Sent away Ba Jin and others.

Zhang Shaojie gradually resumed his previous life trajectory.

Basically, Zhang Shaojie began to disappear from the public eye, writing in seclusion at home. Occasionally, I go to the company to explain the affairs, or I go to the Golden Harvest studio to visit and see the progress of the movie "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty".

Golden Harvest Studio.

In October, there are frequent autumn rains.

In the studio, after escaping a rain, some open-air scenes in the back began to shoot.

Lin Qingxia was drenched in the rain, revealing her attractive figure.

Zhang Shaojie peeked and blushed a little.

Lin Qingxia smiled: "Shaojie, is Sister Lin good-looking?" ”

Zhang Shaojie nodded violently.

"Zhang Shaojie! You big pervert, I finally caught you with evidence of misdeeds! An angry scream.

Zhang Shaojie looked back and saw that it was over

It turned out that Anita Mui was following her!

Zhang Shaojie explained with a wry smile, but he didn't see Anita Mui really angry.

But Lin Qingxia had already pulled Anita Mui's arm and said with a smile: "Sister, you see that my sister can be regarded as a meritorious service today, helping you expose the true face of this little pervert?" ”

Anita Mui stared at Zhang Shaojie fiercely, but she talked and laughed happily with Lin Qingxia, and said, "Sister Lin! The best way to punish this pervert is to snub him, snub him for a few weeks, and let him sleep alone with a pillow! ”

"Hahaha," Lin Qingxia covered her mouth and smiled.

Many men, who originally wanted to watch the fierce conflict between the two women, did not expect such a light and breezy pass.

Zhang Shaojie was lucky.

originally thought that Anita Mui, who should have been the queen's surname and had a strong desire for exclusivity, would be thunderous.

But she doesn't want to, but her surname has changed a lot in Zhang Shaojie's influence! Because the surname is made, in addition to childhood, the second time a person is formed is adolescence.

Anita Mui is only 17 years old and often spends time with Zhang Shaojie, and is inevitably affected by Zhang Shaojie's aesthetics and values. Boiling a frog in warm water makes her accept Zhang Shaojie's harem plan sooner or later!

For example, Lin Qingxia, although nothing happened with Zhang Shaojie, there was a little ambiguity.

However, Anita Mui became friends with Lin Qingxia instead. The two women who were supposed to have clashed joined forces to discuss the means of "sanctioning" Zhang Shaojie.

was chased away by the two women and left out in the cold.

Zhang Shaojie could only smile bitterly, walked to Tsui Hark and others, and talked about the movie, which is also good.

The filming progress of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" on the set is not too slow, half of the filming has been completed, and it can be completed before the Chinese New Year.

Of course, after the completion of the later computer CG special effects production, it will not be released until at least the end of March next year.

March is not a good schedule. The best schedule for Hong Kong movies is the prime time of summer, Spring Festival and so on. Most of those times are holidays, student holidays, and corporate holidays, so the movie box office always seems to be booming!

However, those prime periods will definitely compete with the movies of the same period for theater resources. It's better to screen during the non-prime period and arrange more shows!

The movie was relatively satisfied, and Tsui Hark seemed to be in a good mood.

Tsui Hark smiled at Zhang Shaojie: "Recently, the concept of 'modern' has gradually heated up!" ”

Zhang Shaojie smiled: "You mean John Woo's "Modern Funny Times", right?" ”

Tsui Hark sighed: "After John Woo jumped to New Art City, he was very valued! The entrepreneurial work of Xinyicheng is to make him a director, and now he has won the top of the weekly box office list"

"Has Mr. Xu ever regretted giving up New Art City and joining Baolong Film Company?" Zhang Shaojie smiled.

Tsui Hark shook his head and said, "It's false to say that the mind is not shaken!" However, what's the point of staying in New Arts City and letting me shoot that "Modern Funny Era"? Joining Baolong Film Company, at least you can make a martial arts blockbuster like "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty"! ”

"Haha, Xu Lao blames being cheap and selling well, John Woo directed a movie in Xinyi City, and only earned 50,000 yuan. The money Xu Lao Wei earned, just the fixed salary is 500,000, not to mention the dividends after the release! Cheng Xiaodong laughed.

