"Hey, you've heard of me?" Yang Lin was a little surprised that he was "famous outside the territory".

"That's not it, my cousin often mentions you, you're her idol." Mai Zinan was also very surprised, he took out a notebook from his bag and handed it to Yang Lin: "You can sign it for me, my cousin said that he knows you very well, but I know that it is just a little girl's careful thoughts, you can't know her at all, she is only 14 years old." ”

It turned out that this was the case, Yang Lin couldn't help but be a little disappointed, and secretly laughed at his true vanity. Picked up the notebook and asked casually while signing, "What's your cousin's name?" I wrote her a word of blessing. ”

"Her name is Xiao Yin, her English name is Athena Chu, and her Chinese name is Zhu Yin"

Yang Lin's hand shook and looked at Mai Zinan incredulously. Xiao Yin? Zhu Yin? Could it be that the little girl who is bold and righteous and willing to sell herself to accompany the wine? I'm picking! Zhu Yin! Yang Lin dizzy his head and calculated, he was about the same age and very beautiful. It's just amazing, isn't it?

Mai Zinan looked at Yang Lin's stunned appearance and couldn't help but wonder: "You don't really know Athena, do you?" ”

Yang Lin nodded stupidly.

Now the relationship is even closer, Mai Zinan is a Hong Kong native, although he is studying in the United States, but he still knows a lot of news about Hong Kong, especially the "True Colors of Heroes", this guy actually bought pirated videos and brought them to school. Guo Huajian and Fang Guanghua are classmates and a major with Mai Zinan, and they are very close, and they have also seen Yang Lin's "masterpiece" in Mai Zinan, and they can't worship it. A chance encounter turns into a small star-chasing party.

"Guo Huajian, I admire your ambition and ethics very much, but I don't agree with your point of view very much."

Guo Huajian pushed the eyes on the bridge of his nose. Qi Dao: "What do you say? Isn't it right to give back to the country? Mai Zinan and Fang Guanghua also looked at Yang Lin strangely.

Yang Lin was kind and inducing: "You think, you are studying computer graphics design, which is the most advanced technology in the world now. But now that you're back home, what can you do? There is no use for your major, do you want to go back to China to program? It seems that your major is now very commonly used in film special effects, and the level of computer special effects in the world is not high. However, with the development of computer hardware and software in the future, this technology will develop by leaps and bounds. Why don't you think about being wronged for a while and stay in the United States to see more and learn more. Enrich yourself to improve your level, and return to China to serve when you get the progress of the mainland film industry? If you go back now, I'm afraid that what you've learned for so many years will be put on the shelf and go down the drain. ”

Guo Huajian's face was ugly, and he felt uncomfortable listening to this. But I also know that what Yang Lin said is right. He didn't know what to say. But if he wants to give up the idea of returning to China for reimbursement, just look at his stubborn look and know that it will definitely not work.

Yang Lin was not in a hurry, he organized the language logic in his mind, and said slowly: "Although the four of us are different internationally, we are all of Chinese ancestry, and that is a family. Why should I come to Hollywood? Work hard from scratch and start from scratch, let go of the blessings and don't enjoy the money, I don't make money, I'm sick? Zinan should have heard what I was doing in Hong Kong. I have a record label, a film company. There are also one-third of Hong Kong's cinema chains, as long as I sit at home every day, I am a billionaire, why should I suffer this crime and come to the United States to collect people's eyes? ”

The three top Stanford students looked at Yang Lin and listened to him tell his thoughts, just like listening to a professor's lecture in school.

Yang Lin took a sip of tea and continued to agitate his tongue: "I thought there was a Hollywood here, and this was the center of world cinema." But the Hong Kong films that we are proud of, the highest level of Hong Kong films for our Chinese, are nothing here. We Chinese are nothing bad, why can't we do Hollywood movies? Why have generations of Hong Kong filmmakers always failed to gain a foothold in this film paradise? I'm not convinced! So here I am. I want to open up a piece of heaven in Hollywood, so that the world's movie paradise will be screened with our Chinese movies! ”

The three novices who have not been deeply involved in the world listened to the excitement and flushed their faces.

Yang Lin sighed, and put on a sad expression: "But when I drove to Hollywood, I knew why no one watched our movies here, because we were lagging behind!" The backward film system and backward shooting techniques can be solved and can be made up for by diligence. But what is the use of being 10,000 times more diligent in technology? Even if the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were not afraid of death, could they beat the strong ships and cannons of the great powers? It's impossible! ”

The young people of the eighties were still enthusiastic young people, far from being comparable to the indifferent utilitarianism of later generations. The three young people asked excitedly, "Then what should we do?"

