In Benjamin's view, there is nothing wrong with people rolling in the workplace to figure out their intentions, but they must also have their own principles, and people who blindly obey without principles cannot really succeed.

"Senua, the boss wants employees who can create profits for him, helpers to expand his career, not an obedient horn dog! If you think about it, Kayo Sato and Douglas have the trust of the boss, and even represent him sometimes, but they are always only assistants or assistant directors in his personal studio. ”

Senna really realized this time, and only asked after a while, "You mean, they will never be able to be the top of the company?" ”

"Yes, they are the boss's most loyal henchmen, but they will never be his assistants. Senua, they seem to be beautiful, but they are actually attached to the boss, just his accessories. Are you sure you want to be like that? ”

Benjamin's admonition sobered Senua, recalling the gloomy days at MGM, when she no longer wanted to leave her fate and future in the hands of someone else, even if that person was a half-human, half-god monster!

"OK, then you put all your energy into work, only work performance is the foundation of your life!"

After Benjamin instructed his assistant on how to determine the direction of her career, he began to teach her how to analyze and make decisions.

Light and shadow special effects compete with industrial light and magic, and the only shortcoming is technical strength. With the arrival of John Dikstra, Dennis Mullen and their teams, this shortcoming is no longer a problem, and the gap between the two is almost no longer a problem.

In business competition, in addition to product quality and marketing strategy, one of the most important factors is cost! The cost of light and shadow is much lower than the cost of light and magic, so a 15% commission will be offered, so that Benjamin can have enough funds to trade with major companies and producers and take food from light and magic.

"Senua, Lucas is not our boss, his main source of income is only two pieces of film and special effects companies, and they have a common characteristic."

Senna blessed her heart and said: "They are all excellent businessmen, when Lucas can't support himself with the profits of the movie, the only option is to sell Industrial Light & Magic, and the person who is most likely to take over is our Boss!"

Benjamin nodded with satisfaction, the special effects of the film are subjective, and the inevitable cost increase caused by repeated revisions can only be borne by the special effects company, and the final remuneration is only the price stipulated in the contract. Lucas's ILM, although it is a leader in the industry, has not been able to make significant profits, and this is also for this reason. Dealing and pulling business everywhere, can Lucas not hear the wind? It's just that he has more than enough heart and not enough strength, and his capital chain is not enough for him to reduce the price, because his cost is too high!

Unlike light and shadow special effects, the head office is only responsible for creativity and renovation of special effects software, and those transactional work are completed by branches in Chinese mainland. In Hollywood, an experienced special effects artist needs an annual salary of 200,000 US dollars, and if he can independently lead the team to complete the special effects production, it is as high as one million annual salary; And those Chinese who receive an annual salary of 20,000 US dollars are still very loyal to the company, because their economic level determines that they are the highest paid people in the local area. What's more, China Ming is like Lucas in front of John Knoll, the idol and spiritual godfather of those people!

Benjamin's explanation made Senna wake up like the sun in the clouds, but she was full of questions.

"Boss, if our company can adopt such a model, why doesn't Light & Magic adopt it? Lucas is an extremely intelligent man, it is impossible not to see the benefits? ”

'Hahaha', Benjamin laughed, this is also what he admires most about Sun Ziming, his new boss has too long-term vision. It is quite remarkable that ordinary people can foresee what will happen in a year, but he often lays out for things ten years from now.

"Senua, how many years does it take to train a qualified special effects artist?"

Senna's mind flashed nearly half of the yellow faces in the company, and affirmed: "Three years, the first batch of interns in China, is to stay in the company for three years!" ”

As soon as the words came out, Senna suddenly realized, does Lucas have that time and conditions? He is just a director in Hollywood, a small film company plus the boss of a special effects company, and he doesn't have that much ability to think about and lay out the whole picture.

The big boss is different, he controls several large groups, sufficient funds, and various social resources, which allows him to do everything with ease. Not to mention that the gap between the technical level of the two companies is not big now, even if there is a huge gap like the light and shadow special effects company that has just been established, it can close the gap with massive resources until the technical level exceeds that of competitors, which is the power of capital.

However, Senna was only an assistant after all, and many company secrets were not known, and after accepting the guidance of her boss, she finally asked a question that puzzled her the most, "Boss, if Light Demon goes to Chinese mainland to poach our employees, won't their cost be much different from ours?" Maybe those employees are very loyal, but they are loyal because the price of betrayal is not enough! ”

'Shh', Benjamin put his finger to his mouth and made a silent gesture, whispering: "This is a company secret, you shouldn't ask!" Trust us, you can think of questions, we can think of too, OK? ”

“OK！”

However, Senna shuddered from excitement and remembered another possibility for the future. Will Hollywood's design, Chinese mainland's zuò, become China's zuò and Chinese design in the near future, so that Hollywood's special effects zuò will become the yellow flower of the past?

"No", Benjamin firmly denied, and he had thought about it very clearly.

Although film is also a commodity, it relies more on creativity and cultural identity, and these things cannot be compensated for by cost alone. Hollywood's advantage is this, there is money, there is a market, and there is enough freedom to attract geniuses from all over the world to pursue their dreams in Hollywood, a small place.

Senna thought about it carefully and pulled the topic back to her company, "In the future, the special effects of movies will shift outward, which will become a trend, and our advantage will become smaller and smaller with the passage of time. When our cost advantage is gone, this industry will also end its profiteering and become an ordinary film auxiliary industry. ”

Speaking of this, Senua's heart began to tangle. When she was studying, she learned a simple economic law: if an industry makes money, more people will come in, and those who come later must reduce profits and improve competitiveness in order to have an advantage. After some competition, the market will be saturated in the later stage, and the profits of enterprises will tend to zero indefinitely. Even if ILM collapses, there will be different opponents in the future. It is foreseeable that with the constant competition, the profit margin of our own company will become lower and lower.

But Senna didn't expect that her worries about the future would make her boss Benjamin Reno scoff.

"If you think so, you think of the boss too simply! Under full market competition, the market will be reshuffled, and the winner will become a famous brand, and the impact of price will begin to become smaller. What he wants is a long-term development of the enterprise, not a profiteering money-making machine! ”

That's right, ILM is not so easy to collapse, with its technical strength, even if Lucas can't support it alone, he will sell the company to a consortium in exchange for the company's continued development.

However, what everyone didn't expect was that Lucas was not a god, under the tide of globalization, anyone who wanted to swim against the current would be swept into the garbage heap of history, even if he once created an epic sci-fi film like "Star Wars", and Lucas who could create a myth of Zào with a sequel! What everyone didn't expect was that Industrial Light and Magic would fall so quickly, so fast that even the initiator Sun Ziming didn't expect it, and the final fuse was actually the question that Benjamin didn't answer!