Tsui Hark said embarrassedly: ""Datang" is such a big deal and a high salary, that is inevitable! Any director, loves big productions! ”

Everyone in the crew looked at them with kindness.

Tsui Hark and Cheng Xiaodong have a good relationship now. Don't look at tearing each other down, in fact, it's just an expression of friendship between men.

"In other words, the box office of "Modern Funny Times" is really good! If you exclude anti-sky movies like "Modern Bodyguard". The momentum of this "Modern Funny Times" is at least comparable to Jackie Chan's "Killer Trench". At this time in the box office market, the dragons are leaderless, and John Woo actually jumped to the weekly box office champion! Yuan Heping sighed involuntarily.

"Cut, Golden Princess Cinemas, the works that are fully supported, can the box office not be high?" Cheng Xiaodong said disdainfully.

"It also takes money to be praised! Although this movie is a 'modern' concept, it is strikingly similar to Chaplin's "Modern Times"! Not only is the plot similar, but even the actors' performances are similar, this kind of remake of a classic is not something that ordinary people can shoot well! Tsui Hark said.

"John Woo is a great talent!" Yuan Heping agreed.

Everyone has different opinions, talking about John Woo and the new art city movie.

Zhang Shaojie was in a bit of a trance.

He knew that there was a force in the dark that drove the development of history. Most historical events are still stubbornly staged according to the established track.

The new art city has appeared, and the names of "Modern Funny Times" directed by John Woo and "Funny Times" in history are just two more words, but in fact, the content of the movie is still the same as "Funny Times" in history. Moreover, the movie was released two months earlier!

Historically, it was because of the box office sales of "Salted Fish Turnover" of Struggle Pictures Company, so the new art city reorganized by Struggle Pictures Company filmed "Funny Times" until December.

And "Salted Fish Turns Over" hit the street, and the Golden Princess Cinema Line arranged for the release of "Modern Funny Times" at the end of September for the sake of the film!

In history, "Funny Times" invested 1 million yuan and achieved a box office of more than 5 million.

And now "Modern Funny Times" is also an investment of 1 million, and it got a box office of 1.14 million in the first week of release, which is very sharp!

Of course, the more popular "Modern Funny Times" is, the more it can only set off the results of "Modern Bodyguard".

And Zhang Shaojie, the screenwriter of "Modern Bodyguard", is also more and more praised by film critics.

A few months ago, "Modern Bodyguard" still had a lot of criticism, but with the "Modern Stream" becoming popular one by one!

Film critics began to praise the awesomeness of "Modern Bodyguard".

―――――――――― after returning home.

Anita Mui invited Lin Qingxia to live at home permanently, and turned Zhang Shaojie away.

Zhang Shaojie said depressedly: "Damn, two women are tired of being together, do you want to grind tofu with the help of props such as cucumbers?" In fact, yesterday Zhang Shaojie saw Lin Qingxia buy a few thick and firm cucumbers in the supermarket, although Lin Qingxia said that it was beauty and face dressing, but Zhang Shaojie would only think in the direction of obscenity

There was no way, Zhang Shaojie had to return to his own home across the wall from Anita Mui's house, or his younger brother was closer to him. Shaohuai saw that his brother was snubbed by Anita Mui, cooked a pot of beef, and said, "Brother, try my latest cooking skills!" ”

"Well, good, ** spicy beef! Very chewy! Zhang Shaojie commented.

After lunch, Shaohuai went to school.

And Zhang Shaojie received a call from Hu Bo, and Hu Bo and Zhang Shaojie made an appointment to meet in a café.

"Shaojie, this is the sales list and royalties of "The Rise of a Great Power"!" Hu Bo handed the list and check to Zhang Shaojie.

"So much?" Zhang Shaojie couldn't help but be surprised.

The 70,000-word "Rise of a Great Power * Portugal Chapter", in a short period of time, actually brought Zhang Shaojie an income of 500,000 Hong Kong dollars, earning 7 yuan per word!

"What is this, it is said that "The Rise of Great Powers" will be published in the Chinese mainland market, and at that time, the manuscript fee must far exceed the manuscript fee in Hong Kong, right?" Hu Bo laughed.

