Chapter 496 Scene 496 The Life of a Successful Man
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"In order to behave well as patients, I used to study many patients with different diseases in the hospital when I was a child." Scarlett smiled and proudly stroked her forehead bangs with her hand.
Li Xiaole was convinced again, this girl is really not an ordinary person...... Turning his head and secretly looking at Jobs, he was rubbing his temples vigorously, and couldn't help but sigh softly in his heart, Jobs's perfectionist character, I'm afraid that no one will listen to him, he really needs a good rest...... The early death of this genius is a loss for all shijie.
At this time, although the theater was full of people, but not many people were interested in the movie "Life Remote Control", most of Apple's programmers were chatting with their families, and the employees of the design department of another film were all concerned about Apple's new mobile phone, and they even began to bet with each other on which time the new mobile phone would appear.
In Sony's publicity, the really attractive selling point is that Li Xiaole, a great Chinese director, landed in the United States, so for "Life Remote Control", San Francisco, a large Chinese city, is one of the most important box offices, but today are all Apple employees, and there are no Chinese fans of Li Xiaole.
This is also the main reason why Li Xiaole is willing to come here, he came to the United States to face the North American market, not just rely on his fame in Asia, so that he can see the reaction of the real American audience.
In the noise, the lights on the ceiling of the theater gradually went out, and the black screen slowly lit up~
After the classic MGM lion's roar opening, the picture is darkened, and in the foggy night on the screen, the black and treacherous Black Pearl jumps up in the stormy ocean, and the front half of the hull rises on the waves, like a raging beast, as if roaring at the sea, and the hull brig sails go straight through the black rain clouds, roaring like a floating giant beast in the ocean, making the sea and the sky tremble, as if it is about to sail out of the painting at any time.
Those people at Apple originally had the mentality of watching boring comedies, and the people who were hee haha were all taken aback at once, and thought they had misplaced the Pirates of the Caribbean 4 ad, and at this time some text messages flashed on the big screen:
"Director: Li Xiaole, Starring: Matthew Perry, Scarlett Johansson......"
With the cheerful nostalgic music of the 80s, the scene cuts to the bedroom of an ordinary American family, under the warm lighting, all kinds of furniture in the room are neatly and orderly, a large yellow duck doll, a golden retriever lying at the protagonist's feet, and various design tools in front of the sofa, food bags are piled up in a mess.
Two mischievous children come down the stairs to steal cookies from the couch...... Everything in this family is so warm and ordinary that many Apple employees think of their bedrooms.
The applause and chatting at the Laika Theater suddenly stopped, and the audience in the theater looked at the big screen quietly, those programmers who were still complaining for days just now, had no other ideas in their hearts, just wanted to see the next story on the screen, and of course, there were very IT enthusiasts staring at the screen tightly, just trying to find Apple's new phone.
"These people are weird." Scarlett felt the changes in the audience now, and couldn't help frowning.
Li Xiaole couldn't help but smile and leaned back, and sighed in his heart, the magic of movies can only be felt when you sit in the theater, because the lights go out, and the screen lights up in an instant, it is like a door between reality and dreams, and people will instantly enter another shijie......
Since becoming a director, his mood when he came to the theater has become amazing, the audience is watching the story on the screen, and he is watching the changes in the audience's expressions, to see if the dreams he has woven can drive their emotions, so that they can completely forget all the troubles of reality in these more than 100 minutes.
Looking at the movie theater full of people, Li Xiaole couldn't help but be a little excited, he had thought about the scene of himself logging into the American theater countless times, and most of the fantasies were about a few dozen people sitting in an empty theater......
However, he didn't expect that with Jobs as an ally, the reality was much better than he imagined.
The story on the big screen slowly unfolds, and the protagonist Mike is a very typical American white-collar worker, he has a beautiful and independent wife, two naughty and cute children, works as a designer in a design company in his early thirties, has a stable job, and has moderate living conditions.
In many ways, such a life will meet the standard of "happiness" in the eyes of ordinary people, but is this really the case?
