Chapter Ninety-Five: The Golden Hoe Jackpot
"Marisa, why are you getting involved with that villain?!" At the weekly high-level meeting, Page lowered his voice and rebuked, "No matter what kind of friendship you have with him, you have to remember that you are still a Googler, and you represent the face of Google." If it's just in private, you've been photographed by reporters many times. ”
"What I do has nothing to do with you, it's my private business. I have neither damaged Google's reputation nor disclosed any secrets within the company! Mayer retorted with his hands to his chest.
"Why don't you think about it for the company?" Page frowned and raised her voice a little, her face was horribly gloomy, "Why don't you go and see what the lace in the newspaper is all about, even the photos of you entering the same hotel are published, these articles are simply unsightly!" ”
"Why not, why not, I've heard this phrase too many times. Please, can you get something new? The anger in Mayer's heart was also stirred, and he shouted accusations.
Page habitually shrunk her neck under her momentum, but when she saw Schmidt and Brin's firm eyes, she immediately straightened her chest again, "I'm defending the interests of the company, it's you who are destroying all this image, I can tolerate things before, but now I've been photographed as evidence!" ”
"Yes and what? Who I sleep with is my own business, and I don't have to worry about you. He's at least much better than you, and he won't talk to me about projects, frameworks, and code when he's on a date! ”
"You...... You...... Do you still have a sense of shame? "Paige is already trembling with anger, shaking out his ugly things in front of so many people, not everyone can sit still." I formally inform you that all your work will be suspended at once until the reflection is complete! ”
"Hehe, you're going to sweep me out of the house?" Mayer looked around, but no one dared to look her in the eyes, and a sad feeling spread from all over her body, "Since I'm here here, if you all think I'm an eyesore, then I'll go, but don't regret it!" ”
As soon as the words fell, she slapped the access card of the 20th employee that belonged to her on the table, and then turned her head and pushed open the door of the conference room and strode out.
"This?" President Schmidt was also dumbfounded, he didn't expect Mayer to be so aggressive.
"Leave her alone, if she wanted to, she would have left long ago." Paige, who is familiar with her, waved her hand and didn't care, she grew up with Google, where can she go? And once you leave tens of millions of dollars in options, you will have to go down the drain, and that is a stock that can only be cashed out after three years.
Mayer's-for-tat with Page spread throughout the company after she slammed the door, and Page suspended her for a month in the name of the board of directors in an internal email in strong language after the meeting, and the board of directors also received a formal resignation from Mayer in the afternoon.
The gossip spread throughout the company in an instant, and it was also poked out by the media through special channels, and even caused some small fluctuations in the stock price, after all, discord and infighting between the top management are easy to hurt morale.
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At the same time in Los Angeles, Legendary Entertainment is holding an internal celebration party, of course, to toast to the success of "Brokeback Mountain", although it is internal, but there will be many people who will come to cheer.
In the past, there was Bruce Lee in Hollywood, and now there is Ang Lee in Hollywood, although the history of the former in Hollywood is very short, but it has affected the whole world's admiration for kung fu, even today, 30 years later, foreigners may be excited to ask him if he knows kung fu when they see Chinese faces.
And the latter, as a director, is quite a test to be accepted by Western cultural values, but he succeeds. After graduating from New York University, he was unemployed as a dad and relied on his wife to support him, and then to "Pushing Hands", "The Wedding Banquet", and "Eating Men and Women", three film masterpieces about ethical emotions have emerged.
then entered Hollywood from "Reason and Sensibility", which was nominated for 7 Oscars but only got 1 Best Screenplay, and then "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" won two awards for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Soundtrack.
The loss of "Hulk" made him feel pressured, and even had thoughts of stopping. Sam's timely persuasion, plus he has a virtuous helper. In this way, a work like "Brokeback Mountain" that can go down in history was once again produced, although it was very controversial, but it was undoubtedly a powerful impact on the traditional culture of the United States.
Therefore, his film achievements and influence are great, just like Wang An, who made a computer, and Yang Zhiyuan, who created the miracle of the Internet, are all characters who can be remembered in historical monuments.
As for nationality? Americans can't tell whether you're from the mainland or from the island, and only politicians pay too much attention to achieve their political goals.
Chen Bo came with Angelina and Qingyu, the former is understandable, as for why he brought the little girl, because he brought her to apprentice.
After Qingyu returned to Los Angeles, she enrolled in a music initiation class, but she was not interested in piano or anything, but fell in love with orchestral instruments.
The orchestra doesn't matter, but it's the hardest cello, the taller guy than her.
The scales of the piano are fixed and the easiest to learn. On the other hand, the fiddle, viola, and cello are all judged by hearing whether the high or low notes are all judged, so it is quite difficult to learn.
However, the child is interested in music, and the rich daughter and poor raise the child, even if she has an old face, she has to find a famous teacher.