At this time, writers in Chinese mainland published books, whether they wrote best-selling or not-selling manuscript fees, but there was not much difference, most of them got hundreds of yuan or thousands of yuan according to the number of words, rather than according to royalties.

And because Zhang Shaojie is a Hong Kong writer, under special circumstances, the People's Publishing House pays him 20% of the royalty according to Zhang Shaojie's market in Hong Kong!

Zhang Shaojie can be said to have made a certain contribution to the implementation of the royalty system in the domestic market!

In fact, even if "The Rise of a Great Power" did not enter the mainland market, relying on the Hong Kong and Taiwan markets alone, Zhang Shaojie's popularity in the publishing industry is unparalleled.

If you compare it with a superstar in the music world, only Teresa Teng's popularity at this time is similar to Zhang Shaojie.

Teresa Teng is the first singer in Asia, once in the 70s, the "Airport" record sold 700,000 copies, overpowering the crowd, becoming the first pop singer in Asia, and was rated as one of the seven most famous singers in the world in the 20th century.

In history, Teresa Teng sang more than 1,000 songs in Chinese, Chinese, English and other languages in her life, and the total circulation of records reached 48 million, a record that no one can break among Asian female singers.

Zhang Shaojie's "The Rise of Great Powers" is a total of 9 books, and in order to fully tap the market potential, it is ready to be published in 9 months. On average, one book is published every month.

If it is estimated according to the results of "Portugal" at this time, the "Rise of a Great Power" series can bring Zhang Shaojie a royalty of 4.5 million Hong Kong dollars in the Hong Kong market.

Coupled with the remuneration for serialization in Ming Pao, the book's revenue in Hong Kong will reach HK$5 million.

Just counting the end of this year, the income brought by "The Rise of a Great Power" in Hong Kong can reach more than 2 million Hong Kong dollars!

In short, Zhang Shaojie's manuscript fee income has ranked first in Hong Kong without pressure!

―――――――――――――――― "Industrial Light & Magic!" This is a name that Zhang Shaojie loves and hates!

Since cooperating with Industrial Light & Magic in September, Zhang Shaojie has spent HK$6 million in cash deposits in one month.

These funds have been used in the research and development of computer special effects technology.

The Hong Kong headquarters of Powerlong Film Company has become an IT and animation company after being occupied by a team of 50 people from ILM.

In order to better make computer CG programs, these industrial light and magic technicians actually proposed that IBM customize a "UNIX system graphics workstation".

Sounds like awesome high-tech!

Zhang Shaojie asked, "How much?" ”

The programmer said innocently: "It's not very expensive, it's a 10% discount, only $800,000, which is much cheaper than an expensive mainframe." ”

Zhang Shaojie was almost crazy: "800,000 is wood, or the dollar is used as a monetary unit!" You think I'm Li Ka-shing, huh? The hard-earned manuscript fee of labor and management in a month, you spent it in a week. In September, although you registered a total of 5 patents, it cost 6 million Hong Kong dollars. It's too cheating, if I find a bunch of sub-software development programmers, tens of thousands of dollars, no-even a few thousand dollars, I can get an international patent, there is wood! ”

The programmer was a little stunned by the yelling, but he was more sympathetic to Zhang Shaojie and comforted:

"With the graphics workstation, we could be working a little faster. And the graphics workstation, you Baolong company can also use it in the future! ”

"Richard. Taylor?" Zhang Shaojie said suddenly.

"Yes!" Richard walked out a little embarrassed.

Zhang Shaojie asked: "How many special effects have you made according to the contract of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty"? What is the progress? ”

Richard. Taylor said: "There are 22 special effects shots on the contract, and three have already been completed, but we will speed up the work in the future!" You know, we also shared the right to use 5 international patents with Baolong! What's more, we've helped you train 7 special effects talents! ”

After Zhang Shaojie heard the explanation, his mood improved slightly.

These days, Powerlong Film has been recruiting talents in Hong Kong with computer skills, art and English skills, and then stuffing them into the team of Industrial Light & Magic.

Originally it was 3 people, now there are 7 people!

These talents of Baolong Company learn and exercise in the team of working Light and Magic. Although it is not at the level of an industrial light & magic employee, at least it has at least some experience in the production of computer special effects programs.

