Chapter 57: You don't understand Brother's pursuit
Gu Cheng has said on many occasions that he will not make TV series anymore. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Judging from the arrangement of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", this statement is definitely not just a rumor, but he really stopped filming. At most, others have mature projects sent over and asked for investment, Gu Cheng took a look at the plan and then made a decision to invest money. More often, these film and television investment decisions will be slowly handed over to Liu Hui to complete, and Gu Cheng doesn't want to ask in person.
In fact, since the filming of "Sword and Fairy" started, two or three more movies and TV series found Liu Hui, and took the money from Eslite Film and Television to start filming. For example, this year, Zhou Jielun was found to act in "The City Full of Golden Armor", in order to let the YY department do its best to promote it in the future, he let the money from Eslite Film and Television enter some shares.
The number of directors and actors who have taken refuge in Gu Cheng in the circle is also gradually increasing, and there is no need to repeat it.
Gu Cheng never said that he would never make movies in the future.
But everyone believes that it is very likely that he will not shoot, or only spend money, at most the outline will guide the tone of the film.
It was precisely because of this consensus that when Gu Cheng went to Liu Hui's office the next day to talk to her and roughly stated his intentions, Liu Hui was almost taken aback.
"I want to invest in a movie, can you find the right director, actors, and crew to help me get it?" Gu Cheng said straight to the point.
Now that the Girls' Generation draft is on the right track, the program team on Wu Yue Satellite TV will handle daily affairs, and all the suppliers of "Fairy Sword" are also complete, Liu Hui, the producer, is indeed relatively empty, and will take some time every day to inspect new projects that can be invested in the circle.
Faced with Gu Cheng's seemingly three-minute hot whim, Liu Hui didn't dare to be careless, and asked carefully: "What kind of script is it?" I actually let you be so optimistic that I came to explain it in person. ”
"There's no script, it's just a set of central ideas, and the story doesn't have it yet. It should be regarded as an art film, in short, it teaches everyone in the entertainment industry to be a person, which is roughly 'mixed with the Hollywood model, and there is no future in the future technological environment.'" Follow my pattern and follow me to get a way out.'" I've been thinking about it for a few years, but I don't have time or time, but now I think the conditions are almost there, and we can talk slowly. ”
Gu Cheng's words were also arrogant.
The reason why he wanted to vote for this movie is, in a word, "I like it".
Lao Tzu has money, and if you don't say something, you won't be happy, so you will throw money and say it.
As for the box office, it's a ghost. Even if no one looks at Gu Cheng for the time being, he doesn't care, because this film will predict history, and when people who don't believe in him are taught by history to be human beings in the future, they will naturally come back and kneel and lick the movie he made is a prophecy of God.
However, Liu Hui was not as shocked as when she heard the first sentence just now, as if this was in line with the rhythm of Gu Cheng's brain.
"Also, at the age of 20, he became the richest man on the Internet in China, and his worth is completely incomparable with this time last year. If you don't have such awesome ambitions, how can you personally care about a movie? It must be a world-class killer. Liu Hui had such a brain in her head.
Although Gu Cheng was still the director and actor in the crew of "The Condor Heroes" just 15 months ago.
But 15 months ago, his nominal assets were less than 20% of what they are now.
The NASDAQ IPO was a very big watershed.
Many entrepreneurs were unknown before logging on the NASDAQ, but after they became famous all over the world after they entered the NASDAQ, they have become shrunken in doing things, and they are afraid of damaging their own qualifications.
Gu Cheng is actually a gentleman and frank person, the same before and after the IPO, but unfortunately he can't stand his subordinates speculating about him with a vulgar heart.
Liu Hui brought Gu Cheng coffee, and Wen Yan asked, "Can you describe in detail the idea you want to express in the movie, and the general story pattern that you plan to use to carry this idea?" I'm also going to find someone to write the script......"
Gu Cheng took a sip of coffee and poured it out:
"A large part of my thinking, which has been mentioned in the "Long Tail Theory", is: how to let users and content providers find their own separation in the new era of media technology, let niche demand and niche supply find each other, and use the customization of personalized hobbies to solve the large-scale creator unemployment caused by the Matthew effect...... Then, in the future, all companies and creators who are not committed to doing this will be crushed by the rolling wheels of history and swept into the garbage heap of history. ”
It's not that Gu Cheng is alarmist, it's not that he wants to predict the future, but that the world will be like this in 40 years.
Even if people in 2017 don't believe this sentence, there is only a dead end.
Now, Li Ying is overseeing the first practical results of Zuckerberg's deep learning-based artificial intelligence, which is about to be commercialized. In a few years, artificial intelligence will be on the fast track in Gu Cheng's hands, and he believes that high-end content pushes such as "Today's Headlines" will soon appear, and then cover every subdivision of media information.
It may take 10 years for someone from another time and space to complete all this, groping and taking detours. With him Gu Cheng in this time and space, maybe he can achieve something in 5 years.
