Chapter 8: The main character, Liv
In the end, Caesar chose to go to Harvard Business School for an MBA, which is the most suitable choice for a business leader.
To be a man, it is important to be self-aware. Caesar actually knows his flaws very well, he had no experience in running a business in his previous life, and in this life he completely relied on the convenience of foresight and golden fingers, which caused him to be one step ahead everywhere, so that he has the money and power he has today.
This advantage is indeed powerful at the beginning of the business, and it can cover up a flaw. If the enterprise reaches a certain scale and becomes larger and larger, a series of layman's and extensive management methods will bear fruit.
There are many family-owned businesses in the world that started out as a united company, and after a brief period of success, they quickly declined or even went out of business.
The biggest feature of Harvard Business School is to constantly analyze cases, succeed and fail, constantly summarize the experience of predecessors, and prepare for the future, so as to achieve the purpose of cultivating elite bosses or managers.
Caesar's decision was quickly announced by Harvard Business School, and the media were not surprised by Caesar's decision. In their minds, if Caesar hadn't had this kind of aggressiveness, his estate wouldn't have been so big.
The Wall Street Journal even analyzed that if FFF went public, Caesar's decision alone would be a positive move that could determine the rise of the stock price.
Some annoyed put down the newspaper in their hands, Caesar knew that there were some people who were restless and wanted to force the FFF to go public in order to get a piece of the pie from Caesar's hands.
Unfortunately, Caesar is not one of those IT elites who are in dire need of venture capital and eager for start-up capital, and his large cash flow can fully support his step-by-step expansion.
Caesar's concept is even more conservative than that of Li Superman, he will definitely maintain sufficient cash flow of the company, and will never blindly operate in debt for the sake of expansion, and he will not find a bank to borrow if he can.
Caesar's conservative way of doing business has made many predators feel nowhere to speak, and FFF's status and excellent products in the game industry have made FFF a famous brand, and Caesar has become an absolute signboard.
FFF has even vaguely touched the threshold of Apple's fan economy in later generations, but when the network has not been promoted, the fan economy has not been able to effectively form competitiveness.
On September 5th, VGL performed, and September 7th was the day that Caesar agreed to enroll at Harvard Business School.
It is said that it is harmless for a student like Kaiser to enroll whenever he wants, but Kaisa himself doesn't want to be too special in the first place, and he also doesn't want to miss too many classes.
During the countdown to school, Caesar wrote several plays.
Among them are "11:14", which is known as the "Safe Driving" promotional film, and "Pulp Fiction", which is known in film history as comparable to "The Shawshank Redemption".
These are two works that take a different approach to narrative structure, and when Bea and Emily read these two scripts, they were simply envious of Caesar's brains.
In Caesar's previous life, "Pulp Fiction" was criticized by Douban as a meaningless ring structure...... (It's simply, Douban's children are so strange)
This comment made Caesar so drunk that he didn't even have the heart to refute. If you don't understand it, you can say that Quentin's methods are meaningless...... Caesar felt that there was no point in arguing with the stinky fork.
Although the children of Douban can't understand it, it doesn't mean that Bea and Emily can't understand it, the script of "Pulp Fiction" is actually symbolized by a ring structure, although the film has no missionary intention, but the deconstruction of religion and fate is very special.
The name of the movie "11:14" is more like a title born in the Chinese context, and the 4 itself has no special meaning in the English context, but it is presented as two extremes in the Chinese context.
Some people avoid it, and some high-rise buildings do not have 4th and 14th floors for elevators and door numbers, just like many buildings in the West do not have 13th floors.
Some Chinese people are very fond of 4, from the number and pronunciation arrangement of the simple score, 4 is "hair", 14 is "all hair".
"11:14" at the time of the film's title, just reached the peak or zero state of the entire event in the film.
What seems to be a series of coincidences that make up the ending is actually an inevitable one caused by the causal rate.
Although the original versions of these two scripts are flawed, they are not flawed, but Caesar still tries his best to optimize the details of the two scripts many times.
He knew very well in his heart that it was safe to plagiarize the classics of his previous life, but sooner or later there would be a day when his resources would run out, and he would have to strengthen his original ability.
If you want to strengthen yourself, then analyzing the classic script word by word, or even breaking down a movie shot by shot is the best way.
Films with classic and unique narrative structures, such as "Pulp Fiction" and "11:14", are the most rare learning materials, especially for the learning of narrative structure.
With ideas and plots for the next thirty years in his head, and with a lot of ideas, it can be said that he is the most out of the material. His weakness is definitely that his narrative ability can't keep up with the accumulation of material.
After analyzing and refining these two films with strong narrative skills, and confirming that he has been trained, Caesar is ready to write the second part of "Max Payne's Death to the End".
The strong appeal of fans forced Caesar to put the second part on the agenda, and the first horror box office and the excellent reputation of fans made people see the talent and huge advantages of Caesar's action movie.
When a director combines experience in animation and comics and game production to try to make a movie, this advantage will make the advantages of the film stand out, so that people can ignore some flaws.
For example, Caesar's narrative is weak......
All the scenes in the first part of Max Payne are confined to a single skyscraper, and the subject matter may be different, so it's hard to make analogies, but the clever narrator does play a lot of tricks with the limited space.