"Okay!" Zhang Shaojie asked, "Tell me, what kind of budget will the final budget be after the special effects of the movie "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty"?" ”

Richard. Taylor took a pen and calculated it on the paper, and said, "It's estimated to be 45 million Hong Kong dollars, right?" ”

Zhang Shaojie gritted his teeth and said, "Okay! A budget of HK$45 million, right? I can hold on! "The budget of 45 million Hong Kong dollars, excluding the 6 million that has been spent, is 36 million Hong Kong dollars.

Zhang Shaojie's bank deposit still has 20 million at this time.

In other words, Zhang Shaojie has to fight bloodily in three or four months, earn another 16 million Hong Kong dollars, and then he can complete the task!

"This budget includes money for graphics workstations?" Zhang Shaojie asked.

"Including!" Richard said.

$800,000, roughly HK$6.4 million!

Very good!

This is the legendary money burning!

After Zhang Shaojie paid for the graphics workstation, the deposit was less than 14 million Hong Kong dollars.

After hearing that Zhang Shaojie was willing to pay for the graphics workstation. The technicians of Industrial Light & Magic are very happy and impressed by Zhang Shaojie's bold and generous ability to pay!

"Zhang, you are really a rich man!" Richard. Taylor hooked his shoulders to Zhang Shaojie and said.

"What, what?"

"Do people just want to get close to you? The Chinese set is almost, it should be like this! ”

"That's the way to get close to each other, my brother is a normal male surname, and he has a girlfriend! Don't engage in base! Zhang Shaojie frowned.

"Cut!" Richard despises him on behalf of the vast number of bachelors and magicians!

When it comes to buying a graphics workstation, although Zhang Shaojie is heartbroken when he pays for it, he can actually understand that technology is the primary productive force.

If you want to buy a mainframe server, it is obviously too luxurious, and the current small server is not enough for the professional computer CG of Industrial Light and Magic. A graphics workstation is clearly the best option.

Graphics workstations, can be traced back to the early 70s, the computer giant, Xerox launched the ALTO computer series products, ALTO can be said to be the world's earliest personal computer - keyboard, mouse, desktop system, are Xerox first made.

How awesome is Xerox's Alto computer influence? If there was no Xerox, there would be no apple!

Say Apple is the most original? Conscience is eaten by dogs, the high-tech industry has always been, the first innovation is a dead end, and only the plagiarism behind can succeed!

Whether it is Apple, Microsoft, or IBM, they are all masters of plagiarism copycats! IT companies that don't plagiarize are not worthy of Silicon Valley at all, because the market will weed out these non-plagiarists! Whether it's a big company or a small company, copying each other and imitating each other, it's inevitable in Silicon Valley!

In 1972, when Apple was Steve Jobs, he visited Xerox's "PARC Research Institute" and saw the "Alto computer", and was shocked.

After that, Jobs decisively poached a Xerox engineer for $1 million. ** Naked plagiarism of the design of the Alto computer, including the keyboard, mouse, graphics system. After that, the Apple computer was launched and it became a big seller.

Xerox angrily sued, because it missed the opportunity to launch the "Alto computer", and the configuration of the "Alto computer" was too advanced, selling for more than $100,000, and ordinary users simply could not afford it. Therefore, "Alto Computer", the first advanced product in the history of computers, became the stepping stone of Apple and IBM PCs respectively.

In addition, Xerox developed a "graphics workstation" based on the ALTO computer, which was later copied by IBM.

Later generations concluded that Xerox's "Alto Computer" was one of the greatest failures in the history of Silicon Valley, bringing economic losses to Xerox of $100 billion!

However, Xerox's losses have brought the United States a huge industrial cluster with an annual output value of several trillion dollars.

If Xerox doesn't fail, Apple can't rise. If it weren't for the rise of Apple's personal computer, IBM would not have coveted the development prospects of the personal computer market and launched the PC computer.

If IBM hadn't launched the PC, giants such as Intel and Microsoft would have struggled to get the opportunity to rise

Xerox was so ahead of its time that it became a martyr. Zhang Shaojie deeply felt that a lead of three or five years is a genius, and a lead of ten years is a neurosis.

(To be continued)