Since it is the celebration banquet of "Brokeback Mountain", it is natural that Ang Lee's friends will come to attend, one of whom is a grandmaster in the music industry, cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
The first time Chen Bo listened to his playing was in the back music of the movie "The Pianist at Sea", and the cooperation between "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and Tan Dun was even more astonishing.
Yo-Yo Ma has a very high status in the classical music circle, even winning 18 Grammy Awards in a row, and is a frequent guest at the official concerts of dignitaries from various countries.
But this time, he took advantage of the time, the place, and the people.
First, this is his home field, and second, not only Ang Lee is his friend, but Jobs is also his bosom friend. This third is the most direct means, Chen Bo took out his glittering, coaxing little hoe to carry forward the spirit of digging deep into the corner, and directly poached Yo-Yo Ma from Sony Records to Universal Music, and will be prioritized in future movie soundtracks.
In this case, Yo-Yo Ma naturally accepted Qingyu's little apprentice, but he could only come over occasionally to give him guidance when he was free, and he still had to find a professional music teacher at other times, which was not difficult in Los Angeles.
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The end of Oscar Night means that the struggle of the Hollywood film industry has gone from the bright side to the table, and Chen Bo has also started his own work.
But there is really not much he needs to do, like the presidents of other film companies are busy like dogs every day to pull sponsorships, talk about investment, and engage in publicity, but these are just pieces of cake for him.
Legend Entertainment has the backstage of B&P Capital, and there is no worry about money at all, and investors are catching up.
If you cast a movie directly, the risk must be high, and to be honest, there are not many movies in Hollywood that can really make money in a year, accounting for only 20% of the total. Even the most awesome big director will fall behind, and the big mainland money who doesn't know anything will trust the professional fund companies on Wall Street more.
Chen Bo is now a global partner, like a mascot. However, he is not responsible for attracting investment, some people will naturally do this, but with his living sign, he will attract people to invest in the film fund specially set up by B&P, and the stable income is much better than directly investing in a certain movie.
Therefore, unless there are some special circumstances that require two companies to jointly produce films, the productions under Legendary Entertainment have all been invested by themselves, that is, they eat alone. Now the funds of various manufacturers are relatively tight, and the more popular is the platter operation, a movie is produced and distributed alone, and a bunch of companies are involved, and then more than a dozen funds are involved in the investment, the risk is small, and the profits are naturally diluted.
As for product placement and sponsorship, Chen Bo's usual method is to turn his left hand into his right hand, otherwise why would he cast a movie? You don't do anything good.
Like "Transformers", although Bopai brought in a huge amount of $10 million from the General Motors Group, the role of Maniac was left to McLaren. The website that appears in the film must use orange search, the digital product used must also have a microphone Walkman, and the mobile phone communication provider must be orange telecom......
In this way, it not only solves part of the movie budget, but also makes its products show their faces greatly, and soft implantation will be more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Then, Chen Bo's remaining work is to make decisions about the problems that all companies are hesitant about, and even have to be a villain.
is like the first "Iron Man" in the Marvel Universe, the original role of Pepper Potts was Rachel McAdams, who was more literary and fresh, but the schedule was not enough, so he had to be replaced.
Spielberg then recommends his goddaughter Gwyneth, but Fitch is not satisfied. Originally a shrewd and capable assistant with a hot personality and figure, your whole freckled woman dry hair? Although she has an Oscar halo, almost all fans have sprayed her as a parallel product, not to mention all kinds of negativity, which can be called a suspicion in Hollywood.
No, it's related, you have to consider the issue of face.
Use, right? and like a fish in the throat.
Of course, Chen Bo had to come out and be this wicked person and exercise his veto power. Don't make it difficult, isn't it just a vase role, Hollywood is the most lacking in this.
But I didn't find a good fit, Jessica Alba? The popularity is very high, and the acting skills are too inferior. Jennifer Lawrence? That's a 16-year-old kid who hasn't debuted yet. Of course, Scarlett is scheduled to be a widowed sister, and while her reputation is not high now, she hurriedly signed a long-term contract.
After thinking about it for Anne Hathaway, "Brokeback Mountain" and "The Demon Wears Prada" all cooperated, which is better than turning into Catwoman, Batman's sexy partner in the end.
Combined with 20th Century Fox invested in Cameron's new work "Avatar", it took several years of filming alone, and Murdoch's heart was also beating with a budget of 200 million US dollars, and the director also liked to increase the budget in the middle, Chen Bo happily took out a check for 100 million US dollars and threw it over, waiting for the final spoils sharing meeting.
I also accepted the script "Adventure in the Center of the Earth", which every company was unwilling to want, and made the decision to make a 3D mode, not because of how good the story is, but because the story background can make a breakthrough in visual effects, and the 3D technology that has been around for a long time should also play its real value.
As for the award-winning independent film directed by himself, it will be officially launched in May, and the schedule is also together with "007 Casino Royale", if you can't win, you will have to be disgusted Sony Entertainment, who let him find out that the woman Yoko Sakurai appeared behind it.
PS: Stay away from online shopping, refuse to chop hands, friendly reminder!!
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