For example, "Horror Cube" is also known as "Panic Party", such as "Fatal ID", such as "Ultimate Interview", and even "Home Alone" also puts the main scene in a limited space.
The second part of "Max Payne", according to the plot of "Die Hard 2" in Caesar's previous life, is still a fixed scene ------ "airport".
It may seem to some that the scope of an airport is much larger than that of a skyscraper, but it is a fixed scene after all.
Caesar strives to make his adaptation of Die Hard 2 more paced, more varied, and more complex in the use of venues on the basis of the original book.
The huge success of the first part of "Max Payne" actually put a lot of pressure on Caesar, not just as "the youngest box office champion director of the year in Hollywood history" and "a new school of action film directors".
If the second part can't break through the shock that the first part brought to the audience, it can't be said that Caesar's signature is smashed, at least it is a huge blow to the enthusiasm of fans.
Labels such as "the aura of genius is not there" and "unknown to everyone" will inevitably befall Caesar.
The fact that pressure equals motivation is simple to say, in fact, only those who are really facing this situation can understand that the invisible persecution is corroding a person's willpower every moment.
So before he started directing the second part of "Max Payne", in preparation for the breakthrough, Caesar had to make one or two films using traditional methods.
The success of the first "Max Payne" is largely due to the forward-thinking action scenes, and even the black-and-white comic-comic-style images add a lot of points to the film.
Caesar knew a lot about cause and effect, so he wanted to make a film or two, and he focused on using traditional techniques to show Xiàn, allowing himself to focus on the story itself, not the form.
After some trade-offs, Caesar finally set his sights on Home Alone.
The original male lead, the famous child star "Macaulay Culkin", was driven away by Kaiser after half a bubble bubbled in his mind.
Macaulay has a greedy father who can make crazy demands on the six major Hollywood studios for money, and even open his mouth.
Macaulay himself is a small actor who is particularly easy to be disturbed by the outside world, as long as the media touts it a little, this baby can lift her tail to the sky, and she will be late, scold the street, and play big names endlessly.
If only one of these two items had been kept, Caesar would have focused on Macaulay, but the problem was that Macaulay's father was not only greedy, but also had an outrageous desire for his own children.
Had it not been for his continued accusations and ill influence on Macaulay, the latter might have avoided eventual obscurity.
The main reason why Caesar deleted Macaulay is that there are too many father-son affairs, it is difficult to control, and there are many scandals.
Then Caesar didn't think much about it and set his sights on little Liv......
In Caesar's heart, Liv, the little Lori who is destined to belong to him, is very mature in her thinking, and she will not lose herself at all because of the media's praise, not to mention that she also listens to Caesar's words very much.
As for acting, it couldn't be simpler, Caesar vouched for the experience of two lives, and Liv in this life is definitely the greatest child star in the world under his special energy transformation, even comparable to Shirley Temple.
Compared to Macquarie Culkin's performance with Liv, Caesar can only say that he is "superficial" in four words.
As he said and done, Caesar looked at the time, picked up the phone and made a call to his new home in Florida, asking Liv to answer the phone herself.
On the phone, the two of them communicated like adults, and Caesar spread out the pros and cons of starring in "Home Alone" to Liv, so that the little girl could learn to make her own ideas from now on, and there was really no way to ask Caesar again.
Little Liv thought for a moment and agreed, in her careful thinking, being able to help Caesar was the first thing, and there was no concept of fame and fortune.
Being young does not mean that Liv does not understand fame and fortune at all, and precocious does not mean that she has a strong desire to chase fame and fortune.
Liv Taylor didn't dare to say that she knew all about the Vanity Fair circle, but being exposed to these things around Caesar all the time, coupled with her precocious mental precociousness, made her understand that this circle was by no means as pure and bright as it seemed.
Even in the sacred campus, she found a lot of details that other students didn't pay attention to.
For example, which teacher has an affair with which teacher, for example, which female teacher is preferred by the principal, for example, which boy pulls her hair and lifts her skirt to get her attention, which boy provokes her because the other party's parents are hostile to Caesar, etc.
These emotions are only expressed through the eyes and body language, and Liv Taylor can see them at a glance.
At just 10 years old, Liv Taylor has a clearer understanding of the world than many women in their twenties.
Knowing this, Caesar always uses an adult context in her formal conversations with Liv.
Now that Liv agreed, Caesar put down the phone and thought about it before calling Stephen Taylor.
This is not a trivial matter, and the life-changing decision of stepping into the entertainment industry must of course seek the opinion of Liv's father.
"I'm so proud!" This was Stephen's first reaction when he heard the news.
"My daughter is one in a million, no matter which child star I compare to, I dare to say that, when she really grows up, she will surprise everyone! Am I right, Caesar? ”
"You're right, Stephen, your daughter is the best."
Putting down the phone, Caesar breathed a long sigh of relief. Although he had a prediction about Stephen's attitude, he was a little apprehensive after all.
Now that he has received the other party's personal promise, Caesar does have a feeling that the second shoe upstairs has finally landed......
[Could it be that festivals were invented to disrupt people's biological clocks? 】
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