Chapter 677: Apple's Launch Conference

Golden Harvest released the Yuan brothers' "Tiger and Dragon Might" during the Christmas schedule, which shifted the stage from the rural market town in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China to the modern modern city of Hong Kong. tells the story of two brothers with unique skills who break into the city and fight unevenly.

The Yuan brothers' movies have always been weak stories and strong fights, they have a solid foundation in learning art with their father since they were children, but they are relatively weak in story creation, and they are not as good at making up stories as Hong Jingbao and Cheng Long.

In addition to the Yuan brothers' "Tiger and Dragon Might", there is also Tang Jiming's "Kill Out of Xiyingpun", which is a popular action movie just by looking at the name. As for comedy, because Zeng Zhiwei left Taiwan, comedy has become Golden Harvest's weakness.

Wu Yusen, who became famous for filming comedies before, has not made any films this year, mainly because he is angry with Golden Harvest. He really didn't want to make any more comedies, and he also reflected to Zou Wenhuai several times for this matter, and he always filmed the one in front of him first, and then talked about what films he would make later.

As a result, comedies were made one after another, and a lot of money was made, but Wu Yusen was not happy at all. He really doesn't want to make comedies, but Golden Harvest is not worried about him filming other themes. Besides, there are a lot of directors who make action movies in Golden Harvest now, the Yuan brothers, Luo Wei, Wu Siyuan, etc., can make action movies, but Wu Yusen is the only one who makes comedies and can make money.

Therefore, Golden Harvest did not agree with him to make action movies, one he had not done before, for fear that he would not be able to shoot well at all. The second is that comedy has a small investment and makes money quickly, which is a big source of income for Golden Harvest, so naturally I don't want Wu Yusen to lose this golden job.

The more Wu Yusen couldn't shoot, the more he wanted to shoot, but Jiahe just didn't let him shoot. As a result, the contradictions between the two sides intensified. Wu Yusen has not been able to make a film for a year. It's just responsible for helping people make edits and earn a few tea money. Jiahe's original intention was to let Wu Yusen retreat from the difficulty, but Wu Yusen knew that it was difficult to find a way out in Jiahe, so he planned to wait for another half a year and jump ship from Jiahe after the contract expired.

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Just when the Christmas schedule was approaching and the Hong Kong film industry was in a stalemate, Xu Guanwu brought Lin Qingxia, Zhao Yazhi, and a pair of his children. Travel to the United States for Christmas. At the same time, it also participated in the launch of Apple's MACOS operating system and the launch ceremony in the United States. In addition, Deng Lijun's latest English album will also be officially released during the Spring Festival, and Zhao Yazhi and Lin Qingxia both want to cheer her on.

The plane flew for more than 10 hours and stopped in Los Angeles, where several people stayed at the hotel before driving to Deng Lijun's beach villa in Malibu.

Deng Lijun already knew that Lin Qingxia and the others were coming, and to be honest, she was both happy and frightened. I was happy that Lin Qingxia and the others came back to visit them, but they were afraid that they would find out about their adultery with Xu Guanwu.

"Sister Lijun, woo, I haven't seen you for a few months. I miss you so much. As soon as Lin Qingxia came up, she hugged Deng Lijun and said.

"I miss you too, huh. Xiao Sichen, Xiao Simo, you are also here! Let Auntie hug you. Deng Lijun saw Xiao Sichen and Xiao Simo who were being held by the nanny behind her, and couldn't help but greet them excitedly, hugging and kissing them one by one.

"Teresa, since you like children so much, why don't you find a good man to marry, and then give birth to a good one." Zhao Yazhi said with a smile.

Deng Lijun smiled, "Good men are all available but not sought, do you think anyone is as lucky as the two of you?" ”

"That's not the case, if you really want to get married, I can introduce you to it. I also know a lot of rich children in Hong Kong, whose character, talent, and family are all first-class, so you might as well consider it first. Zhao Yazhi said with a smile.

"How do you know so many people, how did I not know about this?" Xu Guanwu said on the side.