Fortunately, Liu Hui had read Gu Cheng's "Long Tail Theory" repeatedly, so it didn't sound so difficult. She thought about it carefully and discussed:
"It's still too big...... Although I don't understand, I can also see that such a grand value, no matter how efficient the story is, is not something that can be covered by a movie. You just said that you are going to make a series of films to finalize the promotion of this value? Can you divide the idea you want to convey? ”
Gu Cheng nodded secretly, and glanced at Liu Hui's professionalism again, because her questions could be asked to the point every time.
"In this way, in the first part, we will explore 'which essences of traditional art/traditional content cannot be copied in the process of media network reproduction', or 'what factors force the Matthew effect to be fully exploited'."
"Uh...... Sorry, I didn't understand the question too much. You summed it up too concisely. Liu Hui didn't keep up at all.
Gu Cheng fiddled with the coffee cup, and said after deliberation:
So, let's use a few examples to put it in layman's terms: in the age of records and music videos, why do we still go to concerts/concerts? After having cross talk/quyi videos on TV, why do we still go to the theater to listen to cross talk/storytelling? With the advent of electronic books, what is the significance of the existence of paper books? With classroom teaching videos on the Internet, what is the significance of the teacher's face-to-face teaching? After chatting on social networks, why do we still let our bodies fly to chat with friends in other places - of course, the factor of Papapa, in order to satisfy the *** official, is not considered for the time being.
What are the properties that prevent them from being copied in the act of 'copying'? And enough to force users to pay for it? After explaining this problem clearly and causing the content industry around the world to think deeply, our goal of the first phase has been achieved - in two or three years, after our personalized content push technology comes out, we can solve the next stage of questions for the people of the earth. ”
Gu Cheng threw out a lot of questions in a row.
Liu Hui found that she usually didn't think about it at all, and she couldn't keep up with the rhythm at all.
Yes, now that there are video/audio files of classroom teaching downloaded online, why do students still need teachers to teach them? Is it because you need to ask questions? Teacher-student interaction is needed, right?
What about other industries?
If this need disappears in the future, and all the non-replicable factors are copied, wouldn't all mankind only need one teacher to teach each subject? What terrible unemployment that would be.
The copying and piracy of the Internet is breaking through countless thresholds, which things are the essence of the Internet that cannot be stolen, I believe that countless people in the world want to know, right? Once they know, there will be tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of content industry practitioners who will work hard to give themselves the core competitiveness that can survive the replication frenzy.
If this question could be expressed more tactfully and profoundly, this story would definitely be extraordinary.
If the content industry of all mankind felt that there was a mid-life crisis, the Hollywood system could not answer this question, and the Jewish media empire of the United States could not answer this question, Gu Cheng answered, and it came true, saving the tens of millions of content creators who were originally going to be crushed.
In the future, the culture led by Gu Cheng may even become the mainstream ideology of this world. And lay a brand on this: "Following the Hollywood model, this earth can only feed 5 million creators in the content industry, and tap 1 billion paying users with low consumption potential." Following my model, this earth can feed 50 million content industry entrepreneurs and develop 5 billion paying users with high consumption potential. ”
As the so-called fourth-class power exports products, the third-class power exports technology, the second-class power exports capital, and the first-class power exports ideology.
If you can export ideology, it is indeed more compelling than being worth hundreds of billions, tyrannical one, and rich and rival countries.
What about the world's richest man for 30 years? After his death, he has a new richest man in the world. There is nothing to fight for in this kind of person that all mankind produces every thirty years. Everyone knows that Bill Gates was the richest man in the world from 1990 to 2020, but do you know who was the richest man in the world from 1900 to 1930?
It's been less than a hundred years since he died, and most people on the planet don't remember, so what's there to fight about?
What Gu Cheng wants is immortality. Humanity is immortal, and its name is immortal.
You don't see a bunch of Japanese and Korean chaebol children who desperately went to Hollywood to buy distribution companies and production companies, and Middle Eastern oil money also poured there, many of them actually didn't plan to make money from Hollywood, and they invested in one film and lost one; There's even Silicon Valley native Oracle boss Larry Murphy. Ellison's son, who took a vote of Silicon Valley money to Hollywood to export ideology, also voted for one and lost one. They just hope that Hollywood blockbusters will glorify their homeland and culture a little.
Because the financial hegemony and dollar hegemony accumulated by the people of the United States over the past hundred years have penetrated into the marrow of all mankind and become a sense of cultural superiority, a subtle atmosphere in which the superior culture looks down on all living beings. And all over the world, except for some fans of European art films, other countries buy it.
But if Gu Cheng's long-term vision is really realized...... Liu Hui already shuddered.
I'm afraid that Gu Cheng won't be satisfied with a few Oscars in the end.
He probably hopes to make Hollywood kneel down, and from now on make Hollywood proud that "Hollywood is a Western Hengdian".
Of course, it doesn't have to be Hengdian, the film and television base can be built anywhere.
What Liu Hui is most worried about now is that Gu Cheng's thinking is too advanced. With such a grand idea, I'm afraid that there are not so good scripted stories on the planet that can be used.
"Can you give me a little time, I'll help you find resources slowly." Liu Hui bit her lip, her mind was a little confused, and she didn't dare to say too much about Gu Cheng's entrustment.