Chapter Eighty-Eight: Helpless

We all know that the world is far from being as simple as some institutions advertise, and that the way the whole world works is by no means explained by science alone. ↗,

Just as most of the great scientists were devout followers of God, the more they learned about the world, the more devout they became to God.

The simplest example is the position of the Earth among the nine planets, which seems to be impossible for life to exist on Earth if it is only a fraction of a cent.

The earth can give birth to such a huge ecosystem today, how can it be seen like the product of countless coincidences superimposed......

So there are stupid, so-called scientists who follow the template of the earth and look for another planet with life in the universe.

Caesar felt like laughing every time he thought about it, and he always wanted to ask these so-called scientists:

"How do you know that life can only survive if you are satisfied with the same environment as the earth? Can't there be zài life in the sun? A planet full of ice can't have zài life? Just because the existing technology cannot detect life in extreme environments, is it completely denied?

It would be tragic that an artist can imagine an elemental life form like fire, and that a so-called scientist cannot even reach the artist's imagination. Just because the environment is different from the earth, to deny the possibility of a qiē? And then it's called rigorous? ”

It's like a family eating dumplings every day, and before they visit the neighbor's table, they don't believe that the neighbor will eat anything other than dumplings.

"What? Don't eat dumplings? Can you still live? ”

Caesar believes in the existence of the unknown because he has experienced the transcendence and rebirth, and whoever does such a thing as crossing or rebirth, then even if he does not believe in the existence of the Creator, he will definitely believe in the existence of the soul and those occult things.

Apparently. Eisner was not as "rigorous" as some ignorant scientists, and he did not have the miraculous experience of Caesar, but Eisner, like Caesar, always believed that "what cannot be discovered, or what cannot be imagined, does not mean that there is no zài." ”

When Eisner found out that he was inexplicably hostile to Caesar, his first thought was not because he was "jealous". Rather, he thinks that Caesar must owe him a lot, and although he doesn't know what Caesar owes him, he has this strong sixth sense.

Eisner even thought of the concept of "the last life", which does not exist in Christian civilization, but is very popular in the West. He thinks that Caesar must have owed him a lot of debts in his previous life, and even calculated at one point that some of the people who owed him a lot of debts died more than twenty years ago......

Some people may think that Eisner's identity cannot be so neurotic, but in fact, this idea stems from ignorance.

Unlike the Chinese government, which is responsible for resisting theology and metaphysics, Christian civilization and related derivative ideas actually allow most Westerners to be classified as feudal superstitions.

Famous movie star. It is known as "God invented the seven colors, and Tom invented pink. The Tom? Cruise, he joined a little-known "Scientology", which became famous because of Cruise's accession.

If this is in China, there is no need to ask, it is not classified as a cult, and it is also a hat of feudal superstition.

It can be said that in this atmosphere of faith in Europe and the United States. It's no surprise that Eisner has such crankiness.

Of course, as the president of a Hollywood giant. Even if his sixth sense pointed this hostility to the occult realm absurdly, or to deny the jealousy in his heart, even if he deliberately led things in an unknowable direction, he couldn't have used like witchcraft or stabbing villains against Caesar.

Competition between large corporations, cliques and even cooperation with rivals is the most basic way to do business, even if Disney cooperates with Caesar's Twentieth Century Fox. In Eisner's concept, it's not impossible.

So Eisner finally found MGM, or Murdoch, who had just bought MGM.

In Eisner's view, Caesar's preemptive acquisition of Fox from Murdoch is definitely a head-on challenge to Murdoch. This is definitely not something that Murdoch can tolerate.

The two met on the outskirts of Los Angeles to play two rounds of golf at the Malibu Country Club next door to the Rose Bowl.

During the game, the two talked about Silas for a long time, but they did not make any substantial progress, at least in Eisner's eyes, it was indeed a waste of his time.

In fact, the identities of the two people are very different, one is the helmsman of News Corporation, a super-rich man with a net worth of hundreds of millions, and the other is just the president hired by Disney, in Murdoch's eyes, the other party is at best a high-level wage earner, and he agrees to meet Eisner out of curiosity It is already very face-saving, and it is impossible to promise any unrealistic conditions on the spot.

However, this incident gave Murdoch a reminder to look at Caesar from a different perspective.

Caesar? Plum...... This little guy who rose at the speed of light by drawing comics and making games was able to have enough financial resources to acquire Marvel DC and Fox in a row, although after investigation, it can be known that Caesar has also made a lot of moves in the financial market, but the ACG empire in the other party's mouth seems to have taken shape.

No one, including Murdoch himself, could have imagined that Caesar's jokingly defined definition of "A, C, and G" was not just nonsense, but the core foundation of a commercial and cultural empire.

Although I don't know how Marvel and DC will be profitable in the hands of Caesar [they have always been losing money from before the acquisition to the start of the Gulf War], everyone can see that Caesar has absolute confidence in these two comic companies.

