attract the audience, or it was difficult for the audience to understand, of course, if we simply shoot these plans into TV series, the creativity is still good, and some have even started filming. But we found that trying to design the kind of logical structure that we wanted to fool the audience was too demanding for the screenwriter. Just when we were about to give up, we heard about Phoebe's prank, so we looked into it, and it turned out that there really was someone who could build the logical framework so well. ”
Barbara frowned slightly, "Wouldn't it be better for you to go to those writers who write mystery stories?"
The man on the right shrugged his shoulders and said, "You think it's very simple, well, in this way, let's imagine the beginning of a story, we suddenly travel to April 13, 1865, when the Civil War had just ended, and the practices of the Northern army in the South were gradually emerging, of course, the international financial family also suffered heavy losses due to the abolition of the debt lent to the South, and the abolitionist president would be assassinated on the night of the 14th, and we know the name and origin of the official record of the assassin." What are we going to do if we want to save this re-elected president? Mind you, we only have one day left, and we don't have any official status to convince the American upper echelons of society to believe us at that time. ”
Barbara was stunned for a moment and asked, "We just went there without anything?"
The man on the left smiled wryly, and his wry smile made Barbara a little stunned. Then Barbara realized that the wry smile was due to the words "surfaced" and "official account" that his companion had said. However, it also reminded Barbara that it was precisely because of this premise that it was almost impossible to warn the president of an assassination in one day, as the other party said.
Why?
The main reason is that if there is no evidence and it is said that someone is going to assassinate the re-elected Lincoln, in addition to treating the whistleblower as a madman, the official is to conduct a background check on the whistleblower first. In addition, the other side deliberately mentioned that Lincoln's assassination had additional background, and with that kind of understanding, it should be understood that the assassin party was likely to have more than one means of preparation, just as there were two directions in which the gun was fired at Kennedy, which has been controversial. What's more, even if the warning was successful and the assassin in the record was stopped, there would still be no other means. At that time, not only will it not play the role of a warning, but I am afraid that it will startle the snake, and it will also cause a second civil war because of the arrest of people without evidence, arousing people's fear of white terror.
The more Barbara thought about it, the more she felt that this seemingly simple script requirement was not as simple as she imagined. Sure enough, it was quite difficult to write the story logically, so she somewhat understood what the other party meant at the beginning.
Phoebe saw Barbara's brows furrowing more and more, and saw that the other two of them looked at her a little proudly, and after thinking for a while, she said: "May 17 of that year was the date of the signing of the International Telegraph Convention, and the year after that was the year when the Atlantic submarine telegraph cable, which had been under construction for 13 years, was officially completed. It can be said that thanks to the invention of the telegraph, the bureaus between countries and regions were rapidly brought closer. But it was a very bad time for the security of communications, and wiretapping was a fairly simple thing at the time. So ask the protagonist to write a unique set of codes, and then use the excuse of finding and deciphering some strange codes to remind the authorities to pay attention to the increased security of the president. However, since it is a script, it can be set in the beginning, the audience does not know that the protagonist is traveling in the past, and the initial part only needs to make the audience think that the protagonist is through guò analysis of some old code records, and finds a kind of code that is different from the code mentioned in the International Telegraph Convention under discussion, or any previous code form. After deciphering it, it is discovered that someone was plotting to assassinate Lincoln, and then the protagonist goes to warn the authorities. The authorities could not ignore such evidence, so they formed an emergency team to verify and investigate, and as the investigation deepened, the team finally stopped the assassin after a fierce action scene - of course, no action scene, before Lincoln was shot in the head. Later, another person in the special case team, who can be the person who triggers the emotional line with the protagonist, suddenly discovers that some mathematical formulas in the protagonist's decipherment process have not been popularized or confirmed at that time, and then discovers that the protagonist is a time traveler. ”
Speaking of this, Phoebe crossed her hands in front of her chest, leaned back, ignored the surprised gazes of the two opposite and Barbara beside her, and smiled: "Tell me a few of your stories, I have diǎn interest." ”
Barbara suddenly sighed excitedly and said, "Phoebe, I know you didn't finish talking just now, keep talking." ”
As soon as Barbara's words were finished, the eyes of the two people on the other side widened: "Is there really any?"
Phoebe looked at Barbara with a helpless expression and said: "Didn't you just say that the protagonist is from the modern age back to the past, and the rest of the part can be written however you want, for example, because the protagonist completed the task, after saying goodbye to the person who triggered the emotional line, he returned to the modern era." However, because of the modern bacteria he brought with him, it was still passed on to the agent who had a relationship with him, because this caused the most severe plague in North America, making the northern United States almost a purgatory on earth, and the 13th Amendment, which was supposed to pass guò at the end of that year, naturally had no way to pass guò. After that, because the United States, which mainly relied on the slave plantation economy economically, could not influence the world economy, the United States did nothing during World War I and World War II, and could not even make up 50 stars. It can also be added that the British fascists were defeated, and Japan occupied the west coast of the United States...... Well, well, this development depends on what kind of audience group and market the series is aimed at. ”
Barbara opened her mouth, but she didn't know what to say, she originally felt that Phoebe's thinking was different from ordinary people, like saving Lincoln to complete the mission such as a crossing mission, and the ending was that everyone came back happily, why do you want to say so much, is this for fear that others will not know that you are a complete capitalist?......
The two men on the opposite side were also a little dumbfounded, and suddenly the man on the right said excitedly: "Phoebe, you must help us design the structure of the script, really, don't you want Girls' Generation to appear on the search recommendation at least once a month, no problem, I will definitely help you do it!"
And the man on the left was also a little excited, and Barbara breathed a sigh of relief when she saw this, it seems that capitalists and capitalists do have a common language sometimes......
Well, the four people in this room are actually not normal......