In all kinds of interesting plots, everyone finds that Mike is not happy, because he has not achieved his life goals, although he is still just an ordinary designer, he feels that he should become a partner of the boss of the company, he only has such a strong desire in his mind, I want to succeed! I want to succeed~!
Is this true for every American? Especially in a fast-growing place like San Francisco and Silicon Valley, it seems that every month a young talent like Mark Zuckerberg will appear on the cover of Time magazine, and all men will feel that if they don't move forward, they will be mediocre and become failures.
Mike is the same, he works hard every day to achieve his career goals, for which he is really tired, when he gets home, he just wants to have a good rest, he is not in the mood to build the children's tree house, he has no time to watch the children's school games, and he even hates the family party with his parents.
In Mike's mind, these are boring things that waste time, the most important thing now is work, if there is no job, he will be a worthless person, as long as he works hard, then he can become one of those successful people in the future, that is what he wants!
When his wife asks him to go on vacation with his children, Mike seems helpless......
"Are you sick? Weishenme doesn't go on vacation with us? Scarlett on the screen asked Matthew in confusion.
"I don't have the right to get sick, I still have to watch a documentary on Asian architecture at night~~" Matthew frowned helplessly.
"Honey, you must rest and relax."
"Sorry, the vacation jihua has to be delayed, the boss gave me a jihua, which must be completed by next Tuesday."
"But you promised the children, and the children have been waiting for a year."
"Do you think I don't know? No matter what I decide, no matter what I do, it will disappoint some people. Matthew was a little angry and said: "I'm not eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, but working hard to let my family live the life I dreamed of as a child~!" To make my dream come true, I'm going to have to watch this boring video! Instead of going on vacation~! ”
This very conflicting description is handled very cleverly, and the confrontation between Matthew and Scarlett is full of humor, without any pressure, and the scene provokes bursts of laughter.
Jobs couldn't help but turn his head and praise Li Xiaole: "Li, this is really a good movie." ”
"How can you make a decision so quickly?" Scarlett interjected with some dissatisfaction, this sloppy man is really good at sycophancy, what's so special about the plot in front of this? It's ordinary, she doesn't have much room to play at all.
"I'm not a professional film critic, but I think that movies, like any product, should be judged as good or not, and let them be put in front of a three-year-old child and a 70-year-old." Jobs smiled and pointed to the parents and children of Apple employees in the front row:
"The fact that they can watch it so happily proves that the film is a success."
Scarlett was silent, she felt Jobs's wisdom, and her simple words were much more convincing than those so-called professional film critics, and she turned her head to Li Xiaole and whispered: "This sloppy man is really a bit of a doorman......
Li Xiaole just smiled, leaned over and asked Jobs softly: "Steve, what do you think of Mike's life?" ”
"It's normal." Jobs thought for a while and frowned: "Many of our Apple companies are like this, I personally think his wife is really a little inconsiderate, when the husband is busy with his career outside, the wife gives a lot of support, but most women are like this, they always ask too much, I don't know how much their husband has paid at work, career is the most important value of a man's existence." ”
Li Xiaole nodded, this is the view of people in big American cities, which is the so-called "American dream", in this country with the richest and most opportunities, devoting oneself to work and succeeding in one's career has become the only way to realize one's own value, and there is no success...... There is no money...... Without money, you will never be happy~
I want to pursue more, never stop ~ always moving forward, to be better ~ ~ more successful ~ to become no. 1~!This is the true meaning of life~~!
People believe that after this painful process of struggle, they will get what they have dreamed of for a long time in the future, so they grit their teeth every day and persevere, which is also the elitist philosophy that Americans are most proud of.
Apple employees look at Mike's life and empathize with it, because they are very similar to Mike, meeting a mean boss who will never get a promotion if they don't work hard...... There are nagging parents around me, children who are always making trouble, and a wife who loves to make trouble, and I really suffer this life......
While the family members next to him were giggling, many Apple employees looked at Mike on the screen, showing a helpless wry smile.
And the benefit of the movie is to help people realize their dreams, and the story of the big screen suddenly took a turn for the better, after Mike had a big fight with his wife, he went to the supermarket and bought a universal remote control from a strange Chinese, which lifted the spirits of all the helpless men in the audience......