"You look at Star Wars, you look at American Landscapes, why are people so welcoming? Because it's all computer stunts, people like to watch this. Without technology, how do you tell me to shoot? What to fight Hollywood? Hong Kong movies are so developed now, mainland movies are simply scum! Now that we are lagging behind, if we don't catch up, are we staging an eight-nation alliance? Now is the time of peace, so it is necessary to fight the war in a different way. What modusive? Culture! Only the invasion of culture will be a bloodless war in the new century. We can't just watch us lose a hundred years ago in a strong ship and a sharp cannon, and a hundred years later we will lose in the war of cultural invasion without gunpowder. What to do? What should I do? Li Hongzhang said a sentence: Master Yi's long skills to control Yi! We must learn advanced technology to arm ourselves, right inside the enemy, to counter aggression! Let the whole world know that we yellow people are nothing bad! "No way, there are mainlanders, Hong Kong people and a Singaporean boy, Yang Lin had to replace "Chinese" with yellow people, although the effect is almost good, but looking at the three children with red faces, Yang Lin breathed with satisfaction.

The three boys fell silent. After a while, Guo Huajian said with burning eyes: "You mean that let's join ILM, learn the most advanced computer special effects technology, and contribute to the development of our Chinese films in the future?" ”

Choose! The political consciousness of the baby who grew up under the red flag is high! Yang Lin patted him on the shoulder: "I'll tell you a trade secret." I'm going to be buying a stake in ILM in the near future, and I'm going to take little bit of control of the most advanced computer effects production company in the United States, but it's not something I can do alone. ”

"Draw a salary from the bottom of the kettle?" Fang Guanghua said.

Yang Lin gave a thumbs up: "Smart!" So I need a partner. Comrades are needed. His bright and terrifying gaze turned on the three young and energetic faces, I wonder if these boys will be able to have half of them in the future?

Guo Huajian thought for a long time, looked at Yang Lin and exhaled: "I don't want to work for foreigners, if you can really become a shareholder of Industrial Light & Magic, I will join." Yang Lin could see that this kid had a calm personality. No matter what field you are in the future, you will not be an unknown person.

Fang Guanghua shrugged and said, "I don't care, it's good if everyone can continue to work together." ”

Mai Zinan scratched his head and smiled: "To be honest. I really want to see that one day my Hong Kong film can win an Oscar. ”

Yang Lin also smiled, laughing happily, like a fox who stole a chicken.

Anyway, there is such a good opportunity to attack Industrial Light & Magic. He will never let it go.

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George Lucas has been in a state of flux lately. Burnout. Industrial Light & Magic is like a money-swallowing monster that can't fill the monster's belly no matter what, and George Lucas is almost squeezing the last bit of energy out of himself.

He sat in his office, staring out the glass window at San Francisco's financial district.

When preparing for the filming of "Star Wars", due to the large number of special effects in the film, and the talent in this area was scattered everywhere at that time, it was difficult to ensure the level of production of the desired effect, so he chose an old warehouse in Fannous, California. That's where ILM was born.

At that time, it was rare for Hollywood to even have a special effects "department". For the filming of Star Wars. He pioneered the film special effects industry. Some of them are engaged in architecture, some are modeling, some are shooting commercials, and some are playing mechanical design. Almost no one has ever worked in film. But there is also a good thing: this energetic group is imbued with a hippie spirit, completely free from the constraints of the system. In the large warehouse of the early Industrial Light & Magic office, Lucas and his team embark on a world-changing Star Wars journey.

At the time, Hollywood didn't even have a special effects department. For the filming of Star Wars, he pioneered the film special effects industry. Some of them are engaged in architecture, some are modeling, some are shooting commercials, and some are playing mechanical design. Almost no one has ever worked in film. But there is also a good thing: this energetic group is imbued with a hippie spirit, completely free from the constraints of the system. In the large warehouse of the early Industrial Light & Magic office, Lucas and his team embark on a world-changing Star Wars journey.

The first film shot with a motion-controlled camera, the computerized processing method of the "source sequence", and the now completed production of "Young Sherlock Holmes", the first computer-generated character "stained glass man" in the history of cinema, countless advanced technologies have been invented, but they are far from saving the industrial light and magic on the verge of collapse.

This industry is too much money burning! George Lucas firmly believes that the future of cinema will be the age of computer special effects, but there are very few people who think so. Those short-sighted producers and directors are reluctant to use computer special effects to produce some large-scale shots because they dislike the long production cycle of computer special effects and the excessive consumption of funds. But can't they see the incomparable grandeur of computer special effects and the super effects of virtual special effects?

George Lucas sighed and slumped rudely in his chair. Tired, so tired! It's not just the physical exhaustion, but the mental exhaustion is even more unbearable. His wife was overwhelmed by such a heavy life and divorced him, leaving behind a lovely daughter. Do you want your daughter to continue this life with you?

Or, choose between a daughter and a career? No, no, no, George Lucas was startled, startled by his sudden thought. Like his daughter, ILM is just another child, who has poured his heart and energy into it, and has spent countless amounts of money, how could he be abandoned?

However, it's hard to find a partner!

George Lucas rubbed his messy hair in pain, helpless.