Compete with Caesar or cooperate? This is not only a problem in front of Murdoch alone, in the face of Caesar's strength, in addition to Warner, which was acquired by the times, directly hugged Caesar's thigh, MGM, Paramount, and Universal will face a choice - is it to confront or maintain cooperation in the competition?

As for Columbia and Disney, the question is – do hostile positions need to be so firm?

To be reasonable, there is no eternal hostility between business organizations, just as there are no eternal enemies between nations.

The coexistence of competition and cooperation is the eternal theme of this world, and from this point of view, the golden mean of Chinese classical Taoism actually accurately grasps the context of this world.

The Taoist mean is unknown to most Westerners. But "there are no eternal enemies, only eternal interests", Westerners still play very slippery.

The most realistic question facing Murdoch and Lei Shidong is - when will they compete? When to cooperate? Is it time to turn the other cheeks with Caesar and Twentieth Century Fox?

You know, in the last two years, players have been interviewing for a movie or a movie into a game, which reminds all the big studios of one thing - Caesar, who owns FFF, the new Marvel and Twentieth Century Fox at the same time, is sitting on a gold mine with unlimited reserves. Even if he casually integrates resources across borders, he can develop or create a series of works based on the fan economy.

Thinking about it carefully, it is the state of Murdoch and Lei Shidong when they face Kaisa, and they have to be cautious.

The more disgusting thing was still to come, when they were still hesitating to face Caesar, Caesar's footsteps never stopped for even half a second.

The lightning rise of Fox TV has not given other media groups any time to react, and the meeting to discuss countermeasures has not been held twice, and a series of rating-mad programs such as "The Voice", "America's Got Talent", and "Millionaire" have been launched on Fox TV one after another.

Suffering such a continuous suffocation is equivalent to an unbreathing wave of attacks for all people in the same industry.

Follow the trend on homogeneous programs? Or immediately organize people to innovate and develop new programs?

Obviously, this is a difficult decision. However, in this situation where all the "TV people" hesitated, Caesar actually took advantage of the outbreak of the Gulf War to make up for the only shortcoming of the Fox TV news channel......

As for the TV series on FOX TV, it is said that the countdown to the start of filming of a new IP has begun, and I heard that the script was created by Kaisa himself.

No matter how you look at it, this is a rhythm that doesn't give people a way to live, but no one can stand up and accuse Caesar of doing something wrong.

After all, the United States is a country that flaunts freedom, and except for special circumstances in wartime, no one dares to use an executive order to interfere with what can and cannot be shown on a television station, provided that it does not touch the law. Even the President of the United States.

If you can't use executive orders, then it means that you can only use low-level means or higher-quality programs to impact the other side.

The risk is extremely high. Coming hard, the Blackwater mercenary's survival zài and Caesar's good reputation in the Pentagon are no joke. Come soft......

"What's the use of being soft with Caesar!?" Eisner smashed another cup in the office, and the charming young female secretary kept reaching out to open the door at the office door, and for a moment there was only a dilemma.

This is the eighth cup Eisner has broken this month, but this kind of venting is just a shameful laugh, and it is useless.

Some people may find it incredible. That's Eisner, who is famous for his outstanding abilities in Hollywood, why can't he see any effective decisions except scolding the street and throwing things?

This starts with Disney's current embarrassing situation.

As we all know, Disney is the only producer in Hollywood that started out with cartoons. In addition to animated feature films, toys for animated characters, merchandise and Disneyland are also profit points.

The '60s and early '80s were a period of decline for animated feature films, and it was a long time since Disney had produced a blockbuster at the box office and word of mouth.

In the late 80s, before the birth of CG animation, if Disney hadn't finally relied on "The Little Mermaid" to survive for a while, I'm afraid things would have been completely different.

In the 90s, relying on the successive masterpieces of "Beauty and the Beast", "Aladdin" and "The Lion King" was completely stable and embarked on the road of revival, until the advent of "Toy Story" and Disney finally stood on the cusp......

Of course, this is all part of a series of actions by Disney in Caesar's previous life.

In Caesar's life, as of the outbreak of the Gulf War in 1990, Disney has not been able to produce the top ten animated feature films at the annual box office for more than ten years.

This means that whether it is toys or Disneyland, they are all in the same situation as they are eating their old books.

Eisner's appointment was deliberately poached from Paramount by the board of directors with a high salary in order to get out of the predicament, which can be said to have taken a fancy to his Eisner's ability.

But now...... Eisner couldn't do anything but wait for Beauty and the Beast to be released.

You know, Eisner has been informed that "Beauty and the Beast", which is being produced, is expected to only be released in 1991 Christmas at the earliest.

And now, he can only watch Caesar lead his FFF and Fox to show off their power in the entertainment market. (To be continued.) )