"The more events I attend, the more people I naturally know, like you stay at home every day." Zhao Yazhi said, "How is it, Teresa, are you interested?" ”

"Okay, I haven't seen that people are not talking, it's obviously boring, why are you still asking?" Xu Guanwu frowned, and didn't let Zhao Yazhi continue to ask.

Deng Lijun also eased his nerves, "I'll talk about this later, I just want to do that album well now." ”

"Yes, Sister Lijun, you are going to release a record in the United States in the future, it's really great, it's just the light of our Taiwan." Lin Qingxia happily hugged Deng Lijun and smiled.

"Don't say it so well, the record hasn't been released yet, and it's all empty now." Deng Lijun waved his hand and said, "I really don't have any bottom now, I have recorded so many albums, and this album is the most difficult to record." ”

"What's the matter, is it because the people at the record company don't cooperate, or are those songs too difficult?" When Xu Guanwu heard her say this, he couldn't help frowning and asked.

"It's not, it's because I'm always in an unstable state, I rarely sang English songs before, and I have to change my pronunciation and singing tone, and I'm really like a child now, suddenly from running to crawling." Deng Lijun said with a wry smile.

"It's okay, take your time, no one can do it overnight." When Xu Guanwu heard her say this, he couldn't help but smile and persuade, "Other American singers have to go through a long preparation to release records, and you just came to the United States, so you don't have to worry." ”

"Yes, Sister Lijun, Ah Wu is right. The more anxious you are, the easier it is to make mistakes, so it's better to relax and do your best, I believe it will be good. Lin Qingxia also smiled and persuaded.

"Well, I see, thank you Qingxia, and thank you Stanley." Deng Lijun said with a smile.

"Okay, I said you don't want to thank you for now, let's eat first, okay?" Zhao Yazhi said with a smile.

"Well, do you want to eat Western food, or do you want to eat Chinese food?" Deng Lijun asked, "I happened to take a leave of absence today, and I have enough time to accompany you." ”

"It's to eat hot pot, I specially brought hot pot utensils from Hong Kong, and specially sold fat cattle and fat sheep, I don't know what kind of taste American beef and mutton is paired with Chinese shabu-shabu." Xu Guanwu said with a smile.

Deng Lijun was moved when she heard it, last time she mentioned to Xu Guanwu that she liked to eat mutton shabu. Unexpectedly, this time he traveled thousands of miles from Hong Kong to bring shabu-shabu here. It really moved her that she almost burst into tears. However, in order to avoid being detected by Zhao Yazhi and Lin Qingxia. Deng Lijun still wiped away the tears in his eyes, and then said with a smile, "Okay, then let's eat shabu mutton." ”

Xu Guanwu quickly set up the hot pot utensils, and in order to take care of different tastes, he specially chose a mandarin duck pot, with a spicy soup base on one side and a seafood soup base on the other. In addition to mutton and beef, there are also seafood such as shrimp, crab, clams, and abalone, as well as vegetables such as spinach and lettuce. Xu Guanwu originally wanted to buy coriander and chrysanthemum, but he couldn't find it after looking for a long time in the supermarket, and it seems that this capitalist country doesn't have everything.

The beef and mutton bought in the supermarket are all packaged in one piece, and the bones in the middle have been removed. It's still soft to the touch. Xu Guanwu wanted to find a kitchen knife to slice the beef and mutton, but he couldn't find it after looking for a long time. In the end, I had to use a fruit knife to cut it.

Although the fruit knife is a pure steel mouth, it is very sharp, but it is not good at cutting meat, Xu Guanwu is really sweating profusely, "Alas, in order to eat a hot pot, I really want my own life." He said as he wiped his sweat.

At this time, Lin Qingxia, Deng Lijun, and Zhao Yazhi were already sitting and eating, "Ah Wu, you continue to work hard, we are waiting for your beef and mutton to be cooked." ”

"You wait for me, I'm sweating a lot of meat here, but the three of you are sitting there eating, it's so unjust." Xu Guanwu couldn't help but say depressedly when he saw the three of them soaking lettuce and eating with relish.