"Mr. Lucas." His female assistant knocked on the door and walked in, and said respectfully, "There is a Mr. Kidd who wants to see you, and he says he is a friend of Mr. Gary Kurtz. But there is no appointment. ”

Booking? His mother's son is desperate, he doesn't even have a guest, and he still needs to make an appointment? He was about to get angry when the phone rang suddenly. George Lucas answered the phone, laughed a few words, and could see that he had a good relationship with the caller. By the time he put down the phone, the assistant could clearly sense that George Lucas's mental state was different. There was obvious joy in his eyes: "Invite the guests to the reception room immediately, and then brew my Blue Mountain coffee." ”

The assistant was taken aback, she knew that George Lucas loved and valued that little bit of Blue Mountain coffee. I don't know who is coming to the door today? Curious in his head, he didn't dare to slack off at all, and left in a hurry.

Yang Lin and Kidd followed the graceful female assistant as they walked towards the reception room. While looking at the various facilities of Industrial Light & Magic. Quietly asked Kidd: "Who is that Gary Kurtz?" He just heard Kidd call that person in the morning, and saw that Kidd was very respectful across the phone, and he was a little curious.

Kidd's eyelids jumped: "He was an old friend of George Lucas for many years, and Star Wars was produced by the two of them. Stopping there, refusing to say a word more, Yang Lin knew that it must have something to do with Kidd's family.

Kidd is still very courageous, he used to stay in the family honestly for his mother, and endured humiliation and spit on himself. Once the decision is made to leave the family. It is also resolute and resolute. I asked Kidd about his resignation from Cinemark Cinema, and this guy was very good at learning the scene at that time: "I will come back again." But that's when you're going to ask me to negotiate the release of the film. "It's very simple and arrogant, it can be seen that Kidd has suffered a lot of anger in that family and endured it for a long time.

When he saw George Lucas, Yang Lin couldn't believe his eyes, why was George Lucas, who was only in his forties now, even older and haggard than what he saw on TV and in newspapers in his previous life?

The deep-set eye sockets, the slightly raised cheekbones, the bloodshot eyes and the clumps of white hair on the sideburns, and the haggard exhaustion in the bones made this lively twenty years old.

But think about it, the bottomless pit of industrial light and magic cares about making him exhausted and overwhelmed, but at this time, there is a divorce and he has to raise a young daughter, and these pressures are indeed not something ordinary people can bear. George Lucas has been able to hold on to it until now, and he can be regarded as strong inside.

George Lucas showed a smile full of vicissitudes: "Hello, Kidd, Yang, welcome. ”

Yang Lin also smiled politely: "It's an honor to meet you, you must know that "Star Wars" is my favorite movie." ”

George Lucas looked at Yang Lin's delicate face and said, I'm afraid that "Star Wars" has accompanied you through a lot of bedwetting nights, right?

Everyone sat down on the sofa, the assistant brought over the coffee, and put it in front of the three of them, Yang Lin was a turtle, and he didn't know what to do, but Kidd said in surprise: "It's the best Blue Mountain!" ”

Blue Mountain coffee is the best coffee in the world, and the output is small, the price is naturally higher and higher, of course, people are indeed delicious.

George Lucas smiled and stared at Yang Lin with burning eyes: "Gary just called me, I don't know what business Mr. Yang wants to talk to me about?" ”

Yang Lin put down his coffee and said with a smile: "I am a director, and I am very optimistic about the future development of computer special effects. ”

George Lucas is very happy that Yang Lin can have the same opinion as himself, but he won't come to see me just to say this, right? You must know that there are many people who are optimistic about computer special effects, but everyone thinks that it is worth the money. So he looked at Yang Lin and waited for Yang Lin to continue.

Yang Lin smiled, and the smile on his delicate face was bright: "I plan to invest 100 million US dollars to acquire 70% of the shares of Industrial Light and Magic." "You can't go around with this old fox, you can't get around him. Now is the time when George Lucas is most short of money, and the best thing to do is to smash him with money and smash him out directly.

In 1985, what was the concept of 100 million dollars? At this time, the United States only spent 200 billion on its military.

George Lucas was really a little dizzy, not because he was smashed by money, but because he was stunned by Yang Lin. He subconsciously looked at his office of Industrial Light & Magic, even though he was extremely confident in his career, he never thought that 70% of Industrial Light & Magic's shares could be worth 100 million.

Of course, he could not have imagined that twenty years later, Disney would spend a full four billion dollars to acquire Lucasfilm, which owns Industrial Light and Magic.

So at this moment, George Lucas didn't know if he was forced to agree.

He wasn't sure if Yang Lin was joking with himself, and even thought a little distractedly: Could it be April Fool's Day?

Yang Lin looked at George Lucas with a smile, this time he was determined to win.

Without his appearance, the desperate George Lucas would have sold an organization within ILM called the "Computer Animation Group" to Steve Jobs. The group, called the Computer Animation Group, specializes in full 3D animation, but Mr. Lucas is not interested in this technology, he is more interested in creating photorealistic film special effects. To raise money, he sold the computer department to Steve Jobs, which later grew into the biggest names in animation today, Pixar Animation Studios. Pixar has changed the landscape of animated films from another angle.

How could Yang Lin give up such an opportunity? You must know that in Japan, he also has a "Red Star Animation Studio". (To be continued......)