"No way, who let there be a man like you in the house now. Don't you cut it, let the three of us women cut it? Zhao Yazhi said eloquently.

Xu Guanwu had nothing to say except for being depressed, and finally finished cutting the beef and mutton, and he came to the table with a meat plate.

"Wow, Ah Wu, this is your cut meat, it's so big, is it cooked?" Lin Qingxia picked up a piece of mutton with chopsticks, and saw that the piece of mutton was half an inch thick, not to mention as thin as paper, I'm afraid that even the belt was not so thick.

"Just put it in the pot and cook it for a while." Xu Guanwu blushed and said, "If you don't have a good knife, you can't cut it well, so you can make do with it first." ”

"Alright, alright, throw them in and cook them first, and then eat them at the end." Zhao Yazhi said, "Ah Wu, you also sit down, we celebrate Christmas with Teresa in advance today." ”

"Cheers everyone, Merry Christmas!" Xu Guanwu sat down with a smile, picked up a beer glass, and drank with the three of them.

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After accompanying Deng Lijun to dinner, Xu Guanwu and his family rushed to Silicon Valley to attend the release ceremony of Apple's MACOS visual operating system.

THE MACOS OPERATING SYSTEM, DEVELOPED ACCORDING TO THE IDEAS PROVIDED BY XU GUANWU EARLIER, IS CURRENTLY THE ONLY VISUAL OPERATING SYSTEM WITH PRACTICALITY IN THE UNITED STATES. Xerox also has a visual operating system in its labs, but it is not practical at the moment and is still in the experimental stage.

ALTHOUGH XEROX WAS THE FIRST PIONEER TO TRY TO DESIGN AND DEVELOP A VISUAL OPERATING SYSTEM, APPLE COMPUTER, WITH THE HELP OF XU GUANWU, WAS A LATECOMER TO LAUNCH THE MACOS VISUAL OPERATING SYSTEM LONG BEFORE XEROX, WHICH WON EVERYONE'S ATTENTION IN ONE FELL SWOOP.

The development of personal computers in the past two years has been very rapid, and more and more companies have noticed the huge role of computers, in addition to the office field, but also in the manufacturing field, in the financial field, in the design field, etc., have played a huge role. However, because personal computers are now mainly using DOS operating system, people need to memorize hundreds or even thousands of codes, so the operation is extremely complicated, and the human-computer interaction is very unfriendly for newcomers. This disadvantage also greatly limits the use of personal computers.

BUT NOW WITH THE RELEASE OF MACOS, IT CAN MAKE HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SIMPLE AND EASY, AND ONE OF THE BIGGEST WEAKNESSES OF THE PERSONAL COMPUTER HAS BEEN REMEDIED, WHICH IS EQUIVALENT TO MAKING IT LIKE A TIGER WITH WINGS AND PRODUCING A QUALITATIVE REVOLUTION.

SO WHEN MACOS WAS ABOUT TO COME OUT, ALL EYES WERE ON SILICON VALLEY AND ON APPLE COMPUTER, A COMPANY THAT WAS LESS THAN FIVE YEARS OLD.

When Xu Guanwu and his family arrived in Silicon Valley, they saw that all the hotels were full of IT people, journalists, investors, and bankers from all over the world...... Turning what was originally a very casual and very livable Silicon Valley town into a hustle and bustle.

"Wow, it's so lively, it's like a carnival." Zhao Yazhi couldn't help but say excitedly when she saw so many people.

XU WAS ALSO VERY HAPPY, BECAUSE THE MORE PEOPLE WHO CAME TO THE MACOS CONFERENCE, THE MORE INFLUENTIAL THE OPERATING SYSTEM WAS, AND THE EASIER IT WAS TO SUCCEED.

"Ah Wu, this operating system is really so magical, I saw that there were suddenly a lot of people here." Lin Qingxia asked curiously, she didn't know anything about those high-tech technologies, and she didn't understand how so many people could gather here.

"Of course, this operating system can change the world." Xu Guanwu said with a smile, "Qingxia, remember today, you and I have witnessed history together." (To be continued......)